bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Psychiatric, Cognitive Functioning and the Socio-cultural View of Menstrual Psychosis in Oman
Authors: Al-Sibani Nasser , Al-Maqbali Mandhar , Mahadevan Sangeetha , Al-Huseni Salim , Al-Muzeni Muna , Al-Adawi Samir
Published: December 2019

Background: Most documented cases of menstrual psychosis have been from Euro-American populations with reports from cross-cultural populations being only few in number. Objective: To determine whether the cyclical/episodic nature of menstrual psychosis among case series observed at a tertiary care unit in Oman fulfills the diagnosis criteria of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) and diverge into Brockington’s sub-types (World Psychiatry. 2005;4(1):9-17.). Related aims were to solicit measures of psychometric functioning of those with menstrual psychosis and narrated idioms of distress. Results: The spectrum of distress menstrual psychosis covers does fit into existing psychiatric nosology. Evaluations revealed that a majority of the participants displayed something akin to morbid phenomenon related manic and psychotic symptoms or, in parlance of Omani society, spirit possession. In terms of classification by timing within the menstrual cycle as expounded by Brockington, the present case series in Oman fulfilled the definition of catamenial psychosis and paramenstrual psychosis. With regard to psychometric function, all participants performed adequately on indices of intellectual functioning but appeared to have impairments in neuropsychological functioning, including dimensions of processing speed, episodic memory, and executive functioning. Within the given society, the periodicity of mind alteration has been attributed to spirit possession. Conclusions: This is one of the first case series of its kind in the country elucidating whether the manifestation of menstrual psychosis among individuals in Oman fulfills the subtypes postulated by Brockington. The present case series suggests that menstrual psychosis is marked with neuropsychological impairments that were previously observed in other phasic manic episodes or brief psychotic disorders.
Genetic heterogeneity of pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus with lymphoproliferation
Authors: Li Guo-min , Li Yi-fan , Liu Hai-mei , Shi Yu , Guan Wan-zhen , Zhang Tao , Wen Yao , Wu Bing-bing , Xu Hong , Sun Li
Published: December 2019

Purpose: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a rare autoimmune disease, which is more severe in case of pediatric onset. This may be due to greater involvement of genetic factors compared with adult forms. In recent years, multiple monogenic diseases with early-onset autoimmunity and lymphoproliferation have been identified, such as Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS), RAS-associated autoimmune leukoproliferative disease (RALD), Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) Gain-of-Function (GOF) syndrome and Interleukin-2 receptor α (IL2RA) deficiency. Therefore, we performed whole exome sequencing in SLE children with lymphoproliferation to identify genes associated with these conditions. Methods: We enrolled seven SLE patients with lymphoproliferation, which are from different families. Demographic data, clinical manifestations, laboratory and histopathological findings, treatment, and outcome were documented. WES was performed in seven cases and their families. Suspected variants were confirmed by Sanger sequencing. Protein levels were detected in patients with gene mutations by Western blot. Results: Four patients were male, and three were female. No consanguinity was reported within the seven families. The average age at onset was 5.0 years (range from 1.2 to 10.0 years). The most common features were renal (7/7 patients), hematological (6/7 patients) involvement, and recurrent fever (6/7patients) while only two patients presented with skin involvement. Antinuclear antibodies ( ANA) at a titer of ≥1:320 was positive in all patients. All patients fulfilled four 2019 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology (EULAR/ACR) criteria for the classification of SLE. We identified a somatic activating NRAS variant (c.38 A>G, p.G13C) in peripheral venous blood from four patients, at levels ranging from 8.8% to 42.8% in variant tissues, that was absent from their parents. BCL-2-Interacting Mediator of Cell Death (BIM) levels in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from four patients were markedly reduced, whereas those in control was normal. Another two mutations, c.559C>T (p.Q187X) in the TNFAIP3 gene and c.3061G>A (p.E1021K) in PIK3CD gene, were detected in two patients, respectively. Conclusion: SLE is a novel phenotype of germline mutation in PI3CKD gene and somatic mutation in NRAS gene. These genes, NRAS , TNFAIP3 and PIK3CD , should be considered as candidates for SLE children with lymphoproliferation. If patients with SLE and lymphoproliferation presented with renal and hematological involvement, and recurrent fever, they need gene testing, especially in male patient.
Offspring sex affects the susceptibility to maternal smoking-induced lung inflammation and the effect of maternal antioxidant supplementation in mice
Authors: Wang Baoming , Chan Yik Lung , Zhou Shengyu , Saad Sonia , Chen Hui , Oliver Brian G
Published: December 2019

Background: Cigarette smoke exposure ( SE ) during pregnancy is the largest modifiable risk factor for the development of lung disorders in offspring. We have previously shown that maternal L-Carnitine treatment can reduce the adverse impacts of maternal SE on renal and brain disorders in offspring. Here, we investigated the effect of maternal L-Carnitine supplementation on lung inflammatory pathways, autophagy, and mitophagy markers in the offspring in response to maternal SE. Female Balb/c mice (8 weeks) were exposed to cigarette smoke for 6 weeks prior to mating, during gestation and lactation. Half of the SE mothers were given L-Carnitine supplementation (1.5mM in drinking water, SE+LC) during gestation and lactation. Lungs from the offspring were studied at birth and adulthood (13 weeks) in both genders. Results: At birth, in male offspring, there were increased lev inflammatory markers (phosphorylated(p)-ERK1,2, p-P38 MAPK, p-NF-kB), and inflammasome marker (NLRP3), as well as mitophagy fission marker Drp-1 and autophagosome marker (LC3A/B-II) in the lung. Maternal L-Carnitine supplementation significantly reduced NLRP3 level. In contrast, maternal SE only increased IL1-β in female offspring, which was reversed by maternal L-Carnitine supplementation. At 13 weeks, there was an increase in LC3A/B-II and p-NF-kB in the male SE offspring with reduced p-JNK1,2, which were partially normalised by maternal L-Carnitine treatment. Female offspring were not affected by maternal SE at this age. Conclusion: Maternal SE had adverse impacts on the male offspring’s lung, which were partially alleviated by maternal L-Carnitine supplementation. Females seem to be protected from the adverse effects of maternal SE.
Aggravated brain injury after neonatal hypoxic ischemia in microglia depleted male mice
Authors: Tsuji Shunichiro , Martino Elena Di , Mukai Takeo , Tsuji Shoko , Murakami Takashi , Harris Robert , Blomgren Klas , Aden Ulrika
Published: December 2019

Background: Neuroinflammation plays important roles in neonatal hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Microglia are largely responsible for the injury-induced inflammatory response, but they also play beneficial roles in both normal and disease states. Nevertheless, the effects of microglial depletion in neonatal HIE remain unclear. Methods: Tamoxifen was administered to Cx3cr1 CreER/+ Rosa26 DTA/+ (microglia-depleted model) and Cx3cr1 CreER/+ Rosa26 DTA/- (control) mice at P8 and P9 in order to assess the effect of microglial depletion. The density of microglia was quantified using Iba-1 staining and the proportion of resident microglia after the hypoxic–ischemic (HI) insult was also analyzed using flow cytometric analysis. The HI insult employed the Rice-Vannucci procedure at P10. Infarct size and apoptotic cells were analyzed at P13. Cytokine analysis was performed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) at P13. Results: Tamoxifen administration induced over 99% microglial depletion at P10 in DTA + mice. Microglial depletion over 97% persisted at P13 following the HI insult. Male DTA + mice exhibited significantly larger infarct volumes than did male DTA - mice, but there was no significant difference in females. The density of TUNEL + cells in DTA + mice was significantly higher than that in DTA - mice in the caudoputamen, cerebral cortex, and thalamus in males. Females showed significantly greater numbers of TUNEL + cells in the hippocampus and thalamus in DTA + mice compared to DTA - mice. ELISA revealed that IL-10 and TGF-β levels were significantly lower in both male and female DTA + mice compared to DTA - mice, both under normal conditions and, more pronounced, after HI. Conclusion: We established a model of microglial depletion that aggravated neuronal damage and apoptosis after the HI insult, an effect most predominant in males.
Insights on the process of reciprocal gene loss in the duplicate DPL genes of rice
Authors: Xu Xun , Ge Song , Zhang Fu-min
Published: December 2019

Background: Reciprocal gene loss (RGL) of duplicate genes is an important genetic resource of reproductive isolation, which is essential for speciation. In the past decades, various RGL patterns have been revealed, but RGL process is still poorly understood. The RGL of the duplicate DOPPELGANGER1 (DPL1) and DOPPELGANGER2 (DPL2) gene can lead to BDM-type hybrid incompatibility between two rice subspecies. The evolutionary history of the duplicate genes, including their origin and mechanism of duplication as well as their evolutionary divergence after the duplication, remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the evolutionary history of the duplicate genes for gaining insights into the process of RGL.Results: We reconstructed phylogenetic relationships of DPL copies from all 15 diploid species representing six genome types of rice genus and then found that all the DPL copies from the latest diverged A- and B-genome gather into one monophyletic clade. Southern blot analysis also detected definitely two DPL copies only in A- and B-genome. High conserved collinearity can be observed between A- and B-genomic segments containing DPL1 and DPL2 respectively but not between DPL1 and DPL2 segments. Investigations of transposon elements indicated that DPL duplication is related to DNA transposons. Likelihood-based analyses with branch models showed a relaxation of selective constraint in DPL1 lineage but an enhancement in DPL2 lineage after DPL duplication. Sequence analysis also indicated that quite a few defective DPL1 can be found in 6 wild and cultivated species out of all 8 species of A-genome but only one defective DPL2 occurs in a cultivated rice subspecies. Conclusions: DPL duplication of rice originated in the recent common ancestor of A- and B-genome about 6.76 million years ago and the duplication was possibly caused by DNA transposons. The DPL1 is a redundant copy and has being in the process of pseudogenization, suggesting that artificial selection may play an important role in forming the RGL of DPLs between two rice subspecies during the domestication.
Synthesis and biological evaluation of 4-substituted aryl-piperazine derivatives of 1,7,8,9-tetrachloro-10,10-dimethoxy-4-azatricyclo [5.2.1.02,6] dec-8-ene-3,5-dione as anti-cancer and anti-angiogenesis agents
Authors: Guo Lifang , Xu Benshan , Wan Zirui , Ren Lulu , Zhang Jie , Zhang Wen , Liu He , Liu Lihong
Published: December 2019

The authors have requested that this preprint be removed from Research Square.
Documentation of Individualized Preoperative Risk Assessment: A Multi-Center Study
Authors: Bloomstone Joshua Aaron , Houseman Benjamin T , Sande Evora Vicents , Brantley Ann , Curran Jessica , Haddad Tania , Maccioli Gerald A , Steinshouer James , Walker David , Moonesingha Ramani
Published: December 2019

Background Individual surgical risk prediction tools that inform shared-decision making, strengthen the consent process and support clinical management are considered important tools to enhance patient experience and outcomes. Neither the use of individual pre-surgical risk assessment (ISRA) tools nor the rate of documented individual risk is known. The primary endpoint of this study was the rate of physician documented ISRAs within the records of patients with poor outcomes. Secondary endpoints included the effects of age, sex, race, ASA class, and time and type of surgery on the rate of documented presurgical risk.Methods The records of non-obstetric surgical patients within 22 hospitals in Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, and Wyoming, between January 1 and December 31, 2017 were evaluated. Logistic regression was used to analyze both individual and group effects associated with ISRA documentation.Results 756 of 140,756 inpatient charts met inclusion criteria [0.54%, 95% CI 0.50% to 0.58%]. ISRAs were documented by 16.08% of surgeons [p<0.0001; R-squared=68.23%] and 4.50% of anesthesiologists [p< 0.0001, R-squared 15.38%]. Cardiac surgeons documented ISRAs more frequently than non-cardiac surgeons (25.87% vs 16.15%) [p=0.0086, R-squared=0.970%]. Elective surgical patients were more likely than emergency surgical patients (19.57 vs 12.03%) to have risk documented [p=0.0226, R-squared=0.730%]. Patients over the age of 65 were more likely than patients under the age of 65 to have ISRA documentation (20.31 vs 14.61%) [p=0.0429, R-squared=0.580%].Conclusions The observed rate of documented individual surgical risk assessment in our sample was low. Surgeons were more likely than anesthesiologists to document individual presurgical risk. In-line with the Salzburg Statement on Shared-Decision Making, information regarding surgical risk represents the bedrock of presurgical decision making and informed consent. The rate and quality of risk documentation must be improved.
The role of the program «Enei’da» in popularizing Ukrainian culture
Authors: Temchur Karyna
Published: December 2019

The article deals with the culinary-literary show «Enei’da» and its role in popularizing Ukrainian culture. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the role of the program «Enei’da» in popularizing Ukrainian culture. The relevance of the study is due to a decrease in public expenditures on
cultural development and a small number of programs on cultural topics on Ukrainian television.
Ways of popularizing Ukrainian culture in the program: preparation of little-known national dishes
(originated from a certain region of the country and loved by well-known writers); quoting fragments
from the work of writers; the story of interesting and unknown facts about the life and work of the literature classical authors. Each issue has the same structure, which allows you to combine the story of
literature with cooking national cuisine. Thus, mixed-theme programs have an exceptional significance
for promoting culture, as they engage the audience at once in two types of shows.
Key words: «Enei’da», infotehnament, entertaining shows, Ukrainian television.
Topological order in matrix Ising models
Authors: Hartnoll Sean , Mazenc Edward , Shi Zhengyan
Published: December 2019

We study a family of models for an N_1 \times N_2N1×N2
matrix worth of Ising spins S_{aB}SaB.
In the large N_iNi
limit we show that the spins soften, so that the partition function is
described by a bosonic matrix integral with a single ‘spherical’
constraint. In this way we generalize the results of to a wide class of
Ising Hamiltonians with O(N_1,\mathbb{Z})\times O(N_2,\mathbb{Z})O(N1,ℤ)×O(N2,ℤ)
symmetry. The models can undergo topological large
NN
phase transitions in which the thermal expectation value of the
distribution of singular values of the matrix
S_{aB}SaB
becomes disconnected. This topological transition competes with low
temperature glassy and magnetically ordered phases.
Macroeconomic effects of inflation targeting in advanced and emerging market economies
Authors: Chugunov Igor , Pasichnyi Mykola , Nepytaliuk Anton
Published: December 2019

The article assessed the treatment effects of targeting inflation regime on the real output and consumer inflation persistence in both advanced and emerging market economies. An empirical analysis is based on data from 35 OECD and 40 emerging countries and covers inflation and non-inflation targets over the period 1990–2017. The results showed that inflation targeting (henceforth – IT) had no significant impact on the GDP per capita growth rate but slightly reduced the output volatility. This study founded out that full-fledged IT had the effect of slowing down consumer inflation and reducing its volatility. Moreover, in the OECD countries, the monetary framework had certain advantages during the Great Recession. The authors argued that in order to maintain price stability in emerging economies, a high level of central bank independence and accountability is required.
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev - Creator of the Periodic System of Chemical Elements
Authors: Semenov Igor Vitalievich
Published: December 2019

The author of the article addresses significant milestones in the life path of Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev, gives the statement of the historian of science, academician B.M. Kedrova, characterizing the personality of the creator of the Periodic system of chemical elements.
O Enfermeiro na Unidade de Saúde da Família: Estudo Socioclínico Institucional
Authors: Ferreira Adicea Souza , Abrahão Ana Lúcia
Published: December 2019

Objetivos: Conhecer o processo de trabalho de enfermeiros atuantes nas Unidades de Saúde da Família localizadas em um município da Região Serrana do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; identificar os fatores que intervém na implementação de ações gerencias voltada para o cuidado. Método: Estudo de abordagem qualitativa com emprego do desenho Socioclínico Institucional, que opera na lógica de transformar a realidade investigada para compreender a pesquisa. Utiliza-se da produção coletiva do conhecimento e troca de saberes e aprenderes entre participantes e pesquisadores. Resultados esperados: Espera-se contribuir com o processo de trabalho dos enfermeiros atuantes nas Unidades de Saúde quanto a gerência do cuidado.
Tecnologia digital de informação e comunicação como agente otimizador na relação ensino-aprendizagem na saúde
Authors: Barbosa da Silva Luciano , Mara de Melo Tavares Cláudia , De Melo Tavares Marilei
Published: December 2019

Entende-se por TDIC (Tecnologias Digitais de Informação e Comunicação) o conjunto de dispositivos, plataformas, bases, ferramentas e ambientes que operem de forma digital processando dados e provendo informações tratadas e organizadas com modelos diversos de acessibilidade. Esta pesquisa traz à luz do conhecimento as implicações das utilizações das TDIC no processo formativo dos profissionais de saúde, identificando seus desafios, eficiências, entraves, perspectivas e tendências dentro do processo ensino-aprendizagem. Tem como objetivos: Provocar reflexões sobre experiências vivenciadas pelos profissionais de saúde apontando suas expectativas e dificuldades diante de um novo cenário de aprendizagem; identificar entraves na aplicação e utilização dos recursos digitais; analisar o processo de entrave das TDIC em sua inserção no cenário ensino-aprendizagem; discutir as TDIC à luz de referências teóricas contemporâneas do campo da educação; produzir um site que servirá como mapa apontando as principais plataformas TDIC para o ensino na saúde. A metodologia definida para uso foi a pesquisa qualitativa, pois foram utilizadas informações com vínculo indissociável entre o profissional de saúde e os caminhos a ele apresentado para o aprendizado de conhecimentos inerentes a sua profissão, informações essas que não podem ser traduzidas em números. Foram escolhidos dispositivos da metodologia Sociopoética para a produção de dados junto ao grupo pesquisador. Os participantes do estudo são profissionais de saúde que estão realizando curso de pós-graduação stricto sensu na Escola Aurora de Afonso Costa/Universidade Federal Fluminense – UFF. Também foi decidido realizar um levantamento de base bibliográfico e documental. Foi escolhido o software QSR Nvivo versão 10.0/Windows 64 bits para a análise qualitativa dos dados e geração de nuvem de palavras, bem como a organização das fontes de dados e geração de categorias. Também foi definido utilizar o aplicativo online wordle para produzir variações na nuvem de palavras junto com os resultados do QSR Nvivo. O respectivo projeto foi submetido à apreciação do Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa Humana, conforme definido na resolução CNS 466 sendo aprovado conforme parecer nº3.628.543.
Hérnia de Richter
Authors: Batista Ana Beatriz Esteves , Borges Tavares Vieira Richard Raphael , Araújo Ana Claudia Aguiar Alves , Pentagna Bernardo Teixeira , De Paula Joaquim Ferreira , Batista Carlos Augusto Marques
Published: December 2019

A hérnia de Richter é uma hérnia abdominal em que apenas parte da circunferência do intestino é aprisionada e estrangulada no orifício herniário. Suas manifestações clínicas são bastante variadas. O tratamento é cirúrgico. Apresentamos o relato de um homem de 65 anos com dor e distensão abdominal, náuseas e vômitos há quatro dias, que ao exame físico apresentava abaulamento doloroso e irredutível na cicatriz umbilical.
Análise do comportamento de estruturas de concreto com fibra de polipropileno sob flexão
Authors: Alves Silva Viviane , Ferreira da Costa Júnior Reinaldo , Da Silva Lima Vianna Ana Carolina , Bartko Nirvana , Silveira Rodrigues Júnior Adauri , Da Costa Gomes Gustavo José
Published: December 2019

O concreto possui uma série de qualidades, tais como excelência à resistência à água (comparado com outros materiais estruturais), facilidade na execução, devido ao seu estado fluido, permitindo variabilidade de formas e tamanhos,  disponibilidade e baixo custo dos ingredientes e o baixo consumo de energia para sua produção, o que lhe garante um local de destaque sendo o material estrutural mais empregado no mundo. Entretanto, o concreto ainda apresenta certas limitações, como por exemplo, o comportamento frágil nas estruturas e uma capacidade minimizada de deformação, em regime plástico. O concreto apresenta ainda uma baixa resistência à tração quando igualado a sua resistência a compressão. Concordante à sua susceptibilidade a solicitações de flexão, aparecem no concreto fissuras e as microfissuras na região tracionada. Umas das soluções técnicas possíveis para minimizar essas limitações é o uso de fibra como reforço no concreto, que lhe garante comportamento dúctil frente aos esforços solicitante. O presente estudo tem por objetivo analisar os resultados obtidos através do ensaio de flexão de três pontos de corpos de prova prismáticos elaborados com concreto simples e outros com concreto incorporado com fibra de polipropileno. Para realizar a análise foram utilizados traços de 40 MPa e 20 MPa de fck. Concluiu-se que a adição de fibra de polipropileno em uma matriz cimentícia, mesmo com um corpo de prova com um fck inferior, diminui a fragilidade que o corpo tem após o tempo de cura. Assim, mostra que tão importante quanto o fator de compressão do concreto, é o seu comportamento à ductilidade, o que lhe confere maior resistência à tração, uma vez que os elementos estruturais sempre estão submetidos a ações combinadas de esforços.
Recent Advances of Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles in Optical Sensing and Therapy
Authors: Zhou He , Yang Hongwei , Wang Guangke , Gao Aijun , Yuan Zhiqin
Published: December 2019

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Gold nanoparticles with special surface plasmon resonance have been widely used in sensing and
therapy because of their easy preparation, unique optical properties, excellent biocompatibility, etc. The applications
of gold nanoparticles in chemo/biosensing, imaging, and therapy reported in 2016-2019, are summarized in
this review. Regarding the gold nanoparticle-based sensing or imaging, sensing mechanisms and strategies are
provided to illustrate the concepts for designing sensitive and selective detection platforms. Gold nanoparticlemediated
therapy is introduced by surface plasmon resonance-based therapy and delivery-based therapy. Beyond
the sole therapeutic system, platforms through synergistic therapy are also discussed. In the end, discussion of the
challenges and future trends of gold nanoparticle-based sensing and therapy systems is described.
Proteomic Analysis of Differentially Expressed Proteins in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis-Infected Macrophages
Authors: Tian Shuang , Yang Dongjun , Long Qian , Ling Min
Published: December 2019

Background:

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and Mycobacterium avium (MA) are intracellular
parasitic bacteria. The biological characteristics of MA and MTB are very similar and need
to be identified.

Objective:

The study aims to better understand how MTB survives in macrophages and the different
pathogenic mechanisms of MTB and MA.

Methods:

The Tandem Mass Tag (TMT) and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LCMS/
MS) were used for analysis of the differentially expressed proteins in MTB-infected macrophages
and MA-infected macrophages.

Results:

A total of 682 proteins were found to be differentially expressed in MTB-infected cells in
comparison with MA-infected cells. Among these, 10 proteins (O60812, P06576, O43660-2, E9PL10,
O00442, M0R050, Q9H8H0, Q9BSJ8, P41240 and Q8TD57-3) were down-regulated in MTB-infected
cells, and M0R050, O00442, Q9H8H0, O60812 and O43660 are interactive proteins which participate
in a multitude of cellular RNA processing.

Conclusion:

The five down-regulated proteins (M0R050, O00442, Q9H8H0, O60812 and O43660)
might repress the synthesis of some resistant proteins in MTB-infected cells to promote MTB survival
in macrophages.
Recurrent Photoreceptor Loss with Spontaneous Recovery as a Presenting Sign of Syphilitic Outer Retinopathy
Authors: Shantha Jessica G. , Kokame Gregg T. , Kim Lucas
Published: December 2019

A 64-year-old male presented with sudden onset of decreased vision with a central blind spot and shimmering visual symptoms without significant inflammatory findings, and was noted on optical coherence tomography to have localized loss of photoreceptors, which spontaneously resolved after two weeks. This recurred subsequently three times spaced by months of recovery with normal vision and normal photoreceptors. In the fourth episode, the patient developed an arcuate-shaped area of outer retinitis more typical for acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis, and the diagnosis was made serologically. With subsequent treatment for syphilis, there was not any recurrence after the treatment and vision recovered to 20/20 with a normal photoreceptor layer.
LIBERDADE DE EXPRESSÃO E O PROBLEMA DA REGULAÇÃO DO DISCURSO DO ÓDIO NAS MÍDIAS SOCIAIS
Authors: Sarlet Ingo Wolfgang
Published: December 2019

O assim chamado discurso do ódio, mesmo não sendo, como tal, um fenômeno novo, ganhou a dimensão de um problema mundial, com um impacto crescente e mais devastador, gerando a necessidade urgente de adequada regulação em termos de prevenção e proibição, o que deve se dar em nível nacional e internacional. Um dos maiores desafios é o de achar um equilíbrio adequado entre a Liberdade fundamental de expressão e a proteção da dignidade da pessoa humana e os direitos de personalidade, contra todo e qualquer manifestação que possa ser enquadrada no conceito de discurso do ódio. Nesse sentido, o objetivo do presente texto é o de discutir o problema à luz da jurisprudência da Corte Europeia de Direitos Humanos (o caso Belkacem vs. Bélgica), o recente German Act to Improve Enforcement of the Law in Social Networks (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz – German Network Enforcement Act) e a ordem constitutional brasileira.
REVOLUÇÃO TECNOLÓGICA, CRISE DA DEMOCRACIA E MUDANÇA CLIMÁTICA: LIMITES DO DIREITO NUM MUNDO EM TRANSFORMAÇÃO
Authors: Barroso Luís Roberto
Published: December 2019

O Direito é uma instituição universal, que tem pretensões de ubiquidade e completude. No entanto, em um mundo complexo, plural e volátil, seus limites e possibilidades são abalados pela velocidade, profundidade e extensão das transformações em curso, bem como pelos dilemas éticos que delas decorrem e pelas dificuldades de se formarem consensos no universo da política. O presente artigo traz uma reflexão sobre o modo como o Direito tem procurado lidar com algumas das principais aflições do nosso tempo, diante de demandas que incluem a necessidade de (i) manter a revolução tecnológica numa trilha ética e humanista, (ii) impedir que a democracia se perverta em aventuras populistas e autoritárias e (iii) evitar que as reações à mudança climática só venham quando já seja tarde demais. Numa época em que até o futuro próximo se tornou imprevisível, o Direito não consegue fornecer soluções a priori para problemas e angústias que se multiplicam. Quando isso ocorre, é preciso definir objetivos claros para o futuro da humanidade e fundá-los nos valores essenciais e perenes que vêm desde a antiguidade.
Late Medieval Self-Portraiture and Patronage in Pietro da Pavia’s Ambrosiana Pliny
Authors: Rejaie Azar
Published: December 2019

In the late Trecento Fra Pietro da Pavia, a miniaturist in the court-city of the dukes of Milan, illuminated a copy of Pliny's Natural History for Pasquino Capelli, a famous bibliophile and one of the most powerful chancellors to Duke Giangaleazzo Visconti. In the illuminated letter M that begins book XXXV, which contains Pliny's discussion on ancient artists, Fra Pietro signs and dates the manuscript Frater Pietro da Papia me fecit, 1389. Within the framing curves of the letter the illuminator further commemorates his involvement in the manuscript's creation by means of a small but exquisitely detailed self-portrait in which Pietro shows himself industriously at work. Although created in an era in which art patrons possessed and sometimes exercised the right of refusal should a commissioned work of art not meet their standards, this self-portrait has hitherto not been interrogated for either the purpose behind its presence or how its original audience might have understood it. This essay attempts to shed light on both issues by examining the historical context surrounding the creation and format of Pietro's self-image, and by considering Pietro's signature inscription in relation to Pliny's discourse on the meaning behind the use of the word "fecit" in an artist's signature. It further considers the influence exerted by Francesco Petrarca [Petrarch] on the Milanese court in order to suggest that the presentation of Fra Pietro's self-image drew upon Petrarch's model of authorial identity in a way that the illuminator's important patron would have appreciated and perhaps encouraged.
The Performance of Poeticity: Stage Fright and Text Anxiety in Dutch Performance Poetry since the 1960s
Authors: Franssen Gaston
Published: December 2019

The relation between performance poetry and poetry criticism, as the latter is generally practiced in newspapers and journals, appears to be strained. This is the result of a clash between two different performance traditions: on the one hand, a tradition that goes back to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century conventions of poetry declamation or recitation; and on the other hand, a tradition based on performance experiments carried out by avant-garde movements during the first half of the twentieth-century. This article charts the different sets of expectations associated with these traditions by analyzing how these expectations became manifest during the Dutch poetry event ‘Poëzie in Carré’ (Febraury 28th, 1966). As will become clear, individual authorship, textual unity, and poetic significance play important, yet very different roles in these two traditions. Furthermore, I put forward an alternative approach to the issue at hand, by focusing on one particular participant in ‘Poëzie in Carré,’ Johnny van Doorn (1944-1991). Thus, this article aims to contribute to a historically aware and more constructive analysis of performance poetry.
Robert Burns and the Re-making of National Memory in Contemporary Scotland
Authors: Dougal Josephine
Published: December 2019

Robert Burns, the eighteenth-century Scottish poet and song writer, continues to maintain a substantial cultural ‘afterlife’ in the twenty first century, both within Scotland and beyond. Achieving cult status in the nineteenth century, the power of Burns as a popular cultural icon remains undiminished. Where the appropriation of Burns as national icon in the nineteenth century was made manifest in statuary, commemorative objects, and painted portraits, the twenty-first century has been marked by the proliferation of the image of Burns in new forms and  technologies, with Burns as product and brand logo, museum and heritage attraction, and tourism industry selling point. This recent flourishing of interest and engagement raises questions about why and how an eighteenth-century poet continues to be the object of such extensive cultural elaboration at this time. In approaching this question, some fruitful lines of enquiry are being suggested in recent discussions that have looked at the nineteenth-century Burns as a ‘mobilizing agent in collective memory production’ (Rigney 2011, 81). One such appraisal points to how the construction of Burns in the nineteenth century as an iconic figure of Scottish cultural memory has the potential to ‘be resignified as necessary in subsequent chronological and geographical sites’ (Davis 2010, 14). It is this potential for the resignification of Burns as a symbolic site for the nation’s memory that this paper explores. In pointing to Burns’ representation in a variety of popular forms and in public discourse, the paper examines how a writer comes to be invested and reinvested as the voice and persona of the nation.
Wilde Rewound: Time-Travelling with Oscar in Recent Author Fictions
Authors: Joris Kirby
Published: December 2019

In the early 1980s historical figures in general – and writers from the past in particular – entered a kind of Golden Age thanks to fiction. Through various forms of semi-biographical novels and other narratives, they have, from that time forward, been enjoying a pampered life in a new genre called “the author-as-character” (Franssen and Hoenselaars 1999) or “author fictions” (Savu 2009) that reanimate them or conjure them up in a present that constantly seeks to reassert its link with the past. This is particularly true of Oscar Wilde’s life, for his disparate and colourful personality has been time and again re-appropriated in recent fiction. This article focuses on three of these contemporary fictional depictions: an epistolary novel, an epistolary website and a fictional interview, all three dealing with a fictionalised Oscar Wilde conversing with a contemporary author who is also an interviewer in his or her own way and right. Because they are very close to each other in terms of narration (i.e. impersonation and pastiche) and subject, putting words in Wilde’s mouth as though they were his own, The Unauthorized Letters of Oscar Wilde, the website Dialogus, and Coffee with Oscar Wilde, represent three fascinating means of exploring how Oscar’s rebirth as a man and author actually takes place. Among the numerous fictional portraits of Oscar Wilde, I have thus chosen to pay particular attention to the depictions that are well anchored in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and which do not, therefore, display a narrative that would merely take place during the fin de siècle, with only period-style people in period costume. By contrast, the three portraits are literal time-travelling narratives that endeavour to bridge the gap between past, present and future.
Sylvia Plath Through the Looking-Glass: Too Beautiful to be Dead
Authors: Boileau Nicolas Pierre
Published: December 2019

 Mostly ignored during her lifetime, Sylvia Plath as an author came to life when she committed suicide. It is no wonder she should immediately come to mind when dealing with the question of authorship and its commodification: labeled as a feminist, a post-modern, a victim, a poet, a second-rate author, she has been alienated by all the images that have flourished since her death. In comparison with the relatively limited number of texts she actually wrote in such a short life, the images and pictures of Plath have proliferated indeed. These images filled in a void left by the enigma of her suicide. It is true that Sylvia Plath is “the Marilyn Monroe of the literati”: a beautiful, blonde American girl of the ‘50s who sits in all kinds of dress and who coyly, joyfully or flirtingly looks at the camera like a supermodel. Whether it be on the covers of her books, in the biopic, or elsewhere, Sylvia Plath is associated with an ideal image. All this has undeniably helped glamorize the American author and has contributed to reinforce the myth surrounding her. This paper will focus on how the editorial practice influences our reading to such an extent that it makes us forget that Sylvia Plath’s own relationship with images calls for caution. Most pictures have emphasized some aspects of Plath’s writing (gender roles and femininity), but they have covered up other important issues related with self-representation.
The Rebirth of the Musical Author in Recent Fiction Written in English
Authors: Lara-Rallo Carmen
Published: December 2019

In his 2005 monograph on The Author, Andrew Bennett reflects on how “authorship is central to the way in which critical practice is currently conceptualized and theorized”. The rebirth of the author in contemporary criticism is being accompanied by a renewed fascination with the figure of the author as the subject of recent fiction. This can be seen reflected in current portrayals of real and fictional writers such as Henry James, in David Lodge’s Author, Author (2004), or Olive Wellwood, in A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book (2009). Moreover, the recovery of the author can be traced as well in the context of the emergence of music as a fertile referent for interartistic narratives. In terms of the dialogue between contemporary fiction and music, there seems to be a common interest in the image of the author, both in the act of creation, as a composer, and of re-creation, as a performer. Works such as Bernard MacLaverty’s Grace Notes (1997), Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music (1999), Conrad Williams’ The Concert Pianist (2006), or Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nocturnes. Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (2009) favour the author-musician’s perspective as they interact with music in different ways. In light of this, the aim of this article is to explore the process of rebirth of the musical author in recent fiction written in English, analysing this trend as part of a more general tendency to recover the author’s presence and voice in both fiction and criticism.
The Disputed Authorship of a Medieval Text: A New Solution to the Attribution Problem in the Case of Guillaume D’Angleterre
Authors: Slautina Maria
Published: December 2019

This paper presents a case of disputed authorship concerning a literary medieval text, the Old French romance Guillaume d’Angleterre, and describes a new attempt to use the mathematical method of authorship attribution called the "method of pattern recognition”. After presenting an overview of previous approaches to the problem of the authorship of this text, I argue for the advantages of a statistical syntactic based method for authorship attribution of medieval texts. The method of pattern recognition consists in the identification of a domain of syntactic parameters and a measurement of the proximity or distance of texts as located in a multi-dimensional syntactic space. I find that the medieval text most likely belongs to Chrétien de Troyes, one of the most famous French authors of the twelfth century. I present for the first time an attempt  to apply the method of pattern recognition to determine the authorship of a medieval text written in Old French.  
Unacknowledged Intellect: Scott’s Changing Reputation and an Alternative Victorian Critical Mode
Authors: Coldwell Andrea
Published: December 2019

Despite a critical tendency, common until recently, to minimize Sir Walter Scott’s impact as an intellectual, two late-Victorian reviewers, Julia Wedgwood and John Stuart Stuart-Glennie, do present Scott as a theorist and a contributor to the intellectual movements of his period.  In the arguments made by these two rather minor critics on Scott, readers can recognize a moment when both Scott’s critical fortunes as well as academic and popular critical practices could have taken a different path than they did.  What both critics attempt is a balance of the two critical perspectives that were beginning to emerge.  Rather than writing for either an audience of compliant lay people or of contentious experts, Wedgwood and Stuart-Glennie ask their readers to balance rational and sympathetic responses, to read with both reason and intuition.  In imagining such an audience, these critics imply that literature plays a role in the development of citizens who can, likewise, combine these responses, as they have practiced them in literature, and apply them to the problems faced by responsible citizens.
The Serial Mythology of a Non-Representative Self: Rebecca Brown’s Life Writing
Authors: Xhonneux Lies
Published: December 2019

In this article, I will point to several striking parallels that can be drawn between the I-narrators in Rebecca Brown’s oeuvre. These parallels add up to create a personal myth, and they allow us to read the work of this contemporary lesbian author as a serial autobiography. Tracing her autobiographical voice, we can see how Brown’s work upsets generic conventions through the narrators’ namelessness, through the implication that there is no end to autobiography, or through the insight that the truth about one’s self and one’s past is hard to capture because it is inevitably perspectival. The impossibility of attaining this kind of truth ties in with what I see as Brown’s distinctive way of handling a problem of representation that other life writers with marginalized identities tend to deal with rather differently. After all, when Brown’s lesbian self-referential narrators make no effort to hide the difficulty of relating personal recollections and resort to their own idiosyncratic ways of commenting on the unreliability of memory, they upset certain expectations about a narrator’s authority and representativeness that continue to be prompted by autobiographical texts of authors who work from a marginal subject position.
Recensie van: Het apostolaat van de poëzie. Priester–dichters in Nederland en Vlaanderen / Lieve Gevers en Jan Roes
Authors: Van Hees Pieter
Published: December 2019

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Signalement van: Vlaanderen, een goed bewaard geheim! / onder eindred. van André Bollen (2000)
Authors: Vos Louis
Published: December 2019

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Recensie van: Encyclopédie du Mouvement wallon / Paul Delforge, Marie-Paule Bouvy (2000-2001)
Authors: Wils Lode
Published: December 2019

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De cameraman, de dichter en de kapelaan. Alfed Ehrhardt draait cultuurfilms met de hulp van Wies Moens en Cyriel Verschaeve
Authors: Vande Winkel Roel
Published: December 2019

 
De taalproblematiek en de regionalisering bij de Nationale Maatschappij voor de Kleine Landeigendom (NMKL) / Nationale Landmaatschappij (1935-1990). Deel 2
Authors: Dejongh Guy , Van Windekens Peter
Published: December 2019

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Lodewijk Herbert (1872-1929)
Authors: Drossens Paul , Hoste Mario
Published: December 2019

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Inleiding / Introduction
Authors: Verdoodt Frans-Jos
Published: December 2019

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L’historiographie du mouvement wallon / De historiografie van de Waalse beweging (samenvatting)
Authors: Kesteloot Chantal
Published: December 2019

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Het geopolitieke paradigma. Nationalisme-onderzoek in Oost-Europa (Polen, Sovjet-Unie, Litouwen, Wit-Rusland en Oekraïne) / The geopolitical paradigm. Research on nationalism in Eastern Europe (summary)
Authors: Goddeeris Idesbald
Published: December 2019

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Nationalisme en historiografie / Nationalism and historiography
Authors: Vos Louis
Published: December 2019

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Kunstbeleid en Nieuwe Orde
Authors: Huys Paul
Published: December 2019

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Leo Vindevogel en de intrede van de nationalisten in de Oost-Vlaamse Bestendige Deputatie
Authors: Wils Lode
Published: December 2019

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“...‘Brussel – franskiljonse – olievlek’, geen fabel...”
Authors: Van Hees Pieter
Published: December 2019

"…'Brussel - franskiljonse - olievlek', geen fabel…"; The speech by Lode Craeybeckx on the occasion of the Golden Spurs-celebrations in Antwerp on Saturday 10 July 1954 and its review in the pressAfter his ‘activist adventure’ during WWI, Lode Craeybeckx (1897-1976) did not continue on the Flemish-nationalist course, but became a socialist member of parliament and mayor (of Antwerp). He nevertheless remained outspoken on the ‘Flemish question’, as for instance during a  – what was to become famous – speech in 1954. Pieter van Hees has recovered and hereby publishes the text of that speech and paints a picture of its political context and reception.
Jozef Van den Broeck, flamingant en informant (1870-1938)
Authors: Geenen Yves , Vrints Antoon
Published: December 2019

De taalmilitant Jozef Van de Broeck (1870-1938) ontwikkelde zijn flamingantisch parcours vanuit de radicale, democratische sfeer van de Nederduitsche Bond, door hemzelf samengevat met de leuze Belgicam esse delendam, een parafase van een citaat van de Romeinse redenaar Cato. Yves Geenen en Antoon Vrints beschrijven hoe Van den Broeck tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog evolueerde naar het activisme, als secretaris van de Raad van Vlaanderen. Zijn kennis van het activistisch milieu en zijn ervaring als contactpersoon met de overheid, kwamen van pas toen hij, terdoodveroordeeld na de oorlog, politiek asiel genoot in Nederland. Hij trad daar op als bemiddelaar tussen de Nederlandse overheid en de gevluchte activisten.________Jozef Van den Broeck, Supporter of the Flemish Movement and Informer (1870-1938)The militant for language rights Jozef Van den Broeck (1870-1938) developed his Flemish radical itinerary departing from the radical democratic atmosphere of the Low German Alliance, which he himself summarised with the slogan Belgicam esse delendam, paraphrasing a quotation of the Roman orator Cato. Yves Geenen and Antoon Vrints describe how Van den Broeck evolved during the First World War towards activism, as the secretary of the Council of Flanders. His knowledge of the circle of activists and his experience as a contact person with the authorities served him well, when he was granted political asylum in the Netherlands after he had been sentenced to death after the war. There he acted as a mediator between the Dutch authorities and the refugee activists.