251 research outputs found
A Century of Mathematical Excellence at Spelman College
No full textThis file consists of the presentation slides of a presentation by Colm Mulcahy at the AMS-NAM Joint Special Session on The Mathematics of the Atlanta University Center. The event was held Thursday January 5, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia. KEYWORDS: Mathematics, Spelman College, Histor
Short Stories, Novels and Spain. An Interview With Colm Tóibín
No full textColm Tóibín (Enniscorthy, 1955) is the author of five novels, The South (1990), The Heather Blazing (1992), The Story of the Night (1996), The Blackwater Lightship(1999) and The Master (2004). This last novel won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger for the best foreign novel published in 2005 in France, and it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Colm Tóibín has a long career in journalism and was the editor of the magazine Magill from 1982 to 1985. He is also the author of several non-fiction books, including Homage to Barcelona (1990) and The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994). He edited The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999) and has recently published his first book of short stories,Mothers and Sons (2006). Colm Tóibín attended the 10th International Conference on the Short Story in English, held at University College Cork on 19-21 June 2008, where this interview took place
A Guest at the Feast
No full textColm Tóibín\u27s touching memoir, A Guest at the Feast, beautifully read by the author himself. A Guest at the Feast moves from the small town of Enniscorthy to Dublin, from memories of a mother who always had a book on the go to the author\u27s early adulthood, from a love of literature to the influences of place and family. Tóibín\u27s captivating memoir is the story of a writer coming of age and his connections between home, work and love. It is a perfect gem of a book.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1452/thumbnail.jp
Complex high-risk and indicated percutaneous coronary intervention for stable angina: Does operator volume influence patient outcome?
No full textBACKGROUND: Complex high-risk and indicated revascularization using percutaneous coronary intervention (CHIP-PCI) is an emerging concept that is poorly studied.OBJECTIVE: To define temporal changes in CHIP-PCI volumes, and the relationship between operator CHIP-PCI volume and patient outcomes.METHODS AND RESULTS: Data were analyzed on all CHIP-PCI procedures undertaken for stable angina in England and Wales between 2007 and 2014. Operator volume data was available for 2012-14. CHIP-PCI was defined by patient characteristics (age ≥80years, left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction <30%, previous CABG, or chronic renal failure) and/or by procedural characteristics (left main PCI, chronic total occlusion PCI, LV support, use of rotational atherectomy or laser atherectomy). CHIP-PCI as a percentage of total PCI increased from 28.1% in 2007 to 36.2% in 2014 (P < .001). Between 2012 and 2014, a total of 30,268 CHIP-PCI cases were performed. Total operator volume varied from 1 to 580 cases with median total operator volume of 29 cases. Higher operator volumes were associated with a greater degree of patient comorbidity and increasing procedural complexity. After adjustment for baseline difference, in-hospital major bleeding (P < .001 for trend), access site complications (P < .001) and coronary perforation (P = .002) were associated with increasing operator CHIP-PCI volumes. However, the frequency of in-hospital death (P = .394) and 12-month mortality (P = .638) were similar across the volume quartiles. Higher volumes quartiles were associated with a greater likelihood of same day discharge (P < .001).CONCLUSIONS: CHIP-PCI cases are an increasingly large population in contemporary PCI practice. Higher operator volumes were not associated with improved 12-month survival.CONDENSED ABSTRACT: Data were analyzed on all complex high-risk and indicated revascularization using percutaneous coronary intervention (CHIP-PCI) procedures in England and Wales between 2007 and 2014. CHIP-PCI as a percentage of total PCI increased from 28.1% in 2007 to 36.2% in 2014 (P < .001). Median total operator volume was 29 cases with higher volumes associated with more patient comorbidity and increasing procedural complexity. In-hospital major bleeding (P < .001 for trend), access site complications (P < .001) and coronary perforation (P = .002) all associated with increasing operator CHIP-PCI volumes. However, trends for in-hospital death (P = .394), and 12-month mortality (P = .638) were similar across the volume quartiles.</p
The first clinical experience with a novel “locking” microcatheter in chronic coronary total occlusions
No full textA novel "locking" microcatheter has been developed to address residual failure modes in chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The aim of this study was to report the first clinical experience of this device.
METHODS AND RESULTS: The microcatheter was assessed prospectively in 92 unselected CTO cases across six European sites. Overall technical success was 85.9% (79/92) and 97.5% for patients with a J-CTO score of 20 mm (OR 0.58 [0.05-6.81], p=0.66) and a blunt proximal cap (OR 0.47 [0.08-2.90], p=0.42) were not associated with technical failure in this case series. Locking facilitated guidewire crossing (after initial failure) of the proximal cap in 23 cases, distal cap in 11 cases and CTO body in 10 cases, and delivery of the microcatheter through to the distal vessel in 22 cases. The overall procedural complication rate was 1.1% (1/92) with no major events.
CONCLUSIONS: Guidewire locking with this novel microcatheter assists penetration and crossing of fibrocalcific anatomy with a high degree of safety. Using this device in CTO PCI may lead to improved primary wiring and overall procedural success rates.No sponsorship or funding from Interventional Medical Device Solutions was received for conducting this study
Making-with, Making-do: Constellations of Concepts and Practices around Adaptive Reuse
No full textEvery demolition is an act of violence with devastating ecological and cultural repercussions that reverberate for generations. Responding to a reality in which not just buildings but even entire communities are treated as disposable, this research supports and advances adaptive reuse as a more sustainable alternative to wasteful construction models based on demolition and reconstruction. To do so, it engages not only with the material, technical and economic aspects of reusing existing buildings, but also with the wider historical, political and socio-cultural contexts that influence and shape every architectural act.
Representing an exercise in sympoiesis or ‘making-with’, the project deliberately positions itself between practice and research. Through engaging in conversation with a range of practitioners and thinkers, it emphasises how adaptive reuse blurs authorial boundaries – not just across time, through working with previous and future authors, but also across space, as more collaborative modes of practice question previously accepted notions of a single, autonomous author-architect.
The project’s three-part outcome comprises an open-access web platform www.adaptreuse.org, the main thesis publication and a handbook for practitioners.
The thesis represents a literary practice of adaptive reuse, a polyform and polyphonic exploration that embodies and performs the ideas it explores. Instead of attempting to develop a universal, fixed theoretical framework, the thesis takes a weak theory approach: it configures a collection of diverse fragments into an open, relational and generative constellation that accommodates rather than resolves difference. Bending time and space, this constellation challenges linear narratives to illuminate and reveal insights across disparate spacetimes.
Through a reparative reading of several key examples, the accompanying handbook offers students and practitioners a set of verbs or lemmas that can be conjugated differently according to the specific context or situation. These lemmas represent concrete, transformative actions that can be translated not only across different projects, but also different disciplines.
The critical contribution of the project lies in how it creates new possibilities for the wider discipline of architecture by expanding its existing vocabulary and concepts, offering alternative ways of viewing and engaging with the world, and therefore of constructing it.The members of the doctoral jury were Dr. Kate Briggs, Dr. Elke Couchez, Arch. Ing. Jan Haerens, Dr. Catalina Mejía Moreno, Prof. Dr. Kris Pint, Dr. Mia You
Making-with, Making-do: Constellations of Concepts and Practices around Adaptive Reuse
No full textEvery demolition is an act of violence with devastating ecological and cultural repercussions that reverberate for generations. Responding to a reality in which not just buildings but even entire communities are treated as disposable, this research supports and advances adaptive reuse as a more sustainable alternative to wasteful construction models based on demolition and reconstruction. To do so, it engages not only with the material, technical and economic aspects of reusing existing buildings, but also with the wider historical, political and socio-cultural contexts that influence and shape every architectural act.
Representing an exercise in sympoiesis or ‘making-with’, the project deliberately positions itself between practice and research. Through engaging in conversation with a range of practitioners and thinkers, it emphasises how adaptive reuse blurs authorial boundaries – not just across time, through working with previous and future authors, but also across space, as more collaborative modes of practice question previously accepted notions of a single, autonomous author-architect.
The project’s three-part outcome comprises an open-access web platform www.adaptreuse.org, the main thesis publication and a handbook for practitioners.
The thesis represents a literary practice of adaptive reuse, a polyform and polyphonic exploration that embodies and performs the ideas it explores. Instead of attempting to develop a universal, fixed theoretical framework, the thesis takes a weak theory approach: it configures a collection of diverse fragments into an open, relational and generative constellation that accommodates rather than resolves difference. Bending time and space, this constellation challenges linear narratives to illuminate and reveal insights across disparate spacetimes.
Through a reparative reading of several key examples, the accompanying handbook offers students and practitioners a set of verbs or lemmas that can be conjugated differently according to the specific context or situation. These lemmas represent concrete, transformative actions that can be translated not only across different projects, but also different disciplines.
The critical contribution of the project lies in how it creates new possibilities for the wider discipline of architecture by expanding its existing vocabulary and concepts, offering alternative ways of viewing and engaging with the world, and therefore of constructing it.The members of the doctoral jury were Dr. Kate Briggs, Dr. Elke Couchez, Arch. Ing. Jan Haerens, Dr. Catalina Mejía Moreno, Prof. Dr. Kris Pint, Dr. Mia You
Silence and Familial Homophobia in Colm Tóibín’s “Entiendes” and “One Minus One”
No full textThe present study focuses on two of Colm Tóibín’s gay short-stories – “Entiendes” (1993) and “One Minus One” (2010) – in which the homosexual son meditates on his attachment to the dead mother. In both texts, Tóibín characterises the mother-son bond as being fraught with silence, resentment and lack of communication. In “One Minus One” and “Entiendes”, the son’s closeted homosexuality coexists with familial legacies of shame, uneasiness and duplicity. The central characters in the two texts are similar, as they experience the same type of existential exile, solitude and alienation derived from their complex attachments to home and family. As shall be explained, the author dwells on the damaging effects of familial homophobia, highlighting the limitations of the dominant heteronormative family model to accommodate gay sensibilities
Silence and familial homophobia in Colm Tóibín’s “Entiendes” and “One Minus One”
No full textThe present study focuses on two of Colm Tóibín’s gay short-stories – “Entiendes” (1993) and “One Minus One” (2010) – in which the homosexual son meditates on his attachment to the dead mother. In both texts, Tóibín characterises the mother-son bond as being fraught with silence, resentment and lack of communication. In “One Minus One” and “Entiendes”, the son’s closeted homosexu-ality coexists with familial legacies of shame, uneasiness and du-plicity. The central characters in the two texts are similar, as they experience the same type of existential exile, solitude and aliena-tion derived from their complex attachments to home and family. As shall be explained, the author dwells on the damaging effects of familial homophobia, highlighting the limitations of the dominant heteronormative family model to accommodate gay sensibilitiesAgencia Estatal de Investigación | Ref. FFI2017-84619-PXunta de Galicia | Ref. ED431D2017/1
Silence and Familial Homophobia in Colm Tóibín’s “Entiendes” and “One Minus One”
No full textThe present study focuses on two of Colm Tóibín’s gay short-stories – “Entiendes” (1993) and “One Minus One” (2010) – in which the homosexual son meditates on his attachment to the dead mother. In both texts, Tóibín characterises the mother-son bond as being fraught with silence, resentment and lack of communication. In “One Minus One” and “Entiendes”, the son’s closeted homosexuality coexists with familial legacies of shame, uneasiness and duplicity. The central characters in the two texts are similar, as they experience the same type of existential exile, solitude and alienation derived from their complex attachments to home and family. As shall be explained, the author dwells on the damaging effects of familial homophobia, highlighting the limitations of the dominant heteronormative family model to accommodate gay sensibilities
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