Special Address

I am grateful to Dr. V. A. Altekar for inviting me to this National Seminar on the Problems and Prospects of Ferro-alloy Industry in India.The fortunes of the ferro-alloy industry are closely linked with the progress and prosperity of the steel industry world-wide. As you all know, the steel industry the world over has been experi-encing a severe recession for sometime now, closely following in the wake of the global energy crisis. With the steel development programme in the advanced countries almost at a standstill and the international market situation not too rosy, the Indian ferro-alloy industry is at present passing through a difficult phase of dwindling foreign markets. In addition, the raw materials, power and energy costs have increased

The Design of Continuous Casting Plants for India

WORLD steel producing capacity is being enlarged at an average rate of about 15 million ingot tons per year, requiring very substantial capital investments. The difficulties of financing such large investments, and their effects on production costs through heavy amort-ization charges, have led to extensive development work on now processes for iron and steel manufacture. The prospect of eliminating conventional stripper yards,soa-king pits and blooming mills (which together may amount to about 10% of the cost of an integrated iron and steel plant) has created considerable engineering interest in the continuous casting of steel

Food Science and Technology Information Service : a proposed plan

A brief description of the CFTRI library, and the servicesit offers, is given. The need for the setting up of a national Information Centre for Food Science and Technology is briefly mentioned. A draft model for a five-year developmental plan for FOSTIS i s presented, The organisational structure, documentation services, personnel annual budget, furniture and equipment required for the Central Unit of the FOSTIS is given

Layout of large integrated steelworks

World Steel production doubled between 1920 and 1940 and doubled again between 1940 and 1960, despite the dislocat-ion caused by a major global war. Reliable estimates, such as those drawn up by the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), indicate that world production may double once more from about 350 to 700 million tons in the next 15 to 20 years

Heidegger et la question de l’« essence » du langage

« Logik als Frage nach dem Wesen der Sprache », tel est le titre que Heidegger donne à son cours du semestre d’été 1934, cours qui a été traduit en 2008 sous le titre « La logique comme question en quête de la pleine essence du langage », « pleine essence » se voulant ici la traduction du nouveau sens que Heidegger donne à partir du milieu des années 1930 au terme Wesen, qu’il ne s’agit plus d’entendre en un sens nominal comme l’essence ou la quiddité ni comme l’expression de la permanence ou..

Early Initiation of Oral Antihypertensives Reduces Intensive Care Unit Stay and Hospital Cost for Patients with Hypertensive Intracerebral Hemorrhage.

Background/objectiveIntravenous nicardipine infusion is effective for rapid blood pressure control. However, its use requires hemodynamic monitoring in the intensive care unit (ICU) and is associated with high hospital cost. This study aimed to examine the effect of early versus late initiation of oral antihypertensives on ICU length of stay (LOS) and cost of hospitalization in patients with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH).MethodsThis is a single-center retrospective study of patients with hypertensive ICH treated with nicardipine infusion from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2017. Patients were dichotomized into study and control groups, based on receiving oral antihypertensives within 24 h versus after 24 h of emergency department arrival. Baseline characteristics, duration of nicardipine infusion, LOS in the ICU and hospital, functional outcome at discharge, and hospital cost were compared between the two groups using univariate and multivariate analysis.ResultsA total of 90 patients in the study group and 76 in the control group were identified. There was no significant difference in demographics, past medical history, and initial SBP between the two groups. After adjusting for confounding factors with multivariate regression models, early initiation of oral antihypertensives was associated with significant reductions in duration of nicardipine infusion (55.5 ± 60.1 vs 121.6 ± 141.3 h, p <0.005), nicardipine cost ($14,207 vs$29,299, p < 0.01), ICU LOS (2 vs 5 days, p < 0.005), and cost of hospitalization ($24,564 vs$47,366, p < 0.01). There was no significant difference in adversary renal events, favorable outcomes, and mortality between the two groups.ConclusionsEarly initiation of oral antihypertensives is safe and may have a significant financial impact on patients with hypertensive ICH

Note sur Heidegger et le marxisme

On trouve de nombreuses références à Marx dans les textes de Heidegger, ce nom étant souvent associé à celui de Hegel, et l’on sait qu’il a probablement commencé à véritablement lire les textes de Marx au début des années 1930, au moment où Siegfried Landshut, qui avait suivi ses cours (ainsi que ceux de Husserl) à Freiburg, puis à Marbourg, découvrit les Manuscrits de 1844 de Marx et en fut l’éditeur, avec Jacob-Peter Mayer, en février 1932. C’est d’ailleurs un passage de l’un des textes du ..

Phénoménologie de la surprise : horizon, projection et événement

C’est autour des notions d’horizon et de projection que je voudrais reposer la question d’une possible phénoménologie de la surprise, c’est-à-dire de l’événement inattendu, en faisant une large place, à côté de Husserl et de Heidegger, à Maldiney. Dans un texte déjà ancien (il date de 1997) dont la thématique était celle de l’événement, de l’attente et de la surprise, je me demandais en effet si la phénoménologie était en mesure de penser l’événement et je m’efforçais de donner une réponse po..

Phénoménologie et anthropologie

Phénoménologie et anthropologie : ces deux termes sont-ils antinomiques ou peut-on, sans cesser de se réclamer de Husserl, voire de Heidegger, les deux figures tutélaires du « mouvement » phénoménologique, déployer aujourd’hui le projet d’une anthropologie phénoménologique ? Telle est la question ambitieuse à laquelle on se propose ici de tenter de répondre de manière au moins programmatique. Il est pour cela nécessaire de commencer par dessiner à grands traits le contexte dans lequel elle se..