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실질적인 이산화탄소 배출 감소를 위한 CCI의 노력 - 방콕의 빌딩 개조 프로그램 담당자 크리스토퍼 실리(Christopher Seeley) -

  • 에너지절약전문기업협회
    • The Magazine for Energy Service Companies
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    • s.58
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    • pp.48-61
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    • 2009
  • ESCO 관리자교육(국제세미나)에서 CCI(Clinton Climate Initivative)의 아시아 지역 매니저 크리스토퍼 실리의 발표가 있었다. 그는 CCI에서 세계 40개 도시를 무대로 진행하고 있는 빌딩 개조 프로그램에 대해서 설명했다. 이 프로그램은 ESCO에서 중요시되는 합리성과 효율성이라는 두 가지 키워드와 맞물리면서 점점 시장을 확장시켰다. 특히 아직 ESCO 사업에 대한 인식이 부족한 아시아 국가에서 사업을 진행하는 것은 불모지에서 가능성을 발견하는 과정이었을 것이다. 낙후된 빌딩에서 발생할 수 있는 에너지 손실과 이산화탄소 배출을 분석하고 이를 토대로 최적의 공정을 제시하고 있는 CCI의 사업을 크리스토퍼 실리의 발표 자료를 바탕으로 소개한다.

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Norms about Alcohol Use among US Firefighters

  • Christopher K. Haddock;Nattinee Jitnarin;Raul Caetano;Sara A. Jahnke;Brittany S. Hollerbach;Christopher M. Kaipust;Walker S.C. Poston
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.387-393
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    • 2022
  • Background: Problem drinking is a perennial concern in the US fire service. A large literature has documented the importance of addressing alcohol norms in intervention research. The purpose of this study was to explore alcohol norms in a national cohort of firefighters (FFs) to inform intervention development in this occupational group. Methods: Data were from a national online survey of career and volunteer FFs (N = 674). Participants were recruited through national fire service listservs and a database of FFs who had agreed to be contacted for research. Results: When asked about "acceptable" levels of alcohol consumption, FFs on average suggested levels which exceeded public health guidelines. Further, approximately half of career and volunteer FFs believed that, at least under some circumstances, drinking until intoxicated was normative. When asked how long should elapse between a FFs last drink and reporting for duty, the average suggested lag was 11.2 hours (sd = 4.6). However, among male volunteer FFs who reported heavy drinking, the average was 6.68 hours (sd = 4.77). Conclusions: Given the high prevalence of heavy and binge drinking in the fire service, it is not surprising that the alcohol norms found in this study were consistent with a culture of drinking. Participants' reports of alcohol use among their peers were consistent with the actual prevalence of problem drinking. Thus, education and prevention efforts in this occupation should focus on changing norms about alcohol use, including linking heavy drinking to other health and safety issues they face.

Low versus standard central venous pressure during laparoscopic liver resection: A systematic review, meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis

  • Mina Stephanos;Christopher M. B. Stewart;Ameen Mahmood;Christopher Brown;Shahin Hajibandeh;Shahab Hajibandeh;Thomas Satyadas
    • Annals of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.115-124
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    • 2024
  • To compare the outcomes of low central venous pressure (CVP) to standard CVP during laparoscopic liver resection. The study design was a systematic review following the PRISMA statement standards. The available literature was searched to identify all studies comparing low CVP with standard CVP in patients undergoing laparoscopic liver resection. The outcomes included intraoperative blood loss (primary outcome), need for blood transfusion, mean arterial pressure, operative time, Pringle time, and total complications. Random-effects modelling was applied for analyses. Type I and type II errors were assessed by trial sequential analysis (TSA). A total of 8 studies including 682 patients were included (low CVP group, 342; standard CVP group, 340). Low CVP reduced intraoperative blood loss during laparoscopic liver resection (mean difference [MD], -193.49 mL; 95% confidence interval [CI], -339.86 to -47.12; p = 0.01). However, low CVP did not have any effect on blood transfusion requirement (odds ratio [OR], 0.54; 95% CI, 0.28-1.03; p = 0.06), mean arterial pressure (MD, -1.55 mm Hg; 95% CI, -3.85-0.75; p = 0.19), Pringle time (MD, -0.99 minutes; 95% CI, -5.82-3.84; p = 0.69), operative time (MD, -16.38 minutes; 95% CI, -36.68-3.39; p = 0.11), or total complications (OR, 1.92; 95% CI, 0.97-3.80; p = 0.06). TSA suggested that the meta-analysis for the primary outcome was not subject to type I or II errors. Low CVP may reduce intraoperative blood loss during laparoscopic liver resection (moderate certainty); however, this may not translate into shorter operative time, shorter Pringle time, or less need for blood transfusion. Randomized controlled trials with larger sample sizes will provide more robust evidence.

"The Critical Entangled in the Creative": Modernist Credos and Female Egoism in Susan Glaspell's The Verge

  • Noh, Aegyung
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.60 no.2
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    • pp.269-293
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    • 2014
  • Written as her last collaboration with the Provincetown Players, Susan Glaspell's The Verge is an exceptional play in that its formal experiment and modernist theme are clear of her general modernist ambivalence which combines a uniquely American and feminist expression of the modernist spirit with rather conventional forms. Following critics' brief and generalizing comments on the play's protagonist embodying modernist formalism and alienation, this paper offers a full and concrete survey detailing the tenets and the slogans of Modernism inlaid in the play. Its main argument is that Glaspell strategically deployed the metaphysics of egoism, anarchic hostility to the collectiveness of bourgeois society, and formalist preoccupation in Modernism in representing a female egoist's longing for a new order of society, illustrating an intersection between Modernism and feminism. It concludes that The Verge is an extremely rare case of modernist literature where a play, allegedly the least modernist genre of all according to Christopher Innes, exemplifies the "eloquent critical acts entangled in the creative work" which Michael Levenson lists as a distinct feature of modernist texts.