scholarly journals Twins Working Together: Collaboration or Contest/Twin Research: Molar Pregnancy; Social Support; Conjoined Twins; Immune Discordance/Headlines: Twin Politicians; Multiple Birth Marriages; Guinness World Record; Museum of Memory and Human Rights (Santiago, Chile)

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 563-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Conjoined Twins ◽  
Multiple Birth ◽  
Molar Pregnancy ◽  
World Record ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
Social Closeness ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Mz Twins

Twin research has found genetic influence underlying vocational interests, work values, and job satisfaction. In addition, numerous studies have shown that monozygotic (MZ) twins generally display greater within-pair cooperation and social closeness than dizygotic (DZ) twins. These findings are illuminated by exploring the occupational histories of two female twin pairs, one set MZ and the other set DZ. This is followed by a review of timely twin-based research reports on molar pregnancy, social support, conjoined twinning, and immune discordance. Finally, news items regarding identical twin politicians, multiple birth marriages, a new Guinness World Record for twins, and a twin-family story from the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile are both interesting and informative.

scholarly journals Musical Interests and Talent: Twin Jazz Musicians and Twin Studies/Twin Research: Loss of a Preterm Multiple; Conjoined Twin Conception; Depression in Fathers of Twins; Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome/Twin News: High-Achieving Twins; Twin Children of a Tennis Star; Conjoined Twin Separation; Twin Delivery to a Giant Panda

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 643-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Giant Panda ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Conjoined Twins ◽  
Multiple Birth ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
High Achieving ◽  
Twin Children ◽  
Musical Interests

Findings from twin studies of musical interests and talent are reviewed as a backdrop to the lives and careers of twin jazz musicians, Peter and Will Anderson. The Anderson twins exemplify many aspects of twin research, namely their matched musical abilities, shared musical interests, and common career. This overview is followed by reviews of studies and case reports of bereavement in families who have lost a preterm multiple birth infant, the conception of conjoined twins following in vitro fertilization (IVF), depression in fathers of twins, and twin-to-twin transfusion incidence in monochorionic-diamniotic IVF twin pairs. Twins highlighted in the media include high-achieving identical female twins with nearly identical academic standing, tennis star Roger Federer's two sets of identical twin children, surgical separation of craniopagus conjoined twins, and the rare delivery of twins to a 23-year-old giant panda.

scholarly journals Population-Based Research: Breastfeeding Multiple Birth Infants / Twin Research Reviews and News: Perceived Aging in Twins; Separation of Conjoined Twins; School Placement Legislation / Twins in Education, Fashion and Humanitarian Events

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Population Based ◽  
Conjoined Twins ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Multiple Birth ◽  
Maternal Factors ◽  
Population Based Study ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
School Placement ◽  
Duration Of Breastfeeding

AbstractThe health benefits of breastfeeding are well known. However, less is known about the frequency and duration of breastfeeding in twins. A population-based study of maternal factors associated with the early cessation of breastfeeding in preterm and term twins is reviewed. This is followed by research reviews and news concerning aging in twins, conjoined twin separation and school legislation for multiple birth children. Twins and quadruplets who have distinguished themselves in the areas of education, fashion design and humanitarian efforts are highlighted.

Case Management and Social Support System for Families in Distress: A Social Work Response

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
W akar Amin
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Support System ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Support System ◽  
The Disappeared

History is witness to the fact that warring factions in any armed conflict often commit several human rights violations like murder, rape, torture etc., and the act of disappearance of person is one among them. While the persons who are subjected to disappearance are the primary victims, the families they leave behind are the secondary victims. The situation makes families of the disappeared person suffer great anguish when their loved ones go disappeared. The phenomenon produces anguish, fear and unspeakable sorrow for thousands of families. Appreciating the importance of social work professionals in helping families deal effective with their life situations the present paper aims to provide a case for social work interventional techniques of Social Support System (SSS) and Case Management to modify and make the social environment conducive for the families to live a normal life.

scholarly journals Oliver Sacks: Our Correspondence About Twins/Twin Research: Vanishing Twins Syndrome; Discordant Sex in MZ Twins; Pregnancy Outcomes in IVF and ICSI Conceived Twins/Print and Media: Superfetated Twins; Twins Discordant for Smoking; Twins in Fashion; Yale University Twin Hockey Players; Conjoined Twin–Visiting Professor

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-369
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Pregnancy Outcomes ◽  
Twin Pair ◽  
Multiple Pregnancy ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
Hockey Players ◽  
Vanishing Twin Syndrome ◽  
Mz Twins

The late neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks, published an insightful 1986 review of Marjorie Wallace's book, The Silent Twins, in the New York Times. Taking exception to his assertion about Sir Francis Galton, I wrote a letter to the Times’ editor. The letter was unpublished, but it brought a wonderful response from Sacks himself that is reproduced and examined. Next, brief reviews of twin research concerning the vanishing twin syndrome (VTS), discordant sex in a monozygotic (MZ) twin pair, and multiple pregnancy outcomes from assisted reproductive technology (ART) are presented. This section is followed by popular coverage of superfetated twins, smoking-discordant co-twins, twins in fashion, Yale University twin hockey players, and a visiting professor who was a conjoined twin.

scholarly journals Social Behaviors Hierarchy and Sleep

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naveed Shibli ◽  
Muhammad Nauman Sarwar
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Quality Index ◽  
Parental Attachment ◽  
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Social Behaviors ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Behavioral Hierarchy ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Social behaviors, attachment, social support and human rights orientation were studied for the relationship with sleep. It was assumed that human physiological aspects have a relationship with social behavioral hierarchy that include primitive to most advanced social behaviors. Following tests were used is following order on randomized volunteer participants, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Parental Attachment Questionnaire (PAQ), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) and Assessment Human Rights Questionnaire. A strong relationship was found. Findings of the study could be important for multiple fields of social science specially psychology. </p>

scholarly journals Hina Jilani on the value of the rights discourse in the context of political Islam

2018 ◽  
pp. 240-247
Author(s):  
Hina Jilani ◽  
Khan Ayesha
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
The World ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Fact Finding ◽  
World Organisation

Hina Jilani is one of Pakistan’s most influential human rights activists and a leader of Women’s Action Forum, the group that began the modern women’s movement in the country. She co-founded the first women’s law firm and legal aid organisation, AGHS, and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. At the international level she has held numerous positions as well. She is a member of the Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Human Rights. In 2009, she was appointed to the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict. She was also UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders (2000–2008); appointed to the UN International Fact-Finding Commission on Darfur (2006); and served as President of the World Organisation Against Torture (2016). Jilani received the Amnesty International Genetta Sagan Award for Women’s Rights (2000), and the Millennium Peace Prize for Women (2001). She is a member of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders working together for peace and human rights, founded by Nelson Mandela. Below are edited excerpts from an interview with Ayesha Khan held at Jilani’s home in Lahore on 23 October 2015.

The past and future of human rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-224
Author(s):  
Gráinne de Búrca
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Rights Advocacy ◽  
Advocacy Campaigns

This chapter reflects on the lessons to be derived from the advocacy campaigns in Pakistan, Argentina, and Ireland discussed in earlier chapters. Insights drawn from those campaigns are used to refine the experimentalist account of human rights advanced in Chapter 2, particularly as regards the importance of social movements and of building broad social support for human rights campaigns. The remainder of the chapter describes five major challenges of the current era—illiberalism, climate change, digitalization, pandemics, and inequality—and considers the difficulties they pose for the experimentalist account of human rights advocacy. It argues that the experimentalist practice of human rights advocacy is reasonably resilient and adaptive, and that internal contestation from within the human rights movement as well as external critiques have already helped to catalyze reform and to push activists and advocates to think more innovatively about the changes needed to strengthen the ability of the movement to engage with these major challenges in the future. It concludes that in a turbulent era, rather than abandon human rights, we should redouble our efforts to bolster, renew, and reinvigorate a movement that has galvanized constituencies and communities around the globe to mobilize for a better world.

scholarly journals COVID-19: Twin Research in Progress/Twin Research Reviews: Asthmatic and Nonasthmatic Twins; Stanford University Study of Anal Prints; Twin Mammals and COVID-19; Twin Delivery and the Three ‘Rs’/Mixed Media: The Rainman Twins — The Film; Twins Irish Pub; Twins ‘Covid and Corona’; Death of a Surgeon Who Separated Conjoined Twins; Twinco — Twin-Based Supply Company

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-263
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
Conjoined Twins ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
Twin Delivery ◽  
The Three Rs

AbstractIt is likely that genetic factors play a role in the susceptibility to, and recovery from, COVID-19. A survey of ongoing twin research could produce findings likely to help in the prevention and management of this pandemic. This survey is followed by a review of research comparing selected features of asthmatic and nonasthmatic twins, links between twin mammals and COVID-19, and relationships between twin delivery and the three ‘Rs’. The final section of this article presents newsworthy twin-related items, some associated with COVID-19. They include a summary of the Rainman Twins film, a study of anal prints, the ‘Twins’ Irish pub, newborn twins ‘Covid and Corona’, the death of a surgeon who separated conjoined twins, and Twinco, a twin-based supply company.

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