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Operability in polytrauma

Trauma has been on the increase worldwide with significant morbidity and mortality, especially when it occurs in the form of polytrauma. The management of these patients has witnessed significant changes over the last decade with the better understanding of the pathophysiology of polytrauma and the recognition of the benefits of early fracture stabilization as part of the damage control orthopedics (DCO) surgical resuscitation of these patients. Inspite of these, the operability of the polytraumatized patients occasionally becomes contentious amongst the surgical trauma team. Available evidence, shows that the focus of polytrauma resuscitation in contemporary trauma surgical practice has now shifted to the operating room, to improve outcome in polytrauma management. An electronic search was done in the PubMed and EBSCO databases for relevant published articles on polytrauma. The terms "Polytrauma OR Multiple trauma" AND operability were entered. Only original articles on multiple trauma involving long bone(s) fractures and at least a thoracic injury not requiring intensive care treatment, or head injury with an initial Glasgow coma score ≥ 8 points or both, published in the last 2 decades were reviewed. In addition, the references from some of the retrieved articles were also reviewed to identify suitable articles.
Preliminary Study on the Prevalence of West Nile Virus Antibody among Horses, Donkeys and Camels in Borno State, Nigeria

In spite of several serological evidences for the presence of West Nile (WN) virus in Nigeria, the host range of the virus is not fully understood. In this study, the prevalence of the WN virus antibody was determined among horse, donkey and camel populations in Borno state, Nigeria. Two hundred and fifty serum samples comprising of 96 sera from each of horses and camels and 58 from donkeys were tested for presence of WN virus neutralizing antibody. An overall prevalence of WN virus neutralizing antibody of 13.2% was noted in the population of animals tested. Significant difference (P≤0.05) in prevalence was observed between the animals tested. Highest prevalence (17.7%) was noted in camels followed by horses (11.5%) and donkeys (8.6%). The results of this study confirmed the prevalence of WV virus antibody in camels in Nigeria and represented the first serosurvey for WN virus activities among horses and donkeys in this part of the country. There is considerable activity of the virus in the study area and provided evidence for the potential roles this group of animals could play in the epidemiology of WN virus infection in Nigeria.
Personal Fashion Blogs: Screens and Mirrors in Digital Self-portraits

Abstract Since their appearance at the beginning of the millennium, fashion blogs have become key players in the field of fashion. One type in particular, personal fashion blogs, where bloggers post pictures of themselves documenting their style, has established itself as a central form of fashion blogging. This is the type of blogs that this article concentrates on. By bringing together various technologies of the self it argues that the blogs represent a significant space of identity construction. Focusing on the idea of gender, it explores the various forces, both empowering and disempowering, at play in the formation and representation of femininity. The computer screen is discussed as a mirror through which women's position as specular objects is both reproduced and challenged, whilst the blogs also constitute a space for the circulation of alternative visions of femininity.
Reflections on a Rape Trial: The Role of Rape Myths and Jury Selection in the Outcome of a Trial

This article reviews arguments and jury deliberations froma rape trial that took place in spring 1999 and was retried 7 months later. It presents the circumstances of the case, the evidence and arguments of the prosecution and defense, discussions among jurors during the first trial, and the outcome of each trial. It also raises questions about the treatment of sexual assault victims in the courts, the effect of jury selection on the outcomes of trials, and the persistence of myths regarding women and sexual assault in American society.
The long-term effects and risk factors analysis in 253 cases advanced non-small cell lung cancer treated with percutaneous cryosurgery

Objective To investigate the long-term effects and risk factors of percutaneous cryosurgery for ⅢB and Ⅳ non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC)patients.Methods Two hundred fifty-three cases of ⅢB and Ⅳ NSCLC patients were underwent percutaneous cryosurgery guided by computer tomography(CT). The follow-up was preceded continuously every 3 months.The destination was the patient death or loss.The risk factors included patients age,tumor histology,staging,size,location and whether receiving combined chemotherapy.Results The median survival time was 11.98 months and 1-,2-year survival rate was 41.1%,27.59% in 253 patients with NSCLC.The Wald χ2 value of tumor staging,tumor size,location and combination chemotherapy was 3.064,4.054,2.822 and 5.329 with Cox model analysis(P0.1). Conclusion Percutaneous cryosurgery for advanced NSCLC guided by CT is effective.Tumor size,stage,location and combination chemotherapy are associated with prognosis of NSCLC.
Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Meaning and Power of Smell Part I: In Search of Lost Scents 1. The Aromas of Antiquity 2. Following the Scent: From the Middle Ages to Modernity Part II: Explorations in Olfactory Difference 3. Universes of Odour 4. The Rites of Smell Part III: Odour, Power and Society 5. Odour and Power: The Politics of Smell 6. The Aroma of the Commodity: The Commercialization of Smell Bibliography
Correlation of psychological factors with periodontal and erectile dysfunction diseases in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients

Introduction: Studies have shown common risk factors between coronary heart diseases, periodontal and erectile dysfunction. The most important factors contributing to such diseases are psychological factors. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of psychological factors on correlation between periodontal diseases and erectile dysfunction in CHD patients. Materials & Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was carried out in 2014 in which 31 CHD male patients whom referred to Mehr Clinic in Tehran were selected by convenience sampling. Data were gathered by four questionnaires namely “Depression Anxiety Stress Scale”, “The International Index of Erectile Function”, “Florida Sexual History Questionnaire” and “CPD Self-Check Sheet”. The content validity of these instruments, based on their content validity were measured and reliability was confirmed using Cronbach’s alpha method. Data were analyzed by SPSS/19. Findings: In total, 74.2% of patients had organic and 25.8% had psychogenic erectile dysfunction. In addition, no significant correlation was observed between periodontal disease and erectile dysfunction. Furthermore, only stress had an effect on this correlation. Results are showed that anxiety could predict the type of erectile dysfunction (P-value<0.05). Conclusion: There was no correlation between periodontal disease and erectile dysfunction in CHD patients. It is suggested that patients with both organic and psychogenic impotence, be evaluated for stress, anxiety and depression as well as periodontal disease with more compre-hensive questionnaires. Additionally, such study can be carried out on higher number of CHD patients to allow generalizability of the findings.
The Gender Stereotyping of Musical Instruments in the Western Tradition

The sexual stereotyping of musical instruments in Italian, German, and English society from the beginning of the Renaissance period to the end of the nineteenth century is the object of this essay. Through evidence gleaned from iconography and a variety of written documents, the author demonstrates how the gender association of musical instruments virtually eliminated female participation from important musical activities, ensuring the male domination of the art and preventing women from becoming prominent composers.
Multimodal Deep Learning for Music Genre Classification

Music genre labels are useful to organize songs, albums, and artists into broader groups that share similar musical characteristics. In this work, an approach to learn and combine multimodal data representations for music genre classification is proposed. Intermediate representations of deep neural networks are learned from audio tracks, text reviews, and cover art images, and further combined for classification. Experiments on single and multi-label genre classification are then carried out, evaluating the effect of the different learned representations and their combinations. Results on both experiments show how the aggregation of learned representations from different modalities improves the accuracy of the classification, suggesting that different modalities embed complementary information. In addition, the learning of a multimodal feature space increases the performance of pure audio representations, which may be specially relevant when the other modalities are available for training, but not at prediction time. Moreover, a proposed approach for dimensionality reduction of target labels yields major improvements in multi-label classification not only in terms of accuracy, but also in terms of the diversity of the predicted genres, which implies a more fine-grained categorization. Finally, a qualitative analysis of the results sheds some light on the behavior of the different modalities on the classification task.
Postoperative pain management in children: A survey of practices of pediatric surgeons in Nigeria

Background: Postoperative pain has a negative effect on the process of recovery. There is paucity of literature on the postoperative pain management practice in children in developing countries. We sought to determine the current practice of postoperative pain management in children among pediatric surgeons in Nigeria. Methods: A cohort of 43 pediatric surgeons/trainees attending two annual meetings of Association of Paediatric Surgeons of Nigeria (2011 and 2013) were surveyed with a questionnaire enquiring about the practice of postoperative pain management in children and their perceptions. Results: Thirty-seven respondents had completed the survey (86% response rate). Of these respondents, 27 (73.0%) were consultants and 10 (27.0%) were trainees. Only 2 (5.4%) respondents used any guidelines, and 8 (21.6%) respondents had an established institutional protocol for the pediatric postoperative pain management. Almost half of the respondents (18, 48.6%) used clinical judgments for assessing postoperative pain, followed by crying, requires oxygen to maintain saturation > 95%, increased vital signs, expressions, and sleeplessness scale (13, 35.1%); alertness, calmness, respiratory response/crying, physical movement, muscle tone, and facial tension behavioral scale (11, 29.7%); and verbal rating (10, 27.0%). In neonates, 89% of the respondents used paracetamol and 32% used pentazocine for routine postoperative analgesia. None of the respondents used morphine for neonatal postoperative analgesia. In older children, commonly used analgesics include paracetamol (35, 94.6%), pentazocine (30, 81.1%), and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (28, 75.7%). More than half of the respondents (20, 54.1%) were not satisfied with their current practice of postoperative pain management. Conclusion: Pain was infrequently assessed, and analgesic therapy though multimodal was largely not protocol based and therefore subject to inadequate pain relief. Postoperative pain should be more visible in our hospitals, and efforts should be made to improve its assessment and management.
The efficacy of Diclofenac for post caesarean section analgesia: comparison of rectal and intramuscular routes

Background: Despite advances in postoperative pain therapy, pain relief may still be inadequate for a substantial number of women.Aim: The aim was to compare the analgesic efficacy of rectal and intramuscular diclofenac for post Caesarean section analgesia.Materials and Methods: Following approval from the Hospital Ethics Committee 94 ASA I and II parturients aged 18 years and above scheduled for elective Caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia were recruited into the study. While one group of parturients received 100 mg Diclofenac suppository rectally (group R) those in the other group received 75 mg Diclofenac intramuscularly (group IM) immediately after surgery. The patients were instructed to request analgesic when they felt pain post-operatively. Pain scores were recorded using the VAS (0 to 10), (0 = no pain, 10 = the most severe pain), initially every 30 minutes for the first 2 hours, then every 2 hours from the 2nd hour to the 8th hour and every 4 hours after the 8th hour till the 24th hour.Results: The demographic data, BMI, PCV and ASA classification between the two groups of patients were comparable; the two groups were also comparable in the haemodynamic variables (mean systolic BP, mean diastolic BP, mean MAP and mean heart rate) and in the mean SpO2 recorded in the recovery room, p > 0.05 for all the variables. The time to first analgesic request in group IM was 313.2 ± 218.8 mins and in group R 314.1 ± 121.6 mins, p=0.98. There was no significant difference between the IM/R groups in the mean VAS scores of patients, the number of patients who received pentazocine at each time interval in the two groups, and the total pentazocine consumption in the two groups in 24 hours, p>0.05 in all the variables. There was no significant difference between the two groups in the mean satisfaction score in pain relief, p = 0.73, the mean satisfaction score with staff's response to patient's pain management needs, p = 0.85, and the mean acceptability score, p = 0.62. Conclusion: Suppository diclofenac administered through the rectal route is as efficacious as intramuscular diclofenac injection for post Caesarean section analgesia with equal levels of patient satisfaction and acceptability.Keywords: Post Caesarean section analgesia, diclofenac, rectal, intramuscular, spinal anaesthesia,
Spinal Deformities: The Essentials

Spinal Deformities: The Essentials, Second Edition presents a detailed overview of current key principles and practices involved in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with spinal deformities. Each chapter of this introductory text begins with "The Essentials," a bulleted list that summarizes the most important concepts presented, providing busy surgeons, residents, and fellows with a quick refresher before surgery. Key Features of the second edition: * Seven new chapters: Measuring Value in Spinal Deformity Care; Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in Spinal Deformity Surgery; Anatomy with an Emphasis on Alignment; The Importance of the Sacrum and Pelvis in Deformity Evaluation and Treatment; Early Onset Scoliosis; Lateral Interbody Fusion Approaches in Spinal Deformity; and Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) for Adult Deformities* All chapters cover classification, patient evaluation, radiographic assessment, indication, treatment options, and complications* Straightforward explanations of the basic as well as the latest advanced modalities and surgical strategies Written by leading experts in spine surgery, this text will be an invaluable reference for all orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, residents, and fellows involved in the care of patients with spinal deformities.
On the Benefi ts and Harms of Mammography for Breast Cancer Screening in Korean Women

As breast cancer is becoming more prevalent in Korean women, mammography screening for early cancer detection is very important. However, risks, including over-prescription of mammography screening, have been emphasized recently. The governments of Canada and the USA have reported that women younger than 50 years of age do not need to be screened routinely. The main reason for this recommendation is that the risk of over-diagnosis and biopsy may be greater than the benefit of decreasing mortality in younger women. Korean women have a 1/3 lower incidence rate than non-Hispanic White women, and the peak age group in Korean and USA women are 45 to 49 and 75 to 79 years, respectively. These epidemiological findings indicate that Korean women have a higher risk of unnecessary interventions and anti-cancer treatment as they have a higher chance of false positive in screening mammography. These results suggest that the national screening guidelines for Korean women should be adapted and screening mammography in normal risk healthy women should be optional.
Dancing Identity: Metaphysics In Motion

Combining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Dancing Identity presents a series of interconnected essays composed over a period of fifteen years. Taken as a whole, these meditative reflections on memory and on the ways we perceive and construct our lives represent Sondra Fraleigh's journey toward self-definition as informed by art, ritual, feminism, phenomenology, poetry, autobiography, and - always - dance. Fraleigh's brilliantly inventive fusions of philosophy and movement clarify often complex philosophical issues and apply them to dance history and aesthetics. She illustrates her discussions with photographs, dance descriptions, and stories from her own past in order to bridge dance with everyday movement. Seeking to recombine the fractured and bifurcated conceptions of the body and of the senses that dominate much Western discourse, she reveals how metaphysical concepts are embodied and presented in dance, both on stage and in therapeutic settings. Examining the role of movement in personal and political experiences, Fraleigh reflects on her major influences, including Moshe Feldenkrais, Kazuo Ohno, and Twyla Tharp. She draws on such varied sources as philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Martin Heidegger, the German expressionist dancer Mary Wigman, Japanese Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, Hitler, the Bomb, Miss America, Balanchine, and the goddess figure of ancient cultures. Dancing Identity offers new insights into modern life and its reconfigurations in postmodern dance.
KPSS Puanlarının Akademik Başarı ve Cinsiyet Açısından Değerlendirilmesi

In Turkey, candidates who want to be appointed as a teacher have to enter a selection exam knovvn as the KPSS exam(Government Officials Selection Examinalion) after they have graduated from college. The aim of this study was to compare the candidates’ Grade Point Average (GPA) and KPSS scores according to gender. Moreover, it was also investigated whether the GPA can be predicative of KPSS scores. This study involved 727 teacher candidates (311 female, 416 male) who graduated from Erzincan Faculty of Education in the summer semester of 2002-2003 academic year and who entered the KPSS-Ogretmenlik exam in 2003. The results show that the GPA of female teacher candidates was significantly higher than that of male teacher candidates and tire KPSS scores of male teacher candidates were significantly higher than that of female teacher candidates. The GPA is predicative for scores of the KPSS for 15 % of male candidates and for 14.6% of female candidates.
“Unframing” Arts Based Research: New Directions and Conversations

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The impact of a PBL curriculum on students' motivation and self-regulation

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is more and more widespread in Higher Education. Among other advantages, PBL is assumed to foster students’ motivation and self-regulation. But empirical evidence supporting this claim is scarce, especially at a curriculum level. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of a PBL curriculum on the motivation and the cognitive engagement of undergraduate students. The study was conducted in an engineering faculty where a new two-year PBL curriculum has been implemented. The last cohort of students who attended the old curriculum was compared with the first cohort of students who attended the new PBL curriculum. Those students completed a questionnaire on perception of instructional practices, goal orientations, self-efficacy, self-regulation strategies, and learning strategies at the end of their curriculum (data collected in 2001 and 2002). Multivariate analyses show some positive effects in favour of students from the PBL curriculum, but they also point to some problems linked to the implementation of this new curriculum (work-overload, incoherent assessment). Perceptions of instructional practices partially mediate the PBL curriculum effects. Implications for attempts to improve students’ engagement in Higher Education are discussed.
Educating children in two languages : a multiple-case study of dual language instruction in the United States and Japan

The current study examines English, Japanese dual language programs and how schools integrate language, culture, and environment in enhancing student learning among private, elite, early aged children. Two schools in Japan and one school in the United States made up the three case students in this cross-case analysis. By analyzing the data collected over a period of nearly 600 hours of classroom observations, and interviews with the subjects as well as reviewing documents, this study showed that student learning was enhanced through the birth and cultivation of a new, hybrid culture, the use of code-switching initiated by the students, and the influence that a native speaker of each language brought on a class-level scale. The results of this study add to the literature and research on early English, Japanese dual language education and the necessary components needed for optimal learning.
The workload analysis in welding workshop

This research was conducted in welding workshop which produces doors, fences, canopies, etc., according to customer’s order. The symptoms of excessive workload were seen from the fact of employees complaint, requisition for additional employees, the lateness of completion time (there were 11 times of lateness from 28 orders, and 7 customers gave complaints). The top management of the workshop assumes that employees’ workload was still a tolerable limit. Therefore, it was required workload analysis to determine the number of employees required. The Workload was measured by using a physiological method and workload analysis. The result of this research can be utilized by the workshop for a better workload management.
Analyse des difficultés des étudiants à propos des concepts de phase et de surface d'onde, du principe de Huygens

La premiere partie de cet article porte sur des situations de propagation selon une direction et le concept de phase d'une onde. La deuxieme concerne des situations de propagation selon plusieurs directions, de reflexion et transmission, de superposition d'ondes spheriques coherentes et le concept de surface d'onde. Les grandeurs physiques auxquelles les etudiants relient ces deux concepts et les methodes utilisees pour tracer une surface d'onde sont degagees et analysees. Des tendances de raisonnement deja mises en evidence dans nos precedentes recherches se manifestent : considerer l'onde comme un objet materiel, reduire le nombre de concepts et les materialiser. Quelques remarques sur des manuels d'enseignement et quelques propositions pedagogiques sont faites.