Nontraditional Partnerships in Pursuit of the “Information Infrastructure”

The New York State Higher Education Initiative (NYSHEI) represents the public and private academic and research libraries of New York, and differs from other state-based academic library organizations in both its size and mission. NYSHEI holds about 150 member institutions, including all 87 of the state’s public colleges and universities, and nine ARL members. Founded in 2002, NYSHEI evolved into its current form in 2007 by adopting a focus on political advocacy. NYSHEI applies its diverse collection of collaborating libraries toward achieving a statewide “information infrastructure” that supports not just the academic enterprise, but all research, innovation, and entrepreneurialism in New York. An important lesson learned during the formative phase of NYSHEI is that collaboration as a strategic value can be fairly meaningless. Rightly understood, collaboration is a tactic that helps two or more parties attain separate but shared aims. As such, NYSHEI approaches information resources as a required utility for the modern era, and actively works with partners in the business community, state government, and health care fields to promote widespread access to information resources

Senior Recital:Jason Kramer, Guitar

Kemp Recital Hall Saturday Noon February 16, 2008 12:00p.m

Length Matters: Message Metrics that Result in Higher Levels of Perceived Partner Responsiveness and Changes in Intimacy as Friends Communicate through Social Network Sites

This study focuses on how young adults enact their relationships in public through self-disclosing interactions on Facebook.  A Facebook self-disclosure status update, along with as many as three corresponding response comments, was copied by each of 271 participants from their own Facebook Wall, and pasted to an online survey.  Status update and response comments contain characters such as letters, numbers, and symbols to express meaning.  Seven textual measures were used to quantify the content of these messages; one such measure was a count of the number of characters contained in each response.  Results show message length is associated with perceived partner responsiveness and feelings of increased intimacy with those who reply to one’s status update with a response comment.  Women, and close friends and family post longer messages.  The outward appearance of a message matters for the perception of responsive communication on Facebook

A Painful Protrusion – A Rare Presentation of Appendicitis

Introduction: Acute appendicitis is a common presenting clinical pathology and imaging diagnosis in everyday practice, as well as indication for surgery. CT is a sensitive first line imaging modality for assessing for appendicitis. Often assessed with ultrasound given the benefit of dynamic maneuvers, hernias are also commonly incidentally noted on CT. Methods: Portal venous phase CT is a sensitive first line imaging modality in assessing abdominal pain and appendicitis in adults, and possible associated complications. Rarely an inflamed appendix may be located within a femoral hernia, referred to as a De Garengeot’s hernia. Results: A 49 year-old female with past medical history notable for pulmonary hypertension on 8 liters home oxygen presented to the ER with complaints of 4 days of worsening right groin swelling and pain. Patient was noted to be febrile with tachycardia, with laboratory studies pertinent for leukocytosis. Initial concern was for an incarcerated/strangulated right inguinal hernia, and given patient medical history, she was transferred to Henry Ford Main for escalation of care. Patient underwent CT upon arrival which demonstrated a right femoral hernia, incidentally noted on remote prior imaging, with a tubular structure within the hernia sac which was new from prior and compatible with a thickened appendix associated with adjacent inflammatory changes. Patient was subsequently taken to the operating room for a laparoscopic appendectomy with right femoral hernia sac excision and femoral hernia repair. Pathologic analysis of the obtained surgical specimen confirmed the diagnosis of acute appendicitis with hernia sac congestion and inflammation. Conclusions: De Garengeot’s hernia is a rare and clinically difficult to diagnose entity. Femoral and inguinal hernias are difficult to differentiate clinically, with nonreducible strangulated hernias associated with swelling and pain. CT imaging is an important tool to aid in the diagnosis and classification of groin hernias, and even more so in assessing for appendicitis and possible complications including the rarely seen De Garengeot hernia.https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/merf2020caserpt/1130/thumbnail.jp

From Insight to Action: New Directions in Foundation Evaluation

The field of philanthropy is undergoing a fundamental transition toward more performance-centered and forward-looking evaluation approaches that provide foundations and their grantees with timely information and actionable insights. Our report highlights emerging evaluation practices and identifies major trends in the field related to increasing effectiveness for both foundations and grantees. Based on nearly 100 interviews with foundation leaders and evaluators, this report represents the first step in a multi-year action initiative to develop pragmatic evaluation approaches that enable foundations, large or small, to achieve greater social impact

Galactic Center Pulsars with the ngVLA

Pulsars in the Galactic Center (GC) are important probes of General Relativity, star formation, stellar dynamics, stellar evolution, and the interstellar medium. Despite years of searching, only a handful of pulsars in the central 0.5 deg are known. The high-frequency sensitivity of ngVLA will open a new window for discovery and characterization of pulsars in the GC. A pulsar in orbit around the GC black hole, Sgr A*, will provide an unprecedented probe of black hole physics and General Relativity.Comment: To be published in the ASP Monograph Series, "Science with a Next-Generation VLA", ed. E. J. Murphy (ASP, San Francisco, CA

Large File System Backup: NERSC Global File System Experience

NERSC's Global File system (NGF), accessible from all compute systems at NERSC, holds files and data from many scientific projects. A full backup of this file system to our High Performance Storage System (HPSS) is performed periodically. Disk storage usage by projects at NERSC has grown seven fold over a two year period, from ~;;20TB in June 2006 to ~;;140 TB in June 2008. The latest full backup took about 13 days and more than 200 T10k tape cartridges (.5 TB capacity). Petabyte file systems are becoming a reality in the next few years and the existing utilities are already strained in handling backup tasks