The author’s realizations of Alvin Lucier’s “I am sitting in a room” and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie I are considered as case studies in the realization of live electroacoustic music. The new realizations, while faithful to the works’ scores, differed from the composers’ traditions of performance. Lucier’s piece was realized in real-time, a new set of implements and playing techniques w...

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary, as Anne Carson puts it in Autobiography of Red [ 3 , p. 46]. For Nelson it has been a long journey, at times a very diffi cult one, but it has been necessary. Necessary for him personally—as he puts it in Possiplex , “I have no alternative but to go on. Like Shackleton of Antarctica I fi nd myself enmeshed in a harsh duty that was not the original pla...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with the majority of cases associated with persistent infection from hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV). Natural history studies have identified risk factors associated with HCC development among chronic HBV and HCV infection. High-risk infected individuals can now be identified by the usage...

conclusions our method provided good results and performing evacuation under the guide of bedside ultrasonography is recommended. results we treated 173 patients, including 164 females (94.8%), with the mean (sd) age of 43.75 (10.62) years. according to vas, 95.4% of patients reported complete satisfaction while 2 (1.2%) were unsatisfied with the results. patients reported no complication of th...