The expansion of telecommunication and progress of electronic media constitute important elements of our times. The recent worldwide convergence of information and communication technologies (ICT) and dynamic development of the mass media is leading to noticeable changes in the functioning of contemporary states and societies. Currently, modern technologies play more and more important roles an...

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932 as a cautionary tale of the implications of totalitarianism, technology, capitalism, and mass media. The hallmarks of the futuristic society in Brave New World can be seen in Mestrovic’s critical theory of postemotionalism. Mestrovic argues that our society has slipped into a state in which emotions have been manipulated to such an extent that we now ...

PURPOSE To identify variables affecting length of hospital stay after total hip replacement (THR) while controlling for potential confounders. METHODS Records of 199 consecutive elective unilateral THRs were reviewed. Clinical and demographic data including age, gender, body mass index, comorbidities, surgical factors (surgical approach, type of prosthesis, use of cement, operating time), ana...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. OBJECTIVE Efficient use of operating room time is important, as delays during induction or recovery increase time not spent operating while in the operating room. We identified factors that increase anesthetized, nonoperative time by utilizing a database of over 5,000 consecutive neurosurgical spine cases. METHODS Surgical records were searched to identify ...

OBJECTIVES To identify predictors of mortality within 1 year after primary surgery for ovarian cancer. DESIGN Prospective nationwide cohort study from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2012. SETTING Evaluation of data from the Danish Gynaecology Cancer Database and the Danish Civil Registration System. PARTICIPANTS 2654 women who underwent surgery due to a diagnosis of primary ovarian cancer....

Changing patterns of correlations between the historical average June–November Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and October–March precipitation totals for 84 climate divisions in the western US indicate a large amount of variability in SOI/precipitation relations on decadal time scales. Correlations of western US precipitation with SOI and other indices of tropical El Niño–Southern Oscillation ...

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purpose : to present a case of missed intraorbital wooden foreign body presented as soft tissue mass case report : we introduce a case of intraorbital wooden foreign body which presented with orbital soft tissue mass two years after trauma. a plain ct was requested which revealed a foreign body in the right orbit.conclusion : it is frequently difficult to identify and localize organic intraorbi...

A close observation of Iran-Iraq war films in the Iranian society reveals that their genres have shifted in the course of the society’s evolution. This questions the category-based principles of genre we have known so far in literature concerning film theory and necessitates a new conceptualization of genre, which can be realized with the aid of Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory. This theo...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., and Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA (*); Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy (+) This article originally appeared in Computers in Cardiology (Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society Press). Please cite this publication when referencing this material. A sample implementation of the algorithm described in this paper is available in s...