529 research outputs found
Gene Stratton Porter
No full textIn 1886, author, naturalist and photographer, Geneva Grace Stratton, married Charles D. Porter, a druggist and banker from Geneva. She wrote several popular novels including Freckles, A Girl of the Limberlost, Laddie, and A Daughter of the Land
Gene Stratton Porter's Home at Wildflower Woods near Rome City, Indiana
No full textRome City was established in 1839. Gene Stratton-Porter, an author, naturalist and photographer, moved there and resided at the Cabin in Wildflower Woods on Sylvan Lake from 1914 until she moved to California in 1920. It is now a state historic site.The image is misidentified on the postcard, it is not Limberlost but Gene Stratton Porter's cabin in the Wildflower Woods near Rome City in Noble County.Noble County Journe
Outta my way piece on the author\u27s portrayal of the Maine towns of Stratton an
No full textOutta my way piece on the author\u27s portrayal of the Maine towns of Stratton and Eustis in an article she wrote and published in Down East magazine\u27s February issue. The article received a critical review in The Original Irregular, a weekly paper that serves the communities of the western mountains of Maine
Supplemental Material - Blind sports’ blind spot: The global epidemiology of visual impairment against participation trends in elite blind para sport
No full textSupplemental Material for Blind sports’ blind spot: The global epidemiology of visual impairment against participation trends in elite blind para sport by Catherine S M Stratton, Kristina Fagher, Xiang Li, Taylor D Ottesen and Yetsa A Tuakli-Wosornu in Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering</p
Stratton Island in Saco Bay is home to a cormorant colony, a much-maligned bird.
No full textStratton Island in Saco Bay is home to a cormorant colony, a much-maligned bird. The National Audubon Society assigns wardens to live on Stratton from late spring through the fall to monitor these and other migrant species. Double-crested Cormorant populations are declining in Maine, though the state still holds the largest nesting population on the U.S. East Coast. With details on the birds, which the author sketched and photographed
Review of \u3ci\u3ePioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier\u3c/i\u3e By Joanna L. Stratton
No full textThe history of this book is as remarkable as the lives of the women it chronicles. While rummaging through her grandmother\u27s attic, Joanna L. Stratton discovered in yellowing folders the personal memoirs of eight hundred Kansas pioneer women, some describing events that had occurred as early as 1854. Lilla Day Monroe, Stratton\u27s great-grandmother, who was also the first woman to practice law before the Kansas Supreme Court, collected these narratives in the 1920s, asking women to write about their daily lives and experiences as early settlers. Monroe planned to publish their accounts in an anthology as a tribute to the pioneer housewives who helped to settle Kansas, their contributions having been largely ignored by historians.
With Monroe\u27s death in 1929, Lenore Monroe Stratton (Monroe\u27s daughter and the author\u27s grandmother) took over the project. But it eventually bogged down, and the memoirs were flled away in an attic cabinet, where Joanna L. Stratton discovered them in 1975. Six decades after its inception, the author has completed the project in superb fashion.
Stratton\u27s book is a social history of early Kansas settlement, based almost entirely on the eight hundred memoirs. It provides an intimate look into the daily activities of average settlers, focusing on the women\u27s side of pioneer life. Using excerpts from the narratives, the author ably documents the endurance, perseverance, hardiness, and optimism of Kansas pioneer women. It took these qualities to survive, as a woman\u27s life on the frontier was one of daily toil and frequent loneliness. The book tells of one young woman whose loneliness was so intense that, when left alone for the day, she would go out and lie down among the sheep for company.
Loneliness was only one of many hardships experienced by Kansas women. The book vividly describes their struggles with sickness, droughts, floods, grasshopper infestations, wolves, prairie fires, and blizzards. But men and women ex erie need these hardships together and, Stratton points out, they worked as partners to assure the survival of the family. Men and women alike delighted in social encounters; travelers were always welcome; and holidays and picnics broke the monotony of unending toil. Separate chapters are devoted to frontier schools, churches, towns, and war, with a concluding chapter on temperance and suffrage crusaders
Development of a cost-effectiveness model for optimisation of the screening interval in diabetic retinopathy screening
No full textBACKGROUND:
The English NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme was established in 2003. Eligible people are invited annually for digital retinal photography screening. Those found to have potentially sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) are referred to surveillance clinics or to Hospital Eye Services.
OBJECTIVES:
To determine whether personalised screening intervals are cost-effective.
DESIGN:
Risk factors were identified in Gloucestershire, UK using survival modelling. A probabilistic decision hidden (unobserved) Markov model with a misgrading matrix was developed. This informed estimation of lifetime costs and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) in patients without STDR. Two personalised risk stratification models were employed: two screening episodes (SEs) (low, medium or high risk) or one SE with clinical information (low, medium-low, medium-high or high risk). The risk factor models were validated in other populations.
SETTING:
Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire, South London and East Anglia (all UK).
PARTICIPANTS:
People with diabetes in Gloucestershire with risk stratification model validation using data from Nottinghamshire, South London and East Anglia.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:
Personalised risk-based algorithm for screening interval; cost-effectiveness of different screening intervals.
RESULTS:
Data were obtained in Gloucestershire from 12,790 people with diabetes with known risk factors to derive the risk estimation models, from 15,877 people to inform the uptake of screening and from 17,043 people to inform the health-care resource-usage costs. Two stratification models were developed: one using only results from previous screening events and one using previous screening and some commonly available GP data. Both models were capable of differentiating groups at low and high risk of development of STDR. The rate of progression to STDR was 5 per 1000 person-years (PYs) in the lowest decile of risk and 75 per 1000 PYs in the highest decile. In the absence of personalised risk stratification, the most cost-effective screening interval was to screen all patients every 3 years, with a 46% probability of this being cost-effective at a £30,000 per QALY threshold. Using either risk stratification models, screening patients at low risk every 5 years was the most cost-effective option, with a probability of 99-100% at a £30,000 per QALY threshold. For the medium-risk groups screening every 3 years had a probability of 43-48% while screening high-risk groups every 2 years was cost-effective with a probability of 55-59%.
CONCLUSIONS:
The study found that annual screening of all patients for STDR was not cost-effective. Screening this entire cohort every 3 years was most likely to be cost-effective. When personalised intervals are applied, screening those in our low-risk groups every 5 years was found to be cost-effective. Screening high-risk groups every 2 years further improved the cost-effectiveness of the programme. There was considerable uncertainty in the estimated incremental costs and in the incremental QALYs, particularly with regard to implications of an increasing proportion of maculopathy cases receiving intravitreal injection rather than laser treatment. Future work should focus on improving the understanding of risk, validating in further populations and investigating quality issues in imaging and assessment including the potential for automated image grading
Canadian 24-Hour movement guidelines for children and youth: An integration of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep
No full textLeaders from the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology convened representatives of national organizations, content experts, methodologists, stakeholders, and end-users who followed rigorous and transparent guideline development procedures to create the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth: An Integration of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep. These novel guidelines for children and youth aged 5–17 years respect the natural and intuitive integration of movement behaviours across the whole day (24-h period). The development process was guided by the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research Evaluation (AGREE) II instrument and systematic reviews of evidence informing the guidelines were assessed using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach. Four systematic reviews (physical activity, sedentary behaviour, sleep, integrated behaviours) examining the relationships between and among movement behaviours and several health indicators were completed and interpreted by expert consensus. Complementary compositional analyses were performed using Canadian Health Measures Survey data to examine the relationships between movement behaviours and health indicators. A stakeholder survey was employed (n = 590) and 28 focus groups/stakeholder interviews (n = 104) were completed to gather feedback on draft guidelines. Following an introductory preamble, the guidelines provide evidence-informed recommendations for a healthy day (24 h), comprising a combination of sleep, sedentary behaviours, light-, moderate-, and vigorous-intensity physical activity. Proactive dissemination, promotion, implementation, and evaluation plans have been prepared in an effort to optimize uptake and activation of the new guidelines. Future research should consider the integrated relationships among movement behaviours, and similar integrated guidelines for other age groups should be developed
Measurement of the flux of ultra-high energy cosmic rays by the telescope array FADC fluorescence detectors
No full textUltra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) produce the most powerful collisions between single particles and atmospheric matter. They have been studied since the early 20th century yet, to this date, there is no clear answer as to the acceleration process responsible for their produc-tion. The Telescope Array Project is an experiment designed to observe the showers of particles produced as by-products of the interactions between UHECRs and the atmosphere. As a hybrid experiment, it currently utilizes 38 fluorescence detectors (FDs) divided between three sites over-looking an array of 507 surface detectors (SDs). The project’s mission is to study the energy, composition and origin of UHECRs using a variety of techniques which may include some or all of the experiment’s apparatus. This document, in particular, is a presentation of the UHECR en-ergy spectrum measured at Telescope Array using the fluorescence detection technique in mo-nocular mode. Only data from the 24 FDs at Black Rock Mesa (BR) and Long Ridge (LR) sta-tions are used here.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Sean R. Stratto
Review of \u3ci\u3eChasing the Rodeo: On Wild Rides and Big Dreams, Broken Hearts and Broken Bones, and One Man\u27s Search for the West\u3c/i\u3e By W. K. Stratton
No full textChasing the Rodeo involves one man\u27s year-long search for himself, his father, and both the rodeo of his childhood past (during the classical period of the 1950s) and of today.
W. K. Stratton skillfully weaves what might look like disparate themes into a riveting, coherent book of introspection and renewal. In part, the book focuses on his personal chase to explore the ways of a shiftless father who left the family in the author\u27s childhood to follow dreams of booze, bulls, and bucks. In part, it is a story of the author at midlife coming to terms with this haunt of a father by exploring his own life, using rodeo as the connection. Examining with a historian\u27s flair two dozen selective rodeos throughout the Great Plain states and beyond, Stratton traces their origins, focusing as well on the movers and shakers who give each rodeo its unique personality.
Giving himself entirely to the allure (or wanderlust, as he refers to it) of his own personal rodeo experiences on this year-long trek, Stratton not only critically examines rodeo\u27s appeal for both rider and spectator, but uses his insights to examine the ways in which his father was drawn into the adventure as well. For Stratton (and by extension for all who give in to this rodeo subculture), the chase becomes the link to a sense of community and an extended family found also in a collective nostalgia for what was perceived to be part of the Old West. Furthermore, Stratton successfully illuminates how rodeo continues to touch us in primal ways. Even modern big-time rodeo-along with mass media-savvy entertainment such as the Professional Bull Riders weekly televised dramas-connects us to the untamed state (as Stratton characterizes it) of the Old West.
I related completely to Stratton\u27s obsession. Writing my own book, Rodeo in America: Wranglers, Roughstock, and Paydirt, when I was age fifty (in part, to engage in an activity that my father-who had been an amateur rodeo cowboy while in his late teens and early twenties-could share with me), Stratton, at age fifty-one selectively travels the rodeo circuit searching for a connection with a father whom he barely knew. Stratton\u27s success is in finally bringing closure to his personal chase. Along the way, he provides the reader with fascinating insights into both past and present professional rodeo athletes, as well as the local characters and hangers-on who were along for the ride
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