My intention in this paper is to explore how Dada's internationalism can be related to Dada's radical work in poetic language. Dada's internationalism is often seen to reflect the fact that its groups were made up of displaced, exiled individuals. In February 1918 Richard Huelsenbeck stated in his " Erste Dadarede in Deutschland " : " Der Dadaismus war notgedrungen ein internationales Produkt. ...

INTRODUCTION A large private operating theatre complex was investigated to address the lack of published South African benchmarks for utilisation. All major theatres were staffed during normal working hours (07h00 - 19h00), emergency cases being provided for on an ad hoc basis through spare capacity. METHODS An extensive billing database, amounting to 28 991 records of procedures performed du...

A new method for recording the spatial properties of a soundfield, or for generating a synthetic three-dimensional soundfield, is described. The spatial distribution of sound waves passing at a point in space is sampled by means of a number of virtual directive microphones, covering the surface of a sphere. This corresponds to a discretization of the spatial information, which is exactly the sp...

For Moore, it is a paradox that although I would be absurd in asserting that (it is raining but I don’t believe it is) or that (it is raining but I believe it isn’t), such assertions might be true. But I would be also absurd in judging that the contents of such assertions are true. I argue for the strategy of explaining the absurdity of Moorean assertion in terms of conscious Moorean belief. On...

Mallon, Machery, Nichols and Stich (2009) argue that the use of intuitions in the philosophy of reference is problematic as recent studies show intuitions about reference vary both within and between cultures. I use some ideas from the recent literature on disagreement and truth relativism to shed light on the debate concerning the appropriate reaction to these studies. Mallon et al. argue that...

BACKGROUND Dislocation of a hip prosthesis is a painful event which has an incidence of 4% for primary total hip arthroplasty. Relocation is traditionally performed under general anaesthesia in the operating theatre, but relocation using sedation in the emergency department (ED) has been reported, with a limited success rate of 62%. A study was undertaken to compare door to relocation times for...

Surgical site infections (SSIs) remain a significant cause of postoperative complications. The risk of death from a medical error in a UK hospital remains one in 300. Increased theatre traffic has been identified as a modifiable determinant of SSI and surgical error. This cross-sectional study for the first time describes the pattern of theatre traffic in a UK cardiac centre. An electronic door...

Foreign body aspiration in children is a life threatening event and prompt bronchoscopy and extraction is essential for their survival. During a recent paediatric airway emergency at Torbay hospital, Devon, the theatre staff were unable to assemble the paediatric bronchoscope. We therefore investigated methods to improve the efficiency and timeliness of the assembly of the paediatric bronchosco...

The quest for reconciliation in South Africa is an exercise the absurd. To say it absurd might also have some merit. Like Sisyphus, figure Greek mythology, those engaged are condemned to repeat forever same, cases, meaningless task of pushing a boulder up mountain only see roll down again. This amid human propensity search meaning irrespective incongruity ideal and absurdity that defines our ex...

Las Absurdas Maquinas (The Absurd Machines) is an ongoing project to develop sophisticated robotic art installations that explore issues of form, movement, and the embodiment of the human experience. The robot Dirty Red, on view at the AAAI01 robot exhibition, is a central component of this work. We present in this paper the technical details of the robot, as well as the motivation of the proje...