128 research outputs found
sj-jpg-1-tag-10.1177_17562848211051132 – Supplemental material for Surgical treatment of metastatic VIPoma: a case report
No full textSupplemental material, sj-jpg-1-tag-10.1177_17562848211051132 for Surgical treatment of metastatic VIPoma: a case report by Azadeh Azizian, Alexander König, Amelie Hartmann, Frank Schuppert, Ali Seif Amir Hosseini, Julia Kitz and Michael Ghadimi in Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology</p
IntRA-Personal Communication
No full textA follow-up to the research published in the text titled "...Communication, Thoughts, and Selves"; Author: Seif Sekalala; Publisher: IGI-Hershey-PA, 202
IntRA-Personal Communication
No full textA follow-up to the research published in the text titled "...Communication, Thoughts, and Selves"; Author: Seif Sekalala; Publisher: IGI-Hershey-PA, 202
Surgical treatment of metastatic VIPoma: a case report
No full textVIPoma, a neuroendocrine tumour mostly occurring in the human pancreas and producing high levels of vasoactive intestinal peptide, is a rare disease that presents with a wide spectrum of symptoms, including intense diarrhoea, hypokalaemia, and cardiac complications, with life-threatening consequences. In most cases, metastatic lesions are present at VIPoma diagnosis. Treatment options include symptomatic therapy, chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Due to its low incidence, there are no evidence-based therapy recommendations to date. Here, we present a case of a 39-year-old woman with severe symptoms due to VIPoma of the pancreas with diffuse hepatic metastasis, who underwent simultaneous resection of the primary tumour, extensive liver resection and radiofrequency ablation. The patient was released in good health and was recurrence-free during 12 months surveillance. According to the existing literature and our own experience, surgical procedures appear to be the most promising therapy option for cases with diffuse hepatic metastasis, offering patients relief from their symptoms and (chemo)therapy-free time
⚘ "De-Sign": The Mutual Fulfillment of God's Will and Human Desire ☀ Farouk Y. Seif
No full textSavor the bliss... and soak up each dimension of an existence stretching out through the irreversible pulse of Creation.
The John Deely / Jacques Maritain Annual Lecture Series is under the leadership of the Deely Project together with Saint Vincent College, and this year is being chaired by Michael P. Krom (Saint Vincent College) and included as part of the activities of the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing, cooperatively organized by the Institute for Philosophical Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, the Lyceum Institute, the Deely Project, Saint Vincent College, the Iranian Society for Phenomenology at the Iranian Political Science Association, the International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time, the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Semiotic Society of America, the American Maritain Association, the International Association for Semiotic Studies, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, the International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue, Moscow State Academic University for the Humanities and the Mansarda Acesa with the support of the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Government of Portugal under the UID/FIL/00010/2020 project.
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Farouk Y. Seif, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at Antioch University Seattle, former President and Executive Director of the Semiotic Society of America, a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, a registered architect, and an artist. His main interests are design for social and cultural change, paradoxes, transdisciplinarity, and transmodernity. He has taught in universities and lectured at conferences worldwide. He was the recipient of the 2010 Fulbright Specialists Program at University of Sofia, Bulgaria. His book De-Sign in the Transmodern World is a state-of-the-art integration of design and semiotics. Prof. Seif has authored more than 70 articles and a dozen book chapters. His most recent publications are: “De-Sign as a Destiny of Negation: The Paradox of Sustaining Boundaries While Traversing Borders,” The American Journal of Semiotics (2020); “The Role of Pragmatism in De-sign: Persevering Through Paradoxes of Design and Semiotics,” Cognitio: Journal of Philosophy (2020), in Portuguese; “Transdisciplinary Trajectories: The Audacity of Design and the Resilience of Signs,” Trajectories I, Proceedings of the 14th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (2020); “Beyond Forecasting and Prediction: The Role of Phantasmagorical Memory in Imagining the Future,” Journal of Kyiv National Linguistic University (2019); “Imaginary Dialogue with John Deely: Playing with Boundaries Across Space and Time,” The American Journal of Semiotics (2018); “Wholophilia: Design and the Metamorphoses of the Absolute,” Metamorphoses of the Absolute (2018); and “Semiotic Paradoxes: Antinomies and Ironies in a Transmodern World,” Semiotics and its Masters (2017).
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Michael P. Krom (PhD, Emory University) is professor of philosophy and chair of the department at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he serves as director of Benedictine Leadership Studies and director of the Faith and Reason Summer Program. He is the author of The Limits of Reason in Hobbes's Commonwealth and has published works in the areas of moral and political philosophy with an emphasis on the relationship between Catholicism and liberalism.
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Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira.Saint Vincent College and the Deely Project's fourth annual John Deely/Jacques Maritain lecture
Perioperative LiMAx Test Analysis: Impact of Portal Vein Embolisation, Chemotherapy and Major Liver Resection
No full textBackground: Postoperative liver failure (PLF) is a severe complication after major liver resection (MLR). To increase the safety of patients, clinical bedside tests are of great importance. However, limitations of their applicability and validity impair their value. Methods: Preoperative measurements of the liver maximum capacity (LiMAx) were performed in n = 40 patients, who underwent MLR (≥3 segments). Matched postoperative LiMAx was measured in n = 21 patients. Liver function was compared between pretreated patients (n = 11 with portal vein embolisation (PVE) and n = 19 patients with preoperative chemotherapy) and therapy naïve patients. The LiMAx values were compared with liver-specific blood parameters and volumetric analysis. Results: In total, n = 40 patients were enrolled in this study. The majority of patients (n = 33; 82.5%) had high preoperative LiMAx values (>315 µg/kg/h), while only seven patients (17.5%) had medium values (140–315 µg/kg/h), and none of the patients had low values (p > 0.05). The preoperative LiMAx values were significantly higher than the matched postoperative values on postoperative day 1 (p n = 12) showed a continuous increase until 14 days after surgery. In the patients with postoperative complications, a decrease in the LiMAx was associated with a prolonged recovery. Conclusions: For patients undergoing MLR within the 0.5% rule, which is the clinical gold standard, the LiMAx values do not offer any additional information. Additionally, the LiMAx may have reflected liver function, but it did not deliver additional information regarding postoperative liver recovery. The clinical use of LiMAx might be relevant in selected patients beyond the 0.5% rule
Reliability Assessment and Energy Modeling for Alberta's Oil Sands Surface Mining Equipment
No full textAlberta’s surface mining sector is one of the largest energy-consuming industries in Canada, and so oil sands mining equipment performance has a significant impact on the economy. To achieve more sustainable oil sands mining production in Alberta, one of the influential factors is the improvement of the reliability of mining equipment. Through these reliability improvements, costs, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be mitigated. Energy consumption and equipment reliability have considerable risk associated with some main subsystems, and this risk must be determined in order to calculate the effect on expected operating cost. When mining equipment reliability improves, not only can costs associated with maintenance be reduced, but also energy consumption. As well, emissions quality can be improved through better maintenance, which in turn mitigates GHG emissions. The objective of this research is to develop a demand tree, the reliability modeling for oil sands mining equipment, and make a link between energy consumption and reliability. To determine how much energy, cost, and GHG emissions can be reduced through improving equipment reliability, techniques of equipment risk assessment and reliability were studied. In addition, “reference scenarios” for improving the reliability in mining equipment were identified and developed. A probabilistic Bayesian belief network (BBN) method was used for the reliability analysis. The integrated energy-reliability (E-R) model developed for oil sands mining equipment provides a detailed reliability-energy analysis. This model helps to understand the relationship between energy and reliability, and clarifies the amount of energy consumption and energy saving possible through improving the reliability of equipment. The E-R model was developed for four discrete states of reliability: State 1, the mining equipment is fully operational (reliability equals 1); State 2, the equipment operates under expected reliability (as defined by manufacturer); State 3, the equipment operates under low or limited reliability (also known as partial reliability); and State 4, the equipment fails. Partial reliability was calculated for the major subsystems of the mining equipment used in surface mining of bituminous sands, and their associated energy consumption, based on the Markov degraded multi-state model under three states, which are described as: State 1, the system operates under expected reliability; State 2, the system operates under low or limited reliability; this is also known as partial reliability; and State 3, the system fails. LEAP software was used to calculate final energy consumption by each main subsystem for the study period of forty years. It was assumed that the emissions changed only due to change in energy consumption, although partially reliable equipment may have higher specific emissions as well. The E-R model outcomes suggest that energy demand for equipment at current production rates will be reduced by an average of 603.5 million GJ, 1,151.40 million GJ, 1,125.53 million GJ, and 1,732.73 million GJ by year 2050 for states 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively. Average annual as-spent cost savings of 60 Billion Canadian Dollars, 78 Billion Canadian Dollars, 99 Billion Canadian Dollars, and 158 Billion Canadian Dollars were obtained by year 2050 for operating in states 1, 2, 3, and 4. In addition, GHG emissions will be mitigated by an average of 27 million Metric Tons CO2 equivalent, 77 million Metric Tons CO2 equivalent, 75 million Metric Tons CO2 equivalent, and 105 million Metric Tons CO2 equivalent by year 2050 for states 1, 2, 3 and 4
صلاح أبو سيف وتجذير الواقعية والتنوير في السينما المصرية / Salah Abu Seif and the Cultivation of Realism and Enlightenment in Egyptian Cinema
No full text[Salah Abu Seif, born in 1915, is considered the prominent leader of the realist school in Egyptian cinema. He has been consistent in his forty and some odd films to principles of enlightening and recovering the real. His films, their subject matter and techniques, have evolved but the author of the article manages to detect convincingly a common thread which brings them all together, namely realism and commitment to rational and social criticism. The variety of films directed by Abu Seif springs from the fact that he takes into consideration reception aesthetics and understands the limits of his audience, without ever compromising his stance. Thus he has films that are unflinchingly realistic, showing the misery of the poor against the setting of popular quarters (The Beast, 1954); others focus on the details of middle-class life (I am Free, 1959); and yet others on class contradictions between peasants and feudal lords on one hand (al-Usta Hasan, 1952), and the horrors of capitalist monopolies on the other hand (al-Futtuwa, 1957). Salah Abu Seif has been claimed as a socialist as well as denounced for having represented taboo subjects such as the body (This is Love, 1958) and gender issues (The Agony of Love, 1960). The multiplicity of themes in his work stems from his desire to cover the richness and myriad experiences of Egyptian life. Some of his films tended towards naturalism (Rayya and Sakina, 1953), romanticism (The Empty Pillow, 1957), and even lyricism (The Water-carrier Died, 1977); but within these orientations Abu Seif remains loyal to representing the social fabric of the society, bringing the spectator to the real world so as to question her or his reality. By making controversial films (especially No Time for Love, 1962) that can be grasped by the general spectator, Abu Seif has contributed to the on-going debate on change, development and film theory. Many of Abu Seif\u27s films are based on novels written by Naguib Mahfouz, Ihsan \u27Abdel Quddus, Yusuf al-Siba\u27i, Yusuf al-Qa\u27id among others. His position vis-à-vis Egyptian cinema is parallel to that of the Nobel Laureate Mahfouz in relation to Arabic literature: prolific and monumental. He has not only left his impact on his generation of realist directors, but also on the new generation of film-makers who have become by now established: Shadi \u27Abdel Salam, Ra\u27fat al-Mihi, Muhammad Khan, Ashraf Fahmi, \u27Ali Badr Khan, \u27Atif al-Tayyeb, \u27Ali \u27Abdel Khaliq and Dawud \u27Abdel Sayyid--many of whom were students of his or assistants in his film-making. The new wave directors, such as Sharif \u27Arafa, Radwan al-Kashif and Sa\u27id Hamid, who are now coming up and setting the trends of the new cinema, consider him also a mentor and continue the road he paved.
How Can Risk Science Contribute to Risk Education for Children and Teenagers? Exploring Emerging Practices
No full textRisk education is an emerging and interdisciplinary topic. Children and teenagers need risk education to enhance their abilities for decision making under the complex and uncertain conditions of today’s world. Observations and performed practices have shown that various perspectives toward fundamental concepts of risk education resulted in a lack of a unified basis. The study aims to determine how risk science can contribute to risk education for creating a unified scientific basis. For this aim, the purpose is to know how the basic pillars of risk science are reflected in performed practices of risk education.
Participating at the international Risk Science and Decision Science for Children and Teenagers Conference in the Netherlands in 2018, Canada and the Netherlands were identified as the pioneers in performing practices of risk education. To gain more information, some relevant practices from some other countries were also examined. Semi open-ended interviews were conducted. Data were collected through interview responses as well as observations and discussions during the conference.
Results show that despite the fact that some fundamental concepts of risk science have been introduced to students in practices of risk education, they are not introduced or reflected sufficiently. While most of the practices in the Netherlands focus on fundamental concepts and technical risk assessment, they are not reflected in the practices of Canada or other countries. Moreover, in these practices, some of the basic pillars of risk science such as risk perception and risk communication have been neglected completely. Risk science can contribute to risk education by providing clear and systematic definitions and descriptions of fundamental risk concepts. Moreover, it clarifies the limitations of quantitative risk assessment by reflecting the principles of risk perception. Hence, risk education will be capable of improving children’s and teenagers’ abilities to have better communication skills and to have an active role in their society
The dynamics of deliberate and unintentional amnesia in narrative sensemaking and enaction of resilience: A case study of four Rwandan narratives of genocide survival
No full textIn this case study, the author reports the findings of the narrative analyses of four Rwandan former refugees and genocide survivors from the USC-Shoah visual archive of holocaust and genocide survivors’ testimony. The analyses specifically identify and explicate some of the techniques of narrative sensemaking, both macro (thematic) and micro (via time and place, corporal/mental state recollection, and evaluation), and enaction of resilience. Overall, the results of the case study indicate that the dynamics of memory and amnesia—both deliberate and unintentional—can have an impact on narrative sensemaking and capacity for resilience of survivors of mass conflicts, genocides and displacement, both during and after mass-conflict
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