SOLVENT SNIFFING

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-461
Author(s):  
Edward Press ◽  
Alan K. Done
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
The United States ◽  
Toxic Effects ◽  
Behavioral Difficulties ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Lake City

THOUSANDS of adolescents and teen-aged youngsters in many cities throughout the United States and other countries are deliberately inhaling vapors of a wide variety of volatile organic solvents in order to induce repeated states of inebriation. Although the practice itself is not new, its occurrence in epidemic proportions in many areas and the passage of legislation prohibiting the act in many cities and states in the United States have brought the problem into nationwide prominence. Some of the solvents used (such as carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethane, benzene, and acetone) have been implicated in previous industrial exposures as the cause of serious toxic effects, including fatalities. The possibility of similar ill effects from these and other solvents when used in much higher concentrations at shorter, but frequently repeated intervals as currently practiced, is one that has been raised repeatedly. Consequently, the Panel on Household and Economic Chemicals of the American Medical Association's Section on Adverse Reactions (Council on Drugs) invited this appraisal of the problem. Included is an assessment of the potential problem from the standpoints of incidence, acute effects, behavioral difficulties, possible chronic or cumulative toxic effects, and possible remedial measures. SOURCES OF INFORMATION This report summarizes the authors' investigations of the problem over the period of the last several years. In addition, it includes a review of published reports, the results of extensive discussions and correspondence with medical and law enforcement personnel in many areas of the United States, Sweden, and elsewhere. Also direct medical and hospital studies of a sample of habitual sniffers by one of us (A.K.D.) in Salt Lake City, Utah, and a detailed comparison of four other similar studies and a personal experiment on simultaneous electroencephalographic tracings and blood level measurements during inhalation by the other (E.P.).

Mythologizing Memories: A Critique of the Utah Korean War Memorial

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhi Choi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Lake City

Abstract Since its fiftieth anniversary, memorialization of the Korean War has taken place in towns and cities across the United States. As a case study of this belated memory boom, this essay looks at the Utah Korean War Memorial, erected by local veterans in 2003 at Memory Grove Park, Salt Lake City. Situated in both the local and national contexts of remembrance, the memorial resonates largely with three mythical scripts, with themes of resilience, local pride, and the good war, all of which have allowed veterans to negotiate tensions between individual and collective memories. This case study reveals in particular how the official commemoration of the war has shifted local veterans' rhetorical positions from potential witnesses of subversive realities of the war to uncritical negotiators whose legitimization of the very process of mythologizing memories has ultimately alienated them from their own experiences during and after the war.

scholarly journals Higher levels of self-efficacy and readiness for a future career among Spanish-speaking physician assistant students after their volunteer work at a student-run free clinic in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Shannon Weaver ◽  
Zainub Hussaini ◽  
Virginia Lynn Valentin ◽  
Samin Panahi ◽  
Sarah Elizabeth Levitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Physician Assistant ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Free Clinic ◽  
Future Career ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Lake City

Volunteering at a free clinic may influence career choice among health profession students. The purpose of this study was to explore knowledge, skills, attitudes, self-efficacy, interest in future work with the underserved, and interest in primary care among physician assistant (PA) students through an analysis of demographic characteristics of PA students at a student-run free clinic in the United States. Data were collected from 56 PA students through a quantitative survey in October 2018 after their participation at a student-run free clinic in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the intermountain west region of the USA. Out of the 3 sub-scales (attitudes, effect, and readiness), students responded most positively to items exploring the effect of their experiences of volunteering at the free clinic. Students who spoke Spanish showed higher levels of self-efficacy and readiness for a future career than non-Spanish speakers.

Addressing the Irish world: Éamon de Valera's ‘Cuban policy’ as a global case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (165) ◽  
pp. 41-56
Author(s):  
Darragh Gannon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Irish Republic ◽  
Lake City ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWriting in Nationalist revolutionaries in Ireland, 1858–1928, Tom Garvin observed that ‘well over 40 per cent, perhaps 50 per cent, had lived outside Ireland for considerable periods … foreign experience was very important in the development of the leaders’. The impact of ‘foreign experience’ on leading nationalist revolutionaries, this article submits, pace Garvin, could have proved influential in the development of the Irish Revolution more widely. Between June 1919 and December 1920, Éamon de Valera toured the United States. From New York City to Salt Lake City, Alabama to Montana, the self-proclaimed president of the Irish republic addressed ‘Ireland’ in hundreds of interviews and speeches. Of these myriad public statements, his Cuban missive, notably, crossed national boundaries. Comparing Ireland's geo-strategic relationship with Great Britain to that of Cuba and the United States, de Valera's argument for an independent Irish republic was made in the Americas. How did de Valera's movement across the U.S. alter his political views of Ireland? How were presentations of de Valera's ‘Cuban policy’ mediated across the ‘Irish world’? How did discourse on the Monroe Doctrine inform Anglo-Irish negotiations between Truce and Treaty? Exploring de Valera's ‘Cuban policy’ as global case study, this article concludes, ultimately, can shift the historiographical significance of ‘foreign experience’ from nationalist revolutionaries in Ireland to the flows and circulation of transnational revolution.

Our History, 1869–74

First Vision ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Steven C. Harper
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
First Presbyterian Church ◽  
Lake City ◽  
The Government ◽  
Usable Past ◽  
Utah Territory

As the transcontinental railroad neared completion in 1869, the Protestant establishment of the United States seemed to be on a collision course with Latter-day Saint hegemony in Utah Territory. In Salt Lake City, Episcopalians consecrated St. Mark’s Cathedral three blocks from the Salt Lake tabernacle less than a month before the dedication of First Presbyterian Church just a block beyond that. The government-backed Protestant establishment seemed to be closing in on the Mormon establishment. In that context church historian Orson Pratt continued to function as the major narrator, repeating again and again the story of Joseph Smith’s first vision in ways that consolidated as a usable past in the context of an embattled present.

scholarly journals I. A magnetic survey of the fortieth parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt Lake, Utah

1879 ◽  
Vol 29 (196-199) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Magnetic Survey ◽  
The North ◽  
Lake City

This communication contains the results of a series of observations of the three magnetic elements—dip, intensity, and declination—made along the 40th parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and Salt Lake City. Magnetic observations have been made, with more or less assiduity, at different places in the eastern States for many years past; but of the immense tract of country lying between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean there is only a single determination of one of the three elements indicated on Sir Edward Sabine’s maps, viz., a determination of declination at Salt Lake City. A series of observations was made some years since by United States’ officers along the Mexican frontier, and a similar series was carried out by the English and American officers employed on the North American Boundary Commission. The present set of observations was made, therefore, along 'the district which lies midway between the line of observations already run along the northern and southern boundaries of the United States' territory.

scholarly journals Cross-Cultural Comparison of Tamale and Salt Lake City Experience of Unemployed Women With Physical Disabilities

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Augustina Naami
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Women With Physical Disabilities

<p>Gender and disability interacts to create several challenges and vulnerabilities for women with disabilities. This paper explores and compares the daily experiences of unemployed women with physical disabilities in Tamale-Ghana and Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States.</p><p>Face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 women with physical disabilities about their experiences with employment, unemployment and how unemployment affects their lives. Outcome suggests that the women encounter several challenges in their daily lives relating to mobility, family relationships, income, social participation and living arrangement. While some of the experiences undoubtedly differ between the two studies, some, interestingly, were similar across the two geographic regions regardless of the cultural differences.</p>

scholarly journals CFS Prediction of Winter Persistent Inversions in the Intermountain Region

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1211-1218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert R. Gillies ◽  
Shih-Yu Wang ◽  
Jin-Ho Yoon ◽  
Scott Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Intraseasonal Oscillation ◽  
Weather Forecast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intermountain West ◽  
Medium Range Weather Forecast ◽  
Forecast Models ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Intermountain Region

Abstract A recent study by Gillies and others of persistent inversion events in the Intermountain West of the United States found a substantive linkage between the intraseasonal oscillation (ISO) and the development of persistent inversion events. Given that NCEP’s Climate Forecast System (CFS) has demonstrated skill in the prediction of the ISO as far out as 1 month, it was decided to examine the CFS forecast’s capability in the prediction of such winter persistent inversions. After initial analysis, a simple regression scheme is proposed that is coupled to the CFS output of geopotential height as a way to predict the occurrence of persistent inversion events for Salt Lake City, Utah. Analysis of the CFS hindcasts through the period 1981–2008 indicates that the regression coupled with the CFS can predict persistent inversion events with lead times of up to 4 weeks. The adoption of this coupled regression–CFS prediction may improve the forecasting of persistent inversion events in the Intermountain West, which is currently restricted to the more limited time span (∼10 days) of medium-range weather forecast models.

Geology of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

1990 ◽  
Vol xxvii (4) ◽  
pp. 391-478
Author(s):  
W. R. LUND ◽  
G. E. CHRISTENSON ◽  
K. M. HARTY ◽  
S. HECKER ◽  
G. ATWOOD ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Lake City

North of the U.S.-Mexico Border

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-83
Author(s):  
Elisa Eastwood Pulido
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Mormon Church ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines Bautista’s U.S. residency (1910 to 1922) and its influence on his spiritual trajectory. It argues that during his first twelve years in the United States, Bautista experienced a decade of unprecedented personal growth and opportunity, which probably led him to expect a lifetime of increasing responsibility as a Mexican member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bautista crossed the border a month before the Mexican Revolution began. He settled first in Mesa, Arizona, but moved to Utah in 1913 where he helped found the first Spanish-speaking branch of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. Though initially a gardener on Temple Square, Bautista became president of his congregation and the Lamanite Genealogical Society, mastered temple rituals and Mormon doctrine, published an article, and spoke to audiences about his experiences as a Mexican Mormon.

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