Lessons learned from the International Renal Cell Carcinoma-Venous Thrombus Consortium (IRCC-VTC)

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) extension into the renal vein or the inferior vena cava occurs in 4%-10% of all kidney cancer cases. This entity shows a wide range of different clinical and surgical scenarios, making natural history and oncological outcomes variable and poorly characterized. Infrequency and variability make it necessary to share the experience from different institutions to properly analyze surgical outcomes in this setting. The International Renal Cell Carcinoma-Venous Tumor Thrombus Consortium was created to answer the questions generated by competing results from different retrospective studies in RCC with venous extension on current controversial topics. The aim of this article is to summarize the experience gained from the analysis of the world's largest cohort of patients in this unique setting to date.

Global evidence in local debates: the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in Swiss direct-democratic debates on school policy

This article analyses the use of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and other evidence in educational policy discourse in the context of direct-democratic votes in Switzerland. The results of a quantitative content analysis show that PISA is used by all actors to support a wide range of policy measures and ideological positions. Other evidence, however, is only used to support single specific policy positions. These findings demonstrate the ubiquity of PISA. The article discusses these results in view of the question of whether the incorporation of evidence into policy debates contributes to informed discourse.

International golden rule Sunday, a handbook by Charles Vernon Vickrey.

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The life of Jesus, and how we are to live : thirty lessons for the daily vacation Bible school /

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Twenty-nine Bible lessons for the daily vacation Bible school.

"The lessons perpared some years ago by Rev. A.H. Limouze ... thoroughly rev."--Introd.

Common school grammar. Easy lessons in etymology and syntax.

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Elementary lessons in English for home and school use /

Pt. 1. How to speak and write correctly. --pt. 2. The parts of speech and how to use them.

The infant school grammar, consisting of elementary lessons in the analytical method; illustrated by sensible objects and actions. Originally composed for Infant School No. 1 of New York.

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The Chautauqua normal guide. A series of lessons for the use of Sabbath-school normal and training classes.

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The Committee appointed ... for the Fourth International Congress on School hygiene, at Buffalo August 25-30, 1913.

Cover title.

Fourth International congress on school hygiene, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A., August 25-30, 1913. Transactions;

Subtitle vol. II-V: Papers.

A selection of psalms and hymns for public and private use : adapted to the Festivals of the Church of England and to some portions of the Epistles, Gospels or lessons appointed for every Sunday throughout the year /

Without music.

Every man his own teacher; or, Lancaster's theory of education, practically displayed; being an introduction to arithmetic, written in thirteen parts. To which are annexed thirty-two cards of lessons, to be suspended in the school-room conformably to the Lancaster plan.

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The school reader. Fourth book. Containing instructions in the elementary principles of reading, and selected lessons from the most elegant writers. For the use of academies and the higher classes in common and select schools.

"Recommendations" on leaf preceding title page dated 1843-Dec. 1845. Book probably published in 1846.