Kavafis on the streets of Athens

Our contribution to the second issue of the Encounters project editorial is a short video work informed by the workshop we held in Athens in December 2021. We decided to bring poetry to the streets of Athens. We were curious to see what happens when poetry meets up with the mundane settings of the everyday. We filmed people in the streets reciting the poems of Constantinos Kavafis (1863 - 1933), considered to be one of the most influential and controversial Greek poets of 20th centur

Anatomy of an Encounter

The project Anatomy of an Encounter was driven by the idea that we should not take for granted that we already know what ‘encounters’ are. What does ‘meeting’ another person — with a different cultural or disciplinary background — mean? How much of an encounter is in all actuality a ‘finding one another’? How much of ‘being in touch’ is depending on the work of the imagination — fed by assumptions, existing cultural frames, stereotypes, fantasies about the other?Encounters are at the heart of every ethnographic project: anthropologists no longer claim to be speaking about the other (define the other in his/her otherness; know the other). They study what occurs between themselves and others when they meet. Encounters are also at the heart of the ENCOUNTERS project, where artistically inclined ethnographers and ethnographically inclined artists meet each other. The project Anatomy of an Encounter was driven by the idea that we should not take for granted that we already know what ‘encounters’ are. What does ‘meeting’ another person — with a different cultural or disciplinary background — mean? How much of an encounter is in all actuality a ‘finding one another’? How much of ‘being in touch’ is depending on the work of the imagination — fed by assumptions, existing cultural frames, stereotypes, fantasies about the other

A Probabilistic proof of the breakdown of Besov regularity in LL-shaped domains

{We provide a probabilistic approach in order to investigate the smoothness of the solution to the Poisson and Dirichlet problems in $L$-shaped domains. In particular, we obtain (probabilistic) integral representations for the solution. We also recover Grisvard's classic result on the angle-dependent breakdown of the regularity of the solution measured in a Besov scale

Comparison of mortality with home hemodialysis and center hemodialysis: A national study

Comparison of mortality with home hemodialysis and center hemodialysis: A national study. We sought to determine whether lower mortality rates reported with hemodialysis (HD) at home compared to hemodialysis in dialysis centers (center HD) could be explained by patient selection. Data are from the United States Renal Data System (USRDS) Special Study Of Case Mix Severity, a random national sample of 4,892 patients who started renal replacement therapy in 1986 to 1987. Intent-to-treat analyses compared mortality between home HD (N =70) and center HD patients (N = 3,102) using the Cox proportional hazards model. Home HD patients were younger and had a lower frequency of comorbid conditions. The unadjusted relative risk (RR) of death for home HD patients compared to center HD was 0.37 (P < 0.001). The RR adjusted for age, sex, race and diabetes, was 44% lower in home HD patients (RR = 0.56, P = 0.02). When additionally adjusted for comorbid conditions, this RR increased marginally (RR = 0.58, P = 0.03). A different analysis using national USRDS data from 1986/7 and without comorbid adjustment showed patients with training for self care hemodialysis at home or in a center (N = 418) had a lower mortality risk (RR = 0.78, P = 0.001) than center HD patients (N = 43,122). Statistical adjustment for comorbid conditions in addition to age, sex, race, and diabetes explains only a small amount of the lower mortality with home HD

776-1 Selective Down-regulation of Angiotensin II AT1 Receptors in Failing Human Heart: Relationship to β1-Receptor Down-regulation

The renin-angiotensin and adrenergic nervous systems exhibit multiple levels of cross-regulation in heart failure. These systems are bidirectionally activated in concert; i.e. activation of one system activates the other. We compared the behavior of angiotensin II AT1 and AT2 receptors with β1, -and, β2-adrenergic receptors in a high-yield crude membrane fraction prepared from nonfailing and failing human ventricular myocardium. Ang II receptors were measured by 125I saralasin binding, with Bmax determined by saturation binding displaceable by 1μM cold saralasin. AT1 and AT2 receptor fractions were determined by the amount of specific binding displaceable by 1μM losartan. β1-adrenergic receptor density was determined by saturation binding of 125I ICYP, with the, β1 fraction determined by binding displaceable by 0.2μM CGP 20712A. Results in end-stage human left ventricular myocardium failing as a result of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy were compared to nonfailing controls taken from age- and gender-matched organ donors not used for transplant because of blood type or body size mismatch: (Receptor density is in fmol/mg±SEM)β1-ARβ2-ARAT1AT2Nonfailing (n=6)59.0±9.420.7±4.04.14±0.621.52±0.43Failing (n = 6)28.3±2.8*17.2±2.61.53±0.57*2.68±0.51*p&lt;0.05The down-regulation of β1 AR and AT1 receptors was significantly related (r=0.62, n=12, p&lt;0.05)Conclusions(1) Compared to β adrenergic receptors ang II receptors are very low density in the human heart. (2) The AT1 receptor sUbtype predominates in the nonfailing human heart. (3) ATl but not AT2 receptors are downregulated in failing heart. (4) Down-regulation of Ang-II AT1 receptor is similar in degree to down-regulation of β1-adrenergic receptors. These data suggest that the AT1 and β1 receptors are respectively exposed to increased concentrations of mutually activatedlinduced norepinephrine and Ang-II in the failing human heart

Prevalence and Outcomes of Multiple-Listing for Cadaveric Kidney and Liver Transplantation

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73815/1/j.1600-6135.2003.00282.x.pd