Index Card Research Articles

Three Poems

photo : kishore nagarigari 38 WLT JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2017 poetry The abandoned British Residency in Hyderabad, India WORLDLIT.ORG 39 Three Poems by Shahilla Shariff Author’s note: After my mother’s death, I struggled with the meaning of legacy. Mother Load, the collection from which “Pieces”is extracted, recalls my mother’s voice, her presence as well as her absence, and invokes the rapture alongside the despair. Our narratives are inevitably filtered, reimagined even. So long as they are not lost. Pieces I In her drawing room on the Avenue Foch, a newfound friend serves my children caviar on dainty Limoges. I wonder what your mother would have made of it. Live a simple life, she extolled. My grandmother came to English late in life. We spoke in dialect – Kutchi, her mother tongue. She reserved Gujarati for her husband; it was more formal, felt more correct. She also wrote her recipes in Gujarati. My mother translated her mother’s chicken curry recipe into English and copied it for me onto an index card when I left home. She wore a sari when she drove her peacock-blue Morris Minor to Nairobi City Market for her weekly supply of papaya. She resisted wearing trousers – until biting winds prevailed on one of her visits to us in Canada. I never understood why she ate alone. She used to make sure the ayah served my grandfather as she waited in silence in a separate room until he was finished. She taught my mother the importance of duty and patience. She also arranged for my mother – just past her teenage years – to be married to a man she barely knew. Sukh and dukh – happiness and suffering – were intertwined, she maintained. After she married, my mother moved to Dar es Salaam, the acacia-fringed, ocean-faced city of her mother’s birth. A place of many minarets, sparkling white, with muezzins all vying with one another in their call to prayer. She knew it from her childhood – it was the first time she caught sight of the sea, and it changed her life. My grandmother’s father lived above a butcher’s shop on Stanley Street near our mosque. The heat always felt oppressive as we climbed the dark and narrow stairs to his house each week. I used to pinch my nose to block the stench of fresh blood and defeated flesh. He always rewarded me with money for sweets. On Eid, there were envelopes stuffed with shillings, bolts of new fabric for matching dresses, and trays of sugary treats from the neighborhood confectioner. My mother remembered on her last Eid. We were in the dungeon of the hospital, wasting away in the half-dark of that fetid underworld. She was noticeably bony in her oversized regulation gown of indeterminate blue. Her hair, normally meticulously dyed, was now shot through with prophetic streaks. There is a time for everything. With her suddenly prominent eye sockets, the shocked shell of her face, she reminded me of a lost little sparrow. I tried disinfecting the floor with white flower oil – pak fah yeow. The smell only multiplied our tears. The road forks at Assisi. Barkat. Blessings fly. She wishes me abundance in a time of scarcity. Despite a childhood by the sea, my grandmother never learned how to swim. I always thought she looked like she was floating when she prayed lying face up on her bed surrounded by deepening shadows and smoky agarbatti. I imagine she looked the same when they lowered her into her unmarked plot at the Nairobi cemetery. I was not present to see. Even if I had not been a world away, I would not have been permitted this final farewell. We, women, are barred from burials. We pray from afar for our dead – for our grandmothers and our mothers. In a sense, I am spared. I have no daughters who will be forced to mourn me from a distance. 40 WLT JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2017 II Earth aches. You preferred your tea in bone china. Tea tastes different in terra-cotta cups. Earth is baked and tried. You can taste its ridges and layers, not pebbles, sand, the detritus of oceans...

Not Her

Not Her Cindy Veach (bio) I don’t see the days. —Abdullah, age 9 The watch helps me remember our history. —Ahmed, age 17 —TIME It feels wrong to sit in the waiting area of my hair salon reading an article about Syrian refugees at the same time a woman in foils goes on about why it's condescending for a waiter to address a woman old enough to cover her roots as dear or sweetie. Wrong too that their words, paired alongside pictures of items they carried, rest on a retro coffee table. And if the words are the why then isn't it equally wrong that the flat screen in the corner is chattering about a drunk woman who broke into Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo to pet the poor three-legged Malaysian tiger? It's dangerous to be adrift in a sea of tigers. When the bigger ship rammed the crowded dinghy it capsized. A refugee named Omar couldn't find his wife or children in the chop. All he could find were plastic water bottles which allowed him to float [End Page 90] the rest of the way. Tell me, how is it okay for a colorist to be mixing my personalized formula, as noted on a 3 x 5 index card with my name on it, at the same time I'm reading this? And this— Greek authorities erroneously reported they'd found Omar's wife—washed up and bloated. In other words, the things they carried were nothing but failed amulets. And isn't it outrageous that the blonde "Live at Five" anchor is telling me that the drunk woman will lose fingers? They told Omar his dead wife was wearing boots. I'm reading his exact words—She was barefoot in the boat that's how I knew it was not her— when my colorist chirps, "We're ready for you, dear." [End Page 91] Cindy Veach Cindy Veach's poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Journal, Chicago Review, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Gloved against Blood, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press. She manages fundraising programs for nonprofit organizations and lives in Manchester, Massachusetts. Copyright © 2017 Cindy Veach

Evaluation of Outcomes and Complications in Patients Who Experience Hypoglycemia After Cardiac Surgery

The objective of the study was to elucidate 30-day and long-term outcomes in patients experiencing postoperative hypoglycemia. We conducted a retrospective review of patients who underwent cardiac surgery between September 4, 2007, and April 30, 2011, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital who had intensive treatment of hyperglycemia postoperatively. Of 1,325 patients, 215 experienced a hypoglycemic episode (blood glucose <70 mg/dL) within the first 3 postoperative days. A total of 198 were propensity-score (PS) matched to 363 patients without hypoglycemia. The analysis consisted of a comparison of 30-day cardiac outcomes and long-term mortality between those who experienced a hypoglycemic event and those who did not. Between patients who experienced hypoglycemia compared to those that did not, there were no significant differences in mean glucose values while on insulin drips (119.8 ± 33.5 mg/dL vs. 120.9 ± 30.5 mg/dL; P = .69) or subcutaneous insulin (122.0 ± 38.0 mg/dL vs. 127.2 ± 35.5 mg/dL; P = .11) or postoperative surgical complication rates (30-day mortality: 3.5% vs. 1.7%; complications (any): 40% vs. 42%; 30-day re-admissions: 13% vs. 13%; all cardiac complications: 35% vs. 31%; and all infections: 8% vs. 5%). Over an average of 5.1 ± 2.2 years following index surgery, there was higher all-cause mortality among those PS-matched who had experienced hypoglycemia compared to those who had not (log-rank P = .031), primarily due to those (n = 32) experiencing more than one episode of hypoglycemia. Postoperative hypoglycemia did not negatively impact immediate surgical complication rates but was associated with a significant risk of increased postoperative morbidity and long-term all-cause mortality in patients experiencing multiple episodes of hypoglycemia. BG = blood glucose BMI = body mass index CARD = Cardiovascular Research Database HR = hazard rate PS = propensity score.

Boosting Students' Vocabulary through Index Card

There are thousands of words in English. Learning these words is a big problem for students of English. However, there are ways to solve this problem. One way is to become familiar with the process of word formation. This process enables students to understand how a word is formed. This analysis is in important and useful to learn because they are very commonly used in English. Developing some skills in taking words apart will help students better understand what they read, what the meaning ofa word, and finally increase students vocabulary.One way to learn word formation is through index card games. These games will help students learn how a word is constructed in various ways, and even stimulate them to initiate making new word or sentences using their own interest.The writers have conducted action research to use the index card to improve the students vocabulary. To get more successful achievement, the writes limit to teach suffixes only, namely Verb suffixes. Noun suffixes. Adjective suffixes and Adverb suffixes. For one semester, the writers teach suffixes using index cards in different models, such as Match it, Challenge it. Winsor Loses.The result shows that students may improve their vocabulary mastery (70%), uphold students motivation (60%), build confidences to speak (40%),generate classroom energy (30%), recognize word formation process (70%), participate in class discussion (25%), and &amp; get better class attendance. From the result above, the-writers believe index card is very useful to improve students vocabulary, particularly in word formation.

Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness (CERTAIN): evolution of a content management system for point-of-care clinical decision support.

BackgroundThe Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness (CERTAIN) is an international collaborative project with the overall objective of standardizing the approach to the evaluation and treatment of critically ill patients world-wide, in accordance with best-practice principles. One of CERTAIN’s key features is clinical decision support providing point-of-care information about common acute illness syndromes, procedures, and medications in an index card format.MethodsThis paper describes 1) the process of developing and validating the content for point-of-care decision support, and 2) the content management system that facilitates frequent peer-review and allows rapid updates of content across different platforms (CERTAIN software, mobile apps, pdf-booklet) and different languages.ResultsContent was created based on survey results of acute care providers and validated using an open peer-review process. Over a 3 year period, CERTAIN content expanded to include 67 syndrome cards, 30 procedure cards, and 117 medication cards. 127 (59 %) cards have been peer-reviewed so far. Initially MS Word® and Dropbox® were used to create, store, and share content for peer-review. Recently Google Docs® was used to make the peer-review process more efficient. However, neither of these approaches met our security requirements nor has the capacity to instantly update the different CERTAIN platforms.ConclusionAlthough we were able to successfully develop and validate a large inventory of clinical decision support cards in a short period of time, commercially available software solutions for content management are suboptimal. Novel custom solutions are necessary for efficient global point of care content system management.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12911-016-0367-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Index Card Match Pada Mata Pelajaran Al-Qur�an Hadist Kelas IV Untuk Meningkatkan Motivasi Belajar Siswa Di Min Pahandut Palangka Raya

Based on the observation of the learning process carried out in MIN Model Pahandut, actually the teacher in her teaching process still used a lecture method too much. The method is a conventional learning and the students are still a lot of listening. The situation still create a learning interactions that are still in one &#x0D; direction so that the less significant when viewed in terms of the effectiveness of the student which is reflected through attitudes, motivation to learn and an element of creativity. So that, the students tended to get bored and saturated because of the lack of a method that can provide motivation to the learning of &#x0D; students. Therefore, the writer interested in conducting a study on the implementation of learning method of index card match on the Al Qur'an Hadith subjects to improve the students� motivation in MIN Model Palangka Raya. &#x0D; The purpose of this study was to know whether the teacher applied the learning methods of the index card match on the subjects of Al Qur�an Hadith in MIN Model Palangka Raya and to know how the implementation of the index card match method to improve the motivation of students� learning. The approach used in this study is descriptive qualitative. To collect the data was done through observation, interviews and documentation, and then analyzed through the stages of data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions.

Roundtable: How has the profession changed since you graduated?

Roundtable provides an opportunity for librarians to reflect on their own practice and experiences related to a particular question. In light of our 10th anniversary issue, the topic for this issue’s Roundtable is “How has the profession changed since you graduated?” Three librarians share their thoughts on this topic. Roundtable fournit une opportunité aux bibliothécaires de réfléchir sur leur pratique et leurs expériences liées à une question particulière. À la lumière du numéro de notre dixième anniversaire, le sujet du Roundtable de ce numéro est «Comment la profession a-t-elle changé depuis que vous avez reçu votre diplôme? » Trois bibliothécaires partagent leurs pensées à ce sujet.

장애인시설종사자의 인권수행과정의 어려움에 대한 탐색적 연구 -부산지역 장애인거주시설 종사자를 중심으로-

본 연구는 장애인거주시설 종사자가 인권수행과정에서 겪게 되는 추상적인 어려움을 다차원척도법을 활용하여 명확화하고 개념화해보고자 하는 것이다. 부산지역 장애인거주시설 종사자를 대상으로 서술문 리스트를 수집하고, 인덱스카드(index card)를 분류토록 하였다. 분석결과 6개의 군집명이 도출되었고, 종사자들은 시설 내에서는 거주인과의 의사소통 갈등, 서비스 제공자의 의도가 고려되지 않고 종사자의 겉으로 드러나는 단순 행위나 거주인의 주관적인 인권상황인식에 근거한 거주인과 종사자와의 갈등이 종사자의 인권 수행의 어려움으로 인식되고 있었다. 시설 외부적으로는 인권에 대한 관심이 증가하면서 장애인거주시설에 요구하는 인권관리 실무와 현장실무 간의 괴리로 인한 어려움, 외부 인권조사나 점검에 대한 경직성이나 종사자를 배려하지 않는 측면에서의 인권조사와 점검진행이 어려움으로 작용하고 있었다. 이러한 연구결과를 바탕으로 장애인거주시설 종사자의 인권수행 어려움을 완화하기 위한 몇 가지 실천적 함의를 제시하였다. This purpose of this study is to identify and conceptualize difficulty of abstract experiencing human rights process conducted in caretaker workers of the disabled residential facilities by utilizing multidimensional scaling. Focused on the caretaker workers of the disabled residential facilities in Busan, gathering a declarative sentence from caretaker workers, have classified index card. According to the results of the analysis, be reached name of six cluster. In facilities, caretaker workers was recognized Communication of the conflict between those People with intellectual disabilities, intention of service provider is not taken into account, those people emphasis to show up for caretaker workers, conflict based subjective human rights awareness of those People with intellectual disabilities. External facilities, interest in human rights is increasing becoming of pollution have difficulty to work hard time gaps between practice of human rights management and on-the-job experience, the rigidity of human rights investigation and inspection, lack of consideration for the caretaker workers. Based on this result, this study suggested a number of practical implications which can be used to reduce difficulty of human rights process conducted in the caretaker workers of the disabled residential facilities.

Low back pain in the workplace: Prospective study at the university hospital Oran–Algeria

The physical constraints are present in the daily life. However, they are higher at work, where the employee has to adapt, than extra-professional life. The stress, the depression and the anxiety are often reactions to situations, which the person suffering from lumbago is confronted to. It aggravates his situation. The main objective of this work is to evaluate stress of the subjects suffering from lumbagos in their professional environment and to study the correlations with the social and professional status which may deteriorate the psychological and functional state. It is a prospective study about 133 patients with lumbago in Oran hospital. The functional disability occasioned by the lumbago was estimated through the scale “EIFEL” and the stress by the “SIEGRIST”. A standardized index card containing the social and professional data of the studied population. The statistical analysis was made on the software SPSS. The study evolved 133 patients, 54 women and 79 men, average age is 41 ± 9.0. A significant relation between the severity of the fonctionnal disability caused by lumbago and stress was established. The last one is more important in women, nurses p < 0.05 and depends on the chronicity of lumbago. The factors that aggravate the fonctional disability of lumbago are: handling p < 0.01, production line work p < 0.01, nurses and elderly person p < 0.05. A change in jobs is correlated with the chronicity of symptoms p < 0.001. The sick leave is effective in 20% the patients in the last 12 months. The patients, who had got re-educational sessions, suffered less than others p < 0.05. Low back pain in professional environment constitutes a major handicap. It interacts in a negative way with the social and professional aspects. The stress appears as an aggravating factor or as reaction. The re-education should be integrated into the process of care.

Analysis of the Characteristics of Skilled Local Managers in Rural Development (Case Study: Central District of Ilam County)

Purpose: Understanding the characteristics of local management skills in rural development as well as identify ways to improve the characteristics of local management skills, purpose of this is study. Methodology: Research method is analytical-descriptive. We used documentary and field method for collecting required information and data. Tools of gathering data were index card and questionnaire. Research domain is central region of Ilam city that includes two rural districts of Mishlkhas and Dehpaeen. In this research questionnaire includes 22 items in Likert range that evaluate the skill characteristics including influence, power and persuading people strong public relations the ability of conducting duties low-abiding related university education experience and information planning and decision making power, The power of attracting financial resources, interaction report to village people. Findings: The results of research showed that most of rural managers of studied villages have had necessary skill characteristics for accepting management responsibility of their village. On the other hand the findings showed that all studied characteristics influence rural development. The results showed that there is a meaningful relationship between skill characteristics of rural managers and rural development but the extent of this relationship is weak. Research Limitation: Considering the short life span of the new rural management, research and projects in this regard is limited and the resources to investigate only one of the local management as well as the lack of support relevant governmental agencies from the structural limitations of this are study. Practical Implications: Selection of ccompetent and capable as local managers, training courses to increase Acquired skills required local managers, as well as the capacity of rural managers to program and consistent with the participation of all relevant organizations in the field of rural development, people and local managers published.

PENGGUNAAN METODE INDEX CARD MATCH PADA MATA PELAJARAN IPS POKOK BAHASAN MENGENAL SEJARAH UANG

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hasil belajar siswa pada mata pelajaran Ilmu Pengetahuan Sosial dengan menggunakan Metode Index Card Match. Metode yang digunakan adalah penelitian tindakan kelas (PTK) atau classroom action research yang berbentuk siklus berulang. Subyek penelitian yaitu siswa MI Negeri 1 Kota Bandung kelas III. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat diketahui bahwa aktivitas siswa mengalami peningkatan pada tiap siklusnya, persentase aktivitas siswa paling tinggi terdapat pada siklus III yaitu 90,3%. Sedangkan aktivitas guru selama proses pembelajaran juga sudah baik dengan persentase aktivitas guru paling tinggi terdapat pada siklus III yaitu 94,1%. Selain itu hasil belajar siswa juga mengalami peningkatan pada setiap siklusnya, yaitu pada siklus I nilai rata-rata 46,51%, pada siklus II yaitu 63,48%, dan siklus III 78,48%. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa proses pembelajaran dengan menggunakan Metode Index card Match dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar siswa.

Addictive Behaviors in Imprisoned Subjects

In Tunisia, as in all the countries of the world, addictions present nowadays a problem of public health. Indeed, the judicial system turns to repressive legal ways to fight against this phenomenon, of which the confinement of holders, consumers and drug dealers. Once in the prison environment, what about the evolution of addictions to drugs? To study the influence of the prison environment on the use of drugs, we proceed to a descriptive transverse study with about fifty prisoners and accused for detention, consumption or drug trafficking realized in 2 prisons of Tunis (Manouba and Mornaguia). The data collection is realized during the interview with the prisoners, through a structured index card. We raise the sociodemographic characteristics of the prisoners, the motives for confinement, and especially the drivings of abuse and for dependence of psychoactive substances there. More than 60 % of the incomers in prison presents a problem related to a consumption of alcohol and / or drugs and require adapted care. The prison concentrates the drug users and does not establish an efficient repressive tool of the second recurrence nor the reduction of the risks. The confinement can establish a unique opportunity of screening of a harmful use and/or a dependence whatever is the psychoactive product, to deliver messages of prevention and to propose an adapted care to the needs for the detained person.

Customer Satisfaction in Indian Retail Banking: A Grounded Theory Approach

Customer satisfaction is imperative for the long - term success of any organization. More the competition, higher is the necessity to keep the customers satisfied. After liberalization in 1990 and economic reforms and the entry of new service providers in the Indian market, Indian banks – both public sector and private sector are facing enormous competition. In this competitive atmosphere, it becomes essential to understand the factors which might affect customer satisfaction in the Indian retail banking sector. In this study the researchers studied the construct of customer satisfaction with respect to Indian retail banking from a qualitative perspective. We studied the dimensions of customer satisfaction . We applied Grounded Theory Method, a tool for qualitative analysis . We conducted depth interviews and focus groups of Indian retail banking customers. The participants were persons who have availed Indian retail banking services. The analysis included open coding of the data and writing memos, concept generation from the phenomena, index card sorting to identify categories and sub - categories, axial coding to relate the categories and sub - categories, and selective coding to identify the core category. The findings included the concepts generated which would determine the dimensions which might affect customer satisfaction.

Mirror Gazing par by Warren Motte

the period. One of the highlights of the volume is Élodie Saliceto’s perceptive study of Chateaubriand’s Vie de Rancé, a work whose generic ambiguity puzzled readers at the time, but which today seems quite modern. Equally impressive is Mombert’s treatment of Chateaubriand’s contemporary, Lamartine, who assumed the role of “biographe de gare”(207), intent on educating“ceux que l’époque exclut de l’échange savant comme de la vie politique: le peuple,les femmes,les enfants”(208).The final part of the volume, illustrating “usages littéraires du biographique” (233), examines four instances of biographical writing that have helped forge the reputation (for better or for worse) of well-known literary figures. Melaine Folliard chronicles, for example, the persistent efforts of Théophile de Viau to shape the reception of his own work, and Laurent Thirouin documents the systematic campaign, by Pascal’s sister initially and subsequently by his nephew,to promote the reputation of the author of Les pensées as a“savant chrétien”(278). In quite a different vein, Edwige Keller-Rahbé studies“la construction d’une légende libertine autour de Mme de Villedieu” (297), resulting in a negative portrayal that persisted well into the twentieth century.Finally,Laetitia Perret illustrates how educational authorities under the Third Republic carefully tailored versions of Montesquieu’s biography in order to present to lycéens the desired image of an author “cultivant la sagesse à l’écart des passions”(353). The editors provide a bibliography for the volume as a whole as well as summaries, in French and—rather unexpectedly—in English, of each article. As is frequently the case with collections of this nature, this one will appeal above all to readers whose own interests match those of individual contributors, but certainly the volume as a whole is professionally done. University of Kansas John T. Booker Motte,Warren. Mirror Gazing. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive, 2014. Pp. 205. ISBN 978-1-62-897014-2. $35. Idiosyncratic and unfettered, this joyfully experimental book owes its genesis to a peculiar note-taking practice that its author, a self-described “inveterate reader” (9), adopted some thirty years prior to its writing. When reading works of fiction of whatever provenance, in translation or in the original,“serious”or popular, and always from start to finish, Motte systematically flagged those scenes in which characters gaze into mirrors. An index card filed in the spine of each book marked these disparate “mirror scenes” for potential future use. Going public in 2004 with his archive at a lecture at Johns Hopkins (reproduced in extenso 11–29), Motte noted that his collection easily exceeded ten thousand in number—and this, without having ever sought out mirror scenes expressly or accepted references from third parties. What to do then with this wash of material? Taking cues from the consummate ludic modernist Vladimir Nabokov, he reflected that reading itself “can be conceived as a kind of 226 FRENCH REVIEW 89.2 Reviews 227 mirror-gazing”(25); our encounter with fiction, and especially with those fictions that bring mirrors into play, cannot but leave us“reflecting upon the strategies we bring to texts, testing them, retaining some, rejecting others”(26). The leading strategy retained in Mirror Gazing is subjective, exploratory, and projective, though as he moves through nearly one thousand examples Motte does set forth summary classifications (implicit, explicit, virtual, metaphorical, etc.). A good third of the passages glossed are from French sources, with Chevillard, Ernaux, Laurrent, Roubaud, and Toussaint figuring most prominently; Anglo-American and Scandinavian genre fiction (Le Carré, Rendell, Leonard; Høeg, Larsson, Sjöwall and Wahlöö) as well as Spanish-language works (Borges, Cortázar, García-Márquez, Pérez-Reverte) are widely referenced too. As we move from one excerpt to the next, we bear witness to the amateur’s passion for the diversity, uniqueness, and unruliness of his object; each scene takes on a rich yet painfully fleeting life of its own, affording only a glimpse of the surrounding work. Motte invites his readers, if not to follow his penchant, at least to allow that mirror gazing in fiction can usefully frame questions of self-knowledge, perception, and selfrecognition , the...

Post-service recovery customer satisfaction in Indian retail banking: a qualitative perspective

Customer satisfaction is one of the important aspects in any business. Customer satisfaction might be studied from a general perspective or under situational contexts like service failure and subsequent recovery in service delivery. Few researchers have studied post–service recovery customer satisfaction by analysing the dimensions contributing to it. Researchers have also not analysed those dimensions from an exploratory perspective. To address this issue, the dimensions contributing to post–service recovery customer satisfaction in Indian retail banking are studied from a qualitative perspective. Depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted and analysed based on grounded theory. The analysis included open coding, writing memos, concept generation from the phenomena, index card sorting, axial coding and selective coding. The concepts generated would determine the dimensions which might affect post–service recovery customer satisfaction in Indian retail banking.

Structure-Invading Pest Ants in Healthcare Facilities in Singapore

A survey of structure-invading pest ants was conducted at 17 healthcare facilities (HFs) in Singapore using the index card method. A total of 18 species (Anoplolepis gracilipes (Fr. Smith), Meranoplus sp., Monomorium destructor ( Jerdon), Monomorium floricola ( Jerdon), Monomorium pharaonis (L.), Monomorium sp., Odontomachus sp., Oecophylla smaragdina (F.), Pachycondyla sp., Paratrechina bourbonica (Forel), Paratrechina longicornis (Latreille), Paratrechina pubens (Forel), Pheidole megacephala (F.), Pheidole parva (Mayr), Pheidole sp., Tapinoma indicum (Forel), Tapinoma melanocephalum (F.) andTetramorium bicarinatum (Nylander)) were trapped. Of these, the most common species were P. parva (25.9%), P. megacephala (25.2%), P. longicornis (14.1%), M. pharaonis (9.6%), and T. indicum (8.1%). Most of these ant species were found in and around the premises.

Breast Cancer Fast-Track Programme to Shorten Time Between Initial Symptoms, Diagnosis and Initiation of Treatment

ABSTRACT Aim: Cancer is one of the most serious health problems worldwide. The implementation of screening programs and diagnostic and therapeutic advances have achieved in an increase in survival. However, there are patients who do not benefit from screening programs: very young patients, those older than 69 years, and those who develop interval cancers. In order to reduce time from the onset of signs or symptoms of suspected breast cancer (BC) to diagnosis and start of treatment, we perform a breast cancer fast-track program (BCFP). Methods: The programme began in June 2009; we present data from the first 4 years (June 2009-July 2013) in the Clinico-Malvarrosa Health Department in Valencia. Breast surgeons, primary care (PC) physicians, and oncology coordinators regularly met to discuss suspected cases of BC, and initially set guidelines with the criteria to be used by PC physicians to refer patients to BCFP. On the same day that the PC physician identified a patient with suspected BC, an index card was sent to the oncology coordinator, who reviewed these cases and referred those meeting previously defined criteria to breast surgeons. Results: 582 proposals were sent to the hospital and finally 547 patients came to the first visit for the Specialist. 115 out of 547 referred cases were diagnosed with BC. 76 women were diagnosed of BC in the age range in which screening with mammography is not recommended. The median time from submission of a proposal to the specialist assessment was 20 days, 9 days to histopathological diagnosis, and 22 days to initiate treatment. It took a median of 15 days to confirm the absence of BC in 432 patients with initial suspicion of it. Conclusions: The results show that the time interval between patient referral by the PC physician to the specialist, diagnosis of breast cancer, and start of therapy can be reduced. We optimized existing resources with no additional costs associated with the implementation of this programme. Disclosure: All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.

“And because the use of the photographic device is impossible without a proper card catalog … ”: The Typological-Stylistic Arrangement and the Subject Cross-Reference Index of the KHI's Photothek (1897–1930s)

This article is focused on the historical development of the classification system of the Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI) between the time of its establishment in 1897, with the typological-stylistic arrangement mainly by artists and locations, and the systematization of the subject cross-reference index (card catalog) in the 1920s to1930s. Specifically, these two incisive reorganizations of the Photothek were linked, on the one hand, to relocations and related extensions of space for the growing collection of books and images, and, on the other, to the scholars with their different research interests. The evolution of the categories that determined the thematic ordering of the images and their spatial configuration in open shelves for researchers, as well as the practical use of the typological-stylistic arrangement, shows the Photothek as an eloquent testimony of the constant variations in art history theories and methodologies.

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING PROCEDURE TEXT BY APLLYING INDEX CARD MATCH STRATEGY

The objective of this study is to find out whether the application of Index Card Match Strategy can improve students’achievement in writing procedure text. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of this research was the grade elevent students of SMA N 1 Lau Baleng. The research was conducted in two cycles. The first cycle consisted of three meetings and the second cycle consisted of two meetings. The instruments for collecting data used writing test for quantitative data and as the quantitaive data used diary notes, questionnaires sheet, interview and observation sheet. Based on the writing tests result, the students score improved in every test. In orientation test, the mean score was 50,28. In cycle 1 the mean score was 64,96 and the mean score cycle II was 77,35. Based on the diary notes and observation sheet, students shown their progress in learning writing English by the application of Index Card Match Strategy and the classroom action research. Students enjoyed the process of learning writing English concluded from the interview sheet. In line with the data, it was found that the index card match strategy can improve students’achievement in writing pocedure text.

Teflon-Patterned Paper

Most chemical reactions perform best when shaken or stirred. Active mixing maximizes the chances that reactant molecules will find one another. But chemists who are exploiting small-volume reactions on paper, which is a low-cost platform for synthesis and screening, rarely achieve such thorough mixing. A team in Canada now suggests a solution for that issue: printing Teflon barriers onto paper (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201402037). The barriers direct where excess solvent seeps through, promoting mixing. The researchers, led by Ratmir Derda of the University of Alberta, used the technique to build 96 small peptides side by side on a sheet of paper about the size of an index card. Printing barriers on paper isn’t a new idea, and researchers have used specially treated liquid-repelling paper before. But combining the barrier and liquid-repulsion concepts provides an improvement over established techniques, says Marya Lieberman, who builds paper analytical devices at ...