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Selected AbstractsReview article: Inotrope and vasopressor use in the emergency departmentEMERGENCY MEDICINE AUSTRALASIA, Issue 5 2009Ainslie Senz Abstract Shock is a common presentation to the ED, with the incidence of septic shock increasing in Australasia over the last decade. The choice of inotropic agent is likely dependent on previous experience and local practices of the emergency and other critical care departments. The relatively short duration of stay in the ED before transfer leaves little room for evaluating the appropriateness of and response to the agent chosen. Delays in transfer to inpatient facilities means that patients receive advanced critical care within the ED for longer, requiring initiation and titration of vasoactive agents in the ED. This article discusses the general concepts of shock and the indicators for inotrope and vasopressor use, revises the various agents available and reviews the current evidence for their use. [source] The Whereabouts of Power: Politics, Government and SpaceGEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, Issue 1 2004John Allen Abstract In a world where it has become almost commonplace to talk about power as centralised or distributed, concentrated or diffuse, deterritorialized or dispersed even, it is all too easy to miss the diverse geographies of power that put us in place. The binary talk that forces us to choose between a centred or a decentred view of power, or to shuffle between them in an effort to blur clearly demarcated scales, leaves little room to move beyond defined distances and settled proximities in relation to the exercise of power. In this paper, a more spatially-curious dialogue of power is opened up which foregrounds associational as well as instrumental forms of power which can make a difference to how we act politically. [source] Recognition of Indigenous Interests in Australian Water Resource Management, with Particular Reference to Environmental Flow AssessmentGEOGRAPHY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 3 2008Sue Jackson Australia's new national water policy represents a substantial change from the previous approach, because it recognises a potential need for allocations to meet particular indigenous requirements, which will have to be quantitatively defined in water allocation plans. However, indigenous values associated with rivers and water are presently poorly understood by decision-makers, and some are difficult to quantify or otherwise articulate in allocation decisions. This article describes the range of Australian indigenous values associated with water, and the way they have been defined in contemporary water resource policy and discourse. It argues that the heavy reliance of indigenous values on healthy river systems indicates that, theoretically at least, they are logically suited for consideration in environmental flow assessments. However, where indigenous interests have been considered for assessment planning purposes indigenous values have tended to be overlooked in a scientific process that leaves little room for different world views relating to nature, intangible environmental qualities and human relationships with river systems that are not readily amenable to quantification. There is often an implicit but untested assumption that indigenous interests will be protected through the provision of environmental flows to meet aquatic ecosystem requirements, but the South African and New Zealand approaches to environmental flow assessment, for example, demonstrate different riverine uses potentially can be accommodated. Debate with indigenous land-holders and experimentation will show how suited different environment flow assessment techniques are to addressing indigenous environmental philosophies and values. [source] A temporal perspective of the computer game development processINFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL, Issue 5 2009Patrick Stacey Abstract., This paper offers an insight into the games software development process from a time perspective by drawing on an in-depth study in a games development organization. The wider market for computer games now exceeds the annual global revenues of cinema. We have, however, only a limited scholarly understanding of how games studios produce games. Games projects require particular attention because their context is unique. Drawing on a case study, the paper offers a theoretical conceptualization of the development process of creative software, such as games software. We found that the process, as constituted by the interactions of developers, oscillates between two modes of practice: routinized and improvised, which sediment and flux the working rhythms in the context. This paper argues that while we may predeterminately lay down the broad stages of creative software development, the activities that constitute each stage, and the transition criteria from one to the next, may be left to the actors in the moment, to the temporality of the situation as it emerges. If all development activities are predefined, as advocated in various process models, this may leave little room for opportunity and the creative fruits that flow from opportunity, such as enhanced features, aesthetics and learning. [source] Development, characterization, and validation of porous carbonated hydroxyapatite bone cementJOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH, Issue 2 2009Pei-Fu Tang Abstract Carbonated hydroxyapatite (CHA) bone cement is capable of self-setting and forming structures similar to mineralized bone. Conventional CHA leaves little room for new bone formation and delays remodeling. The purposes of this study were to develop porous CHA (PCHA) bone cement and to investigate its physicochemical properties, biocompatibility, biodegradation, and in vivo bone repair potential. Vesicants were added to modify CHA, and the solidification time, porosity, and pore size of the PCHA cements were examined. The cytotoxicity and bone repair potential of PCHA were tested in a rabbit bone defect model and assessed by x-ray, histological examination, and mechanical testing. The porosity of the modified PCHA was 36%; 90.23% of the pores were greater than 70 ,m, with a calcium/phosphate ratio of 1.64 and a solidification time of 15 minutes. The PCHA did not affect bone cell growth in vitro, and the degrading time of the PCHA was two and four times faster in vitro and in vivo when compared to CHA. In the bone defect model, the amount of new bone formation in the PCHA-treated group was eight times greater than that of the CHA group; the compressive strength of the PCHA setting was relatively weak in the first weeks but increased significantly at 8 to 16 weeks compared to the CHA group. The PCHA has stable physicochemical properties and excellent biocompatibility; it degrades faster than CHA, provides more porous spaces for new bone ingrowths, and may be a new form of bone cement for the management of bone defects. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part B: Appl Biomater 2009 [source] New Spaces in Accra: transnational housesCITY & SOCIETY, Issue 1 2003Deborah Pellow Accra has been Ghana's primate city since the British moved their administrative headquarters there in 1877. The city took shape under British site planning and like many colonial cities, it developed a spatial layout that distinguished different neighborhoods, such as the old core, the European section, and the Muslim zongo or stranger area. Accra's Sabon Zongo ("new zongo") was founded in the first decade of the 20th century, as a refuge for migrant Hausa who had been living in the original zongo in the city's core. House ownership continues to confer status in the community but there is little room left for building. Hausa transmigrants from Sabon Zongo have been going abroad and remitting money back home, largely to build homes in the new peri-urban margins of Accra. This paper focuses upon the latter phenomenon , the new styles of houses they are building, the process this involves, and how these styles may accommodate worldview, lifestyle and behaviors different from those with which these men were raised in Sabon Zongo. [transmigration, housing, Ghana] [source] Conflict Management and Communicative Action: Second-Track Diplomacy from a Habermasian PerspectiveCOMMUNICATION THEORY, Issue 3 2008Daniel Wehrenfennig Many critics have called Jürgen Habermas's concepts of communicative action theoretically interesting but not practically viable. Traditional conflict management in the form of negotiation and state diplomacy leaves little room for Habermasian communication theory and could count as another example of the inapplicability of his ideas. However, with the advent of new conflict resolution practices in the form of second-track diplomacy, Habermasian communication theories seem to be applied in new ways, which this article will analyze. Résumé La gestion des conflits et l,agir communicationnel : La diplomatie de la deuxième voie d'une perspective habermassienne Plusieurs critiques ont dit du concept de l,agir communicationnel de Jürgen Habermas qu'il était intéressant en théorie mais non viable en pratique. La gestion traditionnelle des conflits sous forme de négociation et de diplomatie étatique laisse peu de place à la théorie communicationnelle habermassienne et elle pourrait être considérée comme un autre exemple de l,impossibilité d'application de ses idées. Toutefois, avec l,apparition de nouvelles pratiques de résolution des conflits sous la forme de la diplomatie de la deuxième voie, les théories communicationnelles de Habermas semblent être appliquées de nouvelles manières, que cet article analyse. Abstract Konfliktmanagement und kommunikatives Handeln: Alternativ-Diplomatie aus einer Habermas'schen Sichtweise Viele Kritiker betrachten die Habermas,schen Konzepte des kommunikativen Handelns als theoretisch interessant aber praktisch nicht anwendbar. Traditionelles Konfliktmanagement in Form von Verhandlung und Diplomatie lassen wenig Raum für Habermas'sche Kommunikationstheorie und können als ein Beispiel für die Nichtanwendbarkeit seiner Ideen dienen. Allerdings scheinen die Habermas,sche Kommunikationstheorien mit dem Aufkommen neuer Konfliktlösungspraktiken in Form von Alternativ-Diplomatie auf neue Art anwendbar. Dies soll in diesem Artikel untersucht werden soll. Resumen El Manejo del Conflicto y la Acción Comunicativa: La Diplomacia de Segundo Grado desde la Perspectiva de Habermas Muchos críticos han alegado que los conceptos de acción comunicativa de Jürgen Habermas aunque teóricamente interesantes no son viables en la práctica. El manejo tradicional del conflicto en la forma de negociación y diplomacia estatal deja poco espacio para una teoría de la comunicación de Habermas y puede servir como otro ejemplo de la inaplicabilidad de sus ideas. No obstante, con el advenimiento de las nuevas prácticas de resolución de conflicto en la forma de diplomacia de segundo grado, las teorías de la comunicación de Habermas parecen tener formas de aplicación nuevas, las cuales son analizadas en este ensayo. ZhaiYao Yo yak [source] | ||||||||||