205 research outputs found
Cardiac PET Imaging for the Detection and Monitoring of Coronary Artery Disease and Microvascular Health
No full textPositron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging in concert with tracer-kinetic modeling affords the assessment of regional myocardial blood flow (MBF) of the left ventricle in absolute terms (milliliters per gram per minute). Assessment of MBF both at rest and during various forms of vasomotor stress provides insight into early and subclinical abnormalities in coronary arterial vascular function and/or structure, noninvasively. The noninvasive evaluation and quantification of MBF and myocardial flow reserve (MFR) extend the scope of conventional myocardial perfusion imaging from detection of end-stage, advanced, and flow-limiting, epicardial coronary artery disease (CAD) to early stages of atherosclerosis or microvascular dysfunction. Recent studies have shown that impaired hyperemic MBF or MFR with PET, with or without accompanying CAD, is predictive of increased relative risk of death or progression of heart failure. Quantitative approaches that measure MBF with PET identify multivessel CAD and offer the opportunity to monitor responses to lifestyle and/or risk factor modification and to therapeutic interventions. Whether improvement or normalization of hyperemic MBF and/or the MFR will translate to improvement in long-term cardiovascular outcome remains clinically untested. In the meantime, absolute measures of MBF with PET can be used as a surrogate marker for coronary vascular health, and to monitor therapeutic interventions. Although the assessment of myocardial perfusion with PET has become an indispensable tool in cardiac research, it remains underutilized in clinical practice. Individualized, image-guided cardiovascular therapy may likely change this paradigm in the near future
Robert H. Billigmeier, A Crisis in Swiss Pluralism
No full textThe author, Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, presents a study that is clearly a labor of love, an analytical tour de force, and a toughminded professional diagnosis. It is devoted to the Swiss segment of the once large community of Romansh speakers who resided in the Alpine regions between Italy and Northern Europe. The remnant occupies today a similar position as the Basques in Spain and France, the Flemish in Belgium, or the Lapps in the northern borderlands who are also encircled by more numerous and powerful linguistic groups. Professor Billigmeier views the Romansh, the smallest ethno-linguistic group of quadrilingual Switzerland, engaged in a mortal struggle against persistent, indeed seemingly inexorable forces which work to obliterate their identity as a distinct cultural group (vi). They are a people in crisis, and the linguistic shrinkage poses in the author\u27s view a genuine threat to Swiss pluralism, a key force in the nation\u27s tradition
Review Essay: Arnold H. Price, My Twentieth Century. Recollections of a Public Historian
No full textThis autobiographical account of a twentieth century life, moving into the twenty-first, is as captivating as it is instructive. Arnold H. Price, who for years served the Swiss American Historical Society as secretary and also generously assisted scholars such as Heinz K. Meier in their research on the relations between the United States and Switzerland-a Friendship under Stress, as H.K. Meier\u27s study is aptly titled-features in this memoir his formative years in Bonn, Kiel and Ann Arbor, Michigan as well as his professional career in Washington, D.C. There he worked first in the Office of Strategic Services, the OSS, from 1942 to 1945, then with some brief interruptions in the intelligence section of the Department of State until 1960. Next he took a position at the Library of Congress until 1979 and from 1980 to 1991 he worked as a bibliographer for the American Historical Association. His account is that of a historian, that is of some one who is fascinated by the human past and the long shadow it casts over the present and the future
Besprechungen
No full textWössner, Jakobus: Soziologie. Einführung und Grundlegung. (Wolfgang Lipp)
Homans, Georg C.: Grundfragen soziologischer Theorie. Aufsätze. (Eckart Pankoke)
Aron, Ramond: Hauptströmungen des soziologischen Denkens. (Karl Sammel)
Rüegg, Walter u. Otto Neuloh (Hrsg.): Zur soziologischen Theorie und Analyse des 19. Jahrhunderts. (Heinrich Volkmann)
Richarz, Irmintraut: Herrschaftliche Haushalte in vorindustrieller Zeit im Weserraum. (Bruno Schultz)
Suhle, Arthur: Deutsche Münz- und Geldgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zum 15. Jahrhundert. (Alfred Kruse)
Köllner, Lutz: Chronik der deutschen Währungspolitik 1871-1971. (Hans H. Lechner)
Ricardo, David: Grundsätze einer politischen Ökonomie und Besteuerung. Der hohe Preis der Edelmetalle, ein Beweis für die Entwertung der Banknote. (Hans H. Lechner)
Meade, J. E.: The Theory of Indicative Planning. (Kurt Rothschild)
Zinn, Karl Georg: Allgemeine Wirtschaftspolitik als Grundlage einer kritischen Ökonomie. (Gerhard Kleinhenz)
Pütz, Theodor: Grundlagen der theoretischen Wirtschaftspolitik. Bd. I: Grundlagen und Hauptgebiete. (Gerhard Kleinhenz)
Thiemeyer, Theo: Gemeinwirtschaftlichkeit als Ordnungsprinzip. Grundlegung einer Theorie gemeinnütziger Unternehmen. (Helmut Winterstein)
Hoppmann, Erich: Rationalisierung durch Kartelle? (Ingo Schmidt)
Arndt, Helmut u. Dieter Swatek (Hrsg.): Grundfragen der Infrastrukturplanung für wachsende Wirtschaften. (Beat Blankart)
Henkner, Klaus: Quantifizierung von Wettbewerbs- und Struktureffekten in der Exportentwicklung ausgewählter Industrienationen 1954 bis 1967. Statistische Probleme, Berechnungsmethoden und Ergebnisse unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. (Josef Bleymüller)
Pohlmann, Wolf-Rüdiger: Der flexible Wechselkurs als Instrument außenwirtschaftlicher Absicherung einer autonomen Wirtschaftspolitik. Dargestellt am Beispiel Kanada. (Anton Konrad)
Hellmann, Rainer: Weltunternehmen nur amerikanisch? (Klaus-Heinrich Standke)
Schelbert-Syfrig, Heidi: Das „Buy American" Prinzip und die amerikanische Zahlungsbilanz. (Helmut Gröner)
Grimm, Hermann O.: Die Grundlagen der japanischen Einfuhr ausländischer Technologie. (Klaus-Heinrich Standke)
Auerbach, Walter: Beiträge zur Sozialpolitik. (Rochus Castner
Two Distinguished Swiss Visitors in Chicago: Max Frisch and Jean Piaget
No full textOn April 11, 1974, the Consulate General of Switzerland proudly announced: The famous Swiss writer, winner of numerous awards and honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Max Frisch, author of novels, plays and diaries and one of the leading personalities in modern literature, will be in Chicago. As a major event a reading hour had been arranged for Tuesday, April 23, at the University of Illinois - in cooperation with the Consulate General of (West) Germany and the Swiss Benevolent Society of Chicago - where the author was to read from his recently published Sketchbook 1966-1971
Joan Magee, \u3ci\u3eThe Swiss in Ontario\u3c/i\u3e
No full textThis is truly a Swiss-Canadian book. It not only offers a fact-filled survey of the Swiss presence in Canada\u27s vast province of Ontario, covering some three centuries, but it is also produced by Swiss Canadians. The text is .written by a descendant of Johannes Etter, a Swiss innkeeper, the study\u27s end page explains; in 1735 he had left Bern, Switzerland, with about 300 others for South Carolina. Etter\u27s son Peter, a Loyalist, travelled to Halifax in ·1776, founding the Canadian branch of the Etter family. Also the book\u27s artwork is done by a Swiss-Canadian, the painter Rudolf Stussi, and the exquisite interspersed poems enriching the text are by Peter Baltensperger. The printing of the work is done by a firm whose president is H. Rindlisbacher, a descendant of the Bernese Arnold Rindlisbacher who settled in Canada in 1925. The book, furthermore, contains a nuanced foreword by the Consul General of Switzerland residing in Toronto, and the study is dedicated to The Swiss Abroad in their celebration of the 700th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation in 1291. Although clearly a work of love, illustrated by photographs and eight color plates mainly of immigrants or their descendants, Joan Magee; a reference librarian at the University of Windsor and author of four other books relating to Ontario history, has given the study a professional form
Preface
No full textThis special issue is devoted to nineteenth century Swiss of Ohio, and it also commemorates the work of Dr. Adelrich Steinach who published in 1889 the book Geschichte und Leben der Schweizer Kolonien in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika. Although no edition of this work exists in English, fortunately Picton Press republished it with a Combined Place Name Index (pp. 393-412), an Index of Place Names in Swiss Cantons ( 412-414 ), an Index of Place Names in America ( 415-420), and an Index of Personal Names (pp. 421-525), expertly compiled by the historian Urspeter Schelbert, an archivist at the Staatsarchiv of the Canton Zug. These indexes make the book accessible to those who do not know German since they can easily find a name or place mentioned in the book, thus may assist people interested in Swiss in the United States. Wanting to encourage a wider use of this important work by Steinach, I privately contracted a linguist to translate sections pertaining to Ohio. The draft was sent to Leo Schelbert who found the translation in need of additional work. I was pleased when Prof. Schelbert not only offered, pro bono, to prepare a new translation but suggested that the resulting text be issued as a special issue of the SAHS Review on Ohio Swiss, a proposal which Editor H. Dwight Page gracefully accepted. Steinach\u27 s chapter, I hope, might inspire others to sponsor translations for other States of the Union
Book Review: Nachkommen. Auswanderer aus Klosters und Davos nach Amerika im 19 Jahrhundert
No full textTo do justice to this work is less than easy, yet is certainly a labor of love. Diverse materials in Swiss archives and others unearthed in the United States form the documentary core of this book. Its rich primary sources deal not only with the world of destination, that is several regions in North America such as the Midwest, Texas, and the Pacific Northwest, but also with the world of origin, especially Klosters and Davos. The author is intimately acquainted with that mountainous area of Switzerland\u27s Canton Graubtinden and she also familiarized herself by extensive travels with the American world. She embedded the primary sources she uncovered over years of research into narrative parts which contain dialogues and feature thought processes that are the author\u27s invention. Thus primary evidence and attempts at genuine, if fictional, reconstruction intermingle and make the work part documentary, part story. It is divided up into some forty chapters of differing lengths that are in part interwoven, in part juxtaposed, which makes it at times less than easy for the reader to grasp the various strands of the narrative. Joyful events are mostly overshadowed by experiences of disaster, be they natural catastrophes derived from the weather and illnesses or from human proneness to doing evil. Marriages, births, and deaths follow each other in a merciless rhythm as are youthful dreams, strivings, achievements, and def eats
Book Review: Dorlikon an der Grenze des Wachstums. Zur Kulturgeschichte einer Zürcher Dorfschaft im 17. Jahrhundert.
No full textThis impressive study has three main sections. The author offers, first, what he titles as Erzählung, that is narrative or story. In five chapters he gives a wealth of detail about the lives of the Dorlikon families, their struggle to meet the challenges of a sometimes harsh climate, their sparse resources due to bad harvests, the resulting loss of rented farms, and the cycles of birth, procreation, and death. Their valorous strivings as well as occasional misdeeds are reconstructed with meticulous concern for exact documentation. Key documents are cited in their original seventeenth century German. What emerges is a moving picture of people experiencing population growth which, however, was checked by the limitations of available resources and a relentless set of taxes and tithes exacted by the owning classes. The author also reveals the staying power of human sexual drives and the at times almost generous tolerance of premarital entanglements of the young in contrast to the occasionally brutal punishment of adult offenders. K. Basler\u27s narrative paints a picture of Dorlikon\u27s people without condescension and in the spirit of the true historian: They become alive again, he observes; one shares their joys and pains. We honor them in that we save them from being forgotten and gratefully acknowledge their lives. Because every future builds on origins [Herkunft] (p.203 )
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