Forgotten Art Research Articles

East-West Flap – A forgotten art?

East-West Flap – A forgotten art?

Conventional uroradiology with excretory urography: a forgotten art?

Excretory urography (EU) had been the most frequently performed imaging modality for uroradiology in the past. With the advances in ultrasonography, and development of cross-sectional urography with CT and MRI, EU is now seldom performed. Consequently, there has been a decline of expertise in this technique. However, EU has multiple advantages such as dynamic nature, easy availability, low cost and radiation burden. These render it potentially very valuable in specific indications like congenital anomalies, urothelial lesions and urinary leaks. This review intends to emphasize the current day relevance of excretory urography, outline the key points of the technique, and describe the pearls and pitfalls of interpretation.

H04: Moulage: the forgotten art of dermatology?

H04: Moulage: the forgotten art of dermatology?

Subclavian venoplasty: A second life to the upper limb

Venoplasty, a forgotten art now rescued the upper limb circulation and made the left brachial arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis functional avoiding the long-time need of a femoral arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis. We report a rare case of successful left subclavian venoplasty in a 43-year-old male with end-stage chronic kidney disease on alternate day hemodialysis therapy with critical chronic total occlusion of the left subclavian vein secondary to traumatic central line insertion 8 months back presenting with gross wet edema of the left upper limb with visible venous collaterals over the left neck and the left anterior chest wall. Due to acquired left subclavian stenosis, the left brachial arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis became non-functional and the patient was on alternate day hemodialysis with right femoral arteriovenous fistula.

LiveStyle - An Application to Transfer Artistic Styles

Art is a variety of human activities that include the production of visual, auditory, or performing objects that express the creativity, creative concepts, or technological abilities of the artist, intended primarily for their beauty or emotional power to be appreciated. The renaissance of historic and forgotten art has been made possible by modern developments in Artificial Intelligence. Techniques for Computer Vision have long been related to such arts. Style Transfer using Neural Networks refers to optimization techniques, where a content image and a style image are taken and blended such that it feels like the content image is reconstructed in the style image color palette. This paper implements the Style Transfer using three different Neural Networks in form of an application that is accessible to the general population thereby reviving interest in lost art styles.

The forgotten art of squatting

The forgotten art of squatting

Conventional galactography in the management of suspicious nipple discharge :A forgotten art?

Background: Conventional Galactography is a simple procedure and a cheap tool in evaluating suspicious nipple discharge(SND). It accurately demonstrates the intraductal lesion for confident diagnosis and timely intervention. SND, a common symptom, occurs spontaneously and unilaterally from a single duct. Cancer has been found in some patients with SND. Objective: To examine radiologists' knowledge and practice of galactography in the evaluation of SND and determine if training in performing galactography existed. Methods: A Standardized structured questionnaire with 16 questions was served to radiologists in centres around Nigeria. Descriptive and inferential statistics were done where indicated with SPSS Version 20 (IBM Corp., Armonk NY, USA) and significance levels were set at p<0.05. Results: 58 (64.4%) out of 90 questionnaires were returned. 58% had been in practice for between 11-20 years. 98% worked in departments where breast imaging was available. 26.8% of radiologists reported handling over 10 breast cases/week and SND was reported as a common complaint. Only 8% listed galactography among their department's protocol for managing SND and just 10.5% of respondents had received training to perform it. Only 31% had ever done the procedure. Of those who had performed it, 83% attested that it helped in resolving the cause of the SND. Conclusion: In a resource-poor environment like ours where breast cancer is common and late presentation is the rule, galactography being a cheap tool, it stands to reason that radiologists should widely recommend and use it for early diagnosis. This however does not appear to be the case.

High-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy in head and neck cancer: do we need a look back into a forgotten art - a single institute experience.

PurposeTo evaluate the treatment outcomes with high-dose-rate (HDR) interstitial brachytherapy (HDR-BRT) in head and neck cancers (HNC).Material and methodsFifty-eight patients with HNC as per American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) TNM staging criteria were analyzed retrospectively between 2008 and 2015. Forty-two patients received external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with HDR-BRT and 16 patients received BRT alone. The survival was calculated with respect to median biological equivalent doses (BED) and median 2 Gy equivalent dose (EQD2), keeping α/β = 10 for tumor. Loco-regional control and disease free survival was assessed.ResultsThe median follow-up period was 25 months (2-84 months). The disease-free survival (DFS) probability at year 1 was 82.7%, and 68% at year 7. The overall survival probability was 91.3% at year 1 and 85.8% at year 7. The local control rate was 70%. The rate of recurrence was 30%. Distant metastasis rate was 17.2%. The median BED and EQD2, respectively, were 86.78 Gy and 71.6 Gy. The DFS was 74.1% and 75.9% in patients receiving a dose more than median BED and EQD2, respectively, and was 64.8% and 61.5% for less than the median dose.ConclusionsThe overall outcome was good with implementation of HDR-BRT used alone or as boost, and shows DFS as better when the dose received is more than the median BED and median EQD2. The role of HDR-BRT in HNC is a proven, effective, and safe treatment method with excellent long term outcome as seen in this study, which reflects the need for reviving the forgotten art and science of interstitial brachytherapy in HNC.

A Life in Pictures: Looking for Elizabeth Senior

This essay follows the author’s search for forgotten art historian Elizabeth Senior (1910–41). Using a quest narrative, it traces the process undertaken to piece together the life story of a remarkable young woman, including Internet research, visits to archives and correspondence with family members. Killed at just aged 30 by a bomb during the Blitz in 1941, Senior left a quite substantial body of editorial work and writing. Editress for the inaugural volumes in Allen Lane’s King Penguin series, Senior also wrote multiple reviews for the Burlington Magazine and the British Museum Quarterly, as well as her own art historical books on portraits of Henry VIII and his wives, and on portraits of Christ (co-authored with Ernst Kitzinger). A collaborator and friend to many Jewish émigré art historians, including The Story of Art author Ernst Gombrich, Senior played an important role in facilitating the safe passage of many fleeing the Nazis for England in the 1930s and 1940s. Unmarried at the time of her death, Senior was survived by a 10-week-old baby, whom she had stashed under a table for safety when a bomb landed on her flat.

The hand-assist laparoscopic approach to resection of pancreatic mucinous cystic neoplasms: A forgotten art?

The hand-assist laparoscopic approach to resection of pancreatic mucinous cystic neoplasms: A forgotten art?

Revisit the forgotten art of letter writing

Using letter writing to augment the therapeutic relationship is familiar to counsellors and psychotherapists, but many mental health nurses have been reluctant to employ this practice. Therapeutic letter writing is not usually included in the mainstream nursing curriculum or as part of routine care, and nurses can feel ill-equipped to undertake it. Letters concerning service users are copied to them as standard practice to aid transparency in communicating about their care. This presents an opportunity to revisit the potential of writing to enhance care and the therapeutic dialogue. This article includes a brief review of therapeutic letter writing, and examines its uses, advantages and contraindications. Examples of letters with therapeutic intent are included.

Breathing life back into forgotten art

In February 2008 the New South Wales government confirmed funding for the construction of an offsite storage facility for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, freeing up 1,000 square metres of exhibition space. As a result of this funding, an opportunity was created for a team of conservators to assess the condition of the entire collection in order to prepare it for relocation to the new store. In mid–2008 a thorough survey was carried out, and items in need of immediate attention were identified. The survey was subsequently followed up with a large-scale stabilisation and treatment project carried out over the following 12 months. Focusing on just some of the works identified during the survey and stabilisation project, this paper investigates the reasons why these interesting and technically accomplished works have rarely if ever been selected for display or loan. Identifying contributing factors such as condition, theme, subject matter, artist gender, media category, institutional trends and public taste, the paper also examines the role conservators can play in bringing artworks of particular merit to curatorial attention and, in turn, back into the public domain by making them suitable for display. The paper also looks at the importance of surveying and identifying the value of core collections, particularly in a time of global economic instability where funding for ‘buy in’ shows is not so readily available.

After all: Forgotten art of reading between the airlines

In an airline slogan, not just every word but every letter should be clear and devoid of second meanings and unintended puns. Whereas some airlines' advertising slogans do not make much sense, others are plain scary.

Chivas and Jesus

kies, carried out an advertising campaign on American television. A sixty-second video spot commended to viewers a code of conduct summed up as “chivalry,” with the pun on “Chivas” cleverly intended. Seemingly targeted to affluent, white males in their late twenties amid Wall Street’s numerous scandals, the ad features a middle-brow British voice intoning, “Millions of people. Everyone out for themselves. Can this be the only way? No!” These words are accompanied visually by a scene of a vast crowd in dark business suits jostling each other as they walk in lockstep and shoulder to shoulder. The camera finally focuses on one tall young man who abruptly stops in his tracks, turns around, and walks purposefully in the opposite direction, alone against the tide of his cohorts. The voice goes on to toast “honor,” “gallantry,” “doing the right thing,” and keeping one’s word and talking straight, all of which “set certain men apart,” before finally urging viewers to “live with chivalry.” The voice-over message is accompanied by a quickly moving video collage showing young, athletic, adult males, almost all white, carrying women on their backs through mud, pushing a bloke’s stalled sports car, and helping a fallen opponent up from the soccer field. Such modest sacrifices are also paired with images of freedom and power: the camaraderie of guys skydiving, horseback riding in the surf, and exuberantly jumping off piers into the water, before concluding with a scene of men in tuxedos strolling with aplomb into an elegant reception for the young and the beautiful. The official Chivas Web site also gives a fuller “manifesto” celebrating a “resistance movement” that will reinstate “the almost forgotten art of chivalry” focusing on “honesty,” “manners, etiquette and respect,” “giving a damn about others,” and, yes, even “holding doors for women, and for men.” Readers are quite literally called “to optimism and leaps of faith,” to chasing and sharing wealth, in short, to a “way of behaving that sets certain men apart from all others.”1

Listen Up ??? Someone Important Is Talking

Home care clinicians recognize the importance of effective communication. Although the ability to present information often has been stressed, the ability to listen effectively to the client may be a forgotten art. This article focuses on common barriers to effective communication and provides pointers to help clinicians listen to the needs and concerns of their clients. Through effective listening, patient care and compliance can be improved.

Care and compassion: Part of person-centred rehabilitation, inappropriate response or a forgotten art?

Aims of the paper. The nature of healthcare, rehabilitation and indeed even professional practice and discipline roles seems to constantly change. In particular, whilst ‘care’ has an accepted place in much of health service delivery, there is considerable debate about whether the concept has a place in modern rehabilitation. This paper sets out to review the concept and pose questions about the nature of caring in rehabilitation.Key findings and implications. In order to highlight different potential understandings, this paper reviews the origins of healthcare traditions and care. We explore ethical humanistic and political aspects of caring and investigate what facilitates and obstructs adequate care. Finally we examine what the risks of caring (or not caring) are for both health professionals and their clients.Conclusions and recommendations. Whilst the arguments presented here suggest there is value in caring, there are very limited studies that explicitly examine its nature or indeed value, particularly in rehabilitation. As a result, the potential difference in both the experience of, and outcome, from rehabilitation in relation to the nature of care is yet to be clearly established.

Tool Writing: A Forgotten Art?

The author decided to create a tool to fit the needs. In the process, the author discovered something important: writing stand-alone tools that you can combine efficiently with others to handle more demanding tasks appears to be becoming a forgotten art. The author created a metric tool, named ckjm, using the design principles the author outlined earlier. The tool operates on a list of compiled Java classes specified as arguments or read from its standard input. It then prints to its standard output a single line for each class, containing the class name and the six metrics values. Ant Java-based build tool and adding an XML output option.

Walking on sand: the story of an immigrant son and the forgotten art of public service

Walking on sand: the story of an immigrant son and the forgotten art of public service

RIGID BRONCHOSCOPY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Rigid bronchoscopy, a procedure more than 100 years old, now has been performed in three centuries. The "open tube" bronchoscope provides safe access to the lower airways and has proved to be compatible with newer, more sophisticated therapies as they have been introduced into the practice of bronchology. The twenty-first century surely will provide the bronchoscopist with exciting new diagnostic and therapeutic tools for the management of lung diseases, and it is likely that the rigid bronchoscope will continue to play an important role in delivering these tools to the airways. Pulmonologists need to appreciate the use of this classic instrument and prevent rigid bronchoscopy from becoming a forgotten art.

Funduscopy: a forgotten art?

Funduscopy is an integral part of the physical examination, especially in older patients in whom visual problems and systemic diseases affecting the fundi (eg, diabetes mellitus) are more common. We...