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Ketevan Gurchiani (2022) Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion, Central Asian Survey,, 2022

Focusing on the domestication and undomestication of nature around the River Vere in Tbilisi, Geo... more Focusing on the domestication and undomestication of nature around the River Vere in Tbilisi, Georgia, this article analyses how modernization projects seemingly overcoming nature simultaneously reinforced the complex entanglement between nature and infrastructure, the material and immaterial, the human and non-human. The article centres around a flooding event in 2015, shedding light on the entanglement of different approaches and temporalities. The river and its infrastructure are caught up with ideas, beliefs and materialities. The paper analyses how the crisis gave rise to questions about 'morality' of materiality, 'proper' and 'improper' handling of nature. Based on ethnography and archival work, it shows how the infrastructural developments conceived as projects of Soviet atheist modernity emerged as sites where nature, technologies and religion meet. Rather than looking at Soviet and post-Soviet as two different modernities, the article shows them as continuities.

Slavic Review, 2019

Departmental sources Background: Kidney injury is a complication among children undergoing liver ... more Departmental sources Background: Kidney injury is a complication among children undergoing liver transplantation (pLTx). Cystatin C serum concentration seems to be superior to creatinine-based determination of kidney injury in adults and children. Nearinfrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technology provides non-invasive and real-time measurement of renal tissue oxygenation. Here, we compared renal tissue oximetry (rSrO 2) with conventional diagnostic criteria cystatin C and creatinine concentration in children undergoing pLTx. Material/Methods: rSrO 2 was measured intraoperatively in children undergoing pLTx over the left kidney, and was statistically compared with pre-and postoperative serum creatinine and cystatin C concentrations. Results: rSrO 2 was affected by hemoglobin concentration, bilirubin concentration, and FiO 2. Statistical analysis demonstrated that rSrO 2 was significantly reduced in children with preoperative pathologic increased cystatin C concentrations compared to children without (63.7±4.3 vs. 53.4±4.9, p<0.05). We did not detect a significant difference in rSrO 2 between children who developed postoperative renal impairment, either determined by increased postoperative cystatin C concentration, creatinine concentration, or the pRIFLE criteria. Intraoperative increase or decrease in rSrO 2 did not predict the development of postoperative kidney injury. Conclusions: In children with liver failure undergoing pLTx, a preoperative decrease in rSrO 2 indicates compromised renal function. However, intraoperative rSrO 2 is not predictive of postoperative kidney injury.

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe, 2017

Kadmos, 2013

Heroism is universal and culturally specific at the same time. The need for a hero seems to be un... more Heroism is universal and culturally specific at the same time. The need for a hero seems to be universal and is found in every known culture. Though the need is universal, it is also culturally specific: how the heroes act, how they look, what the primary instrument of their heroism is. The environment, history, and culture play a significant role in defining the heroic patterns in different cultures. How good, strong or intelligent they should be, what they should do, or give up, or sacrifice in order to be called heroes, and what the limits of heroism are: all these factors are culturally defined.

Ketevan Gurchiani (2022) Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion, Central Asian Survey,, 2022

Focusing on the domestication and undomestication of nature around the River Vere in Tbilisi, Geo... more Focusing on the domestication and undomestication of nature around the River Vere in Tbilisi, Georgia, this article analyses how modernization projects seemingly overcoming nature simultaneously reinforced the complex entanglement between nature and infrastructure, the material and immaterial, the human and non-human. The article centres around a flooding event in 2015, shedding light on the entanglement of different approaches and temporalities. The river and its infrastructure are caught up with ideas, beliefs and materialities. The paper analyses how the crisis gave rise to questions about 'morality' of materiality, 'proper' and 'improper' handling of nature. Based on ethnography and archival work, it shows how the infrastructural developments conceived as projects of Soviet atheist modernity emerged as sites where nature, technologies and religion meet. Rather than looking at Soviet and post-Soviet as two different modernities, the article shows them as continuities.

Slavic Review, 2019

Departmental sources Background: Kidney injury is a complication among children undergoing liver ... more Departmental sources Background: Kidney injury is a complication among children undergoing liver transplantation (pLTx). Cystatin C serum concentration seems to be superior to creatinine-based determination of kidney injury in adults and children. Nearinfrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technology provides non-invasive and real-time measurement of renal tissue oxygenation. Here, we compared renal tissue oximetry (rSrO 2) with conventional diagnostic criteria cystatin C and creatinine concentration in children undergoing pLTx. Material/Methods: rSrO 2 was measured intraoperatively in children undergoing pLTx over the left kidney, and was statistically compared with pre-and postoperative serum creatinine and cystatin C concentrations. Results: rSrO 2 was affected by hemoglobin concentration, bilirubin concentration, and FiO 2. Statistical analysis demonstrated that rSrO 2 was significantly reduced in children with preoperative pathologic increased cystatin C concentrations compared to children without (63.7±4.3 vs. 53.4±4.9, p<0.05). We did not detect a significant difference in rSrO 2 between children who developed postoperative renal impairment, either determined by increased postoperative cystatin C concentration, creatinine concentration, or the pRIFLE criteria. Intraoperative increase or decrease in rSrO 2 did not predict the development of postoperative kidney injury. Conclusions: In children with liver failure undergoing pLTx, a preoperative decrease in rSrO 2 indicates compromised renal function. However, intraoperative rSrO 2 is not predictive of postoperative kidney injury.

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe, 2017

Kadmos, 2013

Heroism is universal and culturally specific at the same time. The need for a hero seems to be un... more Heroism is universal and culturally specific at the same time. The need for a hero seems to be universal and is found in every known culture. Though the need is universal, it is also culturally specific: how the heroes act, how they look, what the primary instrument of their heroism is. The environment, history, and culture play a significant role in defining the heroic patterns in different cultures. How good, strong or intelligent they should be, what they should do, or give up, or sacrifice in order to be called heroes, and what the limits of heroism are: all these factors are culturally defined.