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Draft Article with suggested Edits "The People Versus Frank Smiley: Investigating an 1894 Sodomy Crime in Territorial Utah"
No full textText document "The People Versus Frank Smiley: Investigating an 1894 Sodomy Crime in Territorial Utah" article written by Randell Hoffman, proof read and edit suggestions by Connell "Rocky" O\u27Donovan. gives back grounds of Frank Smiley\u27s arrest and detention for "Buggary" for his relations with Willis Clark. LGBTQ History through arrest records.Converted from .docx to .pdf for compatibilit
sj-pdf-1-asu-10.1177_00031348211054074 – Supplemental Material for Risk Factors of Mortality in Patients Hospitalized With Chronic Duodenal Ulcers
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-asu-10.1177_00031348211054074 for Risk Factors of Mortality in Patients Hospitalized With Chronic Duodenal Ulcers by Nicole Lin, Abbas Smiley, Manoj Goud, Cynthia Lin, and Rifat Latifi</p
KIT Smiley West corrected
No full text<p>This IFC4 dataset is based on the known Smiley West dataset from the <a href="https://www.ifcwiki.org/index.php?title=KIT_IFC_Examples#IFC_4">KIT IFC Examples</a>, original author: Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI) / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).</p>
<p>The original dataset contains 27 illformed IFC entity instances of type IfcMaterialProperties which render the file invalid according to the schema. These took the following form with the mandatory "properties attribute" - cardinality S[1:?] - erroneously populated with a list of undefined elements - <code>()</code>:</p>
<p><code>#73244= IFCMATERIALPROPERTIES('Pset_MaterialThermal',,$),#73235);</code></p>
<p>These 27 entity instances where not refered to from any other entity and could thus be safely removed for the corrected version. Moreover, entities of the resource layer (like IfcMaterialProperties) cannot exist independent of non-resource entities according to the standard and thus these instances should be removed anyway.</p>
A Conversation with Jane Smiley
No full textJANE SMILEY: LOCATION AND A GEOGRAPHER OF LOVE
In her essay on place, Eudora Welty points out that Henry James once said there isn\u27t any difference between \u27the English novel\u27 and \u27the American novel,\u27 since there are only two kinds of novels at all: the good and the bad. Then Welty responds to him stating that for good novels fiction is all bound up in the local. The internal reason for that is surely that feelings are bound up in place .... The truth is, fiction depends for its life on place. Location is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of \u27What happened? Who\u27s here? Whose coming?\u27-and that is the heart\u27s field. ! In fact, the novelist shares the real estate agent\u27s mantra: location, location, location.
Novelist Jane Smiley writes with great authority of people whose lives are so profoundly connected to place that they must ultimately yield to their heart\u27s purposes. Thus place is an agency of personal revelation. As the author of A Thousand Acres, in fact, Smiley has been credited with laying the major foundation piece for the Renaissance, the flowering, in the literature of the North American heartland that has occurred over the past fifteen years.
Jane Smiley is the author of over ten major works of fiction, including her celebrated first novel Barn Blind, The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, A Thousand Acres, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, Moo, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton, and Horse Heaven. She has also written essays for magazines such as Vogue, The New Yorker, Practical Horseman, Harper\u27s, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times travel section, US News, Victoria, Mirabella, Allure, The Nation, and many others. She has written on politics, farming, horse training, child-rearing, literature, impulse buying, Barbie, marriage, Monica Lewinsky, and even the trials and tribulations of getting dressed. She is a Vassar graduate and holds an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. She taught at Iowa State University from 1981 until 1996 and now lives in California with her three children, three dogs, and at least sixteen horses.
Parents and children are often at the heart of Smiley\u27s writing. Very few writers are her equal in capturing the day-to-day truths of family life. And no one writes family tension as well-whether that life is in the uncompromising rooms of the horse ranch in Barn Blind; in the trackless reaches of medieval Greenland; on the thousand acres of Larry Cook\u27s place in Zebulon country in A Thousand Acres; in the Kansas-Missouri backwoods borderland traveled by the adventurous Liddie Newton; or among the stars and stumblebums who populate the racetracks of Horse Heaven.
The word that comes to mind in describing Jane Smiley\u27s work is a good Renaissance word: chicanery. It\u27s the chicanery of an aging father trying to outwit his fate in A Thousand Acres, the chicanery of a university professor trying to hide his strange and wonderful hog-breeding experiment in Moo, the plotting of a widow to avenge her murdered husband in Liddie Newton, and the schemes of racetrack people to make one big killing on a horse. Jane Smiley\u27s novels are the work of a true scandal-monger, reminiscent of Charles Dickens. They\u27re tapestries of planners and schemers, the doers and the done-to, the winners and the if-onlies, the dreamers and the damned, the why\u27s and the why-not\u27s
"Reckless for Christ " by Jane Poster
No full textA booklet entitled "Reckless for Christ " by Jane Poster, and a letter from the author to history professor David L. Smiley
Charles Dickens
No full textA superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of those he created in his novels of life in Victorian England. The enormous quantity of work, his public readings and his difficult relationships has made him a figure of enduring fascination. In this biography Jane Smiley reveals Charles Dickens as his contemporaries would have done, getting to know him more intimately than ever before. At the same time Smiley offers interpretations of almost all of Dickens' major works, showing how 'his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels
Validation of the portuguese simple measure of impact of lupus erythematosus in youngsters (SMILEY) in Brazil
No full textBackground and Objective: Simple Measure of the Impact of Lupus Erythematosus in Youngsters (SMILEY) is a health-related quality of life (HRQOL) assessment tool for pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which has been translated into Portuguese for Brazil. We are reporting preliminary data on cross-cultural validation and reliability of SMILEY in Portuguese (Brazil). Methods: In this multi-center cross-sectional study, Brazilian children and adolescents 5-18 years of age with SLE and parents participated. Children and parents completed child and parent reports of Portuguese SMILEY and Portuguese Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQLTM) Generic and Rheumatology modules. Parents also completed the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ). Physicians completed the SLE disease activity index (SLEDAI), Physician's Global Assessment of disease activity (PGA) and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus International Collaborating Clinics ACR Damage Index (SDI). Results: 99 subjects (84 girls) were enrolled; 93 children and 97 parents filled out the SMILEY scale. Subjects found SMILEY relevant and easy to understand and completed SMILEY in 5-15 minutes. Brazilian SMILEY was found to have good psychometric properties (validity and reliability), and the child-parent agreement was moderate. Conclusion: SMILEY may eventually be used routinely as a research/clinical tool in Brazil. It may be also adapted for other Portuguese-speaking nations offering critical information regarding the effect of SLE on HRQOL for children with SLE. © The Author(s), 2012.Department of Pediatrics Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Medical School University of Medicine, 89 French Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901Pediatric Rheumatology Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) Department of Pediatrics, São PauloDepartment of Pediatrics Universidade Federal de São Paulo Escola Paulista de MedicinaDepartment of Medicine Faculty of Medical Science State University of CampinasDepartment of Pediatrics Faculty of Medical Science State University of CampinasPediatric Rheumatology Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro Department of PediatricsPediatric Rheumatology Division Adolescent Health Care Unit Universidade Do Estado Do Rio de JaneiroPediatric Rheumatology Unit Children's Institute Department of PediatricsHospital for Special Surgery, New YorkDepartment of Anesthesiology University of MichiganPediatric Rheumatology Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) Department of Pediatrics, São Paul
A Scoping Review of Sleep Apnea: Where Do We Stand?
No full textObstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition in which there is a recurrent collapse of the upper airway while sleeping, is a widespread disease affecting 5% to 10% people worldwide. Despite several advances in the treatment modalities for OSA, morbidity and mortality remain a concern. Common symptoms include loud snoring, gasping for air during sleep, morning headache, insomnia, hypersomnia, attention deficits, and irritability. Obese individuals, male gender, older age (65+), family history, smoking, and alcohol consumption are well recognized risk factors of OSA. This condition holds the ability to increase inflammatory cytokines, cause metabolic dysfunction, and increase the sympathetic output, all of which exacerbate OSA due to their effect on the cardiovascular system. In this review, we discuss its brief history, risk factors, complications, treatment modalities, and the role of clinicians in curbing its risk
A Novel Technique for Wound Closure Using Spanning Sutures to Decrease Graft Size
No full textIntroduction: The effective closure of large wounds that cannot be primarily closed presents an ongoing surgical challenge. Current strategies such as the purse-suture technique, gradual suture approximation and dynamic dermatotraction, while useful in some contexts, have their drawbacks. Some examples include incomplete closure or dehiscence, painful and prolonged healing, unfavorable cosmetic appearance and restricting wound shape and depth requirements. Methods: We describe the spanning suture technique, a novel strategy for wound closure that addresses many of these limitations.13 patients of an average age of 47 years old underwent a wound closure operation using the spanning suture technique with subsequent skin grafting from September 2021 to January 2022 at Westchester Medical Center. Results were analyzed retrospectively. Operation characteristics such as the wound location, preoperative wound size, postoperative wound size, after up wound size at 2 and 6 weeks, percent decrease in wound size, postoperative complications and pertinent medical problems were examined. Results: The grafts demonstrated 100% complete transfer success. The majority of the wounds were located on the extremities. The most common reason for operation was trauma. On average, the percent decrease in wound size after two weeks was 62.41%. One patient experienced superficial necrosis of muscle requiring loosening of the spanning sutures. Conclusion: The spanning suture technique is shown to be a promising new strategy for wound closure with frank defect size reduction, competitive cosmetic outcomes and maximal grafting success, all while addressing the disadvantages of other current strategies
Healthy Sleep Every Day Keeps the Doctor Away
No full textWhen one considers the big picture of their health, sufficient sleep may often go overlooked as a keystone element in this picture. Insufficient sleep in either quality or duration is a growing problem for our modern society. It is essential to look at what this means for our health because insufficient sleep increases our risks of innumerable lifechanging diseases. Beyond increasing the risk of developing these diseases, it also makes the symptoms and pathogenesis of many diseases worse. Additionally, consistent quality sleep can not only improve our physical health but has also been shown to improve mental health and overall quality of life. Substandard sleep health could be a root cause for numerous issues individuals may be facing in their lives. It is essential that physicians take the time to learn about how to educate their patients on sleep health and try to work with them on an individual level to help motivate lifestyle changes. Facilitating access to sleep education for their patients is one way in which physicians can help provide patients with the tools to improve their sleep health. Throughout this paper, we will review the mechanisms behind the relationship between insufficient sleep health and chronic disease and what the science says about how inadequate sleep health negatively impacts the overall health and the quality of our lives. We will also explain the lifechanging effects of sufficient sleep and how we can help patients get there
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