Listen to Nice

In describing Humphrey Jennings’ wartime documentary propaganda film, 'Listen to Britain' (1942), a film with an overtly poetic sensibility and dominantly musical soundtrack, John Corner asserts that ‘through listening to Britain, we are enabled to properly look at it'. This idea of sound leading our attention to the images has underpinned much of the collaborative work between composer and sound designer, Geoffrey Cox, and documentary filmmaker, Keith Marley. It is in this context that the article will analyse an extract of A Film About Nice (Marley and Cox 2010), a contemporary re-imagining of Jean Vigo’s silent documentary, 'A propos de Nice' (1930). Reference will be made throughout to the historical context, and the filmic and theoretical influences that have informed the way music and creative sound design have been used to place emphasis on hearing a place, as much as seeing it

Visual fields in patients who have undergone vitrectomy for complications of diabetic retinopathy. A prospective study

BACKROUND: To determine the extent of visual field loss in patients who had required a pars plana vitrectomy secondary to complications of proliferative diabetic retinopathy. METHODS: Patients that had undergone a vitrectomy on at least one eye for treatment of either vitreous haemorrhage or tractional retinal detachment were selected for study. ETDRS acuity and Humphrey binocular Esterman visual field testing were performed and compared to the minimum standards for safe driving as defined by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 1999. In addition to this Goldman kinetic visual fields using a III4e and V4e stimulus size and central 24-2 threshold test with the SITA-fast strategy were performed on the vitrectomised eye. RESULTS: 20 patients (n = 20) were recruited. Mean visual acuity in the eye being tested was 0.20 (Snellen 6/9.5). Results from the Humphrey field analyzer showed a mean number of abnormal stimulus locations of 71.2% (p < 0.005). 70% of patients had sufficient binocular acuity to drive and of these 71.4% were shown not to have a minimum visual field for safe driving on binocular Esterman field analysis. CONCLUSION: Vitrectomy potentially allows retention/restoration of good visual acuity in patients with complications of proliferative diabetic retinopathy. However patients may be suffering from unrecognized visual impairment consequent upon extensive visual field loss which in over two thirds of patients may be sufficiently severe to preclude safe driving

GERENCIAMENTO DE MUDANÇAS PARA CONTROLE DO RUÍDO NA TERAPIA INTENSIVA NEONATAL: RELATO DE EXPERIÊNCIA

RESUMO O objetivo deste estudo foi relatar uma experiência sobre planejamento participativo e gerenciamento de mudanças para controle de ruído em uma unidade de terapia intensiva neonatal de um hospital público de ensino no Triângulo Mineiro. Trata-se de um projeto de pesquisa que tem a extensão universitária como uma de suas interfaces. A motivação para seu desenvolvimento foi apoiar os objetivos estratégicos do hospital, para garantir a qualidade assistencial e a segurança do paciente frente à articulação entre ensino-pesquisa-extensão e assistência. O arcabouço teórico-metodológico que orientou a condução da experiência foi o quadro lógico, historicamente derivado de métodos de planejamento que garantiam espaços para o trabalho em equipe e a participação dos diversos interessados no projeto. O gerenciamento da mudança foi conduzido por grupo gestor com expertise na temática, representado por trabalhadores locais e docentes/pesquisadores. As atividades ocorreram entre abril e maio/2017. O diagnóstico da situação-problema contou com mensuração prévia às intervenções do ruído no local (nível entre 62-82 dB), sendo a percepção do ruído no setor alta e muito alta, segundo 88,3% dos trabalhadores. Os resultados alcançados foram: engajamento de legitimadores e autoridades do hospital na proposição; sensibilização e capacitação dos trabalhadores, docentes/pesquisadores, residentes e acadêmicos para o controle de ruídos; e implantação de medidas para controle do ruído. Mudanças foram articuladas conjuntamente entre trabalhadores, representantes da universidade e chefias: na infraestrutura do ambiente, no manuseio direto do recém-nascido e na postura da equipe. Faz-se necessário seguimento longitudinal sobre como as iniciativas impactaram na redução do ruído e no bem-estar dos trabalhadores

Transcultural engagement with Polish memory of the Holocaust while watching Leszek Wosiewicz's Kornblumenblau

Kornblumenblau (Leszek Wosiewicz 1989) is a film that explores the experience of a Polish political prisoner interned at Auschwitz I. It particularly foregrounds issues related to Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust in its diegesis. Holocaust films are often discussed in relation to representation and the cultural specificity of their production context. However, this paper suggests thinking about film and topographies, the theme of this issue, not in relation to where a work is produced but in regards to the spectatorial space. It adopts a phenomenological approach to consider how, despite Kornblumenblau's particularly Polish themes, it might address the transcultural spectator and draw attention to the broader difficulties one faces when attempting to remember the Holocaust. Influenced particularly by the writing of Jennifer M. Barker and Laura U. Marks, this paper suggests that film possesses a body ¬¬- a display of intentionality, beyond those presented within the diegesis, which engages in dialogue with the spectator. During the experience of viewing Kornblumenblau, this filmic corporeality draws attention to the difficulties of confronting the Holocaust in particularly haptic ways, as the film points to the unreliability of visual historical sources, relates abject sensations to concentrationary spaces and breaks down as it confronts the scene of the gas chamber