172 research outputs found
Chaos and Stability in The Crucible
The script of The Crucible is built on a structure of binary oppositions, particularly good vs. evil and stability vs. chaos. Revealing the structure deconstructs the binary oppositions and explains how the play challenges audiences to reconsider what they understand about good and evil in their contemporary times
Music of the 1960s: The Praxis of Ideological Change
In this article, we consider music as the praxis of ideology in the 1960s within the framework of Burkeâs rhetoric of transformation. The 1960s were a period of cultural change in the United States and around the worldâthe civil rights movement, protests against the Vietnam War, challenges to communism in Eastern Europe, liberation politics around the world. The role of music as a unifying element among those people advocating change is well established in scholarship. We take that consideration of the role of music into a discussion of how music became the praxis of ideology, providing a place where millions of people could advocate for change and be part of the change by interacting with the music
Outcomes of Transcutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement among high risk WV sample population.
Introduction:Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a relatively new strategy for replacing the aortic valve. We elected to review our early experience to see if we could identify clinical characteristics at baseline or immediately following the procedure that would predict death within one year.
Methods:Charts for all patients assigned to receive TAVR procedure at St Maryâs medical center, Huntington, West Virginia between April, 2013 till November, 2016 were identified and reviewed. A total of seventy-two (72) cases were included.
Results: All cause mortality rate at index hospitalization, 30 days, and 12 months was 5.6%(N=4), 6.9%(N=5), 19.4%(N=14) respectively. Stroke rate at index hospitalization, 30 days, and 12 months was 2.8%(N=2), 2.8%(N=2), 8.3%(N=6) respectively. Major predictors of death were post procedure GFR, Contrast volume, and number of antiplatelet agents therapy (AUC= 0.638, 0.632, 0.637 respectively).
Conclusion: We found that post procedure GFR, less number of antiplatelet agents post procedure, and contrast volume may predict mortality within first 12 months post TAVR. Further studies focused on the above factors may be warranted
Preterm birth a long distance from home and its significant social and financial stress
The present paper reports a retrospective cohort of preterm infants admitted to our hospital who delivered outside the normal geographical catchment area of the mother's local level three neonatal nursery. Nineteen mothers had 21 preterm infants (23.1-34.9 weeks, 500-2330 g born) where 14 infants required ventilation (median 57 h, range 3-428). Eighteen survivors had a median length of stay of 41 days (range 3-91). Twelve of 19 mothers were interviewed: all described isolation, loneliness, poor social support and significant financial hardship related to getting their infants back to a local hospital or home. To avoid these problems, we recommend confining travel to within a short distance from home or local maternity unit after 22 weeks
Outcomes of Transcutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement among high risk WV sample population
Introduction:Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a relatively new strategy for replacing the aortic valve. We elected to review our early experience to see if we could identify clinical characteristics at baseline or immediately following the procedure that would predict death within one year.
Methods:Charts for all patients assigned to receive TAVR procedure at St Maryâs medical center, Huntington, West Virginia between April, 2013 till November, 2016 were identified and reviewed. A total of seventy-two (72) cases were included.
Results: All cause mortality rate at index hospitalization, 30 days, and 12 months was 5.6%(N=4), 6.9%(N=5), 19.4%(N=14) respectively. Stroke rate at index hospitalization, 30 days, and 12 months was 2.8%(N=2), 2.8%(N=2), 8.3%(N=6) respectively. Major predictors of death were post procedure GFR, Contrast volume, and number of antiplatelet agents therapy (AUC= 0.638, 0.632, 0.637 respectively).
Conclusion: We found that post procedure GFR, less number of antiplatelet agents post procedure, and contrast volume may predict mortality within first 12 months post TAVR. Further studies focused on the above factors may be warranted
Evolution of microscopic heterogeneity and dynamics in choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvents
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are an emerging class of non-aqueous solvents that are potentially scalable, easy to prepare and functionalize for many applications ranging from biomass processing to energy storage technologies. Predictive understanding of the fundamental correlations between local structure and macroscopic properties is needed to exploit the large design space and tunability of DESs for specific applications. Here, we employ a range of computational and experimental techniques that span length-scales from molecular to macroscopic and timescales from picoseconds to seconds to study the evolution of structure and dynamics in model DESs, namely Glyceline and Ethaline, starting from the parent compounds. We show that systematic addition of choline chloride leads to microscopic heterogeneities that alter the primary structural relaxation in glycerol and ethyleneglycol and result in new dynamic modes that are strongly correlated to the macroscopic properties of the DES formed
Water in cratonic lithosphere : calibrating laboratory-determined models of electrical conductivity of mantle minerals using geophysical and petrological observations
Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2012. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 13 (2012): Q06010, doi:10.1029/2012GC004055.Measurements of electrical conductivity of âslightly dampâ mantle minerals from different laboratories are inconsistent, requiring geophysicists to make choices between them when interpreting their electrical observations. These choices lead to dramatically different conclusions about the amount of water in the mantle, resulting in conflicting conclusions regarding rheological conditions; this impacts on our understanding of mantle convection, among other processes. To attempt to reconcile these differences, we test the laboratory-derived proton conduction models by choosing the simplest petrological scenario possible â cratonic lithosphere â from two locations in southern Africa where we have the most complete knowledge. We compare and contrast the models with field observations of electrical conductivity and of the amount of water in olivine and show that none of the models for proton conduction in olivine proposed by three laboratories are consistent with the field observations. We derive statistically model parameters of the general proton conduction equation that satisfy the observations. The pre-exponent dry proton conduction term (Ï0) and the activation enthalpy (ÎHwet) are derived with tight bounds, and are both within the broader 2Ï errors of the different laboratory measurements. The two other terms used by the experimentalists, one to describe proton hopping (exponent r on pre-exponent water content Cw) and the other to describe H2O concentration-dependent activation enthalpy (term αCw1/3 added to the activation energy), are less well defined and further field geophysical and petrological observations are required, especially in regions of higher temperature and higher water content.The SAMTEX data were acquired through funding
provided by the Continental Dynamics program of the U.S.
National Science Foundation (grant EAR0455242 to RLE),
the South African Department of Science and Technology
(grant to South African Council for Geoscience), and Science
Foundation Ireland (grant 05/RGP/GEO001 to AGJ) plus financial
and/or logistical support provided by all members of
the SAMTEX consortium. JF was initially supported by an IRCSET grant to AGJ for
the TopoMed project (TopoMed: Plate reorganization in the
western Mediterranean: Lithospheric causes and topographic
consequences) within the European Science Foundationâs TOPOEUROPE
EUROCORES (http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/
running-programmes/topo-europe.html), and subsequently by
an SFI PI grant (10/IN.1/I3022) to AGJ for IRETHERM
(www.iretherm.ie).2012-12-1
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