In the fall of 2011, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests emerged, becoming a global movement. In the United States, the Occupy Oakland demonstrations witnessed instances of violence, most notably ...in the injury of Scott Olsen, an Occupy Oakland supporter and former U.S. Marine who was struck by a police projectile. This article investigates the presentation of the Olsen injury on the websites of five major local television stations in the San Francisco Bay area, as a way to illustrate the negative coverage of dissident social movement activists, even when they are former military veterans, a group treated respectfully in the media. In this case, Olsen’s presence created a conflict in the application of the themes and devices composing the “protest paradigm.” The findings of this study suggest the existence of a “patriotism paradigm,” a news treatment that neutralizes the credibility of individuals or groups seeking a claim to the positive associations of patriotism and military service of the post-9/11 United States, and can allow news treatments such as the “protest paradigm” to exist without being contradicted.
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Feeling Busing Dougherty, Deirdre Mayer; Leavey, Sean T.
Media history,
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In this article, we focus on the Washington Post's coverage of busing for racial desegregation between 1968 and 1973. Drawing on work done in the history of emotions, we argue that the Post's ...reporting of busing articulated the feelings of an emotional community of local white suburban hostility that operated in reference to a larger national emotional regime of reactionary conservativism that was embodied in the anti-press and anti-busing politics of Nixon and Agnew. We identify three emotives: indignation, fear, and anger, which were the binding forces of an emotional community whose activism had material effects on schooling in the County. Our research demonstrates how while The Washington Post was an integrationist newspaper, the outlet helped to circulate the very emotions that reinforced and justified the organized local opposition to busing.
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Type of vascular access and mortality in U.S. hemodialysis patients.
Vascular access (VA) complications account for 16 to 25% of hospital admissions. This study tested the hypothesis that the type of ...VA in use is correlated with overall mortality and cause-specific mortality.
Data were analyzed from the U.S. Renal Data System Dialysis Morbidity and Mortality Study Wave 1, a random sample of 5507 patients, prevalent on hemodialysis as of December 31, 1993. The relative mortality risk during a two-year observation was analyzed by Cox-regression methods with adjustments for demographic and comorbid conditions. Using similar methods, cause-specific analyses also were performed for death caused by infection and cardiac causes.
In diabetic mellitus (DM) patients with end-stage renal disease, the associated relative mortality risk was higher for those with arteriovenous graft (AVG; RR = 1.41, P < 0.003) and central venous catheter (CVC; RR = 1.54, P < 0.002) as compared with arteriovenous fistula (AVF). In non-DM patients, those with CVC had a higher associated mortality (RR = 1.70, P < 0.001), as did to a lesser degree those with AVG (RR = 1.08, P = 0.35) when compared with AVF. Cause-specific analyses found higher infection-related deaths for CVC (RR = 2.30, P < 0.06) and AVG (RR = 2.47, P < 0.02) compared with AVF in DM; in non-DM, risk was higher also for CVC (RR = 1.83, P < 0.04) and AVG (RR = 1.27, P < 0.33). In contrast to our hypothesis that AV shunting increases cardiac risk, deaths caused by cardiac causes were higher in CVC than AVF for both DM (RR = 1.47, P < 0.05) and non-DM (RR = 1.34, P < 0.05) patients.
This case-mix adjusted analysis suggests that CVC and AVG are correlated with increased mortality risk when compared with AVF, both overall and by major causes of death.
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The entanglements of “the aesthetic” and the political-economic have long been addressed in the areas of philosophy, cultural studies, and media theory. In this edited volume, David Fancy and Hans ...Skott-Myhre have assembled a collection of essays aimed at examining a range of aesthetic approaches to political projects untethered to “capitalist assumptions,” while looking toward the possibilities of “post-capitalist futures.” Through their respective contributions, the authors offer their readers ways to envision the potential for running lines of flight away from capital’s apparatuses of capture by engaging in creative practice.
Background. Haemodialysis (HD) patients with lower body mass index (BMI) have a higher relative mortality risk (RR), irrespective of race. However, only Asian Americans treated with HD have been ...found to have an elevated RR with higher BMI. Asian Americans on HD are ‘healthier’ than other race groups (i.e. have better overall survival). We hypothesized that an increased mortality risk might be associated with high BMI in a variety of other ‘healthier’ subgroups of HD patients. Methods. The prospective Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) provided baseline demographic, comorbidity and BMI data on 9714 HD patients in the US and Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK) from 1996–2000. Using multivariate survival analyses, we evaluated BMI–mortality relationships in HD subpopulations defined by continent, race (black and white), gender, tertiles of severity of illness (based on a score derived from comorbid conditions and serum albumin concentration), age (<45, 45–64, ≥65), smoking, and diabetic status. Results. Relative mortality risk decreased with increasing BMI. This was statistically significant (P<0.007) except for the smallest subgroup of patients who were <45 years old and were also in the healthiest tertile of comorbidity. All else equal, BMI <20 was consistently associated with the highest relative mortality risk. Overall a lower relative mortality risk (RR) as compared with BMI 23–24.9, was found for overweight (BMI 25–29.9; RR 0.84, P=0.008), for mild obesity (BMI 30–34.9; RR 0.73, P=0.0003), and for moderate obesity (BMI 35–39.9; RR 0.76, P=0.02). Conclusion. In a wide variety of HD patient subgroups, differing with respect to their baseline health status, increasing body size correlates with a decreased mortality risk. This contrasts with the association between BMI and mortality in the general population, and deserves further study.
With the recent detection of gravitational waves (GWs), marking the start of the new field of GW astronomy, the push for building more sensitive laser-interferometric gravitational wave detectors ...(GWDs) has never been stronger. Balanced homodyne detection (BHD) allows for a quantum-noise (QN) limited readout of arbitrary light field quadratures, and has therefore been suggested as a vital building block for upgrades to Advanced LIGO and third-generation observatories. In terms of the practical implementation of BHD, we develop a full framework for analyzing the static optical high-order modes (HOMs) occurring in the BHD paths related to the misalignment or mode matching at the input and output ports of the laser interferometer. We find the effects of HOMs on the quantum-noise limited sensitivity is independent of the actual interferometer configuration; e.g. Michelson and Sagnac interferometers are affected in the same way. We show that misalignment of the output ports of the interferometer (output misalignment) only affects the high-frequency part of the quantum-noise limited sensitivity (detection noise). However, at low frequencies, HOMs reduce the interferometer response and the radiation pressure noise (back-action noise) by the same amount and hence the quantum-noise limited sensitivity is not negatively affected in that frequency range. We show that the misalignment of the laser into the interferometer (input misalignment) produces the same effect as output misalignment and additionally decreases the power inside the interferometer. We also analyze dynamic HOM effects, such as beam jitter created by the suspended mirrors of the BHD. Our analyses can be directly applied to any BHD implementation in a future GWD. Moreover, we apply our analytical techniques to the example of the speed meter proof-of-concept experiment under construction in Glasgow. We find that for our experimental parameters, the performance of our seismic isolation system in the BHD paths is compatible with the design sensitivity of the experiment.
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Pykat is a Python package which extends the popular optical interferometer modelling software Finesse. It provides a more modern and efficient user interface for conducting complex numerical ...simulations, as well as enabling the use of Python’s extensive scientific software ecosystem. In this paper we highlight the relationship between Pykat and Finesse, how it is used, and provide an illustrative example of how it has helped to better understand the characteristics of the current generation of gravitational wave interferometers.
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Rhabdomyolysis is a known complication of statin therapy and may be triggered by a pharmacokinetic interaction between a statin and a second medication. Fatal statin-induced rhabdomyolysis has an ...incidence of 0.15 deaths/million prescriptions. We describe 4 cases of severe rhabdomyolysis with the common feature of atorvastatin use and coadministration of fusidic acid. All cases involved long-term therapy with atorvastatin; fusidic acid was introduced for treatment of osteomyelitis or septic arthritis. Three cases occurred in the setting of diabetes mellitus, with 2 in patients with end-stage renal disease, suggesting increased susceptibility to atorvastatin–fusidic acid–induced rhabdomyolysis in these patient populations. Of the 4 patients in this series, 3 died. Fusidic acid is a unique bacteriostatic antimicrobial agent with principal antistaphylococcal activity. There have been isolated reports of rhabdomyolysis attributed to the interaction of statins and fusidic acid, the cause of which is unclear. Fusidic acid does not inhibit the cytochrome P450 3A4 isoenzyme responsible for atorvastatin metabolism; increased atorvastatin levels due to inhibition of the glucuronidation pathway may be responsible. Considering the low frequency of fusidic acid use, the appearance of 4 such cases within a short time and in a small population suggests the probability that development of this potentially fatal complication may be relatively high.
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