scholarly journals Touching the Membranous Septum: A Thin Line between Treating and Threatening?

Cardiology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Harilaos Bogossian ◽  
Nana-Yaw Bimpong-Buta ◽  
Patrick Müller
Keyword(s):  
Thin Line ◽  
Membranous Septum

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Boyd Maunsell
Keyword(s):  
Truth Telling ◽  
Thin Line ◽  
Convex Mirror ◽  
The Way

This chapter traces and opens up the themes that recur in the series of chapters which follow. With a brief discussion of a painting mentioned by Vasari in his Lives of the Painters—Parmigianino’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1523–4)—ideas of illusion and truth-telling, the differences between visual and literary self-portraiture, and the difficulties in searching for the meaning of a life, are introduced. The scope of Portraits from Life is outlined, with brief definitions of memoir and autobiography, and a discussion of the thin line between fiction and autobiography in all writing. The key problems, satisfactions, and possibilities of biography and autobiography are raised, especially as they relate to the Modernist period and to writers who are also novelists. The way in which autobiography often becomes a form of group portraiture is also discussed.

Embodying the culture of achievement: Culture between illness and perfection is a ‘thin line’ – obtaining the ideal female body as an act of achievement

2021 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2110040
Author(s):  
Josefine Dilling ◽  
Anders Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Thin Line ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Body Ideals

In this article, we argue that certain behaviour connected to the attempt to attain contemporary female body ideals in Denmark can be understood as an act of achievement and, thus, as an embodiment of the culture of achievement, as it is characterised in Præstationssamfundet, written by the Danish sociologist Anders Petersen (2016) Hans Reitzels Forlag . Arguing from cultural psychological and sociological standpoints, this article examines how the human body functions as a mediational tool in different ways from which the individual communicates both moral and aesthetic sociocultural ideals and values. Complex processes of embodiment, we argue, can be described with different levels of internalisation, externalisation and materialisation, where the body functions as a central mediator. Analysing the findings from a qualitative experimental study on contemporary body ideals carried out by the Danish psychologists Josefine Dilling and Maja Trillingsgaard, this article seeks to anchor such theoretical claims in central empirical findings. The main conclusions from the study are used to structure the article and build arguments on how expectations and ideals expressed in an achievement society become embodied.

scholarly journals Ḥasan Naṣrallāh’s ʿĀshūrāʾ Speeches: The Thin Line between Ethics and Identity

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 384-410
Author(s):  
Bashir Saade
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Thin Line ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Previous Scholarship

AbstractThe Lebanese political organization Hizbullah has developed its own style of commemorating ʿāshūrāʾ, the Shiʿi period of mourning in remembrance of the Battle of Karbalāʾ. Previous scholarship has analyzed Hizbullah’s ʿāshūrāʾ with prevailing conceptual binaries such as politics/religion, reason/tradition, or reason/emotion. This article challenges such binaries by looking at the series of speeches given by Hizbullah’s secretary general, Ḥasan Naṣrallāh, during the annual ʿāshūrāʾ rituals. Naṣrallāh’s oratory skills, and most importantly the careful structuring of the ten-day mourning event, show clearly that the production of reasoned arguments through speech involves the cultivation of intense emotions and states of consciousness. These are conducive not only to collective action and identity formation but also to ethical practices.

Anatomical predictors of high grade atrioventricular conduction disorders in patients with specific pacemaker implanted after TAVI

EP Europace ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (Supplement_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
P Frey ◽  
A Brochier ◽  
N Nezzouhairi ◽  
D Irles
Keyword(s):  
Atrioventricular Block ◽  
Pacemaker Implantation ◽  
Atrioventricular Conduction ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Av Block ◽  
Conduction Disorders ◽  
Transcatheter Aortic Valve ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Valve Implantation ◽  
Membranous Septum

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. OnBehalf STIM TAVI-MS study Background  The evolution of atrioventricular conduction disorders after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) remains poorly understood. Recent studies have identified short membranous septum (MS) length, deep implantation depth (ID) or their relation as anatomic risk of high-grade AV block and permanent pacemaker implantation. Purpose : We sought to examine whether the atrioventricular (AV) membranous septum (MS) measured by computed tomography (CT) and the depth of valve implantation measured from the final aortic angiogram could predict high-grade atrioventricular block (HG AVB) after TAVI, based on specific pacemaker memory data. Methods STIM-TAVI-MS was a prospective, multicentre observational study that enrolled patients implanted with a specific dual chamber pacemaker after TAVI, with the SafeR algorithm activated, allowing continuous monitoring of atrioventricular conduction. The primary endpoint was the occurrence of late (after Day 7) high-grade atrioventricular block(s) during the year after TAVI. We measured on CT scans the coronal MS lenght, infra-annular MS lenght and the quantification of calcifications, on the final angiogram after TAVI we measured the implant depth (ID) to identifie ΔID-MS corresponding to the difference between implant depth and MS length. The variables were compared with the occurrence of late HG-AVB on PM memory data. Results : Among 82 patients, (mean age 84,5 years ± 4,8, self-expending valve n = 24, 29,3%), n = 47 (57.3%) had ≥1 late high-grade atrioventricular block. Mean coronal MS length was 8,1 ± 2,5 mm, mean infra annular MS was 3,4 ± 3.1 mm, mean calcification volume was 93.0 ± 88, 85,5± 104 and 141,5 ± 137,5 mm3 for the noncoronary, right coronary and left coronary cusp respectively. Mean implant depth was 7,3 ± 3,3mm, and mean ΔID-MS = -0,7 ± 4,1mm. There were no association between MS length (OR = 1,06; CI 0,91 to 1,24), ID (OR = 1,6; CI 0,85 to 2,9), nor ΔID-MS (OR = 0,67; CI 0,37 to 1,23) and late HG AVB. Calcification volume were not associated with late HG AVB. Conclusion In an high risk high grade AV block population after TAVI, anatomical analysis of MS length, degree of calcification, implant depth and ΔID-MS did not predict occurrence of late (> day 7 after TAVI ) high grade AV Blocks. Abstract Figure. CT scan A : aortic plane, B : MS lenght

scholarly journals Signatures of the non-Maxwellianκ-distributions in optically thin line spectra

2014 ◽  
Vol 570 ◽  
pp. A124 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dudík ◽  
G. Del Zanna ◽  
H. E. Mason ◽  
E. Dzifčáková
Keyword(s):  
Thin Line

scholarly journals A ventricular septal defect with a giant appendiform aneurysm of the membranous septum

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 152-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Cozijnsen ◽  
L. Cozijnsen ◽  
A. C. P. Maas ◽  
M. Bakker-de Boo ◽  
B. J. Bouma
Keyword(s):  
Ventricular Septal Defect ◽  
Septal Defect ◽  
Membranous Septum
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