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Letter by Vorpahl and Kelm Regarding Article, “Stent Thrombogenicity Early in High-Risk Interventional Settings Is Driven by Stent Design and Deployment and Protected by Polymer-Drug Coatings”
No full textReview of \u3ci\u3eFrederic Remington and the West: With the Eye of the Mind\u3c/i\u3e By Ben Merchant Vorpahl
No full textThis book, by the editor of the Frederic Remington-Owen Wister letters, is a strangely disappointing work on a promising subject. It is not the usual picture book of Remington paintings, nor is it really a biography. Rather it is an attempt to recreate Remington\u27s intellectual, emotional, and artistic perceptions as they changed through his life. This is a laudable attempt. Unfortunately, the author is most often cryptic, confused, and much given to the jargon of abstraction. As a consequence any reader must bring a good deal of information to the book or it will be virtually meaningless. Possibly a good editor could have made the prose more readable and aided the author in bringing out his points more clearly.
If one digs hard enough one can find some intriguing material in this book. Forpahl is perhaps the first person to look very hard at Remington paintings in an analytical way. He does note Remington\u27s preoccupation with violence and quite rightly sees a linkage with some of the themes of the novelist Frank Norris. He also sees Remington emerging from a conventional illustrator to a man who becomes increasingly aware of the paradoxes of his time. In one memorable scene he juxtaposes the New York Horse Show, Remington\u27s exhibit that accompanies it, and Theodore Roosevelt\u27s observations. But then he reverts to comments on The Bronco Buster as a symbol of Remington\u27s own confusion and that of the paradoxes inherent in American society. The connection between the horse show, the exhibit, Theodore Roosevelt, and The Bronco Buster is never made really explicit. One feels there is something there but that it is not on the author\u27s page. This is characteristic of virtually every chapter in the book. One never quite grasps the significance of Remington\u27s appearance at Wounded Knee just after the battle, though the author suggests it had great significance. On another occasion the author alludes to Remington\u27s adoption of the idea of vortex in his later paintings, but then he drops this subject just as it becomes interesting. Examples such as this could be multiplied many times. This is most unfortunate, because the author has a main point that is clearly valid and that is that Remington was by no means a literal recorder of the western scene. He did indeed see things through the eye of the mind. Art historians have become accustomed to reading that statement about painters like Moran and Bierstadt, but rarely have they thought of Remington in this way. They should, and perhaps this is the best reason for reading Vorpahl\u27s book
Numerical investigation on the influence of support structure modeling strategies on the loads of a generic 5-MW turbine on a jacket support structure
No full textLoad simulations play an important role in the design, certification and optimization procedures for the development of reliable and cost efficient offshore wind turbines (OWTs). For load simulations of OWTs, aero-hydro-servo-elastic tools are used. However, the joint flexibilities of the support structures are generally not modeled in detail in these tools, which may lead to lower accuracy of the resulting loads. In this study, a generic 5 MW OWT in 50m water depth is investigated. The jacket support structure of the OWT is modeled by using different modeling strategies in which the joints are modeled in different levels of detail, so that the influence of these flexibilities on the loading of the OWT is inspected.Aerospace EngineeringWind EnergySustainable Energy Technolog
Optical Frequency Domain Imaging of Stent Fracture and Coronary Dissection Associated With Intraplaque Hemorrhage
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Entanglement due to Delayed Removal of a Buddy Wire
No full textA buddy wire is often used to aid in the delivery of balloons and stents when negotiating tortuous or calcified vessels. We present a planned two-stent mini-crush intervention complicated by entanglement of the buddy wire with the second stent and subsequent distortion of the stent within the guiding catheter. Based on this case, we suggest removing the buddy wire immediately after successful positioning of the first stent, because entrapment with a second stent is possible and may lead to challenging situations in a simultaneous two-stent strategy
806-5 Short interfering RNA specifically directed against protease 2A lead to significant reduction of coxsackievirus B3 titers and attenuation of viral cytopathogenicity
No full textDo We Really Understand Pimecrolimus?⁎⁎Editorials published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions or the American College of Cardiology.
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