853 research outputs found
Letter by Pilgrim regarding article, "Echocardiography screening for rheumatic heart disease in Ugandan schoolchildren"
No full textOffshore wind farm export cable current rating optimisation
No full textThe appropriate sizing of subsea export systems for offshore wind farms presents a number of challenges when striking an appropriate balance between design conservatism and cost effectiveness. Several areas of potential conservatism have been investigated through numerical modelling that has been backed by data that has been obtained from experimental 132kV 3-phase submarine cable
An innocent at home: Scott Pilgrim and his Canadian multicultural contexts
No full textbook chapterThe chapter, "An innocent at home: Scott Pilgrim and his Canadian multicultural contexts" was written by the listed authors Brenna Clarke Gray and Peter Wilkins (Douglas College Faculty). Part of the Routledge research in cultural and media studies series.Published
Feasibility and safety of transcaval transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a multicentre European registry
No full textAIMS
A transfemoral transarterial approach is considered the preferable access route for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), followed by a transaxillary/subclavian TAVI approach. However, these approaches may not be an option in all patients. This study aimed to report the initial European experience with transfemoral transcaval TAVI.
METHODS AND RESULTS
Data on 50 patients treated by transcaval TAVI in five European centres were collected and analysed according to the Valve Academic Research Consortium (VARC)-2 definitions. The study population had a mean age of 78.7±8.0 years and a high surgical risk profile (median STS risk score 6.1%, interquartile range 3.0-11.2%). Transcaval access was successful in 49 out of 50 patients and device success was obtained in 94% of cases. Closure of the caval-aortic puncture site with a nitinol cardiac occluder was successful in all cases without need for emergent surgery. One patient received additional sealing of the aortic puncture site with a covered stent one day post TAVI due to a gradual haemoglobin drop of 3 g/dL. VARC-2-defined life-threatening bleeding and major vascular complications possibly related to transcaval access were 4% and 10%, respectively. There were no bleeding or vascular complications after discharge. At 30 days, the clinical efficacy endpoint was reached in 88% of patients.
CONCLUSIONS
Transfemoral transcaval access proved to be a feasible and safe TAVI approach for high-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis not suitable for transfemoral or transaxillary/subclavian transarterial access
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No full textPhotograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Betty S. Fix (right) author and authority on children and their problems autographs books for Mrs. May Whitcomb and Mrs. Arlo Scoggins (left) and Mrs. R. L. Whitcomb (center) at Pilgrim Congregational church where she appeared this week as guest lecturer.
Virtual Canadian Realities: Charting the Scott Pilgrim Universe
No full textThrough a mixture of political-economic and textual analysis, this article examines the Scott Pilgrim franchise, consisting of a series of graphic novels, feature film, and video game, from a transmedia storytelling perspective. By doing so, the author insists that the franchise constructs a globally networked vision of English-Canadian identity through a selective representation of Toronto that situates the city as a cultural filter for globally produced media. While arguing that transmedia storytelling presents a highly fractured fictional universe, with each form of media adding an additional layer of interpretation, the article calls attention to how the Scott Pilgrim franchise utilizes a narrative strategy commonly referred to as “magical realism,” which in the case of transmedia storytelling is perhaps better understood as a form of “virtual realism.” From this perspective, while admitting that the Scott Pilgrim fictional universe exhibits Canadian concerns over the role technologies play in the construction of identity, the author insists that the franchise also draws upon a broader internationally networked nostalgia for classic video games.L'auteur examine, par une analyse politico-économique et textuelle et du point de vue de la narration transmédia, la franchise Scott Pilgrim, qui comprend une série de romans graphiques, un long métrage et un jeu vidéo. Ce faisant, l'auteur met l'accent sur le fait que la franchise élabore en réseau international une image de l'identité anglo-canadienne reposant sur une représentation sélective de Toronto. Cette représentation situe de la ville comme un filtre culturel pour des médias dont la production est mondialisée. L'auteur soutient que la narration transmédia présente un monde fictionnel très fragmenté, chaque forme de médium ajoutant une strate supplémentaire d'interprétation. En même temps, il insiste sur le fait que la franchise Scott Pilgrim fait appel à une stratégie narrative couramment reliée au « réalisme magique » mais qu'il serait peut-être plus clair, dans le cas de la narration transmédia, de désigner comme une forme de « réalisme virtuel ». De ce point de vue, tout en reconnaissant que l'univers fictionnel de Scott Pilgrim illustre les préoccupations des Canadiens quant au rôle joué par les technologies dans la construction de l'identité, l'auteur souligne que la franchise tire également parti d'une nostalgie relayée plus largement par les réseaux mondiaux qui porte sur les jeux vidéos classiques
Manuscripts and Travellers : The Sino-Tibetan Documents of a Tenth-Century Buddhist Pilgrim /
No full textThis study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. Included is a series of Tibetan letters of introduction addressed to the heads of monasteries along the route, functioning as a passport when passing through the region. The manuscript dates to the late 960s, coinciding with the large pilgrimage movement during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song recorded in transmitted sources. Therefore, it is very likely that this is a unique contemporary testimony of the movement, of which our pilgrim was also part. Complementing extant historical sources, the manuscript provides evidence for the high degree of ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity in Western China during this period.This study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. Included is a series of Tibetan letters of introduction addressed to the heads of monasteries along the route, functioning as a passport when passing through the region. The manuscript dates to the late 960s, coinciding with the large pilgrimage movement during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song recorded in transmitted sources. Therefore, it is very likely that this is a unique contemporary testimony of the movement, of which our pilgrim was also part. Complementing extant historical sources, the manuscript provides evidence for the high degree of ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity in Western China during this period.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019
God struck me dead voices of ex-slaves
No full textAn invaluable collection of vivid conversion narratives and autobiographies by illiterate but powerfully articulate ex-slaves, God Struck Me Dead is a window into the soul of America and its religious history. Gathered from the Fisk Social Science Institute's massive study during the 1930s on race relations, and originally published by the Pilgrim Press in 1969, this volume is a rich resource of liberation from those whose faith was borne and tested by the cruelest of human degradations - slavery. Includes a preface by Paul Radin, author and expert on primal religion
Pilgrim Reverence as a Pathway to Ecological Conversion: An Analysis of Phenomenological Journaling along the Way
No full textBy fostering reverence, walking The Way can facilitate a critical tool in the promotion of what Pope Francis calls ecological conversion in his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’. Re-reading a series of personal phenomenological reflections she wrote during the course of her 2012 and 2017 pilgrimages along the Camino Frances through the lens of philosopher Paul Woodruff’s theory of reverence, the author explores the emotional sources of reverence pilgrims experience through the course of pilgrimage. Cultivated through a body of non-religious but characteristically pilgrim-oriented ceremonies, ritual activities, and acts of perception, the pilgrim reverence the author experiences and observes does not seem to draw from any single theological lexicon; it seems rather to extend, in all cases, into and beyond a feeling for the human community, to the earth itself. It is a spiritual exercise open to humanity itself, where pilgrims have the opportunity to foster recognition that everything is connected in our social, environmental, and economic ecologies
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