The Department of Nutritional Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University hosted a symposium entitled "Iron Works…The John Beard Memorial Symposium" in University Park, PA, on November 2, 2009. This one-day scientific symposium was held in honor of the late John Beard and was organized by Jere Haas, Shannon Kelleher, Terry Etherton, James Connor, and Gordon Jensen. The goal of the symposium w...

7. Wolff MS, Toniolo PG. Environmental organochlorine exposure as a potential etiologic factor in breast cancer. Environ Health Perspect 103(suppl 7):141-145 (1995). 8. Timing of environmental exposures in breast cancer and northeast/mid-Atlantic breast cancer programs, NIEHS, 25-26 September 1996. 9. Vorhees DJ. Multimedia human exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls [PhD dissertation]. Harvard...

The European Society of Cardiology has a comparable organization in the U.S.A. in the American Heart Association, whose first president was Dr Lewis Atterbury Conner. Dr Connor was also the founding editor of the American Heart Journal. His contributions in the early 20th century were as significant as those of any single individual in focusing concerns about the emerging importance of cardiova...

Objective: The current study was to compare the psychometric properties of the 25-item version (CD-RISC25), 10-item Connor-Davidson version (CD-RISC10) and 2-item Connor-Davidson version (CD-RISC2) in rehabilitation patients after injury. Method: A sample of 115 Chinese patients was measured by CD-RISC25, CD-RISC10 and CD-RISC2, PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) and Symptom Checklist-90-R...

1. Lapeyssonnie L. Cerebrospinal meningitis in Africa [in French]. Bull World Health Organ. 1963;28(Suppl):1–114. 2. Molesworth AM, Thomson MC, Connor SJ, Cresswell MP, Morse AP, Shears P, et al. Where is the meningitis belt? Defi ning an area at risk of epidemic meningitis in Africa. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2002;96:242–9. doi:10.1016/S00359203(02)90089-1 3. Cuevas LE, Jeanne I, Molesworth A,...

with urease. A third minor metabolite was present in urine collected after intraperitoneal administration but remains unidentified. The quantitative distribution of pterin-dcarboxylic acid and urea in the 0-24 h urine samples is shown in Table 1. Fukushima & Nixon (1980) reported the degradation of [2-14C]pterin-6-carboxylic acid to 14C02 by the gut microorganisms of the rat. It is possible tha...

Reciprocal Altruism or reciprocity occurs when an individual performs a costly act for the benefit of another individual in anticipation of receiving beneficence via a costly act in return (Trivers 1971, Connor 1986, Rothstein and Pierotti 1988). Thus the key defining feature of reciprocity is that in any given exchange an individual would do better by, in the absence of punishment, not recipro...

Syntactic bootstrapping is the hypothesis that learners can use the preliminary syntactic structure of a sentence to identify and characterise the meanings of novel verbs. Previous work has shown that syntactic bootstrapping can begin using only a few seed nouns (Connor et al., 2010; Connor et al., 2012). Here, we relax their key assumption: rather than training the model over the entire corpus...

The present study examined the structural validity of the 25-item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) in a large sample of U.S. veterans with military service since September 11, 2001. Participants (N = 1,981) completed the 25-item CD-RISC, a structured clinical interview and a self-report questionnaire assessing psychiatric symptoms. The study sample was randomly divided into two subsam...