Alien Registration- Lerman, Gimple (Portland, Cumberland County)

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An Exploration of How Technology Use Influences Outdoor Recreation Choices

The purpose of this research was to determine if there is a need for technology to be accessible to people who visit parks and outdoor recreation sites. An online snowball and hard copy sample of 73 people completed a 29-item questionnaire assessing outdoor activities and the internal and external factors that surround those activities. Visual inspection of the percentage of people involved in each outdoor activity revealed that a majority of the sample population spent their outdoor recreation time hiking, camping and visiting National Parks. A Pearson product-moment correlation revealed that the number of times people participated in these outdoor activities had no correlation to their use of technology. T-test results indicated that how a person feels about their outdoor experience is not affected by whether they use technology. Overall, the study revealed that outdoor recreation choices are not affected by whether a person uses technology or not

Pamphlet from Reta Gimple to her school children

A published pamphlet with several poems and printed as a gift from Reta Gimple to her students. The names of the students and the school board are also listed.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/tj_ks_territorial_docs/1043/thumbnail.jp

Capacitive Arrays for Robotic Sensing

Electromagnetic arrays have been used effectively for many years in optimizing the responses of antenna systems. The basic principles that make arrayed antennas work and make them easy to control can also be applied to near field electromagnetic array sensors. The array factor allows for flexibility in sensor geometry. Firstly, by exciting only a portion of an array in a sequential fashion one can physically scan and interrogate a region of a sample without having to move the sample or the probe head itself. Secondly, the field configurations can be altered by selectively exciting electrodes of an array. Also, the information received can be selected by combining electrodes to form different effective receiver geometries. Thirdly, array configurations allow for real-time analog signal processing. For instance, one can perform pattern matching by choosing the spatial resolution of the probe to match the spatial resolution of the desired feature

Brain structure in sagittal craniosynostosis

Craniosynostosis, the premature fusion of one or more cranial sutures, leads to grossly abnormal head shapes and pressure elevations within the brain caused by these deformities. To date, accepted treatments for craniosynostosis involve improving surgical skull shape aesthetics. However, the relationship between improved head shape and brain structure after surgery has not been yet established. Typically, clinical standard care involves the collection of diagnostic medical computed tomography (CT) imaging to evaluate the fused sutures and plan the surgical treatment. CT is known to provide very good reconstructions of the hard tissues in the skull but it fails to acquire good soft brain tissue contrast. This study intends to use magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate brain structure in a small dataset of sagittal craniosynostosis patients and thus quantify the effects of surgical intervention in overall brain structure. Very importantly, these effects are to be contrasted with normative shape, volume and brain structure databases. The work presented here wants to address gaps in clinical knowledge in craniosynostosis focusing on understanding the changes in brain volume and shape secondary to surgery, and compare those with normally developing children. This initial pilot study has the potential to add significant quality to the surgical care of a vulnerable patient population in whom we currently have limited understanding of brain developmental outcomes

Extent of Thoracic Aortic Atheroma Burden and Long-Term Mortality After Cardiothoracic Surgery A Computed Tomography Study

ObjectivesWe hypothesized that the extent of aortic atheroma of the entire thoracic aorta, determined by pre-operative multidetector-row computed tomographic angiography (MDCTA), is associated with long-term mortality following nonaortic cardiothoracic surgery.BackgroundIn patients evaluated for cardiothoracic surgery, presence of severe aortic atheroma is associated with adverse short- and long-term post-operative outcome. However, the relationship between aortic plaque burden and mortality remains unknown.MethodsWe reviewed clinical and imaging data from all patients who underwent electrocardiographic-gated contrast-enhanced MDCTA prior to coronary bypass or valvular heart surgery at our institution between 2002 and 2008. MDCTA studies were analyzed for thickness and circumferential extent of aortic atheroma in 5 segments of the thoracic aorta. A semiquantitative total plaque-burden score (TPBS) was calculated by assigning a score of 1 to 3 to plaque thickness and to circumferential plaque extent. When combined, this resulted in a score of 0 to 6 for each of the 5 segments and, hence, an overall score from 0 to 30. The primary end point was all-cause mortality during long-term follow-up.ResultsA total of 862 patients (71% men, 67.8 years) were included and followed over a mean period of 25 ± 16 months. The mean TPBS was 8.6 (SD: ±6.0). The TPBS was a statistically significant predictor of mortality (p < 0.0001) while controlling for baseline demographics, cardiovascular risk factors, and type of surgery including reoperative status. The estimated hazard ratio for TPBS was 1.08 (95% confidence interval: 1.045 to 1.12). Other independent predictors of mortality were glomerular filtration rate (p = 0.015), type of surgery (p = 0.007), and peripheral artery disease (p = 0.03).ConclusionsExtent of thoracic aortic atheroma burden is independently associated with increased long-term mortality in patients following cardiothoracic surgery. Although our data do not provide definitive evidence, they suggest a relationship to the systemic atherosclerotic disease process and, therefore, have important implications for secondary prevention in post-operative rehabilitation programs