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Principles of neurological surgery /
No full textPerfect for anyone considering or training in this challenging specialty, Principles of Neurological Surgery, 4th Edition, by Drs. Richard G. Ellenbogen, Laligam N. Sekhar, and Neil Kitchen, provides a clear, superbly illustrated introduction to all aspects of neurosurgery-from general principles to specific techniques. Thorough updates from leading authors ensure that you'll stay abreast of the latest advances in every area of neurosurgery, including pre- and post-operative patient care, neuroradiology, pediatric neurosurgery, neurovascular surgery, trauma surgery, spine surgery, oncology, pituitary adenomas, cranial base neurosurgery, image-guided neurosurgery, treatment of pain, epilepsy surgery, and much more.Print version record.Online resource; title from electronic title page (ClinicalKey, viewed January 26, 2018).Revised edition of: Principles of neurological surgery / editors, Richard G. Ellenbogen, Saleem I. Abdulrauf ; associate editor, Laligam N. Sekhar. 3rd ed. ©2012.Includes bibliographical references and index.Section 1: General overview. Landmarks in the history of neurosurgery -- Challenges in global neurosurgery -- Pearls for clinical evaluation of the nervous system -- Principles of modern neuroimaging -- Neuro anesthesia and monitoring for cranial and complex spinal surgery -- Surgical positioning, navigation, important surgical tools, craniotomy and closure of cranial and spinal wounds -- Section 2: Pediatric neurosurgery. Spinal dysraphism and tethered spinal cord -- Hydrocephalus in children -- Diagnosis and surgical options for craniosynostosis -- The Chiari malformations and syringohydromyelia -- Posterior fossa and brainstem tumors in children -- Craniopharyngiomas -- All other brain tumors in pediatrics -- Pediatric vascular disease and stroke -- Section 3: Vascular neurosurgery. Medical and surgical treatment of cerebrovascular occlusive disease -- Intracranial aneurysms, gen principles of management (ruptured and unruptured) -- Surgery for anterior circulation aneurysms -- Surgery for posterior circulation aneurysms -- Complex intracranial aneurysms and bypasses for aneurysms -- Vascular malformations (arteriovenous malformations and rural arteriovenous fistulas) -- Cavernous malformations of the brain and spinal cord -- Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage -- Endovascular treatment of acute stroke and occlusive cerebrovascular disease -- Endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms -- Section 4: Trauma. Surgical Management of Closed Head Injury -- Critical Care Management of Neurosurgical Patients -- Penetrating Brain Injury -- Traumatic Skull and Facial Fractures -- Section 5: The spine. Injuries to the cervical spine -- Thoracolumbar spine fractures -- Intradural extramedullary and intramedullary spinal cord tumors -- Treatment of spinal metastatic tumors -- Spinal cord injury -- Craniovertebral junction: a reappraisal -- Degenerative spine disease (cervical) -- Degenerative spine disease (thoracolumbar) -- Pediatric and adult scoliosis -- Section 6: Tumors. High-grade gliomas -- Low-grade gliomas -- Metastatic brain tumors -- Convexity, and parasagittal vs. skull base meningiomas -- Tumors of the pineal region -- Cerebellopontine angle tumors -- Pituitary tumors: diagnosis and management -- Endoscopic approaches to ventricular tumors and colloid cysts -- Microsurgical approaches to the ventricular system -- Base tumors: evaluation and microsurgery -- Endoscopic approaches to skull base lesions -- Jugular foramen tumors: paraganglioma and schwannoma -- Section 7: Radiosurgery and radiotherapy. Application of current radiation delivery systems and radiobiology -- Radiosurgery of central nervous system tumors and arteriovenous malformations -- Proton beam therapy and particle beam radiotherapy for cranial and skull base tumors -- Section 8: Functional pain. Trigeminal neuralgia -- Spasticity: classification, diagnosis and management -- Surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy -- Extratemporal procedures and hemispherectomy for epilepsy -- Deep brain stimulation for movement disorders -- Stereotactic functional neurosurgery for mental health disorders, pain and epilepsy -- Section 9: Miscellaneous. Surgical management of infections of the central nervous system, cranium and of the spine -- Adult congenital CSF disorders -- Management of peripheral nerve injuries -- Entrapment neuropathies, peripheral nerve tumors -- Pre-hospital care of TBI patients.Perfect for anyone considering or training in this challenging specialty, Principles of Neurological Surgery, 4th Edition, by Drs. Richard G. Ellenbogen, Laligam N. Sekhar, and Neil Kitchen, provides a clear, superbly illustrated introduction to all aspects of neurosurgery-from general principles to specific techniques. Thorough updates from leading authors ensure that you'll stay abreast of the latest advances in every area of neurosurgery, including pre- and post-operative patient care, neuroradiology, pediatric neurosurgery, neurovascular surgery, trauma surgery, spine surgery, oncology, pituitary adenomas, cranial base neurosurgery, image-guided neurosurgery, treatment of pain, epilepsy surgery, and much more.Elsevie
Facing the Future: the Changing Shape of Academic Skills Support at Bournemouth University
No full textThis paper explores the potential impact of changes to higher education in England on student expectations, engagement, lifestyles and diversity, and outlines implications for the development of digital literacy within academic skills support at Bournemouth University (BU). We will investigate how tackling resource constraints with organisational change can also enable efficient, centralised provision of support materials that utilise networks to overcome the risk of fragmented support for digital literacy. We will also look at how changing delivery modes for support can accommodate changing student lifestyles whilst tackling a weakness of centralised support for digital literacy: that it can become detached from the student’s subject-focused academic practice. Finally we will explore how involving students in developing support can help us to face changes to student expectations and engagement whilst ensuring that materials are authentic and speak to learners in their own voice
Setting the agenda for parking research in other cities
No full textThe chapter reflects on the 12 case studies discussed in the book and considers their implications for future research. At the end of the chapter, a new agenda for parking research in large cities is set out.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Spatial Planning and Strateg
The Total Synthesis of Dragmacidins D and F
No full textThe dragmacidins are an emerging class of bis(indole) natural products isolated from deep-water marine organisms. Although there has been a substantial effort to prepare the simple piperazine dragmacidins, little synthetic work has been done in the area of the pyrazinone-containing family members, dragmacidins D, E, and F. These compounds are particularly interesting due to their complex structures and broad range of biological activity.
A highly convergent strategy to access dragmacidin D has been developed. In this approach, sequential halogen-selective Suzuki couplings were used to assemble the carbon scaffold of the natural product. After executing a highly optimized sequence of final events, the first completed total synthesis of dragmacidin D was achieved.
An enantiodivergent strategy for the total chemical synthesis of both (+)- and (-)-dragmacidin F from a single enantiomer of quinic acid has been developed and successfully implemented. Although unique, the synthetic routes to these antipodes share a number of key features, including novel reductive isomerization reactions, Pd(II)-mediated oxidative carbocyclization reactions, halogen-selective Suzuki couplings, and high-yielding late-stage Neber rearrangements.
The formal total syntheses of dragmacidin B, trans-dragmacidin C, and dihydrohamacanthin A are described. In addition, preliminary studies involving a novel approach for the preparation of dragmacidin E are reported.</p
The alternative within the mainstream: a critical analysis of some recent Irish films
No full textCentral to this thesis is the argument, espoused by a number o f our contemporary critics, that the success o f Angel (Neil Jordan, 1982) and My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, 1989) resulted in a climate in which Irish filmmakers attempted to appeal to a more global market by adopting mainstream Hollywood formats at the expense o f the more experimental and socially critical cinema which had existed prior to 1987.
While primarily concerned with Irish cinema since the re-establishment o f the Film Board in 1993, the thesis sets out to investigate a number o f different strategies which Irish filmmakers have adopted in an attempt to infiltrate a market which has become totally dominated by mainstream American studio films. Its main concern is the extent to which they may be said to have successfully achieved a balance o f American style and Irish substance, in such a way that these films can be read as less definably “American” and more specifically “Irish”. Each o f the films proposed for examination is alternative, not in the classic sense o f "alternative’ or ‘counter-cinema’, but in the sense that they deviate from the more standardised approach o f much Irish cinema. The thesis is divided into two main sections
Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional and National Open-Access Self-Archiving Mandates
No full textNo research institution can afford all the journals its researchers may need, so all articles are losing research impact (usage and citations). Articles made “Open Access,” (OA) by self-archiving them on the web are cited twice as much, but only 15% of articles are being spontaneously self-archived. The only institutions approaching 100% self-archiving are those that mandate it. Surveys show that 95% of authors will comply with a self-archiving mandate; the actual expe-rience of institutions with mandates has confirmed this. What institutions and funders need to mandate is that (1) immediately upon acceptance for publication, (2) the author’s final draft must be (3) deposited into the Institutional Repository. Only the depositing needs to be mandated; set-ting access privileges to the full-text as either OA or Restricted Access (RA) can be left up to the author. For articles published in the 93% of journals that have already endorsed self-archiving, access can be set as OA immediately; for the remaining 7%, authors can email the eprint in re-sponse to individual email requests automatically forwarded by the Repository
Jere Nash Interview with Neil McMillen (Part 1 of 2)
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with University of Southern Mississippi history professor Neil R. McMillen in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics dicussed include race and politics in Mississippi; southern historians including Dewey Grantham, C. Vann Woodward, Numan V. Bartley, John Boles; segregation in Mississippi and resistance to change; genesis of McMillin\u27s book Dark Journey; fifteenth Freedom Summer reunion at Millsaps and Tougaloo; John Ditmer; contributing to A History of Mississippi edited by Richard Aubrey McLemore and reaction by the public and University of Southern Mississippi officials; hiring of African American faculty at USM; M.M. Roberts; and William D. McCain
La causa de la democracia post-soviética. Historias. Revista de la Dirección de Estudios Históricos. Num. 85 (2013) mayo-agosto
No full textNeil Buckley realizó estudios de letras rusas y francesas en el University College de la Universidad de Oxford. Trabaja desde 1991 en el Financial Times, en donde se ha hecho cargo de muy diversas secciones y tareas, entre ellas la de titular de la oficina de Moscú, y en la actualidad es el editor para asuntos de Europa oriental. Tomado del Financial Times del 19 de agosto de 2011
Sociological implications of scientific publishing: Open access, science, society, democracy and the digital divide
No full textClaims for open access are mostly underpinned with
1. science—related arguments (open access accelerates scientific communication);
2. financial arguments (open access relieves the serials crisis);
3. social arguments (open access reduces the digital divide);
4. democracy—related arguments (open access facilitates participation); and,
5. socio—political arguments (open access levels disparities).
Using sociological concepts and notions, this article focuses strongly on Pierre Bourdieu\u27;s theory of (scientific) capital and its implications for the acceptance of open access, Michel Foucault\u27;s discourse analysis and the implications of open access for the concept of the digital divide. Bourdieu\u27;s theory of capital implies that the acceptance of open access depends on the logic of power and the accumulation of scientific capital. It does not depend on slogans derived from hagiographic self—perceptions of science (e.g., the acceleration of scientific communication) and scientists (e.g., their will to share their information freely). According to Bourdieu\u27;s theory, it is crucial for open access (and associated concepts like alternative impact metrics) to understand how scientists perceive its potential influence on existing processes of capital accumulation and how open access will affect their demand for status. Foucault\u27;s discourse analysis suggests that open access may intensify disparities, scientocentrism and ethnocentrism. Additionally, several concepts from the philosophy of sciences (Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend) and their implicit connection to the concept of open access are described in this paper
Dialogical Skirmishes
No full textTan was guest editor for 'And Now China?', a special print edition of the Ctrl+P journal, which critically responded to the celebratory rhetoric’s of ‘China Now’ and other celebratory markers of China's global ascent in 2008. As well as the introductory article 'Dialogical Skirmishes', Tan also interviewed Hans Ulrich Obrist
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