78 research outputs found
A Confederacy of Dunces
No full textIn celebration of National Library Week 2015, Musselman Library held its second annual Edible Book Festival. Library staff and faculty created many book-inspired treats to share with the campus community. This year we awarded prizes in several categories as well. This submission was created by Amy B. Dailey.
This entry is an homage to Ignatius Reilly\u27s adventures selling (but mostly eating) hot dogs for Paradise Vendors, Inc. The bun was made of pound cake sprinkled with sesame seeds, the hot dog was sponge cake, and the relish effect was created with Jelly Bellies.
Edible Books Festival Winner of Best in Show!https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/edible/1020/thumbnail.jp
Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2013
No full textTable of contents: From the Director: Primary Source Materials (Robin Wagner); Students Create Cabinets of Wonder (Emily Francisco ’14, Jill Duranko ’14, Kay Etheridge, Felicia Else, Josh Poorman ’13, Danielle Berardinelli ’13); 30 Treasures Book Wins Awards (Emily Wass); Visitors from Middle East Give Civil War Era Artifacts (Janet Morgan Riggs ’72); Focus on Philanthropy: Donald Brett and Eisenhower memorabilia; Research Reflections: To the Gallows – Manual of Chemistry by John W. Webster (Michel R. Wedlock); Classes visit Special Collections (Carolyn Sautter, William Bowman, Kristen Trout ’15, David Booz, Karen Pinto, Leslie Wallace); Alumnus Donates Native American Lithographs (Geoffrey Jackson ’91); Katalysine Springs (Marianne Larkin ’71, Andrew Dalton); GettDigital: Music at Gettysburg College (Timothy Sestrick, Keith Gromis ’13); Library Launches The Cupola (Francesca DeBiaso ’12, Janelle Wertzberger, Matthew Carlson ’12, Dan DeNicola); Library on Facebook; Extra Illustrated History of Cumberland (Maryland) etc. by Will H. Lowdermilk (Geoffrey Jackson ’91, Devin McKinney); Librarians Test E-Readers (Janelle Wertzberger); Tribute to Charles H. Glatfelter ’46 (Michael Birkner ’72); Clara Barton Letter Purchased with Drickamer Fund (Karen Drickamer); George C. Maharay as Author of History Books (Ed Maharay, Janet Hancock Maharay ’39, Jennifer Olson ’04); Civil War Institute Donates Lincoln Prize Books; Oral History Endowment Established (G. Kenneth Newbould ’31; Mary J. Newbold, Kenneth H. Newbold ’58, Catherine Perry); artiFACTS Offers Quick Response (QR
Uncovering Shakespeare\u27s Sisters in Special Collections and College Archives, Musselman Library
No full textForeword by Professor Suzanne J. Flynn
I have taught the first-year seminar, Shakespeare’s Sisters, several times, and over the years I have brought the seminar’s students to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. There, the wonderful librarians have treated the students to a special exhibit of early women’s manuscripts and first editions, beginning with letters written by Elizabeth I and proceeding through important works by seventeen and eighteenth-century women authors such as Aemelia Lanyer, Anne Finch, Aphra Behn, and Mary Wollstonecraft. This year I worked with Carolyn Sautter, the Director of Special Collections and College Archives, to give my 2018 seminar students the opportunity to produce a sequel to the Folger exhibit of early modern women writers. Special Collections houses an impressive array of first editions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many of them acquired from Thomas Y. Cooper, the former editor of the Hanover Evening Sun newspaper, who donated over 1600 items to Musselman Library in 1965.
Working with Kerri Odess-Harnish, we chose first editions of eight significant works of literature written by American and British women from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. The students worked in pairs, researching a single book and producing a report that outlines important biographical facts about the author, the book’s publication and reception history, and finally the significance of the book in the years since its publication. We hope that our project will draw attention to the wealth of literary treasures housed in Special Collections at Musselman Library, but especially to these works by eight of “Shakespeare’s Sisters.
Using Administrative Databases to Measure Surgical Quality for Rectal Cancer at The Ottawa Hospital from 1996-2010
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this thesis was threefold: 1) To explore the use of text-search methods for identifying rectal cancer patients in large datasets; 2) To examine temporal trends of surgical quality indicators for rectal cancer at a single, tertiary-care institution; 3) To validate the use of administrative codes for identifying rectal cancer patients in population-based datasets.
Methods: 1) A text-search algorithm was developed, validated, and applied to all pathology reports at The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) over a 15-year period. Positive records were confirmed through manual chart review, and a gold-standard cohort of all rectal cancer resections performed at TOH was created. 2) Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to assess temporal trends and associated factors for four (4) key surgical quality indicators. 3) Previously published methods for identifying rectal cancer resections in population-based datasets were validated using the cohort of patients created in Objective 1 as a gold standard.
Results: 1) The text-search algorithm had a sensitivity and specificity of 100% and 98.4%, respectively. Because of low disease prevalence, positive predictive value (PPV) was 18.6%. 2) The proportion of resections with successful lymph node retrieval improved significantly over the course of the study period. No change was demonstrated for the remaining 3 surgical quality indicators. 3) Previously described methods that utilize procedure codes to identify rectal cancer resections in large administrative datasets had a sensitivity and specificity of 89.5% and 99.9%, respectively, with a PPV of 64.9%.
Conclusions: It is feasible to utilize both procedure codes and text-search methods to identify patients with surgical resections for rectal cancer in administrative datasets. However, these methods are at risk of being inaccurate and resulting cohorts should be validated. Creating large cohorts of rectal cancer patients can be useful for studying a variety of subjects, including surgical quality
Building Decision Analysis Tools Through Systematic Review of the Literature: The Importance of Study Quality
No full textUsing Administrative Databases to Measure Surgical Quality for Rectal Cancer at The Ottawa Hospital from 1996-2010
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this thesis was threefold: 1) To explore the use of text-search methods for identifying rectal cancer patients in large datasets; 2) To examine temporal trends of surgical quality indicators for rectal cancer at a single, tertiary-care institution; 3) To validate the use of administrative codes for identifying rectal cancer patients in population-based datasets.\ud
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Methods: 1) A text-search algorithm was developed, validated, and applied to all pathology reports at The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) over a 15-year period. Positive records were confirmed through manual chart review, and a gold-standard cohort of all rectal cancer resections performed at TOH was created. 2) Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to assess temporal trends and associated factors for four (4) key surgical quality indicators. 3) Previously published methods for identifying rectal cancer resections in population-based datasets were validated using the cohort of patients created in Objective 1 as a gold standard.\ud
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Results: 1) The text-search algorithm had a sensitivity and specificity of 100% and 98.4%, respectively. Because of low disease prevalence, positive predictive value (PPV) was 18.6%. 2) The proportion of resections with successful lymph node retrieval improved significantly over the course of the study period. No change was demonstrated for the remaining 3 surgical quality indicators. 3) Previously described methods that utilize procedure codes to identify rectal cancer resections in large administrative datasets had a sensitivity and specificity of 89.5% and 99.9%, respectively, with a PPV of 64.9%.\ud
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Conclusions: It is feasible to utilize both procedure codes and text-search methods to identify patients with surgical resections for rectal cancer in administrative datasets. However, these methods are at risk of being inaccurate and resulting cohorts should be validated. Creating large cohorts of rectal cancer patients can be useful for studying a variety of subjects, including surgical quality
Can text-search methods of pathology reports accurately identify patients with rectal cancer in large administrative databases?
No full textBackground: The aim of this study is to derive and to validate a cohort of rectal cancer surgical patients within administrative datasets using text-search analysis of pathology reports. Materials and Methods: A text-search algorithm was developed and validated on pathology reports from 694 known rectal cancers, 1000 known colon cancers, and 1000 noncolorectal specimens. The algorithm was applied to all pathology reports available within the Ottawa Hospital Data Warehouse from 1996 to 2010. Identified pathology reports were validated as rectal cancer specimens through manual chart review. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value (PPV) of the text-search methodology were calculated. Results: In the derivation cohort of pathology reports (n = 2694), the text-search algorithm had a sensitivity and specificity of 100% and 98.6%, respectively. When this algorithm was applied to all pathology reports from 1996 to 2010 (n = 284,032), 5588 pathology reports were identified as consistent with rectal cancer. Medical record review determined that 4550 patients did not have rectal cancer, leaving a final cohort of 1038 rectal cancer patients. Sensitivity and specificity of the text-search algorithm were 100% and 98.4%, respectively. PPV of the algorithm was 18.6%. Conclusions: Text-search methodology is a feasible way to identify all rectal cancer surgery patients through administrative datasets with high sensitivity and specificity. However, in the presence of a low pretest probability, text-search methods must be combined with a validation method, such as manual chart review, to be a viable approach
Accurate determination of interface trap state parameters by admittance spectroscopy in the presence of a Schottky barrier contact: Application to ZnO-based solar cells
No full textThis article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. The following article appeared in Marin, A. T., Musselman, K. P., & MacManus-Driscoll, J. L. (2013). Accurate determination of interface trap state parameters by admittance spectroscopy in the presence of a Schottky barrier contact: Application to ZnO-based solar cells. Journal of Applied Physics, 113(14), 144502 and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4799633This work shows that when a Schottky barrier is present in a photovoltaic device, such as in a device with an ITO/ZnO contact, equivalent circuit analysis must be performed with admittance spectroscopy to accurately determine the pn junction interface recombination parameters (i.e., capture cross section and density of trap states). Without equivalent circuit analysis, a Schottky barrier can produce an error of similar to 4-orders of magnitude in the capture cross section and similar to 50% error in the measured density of trap states. Using a solution processed ZnO/Cu2O photovoltaic test system, we apply our analysis to clearly separate the contributions of interface states at the pn junction from the Schottky barrier at the ITO/ZnO contact so that the interface state recombination parameters can be accurately characterized. This work is widely applicable to the multitude of photovoltaic devices, which use ZnO adjacent to ITO.International Copper AssociationERC for the Advanced Investigator Grant, Novox [ERC-2009-adG 247276]Gates Cambridge TrustGirton College (Cambridge
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