Editorial Board

Editor-in Chief John A. Alexander Recent Decision Editor Melvyn M. Ryan Note Editor Douglas C. Allen Business Manager Thomas F. Dowling Staff Robert Cotontzos Conrad B. Fredricks John N. Radonich James W. Thompson Thomas E. Towe Kenneth R. Wilson Faculty Advisor Edward L. Kimbal

Editorial Board

Editor-in Chief Charles W. Willey Associate Editors Edward W. Borer Charles C. Lovell Index Editors Wayne E. Linnell Kenneth E. O’Brien Business Manager Bruce D. Crippen Staff John P. Acher Charles F. Angel Maurice R. Colberg, Jr. William Conklin Theodore Corontzos David O. De Grandpre G. Richard Dzivi Marvin J. Sorte First-Year Assistants Douglas C. Allen John A. Alexander Donald J. Beighle Eugene I. Brown Melvyn M. Ryan James W. Thompson Faculty Advisor Edward L. Kimbal

Block & Bridle Annual 1954-1955

Dedication Roster of members Group picture Advisor Chronicle of Activities Sample minutes of Regular Meeting Financial Statement Initiations New Officers ACTIVITIES Spring Livestock Show Program of Show News on Don Novotny Block and Bridle Smokers Honors Banquet Program of Honors Banquet Student Livestock Judging Contest Judging Teams RECOGNITION National Recognition Trophy Award Officers President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Historians Ag . Executive Representative Sgt . at Arms Don Novotny Charles Watson Donald Leisy Allen Trenkle Dwain Trenkle Calvin Lemon Raymond Kelley James Svoboda Faculty Advisor - Prof. Charles H. Adams Larry Abbott Dwight Jundt Jack Amgwert Ray Kelley Ronald Bath Keith Kile John Berg John Klingenberg Wallace Bierman Kay Knudson Ronald Bowen Gerald Langemeier Jerry Brownfield Don Leisy Robert Discoe Val Markussen James Dunn J i m McLean Stanley Eberspacher Don Gruber George Hartman David Hedges Gary Hild Thomas Hoffman Joe Huckf e l d t Doyle IIulme Harvey Jorgenson Edwin McReynolds Arnold Morton Duane Neuman Don Novotny Morris Ochsner Edwin Penas Russell Person J i m Peters Steve Pederson Doran Post Art Raun Billie Reed Mervyn Schliefert Gerald Schiermeyer Arza Snyder Wayne Spilker Philip Starch Edward Stoller James Svoboda Rodney Swanson Melvin Todd Charles Tomsen Jerry Torbati Allen Trenkle Dwain Trenkle Douglas Tryon Roy Volzke Arley Waldo Charles Watson Neal White Paul Yeutter Kaye Don Wiggin

Papers of the Bi-National Conference on the War Between Mexico and the United States

Introduction -- Conference Program -- The War With Mexico and the American Republic / Robert Johannsen -- Crossroads to Destiny : The Annexation of Texas and its Consequences / Wesley Allen Riddle -- El peligro de una guerra en dos frentes : el papel de Gran Bretaña en el conficto entre Mexico y los Estados Unidos de 1846-1848 / Lawrence Douglas Taylor -- The 1848 Oregon Debate : Test Case for the Wilmot Proviso and Southern Sectional Unity / John E. Grenier -- Veracruz: A Grand Design - D-Day, 1847 / Paul C. Clark, Jr. and Edward H. Moseley -- Six Silver Bands : Company A , Corps of Engineers in the Mexican War / Stephen R. Riese -- Soldiers in Black : Father John McElroy and Father Anthony Rey in the Mexican-American War / Steven O\u27Brien -- Bucking and Gagging / Dale R. Steinhauer -- Composed of a Different Material: Democracy, Discipline, and the Mexican War Volunteer / Richard Bruce Winders -- The First Alabama Volunteers: Portrait of a Regiment / Steven R. Butler

The extracellular matrix and the immune system : A mutually dependent relationship

Acknowledgments: We are very grateful to our colleagues at the Wellcome Centre for Cell-Matrix Research and the Lydia Becker Institute for Immunology and Inflammation for many stimulating discussions. We would especially like to thank A. Day, D. Thornton, R. Lennon, A. MacDonald, and T. Hardingham and the anonymous referees for critical review of the manuscript. Figures have been drawn in BioRender. Funding: This work was supported by MRC-UK grant MR/V011235/1 (J.E.A.) and Wellcome Trust grants 106898/A/15/Z (J.E.A.), 218570/Z/19/Z (D.P.D.), and 203128/A/16/Z (T.E.S., D.P.D., and J.E.A.).Peer reviewedPostprin

Methodological issues in assessing changes in costs pre- and post-medication switch: a schizophrenia study example

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic, and costly illness that adversely impacts patients' lives and health care payer budgets. Cost comparisons of treatment regimens are, therefore, important to health care payers and researchers. Pre-Post analyses ("mirror-image"), where outcomes prior to a medication switch are compared to outcomes post-switch, are commonly used in such research. However, medication changes often occur during a costly crisis event. Patients may relapse, be hospitalized, have a medication change, and then spend a period of time with intense use of costly resources (post-medication switch). While many advantages and disadvantages of Pre-Post methodology have been discussed, issues regarding the attributability of costs incurred around the time of medication switching have not been fully investigated.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Medical resource use data, including medications and acute-care services (hospitalizations, partial hospitalizations, emergency department) were collected for patients with schizophrenia who switched antipsychotics (n = 105) during a 1-year randomized, naturalistic, antipsychotic cost-effectiveness schizophrenia trial. Within-patient changes in total costs per day were computed during the pre- and post-medication change periods. In addition to the standard Pre-Post analysis comparing costs pre- and post-medication change, we investigated the sensitivity of results to varying assumptions regarding the attributability of acute care service costs occurring just after a medication switch that were likely due to initial medication failure.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Fifty-six percent of all costs incurred during the first week on the newly initiated antipsychotic were likely due to treatment failure with the previous antipsychotic. Standard analyses suggested an average increase in cost-per-day for each patient of $2.40 after switching medications. However, sensitivity analyses removing costs incurred post-switch that were potentially due to the failure of the initial medication suggested decreases in costs in the range of$4.77 to $9.69 per day post-switch.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Pre-Post cost analyses are sensitive to the approach used to handle acute-service costs occurring just after a medication change. Given the importance of quality economic research on the cost of switching treatments, thorough sensitivity analyses should be performed to identify the impact of crisis events around the time of medication change.</p

‘It stays with you’: multiple evocative representations of dance and future possibilities for studies in sport and physical cultures

This article considers the integration of arts-based representations via poetic narratives together with artistic representation on dancing embodiment so as to continue an engagement with debates regarding multiple forms/representations. Like poetry, visual images are unique and can evoke particular kinds of emotional and visceral responses, meaning that alternative representational forms can resonate in different and powerful ways. In the article, we draw on grandparent-grandchild interactions, narrative poetry, and artistic representations of dance in order to illustrate how arts-based methods might synergise to offer new ways of ‘knowing’ and ‘seeing’. The expansion of the visual arts into interdisciplinary methodological innovations is a relatively new, and sometimes contentious approach, in studies of sport and exercise. We raise concerns regarding the future for more arts-based research in the light of an ever-changing landscape of a neoliberal university culture that demands high productivity in reductionist terms of what counts as ‘output’, often within very restricted time-frames. Heeding feminist calls for ‘slow academies’ that attempt to ‘change’ time collectively, and challenge the demands of a fast-paced audit culture, we consider why it is worth enabling creative and arts-based methods to continue to develop and flourish in studies of sport, exercise and health, despite the mounting pressures to ‘perform’

THE PRAIRIE NATURALIST Volume 18, No. 2. June 1986

Paul B. Kannowski, Editor Nikki R. Seabloom, Assistant Editor Douglas H. Johnson, Book Review Editor TABLE OF CONTENTS WINTER ECOLOGY OF BALD EAGLES IN SOUTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA ▪ G. R. Lingle and G. L. Krapu NATURAL HISTORY OF THE PLAINS POCKET MOUSE IN AGRICULTURALLY DISTURBED SANDSAGE PRAIRIE ▪ K. M. Reed and J. R. Choate COMMERCIAL SUNFLOWERS: FOOD FOR RED FOXES IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ A. B. Sargeant, S. H. Allen, and J. P. Fleskes CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS FOR NORTH DAKOTA - 1985 ▪ R. N. Randall NEST SITES OF DUCKS IN GRAZED MIXED-GRASS PRAIRIE IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ H. F. Duebbert, J. T. Lokemoen, and D. E. Sharp PATTERNS AND CAUSES OF CHANGE IN A CLIFF SWALLOW COLONY DURING A 17-YEAR PERIOD ▪ G. L. Krapu WATERFOWL NESTING ON AN EARTH-FILLED CEMENT CULVERT ▪ K. F. Higgins, H. W. Miller, and L. M. Kirsch PIPING PLOVER NEST SUCCESS ON MALLARD ISLAND IN NORTH DAKOTA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WATER LEVEL MANAGEMENT ▪ M. R. North SEASONAL MOVEMENTS OF RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS BANDED NEAR KENMARE, NORTH DAKOTA ▪ A. Gammell, R. Gammell, and J. F. Besser NOTE: New Range Records for the Fox Squirrel in the Yellowstone River Drainage, Montana ▪ S. J. Knapp and J. E. Swenson Mailing Date: June 4, 198

Conference Proceedings at Publishing Cross-Roads

The potential intrinsic to electronic publishing provides conference conveners with the opportunity to position the papers presented to greater advantage of both authors and readers. Unfortunately, conference papers are being increasingly published in the most expensive vehicle, the formal peer-reviewed journal. This circumstance is counter-productive to the legitimate role of conference papers in scholarly communication. The experience at Caltech in electronically publishing the proceedings of an international conference shows that conference papers can be more effectively published online at significantly less cost thus increasing dissemination and acces