bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Interpreting planners’ talk about change: An exploratory study
Authors: Sartorio Francesca S , Thomas Huw , Harris Neil
Published: November 2017

Talk by planners about major changes (‘reform’) in a particular planning regime is the focus of this article. Change in planning in the United Kingdom has been a recurrent theme in planning practice and research. However, there is little looking at practitioners both in the public and the private sectors in relation to change. Also, theory development has been limited and the interpretive link between institutional change, organisational change and planners’ situated agency could be strengthened. This article aims to add new dimensions to the current debate by looking at planners in both the public and the private sectors in Wales; by adopting a more open-ended approach requiring planners to generate ideas and display a perspective on planning; and by linking theories of institutional and organisational change with the model of actors’ agency developed by Bevir and Rhodes to form an interpretive frame. With reflections stemming from an exploratory case in Wales, the article seeks also to contribute to debates on planning in the United Kingdom and beyond, reaching to new-institutionalist theory and interpretive ontologies.
Nomos and Lyric: On Poetry and Justice
Authors: Lloyd David
Published: November 2017

Nasser Hussain often attended to the relation between law and poetry and this article begins with a reading of his brief paper “Auden’s Law like Love.” In a famous essay, “Nomos and Narrative,” Robert Cover linked the communication and the application of legal norms to narrative. This article presents an alternative, anti-normative, and anti-narrative, notion of the relation between poetry and justice that one might call “a-nomos and lyric.” It argues that an alternative conception of “poetic justice” persists in the fundamental, paradoxical sociality of a poetic language that resists consumption and subsumption as it does coercion. In its very redundancy, in both the semantic and economic senses of the word, poetry renders to us an apprehension of what “justice” might be as opposed to law. Where law determines, decides, and pronounces sentence, justice opens the space of attentiveness that necessarily suspends the decision of the law. This idea of poetry unties the knotting of nomos to narrative as it stages the indeterminacy of the sentence and of the bounds of experience. Through its redundancy, condensation and proliferation of meaning through tropes, and its delay of the arrival of sense, poetry offers a different understanding of the relation of law and literature than arguments based on narrative can attain. It offers a model of justice beyond the law.
The effects of vertically oriented resistance training on golf drive performance in collegiate golfers
Authors: Driggers Austin R , Sato Kimitake
Published: November 2017

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of vertically oriented resistance training on golf driving performance. Ten Division-I collegiate golfers completed two resistance training sessions per week for 10 weeks during the fall tournament season. Pre- and post-training assessments of strength-power and golf performance were compared. To assess strength-power, jump height, peak force, and peak power were measured from static and countermovement vertical jumps; peak force and rate of force development from 0 to 250 ms were measured from an isometric mid-thigh pull. Golf performance was assessed in terms of ball launch speed, spin rate, carry yardage, and total yardage, averaged from five shots using a driver. Following training, all measures of strength-power improved, with countermovement jump peak power improving significantly ( p < 0.00625). The golf performance assessment indicated significant increases ( p < 0.0125) in ball speed, carry yardage, and total yardage. These results suggest that vertically oriented resistance training can improve golf driving performance.
Integration of scheduled structural health monitoring with airline maintenance program based on risk analysis
Authors: Sun Jianzhong , Chen Dan , Li Chaoyi , Yan Hongsheng
Published: November 2017

The aerospace industry is striving to reduce the aircraft operating costs while maintaining required safety level. Emerging technologies such as the structural health monitoring to reduce long-term maintenance cost and increase aircraft availability are promoted by the manufacturers. To successfully integrate the structural health monitoring technology into the current maintenance process of modern commercial aviation, a clear definition of the structural-health-monitoring-based maintenance operational concept and the system level requirements is required. This article proposed a structural health monitoring operational concept and the associated maintenance cost modeling and risk assessment methods for the implementation of the structural health monitoring in commercial aviation industry. The developed methodology provides a tool to determine the optimal scheduled structural health monitoring inspection interval and repair decision thresholds for approved scheduled structural health monitoring task. A simulated case study is carried out to demonstrate the structural health monitoring operational concept and how an optimal maintenance strategy can be determined using the proposed methodology. Preliminary results show that the integration of the structural health monitoring into the existing maintenance process can reduce the maintenance cost compared to that of the current practice using the traditional Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) techniques while maintaining the risk below an acceptable level.
Stress Fracture of the Fifth Metatarsal in Foot Deformity Secondary to Neuromuscular Disease: Experiences of Deformity Correction Treatment—A Report of 3 Cases and Review of the Literature
Authors: Payo-Ollero Jesús , Álvarez Goenaga Fernando , Elorriaga Sagarduy Gotzon , Ruiz Nasarre Alberto , Olmos-García Matías Alfonso , Villas Tomé Carlos
Published: November 2017

Fractures at the proximal metaphyso-diaphyseal junction of the fifth metatarsal are associated with high rates of delayed union. When these fractures are the result of repeated stress in patients with equinovarus hindfoot, which in turn is caused by neurological disorders, delayed union is the rule. Therefore, in neurological patients with stress fractures, optimal treatment would be to achieve a plantigrade foot enabling them to relieve the fifth metatarsal overload, which prevents the consolidation. We report 3 cases of fifth metatarsal stress fracture resulting from an equinovarus hindfoot deformity caused by a neuromuscular disease. Our surgical indication was to correct the foot deformity with no direct action on the fracture. Once a good alignment (plantigrade foot) was obtained, stress causing the fracture disappeared, and union was achieved with optimal biomechanical function in all 3 fractures. When stress fracture of the fifth metatarsal is caused by a secondary foot deformity, treating the deformity can lead to healing the fracture efficiently and should be considered prior to indicating surgical stabilization of the fracture itself. Primary treatment of the fracture with no correction of the deformity leads to therapeutic failure.

Levels of Evidence: Therapeutic, Level IV
Not All the Bots Are Created Equal: The Ordering Turing Test for the Labeling of Bots in MMORPGs
Authors: De Paoli Stefano
Published: November 2017

This article contributes to the research on bots in Social Media. It takes as its starting point an emerging perspective which proposes that we should abandon the investigation of the Turing Test and the functional aspects of bots in favor of studying the authentic and cooperative relationship between humans and bots. Contrary to this view, this article argues that Turing Tests are one of the ways in which authentic relationships between humans and bots take place. To understand this, this article introduces the concept of Ordering Turing Tests: these are sort of Turing Tests proposed by social actors for purposes of achieving social order when bots produce deviant behavior. An Ordering Turing Test is method for labeling deviance, whereby social actors can use this test to tell apart rule-abiding humans and rule-breaking bots. Using examples from Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, this article illustrates how Ordering Turing Tests are proposed and justified by players and service providers. Data for the research comes from scientific literature on Machine Learning proposed for the identification of bots and from game forums and other player produced paratexts from the case study of the game Runescape.
Gateway Political Behaviors: The Frequency and Consequences of Low-Cost Political Engagement on Social Media
Authors: Bode Leticia
Published: November 2017

The purpose of this article is to determine to what extent engagement in easy political behaviors on social media occurs across the range of political interest, what predicts such engagement, and what effect such engagement may have on other political behaviors. It pits the idea that social media may activate the politically uninterested against the idea that social media is just another outlet for the politically interested to demonstrate their engagement. Analyzing survey data collected by the Pew Research Center, it concludes that many people, including the politically uninterested, do engage in easy political behaviors like liking and commenting on political content on social media. When they do, it can lead to greater political activity offline. However, those most likely to engage in easy political behaviors are also those who engage in harder political behaviors, offering support for both the interest and activation hypotheses.
Navigating STEM: Afro Caribbean Women Overcoming Barriers of Gender and Race
Authors: King Miller Beverly A.
Published: November 2017

This article explores issues related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), participation and underrepresentation specifically in regard to women of African descent. Drawing from a larger qualitative, grounded case study, the article examines the experiences of Panamanian Afro Caribbean women in STEM and their successful navigation of race and gender barriers related to education and employment in STEM. Ogbu and Banks are used to inform the discussion regarding the formation of group identity. Data were collected and triangulated by interviews, surveys, observations, and documents. The findings revealed that socio-cultural values and strategies from their Caribbean community provided the support needed to build a positive self-identity. In addition, middle-class values that included educational attainment and hard work further supported their persistence through STEM education and their participation in STEM careers. A new model, the Self-Actualization Model (SAM), emerged as graphic representation for presenting the findings.
Strategies to Improve Academic Achievement in Secondary School Students: Perspectives on Grit and Mindset
Authors: Polirstok Susan
Published: November 2017

This article examines the academic performance of secondary school students from the perspectives of grit and mindset through a detailed review of the literature. What makes a learner resilient? Persistent? Willing to take on academic challenges? The research on grit and mindset provides an understanding of why many secondary students struggle academically. Whereas Duckworth discusses persistence and resilience, Dweck compares fixed versus growth mindsets, the willingness to take on academic challenges and belief in oneself as a learner. Teaching strategies and materials that can help students increase persistence and build a growth mindset are presented as keys to successfully affecting academic performance.
Oxy-dravite from Wołowa Góra Mountain, Karkonosze massif, SW Poland: Crystallochemical and structural studies
Authors: Pieczka Adam , Ertl Andreas , Sęk Mateusz P. , Twardak Diana , Zelek Sylwia , Szełęg Eligiusz , Giester Gerald
Published: November 2017

Yellowish dravitic tourmaline (dominated by the oxy-dravite component) associated with secondary fluor-dravite/fluor-schorl and dravite/schorl tourmalines was found in a quartz vein cropping out in the eastern part of the Karkonosze Mountains range, SW Poland. The crystal structure of this tourmaline was refined to an R1 value of 1.85% based on single-crystal data, and the chemical composition was determined by electron-microprobe analysis. The tourmaline, a representative of the alkali-tourmaline group, has the structural formula: (Na0.75Ca0.12□0.13)Σ1(Mg1.93Al0.95Ti0.06${\rm Fe}_{{\rm 0}{\rm. 04}}^{{\rm 2 +}} $ V0.01)Σ3(Al5.38Mg0.62)Σ6B3Si6O27(OH)3(O0.46OH0.33F0.21)Σ1, and is characterized by an extremely high Mg/(Mg + Fe) ratio of 0.97–0.99, the WO2– content that reaches 0.59 apfu resulting in a local predominance of the oxy-dravitic component and Mg–Al disorder on the octahedral Y and Z sites of the order of 0.64 apfu. This disordering results in an increasing  distance with ~1.925 Å, and unit-cell parameters a = 15.916(1) Å and c = 7.180(1) Å. The tourmaline formed during Variscan prograde metamorphism under the influence of a released (H2O,B,F)-bearing fluid. The fluid mobilized the most soluble components of partly altered silicic volcaniclastic material of the Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician bimodal volcanism to become the protolith for adjacent quartzo-feldspathic schists and amphibolites, and propagated them into the surrounding granitic gneisses of the Kowary unit in the eastern metamorphic cover of the Karkonosze granite.
The hydrothermal alteration of carbonatite in the Fen Complex, Norway: mineralogy, geochemistry, and implications for rare-earth element resource formation
Authors: Marien C. , Dijkstra A. H. , Wilkins C.
Published: November 2017

The Fen Complex in Norway consists of a ~583 Ma composite carbonatite-ijolite-pyroxenite diatreme intrusion. Locally, high grades (up to 1.6 wt.% total REE) of rare-earth elements (REE) are found in a hydrothermally altered, hematite-rich carbonatite known as rødbergite. The progressive transformation of primary igneous carbonatite to rødbergite was studied here using scanning electron microscopy and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry trace-element analysis of 23 bulk samples taken along a key geological transect. A primary mineral assemblage of calcite, dolomite, apatite, pyrite, magnetite and columbite with accessory quartz, baryte, pyrochlore, fluorite and REE fluorocarbonates was found to have transformed progressively into a secondary assemblage of dolomite, Fe-dolomite, baryte, Ba-bearing phlogopite, hematite with accessory apatite, calcite, monazite-(Ce) and quartz. Textural evidence is presented for REE fluorocarbonates and apatite breaking down in igneous carbonatite, and monazite-(Ce) precipitating in rødbergite. The importance of micro-veins, interpreted as feeder fractures, containing secondary monazite and allanite, is highlighted. Textural evidence for included relics of primary apatite-rich carbonatite are also presented. These acted as a trap for monazite-(Ce) precipitation, a mechanism predicted by physical-chemical experiments. The transformation of carbonatite to rødbergite is accompanied by a 10-fold increase in REE concentrations. The highest light REE (LREE) concentrations are found in transitional vein-rich rødbergite, whereas the highest heavy REE (HREE) and Th concentrations are found within the rødbergites, suggesting partial decoupling of LREE and HREE due to the lower stability of HREE complexes in the aqueous hydrothermal fluid. The hydrothermal fluid involved in the formation of rødbergite was oxidizing and had probably interacted with country-rock gneisses. An ore deposit model for the REE-rich rødbergites is presented here which will better inform exploration strategies in the complex, and has implications for carbonatite-hosted REE resources around the world.
Corrigendum to “The dissolution rates of simulated UK Magnox – ThORP blend nuclear waste glass as a function of pH, temperature and waste loading” [Miner. Mag. 79, (2015) 1529–1542]
Authors: Corkhill Claire. L. , Fisher Adam J. , Strachan Denis M. , Hand Russell J. , Hyatt Neil C.
Published: November 2017

We revise the data fitting in our original paper [The dissolution rates of simulated UK Magnox - ThORP blend nuclear waste glass as a function of pH, temperature and waste loading, Miner. Mag.79 (2015) 1529–1542]. The intrinsic rate constant data were calculated incorrectly, the corrected data are presented herein. To support the corrected analysis we have also taken the opportunity to report some additional 90°C data. The conclusions of the original paper remain sound.
The effectiveness of topical colloidal silver in recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis: A randomized crossover control trial
Authors: Scott John R. , Krishnan Rohin , Rotenberg Brian W. , Sowerby Leigh J
Published: November 2017

Background

Recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis without polyposis (CRSsP) is a challenging condition to manage as traditional medical therapies and surgery fail to provide satisfactory clinical improvements. Colloidal silver (CS), a widely used naturopathic agent, has recently shown anti-biofilm properties both in vitro and within a rhinosinusitis animal model. To date, no trials involving humans have been published in world literature. The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of CS as a topical nasal spray in patients with refractory CRSsP.

Methods

A prospective cohort study was conducted using a convenience sample of 20 randomized patients with crossover methodology, comparing nasal sprays with CS versus saline. Patients sprayed twice daily for six weeks with the first intervention and then switched to the second for the next six weeks, with measurements made at baseline and each time point. Primary outcomes were changes in SNOT-22 and Lund-Kennedy (LK) endoscopic scores. All analysis was non-parametric and was conducted using STATA 14.

Results

Twenty-two patients were enrolled in the study with 20 completing the entire protocol. Mean 6-week change in SNOT-22 scores were −2.8 and 1.0 for saline and CS, respectively ( p = 0.373). Similarly, mean 6-week change in LK scores were −1.4 and −1.1 for saline and CS, respectively ( p = 0.794). Significant period effects were observed with the SNOT-22 score between the randomized groups. No participants experienced negative health effects directly attributable to the administration of intranasal CS.

Conclusion

Commercially available CS nasal spray did not demonstrate any meaningful subjective or objective improvements in patients with recalcitrant CRSsP.

Trial registration

NCT02403479 . Registered on March 1, 2015.
What influences palliative care nurses in their choice to engage in or decline clinical supervision?
Authors: Puffett Nick , Perkins Paul
Published: November 2017

Background:

Clinical supervision (CS) has been around since the early 1990s in the UK and has been endorsed by government and professional bodies. Levels of engagement range from 18% to 85%.

Aim:

To investigate what influences palliative care nurses in their choice to engage in or decline clinical supervision.

Method:

A qualitative study was undertaken in an inpatient hospice in England and employed two focus groups to compare the views of participants and non-participants in CS. Data were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim by the researchers and analysed using systematic text condensation.

Findings:

Palliative care nurses all used informal team support for ‘in the moment’ support. Some engaged in formal CS to reflect ‘on action’ and to challenge practice. Nurses reported a lack of clarity regarding CS but, once this was overcome and engagement with CS was established, it led to changes in practice, identification of training needs and team building. The option of choice between group and individual supervision was found to be important. Group supervision led to enhanced understanding of group members which also led to team building, individual sessions were useful for individual issues. Protected time was essential for staff to be able to engage in CS. Staff who worked in larger teams reported higher levels of engagement, whereas a small team reported less need due to more informal team support.

Conclusion:

These findings are positive as they illuminate the importance of choice for support. Nurses need to be aware of their options for support and ultimately how this support affects the care they provide. The Palliative Care Nurse's Model of Support was developed, which shows the effects of each choice and how this may lead to team-building.
Predicting hospital transfers among nursing home residents in the last months of life
Authors: Krishnan Preetha , Thompson Genevieve , McClement Susan
Published: November 2017

Background:

Concerns have been raised over the practice of transferring nursing home residents to hospital at their end of life.

Objective:

To examine the family and facility factors that may influence the decision to transfer nursing home residents to hospital in the last month of life.

Research design:

Secondary data analysis includes a sample of 119 bereaved family members from 21 nursing homes located in Central Canada.

Method:

A binary logistic regression analysis was conducted to explore the predictors for hospital transfers.

Results:

Terminal hospital transfers were common: 70% of nursing home residents were sent to hospitals in the last month of their life, and the likelihood of terminal hospital transfers increased by having an adult child as decision-maker (odds ratio (OR) = 5.03; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.6, 16; significance level/probability value (p) = 0.007) or having a lower family income (OR = 2.9; 95% CI =1.1, 2.9; p = 0.027).

Discussion and implications:

The identified predictors for terminal hospital transfers are helpful in targeting and developing interventions to improve end-of-life care. Particular emphasis should therefore be placed on targeting families with low income and children of the nursing home residents for educational initiatives such as advance care planning awareness, in order to prevent terminal hospital transfers. It is hoped that policy-makers and practitioners can start addressing the findings of this study to reduce terminal hospital transfers at end of life and promote quality end-of-life care in nursing homes.
Communication disorders in palliative care: investigating the views, attitudes and beliefs of speech and language therapists
Authors: Hawksley Rosy , Ludlow Fiona , Buttimer Heather , Bloch Steven
Published: November 2017

Aim:

Speech and language therapists (SLTs) provide intervention for communication and swallowing to patients with life-limiting conditions, such as dementia and head and neck cancer. The role of the SLT in palliative care is difficult to define. Much is known about the clinical aspects of this role; however, little is known about the core values, beliefs and expectations of SLTs working in this sector, particularly with regard to their role in supporting patients' communication. Through a series of semi-structured interviews and a follow-up focus group, this report aimed to form a picture of the experiences and views of SLTs about their communication role in palliative care. Results suggest that SLTs are forging a self-identity in a sector that is itself constantly evolving, which causes difficulties in defining their role. Participants report that other health professionals have a poor understanding of the SLT's role. SLTs may benefit from palliative care-specific guidelines and increased interprofessional awareness of their role in order to become better integrated into the palliative care sector.
Challenges to advance care planning among multidisciplinary health professionals in China
Authors: Lee Mei Ching , Auth Roger , Hinderer Katherine A , Alexander Carla S
Published: November 2017

Background:

Advance care planning (ACP) is a critical component of quality end-of-life care. Little is known regarding the cultural influences on health professionals' attitudes toward the discussion of ACP in China.

Objective:

To better understand attitudes toward ACP among Chinese healthcare professionals in China and the influence of cultural factors such as filial piety, or xiào.

Methods:

A mixed methods study was used. This study reports the results of a descriptive cross-sectional survey of physicians, nurses and social workers with experience in palliative and end-of-life care.

Results:

Some 102 completed surveys were obtained. Most Chinese health professionals had an overall positive attitude toward ACP, acknowledging that these discussions should occur. However, there was a general lack of confidence and sense of reluctance among participants to engage in ACP discussions.

Conclusion:

The lack of statistical difference between the various health professionals suggests that they all faced challenges in participating in ACP discussions. Future research should focus on the influences of cultural factors such as xiào on ACP discussion, and develop culturally sensitive strategies to facilitate these discussions in the Chinese community.
Attitudes of nurses towards care of the dying patient in India
Authors: Lancaster Rachelle J , Kautzmann Cynthia , Micheal Jothi Clara J , Chandrasekaran Leena , Jambunathan Jayalakshmi , Chapin Tammy M
Published: November 2017

Background:

Worldwide, end-of-life care is coming under increasing scrutiny as nurses struggle to balance cultural norms and legal requirements with the desires of patients and families. The purpose of this descriptive pilot study was to examine and describe nurses' attitudes when caring for dying patients in India, and whether participation in an educational conference, which included two scenario-based, low-fidelity simulations increased knowledge of end-of-life care.

Method:

Participants' attitudes were measured with the 30-item Frommelt Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying (FATCOD–B) scale. Knowledge was measured with a researcher-developed 15-item content-focused test before and after the conference.

Results:

The mean attitude scores of nurses (n=101) were M=101.45 (range 65–143, SD=15.99). Participation in the educational conference and end-of-life care simulations increased the knowledge of most nurses (P<0.05).

Conclusion:

Conferences and low-fidelity simulation are effective methods for improving nurses' knowledge of end-of-life care in India. Improved education surrounding end of life may positively affect attitudes.
Research roundup
Authors: Costello John
Published: November 2017

Synopses of a selection of recently published research articles of relevance to palliative care.
Politics and palliative care: Central African Republic
Authors: Smyth Dion
Published: November 2017

Dion Smyth's review of palliative nursing on the internet
Empowering pupils with political understanding
Authors: McKeown Sal
Published: November 2017

With the likelihood of a renewed push to bring the voting age down to 16, schools play an important role in ensuring pupils understand the political process.
Give maths your time
Authors: Bailey Martin
Published: November 2017

Maths can be an area of learning that parents struggle to support at home. Teacher and digital education consultant, Martin Bailey, has ideas to engage them.
How new discoveries challenged old thinking
Authors: Davis John
Published: November 2017

John Davis outlines the lives and achievements of pioneers Mary Anning, Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace, placing them in the context of the time they lived in.
Let's go on a fossil hunt!
Authors: Davis John
Published: November 2017

Here we look at ways in which the work of Mary Anning, Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace can be followed up with practical enquiries and activities in class.
Euthanasia of aggressive dogs: ethical considerations
Authors: Shawcross Amy
Published: November 2017

Over the last decade, attacks by dangerous dogs on humans and other animals have been on the rise. This has inevitably resulted in greater numbers of aggressive, but otherwise healthy, dogs being presented in practice — often for euthanasia. This article aims to explore the role of the registered veterinary nurse (RVN) in the euthanasia of such patients. Legal and professional accountability with regards to this dilemma will be considered, and ethical frameworks will be discussed, as a way to help guide the RVN in these cases. The role of the RCVS Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinary Nurses in dealing with ethical dilemmas will also be highlighted.
Ticks on dogs and cats
Authors: Walker Mark David
Published: November 2017

Ticks are parasites classified within the subclass Acari, which includes other parasites such as mites. Ticks feed exclusively on the blood of host animals and are important pests of dogs and cats, capable of spreading a range of pathogens. The identification and treatment of ticks and these pathogens is described.
Dermatophytosis for veterinary nurses
Authors: Redbond John
Published: November 2017

Dermatophytosis is a challenging condition to treat and requires a thorough and methodical approach from the veterinary team as far as diagnosis and management is concerned to ensure the disease resolves. The veterinary nurse can be actively involved in the management of this condition at all stages of the process, from the tests required for diagnosis through to the treatment and follow-up care of pets with dermatophytosis. This ensures that veterinary surgeons have support in these cases and can approach them effectively, while the owners will receive the time required to ensure their compliance with treatment protocols which is essential for its resolution.
Pathophysiology of chronic kidney disease and the nursing care of cats
Authors: Almond Stephanie
Published: November 2017

Chronic kidney disease due to a progressive loss of kidney function is a condition regularly seen in the veterinary hospital with signs not only being polyuria and polydipsia, but anorexia, mucosal ulcers and dehydration. Understanding the pathophysiology of chronic kidney disease allows nursing care to be tailored not only for the condition, but to the individual patient encouraging a holistic approach and quality client care.
Nursing the recumbent patient
Authors: McDonald Craig
Published: November 2017

Nursing the recumbent patient can be both challenging and rewarding. Patients can have a varying degree of recumbency from a patient with osteoarthritis to a dog in a coma. Both require a thorough assessment to determine the level of nursing care that they will need. A thorough assessment will facilitate a holistic approach ensuring the correct nursing interventions can be implemented to nurse the patient to recovery.
How to maximise your auscultation technique
Authors: Pace Charlotte
Published: November 2017

Auscultation is a cheap and easy diagnostic tool available in veterinary practice. Yet it often creates uncertainty, prompting both nurses and veterinary surgeons to seek second opinions amongst colleagues. The purpose of this article is to explore the best techniques for auscultation, and discuss the different sounds that can be heard in dogs and cats when listening to the heart. The starting point of auscultation is to identify normal heart sounds. This will then help recognise abnormal heart sounds, which can then be split into loudness, timing, and point of maximal intensity.
Is veterinary nursing a visible profession? Part two
Authors: Davidson Jane
Published: November 2017

With recruitment, returning to work and retention being key to the future of veterinary nursing what are the issues that are common across all these areas? Veterinary nurses have limited visibility in their role. There is also the lack of a media image that reinforces the veterinary nurse skills base and a lack of veterinary nursing presence in the financial aspect of both business and client relations. These factors all contribute to a role that is hard for people to visualise and define. In part two the financial worth of the veterinary nurse is discussed in relation to visibility in the practice and visibility for clients. The impact of this is reviewed in relation to veterinary nursing careers and recruitment, returning to work and retention, including gender inequality.
Effective strategies to support the emotional and behavioural welfare of canine clients
Authors: Hargrave Claire
Published: November 2017

The Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors' veterinary conference, which was held in October 2017, discussed the emotional and behavioural welfare of canine clients throughout their lifetimes, from pups to pensioners. Cliare Hargrave reports back from the conference.
Clonogenic, myogenic progenitors expressing MCAM/CD146 are incorporated as adventitial reticular cells in the microvascular compartment of human post-natal skeletal muscle
Authors: Persichini Tiziana , Funari Alessia , Colasanti Marco , Sacchetti Benedetto
Published: November 2017

Recent observation identifies subendothelial (mural) cells expressing MCAM, a specific system of clonogenic, self-renewing, osteoprogenitors (a.k.a, “mesenchymal stem cells”) in the microvascular compartment of post-natal human bone marrow (BM). In this study, we used MCAM/CD146, as a marker to localize, isolate and assay subendothelial clonogenic cells from the microvasculature of postnatal human skeletal muscle. We show here that these cells share with their BM counterpart, anatomic position (subendothelial/adventitial) and ex vivo clonogenicity (CFU-Fs). When assayed under the stringent conditions, these cells display a high spontaneous myogenic potential (independent of co-culture with myoblasts or of in vivo fusion with local myoblasts), which is otherwise only attained in cultures of satellite cells. These muscle-derived mural cells activated a myogenic program in culture. Cultured CD146+ cells expressed the myogenic factors (Pax7, Pax3 and Myf5), NCAM/CD56, desmin as well as proteins characteristic of more advanced myogenic differentiation, such as myosin heavy chain. In vivo, these cells spontaneously generate myotubes and myofibrils. These data identify the anatomy and phenotype of a novel class of committed myogenic progenitor in human post-natal skeletal muscle of subendothelial cells associated with the abluminal surface of microvascular compartment distinct from satellite cells.
Conversations in the margins: Fannish paratexts and their premodern roots
Authors: Finn Kavita Mudan
Published: November 2017

This article considers fanfictional paratexts – including peritexts such as author’s notes, warnings, epigraphs and tags, as well as the related epitexts of comments, memes, recs and live blogs – in the context not only of the fanfiction they accompany but also of the critical conversations they generate and perpetuate within themselves. The parallels between premodern literature’s expansive paratextual spaces and the equally expansive – if virtual – spaces that frame contemporary fanworks, specifically fanfiction, point to similarly transactional qualities at work in both, balancing authorial intent, production/archival specifications and reader response. By considering these seemingly disparate literary worlds in conversation with one another, we can not only illuminate an antecedent for fanworks and fan community interactions but also offer medieval and early modern studies a potentially useful language for talking about premodern literary culture.
We’ll always have purgatory: Fan spaces in social media
Authors: Lowe J. S. A.
Published: November 2017

Certain groups within the fandom of the series Supernatural maintain that the network chronically fails to acknowledge or appreciate the support, discretionary income and above all unpaid affective labour of its young female audience – a viewership the series creators never anticipated. Such fans then create their own ways of engaging with both the show’s content and its public relations, using social media to craft personal spaces of both resistance and pleasure. This article examines three such creative efforts: a Twitter hashtag hijacking in 2015, when the CW perhaps unwisely invited viewers to ‘#AskSupernatural’; the fan-proposed spin-off Wayward Daughters (whose online petition has upwards of 3600 signatures) and fan-created YouTube series Kevin’s Continued Winchester Gospel (starring former guest actor Osric Chau). These labour-intensive spaces, created primarily by young women, speak to these fans’ perception of being disregarded by network public relations as well as the narrative of the series itself and its ongoing treatment of fan-favourite characters, particularly female ones, whether omitted from storylines or written violently off the show. In unprecedented volume, fans have merged creativity with collective action to craft playful yet highly publicized and efficient responses to the show’s public relations misattunement with its own audience.
Marc Bolan rock shrine: Pilgrimage, identity and ownership in a fan community
Authors: Bickerdike Jennifer Otter , Downing Niamh
Published: November 2017

Marc Bolan, lead singer of T-Rex and purveyor of the glam rock movement, died in 1977. The passenger of a Mini Cooper that crashed into a sycamore tree, Bolan was killed instantly from injuries sustained in the accident.

When reports began circulating in 1998 that the tree was in danger of being felled, fan Fee Mercury Moon formed the T-Rex Action Group (TAG) in an effort to save the tree and the site. The space has been preserved and embellished through TAG’s efforts and self-funded initiatives, transforming what was a space of grisly death into a location for worship, reflection and behaviours often echoing traditional religion.

While the shrine attracts pilgrims from around the world, a core Bolan contingent continues, almost 40 years since his death, to in-fight over who controls the right to the memory of Bolan, the place of his death and the rituals performed by visitors to the site. As ideas of heritage and history clash with rising property prices, fans face a battle in which they need to be united, instead of splintered over personal peccadilloes. This article will examine how a physical space, such as the shrine, allows for both the perpetuation of memory as well as the expunging of the icon from the importance of the place, as personal meaning and value become intrinsically tied into fan authenticity and religious rituals and behaviours.
The liminality of the line and the place of fans at Comic-Con
Authors: Hanna Erin
Published: November 2017

Focusing on the lines for the San Diego Comic-Con’s largest promotional space, Hall H, this article draws on participant observation and mediated discourses in order to locate the place of fans at an event that has long been shaped and influenced by the promotional presence of the media industries. At Comic-Con, waiting in line suggests a divide between inside and outside, both in the literal sense of gaining entry and as a signifier of the exclusivity of the event and its attendees. But the line itself is a liminal space, neither inside nor outside. This article argues that the Hall H line at Comic-Con operates as hierarchized space in which fans follow rules and self-regulate in order to maintain their position. But the act of waiting in line also constitutes a form of labour, producing a heightened aura of exclusivity, increased publicity and surplus value around Hollywood promotion at Comic-Con. While a quotidian activity like waiting in line might be viewed much in the same way as media consumption – something one does with their ‘free’ time – this article argues that the prominence and proliferation of lines at Comic-Con make the work of being a consumer significantly more visible.
Archive epidemic: Derrida, von Trier and the anarchivic disposition of cinema
Authors: Valsson Pétur
Published: November 2017

Danish director Lars von Trier has throughout his work explored the aesthetic possibility of the film medium by pushing its technology to the limit and foregrounding its materiality. Transferring filmed material between analogue video and film, he exaggerates deterioration and decay of the moving image in Medea (1988), Riget (The Kingdom) (1994–97) and Breaking the Waves (1996). Turning to digital technology in the late 1990s, von Trier explored the new means of generating data in Idioterne (The Idiots) (1998) and Dancer in the Dark (2000). In 1994, Jacques Derrida theorized the concept of Archive Fever, a feverish desire for origins, which ultimately leads to destruction of the archival object. Applying Derrida’s concept to von Trier’s filmmaking shows how his films reveal the inherent anarchivic nature of the medium of the moving image.
Useful cinema and the dynamic film history beyond the national archive: Locating municipally sponsored Swedish city films in local archives
Authors: Florin Persson Erik
Published: November 2017

Based on a case study of municipally sponsored films about the Swedish city of Gothenburg from the decades after World War II, this article contributes to the emerging scholarly field of ‘useful cinema’. It is argued that local archival materials are essential for studying this kind of useful cinema with its multiple uses, textual variations, screening contexts and both domestic and international circulation. Local archival materials are further essential for studying not only the local institutional use of cinema, but also the relationship between theatrical and non-theatrical exhibition. Moreover, the international circulation of useful cinema highlighted in the article cannot be studied solely with material from national archives. The conclusion calls for new types of digital archival milieus that capture the dynamics of this part of film history.
Disappearing act: The silent film career of Aud Egede-Nissen (1893–1974)
Authors: Fosheim Lund Maria
Published: November 2017

In 1916, Norwegian actress Aud Egede-Nissen established a film production company under her own name in Berlin: the Egede-Nissen-Film Compagnie GmbH. The company created approximately 30 star vehicles for Aud and her sisters Ada and Gerd, with Aud Egede-Nissen also working in the capacity of producer. The company existed until 1921, capitalizing on the German import ban on films during the years 1916–20. Until recently, the transnational career of Aud Egede-Nissen has left a void in the film archive and film documents collection held at the National Library of Norway, where very little material relating to the actress-producer’s success on the European continent is found. As Jane Gaines has demonstrated with the Women Film Pioneers Project, the careers of women working during the silent era have largely been left out of film histories. An important aspect of writing female film workers’ careers back into film history therefore also relies on creating archives and collecting material, ensuring that future researchers can piece the puzzle back together. This article presents the discovery of fan ephemera and promotional material sold on the online auction website eBay relating to the career of Aud Egede-Nissen.
The press cutting, film studies and the digital age
Authors: Bachmann Anne
Published: November 2017

Unlike the scrapbook, the humble press cutting has never quite broken the surface in the theoretical and methodological discourses of historiography, whether for film or other kinds of histories. In today’s radically changed archive-scape where old volumes of printed media are digitized by the shelf-load, the blessings and curses of the curated collection may rapidly fade from short-term memory. At the same time, this novel sense of distance towards them can prove useful for discussing the impact of the collections’ provenance and bias. In tracing the press-cuttings collection in Swedish press discourse during the twentieth century, the article argues that its meaning has shifted over time, most clearly signalling status, progress and knowledge optimism in the 1940s to 1960s. Lastly, the article maps the discourse and history of cuttings at the Swedish Film Institute and suggests that the press-cutting archive is now more interesting in its entirety as collection than by virtue of its individual scraps and pieces.
The cultural practice of minor cinema archiving: The case of immigrant filmmakers in Sweden
Authors: Andersson Lars Gustaf , Sundholm John
Published: November 2017

The aim of this article is to present the archival practice behind two extensive research projects that we have worked on during the last decade: the Stockholm Film Workshop and minor immigrant filmmaking in Sweden. Archive has become a general catchword in today’s academia that encompasses several practices of collecting, storing, distributing and displaying. We will stress in particular – partly against the idealism of digital activism – that the archive is a locus of power. The struggle for archival acknowledgement is a question of how to establish an archival artefact, an object that may be stored and repeated, and thus to affirm it as something that cannot be disregarded. This is a practice in the way that theory also constitutes a practice: a way of intervening that is case sensitive and that constantly cuts across those four principles that Giovanna Fossati famously coined as ‘film as original’, ‘film as art’, ‘film as dispositif’ and ‘film as state of the art’.
Documenting the present, processing the past, shaping future memory: The Face of AIDS Film Archive
Authors: Larsson Mariah , Rossholm Anna Sofia
Published: November 2017

The Face of AIDS Film Archive consists of documentation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, shot all over the world beginning in 1988 by Swedish filmmaker and journalist Staffan Hildebrand. In this article, the archive’s particular characteristic of process is discussed and examined through four different perspectives: first, as an ongoing documentation of HIV/AIDS in the contemporaneous moments when it was filmed; second, as a commission of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm; third, as the product of a director with a strong personal vision and authorial presence; and finally, as an expression of Hildebrand’s self-defined AIDS activism.
The archive, the auteur and the unfilmed film: Reflections on Dreyer’s and von Trier’s Medea
Authors: Thomson C. Claire
Published: November 2017

This article engages with Lars von Trier’s 1988 television adaptation of Carl Th. Dreyer’s screenplay Medea to explore the concept of the unfilmed film. Beginning with von Trier’s adoption of Dreyer’s tuxedo, the article asks how the notions of auteurship and the archive itself produce the unfilmed film as ‘unrealized’, and probes the concept of the ‘unfinished’ film. Some examples of unfilmed films, and documentaries about them, are discussed as examples of archival practices in the mediation of unfinished, unrealized and unfilmed films, sometimes by directors themselves and sometimes by their successors. Dreyer’s research materials and methodologies for his screenplay Medea, preserved in the Danish Film Institute, are discussed as an intertext to the later adaptation for Danish television by Lars von Trier.
Diversidade de sujeitos na EJA: implicações na elaboração de materiais didáticos e na formação de professores
Authors: Voltas Fernanda Quatorze , Santos Pedro de Souza , Silva Sandra Maria Glória da
Published: November 2017

A partir da questão da diversidade dos sujeitos da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), o texto busca debater algumas das principais características desse público na atualidade. Por meio da análise sucinta de um livro didático, disponibilizado às escolas pelo Ministério da Educação, discute a (in) observância da diversidade na elaboração de materiais didáticos. Diante da constatação de que esse material temuma proposta uniformizante, aponta para a necessidade de processos formativos capazes de auxiliar os professores em sua práticas educativas, abarcando a problemática da diversidade e, também, tantas outras específicas da EJA. Por fim, defende a potencialidade do paradigma da formação permanente freireana para a construção de um trabalho de formação docente crítico-emancipador.