UPDATES ON CRITICAL THEORY IN ARCHITECTURE

A Critical View on New Urbanism Theory in Urban Planning: From Theory to Practice

In the wake of Jacobs’s criticisms of planning, planners increasingly felt a level of angst over, or even responsibility for, the condition of the city. Schooled in preparing and implementing plans and land use regulations, they appreciated the appeal of a new movement that offered a simple, tangible, and marketable recipe for practice. New urbanism theory is one of the contemporary urban theor...

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Pulmonary and Critical Care Updates

Until recently, information relating to the epidemiology of PAH has been derived from a single National Institutes of Health (NIH) registry conducted in the United States in the early 1980s, in which 187 patients with idiopathic PAH were described and followed for up to 5 years (3, 4). Prompted by the rapid evolution of knowledge in the field of PAH and the absence of any new multicenter regist...

Pulmonary and Critical Care Updates

The future of pediatric research was the focus of an American Thoracic Society (ATS) document last year (1). Particular issues highlighted included the following: First, the much greater diversity of pediatric versus adult disease (andone only has to consider the field of interstitial lung disease, the subject of a number of recent important reports and reviews [2–8, summarized in Reference 9] ...

Pulmonary and Critical Care Updates

Some infants with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) demonstrate delayed arousal from sleep after compromised ventilation. Accordingly, Waters and Tinworth (1) tested the hypothesis that exposure to intermittent asphyxia during development can impair arousal responses. In 10-d-old piglets, hypercapnic and hypoxic stimuli (8% O2, 7% CO2) and air (recovery) were each applied at 6-min intervals for a t...