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Lecture: Author Susan Orlean
No full textShaker Library and the Shaker Schools Foundation present Susan Orlean, SHHS grad and author of The Library Book, who will speak about her love of libraries and the impact of books on her life.
Susan Orlean grew up in Shaker Heights and graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1973, where she was editor in chief of the school’s yearbook, The Gristmill. She graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in 1976. She has written for the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Globe and has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film, Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York
Ethnic Differences in Sudden Cardiac Arrest
No full textThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2014University of Washington Abstract Ethnic Differences in Sudden Cardiac Arrest Joanna Ghobrial, MD Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Susan Heckbert, MD, PhD. Department of Epidemiology Background: Some studies suggest that African Americans (AA) have a higher incidence of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and worse survival than European Americans (EA). Ethnic differences in the circumstances and outcomes of SCA have not been well explored and have yielded inconsistent results. We therefore examined ethnic differences in patient characteristics, medical morbidities, arrest circumstances, medical care, and outcomes among SCA cases of European, African, and Asian descent in Seattle, Washington. Methods: Out of hospital arrests in the greater Seattle area were identified by paramedics between 1988 and 2009, as part of the Cardiac Arrest Blood Study (CABS) Repository. Out of hospital arrest cases due to non-cardiac etiology were excluded. Ethnicity was ascertained by paramedic incident reports, hospital medical records and death certificates. Cases were linked to hospitalization records and geographic information systems data. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the outcomes of successful resuscitation and survival to hospital discharge in 3 ethnicities, with EA as the reference group. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was used to examine predictors of the three different presenting rhythms: ventricular fibrillation (VF), pulseless electrical activity (PEA) and asystole, using VF as the reference group. Results: The cohort of SCA cases included 3551 EA, 440 AA, and 297 Asians (AS). AA cases were younger than the other two ethnic groups. On average, both AA and AS had lower education and lower income relative to EA (p<0.0001). Fewer AA had atrial fibrillation diagnosed during past hospitalizations (p<0.0001), but, along with AS, a larger proportion had previous diagnoses of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and renal disease during hospitalizations compared with EA cases (p<0.0001). At the time of cardiac arrest, African and Asian-descent individuals were less likely to have a witnessed arrest or receive bystander CPR compared with European-descent SCA cases. AA were more likely to be found in PEA and AS were more likely to be found in asystole compared with EA cases. Resuscitation duration was the same in all 3 groups. Survival to hospital admission and discharge was similar in the 3 ethnicities (multivariate adjusted OR 1.10, 95% CI 0.79-1.54 for AA vs. EA, p=0.56; OR 1.33, 95% CI 0.86-2.05, p=0.20 for AS vs. EA). Moreover, among VF survivors, there was no statistically significant difference in the proportion of those who received coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) prior to hospital discharge. Given the strong association of initial presenting rhythm with outcome, patient characteristics and clinical factors associated with VF, PEA, and asystole as presenting rhythm were explored in adjusted analyses. Compared with those presenting in VF, those presenting in PEA were more likely to be of African descent and less likely to receive bystander CPR (OR 1.54, 95% CI 1.15-2.07, p=0.004; OR 0.60, 95% CI 0.49-0.72, p<0.0001 respectively), and those in asystole were more likely to be of Asian descent (OR 1.53, 95% CI 1.10-2.13, p=0.01). Conclusion: While other studies have shown higher mortality in AA than in EA individuals with SCA, in Seattle, with one of the country's most effective emergency medical care systems, we did not detect a difference in survival between European-, African- and Asian-descent individuals. Nearly 25% of SCA cases of all 3 ethnicities that presented with VF survived to hospital discharge. There is, however, a difference by ethnicity in presenting rhythm, with more PEA among AA and more asystole among AS SCA cases
Citizen piece on the Harvey Prager controversy. The author, Susan Clark Abbot
No full textCitizen piece on the Harvey Prager controversy. The author, Susan Clark Abbott, is executive director of the Hospice of Maine in Portland, and takes exception with the judicial system and the media for implying that caring for the terminally ill is similar to a prison sentence
Sustainability Awareness Week 2021: Climate Anxiety with Dr. Susan Clayton
No full textFive current FIT students and recent graduates will join Daniel Benkendorf and climate anxiety scholar, Dr. Susan Clayton.In this session, Daniel Benkendorf (Psychology) will discuss the issue of climate anxiety with Dr. Susan Clayton, a psychologist who is both an internationally-recognized scholar on this topic and who is also a lead author on the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A panel of current FIT students and recent graduates will join Benkendorf and Clayton as they define and explore the features and peculiarities of climate anxiety and consider ways to ameliorate it.Sustainability is a key component of FIT’s mission and is embedded in the college’s curriculum and operations. During virtual Sustainability Awareness Week, we invite our community to learn about recent innovations from leaders in the industry, FIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni; experience FIT’s efforts to make a positive impact on the earth; and discover new ways to live with a smaller footprint
'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
PAPERS OF SUSAN HAWTHORNE
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/68973Comprises records from all aspects of Susan Hawthorne's life from her student activities to her role as an author and publisher. They include her early women's liberation and political involvement; her literary involvement as a writer, publisher and conference organiser; written drafts of her publications: correspondence with her mother and friends; the lesbian feminist movement; and her activities as a writer and circus performer for Performing Older Women.
The arrangement of this collection has been carried out by Susan Hawthorne and it is a box list, that is, it describes the content of each box rather than the detail of each file within each box. Nevertheless, it was her practice to arrange her papers into one or more multi-subject files per year and this arrangement has been followed for these papers. Her manuscripts are also arranged by year. Boxes are titled by Susan Hawthorne's name and a sequence number in most cases, and their contents are well described.46169
Acquisition: [2014.0033] "PAPERS OF SUSAN HAWTHORNE
Transgender Literature Celebration: An Interview with Susan Kuklin
No full textAs part of Columbus State University\u27s Transgender Literature Celebration on November 16-18, 2020, Dr. Ben Baker interviewed Susan Kuklin, photographer and author of the book, Beyond Magneta.https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/marketing/1002/thumbnail.jp
Susan Harman papers
No full textSusan Emolyn Harman (1897-1972) was an author and professor of English at the University of Maryland from 1920 to 1961. At the university, Harman founded Alpha Lambda Delta, an honorary society; was a charter member of the Maryland chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, a teacher's honorary; and was adviser to a social sorority, Kappa Delta. She was also co-founder of the English Club of Prince George's and Montgomery counties. As president of University of Maryland chapter of the American Association of University Professors, she worked to secure Social Security benefits for all university faculty. She co-authored College Rhetoric, the Handbook of Correct English, and the best-selling Descriptive English Grammar with Homer C. House, and was a co-editor of the Middle English Dictionary. Her papers include correspondence, biographical materials, manuscripts, and memorabilia documenting Harman's career as an author and educator. Significant correspondents include Wilson H. Elkins, Frederic E. Lee, Charles Manning, and Homer C. House
Writers Talk Featuring Mark Dawidziak & Susan Streeter Carpenter
No full textWriters Talk, featuring two interviews from the May 7 Ohioana Book Festival. First, Mark Dawidziak, co-author of a book on forgotten American author Jim Tully. Then a talk with Susan Streeter Carpenter, author of "Riders on the Storm," a historical novel set in 1960s Cleveland.The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/cstw12/WT_WCRS_04-16-11_MarkDawidziac_SusanStreeterCarpenter.mp3Ohio State University. Center for the Study and Teaching of Writin
Supplemental Material - Inflammatory, Oxidative Stress, and Cardiac Damage Biomarkers and Radiation-Induced Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors
No full textSupplemental Material for Inflammatory, Oxidative Stress, and Cardiac Damage Biomarkers and Radiation-Induced Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors by Alexi Vasbinder, PhD, RN, Hilaire Thompson, PhD, RN, ARNP, CNRN, AGACNP-BC, FAAN, Oleg Zaslavksy, PhD, MHA, RN, Susan R. Heckbert, PhD, MD, Saquib Nazmus, PhD, MPH, MBA, MBBS, Aladdin H. Shadyab, PhD, Rowan T. Chlebowski, MD, PhD, Lisa Warsinger Martin, MD, Electra D. Paskett, PhD, and Kerryn W. Reding, PhD, MPH, RN in Biological Research For Nursing</p
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