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Introducción / M. Michell Sinner.
No full textLa Reunión Nacional sobre Médios de Comunicación fue organizada por el Instituto de Estudios Políticos, Económicos y Sociales (IEPES) del PRI, se realizó en Baja California Sur en junio de 1976. Los temas abordados fueron la libertad de información, el desarrollo, responsabilidad y democratización social de los medios de comunicación, la manipulación de la información, la función publicitaria de los medios de comunicación. En el Centro de Documentación CONEICC se encuentran más de 20 de las ponencias presentadas.Documento no disponible para consult
Verbale über die in Martio 1769 durch die Herren Kommittierte der Münz- und Ohmgeld-Kammer angestellte Prüfung aller Mäs, Masse und Gewichte der Stadt Bern
No full textJoh. Rud. Sinner, Münz-Com[m]ittirter. Carl Alb. Frisching, Münz-Com[m]itirter. Joh. Gottlieb Jenner, Böspfenniger. Frid. Carl Lud. Manuel, OhmgeltnerNamen der Unterzeichner vom Ende des Texte
Dolasetron and shivering. A prospective randomized placebo-controlled pharmaco-economic evaluation
No full textBackground and goal: Forced by the current economical situation, German hospitals have to reconsider their clinical productivity. When caregivers introduce new therapeutic concepts medical quality should either be improved without increasing costs or when reducing costs medical quality should be maintained. In the surgical field postoperative shivering reduces both patient comfort and medical quality. We therefore investigated the clinical pathway prevention of shivering with dolasetron in a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled analysis of cost-effectiveness. Material and methods. After written informed consent we randomized 40 patients scheduled for lumbar disc hernia repair or head and neck surgery into two groups: patients of group D received dolasetron 1 mg/kg body weight during surgery whereas patients of group K received 100 ml saline as placebo. Primary endpoints were the incidence of shivering, the length of stay in the postanesthesia care unit and process-associated costs. Secondary endpoint was the influence on perioperative thermoregulation. Results. We observed postanesthetic shivering in 5 patients belonging to group D in comparison to 15 patients receiving the placebo (p < 0.05). The length of stay in the postanesthesia care unit was shorter in patients allocated to dolasetron (mean +/- SD; group D: 43 +/- 16 min, group K 62 +/- 18 min, p < 0.05). There was a significant saving in process-associated personnel costs (personnel costs in group D EUR 41.26 +/- 14, personnel costs in group K EUR 53.15 +/- 15) but in contrast the process-associated material costs were significantly increased (group D EUR 17.16 +/- 3, group K EUR 0.73 +/- 1, p < 0.05). Conclusions. The optimization of the clinical process and medical quality induced by a prophylaxis against shivering and postoperative nausea and vomiting compensates for the increased use of pharmaceutical resources in our setting
Saint or Sinner?: A Reconsideration of the Career of Prince Alexandre de Merode, Chair of the International Olympic Committee’s Medical Commission, 1967-2002
No full textThis article explores the role of Prince Alexandre de Merode in heading the IOC’s fight against drugs from the 1960s to 2002. History has not served de Merode very well. He has been presented in simplistic ways that emerge from context rather than evidence – as either a saint or a sinner. IOC-sanctioned accounts cast him in the mould of the saint: a moral and intelligent man who saved sports from doping. In contrast, sports academics have tended to portray him as a sinner: an ineffectual leader who did not develop either the testing systems or the punishments required to prevent doping and who deliberately concealed evidence of high-profile doping cases. This article assesses both representations before presenting information to support a richer and more complicated interpretation
The uses of madness in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction : the relation between narrative strategy and disturbed states of consciousness
No full textThe thesis operates upon the premise that there has been, in the
course of the last two centuries, a radical transformation in narrative
presentations of exceptional states of consciousness. It sets out to
identify the main characteristics of the fictional transformation, and to
situate them in the context of wider cultural shifts. I decided to rest
my approach upon the relatively conservative sense that, roughly speaking,
the structural and linguistic analysis of a narrative topos - that is to
say the protagonist's madness - can elicit a clearer understanding of the
changing, underlying dynamics and thematics of fictional works as they
emerge over a given historical period.
The thesis is set out in two parts; Part I explores nineteenth
century uses of madness, and Part II compares and contrasts more recent
treatments. The study of the different presentations of madness in
fiction is organized diachronically for heuristic purposes, although the
typological emphasis of the thesis must eventually take precedence over
the imposition of a rigid historical framework.
In the nineteenth century it is predominantly an intellectually
marginalized kind of fiction (often termed 'gothic') which deals with
exceptional psychic experience. It does so in a way which engages with
the treacherous 'otherness' of mad experience, which is often aligned with
the supernatural. In these texts the position of the narrator in relation
to such phenomenon is of paramount importance. More recent treatments of
'madness' display a tendency to undermine its 'otherness' and to move
towards narrative identification with such states.
The method of investigation functions upon several levels. In order
to provide a constructive counter-perspective upon fictional treatments of
madness and to forge the link with contemporary methodologies, the study
commences with the narratological analysis of a work written by a
(clinically diagnosed) psychotic author which has achieved the status of a
classic within psychiatric, psychoanalytical and even recent cultural
theory. The narrative structure of D. P. Schreber's Memoirs finds its
equivalent in a kind of fiction identified in this thesis as 'paranoid'.
Twentieth century clinical discourse increasingly has recourse to the
very broad term 'schizophrenia' as a synonym for the outmoded term
'madness'. The current emphasis upon linguistic concerns in the definition
and location of psychosis allows the critical grouping of certain kinds of
texts under the heading of 'schizoid', due to the discovery of analogous
characteristics at work within their (anti)narrative strategy. Again, these
terms are heuristically intended and cannot be scientifically precise. The
thesis concludes with a discussion of the current centrality of a
terminology of psychopathology to the ways in which fictionists, critics
and theorists describe, prescribe and understand the 'postmodern' self and
world.
This project offers an overview of attitudes to madness as they are
transformed in fiction in the course of a historical period. The way in
which madness functions in these texts is, first of all, not only as the
instrument of literary exploration but also as a means of transgressing
boundaries between sanity and insanity. The period is crucial, further, in
its radical transitional nature with regard to concepts of fundamental
import for the novel form: most particularly, ideas of the 'self' and ideas
of 'reality', as objectively stable or as sub. iective and illusory. For the
fictional articulation of these, the topos of 'madness' serves as the
ultimate measure
Ús dels quantificadors adnominals per a la representació d’actors col·lectius en el discurs periodístic: el cas de catalans y espanyols
No full textThe description of an event or the representation of social actors and their actions in the media can vary depending on how certain discursive elements are emphasized, downplayed, or silenced to create diverse narratives and perceptions. This phenomenon is particularly relevant in contexts of political-ideological polarization, such as the Catalan-Spanish sociopolitical conflict surrounding Catalonia's independence in 2017.
The study analyzes journalistic discourse about this conflict, focusing on social actors, particularly those groups identified by the labels "Catalans" and "Spaniards." The analysis centers on the use of adnominal quantifiers in collocation with these labels as a discursive tool. It starts from the premise that linguistic quantification has a pragmatic function influenced by the sociocultural context and the interlocutors' knowledge. The use of quantifiers can highlight certain reference groups or exclude others, thereby contributing to the construction of differentiated narratives.
The study has two main objectives: first, to identify and classify the most frequent quantifiers in a multilingual corpus (Catalan, Spanish, and German) describing the collective social actors in the conflict; second, to formulate and validate hypotheses about their discursive use, communicative effects, and connection to ideologies. This research provides a deeper understanding of how quantifiers contribute to constructing different framings in journalistic discourse and their ideological implications through communicative strategies with often similar characteristics
Abstract n. 162. Analyzing the composition of blanks in northeastern Spain and the Balearic Islands during the 2nd C. BC
No full textDr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Cucurbit plants for remediation of soils polluted with persistent and emerging organic pollutants: State of the art, future perspectives and challenges
No full textSeveral members of the cucurbit family (Cucurbitaceae) have a great potential to take up highly hydrophobic compounds, such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), from environmental matrices, and translocate them to the aboveground parts of the plants. Moreover, recent research showed that they can effectively enhance the removal of emerging organic pollutants (EOPs) from the environment. Several studies provided evidence that plant-associated microorganisms and root exudates (including plant secondary metabolites, PSMs) can enhance the effective removal of POPs and EOPs from environmental matrices (i.e. soil, sediments, water reservoirs) by cucurbits. Hence, the main aims of this chapter are: (i) to gather information about processes underlying an exceptional ability of cucurbits to accumulate hydrophobic compounds; (ii) to combine the most pronounced and recent data on the removal of POPs and EOPs using cucurbits; and (iii) to point out opportunities and challenges for the use of cucurbits as phytoremediators of polluted environments.This work was supported by: JSPS Bilateral Program Number JPJSBP120224602; by the UL IDUB project B2211002000146.07 (decision 55/2021) “Control of bioaccumulation of Persistent Organic Pollutants in cucurbits - production of safe food vs. bioremediation of contaminated lands”; and UHasselt Methusalem project 08M03VGR
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