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Kentucky: Decades of Discord, 1865-1900
No full textThis period of Kentucky\u27s history began with the unsettled society following the close of the Civil War, included bloody feuds, and closed with the tragic Goebel assassination. This book is the most thorough and most ambitious study yet made of that significant time, and the authors recapture the drama and color of these exciting, violent, partisan, and important years. Hambleton Tapp and James C. Klotter trace the progress—or lack of it—in such fields as agriculture, architecture, commerce, literature and general culture. They present the sporting and social life of both the masses and the elite. The story of the halting progress in education, the efforts of the men and women fighting for reform, the emerging fights for blacks’ and womens’ rights—all are examined. Politics captured and held the people’s attention, and the changing and transitional political history of the era is presented in depth. Over 70 pictures and maps create the atmosphere and temper of the times. Footnotes, appendixes, an index and a bibliographical essay combine to make this a path-breaking study of a long neglected period in Kentucky history.
Hambleton Tapp of Versailles received his education at the University of Kentucky (Ph. D. 1950). He wrote and edited numerous books and articles on Kentucky history. James C. Klotter, State Historian and professor of history at Georgetown College, is the author and editor of several books, including A New History of Kentucky, History Mysteries, Our Kentucky, Kentucky: Land of Tomorrow, Kentucky: Portrait in Paradox, William Goebbel, and Faces of Kentucky.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/1028/thumbnail.jp
АНАЛІЗ БЕЗПОСЕРЕДНІХ ТА ВІДДАЛЕНИХ РЕЗУЛЬТАТІВ МЕТОДИК «SUBLAY» ТА TAPP ПРИ ЛІКУВАННІ ВЕНТРАЛЬНИХ ГРИЖ
No full textThe accumulated clinical experience has proven that the “sublay” technique allows to achieve greater functional activity of the anterior abdominal wall and is the method of choice in the treatment of ventral hernia. The use of self-adhesive nets during laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal plasty (TAPP- Transabdominal Preperitoneal Plastic) in the treatment of small and medium ventral hernia is safe and effective, with low values of postoperative pain syndrome and rapid functional recovery after surgery, without increasing the recurrence in the short term.
The aim – was to analyze the immediate and long-term results of “sublay” and TAPP techniques in the treatment of ventral hernias of lower and median localization. The author noted that the search for technical methods aimed to reduce the intra-abdominal pressure in this hernioplasty technique was relevant and practically significant.
Material and Methods. The work was performed on the basis of the surgical department of the State Institution “Specialized Multi-Purpose Hospital №1 of Ministry of Health of Ukraine”, Department of General Surgery of the State Institution “Dnipro State Medical University of Ministry of Health of Ukraine”.
Results. Comparison of immediate and long-term results of peritoneal-prosthetic-aponeurosis thickness studies showed a statistically significant difference (p < 0.001) using different techniques. When analyzing the separated results, reliable differences (p <0.001) depending on the gender of patients were recorded. Thus, in males, when using the “sublay” technique the peritoneal-prosthetic-aponeurosis thickness was greater by 1.15 mm (by 42.43 %) in comparison with the Tapptechnique, and in females, by 1.16 mm (by 42.09 %), respectively.
Conclusions. The analysis of the immediate and long-term results of the “sublay” and TAPP techniques in the treatment of ventral hernias of lower and median localization showed that the “sublay” technique was characterized by traumatic surgical intervention, shift of the prosthesis to one side, as a consequence of its deformation. When using this technique, peritoneum-prosthetic-aponeurosis thickness values were significantly higher – by 13.16 % and 42.40 % in the early and distant postoperative periods, respectively. Also, when using the Tapp technique in the distant period the thickness was significantly reduced (p <0,0001) by 49,47 % in comparison with the immediate results.Накопиченим клінічним досвідом доведено, що техніка «sublay» дозволяє досягти більшої функціональної активності передньої черевної стінки і є методом вибору в лікуванні вентральних гриж. Використання самоклеючих сіток під час лапароскопічного дослідження трансабдомінальної преперитонеальної пластики (TAPP – Transabdominal Preperitoneal Plastic) у випадку лікування малих і середніх вентральних гриж є безпечним і ефективним, з низькими значеннями післяопераційного больового синдрому і швидким функціональним відновленням після операції, без збільшення випадків рецидивів у короткостроковій перспективі.
Метою даної роботи був аналіз безпосередніх та віддалених результатів методик «sublay» та TAPP при лікуванні вентральних гриж нижньої та серединної локалізації. Автором наголошено, що актуальним і практично значущим є пошук технічних прийомів, спрямованих на зменшення внутрішньочеревного тиску при даній методиці герніопластики.
Матеріал і методи. Робота проведена на базі хірургічного відділення Державного закладу «Спеціалізована багатопрофільна лікарня № 1 Міністерства охорони здоров’я України», кафедрі загальної хірургії Державного закладу «Дніпровський державний медичний університет Міністерства охорони здоров’я України».
Результати. Порівняння безпосередніх та віддалених результатів досліджень товщини очеревини-протез-апоневрозу показало статистично достовірну різницю (при р<0,001) при використанні різних методик. При аналізі відділених результатів були зафіксовані достовірні відмінності (при р<0,001) залежно від статі пацієнтів. Так, у чоловіків, при використанні методики «sublaу» товщина очеревини-протез-апоневрозу була більшою на 1,15 мм (на 42,43 %), порівняно з методикою ТАРР, а у жінок – на 1,16 мм (на 42,09 %) відповідно.
Висновки. Проведений аналіз безпосередніх та віддалених результатів методик «sublay» та TAPP при лікуванні вентральних гриж нижньої та серединної локалізації показав, що методика «sublay» відрізнялася травматичністю оперативного втручання, зміщенням протеза в один із боків, як наслідок його деформації. При використанні даної методики достовірно більшими були значення товщини очеревини-протез-апоневрозу – на 13,16 % та 42,40 % у ранній та віддалений післяопераційні періоди відповідно. Також при використанні методики ТАРР у віддалений період товщина достовірно зменшувалася (при р<0,0001) на 49,47 %, порівняно з безпосередніми результатами
TAPP (Traditional Agriculture and Plant Pathology) citation database
No full textThe TAPP (Traditional Agriculture and Plant Pathology) citation database was compiled over two decades by Dr. H. David Thurston, Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology at Cornell University. It includes over 3,600 literature references on traditional agriculture (with expanded coverage on plant pathology). However, the database was implemented using technology which eventually was no longer supported. In order to archive and preserve the content, the citations have been entered in the CSV file provided here. Each citation includes the following key/value pairs: Template-Type: Will always be TAPP for this collection; Template-Version: Will always be 1.0, September 15, 2000; Handle: a numeric identifier for each citation (beginning at 1); Type: Citation type (Book, Journal Article, Thesis, etc); Title: Title of the citation; Keywords: subject keywords; Description-*: Each citation may have one or more description fields (v1 to v6). The value of these field contains a sub key which describes the content of the field. The sub keys found include: Volume Issue Pages Number of Pages Notes Abstract Book Title Series Title Edition Label Type Number of Volumes Report Number Thesis Type, Creator-v1: The author or authors of the citation; Publisher-*: Each citation may include one or more Publisher fields. The value of these field contains a sub key which describes the content of the field. The sub keys found include: Journal Publisher City Conference Name University Conference Location Newspaper Institution Magazine Place Published; Date-Created-*: This multi column field is also duplicated and may contain a Year, full Date, or a conference data; and Contributor-*: This multi column field contains sub keys for an Editor, Translator, or Series Editor
A digital intervention to test water quality in Bangladesh
No full textIn Bangladeshi rural areas, the groundwater may get contaminated with chemical contaminants. Aiming at removing chemical contaminants, piped water supply(PWS) systems were built. However, due to insufficient water quality tests, a lack of households' participation with the monitoring and maintenance of the PWS system, together with a lack of an efficient monitoring model and maintenance system, the PWS systems may fail to provide safe drinking water to the households, and households lose their trust with the water from the PWS system. To provide proper monitoring and maintenance to the PWS system, the DELTAP project and the TAPP-BDP project decided to use water quality field tests and a smartphone application to enable regular water quality tests to monitor the water quality of the PWS system. The TAPP could also engage the local households in the monitoring of their drinking water. The TAPP operator application has been designed based on the analysis of the current strip test and the AKVO technology, which could help to improve the accuracy of the strip test by reading strip test results. The TAPP operator application could help the local PWS system operators to do water quality strip tests and give a reliable indication of the water quality to monitor the PWS system. After researching the households' communication needs and smartphone usage, the TAPP customer application is designed to enable the households to participate in the monitoring and maintenance of the PWS system by requesting water quality tests and receiving water quality test results. After having the water quality test methods and TAPP application, a monitoring model and maintenance system are created to guide the stakeholders to monitor and maintain the PWS system. The design will contribute to monitoring and maintaining the PWS system in Bangladesh, restoring the households' trust in the PWS system, and assisting the PWS system to provide safe drinking water to the Bangladeshi households.Design for Interactio
Evaluation of multiple variate selection methods from a biological perspective: a nutrigenomics case study
No full textGenomics-based technologies produce large amounts of data. To interpret the results and identify the most important variates related to phenotypes of interest, various multivariate regression and variate selection methods are used. Although inspected for statistical performance, the relevance of multivariate models in interpreting biological data sets often remains elusive. We compare various multivariate regression and variate selection methods applied to a nutrigenomics data set in terms of performance, utility and biological interpretability. The studied data set comprised hepatic transcriptome (10,072 predictor variates) and plasma protein concentrations [2 dependent variates: Leptin (LEP) and Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 1 (TIMP-1)] collected during a high-fat diet study in ApoE3Leiden mice. The multivariate regression methods used were: partial least squares ''PLS''; a genetic algorithmbased multiple linear regression, ''GA-MLR''; two leastangle shrinkage methods, ''LASSO'' and ''ELASTIC NET''; and a variant of PLS that uses covariance-based variate selection, ''CovProc.'' Two methods of ranking the genes for Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) were also investigated: either by their correlation with the protein data or by the stability of the PLS regression coefficients. The regression methods performed similarly, with CovProc and GA performing the best and worst, respectively (R-squared values based on ''double cross-validation'' predictions of 0.762 and 0.451 for LEP; and 0.701 and 0.482 for TIMP-1). CovProc, LASSO and ELASTIC NET all produced parsimonious regression models and consistently identified small subsets of variates, with high commonality between the methods. Comparison of the gene ranking approaches found a high degree of agreement, with PLS-based ranking finding fewer significant gene sets. We recommend the use of CovProc for variate selection, in tandem with univariate methods, and the use of correlationbased ranking for GSEA-like pathway analysis methods. © The Author(s) 2012
Double Standards in Cultural Judgement
No full textThe author, a teacher of television and film from a cultural studies perspective, endeavours to persuade his students to give up snobbery when they judge culture. The author has found that most students enter university with a series of middle class value judgements very strongly in place. Essentially, the judgements are that commercial culture is 'bad' and non-commercial culture is 'good'
Evaluation of chronic pain after transabdominal preperitoneal hernia repair
No full textBackground: Early postoperative pain after transabdominal preperitoneal hernia repair (TAPP) has been frequently reported. However, the incidence and degree of chronic pain after TAPP have not been evaluated. Therefore, author aimed to examine chronic pain after TAPP.Methods: A total of 256 who underwent TAPP between November 2008 and March 2015 at the institute were enrolled. Original questionnaires focusing on the current state of pain were sent to the enrolled patients by mail. The incidence, body location, and degree of chronic pain occurring at least 6 months after the initial surgery were evaluated. In addition, a medical chart review of patients with and without chronic pain was performed to determine the predictive factors of chronic pain.Results: The survey response rate was 43.8% (112/256). The median follow-up period after the initial surgery was 44.3 months (range, 9.7-80.3 months). Sixty percent of patients experienced pain after TAPP; however, in 56.2% of the patients, the pain had mitigated 1 week after TAPP. Ten percent (12/112) of the patients had chronic pain 6 months after TAPP. Pain in the inguinal region was more frequently reported than any other wound region (67% vs 25%, p =0.0009). Although most of the patients with pain felt the pain occasionally, three of twelve patients (25%) complained of daily pain and had high VAS score. No significant predictive factors of chronic pain were identified.Conclusions: Ten percent of patients experienced chronic pain after TAPP. Large scale prospective trials are needed to identify the predictive factors of chronic pain. </jats:p
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