Letter From Dorothy Schumann Plantholt to Eleanor Snell, May 22, 1970

This letter from Dorothy Schumann Plantholt congratulates Eleanor Snell on the occasion of her retirement from Ursinus College and remarks on Eleanor\u27s professionalism and friendship.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/snell_docs/1080/thumbnail.jp

Rethinking the American Home: Expandable-Life-cycle Houses in Suburban Context

The range of typical single family houses available in the market today does not respond well to the ever changing size of the family, first expanding then contracting. Ideally, a house should be flexible throughout the household's life cycle and respond to its owners' ever changing needs. A life-cycle-family house could grow and contract with the family and meet any new functional needs, such as accessibility for the elderly. Could a new house type allow each household to stay in residence longer, ease the financial trouble of purchasing new houses as aging precipitates changes in lifestyle? This thesis will explore the possibility of ways to provide a new house type, one that can expand and contract with the needs of a typical family

A sufficient condition for the existence of an anti-directed 2-factor in a directed graph

Let D be a directed graph with vertex set V and order n. An anti-directed hamiltonian cycle H in D is a hamiltonian cycle in the graph underlying D such that no pair of consecutive arcs in H form a directed path in D. An anti-directed 2-factor in D is a vertex-disjoint collection of anti-directed cycles in D that span V. It was proved in [3] that if the indegree and the outdegree of each vertex of D is greater than (9/16)n then D contains an anti-directed hamilton cycle. In this paper we prove that given a directed graph D, the problem of determining whether D has an anti-directed 2-factor is NP-complete, and we use a proof technique similar to the one used in [3] to prove that if the indegree and the outdegree of each vertex of D is greater than (24/46)n then D contains an anti-directed 2-factor

Assessing compliance of cardiologists with the national cholesterol education program (NCEP) III guidelines in an ambulatory care setting

INTRODUCTION: The NCEP III -ATP guidelines provide clear clinical directives for lipid management especially statins therapy in appropriate patient groups. Compliance of primary care physicians with these guidelines especially in ambulatory care settings has been shown to be poor. The compliance of cardiologist to these guidelines is less documented. METHODS: A retrospective chart review of 386 patients managed in a large urban cardiology practice was undertaken. Patients with documented contraindications to use of statins were excluded from the study. Only patients with two or more years of follow-up in the practice were included. Demographic variables and medical history including CAD or its equivalent and its major risk factors were identified. The proportion of patients on statins and adequacy of statins therapy were recorded. The lipid profiles of all patients were also analyzed. RESULTS: Fifteen patients with documented contraindications to statins therapy including persistent/severe LFT abnormalities, allergies, and gastrointestinal intolerance were excluded. A total of 371 patients were included in the analysis. The mean age for patients in the study was 65 years (range: 42–84). 236 (64%) were males while 141 (36%) were females. 161 (43%) patients were on statins while 210 (57%) weren't. 88 (62%) of females were on stain compared to 116 (49%) of males (p = 0.001). 68% of patients below the age of 50 yrs were not on statins compared with 55% of those greater than 50 yrs (p = 0.01). 38% of patients on statins therapy had sub-optimal lipid profile despite greater than two years of therapy. No statistically significant differences in race and use of satins were noted. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates a higher than expected prevalence of sub-optimal management of dyslipidemia among patients with established coronary heart disease without contraindications to statins managed by cardiologists. Cardiology and primary care practices require similar comprehensive routine lipid management program that is assiduously maintained and evaluated at both in-patient and out patient settings to ensure most patients receive optimal therapy with statins and other lipid lowering agents

Adapting to Evolving Needs: A Case Study of the Long Branch Free Public Library’s Social Work Program

The purpose of this project was to explore the recent trend of hiring full-time social workers as public library employees. The study focused on the benefits and concerns of providing social work services in a public library space, the process of creating public library social work programs, and assessment strategies used to measure the impact of these services. A case study was conducted in order to explore these topics. The case study focused on the Long Branch Free Public Library. Interviews and existing data were be used in order to collect data, and this data was analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings are be a much-needed contribution to the greatly lacking area of literature regarding social workers in public libraries. The conclusion includes suggestions for future research.Master of Science in Library Scienc

The chromatic index of graphs with large maximum degree

By Vizing's Theorem, any graph G has chromatic index equal either to its maximum degree [Delta](G) or [Delta](G) + 1. A simple method is given for determining exactly the chromatic index of any graph with 2s + 2 vertices and maximum degree 2s.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/25365/1/0000813.pd

Chromatic index of graphs of even order with many edges.

We show that, for r = 1, 2, a graph G with 2n + 2 (6) vertices and maximum degree 2n + 1 - r is of Class 2 if and only if |E(G/v)| > () - rn, where v is a vertex of G of minimum degree, and we make a conjecture for 1 r n, of which this result is a special case. For r = 1 this result is due to Plantholt