The Ursinus Weekly, November 2, 1936

Lantern to stage new type contest • Dorm rules made by men\u27s council • Albright conquers bear eleven, 35-0 • Second issue of Grizzly Gridder to make appearance Saturday • Penn Quakers to play for Varsity Club dance, Nov. 7 • Large crowd attends Hallowe\u27en party; games, dancing enjoyed • Shakespearean revival current trend of drama • Heiges injured at Albright; stellar end has leg broken • Administration approves costs for new recreational center • Senior class play chosen; tryout Wednesday night • Weekly poll discloses Landon greatly favored by faculty • Y organization to conduct fireside discussion Wednesday • Bears to tackle Dragons in league game Saturday • Temple and Haverford prolong losing streak of soccer team • Don Kellett\u27s frosh gridders to play Drexel Jay Vees Friday • Hockeyites setback 1-0 at hands of Bryn Mawr • Brodbeck undefeated, untied in touch football tournamenthttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1910/thumbnail.jp

A View of Cloud Seeding

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The Ursinus Weekly, April 30, 1956

Y retreat to be held at Mensch Mill on May 4, 5, 6 • Curtain Club play committees chosen • Deltas choose leaders • SRC china drive • Demas formal initiation May 1 • UC Band plans evening concert for May Day • Chemical Society banquet • Frosh Mardi Gras weekend features series of events • Meistersingers choose officers; Plan banquet • Waiters hold banquet; Padula, Blood new heads • Men\u27s government representatives to be chosen Wed. • ISC gives dessert for frosh girls • Both student councils approve proposal to create student senate • WSGA, WAA, and YM-YW members choose officers: Winchester, Hause, Fogal elected to YMCA positions; UC girls elect Tayes, Cross, and Dunn as prexies • FTA host to H.S. group; Sends three to confab • Beta Sig reveals dance date • YM-YWCA to install new officers on Wednesday • Editorial: Censorship of The Ursinus Weekly; House divided against itself; More about dead weekends • Bubbling over • Word of honor • Fellowships for graduate study are available, but often unused • What\u27s the real meaning of naval armament? • Belles edged in tennis play • Trackmen drop 3rd straight to F & M • Netmen suffer two straight shutouts • Bruin nine tops Haverford; Dickinson clobbered by 17-4 • Tennis Belles top Drexel, W. Chester • Bruin relay team outclassed at Penn • Intramural softball • Brownback-Anders group chooses new officers • ZX chooses new officers • Outline of SGA proposed revisionhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1450/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, January 19, 1959

Progoff addresses Forum; Discusses depth psychology • WSGA plans board for information and registration • Radio station receives campus approval • WSGA sets dates, elects chairmen; Plans activities • Junior class meeting • Negro student T. Y. Rogers is vesper speaker • Dr. Conyers Read talks to frosh hist. section • Bob Schmoyer tapped for \u2758 soccer honors • MSGA to review 1960 custom program • APO has formal initiation • Editorial: Jazz • Student opinion • Prof\u27s opinion • A criticism • Protest • Sports team in full swing after finals • Track team plans for 1959 season • Matmen whip Albright in thriller by 19 to 13 • Courtmen lose to Drexel, PMC; 8th loss in row • Bell\u27s speech at employees banquet • Art Alliance presents one-man showshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1376/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, January 19, 1959

Progoff addresses Forum; Discusses depth psychology • WSGA plans board for information and registration • Radio station receives campus approval • WSGA sets dates, elects chairmen; Plans activities • Junior class meeting • Negro student T. Y. Rogers is vesper speaker • Dr. Conyers Read talks to frosh hist. section • Bob Schmoyer tapped for \u2758 soccer honors • MSGA to review 1960 custom program • APO has formal initiation • Editorial: Jazz • Student opinion • Prof\u27s opinion • A criticism • Protest • Sports team in full swing after finals • Track team plans for 1959 season • Matmen whip Albright in thriller by 19 to 13 • Courtmen lose to Drexel, PMC; 8th loss in row • Bell\u27s speech at employees banquet • Art Alliance presents one-man showshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1376/thumbnail.jp

The fallacy of enrolling only high-risk subjects in cancer prevention trials: Is there a "free lunch"?

BACKGROUND: There is a common belief that most cancer prevention trials should be restricted to high-risk subjects in order to increase statistical power. This strategy is appropriate if the ultimate target population is subjects at the same high-risk. However if the target population is the general population, three assumptions may underlie the decision to enroll high-risk subject instead of average-risk subjects from the general population: higher statistical power for the same sample size, lower costs for the same power and type I error, and a correct ratio of benefits to harms. We critically investigate the plausibility of these assumptions. METHODS: We considered each assumption in the context of a simple example. We investigated statistical power for fixed sample size when the investigators assume that relative risk is invariant over risk group, but when, in reality, risk difference is invariant over risk groups. We investigated possible costs when a trial of high-risk subjects has the same power and type I error as a larger trial of average-risk subjects from the general population. We investigated the ratios of benefit to harms when extrapolating from high-risk to average-risk subjects. RESULTS: Appearances here are misleading. First, the increase in statistical power with a trial of high-risk subjects rather than the same number of average-risk subjects from the general population assumes that the relative risk is the same for high-risk and average-risk subjects. However, if the absolute risk difference rather than the relative risk were the same, the power can be less with the high-risk subjects. In the analysis of data from a cancer prevention trial, we found that invariance of absolute risk difference over risk groups was nearly as plausible as invariance of relative risk over risk groups. Therefore a priori assumptions of constant relative risk across risk groups are not robust, limiting extrapolation of estimates of benefit to the general population. Second, a trial of high-risk subjects may cost more than a larger trial of average risk subjects with the same power and type I error because of additional recruitment and diagnostic testing to identify high-risk subjects. Third, the ratio of benefits to harms may be more favorable in high-risk persons than in average-risk persons in the general population, which means that extrapolating this ratio to the general population would be misleading. Thus there is no free lunch when using a trial of high-risk subjects to extrapolate results to the general population. CONCLUSION: Unless the intervention is targeted to only high-risk subjects, cancer prevention trials should be implemented in the general population

The Ursinus Weekly, October 6, 1966

Cultural opportunities abound at U.C. during 1966: Art exhibit • Orientation brings return of the dink: Red and gold revived on the U.C. scene • U.C. hosts parents on October 8 • Politics main theme of Forums • Record enrollment • NSA tests open to upperclassmen • Academy of Music sponsors student concerts • Luxurious new dorms opened • Editorial • Frosh meet challenge of matriculation blues • Letters to the editor • Book review • What\u27s in a name? You\u27d be amazed! • New cars, big engines in news • Wilkinson\u27s inmates undismayed by unfinished state of dorm • Booters strive for coherence, consistency • Bears impress in scoreless opener • Youthful gridders much improved since 1965 • Gurzynski\u27s runners face Eastern Baptist Friday • Fall hockey preview: Loss of strong line players leaves gaps • Greek gleaningshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1191/thumbnail.jp

Noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation alters neural response and physiological autonomic tone to noxious thermal challenge.

The mechanisms by which noninvasive vagal nerve stimulation (nVNS) affect central and peripheral neural circuits that subserve pain and autonomic physiology are not clear, and thus remain an area of intense investigation. Effects of nVNS vs sham stimulation on subject responses to five noxious thermal stimuli (applied to left lower extremity), were measured in 30 healthy subjects (n = 15 sham and n = 15 nVNS), with fMRI and physiological galvanic skin response (GSR). With repeated noxious thermal stimuli a group × time analysis showed a significantly (p < .001) decreased response with nVNS in bilateral primary and secondary somatosensory cortices (SI and SII), left dorsoposterior insular cortex, bilateral paracentral lobule, bilateral medial dorsal thalamus, right anterior cingulate cortex, and right orbitofrontal cortex. A group × time × GSR analysis showed a significantly decreased response in the nVNS group (p < .0005) bilaterally in SI, lower and mid medullary brainstem, and inferior occipital cortex. Finally, nVNS treatment showed decreased activity in pronociceptive brainstem nuclei (e.g. the reticular nucleus and rostral ventromedial medulla) and key autonomic integration nuclei (e.g. the rostroventrolateral medulla, nucleus ambiguous, and dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve). In aggregate, noninvasive vagal nerve stimulation reduced the physiological response to noxious thermal stimuli and impacted neural circuits important for pain processing and autonomic output

Evidence for a Surface-Phonon Contribution to Thin-Film Superconductivity - Depression of Tc by Noble-Gas Overlayers

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