Hearing Screening Of Infants In Neonatal Unit, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia Using Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions

Objective: this prospective study reports on the prevalence of hearing impairment in neonatal unit population (NICU graduates and less severe ill infants). Design: from 15th February, 2000 to 15th March, 2000 and 15th February, 2001 to 15th May, 2001, 401 neonates were screened with transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAE) followed by second stage screening of the infants who had failed the initial test. Results: 370 (92.27°.4,) infants passed the primary screen for both ears. Eight (2%) infants failed one ear and twenty three (5.74%) infants failed both ear, adding up to 7.740/0 planned for second stage screening. Five out of twenty two infants who had come for the follow up failed the screening resulting the prevalence of hearing impairment of 1.28%. Craniofacial malformations, very low birth weight, ototoxic medication, stigmata I syndromes associated with hearing loss and hyperbilirubinaemia at the level of exchange tranfusion were identified to be independent significant risk factors for hearing impairment. The mean total test time was 5.43 minutes. Poor apgar score and mechanical ventilation of more than 5 days were not found to be associated with hearing impairment in the present study population. Conclusion: Hearing screening in high-risk neonates revealed a total of 1.28%, with hearing loss. Significant risk factors were craniofacial malformations, very low birth weight, ototoxic medication, stigmata I syndromes associated with hearing loss and hyperbilirubinaemia at the level of exchange tranfusion. Other perinatal complications did not significantly influence screening results indicating improved perinatal handling in a neonatal population at risk for hearing disorder

Canadian = Blonde, English, White: Theorizing Race, Language and Nation

This article examines the ways in which discourses of Canadian national identity intersect with those of gender through the lens of young girls of immigrant and refugee backgrounds. In particular, it explores notions of "Canadian-ness" among school girls of Vietnamese and Chinese backgrounds. It also historicizes the emergence of nationalist discourses and traces Canadian government policies that set up exclusionary boundaries around the notion of "Canadian" as a category of identity.Cet article etudie les facons dont les discours sur l'identite nationale canadienne croisent ceux sur l'equilibre des sexes a travers les yeux de jeunes filles immigrantes ou refugiees. En particulier les ecolieres d'origine vietnamienne et chinoise. L'article fait aussi l'historique de la naissance du discours nationaliste et retrace les politiques du gouvernement canadien qui etablissent les frontieres d'exclusion qui definissent I'idee de "canadien(ne)" en tant que categorie d'identite

Introduction: Is Cultural Criticism Possible?

It is by now something of a truism that the abstract and conceptual modes of discourse that have dominated our intellectual life in the past century have led to a rather reduced and schematic view of law. Moved by the desire to talk about social institutions in a neutral and scientific way, scholars beginning at least with John Austin have sought to define law as a set of rules, promulgated by a sovereign and addressed to the behavior of subject individuals, all in an attempt to isolate legal phenomena from their context for scientific study. Rules, on this view, are seen to speak in terms of classes: any person who performs act A is said to be exposed to consequence B. For the purpose of law so regarded, all that matters is the stereotyped narrative which it establishes as a condition for the legal consequence it imposes. The law takes a snapshot of the world and reduces human actors and events to the set of caricatures by which it interprets what it sees. The analyst\u27s hope is to establish a set of classifications or categories that can be used to describe and predict legal phenomena in a scientific and value-neutral way. He preserves for other days the questions whether the law is good, whether it ought to be obeyed, what its origins are, what relation it bears to other social and cultural phenomena, and so on

Book Reviews

Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society (Geoffrey Harpham) (Reviewed by James O’Rourke, Florida State University) The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (Angela Esterhammer) (Reviewed by Thomas Pfau, Duke University) British Romanticism and the Science of Mind (Alan Richardson) (Reviewed by Irving Massey, State University of New York, Buffalo) Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Production (Thomas Pfau) (Reviewed by Karen A. Weisman, University of Toronto) The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy (David P. Haney) (Reviewed by Paul Youngquist, Penn State University) Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out (Paul Elledge) (Reviewed by William D. Brewer, Appalachian State University) Nationalists and Nomads (Christopher L. Miller) (Reviewed by Louise M. Jefferson, Wayne State University) The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects (Rene´e L. Bergland) (Reviewed by Richard Sax, Madonna University) Imagining the King’s Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide 1793–1796 (John Barrell) (Reviewed by Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University) The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics (John Plotz) (Reviewed by Heidi Thomson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) James Joyce’s Judaic Other (Marilyn Reizbaum) (Reviewed by Natania Rosenfeld, Knox College) Voices and Values in Joyce’s Ulysses (Weldon Thornton) (Reviewed by Marshall Needleman Armintor, Rice University

The Classic, Summer 2007

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