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Ernst Haas : on set
This volume considers the film-stills of Ernst Haas, transgressing the borders between static photography and the moving image. Haas worked with a variety of directors from Vittorio de Sica to John Huston, Gene Kelly and Michael Cimino covering movie genres from suspense ('The Third Man';'The Train') to the Western ('The Oregon Trail'; 'Little Big Man'), and from comedy ('Miracle in Milan'; 'Love and Death') to musicals ('West Side Story'; 'Hello Dolly'). While the photographic reference system known as the film-still has existed since the birth of cinema, inherent to the genre are precisely those parameters that are essential qualities of Haas photography, and which interact in a striking manner with his images made independently of film. On the one hand, we find photographs documenting shoots and depictions of individual scenes. On the other hand, it is Haas' clear ambition to inscribe a temporal dimension into these images; to impose filmic principles into the stills which, viewed in a sequence, generate movement and narrative.
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Evaluation of Antimicrobial Performance of Calcium Dihydroxide (Ca(OH)2) Coating on Ti for Potential Metallic Orthopedic Implant Applications
Background/Objectives: Orthopedic implant infections are rare but represent a significant problem for patients, surgeons, and the healthcare systems. This is because these infections cause severe and persistent pain and, in some cases, may require revision of the implant, among other things. Thus, there is strong interest in the use of antimicrobial coatings on orthopedic implants. Here, we investigate electrochemically deposited Ca(OH)2 antimicrobial coating for its potential to be used on metallic orthopedic implants. Methods: A triphenyl tetrazolim chloride (TTC) assay and isothermal microcalorimetry (IMC) were used to determine the reduction in microbial activity on three sets of Ti parts (discs and screws): uncoated, coated with hydroxyapatite (HA), and coated with Ca(OH)2. Results: Using the TTC assay, a ~70% reduction in the growth of bacteria on Ca(OH)2-coated discs was found, and using IMC, bacterial growth on these discs showed a decreased rate and an increased lag phase up to 25 h. Each of these sets of results was statistically superior to the corresponding results obtained using the other sets of parts. Conclusions: The present results suggest that the Ca(OH)2 coating may have potential for use on metallic orthopedic implants.
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Neo-Baroques
This anthology examines the phenomenon of the Neo-Baroque through interdisciplinary perspectives. Understanding the Neo-Baroque as transcultural (between different cultures) and transhistorical (between historical moments) the contributors explore its slippery nature of the Neo-Baroque.
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Introduction
Today the spectacle of this tail shows no signs of weakening-quite the contrary, as we have already seen. [...]the authors of this volume consider it as interesting an object of historical investigation and cultural analysis as the nucleus is. Baroque and Neo-Baroque shows, forms of metatheatre occur already in the historic baroque, and also in romanticism, modernism and postmodernism; therefore they cannot be used to define neo-baroque culture exclusively. [...]foregrounding a specific aspect of the phenomena under investigation by privileging a specific prefix in the analytical and critical discourse can certainly be a successful cognitive strategy as long as we agree to focus on this specific aspect, without pretending that it represents the complex totality of the phenomenon. Complexity in the first Atlantic Culture. [...]scholarly work in this field can and should take advantage of the concepts, the models and the methods that the theory of complex systems has developed recently and is offering us to look into the functioning of the baroque as one integrated cultural system. [...]postmodernity seems to develop a strategic affinity with the return of the baroque inasmuch as, in the cultural domain, it positively selects baroque cultural material and procedures to give these residual elements new meaning in the overcoming of a dominant paradigm towards the historically emergent.
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CHAPTER 8: The Religious Shines through: Religious Remnants and Resurgences in 90s Cinema
In another formulation, repeated by Luhmann like a leitmotif, he says that the system permanently \"generates and dissolves a self-created uncertainty\" (55). [...]society \"stimulates itself into constant innovation\" (78), an ongoing process that guarantees its survival through autopoietic adaptation. First of all, Mr. Anderson's- this is his civic identity in the Matrix society where he works in a computer company-hacker name Neo is also an anagram of his messianic mission that is iterated in many forms converging in the phrase: \"You are the One\"20. [...]this in a context where 'reality' has become problematic, the search for a liberating hero, capable of undoing the false reality by fighting against the political forces that are behind it and, thus, by liberating mankind from the delusion, and from the enslavement through this false reality.25 Mankind is in need of the One who can do this (i.e. a Saviour figure). [...]the religious becomes a functional and structural element that offers a neat script allowing for a 'Hollywoodian' narration, with the necessary production of suspense: who will liberate mankind from the enslaving and repressive forces of the Matrix? Quite contrary to the 'Hollywoodian' ending in The Matrix, this ending reopens the main question and leaves it up to the spectator to reflect on reality. [...]in this film about video games, with this open ending, suddenly, the framing media cinema and the framed media video game are conflated into one.
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Evaluation of Antimicrobial Performance of Calcium Dihydroxide Coating on Ti for Potential Metallic Orthopedic Implant Applications
Background/Objectives: Orthopedic implant infections are rare but represent a significant problem for patients, surgeons, and the healthcare systems. This is because these infections cause severe and persistent pain and, in some cases, may require revision of the implant, among other things. Thus, there is strong interest in the use of antimicrobial coatings on orthopedic implants. Here, we investigate electrochemically deposited Ca(OH)[sub.2] antimicrobial coating for its potential to be used on metallic orthopedic implants. Methods: A triphenyl tetrazolim chloride (TTC) assay and isothermal microcalorimetry (IMC) were used to determine the reduction in microbial activity on three sets of Ti parts (discs and screws): uncoated, coated with hydroxyapatite (HA), and coated with Ca(OH)[sub.2]. Results: Using the TTC assay, a ~70% reduction in the growth of bacteria on Ca(OH)[sub.2]-coated discs was found, and using IMC, bacterial growth on these discs showed a decreased rate and an increased lag phase up to 25 h. Each of these sets of results was statistically superior to the corresponding results obtained using the other sets of parts. Conclusions: The present results suggest that the Ca(OH)[sub.2] coating may have potential for use on metallic orthopedic implants.
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Introduction to Part 1
[...]all five contributions presented in this section do not indulge in purely byzantine debates on a concept. In Terra em Transe, the author analyses Glauber Rocha's innovative visual language that corresponds to a new sensibility in the Latin America of the 1960s, both in aesthetic and in political terms, and causes an emotional impact on the viewers. [...]the baroque is characterized by the paradoxical co-existence of immersion and metatheatre.
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Haematological toxicity of Valproic acid compared to Levetiracetam in patients with glioblastoma multiforme undergoing concomitant radio-chemotherapy: a retrospective cohort study
Patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and symptomatic seizures are in need of a sufficient antiepileptic treatment. Haematological toxicity is a limiting side effect of both, first line radio-chemotherapy with temozolomide (TMZ) and co-medication with antiepileptic drugs. Valproic acid (VPA) and levetiracetam (LEV) are considered favourable agents in brain tumor patients with seizures, but are commonly reported to induce haematological side effects on their own. We hypothesized, that antiepileptic treatment with these agents has no increased impact on haematological side effects during radio-chemotherapy in the first line setting. We included 104 patients from two neuro-oncologic centres with GBM and standard radio-chemotherapy in a retrospective cohort study. Patients were divided according to their antiepileptic treatment with either VPA, LEV or without antiepileptic drug therapy (control group). Declines in haemoglobin levels and absolute blood cell counts for neutrophil granulocytes, lymphocytes and thrombocytes were analyzed twice during concomitant and once during adjuvant phase. A comparison between the examined groups was performed, using a linear mixed model. Neutrophil granulocytes, lymphocytes and thrombocytes significantly decreased over time in all three groups (all
p
< 0.012), but there was no significant difference between the compared groups. A significant decline in haemoglobin was observed in the LEV treated group (
p
= 0.044), but did not differ between the compared groups. As a novel finding, this study demonstrates that co-medication either with VPA or LEV in GBM patients undergoing first line radio-chemotherapy with TMZ has no additional impact on medium-term haematological toxicity.
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