Summer Research Project Research Articles

Animal Welfare Training at the Ontario Veterinary College

The University of Guelph is internationally recognized as a leader in animal welfare and is home to the Colonel K.L. Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare and to numerous faculty with expertise in the discipline. However, while animal welfare receives significant attention within the agricultural college, its didactic teaching within the veterinary curriculum has been limited. Veterinary students receive four hours of instruction in animal ethics and apply their knowledge within the communication lectures and laboratories, totaling 11-15 hrs. Compulsory coursework explicitly addressing factual components of animal welfare science, welfare assessment, and associated animal-related policy constitute only 12 hrs throughout the four-year Doctor of Veterinary Medicine curriculum. However, an elective final-year clinical rotation and a graduate course specific to animal welfare were offered for the first time in 2004/2005. Student interest in animal welfare is evident through their participation in summer research projects in animal welfare, an animal welfare mentor group, and a student-run animal welfare club that organizes an Animal Welfare Forum each October. Veterinarians have important contributions to make in decision making about animal welfare issues, at clinician and policy levels. Although motivated individuals can seek out opportunities to expand their knowledge of animal welfare, a compulsory senior-level course in animal welfare is needed to develop the necessary depth of understanding of this discipline if veterinarians, as a profession, are to meet society's expectations about animal welfare.

The birth of stereotactic surgery: a personal retrospective.

The field of human stereotactic surgery was born at Temple Medical School in Philadelphia in 1947, with Ernst A. Spiegel and Henry T. Wycis its parents. I had the great fortune of walking into Dr. Spiegel's laboratory as a freshman medical student looking for a summer research project in 1956, when the field was just emerging from its infancy, and worked with Spiegel and Wycis for most of the next 13 years and Rolf Hassler the following year. The perspective of the early growth of the field of stereotactic surgery from this unique position and my wanderings through the field as it grew, contracted, and then blossomed are presented.

Medical student neurology summer research project abstracts

Medical student neurology summer research project abstracts

SIGCSE 2002 forum

The intent of this forum is to generate a really lively discussion on the gamut of our relationship - as computer science educators - to industry.How dependent are we/should we be on specific industry software and platforms? (Many examples come to mind - Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, Red Hat Linux, C#, Sun's version of Java.)How obligated are we to jump on board the newest upgraded software version of whatever we might be using?How does our desire for good job placement of our graduates square with our oft-repeated claim that we are educators, not trainers?Pursuing this issue of "where do we fall on the spectrum between training and education," what to do about all these industry certification programs - Cisco, Novell, Oracle, Microsoft. Do we teach these curricula? Do we give credit to students who take it, say at a community college, and then transfer?What about a service course in, say, Photoshop? Is this college-level material?Do opportunities for summer internships or research projects in an industry setting place some special obligations on us with respect to that company?

Victor J. Ferrans, MD, PhD

Victor J. Ferrans, MD, PhD, a premier physician-scientist noted for outstanding contributions to our understanding of myocardial and vascular pathobiology, died on October 26, 2001, at the age of 64, as a result of complications of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Dr Ferrans was a native of Barranquilla, Columbia. He received his undergraduate college education at Dayton University in Dayton, Ohio, and then matriculated for his graduate biomedical education at Tulane University in New Orleans, La, subsequently receiving the MD in 1960, the MS (Anatomy) in 1960, and the PhD (Anatomy) in 1963. He served a rotating internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans in from 1960 to 1961 and a fellowship in cardiology at Tulane from 1961 to 1963. Dr Ferrans’ decision to pursue an academic career led him to engage in PhD studies and his clinical training simultaneously. His early scientific training and work was with Marvin H. Hack, PhD, and Richard G. Hibbs, PhD. His PhD thesis was titled “The Fluorescence Microscopy of Lipids.” This graduate work led to a career-long pursuit of the correlation of structural, functional, and biochemical constituents of the cardiovascular system. Dr Ferrans gravitated to cardiovascular medicine because of the influence of George E. Burch, MD (a leading cardiologist of his day and then chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Tulane), as well as others, including the internist and cardiologist John J. Walsh, MD, who …

Fiesta as tradition, fiesta as change: ritual, alcohol and violence in a Mexican community.

To explore the traditional Mexican religious fiesta as a primary locus for community-based excessive drinking and violence against women. The research argues that the pattern of drinking and violence cannot be placed within explanations that tie a breakdown in social norms to drinking nor drinking to a breakdown in social norms. The data were gathered over 14 continuous months of participant observation in 1995 and 1996, followed by two summer research projects in 1997 and 1998. The researcher documented the activities of the participants at each fiesta and followed-up each event with interviews of the parties involved in violent confrontations. In addition, life stories and archival data on violence were conducted and used to situate current findings against historical data. All data were collected in the community of Santa Maria Atzompa. Atzompa is a cabécera or municipal seat, for six colonias (large neighborhoods), and three ranchos (agriculturally based communities) and has a population of just over 5200. The main community of Atzompa, where most of the research was conducted, has a population of 2700+. Over 1000 individuals participated in community religious fiestas that the researcher attended. More than half of these were men, and almost all the men present participated in the binge drinking. Sixteen religious fiestas and 13 non-religious fiestas were documented through participant observation and photographs. In every religious-based fiesta, violence erupted and was directed primarily against women. Husband and wife abuse accounted for 10 of the 16 violent disruptions (63%) while male/male abuse accounted for six (38%). The perpetuation of binge drinking and violence are part of a historic cycle of male dominance that dates back to the introduction of alcohol distillation during colonization by the Spaniards in the 16th century, compounded today by frustration over their inability to control the economic and political aspects of their households and community. Women's acquiescence to the violence is a form of mediation over male frustrations that allow women to continue in their roles as economic providers.

Transmission of a Viral Disease (AIDS) Detected by a Modified ELISA Reaction: A Laboratory Simulation

The following is a description of a laboratory exercise simulating the spread of an infectious agent among students in a classroom. The exercise was developed at the University of Arizona during a summer research project with a high school teacher working in a laboratory that studies cancer and AIDS immunology. The use of a modified Enzyme Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay (ELISA; Engvall & Perlman 1971) provides students with experience using an authentic diagnostic tool for detecting human infections. ELISA tests are used routinely in medical diagnostics and research laboratories (Emmons et al. 1995). An ELISA uses an antibody covalently linked to a readily assayed enzyme to detect the specific antigen of interest. AIDS (Gallo 1991; Stine 1996) is an example of a disease which is initially diagnosed by an ELISA. A repeated positive ELISA test for HIV infection would be followed up with a Western Blot, an immunoassay that provides more detailed information, to confirm the presence of an infectious agent. The simulated ELISA reaction has been significantly modified to be safe, to be rapidly performed (with results in 15-20 minutes), and to use concen-

A Middle School Teacher Summer Research Project

A Middle School Teacher Summer Research Project

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN NAVAL ENGINEERING

ABSTRACTThis paper examines the historical oscillations of artificial intelligence (AI). It traces the very beginnings from 1956 at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, through the depressions of the 1960s and 1970s, to the exponentially increasing number of successful applications in the mid‐1980s. It shows how to select problems which can be solved with the aid of expert systems. The paper also identifies areas such as common sense reasoning, automated machine learning, and complex design synthesis which are now beyond the state of the art and will be for years to come.Artificial intelligence programs are able to diagnose faults and classify solutions in narrowly defined specialties even when the data is “fuzzy,” but they have not exhibited autonomous “thinking.” Just as conventional computer programming has alleviated the burden of calculating, AI expert systems will streamline the processing of logical data. Both of these computer techniques are cost effective when they are applied to well defined tasks, since computers are faster than people and error free for routine tasks.

Environmental Hazards to Elderly Artists

To the Editor.— The MEDICAL NEWS report on art-related hazards was both timely and informative. 1 Often overlooked, however, are the artists who are among the nation's elderly (25.5 million people older than 65 years in 1980). 2 In a recent summer research project, I found that artrelated hazards may be a major cause of preventable toxic exposure in the elderly community. As a medical student, I completed 37 in-depth occupational histories in an Arizona retirement community (19 men, 18 women; average age, 74 years). 3 Of this series, ten (27%) persons attributed a chronic disability to a past occupational exposure, while four (11%) persons had recently experienced symptom-producing art-related exposures (three painting and one woodworking). Retirement is a time for many people to pursue a favorite hobby, and some of these can involve hazardous chemical exposures. My study indicates that many retired persons devote so much time to these

"Luck on the Road": Problems of Fieldwork among the Gypsies

All field-workers must deal with problems of entry and rapport-gaining ability to cope with a field situation in such a way that work is possible (Nader 1970:113). The anthropologist who chooses to d o fieldwork among a pariah group faces particularly trying problems of establishing an effective field persona and at the same time maintaining self-identity. One of the few defenses available to such groups is to hold the stranger firmly at arm's length unless he is willing to offer complete commitment to them. Consequently, insights gained by this type of work, however valuable they might be, are often won at great personal cost to the researcher. In this paper I wish to address some of these difficulties, using data drawn from a 1975 summer research project among a group of conservative Gypsies, or Rom, in one of Spain's large cities. In particular, a period of three weeks spent traveling with the Gypsies, during which the anthropologist-informant relationship steadily deteriorated into conflict, serves to bring into sharp focus certain aspects of Gypsy social structure as these are related to the limits of the anthropologist's role as participant.

New NSF Grants

RETURN TO ISSUEPREVNewsNEXTNew NSF GrantsNSF to support instrumentation for chemical research, summer research projects of teachersCite this: Chem. Eng. News 1956, 34, 44, 5260Publication Date (Print):October 29, 1956Publication History Published online5 November 2010Published inissue 29 October 1956https://doi.org/10.1021/cen-v034n044.p5260Copyright © 1956 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETYArticle Views2Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (100 KB) SUBJECTS:High school teachers Get e-Alerts