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American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives rise to absurd, darkly comic and nihilistic effects.

American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives rise to absurd, darkly comic and nihilistic effects.

The external carotid artery (ECA) is a major branched artery that supplies head and neck structures. An undocumented variation of the ECA was discovered during cadaveric dissection of the anterolateral cervical region, in which a common origin for the ascending pharyngeal, facial, and lingual arteries was identified. In addition, bilateral, duplicate ascending pharyngeal arteries (APAs) were identified at the aforementioned common trunk and the bifurcation of the external and internal carotid arteries. Anatomical knowledge regarding the location of the APA is essential to physicians, as this vessel is a primary supply source for many skull base tumors and vascular lesions. Furthermore, such anatomical knowledge is essential to physicians, as there have been cases of misdiagnosis regarding APA anomalies as an internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection. In this cadaver, both ECAs exhibited typical branching into the superior thyroid artery (STA), occipital artery, posterior auricular artery, maxillary artery, and superficial temporal artery.

In all the critical hype around HBO's Girls (2012–), remarks on its intense physicality have been foremost — centering on Lena Dunham's blunt presentation of her ‘imperfect’ body in situations from sex to exercise to bathing to sleep. This article will consider the kinaesthetic affect of this, and other posing and performing bodies in Girls. Arguing that the choreographed body is central to the pleasures and accomplishments of the series as television, I suggest that its impact can be interpreted through the medium and art of dance.

This article describes a clinical experience where the careful application of problem-solving skills has resulted in positive changes in glycaemic care in a critical care environment. The metabolic stress response to trauma injuries leads to episodes of hyperglycaemia. The application of a problem-solving process has resulted in greater understanding of best practice of the management of this problem. The importance of strict control of blood glucose levels in the critically ill patient is highlighted. Although the practice area in this article is a specialized intensive care environment, in light of recent government-led recognition that many patients in hospital are increasingly ill (Department of Health (DoH), 1998a), this situation may arise in many ward environments.

•CDC funded 110 primary partners to reduce COVID-19 vaccination disparities.•CDC-funded partners trained > 295,000 community spokespersons as trusted messengers.•More than 535,035 healthcare personnel were reached through outreach strategies.•Vaccination policies were updated in medical societies and in clinical settings. During the COVID-19 vaccination rollout from March 2021- December 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded 110 primary and 1051 subrecipient partners at the national, state, local, and community-based level to improve COVID-19 vaccination access, confidence, demand, delivery, and equity in the United States. The partners implemented evidence-based strategies among racial and ethnic minority populations, rural populations, older adults, people with disabilities, people with chronic illness, people experiencing homelessness, and other groups disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. CDC also expanded existing partnerships with healthcare professional societies and other core public health partners, as well as developed innovative partnerships with organizations new to vaccination, including museums and libraries. Partners brought COVID-19 vaccine education into farm fields, local fairs, churches, community centers, barber and beauty shops, and, when possible, partnered with local healthcare providers to administer COVID-19 vaccines. Inclusive, hyper-localized outreach through partnerships with community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, vaccination providers, and local health departments was critical to increasing COVID-19 vaccine access and building a broad network of trusted messengers that promoted vaccine confidence. Data from monthly and quarterly REDCap reports and monthly partner calls showed that through these partnerships, more than 295,000 community-level spokespersons were trained as trusted messengers and more than 2.1 million COVID-19 vaccinations were administered at new or existing vaccination sites. More than 535,035 healthcare personnel were reached through outreach strategies. Quality improvement interventions were implemented in healthcare systems, long-term care settings, and community health centers resulting in changes to the clinical workflow to incorporate COVID-19 vaccine assessments, recommendations, and administration or referrals into routine office visits. Funded partners’ activities improved COVID-19 vaccine access and addressed community concerns among racial and ethnic minority groups, as well as among people with barriers to vaccination due to chronic illness or disability, older age, lower income, or other factors.

Contemporary discussions of film and authorship are broadly characterised by an attitude of unrest. Approaches to the topic self-consciously tread a line between recognising the myriad ways in which the field of study has evolved from the intentionalist position of the original Cahiers du Cinéma critics, and recognising the palpable ways in which the fascination with the auteur remains. In a 2001 piece titled ‘Auteur Desire’, Dana Polan describes the dual nature of this fascination as a drive to outline the desire of the auteur – a director’s personal obsessions – and as the continuing obsession of the cinephile to

In his introduction to a collection of essays originally written around a retrospective of 1970s American films at the 1995 Vienna Film Festival, Alexander Horwath suggests, “if you have come of age as a cinemagoer during the heyday of New Hollywood cinema—sometime between Bonnie and Clyde [1967] and Taxi Driver [1976]—you’ve probably experienced the main brands of post-1970s American cinema by necessity as less rich, less intelligent, less political, as retrograde” (9). Horwath here typifies the widely held position that regards the birth of the New Hollywood in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a “Renaissance” in