Introduction of Healing Touch into an Established Torture Treatment Center: A Graduate Field Project

Healing Touch, an energetic treatment modality developed by nurses, was introduced into an established torture treatment center with the goal of decreasing torture-related symptoms and increasing survivors\u27 overall sense of well-being and health. Three methods of evaluation were used to determine if the project goal had been met. The first project objective of showing a decrease in participants\u27 reported feelings of anxiety and depression was not achieved. The second project objective of demonstrating a reduction in participant\u27s reported levels of pain was achieved with statistically significant results. The third project objective of obtaining statements of recognition of the therapy as being significant in increasing an overall sense of well-being was also achieved. Recommendations from this pilot project are that Healing Touch therapy be continued, and that further studies be conducted with larger numbers of participants

Experimental Study of the Effect of Seminars on Attitudes of Elementary Student Teachers Toward Pupil Control

Curriculum and Instructio

The Ursinus Weekly, October 4, 1948

Floy Lewis, campus leader, explains women\u27s student government functions • Enrollment figures reach record mark as 1036 matriculate • Council chooses Chad Alger as prexy; Saurman selected secretary- treasurer • Faculty admits five; Weygandt included • Oops! What\u27s this? B-listers lambast dean\u27s team 77-23 • Cut system altered; Dean lists changes • Large group starts high school duties • Arvanitis picks Ruby staff; Horner, Southall to assist • Phillips to replace Miller as new college registrar • Juniors to hold reception for women of frosh class • Coed tours Europe with church group • First epistle to the freshmen • Visitor gives views on summer school • Callow frosh eagerly anticipate orders as benevolent sophomores begin reign • Fifty coeds to vie for hockey squad • Basketball prospects drop as Widholm leaves Ursinus • Don Young leads grizzlies to 19-7 triumph over Drexel engineers in season\u27s inaugural • Bears face Fords in second contest • Bakermen working for Oct. 16 opener • Y rally to reveal program for year • Pancoast to speak at meeting of AVC • Jrs. and Srs. plan roster for season • Music department organizes club for coordinating activities • Collegeville Inn, K.K. merge as business scene changeshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1596/thumbnail.jp

Hemochromatosis: Niche Construction and the Genetic Domino Effect in the European Neolithic

Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is caused by a potentially lethal recessive gene (HFE, C282Y allele) that increases iron absorption and reaches polymorphic levels in Northern European populations. Because persons carrying the allele absorb iron more readily than non-carriers, it has often been suggested HFE is an adaptation to anemia. We hypothesize positive selection for HFE began during or after the European Neolithic with the adoption of an iron-deficient high grain and dairying diet and consequent anemia, a finding confirmed in Neolithic and later European skeletons. HFE frequency compared with rate of lactase persistence in Eurasia yields a positive linear correlation coefficient of 0.86. We suggest this is just one of many mutations that became common after the adoption of agriculture

Adelante con animo

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-131).A proposition of this thesis is that architecture is capable of conveying a sense of animation, movement and energy. These are elusive properties. Their perception perhaps emerges from the building's form or articulation (referential to life-like forms). It may emerge from correlation with living processes (change, reactivity). At its most elusive, the perception perhaps comes from a capacity for" animo" ... A kind of completeness, intrinsic intent, inherent life. The work of Calder and Calatrava is examined in order to understand how such a perception might arise and to clarify what I mean by "animo". That inquiry is one part in a yet broader sequence of events exploring ways in which buildings are made and reflecting on ways of working. The journey, from percept towards the design of a composting fertilizer factory and rural rest stop in northern Mongolia, is an exploration of these issues. The thesis is a recording of the events.by Kathleen Grace McCullough Maker.M.Arch

Protecting Against an Unable President: Reforms for Invoking the 25th Amendment and Overseeing Presidential Nuclear Launch Authority

The immense powers of the presidency and the vast array of global threats demand a physically and mentally capable president. To help ensure able presidential leadership, this report advocates reforms related to the 25th Amendment, including proposals for an “other body” to act with the vice president in certain circumstances to declare the president unable and a mechanism for officials to report concerns about the president’s capacity. The report also recommends new checks on the president’s authority to use nuclear weapons, such as procedures for notifying top national security officials when use is contemplated.This report was researched and written during the 2018-2019 academic year by students in Fordham Law School’s Democracy and the Constitution Clinic, which is focused on developing non-partisan recommendations to strengthen the nation’s institutions and its democracy. The clinic\u27s reports are available at law.fordham.edu/democracyreports

Protecting Against an Unable President: Reforms for Invoking the 25th Amendment and Overseeing Presidential Nuclear Launch Authority

The immense powers of the presidency and the vast array of global threats demand a physically and mentally capable president. To help ensure able presidential leadership, this report advocates reforms related to the 25th Amendment, including proposals for an “other body” to act with the vice president in certain circumstances to declare the president unable and a mechanism for officials to report concerns about the president’s capacity. The report also recommends new checks on the president’s authority to use nuclear weapons, such as procedures for notifying top national security officials when use is contemplated.This report was researched and written during the 2018-2019 academic year by students in Fordham Law School’s Democracy and the Constitution Clinic, which is focused on developing non-partisan recommendations to strengthen the nation’s institutions and its democracy. The clinic\u27s reports are available at law.fordham.edu/democracyreports

The Shocking Impact of Corporate Scandal on Directors\u27 and Officers\u27 Liability

Directors and officers liability (hereinafter D&O) serves as a deterrent to corporate wrongdoing. Recent cycles of corporate scandal have impacted the tools used to manage the risk that D&O liability creates. The impact of these scandals is a shock, which is a sudden event that alters the market profoundly. Market alteration has counter intuitively resulted in increased availability of D&O insurance at a lower price, despite an increase in D&O liability. With increased D&O coverage offerings at lower costs, the market has become soft, making coverage readily available. Carriers are competing for insureds and there is now a risk of undermining the deterrent effect that D&O liability provides. This paper explores whether D&O liability\u27s deterrent effect has been jeopardized in this soft D&O insurance marke

The Ursinus Weekly, May 10, 1948

Stassen triumphs in school election; Vandenberg is winner of faculty poll • Men nominated for student govt. posts • Male students approve new constitution, vote student government reinstatement • Cold fails to daunt spirit of May Day • Installation planned for WSG members • Play cast exhibits variety of talent • Sororities choose \u2748-\u2749 officers • Pre-med society elects Morehead 1949 president • Debaters tie for 3d place in Ben Franklin tourney • Chess team ends season with loss to Swarthmore • Supply store boss is favorite with campus students • Varsity magazine offers advice for all dancing males • Brotherhood elects \u2749 officers; hears Ursinus grad at banquet • IRC commentator • What\u27s wrong with college baseball? • Cricket eleven prepares for match with Haverford • Bearettes wallop Temple 5-0 for second net victory • Lehigh cindermen trim bruins 73-51 • Bear nine thumps hapless Swarthmore 18-8 before chilled May Day throng • McCausland, Trout win as Garnet stops bears • Curtis dominates league; Dippel, MacQueen set pace • Vadner, Frick, Greenwood compete in tennis finals • Kennedy elected president by Varsity Club members • Netmen whitewash victims of superior E-town foe • Campus cats wax six discs; sales top Nature boy • Editors of Weekly visit Muhlenberg for rebirth of INA • Local athletes are given awards at varsity banquethttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1639/thumbnail.jp

Fate of the lower extremity in patients with VA-ECMO via femoral cannulation

Background: Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) is a salvage therapy in patients with severe cardiopulmonary failure. Femoral cannulation is associated with limb complications including ischemia, limb loss, arterial infections and wound infections. This study aims to evaluate these complications and management related to successful outcomes. Methods: A retrospective review was conducted in 17 patients requiring VA- ECMO support via femoral cannulation from 1/ 2010 till 4/2012. After cannulation, all patients had near infared spectroscopy (NIRS) monitoring after cannula placement and most had placement of distal arterial perfusion catheters (DPC). At decannulation, all patients had femoral cutdown with closure of arteriotomies by primary repair or patch angioplasty with bovine pericardium. Primary study endpoints included ischemia, limb loss, arterial infection; secondary endpoints were wound infection and post-discharge symptoms. Results: Seventeen patients were supported with VA-ECMO during the study period with arterial cannula size of 16-20 French. All patients had NIRS monitoring after cannula placement and 13/17 patients had DPC placement, with no subsequent ischemia. Two of 4 patients without DPC developed ischemia; one was decannulated and the other resolved spontaneously. At decannulation, open arterial repair was performed as described. In this study population, simple wound infection occurred in 3/17with Vacuum Assisted Closure (VAC) devices were placed at the timed if appropriate. There were no arterial infections and no instances of limb ischemia requiring amputation. There were no complaints of rest pain during outpatient follow-up. Conclusions: Limb complications related to femoral cannulation for VA-ECMO can lead to prolonged morbidity and limb loss. NIRS and placement of DPC, primary repair of arteriotomy or patch angioplasty, along with aggressive wound care, can dramatically decrease rates of limb ischemia, limb loss and infection