Poetry and Autographs Album Belonging to Mary Virginia Wood

Abolitionist Mary Virginia Wood Forten (1815-1840), the mother of Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837-1914), created one of the five extant antebellum African American friendship albums. Born enslaved in North Carolina and emancipated at 17 by her wealthy planter father, she, her mother, and her three siblings relocated to Philadelphia in 1833. There, she became a charter member of the interracial Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and the Female Vigilance Association. She married Robert B. Forten, son of antislavery activist James Forten, in 1836, and their daughter Charlotte Louise Forten was born the following year. She died of consumption in 1840 at the age of 25. (See Mary Maillard, https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/mary-virginia-wood-forten-1815-1840/). Wood Forten belonged to the same elite African American circles in Philadelphia as Amy Matilda Cassey. Like Cassey’s, Wood Forten’s album was the collaborative production of a close-knit community. Her husband Robert B. Forten came from one of Philadelphia’s prominent African American families, and his siblings Mary Isabella and James Forten, Jr. contributed to the album. It contains verses and inscriptions that display the refinement and respectability of elite African American men and women, and in some cases speak directly to the abolitionist cause.https://dh.howard.edu/fgrimke_albums/1000/thumbnail.jp

Minutes of Marti School Board of Trustees September 7, 1960

Minutes from the Board of Trustees of The Marti School discussing status of the school, the addition of two new board members, the arrival of new faculty, and more.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms358_documents/1022/thumbnail.jp

Land grant for 199 acres to Curtis Johnson, with James Wood signing as governor of Virginia, 1797.

Curtis Johnson is granted a parcel of 199 acres in Washington County near a branch off the south fork of the Holston River.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1120/thumbnail.jp

The relationship of readiness factors to Jan. first grade reading achievement

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Adjunct Therapy in Type 1 Diabetes: A Survey to Uncover Unmet Needs and Patient Preferences Beyond HbA1c Measures.

Background: Adjunct therapy can help patients with type 1 diabetes achieve glycemic goals while potentially mitigating some of the side effects of insulin. In this study, we used a patient survey to identify the unmet needs in type 1 diabetes therapy, patient views of treatment benefit-risk trade-offs, and patient preferences for the use of an adjunct therapy. Methods: A quantitative survey was sent to 2084 adults with type 1 diabetes in November 2017. "Jobs-to-be-done" and conjoint analyses were performed on survey responses to identify unmet needs and the importance of treatment-associated benefits and risks to patients. A 5-point Likert scale measured the importance and satisfaction with patients' current therapy, and with gaps relating to unmet needs. In the conjoint analysis, patients were asked to choose between "packages" of attributes of two doses of adjunct therapy (200 and 400 mg) and placebo, based on established benefits and side effects. Results: A total of 1313 patients (63%) responded. The greatest unmet needs identified were simplifying treatment, lowering/maintaining glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), reducing mental effort, and increasing time in range (TIR). Conjoint analysis showed that reductions in body weight and TIR had the highest attribute importance (25% and 18%, respectively). The majority (93%) of patients had a preference for the adjunct therapy (either dose) over placebo. Conclusions: This survey highlights the importance of measures beyond HbA1c, such as treatment simplification and TIR, and patient preference for adjunct therapies that help address unmet needs in type 1 diabetes treatment

RAMSTRONG: AN EMPLOYEE WELLNESS INITIATIVE

The RAMSTRONG project’s mission is to create a mobile website accessible online and through the VCU Mobile app that provides VCU employees with user-friendly, accessible resources to support their holistic well-being. The RAMSTRONG project seeks to meet three basic needs. First, while VCU and the Greater Richmond area offer a plethora of resources to promote health, information about these resources is not readily accessible, and especially not accessible from one website or mobile app. RAMSTRONG aims to provide an accessible means for employees to learn about and take advantage of these resources. Second, while a growing body of scientific literature indicates employer sponsored health promotion programs increase job satisfaction, productivity, and retention, these programs are only effective if they are utilized. RAMSTRONG aims to increase their utilization by promoting awareness of their availability. Third, our society invests a substantial sum of resources to the care of those suffering from injury and illness and less to promoting our health and well-being. The RAMSTRONG project is motivated by a vision of a society that invests significantly in the promotion of wellness so as to reduce the incidence of injury and illness and to increase the prevalence of personal and social satisfaction at work and in life. Our model for the RAMSTRONG app draws from the public health concept of the Wheel of Wellness, which specifies eight interrelated and interdependent dimensions of health: emotional, environmental, financial, social, spiritual, occupational, physical, and intellectual. When a person can demonstrate strength and well-being in each of these areas, they are more productive and receive greater satisfaction in life. Universities, including Princeton University, that have implemented similar website resources and the National Wellness Institute define wellness as “an active process through which people become aware of, and make choices toward, a more successful existence”. Our RAMSTRONG website and mobile app will provide employees with an efficient, friendly means for becoming aware of campus and community resources and making choices that actively contribute to individual and community well-being in each of the eight dimensions. It is our hope that with the implementation of this project, VCU employees will have the resources to take charge of their wellness in each dimension and become RAMSTRONG

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High turnover drives prolonged persistence of influenza in managed pig herds.

Pigs have long been hypothesized to play a central role in the emergence of novel human influenza A virus (IAV) strains, by serving as mixing vessels for mammalian and avian variants. However, the key issue of viral persistence in swine populations at different scales is ill understood. We address this gap using epidemiological models calibrated against seroprevalence data from Dutch finishing pigs to estimate the 'critical herd size' (CHS) for IAV persistence. We then examine the viral phylogenetic evidence for persistence by comparing human and swine IAV. Models suggest a CHS of approximately 3000 pigs above which influenza was likely to persist, i.e. orders of magnitude lower than persistence thresholds for IAV and other acute viruses in humans. At national and regional scales, we found much stronger empirical signatures of prolonged persistence of IAV in swine compared with human populations. These striking levels of persistence in small populations are driven by the high recruitment rate of susceptible piglets, and have significant implications for management of swine and for overall patterns of genetic diversity of IAV.This work was supported by the RAPIDD program of the Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, and the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (V.E.P., S.R., J.L.N.W. and B.T.G.) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (V.E.P. and B.T.G.). J.L.N.W. is also supported by the Alborada Trust, the European Union FP7 project ANTIGONE (contract no. 278976) and by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council sLOLA BB/L001330/1.This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Royal Society Publishing via http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2016.013