8 research outputs found
Thoracoscopic division of vascular rings in infants and children
No full textAuthors: Al-Bassama Abdulrahman, Saquib Mallick, Al-Qahtani, Aayed, & Al-Tokhais, Tariq, , From the Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery,
Author: Al-Boukai, Ahmed From the Department of Radiology,
Author: Thalag Ahmed, From Department of Anaesthesia,
Author: Aksaadu Muslem, From Department of Surgery, King Khalid University Hospital and College of Medicine, King Saud University, PO Box 86572,
Riyadh 11632, Saudi ArabiaObjective: Traditionally vascular rings in infants and children are treated through an open thoracotomy.
Recently, thoracoscopic surgery has been used for these complex procedures. This study reports our
early experience with thoracoscopic division of vascular rings and evaluates the efficacy and safety of
this approach.
Material and Methods: Patients who underwent thoracoscopic division of vascular rings at King Khalid
University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from December 2004 to January 2006 are included. Their
data were carefully analyzed looking at demographics, clinical presentation, diagnostic modality, type of
the anomaly, operative details, complications, and outcome.
Results: A total of 9 patients underwent thoracoscopic division of vascular rings. Age at surgery ranged
between 2 and 108 months (mean, 24 months). Weight varied between 5.3 and 32 kg (mean, 10.3 kg).
All patients were symptomatic. Computed tomographic scan was diagnostic and accurately defined the
type of anomaly in all the patients. Four patients had a right aortic arch with an aberrant left subclavian
artery and left ductus/ligamentum arteriosum, 2 had double aortic arches, and 3 had a right aberrant
subclavian artery. One patient developed right-sided pneumothorax on the contralateral site, and another
one developed apnea 12 hours after surgery, requiring mechanical ventilation. There was no mortality.
Operative time ranged between 50 and 145 minutes, the mean being 107 minutes. The average hospital
stay was 4 days. Five patients had their preoperative symptoms completely resolved, and the rest are
showing steady improvement. The average follow-up period is 6 months
UTILIZATION OF THE KRUENG ACEH RIVER BEDROOM POST SETUP ACCORDING TO AD-DAULAH MILK PERSPECTIVE: Case Study In Krueng Barona Jaya District
No full textThe Krueng Aceh Watershed (DAS) is one of the state assets managed by the Sumatra-I River Basin, so it is widely used by the surrounding community to meet the needs of life on the banks of the Krueng Aceh river. Management of land along the river is the main goal to anticipate in reducing the potential for flooding. Therefore, the author wants to examine in detail the process of riverbank land use carried out by the Krueng Barona Jaya community, forms of riverbank land use and their use according to the perspective of milk al-daulah. The method used in this study is a qualitative method through primary data obtained by direct field research using interview, observation, and documentation techniques. The results of this study indicate that the process of using land along the Krueng Aceh river by the Krueng Baroena Jaya community after the Krueng Aceh river arrangement refers to the past law, namely customary law, so there is no administrative data recorded as evidence that they have permission to use the riverbanks. The forms of land use along the Krueng Aceh river that are carried out by the Krueng Barona Jaya community on riverbank land are by constructing buildings, opening culinary stalls, plantation land and livestock land. In terms of utilization carried out by the people of Krueng Barona Jaya in terms of buildings, the licensing process, and the forms of utilization, it is a violation that is contrary to the Regulation of the Minister of PUPR of the Republic of Indonesia Number 28/PRT/M/2015 Article 22 concerning Determination of River Border Lines and the concept of milk al-daula. Therefore, the government must immediately bring back the land along the Krueng Aceh banks so that its utilization is in accordance with the applicable provisions
“Hudud al-‘Alam” about the Bulgarians and Authenticity of its Data
No full textВ хазарский период различные групы болгар Восточной и Юго-Восточной Европы были описаны в сочинениях мусульманских географов. Однако вхождение болгар в состав различных государственных образований раннего средневековья, а также их рассеяность на территории Европы породили довольно противоречивую и запутанную информацю о них в письменных источниках. Именно это и заставляет с особой осторожностью относиться к подобным сведениям и даже ставить под сомнение их достоверность. В особенной степени сказанное можно отнести к тексту «Худуд ал-‘Алам», ставящему перед исследователями массу вопросов.Usually, researchers see in “Hudud al-‘Alam” a difficult compiling written source of the ending of 10-th century AD, that does not deserve the special trust herein. However the evidences of anonymous treatise about the Bulgarians is of a special interest. So, “Hudud al-‘Alam” contains the information about the “Inner Bulgarians”. The analysis of text of this book allowed to come to the conclusion, that the anonymous author named the “Inner” those Bulgarians who lived in the steppes of Don basin and Azov Sea coast. Word-combination “Inner Bulgarians” could relate to the left (western) wing of the primary union of the nomadic Pro-Bulgarians. Besides, the anonymous author named the Volga Bulgarians as the “B.rtas”. He called also the Danube Bulgarians as “V.n.n.d.r’. Thus, the anonymous author of “Hudud al-‘Alam” used the different muslem written sources and as a result he met many difficulties. Therefore he created his the Map of the World. Besides, author of “Hudud al-‘Alam” reflected the new realities of the end of 10-th centuries AD. Therefore we must very carefully behave to the information of this medieval written source
“Hudud al-‘Alam” about the Bulgarians and Authenticity of its Data
No full textВ хазарский период различные групы болгар Восточной и Юго-Восточной Европы были описаны в сочинениях мусульманских географов. Однако вхождение болгар в состав различных государственных образований раннего средневековья, а также их рассеяность на территории Европы породили довольно противоречивую и запутанную информацю о них в письменных источниках. Именно это и заставляет с особой осторожностью относиться к подобным сведениям и даже ставить под сомнение их достоверность. В особенной степени сказанное можно отнести к тексту «Худуд ал-‘Алам», ставящему перед исследователями массу вопросов.Usually, researchers see in “Hudud al-‘Alam” a difficult compiling written source of the ending of 10-th century AD, that does not deserve the special trust herein. However the evidences of anonymous treatise about the Bulgarians is of a special interest. So, “Hudud al-‘Alam” contains the information about the “Inner Bulgarians”. The analysis of text of this book allowed to come to the conclusion, that the anonymous author named the “Inner” those Bulgarians who lived in the steppes of Don basin and Azov Sea coast. Word-combination “Inner Bulgarians” could relate to the left (western) wing of the primary union of the nomadic Pro-Bulgarians. Besides, the anonymous author named the Volga Bulgarians as the “B.rtas”. He called also the Danube Bulgarians as “V.n.n.d.r’. Thus, the anonymous author of “Hudud al-‘Alam” used the different muslem written sources and as a result he met many difficulties. Therefore he created his the Map of the World. Besides, author of “Hudud al-‘Alam” reflected the new realities of the end of 10-th centuries AD. Therefore we must very carefully behave to the information of this medieval written source
Patellar Tendinopathy—Does Injection Therapy Have a Role? A Systematic Review of Randomised Control Trials
No full textInjection treatment is one of the most widely used methods for the conservative management of patellar tendinopathy. The objective of this systematic review was to synthesise data from randomised control trails on the effectiveness of various injections used in the management of patellar tendinopathy. An electronic search was conducted in the Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, and SPORTDiscus databases. To be included in the current systematic review, the study had to be an RCT conducted on human participants that investigated the effect of at least one injection treatment on the management of patellar tendinopathy. Selected studies were required to report either patient-reported outcomes or biological and clinical markers of the tendon healing. The methodological quality of the studies was appraised using the revised Cochrane risk of bias tool for RCTs (RoB 2.0). Nine RCTs on seven types of injections were included in this review, with an overall positive outcome. Pain intensity was measured in all the studies. The VISA P score was the most used outcome measure (n = 8). A wide variety of interventions were compared with injection therapy, including eccentric training, extracorporeal shockwave, and arthroscopy. It can be concluded that the injection treatments can produce promising results in the management of patellar tendinopathy. However, because of the limited number of studies and the disparities in the study populations and protocols, it is not possible to make a firm conclusion on the efficacy of these injection methods, and these results should be inferred with care
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL THROUGH REFLECTIVE JOURNAL: A STUDY AT A SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN ACEH
No full textPurpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to find out whether there is any significant difference between the students who are trained through reflective journal writing and those who are not trained through reflective journal writing. It also wanted to know students’ responses toward reflective journal writing the implementation.
Methodology: The methodology of this study is an experimental research which used a quasi-experimental design. Quasi-experimental research is used to know the differences between classes that are given training and classes that are not given. The research design used in this study is the non-equivalent control group design. In this research, there were two classes taken as samples, namely experimental group and control group which consisted of 30 students of each group. The author used tests (pre-test and post-test) and questionnaire as the instruments to collect the data. The quantitative data was obtained from the result of pre-test and post-test scores of students’ writing in experimental and control groups. Then both scores were analysed through the SPSS program to calculate t-test.
Main Findings: The findings of the research showed that the mean score of post-test of the experimental group 76.73 is higher than the mean score of control class 63.10. Furthermore, the result of p-value obtained from the post-test of the experimental and control group was 0.00 is less than the level of significance degree α = 0.05. In other words, there was a significant difference between the students who were trained through reflective journal writing and those who were not trained through reflective journal writing.
Applications of this study: The implications related to this study the authors suggest to use Reflective Journal Writing Strategy to help students to be critical thinking writers and for the next researcher to use this strategy in other kinds of texts. Teachers are suggested to use this strategy to teach writing skills for other aspects of writing.
Novelty/Originality of this study: This strategy has never been used by English teachers in South Aceh and it can contribute to the teachers to use this strategy in teaching writing, especially for senior high school students. In conclusion, the use of Reflective Journal improved students’ writing skill, especially in writing recount text of senior high schools first-grade students in South Aceh
Cultural heritage in Iran : policies for an Islamic country.
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TEDO SAKHOKIA – THE FIRST GEORGIAN PROFESSIONAL ETHNOLOGIST/ANTHROPOLOGIST
No full texthttps://geohistory.humanities.tsu.ge/ge/procedings/83-shromebi/171-shromebi-14.htmlIn 1850-1900 many Georgian intellectuals who received education in
Russia and Europe returned to Georgia. Those intellectuals cared about the future
of people and the country. They considered that for achievement of their
goals, implementation of educational system and development of science was
inevitably necessary. Tedo (Teodote) Sakhokia was one of those great patriots.
Tedo Sakhokia was born on 2 (14) March, 1868 in Samegrelo in the family of
clergyman. He was the first professional Georgian ethnologist. He gained his
professional skills in ethnology/anthropology in France first at Sorbonne University
and then at a high school of anthropology. In 1903 the scientist reported
his first scientific work in ethnology, which was devoted to the problem of popular
medicine, to the anthropological scientific society of Paris. Due to the high
scholarly value of the report, Tedo Sakhokia was elected as a foreign associate
member of Parisian society of anthropologists. The above-mentioned work
about Georgian traditions was the first one published abroad (in French language).
He also wrote and published his ethnologic investigations in Russian,
English and Italian languages. At field works, along with ethnographic materials,
he also collected ethnographic material protected not only in Georgia (nowadays
Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia) but abroad too (Ethnographic Museum
in St. Petersburg; Musée de l’Homme in Paris) etc. Collections gathered by
Tedo Sakhokia counts hundreds of samples.
The first Georgian professional ethnologist started his career by collecting
material in different historic-ethnographic parts of Georgia, namely in Guria, Ajara,
Samegrelo-Samurzakano, Abkhazia and Racha. Sakhokia was one of the
first researchers who revealed internal economic links among historic-ethnographic
regions of Georgia. The scholar dealt with almost all problems of Georgian
people’s life and culture – material culture, economic life, social relations and
intellectual culture. He revealed great interest in folklore. He gave substantial explanation of peculiarities of some traditions existing in different historicalethnographic
regions of Georgia, conditioned by geographic factors. Sakhokia
paid great attention to Georgians’ hospitality and their pre-Christian beliefs.
Sakhokia was interested not only in questions of historical ethnology. He
as a scientist educated in Europe, paid also great attention to modern problems
existing in different historical-ethnographic regions of Georgia. And most of all,
he was interested in questions of migration of rural population.
The question of Muslem Georgians was the subject of Sakhokia’s research.
Therefore, the most part of his field work was devoted to Ajara. He emphasized
the fact that the occupation of Ajara by the Ottomans did not cause
weakening of economic and cultural links of this region with the rest of Georgia.
Sakhokia paid attention to the question of migration of Adjarian Muslim
population to inner provinces of the Ottoman Empire. He also wrote about Adjarians’
historical memory, which served as a linking and integrating factor for
Georgians living in the Ottoman Empire.
Tedo Sakhokia paid attention to the Georgian provinces of Samurzakano
and Abkhazia. He even researched shepherds’ life. He put special emphasis on
Abkhazians’ powerless condition in the Russian Empire. They were deprived of
the right to reside in Sokhumi and nearby territories at a radius of 20 km. Sakhokia
paid interest to the fact that the Tsarist government encouraged the Russians
and Armenians to migrate to Abkhazia. He laid special emphasis on the
fact that acclimatization was no less problematic for the Russians as there was a
high level of mortality caused by malaria. Tedo Sakhokia’s observations on ethnic
composition of Abkhazia in the past is also noteworthy.
There was no need to arrange ethnographic expeditions to Samegrelo because
the scientist acquired all traditions typical for Samegrelo. His ethnological
studies of this region are interpreted and highly valued. His works sometimes go
beyond the scope of ethnography of Georgia. All of them manifest high level of
scientific knowledge related to this period. In his “Ethnographic Writings”, the
author surveys mythology, New Year traditions, beliefs etc. Giorgi Chitaya admittedly
wrote that “given material allows to restore the Georgian people’s ancient
beliefs and philosophy of life”
