271 research outputs found
Cameron McRae Plummer book list, W.0087
No full textAbstract: Contains a list of books compiled by Haunted House Book Shop owner Cameron McRae Plummer.Scope and Content Note: The collection contains one notebook with a record of books (listed alphabetically by author and by title), including information about book prices and publishers, compiled by Cameron McRae Plummer. The list also includes information about book scarcity. A few postcards and letters are also inserted in the book. The back of the notebook contains a small number of miscellaneous notes dated between 1950 and 1961; these notations mostly document the interests of individual collectors.It is not clear if this is an actual inventory of books sold at The Haunted House Book Shop, which Plummer co-founded with Adelaide Trigg, or if is a list of books to be purchased for the shop or for a specific customer.Biographical/Historical Note: The son of Episcopal minister James Fitts Plummer and Jannie Minor, Cameron McRae Plummer was born on June 2, 1904, in West Virginia. The family moved to Mobile, Alabama, in 1916, where James Plummer served as the rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church. On August 29, 1944, Cameron Plummer married Mary Frances Young.Plummer became a successful bookseller in Mobile. City directories list him as the president of the Plummer-Marston Book Company. In 1941, Plummer and business partner Adelaine Trigg founded the Haunted Book Shop, a bookstore located in downtown Mobile. The bookstore was a Mobile landmark for fifty years, closing its doors in 1991. Plummer died on February 19, 1968, in Mobile
Economic Development in China and Its Implications for East Asia
No full textEconomic development in China, East Asia, trade adjustment
The absorption spectrum of deutereted cyanoacethylene between 180 and has been recorded in W\"{u}ppertal with a resolution of .The following transitions and their associated hot bands have been observed: and . From these spectra we have obtained with an accuracy in the range of the vibrational energies of most states of DCCCN below . These results combined with the Stark transitions and the microwave yields the determination of any and anharmonicity parameters with to 7. The observation of the crossing of with at and with at confirms the anharmonic interactions scheme of Plummer
No full textAuthor Institution: Universite Catholique de Louvain, Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory 2 chemin du cyclotron; FB9 Anorgan. Chemic, Bergische Univ. - Gesamthochschule W\""{u}ppertal B. Coveliers. W.K. Ahmed, A. Fayt and A.G. Maki, submitted to the J. Mol. Spectrosc. G.M. Plummer. D. Mauer, and K.M.T. Yamada, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 130, 407-418 (1988)
Africana women's recovery from crack addiction: an exploratory investigation
No full textThe purposes of this study were to investigate the issues related to the recovery of crack-addicted Africana women and to identify factors essential to the recovery and ongoing abstinence from crack. Respondents were Africana women who participated in a 12-step program (n=15) for at least one year, and were willing to participate in the extensive interviews for this study. Qualitative methodology was used to collect data and conduct in-depth interviews. Given that the study is exploratory in nature, data were analyzed using frequency analysis. The results showed that the number one obstacle to recovery reported by the participants was irregular attendance at 12-Step Programs; and the major coping mechanism identified by the group was active involvement in 12-Step Programs. It was also found that crack-addicted Africana women who actively participated in 12-Step Programs had remained in recovery for the first two years. Recommendations for substance abuse clinicians and further research are presented
The trade-off between accuracy and accessibility of syphilis screening assays.
No full textThe availability of rapid and sensitive methods to diagnose syphilis facilitates screening of pregnant women, which is one of the most cost-effective health interventions available. We have evaluated two screening methods in Tanzania: an enzyme immunoassay (EIA), and a point-of-care test (POCT). We evaluated the performance of each test against the Treponema pallidum particle agglutination assay (TPPA) as the reference method, and the accessibility of testing in a rural district of Tanzania. The POCT was performed in the clinic on whole blood, while the other assays were performed on plasma in the laboratory. Samples were also tested by the rapid plasma Reagin (RPR) test. With TPPA as reference assay, the sensitivity and specificity of EIA were 95.3% and 97.8%, and of the POCT were 59.6% and 99.4% respectively. The sensitivity of the POCT and EIA for active syphilis cases (TPPA positive and RPR titer ≥ 1/8) were 82% and 100% respectively. Only 15% of antenatal clinic attenders in this district visited a health facility with a laboratory capable of performing the EIA. Although it is less sensitive than EIA, its greater accessibility, and the fact that treatment can be given on the same day, means that the use of POCT would result in a higher proportion of women with syphilis receiving treatment than with the EIA in this district of Tanzania
Respiratory disease, behavior, and survival of mountain goat kids
No full textBacterial pneumonia is a threat to bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) populations. Bighorn sheep in the East Humboldt Mountain Range (EHR), Nevada, USA, experienced a pneumonia epizootic in 2009–2010. Testing of mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) that were captured or found dead on this range during and after the epizootic detected bacteria commonly associated with bighorn sheep pneumonia die‐offs. Additionally, in years subsequent to the bighorn sheep epizootic, the mountain goat population had low kid:adult ratios, a common outcome for bighorn sheep populations that have experienced a pneumonia epizootic. We hypothesized that pneumonia was present and negatively affecting mountain goat kids in the EHR. From June–August 2013–2015, we attempted to observe mountain goat kids with marked adult females in the EHR at least once per week to document signs of respiratory disease; identify associations between respiratory disease, activity levels, and subsequent disappearance (i.e., death); and estimate weekly survival. Each time we observed a kid with a marked adult female, we recorded any signs of respiratory disease and collected behavior data that we fit to a 3‐state discrete hidden Markov model (HMM) to predict a kid's state (active vs. sedentary) and its probability of disappearing. We first observed clinical signs of respiratory disease in kids in late July–early August each summer. We observed 8 of 31 kids with marked adult females with signs of respiratory disease on 13 occasions. On 11 of these occasions, the HMM predicted that kids were in the sedentary state, which was associated with increased probability of subsequent death. We estimated overall probability of kid survival from June–August to be 0.19 (95% CI = 0.08–0.38), which was lower than has been reported in other mountain goat populations. We concluded that respiratory disease was present in the mountain goat kids in the EHR and negatively affected their activity levels and survival. Our results raise concerns about potential effects of pneumonia to mountain goat populations and the potential for disease transmission between mountain goats and bighorn sheep where the species are sympatric.This article is published as Blanchong, Julie A., Christopher A. Anderson, Nicholas J. Clark, Robert W. Klaver, Paul J. Plummer, Mike Cox, Caleb Mcadoo, and Peregrine L. Wolff. "Respiratory disease, behavior, and survival of mountain goat kids." Journal of Wildlife Management. (2018). DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21470. Posted with permission.</p
Transcriptional mapping within a 1.7 megabase region of human chromosome 17Q21, 1999
No full textExon amplification is a method used to identify regions of DNA that contain transcribed sequences. The large cloning capacity of yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) systems and the inability to isolate large intact DNA from YACs introduce limitations to the exon amplification technique. The feasibility of exon amplification from a mega-YAC clone 2001C6 (CEPH) has been analyzed as a means to isolate transcribed sequences and has been used to produce 10 putative exon sequences from human chromosome 17q21. Six of the sequences showed homology to sequences that were previously published in the GenBANK database. Three of the sequences showed no homology, thereby indicating the isolation of putatively novel sequences. The sequences were radiolabeled and used as hybridization probes on a multiple tissue RNA dot blot. This blot contains RNA isolated from 50 human tissues. Clone E5 produced hybridization signals in fetal liver, fetal spleen and placenta. Clone F12 produced hybridization signals in fetal liver, fetal spleen, placenta and bone marrow. Clone G12 produced hybridization signals in all of the RNAs, indicating a pattern of expression similar to that of a housekeeping gene. These findings contribute to the enhancement of a high density transcriptional map within the q21-q22 region of human chromosome 17
CmeR functions as a pleiotropic regulator and is required for optimal colonisation of Campylobacter Jejuni in vivo
No full textAccession Number: JB.AIJ.AHGI.GUO.CFAPRI Citation Date: 2008 Publication Year: 2008 Number of Pages: 12; Document Type: articleSource type: Electronic(1)http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsref&AN=JB.AIJ.AHGI.GUO.CFAPRI&site=eds-liv
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