32 research outputs found
Osseointegrated Finger Prostheses Using a Tripod Titanium Mini-Plate
No full textBackground Digital amputation is a common upper extremity injury and can cause significant impairment in hand function, as well as psychosocial stigma. Currently, the gold standard for the reconstruction of such injuries involves autologous reconstruction. However, when this or other autologous options are not available, prosthetic reconstruction can provide a functionally and aesthetically viable alternative. This study describes a novel technique, known as a tripod titanium mini-plate, for osseointegrated digit prostheses, and reviews the outcomes in a set of consecutive patients.
Methods A retrospective review of patients who underwent 2-stage prosthetic reconstruction of digit amputations was performed. Demographic information, occupation, mechanism of injury, number of amputated fingers, and level of amputation were reviewed. Functional and aesthetic outcomes were assessed using the quick disabilities of the arm, shoulder, and hand (Q-DASH) scale and a visual analog scale (VAS) score, respectively. In addition, complications during the postoperative period were recorded.
Results Seven patients were included in this study. Their average age was 29 years. Five patients had single-digit amputations and 2 patients had multiple-digit amputations. Functional and aesthetic outcomes were assessed using the Q-DASH score (average, 10.4) and VAS score (average, 9.1), respectively. One episode of mild cellulitis was seen at 24 months of follow-up. However, it was treated successfully with oral antibiotics. No other complications were reported.
Conclusions When autologous reconstruction is not suitable for digit reconstruction, prosthetic osseointegrated reconstruction can provide good aesthetic and functional results. However, larger series with longer-term follow-up are required in order to rule out the possibility of other complications
A CONCERT OF SONGS AND ARIAS featuring undergraduate voice students of The Shepherd School of Music Tuesday, February 8, 2000 8:00 p.m. Stude Concert Hall
No full textRecording of performance is incomplete.PROGRAM: Gentle airs, melodious strains / George Frederic Handel -- Saper vorreste / Giuseppe Verdi -- Die Forelle / Franz Schubert -- The Call / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- In uomini, in soldati / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Mother Dear / Polish song arr. Estelle Liebling -- Rain has fallen / Samuel Barber -- Kommt ein schlanker Bursch gegangen / Carl Maria von Weber -- Let my son fill your heart / Ernest Charles -- Arm, arm ye brave / George Frederic Handel -- Take, oh take those lips away / Mrs. H.H.A Beach -- Die Post / Franz Schubert -- If Ever I Would Leave You / Frank Loesser -- Almen se non poss'io / Vicenzo Bellini -- When the air sings of summer / Gian Carlo Menotti -- The trees on the mountain / Carlisle Floyd -- Chanson triste / Henri Duparc -- La Pastorella delle Alpi / Gioacchino Rossini -- L'Abbandono / Vicenzo Bellini -- Youth and Love/ Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Ouvre ton coeur / George Bizet -- Me voici dans son boudoir / Ambroise Thomas -- Silent Noon / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Quel guards il cavaliere / Gaetano Donizetti -- Si tra i ceppi / George Frederic Hande
The lion's grave dispatches from Afghanistan
No full textTwo weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, correspondent and bestselling author Anderson became one of the first Western journalists to get into Afghanistan. Distinguished by his gritty, on-the-ground observations, probing interviews, and gift for telling a story, The Lion's Grave is war reporting in the tradition of A.J. Liebling and Michael Herr
Being a Criminologist: Investigation as a Lifestyle and Living
No full textAbstract
This chapter reflects on some aspects of ‘being a criminologist’ who specializes in prisons research. It considers the purpose of research and some of the outcomes of research projects that the author of this chapter has led or conducted. It ends with a few reflections on the research experience. It is argued that research — understood as ‘authentic description’ — has a moral and explanatory value. Nothing gives us firmer credentials for forging change than having a firm empirical grasp of actual practices and experiences. We should, however, be wary of ‘correctional agendas’.</jats:p
50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008: From the Early Years to the State-of-the-Art
No full textIn 1958, Ralph E. Gomory transformed the field of integer programming when he published a paper that described a cutting-plane algorithm for pure integer programs and announced that the method could be refined to give a finite algorithm for integer programming. In 2008, to commemorate the anniversary of this seminal paper, a special workshop celebrating fifty years of integer programming was held in Aussois, France, as part of the 12th Combinatorial Optimization Workshop. It contains reprints of key historical articles and written versions of survey lectures on six of the hottest topics in th
A gendered analysis of the experiences of Ugandan women war survivors
No full textThis book is a major contribution to a gendered understanding of the effects of sexual violence and torture on Ugandan women during and following the civil war years in Luwero District. Whilst a feminist analysis is central, it also explores a novel conceptualisation of trauma based on extensive interviews with women and men war survivors. It provides a critical analysis of war survivors’ experiences of war and the effects of these on social, cultural and economic capital. It argues that the forms of violence perpetrated can be interpreted as attempted genocide and addresses the devastating effects of violence on women’s physical and psychological health. It offers a challenging assessment of how women reconstructed their identities as well as policy implications. This thought-provoking book will be of interest to academics, researchers and clinicians in gender studies, sociology, psychology, African studies, social sciences, health and health policy, law, human rights and clinical psychology. It will also be of interest to international non-government and development organizations as well as policy makers. 50% of the royalties from the book sales will be sent by the author to the war survivors she worked with during this research
A gendered analysis of the experiences of Ugandan women war survivors
No full textThis book is a major contribution to a gendered understanding of the effects of sexual violence and torture on Ugandan women during and following the civil war years in Luwero District. Whilst a feminist analysis is central, it also explores a novel conceptualisation of trauma based on extensive interviews with women and men war survivors. It provides a critical analysis of war survivors’ experiences of war and the effects of these on social, cultural and economic capital. It argues that the forms of violence perpetrated can be interpreted as attempted genocide and addresses the devastating effects of violence on women’s physical and psychological health. It offers a challenging assessment of how women reconstructed their identities as well as policy implications. This thought-provoking book will be of interest to academics, researchers and clinicians in gender studies, sociology, psychology, African studies, social sciences, health and health policy, law, human rights and clinical psychology. It will also be of interest to international non-government and development organizations as well as policy makers. 50% of the royalties from the book sales will be sent by the author to the war survivors she worked with during this research
Powiedział do mnie: „Liebling”. Queerowa lektura wspomnień obozowych Janusza Karwackiego
No full textAs part of a relatively new notion — “queering Holocaust studies” — the article deals with the issue of nonheteronormative forms of sexuality among Polish male former concentration camp prisoners. The analysis of selected excerpts from Mieczysław Karwacki’s book Życie wśród śmierci [lit. Life among death] (1999) is conducted with the use of the queer category as well as scholarly reflection on the topic of wartime sexuality. This strategy shows how crucial transgressive themes (concerning the homo- and heterosexual experiences of the author, touching upon his physicality and masculinity) are for the book, and how the author challenges the constraining, binary division into “female” and “male” topics of concentration camp literature. A queer reading of the book by Karwacki — someone hitherto anonymous, unknown to both readers and researchers — reveals the need to split open the martyrological, heteronormative model of war memoirs and to incorporate this kind of content into concentration-camp discourse in Poland.As part of a relatively new notion — “queering Holocaust studies” — the article deals with the issue of nonheteronormative forms of sexuality among Polish male former concentration camp prisoners. The analysis of selected excerpts from Mieczysław Karwacki’s book Życie wśród śmierci [lit. Life among death] (1999) is conducted with the use of the queer category as well as scholarly reflection on the topic of wartime sexuality. This strategy shows how crucial transgressive themes (concerning the homo- and heterosexual experiences of the author, touching upon his physicality and masculinity) are for the book, and how the author challenges the constraining, binary division into “female” and “male” topics of concentration camp literature. A queer reading of the book by Karwacki — someone hitherto anonymous, unknown to both readers and researchers — reveals the need to split open the martyrological, heteronormative model of war memoirs and to incorporate this kind of content into concentration-camp discourse in Poland
Ethics and Methodological Issues: Research and Training with Survivors of Conflict and post-Conflict Sexual Violence and Torture in Africa
No full textThis presentation highlights key ethical and methodological issues arising during applied research and training carried out with women, men and child survivors of conflict and post-conflict sexual violence and torture in Luwero, northern Uganda, Liberia, and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. All of the qualitative research projects also addressed the health and justice needs of survivors and the services provided. In 2001, through an ESRC-funded research project, 99 interviews were carried out in Luwero District with women and men survivors of conflict and key informants; whilst in Liberia EU-funded training was carried out with multi-disciplinary professionals to support survivors of conflict together with Isis-Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange, Kampala, in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender and Development in Harper. Following this a health intervention was organised, and the impact of the training and treatment for war survivors was evaluated. British Academy-funded research examined the governance of sexual violence in Kitgum and Orom, northern Uganda through interviews with 200 young men and women former abductees and key informants. Further British Academy/Leverhulme-funded research carried out in August 2011 examined women’s and girls’ experiences of bearing children from rape and the health and justice service responses for survivors in Goma, eastern DRC. The researchers’ listened to over 110 people in individual interviews and focus groups carried out in Goma town and Bweremana, a rural area. The current presentation brings together the main ethical and methodological issues arising from these applied research and consultancy activities and outlines strategies for dealing with these. The author also provides an ethical framework and strategy for carrying out applied research with survivors of sexual violence and torture and service providers in conflict and post-conflict settings
PSF Estimation and deconvolution: models, microscopy images, and datasets
No full textThis is the accompanying dataset for the publication Adrian Shajkofci, Michael Liebling, “Spatially-Variant CNN-Based Point Spread Function Estimation for Blind Deconvolution and Depth Estimation in Optical Microscopy,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 29, pp. 5848-5861, 2020.
Publications based on this data must cite the above paper.
BibTeX Citation:
@ARTICLE{shajkofci.liebling:20,
author={A. Shajkofci and M. Liebling},
journal={IEEE Trans. Image Proces.},
title={Spatially-Variant {CNN}-Based Point Spread Function Estimation for Blind Deconvolution and Depth Estimation in Optical Microscopy},
year={2020},
volume={29},
number={},
pages={5848-5861},
doi={10.1109/TIP.2020.2986880}}
In the archive, you will find :
- Trained models for PSF estimation and deconvolution
- Synthetic training dataset of cells and beads
- Stacks of multi-channel fluorescence microscopy images of HeLa cells, rat brain cells, beads and plant cells to test the PSF estimation tool, deconvolution algorithm or auto-focus algorithm.
- Stacks of tilted grid (3, 6 and 9 degrees) using astigmatic lenses for depth estimation.
The code for running the models is available here:
https://github.com/idiap/psfestimation
Reference paper
A. Shajkofci and M. Liebling, "Spatially-Variant CNN-Based Point Spread Function Estimation for Blind Deconvolution and Depth Estimation in Optical Microscopy," in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 29, pp. 5848-5861, 2020, doi: 10.1109/TIP.2020.2986880.
Ethical compliance
The post-mortem stained and fixed tissue slices whose images are included in this data set were reused from experiments approved by the EPFL ethics committee.
Funding
This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under Grants 206021_164022 “Platform for Reproducible Acquisition, Processing, and Sharing of Dynamic, Multi-Modal Data” and 200020_179217 “COMPBIO: Computational biomicroscopy: advanced image processing methods to quantify live biological systems
