Letter, Schuyler Colfax to Jane Grey Swisshelm [July 14, 1880]

Transcript of letter from Schuyler Colfax to Jane Grey Swisshelm, July 14, 1880https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/jswiss-letters/1008/thumbnail.jp

Excerpt from Lincoln\u27s Cooper Institute Speech, February 27, 1867

This handwritten note is an excerpt from Lincoln\u27s Cooper Institute Speech given on February 27, 1867. The excerpt was written and signed by Schuyler Colfax on April 1, 1884. Colfax sent the excerpt to Mary C. Dry in San Luis Obispo, California. The yellow envelope is postmarked Jeffersonville, Indiana, April 28.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-original-manuscripts/1219/thumbnail.jp

The Laws of Kansas : Speech of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, June 21, 1856.

Caption title. Printer statement from colophon. Printed in double columns.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-pamphlets/1675/thumbnail.jp

False Positive Rate of Rapid Oral Fluid HIV Tests Increases as Kits Near Expiration Date

Background: Because a recent cluster of false positive results on the OraQuick ADVANCEH Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test occurred in San Francisco on test kits close to their expiration date, we decided to assess the relationship between time to expiration and rate of false positive results from tests used with oral fluid. Methodology/Principal Findings: We analyzed results of 20,904 tests with either an initial HIV-negative result (n = 20,828) or a preliminary positive result that was then negative on confirmatory tests (n = 76). We computed specificity for kits with time to expiration from #1 to$6 months, with exact binomial confidence intervals, then used logistic regression to estimate the independent association of time to expiration with false positive results, adjusting for site and technician effects. For 1,108 kits used in the last month before expiration, specificity was 98.83 % (95 % exact binomial confidence interval (CI) 98.00%–99.37%); the upper bound is below the claimed specificity of 99.60%. After adjustment using regression standardization for the effects of site, test lot, and technician factors, adjusted specificity in the last month before expiration was 99.18 % (95 % bootstrap confidence interval 98.60–99.57%). Conclusions/Significance: We found that specificity of the OraQuick ADVANCEH with oral fluid declined significantly wit

Drug Use as Boundary Play: A Qualitative Exploration of Gay Circuit Parties

Research findings have revealed that gay circuit parties may be locations that are disproportionately responsible for the increasing rates of many STIs/HIV among gay/bisexual men. Theories have been put forth that this may be the case because circuit parties are locales of prevalent drug use and unsafe sex. To explore the relationship between these two phenomena, in-depth qualitative interviews were undertaken with 17 men who (1) have sex with other men, (2) attended gay circuit parties in Montréal, Canada, in 2007. These revealed that drugs (including alcohol) were used intentionally to engage in unsafe sex, and then to justify this behavior after the fact. This process we called boundary play

Responsibility for HIV Prevention: Patterns of Attribution Among HIV-seropositive Gay and Bisexual Men

The article presents research based on narratives by gay and bisexual men recently infected with HIV. Researchers looked at the men\u27s attributions of responsibility for infection, comparing recollections of feelings before becoming infected with views expressed after seroconversion. The research responds to a call to better understand risk behavior among HIV-positive persons, in an effort to craft effective prevention interventions. In both before-and after-HIV infection views, survey participants expressed a sense of personal responsibility. Researchers report also nuances of views about shared responsibility