Boyd Briefs - October 2012

Boyd Briefs provides monthly information regarding the scholarly and other activities of the faculty of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Boyd Briefs - December 2012

Boyd Briefs provides monthly information regarding the scholarly and other activities of the faculty of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Boyd Briefs - February 2013

Boyd Briefs provides monthly information regarding the scholarly and other activities of the faculty of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Mammographic breast density in infertile and parous women

BACKGROUND: Mammographic breast density is a useful marker for breast cancer risk, as breast density is considered one of the strongest breast cancer risk factors. The study objective was to evaluate and compare mammographic breast density in infertile and parous women, as infertility may be associated with high breast density and cancer occurrence. METHODS: This study evaluated mammographic breast density using two different systems, BIRADS and Boyd. A selected patient population of 151 women with primary infertility (case group) was compared to 154 parous women who had at least one previous pregnancy (control group). Both groups were premenopausal women aged ≥ 35. RESULTS: Evaluation of mammographic features showed that 66.9% of case group patients and 53.9% of control group patients were classified BIRADS-3/BIRADS-4; p < 0.05. Adjusted Odds ratio for the case group in the categories BIRADS-3/BIRADS-4 was 1.78 (95% CI: 1.10-2.89). Using the Boyd classification system, 53.6% of case group patients and 31.8% of control group patients were classified E/F; p < 0.05. Adjusted Odds ratio for case group patients in Boyd categories E/F was 2.05 (95 % CI: 1.07-3.93). CONCLUSIONS: Both systems yielded a higher percentage of increased breast density in the case group. Boyd and BIRADS classification systems indicate to what extend breast cancer lesions may be missed on mammography due to masking by dense tissue. Therefore, patients with a high BIRADS or Boyd score should undergo further investigation

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 55 Number 3, Spring 2014

18 - RADIANT HOUSE by Steven Boyd Saum and Heidi Williams ’06. Building a house for the 2013 Solar Decathlon. That, and changing the world. 22 - AMÉRICAS CUISINE by Holly Beretto. Telling a delicious tale of food and family with chef David Cordúa ’04. 26 - Lessons from the field by Reinhard Cate ’07. Taut and tranquil moments in Afghanistan—an essay inwords and images. 30 - INSIDE UKRAINE’S REVOLUTION by Steven Boyd Saum. Along the road to crisis: hope, despair, and a Q&A with writer Andrey Kurkov. 34 - DECIDE WHO WE ARE by Steven Boyd Saum and John Deever. After half a century as a pariah state, Myanmar is opening to the world. People have stories to tell. And they want to shape for themselves what comes next.https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/sc_mag/1028/thumbnail.jp

Presbyterian Imitation Practices in Zachary Boyd’s Nebuchadnezzars Fierie Furnace

The university administrator, preacher and poet Zachary Boyd (1585–1653) relied heavily on epithets and similes borrowed from Josuah Sylvester's poetry when composing his scriptural versifications Zion's Flowers(c. 1640?). The composition of Boyd's adaptation of Daniel 3, Nebuchadnezzars Fierie Furnace, provides an unusually lucid example of the reading and imitation practices of a mid-seventeenth-century Scottish Presbyterian in the years preceding civil war. This article begins by re-considering a manuscript transcription of Fierie Furnace held at the British Library previously described as an anonymous playtext from the early 1610s, then establishes the nature of Boyd's reliance on Sylvester by analyzing holograph manuscripts held at Glasgow University Library, a sermon Boyd wrote on the same theme, and the copy of Sylvester's Devine Weekes, and Workes that Boyd probably used.Arts and Humanities Research Counci

Rereading Frye: the published and unpublished works

Review of "Rereading Frye: The published and unpublished works" edited by David Boyd and Imre Salusinszk

The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future by David R. Boyd

Review of David R. Boyd\u27s The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Futur