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The final headline in this series will be "Biden Lunches Effort to Reduce Gun Violence".
I thought this was to be a thoughtful process to gather evidence before making recommendations, but I see blaming and banning a certain class of weapons is considered a given. I shouldn't be surprise, but I was hopeful we would see something genuine out of Washington this time around.
Think about this right wing nuts: if those children had been aborted they would have never died.
THink, Jose, if you spent your time whining on the NY Times blog, you might get your jollies because it is full of morons like you.
We already know the effects of "banning" sales of "assault rifles:" zip point nada on homicide rates. And, to boot, Columbine happened in the middle of the last time this stupid idea was a law - 1999. In other words, the assault rifle sales ban did nothing to assure that Columbine did not happen.
The problem with politics in this kind of a situation is that it is all about feel good, with no regard for actual results or achieving "intended" results.
The only way an assault rifle sales ban can be effective is also to have a national confiscation of such rifles and magazines carrying more than 10 rounds. I doubt that will happen.
So, let's get real, Biden. The first EFFECTIVE measure is to put uniformed, armed officers in every school. The second is to choose some number by some criteria of teachers and administrators to be concealed carriers. The third is to look at how to reduce the number of GUN FREE ZONES in other venues, such as theaters. These steps are known deterrents to potential mass shooters, who invariably shoot up places they know have no gun toting occupants.
The long term items are the following:
1. Rescind the ACLU case from the 1960s, supported by the JFK regime, that resulted in the nationwide closure of asylums. Revise Medicare and Medicaid to cover much more comprehensive mental health care. Write laws in each state making it easier to commit involuntarily for as long as it takes to take wackos off the streets before they do something we all regret. In other words, the ACLU deserves a lot of blame for creating the environment that allows the conditions that lead to these mass shootings.
2. Research massively and on all fronts the effects on young and adolescent persons, males especially, of extreme video game and cinema violence. Require therapeutic intervention All parents should find ways to reduce drastically the amount of time their offspring spend on these activities.
3. Get the fields of psychology and psychiatry back to being person-to-professional and face-to-face for adequate lengths of time. Psychiatrists, in particular, have become in too many cases little more than pill prescribers. And we don't know the effects of too many of these drugs on young and adolescent minds.
There is not a single initiative in the anti-gun ideology that would have made a difference in any one of these mass murders. Not the gun show loophole, not the assault rifle ban, not the ban on magazines carrying more than 10 rounds, nothing. It only takes a second for a practiced shooter to change out a magazine.
So if we are actually interested in reducing the probability of another such incident, go after the mental health issues and the ultra-violent entertainment issues. Banning some arbitrary types of guns and accessories has already been done and found to have achieved no intended result.
No reason anyone needs more than 5 rounds in a clip.
Pretty hilarious that conservatives suggest we focus on mental health while they've been clamoring to cut health car funding for the last 50 years.
"It only takes a second for a practiced shooter to change out a magazine" [citation needed]
" Banning some arbitrary types of guns and accessories has already been done and found to have achieved no intended result"
That's why countries with incredibly strict gun laws have the same gun violence rates ... oh wait, you're full of sh!t.
"No reason anyone needs more than 5 rounds in a clip."
You might feel differently if you were staring down the barrel of some thug's 45.
Mr. Biden said he sees "no reason" why an assault-weapons ban can't pass Congress.
The vice president is leading the White House's efforts to find ways to prevent mass shootings through potential changes to the nation's mental health and weapon laws.
Funny... They didn't quote Biden saying anything about mental health.
I still don't understand why one of the main topics mentioned every time gun control comes up is banning assault rifles. The kid at Sandy Elementary School was the son of a teacher at that school. His mother (the teacher) purchased and regisitered the guns used in the tragedy...they were totally legal weapons to own and posses in the USA. Why do we keep debating assault weapons when the size of the weapon and caliber of the bullet makes very little difference when it is aimed at you and fired. I believe this is more about the "opportunity" than anything else...and I believe they will fail once again. If people choose to not own guns, fine. Just don't think your fussy and self predicating interpretation of the Constitution will let you win this without arguement. Guns are in the fabric of America. People kill people...not guns!
People kill people…quite frequently with guns!
Everyday my ar15 does exactly as it's told. It doesnt do anything of its own free will and it never fires a shot without my finger. The majority of gun owners are responsible why should all be punished for what a few lunatics do? Should we also ban knives, saws, cars, trucks, and lumber just because the potential to kill someone is there or do you think personal responsibility comes to mind? It's sad that i ppl do bad things but banning ar15s wont stop violence not when you can just use another weapon.
Having Biden in charge of this is the same as putting a fox in the chicken house and telling him not to eat the chickens .
Ban guns and arrest repubs if they resist.
If you dont like america's first homeland security move to the U.K. then. Btw art why not ban cars and commpn sense too cars kill too and apparently common sense must be pretty dangerous the way ppl like you avoid using it
It's just like illegal drugs people die everyday from drugs and there illegal but people still get them it will be no differant with assault weapons. So punish all the responsible people in this country cause of a couple of lunatics. You will never be able to stop mass shootings its tragic but it won't stop. If someone has it in there head to hurt people there gonna do it guns or no guns. All our veterans our coming home from war put them to work by guarding our schools there professionals that's what they do s gunmen would think twice about shooting up a school if a couple marines were standing guard.
adam lanza didnt you a high power weapon!!
did his mass killing with regular ole weapons....his assault weapon jammed.
project that Barry has given Joe?
So was an assault rifle used I. The Connecticut school shooting?
Banning guns will not stop anything. They need to focus on mental health.
should also ban drunk driving, as it killed some of his family...wait a minute, no it didn't.....he made up that lie.
Maybe he can also ban Indians in 7-11's and Dunkin Donuts?
Hmm....can he be trusted? He lied about rape and rape statistics to try and get a bill passed. Now I know that the left gets upset when people say stupid things about rape....welll unless it's one of theirs who says them, huh?
every time the tacky people on the left take their nasty little shots at conservative politicians....after all, they put Joe Biden, one heartbeat away from the presidency.
That seems to make most things they say, pale in comparison.
There is no such thing as "assault weapons". There are only assault rifles, and only the military has assault rifles. The civilian versions do not perform nor function the same way as the military version.
Ban them and seize the rest.
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I shoot compititions. some of them require that I shoot 10 rounds in one part of it and it is timed. If I did not have the 10 rounds I could not shoot the stage in the time I dave to shoot it. There are other types of competetive shooting sports where more that 5,10, or even more need to be shot in the stage. And mags that can hold 15 or more rounds of ammo are needed. And shooters that compete in these types of shooting matches need the extra rounds to complete the stages that they have to shoot. So I think that the iusse of high compassity mags should not happen. But the mental health issue does need to be strongly looked at. Also saling of firearms without better background checks needs to be looked into. Saling of firearms by private persons and at gun shows should be looked into also. Some of the firearms sold by these people do not do background checks at all. And that means that anyone can obtain a firearm from any of these people and the ones saling them will have any idea that the person buying the firearm is not suppose to have it. There are types of shooting competitions where AR-15 type of rifles are a big part of the type of rifle that is used in it. 3 gun matches use three types of firearms. A handgun, shotgun, and a rifle. The rifle that is now being use for the most part is a AR-15 type of plat form. And the hand guns used can either be a relover or semi-auto type. And some of the semi-auto types have mags that can hold any where from 7-18 rounds of ammo. And the ones that hold the most rounds are the ones that most of the competeors are using in these matches. Yes there does need to be something done to stop gun violence but it also needs to be done so that law abiding citizens can still have their firearms to enjoy for hunting and shooting for fun as long as it is done legally and safely. Also maybe requiring people that have firearms or are buying one need to take a firearms safety class of some type. I own firearms and I've taken two firearms safety classes. One for handguns and one for rifles. I feel that if you own any type of firearm then you should know how to use it safely and maintain it. Also the correct word for a gun is FIREARM and not WEPON. Wepon can mean anything that can do bodily harm etc. knife, fork, scissor, neddle just to name a few of them. Firearm means anything that has a powder charge and a projectile that works by an explosion for it to work.
"some of them require that I shoot 10 rounds in one part of it"
Oh, well then I guess because a ban on high capacity magazines might ruin your little competition, we shouldn't even consider it. Spoken like a true self-centered ignoramus.
I don't blame the poor kid, I blame those who put the gun into his shaking hands - republicans and their gun lobby.
Yeah why don't we just ban cars and seize those too. And while you're at it lets ban freedom of speech since so many people aren't responsible with their words. You people disgust me. You advocate taking people's ways of life and think nothing of it but find it ludicrous when someone suggests you learn something about the material in which you speak. You blame inanimate objects instead of the criminal. You preach that guns at fault and ignore any form of personal accountability. You blame video games for your children becoming violent. Perhaps it wasn't the objects fault. Perhaps as parents you may have failed in noticing a child's instability. At the end of the day humans are at fault for violence against other humans. Perhaps you people should stop pointing fingers and realize that we are all to be held accountable for our actions whether for good or ill. Nobody made you do it. It was your choice. Own up to it.
Check out the hypocrisy in the picture.
Does anyone else find it ironic that there's a gun smuggler sitting at the table?
Can anyone else point to and identify the Fast and Furious gun runner?
Instead of looking at this massacre as a tragedy maybe we should thank these children for sacrificing their lives for the enjoyment of owning assault rifles in America.
"I've heard of people being killed playing ping-pong—ping-pongs are more dangerous than guns," - Incoming Texas State Rep. Kyle Kacal says guns don't kill people—ping-pong kills people.
"Should we also ban knives, saws, cars, trucks, and lumber just because the potential to kill someone is there" - Mike
well spoken the folks that want to ban guns seem to stay far away from this question perhaps because they don't have a good answer for why they only target guns instead of all weapons or things that can be used as weapons.
"maybe we should thank these children for sacrificing their lives for the enjoyment of owning assault rifles in America" they didn't sacrifice anything their lives were taken by a psycho.... they didn't choose to die....had he used a knife would we be debating banning knives at this point?
I have a novel idea, lets force all males to register their male parts, because after all , they do have to POTENTIAL to commit sex crimes !
but it is all about CONTROL.
you, me, all of us controlled and not ab le to mount ANY resistance to our government.
This is all about eroding, if not eliminating the Constitution one small step at a time. Piece by piece.
Look at the Czars, look at the regulation of information via the FCC or the Internet. Alll of these things have been discussed, or are in place now, since Obama took office.
The government taking over banks, taking over energy production, taking over the car industry....think folks, are we possibly at the stage where we need to fear those we have elected ?
Could it be that we have allowed the fox into the hen house ?
Why not? Garys idea makes as much sense as libs trying to ban sporting rifles come on libs support gary!
Ok repubs will give up guns if dems give up gays and entitlements. Sounds fair
The National Rifle Association never said have said "[they] are open to looking at changing the country's gun laws." They said, "[they] will take action to see that this never happens again." I guess the folks in the News Media heard what they wanted to hear and told people what they should have heard. Poor journalism WSJ!
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ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny Perdue proposed withdrawing more than $600 million from the state's rainy day fund to help bridge a more than $2 billion funding gap.With lawmakers also retooling the current fiscal year's budget, Perdue released a proposed $20.2 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year during his annual State of the State address Wednesday. Perdue vowed to balance the state's budget without relying on Washington, where federal aid to states is proposed but hasn't been approved. Instead, he called on legislators to approve spending cuts, a reorganization of the state's health and human services bureaucracy and a new fee for hospitals and health insurance providers. "Political mantras aside, cutting more than 10 percent from a budget cannot be achieved by simply cutting waste," Perdue said. "While we have worked for six years to do more with less, at some point, in business or in government, it becomes less with less." After years of working to bolster the rainy day fund, Perdue on Wednesday proposed taking $50 million out of the fund for the fiscal year 2009 plan and $408 million for fiscal year 2010, as well as using $187 million set aside for a midyear education adjustment. "We have not begun to scrape the gold off the dome, but we're getting close," Rep. Melvin Everson, R-Snellville, said. Rep. Bobby Reese, R-Sugar Hill, said he doesn't like the idea of using the reserve cash. "I'm real conservative. I say, let's hold onto as much as we can, but that's his decision," Reese said. Reese said he was also wary of the Department of Human Resources restructuring, which would create three departments, focusing on health, behavioral health and human services. While the proposed budget does not include a pay raise for teachers, Perdue did propose an incentive pay program for principals and teachers to make salaries merit-based. The governor announced a 20 percent increase to the bond program to fund state building projects, formulating a $1.2 billion package that would create 20,000 construction jobs. Included in the package is $2 million for infrastructure upgrades at Georgia Gwinnett College. "We're going to maintain a long-term perspective. We are not going to panic and make knee-jerk decisions that will have negative long-term consequences," Perdue said. While he did not offer a solution to the transportation funding issues, where legislators are expected to debate a 1-cent sales tax, Perdue reissued a call to impose fines on excessive speeders, which could provide $60 million to the state's trauma care network. He also suggested a 1.6 percent fee on hospitals and health insurance providers to close a Medicaid funding gap. "Don't hear me dismissing the scope or severity of this downturn, but more importantly don't leave failing to hear the message that we need to look beyond this downturn," the governor said.
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This week on Small Talk Six is "6 sure signs that you are stressed out.
Stress is a normal reaction to all of life's events, some of which are more stressful than others. It is important for you to learn what causes stress in your life and the degree of stress you feel in different circumstances because of the effect it can have on your body. Therefore, as for me, I always have time to cure what stresses me out and bring back the real me as much as possible.
So here are my list of signs that I am stress.
1. It seem like I have a speaker with me all the time.
2. Hubby was wondering if it is time for him to buy some new box of feminine napkin.
3. The house will be pretty clean and welcoming...
4. I'll be itching my hands every now and then because of these tiny bumps..which is so weird. This is absolutely one of my sign that I was stressed out.
5. Can't wear a smile on my face even I'm watching comedy show. This is serious!
6. Lastly, I went shopping! And don't wonder why I don't even bother answering calls!
Well, stress can be both positive and negative. Good stress can inspire you to work harder and accomplish great thinks. It can spark your creativity and make you a better person. On the other hand too much negative stress in your life can cause illnesses, various forms of serious medical conditions, and have a serious impact on your overall health and wellness.
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Happy Halloween everyone and if you're to the left of center, Halloween is 365/24/7 in the OC when it comes to certain politicians. Here's our list the scariest ones. 10. Don Wagner — Mr. Wagner, the state assemblyman from AD-70 often goes to a number of functions at Irvine schools which we find hysterical…
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AOCDS announces Settlement with Orange County ending Moorlach's Folly
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We received the announcement below from the Association of OC Deputy Sheriff's who prevailed multiple times in a legal dispute with the County of Orange led by Supervisor John Moorlach. For taxpayers, Moorlach's efforts are cost you $1.3 million on top of what the county already paid for legal services to pursue this case that…
Moorlach's Defeat – The Charge of the Light Headed Brigade
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"John Moorlach and Mario Mainero owe the taxpayers of Orange County a formal apology. They have spent over $2.5 million in public funds on a political vendetta that their own attorneys told them right from the beginning they could not win." – Wayne Quint, President AOCDS
Deputy Pension Lawsuit Supreme Court Appeal DENIED!
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It's over! The ill advised and costly lawsuit initiated by the County of Orange against the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriff's to reverse retroactive pension benefit increases had been appealed to the California Supreme Court. That request for review was denied.
Moorlach is ALL TALK about pensions – except for his
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When faced with the opportunity to dump his defined-benefit pension plan Mr. Moorlach is more Chicken Little than Pension Reform Advocate. To date, he won't say what he doing. His opportunity to opt-out of the plan expires one month after taking his oath of office
Another Nail in the Coffin for Moorlach's Pension Lawsuit Folly
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I'm not really sure how many nails this coffin needs but Supervisor John Moorlach and the Orange County Board of Supervisors were on the receiving end of another coffin nail from the California 2nd District Court of Appeals. The Court ruled Wednesday in a 3-0 decision that the lawsuit brought by the County of Orange…
Another Small Government Candidate Takes the Full Benefit of Elected Office
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LiberalOC has learned that small government swalwart Chris Thompson, recently elected to the Fullerton School Board, has accepted the full stipend, health insurance benefits, and the pension offered by the school district. The total cost to the Fullerton School District is $22,000 for family health insurance, vision, dental and life insurance for Thompson himself.


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The Profession – General
1. Talking with Our Publics: Engagement and Accountability
2. Careers for Humanists: A Job Search Workshop
6. Leftist Activism in the Academy: Then and Now
17. Literature/Film: Disciplinary Tensions
37. There's a Policy for That: Protecting Your Academic Rights
47. Toward a Global Academic Commons: Academic Freedom and Sites of Contested Speech
74. Pursuing Two Passions: On Being a Graduate Student and Something Else
84. Redrawing the Boundaries of Europe: Current Geopolitical Developments and What We Study
123. Working with the Working Class: How Can the Academy Do Better?
160. The End of Remediation?
170. Rhetoric of Crisis and the Politics of Cuts
Cash Bar and Business Meeting Arranged by the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages, Feministas Unidas, Women in French, Women in German, and the GL/Q Caucus
195. Remembering a Dismembered University: Creating a Faculty Community through the Theatre of the Oppressed
204. Text Tools in the (Digital) Humanities
215. Maintaining Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century in Online and Face-to-Face Encounters
252. Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly
267. Contingent Academic Labor and Unionization
269. Open Hearing on Resolutions
270. Teaching, Research, Service: A Close Reading
280. Community, Nation-State, World: Women and Biopolitics in the Twenty-First Century
307. Careers for Humanists: A Spectrum of Possibilities
315. Humanistic Inquiry with Large Corpora of Digitized Text and Metadata: Toward New Epistemologies?
334. Literature and Science Studies
341. National Security Education Program (NSEP) and the Boren Scholarships and Fellowships
357. A New Kind of Work: Articulating and Evaluating Excellence in Digital Scholarship
362. Protecting Campus Freedoms: Speech, Assembly, Disruption
386. Understanding Plagiarism, Student Writing, and Research Methods through the Citation Project
387. BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) and Academic Freedom: Radical Perspectives
406. The Presidential Address
439. Understanding American Sign Language (ASL) Literature as Part of a Minority Study Program
448. Disrupting the Digital Humanities
455. The Uses of AIME for Literary Inquiry
472. The First Year of College and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members: Paradoxes, Problems, Possibilities
478. Reading, Complexity, and the Common Core
480. Decoding Digital-Age Business Communication
501. First-Person Hispanism: Autobiography of a Discipline
515. Careers for Humanists: What Can Graduate Programs Do?
516. Gendering the Public Intellectual
523. Practical Strategies for Improving Job Security for Faculty Members in Contingent Appointments
530. MLA Delegate Assembly
531. Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop
545. The Scholar-Parent
553. Career Opportunities in Community Colleges
593. I Know What You Didn't Do Last Summer
597. Comparative Literature, Turning, Returning: Pedagogical and Digital Trajectories
601. Negotiating Past and Future: Feminist Activism in Language and Literature Workplaces
628. Science Fiction and Science Studies: The Example of Isabelle Stengers
638. Crossing Borders
639. Strategies for Advocacy, Lobbying, and Activism in the Humanities
641. MLA Awards Ceremony
655. "Screens": E-reading, Intersemiosis, and the Agency of Screens
718. Debating Israel in the Academy
719. Literary Twitter
723. Empowered Retirement: Challenges and Strategies
725. Journeys beyond the Professoriat
743. Open Access . . . Closing Doors?
783. Revitalizing the Humanities in the Twenty-First Century
29. Been There, Done That, What Now? Rejuvenation in Late Career
48. Academic Boycotts: A Conversation about Israel and Palestine
92. Beyond the Department Wall: A Roundtable with Past MLA Presidents on Expanding Networks in Language Study
99. Class Vulnerabilities in Academia
119. Open Hearing on the Future of the MLA Divisions and Discussion Groups
143. The Future of Close Reading
149. Online Courses: Challenges and Opportunities
173. Beyond the Protomonograph: New Models for the Dissertation
178. Saving Faculty Autonomy
187. Teaching outside the Classroom through Digital Humanities: Alt-Academic Feminism
196. Write on Your Own Time: Scholarship and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members
218. Rethinking the Seminar Paper
236. Vulnerable Times in Academic Life: Senior Faculty Members, Senior Citizens, and Retirement
255. Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly
290. Reforming the Literature PhD
296. Open Hearing on Resolutions
307. Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop
312. The Future of Basic Writing in an Age of Accelerated Learning
333. The Values of Literary Studies
347. Human Rights and the Humanities: Methods, Pedagogy, and Program Building
352. Graduate Student Perspectives on Reforming Doctoral Study
359. Academe and the Postpolitical Turn
369. The Twenty-First-Century University: Gender, Technology, and Learning
385. Feminists Leading for Change: Alt-Academic Feminism
413. The Cost of Program Mergers and Closings
418. Vulnerability and Survivalism of the Humanities in Corporatized Academia
421. The Presidential Address
442. Tenure Denied: Strategies for Moving On
471. Who Benefits? Competing Agendas and Ethics in Graduate Education
480. The Common Core State Standards: Their Past, Present, and Future
503. AAUP Addresses Campus Sexual Assault
504. Comparative Literature: The Next Ten Years
530. Constructive Responses to Current Challenges Faced by German Languages, Literature, and Studies Departments
533. Career Opportunities in English and Foreign Languages at Two-Year Colleges
536. Taking a Stand from Where We Sit: A Roundtable with Presidents, Provosts, and Deans
544. MLA Delegate Assembly
571. Off the Tenure Track, on Our Radar
572. Illness and Disability Memoir as Embodied Knowledge
606. Technology and Teaching Vulnerable Languages in Vulnerable Times
607. Public Humanities
621. Federal Government Opportunities in Foreign Languages for Language Instructors and Program Representatives
643. Defining the Moment, Defining the Momentum: Perspectives on the Language of Employment Status
651. Women in the Expanding University: Global and Local
656. Time to Degree: Is a Faster PhD a Better PhD?
660. MLA Awards Ceremony
682. What Is the Impact of Humanities Scholarship?
703. Strength in Numbers: Unionization as a Strategy for Reducing Faculty Vulnerability
717. Women, Collaboration, and New Media
740. Negotiating, Compromising: Being a Graduate Student
745. Feminist Vulnerability on Postfeminist Campuses: Alt-Academic Feminism
754. Lit Misbehaving: Responding to New and Changing Modes of Creative Production
757. Alt-Ac Work and Gender: It's Not Plan B
766. The (Dis)Embodied Scholar: Access in Theory and Practice
783. How We Talk about Contingent Faculty Members
1. Women's Leadership in Higher Education Administration: Career Choices and Opportunities
3. Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates
21. Avenues of Access for Recent PhDs
66. The Occupation of Women's Studies: Practical Strategies for Difficult Times
85. Career Opportunities in Two-Year Colleges
86. Owing: On Student (and Other) Debt
108. Redefining Mentorship, Redefining the Professional
112. The Presidential Forum: Avenues of Access: Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members and American Higher Education
114. Marketing Your PhD in Literature and Languages: Languages for Special Purposes
164. A Currency for Collaboration: The Ethics and Economics of Academic Partnership
171. Periodization and Its Discontents: New Ways of Conceiving Academic Organization
Cash Bar Arranged by the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages
214. Terminal: Examining Master's Degrees
222. The Twenty-First-Century MLA: Reimagining the Order of Things
237. Access to What? A Roundtable on Public Scholarship, Community Engagement, and Diversity
251. Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly
258. What Does Comparative Literature Do for, against, after Periodization?
264. Aristotle Is Not Our Father: Conversations in Cultural Rhetorics
270. How Did I Get Here? Our "Altac" Jobs
280. Open Hearing on Resolutions
282. English and the Humanities in an Age of Accountability: Notes from the Small College Department
283. Duality of Assessment: Tool of Instruction, Weapon of Destruction
300. The Liberal Arts in American Life: A Panel of the American Academy Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences
306. Disability Studies, the MLA, and the AAUP Report "Accommodating Faculty Members Who Have Disabilities"
307. The Dark Side of Digital Humanities
314. Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing
332. The Experience of Class in the Academy
353. Avenues of Access: Digital Humanities and the Future of Scholarly Communication
354. Gender and Contingent Labor
394. Reforming Doctoral Study
406. Classroom Space and Cyberspace: Business Writing Transitions in Casual and Professional Communication
408. The Presidential Address
438. Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members in the Modern Languages: Issues and Directions
451. Scholarly Journals: New Challenges and Opportunities
461. The Future of Writing Studies in the MLA
469. Leaders on the Right Track in the Academy
472. LGBTQI Graduate Students and Academia
487. Ethnic Studies in an Era of Retrenchment
489. Contemporary Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies: Beyond Area Studies
518. A National Core Curriculum? A Roundtable with Past MLA Presidents on the Common Core State Standards Initiative
523. "Women's Lit": What Was It, and Where Is It Now?
524. Thinking Success outside the Classroom: The PhD as Preparation for Diverse Career Opportunities
533. MLA Delegate Assembly
534. Using Your Language Proficiency and Cultural Expertise in a Federal Government Career
540. The Third Degree: Joint Programs in Languages, Literature, and Libraries
544. Labor Negotiations: Family Medical Leave across the Life Course
570. Avenues of Access: The State of Disability Studies
578. Private-Sector Careers and the Language and Literature PhD
581. Getting an Education at Occupy Boston: A Roundtable on Intellectual Activism
584. Accessing Race in the Digital Humanities: An E-roundtable
619. Program Discontinuance on the Rise?
627. Professional Responsibility in the Era of Privatization
644. Pedagogy of the Precariat: From Conference to Classroom to Community
645. MLA Awards Ceremony
694. "This Is Not the Ivy Tower": Scholarship at Community Colleges
749. Rebooting Graduate Training: Collaboration, Computing, and the New Thesis
754. Negotiating Feminist Issues in Pedagogy, Activism, and Administration at Community Colleges
794. Professional Practices in Online Education
1. Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates
2. A Nonteaching Academic Job Search
15. Useful Fictions? A Cognitive Perspective on the Utility of Emotions, Imagination, and Long Novels
20. Public Discourse, Islamism, and the Arab Revolutions: On Paul Berman's The Flight of the Intellectuals (session canceled)
43. Making a Case for the Humanities: Advocacy and Audience
69. The Future of Higher Education
93. Professional Employment Practices for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members
113. Keeping the Lights On: Shared Governance in the Corporate University
128. Transforming Community Service into Public Scholarship: Strategies for Women
135A. The Future of Learning
159. Rhetoric and/of the Job Market
161. The Webs We Weave: Online Pedagogy in Community Colleges
167. The Fight for Public Higher Education
185. Betrayal and the Function of the Humanities within the University
194. Activism in the Academy: Generational, Historical, and Theoretical Perspectives
202. The Presidential Forum: Language, Literature, Learning
209. Corporate Humanities
228. Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly
262. Open Hearing on Resolutions
272. Is "Access" the New "Diversity"? Rethinking Access across the Profession
276. Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop
283. What Makes Language Literary?
289. Communicating Contingent Realities
309. "We Can't Afford the Luxury of Pretense": Black Womanhood, Writing, Discourse, and Literacy
315. The New Dissertation: Thinking outside the (Proto-)Book
359A. Scholarship, Censorship, and Academic Change: The Case of A. K. Ramanujan
361. "An Injury to One": Fighting the Exploitation of Graduate Student Labor
362. Shared Governance: Who's Running This Place?
380. The Presidential Address
419. Good Practices in Hiring, Developing, and Reviewing Contingent Faculty Members
425. Composing New Partnerships in the Digital Humanities
431. Language and Learning
435. Issues Facing Graduate Students of Color in the Profession
444. Preservation Is (Not) Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
460. The Academic Workplace 101
467. The Future of Teaching
486. Visual Culture
496. Career Opportunities in Two-Year Colleges
500. MLA Delegate Assembly
501. Using Your Foreign Language Proficiency and Cultural Expertise in the Federal Government
512. Frenemies? Medical Humanities and Disability Studies
520. Sticker Shock: The Rising Cost of Textbooks
527. Democracy, Language, and Literature
545. German Graduate Education 2020: Strategies for the Future
552. China in the World: Literature, Geopolitics, and World Culture
595. #alt-ac: The Future of "Alternative Academic" Careers
611. MLA Awards Ceremony
632. Academically Adrift?
645. "Any Volunteers?": Graduate Student Service Work
665. Debates in the Digital Humanities
685. Staging a Woman's Life in Academia
696. The Faces behind the Data: Humanizing the MLA Report Data on Humanities Doctorate Recipients and Faculty Members by Race and Ethnicity
710. Academically Adrift? Language, Literature, and Learning in the Small College English Department
1. Careers for Humanists
4. Strategies for Search Committees
5. Teaching American Literature in an Age of Scarcity: Pedagogy and the Profession
12. Labor in the Digital Humanities
21. Rehabilitating Scholarly Ethos: Theory and Practice in Hard Times
22. Class Dismissed: Economic Policies, the Academic Workforce, and Student Access to Higher Education
43A. Current Challenges to Academic Freedom
45. Getting Funded in the Humanities: A National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Workshop
48. Hacking the Profession: Academic Self-Help in an Age of Crisis
53. Critical University Studies
58. Collaborative Strategies for Hard (and Good) Times: Local, Regional, International Options
70. Improving Non-Tenure-Track Appointments: Current Models from California, Colorado, and Missouri
91. Meeting in the Library: Academic Labor at the Interface
100. Unions in Academe: Navigating Hard Times
106. The Strange Death of the Liberal University in Britain?
122. Why Can't We Teach What We Are Trained to Teach? Program Consolidation, Elimination, Realignment
123. Staking Your Claim: Are You Represented in Your Institution's Strategic Plan?
133. In Our Own Image: Remaking Academia in a Changing Economic Climate
150. New Tools, Hard Times: Social Networking and the Academic Crisis
162. Collective Work, Working Collectively
168. Routes or Roots: Travel and Globalization
188. International Graduate Students and Junior Faculty Members: Shaping Our Professional Landscape
234. Heritage Language Teaching: Opportunities and Challenges
277. Open Hearing on Resolutions
281. Gendered Evidence: Ethics and Human Rights
285. Using Your Foreign Language Proficiency and Cultural Expertise in a Federal Government Career
302. Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly
309. The History and Future of the Digital Humanities
331. The Open Professoriat: Public Intellectuals on the Social Web
336. Lives and Archives: Giving, Taking, and Circulating Testimony
354. Vision Neglect: Revealing Contingent Faculty Identities
371. The Academic Workplace
383. Disability Encounters in the Classroom: Pedagogy, Strategies, Responses
Cash Bar Arranged by the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession
417. The Presidential Address
418. Alliances, Collaborations, Common Ground: The Modern Language Association and the Association of Literary Critics, Scholars, and Writers in Conversation
433. The Biggest Piece in the Puzzle: Community Colleges and the Transformation of Language Teaching
440. Do You See What I See? Affective and Empirical Uses of Visuals in Business Writing
461. Disabling Race: Comparative Ethnic Approaches
483. China, World Literature, and the Shape of the Humanities
505. Lives and Archives in Graphic and Digital Modes
518. Aesthetic Narration in Nineteenth-Century America
537. Languages of Leadership: Strategies for Women
539. MLA Delegate Assembly
542. Graduate Students of Color: Strategies for Success
545. Queer Studies and the Future of the Profession
584. Public Intellectuals and the Question of Celebrity
618. Collaboration and the Reward System in the Humanities: A Follow-Up to the 2006 Task Force Report
684. Why Literature Matters
746. Multilingual High Schools and Foreign Language and Literature at College
758. Narrating Professional Lives: The Stories We Tell about Academia
780. Now What? After the MLA Convention
2. Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates
3. Workshop on Women in Academic Leadership
4. Articulating Our Agenda: The Concerns of Community College Faculty Members
8. Critical Credos
35. Placing Korean American Literature in American Literary History
40. Scholarship, Tenure, and Promotion in the Small College
64. Rhetoric and the New Academic Freedom
97. Queer Perspectives on Reordered Spaces
121. Minority Identities, Intersectionality, and the Graduate Student Experience
129. Creating Successful Heritage Language Programs
140. Criticism as Method: Mediating Literature and Politics
162. Opportunities in Psychoanalysis: Philadelphia and Beyond
184. Coping with Contingency: Strategies in a Struggling Economy
196. Women of Color and Academic Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities
206. Open Hearing on Resolutions
215. Learning from Assessment
229. Developing a New Generation of Translators
233. Literature, Literacy, and Undergraduate Education
275. Reading as a Teacher: A Workshop for Teachers of Literature
286. Sharing Culture and Preserving Poetry: Creative Conversations with Dick Davis on His Translations of Medieval Persian Verse
334. Deaf Space: Building Culture at Gallaudet University
335. Gender and Translation: Voice, Politics, Praxis
356. The Presidential Address
375. Evaluating and Publishing Comparative Scholarship: A Roundtable with Academic Press Editors
376. Transnational Feminisms
388. The Academic Workforce in Hard Times
411. "Disabled and Not Disabled": Jurisdictional Subjectivities
423. Between Poetry and Psychoanalysis: Creative Conversations
448. Travel Literature, Race, and Ethnicity
453. The Academic Workplace
463. MLA Delegate Assembly
482. Intergenerational Teaching and Learning in Community Colleges
512. Journal Ranking, Reviewing, and Promotion in the Age of New Media
532. How to Have a Life: Work-Life Balance in the Academy
564. Bringing Borges into English: A Creative Conversation
575. Gaining a Public Voice: Alternative Genres of Publication for Graduate Students
586. Translation and Medicine
644. Challenges of Copyright Compliance: Do We Need a Code of "Best Practices" in Fair Use?
644A. Open Meeting of the Program Committee
669. Writing Trauma at Community Colleges
691. Comparative Literature Past and Future: How Should We Teach Our Discipline?
733. Academic Business: A Roundtable for Graduate Students on Working in the Corporate University
754. Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces
38. Potentiality and the Unfinished States of Literature
88. Women's Human Rights, Transnational Subjectivities, and Political Aesthetics
91. Comparative Literature and Translation Studies
116. New Subjects in and beyond the Classroom
161. Imagining Collaboration in the Humanities
181. Evaluating and Publishing Comparative Scholarship: A Roundtable with Journal Editors
209. Disability in Context: Personalizing the Profession
221. (En)Gendered Checkpoints and Disputed Terroritories
225. To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence
273. Open Hearing on Resolutions
297. Where We Teach and Learn Now
319. Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly
330. Do You Like Your Job? The Associate Professor Survey, Gender, and Job Satisfaction
331A. Ménage à Trois in the Foreign Languge Classroom: Function, Content, Accuracy
Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop
341. The Honors Programs at Two-Year Colleges
346. Marketability and Crafting Academic Personas
361. Mobbing in the Academy: An Introduction
414. Publish and Flourish: A Roundtable on Academic Publishing for Graduate Students
426. Disability in Context: (Re)Defining Disability
431. The Presidential Address
452. Associate Professor Survey: Senior Women Mentoring
468. Humanities 2.0: Participatory Learning in an Age of Technology
469. Academic Freedom?
484. Stereotypes of Contingent Faculty Members: Humor and Social Commentary
524. Literature of Immigrants
527. Genders of Travel
557. MLA Delegate Assembly
571. Disability and Human Rights
588. Gender in Indigenous North America
592. The Good Web: A Workshop in Teaching Your Students How to Evaluate Web Resources
602. Negotiating Family and Graduate Studies
692. Electronic Roundtable: A Demonstration of Digital Poetry Archives
710. Creative Writing in the Twenty-First Century
747. Only Connect? The Promises and Problems of Public Scholarship
772. Open Meeting of the Program Committee
776. Another Job Market: Rewarding Careers in Independent High Schools
790. Affirmative Activism in English and Modern Languages
1. A Preconvention Workshop for Members of Search Committees
50. Successful Lecturing with a Healthy Voice: A Workshop
62. Should Faculty Members in Two-Year Colleges Be Required to Do Research?
144. Professing Literature: Twenty Years Later
172. The New Majority Faculty: A Kinetic Workforce
186. Career Opportunities in Two-Year Colleges
211. Travel Literature: Word and Image
237. Counterpoint: Humanities in the Work of the World
254. Open Hearing on Resolutions
256. Professionalization in a Digital Age
266. Translation and Translators: Humanists at Work in the World
280. How the University Works: Higher Education and the Service Economy
290. Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly
311. Standing Still? The Associate Professor Project Survey
315. Academic Freedom under Fire: Specific Threats
317. Electronic Literature: Reading, Writing, Navigating
333. Cash Bar Arranged by the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages, Women in German, and Feministas Unidas
357. Acting Out: A Workshop on Bodies, Words, Myths, and Performance
373. Scholarship in New Media
394. The Presidential Address
395. Rescuing Literature: Developing Lifelong Readers at the Two-Year College
404. Negotiating Politics of Alliance and Difference: Third World Women and Women of Color in the Age of Transnationalism
423. The Dissertation and the Book: A Roundtable for Graduate Students
429. The Precarious Future of Academic Freedom
439. Trickle-Down? Tenure and Promotion in Community and Two-Year Colleges
447. Open Hearing of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Structure of the Annual Convention
454. Outcomes Assessments: Problems and Perspectives
472. Keywords for a Digital Profession
533. Disability on Film
566. Service Learning Models at Community Colleges
587. Cash Bar Arranged by the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
615. Inside the Editorial Office: A Workshop for New Journal Editors
641. To Assess or Not to Assess: What Are the Questions?
668. The Book Review
696. Open Hearing of the MLA Program Committee
702. Academic Sisterhood: Mentoring across Divisions of Race and Rank
728. Revision as Writing, Writing as Revision
754. International Humanities in the Age of Terror: Women's Activism and Scholarship
776. Genre and the Forms of History
5. Welcome to the MLA
20. (Re)Producing Ourselves? Preparing the Next Generation of Comparatists
58. The "Race" for the Professional
66. Theorizing the Humanities Dissertation
69A. Transnational Feminisms
81. Academic Fashions
111. Everquesting: Digital Learning and the Humanities
121. Looking West Looking East: Transatlantic Travel Writing
138. Genre Trouble: Scholarship and Creative Practice
157. Temperatures Rising: Contingent Faculty Members and the Fight for Academic Freedom
200. Open Hearing on Resolutions
231. Gender and Race in the Corporate University
235. Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly
236. Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion: Report and Recommendations
263. (Re)Thinking the Postcolonial?
340. Disability and the Foreign Languages
346. The Presidential Address
396. Open Hearing of the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on the Structure of the Annual Convention
404. The University and the High School
419. A Desire for Discipline? Models of Professionalization
433. Reimagining the Ivory Tower: Perspectives and Praxis
453. Working in the Vineyard: Women of Color as Teachers and Laborers in the Academy
457. MLA Delegate Assembly
462. The Impact of Identity, Authority, and Culture on Professional Communication
498. Disability and Contingent Labor
518. Public Engagement and the New Professoriat
532. Cash Bar Arranged by the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages
547. Cash Bar Arranged by the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession
594. Roundtable in Honor of John Lovas: Essentials of Effective Teaching
636. Pregnant Bodies and Other Bodies in the Academy
641. The Case for Literature in Introductory Language Courses
649. Meet the Bloggers: Blogging and the Future of Academia
668. Open Hearing of the MLA Program Committee
671. The Case for and against Literature in Composition Courses
689. Women Administrators in the Humanities: Reimagining Academic Leadership
715. Teaching Audience Analysis and Intercultural Communication
769. Publish and Flourish: A Roundtable on Academic Publishing for Graduate Students
18. Welcome to the MLA
28. Anonymous in Academe
34A. Academic Labor: Keywords for Current Conditions
70. Intellectual Property and Its Discontents
108. Dissertation to Book
158. Covering Academe
171. The Role of the Intellectual in the Twenty-First Century
187. Open Hearing on Resolutions
191. Teaching Indigenous and Foreign Languages
207. Beyond Interdisciplinarity: The Public Mission of the Humanities
214A. Spin and Political Narrative
224. Outside in the Archival Machine: Graduate Student Scholarship and the Archive
233. Black Disability Studies
242. Open Hearing of the Delegate Assembly
247. Humanities and the F Word: Women and the MLA
253. Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop
266. A Conversation with Ariel Dorfman
267. Alternative Careers for PhDs and Graduate Students: Opportunities in High School Education
321. Media Spectacles of Disability 2005: Million Dollar Baby and the Schiavo Case
348. The Presidential Address
354. Will My Course Transfer? Models of Articulation between Two- and Four-Year Colleges and Universities
374. Negotiation as Theory, Theorizing Negotiation
388. Graduate Student Teaching and the Culture Wars
401. A Conversation with Julia Kristeva and Ngugi wa Thiong'o
424. A Call for Creative Collaborations and Border Crossings: Preparing Faculty Members to Teach in Two-Year Colleges
438. Rewriting the Capitol: Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Members Lobbying in Practice and Theory
439. How to Negotiate: A Workshop for Women
444. Turning to Ethics
457. Professional Communication I: Looking at Our History
460. MLA Delegate Assembly
498. Economies of Travel
528. Fresh Voices in Disability Studies
536. Women of Color: Negotiating the Academy
545. Cash Bar Sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession
572. Report of the Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion
623. Beyond Generalism: Clarifying the Culture(s) of Small Schools and Universities
643. Criticism and Crisis: Twenty-First-Century Intellectuals and the Politics of Academic Freedom
681. Innovations in Two-Year Colleges
682. Open Hearing of the MLA Program Committee
688. Literary Prestige in the Global Marketplace: Theorizing the Man Booker Prize
720. Feminist Publishing in Peril?
27. Reforming the PhD
45A. Unexpected Questions at the Community College Job Interview
62. Understanding Structural Racism in the Fight against Bigotry: A Literary Perspective
82. The Politics of Shame: Strategies and Tactics for Contingent Faculty Members
108A. The Future of the Humanities
125. Where the Jobs Are: Looking beyond Carnegie I Positions
149A. The Future of the Humanities in a Fragmented World
155. Open Hearing on Resolutions
181. Teaching Tolerance: Combating Bigotry
190. Open Hearing of the Delegate Assembly
227. Service and Activism at Mid-Career
228. Disability and Ethnicity
247. The Future of the Humanities: A Discussion with Louis Menand and Barbara Herrnstein Smith
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There was a lot of attention on the Pacific Division this past weekend. People were wondering when the Golden State Warriors would finally lose and when the Los Angeles Lakers would finally win. Both happened Sunday, with the Warriors – playing without Klay Thompson and David Lee – finally falling at Phoenix and the Lakers – getting production from someone other than Kobe Bryant – knocking off the Charlotte Hornets. But if you ask me, the attention was misplaced. With consecutive playoff
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Evaluation in the Treatment of Nosocomial Sepsis Comparing Polymerase Chain Reaction With Conventional Blood Culture.
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The objective of this study is to evaluate the consumption of antimicrobial therapy in patients comparing a rapid molecular test (PCR in Real-Time Multiplex) with blood cultures to identify the etiological agents of sepsis.
Other: Antibiotic regimen
Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
|Official Title:
|Evaluation of Antimicrobial Use and Time of Treatment of Nosocomial Sepsis Comparing Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in Real Time Multiplex to the Conventional Blood Culture for Etiologic Agents Identification. Randomized Clinical Trial.
- Evaluation of antimicrobial use in number of days comparing a rapid molecular test (PCR in Real-Time Multiplex) with blood cultures to identify the etiological agents of sepsis. [ Time Frame: After fourteen days of antimicrobial treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|January 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Pathogen detection by Multiplex PCR
Blood samples for cultures and Multiplex PCR will be collected before start the antibiotic therapy in patients with sepsis. Multiplex PCR will be immediately undertaken and its results will be reported to prompt medical researcher (6-12 hours).
Other: Antibiotic regimen
The medical researcher will change the antibiotic regimen (De-escalation) immediately as a result of Multiplex PCR (6-12 h).
No Intervention: Pathogen detection by blood culture
Blood samples for cultures and Multiplex PCR will be collected before start the antibiotic therapy in patients with sepsis. The results of multiplex PCR will be not informed to the medical researcher, being focused care as a result of blood culture (at least after 72 hours).
Detailed Description:
Patients staying more than 48 hours in hospital with clinical suspicion of sepsis could be included in the study. Blood samples for cultures and multiplex PCR will be collected immediately prior to initiation of antibiotic therapy. Patients will be randomly selected into two groups. In Group I, the PCR results will be immediately reported to the medical researcher (6-12 hours), which will change the antimicrobial regimen (De-escalation). In Group II, the Multiplex PCR results will not be informed, being focused care as a result of blood culture (at least after 72 hours). The initial empirical antimicrobial therapy will be the same in both groups, according to the standardization of the institution.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient 18 or more years old
- Patient staying more than 48 hours in hospital
- Patient with clinical suspicion of infection and presenting at leat two of the following criteria:temperature > 38oC or < 36oC, heart rate > 90 beats/minute, respiratory rate > 20 breaths/minute or PaCO2 < 32 mmHg or leukocytosis >12 000/μl or leukopenia <4000/μl or normal white blood cell count with >10% immature forms
- Patient or responsible able to provide informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient submitted to cardiovascular surgery in the last fifteen days
- Patient or responsible are not able to provide informed consent
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01450358
|Contact: Cristhieni Rodrigues, MD
|551126615000 ext 5358
|Contact: Rogério Zeigler, MD
|551126615000 ext 5349
|Instituto do Coracao
|Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 05403000
|Contact: Cristhieni Rodrigues, MD 551126615000 ext 5358 email@example.com
|Contact: Rogério Zeigler, MD 551126615000 ext 5349 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Tania MV Strabelli, PhD
|Principal Investigator:
|Tania MV Strabelli, PhD
|Instituto do Coracao
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Tania Mara Varejão Strabelli, PhD, Director of Infection Control Unit, Instituto do Coracao
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01450358 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|PCR multiplex
|Study First Received:
|October 10, 2011
|Last Updated:
|March 4, 2013
|Health Authority:
|Brazil: National Committee of Ethics in Research
Keywords provided by Instituto do Coracao:
Real time PCR
Blood culture
Bacteremia diagnosis
Fungemia diagnosis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Bacterial Infections
Pathologic Processes
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Antibiotics, Antitubercular
Anti-Infective Agents
Antitubercular Agents
Pharmacologic Actions
Therapeutic Uses
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The Lighter Side of Ferguson
The left's madness and transparency deserve ridicule.
Better Race Relations in 5 Easy Steps
It's not that complicated: if more than 7 out of 10 blacks weren't being born out of wedlock, there very quickly would be little to discuss.
Fess Up, Conservatives: Time to Accept Blame for MLK's Unrealized Dream
The Left will mark the speech's fiftieth anniversary with a blamefest. Be ready with your apologies.
Straight Talk on Race Relations
MLK dreamed we would judge each other, on character rather than race. Also read: Bill Richardson Says Ted Cruz Just Isn't Really Hispanic
The Senate Apologizes for Slavery and Jim Crow Laws — But Why?
The innocent have no need to apologize to the unvictimized.
Obama's Race Against Race
Roger Clegg worries that despite all his talk of rejecting identity politics, a President Obama would "embrace racial preferences and set-asides, and reject efforts to promote assimilation."
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A clean and functional UI that just works. I like the use of a single colour to help bring out certain elements. The simple glow of the on button works well to distinguish it.Posted in Interface → Element
A great example of an admin panel for a web app. I love the attention to detail throughout and the abundance of clean design ideas. The sparing use of colour helps to highlight key elements.Posted in Interface → Web App
An interesting take on the Facebook 'Like' button that displays a clear sense of style. The colour palette works really well to give this element character. It could be even better if the different elements were fused together in a more realistic setting.Posted in Interface → Element
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A simply gorgeous iPhone app icon that's as memorable as it is detailed. I love the little textures and focus on details, while the subtle 'face' that's been created gives the icon character.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
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Impact of Hepatitis C Virus Variability on Steatosis (Viro-steatosis)
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Chronic infection by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a common cause of liver disease, which may progress to cirrhosis and eventually liver cancer. The therapeutic indication will depend mainly on the importance of liver damage (fibrosis), which can be assessed by physical techniques, blood tests and a liver biopsy. The overall objectives of the project are to understand how HCV variability may influence the severity of steatosis (accumulation of fat in the liver), studying 30 patients chronically infected with HCV (half of these patients infected by HCV genotype 3, versus the other half infected by HCV of another genotype). A small portion of the biopsy performed for the routine pathology examination will be placed in special fixation buffer for electron microscopy (EM). Counting and measuring the size of lipid droplets present in the liver by EM will be used to precisely quantify and characterize the liver steatosis. A blood sample of patients will also be collected to sequence the viral genome present in the patient and identify the amino acids involved in an increase in intracellular accumulation of lipid droplets. This work should clarify the impact of the viral variability in the severity of steatosis. Ultimately, the identification of viral sequences responsible for an increase of this phenomenon could be crucial for understanding the mechanisms involved in the steatosis.
Chronic Hepatitis C
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Impact of the Hepatitis C Virus Variability on Liver Steatosis
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Patients with chronic hepatitis C
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with chronic hepatitis C, naive of an antiviral treatment or after relapse or non-response for an antiviral treatment stopped for more than 1 year
- Liver biopsy necessary for the care of the patient
- Signature of informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients for which the liver biopsy is estimated ≤ 18 mm, so a portion of 3 mm could not be devoted for the study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00843076
|CH de Blois
|Blois, France
|CH de Bourges
|Bourges, France
|CH de Châteauroux
|Chateauroux, France
|CH de Dreux
|Dreux, France
|CHR Orléans
|Orleans, France
|CHRU de Tours
|Tours, France
|Study Director:
|Philippe ROINGEARD
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|University Hospital, Tours
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00843076 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 12, 2009
|Last Updated:
|November 8, 2013
|Health Authority:
|France: Afssaps - Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé (Saint-Denis)
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C, Chronic
Hepatitis, Chronic
Digestive System Diseases
Enterovirus Infections
Flaviviridae Infections
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Liver Diseases
Picornaviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
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Trent Langston, OL, Sr.
With 15 consecutive starts at left tackle under his belt, the 6-foot-3, 200-pounder with a wrestling background plays with an incredible amount of leverage.
Dustin Wilkes, RB, Sr.
At 5-11, 200 pounds with a 4.4 40-yard dash time at his disposal, he certainly has the attributes of a big time player. His 500 rushing yards against region opponents last season may have been the start of something great.
Christian Looney, LB, Jr.
Like Langston, Looney has a wrestling background, and West-Oak coach Jay Brannon expects Looney to be a defensive leader as a junior. Has great instincts and will be key in stopping the run.
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