Martha Frances Morgan Papers - Accession 33

The Martha Francis Morgan Papers includes teaching aids, reading lists and tests relating to her teaching; together with constitutions, correspondence, photographs, program notes, and newspaper clippings concerning her involvement with the many clubs and organizations in which she participated.

Lucile Kathryn Delano Papers - Accession 509

The Lucile Kathryn Delano Papers consist of correspondence relating to Dr. Delano, Hallet Abend, and Virgilia Peterson (Princess Sapieha of Poland), an account of her trips to Europe and Mexico City, honors and awards she received, a dissertation presented to the Board of Graduate Studies at Washington University, notes on projected research on William Cullen Bryant, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and family photographs.

The new mass media; challenge to a free society.

Includes bibliography.

AAUW journal.

Includes the Association's Register.

State facilities for traveling library service /

Mode of access: Internet.

Our food, will there be enough?

Sponsored by the University of Hawaii Cooperative Extension Service, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, and the American Association of University Women, Hawaii Division.

American Society of Anesthesiologists Score: Still Useful After 60 Years? Results of the EuSOS Study

OBJECTIVE: The European Surgical Outcomes Study described mortality following in-patient surgery. Several factors were identified that were able to predict poor outcomes in a multivariate analysis. These included age, procedure urgency, severity and type and the American Association of Anaesthesia score. This study describes in greater detail the relationship between the American Association of Anaesthesia score and postoperative mortality. METHODS: Patients in this 7-day cohort study were enrolled in April 2011. Consecutive patients aged 16 years and older undergoing inpatient non-cardiac surgery with a recorded American Association of Anaesthesia score in 498 hospitals across 28 European nations were included and followed up for a maximum of 60 days. The primary endpoint was in-hospital mortality. Decision tree analysis with the CHAID (SPSS) system was used to delineate nodes associated with mortality. RESULTS: The study enrolled 46,539 patients. Due to missing values, 873 patients were excluded, resulting in the analysis of 45,666 patients. Increasing American Association of Anaesthesia scores were associated with increased admission rates to intensive care and higher mortality rates. Despite a progressive relationship with mortality, discrimination was poor, with an area under the ROC curve of 0.658 (95% CI 0.642 - 0.6775). Using regression trees (CHAID), we identified four discrete American Association of Anaesthesia nodes associated with mortality, with American Association of Anaesthesia 1 and American Association of Anaesthesia 2 compressed into the same node. CONCLUSION: The American Association of Anaesthesia score can be used to determine higher risk groups of surgical patients, but clinicians cannot use the score to discriminate between grades 1 and 2. Overall, the discriminatory power of the model was less than acceptable for widespread use.

Papers and proceedings of the ... annual meeting /

Description based on: 4th (1919)

Bulletin of the Southwestern Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Mode of access: Internet.

Proceedings of ... Annual Convention of the National Association of Manufacturers of Sand-Lime Products.

Mode of access: Internet.

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Refrigeration

Issued by American Association of Refrigeration, 1910-Feb.1921; by the American Association of Ice and Refrigeration, Mar.1921-27; by the American Institute Fo Refrigeration, 1928-41

Las asociaciones profesionales y la enseñanza del español en los Estados Unidos.

La enseñanza del español en Estados Unidos se remonta a un reglamento de la Academia Pública de Filadelfia de 1749. Desde entonces, en especial a partir de 1900, el interés por el español en los Estados Unidos no ha hecho más que aumentar. Así en 1966 el español está presente académicamente, en algo más de 2000 universidades estadounidenses. Ante este interés, se han estrechado los lazos de colaboración entre organizaciones académicas y profesionales estadounidenses e hispanas. Las más destacadas son la American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AA-TSP), la Modern Language Association of American (MLA) y la American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Se analiza en profundidad todas estas instituciones, sobre todo sus constituciones o reglamentos, que regulan aspectos tan variado como las publicaciones de la institución o los miembros que las integran y sus características.

Conference Report of the First Meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, 21-23 May 2009, Department of American Indian Studies, University of Minneapolis, Minesota, United States of America

Report provided back by Bronwyn Fredericks on her participation at the First Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Meeting held 21-23 May 2009 in Minnesota, United States of America.

Association of exogenous hormonal intake with the risk of development of hepatocellular carcinoma in women

Background. Primary liver cancer, the majority of which is hepatocellular carcinoma, is the third most common cause of mortality from cancer. It has one of the worst prognosis outcomes and an overall 5-year survival of only 5-6%. Hepatocellular carcinoma has been shown to have wide variations in geographic distribution and there is a marked difference in the incidence between different races and gender. Previously low-rate countries, including the US, have shown to have doubled the incidence of HCC during the past two decades. Even though the incidence of HCC is higher in males as compared to females, female hormones, especially estrogens have been postulated to have a role in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma on a molecular level. Despite the frequent usage of oral contraceptive pills (OCP) and previously, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), their role on HCC development has not been studied thoroughly. We aim to examine the association between exogenous hormone intake (oral contraceptives and post-menopausal hormone replacement therapy) and the development of HCC. Methods. This study is part of an ongoing hospital-based case-control study which is conducted at the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. From January 2005 up to January 2008, a total of 77 women with pathologically confirmed hepatocellular carcinoma (cases) and 277 healthy women (controls) were included in the investigation. Information about the use of hormonal contraceptives, hormone replacement therapy and risk factors of hepatocellular cancer was collected by personal interview. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were done to estimate the crude odds ratios (OR) and adjusted odds ratios (AOR). Results. We found statistically significant protective effect for the use of HRT on the development of HCC, AOR=0.42 (95% CI, 0.21, 0.81). The significance was observed for estrogen replacement, AOR=0.43 (95% CI, 0.22, 0.83) and not for progesterone replacement, AOR=0.49 (95% CI, 0.10, 2.35). On the other hand, any hormonal contraceptive use, which encompasses oral contraceptive pills, implants and injections, did not show a statistical significance either in the crude OR=0.58 (95% CI, 0.33, 1.01) or AOR=0.56 (95% CI 0.26, 1.18). Conclusions. As corroborated by previous studies, HRT confers 58% HCC risk reduction among American women. The more important question of the association between hormonal contraceptives and HCC remains controversial. Further studies are warranted to explore the mechanism of the protective effect of HRT and the relationship between hormonal contraception and HCC.^