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Garriga, Ramon D. interview
No full textOral History interview of Ramon Garriga. Interview conducted by Weeks, Andrew; Orr, Terrell at Garriga\u27s Residence
[Letter from Andrew D. Campbell to Elizabeth Upshur Teackle]
No full textLetter from Andrew D. Campbell to Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, written over the course of a few weeks
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Andrew D. White Professors-At-Large lectures.
No full textRecorded in Ithaca, NY by Cornell University., Sponsored by: Andrew D. White Professors-At-Large Program., Speaker(s): Well-known author., Reading, March 27, 1985.43 minutesWelty reads her short story, The Wide Net.1_1b7n8g9v1_hknzm40
The Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence
No full textThe Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence is a focused exploration of the whole of the author’s life and writing career. Combining biographical detail and close readings of works in different genres, the book illuminates the complexities of Lawrence’s writing through a careful, questioning approach to biographical sources and recent scholarship. Andrew Harrison provides original insights into Lawrence’s relationship to working-class experience, his anti-suffragist feminist views, his reaction to the Great War, his responses to racial and cultural difference, his attitudes towards sex, sexuality, and sexual identity, and much more
Graduate recital, trumpet. Weeks, T., 1973
No full textRecorded during a live performance at Oakland Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 28, 1973, the 191st concert of the Department of Music's 1972-1973 season.Tom Weeks, trumpet. Assisted by: Gayle Petrick, Anne Rubner, oboes ; Pat Nancarrow, cello ; Joan Nottke, harpsichord ; Marty Otto, Steve Reed, Britt Theurer, Anthony Womack, trumpets ; John Dickey, Dave Kalfsbeek, Tom Shannon, trombones ; Carl Marsman, Barb Deaton, Janet Graham, Tim Griffin, french horns ; Rick Watts, Andy Hagenbuch, tubas.In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Music degree in brass pedagogy, Western Michigan University, 1973.Information from performance program.Konzert D-dur / George Philip Telemann -- Suite for brass quintet (1971). (15:03) I. Toccata - Allegro ; (19:08) III. Scherzo - Vivace ; (26:47) IV. Arioso - Adagio ; (32:18) V. March - Allegro / Verne Reynolds -- (35:58) Caprice for trumpet and piano, op. 47 / Eugene Bozza -- Sonneries for brass choir (1971). (43:03) I. Allegro con brio ; (45:05) II. Adagio ; (49:04) III. Allegro / Donald Erb
Rethinking our approach to postpartum haemorrhage and uterotonics
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Rethinking our approach to postpartum haemorrhage and uterotonics
BMJ 2015; 351 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h3251 (Published 08 July 2015)
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Andrew D Weeks, professor of international maternal health1, James P Neilson, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology1
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Correspondence to: AD Weeks [email protected]
Accepted 30 March 2015
Andrew Weeks and James Neilson suggest that we have inappropriately generalised evidence on the use of uterotonics from uncomplicated births to all births. They call for stronger focus on women with complex births to reduce deaths from postpartum haemorrhage
Postpartum haemorrhage (defined as a bleed >500 mL) is estimated to affect 1-15% of vaginal births, depending on the definition used, the method of assessing blood loss, the setting, and the population studied. Risk factors include Asian ethnicity, obesity, previous postpartum haemorrhage, multiple pregnancy, anaemia, large baby, age over 40, induction of labour, prolonged labour, placental abruption, and caesarean delivery.1
Although global mortality from postpartum haemorrhage is falling, its incidence is increasing in high resource settings, the reasons for which are unclear.2 3 4 Many of those who survive have severe anaemia, renal failure, or psychological trauma, and the offspring may have difficulties in breast feeding and bonding.
Current best practice globally is for all pregnant women to receive a uterotonic drug at the time of childbirth to prevent postpartum haemorrhage. This recommendation has been in place since the 1980s when randomised trials showed that routine prophylaxis with oxytocin based uterotonic drugs reduced the rate of postpartum haemorrhage.5 The assumption that this would translate into fewer maternal deaths—based on the understanding that atony was the most common cause of haemorrhage related deaths—led to the promotion of active management of the third stage of labour, which comprises a prophylactic uterotonic drug, early cord clamping, and controlled cord traction.
Here we discuss the problems with generalising data from spontaneous vaginal (“normal”) births to complex births, and call for a change in global strategy on postpartum haemorrhage
Mechanics of elastic networks
No full textWe consider a periodic lattice structure in d=2 or 3 dimensions with unit cell comprising Z thin elastic members emanating from a similarly situated central node. A general theoretical approach provides an algebraic formula for the effective elasticity of such frameworks. The method yields the effective cubic elastic constants for three-dimensional space-filling lattices with Z=4, 6, 8, 12 and 14, the last being the ‘stiffest’ lattice proposed by Gurtner & Durand (Gurtner & Durand 2014 Proc. R. Soc. A 470, 20130611. (doi:10.1098/rspa.2013.0611)). The analytical expressions provide explicit formulae for the effective properties of pentamode materials, both isotropic and anisotropic, obtained from the general formulation in the stretch-dominated limit for Z=d+1.Peer reviewe
Interventions to reduce psychological morbidities associated with infertility in Nigeria
No full textIntroduction: Infertility affects up to 30% of Sub Sahara Africa population. In African societies, having infertility can come with dire consequences, depending on the level of empowerment and the ability to resist infertility related stigma, leading to psychological distress, anxiety and depression for those affected. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has been shown to be more effective than the pharmacological treatment of infertility-related depression (Faramarzi et al, 2008), therefore a need for the development of a culturally appropriated CBT based intervention for the management infertility-related psychological distress. Objectives: 1. To determine the prevalence of psychological morbidities amongst infertility patients in 2 Nigerian hospitals 2. To develop and test Fertility Life Counselling Aid (FELICIA), an intervention for the management psychological morbidities associated with infertility 3. To understand patients' perspectives of the potential benefits of the FELICIA intervention, 6 weeks post intervention Methods: An intervention was developed using the MRC framework for development of complex health interventions (Craig et al, 2008). Research was carried out using mixed methods involving ... (continues
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