Ace Of Spades Research Articles

“Can Corpses Undie?” Traces of Rothberg’s Trauma Model in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé’s Ace of Spades

Interdisciplinary studies in memory have become more relevant since the turn of the twentieth century with scholars giving their divergent views. That way, personal and collective memories have been explored vis-à-vis communal identities. How tragic/traumatic events affect personal and collective memories remains the concern of trauma theory which has critically investigated both the personal and intergenerational traumas of victims of injustice. One major contribution of Michael Rothberg to collective memory is his advancement of solidarity between group victims of diverse cultures, nationalities, races, and identities in order to create a more peaceful world to live in. This paper purports that Rothberg’s multidirectional memory and theory of implication are useful theoretical tools for analysing Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé’s Young Adult novel, Ace of Spades (2021). The paper, therefore, indicates how diverse sites of trauma in the author’s world synergise with those of the protagonists. Also, the paper notably identifies some white characters in Ace of Spades as implicated subjects of racism and white supremacy. On the whole, the premise of this paper is that the new media can serve as a convenient site of thoughtful convergence for different victim groups to devise a means of dismantling long-existing regimes of oppression and injustice.

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a Caucasian male: A case report

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (ApHCM) is relatively uncommon variant of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which typically influences the left ventricular apex. We report a case of a 64-year-old Caucasian male who presented to the ER with pain in his chest (angina) and diaphoresis, diagnosis of ApHCM was reached. The variable presentation, clinical course of the disease and limited literature among Caucasian population creates a challenge in detecting it and results in delayed or missed diagnosis, however by spotting its characteristic features on electrocardiography (the “giant” negative precordial T‐waves) and the “ace of spades” configuration on echocardiogram as well as using cardiac catheterization and cardiac MRI, diagnosis can be confirmed. This particular case will underscore the infrequent occurrence of ApHCM in Caucasians, along with the its complex diagnostic and presentation characteristics it produces.

Ace of spades and apical hypertrophic cardiomiopathy: a sign not to forget

Ace of spades and apical hypertrophic cardiomiopathy: a sign not to forget

The ACE of spades – Poem

The ACE of spades – Poem

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's Mid-to-Late Career, Philanthropy, and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's Mid-to-Late Career, Philanthropy, and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America

THE ACE OF SPADES: AN UNCOMMON STRUCTURAL ETIOLOGY OF CHEST PAIN

THE ACE OF SPADES: AN UNCOMMON STRUCTURAL ETIOLOGY OF CHEST PAIN

Jack London's Fear of Insanity in the Tropics

Jack London's Fear of Insanity in the Tropics Jay Williams (bio) Adventuring is meant to conquer fear. Yet men can go crazy at sea. Never-ending open water, a threat to mental stability itself, heaves at times with vicious storms, waves that would dwarf a forty-three-foot ketch, such as the one that Jack and Charmian London sailed from San Francisco to the Solomon Islands. But not back. He abandoned the trip after seventeen months. He gave various reasons, emphasizing physical ailments, but his final words on the matter are in the afterword to The Cruise of the Snark. Although he graphically explains how badly swollen and diseased his hands were, thus making it impossible to move "about on a small rolling boat," he cited his Australian doctors to explain the cause of the swelling and peeling. They "agreed that the malady was non-parasitic, and that, therefore, it must be nervous" (Backword 338).1 Hence, to California, where he had "always maintained a stable nervous equilibrium." What he meant by "nervous" and "nervous equilibrium" has never been interrogated, least of all by London. When we do so, we are led to the real reasons London terminated his Snark voyage. It wasn't his hands. It was his mind and therefore his identity.2 He doesn't publicly explore this surprising analysis. He wants people to believe he is referencing merely the ordinary mental anguish that accompanies physical suffering. More likely, he wants to deflect attention away from the cause to the symptoms. Privately, he was deeply concerned about his own mental health and the danger of psychic collapse. In a veritable mania about the subject of the psyche and its illnesses, through the years he conducted a thorough investigation in the literature of nervousness. On board the Snark, he read William Thomson's Brain and Personality and Joseph Jastrow's Subconscious (C. London, Diary 12 Mar. and 17–20 Apr. 1908). He was already familiar with the work of Alfred [End Page 121] Binet and Pierre Janet (Williams, Author, 248–51). In the future he would read further in the literature to find clues to why he was susceptible to mental exhaustion and breakdown. He would purchase at least five monographs published by the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, including works by Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank. He read Karl Abraham's Dreams and Myths; Richard von Kraft-Ebbing's Textbook of Insanity and Psychopathia Sexualis; Caleb Saleeby's Worry: The Disease of the Age, David Lincoln's Sanity of Mind, Williams James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, Samuel A. Tannenbaum's 1916 article "Psycho-Analysis" in The American Journal of Urology and Sexology, and a host of other books and articles on mental states. He cited Freud in his preface, written in 1915, to Osias Schwarz's General Types of Superior Men (Preface 6). He read Carl Jung (see Letters 3: 1597–98). This is just a sampling; many of his library books have been lost (especially those he read on the Snark) or are in private unknown hands. The architecture and diseases of the mind fascinated him, in a horrified sort of way, because even a temporary nervous breakdown meant the loss of identity, especially of authorial identity. According to Elsie Martinez, "one of the obsessions Jack had, George Sterling told us, was that he was losing his mind like his mother. Sterling used to soothe him by declaring he was merely suffering from exhaustion" (148). We don't know what time period she refers to, and her memory and/or sources are sometimes questionable. Still, a significant amount of his fiction directly or indirectly reflects that obsession and examines the lives of insane, partially insane, or neurasthenic characters. The White Silence, so predominant in London's Klondike stories, drives some of London's Northland inhabitants mad. Even in notes for unwritten tales, insanity is a theme: "Negro cook—black as ace of spades—He has provisions etc. Goes crazy. Makes his way south. Camp of Indians. Witch doctress speaks of strange portents. Enter crazy nigger singing" ("Klondike Sketches"). Then there is "The White Man's Way," featuring Old Ebbits, he...

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Reviewed by: Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Kate Quealy-Gainer, Assistant Editor Àbíké-Íyímídé, Faridah Ace of Spades. Feiwel, 2021 [432 p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781250800817 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9781250800824 $10.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 7-10 As the chief candidate for valedictorian and most popular (if not most liked) student at Niveus Private Academy, Chiamaka Adebayo rules both the academic and social scene. Her classmate Devon Richards is less ambitious, mostly wanting to focus on music but also to make sure his working mother's sacrifices to pay his tuition are worth it. Besides being the only two Black students at the school, they have little in common, but an anonymous person called Aces targets both of them by blasting out texts to the entire school revealing their intimate secrets. They eventually suspect the harassment to be racially motivated, but neither the school admin nor their friends seem interested in helping them, so the two are forced to do their own investigating and discover a devastating web of cruelty. The two teens share narration, and of the pair, Devon is the more nuanced character as he struggles with his queerness and the daily code-switching he has to do as he moves between his neighborhood and his school. Aces is a more direct threat to Chiamaka, however, which gives her voice a growing sense of urgency, shifting her initially cool, calculating tone to barely contained panic. The book takes a little too long establishing what both teens stand to lose to Aces, but once the focus moves to their efforts toward finding out what the heck is going on, the tension ratchets up and the pages nearly turn themselves. Comparisons to Get Out are inevitable, [End Page 414] and, like that movie, this examines the hidden but powerful ways white supremacy establishes itself. Copyright © 2021 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Metabolic “ace of spades” in apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Metabolic “ace of spades” in apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

A new structure of Tesla coupled nozzle in synthetic jet micro-pump

Synthetic jet pump is a potential technique to improve the pumping performance by introducing a smart structure which can enhance counter-rotating vortexes. Aligning with this approach, a new structure of valveless micro-pump is developed in this work. The mechanism of the present micro-pump is based on the combination of the nozzle and a tesla element to rectify the synthetic jet. The new structure of “ace of spades” nozzle, named Tesla coupled nozzle, creates series of vortexes at the orifice of the pump chamber that allows to attenuate the reversed flows while fluid is drawn through the pump. The present micro-pump is simple but robust and can perform at rather low voltages.

Annuals and Herbaceous Perennials Tolerant or Resistant to Phytophthora Species in the Landscape1

Abstract Plants of one or two cultivars of 16 annuals and 14 herbaceous perennials were evaluated based on desirability and anecdotal evidence of resistance to Phytophthora root or crown rot. Six plant cultivars served as susceptible controls. Three landscape beds were established in North Carolina and each was infested with three species of Phytophthora: P. nicotianae, P. drechsleri, and P. tropicalis. Plants were regularly rated for disease incidence and symptomatic plants were assayed to determine the presence of Phytophthora species. Ten cultivars of annuals and seven cultivars of herbaceous perennials did not exhibit symptoms of Phytophthora root or crown rot or other disease throughout the season (June 4 to October 15, 2018). Phytophthora spp. were recovered from seven and six cultivars of the evaluated annuals and herbaceous perennials, respectively. Phytophthora nicotianae, P. drechsleri, or P. cryptogea were recovered from a susceptible host in each landscape bed. P. tropicalis was recovered from one plant cultivar evaluated. Phytophthora cryptogea was recovered from three plant cultivars, although this species was not intentionally introduced in the landscape beds. We identified 22 plant cultivars within 13 herbaceous plant species that grew vigorously in landscape beds infested with species of Phytophthora. Index words: bedding plants, disease resistance, herbaceous perennials, landscape plants, Phytophthora nicotianae, Phytophthora drechsleri, Phytophthora tropicalis. Species used in this study: yarrow (Achillea millefolium L. ‘Desert Eve Red'), fernleaf yarrow (Achillea filipendulina Lam. ‘Moonshine Yellow'), angelonia (Angelonia angustifolia Benth. ‘ArchAngel Pink', ‘Serenita White'), annual vinca (Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don ‘Cora Apricot', ‘Cora Strawberry', ‘Pacifica Raspberry'), celosia (Celosia argentea L. ‘New Look'), tickseed (Coreopsis auriculata L. ‘Nana', ‘Yellow Jethro Tull'), purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench ‘Cheyenne Spirit', ‘PowWow Wild Berry'), blanket flower (Gaillardia x grandiflora Hort. ‘Goblin', ‘Mesa Bi-color'), Barberton daisy (Gerbera jamesonii Bolus ex Hooker f. ‘Crazy Daisy'), verbena (Glandularia canadensis ‘Homestead Purple'), >dusty miller (Jacobaea maritima (L.) Pelser & Meijden ‘Silver Dust'), New Guinea impatiens (Impatienshawkeri W.Bull ‘Hamony', ‘Sunpatiens Compact Orchid', ‘Sunpatiens Lilac'), sweet potato vine (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. ‘Ace of Spades', ‘Bright Idea Tri-color'), West Indian lantana (Lantana camara L. ‘Miss Huff'), lantana (Lantana x hybrida ‘New Gold'), shasta daisy (Leucanthemum x superbum (Bergmans ex J.W. Ingram) Bergmans ex Kent. ‘Becky', ‘Snow Lady'), bee balm (Monarda didyma L. ‘Petite Delight', ‘Jacob Cline'), ornamental grass (Panicum virgatum L. ‘Rotstrahlbusch', ‘Shenandoah'), geranium (Pelargonium x hortorum L.H. Bailey (pro. sp.) ‘Bullseye Cherry', Calliope Dark Red'), calibrachoa (Petunia x calibrachoa ‘Super Cal'), petunia (Petunia x hybrida (Hooker) Vilmorin ‘Easy Wave Red', ‘Easy Wave White', ‘Wave Purple', ‘Yellow Madness', Violet Picotee'), annual phlox (Phlox drummondii Hook. ‘Intensia Red Hot', ‘Phlox Star'), garden phlox (Phlox paniculata L. ‘Amethyst True Gal'), black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta L. ‘Indian Summer', ‘Prairie Sun'), mealy blue sage (Salvia farinacea Benth. ‘Victoria Blue'), African marigold (Tagetes erecta L. ‘Inca Yellow', ‘Proud Yellow'), French marigold (Tagetes patula L. ‘Disco Mix', ‘Disco Yellow'), narrowleaf zinnia (Zinnia angustifolia Kunth. ‘Star Orange', ‘Star White'), Phytophthora nicotianae Breda de Haan, Phytophthora cryptogea Pethybr. and Laff, Phytophthora drechsleri Tucker, Phytophthora tropicalis Aragaki and J.Y. Uchida, zinnia (Zinnia elegans Jacq. ‘Magellan Orange').

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Point of care echocardiography in the emergency room

Purpose: Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (AHM) is a variant of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, involving nearly exclusively apex. It is very common among Asian patients, predominantly in Japanese, which is considered relatively benign condition. However, severe clinical manifestations, including sudden cardiac death, severe arrhythmias and apical infarction have been described in case reports. The electrocardiographic changes (giant negative T waves) and associated symptoms (chest pain, palpitations, dyspnea...) often present as acute coronary sindromes. AHM diagnosis is based on the demonstration of myocardial hypertrophy in the apical region of the left ventricle, usually by echocardiography with classical image “ace of spades”, although in many cases the use of contrast necessary. We present a case of young patient admited at ER with palpitations. Material & Methods: The most frequent morbid events in Eriksson et al study of AHM were atrial fibrillation (AF), probably related to left atrial enlargement and impaired LV relaxation. It is prudent to also closely examine the heart on bedside emergency echocardiography looking for the presence of left atrial enlargement. Results: 37 year old male, with no significant medical history, was admitted to the ER by palpitations. The electrocardiogram showed AF with deep, negative T-waves in leads V3-V6. Bedside emergency echocardiography (BEE) initially performed to look for left atrial enlargement, revealed apical hypertrophy, with apical cavity obliteration during systole. These findings were confirmed by contrast ecocardiography. The patient was diagnosed with AHM (Yamaguchi's syndrome) and started on beta-blocker therapy. Conclusion: In this case, BEE helped to identify an AHM. It was the findings on emergency ultrasound, performed and interpreted by EPs, that helped to identify the correct diagnosis and prompted the appropriate consultations to cardiologist, with a final diagnostic of AHM.

The Divine Proportion "Ace of Spades" Umbilicoplasty: A New Method of Navel Positioning and Plasty in Abdominoplasty.

Achievement of a well-balanced positioned navel along the longitudinal axis with a pleasing shape and hidden scarring will have a tremendous impact on the overall cosmetic outcome of an abdominoplasty. In this era of navel display, piercing, and tattooing, an increasing attention is paid by people toward navel shape and position. However, in plastic surgery, there is no standardization regarding navel repositioning and plasty during abdominoplasty. The aim of this article is to describe the clinical translation of our observational study on navel surface anatomy by reporting our experience with a new umbilicoplasty technique. Between July 2013 and March 2014, 23 consecutive patients underwent elective deep inferior epigastric perforator free flap breast reconstruction. Patients' mean age was 45.5 years (range, 36-68 years). Ten patients were normal weight, 11 were overweight, and 2 were class-1 obese. All 23 patients underwent the divine proportion ace of spade umbilicoplasty. Pleasant looking, depressed, and oval navels with superior hooding were successfully achieved. No infection or necrosis of the navel skin or abdominal skin flaps was experienced. Additionally, no scar constriction, navel distortion, or stenosis occurred. Postoperative results were graded as excellent in 8 cases (36%), very good in 12 (55%), and good in the 2 cases (9%) with mildly hypertrophic scars. Patient satisfaction was high to very high. A Fibonacci caliper might aid in the proper positioning of the umbilicus on the abdominal wall avoiding an undesirable high- or low-riding navel. The "ace of spades" umbilicoplasty restores a natural-looking depressed navel with an oval shape and superior hooding.

Chest Discomfort, Abnormal Electrocardiogram, Clean Coronaries

•Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy symptoms and electrocardiography can be confused with myocardial infarction. •Giant negative T waves and left ventricular hypertrophy are key electrocardiographic changes •The left ventricle is shaped like an “ace of spades” on imaging due to apical hypertrophy. •Lack of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction leads to fewer symptoms and better prognosis. •Treatment is primarily medical, not surgical. Stephanie Lickerman, MSN, ANP-BC, CVNP, CHFN, is a cardiac nurse practitioner at Heart Health Specialists, LLC, and St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, MO. She can be reached at . Department Editor Joanne Thanavaro, DNP, FAANP, would like to hear your ideas for future columns, can be reached at .

Cholesteryl ester transfer protein: ace of spades, queen of hearts, or the joker?

Cholesteryl ester transfer protein: ace of spades, queen of hearts, or the joker?

Advantages of echocardiography in the emergency room in front of a young patient with palpitations

Background Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (AHM) is a variant of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, involving nearly exclusively apex. It is very common among Asian patients, predominantly in Japanese, which is considered relatively benign condition. However, severe clinical manifestations, including sudden cardiac death, severe arrhythmias and apical infarction have been described in case reports. The electrocardiographic changes (giant negative T waves ) and associated symptoms (chest pain, palpitations, dyspnea...) often present as acute coronary sindromes. AHM diagnosis is based on the demonstration of myocardial hypertrophy in the apical region of the left ventricle, usually by echocardiography with classical image “ace of spades”, although in many cases the use of contrast necessary.

Ultraviolet Radiation Affects Intumescence Development in Ornamental Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas)

Intumescences are a physiological disorder characterized by hypertrophy and possibly hyperplasia of plant tissue cells. Ultimately, this disorder results in the death of the affected cells. Previous observations and research suggest that the quality and quantity of light to which plants are exposed may be a factor in development of the disorder. The purpose of this study was to assess the preventive effect of ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation on intumescence development in ornamental sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas). Two sweetpotato cultivars, Sidekick Black and Ace of Spades, were grown under light treatments consisting of 1) normal greenhouse production conditions; 2) supplemental UVB lighting; 3) supplemental UVB lighting with Mylar® sleeves over the lamps to block UVB radiation; and 4) control lighting with full spectrum lamps. Treatments were administered for 2 weeks, and the experiment was repeated twice. ‘Ace of Spades’ was highly susceptible to intumescence development, whereas ‘Sidekick Black’ was much less susceptible to the disorder. For ‘Ace of Spades’, the addition of UVB radiation significantly reduced the number of leaves affected with intumescences when compared with plants grown under the other light treatments; this UVB effect was not apparent for ‘Sidekick Black’. Furthermore, there was no evidence for reduced plant growth under UVB light in either cultivar, but side effects from the radiation included leaf discoloration and deformities. This study indicates a cultivar-specific effect of UVB light in preventing intumescence development on ornamental sweetpotato, therefore suggesting a potential genetic component in intumescence susceptibility. These results provide further insight in better understanding intumescence development and how to prevent the disorder.

“Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein” (review)

Reviewed by: “Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein” Ronald Paulson (bio) “Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein” (Baltimore Museum of Art ) Why is the World Series not called a World Tournament? Perhaps because it is a given number of games (seven) between the winning teams of the two major American baseball leagues to decide the championship. There is a beginning, middle, and (with the fourth win) end; the same is true of each game, which is divided into innings. A baseball series is won or lost; but by the logic of the game and the skill of the players, not by the intervention or arrangement of an artist. A series (Latin serere, to weave together) is a group of related or similar things. By “series” the curators of the Baltimore Museum of Art, in their exhibition “Print by Print: Series from Durer to Lichtenstein,” mean pretty much anything that comes in twos, threes, and on up that has some common element, such as a baseball. A series could also be called a set–a tennis set, a deck of cards, a set of Dickens or Thackeray, or their serializations. As a pack of cards, a series invokes other terms such as sequence, which emphasizes a logical or numerical connection between the elements (1–10, Jack-Queen-King); succession implies one thing following another, Louis XVI succeeding Louis XV; and progression, a movement forward (as regression, back). John Coplan, in what is still the standard work, Serial Imagery (1968), distinguishes series from serial as, with serial, the repetition of purely formal or structural elements: a deck in which all cards are the Ace of Spades, all “of equal value and all imprinted with the same emblem, which may or may not vary in size, color or position” (Warhol’s Marilyn Monroes, Noland’s Targets). Pure seriality for Coplan, drawing on serial composition in music, is formal variation only—colors in a Warhol (inking), larger formal variations in a Rothko, Noland, or Stella abstraction; but with de Kooning’s Women we are dealing again with both form and content: a shape which bears some relationship to a figural representation. Newman’s Stations of the Cross and Motherwell’s Spanish Elegies, abstractions, depend on the title to connect the repeated forms with a content. The BMA’s “Print by Print” is a popular outreach exhibition, selected by Johns Hopkins students, and it is arranged according to theme and subject matter in the following order: series of Imagination, Narrative, Design, Places Real and Imagined, Appropriation, and War. I wish that it had been arranged for a more scholarly audience according to types of seriality or, better, types chronologically arranged, but there are also virtues in a thematic hanging. Better to begin with the category of Narrative, corresponding as it does to the earliest historical sense of series (short of sheer decorative pattern). The prototype would be the Biblical representations of Christ’s life. One could argue that the series began with the dissolution of the single scene containing all the events of Christ’s life, or of a Tabula Cebetis (the most accomplished version is de Hooghe’s illustration for Epictetus’ Enchiridion [End Page 573] of 1670) in which temporal progression is rendered by a sequence of figures scattered across a landscape, along paths, moralized as right and wrong ways taken. The single panel exfoliates into the Via Crucis, The Fourteen Stations of the Cross, in which Christ, the common element, is both form and content. Seriality begins with a second scene, a contrast to (or variation upon) the first, for example an After follows a Before. Serial composition offers us the other, the alternative—as in the memento mori that accompanies each of the outrageous luxuries paraded by Trimalchio in Petronius’ Satyricon: the constant reminder that he will die tomorrow. And so accompanying the story of Christ is the double-image: the Triumph of Death, Death and the Maiden, the beautiful woman being tapped by Death, whether as lover-rapist or the worm-eaten figure (the transi) that lies below the living image of the medieval tomb. So, life and death, action and consequence, beauty and ugliness...

Perceptual and Cognitive Characteristics of Common Playing Cards

We examined the perceptual and cognitive characteristics of the playing cards commonly used in the Western world. Specifically, we measured their visibility, memorability, likability, and verbal and visual accessibility. Based on visibility and memorability, four groups of cards were distinguished: the Ace of Spades, other Aces, number cards, and face cards. Within each of these groups, there were few differences due to value or suit. Based on likability and accessibility, three additional groups were distinguished: the Ace of Hearts, Queen of Hearts, and King of Hearts. Several interesting relations were found between how people remember, like, and access cards; some of these were similar to effects found in studies of visual perception, while others seemed entirely new. Our results demonstrate that rigorous examination of real-world stimuli can shed light on the perception of ordinary objects, as well as help us understand why magic works in the mind.