The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society vol. 4 No. 4

1. Notices. 2. Notes and Queries. 3. An Unpublished Letter of Hannah Penn. 4. The Quaker Allusions in "The Diary of Samuel Pepys" II. 5. Presentations of Quakers in Episcopal Visitations, 1662-1679. 6. Attitude of Friends under Persecution. 7. Friends' Views Negatively and Positively Presented. 8. Laces made in Warwick Jail. 9. Priest Whitehead of Halton, Lancs. 10. Early Meetings in Nottinghamshire. 11. Editors' Notes. 12. Friends in Current Literature. 13. Early Collections. 14. Anecdotes of Robert and James Gray. 15. Whitby and Scarborough Register. 16. An Early Loan Fund. 17. Mission Work in Rossendale. 18. Index to Volume IV

Providence, Emotion and Self-Writing in England, c.1660 – c.1720

This thesis offers a new interpretation of providentialism in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Historians have seen this as a transitional period in providential belief and expression, between heightened engagement and gradual decline, and have provided us with many perspectives on the changing role of providence in English culture. But we still have yet to understand fully the role of providence in individual lives, where change occurred at an experiential and quotidian level. This thesis aims to fill this historiographical gap by examining practical, subjective and individual experiences of providentialism. Drawing on first-person narratives such as diaries and memoirs, conceptualised as sites of personal agency, it sheds light at the micro-level on broader shifts in providential belief and thought. These primary sources show how individuals exercised a personal providentialism, writing their relationship with God’s providence into their own emerging sense of self. Investigation of the emotional resonances of providentialism also emphasizes its centrality to inner lives and personal identity, characterised by subtle but significant modes of feeling. Several case studies demonstrate how people constantly shaped and re-shaped themselves, and moulded ideas and beliefs relating to providence to fit particular social and religious circumstances and changing intellectual concerns. Providentialism is therefore shown to be elastic and subjective – a subjectivity that ensured the adaptability and durability of the concept of providence in an era of atheism, science and expanding secular authority. Far from seeing this period as a stage in an inexorable decline, the thesis shows how people continued to find uses for providence in creative and imaginative ways to make sense of themselves and their world in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries

Dolasetron, Droperidol und die Kombination beider Substanzen zur Prophylaxe von Übelkeit und Erbrechen nach extrakapsulären Kataraktextraktionen in Allgemeinanästhesie

Ziel der Studie: Droperidol und die 5-HT3-Antagonisten gehören zu den effektivsten Substanzen zur Prophylaxe und Therapie von Übelkeit und Erbrechen in der postoperativen Phase (PONV). Ziel dieser placebokontrollierten, prospektiven, randomisierten und doppelblinden Untersuchung war es, Droperidol und den neuen 5-HT3-Antagonisten Dolasetron miteinander zu vergleichen. Außerdem wurde untersucht, ob durch die Kombination beider Medikamente eine zusätzliche Steigerung der Wirksamkeit erzielt werden kann. Methodik: Die Untersuchung war von der zuständigen Ethikkommission genehmigt worden. Insgesamt 148 Patienten, die sich einer Kataraktoperation in Allgemein-anästhesie unterzogen, wurden nach Aufklärung und erteiltem schriftlichen Einverständnis in die Studie aufgenommen. Die Patienten wurden nach Geschlecht geschichtet und anschließend einer von vier Behandlungsgruppen zugeteilt: Placebo, Droperidol (10 µg/kg), Dolasetron (12,5 mg) oder die Kombination aus beiden zuletzt genannten Substanzen (10 µg/kg + 12,5 mg). Alle Medikamente wurden 5-10 Minuten vor Narkoseende intravenös verabreicht. Die Allgemeinanästhesie und das perioperative Management der Patienten war standardisiert: Benzodiazepinprämedikation, Narkoseeinleitung mit Etomidat, Alfentanil und Mivacurium. Narkoseaufrechterhaltung mit Desfluran in einem N2O/O2-Gemisch. Postoperative Analgesie mit Diclofenac oder Paracetamol. Die Patienten wurden im Aufwachraum sowie 2, 5, 8 und 24 Stunden postoperativ hinsichtlich des Auftretens von Übelkeit, Würgen und Erbrechen befragt. Der Bedarf an zusätzlichen Antiemetika wurde registriert. Hauptzielgröße war die Anzahl der Patienten, die im gesamten Untersuchungsintervall komplett frei von PONV blieben. Darüberhinaus wurde die Ausprägung von PONV-Beschwerden mittels eines standardisierten Bewertungsalgorithmus in vier Schweregrade eingeteilt. Ergebnisse: Signifikant mehr Patienten aller drei Verumgruppen waren während des gesamten Untersuchungszeitraumes komplett frei von PONV (Placebo: 66%; Droperidol: 89%; Dolasetron: 92%; Kombination: 89%; p = 0,01). Daneben wurde auch die Schwere der PONV-Beschwerden verringert. Schlußfolgerung: Sowohl Droperidol als auch Dolasetron verringern die Inzidenz und Schwere von PONV nach Kataraktoperationen in Allgemeinanästhesie. Die Kombination beider Substanzen bringt bei diesen Patienten keinen zusätzlichen Benefit. Beide Substanzen können bei Bedarf (z.B. therapierefraktäres PONV) kombiniert werden, ohne dass mit zusätzlichen Nebenwirkungen gerechnet werden muß

Independent, No.1, September 28, 1995

The Independent was a student-run newspaper created in 1960 at Newark State College, now Kean University. The proceeding title was The Reflector. The editor of this issue was Leah Karnatski.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/independent_1995-1999/1009/thumbnail.jp

The English Novel, 1800–1829 & 1830–1836: Update 7 (August 2009–July 2020)

This report, like its predecessors, relates primarily to the second volume of The English Novel, 1770–1829: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles (Oxford: OUP, 2000) [EN2], co-edited by Peter Garside and Rainer Schöwerling, with the assistance of Christopher Skelton-Foord and Karin Wünsche. It also refers to the online The English Novel, 1830–36: A Bibliographical Survey of Fiction Published in the British Isles [EN3], which effectively serves as a continuation of the printed Bibliography

Independent, No.2, October 5, 1995

The Independent was a student-run newspaper created in 1960 at Newark State College, now Kean University. The proceeding title was The Reflector. The editor of this issue was Leah Karnatski.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/independent_1995-1999/1010/thumbnail.jp

Toward the optimal strategy for sustained weight loss in overweight cancer survivors: a systematic review of the literature

Purpose: To gain more insight into the optimal strategy to achieve weight loss and weight loss maintenance in overweight and obese cancer survivors after completion of initial treatment, this systematic review aimed to provide an overview of the literature on intervention effects on weight, to describe intervention components used in effective interventions, to identify and synthesize behaviour change techniques (BCTs) and to assess the frequency with which these BCTs were used in effective interventions. / Methods: Six databases were searched for original research articles describing weight changes in adult overweight cancer survivors after participation in a lifestyle intervention initiated after completion of initial treatment. Two researchers independently screened the retrieved papers and extracted BCTs using the BCT Taxonomy version 1. / Results: Thirty-two papers describing 27 interventions were included. Interventions that were evaluated with a robust study design (n = 8) generally showed <5% weight loss and did not evaluate effects at ≥12 months after intervention completion. Effective interventions promoted both diet and physical activity and used the BCTs ‘goal setting (behaviour)’, ‘action planning’, ‘social support (unspecified)’ and ‘instruction on how to perform the behaviour’. / Conclusions: The results of this first review on intervention components of effective interventions could be used to inform intervention development and showed a need for future publications to report long-term effects, a detailed intervention description and an extensive process evaluation. / Implications for cancer survivors: This study contributed to increasing knowledge on the optimal strategy to achieve weight loss, which is recommended for overweight cancer survivors to improve health outcomes