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Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome in the postpartum period: a case series
Get PDFBackground: Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) may present in either the antepartum or postpartum period and is often indistinguishable from other pregnancy-associated diseases. Timely recognition and appropriate treatment can greatly reduce maternal morbidity and mortality.
Cases: This case series describes two cases of aHUS in the post-partum period, the difficulty in distinguishing the diagnosis, and the implementation of appropriate treatment with eculizumab, a terminal complement inhibitor.
Conclusion: As a terminal complement inhibitor, eculizumab, has been shown to significantly improve clinical and long term renal outcomes, early diagnosis of aHUS is increasingly important. These two cases of aHUS demonstrate the path of accurate diagnosis and timely initiation of therapy to maximize the possibility of patient recovery
Medieval Trans Lives in Anamorphosis: Looking Back and Seeing Differently (Pregnant Men and Backward Birth)
Get PDFThis article employs Lacan’s notion of anamorphosis, and the retrospection which Kathryn Bond Stockton presents as fundamental to the assumption of queer identity, as it demonstrates the functions and value of transgender readings of medieval texts. The article analyses two thirteenth-century literary works, Le Roman de Saint Fanuel and Aucassin et Nicolette, both of which feature pregnant male characters, alongside A.K. Summers’ 2014 graphic novel, Pregnant Butch. This juxtaposition reveals the resonances between these medieval and modern portrayals of gender non-conformity, as well as the highly gendered cultural norms surrounding pregnancy. Finally, attention to Janice Raymond’s transmisogynistic claims about the “rebirth” of trans women illustrates the importance of an awareness of transgender history
Luis Begs Monica
No full textI wanted to make Luis vulnerable and emphasize his childish actions. In this photo Luis has made mistakes and his shirt represents his childish ways through the horizontal striped shirt that would be seen on children in the 1970’s. Monica is now a mother and I wanted her silhouette and color palette to reflect her growth as a woman and her maturity.https://ir.uiowa.edu/costume_design/1108/thumbnail.jp
Moises and Eugenio
No full textMoises, the doctor, is wearing a distressed coat in contrast to Eugenio’s black shirt. Eugenio is in short sleeves to contrast his long-sleeved cassock.https://ir.uiowa.edu/costume_design/1107/thumbnail.jp
Moises and Belen
No full textI viewed Moises and Belen to be older versions of Monica and Luis. The color families for these characters are similar. Monica and Belen are in the red family, but Belen is more mature and aged like wine, hence the maroon like color of her dress. Moises it a softer version of Luis so Moises is in a less saturated light blue.https://ir.uiowa.edu/costume_design/1104/thumbnail.jp
Skinny
No full textSkinny’s costumes never fit properly because I wanted to show how his weight fluctuated throughout the show. In this specific scene with the Poet, she is wearing a snug fitting jumper and Skinny is swimming in his clothes because they are too big on him.https://ir.uiowa.edu/costume_design/1102/thumbnail.jp
New Bottles, Old Wine: The Contemporary Palestinian Political Division
Get PDFThis study examines the prolonged Palestinian division. Its essential focus is to explore the various stages that the Palestinian political system has gone through and track its development from the British mandate up to the ongoing division between Fatah and Hamas. It aims to uncover the roles of regional and foreign actors which have destabilized the Palestinian national movement. Moreover, it demonstrates the role of the United Kingdom and Israel in inciting the divide and conquer principle during the British mandate, as well as the way the Palestine Liberation Organisation managed to maintain national unity from the 1960s. Finally, this study examines the real and historical reasons behind the current division between Fatah and Hamas, as well as the external factors that contribute to the continuity of the division
Sensitivity of fine-grained phonetic variation in children who use cochlear implants
Get PDFPrevious studies have found that post-lingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (CIs) generally have good phonemic categorization abilities, but performance can be fragile. Few studies have examined phonemic categorization in pre-lingually deafened children with CIs. This study asks if children who use CIs perceive fine-grained acoustic differences within a category. Next, assuming differences are perceived, we ask if they do so in a manner similar to adults with CIs, and how these patterns change over the course of adolescent development.
This study employed an eye-tracking paradigm to examine perception of voicing and fricative place of articulation in children with CIs. In previous speech categorization experiments, adult CI users typically demonstrate shallower identification functions, which is interpreted as a useful method of adaptation to uncertainty.
Participants ranged in age from 11 to 18 and included 17 CI users and 31 age-matched normal hearing (NH) peers. Children heard a token from either a b/p or s/ʃ continua (eight steps) spanning two words (bear/pear, sip/ship), and selected the corresponding picture from a screen containing pictures of all four words. Eye movements were monitored while they performed this task to measure how strongly each word was considered over time.
Mouse-click results (phoneme identification) for voicing demonstrated evidence for shallower slopes in CI users for both voicing and fricative continua. With respect to fixations, the CI users showed a less gradient effect of rStep to the competitor. Additionally, the CI users demonstrated minimal activation of competitors. These results suggest that children with CIs may adapt a wait and see approach, suppressing competitor activation and waiting to begin lexical access until substantial information has been accumulated