Protecting Parents, Idealizing the Past, Blaming Friends: Life Stories of Men Imprisoned for Violence.

Life-stories emerge from a wide variety of facts and events in individual lives and weave a selected few of these together to make meaning in the present. They are crucial for constructing identity and influence action by establishing worldviews and a persona that narrators will seek to confirm. In this study we describe three main themes in the life-stories of six incarcerated men in Argentina: a) Protecting family, especially parents; b) reconstructing an ideal past, and contrasting it with a more cynical present; and c) blaming criminal neighborhoods, friends, and girlfriends for their crimes.

Underwater Localization System Combining iUSBL with Dynamic SBL in ¡VAMOS! Trials.

Emerging opportunities in the exploration of inland water bodies, such as underwater mining of flooded open pit mines, require accurate real-time positioning of multiple underwater assets. In the mining operation scenarios, operational requirements deny the application of standard acoustic positioning techniques, posing additional challenges to the localization problem. This paper presents a novel underwater localization solution, implemented for the ¡VAMOS! project, based on the combination of raw measurements from a short baseline (SBL) array and an inverted ultrashort baseline (iUSBL).

Predictive value of ophthalmic artery Doppler velocimetry in relation to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

Purpose: To test the predictive value of ophthalmic artery (OA) Doppler velocimetry in relation to the occurrence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP).

Methods: We compared, by analysis of variance, the values of seven OA Doppler variables (peak systolic velocity, second systolic peak velocity [P2], mean velocity, end diastolic velocity, resistance index [RI], pulsatility index [PI], and peak ratio) of 31 women with preeclampsia and 33 women with gestational hypertension vs those of 227 women without HDP. The prognostic value of these variables in relation to the occurrence of HDP was evaluated by the area under the curve (AUC) receiver operating characteristic curve.

Ophthalmic artery Doppler velocimetric values in pregnant women at risk for preeclampsia.

Objectives: The purposes of this study were to describe ophthalmic artery Doppler parameters in pregnant women at risk for preeclampsia in the second trimester, compare them with reference values described in women with healthy pregnancies, and evaluate the association between gestational age and Doppler parameters.

Methods: We conducted an observational study with prospective data collection in which measurements of 7 ophthalmic artery Doppler parameters were obtained in 274 women at 20 to 28 weeks' gestation with clinical risk factors for preeclampsia. The following measurements were obtained: peak systolic velocity, mesodiastolic velocity, mean velocity, end-diastolic velocity, resistive index, pulsatility index, and peak ratio.

Doppler velocimetry of the orbital vessels in pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia.

Hypertension is one of the most common clinical complications during pregnancy. Preeclampsia, in particular, still accounts for high maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Hemodynamic studies have shown that general arteriolar vasoconstriction, which leads to hypoperfusion of target organs, including the eye area, remains the most significant pathological change in preeclampsia.