Charles Turley, Cindy Fuller, and Craig Hamilton in a Faculty Recital

This is the program for the faculty recital featuring baritone Charles Turley, pianist Cindy Fuller, and trumpet player Dr. Craig Hamilton. This recital took place on January 20, 2001, in the W. Francis McBeth Recital Hall

Economic impact of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a large matched cohort

Objective.To evaluate the economic impact of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) on length of stay and hospital costs.Design.Retrospective matched cohort study.Setting.Premier database of hospitals in the United States.Patients.Eligible patients were admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), received mechanical ventilation for ≥2 calendar-days, and were discharged between October 1, 2008, and December 31, 2009.Methods.VAP was defined by International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9), code 997.31 and ventilation charges for ≥2 calendar-days. We matched patients with VAP to patients without VAP by propensity score on the basis of demographics, administrative data, and severity of illness. Cost was based on provider perspective and procedural cost accounting methods.Results.Of 88,689 eligible patients, 2,238 (2.5%) had VAP; the incidence rate was 1.27 per 1,000 ventilation-days. In the matched cohort, patients with VAP (n = 2,144) had longer mean durations of mechanical ventilation (21.8 vs 10.3 days), ICU stay (20.5 vs 11.6 days), and hospitalization (32.6 vs 19.5 days; all P&lt; .0001) than patients without VAP (n = 2,144). Mean hospitalization costs were $99,598 for patients with VAP and$59,770 for patients without VAP (P&lt; .0001), resulting in an absolute difference of $39,828. Patients with VAP had a lower in-hospital mortality rate than patients without VAP (482/2,144 [22.5%] vs 630/2,144 [29.4%]; P&lt;.0001).Conclusions.Our findings suggest that VAP continues to occur as defined by the new specific ICD-9 code and is associated with a statistically significant resource utilization burden, which underscores the need for cost-effective interventions to minimize the occurrence of this complication.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2012;33(3):250-256</jats:sec

A Performing Arts Class Faculty Recital

This is the program for a Performing Arts Class faculty recital featuring the following faculty artists (in order of performance): trumpet player Craig Hamilton accompanied by pianist George Keck; soprano Cindy Fuller accompanied by pianist Diana Ellis; baritone Charlie Fuller accompanied by Cindy Fuller; soprano Diana Ellis accompanied by Cindy Fuller; and organist Russell Hodges. This recital took place on September 23, 1994, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall

Patrick Anthony Faircloth in a Senior Recital with the Ouachita Wind Ensemble

This is the program for the senior alto saxophone recital of Patrick Anthony Faircloth, who was accompanied by Cindy Fuller on the piano, and the Ouachita Wind Ensemble, directed by Dr. Craig V. Hamilton, held on February 6, 1996, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center Recital Hall

Evidence for a curvilinear relationship between sympathetic nervous system activation and women’s physiological sexual arousal

Abstract There is increasing evidence that women&apos;s physiological sexual arousal is facilitated by moderate sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation. Literature also suggests that the level of SNS activation may play a role in the degree to which SNS activity affects sexual arousal. We provide the first empirical examination of a possible curvilinear relationship between SNS activity and women&apos;s genital arousal using a direct measure of SNS activation in 52 sexually functional women. The relationship between heart rate variability (HRV), a specific and sensitive marker of SNS activation, and vaginal pulse amplitude (VPA), a measure of genital arousal, was analyzed. Moderate increases in SNS activity were associated with higher genital arousal, while very low or very high SNS activation was associated with lower genital arousal. These findings imply that there is an optimal level of SNS activation for women&apos;s physiological sexual arousal

What Should Be Done To Tackle Ghostwriting in the Medical Literature?

Background to the debate: Ghostwriting occurs when someone makes substantial contributions to a manuscript without attribution or disclosure. It is considered bad publication practice in the medical sciences, and some argue it is scientific misconduct. At its extreme, medical ghostwriting involves pharmaceutical companies hiring professional writers to produce papers promoting their products but hiding those contributions and instead naming academic physicians or scientists as the authors. To improve transparency, many editors' associations and journals allow professional medical writers to contribute to the writing of papers without being listed as authors provided their role is acknowledged. This debate examines how best to tackle ghostwriting in the medical literature from the perspectives of a researcher, an editor, and the professional medical writer

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Report on ICDP Deep Dust workshops: probing continental climate of the late Paleozoic icehouse–greenhouse transition and beyond

Chamberlin and Salisbury's assessment of the Permian a century ago captured the essence of the period: it is an interval of extremes yet one sufficiently recent to have affected a biosphere with near-modern complexity. The events of the Permian - the orogenic episodes, massive biospheric turnovers, both icehouse and greenhouse antitheses, and Mars-analog lithofacies - boggle the imagination and present us with great opportunities to explore Earth system behavior. The ICDP-funded workshops dubbed "Deep Dust," held in Oklahoma (USA) in March 2019 (67 participants from nine countries) and Paris (France) in January 2020 (33 participants from eight countries), focused on clarifying the scientific drivers and key sites for coring continuous sections of Permian continental (loess, lacustrine, and associated) strata that preserve high-resolution records. Combined, the two workshops hosted a total of 91 participants representing 14 countries, with broad expertise. Discussions at Deep Dust 1.0 (USA) focused on the primary research questions of paleoclimate, paleoenvironments, and paleoecology of icehouse collapse and the run-up to the Great Dying and both the modern and Permian deep microbial biosphere. Auxiliary science topics included tectonics, induced seismicity, geothermal energy, and planetary science. Deep Dust 1.0 also addressed site selection as well as scientific approaches, logistical challenges, and broader impacts and included a mid-workshop field trip to view the Permian of Oklahoma. Deep Dust 2.0 focused specifically on honing the European target. The Anadarko Basin (Oklahoma) and Paris Basin (France) represent the most promising initial targets to capture complete or near-complete stratigraphic coverage through continental successions that serve as reference points for western and eastern equatorial Pangaea. © 2020 Copernicus GmbH. All rights reserved

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