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The globalisation of breast cancer
Full text linkBoyle, Peter Howell, Antony eng England 2011/01/05 06:00 Breast Cancer Res. 2010 Dec 20;12 Suppl 4:S7. doi: 10.1186/bcr2736.International audienceno abstrac
Antony Sutton statement to the 1972 Republican Platform Committee
Full text linkStatement by author and professor of economics Antony Sutton to the Platform Committee at the 1972 Republican National Convention. His statement regards the backwards state of Soviet technology and his recommendations on trade policy
The Impact of Myocardial Protection Technique on the Incidence Of -post Coronary Bypass- Atrial Fibrillation/flutter
No full textThe Impact Of Myocardial Protection Technique On The Incidence Of -post Coronary Bypass- Atrial Fibrillation/flutter
Ayman Kenawy, Laura Howell, David Rose, Mohamed N. Bittar, Antony Walker, Andrew Duncan, Josef Zacharias, Amal Bose, Mohamed N. Bittar.
Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, United Kingdom.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether any of the myocardial protection techniques is a factor that influence the incidence of post-operative AF/Flutter
METHODS: A single centre retrospective study of 3614 patients who underwent an isolated on-pump CABG using different myocardial protection strategies, inclusion criteria all CABG who were in Sinus rhythm pre operatively. Patient who had combined procedures or were in AF or paced rhythm were excluded. Patients were categorized into two groups: Group 1: cardioplegia group Group 2: cross- clamp and fibrillation Statistical analysis Comparisons between groups were made using a Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables and using one-way ANOVA or Kruskal-Wallis for quantitative variables. Univariate logistic regression analysis was then performed to identify potential risk factors of post-operative AF/flutter. Potential confounding risk factors were then included in an adjusted multivariate logistic analysis
RESULTS: We identified 3614 patients in the period between 2004 to 2015 ; 2805 were in group 1 and 809 were in group 2. History of pulmonary disease & older age were significant potential predictors of post-operative AF (p=0.002, OR=1.40, 95% CI=1.13 to 1.73), (p=<0.001, OR=1.06, 95% CI= 1.05 to 1.07) respectively.On the contrary,cumulative cross clamp time and cumulative bypass time were not significant predictors of post-operative AF (p=0.285,p=0.470) respectively. In the cardioplegia group the incidence of AF in top ends on side clamp was not significantly different to single x-clamp surgery (OR=1.05, 95% CI=0.81 to 1.37, p=0.709) Group 2 patients (x-clamp and fibrillation technique) had higher incidence of developing post-operative AF which remained significantly high after adjusting to the history of pulmonary disease when compared with group 1 (OR=1.31, 95% CI=1.02 to 1.68, p=0.032), there was no significant difference in the age between the 2 groups also No significant differences were found in terms of the secondary outcomes mortality,CITU stay or post-operative length of stay.
CONCLUSIONS: Cross clamp fibrillation technique is associated with significantly higher incidence of AF. The history of pulmonary disease and age were strong predictors of postoperative A
Antony Beevor Breaks Down the Russian Revolution of 1917
No full textHost of History Hit podcast 'Warfare' Dr James Rogers sits down with military historian and author of 'Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917—1921', Antony Beevor to discuss the causes and major events of the Russian Revolution. Speaking in the Three John's pub in Islington, allegedly where Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky met in 1903 and sowed the seeds of one of the most significant revolutions in history, the pair cover the February and October Revolution of 1917, the fall of a weak Tsar Nicholas II, the failure of Kerensky's provisional government and the role of the First World War in creating discontent, providing Vladimir Lenin the opportunity to capitalise on chaos
Antony Beevor Breaks Down the Russian Revolution of 1917
No full textHost of History Hit podcast 'Warfare' Dr James Rogers sits down with military historian and author of 'Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917—1921', Antony Beevor to discuss the causes and major events of the Russian Revolution. Speaking in the Three John's pub in Islington, allegedly where Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky met in 1903 and sowed the seeds of one of the most significant revolutions in history, the pair cover the February and October Revolution of 1917, the fall of a weak Tsar Nicholas II, the failure of Kerensky's provisional government and the role of the First World War in creating discontent, providing Vladimir Lenin the opportunity to capitalise on chaos
Antony Beevor Breaks Down the Russian Revolution of 1917
No full textHost of History Hit podcast 'Warfare' Dr James Rogers sits down with military historian and author of 'Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917—1921', Antony Beevor to discuss the causes and major events of the Russian Revolution. Speaking in the Three John's pub in Islington, allegedly where Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky met in 1903 and sowed the seeds of one of the most significant revolutions in history, the pair cover the February and October Revolution of 1917, the fall of a weak Tsar Nicholas II, the failure of Kerensky's provisional government and the role of the First World War in creating discontent, providing Vladimir Lenin the opportunity to capitalise on chaos
Lean six sigma in a call centre : a case study
No full textThis paper, a case study, aims to illustrate the application of lean six sigma in a call centre of a service industry corporation. The study draws on process information and primary data from a real project. The study describes improvements in the operation of the call centre attributable to lean six sigma: increase in first-call resolution ratio, reduction in operator turnover and streamlining of processes. The introduction of lean six sigma into the call centre daily operations' management may have organizational benefits. Although lean six sigma has been extremely successful in the last two decades in the manufacturing sector, its applicability to the service sector has been a controversial topic. This study illustrates its application to a fast-growing area of the service sector, assisting companies in identifying areas of development for their call centres
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Becoming Mark Antony: A Metabiographical Study of Characterization and Reception
Full text linkThe subject of this dissertation is the nexus of Greek and Latin texts that feature Mark Antony. Cicero’s Philippics and Plutarch’s Life of Antony are the key components of this corpus, but this dissertation also encompasses writings about Antony by authors ranging from Propertius to Cassius Dio and covers the reception of this material in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Each chapter uses a metabiographical approach to examine a particular stylized persona that these authors project onto Antony. Chapter 1 investigates why authors invest Mark Antony with the attributes of a stage actor with a frequency rivaled only by similar treatments of later emperors like Caligula and Nero. Chapters 2 and 3 analyze the representation of Antony as a tyrant in Latin-language authors and Greek-language authors, respectively. Chapter 4 delineates the different ways that authors conceive of Antony’s love for Cleopatra as a type of madness. Chapter 5 uses Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar as a test case for applying the metabiographical methodology to a post-classical literary text and focuses on Shakespeare’s innovative deployment of Antony as a paragon of eloquence.By analyzing the manifestations these personae in different authors, I uncover new ways of understanding why competing portrayals of Antony take shape across time and across genre, and I map out the evolution of the idea of Mark Antony as it is manufactured over time in literature. I argue that the distortion of Antony that takes place in our sources is less an artifact of his rivals’ propaganda than a product of the historio-biographical process itself. I show how recurring biographical motifs exhibit subtle variations from author to author that signal alignments with particular rhetorical traditions, highlight key themes, or encode commentary upon the authors’ own cultural milieux. The principal contribution my project makes to our understanding of Greco-Roman literature is to demonstrate how Mark Antony is exploited as a malleable cultural touchstone. Recent work in metabiography has illuminated how Julius Caesar and Cleopatra perform this role as well, but our understanding of the processes that produced icons like these remains incomplete without a comparable study of Mark Antony. This dissertation fills this gap
Sur l'hérésie dans la littérature clandestine
No full textAntony Mckenna : Heresy in clandestine literature.
This article explores some of the latest research on clandestine manuscripts. Whereas the philosophical movement is often portrayed as a steady march towards Enlightenment, the author insists on the hesitant and stumbling steps of certain clandestine philosophers. The role of religious debate and theological squabbles is underlined ; various religious currents and sects — anti-Catholic polemics of the Marranos, Jewish messianism and Protestant millenarianism, the rationalism of Arminians and Socinians — all play a vital role in the development of philosophic rationalism. The 'radical Reformation' thus makes an essential contribution to clandestine Philosophy.McKenna Antony. Sur l'hérésie dans la littérature clandestine. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°22, 1990. Voyager, explorer. pp. 301-313
Mark Antony and the date of the Inimitables. A remark on an edited text
No full textA Greek inscription on stone found in Alexandria in the nine- teenth century and exhibited in the Alexandrian Greco-Roman Museum contains an unusual dedicatory text in honour of Mark Antony. The text was edited several times. It contains useful information which agrees with the passage of Plutarch on the lifestyle of Antony and Cleopatra, and their entourage. In this paper the author suggests the date 34–30 bc for the activity of the ‘Inimitables’ and adds a further commentary on the history of Antony and Cleopatra
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