Bowen-Moore Family Papers - Accession 1512

The Bowen-Moore Family Papers consists of a detailed family genealogy with dated photographs, personal letters, military history, legal documents, genealogy trees, cemetery records, and descriptions of certain key members. Family names include Bowen, Moore, Erwin, Pearson, Cureton, Neely, Shurley, Matthew, and Youngblood. There is also information pertaining to Beth Shiloh Presbyterian Church and Bethesda Presbyterian Church in York County, S.C.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2327/thumbnail.jp

Addie Stokes Mayfield Papers - Accession 548

The Addie Stokes Mayfield Papers consist mostly of photocopies of genealogical material collected and prepared by Winthrop Training School graduate (1933) and Winthrop College graduate (1937) Addie Stokes Mayfield (1916-1999) related to the Moore, Stokes, Rawlinson, Hutchinson, Caldwell, Springs, and Baxter families primarily from Rock Hill, SC. The genealogical entries span mostly from 1791 to 1983. The materials consists of biographical data and narratives on family members, lineage and family charts, genealogical notes, bible entries, correspondence and applications to the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Children of the Confederacy, etc., and nomination of the Stokes-Mayfield House (Rock Hill, South Carolina) to the National Register of Historic Places. The subjects of the biographical sketches include Dr. James Richmond Stokes (1877-1949), Harriet Baxter Rawlinson (1849-1933), Joel Woodward Rawlinson (1822-1888), Jane Moore Rawlinson (1820-1892), Addie Hutchinson Rawlinson Stokes (1883-1960), Walter Joel Rawlinson (1845-1928), Addie Hutchinson Caldwell Rawlinson (1851-1884), Dr. William Shakespeare Moore (1791-1867), and Harriet Baxter Springs Moore (1802-1832).https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2648/thumbnail.jp

Elizabeth Finley Moore Papers - Accession 327

The Elizabeth Finley Moore Paper consists of correspondence, land grants, deeds, surveys and other legal documents (1763-1864), photographs, and newspaper clippings relating to some of the oldest families in the Catawba region. Documents trace area land ownership for several family names, including Neely, Finley, Moore, Gist, and Crenshaw. Several documents bear the signatures of Charles Pinckney or Henry Middleton. The collection also contains correspondence from family in Ireland, from students at Troy Female Seminary and the College of Charleston, and from family in World Wars I and II. There are papers relating to S.C. activities in the Revolution; S.C. including the Revolutionary War Recollections of Major Henry Moore (1755-1842), churches and church people; The Daughters of the American Revolution in York, S.C.; David Edward Finley, director of the National Gallery of Art; and the restoration of Rose Hill, the Union County mansion of SC Governor William Henry Gist (1807-1874). The collection is a valuable record of several generations of Moore family life.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1405/thumbnail.jp

Robert Harris Papers - Accession 1168

Robert “Bob” Harris (1926-1998), of Lancaster, South Carolina, spent decades researching the genealogical history of the Harris family, dating back to Essex, England in the 1500s, and various branches thereof. The collection includes extensive notes, family trees, correspondence, and photocopies of original documents, such as wills and deeds, from the 1700s and 1800s. Mr. Harris, along with distant relatives and various correspondents from around the country, searched government records, archives, church records, newspapers and a variety of other sources to compile a significant collection of data pertaining to the history of various lines of Harris descendants. There are many family names mentioned in the collection, some only briefly and others more extensively. The following family names are of the primary names included (for a full listing see Appendix I): Bailes; Barham; Bratton; Brickhouse; Colthorp; Cureton; Elliott; Fullwood; Gordon; Hagins; Hall; Harris/Herries/Heriz; Heath; Hawkins; Hood; Kirk; Mehaffey; Miller; Moore; Mulkey; Ormond; Parker; Pennington; Pettus; Polk; Potts; Womack, Wren/Wrenn; Yarborough;https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2513/thumbnail.jp

Mothers’ perceptions of family centred care in neonatal intensive care units

Objective To explore mothers’ perceptions of family centred care (FCC) in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in England. Design The qualitative experiences of 12 mothers from three NICUs in the UK were elicited using individual interviews. A thematic network analysis was conducted on the transcribed interviews Main outcome measures A central global theme supported by a number of organizing themes were developed reflecting the views of the mothers and their experiences of FCC. Results A global theme of “Finding My Place” was identified, supported by six organizing themes: Mothering in Limbo; Deference to the Experts; Anxious Surveillance; Muted Relations, Power Struggles and Consistently Inconsistent. Mothers experienced a state of liminality and were acutely sensitive to power struggles, awkward relationships and inconsistencies in care. To try to maintain their equilibrium and protect their baby they formed deferential relationships with health professionals and remained in a state of anxious surveillance. Conclusions This study illustrates that despite the rhetoric around the practice of FCC in NICUs, there was little in the mother's narratives to support this. It is of the utmost importance to minimize the consequences of the liminal experience, to improve staff–mother interactions and to facilitate mothers’ opportunities to be primary caregivers

A numerical study of the development of bulk scale-free structures upon growth of self-affine aggregates

During the last decade, self-affine geometrical properties of many growing aggregates, originated in a wide variety of processes, have been well characterized. However, little progress has been achieved in the search of a unified description of the underlying dynamics. Extensive numerical evidence has been given showing that the bulk of aggregates formed upon ballistic aggregation and random deposition with surface relaxation processes can be broken down into a set of infinite scale invariant structures called "trees". These two types of aggregates have been selected because it has been established that they belong to different universality classes: those of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang and Edward-Wilkinson, respectively. Exponents describing the spatial and temporal scale invariance of the trees can be related to the classical exponents describing the self-affine nature of the growing interface. Furthermore, those exponents allows us to distinguish either the compact or non-compact nature of the growing trees. Therefore, the measurement of the statistic of the process of growing trees may become a useful experimental technique for the evaluation of the self-affine properties of some aggregates.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.

Statistical Theory for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation in 1+1 Dimension

The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation in 1+1 dimension dynamically develops sharply connected valley structures within which the height derivative {\it is not} continuous. There are two different regimes before and after creation of the sharp valleys. We develop a statistical theory for the KPZ equation in 1+1 dimension driven with a random forcing which is white in time and Gaussian correlated in space. A master equation is derived for the joint probability density function of height difference and height gradient $P(h-\bar h,\partial_{x}h,t)$ when the forcing correlation length is much smaller than the system size and much bigger than the typical sharp valley width. In the time scales before the creation of the sharp valleys we find the exact generating function of $h-\bar h$ and $\partial_x h$. Then we express the time scale when the sharp valleys develop, in terms of the forcing characteristics. In the stationary state, when the sharp valleys are fully developed, finite size corrections to the scaling laws of the structure functions $<(h-\bar h)^n (\partial_x h)^m>$ are also obtained.Comment: 50 Pages, 5 figure

Relative telomere lengths in tumor and normal mucosa are related to disease progression and chromosome instability profiles in colorectal cancer

Telomeric dysfunction is linked to colorectal cancer (CRC) initiation. However, the relationship of normal tissue and tumor telomere lengths with CRC progression, molecular features and prognosis is unclear. Here, we measured relative telomere length (RTL) by real-time quantitative PCR in 90 adenomas (aRTL), 419 stage I-IV CRCs (cRTL) and adjacent normal mucosa (nRTL). Age-adjusted RTL was analyzed against germline variants in telomere biology genes, chromosome instability (CIN), microsatellite instability (MSI), CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP), TP53, KRAS, BRAF mutations and clinical outcomes. In 509 adenoma or CRC patients, nRTL decreased with advancing age. Female gender, proximal location and the TERT rs2736100 G allele were independently associated with longer age-adjusted nRTL. Adenomas and carcinomas exhibited telomere shortening in 79% and 67% and lengthening in 7% and 15% of cases. Age-adjusted nRTL and cRTL were independently associated with tumor stage, decreasing from adenoma to stage III and leveling out or increasing from stage III to IV, respectively. Cancer MSI, CIMP, TP53, KRAS and BRAF status were not related to nRTL or cRTL. Near-tetraploid CRCs exhibited significantly longer cRTLs than CIN- and aneuploidy CRCs, while cRTL was significantly shorter in CRCs with larger numbers of chromosome breaks. Age-adjusted nRTL, cRTL or cRTL:nRTL ratios were not associated with disease-free or overall survival in stage II/III CRC. Taken together, our data show that both normal mucosa and tumor RTL are independently associated with CRC progression, and highlight divergent associations of CRC telomere length with tumor CIN profiles

The Role of Maternal Depression on Treatment Outcome for Children with Externalizing Behavior Problems

Studies have shown that, on average, Parent Management Training combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy decreases children’s externalizing behavior, but some children do not improve through treatment. The current study aimed to examine the role of maternal depression in understanding this variability in treatment outcome. Children with externalizing behavioral problems and their parents were recruited from combined Parent Management Training and Cognitive-Behavioral programs in “real-world” clinical settings. At pre- and post treatment, maternal depression and children’s externalizing behavior were assessed. Results showed that treatment was less effective for children of depressed mothers compared to non-depressed mothers and that improvements in maternal depression were associated with improvements in children’s externalizing behavior. These findings suggest that treatment programs for children with externalizing problems may be able to improve outcomes if maternal depression is a target of intervention