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This volume summarizes the proceedings of the fifth biennial Cancer
Teaching Symposium held on March 4 and 5, 1972 at the University of
Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. The program was prepared by
Drs. MELVIN GRIEM, ELWOOD JENSEN, HAROLD SUTTON, JOHN ULTMANN, and
ROBERT WISSLER. The purpose of the symposium was to present the
current status of the challenging cancer problem, breast carcinoma,
to the staff and students of this medical center and to students
and in terested physicians from other institutions in the Chicago
area. In a fashion similar to the other teaching symposia held in
1964, 1966, 1968, . and 1970, this symposium attracted over 450
physicians and scientists. In the course of one and one half days
the audience had the opportunity to listen to 18 invited speakers
and to the lively discussions. The formal presentations are
recorded in these pages. This teaching symposium could not have
been undertaken without the faithful assistance of the program
committee, the cancer training grant education committee, the staff
who recorded and transcribed the proceedings, and the editorial
assistants. We wish to thank the following for their efforts: JULIE
KANT, Administrative Secre tary for the Clinical Cancer Training
Grant, as well as Dr. JAMES MARKS, MARGARET WOEHRLE, FRIEDA RANNEY,
and ROSIE BARTLETT. This symposium received financial support from
USPHS Clinical Cancer Train ing Grant 5T12 CA-08077-06 and from the
Chicago Tumor Institute. MELVIN L. GRIEM, M. D. ROBERT W. WISSLER,
Ph. D., M. D."
This volume summarizes the Proceedings of the fourth biennial
Cancer Teaching Symposium held on March 7 and 8, 1970, at the
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. The program was
prepared by Drs. LAWRENCE ALLEN, MELVIN GRIEM, WERNER KIRSTEN, LEON
JACOBSON, JOHN ULTMANN, ROBERT WISSLER, and STANLEY Y ACHNIN. The
purpose of the Symposium was to present current advances in the
area of lymphoma and leukemia to the staff and students of this
medical center and to students and interested physicians from other
institutions in the Chicago area. Like the other teaching symposia
held in 1964, 1966, and 1968, this Symposium attracted over 450
physicians and scientists. In the course of one and a half days the
audience had the opportunity to listen to the twenty-four invited
speakers and to lively discussions. The formal presentations as
well as discussions are recorded in these pages. This Teaching
Symposium could not have been undertaken without the faithful
assistance of the Program Committee, the Cancer Training Grant
Advisory Com mittee, the staff who recorded and transcribed the
Proceedings, and the editorial assistants. We wish to thank the
following for their efforts: DOROTHY A. WILLIS, Administrative
Secretary for Institutional Cancer Training Grant, Dr. ROBERT L.
HUNTER, Dr. ROBERT H. KIRSCHNER, Dr. ROBERT A. ORLANDO, Dr. STEPHEN
STRUM, RANDOLPH HUGHES, JULIA KANT, GEORGIA MOHR, TERRY PEARSON,
FRIEDA RANNEY, and CAROL REESE. This Symposium received financial
support from the Cancer Training Program Tt2 CA 08077-04 and The
Chicago Tumor Institute."
This volume presents the Proceedings of the University of Chicago's
third Cancer Training Grant supported Teaching Symposium. This
Symposium received much of its support from grant number T12 CA
08077-02. Most of the planning of the Symposium and most of the
local editing of the Proceedings was carried out by Dr. R. J.
Michael Fry of the A.E.C. Argonne National Laboratory and by two
members of the Advisory Committee of the Cancer Training Grant,
Drs. Melvin Griem and Werner Kirsten. They carried the main
responsibility for the Symposium. The subject of the Symposium,
"Normal and Malignant Cell Growth," was chosen because, as the
Proceedings reflect, it is a rapidly advancing field of endeavor
which is of utmost importance to the understanding of the processes
of malignant neoplasia. In fact, there is increasing evidence that
knowledge of the kinetics of the cancer cell will greatly influence
approaches to cancer therapy. Like the first two of these Teaching
Symposia held in 1964 and 1966, this one attracted about 400
students and staff from this medical institution as well as from
other medical centers in the Chicago area. The effective interplay
of an excellent group of scientists with a lively and responsive
audience was evident as they considered together a topic of great
current interest in the field of neoplasia. Much of the credit for
the smooth organization and implementation of the Symposium must go
to Mrs.
In terms of motion and narration, travel and travel accounts
represent a conflation of spatial and temporal experiences. The
articles in this volume examine accounts of real and imaginary
journeys from Charles Darwin to Doris Lessing for the changes that
have taken place in such experiences between the 19th century and
the present, in the context of revolutions both in perception and
transportation. Is there such a thing as educative travel in an age
of globalized fast-motion culture? What changes have there been to
travel schemes of a primarily aesthetic nature in the face of
technological and scientific innovations? What culture-critical
counter-schemes have been proposed?
This monograph presents a comprehensive description of the
theoretical foundations and experimental applications of
spectroscopic methods in plasma physics research. The first three
chapters introduce the classical and quantum theory of radiation,
with detailed descriptions of line strengths and high density
effects. The next chapter describes theoretical and experimental
aspects of spectral line broadening. The following five chapters
are concerned with continuous spectra, level kinetics and cross
sections, thermodynamic equilibrium relations, radiative energy
transfer, and radiative energy losses. The book concludes with
three chapters covering the basics of various applications of
plasma spectroscopy to density and temperature measurements and to
the determination of some other plasma properties. Over one
thousand references not only guide the reader to original research
covered in the chapters, but also to experimental details and
instrumentation. This will be an important text and reference for
all those working on plasmas in physics, optics, nuclear
engineering, and chemistry, as well as astronomy, astrophysics and
space physics.
"This anecdotal diary, once a blog aptly named 'Pendulum Pregnancy:
A Beautiful Chaos, ' captures a self-transformation into
motherhood. It was just the beginning of necessary transcendence;
the first step in separation from an insidious mental illness
diagnosis that will not allow itself to be ignored, despite
prescribed little blue and pink imagination slayers. I grieved, I
held fast to the want-to-be existential ways of MYSELF. The break
up was intense But that moment when I realized the responsibility
of another life was in my arms, MYSELF begrudgingly climbed out of
my mind and leapt one arm's length away from ME." Amanda Grieme
Diagnosed with Rapid-Cycling Bipolar Disorder when she was
20-Years-Old, Amanda writes to help readers through her experience.
She shares how she stays afloat in this ever-cycling existence,
dizzying as motherhood may feel at times. Grieme's daughter has
officially saved her from self-deprecation; woe (is me) begone
Whether pregnant, coping with mental illness, both or
none-of-the-above, you will find comfort and wisdom in Grieme's
words, peace in her music selections, inspiration in Kunzman's art,
and laughter at the sheer lunacy of it all.
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Carole and Walt Kohn; Edited by Amanda Grieme
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The purpose of this monograph is to answer the question; a brigade
in 96 hours: can the U.S. Air Force move the U.S. Army in time? In
doing so this monograph explores the roles and missions of the U.S.
Air Force and its Air Mobility Command (AMC), the Civil Reserve
Airlift Fleet (CRAF) and current and future airlift platforms to
determine if they meet the future challenges of strategic airlift.
This is important because the U.S. Army relies on the U.S. Air
Force to move it troops and equipment globally. General Eric
Shinseki established the goal of having a brigade that deploys in
96 hours, a division in 120 hours, and five divisions in 30 days.
To meet that goal he is developing the medium weight brigade to
lighten heavy brigades and increase the lethality of light
brigades. If the U.S. Army has units that are capable of being
deployed in 96 hours then the U.S. Air Force must have the
requisite assets to move those forces. Although the CRAF program
facilitates the movement of forces on a strategic scale those
assets are not capable of conducting landings in a hostile
environment. Additionally, the U.S. Air Force has only one
strategic airlifter capable of landing on austere airfields with
limited or no logistics. The study of roles and missions begins
with the National Security Act of 1947 and through the 1952
Secretary of Defense memorandum on roles and missions. This is
followed by a discussion on the CRAF program and how it facilitates
the movement of troops and equipment. A separate section details
the types of airframe available for strategic lift and to include
refuelers that facilitate the long-range capacity of many of the
U.S Air Forces airlifters. This is followed by a discussion on
future strategic airlift systems and the difficulty of developing
cargo and personnel aircraft to fit future needs. Currently, the
strategic airlift problem is not solved and will not be in the
future unless one of two things happens. First, if the number of
airlift assets re
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