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Letter from Edwin E. Ferguson, Regional Attorney, War Relocation Authority, to Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, November 25, 1942
No full textLetter from Edwin E. Ferguson to Ernest Besig, in which Ferguson writes that the San Francisco War Relocation Authority office will be moving to Washington. Ferguson expresses fondness for Besig.The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case argued before the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
Ferguson School District No. 4573
No full textPhotograph - A view of Ferguson School building near Athabasca, Alberta. ATS 24-66-21-W
Ferguson School District No. 4573 - 02
No full textPhotograph - A group of pupils with baseball equipment from Ferguson School. ATS 24-66-21-W
Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm: transcript of a video interview (06-Jun-2015)
No full textInterview with Professor Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, conducted by Ms Emma M. Jones, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 06 June 2015, in Glasgow. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey and Mr Alan Yabsley. The project management was undertaken by Mr Adam Wilkinson. Professor Malcolm Ferguson-Smith (b. 1931) is Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Cambridge. He graduated in medicine at Glasgow University in 1955 and, while undertaking postgraduate training there in pathology, was introduced to research on sex chromatin under Bernard Lennox. An interest in Klinefelter’s syndrome in 1957 to 1958 led to his appointment as Fellow in Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in 1959, where he established the first chromosome diagnostic service in the USA, and undertook cytogenetic research into Turner syndrome. Research interests include molecular cytogenetics, karyotype evolution, vertebrate sex determination and comparative genomics. He is joint author of 'Essential Medical Genetics'.The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group is funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is a registered charity (no. 210183). The current interview has been funded by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award entitled “Makers of modern biomedicine: testimonies and legacy” (2012-2017; awarded to Professor Tilli Tansey)
sj-pdf-1-aic-10.1177_0310057X221119814 - Supplemental material for Perioperative outcomes in intermediate and high-risk patients after major surgery following introduction of a dedicated perioperative medicine team: A single centre cohort study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-aic-10.1177_0310057X221119814 for Perioperative outcomes in intermediate and high-risk patients after major surgery following introduction of a dedicated perioperative medicine team: A single centre cohort study by Jonathan J Nicholson, Jennifer Reilly, Mark A Shulman, Marissa Ferguson, Justin A Burke, Daragh N Lehane, Chen-Mei Liaw, Adam Mahoney, Peter Stark, Paul S Myles in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care</p
FNC: The Experience | Ferguson Plain\u27s Final Storytelling Workshop
No full textArtist and author Ferguson Plain reads his book Eagle Feather: An Honour and tells a story.https://first.fanshawec.ca/firstnationscentre_visualcontent_videos_theexperience/1010/thumbnail.jp
"The honor of firing before His Majesty": Patrick Ferguson's will and the Royal Armouries’ Ferguson rifle
No full textPatrick Ferguson (1744-80) designed the first breech-loading rifle to be used by the British Army. In November 2000, the Royal Armouries purchased an early example, formerly in the possession of the Fergusons of Pitfour, descendants of Patrick's younger brother, George. Patrick Ferguson's will has helped the author identify the Royal Armouries' Ferguson Rifle as the one which Patrick Ferguson used when he demonstrated it before George III and Queen Charlotte at Windsor in 1776
Supplemental Appendix for Extremism in Survey Measures of Ideology
No full textThis is the final version as it appears for the citation:
Jordan, Soren and Grant Ferguson. 2016. “Extremism in Survey Measures of Ideology.” Research & Politics 3 (3): DOI: 10.1177/2053168016669743
Corresponding author: Soren Jordan ([email protected])
Two Pioneering Female Architects in South Africa: Gertruida Brinkman and Eleanor Ferguson
No full textThis paper continues on from a recently completed research project on shared built heritage of South Africa and the Netherlands from 1902–61, mainly created by Dutch–born architects. It focuses on two pioneering female architects in South Africa, Gertruida Brinkman (1906–77, née Siemerink) and Eleanor Ferguson (also Stakesby–Lewis; 1900–82), both of Dutch descent and married to South African architects. They were not only the first two women architects to lead a private practice in southern Africa, but also introduced ideas of the Modern Movement through their built projects, while continuously demonstrating a great concern for quality of life. Brinkman, graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, was based in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha). She undertook two ‘grand tours’, through respectively Europe (1939) and Brazil (1954), which influenced her oeuvre. The other protagonist, the globetrotter Ferguson, trained at the Delft Institute of Technology (now TU Delft) and relocated subsequently to South Africa. With her third husband, she set up a joint practice in Johannesburg in 1938 and acted, under her maiden name, as its principal designer. The personal circumstances of both pioneers resulted in other priorities than seeking publicity in architectural journals. They focussed on designing and building, alongside a general social commitment additional to raising their children. Consequently, their legacies are hitherto scarcely known, except for some incidental references, which triggered our interest. By applying a combination of field, archival and bibliographical investigations with oral history research, we can now draft portraits of these two pioneering women architects. Their discovered portfolios reached far beyond the domestic sphere, including amongst others clubs, office buildings, schools, hospitals and industrial buildings and complexes. These discoveries show that biographical research is essential to augment the limited bibliographical information available on the contributions made by female architects to the built environment.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Heritage & DesignHeritage & Value
Perioperative cardiovascular complications: incidence in patients undergoing cancer surgery and preoperative risk prediction using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose cardiac positron emission tomography imaging
No full text© 2018 Dr. Marissa FergusonBackground: Major perioperative cardiac complications affect over 10 million patients annually worldwide. Cancer is associated with multiple shared cardiovascular risk factors, but the incidence of cardiovascular complications after cancer surgery is unknown. Furthermore, cardiovascular risk prediction remains challenging. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) objectively assesses exercise capacity and can predict overall perioperative morbidity and mortality and guide prehabilitation strategies, but cardiac imaging is required to determine the location and severity of coronary artery disease preoperatively. Currently available stress tests rely on surrogate markers for ischaemia and the evidence supporting these investigations perioperatively is weak.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) can image myocardial metabolism directly. Myocardial ischaemia appears as a ‘hot spot’ due to uptake of radiolabelled glucose in ischaemic myocytes undergoing anaerobic metabolism. Performing cardiac PET imaging after CPET may improve cardiac-specific perioperative risk prediction. However, accurate imaging requires preparation with a high-fat low-carbohydrate (HF-LC) diet, and the feasibility of incorporating cardiac PET imaging into existing preoperative CPET clinics is unknown.
This thesis explores the incidence of cardiovascular complications in a cancer surgery population, and the feasibility of post-exercise cardiac PET imaging for preoperative risk assessment prior to major cancer surgery, within the setting of a CPET clinic.
Methods: Cardiovascular complications within 30 days of cancer surgery were retrospectively investigated during a 12-month period at a single cancer institution (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia). Screening identified patients via positive troponin results, ICD-10 diagnosis, and a manual search of intensive care unit discharge summaries. Standardized diagnostic criteria then identified the primary outcome—the incidence of myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS) or perioperative myocardial infarction (MI). Secondary outcomes included arrhythmias, cardiac failure, pulmonary oedema/fluid overload, pulmonary embolism, stroke, and cardiac death.
A prospective pilot study investigating the feasibility of cardiac PET imaging after CPET was conducted. Feasibility endpoints included compliance with preoperative HF-LC diet and fasting; the ability to inject the FDG tracer within 15 minutes of peak exercise, the ability to complete cardiac PET imaging within 120 minutes, and the ability to suppress FDG uptake in background normal myocardium. Postoperative follow-up included cardiac complications and mortality within 30 days of surgery.
Results: Over a 12-month period, 4,743 patients underwent cancer surgery. Seventy patients experienced 95 cardiovascular complications within 30 days postoperatively (overall incidence 1.5%). Amongst patients undergoing intermediate/high-risk surgery, the incidence was 8.4%. Perioperative MI/MINS occurred in 13 patients (0.27%). The 30-day all-cause mortality in those with cardiovascular complications after cancer surgery was 10% (n=7), and 42% (n=3) had a documented cardiac cause of death.
Twenty-six patients undergoing intermediate to high-risk cancer surgery were enrolled in the cardiac PET pilot study over an eighteen-month period (July 2014-January 2016). Overall protocol feasibility was achieved in 81% (95% CI 62% to 91%). Of the 24 patients who completed exercise testing, FDG was injected within 15 minutes (mean 9.8 minutes) of peak exercise in all patients, and cardiac PET imaging completed within 120 minutes (mean 84.2 minutes) in 96% of patients. Twenty-one patients proceeded to surgery; three patients experienced postoperative myocardial injury or infarction, of which two had positive or equivocal cardiac PET imaging (and negative sestamibi myocardial perfusion imaging). One patient with normal CPET and cardiac PET results suffered MINS following bleeding requiring massive transfusion.
Conclusions: Overall, there is a low incidence of perioperative acute myocardial infarction following cancer surgery. However, the retrospective study design and lack of routine postoperative troponin monitoring may have underestimated the true incidence. Patients undergoing intermediate/high risk cancer surgery are at greater risk, and the 30-day all-cause mortality in those with cardiovascular complications is significant
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