Illinois Research Articles

Failure of phototherapy to reduce serum bilirubin in newborn infants

P H o T O T H ~. g A V Y is effective in lowering the serum bi l i rubln concentra t ion in many low-bir th-weight infants wi th physiologic or id iopa th ic j a u n d i c e ? -~ Serum bi l i rubin values may be decreased in both Caucas ian and Negro newborn in fan t sJ Pho to the rapy has also been repor ted to lower serum bi l i rubin concentrat ions in hemolyt ic disease due to A B O incompat ibi l i ty . 7 T h e purpose of this repor t is to call attent ion to a group of newborn infants who d id not show a significant clinical response to pho to the rapy and were therefore considered pho to the rapy failures. As this was no t a control led study, r igid cr i ter ia were not used to de te rmine the ind ica t ion for photo therapy. I n general , the decision was based on the clinical history, serum bi l i rubin values above 12 rag. pe r 100 ml., and ind iv idua l evaluat ion of each patient, F ive infants, born a t Cook County Hospi ta l , were exposed to eight 40 wa t t b lue fluorescent lights, 5 and 3 infants, born at Univers i ty of Ill inois Hospi ta l , were exposed to eight 20 wa t t Vi ta l i te f luorescent lights. Pho to the rapy was in t e rmi t t en t as previously repor ted. 5

Book Reviews : Managerial Attitudes and Performance, Lyman W. Porter and Edward E. Lawler, III, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., Homewood, Illi nois, 1968, 209 pages, $5.75 (College Price)

Book Reviews : Managerial Attitudes and Performance, Lyman W. Porter and Edward E. Lawler, III, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., Homewood, Illi nois, 1968, 209 pages, $5.75 (College Price)

Opinions of Selected Business Managers About Some Aspects of Communication On the Job

A class in business eom munications at Southern Illi nois University made a survey of the variety and nature of communications problems as seen through the eyes of St. Louis-area businessmen at sev eral levels of management. Among the significant findings were that all but 9 of the 112 persons interviewed said com munications caused trouble for them, and 75 persons (88 per cent) ranked communications first or second as a source of trouble.

Chandler, B. J., and others. Research Sem inar on Teacher Education. Cooperative Re search Project No. G-011. Evanston, Illi nois: Northwestern University, 1963. 171 pp. Copy available upon request to School of Education, Northwestern University

Chandler, B. J., and others. Research Sem inar on Teacher Education. Cooperative Re search Project No. G-011. Evanston, Illi nois: Northwestern University, 1963. 171 pp. Copy available upon request to School of Education, Northwestern University

J. W. Maucker

J. W. Maucker, president, State College of Iowa, holds a bachelor of arts degree from Augustana College, Rock Island, Illi nois, and a master's and doctor's degree from the State University of Iowa. President Maucker began his career as a teacher in the Dundee Elementary School and North High School, Omaha. Later he became assistant professor of education at the University of Missouri. From 1945-50, he was dean of the School of Education, Montana State University. He was a mem ber of the National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards from 1954-57 and chairman in 1957. From 1962- 63 he served as president of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Educa tion. In 1963 he was president of the Asso ciation of Iowa College Presidents. In October 1963, he was appointed to serve a three-year term as a member of the Na tional Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education.

Book Reviews : Advertising Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition, C. H. Sandage and Vernon Fryburger, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., Homewood, Illi nois, 1963, trade edition $11.35 and student text edition $8.50

Book Reviews : Advertising Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition, C. H. Sandage and Vernon Fryburger, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., Homewood, Illi nois, 1963, trade edition $11.35 and student text edition $8.50

HANDBOOK OF ADULT EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. Edited by Malcolm S. Knowles. Chicago, Illi nois : Adult Education Association of the U.S.A., 1960. $7.50

HANDBOOK OF ADULT EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. Edited by Malcolm S. Knowles. Chicago, Illi nois : Adult Education Association of the U.S.A., 1960. $7.50

An analysis of propagation measurements made at 418 megacycles per second well beyond the radio horizon (a digest).

During an IS-mon th period in 1952 and 1953, t ransmission loss measurements at 41S megacycles were m ade over a 134-mile p ath between Cedar R apids, I owa, and Qilin cy, Illi nois. Continu ous r ecordings m ade simultaneously at severa l receiving a ntenna heights from 30 to 665 feet yield ed information on diurn al and seasonal variations in both the hourly m edian bas ic t ransmiss ion loss a nd in height gain . These data are compared to p redictions made using t he m ethod d evelop ed by Rice, Longley, a nd Norto n a nd a re found to be in good agreement, particularly at t he lower a ntenn a heights. An a nalysis of the correlation of short-term signal level variations observed at horizontall y and ver tically spaced antennas is described .

The Cyperaceae of Illinois. I. Cyperus

This is the first in a series of studies concerning the family Cyperaceae in Illinois. It is intended to define the species within each group, to give synonymy, to supply keys for identification of the species, and to show distribution of the species in Illinois. Line drawings of the diagnostic characters of each group will be presented. In order of their appearance, the parts of the study will be: I. Cyperus; II. Dulichium and Eleocharis; III. Bulbostylis, Fimbristylis, Fuirena, Hemicarpha, and Lipocarpha; IV. Scirpus and Eriophorum; V. Rhynchospora, Cladium, and Scleria; and VI. Carex. Herbaria which have made their collections of Cyperus available for this study are those of the Illinois State Museum (ISM), Illinois Natural History Survey (ILLS), Chicago Museum of Natural History (F), University of Illinois (ILL), Missouri Botanical Garden (MO), Eastern Illinois University (El), Western Illinois University (WI), and Southern Illinois University (SIU). Much appreciation is accorded Mr. Don Drapalik who prepared the distribution maps and helped with the annotations.

A Comparative Study of the College Experiences of Graduates of the Core and of the Conventional Curricula

THE CURRICULUM has been the s ub j e c t of I much study and experimentation during the past three decades. Many curricular patterns have been developed as educational workers have tried to translate the newer concepts of curriculum,in terms of the learning experiences of the child, into functional forms for school programs. A mong these proposals has been the curricu lum. Briefly, the core has been defined as part of the total school curricu lum which endeavors to assist pupils in meeting the needs most common to them and to s o c i e t y without regard to any subject-matter classifica tion. x Since the Eight Year Study2 of the Pro gressive Education Association, which affirm e d that the secondary school could provide a sound, flexible education to meet pupils' present and future life needs, there has been much education al interest in the effects of curricular experi mentation upon the high school students' prepa ration for and adjustment to the demands of col lege life. The curriculum at the Highland Park (Il linois) High School was established as an elective program in 1943. The subject matter fields util ized during the last twelve year s have been: Grade IX, English and social science; Grade X, English-speech and biology; Grade XI, American history and American literature; and Grade XII, English (great books). The present investigation was a longitudinal study of the graduates of the curriculum during their matriculation at colleges, using graduates of the conventional curriculum in the same high school asa control group.

An Evaluation of a Grading System for Physical Education for Women

IN 1946, the Chicago Undergraduate Division of the University of Illi nois was established on Navy Pier. One of the developmental problems which beset the administration in women's physical education, in addi tion to major questions of staff, space and courses, was that of a grad ing system for students. The system finally selected was that used by Staley and Stafford (5) for men. The fundamental principle of this system was the scaling o f all course activities on a one-hundred point basis, and the weighting of this material in point values, i. e., bracing in archery might be consid ered as a three point value, while the technique of draw and aim would be worth ten points, giving a total of thirteen points toward the total one hundred for the archery course. Since the University academic grades were letters, a conversion scale was established whereby letter grades could be read directly from numerical grades, with 90 or more points equaling A; 81-89 points equaling B, etc. The system was initiated in the fall of 1946 and at that time seemed to be unique in the field of w o men's physical education. Student grades were posted on large charts and were available throughout the semester for observation, re-tests, improvement and class status. Revisions in weighting have occurred from time to time, as for instance, bracing in archery was raised to five points while the draw and aim process was rated as 15 points, giv ing these two a value of 20 points toward 100 instead of the original weight of 13 as described above. With the termination of the spring semester, 1951, this system had been in use for five years. It seemed that the fourteen semesters en compassed in that time span should afford a sound basis for an evalua tion of this grading process, and the department wished to study itfrom several viewpoints, namely:

A Study of Peer Group Social Accept-Ability at the Fifth Grade Level in a Public School

DURING THE MIDDLE elementary school years, as the child moves toward adolescence, he should be making marked progress in the ac complishment of that important developmental task, emancipation from the family. Simultaneously with progress along that line there develops a growing importance of the peer group. This study is concerned with the child's normal growth in accep tability with this group. It makes no pretense of being a controlled educational experiment. It is rather a comparative study in which all seven of the fifth grade teachers in a small city in southern Ill inois worked cooperatively with the writer as consultant in an attempt to understand and improve social relationships within the groups and to see how their relationships were affected by the type of group i n which the child worked. Since the time devoted to supervision had to be limited to three half-days per week it was thought best to put the emphasis on read ing. Nevertheless there was a tendency where possible for teachers to make use of techniques developed in reading through the remainder of the day's program.

Tumors of the Septum Pellucidum

T U M O R S of the s e p t u m pe l luc idum are so ra re ly recognized cl inically t h a t i t is possible to find publ i shed descr ip t ions of on ly 31 cases. M o r e o v e r , mos t of these r e p o r t e d t u m o r s were e n c o u n t e r e d a t a u t o p s y and in on ly 4 ins tances was successful r emo v a l b y ope ra t i on descr ibed. F o r this reason, the ma te r i a l of a series of 5 such cases was rev iewed. F o u r of the pa t i en t s were s tud ied a t the Ill inois N e u r o s p s y c h i a t r i c I n s t i t u t e , Unive r s i t y of Ill inois, and 1 a t the U n i v e r s i t y of Chicago Clinics. A rev iew of these case repor t s indica tes t h a t the p r eo p e ra t i v e diagnosis of t u m o r s of the s e p t u m pe l luc idum is o f ten qui te difficult b u t m a y be es tabl i shed if the possibi l i ty of such a cond i t ion is en t e r t a ined . T h e impor t ance of es tabl ishing the co r rec t diagnosis is emphas i zed b y the fac t t h a t of the pa t i en t s in this series were successful ly o p e r a t e d u p o n and 1 has su rv ived 11 years in excel lent hea l th .