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INKONSISTENSI PRINSIP TIME VALUE OF MONEY DALAM OPERASIONAL TRANSAKSI KEUANGAN SYARIAH DAN SOLUSINYA
Authors: Mujibatun Siti
Published: March 2017

The concept of Time Value of Money in the LKS is not accepted because of riba, but in practically mainly on small investors to invest, will face a big problem if it rejects the principle of Time Value of Money, whenever any country will have inflation. will be injustice when Islamic banking do not give a rate of return to the investor. The research is a qualitative, primary data sources and data collection consisted of a document. The Brochure of Product Financing Transactions in LKS, b). Fatwa DSN-MUI 2000, c). CD-ROM File Maushu'ah al-Hadith al-Sharif al-Tis'ah 1997 Edition II, d). The Books related to the concept of Time Value of Money, e). SOP (Standard Operational Product) financing and acounting system. Secondary data consists of various books related to the concept of Time Value of Money both modern and classical fiqh books and  Research results related to this research problem. This research analyzes the discriftive approach, with results as follows: 1. Time Value of Money in the LKS is not acceptable, because the increase in the Time Value of Money earned should be of real business, not because of the debt contract / qardh 2. Time Value of Money by economic concepts Hadis Muhammad saw among other things contained in the contract of salam/ indent, BBA and 'disconto, araya and provision for debt payments 3. the occurrence of in-consistency between ideology Time Value of Money with praxis in LKS due in addition to not paying attention to the business logic of the Prophet, helplessness in operating system usage still based on the operating system Conventional Financial Institutions (LKK).
Adhesive Capsulitis of the Shoulder. Is there Consensus Regarding the Treatment? A Comprehensive Review
Authors: Georgiannos Dimitrios , Markopoulos George , Devetzi Eirini , Bisbinas Ilias
Published: March 2017

Background:

Adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder (ACS) is a common self-limiting condition characterized by disabling pain and restricted movements. Its pathophysiology is poorly understood, clinically it is characterized by stages of pain and stiffness, and finally often patients never recover fully. However, there is no consensus about available methods of treatment for ACS. The aims of this paper are to discuss and develop issues regarding approaches to management in ACS in the stages of it.

Methods:

A review of the literature was performed and guidelines for the treatment of that clinical entity for doctors and health care professionals are provided.

Results:

Anti-inflammatory medications, steroid and/or hyaluronate injections and physiotherapy is the mainstay of conservative management either alone in the first stages or in combination with other treatment modalities in the later stages. Next line of treatment, involving minor to moderate intervention, includes suprascapular nerve block, distension arthrography and manipulation under anaesthesia. In order to avoid complications of “blind intervention”, arthroscopic capsular release is gradually more commonly applied, and in recalcitrant severe cases open release is a useful option.

Conclusion:

Various modalities of conservative management and gradually more surgical release are applied. However, often clinicians choose on personal experience and training rather than on published evidence.
Evaluation of Ocular Surface Disease in Asian Patients with Primary Angle Closure
Authors: Ling Tan Ee , Othman Khairuddin , Yan Ong Poh , Rashid Rasdi Abdul , Tet Cheong Min , Yaakob Azhany , Tajudin Liza-Sharmini Ahmad
Published: March 2017

Objective:

To evaluate the incidence of ocular surface disease (OSD) and to determine the effects of topical pressure-lowering drugs on ocular surface disease in primary angle closure patients.

Methods:

This was a cross-sectional comparative study comparing primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) patients (Group A) with primary angle closure and primary angle closure suspect (Group B). Group A was treated with topical pressure-lowering drugs; Group B was not. Data on ocular diagnosis and details of treatment were obtained from medical records. Ocular surface disease incidence was assessed using the Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) questionnaire and from clinical signs using Schirmer’s test, tear break-up time and corneal fluorescein stain. Predictive Analytic Software 20 and STATA analysis software were used for statistical analyses.

Results:

Group A demonstrated a higher rate of OSD (OSDI 52.3%, Schirmer’s test 70.5%, tear break-up time (TBUT) 75%, corneal staining 77.3%) compared to Group B (OSDI 39.0%, Schirmer’s test 73.2%, TBUT 58.5% and cornea staining 14.6%) except for Schirmer’s test. There was a significant difference in mean score of OSDI (p=0.004), TBUT (p=0.008) and cornea staining (p<0.001) between two groups. Primary angle closure glaucoma treated with more than two medications and for more than three years had worse ocular surface disease parameters but without statistical significant difference.

Conclusion:

Ocular surface disease is common in PACG patients treated with topical pressure-lowering drugs. Topical pressure-lowering drugs caused significant OSD symptoms and signs except for tear production in PACG patients. Thorough evaluation of ocular surface disease is important to ensure appropriate treatment and intervention in PACG patients.
Use of Social Media By Nurse Educator Students: An Exploratory Survey
Authors: Lahti Mari , Haapaniemi-Kahala Heidi , Salminen Leena
Published: March 2017

Background:

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) opens up new possibilities for introducing innovative teaching and learning methods to deliver education in different educational areas. Use of internet and social media has grown rapidly and is a key way in how nurses and nurse educator students find information. However, the evidence is still lacking how nurse educator students use social media.

Objective:

The aim of this study is to describe nurse educator students’ use of social media and the ways in which their educational needs are related to social media.

Method:

The data were collected using a structured questionnaire that included one open question. Altogether, 49 nurse educator students completed and returned the questionnaire (response rate 96%). The quantitative data were analysed using statistical programme SPPS and content analysis.

Results:

While many nurse educator students reported using the tools of social media, others claimed that they do not use social media at all. Facebook was most common (53% use it every day) and YouTube (17%) the second most common form of social media used to support daily living. The participants reported using YouTube (6% use it every day) and Facebook (4%) most often as support in their studies. They reported using Second life as virtual reality form of social media, the least. The most common educational needs of nurse educator students include receiving more in-depth information about how to use social media, as well as more practice in using it.

Conclusion:

In the future, the education of the nurse educator students should include even more in-depth information about the forms of social media and about the advantages of using it in teaching. The education should encourage nurse educator students and provide them with more possibilities to train and make use of the benefits of social media as support in their daily lives and studies. There is need for more robust evidence of social media use in nurse educator students education.
Impact of Integrated Multimodal Traveler Information on Auto Commuter’s Mode Switching Propensity
Authors: Memon A.A. , Meng M. , Wong Y.D. , Lam S.H.
Published: March 2017

Aim:

Real-time traveler information affects auto commuter’s travel behavior.

Method:

An ordered probit model is used to analyze auto commuter’s mode switching propensity under influence of simulated real-time multimodal traveler information. A travel preference survey is administered to car drivers to gather individual commuter’s travel decisions under integrated multimodal traveler information.

Result:

It is shown that integrated multimodal traveler information can influence willingness of car drivers to switch mode of travel, while socio-economic characteristics also influence the mode choice decision.
Techno-Economic Comparison and Analysis of a Novel NGL Recovery Scheme with Three Patented Schemes
Authors: Huang Kun , Wang Shuting , Sun Muju , Tang Luyao
Published: March 2017

At present, most of the light hydrocarbons (LH) separation processes that have been proposed lack the flexibility of receiving various feed components, thereby leading to an unstable operation in the liquid natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal. In response, a novel light hydrocarbons separation process (PSP) is proposed in this paper. Previously, some parameters and processes were improved upon and patented as US 7165423 B2, US 7069743 B2, and WO/2012/054729, which are respectively named as LTP, NCP, and NLP. Based on the analysis of LNG’s component statistical data in China, this paper conducts a techno-economic comparison and analysis of four kinds of LH separation process under four groups of typical feed-in components. The comparison results reveal that the system energy consumption of LTP is increased by the heater, and the higher the heavy hydrocarbon content in the feed components, the more obvious the increase in the process’s energy consumption is. NCP has the highest ethane recovery rate; however, its capital cost is too high, especially for the distillation column investment. NLP has the highest operating cost due to compressor use. Compared to the others, the PSP has the best economic benefit for specific performance: its capital cost is 18% less than that of NCP, its operating cost is 71.8% less than that of NLP, its net profit is 8% higher than that of NLP, its total investment cost is 71.7% lower than that of NLP, and its investment recovery period is the shortest. In conclusion, the PSP can be economically and efficiently used in China LNG receiving terminal, thereby generating the flexibility to receive multiple feed components.
Antimicrobial Activity of Lidocaine, Bupivacaine, Mepivacaine and Ropivacaine on Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis
Authors: Neuwersch S. , Köstenberger M. , Sorschag S. , Ilias W. , Likar R.
Published: March 2017

Introduction:

Various studies have shown a possible antimicrobial activity of different local anaesthetics, which may affect the results of microbial assessment of biopsies. The purpose of this study was to test the antimicrobial activity of different commonly used anaesthetic agents on Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtitles to reproduce data and to compare the findings.

Methods:

Local anaesthetics tested were commercially available solutions of lidocaine (Xyloneural®, Xylanaest pur.®), bupivacaine (Bucain®), mepivacaine (Mecain®) and ropivacaine (Naropin®, Ropinaest®).2%, 1%, 0.5%, 0.25% and 0.1% (20, 10, 5, 2.5, 1 mg/ml) dilutions of these local anaesthetics were prepared with sterile 0.9% saline. Bacteria used in this study were Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis. 10 μl of different local anaesthetic dilution placed on thin wafers were added to Mueller Hinton Agar and cultured. After 24 hours, a zone of inhibition around the wafers was evaluated.

Results:

Local anaesthetics in different concentrations did not show any zone of inhibition on Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus or Bacillus subtilis.

Conclusion:

In summary, neither lidocaine, bupivacaine, mepivacaine nor ropivacaine showed an antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis.

Implications:

Due to these findings this local anaesthetics can be used in daily clinical routine to perform pain free diagnostic procedures in which culture specimens are to be obtained. Due to inconsistent results in prior studies, we recommend to use the lowest concentration possible of the local anaesthetic, also to avoid other possible side effects of local agents.
Immunogenicity of Augmented Compared With Standard Dose Hepatitis B Vaccine in Pediatric Patients on Dialysis: a Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium Study
Authors: Misurac Jason M. , VanDeVoorde Rene G. , Kallash Mahmoud , Iorember Franca M. , Luckritz Kera E. , Rheault Michelle N. , Jetton Jennifer G. , Turman Martin A. , Kapur Gaurav , Twombley Katherine E. , Hashmat Shireen , Weaver Donald J. , Leiser Jeffrey D. , Nailescu Corina
Published: March 2017

Background and objectives

Patients on maintenance dialysis have a higher risk of unresponsiveness to hepatitis B vaccination and loss of hepatitis B immunity. Adult guidelines recommend augmented dosing (40 mcg/dose), resulting in improved response in adults. We sought to determine whether children on dialysis mount a similar antibody response when given standard or augmented dosing of hepatitis B vaccine.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

This is a retrospective review of patients on dialysis aged <19 years from May 1, 2008 to May 1, 2013 at 12 pediatric dialysis units. Hepatitis B surface antibody (HBsAb) titers ≥10 mIU/ml were defined as protective.

Results

A total of 187 out of 417 patients received one or more hepatitis B vaccine boosters. The median age was 13 years; the cohort was 57% boys and 59% white. Booster dose or HBsAb titers were missing in 17 patients. Conversion to protective HBsAb titers was achieved in 135 out of 170 patients (79%) after their first single-dose booster or multidose booster series. In patients receiving a single-dose booster, the response rate was 53% (nine out of 17) after a 10 mcg dose, 86% (65 out of 76) after a 20 mcg dose, and 65% (17 out of 26) after a 40 mcg hepatitis B vaccine dose. In patients receiving a multidose booster series, the response rate was 95% (19 out of 20) after a 10 mcg/dose series, 83% (20 out of 24) after a 20 mcg/dose series, and 71% (five out of seven) after a 40 mcg/dose series. Patients receiving a multidose booster series had a response rate of 86% (44 out of 51), compared with 76% (91 out of 119) in patients receiving a single-dose booster (P=0.21). Twenty-seven patients received more than one single-dose booster or multidose series, and 26 out of 27 (96%) eventually gained immunity after receiving one to three additional single-dose boosters or multidose booster series.

Conclusions

There was no clear gradient of increasing seroconversion rate with increasing vaccine dose in this cohort of pediatric patients on dialysis.
Communication and Martial Law in the Republic of Korea, 1979-1988
Authors: Soo Kim Hak , Larson James F.
Published: March 2017

The Republic of Korea has experienced military government almost continuously since Park Chung Wee seized power in a May 1961 military coup. In October 1979 President Park was assassinated by the chief of his own Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]. There followed a brief period in which civilian President Choi Kyu Hah nominally headed the government and which was characterized by high hopes for a civilian-based government. However, by December of that year, General Chun Doo Hwan and military colleagues undertook the first part of a two-stage military coup by replacing the general who was martial law commander under the Choi government. In this commentary on communication and martial law in Korea, we focus only on the period following the assassination of President Park Chung Hee. Our purpose is to analyze government efforts to direct the public through the media as weU as the public efforts to find their own direction while struggling with one-sided information from the government.
Broken Tools and Misfit Toys: Adventures in Applied Media Theory
Authors: O’Gorman Marcel
Published: March 2017

The majority of media theorists who have applied their work in new technological contexts have eschewed formal experimentation to produce a print-oriented mode of discourse. Even in the digital humanities, scholars build and use tools that ultimately lead to the creation of traditional academic essays and monographs. Applied Media Theory (AMT) is a method that engages in formal experimentation with media to generate critical discourses and technologies. This article identifies a new applied critical practice that not only examines, but also intervenes, in the formation of digital culture, primarily by combining digital art practices with conventional research methods. AMT is outlined here through a description of projects underway in the Critical Media Lab at the University of Waterloo.
Practice in the Flesh of Theory: Art, Research, and the Fine Arts PhD
Authors: Loveless Natalie S.
Published: March 2017

In what follows I offer an anecdotal engagement with the Fine Arts PhD at a moment when it is just emerging in North America. I argue that doctoral activities that cross theory/practice lines, at their best, offer a unique opportunity to rethink what constitutes academic knowledge production and assessment by necessitating that these lines be made porous and responsive to each other. This reconfiguration, to the extent that it calls into question both the subject and object of knowledge, is one that benefits from the insights of feminism in its “new materialist” incarnation.
Soundwalking and the Bodily Exploration of Places
Authors: Paquette David
Published: March 2017

This article explores the use of walking and soundwalking as research practices and artistic performances, and presents the current work of the Soundwalking Interactions research-creation project. It includes a review of historic and contemporary discussions of walking and soundwalking, and an analysis of the various models of soundwalks used in acoustic ecology, urban design, and performing arts.
La marée noire dans le golfe du Mexique: Stratégies de BP pour restaurer sa réputation souillée
Authors: Benoit Laurent N. , Bélanger Pierre C.
Published: March 2017

This article classifies rhetorical elements deployed by BP in its handling of the 2010 Oil Spill in an attempt to demonstrate the applicability of a new analytical framework developed to interpret communication strategies in times of crisis: W. L. Benoit’s Image Restoration Theory, to which contributions from five authors were appended. The research shows that BP set in motion dynamic strategies adapted to the fluctuating circumstances that defined this environmental catastrophe. In the final analysis, the modalities of BP’s responses to the crisis are aligned with the six fundamental strategies of Benoit’s enriched model as well as 19 of its 22 variants.
The Perception of Political Advertising During an Election Campaign: A Measure of Cognitive and Emotional Effects
Authors: Daignault Pénélope , Soroka Stuart , Giasson Thierry
Published: March 2017

Scientific interest in political ads has been growing in recent years and has fuelled an important body of research, focusing mostly on the United States. Yet many issues associated with the impacts and contents of electoral ads remain unexplored, especially within the Canadian context. This article investigates the immediate and simultaneous effects of positive, negative, and mixed-content electoral ads. It presents data drawn from a series of pre-tests of an experimental design carried out with 31 voters during the Canadian federal election of 2011. Participants viewed ads selected for their argumentative content and non-verbal components. The impacts of the ads were tested using an innovative multimethod approach combining physiological and cognitive measures. Among its contributions, this novel method helped generate a more nuanced and precise evaluation of the effects of negative advertising on viewers.
The Digital Globe as Climatic Coming Attraction: From Theatrical Release to Theatre of War
Authors: Gurevitch Leon
Published: March 2017

This article considers the politics of representation inherent in the emergence of the digital globe. It begins with a consideration of early Renaissance globes as separate and distinct cultural objects from the two-dimensional forms of cartography they followed. The article then considers the emergence of the digital globe as an object symptomatic of the multiple cultural factors that form its foundation. Crucially, beyond occidental perspectives that have structured many dominant cartographic accounts of the Earth since the Renaissance, this article argues that a multipolar environment of online digital globes is emerging to contest Western forms of representation that were intertwined with notions of technoscopic superiority during the twentieth century. Instead what is now emerging is a multiplicity of digital globes that function as spectacular theatrical platforms for different and diverse agencies.
Forecast Earth: Hole, Index, Alert
Authors: Russill Chris
Published: March 2017

The author discusses the media developed to record and process sunlight as an environmental threat, especially ozone holes, ultraviolet indexes, and automated hazard alerts. These media are illustrative of how environmental precaution is produced by Earth-observing systems and indicative of how the politics of industrial transformations are shaped by the logistics of maintaining a data-processing infrastructure for observing dangerous environmental changes. The article attempts to process the effects of the shifting technological dimensions of Earth-observing with respect to the mathematical models and media infrastructure required for processing signals of environmental change, and to re-situate how we understand precaution on this terrain.
Global Formats and Canadian Television: The Case of Deal or No Deal
Authors: Wagman Ira
Published: March 2017

This article discusses the circulation of format television, with a particular emphasis on the Canadian version of the program Deal or No Deal. It argues for the importance of circulation as a concept for understanding the ways in which format television programs—and other forms of popular culture—travel in different cultural contexts. Through the case of Deal we can see how delays, interruptions, re-purposing, and reframing of artifacts are part of the daily rhythms that characterize the circulation of cultural works on a global scale and serve as a possible analytical opening for appreciating the flows of culture that have historically existed between the United States and Canada.
Francophone Perspectives on Creative Industries and the Creative Economy
Authors: Bouquillion Philippe
Published: March 2017

Research on the socio-economics of culture, collaborative Web, and the creative economy converge today in an ideological construction: the notions of creative industries and creative economy, at least as they are presented by national or supranational institutions and experts. Most of these themes have been introduced in the Francophone research works by the Anglophone ones. In this regard, the distinction between the various forms of critical research on the one hand, and non-critical, on the other, seems much more fundamental. As such, we propose taking seriously the notion of creative industries, deviating from the definitions given by experts, building a critical theory of creative industries that reflect the dynamics of the economy of symbolic goods.Les travaux sur la socio-économie de la culture, le Web collaboratif et l’économie créative convergent aujourd’hui dans la construction idéologique que forment les problématiques des industries et de l’économie créatives, du moins telles qu’elles sont présentées par des institutions nationales ou supranationales et par des experts. La plupart de ces thèmes ont été introduits dans la recherche francophone par des travaux anglophones. À cet égard, la distinction entre les diverses formes de recherche critique, d’un côté, et acritique, de l’autre, semble beaucoup plus fondamentale. À ce titre, nous proposons de prendre au sérieux la notion d’industries créatives, en s’écartant des définitions qu’en donnent les experts, pour construire une théorie critique des industries créatives rendant compte de la dynamique de l’économie des biens symboliques.
Canadian Advocacy 2.0: An Analysis of Social Media Adoption and Perceived Affordances by Advocacy Groups Looking to Advance Activism in Canada
Authors: Obar Jonathan A.
Published: March 2017

ABSTRACT One hundred and fifty-seven representatives from 63 advocacy organizations operating in Canada were surveyed to evaluate the extent to which these groups are adopting social media, and perceive that these technologies offer affordances that contribute to the advancement of activism objectives. Quantitative results of social media adoption reveal that groups are engaging with a limited selection of social media technologies (mainly Facebook and Twitter) a few times a week or more, while avoiding other options like Google+ and Tumblr. Qualitative results addressing perceived social media affordances suggest that while groups are enthusiastic about social media’s potential to strengthen outreach efforts, enable engaging feedback loops, and increase the speed of communication, they remain cautious of unproven techniques that may divert resources from strategies known to work.
Do They Have What It Takes? A Review of the Literature on Knowledge, Competencies, and Skills Necessary for Twenty-First-Century Public Relations Practitioners in Canada
Authors: Flynn Terence (Terry)
Published: March 2017

The practice and study of public relations in Canada has had a contested and conflicted history. Theory building and empirical research have been overshadowed by the dominant, American-centric, two-way symmetrical model that was proposed some 20 years ago. Further, there has been limited focus on the requisite competencies and skills necessary for contemporary public relations practitioners, despite the transformations in the media and professional communications fields in recent years. This study is situated and contextualized in the knowledge, competencies, and skills required for twenty-first-century professional communication workers. It also explores the specific requirements for current public relations practitioners.
Storylines in the Sands: News, Narrative, and Ideology in the Calgary Herald
Authors: Gunster Shane
Published: March 2017

This article presents a critical discourse analysis of the principal storylines through which the Calgary Herald framed the oil sands between May 1, 2010, and May 31, 2011. The analysis reveals that rather than avoid coverage of environmental protests and critiques, the Herald’s narratives used these events to portray the oil and gas industry (and the province and people of Alberta) as victims of an aggressive and well-funded global environmental lobby. This framing not only defends the industry by dismissing environmental criticism of the oil sands as ill-informed and ideologically motivated, it also champions the idea that the provincial government must become a promotional petro-state whose main role is to actively defend the industry.
Performance as (Dis)organizing: The Case of Discursive Material Practices in Academic Technologies
Authors: Porter Amanda J.
Published: March 2017

Recent theorizing in Science and Technology Studies (STS) has taken a “performance” turn. Performative approaches theorize how meaning and matter relate in the context of situated practices. Scholars of organizational communication have also turned to theorizing the relationship between matter and meaning in the context of organization. In this article, I bring together these two strands of theorizing to offer a unique lens to study materiality as a process of (dis)organization. Through an empirical analysis of an academic technology organization, I illustrate the “performance as (dis)organization” lens, detailing three “organizing moves” that encompassed the discursive material practices of academic technology coordinators: boundary working, context shaping, and relational bridging. I conclude by discussing how performance as (dis)organizing adds dimension to theories that take seriously the materiality of practice.
Reflecting on the Science in Science Communication
Authors: Bronson Kelly
Published: March 2017

Science communication is often understood as the transmission of facts to ignorant audiences. Science and Technology Studies allows a different perspective on science—as open to negotiation with other knowledges and institutions—and therefore a different perspective on its communication. Within an STS perspective, what counts as scientific fact or legitimate expertise takes shape within communicative acts. This article demonstrates the analytical purchase given by taking such an approach to science communication by applying it to a case analysis of biotechnology resistance on the Canadian Prairie.
La médiatisation de « l’affaire de la burqa » en France : stratégies de visibilité et crise iconique
Authors: Arêas Camila
Published: March 2017

This article examines the media construction of a certain form of Islamic public visibility by analyzing the French regional and national press coverage of the “Burqa affair” (2009-2010). By means of a semiotic approach, and with reference to the notions of “visibility-invisibility,” “face,” and “iconocrisis,” the paper seeks to demonstrate how the Burqa affair raises questions about contemporary regimes of visibility and publicity (making public). Considering the media staging of Islam as a site of deployment of strategies of visibility, the article demonstrates how the niqab is (re)presented as both an ostentatious and an opaque sign, and as such, as the antithesis of a French Republican conception of national identity.
The In/Visibility of Mothering Against the Norm in Francophone Contexts: Private and Public Discourses in the Mediation of “Natural Parenting”
Authors: Guignard Florence Pasche
Published: March 2017

Mothers who engage in “natural parenting,” an unconventional style of parenting in Francophone contexts, use online media, and in particular online forums, as a source of information, as a place for discussing the variety of authentic maternal experiences, and as a virtual site of community building around shared practices, values, and worldviews. This contribution looks at the ways in which twenty-first-century online mediation participates in the blurring of private/public boundaries in the domain of parenting and how this affects parents who mother outside of the norm, following environmentalist worldviews. It also investigates the association of natural parenting and religion, and the articulations between public and private discourses about institutional motherhood and mothers’ experiences.
“Celebration of the Body”: Marshall McLuhan and the Sensory Conceptualism of the N.E. Thing Co. Ltd.
Authors: Lauder Adam
Published: March 2017

Through a close reading of the 1976 artist’s book and exhibition catalogue “Celebration of the Body,” the N.E. Thing Co. Ltd.’s pioneering representations of the body’s “informationalization” are situated within the conceptual company’s creative reworking of Marshall McLuhan’s sensory media theories. In turn, McLuhan’s thought is located within a genealogy of physiological aesthetics that troubles conventional narratives of Conceptual art as a movement defined by its engagement with theories of cognition, language, and systems. Friedrich Kittler’s analysis of modernism as reflecting the decomposition of the body under a regime of psychophysical experimentation provides the framework for this article’s re-evaluation of the Toronto School theorist and his influence on the foundational Vancouver-based “critical company.”
The Medium is the Marketplace: Digital Systems and the Intensification of Consumption
Authors: McGuigan Lee , Murdock Graham
Published: March 2017

Taking Marx’s analysis as the point of departure, and drawing on a range of concrete examples, this article argues that rather than concentrating on the “new” forms of social and economic intercourse animated by digital media, and especially internet-enabled mobile devices, critical analysis needs to trace the ways in which digital consumption is intensifying the progressive integration of marketing, marketplaces, and forms of payment that have been central to the generation of surplus value and the maintenance of “business as usual,” from the emergence of the modern consumer system at the turn of the twentieth century.
Les revendications médiatisées kanakes et les nouvelles formes d’engagement politique
Authors: Marin Léonie
Published: March 2017

This article analyzes mediated claims by the Kanak, from the written press to the Internet. It focusses on the transformation of the social discourses of this people in their struggle for power in a context of censorship. Considering the “before” and “after” of the Internet, this research seeks to elucidate forms of resistance involving cultural, social and political interests. The individualization of expression made possible by the Internet produces new forms of political engagement, and the resulting actions are part of a quest for visibility that changes collective identity affiliations. Thus, the emergence of Kanak claims into the public sphere does not really challenge the balance of power, but rather questions identity issues made manifest by various forms of political engagement.
Dissent and Resonance: #IdleNoMore as an Emergent Middle Ground
Authors: Callison Candis , Hermida Alfred
Published: March 2017

A growing body of research points to how social media, and specifically Twitter, is emerging as a hybrid space where citizens are involved in the flow, framing, and interpretation of news. Our study analyzes 743,365 tweets at the height of the Idle No More movement, from December 2012 to January 2013. Our analysis indicates a significant presence of non-elite and indigenous actors among the most influential voices on Twitter. We argue that #IdleNoMore produces a kind of “middle ground,” where the strengths of actors on all sides offset each other and demand articulations and accountability for explanations and descriptions. This middle ground offers a space where collective identity emerges in part through a process we are terming “resonance,” when actors articulate Idle No More-related messages and are subsequently retweeted.
Telecom Responsibilization: Internet Governance, Surveillance, and New Roles for Intermediaries
Authors: Zajko Mike
Published: March 2017

This article foregrounds internet intermediaries as a class of actors central to many governance and surveillance strategies, and provides an overview of their emerging roles and responsibilities. While the growth of the internet has created challenges for state actors, state priorities have been unfolded onto the private institutions that provide many of the internet’s services. This article elaborates responsibilization strategies implicating internet intermediaries, and the goals that these actors can be aligned toward. These include enrolling telecom service providers in law enforcement and national security-oriented surveillance programs, as well as strategies to responsibilize service providers as copyright enforcers. But state interests are also responsive to pressures from civil society, so that “internet values” are increasingly channelled through the formal political processes shaping internet governance.
Can Media and Technology Help Make “Another World Possible”? Reflections from the Media@McGill Research Delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum in Tunisia
Authors: Couture Stéphane , King Gretchen , Toupin Sophie , Lentz Becky
Published: March 2017

This research-in-brief summarizes activities of our research delegation to the 2015 World Social Forum (WSF) in Tunis, including our participation in two associated events: the World Forum on Free Media (WFFM) and preparatory meetings for an eventual global Internet Social Forum (ISF). The WFFM and ISF provided rich terrain for our delegation to document and study contemporary struggles around communication media and technology issues. We report on these encounters as a way to foreground the many similar opportunities available to Canadian media, communication, and technology scholars at annual WSFs, in particular, the WSF coming to Montréal in August 2016. Notably, the 2016 WSF will be the first forum held since its inception in 2001 outside the global south.
Getting It Right: Canadian Conservatives and the “War on Science”
Authors: Amend Elyse , Barney Darin
Published: March 2017

Critics paid considerable attention to the Harper Conservative government’s record on science and technology. Cuts to funding and resources in these sectors, numerous environmentally-questionable policies, and charges of information control over Canada’s scientific community served as evidence for many that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government and its supporters held an “anti-science” ideology and were engaged in a “war on science.” However, the government continued to make financial and rhetorical investments into science and technology to promote economic prosperity and boost Canadian national identity based on “innovation.” This article investigates the claim that the Harper Conservatives were “anti-science,” and asks whether this label is an adequate appraisal of the Canadian Right’s disposition toward science, or is beneficial to discussions on science and the public interest.
Instrumentalization of Ethnic Media
Authors: Yu Sherry S.
Published: March 2017

The ever widening gap in public discourse within a multicultural society is of concern. Among many factors, continuing and emerging practices of marginalization of ethnic minorities, ethnic media, and ethnic discourse in the media industries in Canada deserve attention. Parallel to the under-representation of ethnic minorities in mainstream media production and content, ethnic media organizations and the discourse they produce are equally under-represented in the media industries and public discourse. A recent new shift in this practice is the “instrumentalization of ethnic media”—that is, a strategic use of ethnic media as an instrument to serve the interests of stakeholders rather than of the general public. This commentary problematizes this new shift and calls for more research and policy attention.
The Rashomon Effect and Communication
Authors: Anderson Robert
Published: March 2017

How has a film released in Tokyo in 1950 been understood as providing an important explanatory paradigm for complexity? Why has this paradigm moved beyond the screen, and beyond film studies, to a number of other intellectual fields, such as communication, psychology, anthropology, sociology, epistemology, and legal studies? All of these disciplines must address and interpret complex and unstable decision-making environments, in which incomplete information and irreconcilable perspectives converge, surrounded by intense pressure for closure. This film crystallized these factors in 90 minutes and has provided the idea of a Rashomon effect. A detailed analysis of the recent Dziekanski Affair (2007–2015) provides a good example of the value of applying this concept to the type of contradictory situations that communication studies must try to explain.
Conglomerados de clases latentes en 408 miembros de 120 familias nucleares de Barranquilla con un caso índice afectado de trastorno de atención hiperactividad (TDAH)
Authors: Pineda David A , Acosta López Johan , Cervantes-Henríquez Marta L. , Jimenez-Figueroa Giomar , Sánchez-Rojas Manuel , Pineda-Alhucema Wilmar , Mejía-Segura Elsy , Puentes-Rozo Pedro
Published: March 2017

Introducción: el análisis de conglomerados de clases latentes (ACCL) es un procedimiento estadístico para agrupamientos, dependiendo de la respuesta a cada ítem. Se ha usado con el trastorno de atención hiperactividad (TDAH), para derivar tipos sutiles de casos en estudios genéticos.

Objetivo: analizar los CCL de 408 miembros de 120 familias con un caso índice de TDAH, en relación con los síntomas registrados en la entrevista psiquiátrica.

Pacientes y métodos: a partir de un caso índice (niño escolarizado de Barranquilla con diagnóstico estándar de oro de TDAH) se construyeron familias nucleares, las cuales de evaluaron para el diagnóstico de TDAH y comorbilidades. La muestra fue de 408 miembros de 120 familias, edad 26,6 ± 15,4 años. Con el programa para computador Latent-Gold 4,0 se hizo el ACCL con la respuesta nominal para cada síntoma de TDAH, y la presencia o no de comorbilidades con TOD y TDC. Se usó el sexo y la edad como covariables categóricas. Se hizo un análisis cruzado de cada conglomerado con el diagnóstico estándar de oro.

Resultados: el mejor modelo (índices de verosimilitud) fue de 6 CCL (p Bootstrap = 0,08). El conglomerado 1 (32,5 %) son adultos, predominio de sexo femenino, probabilidad < 20 % de síntomas y comorbilidades. El segundo (17,4 %) son adultos y niños de sexo masculino con 40 a 80 % de síntomas de TDAH combinado. El grupo tres (15,7 %) son niños con ~100 % síntomas de TDAH combinado, TOD y TDC. El cuarto conglomerado (14,3 %) son adultos de ambos sexos con 20 a 50 % probabilidades de hiperactividad-impulsividad, TOD (70 %) y TDC (40 %). El grupo 5 (10,6 %) en un 80 % adultos con 30 a 90 % probabilidades de inatención sin comorbilidades. El conglomerado 6 (9,5 %) con altas probabilidades de síntomas de inatención.

Conclusiones: se derivaron 6 CCL. Cuatro conglomerados son de afectados, 1 de no afectados y 1 con similar proporción de afectados y no afectados, los cuales podrían ser usados en análisis con marcadores genéticos de susceptibilidad para TDAH.
Oftalmoplejía asociada a neurotoxicidad por veneno de serpiente: presentación de un caso y revisión de la literatura
Authors: González Manrique Guillermo , Motta Orfa , Ramírez Cristhian , Peña Luis
Published: March 2017

El accidente ofídico es la lesión resultante de la mordedura de una serpiente, en el caso de ofidios venenosos se puede producir inoculación del veneno, constituyéndose además en ofidiotoxicosis. Esta entidad ha sido declarada por la Organización Mundial de la Salud como una enfermedad tropical olvidada. En el caso de Colombia constituye un problema aún vigente con una incidencia nacional de 9.7 casos por 100.000 habitantes, según datos reportados en el 2012. Las manifestaciones clínicas y la evolución de los pacientes se encuentran en relación directa con la composición del veneno de la serpiente, el cual es una especie específica. El propósito del presente artículo es describir, por medio de un caso clínico las características semiológicas y fisiopatológicas de un caso de ofidiotoxicosis con complicaciones neurológicas, haciendo una revisión de la literatura actual. Presentamos el caso de un paciente masculino, de 54 años de edad, que sufrió accidente ofídico grave, se discute con detalle las situaciones que pudieron haber contribuido al desenlace del paciente.
El déficit cognitivo en lupus eritematoso: a propósito de un caso
Authors: Bonet-Alvarez Judit , Torres-Rivas Cristina , Vergel-Scetti Matías , Bonet-Alvarez Mariona
Published: March 2017

El lupus eritematoso es una enfermedad autoinmune sistémica de etiología desconocida, que afecta principalmente a mujeres entre 20 y 50 años de edad, puede manifestarse de diversas maneras clínicas. El déficit cognitivo es uno de los síndromes neuropsiquiátricos más prevalentes en dicha enfermedad, pero no se ha descrito un perfil específico del deterioro. Existen dificultades en el proceso de detección del déficit cognitivo, debido a la propia variabilidad de la clínica y a las limitaciones de los instrumentos de valoración existentes. Se recomienda el uso de pruebas de neuroimagen y la exploración neuropsicológica como formas de evaluación. La evolución y el tratamiento, tanto farmacológico como la rehabilitación cognitiva, están influidos por la etiología del deterioro.
Paciente mujer de 54 años diagnosticada de lupus eritematoso, se deriva para estudio neuropsicológico por problemas de concentración y de memoria reciente, presentó alteración en pruebas de neuroimagen, pero no se presentó repercusión en la autonomía personal.
Las pruebas de cribado de déficit cognitivo presentan una controvertida fiabilidad para personas con lupus eritematoso. Es necesario realizar una exploración neuropsicológica exhaustiva que incluya la valoración del rendimiento cognitivo y de la funcionalidad. Los déficits (cognitivos) son variados y el curso y el tratamiento dependerán de la etiología del déficit (primario vs. secundario).
Síndrome de Kearns Sayre: reporte de dos casos
Authors: Gómez-Naranjo Heidy J. , Espinosa-García Eugenia , Ardila Sandra , Echeverri-Peña Olga Yaneth , Barrera-Avellaneda Luis Alejandro
Published: March 2017

El síndrome de Kearns Sayre (SKS) es una rara mitocondriopatía causada en la mayoría de los casos por deleciones en el ADN mitocondrial, usualmente no heredada y de ocurrencia espontánea. Se caracteriza por disfunción multiorgánica de manifestación antes de los veinte años de edad. Fue descrito por Thomas Kearns y George Sayre, quienes reportaron la tríada de oftalmoplejía externa, retinopatía pigmentaria y bloqueos de la conducción cardíaca, siendo esta última alteración determinante en el pronóstico, así como el número de órganos afectados. Presentamos dos casos de Síndrome de Kearns Sayre con manifestaciones clínicas oftalmológicas en su debut, asociados a debilidad muscular, similar a los casos típicos reportados en la literatura, donde la mayoría de los pacientes presentan compromiso ocular. En la literatura colombiana existen pocos reportes de este síndrome, por lo tanto, esta presentación contribuye al conocimiento de la entidad en nuestro medio, la patología presenta una triada clínica específica, pero a la vez muestra una afección multisistémica que requiere un alto índice de sospecha por parte de las especialidades a las cuales el paciente puede acceder en su cuadro inicial.
Suplementos nutricionales en el deterioro cognitivo y la enfermedad de Alzheimer: revisión de la literatura
Authors: Gil-Tamayo Sebastián , Mosos Juan David , Faria Annette C. , Rueda-Rodríguez María C. , Castañeda-Cardona Camilo , Rosselli Diego
Published: March 2017

OBJETIVOS:
Evaluar los efectos del consumo de ácidos grasos omega 3 en forma de suplementos, complementos o alimentos sobre la función cognitiva de los adultos.

MÉTODOS:
Se realizó una revisión de la literatura en las bases de datos Medline y Embase, buscando ensayos clínicos, estudios observacionales, revisiones sistemáticas y estudios experimentales que relacionaran los ácidos grasos omega 3 con función cognitiva y Alzheimer.

RESULTADOS:
La mayoría de los estudios relacionó la suplementación de cápsulas con omega 3, el consumo de pescado u otros alimentos con contenido de omega 3, con resultados en pruebas de función cognitiva, desenlace de enfermedad o imágenes diagnósticas, encontrando en general efectos benéficos, que parecen ser mayores en personas sanas y con mejor función cognitiva de base. Hubo diferencias en los resultados encontrados en los ensayos clínicos y revisiones sistemáticas, que podrían atribuirse a la variabilidad en las dosis de la suplementación, el tiempo de seguimiento y la manera en que se midió la función y el deterioro cognitivo.

CONCLUSIÓN:
El consumo de ácidos grasos omega 3 en forma de suplementos, complementos o alimentos ricos en estos como el pescado parece tener efectos benéficos en la función cognitiva de las personas adultas.