Society continues to exhibit a cathartic fascination with uncanny and metaphorical images of "what comes after," demonstrating an ongoing obsession with life, death, mortality, morbidity, sickness, ...infection, decay, and existential uncertainty that, while manifesting most overtly during times of war and economic instability, is always a key feature of being a living, reasoning being. By examining the possible beginning of a new, conscious life form-an intricate computer program that perhaps represents the first posthuman heir of this planet, destined to replace the current dominant race-Shaviro argues that McHugh forces readers to consider their own consciousness, their own complex humanity. Stommel argues for the potential aesthetic beauty of decomposition-in conversation with Julia Kristeva's conception of the abject-claiming that the processes of death and decay maybe aren't things to be feared but, in their time, embraced, Jim Byatt takes a similar approach to the terminal afterlife in '"From Zoo. to Bot.': (De)Composition in Jim Crace's Being Dead,'1 challenging society's rejection of the natural processes of decay and its estrangement from death.
Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with the use of synthetic graft material has been used as an alternative to biologic grafts. The use of these grafts has largely been abandoned in ...reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament because of mechanical failure of the graft and production of wear debris leading to synovitis and recurrent effusions. This article presents a case of early, extensive periprosthetic osteolysis around a total knee arthroplasty associated with wear debris from retained fragments of a Gore-Tex (WL Gore and associates, Inc, Flagstaff, Ariz) (polytetrafluoroethylene) anterior cruciate ligament graft.
Traditional approaches to incisional hernias (IH)--particularly in cases with large fascial defects--are plagued by a significant recurrence rate as well as frequent wound infections. The ...laparoscopic repair of incisional hernias was designed to offer a minimally invasive and tension-free technique that yields less morbidity and fewer recurrences than the standard open repair. Several years ago, we adopted the laparoscopic technique in our department and set out to appraise its touted advantages.
During the years 1997-2000, 103 patients underwent laparoscopic IH repair with implanted Dual Gore-tex mesh. Forty percent of them were obese, and 41% had undergone more than one previous attempt at conventional repair. All patients were discharged home within 24-72 hs.
In three patients, the operation was converted to open surgery due to severe adhesions and technical difficulties. In two cases, inadvertent enterotomies were repaired laparoscopically, and since there was no major spillage, the repair was continued as planned, with no adverse consequences. Twelve patients underwent additional laparoscopic procedures at the initial operation. Two graft infections and four recurrences were observed during the 1-49 month follow-up period.
Laparoscopic IH repair is technically feasible and safe in patients with large fascial defects as well as in obese patients. This operation decreases postoperative pain, hastens the recovery period, and reduces postoperative morbidity and recurrence.
Extrusion of an implant after medialization laryngoplasty is unusual and warrants removal. Most commonly, it extrudes through the laryngeal introitus, but rarely, it extrudes through the pyriform ...sinus. A case report in which 2.5 feet (76 cm) of polytetrafluoroethylene (Gore-Tex) was removed from an 80-year-old female patient is presented to evaluate factors that led to this surgical complication and strategies that solved the problem. Because of the patient's multiple medical problems, initial removal of the foreign body was attempted in the office with topical anesthesia. When the Gore-Tex was noted to be lodged in the laryngeal parenchyma, it was severed at the edge of the pyriform sinus to stabilize the airway. Subsequently, microlaryngoscopic-controlled completion removal was done in the operating room with general anesthesia. The patient healed uneventfully with no further sequelae. Analysis of this case illustrates a number of factors leading to a rare iatrogenic foreign body complication. Office-based removal of the Gore-Tex implant evolved into a unique scenario in which the rapid use of a fiber-based laser to divide the foreign body facilitated stabilizing the airway to allow for elective completion removal in a controlled fashion.
The US National Science Foundation played a key role in the history of the Internet by overseeing its transition from government to private operation. In the process, NSF was forced to balance the ...competing visions of scientists, politicians, and private industry. This article describes the conflicts, trade-offs, and unexpected events that led to a technical and social transformation of the Internet.
Tom Ford and His Kind Wallace, Lee
Criticism (Detroit),
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Recenzirano
A parallel phenomenon would be "Same Love" (2012), hip-hop artist Macklemore's rap defense of gay marriage and its accompanying video that, assisted by Mary Lambert's lesbian vocal hook, movingly ...reveals the life narrative of same-sex interracial love interspersed with archival footage of civil-rights demonstrations from the 1960s.3 But, whereas "Same Love" is explicitly tagged to the issue of marriage equality via the artist's support for Referendum 74, the bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in Washington state, A Single Mans sentimentalizing qualities are both broader and more specific in their application.
Background Mesh reconstruction has been proved to be an effective method in incisional hernia repairment. This study was designed to evaluate the effect of reconstructing the pelvic floor with the ...high-inlay expanded polytetrafluoroethylene （ePTFE） GORE-TEX Dual Mesh （WLGore And Associates, Flagstuff, USA） in abdominoperineal resection. Methods Sixty patients who underwent abdominopedneal resection for rectal cancer were assigned to 2 groups. The pelvic peritoneum was closed by routine sutures in group 1 and reconstructed with ePTFE in group 2. Postoperative complications and related items were evaluated and the patients were followed up. Results Time of confining to bed, bowel function recovery, fasting, and detaining drainage were significantly different between two groups （P 〈0.05）. In group 1, three patients developed bowel obstruction （10%）, while no bowel obstruction was observed in group 2. Conclusion Reconstruction of the pelvic floor using ePTFE results in quicker postoperative recovery and could decrease the risk of postoperative intestinal obstruction.
Animation holds a powerful ability to transport viewers to magical worlds as well as reveal aspects about the world around us that cannot be captured by live-action cinema or even expressed through ...words. An ecocritical look into cartoons has begun to unfold within the field of what has been called "enviro-toons," which examines specifically cartoons with obvious environmental messages as themes. I propose a new term, "eco-animation," which can open the field even further to examine other forms of animation beyond cartoons as well as ecological issues that might be layered beneath narratives that aren't overtly environmental. This project examines popular animated examples such as the films Rango, Epic, The Croods, the videogame Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, and the popular culture icons the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. These texts open the door for eco-animation to reveal further the power of animation to convey layered ecological messages and issues to a large audience.
The evolution of Classical reception studies in recent decades has encouraged a corresponding growth of interest in assessing instances of Herodotean reception from antiquity to the present era. This ...thesis joins the conversation by exploring how Herodotus’ Histories has been utilized in post-war anglophone literature. Concentrating on examples of Herodotean reception in travel literature and the novel, I examine the ways in which Herodotus has inspired authors to engage with the Histories. The featured travel writers regard the text as a guide to travel, with Herodotus characterised as the perfect companion to escort a traveller on their journey. For the novelists Herodotus’ account becomes a means through which to explore the malleability of historical texts, with the Histories symbolising the flaws of Western narrative history and its tendency to neglect marginalised voices. By identifying the contexts from which these case studies emerged this thesis seeks to extract what motivations lie behind the authors’ interaction with the Histories and examine the ways in which Herodotus’ work has been utilized to correspond with ideas and audiences of the modern era.
Twelve / Grand Central. 2012. isbn 9780446563130 Deftly written and refreshingly nonacademic, Eminent Outlaws spans fifty years of gay fiction, drama, and poetry from Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Allen ...Ginsberg, and James Baldwin to Edmund White, Michael Cunningham, Thom Gunn, and Tony Kushner. Theatergoers in the 1950s saw two radically different approaches to homosexuality: the 1952 revival of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, in which Martha confesses her lesbianism and then commits suicide, as if she were punishing herself for her sexual orientation; and Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), in which Brick's beloved friend, Skipper, an unseen character, does the same after Brick's wife, Maggie, forces him to confront his gayness.
