The View from (T)here

A View from (T)here is an interdisciplinary project that examines the interconnections between landscape, colonialism, identity, visual culture, and tourism, primarily in Barbados but also considering the Caribbean as a whole. It challenges the first-world construct of paradise, imposed upon the Caribbean through tourism, rendering the region into a homogenous space disconnected from time. A View from (T)here draws upon a thread of subversion found in Caribbean theory, literature and art production in order to contest the dominant construct. This body of artwork re-presents landscape, and its metaphors, through strategies of story-telling, ambiguity and repetition; using photography, sound, video and installation, creating a site at the intersection of identity, landscape, geo-politics and aesthetics. These operations attempt to symbolically reclaim the landscape and re-negotiate subjectivity, while implicating the viewers as participants in the artwork to put into question the power dynamics of north / south

Ore Body : Tsēma Tamara Skubovius

"Ore Body investigates material and metaphysical landscapes from an embodied perspective, critiquing how valuation of land and resources are created and assessed through Western measures of wealth. Featuring a new series of large-scale lightboxes with images of multicoloured obsidian, a gem-like rock formed from cooling layers of lava found near Skubovius' family home in Northern BC, the exhibition explores bodily connections to land the impacts of resource extraction." -- Publisher's website

Chemical protection of Calvia quatuordecimguttata eggs against intraguild predation by the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis

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National audit on the appropriateness of CT and MRI examinations in Luxembourg

International audienceOBJECTIVES: In Luxembourg, the frequency of CT and MRI examinations per inhabitant is among the highest in Europe. A national audit was conducted to evaluate the appropriateness of CT and MRI examinations according to the national referral guidelines for medical imaging.METHODS: Three hundred and eighty-eight CT and 330 MRI requests corresponding to already performed examinations were provided by all radiology departments in Luxembourg. Four external radiologists evaluated the clinical elements for justification present in each request. They consensually assessed the appropriateness of each requested examination with regard to the national referral guidelines and their clinical experience.RESULTS: The appropriateness rate (AR) was higher for MRI requests than for CT requests (79% vs. 61%; p < 0.001). AR was higher for requests referred by medical specialists rather than by general practitioners, both for CT requests (70% vs. 37%; p < 0.001) and MRI requests (83% vs. 64%; p = 0.002). For CT, AR was higher when the requests concerned paediatric rather than adult patients (82% vs. 58%; p < 0.001), when the radiology departments were equipped with both CT and MRI units rather than with only CT units (65% vs. 47%, p = 0.004) and when the requests concerned head-neck (79%), chest (77%) and chest-abdominal-pelvic (81%) areas rather than spinal (28%), extremity (51%) and abdominal-pelvic (63%) areas (p < 0.001).CONCLUSIONS: The appropriateness of CT and MRI in Luxembourg is not satisfactory and collective efforts to improve should be continued. The focus should be on general practitioners and on spinal CT examinations