Annual Report of the Iowa Academy of Science, 1987-88

Since 1975 when a history of the Iowa Academy of Science was written for the centennial of the founding of the Academy, an Annual Report has acted as a continuing record of the Academy’s activities. This report encompasses the year beginning July I, 1987 to June 30, 1988 and is based on minutes of committee meetings, Board minutes and recollections of the author. Each part represents a major activity of the Academy

Annual Report of the Iowa Academy of Science, 1984-85

This year, 1985, marks the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Iowa Academy of Science. In 1975, when the Academy celebrated its centennial, a history of the Academy was written. Since that time the Annual Report has served as a running history of the Academy. This year\u27s report encompasses the year beginning July 1, 1984 to June 30, 1985, and is based on committee reports, Board minutes and the recollections of the author

Annual Report of the Iowa Academy of Science, 1983-84

The year 1984 marks the 109th anniversary of the founding of the Academy in 1875. Since the review of the first 100 years published in the centennial issue of the Proceedings in March 1975, the Annual Report has been a running history of the organization. The previous reports were written by Robert W. Hanson, the Executive Director from 1967 to 1983. In keeping with this tradition, this author will review this year\u27s activities of the Academy. This year\u27s report encompasses the year beginning July 1, 1983 and ending June 30, 1984, and is based on Board minutes, committee reports and recollections of the author. Many of the details of the Academy\u27s activities have appeared in the I.A.S. Bulletin but will be restated in this report for addition to the Academy\u27s history

Annual Report of the Iowa Academy of Science, 1985-86

In 1975, when the Iowa Academy of Science celebrated its centennial year, a history of the Academy was written. In succeeding years the Annual Reports have acted as a continuation of that history. This report encompasses the year beginning July 1, 1985 to June 30, 1986 and is based on committee reports, Board minutes and the recollections of the author. Each part represents a major activity of the Academy operation

Annual Report of the Iowa Academy of Science, 1986-87

Since 1975 when a history of the Iowa Academy of Science was written for the centennial of the founding of the Academy, an Annual Report has acted as a continuing record of the Academy\u27s activities. This report encompasses the year beginning July 1, 1986 to June 30, 1987 and is based on committee meetings, Board minutes and the recollections of the author. Each part represents a major activity of the Academy

Editor\u27s Corner

From the Outgoing Managing Editor: The start of 1985 signals the transfer of the last vestiges of my former position as executive director of the Academy to Jim Macmillan, who now takes on the role of managing editor of Academy publications

Language and social/emotional problems identified at a universal developmental assessment at 30 months

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GRFS and CRFS in alternative donor hematopoietic cell transplantation for pediatric patients with acute leukemia.

We report graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)-free relapse-free survival (GRFS) (a composite end point of survival without grade III-IV acute GVHD [aGVHD], systemic therapy-requiring chronic GVHD [cGVHD], or relapse) and cGVHD-free relapse-free survival (CRFS) among pediatric patients with acute leukemia (n = 1613) who underwent transplantation with 1 antigen-mismatched (7/8) bone marrow (BM; n = 172) or umbilical cord blood (UCB; n = 1441). Multivariate analysis was performed using Cox proportional hazards models. To account for multiple testing, P \u3c .01 for the donor/graft variable was considered statistically significant. Clinical characteristics were similar between UCB and 7/8 BM recipients, because most had acute lymphoblastic leukemia (62%), 64% received total body irradiation-based conditioning, and 60% received anti-thymocyte globulin or alemtuzumab. Methotrexate-based GVHD prophylaxis was more common with 7/8 BM (79%) than with UCB (15%), in which mycophenolate mofetil was commonly used. The univariate estimates of GRFS and CRFS were 22% (95% confidence interval [CI], 16-29) and 27% (95% CI, 20-34), respectively, with 7/8 BM and 33% (95% CI, 31-36) and 38% (95% CI, 35-40), respectively, with UCB (P \u3c .001). In multivariate analysis, 7/8 BM vs UCB had similar GRFS (hazard ratio [HR], 1.12; 95% CI, 0.87-1.45; P = .39), CRFS (HR, 1.06; 95% CI, 0.82-1.38; P = .66), overall survival (HR, 1.07; 95% CI, 0.80-1.44; P = .66), and relapse (HR, 1.44; 95% CI, 1.03-2.02; P = .03). However, the 7/8 BM group had a significantly higher risk for grade III-IV aGVHD (HR, 1.70; 95% CI, 1.16-2.48; P = .006) compared with the UCB group. UCB and 7/8 BM groups had similar outcomes, as measured by GRFS and CRFS. However, given the higher risk for grade III-IV aGVHD, UCB might be preferred for patients lacking matched donors. © 2019 American Society of Hematology. All rights reserved

The state of play: securities of childhood - insecurities of children

This article is broadly concerned with the positioning of children, both within and outside the subject area of International Relations. It considers the costs of an adult- 5 centric standpoint in security studies and contrasts this with investments made seemingly on behalf of children and their security. It begins by looking at how children and childhoods are constructed and contained - yet also defy categorization - at some cost to their protection. The many competing children and childhoods that are invoked in security discourses and partially sustain their victimcy are then illustrated. It is 10 argued that at their entry point into academia they are essentialized and sentimentalized. Power relations which subvert, yet also rely on children and childhoods can only be disrupted through a reconfiguration of politics and agency which includes an engagement with political literacy on a societal level and acknowledgement of the ubiquitous presence of war in all our live