Metal Spoon Research Articles

The Iridescent Blue-Black Boy with Wings (After Márquez)

The Iridescent Blue-Black Boy with Wings (After Márquez)

Simple home-made suction device to aid excision of friable atrial myxoma

Atrial myxoma, especially the papillary subtype, is known to be friable and gelatinous. Manipulation of an atrial myxoma during surgery can be very difficult, and not uncommonly results in fragmentation and embolization of part of the tumor. The conventional method using a metallic spoon to manipulate the tumor is widely practiced because alternatives are sparse. We describe a novel home-made suction device to aid the excision of friable atrial myxomas.

Accurately administering oral medication to children isn't child's play

IntroductionA number of devices including metal teaspoons, calibrated spoons and oral syringes are available to administer medications. The aims of this study were to determine which measuring devices were preferred...

Building “Zyon” in Babylon: Holy Hip Hop and Geographies of Conversion

Khanchuz (pronounced conscious) locks the doors of his metallic beige Cadillac and swaggers slowly up the side street towards Los Angeles's Leimert Park Village, his faux diamond cross swinging gently across his chest. Formerly known as Sleep in his early days as a secular rapper, his eyes are wide and awake, drinking in the dark night's surroundings. We walk down the street and pass Sonny's Spot--a tiny cavern of a jazz club. The walls are tagged with layers of writing and papered with old posters and paintings of jazz musicians. We lean against a black-and-white photograph of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band as the pianist solos on Nina's Dream. Our final destination is Kaotic Sound--home to the infamous weekly underground hip hop open-mic Project Blowed. Tonight we are here for something else--a monthly Christian hip hop open mic called Klub Zyon, the open mic's founders explain, is where we are going--the ultimate place, a spiritual homeland for wandering travelers. A decade earlier, Khanchuz was at Project Blowed rapping in street-corner battles about slingin' drugs, pimpin' women, and gang bangin . Now he raps for Christ. His first God-inspired rap was delivered in a jail cell in Colorado to the rhythm of metal spoons clanking against the bars. As we approach the front door of Klub Zyon, Khanchuz steps back and reflects on the conversion of both his sold and this place. ********** In this essay, I investigate how holy hip hop practitioners, through their musical practices and discourses, work with and on what I refer to as the living architecture of the city to create sites of gospel rap production. Specifically, I am interested in how gospel rappers perceive and perform place as a converting body and a site for the potential conversion of religious subjects, as well as how they undergo and enact conversion as both a spiritual transformation and a spatial practice. By spatial practices, I am referring to the manifold ways in which people move through, use, alter, and make meaning out of space. Holy hip hop (a.k.a. gospel rap or Christian rap) represents a highly complex field of practices comprised of music labels, localized scenes, ministries, radio programs, award shows, artistic crews, and collectives that function in an astonishing variety of buildings and locations, deemed both religious and nonreligious. Sometimes considered musical mavericks in the church, corny Bible-thumpers in the streets or in hip hop clubs, and criminal youth by law enforcement in the so-called ghettos of Los Angeles, gospel rappers are often strained by accusations that their ways of being and expressing are blasphemous and/or inauthentic. These competing critiques constitute the triple bind of holy hip hop's multif ronted struggle to uphold their contingent positioning and find a spiritual/musical dwelling place--to find Zyon. In fact, holy hip hop is one of the few religiomusical movements and genres in African-American culture where the church--often referred to as the Body of Christ by both Catholics and Protestants--is not the primary location of power and performance. But the early history of predominantly black religious gatherings in the invisible churches of brush harbors shows us that when the traditional church is not available or displaced, other possibilities are actualized--the Body of Christ refigured. I ask, how does the space of a church, street corner, or club, reworked by the musical and lyrical practices of gospel rap, serve as a site for the creation of new kinds of places of activity and interaction, as well as new kinds of religious subjects? How do the lived and imagined geographies of holy hip hoppers in Los Angeles inform, define, and disrupt the socially constructed and policed boundaries between the sacred and the profane, Christianity and hip hop, ministry and entertainment, the church and the streets? I focus on three critical, alternative sites of gospel rap performance in Los Angeles that aim to integrate believers and nonbelievers: The Row, a street corner on L. …

156 MONITORING SALIVARY TESTOSTERONE CONCENTRATIONS FROM CAPTIVE AMAZONIAN MANATEES (TRICHECHUS INUNGUIS): IS THERE SEASONAL PATTERN?

Seasonality of reproduction in many nondomestic animal species appears to represent an accommodation to environmental variables, as food availability, in which influence reproductive success. Males can show a decrease of testicular size, sperm concentration, and serum concentration of testosterone because of food restriction. The Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis, Mammalia: Sirenia) is a threatened aquatic mammal, endemic of the Amazon basin (South America), and is the only sirenian that occurs exclusively in fresh water. Although information is lacking about the reproductive endocrinology of free-ranging T. inunguis, they are considered seasonal breeders, with copulation and births occurring between December and July, coinciding with the increase in Amazon basin water levels and the period of most availability of food for the species (Best 1982 Biotropica 14, 76–78). Salivary steroid measurement is a noninvasive way to monitor steroid concentration, which is well correlated with the level of steroids in the serum. The aim of this study was to verify if testosterone concentrations of male T. inunguis kept in captivity, without variation of food availability, show a seasonal pattern. Were used 4 adult male Amazonian manatees kept in captivity in the Laboratory of Aquatic Mammals of the National Institute of Amazonian Research–LMA/INPA, Brazil. They were fed all year with paragrass and vegetables, at not less than 8% of body weight per day. For sample collection, the pool was drained and saliva was collected from mouth mucosa using a metal spoon. Samples were collected weekly for 12 weeks in 2 periods (March–June and September–November). Salivary testosterone was measured by RIA for total testosterone using an adapted protocol previously validated for the species (Amaral et al. 2009 J. Zoo Wildl. Med. 40, 458–465) The data were analysed in a 3 × 2 factorial design, where the factors were month (each 4 weeks = 1 month) and period, using GLM test for repeated-measures. The means of salivary androgen levels were 28.80 ± 18.56 pg mL–1 and 30.77 ± 16.76 pg mL–1 for first and second periods, respectively. There were no significant main effects of month (P = 0.454), period (P = 0.607), or interaction between factors (P = 0.635). These results suggest that captive male Amazonian manatees apparently do not show reproductive seasonality. However, it is recommended to verify the existence of variation in testicular size and sperm concentration. This finding is important information for the future reproductive management of captive Amazonian manatee. The authors thank PREVET staff for help with the samples collection, and FAPESP (2008/05760-5), CNPq (Universal 475596/2009-9), Petrobras Ambiental (Projeto Mamíferos Aquáticos da Amazônia: Conservação e Pesquisa), and AMPA for the financial support.

Narrative Function of Deafness and Deaf Characters in Film

Narrative Function of Deafness and Deaf Characters in Film

An unusual case of penetrating ocular trauma with metallic spoon

Ocular trauma is an important cause of vision loss. The agents incriminated in such injuries are diverse. We present a case of ocular trauma with a metallic spoon causing deep laceration of lid and temple region with sclerocorneal laceration. After assessment of the general condition and stabilization of the systemic parameters the operative procedure was undertaken on elective basis. Though the final visual outcome was not rewarding due to the severity of the injury, any potential hemostatic catastrophe was averted.

Giving Change When Payment Is Made With a Dime: The Difficulty of Tens and Ones

ION AND REPRESENTATION Piaget made a distinction between empirical (or simple) and (or or reflecting) abstraction. In empirical abstraction, we focus on one or more properties of objects and ignore the others. For example, when we categorize objects by color, we focus on color (physical knowledge) and ignore all the other properties. In abstraction, by contrast, we create mental relationships (logico-mathematical knowledge) that do not exist in objects. For example, when we are presented with a dime and a penny and we say that they are different, we are creating a mental relationship that is not in the objects in the external world. This relationship is created by our thinking. The numbers 2, 8, 10, or any other numbers are likewise created by each individual through abstraction. (We prefer use the term constructive abstraction rather than reflective (or reflecting) abstraction because the former seems easier understand.) When the Romans wrote XL VI instead of 46, their system of representation (social knowledge) was different from ours. However, their logico-mathematical knowledge of tens and ones, created by abstraction, was exactly the same as ours. In our Arabic system of writing, we use the (position) of the and the differently from the Romans. When we say that place value concepts are hard for children, we must differentiate between the difficulty that children have in representation from the difficulty they have in abstraction. The errors they make in representation usually occur because of their low-level abstraction. The verb to is often used carelessly, as when we hear that base10 blocks represent the base10 system. Base10 blocks do not represent anything by themselves. Representing is what an individual does. When adults are presented with 4 ten-blocks and 6 one-blocks, we can represent 46 ourselves because we have already abstracted a system of tens out of our system of ones. When young children see the same blocks, however, they cannot represent forty-six themselves unless they have constructed a system of tens through abstraction. In Piaget's theory (1945/1962), representing refers (a) internally evoking or externally expressing an idea and (b) interpreting (comprehending) an external representation. An example of an internal evocation is our thinking about 5 cookies when the cookies are not present. An example of an external expression of this idea is our drawing of 5 circles represent 5 cookies (which may or may not be present). When we understand the 5 circles thus drawn as being 5 cookies, this is an example of interpreting an external representation. Another example is adults' and children's interpretations of 4 ten-blocks and 6 one-blocks. We can give these objects only the meaning that our level of permits. A study by Kato, Kamii, Ozaki, and Nagahiro (2002) demonstrated that young children represent numerical quantities at or below their level of but not above. In Japanese day-care centers, the authors individually showed 60 children who were from 3 7 years old 4 plastic dishes, 3 metal spoons, 6 pencils, and 8 wooden blocks. Their request each child was put something on a piece of paper so that your mother will be able tell what I showed you (p. 35). The children This content downloaded from 207.46.13.58 on Sat, 17 Sep 2016 05:41:53 UTC All use subject http://about.jstor.org/terms

A demonstration of acoustic damping using bubbly liquid for Project Listen Up.

Acoustic resonances are exploited in many natural and human‐made systems, and demonstrations of the phenomena have been presented previously [Greene et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124, 2568 (2008); Argo IV et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 2625 (2009)]. In practice, resonance is always accompanied by energy loss, which limits the maximum excursion of a system. When sufficiently large, this loss can alter the resonance frequency of the system. An air bubble in water is an example of a lossy acoustic resonator and is well‐suited for demonstrating acoustic damping in the Listen Up paradigm. For the proposed demonstration, students will observe the resonance of a water‐filled drinking glass by striking it with a metal spoon to produce a strong ringing sound. They will then introduce damping into the system by using a stream of water to entrain bubbles which will deaden the ringing response of the system. The primary mechanism for the acoustic energy dissipation is conversion into heat during bubble oscillation. An explanation of this process is presented with a detailed description of the proposed experiment.

Travel of a mis-swallowed long spoon to the jejunum

Foreign-body ingestion is a relatively common presentation at emergency departments, but long metallic spoon swallowing is an infrequent occurrence. Unlike most cases of foreign-body ingestion, there have been no reported cases of long foreign bodies reaching the jejunum. We report a rare case of a coffee spoon that was swallowed accidentally and passed through the pylorus and duodenal loop and reached the jejunum, with no complications.

Swallowed Metalic Spoon In A 7 Year Old Child (Case Report)

We present a 7 year old female child who swallowed a broken metallic spoon. The patient presented at the casualty unit of the hospital with history of swallowing a metallic spoon while feeding. Plain abdominal x-ray film showed the spoon in the region of the stomach. The patient was admitted and managed conservatively. Conservative management is emphasized. Contraindications to this form of treatment as well as complications of foreign bodies in the gastrointestinal tract are highlighted.. Key words: Foreign bodies, Conservative management, Swallowed, Stomach. Highland Medical Research Journal Vol.1(3) 2003: 41-42

How Two- and Four-Year-Old Children Interpret Adjectives and Count Nouns

We examined the role of object kind familiarity (i.e., knowledge of a count noun for an object) on preschoolers' sensitivity to the relation between a novel word's form class (adjective or count noun) and its reference (to a material kind-property or to an object kind). We used a forced-choice match-to-target task, in which children learned a word for one object (e.g., a metal cup), and then chose between 2 other objects. One was from the same object kind but a different material kind (with different related properties, such as color and texture; e.g., a white plastic cup); the other was from a different object kind but the same material kind (with the same related properties; e.g., a metal spoon). In Experiment 1, children learned either a count noun (e.g., “This is a zav”) or an adjective (e.g., “This is a zav one”). Within each form class, we crossed the familiarity of the referent object kind (familiar and unfamiliar) with the age of the children (2- and 4-year-olds). The principal finding was that in interpreting an adjective, 4-year-olds were more likely to choose the object sharing material kind with the target if the target was familiar than if it was unfamiliar. No such familiarity effect was evident among 2-year-olds. In Experiment 2, we employed a more unambiguously adjectival frame (e.g., “This is a very zav-ish one”), and replicated the results of Experiment 1. We interpret the results in terms of 2 proposed word learning biases: one that learners initially expect any word applied to an unfamiliar object to refer to a (basic-level) kind of object, and a second that learners prefer words to contrast in meaning. We consider several interpretations of the observed age difference.

Intrafamilial levels of Streptococcus mutans and some aspects of the bacterial transmission

The number of S. mutans (S.m.) in saliva of parents and their children was studied. Thirty-six children, 4 1/2-5 years old, and their parents participated. A quantitative correlation was found between the number of S.m. in the mothers and their children. The degree of infection also seemed to reflect the caries experience of the child. When adults with different levels of S.m. in saliva contaminated metal spoons with saliva, a correlation between the salivary count of S.m. and the number of microorganisms transferred to the spoon was found. The survival of S.m. on saliva-contaminated test-plates was tested. After 7 h the number of viable S.m. had decreased considerably but a few cells could be found after 24-48 h. To study the presence of S.m. on objects in the city often touched by hands, MSB-containing agar dishes were pressed against several objects such as doorhandles. Only four out of 24 objects were found to be contaminated by S.m.

Economic Union and Enduring Peace

power and of resources in the world after the war. What will the United States do with this power and treasure? Once upon a time an investigator died and went to heaven. Before settling down he asked to be allowed to satisfy his curiosity by visiting hell. He found a circle of hungry-looking, cadaverous individuals around a banquet table spread with a great feast. Each man had a long metal spoon strapped to the inside of his arm, like a splint, so that he could not bend his elbow. No one could feed himself. There they sat, hungry and disconsolate. On his return to heaven he found another delicious banquet spread, surrounded by a circle of fat and happy people. Each man had the same kind of spoon, strapped in the same way. Each was feeding his opposite neighbor. In this parable you, the reader, are the investigator. The great empires are the hungry, cadaverous people. The people of the United States would like to be the fat and happy ones.

INSTRUMENT TO FACILITATE THE PLACING OF DRAINAGE IN AFTER-TREATMENT OF SUPPURATIVE APPENDICITIS.

The effort to place drainage at the bottom of the sinus after removal of the primary drain is sometimes difficult and often painful to the patient. As the gauze adheres to the sides of the sinus, considerable force has to be used before it can be properly carried to the bottom of the cavity. The necessity for an instrument for the purpose of facilitating the placing of drainage led to a crude production which I hammered out of a white metal spoon and which I have frequently used during the past four years. Having demonstrated to my own satisfaction the practicability of such an instrument, I have recently had made for me a set of four instruments, ¾, ⅝, ½ and ⅜ of an inch in diameter by 5 inches in length. The large size is the one ordinarily used for the first dressing, diminishing the size as the sinus