184 research outputs found
Project referrals from the BETC examination
No full textTitle from PDF cover (viewed on January 3, 2017)."Dated August 29, 2016.""CONFIDENTIAL"--Watermark.This archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Bystander: or A series of letters on the subject of the "legislative choice" of electors in Maryland: in which the constitutional right to a legislative choice in that state, and the necessity of adopting it, for the present election only, in order to counteract the artifices of the Anti-federalists in Virginia and other states, and to prevent a president from being elected by the minority of the nation, instead of the majority, are considered and fully proved. : Addressed to the people of Maryland.
No full text30 p. ; (12mo)Attributed to Robert Goodloe Harper by Minick."... originally addressed to the editors of the Federal gazette in Baltimore, and published in that paper."--p. [3]
Prolotherapy injections, saline injections, and exercises for chronic low-back pain: A randomized trial
No full textObjectives. To assess the efficacy of a prolotherapy injection and exercise protocol in the treatment of chronic nonspecific low back pain. Design. Randomized controlled trial with two- by- two factorial design, triple- blinded for injection status, and single- blinded for exercise status. Setting. General practice. Participants. One hundred ten participants with nonspecific low- back pain of average 14 years duration were randomized to have repeated prolotherapy ( 20% glucose/ 0.2% lignocaine) or normal saline injections into tender lumbo- pelvic ligaments and randomized to perform either flexion/ extension exercises or normal activity over 6 months. Main outcome measures: Pain intensity ( VAS) and disability scores ( Roland- Morris) at 2.5, 4, 6, 12, and 24 months. Results. Follow- up was achieved in 96% at 12 months and 80% at 2 years. Ligament injections, with exercises and with normal activity, resulted in significant and sustained reductions in pain and disability throughout the trial, but no attributable effect was found for prolotherapy injections over saline injections or for exercises over normal activity. At 12 months, the proportions achieving more than 50% reduction in pain from baseline by injection group were glucose- lignocaine: 0.46 versus saline: 0.36. By activity group these proportions were exercise: 0.41 versus normal activity: 0.39. Corresponding proportions for > 50% reduction in disability were glucose- lignocaine: 0.42 versus saline 0.36 and exercise: 0.36 versus normal activity: 0.38. There were no between group differences in any of the above measures. Conclusions. In chronic nonspecific low- back pain, significant and sustained reductions in pain and disability occur with ligament injections, irrespective of the solution injected or the concurrent use of exercises
An examination of the principles contained in The age of reason. [electronic resource] : In ten discourses. By James Muir, D.D. Minister of the Presbyterian Church, Alexandria.
No full textTwo states noted. The first has 'Market-Strcet' for Market-Street in imprint. In the second state the error is corrected.Error in paging: page number 146 repeated."Errata."--p. 165-166.Signatures: pi1 A-Up4s Wp2s chi1 (chi1 verso blank; A2 missigned A5). - VERIFY EXISTENCE OF THE FIRST STATE DESCRIBEDEvans,Minick, A.R. Maryland,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
BETC investigative examination
No full textTitle from PDF cover (viewed on December 16, 2016)."Dated September 7, 2016."This archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Characterization of acute whiplash-associated disorders
No full textStudy Design. An experimental study of motor and sensory function and psychological distress in subjects with acute whiplash injury. Objectives. To characterize acute whiplash injury in terms of motor and sensory systems dysfunction and psychological distress and to compare subjects with higher and lesser levels of pain and disability. Summary of Background Data. Motor system dysfunction, sensory hypersensitivity, and psychological distress are present in chronic whiplash associated disorders ( WAD), but little is known of such factors in the acute stage of injury. As higher levels of pain and disability in acute WAD are accepted as signs of poor outcome, further characterization of this group from those with lesser symptoms is important. Materials and Methods. Motor function ( cervical range of movement [ ROM], joint position error [JPE]; activity of the superficial neck flexors [EMG] during a test of craniocervical flexion), quantitative sensory testing ( pressure, thermal pain thresholds, and responses to the brachial plexus provocation test), and psychological distress (GHQ-28, TAMPA, IES) were measured in 80 whiplash subjects ( WAD II or III) within 1 month of injury, as were 20 control subjects. Results. Three subgroups were identified in the cohort using cluster analysis based on the Neck Disability Index: those with mild, moderate, or severe pain and disability. All whiplash groups demonstrated decreased ROM and increased EMG compared with the controls ( all P < 0.01). Only the moderate and severe groups demonstrated greater JPE and generalized hypersensitivity to all sensory tests ( all P < 0.01). The three whiplash subgroups demonstrated evidence of psychological distress, although this was greater in the moderate and severe groups. Measures of psychological distress did not impact on between group differences in motor or sensory tests. Conclusions. Acute whiplash subjects with higher levels of pain and disability were distinguished by sensory hypersensitivity to a variety of stimuli, suggestive of central nervous system sensitization occurring soon after injury. These responses occurred independently of psychological distress. These findings may be important for the differential diagnosis of acute whiplash injury and could be one reason why those with higher initial pain and disability demonstrate a poorer outcome
Simultaneous modeling of marginal distributions and log-multiplicative associations for ordered multivariate categorical data.
No full textThere is a great deal of literature on modeling (separately) either the univariate or joint distribution of a two-way or multi-way contingency table. For example, in the GEE methodology, the univariate margins are of interest, and the bivariate associations are treated as a nuisance. Conversely, in standard log-linear methodology, the univariate margins are often fixed, and the bivariate and higher-order interactions are of interest. Neither of these approaches is suitable when both the univariate and bivariate associations are of direct interest. A methodology that maximizes the Poisson log-likelihood subject to the constraints implied by a generalized log-linear model has been developed. Although this methodology has been used to simultaneously model both the joint and marginal distributions, there are many instances in multivariate response settings where the interest lies mainly in the marginal relationships among the responses and not the joint distribution. Furthermore, this methodology is limited to models which are linear in the model parameters. We extend this methodology by introducing models that simultaneously model the univariate marginal logits with linear models and the associations that characterize the bivariate marginal distributions with log-multiplicative models. Log-multiplicative models have useful interpretations for ordinally scaled variables, and, in particular, they permit the estimation of category scores for the categories. This facilitates comparisons of response scales for several response variables, the assessment of category distinguishability, and the investigation of the effects of collapsing or combining categories. Our development of generalized log-non-linear modeling is in terms of the contingency table, with special emphasis on tables where there is a one-to-one correspondence between the row and column categories. In addition, we consider models for the special case of the table that arises when a single response variable is measured at two time points, but at the second time point an additional level of the outcome is observed. Situations in which an table results include cases where death occurs or there are missing data, such as dropouts from clinical or panel studies, at the second time point.PhDBiological SciencesBiostatisticsPure SciencesStatisticsUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/130548/2/9732147.pd
A caveat against popery [electronic resource] : Written by a member of the Holy Catholic Church. [Two lines from Revelation].
No full text"The occasion of the following caveat. A rigid papist, who stiles himself the Right Reverend Richard Challoner, has issued a fulminating caveat against the Methodists .."--p. [3].Signatures: [Ap4s-D]p2s [E]p2s. - NOT IN PARSONS, W. CATHOLIC AMERICANAEvans,Minick, A.R. Maryland,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Library of Congress
Housing Policy: An Avenue For Americans To Achieve Economic Mobility and Opportunity
No full textABSTRACT
The debate over income inequality has dominated America’s political debates and campaigns since the end of the Great Recession. Yet for the past 50 years the country has been engaged in a War on Poverty but a record number of individuals still live in poverty. While there is income inequality in America, political policies should focus on promoting economic opportunity and mobility, which allow all individuals to achieve the American Dream. Owning a home is an integral part of what many Americans refer to as the American Dream. Housing policy should be crafted to allow optimal economic and income mobility, and mixed neighborhoods is a federal policy where the private sector and the government can work together to assist individuals in moving out of impoverished areas of the country and into neighborhoods with less crime, better educational opportunities and job possibilities
Fertility in Angus females
No full textReproduction is economically important to the beef producer. The objective of this study was to determine if pregnancy rate, calving day (CD) and age at first calving (AFC) could be used to select for female fertility in Angus beef cattle. Producers from six herds in five states provided 3144 heifer records. A general linear animal model, using the relationship matrix, was fitted to the binary trait of pregnancy status by the software Matvec. The heritability of pregnancy percentage on the underlying scale was 0.13 +/- 0.07. Estimated breeding values, which are in units of underlying fertility, ranged from -0.48 to 0.80 for heifers, and from -0.56 to 0.70 for sires of heifers. These results indicated that, while lowly heritable, some improvement in fertility could be made by selecting on heifer pregnancy rate.;The second part of the study examined CD and AFC using records (n = 2082) from two herds. Data were analyzed by MTDFREML using a general linear animal model with and without a maternal effect. Heritability for CD and AFC using the direct model were 0.07 +/- 0.04 and 0.28 +/- 0.06. Average, minimum, and maximum estimated breeding values for sires of heifers were -0.7, -10.6, and 9.8 days for CD and -0.6, -46.6, and 45.9 days for AFC. When the maternal effect was added to the model, direct heritability for CD went down slightly, and direct heritability for AFC increased to 0.66 +/- 0.14. The maternal heritabilities were 0.08 +/- 0.05 for CD and 0.32 +/- 0.08 for AFC. The direct-maternal genetic correlations were -0.18 +/- 0.58 for CD and -0.85 +/- 0.06 for AFC. Heritabilities for CD and AFC increased slightly when growth traits were analyzed in two-trait models. The genetic correlations between CD and AFC and the growth traits were low to moderate and negative. Although AFC had a higher heritability and a wider range of breeding values than CD, the negative direct-maternal correlation indicated that selecting on AFC may favor heifers that are themselves born later in the season. Therefore, CD may be more useful in selecting for female fertility in beef cattle.</p
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