The open-air treatment of chronic pulmonary tuberculosis as applied to general hospitals : with special reference to the results obtained at Northampton General Hospital

It is a matter of common observation in the world at large that new ideas political, ethical and religious occasionally arise, one hardly knows how, and become for the time being, the dominating question, interesting nearly the whole of civilised humanity. Numbers of books are written on such questions; acrid controversies very often arise; and finally the idea is either accepted and becomes a recognised part of the common stock of human thought, or is rejected and sinks back into the limbo whence it arose.In the Medical Polity the same phenomena take place on a smaller scale. The unknown cause of a disease is said to be discovered, or a new remedy is devised for some hitherto incurable malady. Protagonists and antagonists hasten to the combat. The air rings with recriminations and the shouts of triumph. The question occupies a place of paramount importance in the medical journals. Even the lay press deigns to give the ever sanguine public some scraps of information, too often incorrect. If it be a new treatment, the results are lauded to the skies. Intemperate writers hasten to announce that death has lost its terrors, that 70, 80 or 90% of those afflicted with some virulent disease are cured and cured easily, even in the most advanced stages (cf. Nineteenth Century, March 1899) and then comes the inevitable reaction. The intemperate prophets are shown to have drawn brilliant pictures at the expense of the truth and gloomy seers are received with favour, who announce that the new treatment is no better than the old, but perhaps, if anything, worse. Finally, after much futile and unnecessary controversy, the results of the treatment are established on the basis of common sense, statistics, and extended observation.It is no exaggeration to say that the subject of the open air treatment of phthisis about which this Thesis is concerned, has been, and is indeed even now to a certain extent, passing through these phases

Using DEA Factor Efficiency Scores to Eliminate Subjectivity in Goal Programming

Many real-world problems require decision makers to consider multiple criteria when performing an analysis. One popular method used to analyze multicriteria decision problems is goal programming. When applying goal programming, it is often difficult if not impossible to determine the target values and unit penalty weights with any level of confidence. Thus, in many situations, managers and decision makers may be forced to specify these parameters subjectively. In this paper, we present a model framework designed to eliminate the arbitrary assignment of target values and unit penalty weights when applying goal programming to solve multicriteria decision problems. In particular, when neither of these parameters is available, we show how to integrate factor efficiency scores determined from data envelopment analysis into the model. We discuss an application of the methodology to ambulatory surgery centers and demonstrate the model framework via a product mix example

Donald N. Levine, Interpreting Ethiopia: Observations of Five Decades

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Career outcomes and SFIA as tools to design ICT curriculum

Career outcomes are one of the major influencing factors when applicants are selecting their course. While theoretically, linking curriculum design closely with career outcomes might be an ideal situation, in practice, ICT curricula are in a constant state of flux and it is unclear whether the specified career outcomes for a course were part of the curriculum (re-)design process. SFIA provides a common reference model to communicate the value and relevance of a course to potential applicants and employers. This paper reports on the application of the ACS process for designing an ICT curriculum that is directly informed by the career outcomes relevant to both the local and national ICT industry and the necessary SFIA skill sets to attain those career outcomes. Using this approach we are able to illustrate to employers the capabilities of graduates and provide evidence to applicants that the course relates to the advertised career outcomes

Animals and Literature

Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of Animals and Literature. Contains Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Ursinus Weekly, February 15, 1967

Lorelei, the Drifters, and winter I.F. highlight February social events: Winter weekend approaches; Rock and roll comes to Ursinus; Lorelei lures Ye Gods • 1967 Whitians chosen • Color Day approaches • U.C. singers tour in Feb. • Chapel changes • Sheriff speaks • Scholarship to Scotland available to Ursinus sophs • Editorial: Fact over fiction • Clark visit stimulates appeal to government • Letter to home: Uses for Wismer Lounge confuse UC freshman • The play\u27s the thing • Curtain Club to collaborate with Pumpernickel Players: Will produce two plays in upcoming month • Letter to the editor • History column • Bears lose to Swarthmore 70-67 • Grapplers fall to Hopkins, 16-13 • Hard luck plagues wrestler Eric Ruoss • Bears top PMC; Compton gets 28 • Wrestlers blanked by Elizabethtown, 33-0 • Buggsy is high B.B. scorer • Travel seminar • G.E. College Bowl • Free University announces new courses and seminars • J.V.\u27s lose first game of the season • Pumpernickel Players perform • Bears trample E-Burg: Casey Carson scores 29 points • Greek gleaningshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1196/thumbnail.jp

Radio-Frequency Plasma Cleaning of a Penning Malmberg Trap

Radio-frequency-generated plasma has been demonstrated to be a promising means of cleaning the interior surfaces of a Penning-Malmberg trap that is used in experiments on the confinement of antimatter. {Such a trap was reported in Modified Penning-Malmberg Trap for Storing Antiprotons (MFS-31780), NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 29, No. 3 (March 2005), page 66.} Cleaning of the interior surfaces is necessary to minimize numbers of contaminant atoms and molecules, which reduce confinement times by engaging in matter/antimatter-annihilation reactions with confined antimatter particles. A modified Penning-Malmberg trap like the one described in the cited prior article includes several collinear ring electrodes (some of which are segmented) inside a tubular vacuum chamber, as illustrated in Figure 1. During operation of the trap, a small cloud of charged antiparticles (e.g., antiprotons or positrons) is confined to a spheroidal central region by means of a magnetic field in combination with DC and radiofrequency (RF) electric fields applied via the electrodes. In the present developmental method of cleaning by use of RF-generated plasma, one evacuates the vacuum chamber, backfills the chamber with hydrogen at a suitable low pressure, and uses an RF-signal generator and baluns to apply RF voltages to the ring electrodes. Each ring is excited in the polarity opposite that of the adjacent ring. The electric field generated by the RF signal creates a discharge in the low-pressure gas. The RF power and gas pressure are adjusted so that the plasma generated in the discharge (see Figure 2) physically and chemically attacks any solid, liquid, and gaseous contaminant layers on the electrode surfaces. The products of the physical and chemical cleaning reactions are gaseous and are removed by the vacuum pumps

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