The Grizzly, February 8, 1980

\u27Omega Tau\u27 Case Dismissed • Trouble With Townies? Ursinus\u27 Reputation • Workshop To Be Offered In Shakespeare TV • Letters to the Editor • Roving Reporter: Collegeville • Ruby Editor-in-Chief Applications • Tut & Agents Shoot For Title • W\u27s Basketball Splits • Hollstein Leads Splashers • Indoor Track Looks Like Early Springhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1032/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, October 12, 1979

Senior Aids Police In False Alarm Investigation • Computer Expansion Proposed • Appointments Total Fifteen • Genetic Research to Yield More Males? • USGA Notes • Little River Band Flowing Smoothly • Music News: Fleetwood Mac, Lynyrd Skynyrd • Sports Profile: Laurie Holmes • Football Falls Short By Three • Soccer Proves Capability • Hockey Splits Games • Intramural Football Playoff Battle • Volleyball defeats Harcumhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1023/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 15, 1980

J-Board Hears USGA Controversy • Victory Over Swarthmore: Men\u27s Basketball Captures Title • Reber Spends Semester In England • USGA Notes • Letters to the Editor • Basketball Downs K-town • MAC Championships • Lacrosse Looking Good • Spider Wrestler Line-up • The FUNdamentals of Freestyle Skiinghttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1033/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, September 21, 1979

Alcohol Policy Revisions Cause Uproar • College Assigns Disciplinary Measures • Mailroom Services Questioned • Letters to the Editor • Sophomore Questionnaires • College Selects Akin As New Dean • Platforms for Frosh Offices • The Knack: It\u27s the Beat • Maintenance Changes • U.C. Clubs: Don\u27t Wait Till Next Year • Co-eds Rushing • Continuing Education Increases • USGA Notes • Ursinus News In Brief: 76/80 progress report; Psych prof honored; Interest inventory offered • Fearless Friday Forecast • College Elects New Board President • Middle States Reaccredits College • Hockey Sparked By Kamakaze Offense • Booters Stun Division I Drexel • Sutherland New Volleyball Coach •Gridders Fall at :29https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1020/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, November 2, 1979

TCE Level Too High? Collegeville Water Poisoning Level Questioned • Greaseband to Present Return Performance In Helfferich • Senior Plays Role As Big Brother • Letters to the Editor • Roving Reporter: Infirmary services • Tull: Another Visit From The Past • Music News: Foreigner, Tom Petty • The Best Of The Seventies - Part 2 • Homecoming 1979 • Volleyball Team Continues Up And Down • Hockey\u27s 3 & 4 Finish Season • JV Hockey Ties Rams, 1-1 • Gridders Upset Dutchmen • Five Honored • Cross Country Wins Two More • Espo Paces Booter Win • Hockey Edges Rivalshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1026/thumbnail.jp

The case for investment in technology to manage the global costs of dementia

Worldwide growth in the number of people living with dementia will continue over the coming decades and is already putting pressure on health and care systems, both formal and informal, and on costs, both public and private. One response could be to make greater use of digital and other technologies to try to improve outcomes and contain costs. We were commissioned to examine the economic case for accelerated investment in technology that could, over time, deliver savings on the overall cost of care for people with dementia. Our short study included a rapid review of international evidence on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of technology, consideration of the conditions for its successful adoption, and liaison with people from industry, government, academic, third sector and other sectors, and people with dementia and carers. We used modelling analyses to examine the economic case, using the UK as context. We then discussed the roles that state investment or action could play, perhaps to accelerate use of technology so as to deliver both wellbeing and economic benefits

The Grizzly, November 30, 1979

College Costs To Skyrocket • Committee Explores Campus Problems • Audiovisual Services Relocated in Myrin • USGA Notes • Letters to the Editor • Roving Reporter: Iranian Crisis • Portrait of a Professor: Dr. John Wickersham • JDB - Full of Surprises • Vonnegut\u27s \u27Jailbird\u27: Life of Walter Starbuck • Pilgrim To Speak On Economy • Cagers Open 79-80 Campaign With Victory • Gridders Win Finale With Shut-Out • Garner Races To 68th In Nation • Sports Profile: Rick Morris • Pool Records Sethttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1029/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, November 9, 1979

College Discusses New Ideas • New Bakery Planned for Wismer • Recent College Infirmary Changes Explored • Students Experience Studies Abroad • Letters to the Editor • Roving Reporter: Weekends • Portrait of a Professor: Dr. Evan Snyder • Tusk: Record of the Year • Cynthia Raim Delivers Sophisticated Performance • Wismer show huge success • Ursinus News In Brief: Professor participates in science workshop, Bach fans invited to open rehearsal, The Greaseband returns Nov. 16 • USGA Notes • Sports Profile: Kathy Smith • Colona\u27s Three Paces JV Hockey Victory • Gridders Pass To Second Win • Volleyball Defense Sparks Drexel Upset • Soccer Ends Best Season, 10-5-1 • Hockey Blanks ESSC, 3-0https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1027/thumbnail.jp

Precious Metals in SDSS Quasar Spectra I: Tracking the Evolution of Strong, 1.5 < z < 4.5 CIV Absorbers with Thousands of Systems

We have vastly increased the CIV statistics at intermediate redshift by surveying the thousands of quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data-Release 7. We visually verified over 16,000 CIV systems with 1.46 < z < 4.55---a sample size that renders Poisson error negligible. Detailed Monte Carlo simulations show we are approximately 50% complete down to rest equivalent widths W_r ~ 0.6 \AA. We analyzed the sample as a whole and in ten small redshift bins with approximately 1500 doublets each. The equivalent width frequency distributions f(W_r) were well modeled by an exponential, with little evolution in shape. In contrast with previous studies that modeled the frequency distribution as a single power law, the fitted exponential gives a finite mass density for the CIV ions. The co-moving line density dN_CIV/dX evolved smoothly with redshift, increasing by a factor of 2.37+/-0.09 from z = 4.55 to 1.96, then plateauing at dN_CIV/dX ~ 0.34 for z = 1.96 to 1.46. Comparing our SDSS sample with z < 1 (ultraviolet) and z > 5 (infrared) surveys, we see an approximately 10-fold increase in dN_CIV/dX over z ~ 6 --> 0, for W_r >= 0.6 \AA. This suggests a monotonic and significant increase in the enrichment of gas outside galaxies over the 12 Gyr lifetime of the universe.Comment: 17 pages (emulateapj), 13 figures, 4 tables; accepted to ApJ and in press; also see http://igmabsorbers.inf

Effect of telecare on use of health and social care services: findings from the Whole Systems Demonstrator cluster randomised trial

Objective: to assess the impact of telecare on the use of social and health care. Part of the evaluation of the Whole Systems Demonstrator trial. Participants and setting: a total of 2,600 people with social care needs were recruited from 217 general practices in three areas in England. Design: a cluster randomised trial comparing telecare with usual care, general practice being the unit of randomisation. Participants were followed up for 12 months and analyses were conducted as intention-to-treat. Data sources: trial data were linked at the person level to administrative data sets on care funded at least in part by local authorities or the National Health Service. Main outcome measures: the proportion of people admitted to hospital within 12 months. Secondary endpoints included mortality, rates of secondary care use (seven different metrics), contacts with general practitioners and practice nurses, proportion of people admitted to permanent residential or nursing care, weeks in domiciliary social care and notional costs. Results: 46.8% of intervention participants were admitted to hospital, compared with 49.2% of controls. Unadjusted differences were not statistically significant (odds ratio: 0.90, 95% CI: 0.75–1.07, P = 0.211). They reached statistical significance after adjusting for baseline covariates, but this was not replicated when adjusting for the predictive risk score. Secondary metrics including impacts on social care use were not statistically significant. Conclusions: telecare as implemented in the Whole Systems Demonstrator trial did not lead to significant reductions in service use, at least in terms of results assessed over 12 months