The Ursinus Weekly, October 15, 1928

Campus activities to be reorganized under three major groups • Patsy to be given on dad\u27s day, November 10 • Poverty day a feature for old timers\u27 Saturday • Hoover is Ursinus choice in Weekly\u27s straw vote • Frosh hold Muhlenberg yearlings to 0-0 score • Grizzlies claw F. & M. 12-0 • The college announces two chapel speakers • Celebrate bears\u27 victory at first council dance • Vaudeville & parade were indexes of student pep • Woman\u27s Club to sponsor novel dorm fund plan • Senior girls to be guests at luncheon Saturday • Alumni Athletic Club meets Saturday • Card party and dance • Lost Lake hike • MSGA revised constitution • High school puts up stiff fight in hockey game • Y.M.C.A. holds reorganization smoker • Organ concert next Sunday • Frosh to play Keystone Academyhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/2160/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, November 12, 1928

Senior class presents The Patsy Saturday evening • Dr. J. M. S. Isenberg speaks at school of religion • Second annual dad\u27s day banquet held on Saturday • Bears bow to Drexel Dragons in last home game of season 13-0 • Yearlings defeated by Beckley College, score 8-0 • Election day a holiday on the Ursinus campus • Ursinus Biology Club reorganizes Thursday evening • Boxing and wrestling get under way at Ursinus • Ursinus debating league meets in Bomberger Hall • English Club meets in Maples Wednesday evening • Women to debate on jury system - tryouts November 10 • Women\u27s Club about to launch hosiery campaign • Consistorial dinner given the Philadelphia classis • Co-eds send Drexel home with a 10-2 hockey defeat • Chinese missionary addresses Y girls • Mrs. Webb\u27s cherubs bow down to anti-Webb boys • Y.W. girls staging a tour around the world • The Y in Chinese ways • 59,948 enroll in colleges • Collegeville A. A. present the Keystone Minstrels • U to battle Swarthmore • P.M.C. coach at pep meetinghttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/2164/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, February 25, 1929

Men\u27s Glee Club presents concerts in coal region • The Patsy appears at Victor Theater, Pottstown • Cast chosen for The cat and the canary • Bears bow to ancient rivals on the court • Week of prayer to be sponsored by YM-YW • Women\u27s Glee Club sings in York, Pennsylvania • Curtis concert to be given Thursday evening • St. Elmo to be presented for benefit of 1930 Ruby • Women hear well-known speakers • Lorelei dance proves a big success • Senior ball tickets being disposed rapidly • American legion entertains • Frosh debaters win • Junior and senior classes elect officers for year • Coeds lose first to Drexel • Fire co. to hold dance in gym on Tuesday night • Dr. Isenberg to preach in Zurich during summer • The two generations of Ursinus • International Relations Club organized • Webster forensic clubhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/2176/thumbnail.jp

Appendicitis and diverticulitis of the colon: Misleading forms

AbstractAppendicitis and diverticulitis of the colon are the two main causes of febrile acute abdomen in adults. Diagnosis from imaging (ultrasound and CT) is usually easy. However, an imaging procedure which is not suitable for the clinical situation and an examination performed with the wrong protocol are sources of error and must be avoided. Anatomical variants, inflammatory cancers, complicated forms (perforation, secondary occlusion of the small intestine, peripheral abscesses, fistulae, pylephlebitis, liver abscesses) and associated signs related to a peritoneal inflammatory reaction (reflex ileus, reactive ileitis or salpingitis) can also lead to a wrong diagnosis

Behavioral Measurement of Sensation Seeking Shows Positive Association with Risky Behaviors

poster abstractSensation seeking (SS; the tendency to seek out experiences that are highly varied, novel, and intense, and the willingness to take risks in order to have such experiences) is strongly related to risky behavior. However, most prior research has relied on self-report assessments of SS, which are limited by subject biases and lack of insight. This study is designed to develop and optimize a behavioral assessment of SS to be used in future brain imaging studies, and to evaluate the relationship of this behavior with selfreported SS and risky behaviors. The novel behavioral SS task employed in this study presents participants with olfactory sensory stimuli and assesses the individual’s preference to seek varied, novel, and intense sensations, with the risk of an unpleasant stimulus (“Varied”; e.g. strong orange, rose, linalyl acetate, and propionic acid) vs. weaker and mildly pleasant sensations (“Standard”; weak vanillin, orange, and rose) across two twenty-trial sessions. Hypothesis: greater preference for “Varied” odors will correlate with self-reported SS and risky behaviors. Odorants are presented as a 1-sec burst via an airdilution olfactometer within a filtered airstream. Participants are being recruited from the Introduction to Psychology class at IUPUI (currently n = 11 total, mean age (SD) = 21.2, (5.4), n = 8 women, n = 7 Caucasian). The mean preference for “Varied” was 50%, range = 28-75%. Preference for “Varied” showed a moderate relationship with negative risky behaviors (r = 0.35) and SS (Zuckerman Thrill/Adventure seeking subscale; r = 0.48), suggesting that the behavioral task is associating as expected with these self-report variables. These preliminary data suggests the feasibility of behavioral SS assessment; behavioral characterization will permit examination of how SS influences brain activity, without the limitations of self-report. How SS affects choice of and reactions to new and exciting experiences has important research and clinical implications

Public and Private Maternal Health Service Capacity and Patient Flows in Southern Tanzania: Using a Geographic Information System to Link Hospital and National Census data.

Background : Strategies to improve maternal health in low-income countries are increasingly embracing partnership approaches between public and private stakeholders in health. In Tanzania, such partnerships are a declared policy goal. However, implementation remains challenging as unfamiliarity between partners and insufficient recognition of private health providers prevail. This hinders cooperation and reflects the need to improve the evidence base of private sector contribution. Objective : To map and analyse the capacities of public and private hospitals to provide maternal health care in southern Tanzania and the population reached with these services. Design : A hospital questionnaire was applied in all 16 hospitals (public n=10; private faith-based n=6) in 12 districts of southern Tanzania. Areas of inquiry included selected maternal health service indicators (human resources, maternity/delivery beds), provider-fees for obstetric services and patient turnover (antenatal care, births). Spatial information was linked to the 2002 Population Census dataset and a geographic information system to map patient flows and socio-geographic characteristics of service recipients. Results : The contribution of faith-based organizations (FBOs) to hospital maternal health services is substantial. FBO hospitals are primarily located in rural areas and their patient composition places a higher emphasis on rural populations. Also, maternal health service capacity was more favourable in FBO hospitals. We approximated that 19.9% of deliveries in the study area were performed in hospitals and that the proportion of c-sections was 2.7%. Mapping of patient flows demonstrated that women often travelled far to seek hospital care and where catchment areas of public and FBO hospitals overlap. Conclusions : We conclude that the important contribution of FBOs to maternal health services and capacity as well as their emphasis on serving rural populations makes them promising partners in health programming. Inclusive partnerships could increase integration of FBOs into the public health care system and improve coordination and use of scarce resources

Sixty Years of Fractal Projections

Sixty years ago, John Marstrand published a paper which, among other things, relates the Hausdorff dimension of a plane set to the dimensions of its orthogonal projections onto lines. For many years, the paper attracted very little attention. However, over the past 30 years, Marstrand's projection theorems have become the prototype for many results in fractal geometry with numerous variants and applications and they continue to motivate leading research.Comment: Submitted to proceedings of Fractals and Stochastics

TYMSTR, a putative chemokine receptor selectively expressed in activated T cells, exhibits HIV-1 coreceptor function

AbstractBackground: Chemokines bind to specific receptors and mediate leukocyte migration to sites of inflammation. Recently, some chemokine receptors, notably CXCR4 and CCR5, have been shown to be essential fusion factors on target cells for infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); the chemokines bound by these receptors have also been shown to act as potent inhibitors of HIV infection. Here, we describe the isolation of a novel, putative chemokine receptor.Results: We have isolated the cDNA for a putative human chemokine receptor, which we have termed TYMSTR (T-lymphocyte-expressed seven-transmembrane domain receptor). The TYMSTR gene is localized to human chromosome 3 and encodes a protein that has a high level of identity with chemokine receptors. TYMSTR mRNA was selectively expressed in interleukin-2-stimulated T lymphocytes but not in freshly isolated lymphocytes and leukocytes or related cell lines. The natural ligand for TYMSTR was not identified among 32 human chemokines and other potential ligands. Cells co-expressing TYMSTR and human CD4 fused with cells expressing envelope glycoproteins of macrophage (M)-tropic HIV-1 as well as T-cell line (T)-tropic HIV-1 isolates. Addition of infectious, T-tropic HIV-1 particles to TYMSTR/CD4-expressing cells resulted in viral entry and proviral DNA formation.Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate that TYMSTR, in combination with CD4, mediates HIV-1 fusion and entry. The high-level expression of TYMSTR in CD4+ T lymphocytes and the selectivity of this receptor for T-tropic and M-tropic HIV-1 strains indicates that TYMSTR might function as HIV coreceptor at both early and late stages of infection