In A Confession, a memoir of his philosophical midlife crisis, Tolstoy recounts falling into despair after coming to believe that life, and for matter all human is meaningless absurd. Although Tolstoy's account the origin phenomenology crisis widely regarded as illuminating, response namely, embracing religious tradition he had previously dismissed “irrational,” “incomprehensible,” “mingled wit...

Rabin [37] proved that a low level of risk aversion with respect to small gambles leads to a high, and absurd, level of risk aversion with respect to large gambles. Rabin’s arguments strongly depend on expected utility theory, but we show that similar arguments apply to almost all non-expected utility theories and even to theories dealing with uncertainty. The set of restrictions needed in orde...

using theater in the treatment as well as education traced back to several thousand years ago. in fact, drama therapy has been used for a long time in clinics and rehabilitation/treatment centers. children theater experts intend to adopt this approach outside of the confined framework of clinics and make it as a general method in the society. in other words, let it face the theater’s large audi...

Since 2008, government funding of the Health Service Executive (HSE) has decreased significantly. Our hospital, Cork University Hospital (CUH), implemented "cost saving" measures including scheduled operating theatre closures. We studied their affect on urological surgical activity at the hospital. A retrospective review was performed using theatre log books and theatre records to determine the...

Background The ability to review preoperative radiographs during trauma and orthopaedic surgery is essential for the surgeon to provide optimum treatment to the patient. However, due to current information technology (IT) systems, screen-savers frequently interrupt the ability to review images and theatre staff are not routinely available to deactivate the screen-saver. This prolongs theatre ti...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study is to assess the effect of body mass index (BMI) and body weight on theatre utilisation time during primary total hip (THR) and knee replacements (TKR). METHODS A total of 1859 cases were included (820 THR and 1039 TKR). Patients were divided into groups based on BMI and body weight. The time interval from 'starting anaesthesia' to 'transfer back to recovery...

This article applies feminist theory with cultural criminology to explore the role of theatre in the lives of criminalized women. Theatre initiatives for criminalized populations are growing worldwide, and so we are seeking to better understand how these two realms intersect. This article is based on a case study which was conducted at the Clean Break Theatre Company in London, England in the s...