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Correspondence to Reverend William C. Jason from J. G. Penn
No full textA letter mailed to William C. Jason from J. M. Penn with a receipt inside for a subscription to The Herald
Correspondence to Reverend William C. Jason from J. G. Penn
No full textA letter mailed to William C. Jason from J. M. Penn with a receipt inside for a subscription to The Herald
Oral History Interview with Mrs. Penn Gilbreth
No full textOral history interview of Mrs. Penn Gilbreth conducted by Charles Yates on April 8, 1974. Mrs. Penn Gilbreth speaks of her school days at Abilene Christian College and then of her eventual teaching at Abilene Christian College. She mentions her work with Mr. G. C. Morlan in the department of education
Weekly assessment of worry: an adaptation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire for monitoring changes during treatment
No full textAn adaptation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) [Meyer, T. J., Miller, M. L., Metzger, R. L. and Borkovec, T. D. (1990). Development and validation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 28, 487-495.] for weekly assessment of worry was evaluated in a brief treatment study. Cognitive restructuring techniques were taught to 28 nonclinical high-worriers, 14 of whom served as a control group in a lagged waiting-list design. Results showed that the Penn State Worry Questionnaire-Past Week (PSWQ-PW) was highly reliable and substantially valid in the assessment of both (a) weekly status of worry and (b) treatment-related changes in worry: average Cronbach's alpha was 0.91; average convergent correlation with a past-week adaptation of the Worry Domains Questionnaire [Tallis, F., Eysenck, M. W. and Mathews, A. (1992). A questionnaire for the measurement of nonpathological worry. Personality and Individual Differences, 13, 161-168.] was 0.63 and pre-post improvement on PSWQ-PW showed a 0.71 correlation with the Questionnaire of Changes in Experiencing and Behavior [Zielke, M. and Kopf-Mehnert, C. (1978). Veränderungsfragebogen des Erlebens und Verhaltens. Weinheim, Germany: Beltz Test Gesellschaft.]. It is concluded that the PSWQ-PW is a useful instrument for monitoring pathological worry in experimental and applied settings
After the Prestige: A Postmodern Analysis of Penn and Teller
No full textBy mocking the magic community and revealing the secret behind some of their tricks, Penn and Teller perform a kind of parodic and post-modern “anti-magic.” Penn and Teller display an artful use of rhetoric; in exposing the secrets and shortcomings of conjuring, they are revolutionizing the way people think about both the art of magic and the magic community. Individuals such as Penn and Teller may use parody to subvert the hegemonic interpretations. However, we also know that it is difficult to bring down a system while operating within that system. Thus, this article explores the way Penn and Teller are challenging the metanarrative of the magic community, using several of the duo’s more popular illusions as examples for analysis. Ultimately, this paper should help us gain a better understanding of the way parody can be used to challenge hegemonic conceptions, and the limitations of this type of rhetorical approach
Penn classification in acute aortic dissection patients
No full textObjective The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Penn classification in predicting in-hospital mortality after surgery
in acute type A aortic dissection patients.
Methods We evaluated 58 patients (42 men and 16 women; mean age 62.17 ± 10.6 years) who underwent emergency surgery for acute type A
aortic dissection between September 2003 and June 2010 in our department. We investigated the correlation between the pre-operative malperfusion
and in-hospital outcome after surgery.
Results Twenty-eight patients (48%) were Penn class Aa (absence of branch vessel malperfusion or circulatory collapse), 11 (19%) were Penn class
Ab (branch vessel malperfusion with ischaemia), 5 (9%) were Penn class Ac (circulatory collapse with or without cardiac involvement) and 14 (24%) were
Penn class Abc (both branch vessel malperfusion and circulatory collapse). The number of patients with localized or generalized ischaemia or both, Penn
class non-Aa, was 30 (52%). In-hospital mortality was 24%. In-hospital mortality was significantly higher in Penn class Abc and Penn class non-Aa. Intensive
unit care stay, hospital ward stay and overall hospital stay was longer in Penn class non-Aa vs Penn class Aa. De Bakey type I dissection and type II diabetes
mellitus were associated with in-hospital mortality.
Conclusion Preoperative malperfusion is important for the evaluation of patients with acute aortic type A dissection. The Penn classification is
a simple and quick method to apply and predict in-hospital mortality and outcomes.
Keywords Type A dissection – Stanford classification – DeBakey classification – Penn classification
Large-scale induction and evaluation of lexical resources from the Penn-II treebank
No full textIn this paper we present a methodology for extracting
subcategorisation frames based on an automatic LFG f-structure annotation algorithm for the Penn-II Treebank. We extract abstract syntactic function-based subcategorisation frames (LFG semantic forms), traditional CFG categorybased subcategorisation frames as well as mixed
function/category-based frames, with or without preposition information for obliques and particle information for particle verbs. Our approach does not predefine frames, associates probabilities with frames conditional on the lemma, distinguishes between active and passive frames, and fully reflects the effects of long-distance dependencies in the source data structures. We extract 3586 verb lemmas,
14348 semantic form types (an average of 4 per lemma) with 577 frame types. We present a large-scale evaluation of the complete set of forms extracted against the full COMLEX resource
Is the Penn classification a valid method to predict in-hospital mortality and outcomes after surgery in acute type A aortic dissection patients?
No full textObjective: The Penn classification, a risk assessment system for acute type A aortic dissection (AAAD), is based on preoperative ischemic conditions. In the present study, it was evaluated the effectiveness of the Penn classification in predicting in-hospital mortality after surgery in acute type A aortic dissection patients.
Methods: We evaluated 58 patients (42 men and 16 women; mean age 62,17 ± 10,6 years), underwent emergency surgery for acute type A aortic dissection between September 2003 and June 2010 in our Department. We investigated the correlation between the pre-operative malperfusion and in-hospital outcome after surgery. We used the Penn classification.
Results: 28 patients (48 %) were Penn class Aa (absence of branch vessel malperfusion or circulatory collapse), 11 (19%) were Penn class Ab (branch vessel malperfusion with ischemia), 5 (9%) were Penn class Ac (circulatory collapse with or without cardiac involvement) and 14 (24%) were Penn class Abc (both branch vessel malperfusion and circulatory collapse). Patients with localized or generalized ischemia or both, Penn class non-Aa, were 30 (52%). In-hospital mortality was 24%. In-hospital mortality was significantly higher in Penn class Abc e Penn class non-Aa. Intensive unit care stay, hospital ward stay and overall hospital stay was longer in Penn class non-Aa vs Penn class Aa. De Bakey type I dissection and type II diabetes mellitus were associated with in-hospital mortality.
Conclusion: Preoperative malperfusion is important for evaluation of patients with acute aortic type A dissection. The Penn classification is a simple and quick method to apply and predict in-hospital mortality and outcomes
Evolution of the G+C content frontier in the rat cytomegalovirus genome
No full textWithin the 230138 bp of the rat cytomegalovirus (RCMV) genome, the G+C content changes abruptly at position 142644, constituting a G+C content frontier. To the left of this point, overall G+C content is 69.2%, and to the right it is only 47.6%. A region of extremely low G+C content (33.8%) is found in the 5 kb immediately to the right of the frontier, in which there are no predicted coding sequences. To the right of position 147501, the G+C content rises and predicted coding sequences reappear. However, these genes are much shorter (average 848bp, 50% G+C) than those in the left two-thirds of the genome (average 1462bp, 70% G+C). Whole genome alignment of several viruses indicates that the initial ultra-low G+C region appeared in the common ancestor of the genera Cytomegalovirus and Muromegalovirus, and that the lowering of G+C in the right third has been a subsequent process in the lineage leading to RCMV. The left two-thirds of RCMV has stop codon occurrences at 67.5% of their expected level, based on a modified Markov chain model of stop codon distribution, and the corresponding figure for the right third is 78%. Therefore, despite heavy mutation pressure, selective constraint has operated in the right third of the RCMV genome to maintain a degree of gene length unusual for such low G+C sequences
DCU 250 Arabic dependency bank: an LFG gold standard resource for the Arabic Penn treebank
No full textThis paper describes the construction of a dependency bank gold standard for Arabic, DCU 250 Arabic Dependency Bank (DCU 250), based on the Arabic Penn Treebank Corpus (ATB) (Bies and Maamouri, 2003; Maamouri and Bies, 2004) within the theoretical framework of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). For parsing and automatically extracting grammatical and lexical resources from treebanks, it is necessary to evaluate against established gold standard resources. Gold standards for various languages have been developed, but to our knowledge, such a resource has not yet been constructed for Arabic. The construction of the DCU 250 marks the first step
towards the creation of an automatic LFG f-structure annotation algorithm for the ATB,
and for the extraction of Arabic grammatical and lexical resources
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