Decoration of Honor for Clara Guild

An award given to Clara Guild by Rollins Colleg

Letter of appreciation to Clara Louise Guild, from Hamilton Holt, January 29th, 1929

Letter from Hamilton Holt, President of Rollins college, from January 29th, 1929, to Clara Louise Guild to show appreciation for her involvement in social Alumni Association

Letter from Hamilton Holt to William F. Bade, 1908 May 7.

The IndependentFOUNDED IN 1848180 FULTON STREETNEW YORKEDITORIAL ROOMSTelephone 3928 CORTLANDTCable Address INDEFULT NEW YORKNew York. May 7th, 1908.Professor William Frederic Bade,Pacific Theological Seminary,Berkeley, California.My Dear Professor Bade:-I thank you for your letter of the 30th. I have just made arrangements with Mr.James B. Reynolds for him to us some Canal Zone articles, but still that does not hinder me from taking some from you. But I oould not order the articles, I would have to wait until I see them.There is no aspect of the work that I would want in particular, but as long as you are going to write articles anyway, I would like to have you submit a few of them to us.I enclose herewith the clippings you sent me about The Hetch-Hetchy Valley . I have sent your article to the printer, and if everything goes well it will appear in next week\u27s issue of THE INDEPENDENT.Very truly yours,[illegible]Managing Editor.0342

Bostonia. Volume 28

Founded in 1900, Bostonia magazine is Boston University's main alumni publication, which covers alumni and student life, as well as university activities, events, and programs

Letter From Hamilton Holt to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, November 20, 1917

A typed letter written by Hamilton Holt to Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson, dated November 20, 1917. Within, Holt invites Wilson to write an article for the Independent, while stating that his interests are more international than an entente only between England and the United States.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/fmhw_firstworldwar_documents/1035/thumbnail.jp

Utilising electrodermal activity sensor signals to quantify nociceptive response during movement activities

ObjectiveWith an increasingly ageing population and osteoarthritis prevalence, the quantification of nociceptive signals responsible for painful movements and individual responses could lead to better treatment and monitoring solutions. Changes in electrodermal activity (EDA) can be detected via changes in skin conductance (SC) and measured using finger electrodes on a wearable sensor, providing objective information for increased physiological stress response.ResultsTo provide EDA response preliminary data, this was recorded with healthy volunteers on an array of activities while receiving a noxious stimulus. This provides a defined scenario that can be utilised as protocol feasibility testing. Raw signal extraction, processing and statistical analysis was performed using mean SC values on all participant data. Extra exploratory analysis on a case study was incorporated using various decomposition tools. The application of the stimuli resulted in a 35% average increase in mean SC with considerable gender differences in SC and self-reported pain scores. Though EDA parameters are a promising tool for nociceptive response indicators, limitations including motion artifact sensitivities and lack of previous movement-based EDA published data result in restricted analysis understanding. Refined processing pipelines with signal decomposition tools will be necessary to incorporate into a protocol that quantifies nociceptive response clinically meaningfully

Utilising electrodermal activity sensor signals to quantify nociceptive response during movement activities

ObjectiveWith an increasingly ageing population and osteoarthritis prevalence, the quantification of nociceptive signals responsible for painful movements and individual responses could lead to better treatment and monitoring solutions. Changes in electrodermal activity (EDA) can be detected via changes in skin conductance (SC) and measured using finger electrodes on a wearable sensor, providing objective information for increased physiological stress response.ResultsTo provide EDA response preliminary data, this was recorded with healthy volunteers on an array of activities while receiving a noxious stimulus. This provides a defined scenario that can be utilised as protocol feasibility testing. Raw signal extraction, processing and statistical analysis was performed using mean SC values on all participant data. Extra exploratory analysis on a case study was incorporated using various decomposition tools. The application of the stimuli resulted in a 35% average increase in mean SC with considerable gender differences in SC and self-reported pain scores. Though EDA parameters are a promising tool for nociceptive response indicators, limitations including motion artifact sensitivities and lack of previous movement-based EDA published data result in restricted analysis understanding. Refined processing pipelines with signal decomposition tools will be necessary to incorporate into a protocol that quantifies nociceptive response clinically meaningfully

Objective cough frequency in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Background: Cough is a common presenting symptom in patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). This study measured cough rates in IPF patients and investigated the association between cough and measures of health related quality of life and subjective cough assessments. In addition, IPF cough rates were related to measures of physiological disease severity and compared to cough rates in health and other respiratory conditions.Methods: Nineteen IPF patients, mean age 70.8 years ± 8.6, five female (26.3%) were studied. Subjects performed full pulmonary function testing, 24 hour ambulatory cough recordings, completed a cough related quality of life questionnaire (Leicester Cough Questionnaire) and subjectively scored cough severity with a visual analogue scale. Ambulatory cough recordings were manually counted and reported as number of coughs per hour.Results: The 24hr cough rates were high (median 9.4, range 1.5-39.4), with day time rates much higher than night time (median 14.6, range 1.9-56.6 compared to 1.9, range 0-19.2, p = 0.003). Strong correlations were found between objective cough frequency and both the VAS (day r = 0.80, p &lt; 0.001, night r = 0.71, p = 0.001) and LCQ (r = -0.80, p &lt; 0.001), but not with measures of pulmonary function. Cough rates in IPF were higher than healthy subjects (p &lt; 0.001) and asthma patients (p &lt; 0.001) but similar to patients with chronic cough (p = 0.33).Conclusions: This study confirms objectively that cough is a major, very distressing and disabling symptom in IPF patients. The strong correlations between objective cough counts and cough related quality of life measures suggest that in IPF patient's, perception of cough frequency is very accurate.</p

Biomechanics beyond the lab: remote technology for osteoarthritis patient data-a scoping review

The objective of this project is to produce a review of available and validated technologies suitable for gathering biomechanical and functional research data in patients with osteoarthritis (OA), outside of a traditionally fixed laboratory setting. A scoping review was conducted using defined search terms across three databases (Scopus, Ovid MEDLINE, and PEDro), and additional sources of information from grey literature were added. One author carried out an initial title and abstract review, and two authors independently completed full-text screenings. Out of the total 5,164 articles screened, 75 were included based on inclusion criteria covering a range of technologies in articles published from 2015. These were subsequently categorised by technology type, parameters measured, level of remoteness, and a separate table of commercially available systems. The results concluded that from the growing number of available and emerging technologies, there is a well-established range in use and further in development. Of particular note are the wide-ranging available inertial measurement unit systems and the breadth of technology available to record basic gait spatiotemporal measures with highly beneficial and informative functional outputs. With the majority of technologies categorised as suitable for part-remote use, the number of technologies that are usable and fully remote is rare and they usually employ smartphone software to enable this. With many systems being developed for camera-based technology, such technology is likely to increase in usability and availability as computational models are being developed with increased sensitivities to recognise patterns of movement, enabling data collection in the wider environment and reducing costs and creating a better understanding of OA patient biomechanical and functional movement data

Biomechanics beyond the lab: Remote technology for osteoarthritis patient data—A scoping review

The objective of this project is to produce a review of available and validated technologies suitable for gathering biomechanical and functional research data in patients with osteoarthritis (OA), outside of a traditionally fixed laboratory setting. A scoping review was conducted using defined search terms across three databases (Scopus, Ovid MEDLINE, and PEDro), and additional sources of information from grey literature were added. One author carried out an initial title and abstract review, and two authors independently completed full-text screenings. Out of the total 5,164 articles screened, 75 were included based on inclusion criteria covering a range of technologies in articles published from 2015. These were subsequently categorised by technology type, parameters measured, level of remoteness, and a separate table of commercially available systems. The results concluded that from the growing number of available and emerging technologies, there is a well-established range in use and further in development. Of particular note are the wide-ranging available inertial measurement unit systems and the breadth of technology available to record basic gait spatiotemporal measures with highly beneficial and informative functional outputs. With the majority of technologies categorised as suitable for part-remote use, the number of technologies that are usable and fully remote is rare and they usually employ smartphone software to enable this. With many systems being developed for camera-based technology, such technology is likely to increase in usability and availability as computational models are being developed with increased sensitivities to recognise patterns of movement, enabling data collection in the wider environment and reducing costs and creating a better understanding of OA patient biomechanical and functional movement data