Sport Participation and Community Capacity Building in Disadvantaged Urban Communities

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between sport and community by examining the role played by sports participation in community engagement and community capacity building in disadvantaged urban communities.From a conceptual standpoint,the study is based on the sociological theory of the community and Community Capacity Building(CCB)theory,which provide overviews of the concept of community and community capacity and its characteristics.Four disadvantaged urban communities were investigated.Two of these communities had sports programs,while the other two did not.The online questionnaire methodology was adopted to assess the socio-demographic characteristics and community engagement of the participants(knowledge of programs and participation in community activities),and subsequently,an analysis of the online social media narratives of the community members themselves was developed to measure the characteristics of their community capacity building.We found that community engagement and community capacity values were higher in the communities with sports programs.These findings are promising and suggest that approaches based on sports participation development could be fruitful,particularly in disadvantaged communities.

Modified technical protocol for single-port laparoscopic appendectomy using needle-type grasping forceps for acute simple appendicitis:A case report

BACKGROUND Because of the mild inflammatory status in acute uncomplicated appendicitis,our team developed a novel technical protocol for single-port laparoscopic appendec-tomy using needle-type grasping forceps(SLAN)and achieved positive clinical outcomes.However,the intraoperative procedure lacked stability and fluency due to a series of problems highlighted by the small incision design of the proto-col(only 1 cm long).Therefore,there is a growing clinical demand to further opti-mize the SLAN protocol.CASE SUMMARY An adult male patient was admitted for persistent right lower abdominal pain with preoperative computed tomography findings suggestive of appendicitis accompanied by localized peritonitis.A modified technical protocol for SLAN based on minimally invasive surgical principles was used,and the patient was confirmed to have acute simple appendicitis by postoperative pathological ana-lysis.Postoperative recovery was uneventful,and no postoperative complications,such as incision infection or severe incision pain,were observed.The patient was discharged successfully on postoperative day 2.CONCLUSION The modified technical protocol of SLAN may be a new minimally invasive surgical alternative for patients with acute simple appendicitis.

Architecture as a Means of Developing Social Exchange:Learning from a Danish Case Study of Refurbishment and Urban Transformation in a Disadvantaged Housing Area

Disadvantaged housing areas from the postwar period typically consist of relatively monotonous and monofunctional multi-storey blocks and have a separate traffic system rendering the areas isolated enclaves in the urban fabric.It is argued that this spatial isolation contributes to social isolation,and current refurbishments are therefore aimed at linking the housing areas with the surrounding neighbourhoods to enable social exchange between the residents and people from the surrounding areas.Based on a case study in a Danish social housing area,this paper discusses to what extent architectural development and urban strategic transformations can contribute to enabling social exchange in disadvantaged housing areas.Do neighbours enter the disadvantaged housing area as intended?If so,how does this influence their perception of the housing area?The analysis shows that architectural development and urban transformations are interdependent in establishing a social mix in disadvantaged housing areas.It is argued that refurbishments can reduce the stigma surrounding the housing area and its residents.However,the applicability of such strategies is highly dependent on the local context of the housing area.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of IT in English Education

About English education, the application of information technology brings a great convenience,but there is also some problems.

Analysis of Disadvantages of International Monetary Fund

In the current world economic environment,the International Monetary Fund(IMF) has the function of stabilizing financial situation and economic growth.Since the end of the World War II,the IMF has aided many countries and regions during their financial crises.Though no one denies the key roles of IMF on these aspects,the "prescriptions" made by the IMF in order to respond to these crises have brought many criticisms.We must see the disadvantages in IMF while admitting its positive impact.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Usage of Multi-media College English Teaching

In English teachinig,the use of multi-media makes a vivid learning atmosphere for students.It can get a better teaching effect in all-around education.Meanwhile,thereare some problems inevitably in this field,leaving for the English teachers to solve.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Fragmented Learning and Recommendations

The development of information technology has changed people's learning methods. Fragmented learning,as an informal learning method,has become an important way to accept new knowledge and learn new technologies. Through analyzing the connotation,characteristics,and advantages and disadvantages of fragmented learning,this paper came up with reasonable recommendations for fragmented learning. To truly become systematic and holistic knowledge,fragmented knowledge must be explored,understood,integrated and internalized. This paper is expected to play an important guiding role in building a lifelong learning society.

The Development Trend of Developed Countries to Invest in Education of Disadvantaged Groups and the Enlightenment to Our Country

Educational investment is the material basis for developing intelligence and educational cause and also an important factor for the development of economic and society.This paper argues that educational investment is an important strategy to solve the problem of disadvantaged groups in our country,and hopes that through the analysis of the structure and the trend for educational investment in developed countries,and it can provide reference and valuable suggestions for our country.

Reflections on China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy from the Perspective of Drawing on Advantages and Avoiding Disadvantages in the New Era

The new era has put forward new requirements for targeted poverty alleviation.Coordinating disaster prevention,mitigation and relief and ecological civilization construction to assist targeted poverty alleviation has become an important direction for alleviating poverty from the perspective of drawing on advantages and avoiding disadvantages.The Outline of the 13th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China has planned and deployed to fully implement the task of poverty alleviation.The current poverty alleviation is extending from fixed-point poverty alleviation to collaborative poverty alleviation and targeted poverty alleviation.Combining the needs of disaster response,climate adaptation,resource utilization,ecological construction,and information utilization in poverty-stricken areas,the role of disaster risk monitoring,forecasting and early warning services is displayed.The disaster prevention,mitigation and relief and poverty alleviation in the new era should be integrated into the national poverty alleviation pattern,actively serve poverty alleviation projects of industry development,relocation and ecological protection,deeply explore the value of disaster risk information and improve the effective supply of disaster prevention,mitigation and relief services,letting disaster prevention,mitigation and relief and ecological civilization construction help the implementation of targeted poverty alleviation.

Neighborhood Disadvantage and Self-Esteem—Do Socioeconomic and Relational Resources Matter?

Extensive research suggests that living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with poor mental health.Few studies,however,have examined(1)whether neighborhood disadvantage is associated with residents’self-esteem;and(2)the extent to which individual-level socioeconomic resources such as income and education,and relational resources such as marriage and social support moderate the association between neighborhood disadvantage and self-esteem.This study employs data from the Americans’Changing Lives panel survey(hereafter ACL),a 15-year panel study of the U.S.adult population ages 25 and older in original sample.Because hierarchical linear model was employed to analyze data,findings provide fixed effect coefficients for independent variables at both the individual and census tract levels while controlling for random intercepts between census tracts.Findings based on data from the 4th wave of ACL reveal that neighborhood disadvantage is not associated with self-esteem.We do,however,find that living in a disadvantaged neighborhood worsens selfesteem for those who have lower levels of informal social support and are currently unmarried.These findings imply that while neighborhood disadvantage does not necessarily impact self-esteem,neighborhood disadvantage is detrimental to the self-esteem of those who report lower level of relational resources.

On the disadvantageous factors in foreign oral language teaching and its solution

Oral language teaching plays a more and more important role in foreign language teaching. This paper focuses on the disadvantageous factors in oral language teaching and tries to find out some solutions for those problems.

Analysis on the Measures for Transforming the Disadvantages of Environmental Accounting System

Along with the more and more attention from people to the environmental problems, people constantly attach higher and higher importance to the environmental accounting. In this paper, the disadvantages of environmental accounting system are analyzed, and also corresponding measures for transforming the disadvantages are proposed.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Assessment in Higher Vocational Education

Assessment is always considered to be an important component in the field of higher vocational education.It serves the purpose of evaluating students’achievement and supporting learning and teaching.Assessment plays a key role by relating the in structional activities to increase students’capabilities.The purpose aims to consider the notion of assessment as a prerequisite and will attempt to explore certain strengths and weaknesses of assessment associated with higher vocational education.Some different types and techniques of assessment in higher vocational education alongside their advantages and disadvantages will also be ex plored.

Development of disadvantaged position of the farmer in the con-struction of the new socialist countryside in China

Though the farmer is the group with the biggest population in China,they are a disadvantaged group.In the construction of new socialist countryside in China.there are also causes for the disadvantaged group status,which are embodied in many aspects.The status is the important root of many problems of agriculture and countryside in China.Changing the farmers status of the disadvantaged group is the key to constructing the new socialist countryside,deepening the reform in the countryside and realizing the benign social and econontic development in the countryside in China.

First 100 cases of transvesical single-port robotic radical prostatectomy

Objective:To describe the surgical technique and report the early outcomes of the transvesical(TV)approach to single-port(SP)robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.Methods:All procedures were performed at a single center by one surgeon.We identified the first 100 consecutive patients with clinically localized prostate cancer that underwent SP TV robot-assisted radical prostatectomy using the da Vinci SP robotic surgical system.Data were collected prospectively and analyzed with descriptive statistics.The primary outcomes assessed were postoperative urinary continence,rate of biochemical recurrence,and sexual function.Results:All procedures were performed without extra ports or conversion.The median age was 62.1 years and 49.0%of the patients had abdominal surgery history.The preoperative median prostate-specific antigen value and prostate volume were 5.0 ng/mL and 33.0 mL,respectively.There were no intraoperative complications.The median operative time and estimated blood loss were 212.5 min and 100.0 mL,respectively.A total of 92.0%of patients were discharged within 24.0 h,with an overall median length of stay of 5.6 h.Only 4.0%of patients required opioid prescriptions at discharge.The median Foley catheter duration was 3 days.Positive margins were present in 15.0%of cases.Median follow-up was 10.4 months.Continence rate was immediate after Foley removal in 49.0%of cases,65.0%at 2 weeks,77.4%at 6 weeks,94.1%at 6 months,and 98.9%at 1 year.One case of biochemical recurrence(1.0%)was noted 3 months after surgery.Conclusion:The SP TV approach for radical prostatectomy cases is a safe and feasible technique for patients with clinically localized prostate cancer.This technique offers advantages of short hospital stay,minimal narcotic use postoperatively,and promising early return of urinary continence,without compromising oncologic outcomes.

Giving Youth Hope Project Hope is helping disadvantaged students access high-quality education nationwide

Late Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan famously said,"Knowledge is power.Information is liberating.Education is the premise of progress,in every society,in every family."In China,this sentiment certainly rings true.Society and families place great value on education.In particular,the country has been making great efforts to improve education for children in rural and remote mountainous regions,which are usually hit by poverty.Schooling is widely believed to be the best way to empower the youth,who are seen as the hope of their families to rise out of poverty.

On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Online English Teaching and Improvement Measures

With the rapid development and wide application of the network,many universities conform to the development of thetimes and actively carry out online English teaching.Online teaching is an important choice for higher education in modern times.It takes the Internet as the transmission system and uses the characteristics and resources of the network to create a meaningfullearning environment different from traditional teaching,which is beneficial to students’learning.After decades of development,ithas become a good teaching mode in addition to the traditional classroom teaching model.However,because its development inChina is still in its infancy,there are inevitably some shortcomings.This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of on-line English teaching and puts forward some improvement measures.

Constitutional Values of Protecting Human Rights of Disadvantaged Groups

The confrontation between the disadvantaged and advantaged groups is eternal throughout the competition for survival. But the human spiritual world has its humane aspect in addition to competition. The concern for and protection of the disadvantaged group is the moral law characteristic of humanity, just as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says in its Article 1： ＂All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.