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Vera Peters and the Curability of Hodgkin Disease
No full textThe middle of the 20th century hailed the realization that patients with Hodgkin disease could be cured. Through the groundbreaking work of Vera Peters, patients with a localized form of the disorder, previously thought to be incurable, were shown to be cured by extended-field radiotherapy. This important observation, although not immediately accepted, opened the minds of physicians to take more positive investigative and therapeutic approaches. Peters also introduced and championed the concept of tumour staging in Hodgkin disease and the use of prognostic factors in clinical decision-making. This novel approach led to high cure rates with radiotherapy in localized disease and provided a scientific basis for the subsequent use of chemotherapy in disseminated disease, resulting in a very high cure rate in patients with all stages of Hodgkin disease
Vera Kelsey Papers, 1944-1958
Get PDFAn accomplished journalist and author, Vera Kelsey's papers document her writing career through the manuscripts and research notes for her last four books, British Columbia Rides a Star, Red River Runs North!, Tomorrow is for You, and Young Men So Daring. For British Columbia Rides a Star it includes her travel notes from four trips around British Columbia
Vera Peters and the Conservative Management of Early-Stage Breast Cancer
No full textDuring the first three quarters of the twentieth century, radical mastectomy was an accepted and common procedure in the management of patients with earlystage cancer of the breast. After a lifetime of thinking about and working with patients with early-stage breast cancer, Vera Peters presented and published, in the mid-1970s, a retrospective historical case–control study that demonstrated the lack of a survival benefit for radical or modified radical mastectomy as compared with more conservative surgery with lumpectomy. In the years that followed, prospective randomized studies confirmed her findings
Open doors presents Judith Van Gieson and Vera John-Steiner
No full textThe Open Doors series presents Judith Van Gieson author of ""Confidence Woman"" reads from her new novel and discusses doing research for her books at the Center for Southwest Research and Vera John-Steiner, author of ""Creative Collaboration,"" discusses the her study of the collabortive process
Genetic variability in a representative 'Kerman' x 'Peters' population of pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) orchard
Get PDFIn 2013 there were approximately 250,000 acres of pistachios (Pistacia vera L.) grown in 22 counties throughout California. Many of these orchards are planted primarily with male P. vera ?Peters?, and female ?Kerman? trees. In recent years, growers have observed spatial and temporal variation in growth and fruiting density in these orchards. Field analyses of Fresno State?s pistachio orchard confirmed the presence of such phenotypic variations. These may be due to the prevailing environmental conditions, rootstock variability, or perhaps random mutagenesis that occurred during scion clonal propagation over the past 50 years. The objective of this study was to examine the latter possibility as the presence of superior/inferior ?Kerman? trees is not well documented. Total genomic DNA were isolated using either the CTAB method or QIAGEN DNeasy ? Plant Mini Kit and compared. The concentration and purity of isolated DNA products were analyzed using Nanodrop 2000 spectrophotometer. The method of Williams et al. (1990) was used for RAPD-PCR reactions with minor modifications. PCR products were stained with the novel nucleic acid stain GelRed. The advantages of the Kit over CTAB method were observed through the purity index ratio (A260/A280). The purity index ratio for DNA products isolated using either method were significant (P? 0.05). Three out of the seven RAPD primers that were screened revealed strong reproducible polymorphic fingerprints. A total of 72 scorable bands were produced, with an average of 24 bands per primer, of which 40 bands (53.7%) were polymorphic.Includes bibliographical references.illustrations.b6588274
Vera Hall
No full textThis chapter describes the recordings of Vera Hall (1902–1964). On October 31, 1940, at the Livingston, Alabama, home of author, painter, and folksong collector Ruby Pickens Tartt, Vera sang “Another Man Done Gone” twice into Lomax's machine. During the first take, the partially filled recording blank ran out of space, abruptly ending the song. The second time, however, Lomax used a fresh side, allowing Vera to include all her verses. Just as she finished, but before he lifted the cutting arm and turned off the microphone, he remarked, “That's perfect.” Lomax's summation saluted more than an unmarred recording. “Another Man Done Gone” became Vera Hall's most celebrated performance. Carl Sandburg recalled listening to it more than a dozen consecutive times during a January 1944 visit to Lomax's Dallas home, later including it in his second folksong anthology and learning it himself. The poet termed it “one of the strikingly original creations of Negro singing art.”</p
Picking up after sloppy children: What pronouns reveal about children’s analysis of English comparative constructions
No full textWe present the results of an experiment that reveals that while children are capable of assigning an interpretation to basic comparatives without coreferential pronouns in the elided material, they diverge from adults precisely in the assignment of reference to a pronoun appearing in the standard. This study therefore sheds new light on the components of children's linguistic representations and their developing interpretation of comparatives. We close by discussing possible account for this set of results appealing to binding principles and the representation of the elided pronoun
Plan de la Rade et Ville de la Vera-Cruz
No full textRepresenta la Villa de la Vera-Cruz y las Islas del Golfo.</p
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