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Atalanta: The Exception to Social Normality Presented in the Ancient World
This thesis is an analysis of two ancient authors: the Greek Apollodorus, and the Latin Ovid, and how they both handle the ancient views of societal gender roles. The two authors write more than one hundred years apart (the 2nd century BCE and the mid-1st century BCE - early 1st century CE respectively), yet the two of them write unique accounts of the myth of Ata-lanta. Atalanta is a heroine of Greek and Roman mythology, and is one of the few examples of strong women that survive to the present day. However, Apollodorus and Ovid portray a very different view of Atalanta (within The Library and The Metamorphoses respectively), and both of them reveal some interesting possibilities of how Atalanta may have been viewed by both an-cient men and women of Greece and Rome.Honors DiplomaHonors CollegeCunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana State UniversityUndergraduateTitle from document title page. Document formatted into pages: 27
Oxford unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: medial pain and functional outcome in the medium term
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In our experience results of the Oxford unicompartmental knee replacement have not been as good as had been expected. A common post operative complaint is of persistent medial knee discomfort, it is not clear why this phenomenon occurs and we have attempted to address this in our study.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>48 patients were retrospectively identified at a mean of 4.5 years (range = 3 to 6 years) following consecutive Oxford medial Unicompartmental Knee arthroplasties for varus anteromedial osteoarthritis. The mean age at implantation was 67 years (range 57-86). Of these 48 patients, 4 had died, 4 had undergone revision of their unicompartmental knee replacements and 2 had been lost to follow up leaving 38 patients with 40 replaced knees available for analysis using the 'new Oxford Knee Score' questionnaire. During assessment patients were asked specifically whether or not they still experienced medial knee discomfort or pain.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The mean 'Oxford score' was only 32.7 (range = 16 to 48) and 22 of the 40 knees were uncomfortable or painful medially.</p> <p>The accuracy of component positioning was recorded, using standard post operative xrays, by summing the angulation or displacement of each component in two planes from the ideal position (according to the 'Oxford knee system radiographic criteria'). No correlation was demonstrated between the radiographic scores and the 'Oxford scores', or with the presence or absence of medial knee discomfort or pain.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>In our hands the functional outcome following Oxford Unicompartmental knee replacement was variable, with a high incidence of medial knee discomfort which did not correlate with the postoperative radiographic scores, pre-op arthritis and positioning of the prosthesis.</p
Interactive effects of multiple stressors vary with consumer interactions, stressor dynamics and magnitude
Predicting the impacts of multiple stressors is important for informing ecosystem management but is impeded by a lack of a general framework for predicting whether stressors interact synergistically, additively or antagonistically. Here, we use process-based models to study how interactions generalise across three levels of biological organisation (physiological, population and consumer-resource) for a two-stressor experiment on a seagrass model system. We found that the same underlying processes could result in synergistic, additive or antagonistic interactions, with interaction type depending on initial conditions, experiment duration, stressor dynamics and consumer presence. Our results help explain why meta-analyses of multiple stressor experimental results have struggled to identify predictors of consistently non-additive interactions in the natural environment. Experiments run over extended temporal scales, with treatments across gradients of stressor magnitude, are needed to identify the processes that underpin how stressors interact and provide useful predictions to management
The Grizzly, September 26, 2002
Students Take on Wismer: Committee to Address Dining Issues • Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board: Coming to a Party Near You? • Slow Internet Fast Becoming a Problem • I Just Called to Say : UC Phone-a-thon • UCNet Available through Career Services • From Italy with Love: The Life of Students Abroad • Opinions: Taking the Plunge to Clean up the Environment; Sorority Life or Sorority Joke?; Are Rules Really Rules? • Berman Collects: Museum\u27s Permanent Collection Holds Wide Variety of Objects • Bears Football Falls to F&M • Field Hockey Dominates the Field • Women\u27s Soccer Drop Decisions to Widener, Gettysburg • UC Men\u27s Soccer Win Over DeSales, 2-1 • Dougherty Notches Third Victory of Season • Preview of Family Day 2002https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1520/thumbnail.jp
Underplating of the Hawaiian Swell : evidence from teleseismic receiver functions
Author Posting. © The Authors, 2010. This article is posted here by permission of John Wiley & Sons for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Journal International 183 (2010): 313-329, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04720.x.The Hawaiian Islands are the canonical example of an age-progressive island chain, formed by volcanism long thought to be fed from a hotspot source that is more or less fixed in the mantle. Geophysical data, however, have so far yielded contradictory evidence on subsurface structure. The substantial bathymetric swell is supportive of an anomalously hot upper mantle, yet seafloor heat flow in the region does not appear to be enhanced. The accumulation of magma beneath pre-existing crust (magmatic underplating) has been suggested to add chemical buoyancy to the swell, but to date the presence of underplating has been constrained only by local active-source experiments. In this study, teleseismic receiver functions derived from seismic events recorded during the PLUME project were analysed to obtain a regional map of crustal structure for the Hawaiian Swell. This method yields results that compare favourably with those from previous studies, but permits a much broader view than possible with active-source seismic experiments. Our results indicate that the crustal structure of the Hawaiian Islands is quite complicated and does not conform to the standard model of sills fed from a central source. We find that a shallow P-to-s conversion, previously hypothesized to result from the volcano-sediment interface, corresponds more closely to the boundary between subaerial and subaqueous extrusive material. Correlation between uplifted bathymetry at ocean-bottom-seismometer locations and presence of underplating suggests that much of the Hawaiian Swell is underplated, whereas a lack of underplating beneath the moat surrounding the island of Hawaii suggests that underplated crust outward of the moat has been fed from below by dykes through the lithosphere rather than by sills spreading from the island centre. Local differences in underplating may reflect focusing of magma-filled dykes in response to stress from volcanic loading. Finally, widespread underplating adds chemical buoyancy to the swell, reducing the amplitude of a mantle thermal anomaly needed to match bathymetry and supporting observations of normal heat flow.We are grateful to the Ocean Sciences Division of the U.S. National
Science Foundation for their support of this project under
grants OCE-0002470, OCE-0002552 and OCE-0002819
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Attached and unattached bacterial communities in a 120-meter corehole in an acidic, crystalline rock aquifier
The bacteria colonizing geologic core sections (attached) were contrasted with those found suspended in the groundwater (unattached) by examining the microbiology of 16 depth-paired core and groundwater samples using a suite of culture-independent and culture-dependent analyses. One hundred twenty-two meters was continuously cored from a buried chalcopyrite ore hosted in a biotite-quartz-monzonite porphyry at the Mineral Park Mine near Kingman, Ariz. Every fourth 1.5-m core was acquired using microbiologically defensible methods, and these core sections were aseptically processed for characterization of the attached bacteria. Groundwater samples containing unattached bacteria were collected from the uncased corehole at depth intervals corresponding to the individual cores using an inflatable straddle packer sampler. The groundwater was acidic (pH 2.8 to 5.0), with low levels of dissolved oxygen and high concentrations of sulfate and metals, including ferrous iron. Total numbers of attached cells were less than 10⁵ cells g of core material¯¹ while unattached cells numbered about 10⁵ cells ml of groundwater¯¹. Attached and unattached acidophilic heterotrophs were observed throughout the depth profile. In contrast, acidophilic chemolithotrophs were not found attached to the rock but were commonly observed in the groundwater. Attached communities were composed of low numbers (<40 CFU g¯¹) of neutrophilic heterotrophs that exhibited a high degree of morphologic diversity, while unattached communities contained higher numbers (ca. 10³ CFU ml¯¹) of neutrophilic heterotrophs of limited diversity. Sulfate-reducing bacteria were restricted to the deepest samples of both core and groundwater. 16S ribosomal DNA sequence analysis of attached, acidophilic isolates indicated that organisms closely related to heterotrophic, acidophilic mesophiles such as Acidiphilium organovorum and, surprisingly, to the moderately thermophilic Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius were present. The results indicate that viable (but possibly inactive) microorganisms were present in the buried ore and that there was substantial distinction in biomass and physiological capabilities between attached and unattached populations
The Grizzly, September 19, 2002
Ursinus Remembers September 11 in Silence, Art, and Prayer • Playmate and AIDS Activist Shares Story with Ursinus • UC Field Hockey Makes a Statement • What\u27s a Watson? • Potential Students Check Out Ursinus During Red and Gold • Stealing from Zack\u27s: A Common Practice that Hurts All • Opinion: Are the Laptops Good or Bad?; Partying: Hard Work on Campus • Get Frenzied for the Fringe • Michael Lasser: Radio Historian • Berman Museum: A Great Place to Visit • Storyteller Visits Berman • Condoms in Collegeville: Comparative Price Report • Under 21 Doesn\u27t Mean You Can\u27t Have Fun • Fall Fashion • Women\u27s Soccer Bounces Back Against Eastern • Bearcox Rugby Battles Widener • Women\u27s Lacrosse Preparing for Upcoming Season • UC Field Hockey Makes a Statement • Men\u27s Soccer Improves Record • Buckley, Quintois Welcomed to Ursinus • Dougherty Cruises to Victory at Lebanon Valleyhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1519/thumbnail.jp
Long-term prognosis for 1-year relapse-free survivors of CD34 cell-selected allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation : a landmark analysis
Altres ajuts: This research was supported in part by National Institutes of Health award number P01 CA23766 and NIH/NCI Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA008748. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.CD34 selection significantly improves GVHD-free survival in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). Specific information regarding long-term prognosis and risk factors for late mortality after CD34-selected allo-HSCT is lacking, however. We conducted a single-center landmark analysis in 276 patients alive without relapse 1 year after CD34-selected allo-HSCT for AML (n=164), ALL (n=33), or MDS (n=79). At 5 years' follow-up after the 1-year landmark (range 0.03-13 years), estimated RFS was 73% and OS 76%. The 5-year cumulative incidence of relapse and NRM were 11% and 16%, respectively. In multivariate analysis, HCT-CI score ≥ 3 correlated with marginally worse RFS (HR 1.78, 95% CI 0.97-3.28, p=0.06) and significantly worse OS (HR 2.53, 95% CI 1.26-5.08, p=0.004). Despite only 24% of patients with acute GVHD within 1 year, this also significantly correlated with worse RFS and OS, with increasing grades of acute GVHD associating with increasingly poorer survival on multivariate analysis (p<0.0001). Of 63 deaths after the landmark, GVHD accounted for 27% of deaths and was the most common cause of late mortality, followed by relapse and infection. While prognosis is excellent for patients alive without relapse 1 year after CD34-selected allo-HSCT, risks of late relapse and NRM persist, particularly due to GVHD
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