Graduate School and University Center Archives Finding Aid - Record Group IV: Committee Records

This is part of the finding aid to the Graduate School and University Center (GSUC) Archives. Record Group t IV is records from various GSUC committees.

Graduate School and University Center Archives Finding Aid - Record Group III: Periodicals

This is part of the finding aid to the Graduate School and University Center (GSUC) Archives. Record Group III is periodicals by and/or about the GSUC.

Graduate School and University Center Archives Finding Aid - Record Group II: Centers and Institutes

This is part of the finding aid to the Graduate School and University Center (GSUC) Archives, City University of New York. Record Group II is material collected from research centers and institutes at the GSUC.

Graduate School and University Center Archives Finding Aid - Record Group I: Subjects

This is part of the finding aid to the Graduate School and University Center (GSUC) Archives, City University of New York. Record Group I lists the subjects covered in the collection.

Center for the Study of Free Reed Instruments Collection, 1947-2011 Finding Aid

The Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments Collection is an archival collection at the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library which contains materials donated by Professor Allan W. Atlas, related to free-reed instruments and the International Concertina Association.

Deiro Collection Finding Aid

The Deiro Collection at the City University of New York Graduate Center's Mina Rees Library is an archival collection of materials related to the professional and personal lives of Guido Deiro (1886-1950), Pietro Deiro Sr. (1888-1954) and Pietro “Lee” Deiro Jr. (1913-1999). Immigrating from Italy to the United States in the early 1900's, the Deiro brothers Guido and Pietro, made enduring contributions to the popularization of the Piano Accordion in the 20th Century. As masters of the instrument, the Deiro's achieved headliner status on the vaudeville theatre circuit. Both composed, arranged and recorded an impressive repertoire of accordion music. Pietro Deiro Publications produced a catalogue of over 10,000 pieces of sheet music and instructional materials for the Piano Accordion. The Deiro Collection documents not only a singular segment of American musical history but also a unique aspect of the Italian-American experience in 20th Century America.

Activist Women's Voices Oral History Collection, 1995-2000 Finding Aid

The Activist Women's Voices Oral History Project, funded by AT&T, the Ford Foundation, the Ms. Foundation for Education and Communication, and the New York Council for Humanities, is committed to documenting the voices of unheralded activist women in community-based organizations in New York City. The archive was established in 1995 under the direction of Professors Joyce Gelb and Patricia Laurence with the aim of creating linkages between activist women in the New York City community and student and faculty researchers at the City University of New York.

Administering Outcomes-Based Financial Aid Programs

As state and federal agencies increasingly condition institutional funding on student outcomes, university leaders are under pressure to develop innovative strategies to boost student retention and degree completion rates. This report examines public university initiatives that strategically leverage financial aid to support institutional retention and degree completion goals.

Assessing Merit Aid and Need-Based Aid At Private Institutions

Institutions provide students with full tuition merit awards through formal scholarship programs for outstanding performance in academics, leadership, community service, and athletics. This brief outlines how institutions fund and utilize merit to increase retention rates, particularly for minority and first generation students.

Adenosina deaminase no diagnóstico de rejeição aguda após o transplante renal Ana Lúcia Livi

O transplante renal representa atualmente a melhor opção terapêutica e de reabilitação para o paciente com insuficiência renal crônica terminal. As rejeições são as principais causas de perda dos rins transplantados e, entre essas, as rejeições agudas são as que apresentam maior relevância clínica. Desta maneira, a monitorização do transplante renal com vistas ao diagnóstico precoce da rejeição e seu rápido tratamento é de grande relevância no manejo adequado desses pacientes. Como a rejeição celular aguda é mediada predominantemente por linfócitos T e, visto que, a enzima adenosina deaminase (ADA) é encontrada principalmente, a nível de sangue periférico, em linfócitos, objetivou-se com esse estudo, verificar a possível associação entre atividade sérica da ADA e a rejeição aguda do enxerto renal. Buscou-se, também, determinar a sua utilidade como método diagnóstico de rejeição celular aguda. Foram acompanhados até 1 mês de internação 35 pacientes transplantados renais. Dosagens da atividade de ADA sérica foram feitas cinco vezes por semana e sempre que houvesse suspeita clínica de rejeição aguda. O diagnóstico de rejeição aguda foi estabelecido por 2 nefrologistas, aos quais foram omitidos os resultados dos níveis séricos ADA. Estes médicos tinham todas informações clínicas e laboratoriais, incluindo valores séricos de creatinina e ciclosporina, cintilografias, ecografias, citologia aspirativa, punção biópsia renal quando esta era realizada e resposta aos diferentes tratamentos imunossupressores usados. A análise estatística foi feita utilizando-se testes de Mann-Whitney e Qui-quadrado. O nível p menor do que 0,05 foi considerado como significativo. A mediana dos episódios de rejeição celular aguda ficou entre o sexto e sétimo dia pós-transplante, havendo diferença estatisticamente significativa nos valores de ADA no sexto dia de seguimento entre os pacientes com rejeição (60.16), em relação aos que não tiveram rejeição celular aguda (24,55) (p=0,021 MW). Para se avaliar a eficácia da atividade sérica de ADA com método diagnóstico de rejeição aguda, empregou-se pontos de corte de valores de ADA>35,>40,>45, >50 e > que 30% dos valores do período pré-rejeição. Houve associação estatisticamente significativa entre ADA>30% e rejeição celular aguda (p=0.035 MW). Verificou-se, também, aumento significativos da atividade sérica de ADA em pacientes anti-HCV positivos e com necrose tubular aguda, sem interferência sobre os resultados dos episódios de rejeição celular aguda. Usando esses pontos de corte como parâmetros de diagnóstico para rejeição aguda observou-se: sensibilidade = 55,5%, especificidade = 82,3%, valor preditivo positivo = 76,9%, valor preditivo negativo = 63,6% e acurácia = 69,0%. Conclui-se que há um aumento significativo da atividade sérica da ADA durante os episódios de rejeição aguda de enxertos renais humanos, encontrando-se associação significativa entre o aumento de 30% dos valores de ADA pré-rejeição e o diagnóstico de rejeição celular aguda.

Uncertainty of aid inflows and the growth relationship

This paper contributes to the literature on aid and economic growth. We posit that it is not the levei of aid flows per se but the stability of such flows that determines the impact of aid on economic growth. Three measures of aid instability are employed. One is a simple deviation from trend, and measures overall instability. The other measures are based on auto-regressive estimates to capture deviations from an expected trend. These measures are intended to proxy for uncertainty in aid receipts. We posit that such uncertainty will influence the relationship between aid and investment and how recipient governments respond to aid, and will therefore affect how aid impacts on growth. We estimate a standard cross-country growth regression including the leveI of aid, and find aid to be insignificant (in line with other results in the literature). We then introduce measures of instability. Aid remains insignificant when we account for overall instability. However, when we account for uncertainty (which is negative and significant), we find that aid has a significant positive effect on growth. We conduct stability tests that show that the significance of aid is largely due to its effect on the volume of investment. The finding that uncertainty of aid receipts reduces the effectiveness of aid is robust. When we control for this, aid appears to have a significant positive influence on growth. When the regression is estimated for the sub-sample of African countries these findings hold, although the effectiveness of aid appears weaker than for the full sample.

Adenosine deaminase activity as a biochemical marker of inflammatory response in goats infected by caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Injuries and envenoming by aquatic animals in fishermen of Coxim and Corumbá municipalities, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil: identification of the causative agents, clinical aspects and first aid measures

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Use of an osteoconductive compound as an aid in the management of a maxillary fracture in a boa constrictor

A boa constrictor was presented with a short oblique compound fracture of the rostral third of the right maxilla. The fracture was reduced and biomaterial was placed around the fracture. A computed tomography scan at 1.5 mo post-surgery showed that the fracture had healed with slight displacement of the bone fragments.