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Friedland, Nancy E. "Urban Views: Digital Access to the Joseph Urban Collection at Columbia University." Theatre Survey 46, no. 2 (2005): 297–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557405000177.
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Brander Matthews (1852–1929), author, critic and a professor of English and Dramatic Literature at Columbia University, believed strongly that, to best study theatre, researchers and scholars needed to see and access the makings of the stagecraft itself. Based on personal experience, Matthews realized that the observation of sets, props, costumes, models, sketches, and other ephemera would enable a better understanding and visualization of actual productions. As a result, he set out collecting such objects, as well as puppets, masks, posters, and playbills. In 1911, the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum collection was officially established at Columbia University.
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Scoffield, E. V. "Stepping through the looking glass: A new relationship between professional foresters and forest technologists." Forestry Chronicle 79, no. 5 (2003): 850–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc79850-5.
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The regulation of forest professionals in British Columbia is undergoing dramatic change. The long-standing close working relationship between professional foresters and forest technologists is now entrenched in legislation. A new Foresters Act came into law on June 20, 2003. It authorizes the Association of British Columbia Professional Foresters to regulate forest technologists as well as professional foresters. This new approach to the regulation of the two groups will build upon their healthy relationship and strengthen the forestry team as it grapples with the challenges ahead. Key words: forest professionals, professional forester, forest technologist, British Columbia, Foresters Act, regulation
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Hart, Matthew. "Internationalism after Internationalism: Response to Aarthi Vadde, Chimeras of Form." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 6, no. 1 (2019): 107–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2018.30.
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Matthew Hart is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Nations of Nothing but Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction (forthcoming from Columbia University Press). A founding co-editor of the Columbia University Press book series Literature Now, Matt is a former president of A.S.A.P.: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present and currently vice president of the Modernist Studies Association.
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Garton, Sue, and Ryuko Kubota. "Joint colloquium on plurilingualism and language education: Opportunities and challenges, (AAAL/TESOL)." Language Teaching 48, no. 3 (2015): 417–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444815000154.
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This colloquium was organised by Ryuko Kubota (University of British Columbia, Canada) and Sue Garton (Aston University, UK) as part of the collaboration between the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and TESOL International Association.
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CAPM Awards, _. "Canadian Association of Professors of Medicine Awards." Clinical & Investigative Medicine 31, no. 6 (2008): 410. http://dx.doi.org/10.25011/cim.v31i6.4930.
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The 2008 Core Medical Residents Research Awards were presented to Dr. Anna Mathew from the University of Western Ontario, Dr. Jeya Nadarajah of McMaster University, and Dr. Sara Stafford and Dr. Tara Sedlak from the University of British Columbia at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation. The awards, co-sponsored by the CSCI and the Canadian Association of Professors of Medicine are to recognize outstanding research by core medicine residents and to highlight the importance of research participation as a component of the core medical training experience.
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BÁTONYI, GÁBOR. "A NEW IMAGE OF THE NATION: READING CENTRAL AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY." Historical Journal 40, no. 1 (1997): 263–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x96006942.
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The Little Entente and Europe (1920–1929). By Magda Ádám. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1993. Pp. 330. $40.00.The economy and polity in early twentieth century Hungary. The role of the National Association of Industrialists. By George Deák. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 209. $32.00.Stefan Stambolov and the emergence of Modern Bulgaria, 1870–1895. By Duncan M. Perry. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1993. Pp. xi + 308. £37.95.Hungarians and their neighbors in modern times, 1867–1950. Ed. Ferenc Glatz. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. 347. $42.00.The Czech fascist movement, 1922–1942. By David D. Kelly. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 243.
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Hampel, Robert. "The Business of Education: Home Study at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin in the 1920s and 1930s." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 112, no. 9 (2010): 2496–517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811011200905.
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Background Correspondence schools abounded in early 20th-century America. Several hundred for-profit vendors drew the vast majority of the annual enrollments, which peaked at one half million in the mid-1920s. Dozens of well-known universities created home study departments to expand their “extension” work. The handful of good studies of the origins of distance education falls short of what we need to understand this popular alternative to traditional schooling. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study In 1930, Abraham Flexner ridiculed home study at Columbia, and, to a lesser extent, Wisconsin and Chicago. His denunciation of the mercenary spirit of home study reverberates in contemporary discussions of the entrepreneurial aspirations of American universities. This article places the business practices of home study at Columbia and Wisconsin alongside the work of proprietary schools to see if Flexner's criticisms were accurate. Research Design The article compares the advertising, sales, and collection practices of Columbia, Wisconsin, and the for-profit outfits in the 1920s and 1930s. The archival sources for Columbia and Wisconsin include annual reports, financial statements, letters to and from the directors of home study, and other documents. For the private schools, the verbatim transcripts of the annual meetings of their trade association are especially valuable. Conclusions Flexner's critique is misleading. Columbia avoided the excesses that swelled the income and marred the reputations of many for-profit schools. Wisconsin did even more to distance itself from the proprietary firms. The article ends with ruminations on the options available to universities when they undertake work in a field dominated by the private sector.
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Isasi, C. R. "Inverse Association of Physical Fitness with Plasma Fibrinogen Level in Children The Columbia University BioMarkers Study." American Journal of Epidemiology 152, no. 3 (2000): 212–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/152.3.212.
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Laponce, Jean. "Changing sovereignty and changing borders: vox dei or vox populi?" Ekistics and The New Habitat 70, no. 418/419 (2003): 79–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200370418/419317.
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The author is professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. One of his main research interests is the study of the relation between territory and ethnicity (see The Protection of Minorities, University of California Press, 1961; Languages and their Territories, University of Toronto Press, 1987; Sovereignty and Referendums, UBC Institute of International Relations, 2001). He is a member of the research committee on Political Geography of the International Political Science Association, a committee he founded in 1975 and co-chaired with Jean Gottmann.
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Klein, Thomas A. "1985 Macromarketing Seminar Abstracts." Journal of Macromarketing 5, no. 2 (1985): 59–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/027614678500500206.
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The 1985 Macromarketing Seminar was hosted by George Washington University at Airlie House, Airlie, Virginia, August 15-18. Nearly 50 participants met to discuss research and theoretical developments. Abstracts of formal papers presented at the seminar follow. Readers wishing complete copies of these papers may request them directly from authors. The Eleventh Macromarketing Seminar will be held in Boulder, Colorado, following the American Marketing Association Educators Conference in August 1986. Program Chairman is Professor Donald Shawver, University of Missouri, Columbia. Arrangements Chairman is Professor Charles Goeldner, University of Colorado, Boulder.
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ANNUAL CONFERENCE, CSSE. "Canadian Association of Action Research in Education (CAARE) Conference 2019, June 1-5, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada." Canadian Journal of Action Research 19, no. 1 (2018): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.33524/cjar.v19i1.377.
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We are inviting you to submit a presentation proposal to our collaborative and dynamic special interest group, the Canadian Association of Action Research in Education (CAARE). CAARE is a special interest group of The Canadian Association for Teacher Education (CATE) and hosts annual conference events at Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). CSSE will be hosted at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia from June 1 to 5, 2019. The call for presentations deadline is October 1, 2018 and further information is available on the CSSE 2019 website at https://csse-scee.ca/conference/. The criteria for proposals includes: proposals are no more than 3 pages, not including references and 200 word abstract; and double spaced 11-point sans-serif style font (e.g., Arial, Calibri, and Verdana). Accepted submissions will be later published in the proceedings of the Canadian Journal of Action Research.
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Ayanian, Shant, Juan Reyes, Lei Lynn, and Karolyn Teufel. "The association between biomarkers and clinical outcomes in novel coronavirus pneumonia in a US cohort." Biomarkers in Medicine 14, no. 12 (2020): 1091–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/bmm-2020-0309.
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Aim: To describe the association between D-dimer, CRP, IL-6, ferritin, LDH and the clinical outcomes in a cohort of 299 COVID-19 patients treated on the inpatient medical service at a university hospital in the District of Columbia (DC, USA). Methodology & results: In this retrospective study, we included all laboratory confirmed COVID-19 adults admitted to the inpatient medicine service at the George Washington University Hospital between 12 March 2020 and 9 May 2020. We analyzed the association of biomarkers on intensive care unit transfer, intubation and mortality. Threshold values for all biomarkers were found to be statistically significant and independently associated with higher odds of clinical deterioration and death. Conclusion: Laboratory markers of inflammation and coagulopathy can help clinicians identify patients who are at high risk for clinical deterioration in COVID-19.
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Wager, Amanda, George Belliveau, Jaime Beck, and Graham W. Lea. "Exploring Drama as an Additional Language through Research-based Theatre." Scenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Research III, no. 2 (2009): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/scenario.3.2.4.
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This article explores the social, cultural, and emotional learning that occurred when drama was used with a group of native English speakers and English Language Learners (ELL) to build community. These learners consisted of university Drama in Education students who led a group of elementary students in an after-school drama program in Vancouver, Canada. University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers investigated the potential that drama has to build community with learners from multiple backgrounds and ages. The researchers also examined the potential that theatre methods have to analyze and represent findings discovered within the research data. In reflecting upon the learning that supported the community building, three themes were identified within the data: process and product, negotiation and conflict, and the building of community. ELL Program Leaders' journals were used as data to explore the Program Leaders’ perspectives of how the drama program influenced their language acquisition skills and cultural understanding. As the data were analyzed, the researchers transformed recurring themes and significant findings into a dramatic text. This text, created and performed by the researchers at multiple conferences, is integrated into the article. Reflections from the researchers are also shared, along with insights gained while developing and presenting their research-based theatre piece. This article explores the social, cultural, and emotional learning that occurred when drama was used with a group of native English speakers and English Language Learners (ELL) to build community. These learners consisted of university Drama in Education students who led a group of elementary students in an after-school drama program in Vancouver, Canada. University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers investigated the potential that drama has to build community with learners from multiple backgrounds and ages. The researchers also examined the potential that theatre methods have to analyze and represent findings discovered within the research data. In reflecting upon the learning that supported the community building, three themes were identified within the data: process and product, negotiation and conflict, and the building of community. ELL Program Leaders' journals were used as data to explore the Program Leaders’ perspectives of how the drama program influenced their language acquisition skills and cultural understanding. As the data were analyzed, the researchers transformed recurring themes and significant findings into a dramatic text. This text, created and performed by the researchers at multiple conferences, is integrated into the article. Reflections from the researchers are also shared, along with insights gained while developing and presenting their research-based theatre piece.
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Walsh, Julie, and Julie Walsh. "Oliver Sacks." Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 1, no. 1 (2013): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v1i1.69.
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Renowned neurologist and author Dr Oliver Sacks is a visiting professor at the University of Warwick as part of the Institute of Advanced Study. Dr Sacks was born in London. He earned his medical degree at the University of Oxford (Queen’s College) and the Middlesex Hospital (now UCL), followed by residencies and fellowships at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco and at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). As well as authoring best-selling books such as Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, he is clinical professor of neurology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. Warwick is part of a consortium led by New York University which is building an applied science research institute, the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP). Dr Sacks recently completed a five-year residency at Columbia University in New York, where he was professor of neurology and psychiatry. He also held the title of Columbia University Artist, in recognition of his contributions to the arts as well as to medicine. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Association of British Neurologists, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU for more than 25 years. In 2008, he was appointed CBE.
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Coe, Ada. "From Surrealism to Snoorealism: the Theatre of Snoo Wilson." New Theatre Quarterly 5, no. 17 (1989): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00015359.
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Snoo Wilson has remained one of the most distinctive of those playwrights who emerged from the ‘generation of 1968’ – but unlike his collaborators in the early Portable Theatre, he has never been at home on the big stages of the establishment theatres. Sadly, this has also tended to deny him his proper share of critical and, indeed, audience attention: his highly allusive yet also highly elusive style has thus remained a specialized taste, and many of his plays have been denied even the dignity of publication. Accordingly, we accompany the following article by Ada Coe, in which she examines one of the many threads which contribute to Snoo Wilson's work – his recurrent concern with the world of animals and its symbolism – with an ‘NTQ Checklist’ of Snoo Wilson's complete dramatic output compiled by NTQ Editor Simon Trussler. in collaboration with Malcolm Page of Simon Fraser University. British Columbia, and NTQ's assistant editor, Elaine Turner.
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Dressler, Danielle, and David Leswick. "Canadian Association of Radiologists Annual Scientific Meetings: How Many Abstracts Go on to Publication?" Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal 66, no. 2 (2015): 96–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carj.2014.05.005.
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Purpose To determine the percentage of abstracts presented at the Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR) annual scientific meetings that go on to publication. Methods Records of previous CAR meetings from the years 2005-2011 were obtained. An Internet search was performed to determine which abstracts went on to publication. Abstracts were assessed according to exhibit category (Resident Award Papers), educational institution, publishing journal, and time to publication. Results Of the 402 abstracts presented, 112 (28%) were published. Overall, an average of 37% of Radiologists-In-Training Presentations, 34% of Scientific Exhibits, and 20% of Educational Exhibits went on to publication. The University of British Columbia and University of Ottawa published the largest number of abstracts (66 and 62, respectively) from the years 2005-2011. The University of Montreal had the largest percentage of abstracts published (42%). The range of publishing journals was wide, but the top publisher was the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal (27%). Eighty-three percent of abstracts were published within 3 years of being presented. Conclusion In total, 28% of all the abstracts presented at the CAR conferences between 2005 and 2011 were published. Further exploration into the reasons and barriers for abstracts not being published may be a next step in future research.
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CASIS. "Hate Speech In Canada." Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare 2, no. 2 (2019): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.21810/jicw.v2i2.1065.
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 On May 16th 2019, the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) Vancouver hosted Dr. Heidi Tworek at its roundtable meeting titled “Hate Speech in Canada: A New Democratic Threat Requiring Policy Incentives.” Dr. Tworek is an Assistant Professor of International History at the University of British Columbia. She is also a non-resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, and the Joint Centre for History and Economics at Harvard University. She works on the history of news and of international organizations. Alongside academic publications, she also writes about German and transatlantic politics and media for a wide variety of venues including Foreign Affairs and Wired magazine.
 
 
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Reece, Gwendolyn J. "Absentee Ballot Day in the library: Empowering students to vote." College & Research Libraries News 81, no. 5 (2020): 248. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crln.81.5.248.
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On September 25, 2018, American University Library held its inaugural Absentee Ballot Day, helping 1,005 students request absentee ballots. The library partnered with student government, the alumni association, and the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia to empower our students in exercising their fundamental right and responsibility as citizens in a democracy. This article describes the reasoning behind this initiative, the planning process, and the event itself. The hope is that many academic libraries will join in this effort for the 2020 general election. Resources for institutions wishing to hold their own Absentee Ballot Day are included.
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Sundstrom, Lisa. "Domestic Russian politics and comparative democratization." Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare 5, no. 1 (2022): 101–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.21810/jicw.v5i1.4280.
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On April 21, 2022, Dr. Lisa Sundstrom, an expert on Russian politics and a professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC), presented Domestic Russian Politics and Comparative Democratization at the April Digital Roundtable event hosted by the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS)-Vancouver. The key points of discussion included the popularity of the war in Russia, the economic impacts of sanctions and military losses, and the potential sources of opposition to President Vladimir Putin. Dr. Sundstrom’s presentation was followed by a question-and-answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS-Vancouver executives.
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Neagu, Olimpia, Doru Ioan Ardelean, and Vasile Lazăr. "How is environmental performance associated with economic growth? A world cross-country analysis." Studia Universitatis „Vasile Goldis” Arad – Economics Series 27, no. 3 (2017): 15–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sues-2017-0010.
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Abstract The aim of the paper is to explore the association between environmental performance and income level in the world economy in 2016. Data from Yale University and World Bank are used in a cross-country regression analysis comprising 166 countries. The gross Domestic Product per capita (based in purchased power parity, constant 2011 international dollars) in these countries is positively associated with the environmental performance index (EPI) calculated by Yale and Columbia University in 2016. Furthermore, the causality of this relationship is from GDP per capita to Environmental Performance and both Environmental Health (EH) and Ecosystem Vitality (EV) are positively associated with GDP per capita. Environmental Health (EH) is stronger related to GDP per capita, meaning that investments in public health, sanitation and infrastructure are increasing as countries develop.
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Spratlen, Miranda J., Frederica P. Perera, Sally Ann Lederman, et al. "The Association Between Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Lipids in Cord Blood." Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 105, no. 1 (2019): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgz024.
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Abstract Introduction Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were among various persistent organic pollutants suspected to have been released during the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) on 9/11/2001. Evidence suggests that PFAS may have cardiometabolic effects, including alterations in lipid profiles. This study evaluated the association between cord blood PFAS and lipids in a population prenatally exposed to the WTC disaster. Study Population 222 pregnant women in the Columbia University WTC birth cohort enrolled between December 13, 2001 and June 26, 2002 at hospitals located near the WTC site: Beth Israel, St. Vincent’s, and New York University Downtown. Methods We evaluated the association between 5 cord blood PFAS—perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS), perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), perfluorodecane sulfonate (PFDS)—and cord blood lipids (total lipids, total cholesterol, triglycerides). Results Median (interquartile range [IQR]) concentrations of PFAS were 6.32 (4.58–8.57), 2.46 (1.77–3.24), 0.38 (0.25–0.74), 0.66 (0.48–0.95) and 0.11 (0.09–0.16) ng/mL for PFOS, PFOA, PFNA, PFHxS, and PFDS, respectively. Median (IQR) for lipids were 59.0 (51.5–68.5) mg/dL for total cholesterol, 196.5 (170.5–221.2) mg/dL for total lipids and 33.1 (24.2–43.9) mg/dL for triglycerides. In fully adjusted models, several PFAS were associated with higher lipid levels, including evidence of a strong linear trend between triglycerides and both PFOA and PFHxS. Conclusions Findings support previous evidence of an association between PFAS exposure and altered lipid profiles and add novel information on this relationship in cord blood, as well as for an understudied PFAS, PFDS (J Clin Endocrinol Metab 105: 43–54, 2020).
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Ronnick, Michele. "In Search of Helen Maria Chesnutt (1880-1969), Black Latinist." New England Classical Journal 48, no. 1 (2021): 110–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.52284/necj/48.1/article/ronnick.
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Classical scholars have begun to delineate the dynamic pattern of black classicism. This new subfield of the classical tradition involves the analysis of the creative response to classical antiquity by artists as well as the history of the professional training in classics of scholars, teachers and students in high schools, colleges and universities. To the first group belongs Helen Maria Chesnutt (1880-1969). Born in Fayetteville, NC, Chesnutt was the second daughter of acclaimed African American novelist, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932). She earned her B.A. from Smith College in 1902 and her M.A. in Latin from Columbia University in 1925. She was a member of the American Philological Association and the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Her life was spent teaching Latin at Central High School in Cleveland, OH. This is the first full scale account of her career.
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Whitworth, Sandra. "Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post–Cold War Era. By J. Ann Tickner. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 262p. $45.00 cloth, $17.50 paper." American Political Science Review 96, no. 4 (2002): 894–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055402390476.
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J. Ann Tickner's Gendering World Politics revisits—in the best sense of the term—many of the same themes she explored in her pathbreaking 1992 book, Gender in International Relations. The current volume comes almost a decade after that first book appeared—a decade during which both the field of international relations and the subfield of feminist IR have seen dramatic change and, especially in the case of the latter, exponential growth. Gendering World Politics brings us up to date on the current state of debates within IR and provides a thoroughgoing and sophisticated introduction to what is now a very sizable feminist IR literature. Perhaps the most important contribution of this book, however, is that it allows Tickner to move forward an agenda she has been exploring for a number of years now, to encourage “conversations” between mainstream and feminist IR, and, in particular, to ask why authentic conversations, despite a decade of both turmoil and growth, have not been more forthcoming. As she writes in the Preface, “I have spent much of this time trying to understand why the intellectual gulf between different IR approaches is so wide and why conversations between proponents of these various approaches can be so difficult” (p. x).
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Majowicz, Shannon E., Dimitra Panagiotoglou, Marsha Taylor, et al. "Determining the long-term health burden and risk of sequelae for 14 foodborne infections in British Columbia, Canada: protocol for a retrospective population-based cohort study." BMJ Open 10, no. 8 (2020): e036560. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036560.
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IntroductionOver one in eight Canadians is affected by a foodborne infection annually; however, the long-term consequences, including the risks and costs of sequelae, are unclear. We aim to estimate the health burden and direct costs of 14 infections commonly transmitted by food, considering the acute illness and subsequent sequelae and mortality, for the population of British Columbia, Canada (~4.7 million).Methods and analysisWe will conduct a population-based retrospective cohort study of the British Columbia provincial population, over a 10-year study period (1 January 2005 to 31 December 2014). Exposure is defined as a provincially reported illness caused by Clostridium botulinum, Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, Cyclospora, Giardia, hepatitis A virus, Listeria, non-typhoidal Salmonella spp, Salmonella Typhi, Salmonella Paratyphi, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Shigella, Vibrio parahaemolyticus or Yersinia (excluding pestis). We will link individual-level longitudinal data from eight province-wide administrative health and reportable disease databases that include physician visits, hospitalisations and day surgeries, deaths, stillbirths, prescription medications (except those to treat HIV) and reportable foodborne diseases. Using these linked databases, we will investigate the likelihood of various sequelae and death. Hazard models will be used to estimate the risk of outcomes and their association with the type of foodborne infection. Epidemiological analyses will be conducted to determine the progression of illness and the fraction of sequelae attributable to specific foodborne infections. Economic analyses will assess the consequent direct healthcare costs.Ethics and disseminationThis study has been approved by a University of Waterloo Research Ethics Committee (no 30645), the University of British Columbia Behavioral Research Ethics Board (no H16-00021) and McGill University’s Institutional Review Board (no A03-M12-19A). Results will be disseminated via presentations to academics, public health practitioners and knowledge users, and publication in peer-reviewed journals. Where such publications are not open access, manuscripts will also be available via the University of Waterloo’s Institutional Repository (https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca).
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Antoun, Ghadi, Jonathan Keow, Véronique D. Ram, Christina Thornton, Xin Wang, and Ju-Yoon Yoon. "Scientific overview: CSCI-CITAC Annual General Meeting and Young Investigator’s Forum 2013." Clinical & Investigative Medicine 37, no. 4 (2014): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.25011/cim.v37i4.21723.
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The 2013 joint Canadian Society of Clinician Investigators (CSCI)–Clinical Investigator Trainee Association of Canada/Association des cliniciens-chercheurs en formation du Canada (CITAC/ACCFC) annual general meeting(AGM) was held in Ottawa, September 2013. The symposium focused on “Applications of the ‘omics’ to Clinical Practice”, with presentations from Drs. William T. Gibson (University of British Columbia), Julie Ho (University of Manitoba) and David Hwang (University of Toronto), discussing topics of genome, proteome and the microbiome, respectively. Other highlights from the 2013 AGM include presentations by Dr. Salim Yusuf (McMaster University, 2013 CSCI-RCPSC Henry Friesen Award winner), Dr. Gary Lewis (University of Toronto, 2013 CSCI Distinguished Scientist Award winner) and Dr. Michael Taylor (University of Toronto, 2013 Joe Doupe Award winner). The CSCI/CITAC/Friends of CIHR Joint Symposium consisted of presentations from Drs. John Bell (University of Ottawa), Dan Drucker (University of Toronto) and Heather J. Dean (University of Manitoba). Finally, the meeting ended with the presentation “The Power of an Idea to Bring Ideas to Power” by Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg (President, U.S. Institute of Medicine), the winner of the 2013 Henry Friesen International Prize. Also presented at the conference was research by clinician investigator (CI) trainees from across Canada; ie., those enrolled in MD/MSc, MD/PhD or Clinician Investigator Program(CIP) programs. Canadian trainees’ research extended beyond the pillar of biomedical research, covering the spectrum between basic and clinical research, with a focus on the causes of significant morbidity and mortality for Canadians, including cancers, infectious diseases and other maladies. It is this research that we have summarized in this review.
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Vieira, Keitty Rodrigues, and Cezar Karpinski. "Epistemologia na Ciência da Informação: a visão de Mortimer Taube." Investigación Bibliotecológica: archivonomía, bibliotecología e información 35, no. 88 (2021): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/iibi.24488321xe.2021.88.58428.
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Frente a la discusión epistemológica del área, este artículo tiene como objetivo discutir los enfoques epistemológicos identificados en la producción científica de Mortimer Taube. Por lo tanto, este artículo identifica específicamente los enfoques epistemológicos que sirvieron de base para la producción científica de Taube y problematiza los constructos teóricos de este autor. Metodológicamente, el estudio se caracteriza por ser cualitativo, exploratorio, bibliográfico y documental, sin delimitación cronológica, y basado en la hermenéutica para la interpretación y redacción de los resultados. Las fuentes utilizadas fueron seleccionadas de acuerdo con su especificidad y debido a la participación de Taube con tales instituciones: Association for Information Science and Technology, Duke University, Library of Congress, Columbia University, Digital Journal Storage Library, NASA Library, Biblioteca Nacional, University of Chicago Press Journal y Library Quarterly. De los 264 documentos recuperados, 124 fueron leídos y analizados y conforman el corpus de este artículo. Los resultados muestran que los enfoques epistemológicos que impregnan la obra de Taube son el Positivismo Lógico y la Filosofía Analítica, y que su posición epistemológica puede ser identificada por el enfoque de Epistemología Crítica.
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CALDER, DALE R. "Harry Beal Torrey (1873–1970) of California, USA, and his research on hydroids and other coelenterates." Zootaxa 3599, no. 6 (2013): 549–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3599.6.4.
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Harry Beal Torrey was born on 22 May 1873 in Boston, Massachusetts. Two years later his family moved to Oakland, California. Torrey earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1895 and 1898 respectively, a Ph.D. in zoology from Columbia University in 1903, and an M.D. from the Medical College of Cornell University in 1927. He began his academic career as a marine biologist, investigating taxonomy, reproduction, morphology, development, regeneration, and behaviour of cnidarians of the west coast of the United States, but his research interests soon shifted to experimental biology and endocrinology. He eventually entered the field of medicine, specializing in public health, and served as a physician and hospital administrator. Torrey held academic positions at the University of California, Berkeley (1895–1912), the Marine Biological Association of San Diego (1903–1912), Reed College (1912–1920), the University of Oregon (1920–1926), and Stanford University (1928–1938). Following retirement from academia, he served as Director of the Children’s Hospital of the East Bay, Oakland, California, from 1938 to 1942. In retirement, he continued an association with the University of California at Berkeley, near his home. Of 84 publications by him listed herein, 31 dealt with coelenterates. This paper focuses on his early research on coelenterate biology, and especially his contributions to taxonomy of hydroids. He was author or coauthor of six genera and 48 species-group taxa of Cnidaria, and he also described one new species each of Ctenophora and Phoronida. Although he abandoned systematic work early in his career, his most widely cited publication is a taxonomic monograph on hydroids of the west coast of North America, published in 1902. He died, at age 97, on 9 September 1970.
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Moss, Patrick T., Robin Y. Smith, and David R. Greenwood. "A window into mid-latitudinal Early Eocene environmental variability: a high-resolution palynological analysis of the Falkland site, Okanagan Highlands, British Columbia, Canada." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 53, no. 6 (2016): 605–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2015-0167.
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A series of Eocene lake shale deposits from British Columbia, coined the Okanagan Highlands, are dated from associated volcanic ash as mostly from the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), the longest persisting of the early Paleogene hyperthermals. In this report we focus on high-resolution palynological sampling of short sequences for the Falkland site to determine if they record centennial- or millennial-scale vegetation change during the EECO. The Falkland shales consist of alternating dark- and light-coloured irregular laminae, along with interleaved tephras from volcanic eruptions. At this site it is apparent that deposition occurred over several millennia. Pollen grains were counted under light microscopy using a standard transect method, with clustering analysis determining whether the data show any long-term trends in plant representation and abundance. Our data show that regional vegetation was impacted by millennial- to centennial-scale climatic variability, as well as the effects of volcanic eruptions. At Falkland there appears to be alterations in vegetation assemblages (birch – golden larch association to fir–spruce) that reflect longer-term (centennial to millennial) climatic transitions (warm/wet to cool/dry). Within this sequence, a period of environmental disturbance (reflected in the presence of multiple volcanic ash layers, wave ripple marks, and a fish-kill layer) has a marked impact on vegetation representation, with a dramatic increase in Abies and Picea pollen at the expense of Alnus and Betula, which do eventually recover. These results suggest mid-latitude millennial-scale climate oscillations in the waning period of the EECO of a similar magnitude to Holocene variability.
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Baldyga, Natalya. "Corporeal Eloquence and Sensate Cognition: G. E. Lessing, Acting Theory, and Properly Feeling Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Germany." Theatre Survey 58, no. 2 (2017): 162–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557417000059.
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Most know Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–81) for his dramatic theory, specifically that which is found in his periodical the Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767–69), a collection of 101 essays that has since earned Lessing the moniker of “the first dramaturg.” Many are also familiar with Lessing's major plays, Miss Sara Sampson (1755), Minna von Barnhelm (1767), Emilia Galotti (1772), and Nathan the Wise (1779). Fewer, however, may be familiar with his acting theory and his long association with actors, an association that began in his college years and which so disturbed Lessing's father that the respectable pastor lured the wayward student home by falsely claiming that Lessing's mother was ill. During his time as a university student in Leipzig, Lessing translated plays for the troupe of Karoline Neuber (1697–1760) and socialized with the company's actors; over time he would continue to accrue significant firsthand knowledge of actors and the art of acting, not only through his frequent theatregoing but also through the coaching of his own plays. Lessing's familiarity with actors and acting informs both his performance and dramatic theory, including that which one finds in the Hamburg Dramaturgy; in Anglophone studies of Lessing's journal, however, one infrequently sees Lessing's dramatic theory placed in conversation with his acting theory, reception theory, or performance reviews. Due to the short and contentious life of the Hamburg National Theatre, the experimental theatre project to which the Hamburg Dramaturgy was ostensibly attached, historical narratives more often focus on Lessing's strained relations with the actors of the Hamburg acting company. If one views Lessing's writing about performance solely in terms of a frustrated critic's attempts to rein in “unruly” actors, however, one loses sight of how Lessing's acting theory supports his wider ideas about the form and function of theatre and about how the Hamburg Dramaturgy and the Hamburg theatre experiment might function as a force for social change.
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Stahl, Shannon, and Tomislav Rovis. "Cluster Preface: Catalytic Aerobic Oxidations." Synlett 28, no. 13 (2017): 1546–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1590547.
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Shannon S. Stahl was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a graduate student at Caltech (PhD, 1997), where he worked with Professor John Bercaw. He was an NSF postdoctoral fellow with Professor Stephen Lippard at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1997–1999. He is currently a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he began his independent career in 1999. His research group specializes in catalysis, with an emphasis on aerobic oxidation reactions and oxygen chemistry related to energy conversion. Tomislav Rovis was born in Zagreb in former Yugoslavia but was largely raised in southern Ontario, Canada. He earned his PhD degree at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 1998 under the direction of Professor Mark Lautens. From 1998–2000, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (USA) with Professor David A. Evans. In 2000, he began his independent career at Colorado State University and was promoted in 2005 to Associate Professor and in 2008 to Professor. His group’s accomplishments have been recognized by a number of awards including an Arthur C. Cope Scholar, an NSF CAREER Award, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Katritzky Young Investigator in Heterocyclic Chemistry. In 2016, he moved to Columbia University where he is currently Professor of Chemistry.
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Ngai, Mae M. "Fixing America's Broken Immigration System: Introduction." International Labor and Working-Class History 78, no. 1 (2010): 89–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014754791000013x.
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In January 2008, at the meeting of the American Historical Association, I had coffee with two colleagues, Gary Gerstle and George Sánchez, with whom I share an abiding interest in labor and immigration history, as well as current politics. We hatched an idea to hold a conference on immigration policy reform, which we believed would potentially be back on Congress's agenda after the new administration—we did not know at the time who would be the next president—took office. Ours certainly would not be the first conference on immigration policy. But we wanted to bring two perspectives that are not commonly aired in policy debates today: the historical perspective and the international perspective. We decided to bring together historians, social scientists, advocates, policy analysts, and journalists for a gathering in Washington, D.C., where we hoped to get the attention of those on Capitol Hill. We were fortunate that the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies agreed to host and cosponsor the event and that we were able to work with historian Sonya Michel, the center's new director for United States studies. Additional cosponsors included Columbia University, the University of Southern California, and Vanderbilt University.
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White, Nick. "Gitta Sereny and Albert Speer's ‘Battle with Truth’ on the London Stage." New Theatre Quarterly 17, no. 2 (2001): 170–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00014573.
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Prompted by the investigative journalist Gitta Sereny's biography Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth, two recent productions, Esther Vilar's Speer and David Edgar's Albert Speer, have set out to explore the reputation of Hitler's architect and later Minister of Armaments and War Production, Albert Speer, the only leading Nazi to acknowledge his guilt at the Nuremberg Trials. The plays, like the biography, are concerned with the extent of Speer's knowledge of the ‘Final Solution’ during his career in the Nazi hierarchy, and consequently with the integrity of the stance he adopted at Nuremberg and thereafter – that is, of his claim of guilt by association and omission rather than by active participation. In her biography, Sereny claims that as a result of her association with Speer he eventually acknowledged his guilt to her, and was repentant. But Nick White believes that the evidence – much of it unearthed by Sereny herself – suggests otherwise, and that Sereny had failed to acknowledge that between 1978 and his death in 1981 Speer consistently deceived her about crucial aspects of this evidence. How successful are Vilar and Edgar in their quite different dramatic sifting, not only of the public persona of Speer, but also of the interpretation granted their subject by the biographer upon whom their plays, to a lesser and greater degree, depend? Nick White has taught at City University, London, and his PhD dissertation, ‘In the Absence of Memory? Jewish Fate and Dramatic Representation: the Production and Critical Reception of Holocaust Drama on the London Stage, 1945–1989’ (1998) has been followed by a companion volume of criticism, articles, and letters, The Critical Reception of Holocaust Drama on the British Stage, 1939–2000.
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Steger, Debra P. "Commentary on the Doha Round: Institutional Issues." Global Economy Journal 5, no. 4 (2005): 1850065. http://dx.doi.org/10.2202/1524-5861.1152.
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Commentary on Robert Howse's article "WTO Governance and the Doha Round." Debra Steger is Executive in Residence at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law where she is working to establish a new institute for international law, economy and security in Canada. Previously, she was Senior Counsel with Thomas & Partners, a law firm specializing in international trade and investment matters. From 1995-2001, she served as the founding Director of the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, during which time she helped to establish the Appellate Body as the first appellate tribunal in international trade. She is Chair of the Trade and Customs Law Committee of the International Bar Association, and has been on the executive of the Trade Committee of the International Law Association for the past 10 years. She is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal for International Economic Law. She participates on the Advisory Council of the UNCTAD Project on Building Capacity through Training in Dispute Settlement in International Trade Investment and Intellectual Property as well as the Governing Council of the World Trade Law Association. During the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, she was the Senior Negotiator for Canada on Dispute Settlement and the Establishment of the World Trade Organization as well as the Principal Legal Counsel to the Government of Canada for all of the Uruguay Round agreements. From 1991—1995, she was General Counsel of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal in Ottawa, the agency responsible for administering the antidumping, countervail, safeguards, and government procurement legislation in Canada. Her most recent book is entitled: “Peace Through Trade: Building the WTO” which was published by Cameron May International Legal Publishers in 2004. Steger holds an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School, an LL.B. from the University of Victoria Faculty of Law, and a B.A. (Honours) in History from the University of British Columbia.
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Gibbs, Denis. "William C Gibson, Medical comets: scholarly contributions by medical undergraduates, Vancouver, University of British Columbia Alumni Association, 1997, pp. xii, 282 (0-88865-541-X)." Medical History 43, no. 3 (1999): 417–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025727300065637.
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Swann, Shayda A., Angela Kaida, Valerie Nicholson, et al. "British Columbia CARMA-CHIWOS Collaboration (BCC3): protocol for a community-collaborative cohort study examining healthy ageing with and for women living with HIV." BMJ Open 11, no. 8 (2021): e046558. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046558.
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IntroductionWomen living with HIV (WLWH) experience accelerated ageing and an increased risk of age-associated diseases earlier in life, compared with women without HIV. This is likely due to a combination of viral factors, gender differences, hormonal imbalance and psychosocial and structural conditions. This interdisciplinary cohort study aims to understand how biological, clinical and sociostructural determinants of health interact to modulate healthy ageing in WLWH.Methods and analysisThe British Columbia Children and Women: AntiRetroviral therapy and Markers of Aging-Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CARMA-CHIWOS) Collaboration (BCC3) study will enrol WLWH (n=350) and sociodemographically matched HIV-negative women (n=350) living in British Columbia. A subset of BCC3 participants will be past participants of CARMA, n≥1000 women and children living with and without HIV, 2008–2018 and/or CHIWOS, n=1422 WLWH, 2013–2018. Over two study visits, we will collect biological specimens for virus serologies, hormones and biological markers as well as administer a survey capturing demographic and sociostructural–behavioural factors. Sociodemographics, comorbidities, number and type of chronic/latent viral infections and hormonal irregularities will be compared between the two groups. Their association with biological markers and psychostructural and sociostructural factors will be investigated through multivariable regression and structural equation modelling. Retrospective longitudinal analyses will be conducted on data from past CARMA/CHIWOS participants. As BCC3 aims to follow participants as they age, this protocol will focus on the first study visits.Ethics and disseminationThis study has been approved by the University of British Columbia Children’s and Women’s Research Ethics Board (H19-00896). Results will be shared in peer-reviewed journals, conferences and at community events as well as at www.hivhearme.ca and @HIV_HEAR_me. WLWH are involved in study design, survey creation, participant recruitment, data collection and knowledge translation. A Community Advisory Board will advise the research team throughout the study.
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Maria Najjuka, Sarah, Gaudencia Checkwech, Ronald Olum, Scholastic Ashaba, and Mark Mohan Kaggwa. "Depression, anxiety, and stress among Ugandan university students during the COVID-19 lockdown: an online survey." African Health Sciences 21, no. 4 (2020): 1533–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i4.6.
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Background: COVID19 pandemic forced most countries to lockdown, leading to the prolonged closure of many learning institutions. This dramatic shift led to increase of mental illness symptoms among university students.
 Objective: To determine the prevalence and factors associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress among Uganda’s university students during the COVID-19 lockdown.
 Methods: We conducted a one-month online survey using the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21).
 Results: Participants n=321 were enrolled with mean age, 24.8(SD=5.1) years and 198(61.7%) were males. The prevalence of mental health symptoms among participants was 80.7%, 98.4%, and 77.9% for depression, high levels of anxiety,and stress, respectively. Statistically significant association between mental health symptoms on multi-logistic regression was found with Males (depression=2.97[1.61–5.48] and stress=1.90[1.07–3.35]), engagement in leisure activity (depression= 1.87[1.01–3.49] and stress=1.98[1.10–3.56]), and being finalist (stress=0.55[0.31– 0.97]). Use of addictive substances seem to potentially alleviate symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress in the short term. 
 Conclusions: The findings of this study suggest a high prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress among university students during the COVID-19 lockdown. Students’ mental health should be monitored by all stakeholders, especially as the pandemic progresses.
 Keywords: COVID-19 lockdown; University students; Mental health.
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Robb, David. "Narrative Role-Play in Twentieth-Century German Cabaret and Political ‘Song Theatre’." New Theatre Quarterly 26, no. 1 (2010): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x10000035.
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One of the most creative communicative strategies of German twentieth-century political song has been narrative role-play. From the songs of Kurt Tucholsky and Walter Mehring in Weimar cabaret during the 1920s to the dramatic monologues of Franz Josef Degenhardt in the 1960s and beyond, singers have assumed identifiable roles to parody the language, mannerisms, and characteristics of known establishment social types. Role play has also been evident in the narrative identities constructed by singers and performers, either by means of literary association or by association with certain political ideas or stances, as in the case of Ernst Busch embodying the proletarian worker. This article examines different types of role-play, including that of Hans-Eckard Wenzel and Steffen Mensching who, in their 1980s performances, assumed the ironic masks of clowns, with which they projected an alternative ‘carnival’ vision of society in the German Democratic Republic. David Robb is Senior Lecturer in German at Queen's University of Belfast. He is an experienced songwriter and performing musician, the author of Zwei Clowns im Lande des verlorenen Lachens: das Liedertheater Wenzel & Mensching (1998) and the editor of Protest Song in East and West Germany since the 1960s (2007).
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Rosenthal, Robert. "A multi-platform approach to investigative journalism." Pacific Journalism Review 18, no. 1 (2012): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v18i1.287.
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Robert Rosenthal began his career in journalism at The New York Times, where he was a news assistant on the foreign desk and an editorial assistant on the Pulitzer-Prize winning Pentagon Papers project. He later worked at the Boston Globe, and for 22 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer, starting as a reporter and eventually becoming its executive editor in 1998. He became managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle in late 2002, and joined the Center for Investigative Reporting as executive director in 2008. Rosenthal has won numerous awards, including the Overseas Press Club Award for magazine writing, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished foreign correspondence, and the National Association of Black Journalists Award for Third World Reporting. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in international reporting, and has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) invited Robert Rosenthal to speak about the transformational model of investigative journalism, which he has pioneered at the CIR, as the keynote speech at the ‘Back to the Source’ conference.
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Briscoe, James, and John N. Wood. "Thomas Michael Jessell. 2 August 1951—28 April 2019." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 72 (March 16, 2022): 197–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2021.0037.
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Tom Jessell was a British neuroscientist who made pioneering discoveries in developmental neurobiology. Beginning with a neuropharmacology training in London and Cambridge, Tom moved to Harvard and finally Columbia University. There, Tom embraced the dramatic late twentieth-century developments in molecular biology to unravel the genetic basis of spinal cord neuronal diversity and developmental mechanisms of circuit formation. Combining encyclopaedic knowledge of the classical neurobiology literature with virtuoso molecular genetic, anatomical and electrophysiological techniques, exploited by his team of gifted students, post-docs and collaborators, Tom made seminal contributions to broad areas of neuroscience. Notable contributions included the discovery of extracellular factors that induce distinct neuronal cell types and guide their connectivity, as well as the identification of the transcriptional repertoires that led to neuronal complexity in the developing spinal cord. Important insights into circuitry and behaviour followed these defining studies. At the same time, Tom was heavily involved in neuroscience education and the development of new neuroscience research institutes. For all his Herculean energy for research, he still found great pleasure in fine art, cricket and jazz, and his life was greatly enriched by his partner Jane Dodd, also a Cambridge-trained neuroscientist, and their three daughters. Tom's wit, energy and incisive intelligence will be sorely missed. His legacy is not only a paradigm-shifting body of papers, but also his educational and institutional achievements and the remarkable group of scientists, once his trainees, who, in their turn, continue to advance neuroscience research around the world.
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Wheeler, Deborah L. "MARY ANN TÉTREAULT, Stories of Democracy: Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). Pp. 318. $18.50 paper." International Journal of Middle East Studies 33, no. 4 (2001): 661–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743801474071.
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In her pivotal work on Kuwaiti politics, Mary Ann Tétreault provides an “insider's guide” to the private and public spaces in which struggles over communal power are pursued by the government, the Parliament, and the people of Kuwait. Tétreault is careful to call her text “Stories of Democracy,” as she realizes the reflexive nature of what democracy means at different periods in history (before oil, after oil, under Iraqi occupation, in post-Liberation Kuwait); for different people in Kuwait (women, the merchants, government officials, tribal leaders, service politicians, opposition leaders); and in different contexts (the mosque, the diwaniyya or men's social club, the civic association, Parliament, the government). With this in mind, she argues that “democracy” is a “concept that ‘moves' depending on one's assumptions” (p. 3). Her basic message is that Kuwaiti politics resembles the politics of the Greek city-state, and she relies on various forms of Aristotelian comparison to explore this concept. Moreover, Tétreault illustrates that much of Kuwaiti politics resembles a high-stakes soap opera. For example, she calls the bad debt crisis “one of the longest running soap operas in Kuwaiti politics” (p. 164). In Chapter 4, she labels Kuwaiti politics “a family romance, whose grip on political actors constrains their choices” (p. 67). Toward the end of her text in chapter 8, Tétreault combines these metaphors when she observes that in the city-state that is Kuwait, politics are “the product of a domestic public life that seems all too often like life in a large and contentious family” (p. 206).
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Ma, Helen, Bin Cheng, and Owen A. O'Connor. "Survival outcomes of patients with peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCL) treated with chemotherapy and/or novel agents: The Columbia University experience." Journal of Clinical Oncology 37, no. 15_suppl (2019): e19049-e19049. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2019.37.15_suppl.e19049.
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e19049 Background: CHOP-based regimens have been considered the standard of care for PTCL despite disappointing results. Several lines of evidence, including the regulatory approval of novel drugs since 2009, raise the question as to whether these drugs are changing the natural history of relapsed PTCL. Recent molecular insights into the pathogenesis of PTCL, especially in angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL), have revealed a number of genetic lesions that might portend a unique vulnerability to select agents, such as histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi). Methods: This is a retrospective study of patients with PTCL who were seen and treated between 1994 and 2018. Kaplan-Meier curves for overall survival were generated and compared based on the log-rank test. Cox proportional hazard models were used to investigate the association by adjusting for age, gender, subtype, prognostic score and type of treatment. The analysis was done in SAS version 9.4. A p-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: At Columbia University Medical Center, a total of 186 patients with PTCL were identified. Excluding patients with incomplete data, 168 patients were analyzed. The median overall survival was 7.5 months (95% CI 5.6-8.9) for the whole study group. Cox modeling adjusted for the aforementioned variables found little impact from the novel agents on the natural history of the disease. In particular, among patients with AITL, no survival benefit was associated with any HDACi. In addition, these data demonstrated that patients with adult T-cell leukemia lymphoma (ATLL) had a better overall survival compared to other subgroups, p = 0.0097. Conclusions: These data are concordant with other large experiences noting the poor prognosis of patients with PTCL, and in particular, those with relapsed disease. The lack of impact of HDACi on the natural history of AITL raises issues about the role of these drugs in this disease. We will present a variety of subanalyses to identify prognostic factors in PTCL. [Table: see text]
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Haux, R., F. J. Leven, J. R. Moehr, and D. J. Protti. "Health and Medical Informatics Education." Methods of Information in Medicine 33, no. 03 (1994): 246–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1635023.
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Abstract:Health and medical informatics education has meanwhile gained considerable importance for medicine and for health care. Specialized programs in health/medical informatics have therefore been established within the last decades.This special issue of Methods of Information in Medicine contains papers on health and medical informatics education. It is mainly based on selected papers from the 5th Working Conference on Health/Medical Informatics Education of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), which was held in September 1992 at the University of Heidelberg/Technical School Heilbronn, Germany, as part of the 20 years’ celebration of medical informatics education at Heidelberg/Heilbronn. Some papers were presented on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the health information science program of the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Within this issue, programs in health/medical informatics are presented and analyzed: the medical informatics program at the University of Utah, the medical informatics program of the University of Heidelberg/School of Technology Heilbronn, the health information science program at the University of Victoria, the health informatics program at the University of Minnesota, the health informatics management program at the University of Manchester, and the health information management program at the University of Alabama. They all have in common that they are dedicated curricula in health/medical informatics which are university-based, leading to an academic degree in this field. In addition, views and recommendations for health/medical informatics education are presented. Finally, the question is discussed, whether health and medical informatics can be regarded as a separate discipline with the necessity for specialized curricula in this field.In accordance with the aims of IMIA, the intention of this special issue is to promote the further development of health and medical informatics education in order to contribute to high quality health care and medical research.
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Gottesman, Reena T., Anton Kociolek, Kayri Fernandez, et al. "Association Between Early Psychotic Symptoms and Alzheimer’s Disease Prognosis in a Community-Based Cohort." Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 81, no. 3 (2021): 1131–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/jad-200729.
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Background: Psychotic symptoms are an important and increasingly recognized aspect of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). They have been shown to contribute to faster disease progression in clinic-based, demographically homogenous samples with high educational attainment. Objective: We studied the association between baseline psychotic symptoms and disease progression among individuals with incident AD or ‘at risk’ of developing AD, from a demographically heterogenous, community-based cohort with minimal educational attainment. Methods: 212 participants received the Columbia University Scale of Psychopathology in Alzheimer’s Disease scale. Participants had psychotic symptoms with any of: visual illusions, delusions, hallucinations, or agitation/aggression. Disease progression was measured yearly and defined by meeting cognitive (≤10 on the Folstein MMSE) or functional endpoints (≥10 on the Blessed Dementia Rating Scale or ≥4 on the Dependence Scale). Results: The mean age was 85 years old. The cohort was 78.3% female, 75.9% Hispanic, and had a mean 6.96 years of education. Within the follow-up period (mean: 3.69 years), 24 met the cognitive endpoint, 59 met the functional endpoint, and 132 met the cutoff for dependence. The presence of at least one psychotic symptom was initially associated with an increased risk of reaching the functional endpoint (HR 3.12, 95% CI 1.67–5.86, p < 0.001) and the endpoint of dependence (HR = 1.498, 95% CI 1.05–2.13, p = 0.03). However, these associations were attenuated and non-significant when adjusted for baseline functional status. Psychotic symptoms were not associated with the cognitive endpoint. Conclusion: Psychotic symptoms may predict functional decline in patients of non-Caucasian ethnicity and with lower educational attainment.
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Berg, Magnus, Satwinder Bains, and Sadhvi Suri. "South Asian Canadian Digital Archive Thesaurus." KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 6, no. 3 (2022): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/kula.223.
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The South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA) is a soon-to-be-released digital repository developed by the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley, located in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. SACDA partners with memory institutions, individuals, families, and organizations to digitize, describe, and provide online public access to heritage materials created by, or relevant to, the South Asian Canadian diaspora. This project report will detail how SACDA is building a customized thesaurus to classify its digitized archival holdings, augment existing subject headings and thesauri, and fill in taxonomical gaps. Building on prior work done by alternative thesauri like the Homosaurus, Association for Manitoba Archives Indigenous Subject Headings, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Thesauri, and the International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology, among others, the SACDA thesaurus intends to fill in a vital gap in South Asian Studies subject control, particularly from a Canadian perspective.
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Rutner, Jennifer, and James Self. "Still Bound for Disappointment? Another Look at Faculty and Library Journal Collections." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 8, no. 2 (2013): 114. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8xs5z.
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Objective – To examine why faculty members at Columbia University are dissatisfied with the library’s journal collections and to follow up on a previous study that found negative perceptions of journal collections among faculty at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions in general.
 
 Methods – In 2006, Jim Self of the University of Virginia published the results of an analysis of LibQUAL+® survey data for ARL member libraries, focusing on faculty perceptions of journal collections as measured by LibQUAL+® item IC-8: “print and/or electronic journal collections I require for my work.” The current analysis includes data from 21 ARL libraries participating in the LibQUAL+® survey from 2006 through 2009. Notebooks for each library were accessed and reviewed for the Information Control and overall satisfaction scores. At Columbia, the results were used to identify departments with negative adequacy gaps for the IC-8 item. Follow-up phone interviews were conducted with 24 faculty members in these departments, focusing on their minimum expectation for journal collections, their desired expectations, and preferences for print or electronic journals.
 
 Results – Analysis of the 2009 LibQUAL+® scores shows that faculty across ARL libraries remain dissatisfied with journal collections. None of the libraries achieved a positive adequacy gap, in which the perceived level of service exceeded minimum expectations. There was no significant change in the adequacy gap for the IC-8 item since 2006, and satisfaction relative to expectations remained consistent, showing neither improvement nor decline. While most of the faculty members interviewed at Columbia stated that the journal collections met their minimum expectations, 15 of 24 reported that the library did not meet their desired level of service in this area. Key issues identified in the interviews included insufficient support from library staff and systems regarding journal acquisition and use, the need for work-arounds for accessing needed journals, problems with search and online access, collection gaps, insufficient backfile coverage, and the desire for a discipline-specific “quick list” to provide access to important journals.
 
 Conclusion – The issue of satisfaction with journal collections is complex, and faculty members have little tolerance for faulty systems. The evolution of the electronic journal collections and the inherent access challenges will continue to play a critical role in faculty satisfaction as libraries strive to provide ever-better service.
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Brier, Stephen. "History, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy: Past Successes and Future Directions." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 23, no. 2 (2013): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1015787ar.
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Based on a keynote presentation at the 2012 Canadian Historical Association conference, this paper surveys the state of digital technology and its impact on academic publication and teaching in the contemporary university. Focusing on the dramatic rise of the Digital Humanities in the last few years, the paper examines alternative forms of peer review, academic scholarship and publication, and classroom teaching as they have been reshaped by the adoption of a variety of digital technologies and formats, including open-access, online peer reviewing, use of databases and visualization techniques in humanities work, online journal publication, and the use of blogs and wikis as teaching tools. Examining the digital production and education work of the American Social History Project at CUNY, which he co-founded, and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy doctoral certificate program that he heads at the CUNY Graduate Center, the author discusses a range of digital projects and approaches designed to improve the quality of teaching and learning in college classrooms.
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Rao, K. N., Sunil Kumar, and Manorama Tripathi. "E-book and print book price and desirability for university libraries: a comparative study." Electronic Library 36, no. 1 (2018): 82–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/el-06-2016-0142.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the prices of print and electronic versions of the same scholarly titles charged from a university library. This study also examines whether preferences for print or electronic formats differ with disciplines and whether high preferences for the electronic version in particular disciplines lead to tagging of high prices for e-books in those disciplines. This study evaluates association in prices of e-books and their print versions for scholarly books. It also explains trends in gaps of prices of electronic and their print versions over the time to understand changing price policy of e-books with time. Design/methodology/approach This is a case study analysing and interpreting prices of 717 book titles available in electronic and print versions out of 1248 book titles recommended by the faculty members of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in early 2014. The minimum prices quoted by publishers or aggregators for these books became the secondary data for the study. The research methodology is based on quantitative descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. Findings The study statistically rejected the hypothesis that price tags of electronic and print versions of books do not differ significantly. E-books are usually more expensive than their print counterparts. They are more highly priced in disciplines, where the users prefer electronic books over the print ones. There is a moderate association in prices of electronic and their print versions; libraries can estimate about the budget which would be required for procuring books in electronic format with the help of price of print version; however, the accuracy of this stipulation would be only 20 per cent. The study has highlighted that 95.4 per cent of the scholarly e-books in English medium are published in the USA and the UK. The university presses of Cambridge, Oxford, Columbia, Princeton and MIT and commercial publishers like Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Ashgate and Springer are the major publishers and providers of the scholarly e-books. Originality/value This study provides insights into pricing policy of electronic and their print versions of scholarly book titles for libraries. Thus it may be relevant and helpful for library administrators in informed decision making while developing their collections for books.
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Geraldino-Pardilla, L., A. Perel-Winkler, J. Miceli, et al. "Association between hydroxychloroquine levels and disease activity in a predominantly Hispanic systemic lupus erythematosus cohort." Lupus 28, no. 7 (2019): 862–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961203319851558.
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Objectives Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a key therapy in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Medication non-adherence is reported in up to 80% of lupus patients and results in increased morbidity, mortality, and health care utilization. HCQ levels are a sensitive and reliable method to assess medication adherence. Our study evaluated the role of HCQ level measurement in routine clinical care and its association with disease activity in a predominantly Hispanic population. Methods SLE patients from the Columbia University Lupus cohort treated with HCQ for ≥ 6 months and reporting medication adherence were included. HCQ levels were measured by whole blood high performance liquid chromatography. Non-adherence was defined as an HCQ level <500 ng/ml. The association between HCQ levels and disease activity measured by Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index 2000 (SLEDAI-2K) was evaluated. Results One hundred and eight patients were enrolled; the median age was 38 years, 91% were female, and 63% were Hispanic. The median SLEDAI-2K was 4.3 (0–20). Forty-one percent of patients had an HCQ level <500 ng/ml consistent with non-adherence, of which 19% had undetectable levels. A higher SLEDAI-2K score was associated with low HCQ levels ( p = 0.003). This association remained significant after adjusting for depression ( p = 0.0007). Conclusion HCQ levels < 500 ng/ml were associated with higher disease activity and accounted for 32% of the SLEDAI-2K variability. HCQ blood measurement is a simple and reliable method to evaluate medication adherence in SLE. Reasons for non-adherence (levels < 500 ng/ml) should be further explored and addressed.
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Eldredge, Jonathan D. "Predicting Future Information Resource Utilization Under Conditions of Scarcity: The First Cohort Study in Health Sciences Librarianship." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 3, no. 4 (2008): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8gp7n.
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 Postell, William Dosité. “Further Comments on the Mathematical Analysis of Evaluating Scientific Journals.” Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 34.2 (1946): 107-9.
 
 Objective – To predict future use of journal titles for making subscription decisions.
 
 Design – Retrospective cohort study. 
 
 Setting – Louisiana State University School of Medicine Library in New Orleans.
 
 Subjects – All library users, estimated to consist of primarily faculty members or their designees such as research assistants.
 
 Methods – Estelle Brodman’s previous citation analysis and reputational analysis (1944) that produced a list of eleven top-ranked physiology journal titles served as the catalyst for Postell’s retrospective cohort study. Postell compiled data on all checkouts for these specific eleven journal titles in his library for the years 1939 through approximately 1945. 
 
 Main Results – Postell performed a Spearman rank-difference test on the rankings produced from his own circulation use data in order to compare it against journal title rankings produced from three other sources: (1) citation analysis from the references found in the Annual Review of Physiology based upon a system pioneered in 1927 by Gross and Gross; (2) three leading national physiology journals; and, (3) a reputational analysis list of top-ranked journals provided by the faculty members at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Department of Physiology. Postell found a relatively high correlation (.755, with 1.000 equaling a perfect correlation) between his retrospective cohort usage data and the reputational analysis list of top-ranked journals generated by the Columbia faculty members. The two citation analyses performed by Brodman did not correlate as highly with Postell’s results.
 
 Conclusion – Brodman previously had questioned the use of citation analysis for journal subscription purchase decisions. Postell’s retrospective cohort study produced further evidence against basing subscription purchases on citation analysis. Postell noted that the citation analysis method “cannot always be relied upon as a valid criterion” for selecting journals in a discipline.
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Johnston, Jeffrey, and Tomislav Rovis. "Cluster Preface: Alkene Halofunctionalization." Synlett 29, no. 04 (2018): 399–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0037-1609319.
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Jeffrey N. Johnston is a 1992 graduate of Xavier University where he completed his B.S. Chemistry degree (Honors, summa cum laude). With summer research stints in medicinal, polymer, and inorganic pigment chemistry under his belt, he transitioned to synthetic organic chemistry at The Ohio State University where he worked with Leo Paquette for his graduate work (PhD 1997). He completed postdoctoral studies with David Evans at Harvard University (USA) and was supported by an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship. His independent career began in 1999 at Indiana University, where he was promoted to Professor of Chemistry before moving to Vanderbilt University in 2006. He is currently a Stevenson Professor of Chemistry. The commitment of his students and postdoctoral scholars to the discovery and development of new reactions and reagents, particularly in enantioselective catalysis, have led to numerous honors, including the Cope Scholar Award, a Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, a Swiss Chemical Society Lectureship, and an Eli Lilly Grantee Award. It was graduate student Mark Dobish's discovery of the chiral proton-catalyzed enantioselective iodolactonization reaction (J. Am Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 6068) that began his group's exploits of alkene halofunctionalization reactions for the good of chemical synthesis. Tomislav Rovis was born in Zagreb in former Yugoslavia but was largely raised in southern Ontario, Canada. He earned his PhD degree at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 1998 under the direction of Professor Mark Lautens. From 1998–2000, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (USA) with Professor David A. Evans. In 2000, he began his independent career at Colorado State University and was promoted in 2005 to Associate Professor and in 2008 to Professor. His group’s accomplishments have been recognized by a number of awards including an Arthur C. Cope Scholar, an NSF CAREER Award, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Katritzky Young Investigator in Heterocyclic Chemistry. In 2016, he moved to Columbia University where he is currently Professor of Chemistry.