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Leonardo's lost princess : one man's quest to authenticate an unknown portrait by Leonardo da Vinci
\"How an oddly attributed $19,000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci-a true art-world detective storyIn late 2010, art collector Peter Silverman revealed that a \"German, early 19th century\" portrait he had bought for $19,000 was, in fact, a previously unknown drawing by Leonardo da Vinci-an exquisite depiction of Bianca Sforza, rendered 500 years ago. In Leonardo's Lost Princess, Silverman gives a riveting first person account of how his initial suspicions of the portrait's provenance were confirmed repeatedly by scientists and art experts. He describes the path to authentication, fraught with opposition and controversy. The twists and turns of this fascinating, decade-long quest lead from art history to cutting-edge science, and from a New York art gallery to Paris, Milan, Zurich, and finally a Warsaw library where the final, convincing evidence that the portrait was indeed by Da Vinci was found. Takes an up-close look at the workings of the art world and at figures ranging from dealers and connoisseurs to a suspected forger Discusses current scientific techniques used to investigate and authenticate works of art, such as carbon dating and cutting-edge photography Uses Silverman's drawing as an entree into Leonardo da Vinci's world: his studio, his style, and his methods Explores the intersection of art and science in the authentication process, involving the work of a man who embodied that intersection Unearthing the secrets of a work that were almost lost to history, the book is ideal reading for art lovers and anyone interested in an astounding case of \"whodunnit\"\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Essays on Higher Education and Inequality
This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of higher education and inequality within the field of economics of education. The first essay estimates the effects of adopting an instructional approach blending online and in-person elements called the emporium model in remedial college courses. Under this model, students complete online work in an on-campus lab with instructors onsite to assist. Using a triple difference identification strategy, I find that using the emporium model compared to traditional instruction in remedial math courses in a state community college system reduces course pass rates, retention, and degree attainment. These results suggest the need for caution in using the emporium model with students who are less academically prepared for college. The second and third essays explore the long-run impacts of admission to a state’s four-year public college sector. Leveraging the GPA- and SAT-based admissions thresholds for four-year public colleges in Massachusetts, I use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the effect of four-year public college admission on a range of economic and civic outcomes for low-income students and students of color. In the second essay, I find admission to in-state four-year public colleges increases applicants’ mean annual earnings by almost $8,000 eight to fourteen years after applying. Using student-level cost and aid data, I also find students experience large private returns to admission, and the state recovers the cost of admitting an additional student at the admissions threshold through increased lifetime tax revenues. The third essay focuses on the civic consequences of admission to the four-year public sector. Linking college application records to voting records, I find admission to four-year public colleges increases both voter registration and turnout by the time applicants are 24-31 years old. Together, these two chapters highlight the importance of access to the in-state four-year public college sector in promoting economic mobility and civic engagement.
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Three days at the brink : FDR's daring gamble to win World War II
November 1943: World War II teetered in the balance. The Nazis controlled nearly all of the European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained modest ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviets had already lost millions of lives. That same month in Tehran, with the fate of the world in question, the 'Big Three,' Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, secretly met for the first time to chart a strategy for defeating Hitler. Over three days, this trio, strange bed fellows united by their mutual responsibility as heads of the Allied powers, made essential decisions that would direct the final years of the war and its aftermath. Meanwhile, looming over the covert meeting was the possible threat of a Nazi assassination plot nicknamed 'Operation Long Jump,' heightening the already dramatic stakes.
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Development of an information system for the outpatient management of liver transplant patients
Solid organ transplant has become an established and cost-effective therapy for persons with end-stage renal, hepatic, or pancreatic disease. Long-term survival depends on the patient, the surgical procedure, the donated organ, the management of immunosuppressive therapy, and the detection and management of complications following surgery. Clinical information concerning transplant patients is voluminous and difficult to manage when using paper records. A system analysis was performed to assess the information system needs of the liver, kidney, and pancreas transplant program at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. After evaluating workflow, data collection forms, decision support needs, and functional requirements, we designed and implemented an extendable information system to support the process of care following liver transplantation. Tools for collecting and entering information into the electronic health record (EHR) were developed, including an operative note and data entry forms for external laboratory results and transplant-related information. A new information model, consistent with national interoperability standards, was developed for storing donor-related information in a transplant patient's record. Once coded, external laboratory information was available in the EHR, clinicians could view both external and Intermountain Health Care (IHC) laboratory results in chronological order. This view was particularly useful when the paper flowchart was not available. The laboratory and transplant-related information triggered decision support alerts that were designed to notify nurses when liver transplant patients had new, abnormal, or overdue laboratory results. The alerts improved the quality of laboratory information used for outpatient care. Compared with the traditional process of reporting laboratory results with faxes and printouts, the alerts resulted in more timely, complete, and efficient reporting of laboratory results. The time for responding to laboratory results was cut by one-third from a median of 33 to 9 hours after specimen collection. Results were reported in \"realtime\" and clinicians could act on information the same-day results arrived. The components developed for this project addressed only part of the needs of the liver, kidney, and pancreas transplant program; however, the system design can be enhanced in the future to meet other program needs.
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Broken warrior; 'Support our troops' by de-stigmatizing post-traumatic stress disorder
Imagine how different this bleak picture might look if professional mental health screening were required for all troops, both before and after combat -- along with an adequate force of trained psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers to meet the demand.
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Her say Peace is possible in the abortion battle
It has been 19 years since Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion in the U.S., but we may not see a 20th anniversary. As a nation, we are hopelessly polarized over the issue of abortion. It tears at our public and private consciences, isolating us from one another in our intractable positions. Sometimes it seems we have been fighting this war forever, but in fact the polarizing heat of the debate is new to this century. Although we discuss abortion as if it is a clean battle between good and evil, history tells a different tale. The rights and wrongs surrounding abortion are not as cut and dried as we have been led to believe. Consider: - The Catholic Church did not establish pre-born identity until the 13th Century when it adopted Thomas Aquinas' theory that the soul enters a male fetus at 40 days and a female fetus at 80 days-not at conception. Abortion of a \"pre-animated\" fetus was not considered a sin until the early 20th Century.
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