Ursinus College Alumni Journal, November 1967

75 years to Pluto • Welcome alumni! Oldtimers return to campus on Homecoming Day • Students cheer Loyalty Fund kick-off • Business & Pleasure • Honored on Founders\u27 Day • Habari safari: Ursinus men go to Africa • Contemporary drama • Development: Ursinus charts a course for the decade ahead • From the President • Birds of a feather gather together • Radio station WRUC entertains and informs the Collegeville community • Florida physician speaks in Yugoslavia • Walter Emerson Baum art show • Campus clippings: Graduate teacher training; Neighborhood dinner; Fall enrollment; End of an era; Parents day; New faculty members; Dutch visitor; Evening school • Sporting scene: Soccer; Hockey; Football; Cross country wins 11 straight • Class notebook • Weddings • Births • In memoriam • The business dollar in educationhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1090/thumbnail.jp

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, November 1963

The President writes • A kaleidoscopic view of the student • The student looks at himself • The faculty comments • Modern German literature • Founders\u27 Day • Spangler portrait unveiled • Dr. Helfferich\u27s remarks • Board elects two members • Campaign receipts total $223,416 • Eshbach resigns • Loyalty Fund vis-a-vis capital funds campaign • Wills • Ursinus: 1963-64 • Staiger\u27s latest publication • Mr. and Mrs. Ursinus visit U.C. • Rothenberger honored • Howard listed • Ursinus entertains neighbors • Travel seminar • Student teachers rank high • They carry big sticks • 1963-64 winter sports schedules • Homecoming • Football • Hockey all-stars • G. Sieber Pancoast, \u2737 • Class notes • Weddings • Births • Necrologyhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1078/thumbnail.jp

Paleoenvironmental and diagenetic evolution of the Aptian Pre-Salt succession in Namibe Basin (Onshore Angola)

The Aptian Pre-Salt sedimentary succession cropping out in Cangulo palaeovalley onshore Namibe Basin (Angola) was studied by a combination of field and analytical techniques to constrain the sedimentary and diagenetic evolution of the uppermost sag sequence of the South Atlantic passive margin. Field observations allows definition of four transgressive-regressive cycles characterised by fluvial to tidal-influenced mixed clastic-carbonate and carbonate-dominated deposits, that locally show evidence of evaporite dissolution; highlighting that evaporite deposition started earlier than deposition of the regional South Atlantic Loeme-Bambata evaporite formations. Two separate pre-salt carbonate units have been differentiated within the Cangulo Fm; i) a lower transitional to marginal marine, and ii) a younger upper non-marine freshwater travertine system, that is documented for the first time in the west African margin. Transgressive-regressive cycles control the early diagenesis of the tidal carbonates that include dolomitization due to mixing fluids during transgressions, and karstification due to evaporite dissolution by meteoric water circulation during regressive events. Clastic supply appears to have been completely shut down during carbonate deposition, suggesting major climatic change associated with carbonate deposition. During the lowstand between the two carbonate units, fluid flow through Cangulo palaeovalley was re-established resulting in extensive karstification and formation of a large-scale erosional unconformity that is interpreted to be time equivalent to an intra Chela-Cuvo Fm. event. The top of the studied succession corresponds to the transgressive deposits of the Bambata evaporites that are not preserved in the Cangulo palaeovalley due to its erosion but are regionally developed. The results of this study can be directly linked to along strike age equivalent Pre-Salt successions cropping out in the Namibe, Benguela and Kwanza basins, and directly offshore Angola and Brazil using well and seismic data. These new data shed important new light and constraints on the depositional and diagenetic evolution of the complex Pre-Salt reservoir systems of the South Atlantic, and the depositional and bathymetric setting at the time of onset of the main south Atlantic evaporite deposition.publishedVersio

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, March 1967

The paradox of urbia • The joyful acceptance of technopolis • Toward a new kind of freedom • Bill Daniels leads a creative life of action in urbia • Who is educated to plan the urban environment? • From the President • Concerning Freeland Seminary: An alumna writes a history of Collegeville • Discovery in Europe, student style • Personal calls will climax \u2767 Centennial Fund • Candidates for office • Springtime is alumni time • Student magazine focuses on political affairs • A theory of non-interference • From the Perkiomen to the Potomac • In the land of the four 70s • Sporting scene: Wrestling; Indoor track; Cross country; Basketball; Women\u27s hockey; Other women\u27s sports; Scheduling correction • Campus clippings: Financial support; Student lounge a success; Selma sheriff speaks; The amazing Evening School; Questionnaires returned; Book on urbia still available; Honor graduate; Sign to show the way • Class notebook • Physicians Alumni Club of Ursinus College organizes • Weddings • Births • In memoriamhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1088/thumbnail.jp

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, August 1966

Departure day • Guidance • Counseling Ursinus students • Guiding high school students • Bertolt Brecht in America and East Berlin • From the President • The other side of the desk • Ursinus grizzly leaps the first Alumni Centennial Fund hurdle • A debate on war livens Alumni Day • Ups & downs of progress • Sporting scene: Lacrosse; Top athlete graduates; Wrestling; Tennis; Baseball; Track • Regionals: Each spring meeting has a style of its own • Campus clippings • Class notebook • Weddings • Births • In memoriamhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1086/thumbnail.jp

Adenocarcinoma of the caecum metastatic to the bladder: an unusual cause of haematuria

BACKGROUND: Primary malignancies of colorectal origin can metastasise to the bladder. Reports are however extremely rare, particularly from the caecum. CASE REPORT: The report describes the case of a 45-year old male with Duke's B caecal carcinoma treated with a laparoscopically-assisted right hemicolectomy and adjuvant 5-Fluorouracil chemotherapy. Subsequently, a metastatic lesion to the bladder was demonstrated and successfully excised by partial cystectomy. CONCLUSION: In order that optimal therapeutic options can be determined, it is important for clinicians to distinguish between primary disease of the bladder and other causes of haematuria. Various immunohistochemical techniques attempt to differentiate primary adenocarcinoma of the bladder from secondary colorectal adenocarcinoma. Suspicion of metastatic disease must be raised when histologically unusual bladder tumours are identified

Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for a new-build nuclear power plant site in the UK

A probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) has been conducted as part of the Safety Case justification for a new-build nuclear power plant in the UK. The study followed a cost-efficient methodology developed by CH2M and associates for safety-significant infrastructure where high-level regulatory assurance is required. Historical seismicity was re-evaluated from original sources. The seismicity model considered fourteen seismic sources which, when combined, formed six alternative seismic source models. Separate models for the median ground-motion and aleatory variability were considered. The median ground-motion model comprised a suite of ground-motion equations adjusted to the site-specific conditions using VS-kappa factors. A partially non-ergodic sigma model was adopted with separate components for the inter-event variability, and single-station intra-event variability, adjusted by a partially ergodic site-to-site variability term. Site response analysis was performed using equivalent-linear random vibration theory with explicit incorporation of the variability in the ground properties using Monte Carlo simulations. The final PSHA results were obtained by convolution of the hazard at the reference rock horizon with the site amplification factors. The overall epistemic uncertainty captured by the logic tree was assessed and compared against results from earlier PSHA studies for the same site

Recent advances in candidate-gene and whole-genome approaches to the discovery of anthelmintic resistance markers and the description of drug/receptor interactions

Anthelmintic resistance has a great impact on livestock production systems worldwide, is an emerging concern in companion animal medicine, and represents a threat to our ongoing ability to control human soil-transmitted helminths. The Consortium for Anthelmintic Resistance and Susceptibility (CARS) provides a forum for scientists to meet and discuss the latest developments in the search for molecular markers of anthelmintic resistance. Such markers are important for detecting drug resistant worm populations, and indicating the likely impact of the resistance on drug efficacy. The molecular basis of resistance is also important for understanding how anthelmintics work, and how drug resistant populations arise. Changes to target receptors, drug efflux and other biological processes can be involved. This paper reports on the CARS group meeting held in August 2013 in Perth, Australia. The latest knowledge on the development of molecular markers for resistance to each of the principal classes of anthelmintics is reviewed. The molecular basis of resistance is best understood for the benzimidazole group of compounds, and we examine recent work to translate this knowledge into useful diagnostics for field use. We examine recent candidate-gene and whole-genome approaches to understanding anthelmintic resistance and identify markers. We also look at drug transporters in terms of providing both useful markers for resistance, as well as opportunities to overcome resistance through the targeting of the transporters themselves with inhibitors. Finally, we describe the tools available for the application of the newest high-throughput sequencing technologies to the study of anthelmintic resistance

A streamlined approach for the seismic hazard assessment of a new nuclear power plant in the UK

This article presents a streamlined approach to seismic hazard assessment aimed at providing regulatory assurance, whilst acknowledging commercial and program constraints associated with the development of safety–critical facilities. The approach was developed based on international best practice and followed the spirit of the Senior Seismic Hazard Analysis Committee (SSHAC) Level 2 requirements, while incorporating the key features of the SSHAC Level 3 process aimed at achieving regulatory assurance, but with a more flexible implementation. It has also benefited from experience gained by others regarding the implementation of the SSHAC process in projects in the USA, Switzerland and South Africa. The approach has been successfully applied as part of the Safety Case for the new-build nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point, UK. The proposed approach can be considered as a cost-effective solution for the seismic hazard evaluation of safety-significant facilities where a high level of regulatory assurance is required

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourteenth from SDSS overall (making this, Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes public data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (July 2014-2016). Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS website (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release, and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020, and will be followed by SDSS-V.Comment: SDSS-IV collaboration alphabetical author data release paper. DR14 happened on 31st July 2017. 19 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by ApJS on 28th Nov 2017 (this is the "post-print" and "post-proofs" version; minor corrections only from v1, and most of errors found in proofs corrected