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Vinten-Johansen, Jakob, March 12 and 20, 2014 [Interview]
No full textJakob Vinten-Johansen was interviewed on July 21 and 31, 2014, by Devin McKinney about hhis life before, during, and after his years at Gettysburg College, with specific focus on his participation in the spring 1971 Christ Chapel production of "Jesus Christ Superstar."Cavaliere, A. Ralph; Breton, Tom; Wyatt, Doug; Teich, Mark; Henderson, James G.; Vannorsdall, John W.; Recla, Lawrence R.; Hanson, C. ArnoldCarl Arnold Hanson Years
Grace Johansen
No full textGrace Johansen is pictured her eighth grade year at Altamont High School. She is the daughter of Leo and Lillie Johansen. She married Maynard C. Agnew. She was born February 14, 1922 and died January 14, 200
Grace Johansen
No full textGrace Johansen is pictured her sophomore year at Altamont High School. She is the daughter of Leo and Lillie Johansen. She married Maynard C. Agnew. She was born February 14, 1922 and died January 14, 2009
The lack of design quality focus in construction: a case for examining suitable design processes
No full textA large number of projects in UK construction now involve contractor-led design and are thus very different from the traditional approach which formed the basis of the original Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Outline Plan of Work. Such integrated and contractor-led approaches support the reform agenda of the late 1990s that was introduced to tackle process inefficiency. However, within the design professions there has been concern that this resulted in buildings that were designed-down to a cost rather than designed-up to a value. An attempt to address this resulted in the formation of the Commission for Architecture and Built Environment (CABE) in 1999 and the launch, in 2003, of the Design Quality Indicator (DQI) which measures how well a building satisfies stakeholders. This paper presents the early phases of doctoral research which will examine the impact of integrated design management approaches upon Design Quality
E-learning: the Online IPOS/ESO Muiltilingual Core Curriculum on psychosocial aspects of cancer care.
No full textIn 2004 the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) in cooperation with the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESO), developed a multilingual core-curriculum on Pyshcosocial Aspects of Cancer Care to be delivered on line. The core-curriculum consists of 10 presentations (of which 5 are available at the moment) aimed at sensitizing and updating oncologists, GPs, nurses and health professionals in cancer care on the main psychosocial oncology issues. Each presentation was prepared in English and then translated and adapted into French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish. Key thought leaders and experts in the field were contacted to devised one-hour lectures on five important subject: Communication Skill in Cancer Care, Distress Management, Anxiety and Adjustment Disorders, Depression and depressive disorders, and Psychosocial Assessment. The translations, in each instance, have been modified to be culturally specific. An evaluation form accompanies each lecture in order to have a feedback on the quality, characteristics and learning objective of each lecture. Some strength points of the lecture are the internal structure and rationale, its specificity of being multilingual (with possible more translation), the evaluation form (with possible feedback for the improvement of the lecture) and the easy process of updating (peculiar elements in comparison with similar program in English taken from congresses or seminars). 789 people completed the evaluations by June 2006, with 222 regarding Communication, 161 regarding Anxiety, 151 regarding Distress, 149 Depression and 106 Psychosocial Assessment. The analysis of data showed that the lecture were considered generally good with indications of usefulness in clinical terms
Empirical Transition Matrix of Multi-State Models: The etm Package
No full textMulti-State models provide a relevant framework for modelling complex event histories. Quantities of interest are the transition probabilities that can be estimated by the empirical transition matrix, that is also referred to as the Aalen-Johansen estimator. In this paper, we present the R package etm that computes and displays the transition probabilities. etm also features a Greenwood-type estimator of the covariance matrix. The use of the package is illustrated through a prominent example in bone marrow transplant for leukaemia patients.
Cyanocohniella Kastovsky, Berrendero, Hladil et Johansen 2014, gen. nov.
No full textCyanocohniella Kaštovský, Berrendero, Hladil et Johansen, gen. nov. (Fig. 1). Thallus blue-green to dark green, filaments hypervariable in the course of the life cycle. Motile hormogonia germinating from akinetes, composed of 4–8 cells. Filaments developing from hormogonia with cylindrical cells, not constricted or slightly constricted at cross-walls, without sheath or with fine colorless or slightly yellowish, unlamellated sheath, slightly attenuated towards apices, with apical cells longer than wide, oval to conical, lacking calyptra. Filaments of next phase with marked constrictions at the cell walls, attenuated towards apices, with cells becoming oval to spherical, producing intercalary oval to spherical heterocytes and one- to two-celled apical hormocytes, with apical cells similar in form to common cells of the filament. Filament of mature phase with cells spherical, oval or irregularly shaped, with cells irregularly arranged in ensheathed filaments, sometimes evidencing cell division in two planes, producing partly biseriate filaments. Akinetes single or in series, with cell walls often yellowish. Necridia absent during entire life cycle. Type species:— Cyanocohniella calida Kaštovský, Berrendero, Hladil et Johansen, spec. nov. Habitat:— Thermal mineral water and atmophytic localities around thermal springs. Etymology:— Genus is named in honor of Ferdinand Cohn, phycologist, who described Mastigocladus laminosus. Description:— Population with a polymorphic life cycle. Hormogonia and young filaments with isodiametric to cylindrical cells, not constricted or slightly constricted at cross-walls, (1)1.5(2) µm wide, with intercalary cells (1)1.5–2.5 µm long, with apical cells longer than wide, oval to conical, 1.5–2.5 µm long. Sheath absent or thin, fine, colorless to slightly yellow (Figs. 1A–C). Intercalary cells gradually become constricted at the cross-walls and oval to spherical shape, (2)3.0–4.5(5) µm in diameter. Intercalary heterocytes rarely present, oval or spherical, 5–6(7) µm in diameter. Apical cells remain similar in form to intercalary cells, but may become less wide as filaments become attenuated towards apices (Figs. 1D–H). Mature filaments with cells spherical, oval or irregularly shaped, 2–7(8) µm in diameter, with cells irregularly arranged in ensheathed filaments, sometimes evidencing cell division in two planes, partly biseriate, with heterocytes rarely present, sheath colorless to slightly yellow, usually thin, unlamellated (Figs. 1K–N). Akinetes single or in series, spherical to oval, often with yellowish cell walls, 4–8(10) µm in diameter.Published as part of Kaštovský, Jan, Gomez, Esther Berrendero, Hladil, Jindřich & Johansen, Jeffrey R., 2014, Cyanocohniella calida gen. et sp. nov. (Cyanobacteria: Aphanizomenonaceae) a new cyanobacterium from the thermal springs from Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, pp. 279-292 in Phytotaxa 181 (5) on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.181.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/515060
Subsampling the Johansen test with stable innovations
No full textBy taking into account the thick-tail property of the errors, cointegration analysis in vector error-correction models with infinite-variance stable errors is a natural generalization of cointegration analysis in error-correction models with normally distributed errors. We study the Johansen test for cointegrated systems under symmetric stable innovations with discrete spectral measures. The results show that the distributions of the Johansen test statistics under these innovations involve nuisance parameters. To overcome the problem of nuisance parameters, we implement a nonparametric subsampling procedure. We document some subsampling simulation results and demonstrate in an empirical example how the test can be used in practice
Further evidence on the size and power of the Bierens and Johansen cointegration procedures
No full textAlthough both the Johansen (1991, 1994) trace test and Bierens (1997a,b) nonparametric lambda-min test for cointegration have good size properties in Monte Carlo studies by Hubrich, Lutkepohl, and Saikkonen (2001) and Boswijk, Lucas, and Taylor (2000), the Bierens test has very low power. In contrast, Bierens reports good power for his procedure. Meanwhile, Hubrich et al. and Boswijk et al. do not include Bierens' companion method for estimating the number of cointegrating vectors, nor do they investigate the effect of serial correlation on Bierens'' test. In the present paper, inclusion of the estimation step does not significantly degrade size of the Bierens procedure, even with serial correlation, but power is not improved. Serial correlation does degrade the size of the Johansen test, but it remains superior. Analysis of Bierens'' (1997b) Monte Carlo results suggests that their indication of high power reflects the test''s lack of scale invariance.Monte Carlo
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