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Letter from Daniel D. Barnard to George Sibley, June 4, 1844
No full textTranscript of Letter from Daniel D. Barnard to George Sibley, June 4, 1844. Barnard thanks Sibley for nominating him; nullifyers
A systematic review of models to predict recruitment to multicentre clinical trials
No full textAbstract Background Less than one third of publicly funded trials managed to recruit according to their original plan often resulting in request for additional funding and/or time extensions. The aim was to identify models which might be useful to a major public funder of randomised controlled trials when estimating likely time requirements for recruiting trial participants. The requirements of a useful model were identified as usability, based on experience, able to reflect time trends, accounting for centre recruitment and contribution to a commissioning decision. Methods A systematic review of English language articles using MEDLINE and EMBASE. Search terms included: randomised controlled trial, patient, accrual, predict, enrol, models, statistical; Bayes Theorem; Decision Theory; Monte Carlo Method and Poisson. Only studies discussing prediction of recruitment to trials using a modelling approach were included. Information was extracted from articles by one author, and checked by a second, using a pre-defined form. Results Out of 326 identified abstracts, only 8 met all the inclusion criteria. Of these 8 studies examined, there are five major classes of model discussed: the unconditional model, the conditional model, the Poisson model, Bayesian models and Monte Carlo simulation of Markov models. None of these meet all the pre-identified needs of the funder. Conclusions To meet the needs of a number of research programmes, a new model is required as a matter of importance. Any model chosen should be validated against both retrospective and prospective data, to ensure the predictions it gives are superior to those currently used.</p
Austrogammarus Barnard & Karaman 1984
No full textAustrogammarus Barnard & Karaman, 1984 Austrogammarus Barnard & Karaman, 1984: 60 -61. Type species. Gammarus australis Sayce, 1901, by original designation. For the generic diagnoses, additional description, characters of interspecific value and sexual attributes see Williams & Barnard (1988: 16--17). Relationships. Austrogammarus is regarded as the basic (most primitive) genus of Australian paramelitids. Composition. This genus now includes seven species: A. australis (Sayce), A. smithi Williams & Barnard, A. haasei (Sayee), A. sayeei Williams & Barnard, A. spinatus Williams & Barnard, A. multispinatus Williams & Barnard and A. telsosetosus n.sp. Keys to the first six of these species, based upon the most prominent specific differences, were given by Williams & Barnard (1988: 16 -17). In these keys, A. telsosetosus keys to A. multispinatus. These two species differ only slightly from each other (see remarks under Relationships below).Published as part of Barnard, J. Laurens & Williams, W. D., 1995, The taxonomy of freshwater Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Australian fresh waters: Part 2, pp. 161-201 in Records of the Australian Museum 47 (2) on page 162, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.47.1995.236, http://zenodo.org/record/465482
Toulrabia Barnard & Williams 1995
No full textToulrabia n.gen. Etymology. Named for the type locality.Published as part of Barnard, J. Laurens & Williams, W. D., 1995, The taxonomy of freshwater Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Australian fresh waters: Part 2, pp. 161-201 in Records of the Australian Museum 47 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.47.1995.236, http://zenodo.org/record/465482
Chillagoe Barnard & Williams 1995, n.gen.
No full textChillagoe n.gen. Etymology. Named for the type locality.Published as part of Barnard, J. Laurens & Williams, W. D., 1995, The taxonomy of freshwater Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Australian fresh waters: Part 2, pp. 161-201 in Records of the Australian Museum 47 (2) on page 186, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.47.1995.236, http://zenodo.org/record/465482
A critical edition of Derek Walcott's Omeros
No full textThe thesis is a Critical Edition of Derek Walcott’s Omeros, consisting of a Critical
Introduction and Annotations. The Critical Introduction analyses:
- Narrative
- Settings
- Metaphor and Paronomasia
- Symbolism
- Historiography
- Intertexts
- Dualism
- Autobiography
- Dialects
- Prosody.
The Annotations comment on more than 1000 references that may be obscure and on
specifics of narrative, language and prosody.
This study presents new conclusions about some aspects of Omeros:
- It challenges the prevailing view that the work is written substantially in a
variation of terza rima and shows that regular quatrains predominate.
- It demonstrates ways in which the metrics follow the sense of the narrative and
takes a more balanced position on the use of Caribbean as opposed to classical
metrics than that put forward previously.
- It identifies a paragraphic structure to the verse.
- It proposes a new prosodic structure for the significant Chapter XXX/iii.
- It extends Walcott’s recognised use of numerology into word counting the
names of characters.
- It develops the idea of Walcott’s dualism and his use of pairing and
contradiction as a dialectical method.
- It defines his wide use of paronomasia and shows that many of the puns have a
metaphorical aspect beyond mere word-play.
- It analyses some of Walcott’s symbolism.
- It identifies intertextual links to his earlier works and to some thirty other
writers, and suggests homage to Hemingway and possibly Heaney.
- It provides the first complete analysis of Walcott’s rhyme types in Omeros.
In its analysis of Omeros and in the Annotations it has included commentary from
across the critical literature, to provide some sense of other views on Walcott’s
writing, and has included as many as possible of Walcott’s own comments on Omeros
and on the writer’s task, as a background to understanding the poem
Alabama Dream (Rag-Time Cake Walk).
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Alabama Dream (Rag-Time Cake Walk).
No full textsectionalpiano12976-4Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
170, Item 005by Geo. D. Barnard
Moloha Barnard 1946
No full textGenus Moloha Barnard, 1946 Type species Latreillopsis alcocki Stebbing, 1920, by original designation. Remarks Most workers (e.g., Gordon 1950; Serène & Lohavanijaya 1973; Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995; Ahyong et al. 2009; Garassino 2009) cite the author of Moloha as “Barnard, 1947”. This is incorrect. Evenhuis (2003) dated the volume of the journal concerned as 29 April 1946. The genus should therefore be cited as Moloha Barnard, 1946. In that paper, Barnard also described two new genera (Eudromidia and Speodromia) and 10 new species (Dromidia aegibotus, D. dissothrix, Dromidiopsis cornuta (at present Dromidia), Cryptodromidiopsis lepidota (at present Dromidia), Hexapus stebbingi (at present Tritoplax), Rhynchoplax bovis (at present Neorhynchoplax), Heteronucia angulata, Dehaanius undulatus (at present Acanthonyx), Portumnus mcleayi (at present Xaiva) and Lybia plumosa) from South Africa. The author and date for all these taxa should be “ Barnard, 1946 ” as well.Published as part of Ng, Peter K. L. & Kumar, Appukuttannair Biju, 2015, The species of Moloha Barnard, 1946, from the western Indian Ocean, with the description of a new species from India (Crustacea: Brachyura: Homolidae), pp. 1-25 in European Journal of Taxonomy 166 on page 2, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.166, http://zenodo.org/record/380572
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