Law Quadrangle Notes

From the Dean; Summer School for Lawyers will be held again in June; Presentation of evidence theme of February\u27s Advocacy Institute; Smith named to National Railroad Labor Commission; Graduates become judges; Law School\u27s Cook endowment places Michigan in unique position to conduct legal research; State restraint of trade next research topic for Legislative Center; Judge Wilbur K. Miller honored in Washington; With our students; Foundation supplements student loan funds; School reports on atomic legal research; Alumni in four states and D. C. meet; Book on widow\u27s share published by school; To welfare-minded society insurance led way; Faculty news notes; Medical-legal courses offered in three cities; 3-Day institute on decedent\u27s estates planned in Ma

Communicating medication risk to cardiovascular patients in Qatar

Purpose: Patient safety is gaining prominence in health professional curricula. Patient safety must be complemented by teaching and skill development in practice settings. The purpose of this paper is to explore how experienced pharmacists identify, prioritize and communicate adverse drug effects to patients. Design/methodology/approach: A focus group discussion was conducted with cardiology pharmacy specialists working in a Doha hospital, Qatar. The topic guide sought to explore participants? views, experiences and approaches to educating patients regarding specific cardiovascular therapy safety and tolerability. Discussions were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were coded and organized around identified themes and sub-themes. Working theories were developed by the three authors based on relevant topic characteristics associated with the means in which pharmacists prioritize and choose adverse effect information to communicate to patients. Findings: Nine pharmacists participated in the discussion. The specific adverse effects prioritized were consistent with the reported highest prevalence. Concepts and connections to three main themes described how pharmacists further tailored patient counseling: potential adverse effects and their perceived importance; patient encounter; and cultural factors. Pharmacists relied on initial patient dialogue to judge an individual?s needs and capabilities to digest safety information, and drew heavily upon experience with other counseling encounters to further prioritize this information, processes dependent upon development and accessing exemplar cases. Originality/value: The findings underscore practical experience as a critical instructional element of undergraduate health professional patient safety curricula and for developing associated clinical reasoning. ? 2018, Kerry Wilbur, Arwa Sahal and Dina Elgaily.Scopu

Effects of Calcium, Strontium, and Magnesium on the Coccolithophorid Cricosphaera (Hymenomonas) carterae. I. Calcification

The present investigation concerns the effects of calcium, strontium, and magnesium on calcification and mineralogy of the calcified bodies (coccoliths) of the coccolithophorid Cricosphaera (Hymenomonas) carterae. The capacity of cells to calcify in various concentrations of these ions was examined following preliminary decalcification in CO2. At a concentration of 10-2 M Ca, 75% of the cells formed coccoliths within 24 h and almost all cells were recalcified after 2 days. At 10-3 or 10-4 M Ca no recalcification occurred. However, with the addition of Sr to the Ca-deficient media, calcification took place as shown by observations of coccoliths and by analysis of Ca. The percentage of calcified cells increased with increasing concentrations of Sr. Strontium added to a Ca-deficient media was much more effective than an equivalent concentration of Ca. No Sr was deposited in the coccoliths. X-ray analysis demonstrated that calcite was deposited by cells in all concentrations of Ca and Sr at which calcification took place. At concentrations of Mg in the media from 0.0 to 4.2×10-2 M, the cells retained their ability to calcify, although calcification was markedly reduced in the absence of Mg. In low Mg concentrations (1.3×10-4 and 4.2×10-6 M), the coccoliths were 60% calcite and 40% aragonite, and in the absence of Mg, only calcite was formed

Preparation of acetate peels of valves from the ocean quahog, Arctica islandica, for age determinations

Techniques are described for preparing acetate peels of sectioned valves of ocean quahogs, Arctica islandica, for age determinations. The respective sequence of preparation begins by sectioning left valves oriented to include a single hinge tooth, bleaching to remove the heavy periostracum, embedding the valves in an epoxy resin, grinding and polishing the embedments to a high luster, etching the exposed cut valve surfaces, and applying sheet acetate with acetone. Annuli are clearly defined relative to growth increments in the peel preparations for all sizes and ages of ocean quahogs. (PDF file contains12 pages.

The Ursinus Weekly, May 7, 1917

Chem-Bi banquet enjoyable affair • Ursinus men rally for nation\u27s defense • Dr. James I. Good as host and lecturer • Schaff prize essay: A pound of flesh • Among the colleges • College directory • Christian organizations • Literary societies • On the campushttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/2592/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, February 4, 1918

Ursinus adopts a war time program: Faculty votes to speed up the work and close early • The training of an airman • Prize oration: The skeleton in the closet • A fable of the light-bringing professor • Literary societies • Bennett essay prize • Wallace Lysinger Danehower • On the campushttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/2548/thumbnail.jp

Shikimate pathway in apicomplexan parasites

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The Ursinus Weekly, April 30, 1917

Varsity loses last game of season • All energies on military training • Juniors present excellent farce • Schaff prize essay: A pound of flesh • Literary societies • Tree experts coming • On the campushttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/2591/thumbnail.jp

Biominerals - source and inspiration for novel advanced materials

Biomineralization seems an odd sort of word. How can you combine biology and minerals? However, a quick look around brings to light many familiar objects that are examples of biominerals. Most dramatic are the coral reefs and sea shells of the marine environment (calcium carbonate) and human bone and teeth (calcium hydroxyapatite) but there are many other examples. In the past 10 years, an increasing number of biominerals has been reported (Table 1). Interest in the biological and chemical processes that lead to biomineralization, howeyer, has only developed rather recently. Early observations were made by paleontologists who were interested in the preservation, through geological time, of the hard parts of organisms such as shells and skeletons but only in 1989 did the field really come of age with the almost simultaneous publication of three monographs covering current knowledge of the biological, biochemical, chemical and taxonomic aspects of biomineralization (Mann et al. 1989; Lowenstam & Weiner 1989; Simkiss & Wilbur 1989)