List Of Subscribers Research Articles

Allan's A‐list: The Subscription List to Allan Ramsay's Poems of 1721

AbstractThe new and first complete edition of the works of Allan Ramsay (1684–1758) in six volumes is beginning to draw renewed attention towards this important poet. This essay examines one of the key unexamined puzzles of his career: how an Edinburgh wigmaker apparently without any advantage of birth and connexions succeeded in gathering an enormously distinguished subscription list — including nearly sixty peers and eight dukes — for his first key collection of poems. The answer lies both in the powerful and interlocking networks which Ramsay had inherited, cultivated, or adopted and in the particular culture and political moment in post‐Union Edinburgh in which he came to maturity. Ramsay's key network groups are discussed under four headings: Jacobites, Friends and Clubs, local dignitaries, family links, professionals, and merchants; patronage; and wider artistic networks.

Exploring European Consensus About the Remaining Treatment Challenges and Subsequent Opportunities to Improve the Management of Invasive Fungal Infection (IFI) in the Intensive Care Unit

BackgroundThe global prevalence of invasive fungal infections (IFI) is increasing, particularly within Intensive Care Units (ICU), where Candida spp. and Aspergillus spp. represent the most important pathogens. Diagnosis and management of IFIs becomes progressively challenging, with increasing antifungal resistance and the emergence of rare fungal species.Through a consensus survey focused on assessing current views on how IFI should be managed, the aim of this project was to identify challenges around diagnosing and managing IFIs in the ICU. The current status in different countries and perceived challenges to date amongst a multidisciplinary cohort of healthcare professionals involved in the care of IFI in the ICU was assessed.MethodsUsing a modified Delphi approach, an expert panel developed 44 Likert-scale statements across 6 key domains concerning patient screening and minimal standards for diagnosis of IFIs in ICU; initiation and termination of antifungal treatments and how to minimise their side effects and insights for future research on this topic. These were used to develop an online survey which was distributed on a convenience sampling basis utilising the subscriber list held by an independent provider (M3 Global). This survey was distributed to intensivists, infectious disease specialists, microbiologists and antimicrobial/ICU pharmacists within the UK, Germany, Spain, France and Italy. The threshold for consensus was set at 75%.ResultsA total of 335 responses were received during the five-month collection period. From these, 29/44 (66%) statements attained very high agreement (≥ 90%), 11/44 (25%) high agreement (< 90% and ≥ 75%), and 4/44 (9%) did not meet threshold for consensus (< 75%). ConclusionThe results outline the need for physicians to be aware of the local incidence of IFI and the associated rate of azole resistance in their ICUs. Where high clinical suspicion exists, treatment should start immediately and prior to receiving the results from any diagnostic test. Beta-D-glucan testing should be available to all ICU centres, with results available within 48 h to inform the cessation of empirical antifungal therapy. These consensus statements and proposed measures may guide future areas for further research to optimise the management of IFIs in the ICU.

“The Subscription List.” The Kabuki play Kanjinchō

“The Subscription List.” The Kabuki play Kanjinchō

Recruitment of Row Crop Farmers into a Research Study to Assess Farm Hazards

ABSTRACT Farmers are at an elevated risk for injuries and are, therefore, highly sought after for research studies. However, their participation in research studies is low. We examine how characteristics of the farmer, farm location, and timing of recruitment contact impact the probability that farmers will engage and participate in a study of injuries and related farm hazards. Study data were obtained from the Farm Safety Study conducted at the University of Iowa between June 2019 and March 2020. We used recruitment data from participants enrolled using Farm Journal magazine subscription lists. Multinomial logistic regression was used for predictive modeling. Predictor variables included the time of day and the farm season in which phone contact for study recruitment was attempted, as well as the rurality of the farm. Two models were created to characterize screening and participation of farmers in the study. Farm season and time of day of the last recruitment call increased the likelihood of farmers being screened for study participation and completing the study. Specifically, contacting farmers during the growing season and during the daytime, regardless of farm rurality, resulted in higher probabilities of participation. Studies of agricultural injury may be more efficiently conducted, with higher participation responses, when circumstances of the recruitment call are considered. This work serves as a starting place for much-needed methodological research to identify factors that increase participation of farmers and farm workers in research studies.

Understanding the Risk Factors and Stressors Impacting Optimal Work Practices in New Zealand Pharmacies: A S.H.E.L.L Model Analysis.

(1) Background: The safe performance of pharmacists is an important issue for patients and regulators. It is recognized that pharmacists interact with a variety of healthcare professionals and act as a bridge between other healthcare providers and systems and patients in the health setting. There has been growing activity in exploring factors that impact optimal performance and determinants that are linked with medication errors and practice incidents. The aviation and military industries have used S.H.E.L.L modeling to identify how personnel interact with factors that affect outcomes. A human factors approach is a useful angle to take when trying to improve optimal practice. Little is known about the experiences of New Zealand pharmacists and S.H.E.L.L factors that affect day-to-day practices in their work environment. (2) Methods: We investigated environment, team, and organizational considerations as the determining factors of optimal work practices using an anonymous online questionnaire. The questionnaire was built from a modified version of the software, hardware, environment, and liveware (S.H.E.L.L) model. This identified components of a work system that were vulnerable and that provided risks to optimal practice. Participants were New Zealand pharmacists approached through a subscriber list provided by the regulatory authority of the profession. (3) Results: We received responses from 260 participants (8.56%). The majority of participants indicated that optimal practice was occurring. More than 95% of respondents agreed that knowledge, fatigue interruptions, complacency, and stress affected optimal practice. Equipment and tools, medication arrangement on the shelf, lighting, physical layout, and communication with staff and patients were important factors for optimal practice. A smaller cohort of participants, 13 percent (n = 21), stated that dispensing processes, dissemination, and enforcement of standard operating procedures and procedural guidance did not affect pharmacy practice, 21.3% responded that professional and ethical requirements did not affect optimal practice, 20% stated that having a staffroom affected optimal practice, 20% did not think substance use affected optimal practice, and 30% did not state that cultural differences affected optimal practice. Optimal practice is constrained when there is a lack of experience, professionalism, and communication among staff, patients, and external agencies. COVID-19 also has had an impact on pharmacists both personally and in their work environments. Exploring how the pandemic has affected pharmacists and their work environment warrants further research. (4) Conclusions: Pharmacists across New Zealand agreed that optimal practices were occurring and considered other factors that were perceived to not affect optimal practice. A human factor S.H.E.L.L framework has been used to analyze themes to understand the optimal practice. The rising body of international literature on the effect of the pandemic on pharmacy practice serves as a foundation for many of these themes. Longitudinal data would be useful in exploring some factors, such as pharmacist well-being over time.

Music markets in Georgian Britain

It was Stanley Sadie who proposed, in a chapter in The eighteenth century (The Blackwell History of Music, ed. H. Diack Johnstone, 1991), that the study of subscription lists in music publications of the period should be of interest and importance. Although Michael Talbot, Michael Kassler, David Hunter and others have followed Sadie’s advice in specialized areas, this new book is the first larger-scale one to survey the whole field. In addition, this work is able to take advantage of the digital world through a database of subscribers that has been compiled and which acts as a companion to the book. The preface by the two editors clearly lays out the aim of the book and explains how the Dataset of subscribers to eighteenth-century music publications in Britain and Ireland came to be. This is followed by a series of articles on specific topics which are divided into two categories: how music by subscription was produced and who the subscribers themselves were. Publishing by subscription was a good way for an author to keep down the initial costs of printing. Invitations were sent out to potential subscribers asking for a financial contribution with the promise that they would see their name listed at the front of the book. The results could reap rich rewards: Alexander Pope got £5,000 in subscription money for his translations of Homer, a sum worth over £350,000 today.

Persuasive Determinants in the Hotel Industry’s Newsletter Opening Rates

Email marketing plays a key role in business communications and is one of the most widely used applications by consumers. The literature review points to several determinants that, when applied, increase the open rate of newsletters. This research evaluates the impact of six determinants of persuasion on the opening rate of a newsletter in the hotel industry. The determinants are the day of sending, the time of sending, subject line personalization, scarcity appeal, curiosity appeal, and authority figure. The chosen methodology focused on real experiments, using a high-end luxury hotel, and the respective customer database. The newsletter was sent to the subscriber list, where one part received the control and the other part received a variant with the test version. Ten A/B tests were conducted for each determinant. The results obtained were not in line with what is indicated in the literature review. Although the literature review yielded results that showed that the application of determinants increased the open rate of newsletters, this study obtained findings to the opposite and did not confirm what was prescribed by the reviewed literature. The results of the A/B tests were conclusive and revealed that the determinants did not increase the open rate of newsletters.

التفاعلية في مواقع الصحف اليومية العراقية دراسة تحليلية لموقع صحيفة المدى والزمان والصباح وطريق الشعب

سعت هذه الدراسة لتحديد مقدار التفاعلية في مواقع الصحف العراقية المستمرة في الصدور منذ عام 2003، والتي تتألف من (15) صحيفة بحسب إحصاءات دار الكتب والوثائق العراقية. وأجرى الباحث مسحاً تحليلياً على هذه المواقع، وظهرت نسبة التفاعلية بشكل عام ضعيفة لا تزيد عن (47.1%)، وهذا الضعف في التفاعلية اسهم بشكل كبير في انخفاض متصفحي مواقع تلك الصحف الالكترونية.&#x0D; وكان اعلى معدل تجميعي لعينة البحث في الأدوات التفاعلية البسيطة مثل التعليق، والاستطلاعات، وقوائم الإفادة والاشتراك، والاعجاب قد حصلت في مجموعها على نسبة (75%)، في حين حصل تعدد الخيارات التفاعلية التي تُعد أكثر الخيارات التفاعلية واهمها في مواقع الصحف الالكترونية العالمية على نسبة (48.53%)، وهي ضعيفة للغاية مقارنة بأهميتها.&#x0D; وتوصلت نتائج البحث الى أن نظام المراقبة في مواقع صحف العينة لا يزيد عن نسبة (56.25%)، وهي نسبة متوسطة تشير الى ضعف مواقع الصحف الالكترونية العراقية في الافادة من هذه الأنظمة. وأظهرت نتائج البحث إن مواقع الصحف الالكترونية العراقية ترتبط بمواقع التواصل الاجتماعي بنسبة (50%) بشكل عام، وكانت اعلاها صفحة الفيس بوك بنسبة (100%)، ثم تويتر، ويوتيوب، وانستغرام بعد ان استخدمتها صحف العينة بنسبة (75%)، وتلغرام، ومحطة إذاعية، وبلس كوكل بنسبة (25%).

Association and Enlightenment: Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830, ed. Marc C. Wallace and Jane Rendell

<i>Association and Enlightenment: Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830</i>, ed. Marc C. Wallace and Jane Rendell

Scribleriana Transferred: Portraits, Manuscripts, and Books, 2020–2022.

Scribleriana Transferred: Portraits, Manuscripts, and Books, 2020–2022.

LCHS DEI Statement and Action Plan

<i>LCHS</i> DEI Statement and Action Plan

Profils d’un lectorat: Enquête sur les signatures d’énigmes du Mercure de France (1724‐1778)

AbstractLittle is known about the distribution of ancien régime French periodicals and there are few sources on readers’ geographical origins and social positions. Most studies rely on subscriber lists, but subscription is not the only possible mode of acquisition. With a periodical such as Mercure de France (1724‐1778), however, another approach can be used to determine the identity of the public: much of the editorial content is provided by the readers. This article investigates the authors of the enigmas in verse published every month that together constitute a homogeneous corpus of texts. A new reader figure emerges next to the subscriber: that of the reader‐contributor who supplies the periodical with poems. With a more diversified social profile than the subscriber, this reader is often a provincial man who performs a judicial, administrative, ecclesiastical, or military function, and sometimes a woman, a student, a merchant, an artist, or even a prisoner.1

General Strike in England (1926) and Workers of the Pskov Province

In May 1926, the miners of England in protest against the onset of entrepreneurs on their rights went on strike, which was joined by workers of other professions. The strike became universal, a state of emergency was introduced by royal decree in the country. The General Council of the English trade unions, however, having chosen the tactics of the &amp;quot;class world&amp;quot;, wrecked the strike by all means, and by its decision the general strike was stopped on May 12. The miners refused to comply with this decision and continued the strike, which lasted for eight months. By the decision of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, the working people of the USSR joined the campaign of moral support and material assistance to the strikers; the provincial trade union councils, including Pskovsky, made similar decisions. At enterprises and institutions, rallies of solidarity with the working people of England were held, support resolutions were passed, decisions were made on the deduction in favor of their part of daily earnings - from ¼ to daily. The funds raised went to the Strike Assistance Fund. The provincial and county councils of trade unions, as well as branch trade unions led this movement. In August 1926, in Pskov, a “Committee of Workers to Assist Families of Striking English Workers” was created, which launched campaigning among the general public and organized fundraising on subscription lists, circle gatherings, proceeds from performances, evenings, lotteries, and others. About 20 thousand rubles were collected in the Pskov province. Thanks to the help of the workers of the USSR, the strike of the English miners was persistent and lengthy, and despite the fact that it turned out to be their loss, the strike was a great political school for them.

After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten-Year Retrospective

After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten-Year Retrospective

Scholia to Volume 9—Subscription List

Although in each instance identification remains uncertain, the additional information offered here (*) may eventually lead to a positive identification, or at least a likely one.*p. 293 AUCHMOUTY, MISS (1766)Unidentified. The surname, with multiple variations, has ancient connections with the historic Scottish county of Fife. One possibility would be the Miss Auchmuty whose death is recorded in the London Gazetteer of June 22, 1769): “Tuesday evening died at her house in Park-Place, St. James, Miss Auchmuty, a lady of considerable fortune.”*p. 346 CRAMMMOND, MISS (1769)[A typo in the Florida Sterne for CRAMMOND.] Unidentified. One possibility is a Miss Cramond who later married Hugh Inglis, a “Portugal Merchant of Mile-End” (August 18, 1776), described in the General Evening Post (August 20, 1776) as “a young lady of a large fortune and creole by birth.” Hugh Inglis and Mrs. Inglis subscribed to two sets of Samuel Green’s Sermons and to Helen Maria Williams’s Poems, both published in 1786. Alternatively, Elizabeth Cramond of Langley Lawn, Essex, daughter of Robert (d. 1762); “Miss Cramond” subscribed to Robert Bacon, Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose in 1790.*p. 485 PINE, ESQ. (1769)Unidentified. To the two suggestions offered, Robert Edge Pine, the painter, and John Pine, an attorney, we might add Simon Pine (d. 1772), brother of Robert Edge Pine and a miniaturist, also from Bath, although living in Dublin, 1762–1771. He exhibited in London in 1768–1771, so may well have been available for solicitation. He subscribed to Charles Bulkley, Oeconomy of the Gospel, (1764), and to James Foster, Discourses on all the principal branches of natural religion and social virtue 1749–1752). As “Sim. Pine, Esq.” he seems to have appeared in the amateur but extraordinarily well-known production of Othello in Drury Lane in 1751, directed by Charles Macklin, s.n., and staged as a showcase for his theatrical students, including Francis, Robert, and Edward Delaval, s.n. Samuel Foote, s.n., another student, was expected to appear but did not. See E. A. Parry, Charles Macklin (London, 1891), 88–89.The habit of passing Christian names through generations is exemplified by the Pine family, where John, Robert, Simon, and Thomas Jr. all subscribed to Joseph Morris, Sermons in 1743; John may well have been the father of the artists Robert Edge and Simon, but they would have been too young in 1743 to be subscribers themselves.*p. 518 MR. SMITH (1766, 1768), —— SMITH (1769)Unidentified. Given the fifteen theatrical personalities possibly subscribing to Sterne, including several attached to Covent Garden, we might suggest William Smith (c. 1730–1819), known as “Gentleman Smith” and associated with Covent Garden from 1753 until a clash with Charles Macklin, s.n., in 1773. John Beard, s.n., and George Colman, s.n., were both managers of Covent Garden during the period in which Smith was part of the company.

Yorick’s Regional Jargon: Sentimentality, Sterne, and the Cumberland Book Trade

The Sterne-related versifications in Ewan Clark’s 1779 Miscellaneous Poems are here introduced, transcribed, and annotated for the first time. The introduction features the fullest modern biography of the minor Cumbrian poet, provides a detailed overview of his regional publishers and their reformist politics, and examines the volume’s subscription list, which includes several political grandees with radical Whig affiliations. This essay offers critical analysis about Clark’s Sternean adaptations, surveys his prominent sentimentalist aesthetic, and considers his political aims in relation to transatlantic news networks established by his publishers and rising tensions in parliament at the height of the American Revolution.

Informing policy on school and daycare operations during COVID-19 with a living rapid evidence review

Abstract Background To support evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) for safe re-opening and operation of schools and daycares, the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) has maintained since May 2020 a living rapid review answering the following question: “What is the role of schools and daycares in COVID-19 transmission”. Traditional rapid review methodology was modified for the COVID-19 context. This presentation will describe the global reach and usefulness of this living rapid review. Methods Following completion of each update of the living rapid review, findings were disseminated broadly with the aim of informing policy and public health practice. Key dissemination strategies include e-mails to key contacts and a subscriber list; highlight in a monthly newsletter; media outreach; and social media. The review's reach was analyzed using Google Analytics, citation tracking, and qualitative feedback. Results Between May 2020 and April 2021, the living review has been updated 14 times. The posted review has been viewed over 5000 times across 46 countries. The review has been cited and indexed in over 40 sources, including key governmental and non-governmental reports and guidelines. The NCCMT has received positive qualitative feedback on the review's value in informing the public health response related to schools and daycares in various jurisdictions across Canada. Key stakeholders have expanded the review's reach organically as they use the evidence in practice and share the review with their networks. Lessons Using a living rapid review to continuously provide high-quality synthesized evidence amidst the evolving COVID-19 research literature demonstrates a responsive approach to decision makers' requests for evidence. An emerging challenge is reaching the proper stakeholders responsible for EIDM, particularly during public health emergencies with many competing high-priority questions and decisions to be made. Key messages As the evidence landscape changes due to a surge in literature, evidence-informed decision making can be supported by rapid but rigorous syntheses that evaluate quality and emerging recommendations. A long-standing, trusting relationship with decision makers is key to optimizing living rapid review methodology to meet the evidence needs of decision makers despite the changing literature.

Forgotten Theorists of Lithuanian Romanticism: Priest Ignotas Dembinsky

The sluggish development of romantic philosophy research suggests looking back at new sources that have been ignored so far. Priest Ignacy Dembinsky (1800–1869) is a forgotten romantic theorist. He is not only Wilhelm Schlegel’s translator, but also his promoter, commentator, who formulated authentic insights of romantic philosophy. The article focuses on the circumstances of Schlegel’s two-dimensional publication of “Philosophy of Life” (1840), which remained on the subscriber list, raises the hypothesis that the subscription of the work was a large-scale quasi-political patriotic campaign. The direction represented by Dembinsky is attributable to legal catholic romanticism. The latter sought to establish a positive alternative to Enlightenment’s scientism, naturalism, sensualism, one-sided rationalism, based on ideas of compatibility between science and philosophy, philosophy and Revelation. A person should realize freedom in a moral life and strive for the fullness of life – these ideas had refreshing sociopolitical implications in a depressing tsarist reality. Dembinsky polemicized with his local competitor, Florian Bochvic, a representative of a similar direction. The latter episode raises the question of the compatibility of his catholic theological doctrine and his maxims of a romantic philosopher: it is left open. It is hypothesized that the works translated, commented and creatively supplemented by Dembinsky could function as a bridge between the old Polish-speaking philosophy of Lithuania and the beginnings of the current Lithuanian theorization.

Examining the challenges of hospital discharge for patients with a urinary catheter.

Patient discharge between acute and secondary care will be viewed differently based on the stakeholder groups involved. Examining these different perceptions may help improve the discharge process and the patient journey from hospital to home. To determine the perceptions of community and hospital nursing staff regarding the challenges that exist with the general hospital discharge process for patients with a urinary catheter. A survey was created and sent to a wide range of acute and community nurses and the subscriber list of Journal of Community Nursing, Journal of General Practice Nursing and Wound Care Today. Compared with hospital staff, the opinions of community staff were more negative around the discharge process and post-discharge care and materials. Results of this survey provide insight into the perceptions of nursing staff into general patient discharge for those with a urinary catheter and help identify the challenges that exist on the patient journey from hospital to home.

The Development of Peasants’ Reading Habits in Courland and Livonia in the 18th Century*

The article explores the development of peasants’ reading habits over the 18th century in the Latvian-inhabited Lutheran regions of Russia’s Baltic provinces Courland/Kurzeme and Latvian Livonia/Vidzeme. By analysing the transition from intensive to extensive reading patterns, as well as from loud and ceremonial to silent and private reading, insight into the available statistical sources and information from subscription lists is provided and the observations of contemporaries are scrutinized. The views on Latvian peasants’ reading habits expressed by Baltic-German Lutheran parsons Friedrich Bernhard Blaufuß, Joachim Baumann, Christian David Lenz, Johann Friedrich Casimir Rosenberger, Alexander Johann Stender, as well as those published by Johann Friedrich Steffenhagen, are discussed within the context of urban and middle-class reading patterns. While the number of literate peasants in the 18th century was high, reaching one third in Courland and two thirds in Livonia by the turn of the 19th century, the motivation for reading and everyday habits differed, and while extensive reading increased, before the 1840s, the Baltic rural so­ciety did not see a phenomenon similar to the European middle-class rea­ding revolution. The article focuses on differentiating among various types of readers, divided according to their confessional lines (Herrnhutian Brethren or Lutheran Orthodox Church), social stan­ding (reading patterns were different depending on rural professions) or genera­tion (the older generation tended to prefer loud and ceremonial religious reading while the younger generation more often adopted silent, private and secular reading). The collective reading of books has been explored by demonstrating how it allowed combining the reading of books with other activities and also performed a socializing function. The avai­lable sources demonstrate that quiet reading did not replace reading aloud, in the same way that extensive reading did not replace intensive, but all reading practices continued to co-exist alongside each other, creating an increasingly diverse and saturated reading experience.