Nervous London: Urban Sensibility in the Romantic Period

Nervous London: Urban Sensibility in the Romantic Period traces a continued cultural and scientific interest in sensibility and how it shifted and developed in the Romantic period. This project explores representations of what I call urban sensibility, which entailed an experience of increasing nervousness as the subject became exposed to the developing urban culture and topography of London. I argue that urban sensibility was part of a medico-literary discourse that engaged medical science in literary representations of art, urban life, and modern experience. The project investigates how Romantic writers imagined, managed, complicated, and even challenged popular scientific and cultural notions of nervous sensibility and the urban body. As part of a culture of growing commodification, urban sensibility is presented by writers as a form of consumption, a way of consuming sensations and spectacles in the city. This study particularly examines how urban sensibility was depicted in Romantic-era literature through the figure of the urban pedestrian, an earlier, British version of the flâneur, who consumes urban experience and spectacles presented in metropolitan street scenes. The urban texts explored in this project reveal the results of bodies engaging with the commodification of sensual experience in a historical process that helped to shape our conception of modernity. In exploring urban sensibility and peregrination, the dissertation teases out multiple modes of urban, Romantic experience, including consumerism, civic engagement, masculinity, and the sublime. Moreover, this project argues that urban sensibility demonstrates the various ways that Romantic-era institutions and power structures attempt to control urban bodies, as well as the ways that writers attempt to use this expression of the body and mind to resist hegemonic influences and reclaim agency for themselves. Beginning with a reading of Wordsworth’s Book 7 of The Prelude and then moving to works by De Quincey, Hazlitt, Lamb, and Blake, the chapters of the study are organized to demonstrate a particular progression of increasingly liberating urban experience. As the first chapter shows, urban sensibility and the excesses of this experience offer Wordsworth an active and resistant way to react to the city, but they also remind him of how entrenched his own ideas of nature and poetics are in commodity culture. Urban sensibility thus causes for him an awakening (however unwelcome) to what is at stake in his own representations of nature and the poetic body. For De Quincey, urban sensibility and pedestrianism allow the individual to actively create new and intensely pleasurable experiences of the city and the urban body in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. In Hazlitt’s and Lamb’s essays, it leads away from the passive reception of city life to powerful expressions of community and civic engagement. For Blake, urban sensibility in Jerusalem is even more liberating in that it allows individuals to actively resist oppressive systems and leads to a revolutionary redemption of both London and England. Although the Romantics are traditionally approached as pastoral or nature poets, as this project demonstrates, exploring representations of urban sensibility reveals that an urban Romanticism developed in the period alongside representations of Romantic nature, even in the writings of pastoral works like Wordsworth’s The Prelude

Treatment algorithm for infants diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy through newborn screening

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by the degeneration of alpha motor neurons in the spinal cord, leading to muscular atrophy. SMA is caused by deletions or mutations in the survival motor neuron 1 gene (SMN1). In humans, a nearly identical copy gene, SMN2, is present. Because SMN2 has been shown to decrease disease severity in a dose-dependent manner, SMN2 copy number is predictive of disease severity. To develop a treatment algorithm for SMA-positive infants identified through newborn screening based upon SMN2 copy number. A working group comprised of 15 SMA experts participated in a modified Delphi process, moderated by a neutral third-party expert, to develop treatment guidelines. The overarching recommendation is that all infants with two or three copies of SMN2 should receive immediate treatment (n = 13). For those infants in which immediate treatment is not recommended, guidelines were developed that outline the timing and appropriate screens and tests to be used to determine the timing of treatment initiation. The identification SMA affected infants via newborn screening presents an unprecedented opportunity for achievement of maximal therapeutic benefit through the administration of treatment pre-symptomatically. The recommendations provided here are intended to help formulate treatment guidelines for infants who test positive during the newborn screening process

The Repercussion of Grief on Childhood in Situations Involving Violent Death

The death of a loved one can be felt intensely and painfully and, for children, it could generate strong reactions, anguish, and sadness during the grieving process. To analyze the expression of children's loss when facing the violent death of a close people with affective bonds with the child, the research was developed in a School Clinic of Psychology in the Tocantins, having as participants six (6) children with ages between 7 and 10 years old. The information from the interviews with the guardians, through ludic interviews and application of the BDS-IJ test with the children, were interpreted. The results suggest that the children's answers signal the way they have been feeling and where some items indicating areas encompassing mood, thinking, and the social sphere was repeated among the children. We conclude that children have difficulties understanding the period of loss and internalizing feelings related to it. It is important to emphasize that even though the mourning process is difficult, it does matter that the children express their feelings and fantasies, either by playing or through conversation, accompanied by family support to go through this disorganizing period more adequately. Keywords: Violence, Death, Grief, Children, Family. DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-20-02 Publication date:October 31st 2021

Assessment of anesthetic properties and pain during needleless jet injection anesthesia: a randomized clinical trial

Pain due to administration of local anesthetics is the primary reason for patients’ fear and anxiety, and various methods are used to minimize it. This study aimed to measure the degree of pain during administration of anesthesia and determine the latency time and duration of pulpal anesthesia using two anesthetic methods in the maxilla. Materials and Methods: A randomized, single-blind, split-mouth clinical trial was conducted with 41 volunteers who required class I restorations in the maxillary first molars. Local anesthesia was administered with a needleless jet injection system (experimental group) or with a carpule syringe (control) using a 30-gauge short needle. The method of anesthesia and laterality of the maxilla were randomized. A pulp electric tester measured the latency time and duration of anesthesia in the second molar. Visual analogue scale (VAS) was used to measure the degree of pain during the anesthetic method. Data were tabulated and then analyzed by a statistician. The t-test was used to analyze the differences between the groups for basal electrical stimulation. Duration of anesthesia and degree of pain were compared using the Mann-Whitney test. A 5% significance level was considered. Results: There was no statistical difference in the basal electrical stimulation threshold (mA) and degree of pain between the two methods of anesthesia (p>0.05). Latency time was 2 minutes for all subjects. The duration of pulpal anesthesia showed no statistical difference (minutes) between the two methods (p<0.001), with a longer duration for the traditional method of anesthesia (median of 40 minutes). Conclusions: The two anesthetics methods did not differ concerning the pain experienced during anesthesia. Latency lasted 2 minutes for all subjects; the traditional infiltration anesthesia resulted in a longer anesthetic duration compared with the needleless jet injection

The Lantern Vol. 65, No. 1, Fall 1997

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Meta-análise como ferramenta para estimar a viabilidade de coprodutos utilizados em dietas para coelhos / Meta-analysis as a tool to estimate the viability of co-products used in rabbits diets

O objetivo deste estudo foi mensurar por meio da análise meta-analítica o efeito de diferentes coprodutos, sobre o desempenho de coelhos de corte. Os dados utilizados, referem-se a cinco ensaios biológicos realizados no Laboratório de Cunicultura da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Em cada ensaio foram utilizados distintos coprodutos, com níveis crescentes de substituição ao feno de alfafa, sendo eles: bagaço de uva, casca de soja, baraço de batata-doce, resíduo de cervejaria e topos de cenoura. A variável analisada foi a do ganho de peso dos animais. Os dados foram tabulados e analisados com a ponderação inversa da variância e o modelo aleatório para obtenção da estimativa da diferença na média entre os grupos. Os resultados obtidos demonstram que os coprodutos não apresentam diferenças quando comparados ao tratamento controle. No entanto, quando analisamos em grupos se observa que o bagaço de uva apresentou os melhores valores, seguido da casca de soja. As diferenças não são significativas na maioria dos subgrupos, ou seja, estão bem próximas a médias, mostrando que é viável o uso de coprodutos em dietas para coelhos. Conclui-se, portanto, com base no estudo meta-analítico, que a utilização de diferentes coprodutos em dietas para coelhos em substituição ao feno de alfafa é viável. Desta forma, novos coprodutos podem ser estudados para serem incorporados às dietas cunícolas, visto que, a substituição é uma estratégia promissora que pode ser utilizada obtendo-se redução de custos e minimizando impactos ambientais

Author’s Place, Digital Space: Mapping Tennessee Williams, 1938-1948

From 1938-­1948, twentieth-­century American author Tennessee Williams traveled the country with his portable typewriter and a battered suitcase. He wrote every day, and his writings reflect the places and people he encountered. Williams’s journey from obscurity to fame as a writer during this decade parallels the nation’s path from depression to postwar prosperity. The events of this time period remain scattered across Williams’s scholarship; however, our collaborative, interdisciplinary project takes advantage of new methods of investigation and dissemination to create a multimedia map that traces the writer’s movements. We use Google Earth to create placemarks that highlight Williams’s professional and personal connections, production histories, and social and political contexts. This highly visual multi­dimensional map acts as a resource for academic and general audiences by providing access to secondary sources and to excerpts from Williams’s plays, stories, letters, and journal entries. Users will gain a greater understanding of Williams and his world by engaging with this interactive mapping project