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[News Clip: Edith Deen]
No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about author, columnist, and lecturer Edith Alderman Deen receiving an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Texas Women's University
Conversations with authors: Edith Pearlman
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Edith Pearlman about her life and the inspiration for her work
The risk of rehospitalisation during therapy with atypical and typical neuroleptics - A contribution to differential indication
No full textAtypical neuroleptics have a lot of advantages compared with conventional substances. It is still disadvantageous that a depot-medication is missing. The role of the form of application has been studied in a schizophrenia-out-patient department. In 25 out-patients under therapy with atypical neuroleptics the time of rehospitalisation per year was retrospectively determined and compared with that of 25 out-patients receiving depot-medication. Both groups were comparable with regard to some patient-characteristics and predictors of the course of the disease. It turned out that for patients with depot-neuroleptics the time spent in hospital per year was half of that for patients under atypical drugs. It had been in the same range in both groups 4 to 6 years ago and had decreased until the last year of the catamnesis in patients with depot-medication, but not in those with atypics. Typical neuroleptics as oral medication are disadvantageous in this respect. Despite efforts to reach a good compliance in all patients, preferable effects of atypical drugs with regard to negative symptoms are opposed by less favourable rehospitalisation times. This has to be taken into consideration in differential indication
Mechanical Properties of Giant Liposomes Compressed between Two Parallel Plates: Impact of Artificial Actin Shells
No full textThe mechanical response of giant liposomes to compression between two parallel plates is investigated in the context of an artificial actin cortex adjacent to the inner leaflet the bilayer. We found that nonlinear membrane theory neglecting the impact of bending sufficiently describes the mechanical response of liposomes consisting of fluid lipids to compression -whereasthe formation of an actin cortex or the use of gel-phase, lipids generally leads to substantial stiffening of the shell. Giant vesicles are gently adsorbed on glassy surfaces and are compressed with tipless cantilevers using an atomic force microscope. Force-compression curves display a nonlinear response that allows us to determine the membrane tension sigma(0) and the area compressibility modulus K-A by computing the contour of the vesicle as a function of the compression depth. The values for K-A of fluid membranes correspond well to what is known from micropipet-suction experiments and computed from monitoring membrane undulations. The presence of a thick actin shell adjacent to the inner leaflet of the liposome membrane stiffens the system considerably, as mirrored in a significantly higher apparent area compressibility modulus.DFG [SFB 803
Interview with Major Edith Vowell Part 2
No full textAnna Maria Island author included Major Edith Vowell in his book, Combat Nurses of World War II. Here she tells her story, with adventures in Brisbane, Australia, on ships and a GI troop train. She also lists her postwar nursing postings
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