"'I SPEAK OF FIERCELY CONTESTED THINGS:'" WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, DEMOCRACY, AND THE AESTHETICS OF A "USABLE PAST"

ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: "'I SPEAK OF FIERCELY CONTESTED THINGS:'" WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, DEMOCRACY, AND THE AESTHETICS OF A "USABLE PAST" Kevin L. Jessar, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004. Dissertation Directed By: Professor Elizabeth B. Loizeaux, Department of English Exploring Williams in relation to progressive historians and literary critics of the 1910s and 1920s, this study places the poet in debates on modernist poetics, social change, and the uses of history, and builds on outstanding work of recent critics who explore Williams' writing as a defense of democratic principles in an illiberal age. Williams' "poem including history" furthered a progressive social agenda by moving beyond the economic determinism of his progressive peers to a kind of emotional determinism, what I call an "affective economics." Williams historicized adaptation and an affective stance of extreme receptivity to the "moment," as his vision of the "usable past." There was no period of uncorrupted grace but only the ever-continuing necessity of adapting to the present moment, the often-feminized "primary." Where Eliot envisioned the "present moment of the past," Williams espied a repeating impregnating moment of "contact" and "touch" -- an historical, ever-recurring present. Democratic renewal and contact with the primary were reinforced by the ability of individuals to decide for themselves without "intermediate authority," to respond to their moment. Williams' stylistics in Paterson and In the American Grain encoded a democratic ethos by compelling readers to exercise individual prerogative jeopardized by corporate power, fascism, and communism. His aesthetic animated the subject position of reader and writer, making the reader write his or her own imaginative history, based, paradoxically, on inhabiting the subject position of representative figures of the past and of the poet himself as they confronted the primary and a secondary culture that would suppress it. Williams thus structured a "participatory aesthetic" to engage the reader in the historical dialectic of "contact" and fearful "withdrawal." In Paterson this dialectic was particularly refracted through fearful, dissonant encounters with contemporary female figures orienting us back to the "primary." Believing writers were a "passionate regenerative force" for society, Williams hoped his "new line[s]" would create "new mind[s]." He wanted to release "personality," the "personal" element, that writers of imaginative histories argued was endangered in a distinctly anti-liberal age and make readers define for themselves a relation to the primary through a "usable past.&quot

Application of 3D printing in orthopaedic surgery. A new affordable horizon for cost-conscious care

Application of three-dimensional (3D) printing facilities in orthopaedic surgery is getting popular in resourceconstrained countries. It is cost- and resource-efficient to assist in planning and increasing orthopaedic procedures efficiency. Furthermore, it improves educational training and provides cheaper prosthesis and creation of customised implants for special cases. Moreover, 3D models of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data play a helpful rule for a more hands-on approach for the surgeon. Like evidence-based medicine practice, researchers are exploring new areas of patient-specific instrumentation in the surgical field, searching for favourable and costeffective results. Three-dimensional printing has shown promising results for quick and cost-effective solutions in several fields. Many fields of application are dependent on various uses of 3D printing, but it has yet to be used widely in medicine and orthopaedics. The current literature review was planned to highlight the advantages of using 3D printing, its scope in surgical field with emphasis on orthopaedic surgery, and the limitations of its use in developing countries

Systemic sclerosis: Clinical manifestations, anesthetic and orthopedic considerations in a patient

Introduction: Systemic sclerosis is a rare and progressive multisystem autoimmune disorder that is characterized pathologically by vascular abnormalities, connective tissue sclerosis and atrophy of skin and various internal organs (e.g., alimentary tract, lungs, heart, kidney, CNS), and autoantibodies. With an unknown etiology, Scleroderma is a complex polygenetic disease. A recent Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) confirmed a strong association with the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) and autoimmunity. We provide a case scenario along with a review of the systems involved and challenges physicians can face in dealing with this rare disease.Case Presentation: Our patient, a known case of systemic sclerosis, was admitted with a history of right femur fracture following a fall. We highlight the medical, anesthetic and surgical challenges faced by our team in the management of this patient. We will explain the stages patient faced in treatment process till her death. We combined the case report with detailed literature review of this rare disease.Discussion: Systemic sclerosis is a complex disease process with many different levels of system involvement. Patient needs to be reviewed thoroughly in preoperative period by multidisciplinary team and counseled in detail about the difficulties in procedure, risks and complications.Conclusion: Patient with scleroderma presents a challenge to the surgical team and anesthetist and a multidisciplinary approach should be followed with all of these patients to avoid catastrophic results

Bone graft donor site infection with a rare organism, aeromonas hydrophila: A typical location, presentation and organism with 2 years follow-up: Case report

Introduction: Aeromonas are Gram-negative bacilli often causing necrotizing fasciitis or sepsis in immunocompromised patients. Aeromonas Hydrophila is most often found in immunocompromised patients or those with burns or aquatic trauma. When patients present with a discharge and infection on bone graft donor site and progressive sepsis, an Aeromonas hydrophila infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis. Presentation of Case: We report here a rare case of Aeromonas hydrophila with surgical site sep- sis/infection in an immunocompromised 69 years old female, with several comorbids. Here we are reporting infection on donor surgical graft site, sparing major surgical site with the implant. After getting culture report of exudates from the wound that grew A. hydrophila, immediate wound debridement and antibiotic beads insertion was performed with appropriate antimicrobial therapy and regular wound dressing. She was followed for around 2 years. Discussion: This is the first report to our knowledge of A. Hydrophila infection in bone graft donor site. Aeromonas most often cause gastrointestinal and soft tissue infections, and bacteremia in immuno- compromised patients. Early surgical intervention is essential to reducing mortality in deep soft tissue infections caused by this organism. Aeromonas have shown resistance to penicillin but are sensitive to other broad-spectrum antibiotics. Conclusion: Early suspicion, diagnosis, and treatment with potent antibiotics are needed to prevent any further complications resulting from infection by this emerging aggressive pathogen

تأثير اختصار المتن على الأحاديث (دراسة نموذجيا إستقرائيا): EFFECT OF SUMMARIZATION ON THE TEXTS OF AHADITH

Summarization of the Ahadith is important and complex topic without commentary of the Scholars and without collection of the different chain of the Hadith and without comparison of different Texts of the Hadith cannot make clear understanding to the Ahadith, it may be lead to misunderstanding, Summarization of the Ahadith have a different effect on the understanding of the Ahadith and different derivation of commands, it may be drive different effect, It can or cannot change the meaning of Ahadith, It came with different summarized words but cannot change the meaning of the Hadith, and It came some missing words that change the entire meaning of Hadith. "EFFECT OF SUMMARIZATION ON THE TEXTS OF AHADITH" the method of the Research based on textual study at the end finally preferable result as per commentary or method of Muhadseen

ARABIC-THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT EXPRESSIONS OF HADITHS ON THE EXPLANATION OF HADITHS ACCORDING TO IMAM AL-TABARANI "THROUGH HIS BOOK AL-MUJAM AL-AWSAT"

Praise be to all mighty Allah, Lord of the all things, and prayers and peace be upon His Messenger, our Master, The Mustafa and his family, and his Brothers among The Prophets, and his Companions, and Those who follow him with honestly until Day of Judgment, Imam al-Tabarani is one of the great scholars of Islam and the well-known person in Islamic World, He was the “Musnad Duniyah” Umamah rely on Him about Prophet’s (peace be upon him) Narrations. Al Muajm Al-Awast is most important Book of Hadith especially in ELAL (some hidden reason effect on Hadith), He said: “This is my Soul” its means core of his Knowledge, Subject of This Book collect Poor chain of Narrations, Method of Imam Al Tabrani comment every Hadith, and indicate Tafrud (singular chain or text of narration), or indicate conflict between narrators in the narration. I (Researcher) make title: “The explanation of Imam al-Tabarani by changing the body text in The Al-Mujam al-Awsat”, take some Hadiths form This Book about some words of Hadith changed that can be right and can be wrong, can be same meaning, can be differ to each other, so I explain what kind of changing ?

Measurement of Uric Acid in Biologic Fluids Using an Ion-Exchange Separation

Abstract A new method for the measurement of uric acid in biologic fluids is presented. It involves the isolation of uric acid by ion-exchange separation and quantitative determination of uric acid in the eluate by ultraviolet absorption, the Folin-Brown method or an enzymatic technic. The enzymatic determination on the eluate is the most specific of the technics. A series of determinations of uric acid in serum compares well with determinations on the same samples using the direct Folin-Brown procedure. The direct Folin-Brown method appears to be in error in determinations on certain urine samples. Measurements of uric acid in bile are reported. The technic can be used in the routine clinical laboratory, and is particularly applicable to fluids which cannot be studied by direct methods.</jats:p