An Archaeological Report on the Excavation of a Prehistoric Site at Zuma Creek, Los Angeles County, California. Stuart L. Peck. Archaeological Survey Association of Southern California, Paper No. 2, Los Angeles, 1955. xiv + 87 pp., 22 pls., 1 chart, 2 maps. $2.50.

1956 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-94
Author(s):  
William James Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Archaeological Survey

The Sunland Grizzly

2014 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Josh Sides
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Grizzly Bear ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Founding Director

In 1916, Cornelius Birket Johnson, a Los Angeles fruit farmer, killed the last known grizzly bear in Southern California and the second-to last confirmed grizzly bear in the entire state of California. Johnson was neither a sportsman nor a glory hound; he simply hunted down the animal that had been trampling through his orchard for three nights in a row, feasting on his grape harvest and leaving big enough tracks to make him worry for the safety of his wife and two young daughters. That Johnson’s quarry was a grizzly bear made his pastoral life in Big Tujunga Canyon suddenly very complicated. It also precipitated a quagmire involving a violent Scottish taxidermist, a noted California zoologist, Los Angeles museum administrators, and the pioneering mammalogist and Smithsonian curator Clinton Hart Merriam. As Frank S. Daggett, the founding director of the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, wrote in the midst of the controversy: “I do not recollect ever meeting a case where scientists, crooks, and laymen were so inextricably mingled.” The extermination of a species, it turned out, could bring out the worst in people.

Development of neurosurgery in Southern California and the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center

1993 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-148
Author(s):  
John H. Schneider ◽  
Martin H. Weiss ◽  
William T. Couldwell
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Content Type ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Southern California School ◽  
The University

✓ The Los Angeles County General Hospital has played an integral role in the development of medicine and neurosurgery in Southern California. From its fledgling beginnings, the University of Southern California School of Medicine has been closely affiliated with the hospital, providing the predominant source of clinicians to care for and to utilize as a teaching resource the immense and varied patient population it serves.

scholarly journals The Southern California Twin Register at the University of Southern California: II

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 933-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura A. Baker ◽  
Mafalda Barton ◽  
Dora Isabel Lozano ◽  
Adrian Raine ◽  
James H. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Birth Records ◽  
Adult Twins ◽  
The University

AbstractThe Southern California Twin Register was initiated in 1984 at the University of Southern California, and continues to grow. This article provides an update of the register since it was described in the 2002 special issue of this journal. The register has expanded considerably in the past 4 years, primarily as a result of recent access to Los Angeles County birth records and voter registration databases. Currently, this register contains nearly 5000 twin pairs, the majority of whom are school age. The potential for further expansion in adult twins using voter registration records is also described. Using the Los Angeles County voter registration database, we can identify a large group of individuals with a high probability of having a twin who also resides in Los Angeles County. In addition to describing the expansion of register, this article provides an overview of an ongoing investigation of 605 twin pairs who are participating in a longitudinal study of behavioral problems during childhood and adolescence. Characteristics of the twins and their families are presented, indicating baseline rates of conduct problems, depression and anxiety disorders, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnoses which are comparable to nontwins in this age range.

Initiating a Standard Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Order Set Designed to Improve Patient Outcomes at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California

2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (10) ◽  
pp. 1000-1004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gardner ◽  
Andrew Liman ◽  
Victoria Autelli ◽  
Casey O'Connell ◽  
Nicholas Testa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Venous Thromboembolism ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Vte Prophylaxis ◽  
Safety Net Hospital ◽  
Order Sets

Improving patient safety is vital for all hospitals due to increasing public reporting and pay-for-performance reimbursement. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) remains a leading cause of preventable mortality accounting for 5 per cent of inpatient deaths. The purpose of this study was to outline the process of implementing standard VTE prophylactic order sets in a 600-bed academic safety net hospital and assess the resulting change in patient outcomes. Outcomes were assessed by comparing the rate that eligible inpatients receive VTE prophylaxis and the rate of preventable VTE's compared with total VTE's. From 2011 to 2015, random samples of 60 Los Angeles County+University of Southern California inpatients were generated monthly to examine compliance rates by comparing ICD-9 diagnostic codes to ordered VTE prophylaxis. All inpatient VTE's are retrospectively analyzed. Baseline-ordered VTE prophylaxis was 37 per cent in 2010. The target of 85 per cent was exceeded by the second quarter of 2012 to 2013 when compliance reached 88 per cent, a 51 per cent increase from baseline ( P < 0.01). These results suggest VTE protocols are effective though standardization across service lines is often difficult. Despite these challenges, after implementing standard order sets, we saw compliance increase significantly. Ongoing analysis to determine whether VTE rates have significantly decreased is presently underway.

Hollywood Riviera: An Early Milling Stone Horizon Site in Los Angeles County, California

1966 ◽  
Vol 31 (3Part1) ◽  
pp. 422-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Early Phase ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
California Coast ◽  
Projectile Points ◽  
Seed Collecting

AbstractConstruction activities at Torrance County Beach in Los Angeles County, California, recently removed the last remnant of Hollywood Riviera, a once important archaeological site. Among the artifacts recovered during earth-moving operations and from earlier surface hunts are numerous handstones, milling stones, and cobble hammers. Also included in the collection are two mortars, a pestle, and a few rude choppers. Smaller stone-work consists of large, coarsely flaked projectile points, broken knife blades, simple flake scrapers, and an unusual chipped "crescent." The plentiful seed-grinding implements testify to a seed-collecting mode of subsistence for Hollywood Riviera's former inhabitants, whereas a near absence of molluscan remains in the archaeological deposit suggests that they were an inland people, recently moved to the seashore, who had not yet acquired a taste for shellfish. Occupation at the site appears to have occurred entirely within the Early Milling Stone horizon of the southern California coast, dated roughly between 5000 and 2000 B.C., and presumably during an early phase of it.

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