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Selected AbstractsDispersion of QT Intervals: A Measure of Dispersion of Repolarization or Simply a Projection Effect?PACING AND CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, Issue 9 2000DIEGO DI BERNARDO QT interval dispersion may provide little information about repolarization dispersion. Some clinical measurements demonstrate an association between high QT interval dispersion and high morbidity and mortality, but what is being measured is not clear. This study was designed to help resolve this dilemma. We compared the association between different clinical measures of QT interval dispersion and the ECG lead amplitudes derived from a heart vector model of repolarization with no repolarization dispersion whatsoever. We compared our clinical QT interval dispersion data obtained from 25 subjects without cardiac disease with similar data from published studies, and correlated these QT dispersion results with the distribution of lead amplitudes derived from the projection of the heart vector onto the body surface during repolarization. Published results were available for mean relative QT intervals and mean differences from the maximum QT interval. The leads were derived from Uijen and Dower lead vector data. Using the Uijen lead vector data, the correlation between measurements of dispersion and derived lead amplitudes ranged from 0.78 to 0.99 for limb leads, and using the Dower values ranged from 0.81 to 0.94 for the precordial leads. These results show a clear association between the measured QT interval dispersion and the variation in ECG lead amplitudes derived from a simple heart vector model of repolarization with no regional information. Therefore, measured QT dispersion is related mostly to a projection effect and is not a true measure of repolarization dispersion. Our existing interpretation of QT dispersion must be reexamined, and other measurements that provide true repolarization dispersion data investigated. [source] Demythologizing the machine: Patrick geddes, lewis mumford, and classical sociological theoryJOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 1 2008Chris Renwick This paper reconsiders the work of the Scottish biologist, sociologist, and town planner Patrick Geddes and his most famous intellectual disciple: the American independent scholar Lewis Mumford. It is argued that existing interpretations of their work, ranging from a dismissal of the two men as eccentric polymaths to the speculative emphasis on the importance of psychological theories in Mumford's oeuvre, are fundamentally flawed. Examining their writings and the letters they exchanged during their 17-year correspondence, this paper shows that the only way we can appreciate the scholarly conventions underpinning Geddes's and Mumford's work, as well as the context in which it was produced, is by looking to the principles of classical sociological theory. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] "The Distorting Mirror of Hell (On the Interpretation of Pluto's Words in Dante's Inferno VII,1)"ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 4 2000Dmitri Nikulin The article proposes a new interpretation of a passage in Dante's Inferno VII, 1,2, of the enigmatic phrase "pape Satàn aleppe," one of the famous "cruces dantesche." The first section of the paper lays out certain assumptions that lie behind Dante's description of hell. The second section reviews the main existing interpretations of the passage. Finally, in the third section I bring forward a new interpretation, which I support with further evidence. The key passage that helps to explain the lines in question is Inf. III, 5,6. The parallelism between Pluto's "oscure parole" in Inf. VII, 1,2 and the inscription on the infernal gates can be clearly seen once the intrinsic reflection of the divine within the created and the distorting character of hell are both taken into account. By linking the verses to implicit theological and philosophical presuppositions underlying the entire structure of the Comedy, their meaning is thereby established. [source] ,Gentrifying the re-urbanisation debate', not vice versa: the uneven socio-spatial implications of changing transitions to adulthood in BrusselsPOPULATION, SPACE AND PLACE (PREVIOUSLY:-INT JOURNAL OF POPULATION GEOGRAPHY), Issue 5 2010Mathieu Van Criekingen Abstract This paper challenges recent views of the sociospatial transformations of inner-city neighbourhoods as ,reurbanisation', for, it is argued, such views tend to divorce the demographic dimensions of the processes at play from their contrasted social class meanings and implications. In addition, it argues that the ongoing demographic diversification of inner cities in the Western world do not stand for the obsolescence of gentrification as a key concept for understanding sociospatial transformations in these places, but rather that this trend alerts to a need to complement existing interpretations of gentrification with new insights into its demographic underpinnings. This point is illustrated via an exploration of the implications of contemporary changes in transition to adulthood for urban sociospatial structures and housing market dynamics in Brussels. Findings stress that the rapid rise of middle-class young adults in non-family households in Brussels' inner neighbourhoods brings about the reinvestment of the existing private rental market, fuelling in turn a process of rental gentrification. Such process exacerbates the competition for residential space in the city, being strongly detrimental to low-income, working-class households. The paper concludes that notwithstanding all local specifics, everywhere at stake is the need to keep a clear sense of the multiple social class stratifications of demographic change in inner neighbourhoods. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] | ||||||||||