The Ursinus Weekly, February 24, 1958

Martin Zippin to speak at Y seminar on art, Feb. 26 • Grundy crowned; Whitians named at annual Lorelei • Army med service topic at pre-med meeting tonite • Seniors present Gold in the hills March 7 and 8 • Campus Chest \u2758 charities • Ursinus photo enthusiast shows camera art in UC Library foyer • Freshman women get colors at ceremonies • Cub & Key Society requests outlines from junior men • WSGA names May queen - J. Martin; Molitor, manager • Tau Sig and Sig Rho dance held Saturday night • Editorial: Art and the student • Nothing new under Ur sun (us) • Ode to idiots • Letters to the editor • Ursinus wrestlers visit Wilkes for meet, Fri. and Sat. • Swimming and basketball finds belles victorious • U.C. cagers downed again; PMC & Swarthmore victors • Matmen trounce PMC; Record now 5 wins, one loss • Sophomores elect Drummond and Watson to MSGAhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1400/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, January 13, 1958

Faculty, students get together for fireside chats • European views of Americans told at IRC meeting • Lantern contest offers prizes to writers and artists • Satellites topic at chem meeting tonight in S-12 • Library receives 400 dollar grant • Lorelei discussed, proctors named at MSGA meeting • Student teachers\u27 tales amuse SEAP meeting • Picasso exhibition opens at Philadelphia art museum • Tranquilizers subject of pre-med meeting, Jan. 8 • Podolak captains color guard • Sig Nu & Delta Pi to hold final fling January 18 • Editorial: It\u27s our move now • Trim the wick and brighten the Lantern • Prize poems • Picasso: Biography • Valentine Day opener set for girls\u27 badminton team • Girls\u27 basketball opener set for Feb. 12 with G\u27burg • UC grapplers beat Haverford 19-13 in season\u27s opener • Varsity cagers lose; J.V.s beat Swarthmore, Haverford • Bears scalped by Indians 81-69 in year-end game • Beta Sig mardi gras held • Frosh give dance: Beneath the sea • Many fields included in new library accessionshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1397/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, February 25, 1957

SGAs to sponsor forum on governments on Monday, Mar. 4 • Freshman women receive colors at program, Thurs. • Seniors to give original musical comedy, April 5, 6 • Lisle field representative to visit Ursinus tomorrow • Scholarship fund set up at U.C. by railroad company • Delta Pi man returns • Weekly to conduct vote on Wed. for best-dressed girl • UC Debating Club meets Lehigh and Rutgers of N.J. • Four charities to be supported in Campus Chest drive, March 4 to 15 • Sonnie Smith, Marge Struth voted May Queen, manager • Men\u27s government meets at advisor\u27s home • Curtain Club to present Valiant • WAA, Varsity Club hold annual dance, Friday • Curtain Club group plays for April announced • Future activities planned by U.C. Canterbury Club • Curtain Club announces name of Spring play • No classes Good Friday • Editorial: Memoranda for March 4 • Cynic • Report on the Perkiomen • Star-reaching • Who is the best-dressed woman at Ursinus? • Bears lose to Del., Rutgers; Meet division champs Wed. • U.C. to send Padula, Prutzman and Knauf to championships at G\u27burg • Prutzman stays undefeated as matmen topple cadets • Mermaids sink to Swarthmore, Wed. • Belles top G-burg; Drop first loss to Beaverhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1422/thumbnail.jp

The Lantern Vol. 27, No. 2, Spring 1959

• The Case for a Stratified Society • Education Courses • Some Thoughts for God\u27s Thinking Creatures • Sawdust to the Oats? • To Change the Things I Can... • Vignette • I Meet Goliath • Reverie and Reminiscence • On Flight • In Defense of Jazz • A Description • Line of Retreat • Alan Lomax and the American Folk Song • Dawn Stillness • Seasons • Two Poems • Despair • Too Late • Education • For All Practical Purposes He Was Bald • Contrast • I Belong to the Sea • Waves • Love • The Glory and the Dreamhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1077/thumbnail.jp

Emotional Labor in Mathematics: Reflections on Mathematical Communities, Mentoring Structures, and EDGE

Terms such as "affective labor" and "emotional labor" pepper feminist critiques of the workplace. Though there are theoretical nuances between the two phrases, both kinds of labor involve the management of emotions; some acts associated with these constructs involve caring, listening, comforting, reassuring, and smiling. In this article I explore the different ways academic mathematicians are called to provide emotional labor in the discipline, thereby illuminating a rarely visible component of a mathematical life in the academy. Underlying this work is my contention that a conceptualization of labor involved in managing emotions is of value to the project of understanding the character, values, and boundaries of such a life. In order to investigate the various dimensions of emotional labor in the context of academic mathematics, I extend the basic framework of Morris and Feldman [33] and then apply this extended framework to the mathematical sciences. Other researchers have mainly focused on the negative effects of emotional labor on a laborer's physical, emotional, and mental health, and several examples in this article align with this framing. However, at the end of the article, I argue that mathematical communities and mentoring structures such as EDGE help diminish some of the negative aspects of emotional labor while also accentuating the positives.Comment: Revised version to appear in the upcoming volume A Celebration of EDGE, edited by Sarah Bryant, Amy Buchmann, Susan D'Agostino, Michelle Craddock Guinn, and Leona Harri

Deriving clinically meaningful cut-scores for fatigue in a cohort of breast cancer survivors: a Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle (HEAL) Study

PURPOSE: To empirically determine clinically meaningful cut-scores on the 0-10 response scale of the revised Piper Fatigue Scale (PFS-R) and its shorter version (PFS-12). Breast cancer survivors were classified (i.e., none, mild, moderate, or severe fatigue) based on the cut-scores, and relationships between these cut-scores and decrements in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) were examined. METHODS: A total of 857 breast cancer survivors, stages in situ-IIIa, from the Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle (HEAL) Study were eligible. Survivors completed the PFS-R, SF-36, and a sexual health scale approximately 3 years after diagnosis. Multivariate analysis of covariance was used to examine five fatigue severity cut-score models, controlling for demographics, clinical characteristics, comorbidity, and antidepressant use. Multivariate regression was used to examine HRQOL decrements by cut-score category. RESULTS: Analyses supported two similar fatigue severity cut-score models for the PFS-R and PFS-12: Model A.) none (0), mild (1-3), moderate (4-6), and severe (7-10); and Model D.) none (0), mild (1-2), moderate (3-5), and severe (6-10). For every threshold increase in fatigue severity, clinically meaningful decrements in physical, mental, and sexual health scores were observed, supporting construct validity of the fatigue cut-scores. CONCLUSION: Standardized fatigue cut-scores may enhance interpretability and comparability across studies and populations and guide treating planning

Dynamic changes in the epigenomic landscape regulate human organogenesis and link to developmental disorders

From Springer Nature via Jisc Publications RouterHistory: received 2019-10-04, accepted 2020-06-18, registration 2020-06-24, pub-electronic 2020-08-06, online 2020-08-06, collection 2020-12Publication status: PublishedFunder: RCUK | Medical Research Council (MRC); doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000265; Grant(s): CRTF, PhD studentship, MR/J003352/1, MR/L009986/1, MR/L009986/1, MR/S036121/1, MR/000638/1Funder: Academy of Medical Sciences; doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000691; Grant(s): Lecturer starter grantFunder: Wellcome Trust (Wellcome); doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/100004440; Grant(s): 088566, 097820, 105610Abstract: How the genome activates or silences transcriptional programmes governs organ formation. Little is known in human embryos undermining our ability to benchmark the fidelity of stem cell differentiation or cell programming, or interpret the pathogenicity of noncoding variation. Here, we study histone modifications across thirteen tissues during human organogenesis. We integrate the data with transcription to build an overview of how the human genome differentially regulates alternative organ fates including by repression. Promoters from nearly 20,000 genes partition into discrete states. Key developmental gene sets are actively repressed outside of the appropriate organ without obvious bivalency. Candidate enhancers, functional in zebrafish, allow imputation of tissue-specific and shared patterns of transcription factor binding. Overlaying more than 700 noncoding mutations from patients with developmental disorders allows correlation to unanticipated target genes. Taken together, the data provide a comprehensive genomic framework for investigating normal and abnormal human development

The influence of cultivation methods on Shewanella oneidensis physiology and proteome expression

High-throughput analyses that are central to microbial systems biology and ecophysiology research benefit from highly homogeneous and physiologically well-defined cell cultures. While attention has focused on the technical variation associated with high-throughput technologies, biological variation introduced as a function of cell cultivation methods has been largely overlooked. This study evaluated the impact of cultivation methods, controlled batch or continuous culture in bioreactors versus shake flasks, on the reproducibility of global proteome measurements in Shewanellaoneidensis MR-1. Variability in dissolved oxygen concentration and consumption rate, metabolite profiles, and proteome was greater in shake flask than controlled batch or chemostat cultures. Proteins indicative of suboxic and anaerobic growth (e.g., fumarate reductase and decaheme c-type cytochromes) were more abundant in cells from shake flasks compared to bioreactor cultures, a finding consistent with data demonstrating that “aerobic” flask cultures were O2 deficient due to poor mass transfer kinetics. The work described herein establishes the necessity of controlled cultivation for ensuring highly reproducible and homogenous microbial cultures. By decreasing cell to cell variability, higher quality samples will allow for the interpretive accuracy necessary for drawing conclusions relevant to microbial systems biology research

Geomorphological and sedimentary processes of the glacially influenced northwestern Iberian continental margin and abyssal plains

The offshore region of northwestern Iberia offers an opportunity to study the impacts of along-slope processes on the morphology of a glacially influenced continental margin, which has traditionally been conceptually characterised by predominant down-slope sedimentary processes. High-resolution multibeam bathymetry, acoustic backscatter and ultrahigh-resolution seismic reflection profile data are integrated and analysed to describe the present-day and recent geomorphological features and to interpret their associated sedimentary processes. Seventeen large-scale seafloor morphologies and sixteen individual echo types, interpreted as structural features (escarpments, marginal platforms and related fluid escape structures) and depositional and erosional bedforms developed either by the influence of bottom currents (moats, abraded surfaces, sediment waves, contourite drifts and ridges) or by gravitational features (gullies, canyons, slides, channel-levee complexes and submarine fans), are identified for the first time in the study area (spanning ~90,000 km2 and water depths of 300m to 5 km). Different types of slope failures and turbidity currents are mainly observed on the upper and lower slopes and along submarine canyons and deep-sea channels. The middle slope morphologies are mostly determined by the actions of bottom currents (North Atlantic Central Water, Mediterranean Outflow Water, Labrador Sea Water and North Atlantic Deep Water), which thereby define the margin morphologies and favour the reworking and deposition of sediments. The abyssal plains (Biscay and Iberian) are characterised by pelagic deposits and channel-lobe systems (the Cantabrian and Charcot), although several contourite features are also observed at the foot of the slope due to the influence of the deepest water masses (i.e., the North Atlantic Deep Water and Lower Deep Water). Thiswork shows that the study area is the result of Mesozoic to present-day tectonics (e.g. themarginal platforms and structural highs). Therefore, tectonism constitutes a long-term controlling factor, whereas the climate, sediment supply and bottom currents play key roles in the recent short-term architecture and dynamics. Moreover, the recent predominant along-slope sedimentary processes observed in the studied northwestern Iberian Margin represent snapshots of the progressive stages and mixed deep-water system developments of the marginal platforms on passive margins and may provide information for a predictive model of the evolution of other similar margins.Departamento de Investigación y Prospectiva Geocientífica, Unidad de Tres Cantos, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, EspañaDepartamento de Geología y Geoquímica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, EspañaDepartment of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Reino Unid