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Semitic and Latin Elements in the Language and Literature of Malta
Authors: Friggieri Oliver
Published: June 2019

The Semitic character of Malta’s language and the Latinity of its culture have both contributed towards the complex formation of a unique country marked by dualities of language and identity. This article seeks to outline the development of Maltese as a medium through which Malta could best express itself and construct its own literature, as Maltese intellectuals in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sought to create an alternative to the older Italian and more recent British dominance. The establishment of Maltese as the national language and of a thriving Maltese literature reflects a move away from the use of Maltese Italian as a minor literature to the creation of an “ultraminor” Maltese for an independent country.
Ultraminor Literature in a Major Language
Authors: Tiwari Bhavya
Published: June 2019

Deleuze and Guattari list out three characteristics of a minor literature—it is written in a major language from a marginalized position; its nature is thoroughly political; and it has a collective value. Yet, as this article shows by taking the case of T.S. Pillai’s Malayalam novel Chemmeen (1956) and its various afterlives, world literatures illuminate greater varieties of scale and of characteristics than can readily be covered by a single binary opposition between minor versus major, local versus global, original versus translation, singular versus plural. The concept of ultraminor literature, especially in the South Asian context, thus gives us a chance to engage with an undefined space that archives historical, translational, political, linguistic, idiosyncratic, and aesthetic tales of a text within and outside its tradition.
The Role of Theology in the History and Philosophy of Science
Authors: Moritz Joshua M.
Published: June 2019

After a bibliographic introduction highlighting various research trends in science and religion, this essay explores how the current academic and conceptual landscape of theology and science has been shaped by the history of science, even as theology has informed the philosophical foundations of science. The first part assesses the historical interactions of science and the Christian faith (looking at the cases of human dissection in the Middle Ages and the Galileo affair) in order to challenge the common notion that science and religion have always been at war. Part two investigates the nature of the interaction between science and Christian theology by exploring the role that metaphysical presuppositions and theological concepts have played—and continue to play—within the scientific process.
When Social Practice Art Overcomes Globalisation: Attending to Environment and Locality in Taiwan
Authors: Tung Wei Hsiu
Published: June 2019

This essay discusses how artists, architects, and local community people have collaborated together to regenerate an everyday life aesthetics that embodies and reflects the environmental specificity of local culture, history, and geography in the context of Taiwan, where systematic urbanisation has had a very negative impact in many different areas since the early 2000s. The essay explores the possibility of local aesthetics retrieving the feelings of the Taiwanese “vernacular worlds” against the effects of globalisation, urbanisation and rapid socio-political changes. Two social practice art projects are considered accordingly: Plum Tree Creek and Togo Village.
Representations of History in the Poetry of Zheng Jing
Authors: Milburn Olivia
Published: June 2019

Zheng Jing 鄭經 (1642–1681), the first classically trained Chinese-language poet to write about Taiwan’s landscape, also addressed a number of other themes. This paper will consider his small group of historical poems dealing with the achievements of the founders of earlier imperial dynasties; his poems about contemporary events, in particular the ongoing conflict between the Qing government and the remnants of the Southern Ming dynasty (which he supported) on Taiwan; his poems about his experiences as a military commander; and his poems criticizing the Manchu imperial house for their alien customs and culture. These works aren’t read here as straightforwardly autobiographical; instead we’ll interpret them as works of literature, ones carefully constructed to send specific political messages to a contemporary readership.
From Ceramics to History
Authors: Fusaro Agnese
Published: June 2019

This paper discusses some results emerging from the study of the huge amount of pottery unearthed at the site of Ghazni. More specifically, it focuses on the evolution and changes of the ceramic productions identified within this Islamic pottery corpus between the 11th and the 16th-17th centuries.
The Ms. III.F.23 in the National Library of Naples
Authors: Urselli Carmen
Published: June 2019

The main focus of this study is a Persian Safavid manuscript housed in the National Library of Naples, a poetical anthology of the 16th century. Based on a comparative and codicological approach, the study outlines the historical frame of production of the manuscript, with the identification of some of the poets included in the collection, a new codicological description and a further analysis of the content: along with other manuscript anthologies, the Ms. III.F.23 shows a widespread literary trend consisting in the collection of classical authors together with the works of contemporary poets.
Ziyārāt of Ghazni: Three Case Studies about Marble Re-Employments
Authors: Laviola Valentina
Published: June 2019

An astonishing number of ziyārāt (funerary areas worshipped by the local population) is documented in Ghazni. A peculiar phenomenon involves some of them: marble slabs, belonging to the architectural decoration of ancient monuments, were re-employed inside the ziyārāt with decorative and celebrative reasons. Three different case studies are presented.
An Old Chinese Word for ‘Silk’ in Mongolic, Turkic, Tungusic, and Persian
Authors: Shimunek Andrew
Published: June 2019

This paper identifies a Late Old Chinese word for silk in Mongolic and its comparanda in Old Uygur, Chagatay, New Persian, Jurchen, Manchu, Ewenki, and Solon. Routes of lexical borrowing are identified, and their likely historical contexts are discussed. This paper offers contributions to the study of early Chinese ethnolinguistic contact with neighboring peoples.
Noms de famille dans les oasis d’Égypte à l’époque ottomane
Authors: Michel Nicolas
Published: June 2019

Very little is known about the existence of family names in Ottoman Egypt, except among the upper classes and urban society as a whole. In this respect, the Western Desert Oases of Dakhla and Kharga provide us with an exceptional documentation. Cross referencing texts found or still preserved in local family archives with the results of ethnographical fieldwork conducted over a century, enables us to reconstruct the onomastic culture of the Oases society through the last four centuries. Family names were in use among most of the inhabitants. This use developed in a complex way, by combining lineage names created a few generations ago with more ancient and inclusive names. Their combined use allowed to identify and classify all the inhabitants of a settlement, without knowing them personally. It reflects a non-tribal society, largely based on the ownership of scarce but perennial water resources, a key factor in the longevity of families.
Why Nishapur?
Authors: Bulliet Richard W.
Published: June 2019

Given the high cost of premodern land transport, inland cities not serviced by any sort of water transport were quite rare before the appearance of motorized vehicles. The emergence of Nishapur in northeastern Iran as the Abbasid caliphate’s second largest metropolis, with a population over 150,000 in the year 1000, thus presents a problem. That it was neither a major governing center during most of its growth period, nor a transshipment node or pilgrimage site, compounds the problem. This article proposes a set of economic, geographic, and social circumstances that taken together may account for its flourishing. It further suggests that these same factors contributed to the city’s emerging distinction as a Muslim religious and cultural center.
Inherited Landscapes in Muslim Bactra
Authors: de la Vaissière Etienne
Published: June 2019

This article presents recent archaeological discoveries on the Buddhist monasteries, the irrigation system and defence systems of the oasis of Balkh, intending to explore the depth of the gap between these central features of the oasis landscape and the transmitted early Islamic texts describing the site. The Fażāʾil-i Balḫ and the Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam do provide us with some data but the archaeology allows a detailed demonstration of how many parts of the pre-Islamic past were quickly forgotten or reinterpreted in the following centuries.
The Fortified Landscape of Isfahan
Authors: Esfahani Ali Shojaee
Published: June 2019

This article presents an exposition of the fortifications around Isfahan based on fieldwork and a thorough analysis of written sources and the available satellite images, processed with new GIS technologies. The fortress of Šāhdiz, of Ismaili fame, is well known and documented in the written sources, however the major conclusion of the current research is that in fact a network of fortifications was developed, strategically located to afford observation and communication. The heights surrounding Isfahan were exploited to full potential, gaining security over roads and settlement processes, which in turn contributed to urban growth. The evolution of this network conformed with the trends of urbanisation: as long as the main towns remained Qih and Jayy, it was the mountains in the east of the rustāq of Isfahan that played the decisive role. But from the fourth/tenth century onward, with the growth of Yahūdiyya and the integration of the southern province of Fars and Khuzistan in the Buyid and Saljuq polities, it was the fortified of sites in the mountainous areas south of Zāyanda-rūd that were key to securing the access roads.
Balkh, from the Seljuqs to the Mongol Invasion
Authors: Paul Jürgen
Published: June 2019

The current article deals with the forms of local rule at Balkh in the Seljuq and post-Seljuq period up to the Mongol invasion. At all times we observe relatively high degrees of regional autonomy, in which local rulers were far more than “governors”. Balkh was a regional state, or “minimal beylik”, at times included within larger imperial structures and at others continuing more on its own. Military manpower was frequently provided by Turkish nomads (Ghuzz), who are seen throughout the period as a powerful regional force. Urban notables (aʿyān) played a decisive role in local rule, in particular the qadis, who judged according to sharia rules, and the raʾīs, in charge of fiscal and administrative affairs. Besides these office holders the sayyids must also have been important, alongside other Muslim scholars, mostly Hanafi. Balkh therefore is another example for the amīr-aʿyān system, as has been described in detail for other Iranian cities of the Seljuq period. In the post-Seljuq era the situation continues but becomes more unstable. Hereditary lines of emirs emerge again and again, but the sources do not offer a clear picture of the chronological and prosopographic details.

The paper draws on general historiography, the extant city history and other narrative and non-narrative sources, as well as numismatic evidence.
Mediating Conflicts, Creating Bonds
Authors: D’Anna Luca
Published: June 2019

The present paper discusses the patterns of interaction between the Islamic religion and the universal categories of verbal politeness described by Brown, Levinson (1987). The two scholars based their theory on the existence of two contrasting sets of ‘face-wants’ (negative and positive) and on the speakers’ necessity to preserve them while, at the same time, pursuing their goals. Verbal politeness provides means that enable the speaker to do so without endangering his social relations. While the phenomenon is, in itself, universal (i.e. found in all known cultures), its outer manifestations tend to be culturally bound. Amongst Maghrebi Arabic-speaking societies, the object of the present study, the ‘code’ of verbal politeness heavily draws on the Islamic religion. The present paper, thus, aims to analyse the interplay between Islam and the different strategies described by Brown and Levinson, by means of a wide exemplification that will highlight general trends and underlying structures.
Some Considerations on the Problem of Diglossia in Biblical Hebrew*
Authors: Colasuonno Maria Maddalena
Published: June 2019

This article challenges the notion of diglossia, invoked by Gary A. Rendsburg (1990) as one of the parameters of linguistic variation in Biblical Hebrew, from both the methodological and linguistic points of view.

Firstly, thus far the existence of diglossia in Biblical Hebrew has been widely accepted, although no Hebraist has demonstrated the functional specialization between spoken and written Hebrew (i.e. low vs. high varieties) in biblical times.

Secondly, among the alleged diglossic isoglosses presented by Rendsburg, 1) gender neutralisation; 2) -שֶׁ instead of אֲשֶׁר as nota relationis; and 3) the proleptic pronominal suffix are discussed.

Finally, by combining the sociolinguistic and pragmatic approaches this survey aims to cast new light on these debated isoglosses.
“Heavy Shekels” in Late Bronze Age Syria
Authors: Zaccagnini Carlo
Published: June 2019

This article deals with problems related to the use of different weight systems in international relations during the Late Bronze Age. Three case-studies have been chosen: the compensation for the murder of foreign merchants in Ugarit (“the Karkemish shekel”); the reimbursement of a debt at Emar (“the big weight of the country of Subaru”); the tribute of the king of Ugarit to the king of Hatti (“the heavy Hittite shekel”).
From Destruction to Restoration – Islamic Waqfs in Modern Turkey and Malaysia
Authors: Çizakça Murat
Published: June 2019

This paper explains how despite the huge distances between them, Malaysia, Turkey, Syria and Algeria share similar problems in their waqf systems. These problems largely arose as a result of colonial powers directly or indirectly imposing legal “reforms” on Islamic endowments. Attempts to restore their systems as well as impediments to the process of restoration in these countries are also identified.
Gernot Böhme’s Sketch for a Weather Phenomenology
Authors: Frølund Sune
Published: June 2019

The paper explores Gernot Böhme’s attempt to transform the concept of atmosphere into an aesthetical concept of the natural environment and follows his effort to outline a phenomenology of the weather based on this aesthetics. Böhme’s original project, prompted by a growing environmental concern, was to develop new forms of knowledge of nature to counter what he considered detrimental consequences of a one-sided rationalistic-scientific view of nature. Inspired by Hermann Schmitz’s phenomenology of the body and emotional atmospheres, Böhme developed his aesthetics to be a general theory of sensation and a phenomenology of the environment. His weather phenomenology is yet only a sketch, but, in light of imminent climatic changes, it might prove a sketch worth considering.
The Lifecycle of Nonlinear Internal Waves in the Northwestern South China Sea
Authors: Liang Jianjun , Li Xiao-Ming , Sha Jin , Jia Tong , Ren Yongzheng
Published: June 2019

The life cycle of nonlinear internal waves (NIWs) to the southeast of Hainan Island in the northwestern South China Sea is investigated using synergistic satellite observations, in situ measurements, and numerical simulations. A three-dimensional, fully nonlinear and nonhydrostatic model with ultrafine resolution shows that a diurnal internal tide emanates from a sill in the Xisha Islands at approximately 215 km away from the local shelf break. The internal tide transits the deep basin toward the shelf break and reflects at the sea bottom and seasonal thermocline in the form of a wave beam. Arriving at the shelf break, the internal tide undergoes nonlinear transformation and produces an undular bore. Analyses of in situ measurements reveal that the undular bore appears as sharp depressions of the strong near-surface seasonal thermocline. The undular bore gradually evolves into an internal solitary wave train on the midshelf, which was detected by the spaceborne synthetic aperture radar. This finding has great implications for investigating NIWs in other coastal oceans where waves are controlled by remotely generated internal tides.
PD‐L1 and PD‐L2 expression correlated genes in non‐small‐cell lung cancer
Authors: Larsen Trine Vilsbøll , Hussmann Dianna , Nielsen Anders Lade
Published: June 2019

Background

Programmed cell death ligand‐1 (PD‐L1) and ligand‐2 (PD‐L2) interaction with programmed cell death protein‐1 (PD‐1) represent an immune‐inhibiting checkpoint mediating immune evasion and is, accordingly, an important target for blockade‐based immunotherapy in cancer. In non‐small‐cell lung cancer (NSCLC), improved understanding of PD‐1 checkpoint blockade‐responsive biology and identification of biomarkers for prediction of a clinical response to immunotherapy is warranted. Thus, in the present study, we systematically described PD‐L1 and PD‐L2 expression correlated genes in NSCLC.

Methods

We performed comparative retrospective analyses to identify PD‐L1 and PD‐L2 mRNA expression correlated genes in NSCLC. For this, we examined available datasets from the cancer cell line encyclopedia (CCLE) project lung non‐small‐cell (Lung_NSC) and the cancer genome atlas (TCGA) projects lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC).

Results

Analysis of the CCLE dataset Lung_NSC identified expression correlation between PD‐L1 and PD‐L2. Moreover, we identified expression correlation between 489 genes and PD‐L1, 191 genes and PD‐L2, and 111 genes for both. PD‐L1 and PD‐L2 also expression correlated in TCGA datasets LUAD and LUSC. In LUAD, we identified expression correlation between 257 genes and PD‐L1, 914 genes and PD‐L2, and 211 genes for both. In LUSC, we identified expression correlation between 26 genes and PD‐L1, 326 genes and PD‐L2, and 13 genes for both. Only a few genes expression correlated with PD‐L1 and PD‐L2 across the CCLE and TCGA datasets. Expression of Interferon signaling‐involved genes converged in particular with the expression correlated genes for PD‐L1 in Lung_NSC, for PD‐L2 in LUSC, and for both PD‐L1 and PD‐L2 in LUAD. In LUSC, PD‐L1, and to a lesser extent PD‐L2, expression correlated with chromosome 9p24 localized genes, indicating a chromosome 9p24 topologically associated domain as an important driver of in particular LUSC PD‐L1 expression. Expression correlation analyses of the PD‐L1 and PD‐L2 receptors programmed cell death protein‐1 (PD‐1), Cluster of differentiation 80 (CD80), and Repulsive guidance molecule B (RGMB) showed that PD‐1 and CD80 expression correlated with both PD‐L1 and PD‐L2 in LUAD. CD80 expression correlated with PD‐L2 in LUSC.

Conclusions

We present gene signatures associated with PD‐L1 and PD‐L2 mRNA expression in NSCLC which could possess importance in relation to understand PD‐1 checkpoint blockade‐responsive biology and development of gene signature based biomarkers for predicting clinical responses to immunotherapy.
Neoadjuvant Trastuzumab Emtansine and Pertuzumab in Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Positive Breast Cancer: Three-Year Outcomes From the Phase III KRISTINE Study
Authors: Hurvitz Sara A. , Martin Miguel , Jung Kyung Hae , Huang Chiun-Sheng , Harbeck Nadia , Valero Vicente , Stroyakovskiy Daniil , Wildiers Hans , Campone Mario , Boileau Jean-François , Fasching Peter A. , Afenjar Karen , Spera Gonzalo , Lopez-Valverde Vanesa , Song Chunyan , Trask Peter , Boulet Thomas , Sparano Joseph A. , Symmans W. Fraser , Thompson Alastair M. , Slamon Dennis
Published: June 2019

PURPOSE

The KRISTINE study compared neoadjuvant trastuzumab emtansine plus pertuzumab (T-DM1+P) with docetaxel, carboplatin, trastuzumab plus P (TCH+P) for the treatment human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–positive stage II to III breast cancer. T-DM1+P led to a lower pathologic complete response rate (44.4% v 55.7%; P = .016), but fewer grade 3 or greater and serious adverse events (AEs). Here, we present 3-year outcomes from KRISTINE.

METHODS

Patients were randomly assigned to neoadjuvant T-DM1+P or TCH+P every 3 weeks for six cycles. Patients who received T-DM1+P continued adjuvant T-DM1+P, and patients who received TCH+P received adjuvant trastuzumab plus pertuzumab. Secondary end points included event-free survival (EFS), overall survival, patient-reported outcomes (measured from random assignment), and invasive disease-free survival (IDFS; measured from surgery).

RESULTS

Of patients, 444 were randomly assigned (T-DM1+P, n = 223; TCH+P, n = 221). Median follow-up was 37 months. Risk of an EFS event was higher with TDM-1+P (hazard ratio [HR], 2.61 [95% CI, 1.36 to 4.98]) with more locoregional progression events before surgery (15 [6.7%] v 0). Risk of an IDFS event after surgery was similar between arms (HR, 1.11 [95% CI, 0.52 to 2.40]). Pathologic complete response was associated with a reduced risk of an IDFS event (HR, 0.24 [95% CI, 0.09 to 0.60]) regardless of treatment arm. Overall, grade 3 or greater AEs (31.8% v 67.7%) were less common with T-DM1+P. During adjuvant treatment, grade 3 or greater AEs (24.5% v 9.9%) and AEs leading to treatment discontinuation (18.4% v 3.8%) were more common with T-DM1+P. Patient-reported outcomes favored T-DM1+P during neoadjuvant treatment and were similar to trastuzumab plus pertuzumab during adjuvant treatment.

CONCLUSION

Compared with TCH+P, T-DM1+P resulted in a higher risk of an EFS event owing to locoregional progression events before surgery, a similar risk of an IDFS event, fewer grade 3 or greater AEs during neoadjuvant treatment, and more AEs leading to treatment discontinuation during adjuvant treatment.
Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder and Other Non–Multiple Sclerosis Central Nervous System Inflammatory Diseases
Authors: Flanagan Eoin P.
Published: June 2019

PURPOSE OF REVIEW

This article reviews the clinical features, diagnostic approach, treatment, and prognosis of central nervous system inflammatory diseases that mimic multiple sclerosis (MS), including those defined by recently discovered autoantibody biomarkers.

RECENT FINDINGS

The discovery of autoantibody biomarkers of inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system (aquaporin-4 IgG and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein IgG) and the recognition that, despite some overlap, their clinical phenotypes are distinct from MS have revolutionized this field of neurology. These autoantibody biomarkers assist in diagnosis and have improved our understanding of the underlying disease pathogenesis. This has allowed targeted treatments to be translated into clinical trials, three of which are now under way in aquaporin-4 IgG–seropositive neuromyelitis optica (NMO) spectrum disorder.

Knowledge of the clinical attributes, MRI findings, CSF parameters, and accompanying autoantibody biomarkers can help neurologists distinguish MS from its inflammatory mimics. These antibody biomarkers provide critical diagnostic and prognostic information and guide treatment decisions. Better recognition of the clinical, radiologic, and laboratory features of other inflammatory MS mimics that lack autoantibody biomarkers has allowed us to diagnose these disorders faster and initiate disease-specific treatments more expeditiously.
Smartphone Photographs to Document Preoperative Dental Examination
Authors: Stone Alexander B. , Aglio Linda S.
Published: June 2019

Dental injury is a common cause of malpractice claims involving anesthesiologists. Inadequate preoperative dental evaluations and incomplete documentation are often cited as contributing factors during reviews of closed claims. Point-of-care smartphone photographs are widely used in other medical fields such as dermatology and plastic surgery. We discuss the use of smartphone photographs for documenting preoperative dental examinations.
ATP-induced reversed thermal sensitivity of O2 binding in both major hemoglobin polymorphs of the non-endothermic Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua
Authors: Nelson Charlotte , Barlow Samantha L. , Berenbrink Michael
Published: June 2019

Atlantic cod is a species affected by climate change with a major polymorphic hemoglobin component (HbI) whose two polymorphs show an inverse change in frequency along a latitudinal temperature cline in the North East Atlantic, and that have been associated with differences in performance and behavioural traits. An earlier study at the northern distribution limit of the species reported differential temperature sensitivities of red blood cell oxygen (O2) affinity between the northern cold-water HbI-2 polymorph and its southern, warm-water HbI-1 counter-part, which has since widely been held as adaptive for the species across its distributional range. The present study critically re-examined this hypothesis by comparing the thermal sensitivity of O2 binding in both purified HbI polymorphs from the southern, high temperature distribution limit of the species under controlled conditions of allosteric modifiers of Hb function. Contrary to the prevailing view the O2-affinity of the major HbI polymorphs did not differ from each other under any of the tested conditions. Depending on pH and ATP concentration, the temperature-sensitive and the temperature-insensitive Hb-O2 affinity phenotypes -previously exclusively ascribed to the HbI-1 and HbI-2, respectively- could be induced in both HbI polymorphs. These results are the first to establish a molecular mechanism behind a reversed temperature-dependence of red blood cell O2 affinity in an non-endotherm fish and lay the basis for future studies on alternative mechanisms behind the differences in distribution, performance, and behavioural traits associated with the different HbI polymorphs of Atlantic cod.
Antioxidant capacity and anoxia-tolerance in Austrofundulus limnaeus embryos
Authors: Wagner Josiah T. , Knapp Michael J. , Podrabsky Jason E.
Published: June 2019

Embryos of Austrofundulus limnaeus can tolerate extreme environmental stresses by entering into a state of metabolic and developmental arrest known as diapause. Oxidative stress is ubiquitous in aerobic organisms and the unique biology and ecology of A. limnaeus likely results in frequent and repeated exposures to oxidative stress during development. Antioxidant capacity of A. limnaeus was explored during development by measuring antioxidant capacity due to small molecules and several enzymatic antioxidant systems. Diapause II embryos can survive for several days in 1% hydrogen peroxide without indications of negative effects. Surprisingly, both small and large molecule antioxidant systems are highest during early development and may be due to maternal provisioning. Antioxidant capacity is largely invested in small molecules during early development and in enzymatic systems during late development. The switch in antioxidant mechanisms and decline in small molecule antioxidants during development correlates with the loss of extreme anoxia tolerance.
Photoluminescence Properties of Eu(III) Complexes with Thienyl-Substituted Diphosphine Dioxide Ligands
Authors: Iwanaga Hiroki
Published: June 2019

Two Eu(III) complexes with thienyl-substituted diphosphine dioxide ligands were prepared and their photoluminescence properties were investigated. Quantum yields of Eu(III)(fod)3(DTDOPO) (1) (fod = tris(6,6,7,7,8,8,8-heptafluoro-2,2-dimethyl-3,5-octanedionato) and DTDOPO = dithienyl[3-(dioctylphosphinyl)propyl]phosphine oxide) and Eu(III)(fod)3(DTDBPO) (2) (DTDBPO = dithienyl[5-(dibutylphosphinyl)pentyl]phosphine oxide) in the solid state were remarkably high (ΦTOT (solid) = 0.60 and 0.68, respectively) compared with that of Eu(III)(fod)3(DPDO) (3) (DPDO = diphenyl[3-(dioctylphosphinyl)propyl]phosphine oxide) (ΦTOT (solid) = 0.47). Given that Eu(III)(fod)3(DTDOPO) (1) and Eu(III)(fod)3(DPDO) (3) have the same molecular structure except for their aromatic substituents, substitution of thienyl groups for phenyl groups is effective for increasing the quantum yield of Eu(III) complexes in the solid state. Another noteworthy result regarding the photoluminescence properties of complexes 1 and 2 with thienyl groups is that quantum yields have strong positive linear correlations with concentration in ethyl acetate, and those in the solid state are located on the extended line. This means that no concentration quenching is observed.
Communicative Installations of Future Lawyers of Social Sphere as a Factor of the Development of Professional Information Culture of Their Personality
Authors: Бонкало Т. , Bonkalo T. , Тузов И. , Tuzov I. , Бонкало С. , Bonkalo S. , Журавлева Е. , Zhuravleva E.
Published: June 2019

The article is devoted to the problem of the formation of future social lawyers in colleges of a professional information culture. The article contains the results of empirical studies aimed at identifying the relationship between the level of formation of future lawyers of the middle tier of the professional information culture and the degree of expression of their negative communicative attitudes. The study was carried out on the basis of Moscow colleges, implementing programs of secondary vocational education in the direction of training 40.02.01 “The Law and Organization of Social Security” (a program for in-depth training of middle-level specialists of the APSP). In the empirical study was attended by 225 college students enrolled in graduate courses relevant training. In the article, the authors reveal the essence and content of the professional information culture of future lawyers as a psychological and pedagogical phenomenon, determines ways of measuring the level of its formation, conducts an empirical study, as a result of which it comes to a conclusion about the importance and significance of correcting communicative attitudes spheres.
Migracja, studia i praca. Studenci z Ukrainy w Krakowskiej Akademii im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego
Authors: Rokicki Jarosław
Published: June 2019

MIGRATION, EDUCATION AND WORK. STUDENTS FROM UKRAINE IN ANDRZEJ FRYCZ MODRZEWSKI KRAKOW UNIVERSITYThe paper presents results of the survey carried out by the author among students – citizens of Ukraine – who study at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University. The survey has been aimed not only at social and demographic profiling of the group, but also at outlining dominant reasons that encouraged young Ukrainian citizens to choose Poland, Krakow, and the Frycz Modrzewski University as their education centre; at assessing attractiveness of the studying, adaptation in a foreign country, contacts with the Poles both inside and outside of the academy. Based on the results of the survey the attractiveness of studies in Poland results from the membership of Poland in the European Union, recognition of the high level of education in Poland, relatively low costs of studies compared to the other European countries, and geographical and cultural proximity of Ukraine and Poland.
Sápmi. Ziemia Samów a formowanie granic krajów północnej Europy
Authors: Pawełko Mariola
Published: June 2019

SÁPMI. THE SAMI LAND AND BOUNDARIES FORMATION OF NORTHERN EUROPESápmi is an area strongly connected with culture of the Sami people, the indigenous inhabitants of Northern Europe. Gradual formation of nation states – Russia and Scandinavian kingdoms – had negative impact on lifestyle of the Sami people. This impact had a significant influence on their mentality and modification of the genuine culture. The paper aims to study the main effects of boundaries formation of nation states for culture of the autochthons of Northern Europe.
Między Rosją a Czechosłowacją: Ruś łemkowska w polityce międzynarodowej w dobie starań o podmiotowość polityczną, 1918-1921
Authors: Zięba Andrzej A.
Published: June 2019

Between Russia and Czechoslovakia: Lemko Rus’ Struggle for Political Independence in the Years 1918-1921 and International PoliticsThe events in Lemko Rus had, in the years 1918-1921, a subjective and political character, and were the result of Lemkos’ own initiatives and activities, and not just external influences. They proved to be the national maturation of the Lemko community. However, it cannot be said that the newly created Lemko councils aimed at or constituted their own Lemko state with the headquarters in the village of Florynka. It becomes clear after analysing the chronology of Lemko political postulates in the context of events in the regional and global plane. None of the subsequent stages of the process of specifying their nationality by the Lemkos was connected with the idea of a separate Lemko statehood. Formally speaking, i.e., from the perspective of law and international relations, the Lemko region first wanted to belong to the Russian state, then to Czechoslovakia, always strongly rejecting the notion of being part of the resurgent Poland and the then-created Ukraine. Czechoslovakia was not an alternative to Russia for Lemko politicians, but only a tactical necessity against the momentary, as it was believed, impossibility to implement the original Russian option. It was a case created by a coincidence of ad-hoc circumstances. Be the Lemkos’ own country in the national sense, that is, they met both the political and cultural criteria of belonging there, which were important to their community. The Czechoslovak option somehow forced, or rather made possible the second option – striving to create a local state with a wider formula than just the Lemko region, connecting all Rusyns living in Austria-Hungary, that is also those from Eastern Galicia, Bukovina and Hungary. Such a Carpatho-Ruthenian republic was supposed to be a substitute, necessary for formal reasons, as an autonomous element in the federal structure of the Czechoslovak state, and for political reasons, as a safeguard for the national aspirations of the such a Carpatho-Rusyn and a guarantee of their future unification with democratic Russia. While Russia, both tsarist and liberal, guided by its national doctrine, was willing to unconditionally include all Austro-Hungarian Ruthenians in its borders, including also westernmost Lemkos, Czechoslovak leaders wanted to bite only as much as they could chew economically and politically, i.e. – include only regions rich in cities or natural deposits. The poor and non-urbanized Lemko region was treated only as a convenient item in their subversive game of borders with Poland.
Falls and associated factors among elderly users of Primary Healthcare Services
Authors: Santos Scarlet Feitosa , Zucoloto Miriane Lucindo , Terada Natalia Akemi Yamada , Martinez Edson Zangiacomi
Published: June 2019

The objective of this cross-sectional study was to estimate the self-reported prevalence of falls among elderly users (older than 60 years) of the Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, primary healthcare services in the past six months and to identify associated factors. Data were collected from five healthcare districts by means of personal interviews with the users while they waited for the appointment. Log-binomial regression models adjusted for confounding variables and prevalence ratios were used to measure the association between independent and dependent variables. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), adapted to elderly, was used to assess their physical activity. A total of 357 adults were interviewed, with 62.7% being women and mean age of 69.9 years old. The prevalence rates of falls in the past six months were 19.6% (95%CI: 13.2–27.3) and 32.6% (95%CI: 26.4–39.2), respectively, for men and women. e prevalence of falls among users with lower level of physical activity was 2.3 times higher than that among those with higher level of physical activity (RP = 2.3; 95%CI: 1.4–3.8) after adjustment for gender, age group and socio-economical class. In conclusion, falls are frequent among the elderly and the practice of physical activities can improve their health condition, thus preventing the occurrence of falls.
Thinking on our feet
Authors: Cooke Tim
Published: June 2019

Despite often being looked down upon, early years practititioners are teaching in the full professional sense – plus a whole lot more. Tim Cooke considers the rich rewards of teaching this age range.
Communicate with feeling
Authors: Baker Charlotte
Published: June 2019

Implementing a strategy of ‘creative communication’ through the perspective of art therapy can give children the experience they need to develop emotional awareness of themselves and others.
Montessori in full bloom
Authors: Hart Karen
Published: June 2019

A special garden at this year's Chelsea Flower Show marked a hundred years since Montessori teaching methods were brought to the UK, and was designed to provide inspiration to all early years settings.
Stepping up a gear to reach men
Authors: Davies Jeremy
Published: June 2019

It's tempting to think of the UK as a gender-equal society – or at least, well on the road towards it. But the lack of male childcarers suggests otherwise, which is what a new campaign is aiming to address.
Getting into shape
Authors: White Hilary
Published: June 2019

Develop children's mathematical skills by supporting them to cut food into shapes to produce a varied and colourful salad. Help them to link the shapes they have created with those in the environment.
Weighing up dummies
Authors: Rawstrone Annette
Published: June 2019

Parents should give careful thought about whether to introduce a young child to a dummy and they also need to think about how their child will be weaned off it at a later time, says Annette Rawstrone.
Exterminate the germs
Authors: Clarke Jenni
Published: June 2019

At its most fundamental level, mastering hygiene and self-care practices involves children working on physical development skills. Jenni Clarke suggests activities that will build their confidence.
Shaken and stirred
Authors: Hewson Claire
Published: June 2019

Home-made sensory bottles will fascinate children as a way to experiment with different liquids, and how they look and react. Record how their predictions support their Understanding of the World.
The role of the labrum in early treatment of unstable developmental dysplasia of the hip
Authors: De Pellegrin Maurizio , Montanari Lucrezia , Moharamzadeh Desiree , Eberhardt Oliver
Published: June 2019

The objective of the paper is to analyse the role of the labrum with particular attention to its morphological changes in unstable dysplastic hips during treatment. Between January 2013 and December 2015, data were collected on 86 unstable, dysplastic hips, which were divided into type D (n = 13), type III (n = 49) and type IV (n = 24). The labrum was evaluated with ultrasound examination (US) for echogenicity and dimensions with inter-/intra-observer tests comparing the US images at diagnosis and at the end of treatment. Statistical analysis was performed. At the end of treatment of unstable, dysplastic hips, the labrum was more echogenic with a frequency of 97% and was larger with a frequency of 96%. The labrum has an active stabilizing role in unstable dysplastic hips and it undergoes a statistically significant increase of echogenicity and dimensions after treatment.

Cite this article: EFORT Open Rev 2019;4 DOI: 10.1302/2058-5241.4.180053
Orthopaedic registries: the Australian experience
Authors: de Steiger Richard N. , Graves Stephen E.
Published: June 2019

The Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry first began data collection on 1 September 1999 and full nationwide implementation commenced in January 2003. The purpose of the Registry is to improve the quality of care for individuals receiving joint replacement surgery. The Registry enables surgeons, academic institutions, governments and industry to request specific data that are not available in published annual reports. There is an established system for identifying prostheses with a higher than anticipated rate of revision (HTARR) which was introduced in 2004. The higher rate of revision for the ASR Hip Resurfacing System was first identified by this process in 2007. There has been a reduction in revision hip and knee replacement over the years that the Registry has been in operation, and the addition of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and data linkage will enable more extensive analysis of joint replacement surgery in the future.

Cite this article: EFORT Open Rev 2019;4 DOI: 10.1302/2058-5241.4.180071
The what, when and how of orthopaedic registers: an introduction into register-based research
Authors: Varnum Claus , Pedersen Alma Bečić , Gundtoft Per Hviid , Overgaard Søren
Published: June 2019

Establishment of orthopaedic registers started in 1975 and many registers have been initiated since. The main purpose of registers is to collect information on patients, implants and procedures in order to monitor and improve the outcome of the specific procedure. Data validity reflects the quality of the registered data and consists of four major aspects: coverage of the register, registration completeness of procedures/patients, registration completeness of variables included in the register and accuracy of registered variables. Survival analysis is often used in register studies to estimate the incidence of an outcome. The most commonly used survival analysis is the Kaplan–Meier survival curves, which present the proportion of patients who have not experienced the defined event (e.g. death or revision of a prosthesis) in relation to the time. Depending on the research question, competing events can be taken into account by using the cumulative incidence function. Cox regression analysis is used to compare survival data for different groups taking differences between groups into account. When interpreting the results from observational register-based studies a number of factors including selection bias, information bias, chance and confounding have to be taken into account. In observational register-based studies selection bias is related to, for example, absence of complete follow-up of the patients, whereas information bias is related to, for example, misclassification of exposure (e.g. risk factor of interest) or/and outcome. The REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected Data guidelines should be used for studies based on routinely-collected health data including orthopaedic registers. Linkage between orthopaedic registers, other clinical quality databases and administrative health registers may be of value when performing orthopaedic register-based research.

Cite this article: EFORT Open Rev 2019;4 DOI: 10.1302/2058-5241.4.180097
Femoral hernia containing the right fallopian tube: chronic pain with menstruation
Authors: Marcos-Santos P , Bailon-Cuadrado M , Choolani-Bhojwani E , Pacheco-Sanchez D
Published: June 2019

Femoral hernias represent less than 10% of groin hernias and appear mainly in adult women; incarceration is more usual than in other hernias. Content found within the sac is commonly small bowel or omentum. Other anatomical structures, such as appendix, bladder, Meckel’s diverticulum, ectopic testis, stomach and gynaecological organs are extremely unusual. A 48-year-old woman presented with intense right groin pain over 48 hours. Her past medical history revealed periodical moderate right groin pain coincident with her menstrual cycles, usually self-limited. No abdominal symptoms or fever were present. On physical examination, an incarcerated right femoral hernia was suspected. Subsequently abdominal ultrasound revealed a right femoral hernia containing an echogenic structure with conserved vascularisation. The patient underwent an emergency surgery. During the procedure the right fallopian tube and several small cysts were discovered as the hernia sac contents. As no ischaemic signs were observed, and the sac was sutured and reduced. Femoral hernioplasty was accomplished with polypropylene mesh. The postoperative course was uneventful and the patient was discharged within 24 hours. After an exhaustive literature review, we have found few cases reporting the presence of fallopian tube in adult women with femoral hernia, but none described a recurrent groin pain coinciding with menstruation, as in this case.
Preface
Authors: Kertész Attila
Published: June 2019

The 11th Conference of PhD Students in Computer Science (CSCS) was organized by the Institute of Informatics of the University of Szeged (SZTE) and held in Szeged, Hungary, between June 25-27, 2018.
Percepção da qualidade de serviços na Biblioteca Municipal Murilo Mendes de Juiz de Fora na perspectiva do usuário
Authors: Cardoso Antonio Luiz Mattos de Souza , Silveira Rogerio Zanon da , Miguel Marcelo Calderari
Published: June 2019

A percepção de qualidade da comunidade usuária pode ser considerada o início de ciclo de satisfação, formação de imagem e desenvolvimento do serviço no âmbito dos espaços não formais de educação. Na biblioteca pública, centro de informação utilitária, tal fato se intensifica por se tratar de um serviço notadamente experiencial. A partir disso, essa pesquisa objetiva avaliar a qualidade percebida pelos interagentes na Biblioteca Municipal Murilo Mendes de Juiz de Fora, com o intuito de auxiliar a melhoria dos serviços ofertados. Para tanto, foi realizada um diagnóstico descritivo, quantitativo, do tipo Survey. A amostra foi composta por 410 participantes. O instrumento de coleta de dados foi o questionário baseado na métrica Servqual. Os dados foram coletados entre março e maio de 2017 no hall de saída da biblioteca. Os principais resultados indicam que a qualidade percebida é boa, entretanto, a gestão deve se atentar os serviços para pessoas com deficiência. Recomenda-se o método Servqual com adaptações para gestão do processo de desenvolvimento de serviços e propõem que a abordagem seja aprofundada para vindouras pesquisas na área da Ciência da Informação.
Sin meridianos y sin reloj: el mundo feliz de Alan Pauls
Authors: Rodríguez Montiel Emiliano
Published: June 2019

Este trabajo se propone explorar el conjunto de elementos formales y teóricos que conforman el espacio y el tiempo de la narrativa de Alan Pauls, a fin de comprender el mundo anacrónico y atópico que se ficcionaliza en su literatura. La hipótesis sostiene que el mundo anacrónico y atópico ficcionalizado se constituye como una figuración de su concepción de lectura y estatuto a contratiempo de su política de escritura, así como de lo contemporáneo/pos−global, en tanto que permite dilucidar la insuficiencia conceptual de las nociones modernas de «tiempo histórico» y «mundo» para interpretar las experiencias literarias analizadas.
Sobre: Arcana Imperii. Tratado metafísico-político. La comunidad de los espectros III, de Fabián Ludueña Romandini. Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila, 2018.
Authors: Arce Rafael
Published: June 2019

Sobre: Arcana Imperii. Tratado metafísico-político. La comunidad de los espectros III, de Fabián Ludueña Romandini. Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila, 2018.
Investigating pre-service teachers’ informally-developed online professional learning networks
Authors: Kearney Matthew , Maher Damian , Pham Lien
Published: June 2019

This study investigates how final year pre-service teachers (PSTs) from several countries use social media to support their online professional learning network (PLN) activities. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, it uses a global survey and interview methods to generate fresh insights into PSTs’ informally-developed online PLN practices and their perceived benefits of these self-initiated activities. Findings uncover new understandings of contemporary PSTs’ patterns of use and configurations of their online PLNs and have implications for their effective transitioning into the teaching profession.