The education of the Negro prior to 1861; a history of the education of the colored people of the United States from the beginning of slavery to the Civil War.

Includes bibliography.

A bibliography of the first editions in book form of the writings of Charles and Mary Lamb published prior to Charles Lamb's death in 1834,

"Appendix: The books of the two John Lambs": p. 195-203.

Digest of appropriations for the support of the government of the United States for the service of the fiscal year ending ..., and on account of deficiencies for prior years, made by the ... session of the ... Congress /

Description based on: 1901/1902.

Syntagma exercitationum academicarum ... quarum prior potissimùm polemica scripta continet ... nunc denuo ... revisa, in ordinem redacta ... studio, & operâ Georgii Moebii.

Collection of dissertations--Rostock.

Abnormal animal behavior prior to earthquakes, I : EHRP conference I /

Includes bibliographies.

De Persii satirarum natura atque indole : pars prior.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitas Litterarum Viadrina Vratislaviensi.

De fontibus quatuor priorum historiae augustae scriptorum pars prior /

Thesis (doctoral)--Bonn, 1872.

De alcmaeone crotoniata : pars prior.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitate Friderica Guilelma Berolinensi.

De idiotismis syntacticis in titulis latinis urbanis (C.I.L. vol. VI) conspicuis : Pars prior.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitas Regia Vratislaviensi.

Origo constantini imperatoris sive anonymi valesiani pars prior.

Thesis (doctoral)--Academia Groningana.

Training for librarianship before 1923; education for librarianship prior to the publication of Williamson's report on Training for library service.

"Selected bibliography": p.194-196. Bibliographical "Notes": p.197-229.

Assiento y capitvlacion, qve los señores presidente, y del Consejo Real de las Indias tomaron con el prior, y consules, y comercio de Seuilla, sobre la cobranca, y administració del derecho de la aueria, y despacho de las armadas, y flotas de las Indias, por tiempo de tres años, que comiencan a correr desde principio deste de mil y seiscientos y quarenta años.

Mode of access: Internet.

Experimental manipulation of prior experience: Effects on item and associative recognition

Frequency of exposure to very low- and high-frequency words was manipulated in a three-phase (familiarisation, study, and test) design. During familiarisation, words were presented with their definition (once, four times, or not presented). One week (Experiment 1) or one day (Experiment 2) later, participants studied a list of homogeneous pairs (i.e., pair members were matched on background and familiarisation frequency). Item and associative recognition of high- and very low-frequency words presented in intact, rearranged, old-new, or new-new pairs were tested in Experiment 1. Associative recognition of very low-frequency words was tested in Experiment 2. Results showed that prior familiaris ation improved associative recognition of very low-frequency pairs, but had no effect on high-frequency pairs. The role of meaning in the formation of item-to-item and item-to-context associations and the implications for current models of memory are discussed.

Modelling inpatient length of stay by a hierarchical mixture regression via the EM algorithm

The modelling of inpatient length of stay (LOS) has important implications in health care studies. Finite mixture distributions are usually used to model the heterogeneous LOS distribution, due to a certain proportion of patients sustaining-a longer stay. However, the morbidity data are collected from hospitals, observations clustered within the same hospital are often correlated. The generalized linear mixed model approach is adopted to accommodate the inherent correlation via unobservable random effects. An EM algorithm is developed to obtain residual maximum quasi-likelihood estimation. The proposed hierarchical mixture regression approach enables the identification and assessment of factors influencing the long-stay proportion and the LOS for the long-stay patient subgroup. A neonatal LOS data set is used for illustration, (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Canine intra-nasal squamous cell carcinoma treated with chemotherapy prior to surgical resection

A 12-year-old male castrated Samoyed dog was presented with left-sided epistaxis and sneezing. Diagnostic procedures included haematology and biochemistry testing, thoracic radiography, fine needle aspiration of regional lymph nodes, CT, rhinoscopy, incisional biopsy and histopathology. Squamous cell carcinoma of the rostral nasal cavity was diagnosed, with no evidence of metastatic disease. External beam radiation was not an accessible treatment option. Complete surgical resection of the tumour would have required a larger, more disfiguring resection of nasal planum and maxilla than the owner was prepared to accept and may have been associated with an unacceptable morbidity. As an alternative, the extent of disease was reduced using a combination of carboplatin, doxorubicin and piroxicam chemotherapy. This allowed a less extensive nasal planum removal to be performed to remove residual disease with clean margins. The patient achieved a 14 month disease free interval from the time of surgery to the time of local recurrence. Survival time from diagnosis to eventual euthanasia for progressive local disease was 18 months.