191 research outputs found
Comics and human rights: a change is gonna come. Women in the superhero genre
No full textSam LeBas is a comic book editor and journalist from Louisiana. She works with the independent publisher ComixTribe, editing comic books, as well as helping aspiring creators learn about the process of making and publishing comics. In addition to writing comic book reviews and related articles, she is the co-author of a monthly Batgirl column for the Eisner-Nominated site Multiversity Comics. Find her on Twitter as @comicsonice Will Brooker is Professor of Film and Cultural Studies at Kingston University. He has written extensively on comic books and their audiences, and co-authors a column on Batgirl for the Eisner-Nominated site Multiversity Comics. His next book is the co-edited Many More Lives of the Batman, in 2015. He tweets as @willbrooke
Implémentation d'un protocole de réhabilitation améliorée après transplantation hépatique : faisabilité et analyse des résultats
No full textMédecine. Anesthésie et réanimationIntroduction : la transplantation hépatique est à ce jour le seul traitement curatif des insuffisances hépatiques terminales. Malgré l’amélioration des techniques chirurgicales, elle est encore considérée comme une chirurgie majeure, à haut risque de complications. Aucune recommandation d’experts n’existe quant à un programme de réhabilitation améliorée après transplantation hépatique. Notre étude a pour but de proposer un tel protocole, d’en évaluer la possibilité de mise en place et d’en analyser les résultats. Méthode : nous avons mené une étude rétrospective, descriptive, au sein du service d’anesthésie-réanimation chirurgicale de l’hôpital de Hautepierre au centre hospitalier universitaire de Strasbourg sur une période de 16 mois. Le protocole de réhabilitation améliorée comportait une phase peropératoire centrée sur l’utilisation d’agents pharmacologiques à courte durée d’action et l’épargne transfusionnelle. La phase postopératoire réanimatoire était basée sur le déconditionnement rapide des patients. Le succès d’implémentation du protocole était défini par le respect de 4 critères sur les 6 retenus. Les patients répondant à cet objectif constituaient le groupe RAAC de notre étude. Résultats : sur les 61 patients inclus, le protocole de réhabilitation améliorée a pu être appliqué chez 25 d’entre eux. Dans le groupe RAAC, la durée d’hospitalisation en réanimation et la durée d’hospitalisation totale étaient diminuées de façon significative, respectivement de 3 et de 10 jours. Aucune différence significative n’a été observée entre les deux groupes en termes de survenue de complications postopératoires. La mortalité en réanimation et à J90 était nulle dans le groupe RAAC. Conclusion : la mise en place d’un protocole de réhabilitation accélérée semble améliorer la convalescence des patients en postopératoire d’une transplantation hépatique sans en augmenter la morbi-mortalité
Prélèvement d’organes chez le donneur décédé en arrêt circulatoire de la catégorie III de Maastricht : mise en place au Centre hospitalier universitaire de Strasbourg et premiers résultats
No full textMédecine. Anesthésie et réanimationRésumé : le programme de prélèvement d’organes chez les donneurs décédés après arrêt circulatoire de la catégorie III de Maastricht (DDAC M3) a démarré en France en novembre 2014 et au Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Strasbourg en avril 2018. Nous avons étudié rétrospectivement l’épidémiologie des donneurs, la faisabilité du protocole et le bilan des greffes d’organes réalisées au cours des 14 mois suivants le lancement du programme DDAC M3 au CHU de Strasbourg. Vingt-deux donneurs potentiels ont été recensés. La plupart étaient admis en réanimation à la suite d’un arrêt cardiaque (72,7%). Il s’agissait majoritairement d’hommes (72,2%). Parmi les 22 donneurs potentiels, 12 procédures de prélèvement Maastricht III ont finalement été réalisées dont 10 ont abouti à un prélèvement d’organes. La difficulté principale était la mise en place de la circulation régionale normothermique (CRN). Vingt-neuf organes ont pu être prélevés et 27 organes ont été transplantés : 19 reins, 6 foies et 2 poumons. Ces résultats attestent de la réussite de la mise en place du programme DDAC M3 au CHU de Strasbourg et encouragent la poursuite de son développement.Summary : The French controlled donation after circulatory death (cDCD) programme began in november 2014 and was launched at Strasbourg University hospital in april 2018. We studied retrospectively donors' epidemiology, programme feasibility and organ procurement outcomes over the first 14 months of cDCD programme at Strasbourg University hospital. Twenty two potential donors were identified. Most were admitted in intensive care units following cardiac arrest (72,7%). The majority were men (72,2%). Of the 22 potential donors, 12 procedures were attempted and of those, 10 lead to a successful organ procurement. The primary difficulty encountered was the cannulation procedure for regional normothermic perfusion. Twenty nine organs were explanted, of which 27 were transplanted: 19 kidneys, 6 livers and 2 lungs. These results demonstrate the success of the cDCD programme launch at Strasbourg University hospital and are encouraging for its future continuation
French prepositions "à" and "de" in infinitival complements : A pragma-semantic analysis
No full textInternational audienceWe take the position, represented by some other linguists, which is opposed to the idea that the French prepositions "à" and "de", in the expressions like "hésiter à faire" and "envisager de faire", are "empty" or devoid of any meaning and that they only fulfill a syntactic role. However, it is not really the "meaning" of these prepositions that we are trying to describe, but their pragmatic function. By "pragmatic function" we understand compatibility with some communicative intention of the speaker. This follows the general claim of J. Cervoni (1991) that the study of the prepositions should be placed within the frame of what he calls "pragmatics of the intentional". A pragmatic approach has also been adopted by P. Cadiot (1997), who relates the preposition "de" to a value of "factivity" of the event, expressing that the event is "taken for granted", whereas the opposite is considered to be true for the preposition "à". But, as the author admits himself, this explanation does not account for all the cases. Informed by the ideas of P. Cadiot, as well as those of F. Lebas (1999), we formulate a pragmatic hypothesis attributing a "marked" status to the preposition "à" instead of "de", and according to which à appears when the speaker's intention is to introduce a "not taking for granted" presentation of the event, or a point of view according to which the event is somehow "problematic". The value of the preposition "de", on the contrary, consists in a "not problematic" view of the fact, without, however, meaning that the fact is necessarily "taken for granted" or presupposed (Fraczak, 2003). In this contribution, we undertake to develop these ideas, using some elements of the theory of polyphony of O. Ducrot (1984). We will try to show that the preposition "à" is compatible with marking a real or a potential confrontation of points of view concerning a fact or an event (thus making it problematic in some way). Apart from the constructions "verb + à/de + infinitive", we include in our analysis expressions with an adjective (eg. "apte à faire" / "capable de faire") and with a noun (eg. "capacité à faire" / "capacité de faire")
French prepositions "à" and "de" in infinitival complements : A pragma-semantic analysis
No full textInternational audienceWe take the position, represented by some other linguists, which is opposed to the idea that the French prepositions "à" and "de", in the expressions like "hésiter à faire" and "envisager de faire", are "empty" or devoid of any meaning and that they only fulfill a syntactic role. However, it is not really the "meaning" of these prepositions that we are trying to describe, but their pragmatic function. By "pragmatic function" we understand compatibility with some communicative intention of the speaker. This follows the general claim of J. Cervoni (1991) that the study of the prepositions should be placed within the frame of what he calls "pragmatics of the intentional". A pragmatic approach has also been adopted by P. Cadiot (1997), who relates the preposition "de" to a value of "factivity" of the event, expressing that the event is "taken for granted", whereas the opposite is considered to be true for the preposition "à". But, as the author admits himself, this explanation does not account for all the cases. Informed by the ideas of P. Cadiot, as well as those of F. Lebas (1999), we formulate a pragmatic hypothesis attributing a "marked" status to the preposition "à" instead of "de", and according to which à appears when the speaker's intention is to introduce a "not taking for granted" presentation of the event, or a point of view according to which the event is somehow "problematic". The value of the preposition "de", on the contrary, consists in a "not problematic" view of the fact, without, however, meaning that the fact is necessarily "taken for granted" or presupposed (Fraczak, 2003). In this contribution, we undertake to develop these ideas, using some elements of the theory of polyphony of O. Ducrot (1984). We will try to show that the preposition "à" is compatible with marking a real or a potential confrontation of points of view concerning a fact or an event (thus making it problematic in some way). Apart from the constructions "verb + à/de + infinitive", we include in our analysis expressions with an adjective (eg. "apte à faire" / "capable de faire") and with a noun (eg. "capacité à faire" / "capacité de faire")
Etude des modifications hémodynamiques lors de la chirurgie en décubitus ventral (mesure de la pression systémique moyenne et des résistances au retour veineux)
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The visceral screen: Between the cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg, a Barthesian perspective
No full textThe thesis discusses two directors who are never considered together in academic discourse. Cassavetes’ perceived focus on events led by the dynamics of performance and his looseness of technique opposes the calculated compositions of the Cronenberg film, with its aesthetic of horrific images and its gallery of emotionally detached protagonists. Yet it is between such opposing methods of cinematic expression that the ineffable qualities of film aesthetics can be discovered. Cassavetes’ cinema achieves this by revelling in a surplus of activity that exceeds narrative, while the indescribable characteristics of the Cronenberg oeuvre is achieved through a systematic emptying of the image’s meaning through a simultaneous commitment to paring back emotion and portraying of images that are controversial and inconceivable. Taken together, the thesis identifies these aspects of film as ‘the visceral,’ a facet of the moving image that most certainly exists, but is resolutely, and disturbingly resistant to interpretation.
Roland Barthes’ writings are integral to a theory of the visceral. His re-evaluation of Saussurean semiology as a method of analyzing and undoing ideologically-imposed meanings informs readings of sequences from Cassavetes and Cronenberg’s films. Following Barthes, the thesis suggests that the existence of the visceral is realized as a resistance to ideological interpretations of the image, and so cannot be described. Ultimately, the inability of semiology to fully grasp certain aspects of the filmed image is put forward as a rejoinder to theories of the fiction film as principally a narrative medium
Choral, orchestral, and choral -orchestral rehearsal techniques to optimize choral -orchestral renditions
No full textThe preparation and performance of a choral-orchestral work can be a fulfilling musical experience. All too often, however, lack of interpretive interaction between the chorus and the orchestra frustrates an artistically successful outcome. This doctoral document presents a philosophy of preparation of choral-orchestral works that promotes the working together of the choral-orchestral ensemble. The author of the document considers choral, orchestral, and choral-orchestral rehearsal techniques that create synergy in the choral-orchestral ensemble an essential tool to optimize choral-orchestral renditions. The rehearsal techniques are described and are applied to the author\u27s preparation and performance of Schubert\u27s Mass in G. Although offering a detailed analysis of the work, as well as reflections on its preparation, this document is not a Conductor\u27s Guide to Schubert\u27s Mass in G. Rather, the intent of the author is to provide an approach to choral-orchestral preparation which can inspire conductors to create their own rehearsal techniques that form synergy in the choral-orchestral ensemble, and to apply them to their preparation of works from the vast choral-orchestral repertoire. Also included in this document are a survey of selected English-language scholarly literature on preparation of choral-orchestral works, and a DVD containing a performance of Schubert\u27s Mass in G conducted by the author
Which ABC? Accounting based on causality rather than activity-based costing
No full textWhen it was first introduced ABC stood for Activity-Based Costing. It originally meant Product Full Cost calculated on the basis of an allocation of indirect costs according to `activities', i.e. what people actually do, also referred to as `processes'. In this article the author suggests that the three letters ABC be used to refer to an accounting approach aimed more at understanding causality and giving decision-makers the possibility to manage costs at the root, rather than limiting it to a method of product cost calculation. This means that ABC should rather be the acronym for Accounting Based on Causality1.
A study of primary school administrators' attitudes towards a curriculum support service
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