The living and the dead; an investigation into the status of erasure within the floor of Bath Abbey

The floor of Bath Abbey offers a singular test of authenticity. Nineteenth century repairs and additions caused horizontal grave markers, which comprise the majority of the Abbey’s floor, to become separated from the burial sites they were intended to memorialize. A century and a half of further occupation has had the effect of removing many inscriptions as surfaces are worn smooth. The result is a patchwork of unintended edits and accidental poetry. This paper explores the notions of authenticity, essence, memorial and erasure as they pertain to the Abbey floor, in particular with regard to the role the body plays in inhabiting/eroding the floor—from both above and below. The author argues that the stones which are most out of place or worn to a state of erasure are no less authentic than their intact equivalents, but that they can be considered to have moved to another state of authenticity rich in resonance and meaning. This paper, in short, is a defense of erasure and that erosion through occupation may be considered a form of social memory; indeed, the marks of walking become the inscription. In other words, the undesigned (erasure, the cutting and repositioning of ledger stones, the missing inscriptions) becomes considered not as a form of dirt but as the positive traces of on-going and meaningful occupation

Registry of Aortic Diseases to Model Adverse Events and Progression (ROADMAP) in Uncomplicated Type B Aortic Dissection: Study Design and Rationale

PURPOSE To describe the design and methodological approach of a multicenter, retrospective study to externally validate a clinical and imaging-based model for predicting the risk of late adverse events in patients with initially uncomplicated type B aortic dissection (uTBAD). MATERIALS AND METHODS The Registry of Aortic Diseases to Model Adverse Events and Progression (ROADMAP) is a collaboration between 10 academic aortic centers in North America and Europe. Two centers have previously developed and internally validated a recently developed risk prediction model. Clinical and imaging data from eight ROADMAP centers will be used for external validation. Patients with uTBAD who survived the initial hospitalization between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2013, with follow-up until 2020, will be retrospectively identified. Clinical and imaging data from the index hospitalization and all follow-up encounters will be collected at each center and transferred to the coordinating center for analysis. Baseline and follow-up CT scans will be evaluated by cardiovascular imaging experts using a standardized technique. RESULTS The primary end point is the occurrence of late adverse events, defined as aneurysm formation (≥6 cm), rapid expansion of the aorta (≥1 cm/y), fatal or nonfatal aortic rupture, new refractory pain, uncontrollable hypertension, and organ or limb malperfusion. The previously derived multivariable model will be externally validated by using Cox proportional hazards regression modeling. CONCLUSION This study will show whether a recent clinical and imaging-based risk prediction model for patients with uTBAD can be generalized to a larger population, which is an important step toward individualized risk stratification and therapy.Keywords: CT Angiography, Vascular, Aorta, Dissection, Outcomes Analysis, Aortic Dissection, MRI, TEVAR© RSNA, 2022See also the commentary by Rajiah in this issue

Speculative designs: Towards a social music

This paper introduces a collaborative research project inwhich the authors explored the possibilities of musicmaking using social media. We aimed for this music toreflect the various genres born of social media, for exam-ple the selfie, the tweet, the emoticon. Our research wastherefore propelled by questions like “what might a mu-sical selfie sound like?” and “how might an audio emoti-con extend the language of online communication”? Thisproject explored the potential of speculative design, or“design fictions”, in the creation of new musical inter-faces. Overall, the project revealed the vast potential fornew kinds of music making in today’s socially networkedworl

Speculative designs: Towards a social music

This paper introduces a collaborative research project inwhich the authors explored the possibilities of musicmaking using social media. We aimed for this music toreflect the various genres born of social media, for exam-ple the selfie, the tweet, the emoticon. Our research wastherefore propelled by questions like “what might a mu-sical selfie sound like?” and “how might an audio emoti-con extend the language of online communication”? Thisproject explored the potential of speculative design, or“design fictions”, in the creation of new musical inter-faces. Overall, the project revealed the vast potential fornew kinds of music making in today’s socially networkedworl

Négociation sociale du risque

National audienceLe séminaire "négociation sociale du risque" est une initiative conjointe de l'ANDRA, du BRGM, du Cemagref et de l'INERIS. Ces quatre organismes ont en effet souhaité partager leurs approches respectives du risque, afin d'en comprendre les différences, et d'enrichir leurs propres expériences sur leur contribution à la négociation social du risque. Outre la problématique du risque que chacun des organismes expose dans ses domaines respectifs, des précisions sont apportées sur les méthodologies, les moyens et les interfaces avec le monde scientifique et les gestionnaires du risque. L'analyse de cas vécus et des retours d'expérience sont également présentés. Enfin les exposés sont ponctués de discussions et une table ronde finale animée par des personnalités invitées, apporte une synthèse générale de cette rencontre

Kd_d measurements of activation : fission and heavy elements in water/solid phase sytems

The document concept commonly deals with data that documents contain, but rarely with (inter)actions that documents can handle. As a consequence, it is hard to specify how users can interact on documents : this is mainly done by dedicated applications from which users have to swap in order to achieve a single editing task. In this paper, we suggest the use of a model for interactive components based on three metaphors, the document, presentation and instrument. The proposed model aims at replacing the application concept by the document and interaction instrument concepts within interactive workplaces, thus resulting in a higher powerfulness / ease-of-use ratio