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"Author Meets Critics: Predrag Cicovacki, Author of Gandhi's Footprints, Meets Critics Sanjay Lal and Carlo Filice"
No full textTwo critics respond to Predrag Cicovacki’s book, Gandi’s Footprints. Cicovacki opens the discussion by presenting his motivations for exploring a paradox, that Gandhi’s work is widely revered but not widely emulated. Cicovacki explores a resolution to the paradox by suggesting how Gandhi’s promising visions may be followed without being imitated, especially Gandhi’s insight that we must seek spiritual grounding for life in a materialistic world. Critic Sanjay Lal affirms Cicovacki’s insight but suggests that precisely because Gandhi’s aspirations for spiritual life were profoundly transformative we should take care not to dilute them into our conventional wisdoms. Critic Carlo Filice asks how Gandhi’s commitment to unified reality could be more clearly articulated once a distinction is drawn between spirit and matter, also how Gandhi’s nonviolence could manage to embrace important exceptions. In reply to critics, Cicovacki proposes an approach to Gandhi informed by the insights of Tagore
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No full textRadiofrequency ablation of liver tumors: the role of microbubble ultrasound contrast agents
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Radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors: the role of microbubble ultrasound contrast agents.
Author(s): Meloni, Maria Franca; Livraghi, Tito; Filice, Carlo; Lazzaroni, Sergio; Calliada, Fabrizio; Perretti, Leonardo
Source: Ultrasound quarterly Volume: 22 Issue: 1 Pages: 41-7 Published: 2006-Mar
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Abstract: Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is currently indicated for the treatment of primary and metastatic hepatic malignancies. Real-time ultrasound (US) is generally used during the procedure to guide electrode placement, but for evaluating the results of treatment, contrast-enhanced computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging have traditionally been considered more effective. This view has changed, however, with the recent development of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) (eg, using sulfur hexafluoride microbubbles), which can provide valuable information on the effects of RFA more rapidly and economically than computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging without exposing the patient to ionizing radiation. In our center, CEUS is performed in patients with liver tumors before and immediately after RFA, in selected cases during the procedure as well, and in the follow-up. Between January 2003 and June 2005, we performed CEUS on 350 patients scheduled for RFA of primary or metastatic liver tumors. In 14 (13.4%) of the 96 patients whose disease was metastatic, CEUS revealed lesions that had been missed on the conventional US examination. In most of these cases, the result was a more complete treatment performed under CEUS guidance. In the remaining 2 (14%) of 14, the results of the examination allowed us to avoid subjecting the patient to useless treatment. In our experience, the use of CEUS also improved the management and follow-up of patients undergoing interstitial therapy
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No full textA poética de Cristiane Sobral como rasura às narrativas de direitos humanos da branquitude
No full textDissertação (mestrado) — Universidade de Brasília, Centro de Estudos Avançados e Multidisciplinares, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direitos Humanos e Cidadania, 2022.A literatura, assim como todos os outros campos do conhecimento, por estar inserida
dentro das relações sociais, carrega em si a subjetividade daquelas(es) que a
produzem e, portanto, estão presentes valores sociais partilhados. Deste modo,a
produção literária canônica, inserida em uma colonização em curso, reproduz uma
ideia de humanidade universal centrada na branquitude e seus privilégios. Porém, há
uma produção literária – a qual chamamos de literaturas de rasura – que traz uma
concepção de humanidade e ecoa vozes plurais. Neste trabalho, nos voltaremos para
as literaturas de autoria negro-feminina, especialmente para poética de Cristiane
Sobral, observando-a como uma produção que guarda em si potência para ser uma
narrativa de direitos humanos que rasure o cânone branco, a partir de suas
escrevivências. Nesse sentido, debatemos nesta pesquisa em que medida a poética
de Cristiane Sobral se constitui como uma narrativa de direitos humanos que rasure
a versão de direitos humanos da branquitude. Para tal, analisamos alguns textos de
Cristiane Sobral a partir de metodologias interativas, estabelecendo o diálogo entre
as escrevivências e uma leitura interseccional. A partir disso,pudemos ver que as
escrevivências desta autora constituem-se como uma outra perspectiva de direitos
humanos.Literature, just like every other field of knowledge, by being inside the social
interactions carries within itself the subjectivity of those who produce it, and, therefore,
shared social values are present in it. As such, the canonic literary production, inserted
in an ongoing colonization, reproduces an idea of universal humanity centered in
whiteness and its privileges. However, there is a literary production - which is called
write-above literature - that brings an understanding of humanity that echoes more
plural voices. This work will look to the literature of black and female authorhood,
especially to the poetry of Cristiane Sobral, observing it as a production that has within
itself the potential to be a narrative of human rights that writes above the white canon
with its writing-living. In that sense, we debate in this research in what measure the
poetry of Cristiane Sobral constitutes itself as a narrative of human rights that writes
above the whiteness version of human rights. To do that, we will analyze some texts
by Cristiane Sobral using interactive methodologies, establishing a dialogue between
the writing-living and an intersectional reading. From that, we could see that the writinglivings of this author constitute themselves as another perspective of human rights.Centro de Estudos Avançados Multidisciplinares (CEAM)Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direitos Humanos e Cidadani
