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    SPAN: Astronomy and astrophysics

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    The Space Physics Analysis Network (SPAN) is a multi-mission, correlative data comparison network which links science research and data analysis computers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. The purpose of this document is to provide Astronomy and Astrophysics scientists, currently reachable on SPAN, with basic information and contacts for access to correlative data bases, star catalogs, and other astrophysic facilities accessible over SPAN

    The Lantern Vol. 8, No. 1, December 1939

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    • Christmas Resurrection • Autumn\u27s Song • Henry Cavendish • The Mystery of Loon Cove • All Hail, Fair Modesty • Mischall • Gift of the Magi • Camera-Phobia • One Envying a Poet • Sonnetshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1019/thumbnail.jp

    Implementing telephone triage in general practice: a process evaluation of a cluster randomised controlled trial

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    Background: Telephone triage represents one strategy to manage demand for face-to-face GP appointments in primary care. However, limited evidence exists of the challenges GP practices face in implementing telephone triage. We conducted a qualitative process evaluation alongside a UK-based cluster randomised trial (ESTEEM) which compared the impact of GP-led and nurse-led telephone triage with usual care on primary care workload, cost, patient experience, and safety for patients requesting a same-day GP consultation. The aim of the process study was to provide insights into the observed effects of the ESTEEM trial from the perspectives of staff and patients, and to specify the circumstances under which triage is likely to be successfully implemented. Here we report perspectives of staff. Methods: The intervention comprised implementation of either GP-led or nurse-led telephone triage for a period of 2-3 months. A qualitative evaluation was conducted using staff interviews recruited from eight general practices (4 GP triage, 4 Nurse triage) in the UK, implementing triage as part of the ESTEEM trial. Qualitative interviews were undertaken with 44 staff members in GP triage and nurse triage practices (16 GPs, 8 nurses, 7 practice managers, 13 administrative staff). Results: Staff reported diverse experiences and perceptions regarding the implementation of telephone triage, its effects on workload, and on the benefits of triage. Such diversity were explained by the different ways triage was organised, the staffing models used to support triage, how the introduction of triage was communicated across practice staff, and by how staff roles were reconfigured as a result of implementing triage. Conclusion: The findings from the process evaluation offer insight into the range of ways GP practices participating in ESTEEM implemented telephone triage, and the circumstances under which telephone triage can be successfully implemented beyond the context of a clinical trial. Staff experiences and perceptions of telephone triage are shaped by the way practices communicate with staff, prepare for and sustain the changes required to implement triage effectively, as well as by existing practice culture, and staff and patient behaviour arising in response to the changes made. Trial registration: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN20687662. Registered 28 May 2009

    The Lantern Vol. 7, No. 3, June 1939

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    • Commencement Sonnet • Largo Appassionato • More Sonnets to Earth • Vladimir • Abe Lincoln in Illinois • Dark Lives • Enter Mr. Smithingham II • A Character is Sketched • Sonnet • Out of the Dawn • Wistaria • Poem Without a Name • You Have Loved the Nighthttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1018/thumbnail.jp

    The Lantern Vol. 8, No. 3, May 1940

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    • Sonnet for These Days • Peace Be With You • Creative Citizenship • Tony Solves an Ichthyological Problem • Tippy Tin • A Surgeon Paints • Thoughts • Standing at Ease • Nature\u27s Mistake • Tomorrow • This is Enough • I Built a Shrine to Love • Integer • I Look for Herhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1021/thumbnail.jp

    The acute effects of cannabidiol on the neural correlates of reward anticipation and feedback in healthy volunteers

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    Background: Cannabidiol has potential therapeutic benefits for people with psychiatric disorders characterised by reward function impairment. There is existing evidence that cannabidiol may influence some aspects of reward processing. However, it is unknown whether cannabidiol acutely affects brain function underpinning reward anticipation and feedback. Hypotheses: We predicted that cannabidiol would augment brain activity associated with reward anticipation and feedback. Methods: We administered a single 600 mg oral dose of cannabidiol and matched placebo to 23 healthy participants in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, repeated-measures design. We employed the monetary incentive delay task during functional magnetic resonance imaging to assay the neural correlates of reward anticipation and feedback. We conducted whole brain analyses and region-of-interest analyses in pre-specified reward-related brain regions. Results: The monetary incentive delay task elicited expected brain activity during reward anticipation and feedback, including in the insula, caudate, nucleus accumbens, anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal cortex. However, across the whole brain, we did not find any evidence that cannabidiol altered reward-related brain activity. Moreover, our Bayesian analyses showed that activity in our regions-of-interest was similar following cannabidiol and placebo. Additionally, our behavioural measures of motivation for reward did not show a significant difference between cannabidiol and placebo. Discussion: Cannabidiol did not acutely affect the neural correlates of reward anticipation and feedback in healthy participants. Future research should explore the effects of cannabidiol on different components of reward processing, employ different doses and administration regimens, and test its reward-related effects in people with psychiatric disorders

    The Lantern Vol. 7, No. 2, March 1939

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    • Editorial • Easter Eggs • Fever • Sonnets to the Planet We Call Earth • Asking Her Father • New Hampshire Ghost Story • Mary • On Approaching Death • On Turning Over a New Leaf • In Defense of Americanism • What is this Love? • Martyrs of Progress • Recurring • Splintershttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1013/thumbnail.jp

    The Lantern Vol. 7, No. 2, March 1939

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    • Editorial • Easter Eggs • Fever • Sonnets to the Planet We Call Earth • Asking Her Father • New Hampshire Ghost Story • Mary • On Approaching Death • On Turning Over a New Leaf • In Defense of Americanism • What is this Love? • Martyrs of Progress • Recurring • Splintershttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1013/thumbnail.jp

    The Lantern Vol. 5, No. 3, May 1937

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    • Dedication • Dr. McClure: An Ursinus Man • Roar, O Wind! • To the Ladies! • The Futility of Dying • The Symbolism of the British Crown • Oh! • It Might Have Been • Treat Yourself? • Three Writers • Hawaii in June • On Being a Twin • Black Magic • Triangle • Who Longs? • A Son Passes • Sing an Old-Fashioned Song • Questioning • An Argument About a Fish • That Morning Eye-Opener • Scoop for the Sun • The Dead Do Not Die Once • Give Us Timehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1010/thumbnail.jp

    The Lantern Vol. 5, No. 1, December 1936

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    • All of Us • Public Dance • In Tibet, of All Places • Thoughts • Subterranean Conflict on the Campus • Out, Out Into Fragrance and Sweetness • My Soul Steals Out to Meet You In the Night • Bored Young Lady • Guay Shin\u27s Prayer • On Playing Ping-Pong • The Love-Life of One Cat and the Death of Another • My Lady • Danger! Germs Working! • The Wolves • Letters from India • With Apologies to Hamlet • The Dreamhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1015/thumbnail.jp
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