Saint Francis University

About: Saint Francis University is a education organization based out in Loretto, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Osteoblast. The organization has 1694 authors who have published 2038 publications receiving 87149 citations.

Science of crystal structures: Highlights in crystallography

Abstract: D. Sayre, X-Ray Crystallography: The Past and Present of the Phase Problem.- H.A. Hauptman, History of X-ray crystallography.- I. Karle, J. Karle, Gas Electron Diffraction and its Influence on the Solution of the Phase Problem in Crystal Structure Determination.- A.L. Mackay, Generalized Crystallography.- K.H. Kuo, Mackay, Anti-Mackay, Double-Mackay, Pseudo-Mackay, and Related Icosahedral Shell Clusters.- J.L. Finney, Crystallography without a Lattice.- A. Janner, Polygrammal Symmetries in Biomacromolecules: Heptagonal Poly d(As4T)* poly d(As4T) and Heptameric alpha-Hemolysin.- E.A. Lord, Helical Structures: The Geometry of Protein Helices and Nanotubes.- D.L. Dorset, From Waxes to Polymers-Crystallography of Polydisperse Chain Assemblies.- M. Terrones, et al, Structure, Chirality, and Formation of Giant Icosahedral Fullerenes and Spherical Graphitic Onions.- V.Ya. Shevchenko, et al, A generalized model for the shell structure of icosahedral viruses.- V.Ya. Shevchenko, et al, Intermetallic compounds of the NaCd2 family perceived as assemblies of nanoclusters.- I. Hargittai, Linus Pauling's quest for the structure of proteins.- I. Hargittai,-There is no such animal ( )-Lessons of a discovery.- B. Hargittai, I. Hargittai, Quasicrystal discovery-from NBS/NIST to Stockholm.- M. de Boissieu, Atomic structure of quasicrystals.

Risk assessment of patients with known or suspected CAD using stress myocardial perfusion SPECT. Part II: Determining cost-effective test strategies.

Abstract: In this era of cost containment, each step of a testing protocol must be evaluated carefully for appropriateness and prognostic value. Exercise stress single-photon emission CT (SPECT) is finding a niche in the examination of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. When preceded by careful patient screening, stress SPECT, alone or combined with other testing, may prove to be a tool that is both cost-effective and clinically effective.

Nodular Pulmonary Sarcoidosis

Abstract: Nodular sarcoidosis is a rare form of pulmonary sarcoidosis comprising 4% of lung involvement in this disease. It usually affects African American women with a mean age of 35 years. It presents with constitutional symptoms associated with chest imaging findings of multiple or solitary lung nodules. In our case we present a 38-year-old woman who had chronic productive cough associated with fever and dyspnea for 1 month. She had course of antibiotics without improvement in her symptoms. Chest imaging showed multiple nodules measuring up to 7.5 cm in size. Lung biopsy was obtained and histopathology revealed non-caseating granulomas consistent with sarcoidosis. Angiotensin-converting enzyme levels were elevated. She received systemic steroids and the nodules resolved on follow-up imaging. J Med Cases. 2019;10(2):46-48 doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/jmc3246

What are the latest pharmacotherapy options for small bowel adenocarcinoma

Abstract: Incidence of small bowel adenocarcinoma is slowly but steadily increasing. As we gain more knowledge of the molecular basis of this disease, we may be able to approach it via using novel biologic or targeted therapies with or without traditional chemotherapy agents. In the meantime, early diagnosis is still best as it prompts early surgical resection and offers potential cure. The role of adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapy is currently being explored in clinical trials. Several clinical trials have suggested that first-line chemotherapy for patients with metastatic disease should consist of either 5-fluorouracil-leucovorin-oxalipatin or capecitabine-oxaliplatin, while 5-fluorouracil-leucovorin-irinotecan can be reserved for second-line treatment. However, we realize the limitations of these studies, given their small sample size and/or retrospective nature. Single-agent 5-fluorouracil/capecitabine should be considered in patients who are either intolerant to or experience significant side effects with oxaliplatin or irinotecan. We believe that cancers originating in the ampulla of Vater probably deserve a prospective randomized trial of cisplatin-gemcitabine, the current standard of therapy for advanced biliary malignancies.

Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement . By Joe L. Coker. Religion in the South. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. x + 332 pp. $50.00 cloth.

Abstract: such as the Hawaiian Henry Obookiah and the Cherokee Catherine Brown. Even so, more than a whiff of condescension rose from those hagiographies, and in the case of Shidyaq, according to Makdisi, “his embellished martyrdom underscored only the barrenness, not to say barbarity, of local culture” (153). And in the hands of missionary chroniclers later in the nineteenth century, Shidyaq’s story “increasingly idealized America and orientalized the East” (142). For Henry Harris Jessup and most of his contemporaries at the Syria mission, the “original millennial enthusiasm, which had bound missionaries and heathen together in a race against time . . . was superseded by a modern enthusiasm according to which certain advanced races were destined to lead backward races” (171). Standing in sharp contrast to this missionary perspective is the contemporaneous Arab relation of Shidyaq’s life by another Maronite convert to evangelical Protestantism, Butrus al-Bustani (1819–1883). A teacher, journalist, and leader in the native Beirut Protestant community, he cast Shidyaq as a tragic hero, a figure whose striving for intellectual freedom exemplified Bustani’s liberal hopes for an Arab renaissance and a future of cultural dialogue and political equality among Christians and Muslims as well as East and West. Artillery of Heaven stands as a signal contribution to the growing body of North American and British scholarship that is remaking the history of missions and missionaries. Moving beyond the spent debates over whether western missionaries were saints or cultural imperialists, Makdisi and this company of likeminded scholars train their attention on those who were the objects of conversion and their agency in shaping colonial encounters. Readers will find much to admire in his eloquent and balanced book and much to ponder in its evocation of the earliest beginnings of the complex relationship between the United States and the Middle East.