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Oral History Interview with George O. Cox, June 4, 2008
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with George O. Cox. Born in Bloomington, Illinois 19 March 1926, Cox graduated from high school in 1943 and joined the US Army. He entered the army Specialized Training Program at Michigan College of Mining and Technology in Houghton. In January 1944 he was transferred to the University of Illinois at Champaign. During May 1944 the program was terminated and he was sent to Camp Fannin, Texas for basic training. Upon completing basic he was sent to Fort Rucker, Alabama where he joined the 66th Infantry Division and was assigned as a rifleman to C Company, 263rd Regiment, 1st Battalion. His unit boarded a troop ship and traveled by convoy to Plymouth, England. In December 1944 the unit was shipped to La Havre, France to relieve the 94th Infantry Division. He had very limited combat experience. He tells of the surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945 and of the unit moving to Marseilles, France. The division was disbanded and he was assigned to A Company 31st Engineers Combat Battalion and sent to Vienna where he supervised German prisoners of war. In November 1945, Cox re-enlisted and returned to the United States where he joined the 7th Infantry Division at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. He was later transferred to Camp McCoy, Wisconsin and was discharged on 1 February 1947
Music and Politics in Britain, c.1780–1850
No full textA special forum of Journal of British Studies, containing an introduction by David Kennerley, and articles by Mark Philp, Katie Barclay, Susan Rutherford, and Oskar Cox JensenA special forum of Journal of British Studies, containing an introduction by David Kennerley, and articles by Mark Philp, Katie Barclay, Susan Rutherford, and Oskar Cox Jense
Lafe and Emma Cox Folder
No full text77 pages of family history documents containing and related to Lafe Cox; Emma Ruby Peterson Cox; Cox Dude Ranch; V-O Dude Ranch; Janet Cox; Roxy Cox; Clark Clarence Cox; Janet Ruby Cox Harshfield; - including: photos; News articles; wedding anniversary; letters; guest list; legal documents; Yellow Pine, ID; Oral History; obit; Big Cree
Oral History Interview with George O. Cox, June 4, 2008
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with George O. Cox. Born in Bloomington, Illinois 19 March 1926, Cox graduated from high school in 1943 and joined the US Army. He entered the army Specialized Training Program at Michigan College of Mining and Technology in Houghton. In January 1944 he was transferred to the University of Illinois at Champaign. During May 1944 the program was terminated and he was sent to Camp Fannin, Texas for basic training. Upon completing basic he was sent to Fort Rucker, Alabama where he joined the 66th Infantry Division and was assigned as a rifleman to C Company, 263rd Regiment, 1st Battalion. His unit boarded a troop ship and traveled by convoy to Plymouth, England. In December 1944 the unit was shipped to La Havre, France to relieve the 94th Infantry Division. He had very limited combat experience. He tells of the surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945 and of the unit moving to Marseilles, France. The division was disbanded and he was assigned to A Company 31st Engineers Combat Battalion and sent to Vienna where he supervised German prisoners of war. In November 1945, Cox re-enlisted and returned to the United States where he joined the 7th Infantry Division at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. He was later transferred to Camp McCoy, Wisconsin and was discharged on 1 February 1947
Selective COX-2 inhibitors and risk of myocardial infarction
No full textSelective inhibitors of cyclooxygenase- 2 ( COX- 2, ` coxibs') are highly effective anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs that exert their action by preventing the formation of prostanoids. Recently some coxibs, which were designed to exploit the advantageous effects of non- steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs while evading their side effects, have been reported to increase the risk of myocardial infarction and atherothrombotic events. This has led to the withdrawal of rofecoxib from global markets, and warnings have been issued by drug authorities about similar events during the use of celecoxib or valdecoxib/ parecoxib, bringing about questions of an inherent atherothrombotic risk of all coxibs and consequences that should be drawn by health care professionals. These questions need to be addressed in light of the known effects of selective inhibition of COX- 2 on the cardiovascular system. Although COX- 2, in contrast to the cyclooxygenase-1 ( COX- 1) isoform, is regarded as an inducible enzyme that only has a role in pathophysiological processes like pain and inflammation, experimental and clinical studies have shown that COX- 2 is constitutively expressed in tissues like the kidney or vascular endothelium, where it executes important physiological functions. COX- 2- dependent formation of prostanoids not only results in the mediation of pain or inflammatory signals but also in the maintenance of vascular integrity. Especially prostacyclin ( PGI(2)), which exerts vasodilatory and antiplatelet properties, is formed to a significant extent by COX- 2, and its levels are reduced to less than half of normal when COX- 2 is inhibited. This review outlines the rationale for the development of selective COX- 2 inhibitors and the pathophysiological consequences of selective inhibition of COX- 2 with special regard to vasoactive prostaglandins. It describes coxibs that are currently available, evaluates the current knowledge on the risk of atherothrombotic events associated with their intake and critically discusses the consequences that should be drawn from these insights. Copyright (C) 2005 S. Karger AG, Basel
Implementation of complex interactions in a Cox regression framework
No full textThe standard Cox proportional hazards model has been extended by functionally describable interaction terms. The first of which are related to neural networks by adopting the idea of transforming sums of weighted covariables by means of a logistic function. A class of reasonable weight combinations within the logistic transformation is described. Apart from the standard covariable product interaction, a product of logistically transformed covariables has also been included in the analysis of performance of the new terms. An algorithm combining likelihood ratio tests and AIC criterion has been defined for model choice. The critical values of the likelihood ratio test statistics had to be corrected in order to guarantee a maximum type I error of 5% for each interaction term. The new class of interaction terms allows interpretation of functional relationships between covariables with more flexibility and can easily be implemented in standard software packages
Music to some Consequence: Reaction, Reform, Race
No full textA naval chaplain in the 1790s, a radical arrested after Peterloo, and a smash hit of blackfaceminstrelsy: these three disparate historical actors all provide exemplary cases of music in action,playing upon the political passions of the British people. Thinking across the three examples, thisarticle reflects upon the aims of the forum Music and Politics in Britain, c.1780-1850, as well as advancing its own autonomous argument. Alexander Duncan was drummed out of the navy for publishing a pamphlet advocating the use of martial music in action; inspired by the French, Duncan was effectively arguing for a democratization of Britain's servicemen by playing upon their passions. The potential for subversion inherent in this approach was borne out by the career of Samuel Bamford, a Lancashire weaver; music was central to Bamford's activism, and I chart the functional ends to which he deployed music around 1819. In a third instance, with the 1840s hit Buffalo Gals, music led to public disorder. The song, due in large part to its musical qualities, enabled forms of licentious behavior among white males that mobilized latent forms of gendered as well as racial prejudice, so that its performance came to excuse forms of sexual harassment
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
LC-MS/MS Confirms That COX-1 Drives Vascular Prostacyclin Whilst Gene Expression Pattern Reveals Non-Vascular Sites of COX-2 Expression
No full textPMCID: PMC3711559This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Regression calibration for Cox regression under heteroscedastic measurement error - Determining risk factors of cardiovascular diseases from error-prone nutritional replication data
No full textFor instance nutritional data are often subject to severe measurement error, and an adequate adjustment of the estimators is indispensable to avoid deceptive conclusions. This paper discusses and extends the method of regression calibration to correct for measurement error in Cox regression. Special attention is paid to the modelling of quadratic predictors, the role of heteroscedastic measurement error, and the efficient use of replicated measurements of the surrogates. The method is used to analyze data from the German part of the MONICA cohort study on cardiovascular diseases. The results corroborate the importance of taking into account measurement error carefully
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