Letter from Artemas Ward to Benjamin Stone, 1787 July 18

Artemas Ward wrote this letter to Benjamin Stone on July 18, 1787, expressing his concern about the expense of his son, Henry Dana Ward's, imminent studies at Harvard. Ward complains to Stone about his own debts and the failure of the government to honor their financial obligations to him, and he also expresses hope that the President of Harvard will allow his son to spend part of his time "keeping a school" during his freshman and sophomore years, thus earning an income sufficient to pay for his studies. Ward also suggests that it might be preferable that his son board with a respectable family, rather than live at the College.

Certification of payment from Oliver Prescott, 1747 September 23

Handwritten certificate of payment for a new red and plaid gown purchased by Harvard sophomore Oliver Prescott in 1747. The certificate is witnessed by upperclassmen Artemas Ward, Jacob Cushing, and Timothy Pond.

Les deux avares : opéra bouffe en deux actes /

Mode of access: Internet.

Oeuvres choisies /

Contiene: Le père de famille / Diderot .- L'honnête criminel ; Les deux avares / Fenouillot de Falbaire .- Le jaloux sans amour / Imbert.

Ragionamenti sopra gli ordini minori, e sacri ne' quali spiegate sono le ceremonie tutte dell'ordinazione secondo il Pontifical Romano /

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Adriensium episcoporum series historico-chronologica monumentis illustrata /

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A letter to William Watson on the trees which are supposed to be indigenous in Great Britain.

Philosophical transactions, 1770, lix, 23-38.

Gulistān : manuscript, 1727?

Written in one column (in black and red ink) and two columns (in red ink), 29 lines per page.

A sermon, delivered at the ordination of the Rev. Jonathan Ward, Jr. as colleague pastor with Rev. Nathanael Webster, of the First Church in Biddeford, Maine. Oct. 26, 1825. ...

Pages 24-27 contain: "Charge to the church and people, by Rev. Levi Loring, of Buxton."

Book Review: Jamie Peck and Kevin Ward (eds) City of Revolution: Restructuring Manchester

Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2002, xvi + 256 pp., £14.99 (pbk), ISBN 0719058880

Multivariate Markov Process Models for the transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in a hospital ward

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is a pathogen that continues to be of major concern in hospitals. We develop models and computational schemes based on observed weekly incidence data to estimate MRSA transmission parameters. We extend the deterministic model of McBryde, Pettitt, and McElwain (2007, Journal of Theoretical Biology 245, 470–481) involving an underlying population of MRSA colonized patients and health-care workers that describes, among other processes, transmission between uncolonized patients and colonized health-care workers and vice versa. We develop new bivariate and trivariate Markov models to include incidence so that estimated transmission rates can be based directly on new colonizations rather than indirectly on prevalence. Imperfect sensitivity of pathogen detection is modeled using a hidden Markov process. The advantages of our approach include (i) a discrete valued assumption for the number of colonized health-care workers, (ii) two transmission parameters can be incorporated into the likelihood, (iii) the likelihood depends on the number of new cases to improve precision of inference, (iv) individual patient records are not required, and (v) the possibility of imperfect detection of colonization is incorporated. We compare our approach with that used by McBryde et al. (2007) based on an approximation that eliminates the health-care workers from the model, uses Markov chain Monte Carlo and individual patient data. We apply these models to MRSA colonization data collected in a small intensive care unit at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.