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5. Goldstripe Darters (Etheostoma parvipinne) Spawn in Isolated Vernal Pools and Seepages in Alabama.

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Hilburn, Bryson G., Alley, Zachariah D., Pounders, David, Wood, Julia E., Mullins, Caleb, Dattilo, Jason E., and Sandel, Michael W.

Subjects
*VERNAL pools, *RIPARIAN areas, *LIFE history theory, *COASTAL plains, *SPRING
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Etheostoma parvipinne (Goldstripe Darter) is an ecologically enigmatic percid native to lowland streams in the coastal plain of the southeastern United States. Our observations from 6 separate localities across Alabama suggest that Goldstripe Darters seasonally move from resident stream habitats to isolated seepages and vernal pools to spawn. Specifically, at 6 separate sites in Alabama we documented Goldstripe Darters inhabiting and reproducing in isolated seasonal pools and semi-isolated seeps with other vernal pool spawners including mole salamanders (Ambystoma spp.). Notably, some vernal pools used by Goldstripe Darters for reproduction were located >100 m away from the nearest creek with no observed aquatic connection or atop incised stream banks several meters tall. Similar behaviors have been documented in some members of the revised clade Psychromaster and Etheostoma trisella (Trispot Darter), which are listed as special concern, threatened, or endangered by federal and state agencies. While the Goldstripe Darter was previously hypothesized to spawn in seasonal floodplain and spring seepage habitats, we are the first to document this behavior; however, it is not yet clear if this behavior is range wide. Our observations will have implications on the understanding of the evolution of complex reproductive life histories in the North American darters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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6. Ecological Change, Agricultural Development and Food Production in Malawi: a Historiographical Review

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Nkhoma, Bryson G.

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Oxford University Press (Oxford, England) -- Production processes, University of California Press -- Production processes, Publishing industry -- Production processes, Book publishing -- Production processes, Food supply, Famines -- Malawi -- United States -- United Kingdom, Agricultural industry -- Production processes, History, Schools, Time, Social history, Colonialism, Historiography, Publishing industry, Military and naval science, Political science
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Given its economic significance, agriculture has been at the centre of historical scholarship in Malawi. Yet despite the significant contribution this scholarship has made to the country's development, there has been no effort to systematically reconstruct Malawi's agricultural historiography. This article, therefore, takes stock of the progress that has been made by historians on research in the country's agricultural history since the mid-1950s. The ultimate goal is to establish not only what might be regarded as the country's agricultural historiography, but also the place of food production, which has become an important food security aspect of most Malawian peasants. After assessing the earlier works, the study observes that Malawi has an agricultural historiography which, prompted by the political and economic thoughts of the time, has conceptually evolved after the traditions of modernisation, underdevelopment and social history schools. It is argued here that, despite raising a strong case about the processes by which colonialism and capitalism disrupted peasant food economies, the historiography has made little effort to explore the patterns of peasant food production that emerged through this process, except for those studies that sought to understand the growth of famine and hunger. While resonating in many respects with the agricultural historiography of southern Africa, the Malawi case has gone beyond to include smallholder irrigation farming, which despite being globally recognised as a panacea for maintaining food production in the changing climate, has been under researched even in the dominating regional climate historiography., 1. Introduction As most countries in southern Africa, Malawi, and a country located to the SouthEast of the region, pursues an economy that is predominantly agro-based (Thomas 1975:35-51; Kydd and [...]

Published
2019

12. First Records of Ameiurus brunneus (Snail Bullhead) from the Tallapoosa River Watershed, Alabama, with Comments on Mobile-Chattahoochee Stream Captures.

Author

Hilburn, Bryson G. and Dattilo, Jason E.

Subjects
*WATERSHEDS, *SPECIES, *COUNTIES
Abstract

Herein we report on the collection of 9 Ameiurus brunneus (Snail Bullhead) individuals from 2 major stream systems in the middle Tallapoosa River in Chambers and Randolph counties, AL. These specimens represent the first catalogued records of Snail Bullhead from the Tallapoosa River and constitute a range extension for this species. These records cohere with previous evidence suggesting that reciprocal stream captures took place between the Chattahoochee and Middle Tallapoosa watersheds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023
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14. The Effects of the Serious Illness Care Program (SICP) on Health Care Resource Utilization (HRU)

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Muscedere, John, Truelove, Amber Hastings, Stockley, Denise, Fowler, Jennifer, Barrie, Carol, Hafid, A., Guenter, D., Gallagher, E., Howard, M., You, J., Nidumolu, A., Lagrotteria, A., Motehayerarani, A., Virk, N., Sinnarajah, A., Human, T., Ying, I., Wong, H., Cummings, G., Pattullo, A., Wang, J., Lee, J., Moffat, D., Grinman, M., Montgomery, C. L., Rolfson, D. B., Stelfox, H. T., Zuege, D., Zygun, D. A., Hudson, D., Opgenorth, D., Bagshaw, S. M., Laur, C., Bell, J., Valaitis, R., Ray, S., Keller, H., Prevett, C., Fang, H., Shkredova, D., Xie, F., Zoratti, M., Gordon, C., Adachi, J., Phillips, S., Richardson, J., Tang, A., Ma, C., Riehm, L., Kendell, C., Urquhart, R., Burge, F., Kotecha, J., Martin, M., Jorgensen, M., Han, H., Dubé, D., Gutman, G., Sussman, T., DeVries, B., Gahagan, J., Brotman, S., Koo, E., Wegier, P., Embuldeniya, G., Ansari, S., Kobewka, D., O’Connor, E., Wu, P., Steinberg, L., Bell, C., Walton, T., Colstello, J., van Walraven, C., Downar, J., Wu, P. E., Costello, J., Wu, R., Frost, D., Kawaguchi, S., Mahtani, R., Toor, H., Goldman, R., Myers, J., Forster, A., Hladkowicz, E., Taljaard, M., Bryson, G., Beaulé, P. E., Gagné, S., Hamilton, G., Huang, A., Joanisse, J. A., Lavallée, L. T., MacDonald, D., Moloo, H., Thavorn, K., Yang, H., Forster, A. J., McIsaac, D. I., Sypes, E. E., de Grood, C., Parsons Leigh, J., Clement, F. M., Niven, D. J., Bitschy, A. M., Donald, E., Ewing, G., Grande, G., Sawatzky, R., Stajduhar, K. I., Parascandalo, F., Yu-Hin Siu, H., Delleman, B., Langevin, J., Mangin, D., Fang, Q., Price, D., Chan, D., Ting Wang, H., Nguyen, Q. D., Menard, C. A., Morinville, A., Hirdes, J. P., Hebert, P., Singh, J., Swinton, M., Morrison, J. M., Laur, C. V., Ebad, M., Dubin, J. A., Chen, H., Curtis, L.J., Bell, J. J., Gramlich, L. M., Keller, H. H., Dionne, J., Duan, E., Clarke, F., Hand, L., Millen, T., Sandu, G., Hodder, J., Santos, M., Shah, S., Trembley, M., Gomes, B., Leclair, L., Montroy, K., Watpool, I., Porteous, R., Acres, S., Foster, D., Auld, F., Williams, V., Marchand, J., Campisi, J., Alam, N., Lebrassier, M., Thompson, P., Hewer, T., Gilles, D., Hunt, M., Georgescu, I., Boyd, T., Lys, J., Marten, N., Campbell, E., Bentall, T., Kavikondala, K., Willems, S., Panchbhaya, Z., Booth, J., Ruddell, S., Richter, B., Tassy, D., Jesso, R., Marinoff, N., Perez, A., Kaur, N., Campbell, T., Lizotte, P., Lavoie, L., Dionne, M., Saunders, L., Zytaruk, N., Heels-Ansdell, D., Johnstone, J., Cook, D., Quinn, K. L., Campitelli, M. A., Diong, C., Daneman, N., Stall, N., Morris, A. M., Detsky, A. S., Jeffs, L., Maxwell, C. J., Bell, C. M., Bronskill, S. E., Alghamdi, M., Baracos, V., Karvellas, C., Churchill, T., Khadaroo, R. G., Moorhouse, P., Sampalli, T., Bedford, L., Edwards, L., Gibson, R., Mallery, L., Taylor, D., Warner, G., Harnish, A., Law, V., Lawson, B. J., Wood, S., Buckler, M., Fernandes, P., Elliott, J., Stolee, P., Ali, G., Dunichand-Hoedl, A., Salim, S. Y., Mazurak, V. C., Baracos, V. E., Heckman, G. A., Hebert, P. C., Costa, A. P., Arthur, S. A., Jones, A., Salam-White, L., Tanner, D., Negm, A. M., Kennedy, C. C., Ioannidis, G., Gajic-Veljanoski, O., Thabane, L., Adachi, J. D., Marr, S., Lau, A., Atkinson, S., Petruccelli, D., DeBeer, J., Winemaker, M., Avram, V., Williams, D., Armstrong, D., Lumb, B., Panju, A., Papaioannou, A., Boucher, A., Haesebaert, J., Freitas, A., Adekpedjou, R., Landry, M., Bourassa, H., Dawn, S., Croteau, J., Légaré, F., Takaoka, A. M., Clarke, F. J., Shears, M. S., Muscedere, J., Cook, D. J., Lee, A., Bouchard, D. R., Sénéchal, M., Mayo, A., Hrubeniuk, T. J., Keshavarz, M., Robertson, C., Read, E. A., Norris, C M., Meyer, S. R., Zibdawi, M., Marshall, H. D., Moody, E. M., Martin-Misener, R., Hawken, E. R., Boyd, J. G., Im, J., Mak, S., Upshur, R., Steinbreg, L., Kuluski, K., Van Damme, J., Delvin, M-E., Medves, J., Woddhouse, K., Sakamoto, M. L., Durepos, P., Ploeg, J., Akhtar-Danesh, N., Punia, H., Kaasalainen, S., Hewston, P., Kennedy, C., Merom, D., Patterson, C., Sztramko, R., Trainor, L., Grenier, A., Woolhouse, M., Petrella, A.F.M., Heath, M., Hyland, B., Fan, M., Hamilton, M., Reding, R., Trbovich, P., O’Reilly, D. M., O’Donnell, S., Bruning, P., Donovan, J., Anoveros-Barrera, A., Coletta, G., Jakubowski, J., Pritchard, J. M., Werner, G. E., Hoben, M., Estabrooks, C. A., Leaker, H. R., Holroyd-Leduc, J., Fox, L., Smallbone, J., Stinchcombe, A., Wilson, K., Kortes-Miller, K., Rees-Milton, K. J., Hulbert, M., Turner, M. E., Berger, C., Anastassiades, T. P., Hopman, W. M., Adams, M. A., Powley, W. L., Holden, R. M., Grewal, K., Sheets, D., Smith, A. P., Trites, M., Kennedy, M., MacDonald, S., Sivarajah, L., Lamarche, L., Giangregorio, A., Radcliffe, S., Ioannidi, G., Negm, A., Connolly, M. S., Klein, J. M., Huber, J. S., Safaraz, S., Foster, A. J., Simpson, J. A., Brunt, K.R., Elfassy, M. D., Munshi, L., Mehta, N., Martinez Guasch, F., Kamen, C., Burry, L., Soong, C., Mehta, S., McKay, S., Yetman, L., Slayter, J., McCollum, A., McGibbon, C. A., Jarrett, P., Robinson, B., Kolyvas, A., McCloskey, R., Gionet, S., Scheme, E., Harris, B., D’Aoust, T. R., Shao, T., Egan, R., Muscedere, J. G., Milne, B., Fitzpatrick, M., Yingwei Peng, P., Parlow, J., and Johnson, A. P.

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2019

17. Reply from the authors

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Leslie, K., Myles, P., Devereaux, P., Williamson, E., Rao-Melancini, P., Forbes, A., Xu, S., Foex, P., Pogue, J., Arrieta, M., Bryson, G., Paul, J., Paech, M., Merchant, R., Choi, P., Badner, N., Peyton, P., Sear, J., and Yang, H.

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2014
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20. The Political Economy of Irrigation Development and Peasant Food Production in Colonial Malawi, 1945–1961.

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Nkhoma, Bryson G.

Subjects
IRRIGATION farming, IRRIGATION, FOOD production, PEASANTS, AGRICULTURAL development
Abstract

This article explores the development of irrigation farming in Malawi from 1945 to 1961. It traces the origins of irrigation farming, strategies for its promotion, and the challenges that impinged on its success in colonial Malawi. In particular, it demonstrates the extent to which externally driven colonial agricultural developments like irrigation failed to achieve their intended purpose when paternalistic authorities implemented them without paying attention to existing local knowledge and context. Exclusively posed as the all-knowing champion of development, the colonial state in Malawi looked down upon existing wisdom regarding appropriate locations, climatic variabilities, ecological diversity, flooding histories, and local tastes. In the face of inadequate resources, and the growing nationalism of the late 1950s, the state could not effectively maintain its drive for irrigation farming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2022
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Mutch, W. A. C., White, I. W. C., Donen, N., Thomson, I. R., Rosenbloom, M., Cheang, M., West, M., Bryson, Greg, Mundi, Christina, Dupuis, Jean-Yves, Bourke, Michael, McDonagh, Paul, Curran, Michael, Kitts, John, Wynands, J. Earl, Carr, Alison S., Hartley, Elizabeth J., Holtby, Helen M., Cox, Peter, Macpherson, Bruce A., Baker, James E., Baker, Andrew J., Mazer, C. David, Peniston, C., David, T., Cheng, D. C. H., Karski, J., Asokumar, B., Carroll, J., Nierenberg, H., Roger, S., Sandier, A. N., Tong, J., Feindel, C. M., Boylan, J. F., Teasdale, S. J., Boylan, J., Harley, P., Froelich, Jennifer E., Archer, David P., Ewen, Alastair, Samanani, Naaznin, Roth, Sheldon H., Hall, Richard I., Neumeister, Michael, Dawe, Gwen, Cody, Cathy, O’Brien, Randy, Shields-Thomson, Jan, LeDez, Kenneth M., Penney, Catherine, Snedden, Walter, Tucker, John, Fauvel, Nicolas, Glavinovic, Mladen, Donati, François, Backman, S. B., Stein, R. D., Polosa, C., Abdallah, C., Gal, S., Clark, A. John, Doig, George A., Gondocz, Tunde, Peter, E. A., Lopez, A., Mathieu, A., Couture, Pierre, Boudreault, Daniel, Derouin, Marc, Allard, Martin, Blaise, Gilbert, Girard, Dominique, Knill, Richard L., Novick, Teresa, Vandervoort, Margaret K., Chung, Frances, Paramanathar, Shantha, Parikh, Smita, Cruise, Charles, Michaloliakou, Christina, Dusek, Brenda, Rose, D. K., Cohen, M. M., DeBoer, D., Shorten, George, Cutz, Earnest, Lerman, Jerrold, Dolovich, Myrna, Crosby, Edward T., Cirone, Robert, Reid, Dennis, Lind, Joanne, Armstrong, Melanie, Doyle, Wanda, Halpern, S., Glanc, P., Myhr, T., Ryan, M -L., Fong, K., Amankwah, K., Ohlsson, A., Preston, R., Petras, Andor, Jacka, Michael J., Milne, Brian, Nakatsu, Kanji, Pancham, S., Smith, Graeme, Duggal, Kush N., Douglas, M. Joanne, Merrick, Pamela M., Blew, Philip, Miller, Donald, Martineau, Raymond, Hull, Kathryn, Baron, C. M., Kowalskl, S., Greengrass, R., Horan, T., Unruh, H., Baron, C. L., Cruchley, Patricia M., Nakajima, K., Sugiura, Y., Goto, Y., Takakura, K., Harada, J., Lee, Robert M. K. W., Fargas-Babjak, Angelica M., Ni, Jin, Werstiuk, Eva S., Woo, Joseph, Morison, David H., McHugh, Michael D., Pappius, Hanna M., Ishihara, Hironori, Shimodate, Yuki, Koh, Hiroaki, Matsuki, Akitomo, Mclntyre, John W. R., Bergeron, Pierre, DeLima, Lulz G. R., Dupuls, Jean-Yves, Enns, James, Murkin, J. M., McKenzie, F. N., White, S., Shannon, N. A., Dobkowski, Wojciech B., Kutt, Judy L., Mezon, Bernard J., Grant, David R., Wall, William J., Doblar, Dennis D., Lim, Yong C., Frenette, Luc, Ronderos, Jaime R., Poplawski, Steve, Ranjan, Dinesh, Dubé, L., Obbergh, L. Van, Francoeur, M., Blouin, C., Carrier, R., Doblar, D., Ronderos, J., Singer, D., Cox, J., Gosdin, B., Boatwright, M., Smith, Charles E., Rovner, Aleksandr, Botero, Carlos, Holbrook, Curt, Patel, Nileshkumar, Pinchak, Alfred, Pinchak, Alfred C., Kao, Yin James, Thio, Andrew, Barker, Steven J., Sullivan, Patrick, Posner, Matthew, Cole, C. William, Lindsay, Patty, Langevin, Paul B., Gulig, Paul A., Gravenstein, N., Wong, David T., Gomez, Manuel, McGuire, Glenn P., Byrick, Robert J., Sharma, Shared K., Carmicheal, Frederick J., Montanera, Walter J., Sharma, Sharad, Yee, D. A., Naser, Basem I., Bryson, G. L., Kitts, J. B., Miller, D. R., Martineau, R. J., Curran, M. J., Bragg, P. R., Karski, Jacek M., Cheng, Davy, Bailey, Kevin, Levytam, S., Arellano, R., Katz, J., Doyle, J., Sosis, Mitchel B., Blazek, William, Plourde, G., Malik, A., Peddle, Tammy, Au, James, Sloan, Jeffrey, Cleland, Mark, Hancock, Donald E., Patel, Nilesh, Costello, Frank, Patterson, Louise, Yamashita, Masao, Kondo, Tsukasa, Graham, M. R., Thiessen, D., Vener, David F., Long, Thomas, Marion, S., Steward, D. J., Braverman, Berton, Levine, Mark, Yentis, Steve, Bachman, Catherine R., Kopelow, Murray, McNeill, Ann, Graham, R., Froese, Norbert, Patel, Leena, Reimer, Heinz, Swartz, Jo, Ullyot, Suzanne, Wong, Harley, Markakis, Maria A., Siklch, Nancy, Goranson, Blair D., Lang, Scott A., Stockwell, Martin J., Cujec, Bibiana, Yip, Raymond W., Southeriand, Lucy C., Vet, Tanya Duke B., Gollagher, Jeisane M., Crone, Lesley-Ann, Ferguson, James G., Litwin, Demetrius, Bertlik, Maria, Orser, Beverley A., Yang, Lu-Wang, MacDonald, John F., Morris, Gary F., Gore-Hickman, Wendy L., Zamora, J. E., Rosaeg, O. P., Lindsay, M. P., Crossan, M. L., Pattee, Carol, Adams, Michael, Koller, John P., Lavoie, Guy J., Rigal, Wynn M., Taylor, Dylan A., Grace, Michael G., Flnegan, Barry A., Hawkes, Christopher, Hopkins, Harry, Tierney, Michael, Drover, David R., Whatley, Gordon, Knox, J. W. Donald, Rausa, Jarmila, El-Beheiry, Hossam, Seegobin, Ronald, Hirst, Georgia C., Dust, William N., Cassidy, J. David, Boisvert, D., Braden, H., Halperin, M. L., Cheema-Dhadli, S., McKnight, D. J., Singer, W., Elwood, Thomas, Huchcroft, Shirley, MacAdams, Charles, Farran, R. Peter, Goresky, Gerald, LaLande, Phillip, Lacroix, Gilles, Lessard, Martin, Trépanier, Claude, van Vlymen, Janet M., Parlow, Joel L., Ibebunjo, Chikwendu, Morscher, Arnold H., Gordon, Gregory J., Grocott, H. P., Belo, Susan E., Koutsoukos, Georgios, Belo, Susan, Smith, David, Henderson, Sarah, Gelb, Adriene, Kantor, G., Badner, N. H., Komar, W. E., Bhandari, R., Cuillerier, D., Dobkowski, W., Smith, M. H., Vannelli, A. N., Wharton, Sean, Tierney, Mike, Redmond, E., Reddy, E., Gray, A., Flynn, J., Bourne, R. B., Rorabeck, C. H., MacDonald, S. J., Doyle, J. A., Newton, Peter T., Moote, Carol A., Joiner, R., Glynn, M. F. X., Zulys, Vytas, Hennessy, M., Winton, T., Demajo, W., McKay, William P. S., Gregson, Peter H., McKay, Benjamin W. S., Militzer, Julio, Hollebone, Eric, Yee, Raymond, Klein, George, Garnett, R. L., Conway, J., Ralley, F. E., Robbins, G. R., Brown, James E., Frei, J. V., Podufal, Edward, Snow, Norman J., Chavez, Altagracia M., Kramer, Richard P., Mickle, D., Tweed, William A., Shrestha, Bisharad M., Basnyat, Narendra B., Lekhak, Bhawan D., O’Leary, Susan D., Maryniak, J. K., Tucker, John H., Guest, Cameron B., Mullen, J. Brendan, Kay, J. Colin, Wigglesworth, Dan F., Goodarzi, Mashallah, Shier, Nicte Ha, Ogden, John A., Hung, O. R., Pytka, S., Murphy, M. F., Martin, B., and Stewart, R. D.

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Michèle, Saiah, Alain, Borgeat, Oliver, Wilder-Smith, Hung, Orlando R., Hope, Charles E., Laney, Geoffrey, Whynot, Sara C., Coonan, Thomas J., Malloy, David S., Patterson, S., Gelb, A., Manninen, P., Strum, D., Glosten, B., Spellman, M. J., Eger, E. I., Craen, R. A., Gelb, A. W., Murkin, J. M., Chong, K. Y., Penning, D. H., El-Behairy, H., Brien, J. F., Coh, J. W., Arellano, R., Correa, J., Fedorko, L., Arellano, R., Liu, Z., Boylan, J. F., Sandler, A. N., Nierenberg, H., Sheiner, P. A., Greig, P. D., O’Leary, G. M., Teasdale, S. J., Glynn, M. F. X., Orser, B. A., Wang, L. -Y., MacDonald, J. F., Loomis, C. W., Arunachalam, K. D., Vyas, D., Milne, B., Gagnon, Daniel, Lavoie, Josée, Dupuis, Jean-Yves, Miller, D. R., Martineau, R. J., Greenway, D., Olivaris, L., Hull, K., Tierney, R. N. M., Wynands, J. E., Martineau, R., St-Jean, B., Kitts, J., Miller, D., Lindsay, P., Curran, M., Allen, G. C., Crossan, M. L., Wise, Richard, Donati, François, Bevan, David R., Hardy, J. F., Desroches, J., Perrault, J., Carrier, M., Robitaille, D., Ansley, D. M., O’Connor, J. P., Dolman, J., Townsend, G. E., Ricci, D., Liepert, D. J., Browne, P. M., Hertz, T., Rooney, M., Yip, R. W., Code, W., Phillips, A. A., McLean, R. F., Devitt, J. H., Harrington, E. M., Byrick, R. J., Wong, P. Y., Wigglesworth, D., Kay, J. C., Sinclair, L. A., Koch, J. P., Deemar, K. A., Christakis, G. K., Belo, S., Angle, P., Cheng, D., Boylan, J., Sandler, A., Feindel, C., Carmichael, F., Boylen, P., Boylen, P., DeLima, L. G. R., Nathan, H. J., Hynes, M. S., Bourke, M. E., Russell, G. N., Seyone C., Chung F., Chartrand, Daniel, Roux, Lucie, Dain, S. L., Smith, B. D., Webster, A. C., Wigglesworth, D. F., Rose, D. K., Caskennette, G., Mechetuk, C., Doyle, D. John, DeMajo, Wilfred, van den Bosch, Frank, Lee, Mark, McClenaghan, K. M., Mazer, C. D., Preston, R., Crosby, E. T., Kotarba, D., Dudas, H., Elliott, R. D., Enns, J., Manninen, P. H., Farrar, J. K., Huzyka, David L., Lin, L. Philip, Fossey, Susan, Finucane, Brendan T., Stockwell, M., Lozanoff, S., Lang, S., Hyssen, J., Campbell, D. C., Douglas, M. J., Pavy, T. J. G., Flanagan, M. L., McMorland, G. H., Bands, Colin, Ffaracs, Ch. B., Lipsett, Catherine, Drover, David, Stafford-Smith, Mark, Stevens, Sarah, Shields, Kate, MacSween, Michael J., McAllister, J. D., Morley-Forster, P. K., White, A. K., Taylor, M. D., Vandenberghe, H. M., Knoppert, D., Reimer, H., Duke, P. C., Kehler, C. H., Kepron, M. W., Taraska, V. A., Carstoniu, J., Norman, P., Katz, J., Hannallah, Medhat, Cooney, C. M., Lyons, J. B., Hennigan, A., Blunnie, W. P., Moriarty, D. C., Dobkowski, W. B., Prato, F. S., Shannon, N. A., Drost, D. J., Arya, B., Wills, J. M., Bond, D., Morley-Forester, P., JB, Mullen, Spahr-Schopfer, I., Lerman, J., Cutz, E., Dolovich, M., Kowalski, S., Ong, B., Bell, D., Ostryzniuk, T., Serrette, C., Wasylak, T., Coke, S., Tsuda, Takako, Nakagawa, Takashi, Mabuchi, Norifumi, Ando, Hiroshi, Nishida, Osamu, Azami, Takafumi, Katsuya, Hirotada, Goto, Yukio, Searle, N., Roy, M., R. R. T., Smith, Charles E., Pinchak, Alfred C., Hagen, Joan F., Hancock, Donald, Krassioukov, Andrei V., Weaver, Lynne C., Sutton, I. R., Mutch, W. A. C., Teskey, J. M., Thomson, I. R., Rosenbloom, M., Thiessen, D., Teasdale S., Corbin H., Graham, M. R., Lang, S. A., Chang, P., Gerard, M., Tetzlaff, J. E., Walsh, M., Yoon, H., Warriner, Brian, Fancourt-Smith, Peter, McEwen, Jim, Crane, Judy, Badner, N. H., Bhandari, R., Komar, W. E., Ganapathy, S., Warriner, C. B., McCormack, J. P., Levine, M., Glick, N., Chan, V. W. S., McQuestion, M., Gomez, M., Cruise, C., Evana, D., Shumka, D., Smyth, R. J., Graham, M., Halpenny, David, Goresky, Gerald V., Zaretski, J. Eldon, Kavanagh, B., Roger, S., Davies, A., Friedlander, M., Cohen M. M., Duncan P. G., Pope W. D. B., Biehl D., Merchant R., Tweed, W. A., Tessler, Michael J., Angle, Mark, Kleiman, Simcha, Kavanagh, B. P., Doak, G. J., Li, G., Hall, R. I., Sulliyan, J. A., Yee, I., Halpern, S., Pittini, R., Huh, C., Bryson, G. L., Gverzdys, R., Perreault, C., Ferland, L., Gobeil, F., Girard, D., Smyth, R., Asokumar, B., Glynn, M., Silveira, Sandra, Clark, Jeff, Milgram, Paul, Splinter, W. M., MacNeill, H. B., Ménard, E. A., Rhine, E. J., Roberts, D. J., Gould, G. M., Johnson, G. G., Quance, Daniel, Wiesel, Saul, Easdown, Jane, Truong, N. Tien, Miller, Normand, Sheiner, Nathan, Welborn, L., Norden, J., Hannallah, R., Broadman, L., Seiden, N., Iwai, M., Iwai, R., Horigome, H., Yamashita, M., Wood, Catherine E., Klassen, Kim, Kleinman, S., Yentis, S., Sikich, N., Yemen, T. A., Mascik, B., Nelson, W., Ghantous, H., Gandolfi, J., Wood, Gordon, Ali, Mohamed, Inman, Kevin, Karski, J. M., Carroll, J., Brooks, D., Oakley, P. A., Webster, P. M., Karski, J., Yao, T., Ivanov, J., Young, P., Carson, S., Weisel, R. D., Cooper, Richard M., Wong, David T., Wagner, Douglas P., Knaus, William A., Munshi, Charul A., Kampine, John P., Soutter, I. D., Mathieu, A., Gafni, A., Dauphin, A., Torsher, L., Tierney, M., Hopkins, H. S., Baylon, G. J., Peter, Elizabeth A., Bellhouse, C. P., Dore, Caroline, Rachwal, T. W., Lanigan, D. T., Yip, Raymond, Derdemezi, J. B., Britt, B. A., Withington, D. E., Reynolds, F., Patrick, A., Man, W., Searle, N. R., Ste-Marie, H., Kostash, Mark A., Johnston, Richard, Bailey, R. J., Sharpe, M. D., Woda, R. P., Haug, M., Slugg, P., Lockrem, J., Barnett, G., Finegan, B. A., Robertson, M., Taylor, D., Frost, G., Koshal, A., Rodney, Grant E., Reichert, Clayton C., O’Regan, Desmond N., Blackstock, Derek, Steward, David J., Wenstone, Richard, Harrington, Ellen, Wong, A., Braude, B., Fear, D., Bissonnette, B., Reid, Craig W., Hull, Kathryn A., Yogendran, S., McGuire, G., Chan, V., Hartley, E., Van Kessel, K., Weisel, R., Takla, N., Tremblay, N. A., Ralley, F. E., Ramsay, J. G., Robbins, G. R., Salevsky, F. C., Gandhi, S., Nimphius, N., Dionne, Bernard, Jodoin, Christian, Lorange, Michel, Lapointe, Alain, Hawboldt, Geoffrey, Volgyesi, G. A., Tousignant, Guy, Barnett, R., and Gallant, B.

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1992
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30. World War II, Global Food Crisis and the Grow-More-Food Campaign in Malawi, 1939–1959.

Author

Nkhoma, Bryson G.

Subjects
*PEASANTS, *WORLD War II, *COLONIES, *AFRICAN history, *FOOD shortages, *FOOD crops, *CASH crops
Abstract

The outbreak of World War II in 1939 altered the trajectory of food production in Malawi in the last two decades of colonialism. This paper examines the extent to which the World War II and the World Food Crisis that followed shaped peasants' food production in Malawi between 1939 and 1957. It argues that, while the war caused food shortages through the dislocation of labour and foodstuffs, it also altered the production of surplus foodstuffs. Despite its merits, the paper observes, however, that colonial campaign for the peasants to grow more foodstuffs was a 'marriage of convenience' rather than an attempt to improve the food welfare of the peasants. As soon as the food crisis ended, the colonial authority resorted to its old policy of prioritising on cash crops at the expense of food crops. This history sheds new light to rethink 'the second colonial occupation' thesis by arguing that colonial appropriation of African resources in the 1940s and 1950s was complex, dynamic and contested. Foodstuffs laid at the core of rural life such that the colonial state could hardly expropriate them or discourage their excessive production without challenges from the peasants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2021
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34. 'We Are What We Eat': Nutrition, African Diets and the State in Colonial Malawi, 1920s–1960.

Author

Nkhoma, Bryson G.

Subjects
*AGRICULTURE, *DIET, *NUTRITION, *FOOD, *MALNUTRITION
Abstract

This article explores the history of colonial state nutrition interventions in Malawi from the 1920s to 1960. Paying particular attention to the underlying motivations, the processes by which the interventions were undertaken and peasants' responses, the study demonstrates the extent to which colonial projects driven by external forces achieved the desired transformations among the local inhabitants. Pressed by the growth of nutrition science in the 1920s and the need to supply nutritious foods to the military in the 1940s, the colonial state in Malawi found itself addressing problems of malnutrition that never actually existed, or which, if present, affected only a small proportion of the population during the period of study. Rather than improving the welfare of the peasants, these state nutritional interventions succeeded only in adding to peasants' agricultural and financial burdens and widening the existing disparities between them. By making this argument, the article draws attention to the limitations of the new nutrition science, implemented without due respect to local context, in dealing with malnutrition in southern Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2020
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35. Risks to healthcare workers following tracheal intubation of patients with COVID-19: a prospective international multicentre cohort study.

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El‐Boghdadly, K., Wong, D. J. N., Owen, R., Neuman, M. D., Pocock, S., Carlisle, J. B., Johnstone, C., Andruszkiewicz, P., Baker, P. A., Biccard, B. M., Bryson, G. L., Chan, M. T. V., Cheng, M. H., Chin, K. J., Coburn, M., Jonsson Fagerlund, M., Myatra, S. N., Myles, P. S., O'Sullivan, E., and Pasin, L.

Subjects
COVID-19, TRACHEA intubation, PERSONAL protective equipment, NEEDLESTICK injuries, COHORT analysis, SYMPTOMS, VIRAL pneumonia, RELATIVE medical risk, RESEARCH, RESEARCH methodology, OCCUPATIONAL exposure, EVALUATION research, MEDICAL cooperation, COMPARATIVE studies, EPIDEMICS, RESEARCH funding, LONGITUDINAL method, PROPORTIONAL hazards models, INFECTIOUS disease transmission
Abstract

Healthcare workers involved in aerosol-generating procedures, such as tracheal intubation, may be at elevated risk of acquiring COVID-19. However, the magnitude of this risk is unknown. We conducted a prospective international multicentre cohort study recruiting healthcare workers participating in tracheal intubation of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. Information on tracheal intubation episodes, personal protective equipment use and subsequent provider health status was collected via self-reporting. The primary endpoint was the incidence of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis or new symptoms requiring self-isolation or hospitalisation after a tracheal intubation episode. Cox regression analysis examined associations between the primary endpoint and healthcare worker characteristics, procedure-related factors and personal protective equipment use. Between 23 March and 2 June 2020, 1718 healthcare workers from 503 hospitals in 17 countries reported 5148 tracheal intubation episodes. The overall incidence of the primary endpoint was 10.7% over a median (IQR [range]) follow-up of 32 (18-48 [0-116]) days. The cumulative incidence within 7, 14 and 21 days of the first tracheal intubation episode was 3.6%, 6.1% and 8.5%, respectively. The risk of the primary endpoint varied by country and was higher in women, but was not associated with other factors. Around 1 in 10 healthcare workers involved in tracheal intubation of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 subsequently reported a COVID-19 outcome. This has human resource implications for institutional capacity to deliver essential healthcare services, and wider societal implications for COVID-19 transmission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2020
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36. 'The Native is the Producer of the Future': Improving Peasants' Food Production in Southern Malawi, 1859–1939.

Author

Nkhoma, Bryson G.

Subjects
*FOOD production, *PEASANTS, *AGRICULTURE & politics, *AGRICULTURAL history, *ECONOMIC history, COLONIAL Africa
Abstract

Since the late 1850s, Malawi has seen various attempts by missionaries, settler farmers and administrators to transform peasant agriculture in the face of ecological, political and economic challenges. However, attempts to improve peasants' food production have received little attention in the Malawian and regional historiography. Here I explore the interventions that the colonial state and other European actors made to improve peasants' food production in southern Malawi from 1859 to 1939. I argue that, while colonialism disrupted rural livelihoods, it brought with it efforts to improve the practices by which peasants produced foodstuffs. The success of these efforts, however, was mixed and largely limited by the derogatory beliefs that colonial officials developed about African practices and the state's inability to take into account local context and history. In particular, negative attitudes towards African producers undermined the legitimacy and acceptability of the interventions among the peasants during the period under study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2020
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38. Erratum

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Michèle, Saiah, Alain, Borgeat, Oliver, Wilder-Smith, Hung, Orlando R., Hope, Charles E., Laney, Geoffrey, Whynot, Sara C., Coonan, Thomas J., Malloy, David S., Patterson, S., Gelb, A., Manninen, P., Strum, D., Glosten, B., Spellman, M. J., Eger, E. I., Craen, R. A., Gelb, A. W., Murkin, J. M., Chong, K. Y., Penning, D. H., El-Behairy, H., Brien, J. F., Coh, J. W., Arellano, R., Correa, J., Fedorko, L., Arellano, R., Liu, Z., Boylan, J. F., Sandler, A. N., Nierenberg, H., Sheiner, P. A., Greig, P. D., O’Leary, G. M., Teasdale, S. J., Glynn, M. F. X., Orser, B. A., Wang, L. -Y., MacDonald, J. F., Loomis, C. W., Arunachalam, K. D., Vyas, D., Milne, B., Gagnon, Daniel, Lavoie, Josée, Dupuis, Jean-Yves, Miller, D. R., Martineau, R. J., Greenway, D., Olivaris, L., Hull, K., Tierney, R. N. M., Wynands, J. E., Martineau, R., St-Jean, B., Kitts, J., Miller, D., Lindsay, P., Curran, M., Allen, G. C., Crossan, M. L., Wise, Richard, Donati, François, Bevan, David R., Hardy, J. F., Desroches, J., Perrault, J., Carrier, M., Robitaille, D., Ansley, D. M., O’Connor, J. P., Dolman, J., Townsend, G. E., Ricci, D., Liepert, D. J., Browne, P. M., Hertz, T., Rooney, M., Yip, R. W., Code, W., Phillips, A. A., McLean, R. F., Devitt, J. H., Harrington, E. M., Byrick, R. J., Wong, P. Y., Wigglesworth, D., Kay, J. C., Sinclair, L. A., Koch, J. P., Deemar, K. A., Christakis, G. K., Belo, S., Angle, P., Cheng, D., Boylan, J., Sandler, A., Feindel, C., Carmichael, F., Boylen, P., Boylen, P., DeLima, L. G. R., Nathan, H. J., Hynes, M. S., Bourke, M. E., Russell, G. N., Seyone C., Chung F., Chartrand, Daniel, Roux, Lucie, Dain, S. L., Smith, B. D., Webster, A. C., Wigglesworth, D. F., Rose, D. K., Caskennette, G., Mechetuk, C., Doyle, D. John, DeMajo, Wilfred, van den Bosch, Frank, Lee, Mark, McClenaghan, K. M., Mazer, C. D., Preston, R., Crosby, E. T., Kotarba, D., Dudas, H., Elliott, R. D., Enns, J., Manninen, P. H., Farrar, J. K., Huzyka, David L., Lin, L. Philip, Fossey, Susan, Finucane, Brendan T., Stockwell, M., Lozanoff, S., Lang, S., Hyssen, J., Campbell, D. C., Douglas, M. J., Pavy, T. J. G., Flanagan, M. L., McMorland, G. H., Bands, Colin, Ffaracs, Ch. B., Lipsett, Catherine, Drover, David, Stafford-Smith, Mark, Stevens, Sarah, Shields, Kate, MacSween, Michael J., McAllister, J. D., Morley-Forster, P. K., White, A. K., Taylor, M. D., Vandenberghe, H. M., Knoppert, D., Reimer, H., Duke, P. C., Kehler, C. H., Kepron, M. W., Taraska, V. A., Carstoniu, J., Norman, P., Katz, J., Hannallah, Medhat, Cooney, C. M., Lyons, J. B., Hennigan, A., Blunnie, W. P., Moriarty, D. C., Dobkowski, W. B., Prato, F. S., Shannon, N. A., Drost, D. J., Arya, B., Wills, J. M., Bond, D., Morley-Forester, P., JB, Mullen, Spahr-Schopfer, I., Lerman, J., Cutz, E., Dolovich, M., Kowalski, S., Ong, B., Bell, D., Ostryzniuk, T., Serrette, C., Wasylak, T., Coke, S., Tsuda, Takako, Nakagawa, Takashi, Mabuchi, Norifumi, Ando, Hiroshi, Nishida, Osamu, Azami, Takafumi, Katsuya, Hirotada, Goto, Yukio, Searle, N., Roy, M., R. R. T., Smith, Charles E., Pinchak, Alfred C., Hagen, Joan F., Hancock, Donald, Krassioukov, Andrei V., Weaver, Lynne C., Sutton, I. R., Mutch, W. A. C., Teskey, J. M., Thomson, I. R., Rosenbloom, M., Thiessen, D., Teasdale S., Corbin H., Graham, M. R., Lang, S. A., Chang, P., Gerard, M., Tetzlaff, J. E., Walsh, M., Yoon, H., Warriner, Brian, Fancourt-Smith, Peter, McEwen, Jim, Crane, Judy, Badner, N. H., Bhandari, R., Komar, W. E., Ganapathy, S., Warriner, C. B., McCormack, J. P., Levine, M., Glick, N., Chan, V. W. S., McQuestion, M., Gomez, M., Cruise, C., Evana, D., Shumka, D., Smyth, R. J., Graham, M., Halpenny, David, Goresky, Gerald V., Zaretski, J. Eldon, Kavanagh, B., Roger, S., Davies, A., Friedlander, M., Cohen M. M., Duncan P. G., Pope W. D. B., Biehl D., Merchant R., Tweed, W. A., Tessler, Michael J., Angle, Mark, Kleiman, Simcha, Kavanagh, B. P., Doak, G. J., Li, G., Hall, R. I., Sulliyan, J. A., Yee, I., Halpern, S., Pittini, R., Huh, C., Bryson, G. L., Gverzdys, R., Perreault, C., Ferland, L., Gobeil, F., Girard, D., Smyth, R., Asokumar, B., Glynn, M., Silveira, Sandra, Clark, Jeff, Milgram, Paul, Splinter, W. M., MacNeill, H. B., Ménard, E. A., Rhine, E. J., Roberts, D. J., Gould, G. M., Johnson, G. G., Quance, Daniel, Wiesel, Saul, Easdown, Jane, Truong, N. Tien, Miller, Normand, Sheiner, Nathan, Welborn, L., Norden, J., Hannallah, R., Broadman, L., Seiden, N., Iwai, M., Iwai, R., Horigome, H., Yamashita, M., Wood, Catherine E., Klassen, Kim, Kleinman, S., Yentis, S., Sikich, N., Yemen, T. A., Mascik, B., Nelson, W., Ghantous, H., Gandolfi, J., Wood, Gordon, Ali, Mohamed, Inman, Kevin, Karski, J. M., Carroll, J., Brooks, D., Oakley, P. A., Webster, P. M., Karski, J., Yao, T., Ivanov, J., Young, P., Carson, S., Weisel, R. D., Cooper, Richard M., Wong, David T., Wagner, Douglas P., Knaus, William A., Munshi, Charul A., Kampine, John P., Soutter, I. D., Mathieu, A., Gafni, A., Dauphin, A., Torsher, L., Tierney, M., Hopkins, H. S., Baylon, G. J., Peter, Elizabeth A., Bellhouse, C. P., Dore, Caroline, Rachwal, T. W., Lanigan, D. T., Yip, Raymond, Derdemezi, J. B., Britt, B. A., Withington, D. E., Reynolds, F., Patrick, A., Man, W., Searle, N. R., Ste-Marie, H., Kostash, Mark A., Johnston, Richard, Bailey, R. J., Sharpe, M. D., Woda, R. P., Haug, M., Slugg, P., Lockrem, J., Barnett, G., Finegan, B. A., Robertson, M., Taylor, D., Frost, G., Koshal, A., Rodney, Grant E., Reichert, Clayton C., O’Regan, Desmond N., Blackstock, Derek, Steward, David J., Wenstone, Richard, Harrington, Ellen, Wong, A., Braude, B., Fear, D., Bissonnette, B., Reid, Craig W., Hull, Kathryn A., Yogendran, S., McGuire, G., Chan, V., Hartley, E., Van Kessel, K., Weisel, R., Takla, N., Tremblay, N. A., Ralley, F. E., Ramsay, J. G., Robbins, G. R., Salevsky, F. C., Gandhi, S., Nimphius, N., Dionne, Bernard, Jodoin, Christian, Lorange, Michel, Lapointe, Alain, Hawboldt, Geoffrey, Volgyesi, G. A., Tousignant, Guy, Barnett, R., and Gallant, B.

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1992
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40. Turtle

Author

Bryson, G

Abstract

University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. NO FULL TEXT AVAILABLE. This thesis contains 3rd party copyright material. The hardcopy may be available for consultation at the UTS Library. NO FULL TEXT AVAILABLE. This thesis contains 3rd party copyright material. ----- Donald Pinelli, an Italo-Scot living in Sydney, returns to his childhood home in Glasgow for the first time after thirty years away. His mother has died. Donald explains his long absence in the story that he tells us during the night that he's in his mother's house, alone, before the funeral takes place. While rummaging around the empty house, he makes a discovery about Anna McColl, a girl with whom he was infatuated as a teenager, and who saved his life one day by smiling at him. The discovery is a love note from Anna, scribbled in Donald's long lost diary from 1974. It's the first time Donald has seen the note, and it shocks him enough to begin his tale. He tells us about his mother, Trixie, a clairvoyant, whose mad world of superstition and mysticism taints that of her children; his father Carlo, a gangster mired in the Italo-Scottish underworld; his jealous sister Luce and his older half-brother, Mr Disco, cool, self-confident and successful - everything the bumbling Donald is unable to be. And he tells us too, about Anna, and about how, shortly after the episode in which she smiled at him, she disappears, feared abducted, possibly dead. The central complicating factor in Donald's unhappy childhood is this: Trixie believes he is the victim of a curse, and that he is doomed to die by drowning on his eighteenth birthday. It is this belief which colours every aspect of Donald's growing up, and which haunts his adult life. Donald's true curse is not to die by drowning, but to suffer the consequences of a childhood blighted by Trixie's madness and a family devoid of love. Led by Trixie's certainty that the curse will indeed unfold, the young Donald becomes obsessed with survival. A semi-mystical episode reveals to him the image of a loggerhead turtle, who will be his saviour. He discovers the Turtle for real at the local zoo, along with its keeper, Jake. Believing he is being guided by this creature, he starts, in secret, to learn how to swim, and how to hold his breath for long stretches underwater. The climax occurs at Donald's 18th birthday. Trixie, frantic now that the day has finally come, plots to keep Donald locked up in his room. Donald escapes and heads for the coast, led there by what the Turtle has told him. He is betrayed however, by his best friend, Wee Malkie, and his family follow him. They arrive too late, just in time to see Donald wade into the sea and disappear beneath the waves. But Donald survives, and thirty years later, he is home for Trixie's funeral, and the final act of the story, where he meets his family again, and also Anna McColl, and where the curse he has laboured under all his life may finally be lifted.

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2006

41. Is Ketorolac Safe to Use in Plastic Surgery? A Critical Review.

Author

Stephens, Diana M., Richards, Bryson G., Schleicher, William F., Zins, James E., and Langstein, Howard N.

Abstract

Background: Ketorolac tromethamine is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that provides postoperative pain control and reduces narcotic requirements. However, concerns regarding postoperative hematoma have limited its use in plastic surgery. Objectives: Our goal is to critically review the risk of bleeding with ketorolac in plastic surgery patients, with a focus on aesthetic surgery. Methods: A PubMed/Medline literature search of clinical trials using the keywords "surgery" and "NSAID" yielded 2574 results. Of these results, 1036 included ketorolac and twelve involved plastic surgery patients. Six studies reported postoperative hematoma rates: three prospective randomized trials, two retrospective reviews, and one case series. These were subjected to statistical analysis to determine if an association existed between ketorolac and postoperative hematomas. Results: Six papers reported 981 cases. Ketorolac use resulted in similar hematoma rates when compared to control groups, 2.5% (12 of 483) versus 2.4% (12 of 498), respectively (P = .79). There were no reported hematomas associated with ketorolac in over 115 patients undergoing aesthetic facial procedures. Hematoma rates of those undergoing aesthetic breast surgery, including reduction and augmentation mammoplasties, were 4.3% (11 of 257) in the ketorolac group versus 2.2% (6 of 277) in controls (P = .59). Reduction in postoperative narcotic use and improved pain scores was also reported. Conclusions: Our literature review did not find a significant association between hematoma formation and ketorolac use in a variety of plastic surgery procedures. These findings are similar to those in other surgical subspecialties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2015
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42. Seamless Synthetic Aperture Radar Archive for Interferometry Analysis.

Author

Baker, S., Baru, C., Bryson, G., Buechler, B., Crosby, C., Fielding, E., Meertens, C., Nicoll, J., and Youn, C.

Subjects
SYNTHETIC aperture radar, INTERFEROMETRY, GEOSPATIAL data, TROPOSPHERE, RADAR research
Abstract

The NASA Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science (ACCESS) seamless synthetic aperture radar (SAR) archive (SSARA) project is a collaboration between UNAVCO, the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and OpenTopography at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to design and implement a seamless distributed access system for SAR data and derived interferometric SAR (InSAR) data products. A unified application programming interface (API) has been created to search the SAR archives at ASF and UNAVCO, 30 and 90-m SRTM DEM data available through OpenTopography, and tropospheric data from the NASA OSCAR project at JPL. The federated query service provides users a single access point to search for SAR granules, InSAR pairs, and corresponding DEM and tropospheric data products from the four archives, as well as the ability to search and download pre-processed InSAR products from ASF and UNAVCO. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2014
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43. Skin Sterility After Application of a Vapocoolant Spray.

Author

SCHLEICHER, WILLIAM F., RICHARDS, BRYSON G., HUETTNER, FRANZISKA, OZTURK, CEMILE, ZUCCARO, PATRICIA, and ZINS, JAMES E.

Subjects
*REFRIGERANTS & the environment, *FLAMMABILITY, *MICROBIOLOGY, *TETRAFLUOROETHANE, *POVIDONE-iodine, RISK factors in infertility
Abstract

BACKGROUND Refrigerant sprays have been widely used to reduce pain in the office setting. However, more recently, their use has been limited by both concern regarding flammability and questions of bacterial contamination. OBJECTIVE We investigated the microbiological effect of 1,1,1,3,3 pentafluoropropane and 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane when sprayed after povidone-iodine application in 50 volunteers. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 50 volunteers, 3 cultures were taken (1) at time 0 before antiseptic application, (2) after povidone-iodine topical antiseptic, and (3) after spraying with vapocoolant. Cultures at 3 time intervals were analyzed in a blinded fashion, and Gram stains obtained when cultures were positive. RESULTS Bacterial growth was found in 98% of cultures taken before antiseptic was applied (Group 1), in 28 cultures (56%) after povidone-iodine was applied, and in 24 cultures (48%) after spraying with vapocoolant. There was a statistically significant difference found between Group 1 (no antiseptic) and both Group 2 (after antiseptic but before vapocoolant) and Group 3 (after vapocoolant) (p < .001). CONCLUSION The topical antiseptic povidone-iodine significantly reduces skin colonization when compared with unprepared skin (p < .001). The vapocoolant 1,1,1,3,3 pentafluoropropane and 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane is sprayed on skin prepared with povidone-iodine; there is no statistically significant increase in bacterial colonization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2014
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45. Domain specific work performance change for people with schizophrenia.

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Bryson G, Greig T, and Bell MD

Abstract

Vocational rehabilitation in schizophrenia has begun to attract research interest. Most of the research focuses on models of vocational service delivery. These studies emphasize global work outcomes and rarely address the more elemental abilities that affect these global outcomes. This study reports on a sample of 146 participants with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder as they progressed through a six-month work rehabilitation program. Participants' work was evaluated biweekly using the Work Behavior Inventory. This rating instrument, which combines behavioral observation and interview methods, generates ratings in five specific work domains (Work Habits, Work Quality, Cooperativeness, Personal Presentation, and Social Skills) as well as a Total rating. Results indicate that nearly three quarters (74%) of the sample improved or became proficient in at least one work domain. Work Quality was the domain most likely to improve, while Cooperativeness was the domain most likely to reach a proficient level of performance. Work Quality, Work Habits, and Personal Presentation showed rapid improvement over the first 13 weeks with only modest gains in the second 13 weeks. Cooperativeness and Social Skills showed more gradual, continuous improvement over the entire six months while improvements in all domains were related to the number of weeks participants were involved in the program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2003
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46. A behavioral intervention to improve work performance in schizophrenia: work behavior inventory feedback.

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Bell M, Lysaker P, and Bryson G

Abstract

Objective: Situational assessments of work performance can be used repeatedly to measure progress in work rehabilitation and used for feedback and goal setting.Design: Sixty-three people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder participating in a 6-month paid work program were randomly assigned to receive a behavioral intervention utilizing work performance feedback and goal setting or to receive usual support services.Results: Results showed that those receiving the behavioral intervention (BI) had significantly greater improvement on the WBI subscales overall and specifically on Social Skills, Personal Presentation, and Cooperativeness. Those in BI also worked significantly longer, 36% more hours and 22% more weeks. Additionally, those in BI showed a trend toward greater improvements on measures of motivation, sense of purpose, and enjoyment in life.Conclusions: Results indicate that BI can improve work performance, particularly for interpersonal behaviors that are less likely to be addressed by work supervisors, increase job retention, and may enhance feelings of motivation, sense of purpose and enjoyment in life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2003
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49. Studies on the efficacy of intranasal vaccination for the prevention of experimentally induced parainfluenza type 3 virus pneumonia in calves.

Author

Bryson, G., Adair, B. M., McNulty, M. S., McAliskey, M., Bradford, H. E. L., Allan, G. M., Evans, R. T., and Forster, F.

Abstract

The efficacy of intranasal vaccination in preventing or limiting disease of the lower respiratory tract induced by parainfluenza 3 (P13) virus was evaluated under experimental conditions, using a commercially available live vaccine containing a temperature-sensitive strain of P13 virus. In a preliminary study four colostrum-deprived calves were vaccinated intranasally at one week and again at two months of age, and two similar calves were given an intranasal placebo. After the second vaccination serum antibodies to P13 virus were detected in all four vaccinated calves, but not in the control animals. Seventeen days after the second vaccination all six calves were challenged with virulent P13 virus, and they were killed six days later. The clinical scores and the extent of pulmonary consolidation were reduced in the vaccinated animals; P13 virus was detected in the upper and lower respiratory tract of the control calves but in none of the vaccinated calves. In a larger scale study with 14 colostrum-fed calves, seven were vaccinated at one week and again at five weeks of age, and seven were given an intranasal placebo. Two weeks after the second vaccination all 14 calves were challenged with virulent P13 virus. The clinical scores and lung consolidation were significantly reduced in the vaccinated calves in comparison with the controls. Six days after infection, 10 of the 14 calves were killed; P13 virus was detectable in the nasal secretions of all seven control calves but in only one of the vaccinated animals, and P13 viral antigen was detected in the lungs of the control calves but not in those of the vaccinated animals. One of the vaccinated calves had developed a severe clinical response after the challenge, but it had only minor lung consolidation when killed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
1999
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50. The Work Behavior Inventory: a scale for the assessment of work behavior for people with severe mental illness.

Author

Bryson G, Bell MD, Lysaker P, and Zito W

Abstract

The Work Behavior Inventory (WMI) is a standardized work performance assessment instrument specifically designed for people with severe mental illness. Test construction employed rational and empirical approaches yielding a 36-item inventory with five scales. Inter-rater rehabilities of the individual items, scales, and inventory total are in the good to excellent range. Validity is supported by Cronbach's Alpha indicating strong internal consistency and factorial invariance from replication study. The WBI was moderately correlated with the Work Personality Profile, providing concurrent validity while indicating a minimum of redundancy. Discriminant validity was demonstrated between schizophrenia and substance abuse samples on WBI subscales and total score. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1997

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