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Spring 1987, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Sig

The Sig Newsletter from the Southwestern Oklahoma State University College of Pharmacy - Spring 1987

[Review Of] Health Care Issues In Black America: Policies, Problems And Prospects, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Information Interface - Volume 11, Issue 2 - March/April 1987, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Information Interface (1976 - 2009)

News and information about Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of interest to users.

Risk Management In The United States: Three Case Studies Dioxin Emissions And Trash-To-Energy Plants In New York City, R. Steven Konkel

Environmental Health Science Faculty and Staff Research

New York City, the largest US municipality with a population of 12 million, presently generates 28,000 tons of garbage per day. Its main disposal facility Fresh Kills-is expected to be the only one of four presently operating landfills still in in use in 1987, and to be filled to capacity be 2001. Institutional, economic, and environmental obstacles severely restrict landfill options within the city, and ocean disposal of municipal solid waste is not considered feasible. In short, continued reliance on landfills to absorb the City's enormous volume of municipal waste is no longer considered viable.

Depression In College Students: Construct Validity Of The Student Experience Inventory, Angela Kramp

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Research suggests that the population of undergraduate college students may be especially prone to depression. While the prevalence of depression within the general population ranges from 3 to 9 percent (Boyd & Weissman, 1981), it has been shown that between 15 and 46 percent of undergraduate college students suffer the symptoms of mild to severe depression (Beck & Young, 1978; Oliver & Burkham, 1979). Although depression is prevalent among college students, there are no known instruments yielding indices of depression specific to the college population. In fact, depression measures frequently employed in college settings seldom recognize the unique features of …

Synapse, Alabama Health Libraries Association

Synapse - Newsletter of ALHeLa

This is the March, 1987 edition of the ALHeLa newsletter - Synapse.

Contents include:

• President's Column by Maureen Battistella (ALHeLA President)
• Calendar of events
• Executive Committee Minutes
• Consortium dynamics workshop by Lisa Rains Russell
• Regional advisory committee by Joyce Sims
• Membership renewal reminder
• People in the news and on the move
• Telefax by the sea: The mobile infirmary experience with the fax by Pat Hall
• ALHeLA to exhibit at AlaHA
• Unique and Semi-unique ABULS holdings reports
• Filling out ALA interlibrary loan request forms
• Public notice

[Review Of] Dr. Nagler's Body Maintenance And Repair Book, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Peptide Elastase Inhibitors And Methods, George Digenis, Bushra J. Agha, Kiyoshi Tsuji

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Patents

To read this abstract, please download this patent.

[Review Of] Peak Condition: Winning Strategies To Prevent, Treat, And Rehabilitate All Sports Injuries, Robert A. Aken

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Molecular Cloning Of Human Synovial Cell Collagenase And Selection Of A Single Gene From Genomic Dna., Constance E. Brinckerhoff, Peggy L. Ruby, Scott D. Austin, M Elizabeth Fini, Hillary D. White

Dartmouth Scholarship

We used a subclone of a rabbit genomic clone for collagenase that cross-hybridizes with human synovial cell messenger RNA (mRNA) to identify a human collagenase complementary DNA (cDNA) clone. The human cDNA clone is 2.1 kilobases (kb) and selects a mRNA transcript of approximately the same size from primary cultures of rheumatoid synovial cells that produce collagenase, but no mRNA is selected from control (nonproducing) synovial fibroblasts. Restriction enzyme analysis and DNA sequence data indicate that our cDNA clone is full length and that it is identical to that recently described for human skin fibroblast collagenase. The cDNA clone identified …

Habitat Utilization By Harpacticoid Copepods: A Morphometric Approach, Susan S. Bell, Keith Walters, Margaret O. Hall

Integrative Biology Faculty and Staff Publications

Examination of harpacticoid copepod morphology was conducted to determine whether morphological resemblance provides a reasonable index of habltat utilization and movement. Discriminant analysis was used to explore the relationship between body form and habitat utilization for copepod species collected from 3 subhabitats within seagrass beds in Tampa Bay, Florida. To examine the accuracy of our procedure the discriminant function derived for Tarnpa Bay copepods was applied to copepods collected in worldwide studies. Three morphological characteristics - ratio of the length of Pereopod 1 first endopod segment to the remaining endopod segments, area of the cephalosome, and length of the first …

The Relationship Of Temperament To Tolerance Of Cold And Heat: Beyond “Cold Hands-Warm Heart”, Richard A. Dienstbier, Robert L. Laguardia, Noreen S. Wilcox

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Thermal regulation and peripheral arousal in episodes of emotion are dependent upon similar autonomic and hormonal processes. Thermal-tolerance measure were developed and validated in order to indirectly assess adrenergic (cold tolerance) and cholinergic (heat tolerance) responsivity. We hypothesized that cold tolerance would correlate with reduced emotionality (largely fear and anxiety) and depression, and with increased stimulus seeking and dispositions toward activity; those hypotheses were confirmed. Tentatively advanced hypotheses that heat tolerance would correlate with reduced depression and emotional states were not confirmed, but heat tolerance was positively associated with activity and (weakly) with some of the same dimensions of temperament …

Finding Aid For Jax Oral History, Susan Mehrtens

Oral History Collection

No abstract provided.

Virus Diseases Of Lupins Virus Diseases Of Pastures, R A.C Jones, A. Baker, K. Clarke, F. Jones

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Virus diseases of lupins.

Bean yellow mosaic virus and cucumber mosaic virus

Effect of CMV isolate

Effect of pod position

Effect of dry conditions on establishment

Effect of cultivar on seed transmission rates

Effect of reflective mulch

Survey of commercial seed stocks.

Virus disease of pastures

Bean yellow mosaic virus and cucumber and alfalfa mosaic viruses

Symptoms

Distribution

Seed-borne infection

Persistence

Recommendations for control

Lupin phyllody disorder

Barley yellow dwarf virus

Publications

Ethnicity And Lifetimes: Self Concepts And Situational Contexts Of Ethnic Identity In Late Life, Mark Luborsky, Robert L. Rubinstein

Anthropology Faculty Research Publications

This chapter reports on finding from a study of ethnic older men, aged 65 an older (Jewish, Irish, and Italian) who were widowed from 2 to 8 years after a long-term study. It focuses on life reorganization after the initial bereavement period. It identifies key issues in the process concerning continuity and change in identity reformulation, changes in health and activity patterns, ethnic identity and lingering attachment to the deceased spouse. Ethnicity as a dynamic life course process, shaped by contextual and historical dimensions, and personal meaning processes are highlighted. Supported by NIH# R01-AG005204

Treatment Of Cryptococcal Meningitis With Combination Amphotericin B And Flucytosine For Four As Compared With Six Weeks, William E. Dismukes , M.D., Gretchen Cloud , M.S., Harry A. Gallis , M.D., Thomas M. Kerkering , M.D., Gerald Medoff , M.D., Philip C. Craven , M.D., Lisa G. Kaplowitz , M.D., John F. Fisher , M.D., Clark R. Gregg , M.D., Cynthia A. Bowles , R.N., Smith Shadomy , Ph.D., Alan M. Stamm , M.D., Robert B. Diasio , M.D., Leo Kaufman , Ph.D., Seng-Jaw Soong , Ph.D., William C. Blackwelder , Ph.D.

Internal Medicine Publications

Abstract

One hundred ninety-four patients with cryptococcal meningitis were enrolled in a multicenter, prospective, randomized clinical trial to compare the efficacy and toxicity of four as compared with six weeks of combination amphotericin B and flucytosine therapy. Among 91 patients who met preestablished criteria for randomization, cure or improvement was noted in 75 percent of those treated for four weeks and in 85 percent of those treated for six weeks. The estimated relapse rate for the four-week regimen was higher — 27 as compared with 16 percent — whereas the incidence of toxic effects for the two regimens was similar …

Tryptase Levels As An Indicator Of Mast-Cell Activation In Systemic Anaphylaxis And Mastocytosis, Lawrence B. Schwartz , M.D., Ph.D., Dean D. Metcalfe , M.D., Jeffrey S. Miller , M.D., Harry Earl , M.D., Timothy Sullivan , M.D.

Internal Medicine Publications

Abstract

Better methods are needed to assess mastcell activation In vivo and to distinguish the activation of mast cells from that of basophils. Tryptase, a neutral protease selectively concentrated in the secretory granules of human mast cells (but not basophils), is released by mast cells together with histamine and serves as a marker of mast-cell activation.

In 17 patients with systemic mastocytosis, concentrations of tryptase in plasma were linearly related to those of histamine (P<0.01). Eleven of the 17 patients had tryptase levels of 4 to 88 ng per milliliter, indicating ongoing mast-cell activation. In each of six patients who experienced corresponding anaphylactic reactions after penicillin, aspirin, or melon ingestion, a wasp sting, exercise, or antilymphocyte globulin injection, tryptase levels in serum ranged from 9 to 75 ng per milliliter, indicating mast-cell activation during each of these events. In contrast, serum tryptase levels were less than 5 ng per milliliter in all patients presenting with myocardial disease (n = 8, 6 with hypotension) or sepsis (n = 6, 3 with hypotension) and in the controls (n = 20). One patient had a myocardial infarction after anaphylaxis in response to a wasp sting and an elevated tryptase level of 25 ng per milliliter. Thus, the plasma or serum tryptase level is a diagnostic correlate of mast-cell-related events. (N Engl J Med 1987; 316: 1622–6.)

Effect Of Hemorrhagic Shock On Cefazolin And Gentamicin Pharmacokinetics In Dogs., Paul L. Dickson, Joseph T. Dipiro, Katherine A. Michael, Richard P. F. Cheung, Edward M. Hall

Publications from the Office of the Dean

The physiologic response to traumatic injury may alter the disposition of drugs and thereby affect their therapeutic or toxic potential. A study was conducted in 10 mongrel dogs to determine theeffect of experimental hemorrhagic shock with resuscitation on the pharmacokinetics of gentamicinand cefazolin. Single simultaneous intravenous doses of gentamicin (3 mg/kg) and cefazolin (25 mg/kg) were administered to each animal on an initial study day, after which serial blood and urine collections were performed. After 1 week, a standard hemorrhagic shock model was applied to each animal. Shock was continued for 1 h, after which the animal was resuscitated with …

Information Interface - Volume 11, Issue 1 - January/February 1987, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Information Interface (1976 - 2009)

News and information about Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of interest to users.

1987-1988 Course Catalog (Graduate), Columbia College Chicago

Course Catalogs

1987-1988 graduate course catalog.

Ada Constitution & Bylaws (1987), American Dental Association

Constitution & Bylaws

The ADA Commons Constitution & Bylaws archival collection comprises printed issues of the American Dental Association's Constitution and Bylaws. The collection also includes the ADA Charter and the ADA Code of Ethics issued 1924-1946.

Structural-Equation Models Of Current Drug Use: Are Appropriate Models So Simple(X)?, Ron D. Hays, Keith F. Widaman, M. Robin Dimatteo, Alan W. Stacy

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

The simplex and common-factor models of drug use were compared using maximum-likelihood estimation of latent variable structural models in two samples: a sample of 226 high school students, using ratio-scale measures of current drug use, and a sample of 310 industrial workers and 811 college students, using ordinal-scale measures of current drug use. Latent variables of alcohol, marijuana, enhancer hard drugs, and dampener hard drugs were specified in a series of structural models. Contrary to previous findings with cumulative drug-use data, the common-factor model provided a more acceptable representation of the observed current-use data than did the simplex model in …

Advisory Council; Series Ii; File 2, Juanita Hunter

Juanita Hunter, RN & NYSNA Papers [1973-1990]

No abstract provided.

Background Data - Membership; Series I; File 18, Juanita Hunter

Juanita Hunter, RN & NYSNA Papers [1973-1990]

No abstract provided.

Convention Evaluation, 1987-1988; Series I; File 41, Juanita Hunter

Juanita Hunter, RN & NYSNA Papers [1973-1990]

No abstract provided.

Committee To Elect Ny Candidates; Series Ii; File 23, Juanita Hunter

Juanita Hunter, RN & NYSNA Papers [1973-1990]

No abstract provided.

Correspondence Sent, 12-87 Thru 8-89; Series I; File 49, Juanita Hunter

Juanita Hunter, RN & NYSNA Papers [1973-1990]

No abstract provided.

Health Home Agency Regulations; Series I; File 93, Juanita Hunter

Juanita Hunter, RN & NYSNA Papers [1973-1990]

No abstract provided.

Foundation Joint Executive Committee; Series Ii; File 49, Juanita Hunter

Juanita Hunter, RN & NYSNA Papers [1973-1990]

No abstract provided.

Entry Into Practice; Series Ii; File 39, Juanita Hunter

Juanita Hunter, RN & NYSNA Papers [1973-1990]

No abstract provided.