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Construindo um projeto de restauro: Os desafios metodológicos da conservação baseada em valores
Authors: Castriota Leonardo Barci Castriota , Sousa Vilmar Pereira
Published: December 2024

Hoy en día, la teoría de la conservación reconoce que el patrimonio no puede definirse objetivamente a través de criterios universales que emanarían del análisis de los bienes culturales. En cambio, ha surgido una concepción intersubjetiva del patrimonio que reconoce que los valores son atribuidos a los bienes culturales por diferentes individuos. Con esto, se pasa de la perspectiva de la conservación basada en la materia a la idea de conservación basada en valores, un paradigma que coloca la valoración de los diferentes agentes involucrados en este proceso como central. A pesar de que existe consenso sobre esto, esta perspectiva intersubjetiva no ha sido completamente absorbida ni por la teoría ni mucho menos por la práctica de la conservación. Este artículo reflexiona sobre el enfoque adoptado en el proyecto de restauración para el edificio de la Casa de Câmara e Cadeia de Mariana (MG), donde se procuró investigar la amplia gama de valores atribuidos a él, con el fin de construir el proyecto de restauración desde una perspectiva intersubjetiva.
Um outro cassino: arquitetura, cidade e historiografia à margem
Authors: Trajano Filho Francisco Sales
Published: December 2024

Con un sesgo historiográfico, el artículo parte del análisis del casino construido a orillas de la laguna en el Parque Solon de Lucena, en João Pessoa/PB, para discutir la naturaleza de la producción de conocimiento en la historia de la arquitectura moderna brasileña. Entre lo local y lo nacional, entre el edificio individual, situado histórica y geográficamente, y el progreso de la cultura arquitectónica moderna en formación en los años 1930, la ambigüedad que impregna la realización del casino es oportuna para discutir los modos habituales de producción de narrativas, la ordenamiento que se establece entre distintos objetos y la dimensión geográfica del conocimiento historiográfico y sus implicaciones. Aunque ignorada, la consideración del lugar desde donde se escribe la historia de la arquitectura, su geografía, es vital para comprender el contenido de las narrativas, su carácter discrecional y el sistema de valores que opera en la disposición de objetos, personajes y pasajes en informes supuestamente de amplio alcance explicativo.
Historical Moralism and the Law: Judicial Statements (panyu) in Late Imperial Civil Service Examinations
Authors: Qian Tony D.
Published: December 2024

From 1384 until 1757, the civil service examinations at the provincial and metropolitan levels included a test on “judicial statements” (panyu 判語)—hypothetical legal decisions written in response to five statutory titles selected mainly from the penal code. These decisions were composed in parallel prose of predominantly four- and six-character lines, and consisted of moral exhortations and historical allusions with little regard for the formal law. This article focuses on the panyu, not as a test of legal knowledge, but as a means of showcasing how principles of justice could be derived from a stock of received cultural and historical knowledge. In these texts, a cache of narratives, which were identified with specific statutes, imbued the law with a historical moralism that expounded on its provisions in non-technical terms. This article, by analyzing examples of panyu found in administrative manuals, annotated penal codes, and examination archives, shows how they sought to clarify the moral intent of the statutes, describe the moral basis for orthodox social values and order, and establish the moral standards for judging official (mis)conduct. Fundamentally, panyu served to strengthen the legitimacy of the law in the eyes of non-specialists and to provide a form of legal education for both officials and non-officials that was closely aligned with the classical training of the literati.
Henri van de Waal’s (1910-1972) unfinished Beeldleer: Exploring new potentials of an iconological classification for the history of the arts
Authors: Van Den Heuvel Charles
Published: December 2024

Henri van de Waal (1910-1972), well-known for his development of Iconclass, also worked on a classification system of the arts that has remained unknown to many, entitled ‘Beeldleer’ (Iconology).This article explores the new potentials of Beeldleer, despite its unfinished and occasionally outdated character, to complement historical debates on iconology, and for future application in digital art history.

Firstly, it will be demonstrated, using unpublished archival documents of the development of Beeldleer, why it is a necessary addition to Iconclass to fully understand Van de Waals approaches of art history in general and his views on iconography and iconology in particular. Although Iconclass certainly has classes that are relevant beyond a history of art based purely on semantic meaning using foremost figurative examples, Beeldleer has additional value. A comparison between these classification systems revealed that the publication of Beeldleer, even in the unfinished state it has remained in, would allow for much completer descriptions of non-figurative aspects of the arts, also in non-Western contexts.

Secondly, Van de Waal’s contribution to iconology has merely been read through the lens of Iconclass and foremost in comparison with the views of Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky. Although Van de Waal admired these art historians, archival sources make clear that he put more emphasis on the role of observation to come to a theory of form. He regarded such a theory a precondition for iconology as a theory of meaning for understanding the function of the image in society. Van de Waal’s Beeldleer is not only relevant for the historiography of iconology in the Low Countries but can also contribute to analyses of international debates in the history of art and media studies (in particular around ‘Bildwissenschaft’). Moreover, after update of some classes, Beeldleer allows for classifying the outcomes of current analyses of the making of artworks and of global art history.

Thirdly, the article demonstrates that Beeldleer can be crucial in providing more art historical context in modeling and (pre-) classifying the outcomes of computer vision experiments. In particular, the many classes to capture formal aspects make Beeldleer very useful for such experiments in digital art history. The inclusion of many categories that refer to non-visual arts allows for linking to other classifications.

The publication of Beeldleer on the Semantic Web could be the realization of Van de Waal’s ‘globus iconographicus’, a tool designed to map uncharted areas of iconography and iconology.
EU Ecodesign and Product Policy: from Energy Efficiency to Circular Economy
Authors: Krämer Ludwig
Published: December 2024

Product policy plays a central role in the integration architecture of the European Union (EU). The need to protect the environment led in the beginning of the 21st century to a Commission initiative on an „Integrated Product Policy“. In 2005, it adopted a directive on the ecodesign of energy-using products. Hand in hand with this approach on the environmental performance of products, which aimed at influencing the making and marketing of products by professisonals, went the attempts to influence the consumer, by information on the product, in particular by energy labelling. This manuscript reviews the EU action in these two area’s and their linkage to circular economy, in light of their transparency and ability to achieve the envisaged goals.
Catalogue of the types of Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Odonata, and Strepsiptera in the IEXA Entomological Collection at Instituto de Ecología, A. C.
Authors: VEGA-BADILLO VIRIDIANA , HERNÁNDEZ-ORTIZ VICENTE , VALENZUELA-GONZÁLEZ JORGE E. , NOVELO-GUTIÉRREZ RODOLFO , IBÁÑEZ-BERNAL SERGIO , REYNOSO-VELASCO DANIEL
Published: December 2024

The IEXA Entomological Collection at Instituto de Ecología, A. C. (Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico) is one of the most important scientific collections in Mexico based on its taxonomic and geographic coverage and number of specimens (approx. 400,000), including its name-bearing types. The insect orders best represented in the collection are Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, and Odonata. The present catalogue is the result of a recent update of the collection database, which included capturing the number, sex, and label data on specimens in the types collection. This publication is the first part of the catalogue and includes information on five orders (Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Odonata, and Strepsiptera), 28 families, 84 genera, and 175 species. In total, the IEXA collection has 1,532 type specimens of these five orders, of which 77 are holotypes and 1,455 paratypes (including eight allotypes). According to the original descriptions, type specimens of two species in Hemiptera were to be deposited in the IEXA; however, the specimens are not in the collection and are considered to be lost.
A redefinition of Gauromaia Pascoe, 1866 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Stenochiinae)
Authors: TELNOV DMITRY , RUZZIER ENRICO
Published: December 2024

Gauromaia dives Pascoe, 1866, type species of the genus, is redescribed; Celebesa Pic, 1921, hitherto a genus in Cnodalonini Oken, 1843, is downgraded in rank to a subgenus of Gauromaia Pascoe, 1866. The subgeneric rank is confirmed for Gauromaia (Falsogauromaia Pic, 1921). The following new combinations are proposed: G. (Celebesa) elongata (Pic, 1921) comb. nov., G. (C.) impressa (Pic, 1923) comb. nov., G. (C.) latipennis (Pic, 1921) comb. nov., G. (C.) striata (Pic, 1923) comb. nov., and the synonym Celebesa purpurea (Pic, 1921) syn. nov. is introduced for Gauromaia (Celebesa) angustior (Pic, 1921) comb. nov. Lectotype designations are made for five species: Gauromaia dives, Gauromaia (Celebesa) angustior, Gauromaia (Celebesa) purpurea, Gauromaia (Celebesa) elongata, and Gauromaia (Falsogauromaia) annulipes Pic, 1921. An annotated checklist of Gauromaia species, a key to its subgenera, and a key to the species of the subgenus Celebesa are presented for the first time. New faunistic records of Gauromaia (Celebesa) and G. (Falsogauromaia) are provided.
Crime and Punishment: Prigoshin’s Mutiny and Putin’s Revenge in Ukrainian and Russian Cartoons and Memes
Authors: Semotiuk Orest
Published: December 2024

The paper deals with the discursive dimension of two episodes of the Russo–Ukrainian war: The rebellion of Yevgeny Prigoshin (founder of the Wagner private military company) on 23 June 2023, and his death in an airplane crash on 23 August 2023. This dimension is implemented in Ukrainian and Russian political humor. Political satire, as a form of Humorous Media Political Discourse, can be described by its target, focus and setting. Political cartoons and memes, as genres of Humorous Media Political Discourse, can be defined by their goals, frame of reference and means. These corresponding parameters (goal–target, frame of reference–focus, means–setting), as well as the correlation between the discursive dimension and social context, provide the analytical framework for the paper. The methodology is based on the discourse and multimodality theories. Special attention is paid to the interaction of verbal and nonverbal elements in cartoons and memes, as well to similarities and differences in Ukrainian and Russian cartoons and memes depicting Yevgeny Prigoshin’s rebellion and his death.
Does Family-supportive Supervisor Behaviour Affect Organisational Commitment? The Effect of Geographical Factors in the Resort Sector of the Maldives
Authors: Azdha Aishath , Jusoh Mazuki , Tham Jacquline
Published: December 2024

This study intends to explore the effect of family-supportive supervisor behaviour on organisational commitment and to analyse the effect of geographical factors (Frequency of family visits, Distance to the residence, Transportation facility and Nationality) on this relationship. This survey was conducted using an online questionnaire for the resorts of the Maldives and 250 valid responses were collected from permanent employees with work experience of more than one year in the current resort. Structural Equation Modelling was done to check the association between family-supportive supervisor behaviour and organisational commitment and multigroup analysis was carried out to check the moderation analysis of geographical factors. The results show that family-supportive supervisor behaviour positively affects organisational commitment and geographical factors (Frequency of family visits, Transportation facility and Nationality) moderate this relationship. Thus, in the selection and hiring process of managerial posts, resort management can check for Family-supportive supervisor behaviours, training on family-supportive supervisor behaviour can be provided to supervisory-level staff and geographical factors need to be considered to strengthen the relationship between family-supportive supervisor behaviour and organisational commitment.
Guideline concordance of aspirin use for primary prevention in adult outpatients
Authors: Chipalkatti Naina , Barnes Geoffrey D. , Bashaw Linda , Davie Adam , Griggs Jennifer J. , Harrod Molly , Kurlander Jacob E. , Medaugh Christine , Packard Rebeca , Powell Corey , Sood Suman , Spranger Elizabeth , Vordenberg Sarah E. , Schaefer Jordan K.
Published: December 2024

Recent guidelines have recommended a reduced role for primary prevention aspirin use, which is associated with an increased bleeding risk. This study aimed to characterize guideline-discordant aspirin use among adults in a community care setting. As part of a quality improvement initiative, patients at 1 internal medicine and 1 family medicine clinic affiliated with an academic hospital were sent an electronic survey. Patients were included if they were at least 40 years old, had a primary care provider at the specified site, and were seen in the last year. Patients were excluded if they had an indication for aspirin other than primary prevention. Responses were collected from 15 February to 16 March 2022. Analyses were performed to identify predictors of primary prevention aspirin use and predictors of guideline-discordant aspirin use; aspirin users and nonusers were compared using Fisher exact test, independent samples t tests, and multivariable logistic regression. Of the 1460 patients sent a survey, 668 (45.8%) responded. Of the respondents, 132 (24.1%) reported aspirin use that was confirmed to be for primary prevention. Overall, 46.2% to 58.3% of primary prevention aspirin users were potentially taking aspirin, contrary to the guideline recommendations. Predictors of discordant aspirin use included a history of diabetes mellitus and medication initiation by a primary care provider. In conclusion, primary prevention aspirin use may be overutilized and discordant with recent guideline recommendations for approximately half of the patients, suggesting a need for aspirin deimplementation. These efforts may be best focused at the primary care level.
Preoperative detection of extraprostatic tumor extension in patients with primary prostate cancer utilizing [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET/MRI
Authors: Spielvogel Clemens P. , Ning Jing , Kluge Kilian , Haberl David , Wasinger Gabriel , Yu Josef , Einspieler Holger , Papp Laszlo , Grubmüller Bernhard , Shariat Shahrokh F. , Baltzer Pascal A. T. , Clauser Paola , Hartenbach Markus , Kenner Lukas , Hacker Marcus , Haug Alexander R. , Rasul Sazan
Published: December 2024

Objectives

Radical prostatectomy (RP) is a common intervention in patients with localized prostate cancer (PCa), with nerve-sparing RP recommended to reduce adverse effects on patient quality of life. Accurate pre-operative detection of extraprostatic extension (EPE) remains challenging, often leading to the application of suboptimal treatment. The aim of this study was to enhance pre-operative EPE detection through multimodal data integration using explainable machine learning (ML).

Methods

Patients with newly diagnosed PCa who underwent [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET/MRI and subsequent RP were recruited retrospectively from two time ranges for training, cross-validation, and independent validation. The presence of EPE was measured from post-surgical histopathology and predicted using ML and pre-operative parameters, including PET/MRI-derived features, blood-based markers, histology-derived parameters, and demographic parameters. ML models were subsequently compared with conventional PET/MRI-based image readings.

Results

The study involved 107 patients, 59 (55%) of whom were affected by EPE according to postoperative findings for the initial training and cross-validation. The ML models demonstrated superior diagnostic performance over conventional PET/MRI image readings, with the explainable boosting machine model achieving an AUC of 0.88 (95% CI 0.87–0.89) during cross-validation and an AUC of 0.88 (95% CI 0.75–0.97) during independent validation. The ML approach integrating invasive features demonstrated better predictive capabilities for EPE compared to visual clinical read-outs (Cross-validation AUC 0.88 versus 0.71, p = 0.02).

Conclusion

ML based on routinely acquired clinical data can significantly improve the pre-operative detection of EPE in PCa patients, potentially enabling more accurate clinical staging and decision-making, thereby improving patient outcomes.

Critical relevance statement

This study demonstrates that integrating multimodal data with machine learning significantly improves the pre-operative detection of extraprostatic extension in prostate cancer patients, outperforming conventional imaging methods and potentially leading to more accurate clinical staging and better treatment decisions.

Key Points

Extraprostatic extension is an important indicator guiding treatment approaches.

Current assessment of extraprostatic extension is difficult and lacks accuracy.

Machine learning improves detection of extraprostatic extension using PSMA-PET/MRI and histopathology.

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Comparison between non-contrast-enhanced MRA and contrast-enhanced CTA in the assessment of hepatic arterial vasculature of donors before liver transplantation
Authors: Aggour Dalia Ibrahim , Diab Ibrahim Ahmed , Houseni Mohamed Mohamed , Badawy Mohamed Taha , Alwarraky Mohamed Shawky
Published: December 2024

Background

Radiologic evaluation is crucial in minimizing transplant complications and guaranteeing the donor’s safety, as a variety of anatomical variations characterizes hepatic vascularity. Computed tomographic angiography (CTA) is the gold standard in hepatic vascularity evaluation in donors before liver transplantation. Still, the procedure necessitates intravenous contrast medium injection, which entails nephrotoxicity risk and hypersensitivity reactions. These concerns about contrast medium safety encouraged new developments in non-contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (NC-MRA) techniques for imaging the vascular anatomy of the liver.

Results

This study was conducted on 40 patients of potential liver donors. Thirty-six cases (90%) showed excellent image quality by CTA versus 14 cases (35%) by NC-MRA; on the other hand, 21 cases (52.5%) showed good image quality by NC-MRA while versus 2 cases (5%) by CTA and NC-MRA documented 5 cases (12.5%) with fair image quality versus two cases documented by CTA. Both modalities provided diagnostic image quality in all cases. Michel’s classification was employed to identify four distinct kinds of hepatic artery anatomy using CTA. Thirty-nine cases out of 40 were successfully identified using NC-MRA. Segment IV hepatic artery origin could not be identified in 6 cases using NC-MRA versus one case using CTA. Artifacts were noted in 20 cases (50%) using NC-MRA versus 2 cases (5%) using CTA.

Conclusion

CTA is the gold standard for pre-liver transplant donor evaluation. The emerging technology of non-contrast MRA has an added value with fewer patient complications. It may function as an additional donor examination when CTA is unable to provide adequate diagnostic information. Non-contrast MRA yields reliable results and eliminates the necessity for contrast medium and additional radiation exposure.
Politicizing Ethics
Authors: Ali Zahra
Published: December 2024

Drawing on critical feminist and decolonial perspectives, this article takes research on Iraq as a framework to raise essential questions about politics and geopolitics of knowledge production and about what constitutes the global academy today. It analyzes the structural, infrastructural, and political dimensions that led to Iraq being researched and theorized outside of its borders, and it highlights the systemic inequalities existing between scholars based in the United States and scholars based in Iraq. The article also questions the production of knowledge and the development of research agendas stemming from institutions based in and tied to an imperial power that has destroyed the very possibility of the existence of a robust academic life in Iraq. It also proposes an alternative research imaginary that politicizes research ethics by putting justice and equality over an obsession for research.
Lyric Lifeforms
Authors: Hartman Meghan
Published: December 2024

This article works toward a theory of lyric in the literary corpus of Mīrājī (1912–1949), an Urdu poet, translator, and critic. The article argues that the lyric is an especially salient place to evaluate the phenomenality of such a relationship between self and world, and it is borne through a particular relationship to temporality. It draws this claim from three sources across Mīrājī’s literary corpus: his essay titled “About my Poems” (“Apnī Naẓmon Ke Bāre Men”); his literary critical essay on Sanskrit philosophers of aesthetics titled “Theories on Rasa” (“Ras Ke Naz̤ariye”); and the poem “The Caves of Ajanta (Ajanta ke Ghār).” The article develops a theory of “lyric lifeforms” to encapsulate two features of lyric: 1) how reading and writing lyric can be an experiential and experimental method to (trans)form oneself by redirecting attention and building habits and new appetites of perceiving, specifically through the recognition of shifts in different experiential contexts (such as the sense of return to an ordinary realm after deep absorption in a literary work); and 2) how making oneself requires making a world. Along the way, the article argues that Mīrājī’s approach to lyric becomes legible through his engagement with Hindu and Buddhist cosmological concepts.
Ethics of Knowledge Extraction and Production
Authors: Ababneh Sara
Published: December 2024

This reflection on the politics and ethics of social research in Jordan starts with the dynamics between individual researchers and then turns to the politics and policies of data ownership in funded projects. The power relations between individual researchers as well as those between foreign donors and local researchers indicate who is considered the producer of knowledge and who the owner of it. The essay draws on personal experiences from the author's work in Jordan to think through what this means in terms of power/knowledge structures on the ground and what can be done to resist and transform these dynamics.
Confronting Silence and Cover-Up of the Colonial Genocide in Libya
Authors: Ahmida Ali Abdullatif
Published: December 2024

This short article reflects the author's thinking on the ethics of silence and the recovery of the history of the concentration camps, based on fifteen years of research among the survivors’ oral and folk histories. It challenges the ethics of the dominant colonial historiographical paradigm in Middle East and North Africa scholarship, which is based on the myth that Italian Fascism did not encompass acts of genocide and mass murder and was, therefore, less evil than the fascism practiced under the German Nazi regime. It focuses on the problems of cover-up and the persistence of silence in the social sciences today. Finally, it proposes an alternative view on decolonizing the social sciences and historiography and on decentering future ethical research. This article presents a history of fascist genocide in Libya and Italy based on the agency and a narrative of the Libyans who survived the concentration camps between 1929 and 1934, and it offers suggestions for a new decolonized research agenda based on a critical model of Italian Fascism.
Monumentality and Its Discontents
Authors: Arnold David
Published: December 2024

Connoting immensity of scale, the aura of power, and the ambition to create a highly visible presence and lasting legacy, monumentality was a cardinal attribute of British India's scopic regime and the self-legitimization of imperial rule. From the 1850s onward, monumentality was central to colonial photography, whether through the archiving of precolonial edifices or, increasingly, through the visual representation and reproduction of colonial public works and engineering projects. In focusing on hydraulic engineering, especially canal building and bridge construction, and by citing the work of Samuel Bourne and other colonial photographers including engineers, this article argues for the constitutive role of photography in the making of colonial monumentality, in the creation and circulation of monumental imagery, in pacification and memorialization, and in the exercise of hegemonic power and scalar authority. It assesses the practical as well as the polemical uses of monumental image-making, the transmissibility of images, and the scope photography allowed for, or denied to, monumentality's multiple “discontents” (its obstacles, antitheses, and subversions) and for alternative readings of monumental power.
Precarious Songs
Authors: Rogahn Kristina
Published: December 2024

This article investigates multiple sources for the theory and criticism of the taṉippāṭal, a premodern genre of short poetic utterance in Tamil. It argues that although scholars have focused on Tamil scholastic discourse as a source for literary knowledge, certain genres like the taṉippāṭal are better understood through applied literary criticism. The first part of the article discusses the evidence for a theory of the taṉippāṭal within the scholastic works of Tamil grammars (ilakkaṇam) and rhetoric texts (pāṭṭiyal), uncovering a formal concept of genre. The second part reconstructs Tamil taṉippāṭal criticism through close readings of lives of poets (carittiram), which narrativize the poetic utterance within a rhetorical event. It discusses how this critical style reveals a unique theory of the lyric. Finally, the article considers the possibilities and limits of using South Asian styles of literary criticism for both reading individual poems and theorizing genre. It proposes that continued research on comparative literary criticisms is productive for mediating the current methodological demands of area studies and comparative literary studies.
Edging on Formlessness
Authors: Silhol-Macher Lou
Published: December 2024

In 2013, the artist now known as American Artist changed their legal name to a generic singular, making themselves impermeable to authorial identification. Manifesting both their official entry in the art world and a withdrawal from it, this name change literally hacked Artist into the white American art canon, as their work now appears alongside Jackson Pollock's or Edward Hopper's in an internet search. This performative act was only the first in a series investigating issues of recognizable form and practices of identification. In 2021 Mother of All Demos II, a computer encased in dirt, the main piece in Artist's installation Black Gooey Universe, fringed on material formlessness as black goo oozed out of the keyboard, spilled over the desk and into the white box of the gallery space, its viscous drops suspended midair, rewriting the racial history of computer technology. This article traces these refusals of form in American Artist's Black Gooey Universe. Drawing on Zakiyyah Jackson's analysis of Western ontology, the article theorizes the edges in Artist's sculptures as sites of undoing, suspension, and speculation. Undoing the form of the GUI to find the “gooey,” Artist's installation ties an archaeological reframing of technology to a reimagining of anticolonial cosmology.
Play It Again (On Catastrophic Storytelling)
Authors: Cramer Lauren Mcleod
Published: December 2024

This introduction describes catastrophizing as a kind of storytelling, a way of gathering events into a narrative of continuity and discontinuity that, when skillfully deployed, is an expression of shifts in thought. Beginning with two short stories about the rise and fall of catastrophe theory, which enjoyed brief mainstream popularity in the 1970s, and the liquid blackness journal's own history of exploring catastrophe, this introduction suggests catastrophizing is a self-reflexive scholarly and creative practice. Disciplines tell catastrophic tales to indicate when and where modes of inquiry and their forms of expression start and stop. Black studies, for example, assumes it plays a considerable role at the beginning of the end of the world; as such, the scholarly contributions to ecocriticism, performance studies, computing, queer theory, and abolition studies that appear in this issue are all methodological experiments that begin at “the end.”
Ca$h App Connectivities
Authors: Hernandez Jillian
Published: December 2024

This article studies how contemporary Black southern cultural production undermines racial and gendered structures of exploitation and foments radical sites of relation by claiming worth under alternative schemes of value that center Black life and demand payment — “cash app me.” The analysis reads with scholar-artist Chaz Barracks's ($Chaz-Antoine) 2020 film Everyday Black Matter and rap duo City Girls’ 2020 antiwork anthem and video “Jobs.” This writing performs an audacious gathering as it is submitted in tandem with Barracks's article for this issue, which offers “con-artistry” as a theory of queer Black joy. This text joins Barracks's con-artistry with my conception of high-maintenance feminism, which describes a contemporary cultural movement in which Black femmes assert their value beyond the confines of respectability and demand what is due to them financially and otherwise within the exploitative context of racial capitalism. The article draws from the standard definition of high-maintenance as “needing a lot of work to keep in good condition” and extends this meaning to describe the depleting physical, mental, emotional, economic, and metaphysical strains placed upon Black femmes under anti-Black conditions, and the considerable care work and remuneration required to survive these strains and access enjoyment.
Renee Royale's Landscapes of Matter
Authors: Young Allison K.
Published: December 2024

In 2021, New Orleans–based artist Renee Royale sojourned to Venice, Louisiana—the terminus of walkable land (referred to locally as “the End of the World”) where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico. Surrounded by marshes, human-made canals, and sprawling petrochemical campuses, Royale documented defunct buildings, polluted coasts, and barren trees with a Polaroid camera while collecting water, soil, and flora from each photographed site. The Polaroids were later submerged in jars containing this ecological debris, causing the images to peel, bubble, discolor, and decay. For the artist, the transformed exposures both witness and communicate the stories told by this landscape—indeed, she sees the environment as their cocreator. This article analyzes Renee Royale's work through the lens of ecocriticism and diaspora aesthetics and argues for its symbolic potential to express intersectional histories of violence and climate emergency in the Gulf of Mexico and circum-Caribbean. Reading her photographs as reflective of the Plantationocene condition, the article also considers questions of Black futurity and aftermath, affiliating Royale's practice with Afrofuturist propositions that seek alternate modes of survival beyond racial capitalism.
Some Kind of Liberties
Authors: Alexander Chanaa
Published: December 2024

For over a decade, between 1906 and 1917, Russia was technically governed under the first-ever Russian Constitution: the Fundamental Laws of 1906. In reality, however, Tsar Nicholas II and his ministers consistently violated the Constitution and conducted affairs as if it didn’t exist— resulting in Early Russian Constitutionalism devolving into “Sham Constitutionalism”. Societal indifference to these violations, especially to the dissolving of the First Duma, played a pivotal role in allowing “Sham Constitutionalism” to develop.  As a result of certain social pressures— such as autocratic traditions, a lack of legal consciousness, and a divided, nascent public sphere—Russian society was too indifferent to play a pivotal role in upholding the First Constitution.
CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF STEMLESS ANATOMIC TOTAL SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY (TSA) IN THE RETROVERTED GLENOID AND COMPARISON WITH TSA IN THE NON-RETROVERTED GLENOID
Authors: Goel Ajay , Bidwai Rohan , Singh Vipendra , Malaviya Shivam , Kumar Kapil , Cairns David , Barker Scott , Khan Kash
Published: December 2024

Objective

We aimed to analyse the clinical outcomes and survivorship of anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty using a stemless humeral component with cemented pegged polyethylene glenoid performed with the technique of eccentric reaming to partially correct retroversion. These results were then compared with TSA using the same implant for end-stage shoulder arthritis with a normal version of the native glenoid.

Design and methods

A retrospective case series was performed using a prospectively collected database of anatomic TSA patients operated at Woodend General Hospital, Aberdeen, UK. Between 2010 and 2019, 107 total shoulder arthroplasties (TSA) were done using standard anatomic stemless TSA implants (Affinis Short, Mathys Ltd, Bettlach, Switzerland) in 98 patients. Standardized preoperative and postoperative shoulder radiological imaging for glenoid retroversion was collected. Depending on the angle of native glenoid version, patients were divided into retroverted and non-retroverted glenoid as per the Walch Classification. To assess the radiological outcome at the final follow-up, radiolucency was assessed on the glenoid and humeral side using the Lazarus grading. The final clinical and radiologic outcome from the retroverted group was compared with the population with a non-retroverted glenoid. Five TSAs were excluded from the analysis as they did not have satisfactory postoperative radiographs. Hence, a total of 102 shoulders were available for analysis.

Results

The mean follow-up was 3.48 years (2-10.2 years) in the retroverted group (n=44) and 3.9 years (2-8.9 years) in the non-retroverted group (n=58). The mean pre-operative retroversion of the glenoid in the retroverted group was 20.18, and the post-operative retroversion was 15.87, with a mean correction of 4.31. There was no significant difference between the two groups in the percentage of radiological loosening. The mean Oxford shoulder score was 41.4 (16-48) in the retroverted group, while it was 42.1 (20-48) in the non-retroverted group. Three patients in the retroverted group required revision surgery for rotator cuff failure. There were no revisions for aseptic loosening or instability.

Conclusion

The degree of severity of retroversion of the glenoid was not associated with poor clinical outcomes, revisions, or failure in stemless TSA. At medium-term follow-up, partial correction of retroversion seems to provide comparable outcomes compared to a non-retroverted glenoid.
FRACTURE NECK OF FEMUR: OUTCOMES OF NONOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT. A SINGLE-CENTRE STUDY
Authors: Jain Tithi , Bawale Rajesh , Faria Giles , Vajramani Avinash , Mccabe Rory , Singh Bijayendra
Published: December 2024

Objectives

Our aim to study the incidence, demographics, inpatient stay, use of imaging and outcomes of patients who have non-operatively managed NOF fractures.

Study Design & Methods

The data was collected retrospectively for the last 14 years (Jan 2009- Jan 2023) of all non-operatively managed NOF fractures at a level 2 trauma centre. The data was collected from the trauma board, electronic patient records, radiographs, and National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD). The data collected as demographic details, fracture classification, any reasons for non-operative management, mortality and further surgical management was done. Patients who died or transferred to other sites for specialist surgery were excluded.

Results

Our results showed that 1.7% (62/4132) of NOF fractures were managed non-operatively at our institution. The reasons for non-operative management were as follows, medically unwell 45% (n = 28) in whom operative risk was thought to outweigh benefit and risk of death was high within the 48 - 72 hrs of admission. The second group patients, minimal or no pain and old fractures with comfortable mobilisation 55% (n = 34). Out of 34 /62 patients who were mobilised, 14% (5/34) of this patient subgroup subsequently required surgical intervention for failed non-operative management. In the medically unwell group (28/62) the 30-day mortality was 32% (12/28) with a 1-year mortality rate of 42% (17/28). The patients who were mobilised (34/62) the 30-day mortality was 6% (4/34) with a 1-year mortality rate of 20% (5/34). The combined average 1 year mortality for this cohort was 35% (22/62).

Conclusions

Our study showed higher mortality rate for medically unwell group 42%. The patients whose fractures are stable enough to allow them to mobilise comfortably showed 20% 1-year mortality rate and 14% surgical intervention needed in 14 % (5/34) patients. We note that an analysis is necessary to assess the functional outcomes of this subgroup, as well as the potential cost implications. The combined average 1 year mortality for this cohort was 35% (22/62) which was due to the high-risk factors in medically unwell group.
FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME OF SIMULTANEOUS ACL RECONSTRUCTION AND HTO FOR MEDIAL COMPARTMENT OSTEOARTHRITIS
Authors: Shah Dhruv , Shah Ashit
Published: December 2024

Introduction

Instability in ACL deficient knees can lead to medial compartment osteoarthritis. The risk of developing significant OA is 5x higher in knees with ACL deficiency. In associated Varus, there is quicker progression of the medial OA along with a varus thrust exerting strain on the ACL graft.

The simultaneous valgus HTO and ACL reconstruction decompresses the medial tibiofemoral joint, corrects the mechanical-axis and reduces strain on the graft. Outcomes for this simultaneous procedure are still unclear in literature and we attempt evaluating its functional outcome.

Methods

This Panel study was performed using data from 2019 to 2022 on 21 patients who had ACL insufficiency with Varus or medial OA and underwent a simultaneous Opening-wedge HTO with Arthroscopic ACL reconstruction. The mean follow-up was 2 years. The patients were evaluated with IKDC and Lysholm scores, Lachman test and ROM pre and post-operatively. The HKA was compared pre and post-operatively and the complications were evaluated. The progression of OA was evaluated with serial radiographs post-operatively.

Results

There was a significant improvement in lifestyle and knee joint function post-operatively. The mechanical femorotibial angle was corrected from an average of 8.2° Varus to 0.8° Valgus. There was a significant improvement in IKDC and Lysholm scoring (IKDC score improved to 86.20 from 34.48 and the Lysholm score improved to 89 points from 37 points). There was significant improvement in the laxity which was evaluated by Lachman test. One patient had a clinical progression of medial-OA. No patients had non-union, graft or implant failure.

Conclusion

Single stage HTO and ACL Reconstruction in patients with medial OA or Varus with ACL insufficiency is an option showing a satisfactory functional and radiological outcome along with activity scores.
TIBIAL TRAY DEBONDING IN PS NEXGEN TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY IS LINKED TO POLYETHYLENE INSERT BACKSIDE DEFORMATION
Authors: Langton David , Bhalekar Rohan , Wells Stephen , Nargol Matthew , Natu Sonali , Nargol Antoni , Waller Susan , Pabbruwe Moreica , Sidaginamale Raghavendra
Published: December 2024

Objectives

We identified an unusual pattern of backside deformation on polyethylene (PE) inserts of contemporary total knee replacements (TKRs). The PE backside's margins were inferiorly deformed in TKRs with NexGen central-locking trays. This backside deformation was significantly associated with tray debonding. Furthermore, recent studies have shown high rate of tray debonding in PS NexGen TKRs. Subsequently, a field safety notice was issued regarding the performance of this particular device combination and the Option tray has been withdrawn from use. Therefore, we hypothesised that the backside deformation of PS inserts may be greater than that of CR inserts.

Design and Methods

At our national implant retrieval centre, we used peer-reviewed techniques to analyse changes in the bearing wear rate and backside surface deformation of NexGen PE inserts using coordinate measuring machines [N=84 (CR-43 and PS-41) TKRs with non-augmented-trays]. Multiple regression was used to determine which variable had the greatest influence on backside deformation. The amount of cement cover on trays was quantified as a %of the total surface using Image-J software.

Results

The median (IQR) bearing wear rate of the PS PEs [14(8-22) mm3/year] was not significantly different(p=0.154) to that of the CR PEs [18(8-27)mm3/year]. The median (IQR) backside deformation of the PS inserts [294(239-361) µm] was significantly greater (p<0.001) than that of the CR inserts [212(158-258)µm]. Multiple regression modelling showed that duration in-vivo (p=0.037), central-clearance between insert and tray (p<0.001) and constraint (p=0.003) were significantly associated with PE backside-deformation. 38(93%) PS and 31(72%) of CR trays exhibited ≤10% of cement cover. Non-contacting profilometry and microscopy revealed marked pitting and abrasive changes to the superior surface of the tray.

Conclusion

This explant study showed the PE backside deformation was significantly higher in PS than in CR inserts and this may be one explanation for the unsatisfactory clinical performance reported with this device combination.
Fibroblast activation protein inhibitors positron emission tomography/computed tomography: Review of the literature
Authors: Hernandez-Hidalgo Nathalie , Cortes Gerardo , Ortega-Anaya Klissman , Varela Humberto
Published: December 2024

Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with radiolabeled fibroblast activation protein inhibitors (FAPI) is an increasingly relevant molecular diagnostic image in oncology given the high expression of FAP in cancer associated fibroblast, being present in almost 90% of the epithelial carcinomas, which allows imaging with excellent diagnostic performance and can also become a therapeutic strategy. This review summarizes the literature on FAPI-PET/CT for the cancer evaluation and compares it in some scenarios with the 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT.
Different medications for seasonal allergic rhinitis in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Qin Jiang-Yuan , Huang Geng , Pan Zhi-Hui , Liao Lan-Fang , Hu Heng-Fen
Published: December 2024

BACKGROUND

While the efficacy of medications such as fluticasone furoate (FF), fluticasone propionate (FP), and azelastine-fluticasone (AF) has been substantiated in comparison to their respective placebo controls, uncertainties persist regarding the comparative effectiveness of different intranasal agents.

AIM

To evaluate the efficacy of FP, FF, and AF in the treatment of adult patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) using a meta-analytic approach.

METHODS

A computer search was conducted in Cochrane Library, PubMed, and EMBASE databases to identify randomized controlled trials assessing the effectiveness and safety of FF, FP, and AF in treating SAR. Data on treatment safety and efficacy were extracted and analyzed through meta-analysis.

RESULTS

A total of 20 studies were included, comprising 10590 participants. The results of the direct meta-analysis indicated that, compared to placebo, both relative Total Nasal Symptom Score (rTNSS) and relative Total Ocular Symptom Score (rTOSS) significantly decreased post-intervention [mean difference (MD) = -1.48, 95% confidence interval (CI): -1.73 to -1.22; MD = -0.66, 95%CI: -0.82 to -0.49], with similar findings observed across the FF, FP, and AF subgroups. The network meta-analysis results showed that for improving rTNSS and rTOSS, the SUCRA values ranking from highest to lowest were AF, FP, FF, and placebo. Improvements in rTNSS and rTOSS with FP, FF, and AF were all significantly greater than those observed with placebo, with AF demonstrating superior efficacy compared to both FP and FF. No statistically significant difference in rTNSS improvement was found between FP and FF, although FP exhibited significantly greater improvement in rTOSS compared to FF.

CONCLUSION

In adult patients with SAR, the combination of azelastine and fluticasone shows a significant effect in improving nasal and ocular symptoms, with FP demonstrating marked improvement in ocular symptoms compared to FF.
Effectiveness of Pilates exercises in sports
Authors: Sivrika Aikaterini Pantelis , Giannikou Efstratia , Kypraios Georgios , Lamnisos Demetris , Georgoudis George , Stasinopoulos Dimitrios
Published: December 2024

Participation in sports is spreading all around the world in an attempt of the community to stay active, healthy, prevent health issues and conditions and to ensure quality of life while there is life expectancy and population is getting more and more older. Existing protocols in rehabilitation are sometimes demanding and are addressed in athletes and people with good physical condition while population gets involved in recreational sports activities more and more. Sport injuries are very common not only in athletes but in general population as well. Pilates is a very popular type of exercise and industry around it is flourishing. Although there are indications that it could be used as an alternative in rehabilitation, research is limited in certain fields. The aim of this editorial is to motivate researchers to conduct well-designed studies in sports injuries’ rehabilitation based on the Pilates method, to explore the efficacy of the method as a complementary approach and the optimal integration strategies in diverse sports rehabilitation settings. Last but not least, it is an attempt for the need of the community to establish certification on Clinical Pilates Physiotherapists based on the principles of rehabilitation.
Alcohol, adaptation and (in)activity in the narratives of older consumers
Authors: Thurnell-Read Thomas
Published: December 2024

It is only recently that sociologists of consumption have begun to explore the experiences of older consumers, yet there remains a persistence of stereotypes of older adults as habitual consumers prone to social isolation. Taking the example of alcohol consumption and pub-going, the article analyses qualitative data drawn from focus groups with older consumers and qualitative interviews with pub staff and various key stakeholders to explore the ways in which older consumers adapt in later life. Findings show that many older consumers value alcohol consumption and pub-going as a means to experience social activity. In contrast to sedentary and isolated lifestyles in the domestic home, pubs are spoken of as places where meaningful social contact is fostered and outings to pubs for drinks and, in particular, meals, appears to offer a means for providing care to others. These activities, characterised as active and experimental, are valued by older consumers as a way to challenge long-established negative stereotypes about older people. However, while many adapt their consumption habits to retain such positive framings, others face physical challenges relating to age-related impairments, as well as economic, social and cultural barriers which significantly restrict otherwise desired consumer experiences. The findings demonstrate how older consumers, overlooked in current debates in the sociology of consumption, are active agents engaged in a considered and ongoing process of negotiation in regard to their consumption preferences and practices.