Debra Franks in a Senior Flute Recital

This is the program for the senior flute recital of Debra Franks. The recital was held on December 6, 1976, at 8:00 p.m., in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall. Franks was assisted by Jane Chu on piano, Ralph Rauch on flute, and the String Ensemble

Woodwind Recital

This is the program for the woodwind recital featuring Dean Morris, Debra Fanks, Jane Chu, Becky Davis. Additionally, the flute ensemble, including Becky Davis, April Davis, Pam Estes, Nancilou Poole, Jane Chu, and Debra Franks, performed. This recital took place on April 27, 1976, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall

Debra Franks and Karen Claiborne in a Joint Junior Recital

This is the program for the joint junior recital of Debra Franks and Karen Claiborne. Pianist Jane Chu accompanied Franks, who performed on the flute; pianist Dr. Jack W. Jones accompanied Claiborne, who performed on the alto saxophone. The recital took place on December 4, 1975, at 5:00, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall

Evaluation of a community-based sexual health intervention for young adult Latino and African-American men

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jomh.2008.08.00

Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical research.Peer reviewe

Socio-demographic factors in chronic leg ulceration

SUMMARY: Background  While there is a commonly held belief that leg ulceration is associated with social factors, the evidence to support this is mainly anecdotal. OBJECTIVES:  To determine deficits in sociodemographic status in patients with chronic leg ulceration. METHODS:  In a matched case–control study carried out in community leg ulcer clinics and participants’ homes within Wandsworth Primary Care Trust, patients with chronic leg ulceration were compared with age- and sex-matched community controls drawn from general practitioner registers. Main outcome measures were the prevalence of social class, ethnicity, marital status, living status and social support. Data were analysed by conditional logistic regression. RESULTS:  In all, 113 patients were identified and matched to controls. Patients had a mean age of 75 years (range 31–94), with 72 (64%) being women. The ulcer had been present for a median of 8 months (range 0·8–144), and 29% of patients had an area of ulceration >10 cm2 (range 0·5–171·5). Being Afro-Caribbean increased the risk of leg ulceration eightfold (95% confidence interval, CI 1·83–34·75; P < 0·001) compared with the white population. There was a gradient with social class, with patients with leg ulcers being more likely to come from social class IV and V (odds ratio, OR 2·82, 95% CI 1·19–6·74; P = 0·015). Never having married (OR 2·98, 95% CI 1·15–7·74; P = 0·025), living in rented housing (P < 0·001) and having a mobility deficit (P < 0·001) more often occurred in the ulcer patients, while living with a spouse was protective (OR 0·46, 95% CI 0·21–0·99; P = 0·048). Patients with ulceration experienced significantly poorer social support than their controls for most subscales of the medical outcomes study social support questionnaire (all P < 0·05). CONCLUSIONS: Chronic leg ulceration is associated with poorer socioeconomic status, and factors which relate to social isolation. At present it is not possible to determine whether these associations are causative or are a consequence of the ulceration

Assessment of health-related quality of life in patients with lymphedema of the lower limb.

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of a number of tools in the evaluation of health-related quality of life in patients with lower limb lymphedema, and to determine the consequences of cancer history and concurrent leg ulceration. Patients in one health trust having lower limb lymphedema were identified and interviewed at entry and after 24 weeks. The short form-36 (SF-36), modified Barthel scale, McGill short form pain questionnaire, and Euroqol were administered at both time points. Of the 164 (median age=76.9 years, 70.7% women) patients who comprised the study population, 15.2% had a history of cancer and 30.4% had coexisting current leg ulceration. Internal consistencies were high for all scales (Cronbach's alpha >0.80). There were high ceiling effects for a number of SF-36 scores, and high floor effects in these and the McGill short form pain questionnaire, scales. Despite these limitations, there was strong evidence that treatment led to significant improvements in six of eight scores of the SF-36, three of three scores of the McGill short form pain questionnaire and the modified Barthel scale (all

Assessing community nurses' level of knowledge of lymphoedema

As part of a major project to develop a primary care trust-based framework of lymphoedema management, the educational needs of community nurses regarding the care of patients with lymphoedema were assessed using focus groups and questionnaires. Community nurses assessed their current knowledge and skill in the care and management of patients with lymphoedema as adequate or poor. They were concerned about their lack of knowledge and skill and were uncertain regarding their role relative to other professions involved in the care of this patient group. At the same time they understood the importance of their role in providing ongoing care, recognizing problems, offering sound advice and referring on to a specialist practitioner when necessary. Any educational provision that prepares community nurses for their role within a framework of lymphoedema management should emphasize the important place they occupy in providing long-term care for this patient group

Prevalence of leg ulceration in a London population

Background: Current prevalence estimates of chronic leg ulceration are frequently based on studies from the 1980s. During the last decade, major changes have occurred in the application of evidence-based practice to this condition. Aim: To determine the prevalence and cause of leg ulceration in a defined geographical population after 8 years of providing standardized evidence based protocols of care. Design: Prospective survey. Methods: Patients with leg ulceration of >4 weeks duration) within an integrated acute and community leg ulcer service were ascertained, interviewed and clinically assessed, using a standardized questionnaire on medical history, ulcer details and non-invasive vascular investigation to describe causes. Ulcers were classified by aetiology. Results: We identified 113 patients in a population of 252 000, giving a crude prevalence of 0.45/1000 (95%CI 0.37–0.54/1000): 0.34/1000 in men, 0.54/1000 in women. Rates were highly dependent on age, increasing to 8.29 (men) and 8.06/1000 (women) in those aged >85 years. Of the responders, 62/113 (55%) had their ulcer for >1 year. Uncomplicated venous ulceration was observed in only 59/138 (43%) ulcerated limbs; a further 21 had ulceration primarily due to arterial disease. Complex causes were present in 48 (35%) limbs, mostly venous disease in combination with diabetes (35%), lymphoedema (42%) and rheumatoid arthritis (26%). Discussion: Our prevalence of chronic leg ulceration is approximately one-third of that predicted by previous studies using similar methodologies in the 1980s. Patients with ulceration have more complex aetiologies than previously recognized, which may be a consequence of both increasing ulcer chronicity and age

Reproductive biology of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the northcentral U.S. Gulf of Mexico

The reproductive biology of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) was investigated from fish collected throughout 2000–2017 in the northcentral U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM; n = 1135 females, 776 males), predominately from recreational anglers fishing off the Mississippi River (93 %). Histological evidence, along with mean gonadosomatic index (GSI) values, showed that peak spawning occurred from May to August, with the highest mean GSI value for both sexes observed in May (females, 1.52 %; males, 0.57 %). During the reproductive season, the amount of active spermatogenesis in spawning capable males varied monthly as observed by the progression of germinal epithelium (GE) subphases (i.e., early-GE, mid-GE, late-GE), with the mid-GE subphase observed most frequently throughout the peak spawning season. The upper and lower 95 % confidence intervals among length at 50 % maturity (L50) estimates had the largest degree of separation between the physiological (cortical alveoli, L50 =1002 ± 7.18 mm CFL) and functional maturity thresholds (primary or secondary vitellogenesis; L50 =1071 ± 4.89 mm CFL), indicating that the physiological maturity threshold should be used with caution as it may underestimate L50. Using the postovulatory follicle (POF) method, the minimum spawning interval was estimated during peak spawning months for all functionally mature females at 2.10 days, with a minimum of 17.30 % daily spawning. Batch fecundity estimates for 24 females was linearly related to size and ranged from 37,956–6.2 million eggs per batch. These data allow for U.S. GOM reproductive parameter estimates to be incorporated, for the first time, into future Atlantic yellowfin tuna stock assessments done by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.[Display omitted]•Peak spawning occurred from May-August in the northcentral Gulf of Mexico.•Under the functional maturity threshold, L50 and L95 were 1071 and 1200 ± mm CFL, respectively.•The spawning interval for all mature females in the population is estimated as 2.1 days; 17.3% were daily spawners.•Batch fecundity estimates for 24 females ranged from 37,956–6.2 million eggs per batch