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Core temperatures after anesthetic induction
No full textCore temperatures at 4 time points after anesthetic induction
Demographic data included
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND
While much effort has been devoted to correcting intraoperative hypothermia, less attention has been directed to preventing redistribution hypothermia. In this study, we compared three different anesthetic induction techniques to standard IV propofol inductions (control) in their effect on reducing redistribution hypothermia.
METHODS
Elective, afebrile patients, age 18 to 55 years, were randomly assigned to one of four groups (n=50 each). Group “INH/100” was induced with 8% sevoflurane in 100% oxygen, Group “INH/50” with 8% sevoflurane in 50% oxygen and 50% nitrous oxide, Group “PROP” with 2.2 mg/kg propofol, and Group “Phnl/PROP” with 2.2 mg/kg propofol immediately preceded by 160 mcg phenylephrine. Patients were maintained with sevoflurane in 50% nitrous oxide and 50% oxygen in addition to opioid narcotic. Forced air warming was used. Core temperatures were recorded every 15 minutes after induction for one hour.
RESULTS
Compared to control group PROP, the mean temperatures in groups INH/100, INH/50, and Phnl/PROP were higher 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes after induction (p<0.006 for all comparisons), averaging between 0.39oC and 0.54oC higher. In group PROP, 60% of patients had at least one temperature below 36.0oC in the first hour whereas only 16% did in each of groups INH/100, INH/50, and Phnl/PROP (p<0.0001 in each group compared to PROP).
CONCLUSIONS
In this effectiveness trial, inhalation inductions with sevoflurane or with prophylactic phenylephrine bolus prior to propofol induction reduced the magnitude of redistribution hypothermia by an average of 0.4 to 0.5°C in patients aged 18 to 55 years
An answer to a paper, [electronic resource] : Called A Memorial Of the Poor Inhabitants, Tradesmen and Labourers of the Kingdom of Ireland. By the Author of the Short View of the State of Ireland.
No full textThe author of The short view = Jonathan Swift.An answer to 'To the R-d Dr. J-n S-t, the memorial .. ', by Sir John Browne.Teerink-Scouten,Hanson,Goldsmiths',Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library
Paranoia and irony in the Anglophone dectective narrative and the novels of Umberto Eco
No full textThe thesis provides a reading of Umberto Eco's three novels, The Name of the
Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before, that, while it
acknowledges the importance of the Italian literary tradition in which they stand, also
seeks to explain why their author appeals so frequently to literary models outside
Italy, and in particular the Anglo-American detective genre.
Chapter One explains Eco's relationship to the development of Italian literature
through his lifetime. It is noted that Eco is beginning, both in his semiotics and his
fiction, from a position where post-structuralism has been extensively explored by
neo-avant-gardew riters. Eco positions himself alongsides uchw riters as Italo Calvino
and Jorge Luis Borges, who wish to explore the ludic possibilities of working within
structures, while all the time acknowledging the epistemological limitations of so
doing. Eco's chosen structure, more often than not, is the highly defined genre of
the detective story.
From here, the following chapters engage in close readings of the three novels,
with particular emphasis on The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum,
demonstrating that they explore problems of interpretation central to the detective
narrative. In doing this, they display an intimate knowledge of generic developments
within the detective tradition, and of the philosophical and aesthetic uses made of the
genre by other writers. The embedding of intertextual references to other detective
narratives within Eco's novels is an important factor, as they come together to form
a narrative of epistemological inquiry that itself follows Eco's philosophical progress
through the years. In short, the novels, inter alia, map a systematic inquiry into the
possibility of systematic inquiry. They reserve the space to engage in such an ironic
and self-referential project precisely through their fictionality
Cardozo Law News Brief: July 27, 2018
No full textFeatured Faculty: Melanie Leslie Michael Burstein Myriam E. Gilles Jessica Roth Kate Shaw Jeanne C. Curtis Edward Zelinsky Christopher Buccafusco Michel Rosenfeld Betsy Ginsberg
Campus News: Dean Leslie Appoints Michael J. Burstein as Vice Dean Professors Jessica Roth and Kate Shaw Awarded Tenure Bet Tzedek Clinic\u27s Class Action Settlement Restores Rent Freeze Benefits to up to 20,000 Elderly and Lower-Income NYC Tenants The Cardozo Community Mourns the Loss of Jonathan Rohr
Events: Cardozo Hosts CrimFest! 201
The sentiments of a Church-of-England man : a study of Swift's politics
No full textThis contextualist study re-examines the contested critical
question of Jonathan Swift's political character. It is
concerned with the historical meaning of Swift's texts
and attempts to recover their original political impact.
Politically-literate contemporaries claimed to read Jacobite
Tory politics in Swift's texts. Rather than dismiss the
judgement of Swift's contemporaries, this study asks whether
there is anything about Swift's political writing in polemical
context that could have led contemporaries to construe
the politics of his texts as Jacobite Tory. The conclusion
this study reaches is that aspects of Swift's political
rhetoric are consonant with Tory and Jacobite polemic.
While contesting current conceptions of Swift as a Whig,
this study offers a partial revision of that scholarship
which describes Swift as a non-Jacobite Tory.
The thesis is based on an analysis of Swift's prose, poetry
and correspondence and contemporary (mainly printed) sources
books, pamphlets, poems on affairs of state and newspapers.
Some new or neglected polemical contexts and analogues
for Swift's works are suggested. Chapter 1 considers some
of the problems and contested issues in interpretation
of Swift's political biography and writing. Chapter 2
witnesses Swift's combination of High Church attitudes
with a radical political critique of Whig establishment.
Swift is read in juxtaposition with Jacobite Tory authors
such as George Granville, Lord Lansdowne. Chapter 3 relocates
A Tale of a Tub in historical context to reveal the satire's
relation to High Church Tory polemical languages. Chapter
4 discusses the disaffected Tory aspect of Gulliver's
Travels. Chapter 5 attempts to register the complexity
of the textual evidence of Swift's attitude to Jacobitism.
Detailed attention is given to his politically-revealing
attitudes to the Dutch. A coda briefly describes Swift's
discontent with the Revolution settlement, examines this
Church-of-England Man's sentiments on the crucial ideological
issue of resistance, and suggests the importance of Hugo
Grotius in Swift's political thought
Book Review: A monumental contribution to the genre of African philosophy
No full textA review of [Existence and Consolation: Reinventing Ontology, Gnosis and Valuesin African Philosophy].Author: Ada AgadaEditor: Jonathan O. ChimakonamPublisher: Paragon House and 3rd Logic OptionNumber of Pages: 368Reviewer: Joseph N. AGBOSenior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Ebonyi State University, Abakalik
The borwein brothers, pi and the AGM
No full textWe consider some of Jonathan and Peter Borweins contributions to the high-precision computation of ? and the elementary functions, with particular reference to their book Pi and the AGM (Wiley, 1987). Here AGM is the arithmeticgeometric mean of Gauss and Legendre. Because the AGM converges quadratically, it can be combined with fast multiplication algorithms to give fast algorithms for the n-bit computation of ?, and more generally the elementary functions. These algorithms run in almost linear time (Formula Presented), where M(n) is the time for n-bit multiplication. We outline some of the results and algorithms given in Pi and the AGM, and present some related (but new) results. In particular, we improve the published error bounds for some quadratically and quartically convergent algorithms for ?, such as the GaussLegendre algorithm. We show that an iteration of the Borwein-Borwein quartic algorithm for ? is equivalent to two iterations of the GaussLegendre quadratic algorithm for ?, in the sense that they produce exactly the same sequence of approximations to ? if performed using exact arithmetic.The author was supported in part by an Australian Research Council grant DP140101417. Jon
Borwein was the Principal Investigator on this grant, which was held by Borwein, Brent and Baile
30-day morbidity and mortality of sleeve gastrectomy, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and one anastomosis gastric bypass: a propensity score-matched analysis of the GENEVA data
No full textBackground There is a paucity of data comparing 30-day morbidity and mortality of sleeve gastrectomy (SG), Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), and one anastomosis gastric bypass (OAGB). This study aimed to compare the 30-day safety of SG, RYGB, and OAGB in propensity score-matched cohorts. Materials and methods This analysis utilised data collected from the GENEVA study which was a multicentre observational cohort study of bariatric and metabolic surgery (BMS) in 185 centres across 42 countries between 01/05/2022 and 31/10/2020 during the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. 30-day complications were categorised according to the Clavien-Dindo classification. Patients receiving SG, RYGB, or OAGB were propensity-matched according to baseline characteristics and 30-day complications were compared between groups. Results In total, 6770 patients (SG 3983; OAGB 702; RYGB 2085) were included in this analysis. Prior to matching, RYGB was associated with highest 30-day complication rate (SG 5.8%; OAGB 7.5%; RYGB 8.0% (p = 0.006)). On multivariate regression modelling, Insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypercholesterolaemia were associated with increased 30-day complications. Being a non-smoker was associated with reduced complication rates. When compared to SG as a reference category, RYGB, but not OAGB, was associated with an increased rate of 30-day complications. A total of 702 pairs of SG and OAGB were propensity score-matched. The complication rate in the SG group was 7.3% (n = 51) as compared to 7.5% (n = 53) in the OAGB group (p = 0.68). Similarly, 2085 pairs of SG and RYGB were propensity score-matched. The complication rate in the SG group was 6.1% (n = 127) as compared to 7.9% (n = 166) in the RYGB group (p = 0.09). And, 702 pairs of OAGB and RYGB were matched. The complication rate in both groups was the same at 7.5 % (n = 53; p = 0.07). Conclusions This global study found no significant difference in the 30-day morbidity and mortality of SG, RYGB, and OAGB in propensity score-matched cohorts
Does interpupillary distance (IPD) relate to immediate cybersickness?
No full textWidespread adoption of virtual reality (VR) will likely be limited bythe common occurrence of cybersickness. Cybersickness suscepti-bility varies across individuals, and previous research reported thatinterpupillary distance (IPD) may be a factor. However, that workemphasized cybersickness recovery rather than cybersickness imme-diately after exposure. The current study (N=178) examined if themismatch between the user’s IPD and the VR headset’s IPD settingspredicts immediate cybersickness. Multiple linear regression indi-cated that gender and prior sickness due to screens were significantpredictors of immediate cybersickness. However, no relationshipbetween IPD mismatch and immediate cybersickness was observed.This preprint is published as Kelly, Jonathan, Taylor Doty, Michael Dorneich, and Stephen B. Gilbert. 2023. “Does Interpupillary Distance (IPD) Relate to Immediate Cybersickness?.” PsyArXiv. January 6. doi:10.31234/osf.io/ce4tv.CC-By Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Supplemental material located: osf.io/pswt6/</a
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