The article explores issues of the American musical theater nineteenth century, fruitfully developing on basis postminimalism. Among brightest representatives this style is composer David Lang (1957), a member group “Bang Can”. His theatrical projects last two decades demonstrate new phase in development postminimalist theater, foundation which was laid by his older contemporaries, Philip Glass...

Introduction Hip fracture remains the biggest single source of morbidity and mortality in the elderly trauma population, and any intervention focused on quality improvement and system efficiency is beneficial for both patients and clinicians. Two of the variables contributory to improving care and efficiency are time to theater and length of stay, with the overall goal being to improve care as ...

BACKGROUND Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) and guide sheath (EBUS-GS) are gaining popularity for diagnosis and staging of lung cancer compared to CT-guided transthoracic needle aspiration (CT-TTNA), blind fiber-optic bronchoscopy, and mediastinoscopy. This paper aimed to examine predictors of higher costs for diagnosing and staging lung cancer, and t...

BACKGROUND Retroperitoneal hematoma (RH) can present as an acute life-threatening condition, report on RH in low-income countries are lacking. OBJECTIVE We present the severity, pattern, challenges, and outcome of RH in a low-resource country such as Nigeria. METHODS This was a retrospective observational study of all patients with blunt or penetrating abdominal injury needing surgery, pati...

Best practice tariff (BPT) was introduced as a financial incentive model to improve compliance with evidence-based care, such as operation for hip fracture within 36 hours of admission. We previously evaluated the impact of warfarin on patients with hip fracture, revealing significant delay to operation and subsequent loss of revenue. As a result of this, an "early trigger" intravenous vitamin ...

Most medical treatments of Parkinson's disease (PD) are aimed at the reduction of motor symptoms. However, even when motor improvements are evident, patients often report a deterioration of their daily lives. Thus, to achieve a global improvement in personal well-being, not only drugs, but also complementary therapies, such as physical exercise, occupational and speech therapy, and active music...

The demand for high-definition surveys within cultural heritage projects represents one of the main factors which promoted the use of laser scanning technology and photogrammetry. By measuring millions of points within relatively short time periods, terrestrial laser scanners allow to derive complete and detailed 3D models of real objects from acquired point clouds. Despite the wide spread of T...

BACKGROUND Medical lessons learned from Vietnam and previous military conflicts led to the development of civilian trauma systems in the United States. Operation Iraqi Freedom represents the first protracted, large-scale, armed conflict since the advent of civilian trauma systems in which to evaluate a similar paradigm on the battlefield. METHODS Collaborative efforts between the joint milita...