Case report : Williams-Campbell syndrome

Background: Williams-Campbell syndrome is a rare type of bronchiectasis that is due to deficiency or absence of cartilage in the fourth- to sixth-order bronchi. Case Report: The paper presents the case of a patient with large, bilateral bronchiectasis caused by defect of cartilage in the fourth- to sixth-order bronchi referred to as Williams-Campbell syndrome. Conclusions: Williams-Campbell syndrome should be taken into consideration in differential diagnosis of bronchiectasis. Both inspiratory and expiratory high-resolution computed tomography should be performed to establish the diagnosis

Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century

[Excerpt] The Campbell experience demonstrates that many strategies of late twentieth-century capitalism had precursors earlier in the century. Many components of Campbell\u27s strategy, surprisingly, are as typical of today\u27s neoliberal globalizing economy as was RCA\u27s escape to a Mexican export-processing zone. The Campbell Soup Company made heavy use of contingent labor, increasing its workforce by 50 percent during tomato harvest season, then laying these workers off eight weeks later, just as multinational corporations today hire various types of nonstandard workers to handle specific tasks and add to flexibility. Campbell Soup was an eager advocate of transnational labor migration, importing thousands of workers from Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the English-speaking Caribbean to fill certain functions, just as immigrants fill niches in today\u27s global cities. The corporation used immigrants in another way, similar to today\u27s clothing retailers who deny any responsibility for the working conditions of sweatshop laborers officially employed by subcontractors. The firm paid suppliers prices that left them little choice but to exploit largely immigrant farm laborers to the furthest limits possible. The company constantly revolutionized production methods, employing technology and scientific management techniques to replace workers and lower costs, and even experimented with practices remarkably similar to many of the features of today\u27s lean production. Over time, Campbell implemented a few limited paternalistic elements to its dealings with its workers but mostly resorted to an adversarial position toward the unions they organized. The firm had a reputation, especially from the 1930s through the 1960s, as the most antiunion of Camden\u27s Big Three employers, foreshadowing the get-tough policies toward unions common in the 1980s and 1990s. Finally, when structural changes in the food supply system finally made it possible, Campbell joined RCA in abandoning Camden as a production site, over a century after Joseph Campbell began the company in that city, the last act in the deindustrialization of Camden. The fact that it resisted relocating production for so long makes Campbell Soup an excellent case for studying the other techniques available to corporations, and its long history may hold important lessons about the consequences of such strategies

Tidal flat deposits of the Lower Proterozoic Campbell Group along the southwestern margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Lower Proterozoic stromatolites and associated clastic carbonate deposits of the Campbell Group, from the southern margin (Prieska area) of the Kaapvaal Craton, northern Cape Province, are described. Contrary to previous interpretations (Beukes, 1978; 1980a) shallow subtidal to supratidal facies are recognised and discussed in regional context. An alternative model for the facies development of the Campbell Group is proposed

Convergence estimates for the Magnus expansion I. Banach algebras

We review and provide simplified proofs related to the Magnus expansion, and improve convergence estimates. Observations and improvements concerning the Baker--Campbell--Hausdorff expansion are also made. In this Part I, we consider the general Banach algebraic setting. We show that the (cumulative) convergence radius of the Magnus expansion is $2$; and of the Baker--Campbell--Hausdorff series is $\mathrm C_2=2.89847930\ldots$.Comment: Part I of original submission arXiv:1709.01791v1, rewritten and expande

Managing A Digitization Project: One Library\u27s Experience

The Jessie C. Eury Library of Lincoln Christian College and Seminary (Lincoln, IL) is proud of the Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection on its website at www.lccs.edu/library/hymnals. This online collection of more than 9,000 hymns from rare 19th century hymnals features works by Alexander Campbell, J.T. Johnson, Walter Scott, and Illinois residents such as Barton W. Stone, Silas W. Leonard, and the Fillmore Brothers. These hymnals were selected from some 2,000 gathered by Mr. Dowling, former academic dean at Lincoln Christian Seminary, throughout his lifetime, including nearly 200 affiliated with the Restoration Movement that arose from the 19th century Stone-Campbell religious heritage on the American frontier. His collection is one of the largest-known compilations of hymnals representing this religious movement and serves to illustrate changing religious musical styles

Colleen Carroll Campbell: Catholicism, Feminism, and Women Saints

Many views of modern day feminism appear to contradict the teachings of the Catholic Church. However, Colleen Carroll Campbell, an award-winning author and journalist, was determined from a young age to reconcile feminism with Catholicism. With the guidance and wisdom of female saints, Campbell conveys the importance and relevance of faith for modern day Catholic women, especially in regard to controversial issues such as contraception, abortion, fertility, and motherhood

Pseudolikelihood inference for Gibbsian T-tessellations ... and point processes

Recently a new class of planar tessellations, named T-tessellations, was introduced. Splits, merges and a third local modification named flip where shown to be sufficient for exploring the space of T-tessellations. Based on these local transformations and by analogy with point process theory, tools Campbell measures and a general simulation algorithm of Metropolis-Hastings-Green type were translated for random T-tessellations.The current report is concerned with parametric inference for Gibbs models of T-tessellations. The estimation criterion referred to as the pseudolikelihood is derived from Campbell measures of random T-tessellations and the Kullback-Leibler divergence. A detailed algorithm for approximating the pseudolikelihood maximum is provided. A simulation study seems to show that bias and variability of the pseudolikelihood maximum decrease when the tessellated domain grows in size.In the last part of the report, it is shown that an analogous approach based on the Campbell measure and the KL divergence when applied to point processes leads to the well-known pseudo-likelihood introduced by Besag. More surprisingly, the binomial regression method recently proposed by Baddeley and his co-authors for computing the pseudolikelihood maximum can be derived using the same approach starting from a slight modification of the Campbell measure