bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of Tailored Yoga in Survivors of Head and Neck Cancer: A Pilot Study
Authors: Adair Melissa , Murphy Barbara , Yarlagadda Sujatha , Deng Jie , Dietrich Mary S. , Ridner Sheila H.
Published: January 2018

Purpose: Treatment for head and neck cancer (HNC) results in long-term toxicities and increased physical and psychosocial survivor burden. There are a limited number of treatments for these late effects. Yoga postures, breath work, relaxation, and meditation, may improve these late effects. The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of a tailored yoga program in HNC survivors and obtain preliminary efficacy data. Methods: This was a randomized wait-list control study of yoga-naive HNC survivors who were >3 months post–cancer treatment. Baseline data were collected. Participants were randomized to either an 8-week hatha yoga intervention group or a wait-list group. Feasibility and efficacy data were collected. At 4 and 8 weeks, patients underwent a repeat assessment of health. Wait-list control group participants were offered the yoga program after data collection. Descriptive statistics evaluated feasibility. Mixed effects general linear models were used to generate estimates of the efficacy outcomes. Results: Seventy-three individuals were screened and 40 were eligible. All eligible individuals consented and enrolled. Five of the intervention group discontinued early and none in the wait-list control group. Feasibility was affirmed as participants were recruited and retained in the study, there were no adverse events, fidelity to protocol was demonstrated, and satisfaction rates were high. Efficacy measures indicated potential benefit for shoulder range of motion ( d = 0.57-0.86, P < .05), pain ( d = 0.67-0.90, P ≤ .005), and anxiety ( d = 0.59, P = .015). Conclusion: A tailored hatha yoga program is feasible and potentially efficacious for HNC survivors. Preliminary data supports further investigation of yoga in this population is needed.
Fraction From Lycium barbarum Polysaccharides Reduces Immunotoxicity and Enhances Antitumor Activity of Doxorubicin in Mice
Authors: Deng Xiangliang , Luo Shuang , Luo Xia , Hu Minghua , Ma Fangli , Wang Yuanyuan , Zhou Lian , Huang Rongrong
Published: January 2018

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether fraction from Lycium barbarum polysaccharide (LBP) could reduce immunotoxicity and enhance antitumor activity of doxorubicin (Dox) in mice. A water-soluble LBP fraction, designated LBP3, was isolated from edible Chinese herbal Lycium barbarum and used in this study. To investigate the effect of LBP3 on Dox-induced immunotoxicity, tumor-free mice were used and treated with either normal saline, Dox, or Dox plus LBP3. To investigate the effect of LBP3 on antitumor activity of Dox, H22 tumor-bearing mice were used and treated with either normal saline, Dox, LBP3, or Dox plus LBP3. The results showed that LBP3 did not protect against the body weight loss caused by Dox, but it promoted the recovery of body weight starting at day 5 after Dox treatment in tumor-free mice. LBP3 also improved peripheral blood lymphocyte counts, promoted cell cycle recovery in bone marrow cells, and restored the cytotoxicity of natural killer cells. Furthermore, in H22 tumor-bearing mice, LBP3 enhanced antitumor activity of Dox and improved peripheral blood lymphocyte counts and the cytotoxicity of splenocytes. In brief, our results demonstrated that LBP3 could reduce the immunotoxicity and enhance antitumor activity of Dox.
Engaging the Underrepresented Sex: Male Participation in Chronic Disease Self-Management Education (CDSME) Programs
Authors: Smith Matthew Lee , Bergeron Caroline D. , Ahn SangNam , Towne Samuel D. , Mingo Chivon A. , Robinson Kayin T. , Mathis Jamarcus , Meng Lu , Ory Marcia G.
Published: January 2018

Females are more likely than males to participate in evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention programs targeted for middle-aged and older adults. Despite the availability and benefits of Stanford’s Chronic Disease Self-Management Education (CDSME) programs, male participation remains low. This study identifies personal characteristics of males who attended CDSME program workshops and identifies factors associated with successful intervention completion. Data were analyzed from 45,375 male CDSME program participants nationwide. Logistic regression was performed to examine factors associated with workshop attendance. Males who were aged 65–79 (OR = 1.27, p < .001), Hispanic (OR = 1.22, p < .001), African American (OR = 1.13, p < .001), Asian/Pacific Islander (OR = 1.26, p < .001), Native Hawaiian (OR = 3.14, p < .001), and residing in nonmetro areas (OR = 1.26, p < .001) were more likely to complete the intervention. Participants with 3+ chronic conditions were less likely to complete the intervention (OR = 0.87, p < .001). Compared to health-care organization participants, participants who attended workshops at senior centers (OR = 1.38, p < .001), community/multipurpose facilities (OR = 1.21, p < .001), and faith-based organizations (OR = 1.37, p < .001) were more likely to complete the intervention. Men who participated in workshops with more men were more likely to complete the intervention (OR = 2.14, p < .001). Once enrolled, a large proportion of males obtained an adequate intervention dose. Findings highlight potential strategies to retain men in CDSME programs, which include diversifying workshop locations, incorporating Session Zero before CDSME workshops, and using alternative delivery modalities (e.g., online).
Discontinuation of Postoperative Prophylactic Antibiotics After Noninstrumented Spinal Surgery: Results of a Quality Improvement Project
Authors: Lewis Ariane , Lin Jessica , James Herbert , Hill Travis C. , Sen Rajeev , Pacione Donato
Published: January 2018

Background:

Numerous medical society guidelines recommend discontinuation of antibiotics at a maximum of 24 hours after noninstrumented spinal surgery, even when a drain is left in place. As a result of these recommendations, our institution’s Neurosurgery Quality Improvement Committee decided to stop administering prolonged prophylactic systemic antibiotics (PPSAs) to patients with drains after noninstrumented spinal surgery.

Methods:

We retrospectively reviewed data for patients who had noninstrumented spinal surgery performed by a neurosurgeon at our institution between December 2012 and July 2014 (PPSA period) and December 2014 and July 2016 (non-PPSA period) and had a drain left in place postoperatively. In the PPSA period, patients received antibiotics until drain removal. In the non-PPSA period, patients received antibiotics for a maximum of 24 hours.

Results:

We identified 58 patients in the PPSA period and 55 in the non-PPSA period. Discontinuation of PPSAs resulted in a nonsignificant increase in the frequency of surgical site infections (SSIs; 0% in the PPSA period vs 4% in the non-PPSA period; P = .24).

Conclusion:

After discontinuing PPSAs for patients with noninstrumented spinal procedures, as is recommended for quality improvement, we saw a nonsignificant increase in our rate of SSIs. Further monitoring of this population is warranted.
Acromioclavicular joint disruptions: A comparison of two surgical approaches ‘hook’ and ‘rope’
Authors: Athar MS , Ashwood Neil , Arealis Georgios , Hamlet Mark , Salt Emma
Published: January 2018

Introduction:

Acromioclavicular joint injuries are common shoulder girdle injuries most commonly resulting from a direct blow to the acromion with the arm adducted. Type-I or type-II acromioclavicular joint injuries can be managed with sling immobilization, early shoulder motion, and physiotherapy. The management of type-III injuries remains controversial and is individualized. Type IV and V injuries should be treated surgically. A myriad of surgical techniques for the management of acromioclavicular joint injuries have been reported.

Methods:

We present a comparative study of 76 patients treated with two most common modalities of treatment for AC joint disruption and that is Hook plate stabilisation (n=52) or arthroscopically assisted tight rope stabilisation (n=24). The primary objective was to establish whether hook plate stabilization was superior compared to arthroscopic tight rope fixation in reducing pain and increasing function in the short-term and long-term for patients with AC joint disruptions III-IV. We also wanted to assess how quickly patients returned to their work/job. It was a prospective study, we included all the patients operated between 2008 and 2015 for AC joint disruption by the two shoulder surgeons of our department. All patients followed a strict physiotherapy protocol and were assessed at 6 weeks, 3 months and 12 months. We used the Harm and cost criteria of assessment and the patient specific functional outcome scores.

Results:

Both modalities of treatment have high patient satisfaction rate, return to work is faster in tight rope group but after a year both group of patients returned to their premorbid state. Removal of hook plate is not mandatory and lysis of acromion is rare (1% in our series).

Conclusion:

Despite the fact that both methods yielded similar results and have statistically similar number of complications, the type of postoperative complications was different between groups. The plate group had more postoperative pain and worse function but both aspects improved after plate removal. The rope group had more complex complications including deep infection and recurrence of deformity and fracture. These differences should be taken into consideration when consenting the patient regarding possible treatment.
Prognostic tumor sequencing panels frequently identify germ line variants associated with hereditary hematopoietic malignancies
Authors: Drazer Michael W. , Kadri Sabah , Sukhanova Madina , Patil Sushant A. , West Allison H. , Feurstein Simone , Calderon Dalein A. , Jones Matthew F. , Weipert Caroline M. , Daugherty Christopher K. , Ceballos-López Adrián A. , Raca Gordana , Lingen Mark W. , Li Zejuan , Segal Jeremy P. , Churpek Jane E. , Godley Lucy A.
Published: January 2018

Key Points

NGS-based prognostic panels may identify individuals at risk for HHMs despite not being designed for this purpose. Variant allele frequency >0.4 and gene of interest may be predictive of germ line origin.
A synthetic cell-penetrating peptide derived from nuclear localization signal of EPS8 exerts anticancer activity against acute myeloid leukemia
Authors: Chen Yiran , Xie Xiaoling , Wu Anqin , Wang Lei , Hu Yuxing , Zhang Honghao , Li Yuhua
Published: January 2018

Background

Oncogenic roles of epidermal growth factor receptor pathway substrate no.8 (EPS8) have been widely reported in various tumors, making targeting of EPS8 an appealing prospect. Here, we describe the role of EPS8 in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and consider the potential of EPS8 as an anti-AML target. Nuclear localization signal (NLS) residues of tumor-associated proteins are crucial for cell cycle progression, and specific inhibitors derived from the NLS have inhibitory effect on cancer cells. The NLS in EPS8 has potential as a specific anti-AML target.

Methods

Gene Expression Omnibus expression profiles of AML patients were used to test associations between EPS8 expression and AML patient outcome. The biological characteristics of AML cells after EPS8 knockdown were analyzed in vitro and in vivo. A specific peptide (CP-EPS8-NLS) derived from the NLS of EPS8 (amino acids 298–310) was synthesized, and the anti-AML effects of CP-EPS8-NLS were analyzed in cancer cells and in xenograft models. Mutated CP-EPS8-NLS and penetratin served as controls.

Results

We observed that elevated EPS8 expression in AML patients is associated with poor outcome. Knockdown of EPS8 significantly suppressed the survival of AML cells in vitro and in vivo. CP-EPS8-NLS interfered with EPS8-associated signaling and consequently exerted anti-AML activity. Importantly, CP-EPS8-NLS displayed anti-AML activity in various AML cell types, with diminished activity in PBMCs. CP-ESP8-NLS suppressed U937 cell proliferation, and injection of CP-EPS8-NLS exerted potent antitumor activity in the xenograft tumor models. A synergistic effect of CP-EPS8-NLS and chemotherapeutic agents was also observed in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, treatment of various AML cells with CP-EPS8-NLS downregulated the expression of EPS8 and its downstream pathways.

Conclusions

The function of CP-EPS8-NLS is explained by the presence of a NLS in EPS8, which has been shown to induce nuclear translocation, consequently resulting in EPS8 overexpression. These results indicate that EPS8 is a potential target for AML treatment.
A non-rigid registration method for the analysis of local deformations in the wood cell wall
Authors: Patera Alessandra , Carl Stephan , Stampanoni Marco , Derome Dominique , Carmeliet Jan
Published: January 2018

This paper concerns the problem of wood cellular structure image registration. Given the large variability of wood geometry and the important changes in the cellular organization due to moisture sorption, an affine-based image registration technique is not exhaustive to describe the overall hygro-mechanical behaviour of wood at micrometre scales. Additionally, free tools currently available for non-rigid image registration are not suitable for quantifying the structural deformations of complex hierarchical materials such as wood, leading to errors due to misalignment. In this paper, we adapt an existing non-rigid registration model based on B-spline functions to our case study. The so-modified algorithm combines the concept of feature recognition within specific regions locally distributed in the material with an optimization problem. Results show that the method is able to quantify local deformations induced by moisture changes in tomographic images of wood cell wall with high accuracy. The local deformations provide new important insights in characterizing the swelling behaviour of wood at the cell wall level.
Exclusion zone
Authors: Sullivan Karen
Published: January 2018

More than half of UK prisoners were excluded from school. In a new series of articles for SecEd, Karen Sullivan considers the exclusion picture in England and looks at possible alternative approaches
Effect of Cold Storage and Modified Atmosphere Packaging on Strawberry (Fragaria X Ananassa Duch.) cv. “Arben” Fruit Keeping Quality
Authors: Rateb Abu-Zahra Taleb
Published: January 2018

ABSTRACT: Strawberry is one of the most popular fruits worldwide. Therefore, it is important to maintain its supply and freshness and potency guaranteed from the farms to the point of consumption. Strawberries spoil rapidly and the quality changes with storage delays. However, little is known about the effect of storage methods on the changes of its quality. In this study, two storage methods; Cold Storage (CS) and Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) were investigated to see how it will maintain its quality. Results obtained showed that storage method has an effect on keeping its quality, and it proved that MAP is the acceptable storage method because it kept on strawberry quality, extended storage period, and decreased weight loss, in contrast, showed the highest fruit decay, in compare to the cold stored fruits. And that means; MAP can be useful supplements to provide optimum storage conditions (temperature and relative humidity) and maintain the quality of fresh strawberry fruits after harvest.
GSTM1/GSTT1 Gene Polymorphism in North Indian Population and their Association to Hypertension
Authors: Ritambhara Ritambhara , Kumar Anup , Shankar Lal Srivastava Daya , Vijayaraghavalu Sivakumar , Kumar Munish
Published: January 2018

ABSTRACT: Hypertension has multifactorial background and is a life style related disorder. Arterial hypertension is one of the most common types of hypertension and associated to oxidative stress known to be implicated in its pathogenesis. Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are phase II detoxification enzymes that play an important role in cellular defense against oxidative. GSTT1 and GSTM1 gene polymorphisms are reported to be associated with arterial hypertension in several populations and ethnic groups. GSTM1and GSTT1null genotype results in the impaired enzyme activity and consequently greater vulnerability towards various diseases such as cancer. The present study has been done to assess whether GSTT1 and GSTM1 null genotypes are associated with arterial hypertension among North Indian population. We have enrolled 99 arterial hypertension patients and 99 age and sex matched control individuals. Genotyping of GSTM1 and GSTT1 was done by multiplex PCR. We found that GSTM1 null genotype may have risk for hypertension (OR 1.75, CI 0.93-3.2), while for GSTT1 null genotypes shows protection toward hypertension (OR 0.254, CI-0.113-0.57). GSTM1 null genotypes serve as potential genetic factor and may be an independent risk factor for development of hypertension whereas GSTT1 null may have role in protection against hypertension in North Indian populations.
Antifungal Activity of Various Extracts of Seeds of the Plant Malva Parviflora (Linn)
Authors: Raina Jadhav , Sangeeta Parihar
Published: January 2018

ABSTRACT: Development of more effective and less toxic antifungal agents is required for the treatment of various fungal disease.Plants and their extraction preparation have beenused as medicine against infectious diseases.The present study was aimed to study, the antifungal activity of the seeds of various seed abstract of plant Malva Parviflora (Linn). The antifungal activity of seeds extract of plant was determine by using agar well diffusion method,MIC(minimum inhibitoryconcentration) and MFC (minimum fungicidal count)by using micro dilution method . The seeds extract of the plant were examined using Methanol, Ethyl acetate ,Petroleum ether and water as solvent and tested against different fungi pathogens. From the result it can be concluded that the all the seeds extract shows the significant activity against the micro organism, hence these extract may be used as a source of antifungal agent obtained from herbal medicine and may be explore as new and effective antifungal agent. Various solvent extracts of the plant Malva parvifiora (Linn) have been found to possess enough antibacterial activity and may potentially be explored as human antifungal agent.
Effect of Morus alba against Hyperglycemic and Hyperlipidemic Activities in Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Nephropathy
Authors: Swathi P. , Gana Manjusha K. , Vivekanand M. , Ramkishan A. , Bhavani B.
Published: January 2018

ABSTRACT: The present study was designed to investigate the antihyperglycemic and hypolipidemic activities of ethanolic leaf extract of Morus alba (EMA) in Streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. Blood glucose, serum parameters such as glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c), bilirubin, albumin, creatinine, total protein, urea, lipid profile, and urine parameters such as urine protein, creatinine and volume and renal antioxidant enzymes like SOD, CAT, GSH and MDA were estimated at the end of 12 weeks study period. Kidney histopathology was also done. The treatment with EMA showed significant (p<0.05) reduction in the elevated blood glucose, HbA1c, kidney function parameters and lipid profile in STZ induced diabetic rats. Treatment with EMA exerted improvement in antioxidant enzymes as SOD, CAT, GSH and reduction in MDA level profile in STZ induced diabetic rats. Histopathology reveals, EMA showed marked amelioration of glomerulosclerosis caused by STZ. The activities of Morus alba might be due to the presence of antioxidant principles like terpenoids and sterols.
Assessment of Genotoxic Effects of Nux Vomica as Homeopathic Drug on Mitotic Chromosomes of Vicia Faba
Authors: Dayal Sangeeta , Kumar Harshal
Published: January 2018

ABSTRACT: Extract of Nux vomica is used as homeopathic drug to cure various nervous disorders like mental emotion epilepsy, prolepses of the rectum, hydrophobia etc. The given dose of this drug is very small because of its poisonous effect in higher dose. In the present investigation we want to assess toxic effects of Nux vomica on somatic chromosomes of Vicia faba. Four concentrations 5%, 10%, 20% and 30%, were used for the treatment of root tips of test plant. There were number of abnormalities observed like stickiness at orientation of chromosomes, un-organization of chromosomes, fragmentation during separation of chromatids, multiple chromatin bridges formation etc. These types of aberrations were increased with increased concentration and duration of treatment of this drug.
Cell Surface Hydrophobicity as a Virulence Factor in Candida albicans
Authors: R. Goswami Renuka , D. Pohare Suhas , S. Raut Jayant , Mohan Karuppayil S.
Published: January 2018

ABSTRACT: Cell surface hydrophobicity (CSH) is one of the important virulence attributes which helps Candida albicans to be a successful fungal pathogen. It influences several steps in pathogenesis of C. albicans leading to establishment of infection. CSH plays an important role in adhesion of cells to host tissues and catheters/medical devices implanted in patients. Adhesion to surfaces and subsequent biofilm formation are crucial because it may result in resistance to antifungal drugs. This important pathogenicity determinant would also be an attractive antifungal target. Various studies indicate that antifungal drugs tend to lower the CSH of Candida cells. Interestingly, molecules of plant origin have been reported to modulate CSH, reduce adhesion and interfere in biofilm formation by C. albicans. The review presents a brief account of biochemical basis of CSH, its role in adhesion and biofilm formation by C. albicans as well as explores it as an antifungal drug target.
Synthesis of Bioactive Glass Powder Using Sol-Gel Method and Shaping Using Plasma Spark Sintering
Authors: Mohsenpour Tehrani Mehdi , Sobhani Manocher
Published: January 2018

ABSTRACT: In the present study, the synthesis of bioactive glass powder is carried out using the sol-gel method and in an acidic environment. TEOS (Tetraethyl orthosilicate) is used as the raw material of supplying Silica and TEP (three ethyl phosphates) is used as the raw material for providing phosphate powder compounds. Synthesis is done without water and using pure alcohol solvent 99.99%. After preparation of powder from the gel and drying it, the heat treatment process was performed at 500, 550 and 600 C for 2 hours on the powder. Thus, the bioactive glass powder was prepared for the SPS stage. In the present study due to technological limitations (impossibility of access to the high pressures of the SPS device used), at the formation stage, the maximum force of 20 tons was selected using the SPS device. Experiments performed on the powder include XRD and DTA. The results of this research show that performing heat treatment at a maximum temperature of 550°C with the aim of increasing the maintenance of the amorphous structure of the product is the most ideal temperature for heat treatment. Also, the use of suitable molds in the SPS process with a tolerance of up to 300 MPa is a requirement of the process.
Mujeres afrocostarricenses y multiculturalismo tardío: reforma de la constitución de la República (blanca) de Costa Rica
Authors: Muñoz Muñoz Marianela
Published: January 2018

Se analiza el escenario de la reforma del artículo 1 de la Constitución Política de Costa Rica para reconocer el carácter pluriétnico y multicultural de la nación, a partir de sus protagonistas y tiempos de aprobación. Por un lado, se plantea la relación entre los procesos de formación racial y la tardanza en el multiculturalismo constitucional. Por el otro, se identifican los desafíos y estrategias de mujeres afrocostarricenses para enmarcar dicha reforma en términos de justicia social.
One Man Hollywood: The Decline of Black Creative Production in Post-Network Television
Authors: Christian Aymar Jean , White Khadijah Costley
Published: January 2018

Aymar Christian and Khadijah Costley White theorize Perry’s place in the television history, explicitly in the context of his niche production system and industrial marketing practices. Christian and Costley White critique Perry’s dominance in the televisual landscape and the numerous ways in which his direct control over his media entities has compromised not only his content but also his company’s ethics and labor practices. Given that Perry’s television successes occurred concomitant with the fragmentation of key media marketplaces and given the lack of structural changes surrounding his productions, Christian’s and Costley White’s chapter ultimately questions (and redefines) the extent to which Perry has truly been a game-changer in the television industry.
Actions, Disjunctions, and Passions in Graphic Narratives
Authors: Picado Benjamim , de Araújo Jônathas Miranda
Published: January 2018

This chapter fuses ideas from Roland Barthes and Thierry Groensteen to examine the use of moments of mundanity between turning points in a story. Its insights have implications for the construction of both suspense and humor, two emotions in which Hergé’s books certainly excelled.
Grenada Once Again: Revisiting the 1983 Crisis and Collapse of the Grenada Revolution
Authors: Meeks Brian
Published: January 2018

The twenty-fifth anniversary in October, 2008, of the tragic killing of Maurice Bishop and his associates and the subsequent invasion of Grenada, followed closely by the release on September 5, 2009, of Bernard Coard and the six remaining prisoners convicted of his murder, has been cause for a flurry of new conferences, papers, letters and communiqués on the Grenada Revolution and its tragic demise. Following the September release of the Seven, things picked up pace. Thankfully, many of the letters on the ubiquitous websites and email circuits, particularly those written by Grenadians, suggested wariness with the recriminatory monologues that have been typical of many reflections on the tragedy. Understandably, all commentaries did not comply with this tone. This chapter revisits the 1983 crisis and collapse of the Grenada Revolution and the various narratives which shape the discourse.
Beyond Brew
Authors: Svorinich Victor
Published: January 2018

Those musicians involved with Bitches Brew became stars in their own right. This chapter focuses on Davis’s career and personal life shortly after the album came out and how Bitches Brew became the catalyst for the entire jazz-fusion movement of the 1970s and the blueprint for musical genres ranging from rap, to rock, to hard core, to heavy metal, and beyond for the next four decades.
PEMANFAATAN APLIKASI PERPUSTAKAAN DIGITAL iJATENG MELALUI SMARTPHONE
Authors: Fatmawati Endang
Published: January 2018

This research as a preliminary study to know the utilization of iJateng application through android. The purpose is to explain the accessibility and usability of digital library in improving community knowledge, and to identify the factors that become obstacles in the utilization of Jateng. The research method used qualitative. Data were obtained using interview technique and document search. Utilization is described using accessibility and usability parameters. The result of this research concludes that accessibility to openness aspect has not been fully socialized to society. Furthermore, for usability on the aspect of learnability, it is still necessary assistance from the library manager to reduce the obstacles that arise when people use iJateng applications through smartphones. Factors that become obstacles in the utilization of digital library iJateng, such as: Internet network problems, incomplete digital collections, eyestrain, lack of socialization, and lack of readers to solve problems that arise when accessing information through the application iJateng.
REPRESENTASI HOMOSEKSUALITAS DI YOUTUBE: (Studi Semiotika pada Video Pernikahan Sam Tsui)
Authors: Rucirisyanti Lilis , Panuju Redi , Susilo Daniel
Published: January 2018

Social media is instrumental in giving effect to nitizens, good effects or bad effect, then social media can be also represent a person. Diserve social media make it interesting for nitizens. One of social media is Youtube. Many a lot of video at there, strat from tips and trick videos, journey or vacation video, wedding video, and ect. Everyone can publish their video on Youtube. No exception of same sex enthusiast, in this study are homosexual or gay. One of is a wedding video Sam Tsui and Casey Braves. This research is a qualitative research and this research uses semiotcs analysus of Roland Barthes. By doing an analysis of video that have been published by Sam on Youtube, also do document search and literature. The author sees the existence of verbal and non vebal forms of representation from same sex merriage video of men and men. Key words : Representation, gay, homosexual, social media, Youtube, merriage.
Applying of dilatometric effect for resistance welding automation
Authors: Bondarenko O. F. , Dubko A. H. , Sydorets V. M. , Bondarenko Iu. V.
Published: January 2018

The important issue of resistance spot welding control to obtain high quality welded joints, especially in living tissue welding, is considered. The actual state of the issue is described and analyzed. In order to improve the quality of welded joints, the applying of dilatometric effect to control the resistance spot welding process, namely of shifting the welding electrodes, is suggested. To register the shifting, the use of modern inertial microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) is proposed. The experimental measuring system, which processes the MEMS-sensor signal and makes it suitable for use as a feedback signal, is developed. The structure and operational algorithm of the system are described. The abilities of measuring with MEMS-sensors the values of electrode shifting caused by dilatometric effect under resistance welding are assessed. These method and equipment are recommended for welding the metals, as well as for welding the living tissues. The results of preliminary studies prove the advisability and relevance of the suggested solutions.
Mobsters and Movie Stars
Authors: Lewis Jon
Published: January 2018

In postwar Hollywood, mobsters, moguls, and movie stars commingled frequently and often carelessly. Professional encounters were commonplace given the mob’s involvement in the organization of the movie industry’s labor force. Film workers and gangsters routinely crossed paths at nightclubs, bars, clandestine gambling establishments, and private parties where interactions were complicated by alcohol and illicit drugs, human trafficking (prostitution) and the occasional “badger” or blackmail plot. The moral here is fairly simple, at least in retrospect. The movie stars -- and circling about them the many movie aspirants, wannabes, and sycophants -- were always playing at things, trying on roles, aliases, lovers, identities, fads. But the gangsters in the strictest sense of the expression “meant business.” And that was something folks who trucked in the world of make believe failed to appreciate and understand.
Hollywood Confidential
Authors: Lewis Jon
Published: January 2018

The gossip industry underwent a fundamental transition after the war, from the gawking clatter of the classical era fan magazines to the gossip columns of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons and scandal sheets that so successfully harried the Hollywood community after the war. Movie stars were lucky and pretty, rich and famous. But they were as well political neophytes and their everyday lives were, thanks to the columnists after the war, lumbered with undue consequence. It was one thing for the columnists to bemoan the unearned privileges of celebrity, and then to cut folks so lucky and full of themselves down to size. But it was quite another to cast the private and personal lives of these celebrities as fundamentally anti-social and un-American, to subject the lives and loves of movie stars to a narrow and frankly unrelated notion of patriotism, one that asked movie stars to behave, or at least pretend to behave, like the rest of us.
Hidden Within, Imported from Without
Authors: Leite Naomi
Published: January 2018

This chapter pursues two interrelated aims. The first is to track the complex social category of being Jewish in Portugal across centuries, teasing apart its various meanings and subcategories over time. For to be “Jewish” in Portugal is no straightforward matter: while the social category “Jews” (judeus) has existed in Portuguese society for well over a millennium, its meaning has varied continuously over the past five hundred years. In addition, the chapter aims to provide the broad historical context—as recorded by historians and as remembered by diverse stakeholders in the present—for the emergence and rapid growth of urban Marrano associations in the late 1990s and 2000s.
Essentially Jewish
Authors: Leite Naomi
Published: January 2018

This chapter focuses on identity as well as identification—an active, often emotionally charged process of seeing oneself as a particular kind of person and intentionally cultivating the qualities and practices proper to it. It examines the variety and contingency of urban Marranos' modes of self-identification as Jews and teases apart the Portuguese cultural logics of race, nation, descent, and the self that make their articulation of a Jewish self coherent, both to themselves and to others. As this chapter shows, identification, a core component of self-making, is a dialogical process: it is through our interactions with others, whether face-to-face or imagined, that we become self-aware and develop, reflect upon, and refine our sense of ourselves.
Conclusion
Authors: Leite Naomi
Published: January 2018

This concluding chapter summarizes the major themes of this volume and the developments which occurred among the people who were studied and interviewed for this book. It shows how their story offers poignant material for exploring how people come to identify with far-flung others; how they seek and find glimmerings of mystical connection in a world said to be disenchanted; how the horizons of kinship expand in a globally interconnected era; and how relatedness emerges and gathers strength as a lived condition over time. Tracing transformations in Marrano imaginings of self in relation to others has also helped us grasp the profound role of affect in shaping identity and sociality across domains and scales—from personal encounters to the imagined community and back again.
Abusive Endings
Authors: DeKeseredy Walter S. , Dragiewicz Molly , Schwartz Martin D.
Published: January 2018

This book provides scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers with a comprehensive review of the most up-to-date social scientific literature on lethal and nonlethal forms of male-to-female violence during and after separation and divorce. Special attention is devoted to reviewing theoretical perspectives on the topic and the ways in which various technologies are used by men to hurt the women who want to leave them, have begun to emotionally separate, are trying to leave them, in the process of leaving them, or who have left them. This book also provides solutions that cover a broad range of approaches: legal and criminal justice reforms; social services; economic policies; feminist men’s efforts; and new electronic technologies. Throughout the book are the voices of women who have experienced much pain and suffering, as well as the voices of abusive men. These narratives are derived from extensive research done over the past thirty years by the three authors.
The Complicated and the Complex
Authors: Donovan M. Suzanne
Published: January 2018

This chapter considers the practice of policy analysis for the service-providing agencies of government like schools and assesses how well suited the policy-analytic tools are to being a source of improved policies for these agencies. This assessment draws on some 20-plus years of experience studying and implementing policies to improve schooling. The operating agencies are viewed as being always constrained by their existing base of knowledge and skills, always capable through learning of how to operate better, and always faced with opportunities that will require organizational learning. The central issue here is how to recognize when the capability of the school system must be improved in order to be commensurate with the ideas for educational improvement that it is asked to implement, and how to do so.
Introduction
Authors: Sloan Kathryn A.
Published: January 2018

The introduction begins with a summary of various Mexican archetypes that have led to the notion that Mexicans possess a unique death cult and cavalier attitude toward dying. The study is situated in the historiography and a brief description of Mexico City on the cusp of the twentieth century is described.
A Social History of Suicide in Mexico City, 1900–1930
Authors: Sloan Kathryn A.
Published: January 2018

Chapter 1 presents an overview of scientific politics and the drive to collect and record moral statistics. Extrapolating from the extant suicide inquests, the chapter also analyzes suicide by gender, time of day and year committed, method, and reasons professed by the victims.
Media, Moral Panic, and Youth Suicide
Authors: Sloan Kathryn A.
Published: January 2018

A review of multiple newspaper articles and editorials from the secular and Catholic press, broadsides of José Guadalupe Posada, suicide letters, literature, and poetry, examines the sociocultural meanings of suicide in Mexico to provide the documentary base for Chapter chapter 3. The discussion analyzes the multiple narratives derived from numerous social imaginaries that competed and sometimes cooperated to make sense of the perceived suicide epidemic that shook Mexican society. The agents of suicide—--those who succeeded and left a note behind, as well asand those who attempted but failed to self-destruct—--also interpreted their deaths in their own words. Fortunately for a researcher many years later, court officials investigated suicides to make sure they were not acts of homicide. They interviewed those who failed to kill themselves as they convalesced in hospitals or at home. Some claimed mental illness, but most sought the fatal escape because they had lost in love or had become estranged from loved ones. Others could not face the loss of their private and/or public honor and viewed death as a better alternative.
Stains of Blood
Authors: Sloan Kathryn A.
Published: January 2018

Chapter 6 dissects how Mexicans processed and came to terms with death, especially tragic deaths of youth. It examines the moral panic that arose regarding youth and their perceived propensity for self-destruction and other violent behaviors. The documentary base of this chapter draws mostly from editorials and media coverage that bemoaned the self-destructive impulses of adolescent Mexicans. Secondly, the chapter contrasts competing attitudes toward death and how death ought to be commemorated in official and popular practice and discourse. Drawing from the approaches of anthropologists and historians of emotions, the incidences of vernacular mourning and memorialization at "stains of blood" ([suicide sites)] are read for their political messages of marking untimely violent death and personalizing public issues like youth suicide.
Black Power and Battles over Education
Authors: Davies Tom Adam
Published: January 2018

This chapter examines what were often multiracial battles over public education. In New York and Los Angeles, education reform movements evolved from existing school desegregation protest and antipoverty organizing and were shaped by the emergence of Black Power. Demanding “community control” of public schools, movement participants insisted upon the transfer of decision-making power away from white city officials to locally elected community school boards, as well as the need for black principals, teachers, and more culturally relevant curricula. In Atlanta, grassroots organizers focused on the need for busing to integrate the city's schools. Tracing the trajectory of education reform in each city from the mid-1950s forward, this chapter explores the different ways white politicians, institutions, and organizations supported, facilitated, absorbed, subverted, and defeated grassroots-led challenges to established white educational authority.
How Midas Lost Its Golden Touch
Authors: Guthman Julie , Brown Sandy
Published: January 2018

In 2012 Arysta LifeScience withdrew the soil fumigant, Midas, from US markets, citing its economic non-viability. This followed a highly contentious campaign, in which protestors successfully embarrassed the strawberry industry into non-adoption and a lawsuit cast further doubt on the process by which the chemical was registered. This chapter looks closely at the campaign, focusing on the primary tactics activists employed and the degree to which these played on industry (and regulator) weaknesses and movement strengths. Given that neoliberal subjectivities and forms of action were not entirely abandoned, we suggest that is not necessarily the tactics of neoliberalism that limit the politics of the possible in food movements; rather the problem may lie with a failure to name and pursue an opponent.
Conclusion
Authors: Alkon Alison Hope , Guthman Julie
Published: January 2018

IN 2006, WHEN COLLECTING DATA for her book Black, White, and Green, Alison spoke with Kirk, a manager at the first entirely organic farmers’ market in the United States. Like most of the market’s vendors and customers, he was white, college-educated, and politically progressive. Kirk described the farmers’ market as a way to advocate for a healthy environment while working around, rather than challenging, an unresponsive state:...
The Refugee Regime
Authors: Robson Laura
Published: January 2018

This chapter looks at the construction of refugee camps, enclaves, and settlements for displaced “minorities” in Syria and Iraq during the interwar period. It argues that this refugee regime spawned a new category of non-Arab, non-Muslim communities who were permanent fixtures in Iraq and Syria, but whose primary political relationships were with international organizations like the League of Nations, the British and French mandates, and diaspora groups rather than with their Arab compatriots or their own states’ governments.
The Partition Solution
Authors: Robson Laura
Published: January 2018

This chapter looks at the emergence of proposals to partition Palestine into a separate Arab and Jewish states. It argues that partition, far from representing a last-ditch effort to solve the problems of Arab-Zionist conflict in Palestine, actually reflected central principles of the imperial state system the mandate governments and the League had long been building across the Middle East. In particular, this chapter examines how the League and the British began to present partition as a mode of protecting minority rights and the principle of national self-determination – the same rationales used to promote the idea of transfer – and traces Zionist, Palestinian Arab, and regional Arab responses to proposals of partition.
Diasporas and Homelands
Authors: Robson Laura
Published: January 2018

Even as ethnically based transfer and partition schemes were meeting with opposition and anger on the ground in Iraq, Syria, and Palestine, they were often hailed by minority diaspora communities scattered through the world. This chapter traces how interwar Armenian, Assyrian, and Jewish activists in Europe and the United States lobbied at the national and international levels for the creation of minority ethnic “homelands” supported by the international community – campaigns that became important sources of legitimacy for British, French, and League attempts to remake the demographic order of the Middle East over the protests of local actors.
Lost Detectives
Authors: Piccato Pablo
Published: January 2018

This chapter looks at policemen and detectives in postrevolutionary Mexico. It discusses the weakness of forensic methods and the lack of prestige of police and private detectives. It examines the use of torture and extrajudicial violence against suspects.
Labor
Authors: Oxfeld Ellen
Published: January 2018

This chapter examines the work of producing food and preparing meals in Moonshadow Pond. The gendered and generational configurations of agricultural labor changed profoundly from the Old Society through the collective era to the present. With the exodus of youth to non-agricultural employment, the future of agriculture in Moonshadow Pond is unclear. In addition to the production of food through rice cultivation and vegetable gardening, meal preparation is integral to the labor surrounding food in Moonshadow Pond. Thus, both agriculture and cooking are at the center of domestic food production and preparation. These need to be differentiated from production for the market — raising pigs, tending fish ponds, or growing citrus and other fruit trees, all of which are oriented toward earning cash income. Finally, just as cultivating rice (gengtian), is central to peasant identity, so too, cooking rice is at the center of family identity.
Morality
Authors: Oxfeld Ellen
Published: January 2018

This chapter examines the connections between food and moral discourse in Moonshadow Pond. It examines how the exchange of food serves to express, fulfill and create moral obligations between people. Additionally, discourse about food expresses judgments about the rightness or wrongness of peoples’ actions at local and national levels. Finally, food choices themselves convey implicit and explicit moral judgments. These can be judgments about the wider food system (as in decisions to only purchase local meat), or about food intake as a moral index (as in a decision to be vegetarian). The chapter concludes by focusing on how moral dimensions of the meanings and practices surrounding food help to constitute a moral economy; this moral economy retains a strong presence in daily life, and may actually have been strengthened by the simultaneous growth of the market economy and the industrialized food system.
Conclusion
Authors: Oxfeld Ellen
Published: January 2018

The conclusion asks how the ethnographic material in the book can shed new light on contemporary views of China, which often concentrate on the decimation of traditional culture and the headlong embrace of western ways and modernity. By using the lens of food, the book has presented a more complex picture. In rural China, food remains a potent means of fulfilling obligations to family and ancestors, and of forging social and emotional connections beyond the family. Food also connects past and present through reenactment of food practices and rituals. In this way food may diminish some of the sense of disruption felt by people living through rapid change. As such, food is a continuous bridge through both time and space. The chapter concludes by asking whether the findings of this book provide any insight into the potential for creating and maintaining a sustainable and meaningful food system in China.
Introduction
Authors: Nava Alejandro
Published: January 2018

This introductory chapter briefly considers the two major streams that have shaped Western ideas of soul: religious and biblical versions of soul; and cultural, musical, and literary interpretations. These categories allow us to consider soul from different angles, first as a biblical and theological concept and subsequently as a question of style in music, folklore, poetry, and literature. When speaking of this second inflection, the chapter (and the book as a whole) focuses on African American and Spanish/Latin American traditions, as they converge with the author's own area of expertise and, more personally, touch aspects of his own culturally conditioned soul.