Two Perspectives on GIS/LIS Education in the United States

Education in Geographic information science (GIS/LIS) happens in the United States both within surveying-related academic programs and in other academic programs that use spatially oriented data and information. This article presents an overview of two such programs. The first is a four-year Bachelor of Science degree program in Geographic Information Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. The second is a concentration with a four-year Bachelor of Science degree program in Natural Resources at the University of Connecticut (UConn). Geographic information science is the primary focus of the Texas A&M program, whereas GIS/LIS is an emphasis of the UConn program. Both approaches are presented for comparison.

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and coronary events in a biethnic Texas community, 1985--1990

The relationship between change in myocardial infarction (MI) mortality rate (ICD codes 410, 411) and change in use of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), adjusted for change in hospitalization rates for MI, and for change in use of aortocoronary bypass surgery (ACBS) from 1985 through 1990 at private hospitals was examined in the biethnic community of Nueces County, Texas, site of the Corpus Christi Heart Project, a major coronary heart disease (CHD) surveillance program. Age-adjusted rates (per 100,000 persons) were calculated for each of these CHD events for the population aged 25 through 74 years and for each of the four major sex-ethnic groups: Mexican-American and Non-Hispanic White women and men. Over this six year period, there were 541 MI deaths, 2358 MI hospitalizations, 816 PTCA hospitalizations, and 920 ACBS hospitalizations among Mexican-American and Non-Hispanic White Nueces County residents. Acute MI mortality decreased from 24.7 in the first quarter of 1985 to 12.1 in the fourth quarter of 1990, a 51.2% decrease. All three hospitalization rates increased: The MI hospitalization rates increased from 44.1 to 61.3, a 38.9% increase, PTCA use increased from 7.1 to 23.2, a 228.0% increase, and ACBS use increased from 18.8 to 29.5, a 56.6% increase. In linear regression analyses, the change in MI mortality rate was negatively associated with the change in PTCA use (beta = $-$.266 $\pm$.103, p = 0.017) but was not associated with the changes in MI hospitalization rate and in ACBS use. The results of this ecologic research support the idea that the increasing use of PTCA, but not ACBS, has been associated with decreases in MI mortality. The contrast in associations between these two revascularization procedures and MI mortality highlights the need for research aimed at clarifying the proper roles of these procedures in the treatment of patients with CHD. The association between change in PTCA use and change in MI mortality supports the idea that some changes in medical treatment may be partially responsible for trends in CHD mortality. Differences in the use of therapies such as PTCA may be related to differences between geographical sites in CHD rates and trends. ^

The use of invasive myocardial revascularization procedures following myocardial infarction and the effectiveness of these procedures in the biethnic community of Nueces County, Texas, 1988--1991

High levels of poverty and unemployment, and low levels of health insurance coverage may pose barriers to obtaining cardiac care by Mexican Americans. We undertook this study to investigate differences in the use of invasive myocardial revascularization procedures received within the 4-month period following hospitalization for a myocardial infarction (MI) between Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites in the Corpus Christi Heart Project (CCHP). The CCHP is a population-based surveillance program for hospitalized MI, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), and aortocoronary bypass surgery (ACBS). Medical record data were available for 1706 patients identified over a three-year period. Mexican Americans had significantly lower rates of receiving a PTCA following MI than non-Hispanic Whites (RR: 0.56, 95% CI: 0.44-0.70). No meaningful ethnic difference was seen in the rates of ACBS use. History of PTCA use appeared to interact with ethnicity. Among patients without a history of PTCA use, Mexican Americans were less likely to receive a PTCA than non-Hispanic whites (RR: 0.59; 95% CI: 0.46-0.76). Among patients with a history of PTCA use, however, Mexican Americans were more likely to receive a PTCA than non-Hispanic whites (RR: 1.47; 95% CI: 0.75-2.87).^ Differences in the effectiveness of a first-time PTCA and first-time ACBS between Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites in the CCHP were also investigated. Mexican Americans were more likely to receive a 2nd PTCA (RR: 1.56, 95% CI: 1.11-2.17) and suffer a subsequent MI (RR: 1.42, 95% CI: 1.03-1.96) following a first-time PTCA than non-Hispanic whites. No meaningful ethnic differences were found in the rates of death and rates of ACBS following a first-time PTCA. Also, no significant ethnic differences were found in the rates of any of the events following a first-time ACBS. After adjusting for potential demographic, socioeconomic, clinical and angiographic confounders using Cox regression analysis, Mexican Americans were still more likely to receive a 2nd PTCA (HR: 1.38; 95% CI: 0.99-1.93) following a first-time PTCA than non-Hispanic whites. A significant difference in the rates of a subsequent MI following a first-time PTCA persisted (HR: 1.39, 95% CI: 1.01-1.93). (Abstract shortened by UMI.) ^

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Compendio histórico de la vida y virtudes del B. Juan de Ribera ...

Contiene: Reliquias custodiadas en el Real Colegio de Corpus Christi

Abstracto substancial del proyecto de la Real acequia Carolina

Pie de imp. tomado del colofón

En la celebridad del augusto sacramento del altar, y restauracion a su trono de nuestro amado monarca Don Fernando Septimo en el año MDCCCXIV Valencia en los siguientes versos [Texto impreso]

Versos para arrojar por las calles de Valencia en la fiesta del Corpus

[Versos en que se alaba a Fernando VII y se declara el desprecio a Napoleón y a los franceses] [Texto impreso]

Décimas, octavas y cuartetas de los gremios para arrojar por las calles de Valencia en la fiesta del Corpus

D. Juan de Rivera [Material gráfico] : Obispo de Badajoz, Patriarca de Antioquia, Arzobispo y Virrey de Valencia...

Resumen: Descripción: retrato del Patriarca Ribera barbado, sedente, de tres cuartos de figura y ligeramente de perfil hacia la derecha. Viste muceta y capisayo. En mano derecha "Plano del Seminario de Corpus Christi"

[Trabajos de investigación sobre el oficio de "confiter i sucrer"] [Manuscrito]

Carpeta con diferentes transcripciones de documentos y notas de lectura de José Rodrigo Pertegás acerca de sus investigaciones sobre el oficio de "confiter i sucrer", durante el siglo XV. Contiene: -Transcripción de un documento conservado en el Archivo del Patriarca de Valencia. Protocolo de Juan Miguel, 1436, signatura 24. -Transcripción de un documento conservado en el Archivo General del Reino de Valencia, Tomo 13, Registre de ápoques. Regesta al principio de la transcripción, que dice: Varia. Confiteria. Siglo XV. Die jovis intitulata VIII novembris anno anat. Domine MCCCC LII. -Hoja con referencia bibliográfica y regesta de un documento de archivo, que dice Boticarios. En el protocolo de Juan Monfort a 30 mayo 1468 se encuentra el contrato de un cuerer y apothecari de Olocau que estaba al servicio del Marqués de Santa Illana... Archivo Colegio Corpus Christi - Valencia, num. 1731 del índice de protocolos.

Preliminar manifiesto de la verdad [Texto impreso]

Front. grab. calc. representando a San Pascual Bailón : "Joss. Camaron"

An itinerary containing his ten yeeres travell through the twelve dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland & Ireland.

"The Itinerary now reprinted in full for the first time since its publication was 'printed by John Beale, dwelling in Aldersgate street', in 1617 ... The book was first written in Latin and then translated into English ... the Latin version, however, was never printed. In 'the table' of the Itinerary, after the contents of the fourth book of the third part there is given a brief summary of twenty-five chapters ... The ms. of these chapters, which were not printed by Moryson, is now in the library of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, and portions of it were edited by Mr. Charles Hughes and published in 1903 under the title of 'Shakespeare's Europe'."--Publishers' note.

A collection of letters, statutes, and other documents from the ms. Library of Corp. Christ. Coll., illustrative of the history of the University of Cambridge, during the period of the Reformation, from A.D. MD., to A.D. MDLXXII. /

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De los nombres de Christo : añadido juntamente el nombre de Cordero /

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