Journal articles: 'Leda with a swan'

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Yeats, William Butler. "Leda and the Swan." Ecotone 13, no. 2 (2018): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ect.2018.0026.

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Raphel, Adrienne. "Erotic Zygote: "Leda and the Swan"." American Book Review 38, no. 6 (2017): 9–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2017.0107.

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Babaee, Ruzbeh, and Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya. "Yeats’ “Leda and the Swan”: A Myth of Violence." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 27 (May 2014): 170–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.27.170.

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W. B. Yeats‟ "Leda and the Swan", first published in the Dial in 1924, is an example of Irish poetry drawing on Classical Greek and Latin texts to create a commentary on the political atmosphere in Ireland. The poem is based on the story of Leda, who was raped by Zeus in the form of a swan and later gave birth to Helen of Troy. In Yeats‟s poem, Leda represents Ireland, forcefully violated by a foreign power — Great Britain. The present study reviews mythological as well as political aspects of Yeats‟ “Leda and the Swan” and investigates the act of violence in the poem.

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Gavins, Joanna. "Leda and the stylisticians." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 21, no. 4 (November 2012): 345–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947012444959.

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This article presents an analysis of WB Yeats’ ‘Leda and the Swan’ for the 21st century, adopting a Text World Theory perspective (Gavins, 2007; Hidalgo Downing, 2000; Werth, 1999) on this iconic poem. In so doing, I also trace the evolution of the discipline of stylistics – from its roots in formalist linguistics, through functionalist and contextualised stylistics, to the development of cognitive poetics – by examining a series of shifting analyses of the text. I argue that the varying treatments of Yeats’ poem to be found in Halliday (1966), Widdowson (1975) and Burke (2000) can be seen to mirror the development of stylistics over the last half century. I also argue for the positive contribution cognitive poetics can make towards a fuller contemporary understanding of the complex discoursal configuration of ‘Leda and the Swan’, examining both its textual and conceptual structures and its significant political and historical context.

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Tao, Shilong, Anqi Peng, and Xi Chen. "“Being So Caught up”: Exploring Religious Projection and Ethical Appeal in Leda and the Swan." Religions 12, no. 2 (February 5, 2021): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12020107.

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This paper explores the religious projection and ethical appeal in the art and literature of Leda and the Swan created from ancient times to the contemporary era, so as to make a comparative review and reading on it, providing religious reflection and ethical enlightenment to today’s society. From ancient Greek vase paintings to contemporary English poems, the investigation shows that the story of Leda and the Swan has been continuously rewritten and revalued by history, religion and social ethics. The interaction between Leda and the swan goes from divinity to humanity, increasingly out of the cage of eroticism, symbolizing the process of transforming into a secularized life. Besides, Leda, as a representative victim of traditional patriarchy and religious persecution, goes from bondage to liberation, signaling the awakening of feminine consciousness and the gradual collapse of patriarchy; while the swan, an incarnation of power and desire under patriarchy, becomes an object of condemnation. However, as for who is the victim and who should be condemned, there are different religious and ethical standards in different historical periods, which reflects the development and evolution of religious rules and ethical orders in the historical process. By highlighting the Trojan War or woman’s sufferings, Leda and the Swan, in fact, reveals that the tragedy results from the uncontrollable animal factor and free will, and that women should face their ethical or religious identities to make correct choices.

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Rigolot, Francois. "Leda and the Swan: Rabelais's Parody of Michelangelo." Renaissance Quarterly 38, no. 4 (1985): 688–700. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2861954.

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“oysons bridez … et aultres telles painctures contrefaictes à plaisir pour exciter le monde à rire.” (Gargantua, Prologue)It is no novelty to stress the paradistic aspects of Rabelais's style. As early as 1915, Emile Besch had described Gargantua and Pantagruel as “une parodie des romans de chevalerie,” and this broad critical assessment has not really been seriously challenged ever since. Yet most of the studies devoted to Rabelais's comical imitations seem to concentrate either on what he owes to the ancient, medieval or humanistic tradition, or on the specific techniques through which he mocks or distorts various genres, modes or styles. More specifically, very little attention has been paid so far to Rabelais's attitude vis-à-vis art works of his time, although we know very well that, like many other contemporary writers, he had a keen interest in pictorial compositions.

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Meyer, Barbara Hochstetler, and Alice Wilson Glover. "Botany and Art in Leonardo's "Leda and the Swan"." Leonardo 22, no. 1 (1989): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1575144.

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Norfolk, Guy A. "Leda and the Swan – And other myths about rape." Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine 18, no. 5 (July 2011): 225–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2011.04.010.

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Guo, Hua. "“Leda and the Swan”’s Revisions: A Cognitive Stylistic Analysis." International Journal of English Linguistics 8, no. 6 (September 2, 2018): 193. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n6p193.

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Previous literary studies on the revision of “Leda and the Swan” by William B. Yeats are mainly concerned with its psychological, social and historical implications conveyed by the relationship between Leda and the swan, and seldom explain the realization of this relationship in linguistic terms and its reception by the readership. Stylistic studies can furnish linguistic evidence for literary interpretation. Building on previous literary criticism and stylistic analysis, this study takes the first stanza as an example and conducts a cognitive stylistic analysis of the poem’s three versions by means of Langacker’s reference point model and dynamic discourse analysis framework. The poet’s aspiration to achieve subtle balance in the relationship through syntactic and semantic alteration is thus better understood and the possibility of applying Langacker’s cognitive grammar to stylistic analysis of poetry is tentatively explored.

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Oró-Piqueras, Maricel, and Núria Mina-Riera. "Rewriting Leda and the Swan: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop (1967), Lorna Crozier’s “Forms of Innocence” (1985) and “The Swan Girl” (1995) // Reescribiendo Leda y el cisne: Un análisis ecofeminista de The Magic Toyshop (1967) de Angela Carter y de “Forms of Innocence” (1985) y “The Swan Girl” (1995) de Lorna Crozier." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 9, no. 2 (October 24, 2018): 106–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2018.9.2.2289.

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Angela Carter (1940-1992) and Lorna Crozier (1948) are two examples of contemporary writers who dedicate part of their work to problematizing historically established constructs that undermine the agency of both nature and women. Carter’s and Crozier’s agenda is, thus, in line with ecofeminist tenets, which are based on the interconnectedness of all living things on a non-hierarchical level. The intention of this article is to conduct a contrastive analysis of Crozier’s and Carter’s retelling of the account of Leda and the swan originally described in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 AD) and later in W.B. Yeats’s poem “Leda and the Swan” (1928). We contend that both Carter’s and Crozier’s versions of the myth challenge patriarchal domination by giving voice to and empowering Leda, the young female character in the myth. This empowerment is closely associated to Leda’s harmonization with the natural world, since, by going back to nature, the young Ledas in Carter’s and Crozier’s works come to terms with their adolescent bodies in order to become women stripped of restrictive cultural and social beliefs. Accordingly, the original meaning of the figure of the swan is also subverted to adopt connotations more in tune with the creation of a sense of community that challenge the powerful enclosed violence that Ovid and Yeats attributed to this animal by presenting it as Zeus in disguise. Resumen Angela Carter (1940-1992) y Lorna Crozier (1948) son dos autoras contemporáneas cuyas obras se dedican, en parte, a problematizar constructos históricamente muy arraigados que infravaloran tanto la agencia de la mujer como de la naturaleza. La agenda de Carter y Crozier está estrechamente relacionada con los principios ecofeministas, que se basan en la interconexión de todos los seres vivos al mismo nivel, sin jerarquías. Este artículo pretende realizar un análisis comparativo de la reescritura por parte de Carter y Crozier del mito de Leda y el cisne en relación al mito original descrito por Ovidio en Las Metamorfosis (8 dC) así como el poema de W.B. Yeats “Leda and the Swan” (1928). En nuestro artículo, sostenemos que tanto las versiones del mito de Carter como las de Crozier no solo desafían la dominación patriarcal dando voz y empoderando a Leda, la joven protagonista en el mito. A su vez, este empoderamiento está estrechamente relacionado con la armonización de Leda con la naturaleza, puesto que, volviendo al mundo natural, las jóvenes Ledas en las obras de Carter y de Crozier aprenden a aceptar sus cuerpos adolescentes con el fin de llegar a ser mujeres liberadas de creencias socioculturales restrictivas. En ese sentido, los textos de Carter y Crozier subvierten el significado original de la figura del cisne, que adopta nuevas connotaciones, relacionadas con un sentido de comunidad con el mundo más que humano. Estas nuevas connotaciones cuestionan además la violencia extrema que Ovidio e Yeats atribuyen al cisne al presentarlo como Zeus disfrazado.

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Gavrilovic-Vitas, Nadezda. "Leda and the Swan: New marble sculpture from Skelani (Municipium Malvesatium)." Starinar, no. 67 (2017): 151–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/sta1767151g.

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A fragmented marble sculpture was found during the construction works on the canalisation collector in Skelani (Municipium Malvesatium). The sculpture presents a life-size bird?s torso with his right webbed foot placed on a female?s left thigh, part of a folded cloth and a child-like hand placed on the lower part of the bird?s torso. It was identified as a mythological scene favoured in antiquity, of Leda and Zeus in the guise of the swan, at the moment of Zeus? seduction of Leda. This sculptural fragment holds even greater significance in the comprehension of Roman provincial art, since to date, it represents a unique example of this iconographic type, not only in sculpture, but in any other work of art in the territory of the Central Balkans.

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Cook, Guy. "#Ledatoo: The morality of Leda and the Swan in teaching stylistics." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 30, no. 2 (March 12, 2021): 127–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947020983108.

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The article discusses the morality of W. B. Yeats’ sonnet Leda and the Swan in the context of a widening gap between the sexual mores of earlier times and our own, and whether the poem remains a suitable choice for the teaching of stylistics. I begin by examining stylistics treatments of the poem, and its political, social and artistic context, then move on to consider charges of misogyny against the poem for eroticising and failing to condemn the rape it depicts. To assess these charges I examine other literary uses of the Leda myth both before and after Yeats, including earlier poems which romanticise the rape, and later ones which vilify it. I also consider the implications of my discussion for the teaching of other canonical poems on similar themes. The last part of the paper discusses more generally the place of morality in literature and literature teaching, including stylistics: whether teachers and analysts should promote a moral world view and moral behaviour through their choice of texts and comments on them, or whether there are other valid criteria for selecting and describing a text such as Leda and the Swan. To elucidate current views, I draw parallels with the moral didacticism of the highly influential literary critic F. R. Leavis in the mid twentieth century, and ask whether aspects of his patrician view have undergone a surreptitious revival in some contemporary pedagogy and criticism at the beginning of the twenty first.

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Sallam, Abdel Moneim. "Verbal Element in the structure of Yeats's "Leda and the swan." مجلة الآداب والعلوم الإنسانیة 10, no. 2 (June 1, 1992): 63–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/fjhj.1992.134066.

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Hong, Anna Maria. "Brute Blood: On Reading William Butler Yeats's "Leda and the Swan"." Ecotone 13, no. 2 (2018): 59–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ect.2018.0008.

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Yang, Byung-Hyun. "W. B. Yeats's “Leda and the Swan” in View of Metapoetics." Yeats Journal of Korea 35 (June 30, 2010): 25–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2011.35.25.

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Neigh, Janet. "Reading from the Drop:Poetics of Identification and Yeats's ?Leda and the Swan?" Journal of Modern Literature 29, no. 4 (September 2006): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jml.2006.29.4.145.

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Mušović, Azra. "Yeats's sensibilities, Leda, and ambiguities in Elena Ferrante's 'The Lost Daughter'." Naucne publikacije Drzavnog univerziteta u Novom Pazaru. Serija B, Drustvene & humanisticke nauke 4, no. 2 (2021): 74–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/npdunp2102074m.

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In Leda and the Swan, one of the greatest Anglophone lyric poets of the 20th century W. B. Yeats explores the idea of a single act having tremendous importance for human history. Such a momentous event can bring about the end of civilization and become the dawn of a new age. This is a great cataclysmic moment in history (merging history and myth) for Yeats. The paper suggests that Yeats's sensibilities subtly permeate the narrative and form of Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter, thus illustrating the mode of ambiguous past penetrating the present-the tradition that interested Yeats - arguably becoming what in Ferrante has been seen as a form of radical and committed reflection on myriad of contemporary issues. In this context, Yeats and Ferrante communicate the ideas of fragmentation and instability, the sensation of the world crumbling and reforming, and, in doing so, they refer to an instability of boundaries and identities. This is a sensation experienced by both female protagonists - Yeats's mythical Leda and her more contemporary counterpart.

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Huh, Hyun Sook. "Historical Change and Violence: An Understanding of W. B. Yeat's “Leda and the Swan”." Yeats Journal of Korea 31 (December 30, 2008): 209–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2009.31.209.

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Michael D. Hurley. "How Philosophers Trivialize Art: Bleak House, Oedipus Rex, "Leda and the Swan"." Philosophy and Literature 33, no. 1 (2009): 107–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.0.0042.

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Neigh, Janet. "Reading from the Drop: Poetics of Identification and Yeats's "Leda and the Swan"." Journal of Modern Literature 29, no. 4 (2006): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jml.2006.0048.

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Calì, Claudio. "The Rediscovered Watermark in the Drawing Leda and the Swan by Raphael Kept at Windsor Castle." Arts 10, no. 2 (May 24, 2021): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts10020033.

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This article presents an in-depth study of Raphael’s drawing of Leda and the Swan (RCIN 912759), preserved at Windsor Castle. The research aims to make the paper’s physical properties accessible and extend the information on the watermark. The methodology follows an artistic–design-oriented approach. The data extraction process uses a back-lighting photographic technique combined with image post-processing operations. The work catalogues in scientific terms the complete paper mould lines of the Windsor sheet according to the International Standard of Paper Classification (IPH). Based on comparisons with a series of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, the contribution suggests a chronological and provenance estimate of the paper used by Raphael.

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Berlin, Nicole. "Mixed-Media Domestic Ensembles in Roman Sicily: The House of Leda at Soluntum." Arts 8, no. 2 (May 14, 2019): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts8020062.

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Built in the second to early-first century BCE, the House of Leda at Soluntum, a city on the northwest coast of Sicily, was renovated in the first century CE. The most prominent change to the residence was the inclusion of figural Fourth-Style wall paintings in its dining room. The fresco ensemble reveals a particular interest in the painted depiction of stone, such as an image of Leda and the swan as a marble statue and trompe l’oeil blocks of colored marble and granite from around the Mediterranean. The house renovation was not wholesale since the owner also chose to preserve a number of decorative elements from the earlier, Hellenistic-era phase of the residence, including two sculptures, cut-limestone pavements, and an intricate mosaic of an astronomical instrument. In this article I argue that the tension created between the medium of paint, and its use to mimic marble and stone, resulted in a unified, mixed-media domestic ensemble. The viewer was encouraged to compare and contrast the faux marble and stone in the dining room’s Fourth-Style frescoes with the Hellenistic-era marble and stone artworks throughout the rest of the house. This juxtaposition of older and newer decorative elements reveals that the owner of the House of Leda positioned himself as both a member of the Roman provincial elite as well as a local benefactor and custodian of Sicily’s rich Hellenistic culture.

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Russell, Richard Rankin. "W. H. Auden's Allusions to W. B. Yeats's LEDA AND THE SWAN in FOR THE TIME BEING." Explicator 72, no. 4 (October 2, 2014): 300–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2014.962460.

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Koh, TS, and MJ Harper. "Lead-Poisoning in Black Swans, Cygnus-Atratus, Exposed to Spent Lead Shot at Bool Lagoon Game Reserve, South-Australia." Wildlife Research 15, no. 4 (1988): 395. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr9880395.

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Following an outbreak of lead-poisoning in waterfowl at the Boo1 Lagoon Game Reserve in southeastern South Australia, a survey was undertaken to determine the extent of lead contamination in the black swan, Cygnus atratus, at the Reserve. Fifty swans were examined for lead shot in gizzard contents and for lead in blood, muscle, liver and wing bone. The data showed that about 40% of swans had excessive exposure to lead above the background levels. Assay of copper, iron, selenium and zinc in liver indicated there was no interaction between these trace elements and lead. This study demonstrated the need for more research into the effects of hunting on Australian waterfowl populations.

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Rhee, Beau La. "Perfection of Art in Yeats and Joyce: “Leda and the Swan” and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." Yeats Journal of Korea 35 (June 30, 2010): 209–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2011.35.209.

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Neimneh, Shadi, and Amneh Abussamen. "A Sociopolitical Ecofeminist Reading of Selected Animal Poems by Elizabeth Bishop." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 9, no. 1 (February 1, 2018): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.9n.1p.141.

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This article examines the sociopolitical vision of some of Elizabeth Bishop’s poems from an ecofeminist critical perspective. Bishop, a twentieth-century American poet, uses animals and natural elements to manifest her attachment to nature (and women by implication), thus reflecting an oppressed feminist voice through the theme of abused, weak nature. By relating Bishop’s poems to W. B. Yeats’s poem Leda and the Swan, we foreground an ecofeminist relation between the Greek myth Yeats employed and Bishop’s poems. Our contribution lies in the multilayered pattern of ecofeminist defense this article traces in poems like Giant Snail, Giant Toad, Strayed Crab, The Armadillo, Sandpiper, The Moose and Trouvée. The conclusion emphasizes the attempts Bishop shoulders through her animal poetry to renew the old man-nature relation of balance and justice and simultaneously to elevate woman/nature. Bishop's poetry, it is argued, exceeds the personal or subjective and thus contains socio-political, anti-patriarchal thrusts explored in this article through an ecofeminist lens.

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Meyerholz, David K., Yannick F. Vanloubbeeck, Shannon J. Hostetter, Dianna M. Jordan, and Amanda J. Fales-Williams. "Surveillance of Amyloidosis and other Diseases at Necropsy in Captive Trumpeter Swans (Cygnus Buccinator)." Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 17, no. 3 (May 2005): 295–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104063870501700318.

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The purpose of this study was to characterize the incidence and diagnostic features of amyloidosis and other diseases found at necropsy in captive trumpeter swans ( Cygnus buccinator). A search of Iowa State University's Department of Veterinary Pathology and Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory databases yielded 31 trumpeter swan ( C. buccinator) necropsy cases from captive swans in protected habitats. Eleven of the 31 birds had amyloid deposition most commonly in the spleen (8 of 11), liver (7 of 11), and kidney (6 of 11) and less often in the pancreas (2 of 11) and adrenal gland (2 of 11). Amyloid deposition effaced normal tissue with adjacent necrosis and hemorrhage in severe cases. Amyloidosis was most often diagnosed in February and March. Other disease diagnoses in the trumpeter swans included aspergillosis (5 of 31, 16%); bacterial infection (5 of 31, 16%); lead toxicosis (3 of 31, 10%); gout (2 of 31, 6%); parasitic infection (2 of 31, 6%); vitamin E deficiency (1 of 31, 3%); trauma (1 of 31, 3%); and ventricular foreign body (1 of 31, 3%). Histopathologic, toxicologic, and microbiologic analyses did not define an etiologic diagnosis in the deaths of 9 trumpeter swans. In these cases, necropsy lesions included emaciation (5 of 9), enteritis (1 of 9), pulmonary hemorrhage (1 of 9), and no lesions (3 of 9). The number of trumpeter swan case submissions was greatest in January and February. This study provides a reference for veterinary diagnosticians concerning incidence and diagnostic features of amyloidosis and other diseases in captive trumpeter swans of the midwestern United States.

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Nice, David. "A happy mythologizer: Strauss's creative role in his Greek operas." Tempo, no. 210 (October 1999): 10–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298200007130.

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According to David Fielding's eagerly-awaited, tender-hearted Garsington production of Die Liebe der Danae, Semele, Europa, Alkmene and Leda are ballroom queens. In the beginning, three of their four amours with that master of disguise Zeus/Jupiter bore fruit significant for the ongoing sagas of Greek and Roman mythology: Herakles from the three-night stint of Alkmene and the man she believed to be her husband, Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra out of a single egg laid by swan-seduced Leda, and Dionysus out of the ashes of over-reaching Semele, shrivelled by the sight of her god in all his majesty. The biological imperative was discarded by Hugo von Hofmannsthal – perhaps oddly for one so interested in the child-bearing outcome of his own Frau ohne Schatten myth – as he proposed a new operatic legend for Strauss in 1920. His queens (first three, later four) would be ‘bird-like, vain, forgetful, gossiping about everything’, flitting around in a Zerbinetta-like intermezzo to the main business of Jupiter's quest for Danae's love; the featherlight delicacy of the proposal was beautifully mirrored by Fielding's inspired idea. Taking up his long-deceased poet's suggestion just under two decades later, Strauss, as he neared the end of his operatic career, added a further twist. His god had grown old like himself; and on Jupiter's ever more emotional journey towards the renunciation of the woman Strauss decided would be his last love, Danae, the four close-harmony queens would move from Ariadne-style banter to tender acknowledgement of the ageing process, their apogee a canon of bitter-sweet sentimentality.

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Dale, Svein. "Breeding population increase and range expansion of the Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus in Oslo and Akershus." Ornis Norvegica 39 (August 17, 2016): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.15845/on.v39i0.1032.

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The Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus has shown a remarkable breeding population increase and range expansion in Northern Europe during recent decades. Here, I summarize the temporal and spatial pattern of the expansion in Oslo and Akershus counties in southeastern Norway, and assess current and potential future competition with Mute Swans Cygnus olor. The first breeding was reported in 1999, and in 2003 breeding was reported at a second site. From 2006 the number of breeding sites increased rapidly, and the species has now been reported breeding from a total of 20 sites. However, at least seven sites have been abandoned after one or a few years of breeding, leading to temporary decreases in population size in some years. Abandoned sites had lower breeding success than sites that are still occupied. Current population size is 11–14 pairs. TRIM-analyses indicated a rate of increase of 7% per year. In about two thirds of the occupied sites, breeding was preceded by one or more years with presence of pairs that did not breed. Non-breeding Whooper Swans have been observed during summer (16 May–July) at a further 24 sites, suggesting that population size is likely to continue to increase. Oslo and Akershus also has an increasing population of Mute Swans, currently estimated at ca. 50 pairs, but Mute Swans have been recorded breeding at only three of the sites (15%) where Whooper Swans have bred, and at one of these sites there has been no temporal overlap. Thus, the two swan species have had limited interaction at breeding sites so far. However, among the 24 sites that have had non-breeding Whooper Swans during summer, Mute Swans have bred at 10 sites (42%, still present at most sites). This suggests that further expansion of Whooper Swans may soon lead to increased competition with Mute Swans, but there are also numerous other potential breeding sites without Mute Swans present.

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Preston, Carrie J. "Teaching "Problematic" Yeats: Relevance Without Recuperation." International Yeats Studies 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.34068/iys.04.01.01.

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In the era of #MeToo and #SayHerName, internet “callout culture,”1 Trumpism, Brexit, and an unprecedented global crisis of forced displacement—all abundantly represented in various forms of media—many college students are endlessly tuned-in to the most recent culture wars. Why and how do we teach W. B. Yeats today? I studied Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan” (1924) in college as a poem about myth, centered on an epistemological question: “Did she put on his knowledge with his power[…]?” My students today consider it a “rape poem.” We celebrate the centennial of Yeats’s even-more-famous “The Second Coming” (1919), a poem I studied as a prophetic revision of the Christian apocalypse for the post-World War I moment. My current students worry about Yeats being sacrilegious and exemplifying cultural appropriation with his use of stereotypical imagery of the Middle East. Did I even recognize that the poem was set in the Middle East when I was in college? I have long acknowledged that my students teach me as much as I teach them, and that literature’s power and relevance become evident as it impacts subsequent generations in different ways.

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Lye, Wai-Choong, Nam-Wee Kour, Jane C. Van Der Straaten, See-Odd Leong, and Evan J. C. Lee. "A Prospective Randomized Comparison of the Swan Neck, Coiled, and Straight Tenckhoff Catheters in Patients on Capd." Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis 16, no. 1_suppl (January 1996): 333–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089686089601601s64.

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Our objective was to study the impact of peritoneal catheter configuration on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPO)-related infections, mechanical complications, and patient dropout in a prospective randomized trial. Forty consecutive patients who were commencing CAPO were randomized to receive either a double-cuff, Swan neck coiled catheter or a double-cuff, straight Tenckhoff catheter, implanted by surgical technique. There was no significant difference in the peritonitis rate between the two groups. There was a lower rate of exit-site infection in the Swan neck group compared to the straight catheter group (0.29 vs 0.60 eplsodes/patientyear, p < 0.05). Catheter-tip migration occurred in 3 patients with the straight catheters compared to one patient with the Swan neck catheter. No patient had to discontinue CAPO because of mechanical complications. The number of CAPO patient dropouts was not significantly different between the two groups. The Swan neck configuration resulted in a significant reduction in the rate of exit-site infections. The coiled component of the catheter may lead to fewer episodes of catheter-tip migration. However, catheter configuration did not influence the number of technique failures.

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Akrish, Gal, Pieter Smit, Marcel Zijlema, and Ad Reniers. "MODELLING WAVE INTERFERENCE PATTERNS USING THE SWAN MODEL." Coastal Engineering Proceedings, no. 36 (December 30, 2018): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v36.waves.42.

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This study presents an efficient approach of resolving wave interference patterns in spectral wave models (e.g., SWAN). Such interference patterns, which frequently occur in coastal waters (e.g., near headlands, harbor entrances and coastal inlets), may lead to rapid changes in wave statistics, and thus, can affect wave-driven flow and transport processes. Therefore, prediction of wave conditions for coastal applications should account for these effects. Presently, operational wave models compute the mean wave properties by solving the action balance equation, which describes the transport of wave energy through geographic and spectral space, augmented with source terms to account for non-conservative and nonlinear processes. This model equation, initially intended for deep water conditions, is derived under the assumption that waves propagating at angles are mutually independent so that the wave field changes its mean properties (e.g. wave height) over many wavelengths. However in nearshore areas, the interaction of waves with variable bathymetry and currents can result in interference zones where crossing wave trains are statistically correlated and wave heights change rapidly.

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Poole, C. "Surgical treatment of lead poisoning in a mute swan (Cygnus olor)." Veterinary Record 119, no. 20 (November 15, 1986): 501–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vr.119.20.501.

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Wood, Kevin A., Martin J. Brown, Ruth L. Cromie, Geoff M. Hilton, Conor Mackenzie, Julia L. Newth, Deborah J. Pain, Christopher M. Perrins, and Eileen C. Rees. "Regulation of lead fishing weights results in mute swan population recovery." Biological Conservation 230 (February 2019): 67–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.12.010.

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Van Ooijen, Erik. "Beröring och begränsning." Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 51, no. 1-2 (December 10, 2021): 172–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v51i1-2.1750.

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Touch and Restriction: On the Human-Animal Interface Climate crisis and mass extinction show the need to reshape our understanding of human culture in relation to non-human lifeforms. The article considers touch as a point where the border between humans and other species may be renegotiated. Three supplementary modes of human thought, which combine explanation, speculation, and imagination, are interrogated in terms of how they each deal with the tactility of cross-species interaction: philosophy, mythical representations in literature and art, and documentary film. Interface is used as a common concept for how bodies remain distinct from each other while also being able to connect with each other. First, I present how the interface is conceptualized in general by philosophers like Derrida, Nancy and Harman, and between humans and animals in particulars by thinkers like Wood and Michaux. Then, I relate the discussion to how two mythical motifs, focusing on instances of erotic touch across species lines, have been represented in literature and visual art: Leda and the swan, and Pasiphaë and the bull. Finally, I move on to two documentary films: Robinson Devor’s Zoo (2007) and Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Unser täglich Brot (2005). The idea of zoosexual intercourse is contrasted to the distanced violence of the industrial keeping of animals. I suggest how touch show the possibility of a cross-species communion otherwise negated by late-modern industrial capitalism.

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Stavrova, Elena, Mariya Paskaleva, and Ani Stoykova. "BLACK SWAN EVENT: AN EVIDENCE FROM CHINA’S ECONOMICS EFECTS." Proceedings of CBU in Economics and Business 1 (November 16, 2020): 133–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/peb.v1.30.

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The prognosis of upcoming crises and the course of actually understanding them is increasingly becoming a major subject of discussions in pursuit of reliable indicators. The trade war between the United States and China, along with the COVID-19 pandemic are two events that took place in the Chinese economy with the aforementioned characteristics of the Black swan phenomenon, to which this latest professional analysis is devoted. The objective of this research is to examine the response of the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite (SSEC) index, in addition to its relation with macroeconomic variables contributing towards a possible Black Swan Event. We employ an econometric methodology comprising of a unit root test, descriptive statistics, linear regression and correlation analysis for the period 2007-2019. Our results illustarte that the bubble from 2015, which is classified as a Black Swan event by many researchers, has a negative influence on the SSEC index. We can further deduce that there were some psychological effects on the Chinese stock market that lead to both, positive and negative trends of SSEC indices. The main findings confirmed that the Consumer Price Index, Exchange Rate, Interest Rate, Unemployment, GDP and Trade Balance were significantly elaborative macroeconomic variables, that had a substantial impact on the SSEC index.

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Al-Douri, Hamdi H. "W. B. Yeats and the Quest for Order." Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (June 18, 2020): 53–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.14500/kujhss.v3n1y2020.pp53-58.

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This paper is an attempt to explore Yeats’s quest for order and how this quest found expression in his works. Throughout his life, Yeats was dissatisfied with the religious, artistic, political, anthropological and intellectual aspects of life, in both Ireland and England which have taken away from modern man the sense of order. His father's skepticism, his dissatisfaction with the spiritless religion of his time, a religion which seems dead and his sense of alienation at school among British students were behind his ceaseless search for alternative orders which became the preoccupation of all his life and triggered his [] engagements in numerous nationalistic, occult, and mystical societies which he joined early in his life. Among the societies he joined was the Balvatsky Lodge of the Russian lady Madam Balvatsky through which he came into close contact with the occult. One of the most important societies he joined and presided was the occult society the Golden Dawn. This paper, therefore, sheds light on his quest for nationalist, intellectual, philosophical, and mystical orders and how this is reflected in his poetry. The paper attempts to explore this quest for order selected poems such as "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "The Second Coming", "Leda and the Swan", "Sailing to Byzantium" and some other poems together with reference to his philosophical book A Vision. However, the dominating quest in Yeats's poetry is his quest for a mystical order which can be traced in almost all his poetical works.

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Peša, Anita Radman, and Ana Brajković. "Testing The ‘Black Swan Effect’ on Croatian Stock Market Between 2000 and 2013." EMAJ: Emerging Markets Journal 6, no. 1 (February 2, 2016): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/emaj.2016.92.

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We tested the economic activity and stock exchange of Croatia as a new country of EU in order to investigate the ‘Black Swan effect’ from 2000 to 2013. The empirical findings obtained in application of OLS methodology and Chow breaking point test provide evidence and show that resignation of the Croatian ex Prime Minister lead country successfully to EU, but were also ‘The Black Swan’ event, being unpredictable and having huge impact on political and economic environment in Croatia obtained through CROBEX, Croatian stock exchange indices. Authors conclude that the resignation was connected to one of the first significant cases of corruption in Croatia which has got the negative impact on the economic development of the country in general, dealing at the same time with global recession.

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CONCENÇO, G., and S. E. CONCENÇO. "Conyza spp.: From Ugly Duckling to Agriculture's Fittest Swan - Brief Review." Planta Daninha 34, no. 1 (March 2016): 183–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0100-83582016340100019.

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Conyza spp. are widely responsible for yield losses in agriculture due to its worldwide occurrence, resistance to herbicides and other traits which turn these species into first grade weeds. Since the 1980's, these species started to be cited on books both related to the ecology and the weed science, being usually classified as ruderals. Occurrence of Conyza in crops shows that these species are highly adaptable due to its recent evolutionary origin and occur in environments prone concomitantly to a moderate set of competition, disturbance and stress. There are also limitations in Grime's theory which may lead us to mistakes about the behavior of Conyza. Thus, simple and isolated recommendations certainly will not solve the problem of Conyza. Neither soil tillage nor tolerant crops to 2,4-D will free the agriculture from this weed, being necessary an integrated approach to solve this problem which demands qualified human resources in weed science and planning.

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Cousquer, Glen O. "Severe Lead Poisoning and an Abdominal Foreign Body in a Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)." Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice 9, no. 3 (September 2006): 503–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cvex.2006.05.003.

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Van Dongeren, Ap, Andre Van der Westhuysen, Jacco Groeneweg, Gerbrant Van Vledder, Joost Lansen, Alfons Smale, Caroline Gautier, Herman Peters, and Ivo Wenneker. "SPECTRAL WAVE MODELLING IN TIDAL INLET SEAS: RESULTS FROM THE SBW WADDEN SEA PROJECT." Coastal Engineering Proceedings 1, no. 32 (January 29, 2011): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v32.waves.44.

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Over the last five years a research program has been carried out to assess the performance of the spectral wave model SWAN in the Wadden Sea so that it may be used for the transformation of offshore wave conditions to wave boundary conditions near the sea defenses (dikes and dunes). The assessment was done on the basis of extensive wave measurements conducted in Ameland inlet and the Dutch Eastern Wadden Sea, as well as relevant data from lakes and estuaries. After a first round of assessment, we found that SWAN performed reasonably well for storm conditions but three aspects required further attention. Firstly, focusing on the main channel, SWAN formulations needed to be modified in order to eliminate overprediction of the significant wave height in opposing currents. Secondly, the primary spectral peak of North Sea waves penetrating into the inlet was underpredicted. Best results were obtained when the refraction of low-frequency waves was limited and the bottom friction coefficient was set at a lower value than the current default for wind seas. Thirdly, over the tidal flats the computed ratio of integral wave height over water depth showed an apparent upper limit using the conventional Battjes and Janssen (1978) depth-limited wave breaking formulation, because the wave growth over finite depth is hampered by the present formulation of depth-induced wave breaking. The problem has been solved using a new breaker formulation. All these improvements have lead to a wave transformation model with which reliable wave conditions in the Wadden Sea and related complex areas can be determined.

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Heredia, Jorge, Cathy Rubiños, William Vega, Walter Heredia, and Alejandro Flores. "New Strategies to Explain Organizational Resilience on the Firms: A Cross-Countries Configurations Approach." Sustainability 14, no. 3 (January 29, 2022): 1612. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14031612.

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Organizations need to develop their resilience to foster future success to survive complex environments. This research conducts a comparative analysis to understand firms’ strategies in a “black swan” event. We use the “strategy tripod” to operationalize resilience theory and explain the configurations or pathways that lead to high organizational resilience in a crisis context. The data correspond to 1936 firms drawn from the “Enterprise Survey 2020 for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China (ESIEC)”, and to 66 Central American firms drawn from the “World Bank 2020 Enterprise Surveys” are also analyzed. The methodological approach fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) is applied. We discuss and analyze the strategies of companies in this “new normal”; our results establish that in the case of emerging economies, organizational innovation seems to be a necessary condition for becoming an organizational resilience to a black swan crisis (finding from both cases). We also found that labor flexibility and emotional intelligence for the case of firms from China, and adequate control of the turbulence environment for the cases of Central America, were also necessary conditions for each region. We further argue that digitalization depends on access to government support for its success. China reinforces its strategies in an intensification of human resources flexibility. In addition, they are better prepared for the “black swan” crisis, allowing them to adapt quickly and generate business model innovation to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in this “new normal.” In contrast, Central America needs rapid organization for organizational resilience.

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Ahmed, M. S., and M. S. El-Neweshy. "The impact of environmental lead exposure on Whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus): Pathological and immunohistochemical studies." BULGARIAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE 24, no. 1 (2021): 119–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.15547/bjvm.2019-0033.

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This study was carried out to investigate the pathology of environmental lead (Pb) poisoning in Whooper swans (Cygnus cygnus). A number of 12 out 54 swans (22.2%) randomly collected from Honshu, Japan from June 2005 to July 2007 were affected with Pb poisoning. Affected swans showed stained vent with greenish watery diarrhoea and impacted crop. The presence of Pb shots in the gizzard (50%) was confirmed by X-ray, and all cases showed a dark greenish coloured liver. Microscopically, the pathology of Pb poisoning in swans was multisystemic. The severity of the lesions was the highest in the CNS followed by the liver, kidney, spleen, lungs, gizzard, heart, bone marrow respectively and was the least in the peripheral nervous system. CNS lesions were cerebral haemorrhage, malacia, and spongiosis with astrocytic activation and increased neurofilaments accumulations. In addition, there were hepatic and renal hemosiderosis and apoptosis, hepatic granuloma, interstitial pneumonia, gizzard and myocardial necrosis and bone marrow hypoplasia. Chemical analysis of the Pb content in liver and kidneys ranged from 8.18 to 60.6 µg/g, respectively. The extent and severity of lesions varied among individuals and were mostly dose-dependent. Finally, these findings improved the diagnostic procedure of Pb poisoning in free-living Whooper swans.

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Yuk, Jin-Hee, Ji-Sun Kang, and Hunjoo Myung. "Applicability Study of a Global Numerical Weather Prediction Model MPAS to Storm Surges and Waves in the South Coast of Korea." Atmosphere 13, no. 4 (April 6, 2022): 591. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos13040591.

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The south coast of Korea is vulnerable to coastal disasters, such as storm surges, high waves, wave overtopping, and coastal flooding caused by typhoons. It is imperative to predict such disastrous events accurately in advance, which requires accurate meteorological forcing for coastal ocean modeling. In this study, to acquire accurate meteorological data as important forcing variables for the prediction of storm surges and waves, we examined the forecast performance and applicability of a next-generation global weather/climate prediction model, the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS). We compared the modeled surface pressure and wind with observations on the south coast of Korea for three typhoons that damaged Korea in 2020—Bavi, Maysak, and Haishen—and investigated the accuracy of these observations with the MPAS prediction. Those meteorological forcing variables were then used in the tightly coupled tide-surge-wave model, Advanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC) and the Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) for the simulation of a typhoon-induced storm surge and wave. We also performed the hindcast of the wave and storm surges using a parametric tropical cyclone model, the best-track-based Generalized Asymmetric Holland Model (GAHM) embedded in ADCIRC+SWAN, to better understand the forecast performance and applicability of MPAS. We compared the forecast results of the typhoon-induced wave and storm surges with their hindcast in terms of the time-series and statistical indices for both significant wave height and storm surge height and found that wave and storm surge prediction forced by MPAS forecast provides a comparable accuracy with the hindcast. Comparable results of MPAS forcing with that of hindcast using best track information are encouraging because ADCIRC+SWAN forced by MPAS forecast with an at most four-day lead time still provides a reasonable prediction of wave and storm surges.

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Glaser, Scott E. "Root Cause Analysis of Paraplegia Following Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections: The ‘Unsafe’ Triangle." Pain Physician 3;13, no. 3;5 (May 14, 2010): 237–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.36076/ppj.2010/13/237.

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The utilization rate of transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TFESIs), an elective diagnostic and therapeutic spinal procedure, has risen dramatically over the past decade. In 2006 alone, greater than 300,000 thoracolumbar TFESIs were performed on Medicare beneficiaries. Despite the purported superiority of the transforaminal route, compared to other modes of epidural injection, TFESIs are associated with potential hazards. The artery of Adamkiewicz (ARM) might enter any mid thoracic, lower thoracic, or lumbar foramen; the exact level, in a specific patient, will be unknown to the proceduralist· The authors propose that the “safe triangle” approach to transforaminal epidural injections is not safe (TFESIs). Injury to the ARM can lead to paraplegia, independent of operator skill or adjuvant safety initiatives (digital subtraction angiography, local anesthetic test dose). Injury to the ARM is a “black swan” event. The authors believe that catastrophic injury may be averted when performing TFESIs by avoiding the “un-safe,” superoanterior triangle in the foramen and that transforaminal injections should be performed at the inferior aspect of the foramen, known as Kambin’s triangle. Key words: transforaminal, spinal cord, artery of Adamkiewicz, paraplegia, foramen, radiculomedullary, root cause analysis, patient safety, medico-legal, black swan

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Jore, Sissel Haugdal, Inger-Lise Førland Utland, and Victoria Hell Vatnamo. "The contribution of foresight to improve long-term security planning." foresight 20, no. 1 (March 12, 2018): 68–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/fs-08-2017-0045.

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Purpose Despite the common focus on studying future events, the study of risk management and foresight have developed as two segmented scientific fields. This study aims to investigate whether current risk management methodology is sufficient for long-term planning against threats from terrorism and other black swan events, and whether perspectives from foresight studies can contribute to more effective long-term security planning. Design/methodology/approach This study investigates the planning process of the rebuilding of the Norwegian Government Complex destroyed during a terrorist attack in 2011. The study examines whether security risk managers find current security risk management methodology sufficient for dealing with long-term security threats to the Norwegian Government Complex. Findings Current security risk management methodology for long-term security planning is insufficient to capture black swan events. Foresight perspectives could contribute by engaging tools to mitigate the risk of these events. This could lead to more robust security planning. Originality/value The main contribution of this paper is to investigate whether perspectives and methodology from foresight studies can improve current security risk management methodology for long-term planning and look for cross-fertilization between foresight and risk studies. A framework for scenario development based on security risk management methodology and foresight methodology is proposed that can help bridge the gap.

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Angelis-Dimakis, Athanasios, George Arampatzis, Andreas Alexopoulos, Andreas Pantazopoulos, Ioannis Vyrides, Nikolaos Chourdakis, and Vasilis Angelis. "Waste Management and the Circular Economy in Cyprus—The Case of the SWAN Project." Environments 9, no. 2 (January 23, 2022): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/environments9020016.

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The increase in waste volume and greenhouse gas emissions and decrease in raw-material reserves are some of the serious problems that our planet is facing. The measures needed to address these issues cannot be implemented under the prevailing linear economy model; hence, the circular economy model has been introduced. The successful implementation of circularity, whose basic principles include waste reduction, reuse, and recycling, requires a change in the behaviour of all the parties involved and is expected to lead to industrial–urban symbiosis schemes. The present paper looks at the current state and future prospects of the circular economy in Cyprus, based on the evidence drawn from an EU-funded project entitled “a digital Solid Waste reuse plAtform for BalkaN” (Project Acronym: SWAN). The project’s main objective was the design and development of a digital solid waste reuse platform involving four countries: Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, and Cyprus. Using the data collected, in the context of this project, from a sample of Cypriot industries, we looked into the familiarisation of the respondents with the basic concepts of circularity and their willingness to participate in symbiotic value chains. Moreover, we examined the composition of the waste streams produced by those industries and proposed potential waste reuse business models and subsequent symbiotic clusters.

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Wang, Xin, Carrie A. Karvonen-Gutierrez, William H. Herman, Bhramar Mukherjee, Siobán D. Harlow, and Sung Kyun Park. "Urinary metals and incident diabetes in midlife women: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)." BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care 8, no. 1 (July 2020): e001233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjdrc-2020-001233.

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IntroductionEnvironmental exposure to metals may play a role in the pathogenesis of diabetes; however, evidence from human studies is limited. We prospectively evaluated the associations of 20 urinary metal concentrations and their mixtures with incident diabetes in the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation, a multisite, multiethnic cohort study of midlife women.Research design and methodsThe sample included 1237 white, black, Chinese and Japanese-American women, aged 45–56 years, free of diabetes at baseline (1999–2000) who were followed through 2016. Concentrations of 20 metals (arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, cesium, copper, mercury, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, lead, antimony, tin, thallium, uranium, vanadium, tungsten and zinc) were measured in urine specimens at baseline. Incident diabetes was identified annually by fasting glucose ≥126 mg/dL, self-reported doctor-diagnosed diabetes, or self-reported use of antidiabetic medications. A non-parametric clustering method, k-means clustering, was used to identify subgroups with different exposure patterns to metal mixtures.ResultsAfter multivariable adjustment, the HR (95% CI) for diabetes associated with each doubling increase in urinary metal concentrations was 1.19 (1.10 to 1.30) for arsenic and 1.20 (1.05 to 1.37) for lead, in Cox proportional hazards models after controlling for multiple comparisons. A doubling in urinary excretion of zinc was associated with higher risk of diabetes (adjusted HR 1.31, 95% CI 1.11 to 1.53). Two distinct exposure patterns to metal mixtures—‘high’ versus ‘low’—were identified. Participants assigned to the ‘high’ pattern had higher overall concentrations of all metals compared with those classified into the ‘low’ pattern. Adjusted HR for diabetes associated with ‘high’ pattern compared with ‘low’ was 1.42 (1.08 to 1.87).ConclusionsHigher urinary concentrations of arsenic and lead, increased urinary excretion of zinc, as well as higher overall exposure to metal mixtures were associated with elevated risk of diabetes. Future studies should further investigate the underlying mechanisms.

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Lim Kam Sian, Kenny T. C., Changming Dong, Hailong Liu, Renhao Wu, and Han Zhang. "Effects of Model Coupling on Typhoon Kalmaegi (2014) Simulation in the South China Sea." Atmosphere 11, no. 4 (April 24, 2020): 432. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos11040432.

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Typhoon Kalmaegi (2014) in the South China Sea (SCS) is simulated using a fully coupled atmosphere–ocean–wave model (COAWST). A set of sensitivity experiments are conducted to investigate the effects of different model coupling combinations on the typhoon simulation. Model results are validated by employing in-situ data at four locations in the SCS, and best-track and satellite data. Correlation and root-mean-square difference are used to assess the simulation quality. A skill score system is defined from these two statistical criteria to evaluate the performance of model experiments relative to a baseline. Atmosphere–ocean feedback is crucial for accurate simulations. Our baseline experiment successfully reconstructs the atmospheric and oceanic conditions during Typhoon Kalmaegi. Typhoon-induced sea surface cooling that weakens the system due to less heat and moisture availability is captured best in a Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)-coupled run. The Simulated Wave Nearshore (SWAN)-coupled run has demonstrated the ability to estimate sea surface roughness better. Intense winds lead to a larger surface roughness where more heat and momentum are exchanged, while the rougher surface causes more friction, slowing down surface winds. From our experiments, we show that these intricate interactions require a fully coupled Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF)–ROMS–SWAN model to best reproduce the environment during a typhoon.

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Hooper, Patricia. "Leda." Hudson Review 50, no. 2 (1997): 287. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3852763.

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