scholarly journals Short overview of the history of cardiovascular surgery

Cor et Vasa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. e61-e62
Author(s):  
Michael Aschermann ◽  
Petr Němec
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Surgery ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
History Of

Creation in the Poimandres and in Other Creation Stories

2020 ◽  
Vol 21-22 (1) ◽  
pp. 411-421
Author(s):  
Fritz Graf
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Creation Stories

AbstractMy paper develops from the observation that the cosmogonies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Hermetic Poimandres are related to each other. After an analysis of Ovid’s text as an example of a diakrisis cosmogony in which the world is created by the sorting out of its originally confused elements, I give a short overview of the history of this type of cosmogony before Ovid. I then analyze the respective cosmogony in the Poimandres as another example of the same typology. A look at the use of diakrisis cosmogonies in late antiquity, including in the first ‘Moral Poem’ of Gregory of Nazianzus, closes the paper and demonstrates the attraction of this cosmogonical model in the Imperial epoch.

scholarly journals Philosophy and society: From the collection to the journal

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-60
Author(s):  
Dusan Boskovic
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
History Of

This paper brings a short overview of the history of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, the publisher of the journal Philosophy and Society. The first issue came out in 1987 as a collection of essays, and for the last eight years it has been published annually. In 2005 it became a journal with three issues per year, becoming quarterly since 2011. The article gives a review of all special topics covered in the journal up until the end of 2012. In addition, the article provides a detailed analysis of the journal?s special issue on Antifascism (IV/1993). We argue that this issue is an important historical document in the changing social atmosphere of the former Yugoslavia, with the first signs of its disintegration. The papers were initially presented at a conference held on 2, 3 July, 1991.

Interactive Systems for Multimedia Opera

2008 ◽  
pp. 942-957
Author(s):  
M Olivia
Keyword(s):  
Electroacoustic Music ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
Practical Solution ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
Gestural Control ◽  
History Of ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
The Creation

This chapter considers the development of systems to deliver multimedia content for new opera. After a short overview of the history of multimedia in opera, the specific requirements of opera are analysed, with emphasis of the fundamental musicality of operatic performance. Having considered the place of multimedia elements in the narrative and acting space, the relevance of previous practice in electroacoustic music and Vjing is considered as a model for a working approach. Several software and hardware configurations explored, including the use of gestural control by the actors themselves. The creation of a keyboard based “video instrument” with a dedicated performer, capable of integration into the pre- existing musical ensemble, is recommended as the most effective and practical solution.

scholarly journals Retoriese kritiek en die interpretasie van die Ou Testament

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
H.J.M. Van Deventer
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Rhetorical Criticism ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
Basic Approaches ◽  
History Of Biblical Interpretation

Rhetorical criticism and the interpretation of the Old Testament Modern history of Biblical interpretation presents us with two basic approaches to the text of the Bible, viz. historical and literary approaches. This article proposes rhetorical criticism as a process of interpretation that analyses both the historical and literary features of a text. After a short overview of the modern use of the term, especially within the field of Biblical interpretation, this article investigates various “forms” of rhetorical criticism as proposed by scholars working in the fields of general literary theory, a well as Biblical (Old and New Testament) interpretation. The article concludes by proposing a form of rhetorical criticism for interpreting texts from the Old Testament.

Outcomes of cardiovascular surgery for chronic dialysis patients in current Japan

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 464-470
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Kurazumi ◽  
Masaya Takahashi ◽  
Shigeru Ikenaga
Keyword(s):  
Survival Rate ◽  
Cardiovascular Surgery ◽  
Hazard Ratio ◽  
Dialysis Patients ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
History Of ◽  
Atherosclerosis Obliterans

Background The number of dialysis patients in Japan is rising, with an increasing number requiring cardiovascular surgery. Methods We investigated the short- and long-term outcomes in 70 dialysis patients among a total of 1124 who underwent cardiovascular surgery in our hospital between 2004 and 2016. We investigated outcomes following open surgery and identified factors that affected the prognosis. We also compared the long-term survival rate with the survival rate of the Japanese dialysis population. Results The long-term survival rate was 70.6%, 51.1%, and 19.2% after 3, 5, and 10 years, respectively. The causes of long-term death were heart disease in 8 patients, cerebrovascular disease in 7, cachexia in 3, infection in 2, and other causes in 3. The freedom from cardiac death was 88.7%, 77.9%, and 54.9% after 3, 5, and 10 years, respectively. Multivariate analysis using Cox’s proportional hazard model showed that a history of atherosclerosis obliterans (hazard ratio 5.4, p = 0.05) and mediastinitis (hazard ratio 10.2, p = 0.03) were risk factors for death in long-term follow-up, and a history of atherosclerosis obliterans was an independent risk factor for cardiac death in long-term follow-up (hazard ratio 5.3, p = 0.01). Five-year survival of the study subjects was comparable to that of the Japanese dialysis population. Conclusions The prognosis for dialysis patients after open surgery was equivalent to that of Japanese dialysis patients in general. A high proportion of late postoperative deaths were due to heart disease. Patients with atherosclerosis obliterans had a poor prognosis.

German Settlements in the Southern Caucasus

2001 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 138
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
World War ◽  
Cattle Breeding ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
History Of ◽  
Southern Caucasus ◽  
The Town ◽  
Vast Territory

AbstractThe article deals with the German migration to Russia in general and the fate of German settlements in the Southern Caucasus in particular. After a short overview over the motives and ways of German migration to Russia from its early days in the 10th century until the end of the first Russian Revolution in 1908 the author describes at some length the history of German settlements in Transcaucasia, i.e. the territory divided today between the Republics of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. The first 31 German families of migrants, which belonged to the chiliastic sectarian movement arrived in the Southern Caucasus in spring 1817 and founded near to Tbilissi the settlement Marienfeld. They were soon to be followed by other German migrants which were engaging themselves all over Transcaucasia in agriculture, gardening and cattle-breeding. In 1900 the number of German settlers in the area amounted to about 12 thousand people. Although spread over a vast territory the German villages were in contact which each other, establishing their own network of religious and educational institutions. German-speakers reached as far south as Schuscha, a town in today's Nogorny Karabakh. Two small German villages were even to be found near to Mount Ararat, on the very Russian-Turkish border, around five kilometres from the town of Kars. Although both villages were left by their German inhabitants in 1914 due to World War I, still in 1971 some old German style houses now inhabi-ted by Turkish families could be identified in the place.

scholarly journals Mycobacterium chimaera Infection After Aortic Valve Replacement Presenting With Aortic Dissection and Pseudoaneurysm

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
C R O’Neil ◽  
G Taylor ◽  
S Smith ◽  
A M Joffe ◽  
K Antonation ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aortic Valve ◽  
Aortic Dissection ◽  
Aortic Valve Replacement ◽  
Valve Replacement ◽  
Cardiovascular Surgery ◽  
Past History ◽  
Late Complication ◽  
History Of

Abstract We present a case of Mycobacterium chimaera infection presenting with aortic dissection and pseudoaneuysm in a 22-year-old man with a past history of aortic valve replacement. Clinicians should consider M. chimaera infection in those presenting with aortic dissection as a late complication of cardiovascular surgery.

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