The Ursinus Weekly, February 3, 1919

Practice teaching and the small college • Gettysburg quintette too speedy for Ursinus • Opening session of the H.-P. group • Ursinus trounces Washington • Brotherhood of St. Paul holds meeting • Campus democracy • Junior girls sell sandwiches for 1920 Ruby • Letter from Guy A. Koons • Ex-business manager of Weekly returns • Schumann quintet coming!https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/2512/thumbnail.jp

‘Buffers’ against crime? Exploring the roles and limitations of positive relationships among women in prison

A considerable amount of research focuses on the detrimental influence that relationships pose for women offenders while relatively little attention has been given to the potential positive impact of relationships in their lives. This study investigates how women offenders’ positive relationships work as ‘buffers’ against their criminal involvement, as well as why some positive influences do not elicit long-term change in women. We examine various forms of relationships (both romantic and non-romantic) that female offenders develop and explore the mechanisms by which these relationships might influence their behavior. Life history interviews conducted with 60 incarcerated women revealed that women’s family members, friends, significant others, and children provided support, social capital, motivation, and opportunities which can buffer women from criminal behavior, but that women’s drug use, disadvantage, interest in, pride or shame, and desire to make positive changes limited the effectiveness of these relationships

Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone Secretion and Lead Toxicity in a Child With Sickle Cell Disease and Pica.

We describe the presentation and management of a three-year-old child with a history of pica, vitamin D deficiency, and sickle cell disease, who was admitted for pyelonephritis, and found to have elevated blood lead level (BLL) of 103.7 µg/dL, and who subsequently developed altered mental status and syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH). In consultation with Medical Toxicology, the patient was chelated with calcium disodium edetate (EDTA) and British Anti Lewisite (BAL). The patient\u27s hyponatremia was managed with hypertonic saline infusion. The patient\u27s encephalopathy improved throughout her hospital course, and she was discharged on hospital day 8. Following five days of EDTA and three days of BAL injections, her repeat BLL was 15.3 µg/dL. SIADH has been associated with severe lead poisoning and may be more likely to occur in high risk patients such as individuals with sickle cell anemia, particularly where medications are used that may cause iatrogenic hyponatremia

Three-Dimensional Mechanics of Yakutat Convergence in the Southern Alaskan Plate Corner

Three-dimensional numerical models are used to investigate the mechanical evolution of the southern Alaskan plate corner where the Yakutat and the Pacific plates converge on the North American plate. The evolving model plate boundary consists of Convergent, Lateral, and Subduction subboundaries with flow separation of incoming material into upward or downward trajectories forming dual, nonlinear advective thermal/mechanical anomalies that fix the position of major subaerial mountain belts. The model convergent subboundary evolves into two teleconnected orogens: Inlet and Outlet orogens form at locations that correspond with the St. Elias and the Central Alaska Range, respectively, linked to the East by the Lateral boundary. Basins form parallel to the orogens in response to the downward component of velocity associated with subduction. Strain along the Lateral subboundary varies as a function of orogen rheology and magnitude and distribution of erosion. Strain-dependent shear resistance of the plate boundary associated with the shallow subduction zone controls the position of the Inlet orogen. The linkages among these plate boundaries display maximum shear strain rates in the horizontal and vertical planes where the Lateral subboundary joins the Inlet and Outlet orogens. The location of the strain maxima shifts with time as the separation of the Inlet and Outlet orogens increases. The spatiotemporal predictions of the model are consistent with observed exhumation histories deduced from thermochronology, as well as stratigraphic studies of synorogenic deposits. In addition, the complex structural evolution of the St Elias region is broadly consistent with the predicted strain field evolution. Citation: Koons, P. O., B. P. Hooks, T. Pavlis, P. Upton, and A. D. Barker (2010), Three-dimensional mechanics of Yakutat convergence in the southern Alaskan plate corner, Tectonics, 29, TC4008, doi: 10.1029/2009TC002463

The Case for Personal Interaction: Drop-Off/Pick-Up Methodology for Survey Research

Researchers have struggled with decreases in response rates in surveys using traditional methods. Dropoff/pick-up (DOPU) surveys are an alternative that performs well in some research situations. For studies in small or compact geographic areas, DOPU has achieved higher response rates than mail surveys, although typically at higher costs due to labor and transportation. Other benefits include increased local awareness of research projects and improved outcomes for complex survey projects. Social exchange theory would explain the success of DOPU as due to the method’s personal interaction. Many researchers are unfamiliar with DOPU and prior instructive works are now dated. In an attempt to provide survey researchers another methodological tool, we review prior instructive works, comparative research on the method, and studies using DOPU for data collection. Applying social exchange theory to a synthesis of these prior works, we propose recommended practices for using DOPU and illustrate these with our own experiences

Portfolio Vol. V N 2

Koons, Marilynn. America Is . Poem. 4. Rucker, J.G. Nothing but the Beat . Prose. 5. Wyman, John. Pringle . Prose. 6. Tolan, Marace. Hands at Midnight . Poem. 7. Wright, Edward A. All in a Day\u27s Work . Prose. 8. Benson, Virginia. Now is the Time . Prose. 9. Moll, Wilhelm. The Dead Lover . Prose. 12. Flammt, Marga. Escape . Poem. 14. Rolph, Alice. Fancy\u27s Flight . Poem. 14. Vercoe, Mary. Future . Poem. 14. Klammt,Marga. Parting . Poem. 14. Anonymous. Denisoniana . Picture. 10. Benson, Virginia. Marquand-H.M. Pulham. Esquire . Prose. 15. Benson, Virginia. Junior Miss . Prose. 15. Reynolds, Virginia. Stubs of the Jungle . Prose. 16. Masquers. Thespiana . Prose. 17. Anonymous. How to Knit a Sweater, or, Eighteen Holes . Prose. 20

An evaluation of the TRIPS computer system

The TRIPS system employs a new instruction set architecture (ISA) called Explicit Data Graph Execution (EDGE) that renegotiates the boundary between hardware and software to expose and exploit concurrency. EDGE ISAs use a block-atomic execution model in which blocks are composed of dataflow instructions. The goal of the TRIPS design is to mine concurrency for high performance while tolerating emerging technology scaling challenges, such as increasing wire delays and power consumption. This paper evaluates how well TRIPS meets this goal through a detailed ISA and performance analysis. We compare performance, using cycles counts, to commercial processors. On SPEC CPU2000, the Intel Core 2 outperforms compiled TRIPS code in most cases, although TRIPS matches a Pentium 4. On simple benchmarks, compiled TRIPS code outperforms the Core 2 by 10% and hand-optimized TRIPS code outperforms it by factor of 3. Compared to conventional ISAs, the block-atomic model provides a larger instruction window, increases concurrency at a cost of more instructions executed, and replaces register and memory accesses with more efficient direct instruction-to-instruction communication. Our analysis suggests ISA, microarchitecture, and compiler enhancements for addressing weaknesses in TRIPS and indicates that EDGE architectures have the potential to exploit greater concurrency in future technologies