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Letter Written by Patrick J. Fallon to the Bryant College Service Club Dated December 12, 1944
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KEESLER FIELD, MISSISSIPPI
December 12, 1944
Dear Friends:
Please accept my sincere thanks for the Christmas gift which you so thoughtfully sent to me.
Wishing you all a Very merry Christmas and a Happy and Holy Year endowed with the Spirit of Peace, I remain
Yours very trulyPvt. Patrick J. Fallon
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Letter Written by Patrick J. Fallon to the Bryant College Service Club Dated April 9, 1945
No full text[Transcription begins] KEESLER FIELD BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI
April 9, 1945
Bryant College Service Club Bryant College Providence 3, Rhode Island
Dear Friends:
It is most fortunate that we, former students and graduates of Bryant College, have so many thoughtful friends in the present student body. The commendable work you are doing may seem like a very small task, but its effect is certainly invaluable, to say the least.
It’s unfortunate that you are not able to see the joy and happiness that such thoughtfulness brings to these boys who are making many sacrifices to bring this conflict to an end.
The value of the gift does not bring greater or lesser joy to these boys. Oh, no! It’s just knowing that the people at home are not forgetting us and the hardships and perils that servicemen encounter in war. This is what gives us a greater spirit and courage to overcome these things and attain our objective.
Let me assure you that the boys will never forget the very good work you are doing. Please keep up the good work especially now when victory is close at hand.
In closing, please accept my thanks for the beautiful sweater that I was so fortunate to receive from the Bryant College Service Club.
Yours very truly Patrick J. Fallon
Pfc. P. J. Fallon 31383422 3704 AAF BU Squadron B-3 (Range) Keesler Field, Miss. [Transcription ends
Letter Written by Patrick J. Fallon to the Bryant College Service Club Dated July 21, 1943
No full text[Transcription begins]AIR CORPS TECHNICAL SCHOOLKEESLER FIELD, MISSISSIPPI
July 21, 1943
Dear Friends:
This is really a belated acknowledgement of your thoughtfulness and kindness. Please accept my thanks for the gift of cigarettes.
Yours very trulyPatrick J. FallonSquadron 175, 57th T.G.Keesler Field, Miss
Patrick J. McKenna
No full textPhotograph - A portrait of Patrick J. McKenna, Director of Public Relations for the Trail North Foundation, Athabasca, Albert
Art, Biography, Sexuality: Patrick Procktor and Keith Vaughan
No full textThis critical review forms a reflection on the research published within the following publications:
Patrick Procktor: Art and Life (Unicorn Press, 2010)
Keith Vaughan: The Mature Oils 1946-1977, (Sansom & Co., 2012)
The research is on two artists, Patrick Procktor (1936-2003), and Keith Vaughan (1912-1977). The monograph on Procktor – previously one of the least documented of the generation of artists who came to prominence in London in the Sixties – positions him in a history of art from which he had been notably absent. The research on Vaughan asserts a new reading of his work, one that is both deeper and more nuanced in its analysis of the ways in which personal experience and sexuality are encoded autobiographically within his work. Crucially, in both artists biography and work are symbiotically linked; the research therefore examines the links between life and art.
Revisionary in intent, the work examines trajectories of experience of gay British (or rather, English) artists in the twentieth century, artists who sought to express themselves and forge careers within the constraints of a heteronormative society, albeit one in which attitudes to sexuality were undergoing change. As gay men, both were constrained by the social mores of their times, and each used painting as a means to affirm personal and sexual identities. A key research interest is in the ways in which sexuality and persona are reflected in critical responses to the artist’s work: in Vaughan, Procktor and other gay male artists of the period. The writing on both Procktor and Vaughan examines the relationship between their personal and professional/artistic lives, framed within a broader socio-political and art historical context. It asserts the place of biography as a means to understand and form new readings of the work. The work adds substantially to the literature and wider discourse on post-war British painting and social history
Patrick J. Walsh Correspondence
No full textEntries include brief biographical information, a typed introductory letter to Walsh concerning the Maine Author Collection and publication notice of his book in an upcoming issue of the Maine Library Bulletin, a handwritten biographical letter of presentation from Walsh on Northern Novelty Company, Monticello, Maine, stationery, and a typed letter on receipt of his book Humor: Informative, Soothing, and Ticklish for the Maine Author Collection from the Maine State Library
Evidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
No full textFirst evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
Zinc has insulin-mimetic properties which enhance spinal fusion in a rat model
No full textBACKGROUND CONTEXT: Previous studies have found that insulin or insulin-like growth factor treatment can stimulate fracture healing in diabetic and normal animal models, and increase fusion rates in a rat spinal fusion model. Insulin-mimetic agents, such as zinc, have demonstrated antidiabetic effects in animal and human studies, and these agents that mimic the effects of insulin could produce the same beneficial effects on bone regeneration and spinal fusion.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of locally applied zinc on spinal fusion in a rat model.
STUDY DESIGN/SETTING: Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee-approved animal study using Sprague-Dawley rats was used as the study design.
METHODS: Thirty Sprague-Dawley rats (450-500 g) underwent L4-L5 posterolateral lumbar fusion (PLF). After decortication and application of approximately 0.3 g of autograft per side, one of three pellets were added to each site: high-dose zinc calcium sulfate (ZnCaSO4), low-dose ZnCaSO4 (half of the high dose), or a control palmitic acid pellet (no Zn dose). Systemic blood glucose levels were measured 24 hours postoperatively. Rats were sacrificed after 8 weeks and the PLFs analyzed qualitatively by manual palpation and radiograph review, and quantitatively by micro-computed tomography (CT) analysis of bone volume and trabecular thickness. Statistical analyses with p-values set at .05 were accomplished with analysis of variance, followed by posthoc tests for quantitative data, or Mann-Whitney rank tests for qualitative assessments.
RESULTS: Compared with controls, the low-dose zinc group demonstrated a significantly higher manual palpation grade (p=.011), radiographic score (p=.045), and bone formation on micro-CT (172.9 mm3 vs. 126.7 mm3 for controls) (p3 vs. 126.7 mm3) (p<.01) versus controls, and was trending toward higher manual palpation scores (p=.058).
CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates the potential benefit of a locally applied insulin-mimetic agent, such as zinc, in a rat lumbar fusion model. Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of local insulin application in the same model, and it appears that zinc has similar effects.Peer reviewe
Séminaire Michel de Certeau (13). J. Ahaerne (1) - face A
No full textSéminaire dirigé par Christian Delacroix, François Dossé, Patrick Garcia et Michel Trebitsch. Enregistré par l'IHTP (Paris) entre 1994 et 2000
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