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“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies
Authors: Magosaki Rei
Published: December 2023

This article sees post–World War II wartime incarceration literature as a multigenerational corpus and reassesses the handling of this material in Asian American literary criticism and cultural analysis. As a way of addressing the expanding corpus of wartime incarceration literature, which includes generations of descendant writers, the article proposes a cognitive mapping of the ten major spaces of Japanese American Wartime Relocation Authority (WRA) mass incarceration sites, which were built in spatial overlap or in geographic proximity to Native American historic sites of violent conflict and confrontation throughout the nineteenth century. It argues for the centrality of this intergenerational Japanese American corpus in Asian American and US literary and cultural studies, anchored as the body of work is in the historical trajectories of US imperialism and settler colonialism.
The Erotic Fictions of Finance Capitalism in The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho
Authors: Lawrence Patrick S.
Published: December 2023

US economic policy in the late twentieth century privileged the financial sector by advancing generous tax breaks for wealthy Americans and traders and prioritizing union-busting and cuts to social programs, producing a violence of deprivation against the poor and marginalized others. Simultaneously, the Reagan administration sought to shore up its political coalition in the post-Watergate era by appealing to a newly engaged Christian right with conservative social policies including pushback against the sexual revolution and the formation of the Meese Commission to study restrictions on pornography. These significant changes in culture found their way into a wealth of media including journalism, films, and novels that processed the seemingly contradictory moral claims underlying these policies: greed is good; sex is bad. This article draws on financial and literary theory to examine how two iconic novels from the era, Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho (1991), exploit representations of sexualized violence to ramify and then explore the latent links among sex, violence, and finance. Each novel satirizes Wall Street’s violent indifference by embodying it in a figure of elite, white masculinity whose privilege is expressed through sex. The novels’ critiques, however, turn out to be self-contradictory, as their disavowal of the fictionality of finance is bound up with a concomitant investment in regressive sexual politics. In so doing, the novels demonstrate that culture-industry efforts to push back against economic deregulation may be allied with the cultural systems that support that deregulation or enable it.
Dynamic Mixed-Reality Patient-Specific Aneurysm Clipping Simulation for Two Cases—A Feasibility Study
Authors: Joseph Fredrick J. , Cuba Miguel , Murek Michael , Raabe Andreas , Bervini David
Published: December 2023

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:

Intracranial aneurysm (IA) clipping is a complex neurosurgical procedure which demands advanced technology to minimize risks and maximize patient outcomes. This study aims to evaluate the feasibility of training patient-specific microsurgical clipping procedures using a mixed-reality physical neurosurgical simulator for unruptured IA.

METHODS:

Two board-certified neurosurgeons were asked to simulate surgery in 2 patient-specific left-side unruptured middle cerebral artery-bifurcation IA models. The study was conducted in the operation theater under realistic conditions using a mixed-reality physical neurosurgical simulator. Time, procedural, and outcome-related information was collected. The participating neurosurgeons were encouraged to attempt all possible clipping strategies, even those deemed suboptimal, reporting the outcome of each strategy. Finally, to evaluate the feasibility and added value of integrating indocyanine green fluorescence angiography (ICG-FA) with the simulator, the ICG-FA videos for each clipping strategy were analyzed and compared with the reported clipping outcomes.

RESULTS:

Between 4 and 8, different clipping strategies were applied per aneurysm model; the number of strategies was higher in Patient Model 1 (6.5 ± 1.5) (more complex aneurysm) than in Patient Model 2 (5.0 ± 1.0). The clipping strategies differed between surgeons. At most, 53.5 minutes were necessary to complete each training session, but more than double the time was spent on the more complex aneurysm. Up to 53.8% (Patient Model 1) and 50% (Patient Model 2) of the attempted strategies were discarded by the neurosurgeons during the simulation. Evaluation of aneurysm occlusion through ICG-FA was specific, although sensitivity was poor.

CONCLUSION:

The present mixed-reality patient-specific simulator allows testing, anticipating, and discarding different aneurysm microsurgical clipping strategies regardless of the pathology complexity. Specific limitations should be considered regarding ICG-FA aneurysm inspection after clipping.
Transformação digital: sua constante metamorfose e desdobramentos no ambiente competitivo contemporâneo
Authors: Wilner Adriana , Francisco Eduardo de Rezende , Larieira Cláudio Luís Carvalho , Cappellozza Alexandre , Cohen Eric David
Published: December 2023

A pandemia de Covid-19 acelerou o processo de TD das empresas no mundo e no Brasil. Para fazer frente às mudanças nas condições de mercado, as empresas realizaram esforços de atualização de seus processos e implementaram novos arranjos organizacionais que, de outra forma, levariam anos para ocorrer. Mais que uma disrupção tecnológica, a TD vem se delineando como uma mudança organizacional importante.
Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of adult patients presenting to a low resource, tertiary care emergency department in Pakistan: Challenges & Outcomes
Authors: Farooq Wasfa , Kazi Kulsum , Saleem Syed Ghazanfar , Ali Saima
Published: December 2023

Objectives: Emergency Departments (EDs) play a major role in managing acute and chronic illnesses, especially in low-to-middle-income countries like Pakistan, which lacks effective primary healthcare. This study reports the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of patients presenting over a two-year period at the Indus Hospital and Health Network (IHHN) adult ED in Karachi, Pakistan.

Methods: This is a retrospective observational study conducted through chart review of 264,859 patients, aged 16 years and above, who presented to the IHHN ED, Korangi Campus, from January 2019 to December 2020 after obtaining approval from IHHN IRB.

Results: Men were found to be the predominant presenting gender, with a slight rise in the number of women in 2020. The most frequent age group in 2019 was 15-25 (27.7%), whereas it was 25-35 years in 2020 (24.1%), with a decline in total number of elderly visits seen in comparison to previous years. The most frequently seen disposition was ‘referral to clinic’ in 2019 (48.4%) and ‘discharged’ in 2020 (39%). Out of all dispositions, maximum Length of stay (LOS) was seen in patients who left against medical advice in both years. Patient acuity showed the highest number of P3 (moderately ill) patients in both years. Infectious diseases accounted for greater than 10% of patients in both years (17.2% and16.5%), followed by gastrointestinal complaints (15.7% and 11.3%), genitourinary complaints (14.9% and 7.9%), and trauma (11.9% and 12.4%).

Conclusion: Knowledge of epidemiology and clinical characteristics of patients can help facilitate timely planning of staff deployment and allocation of resources to avoid overcrowding, improve patient outcomes, and increase patient satisfaction through timely management.

doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.2(ICON).8975

How to cite this: Farooq W, Kazi K, Saleem SG, Ali S. Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of adult patients presenting to a low resource, tertiary care emergency department in Pakistan: Challenges & Outcomes. Pak J Med Sci. 2024;40(2):S21-S27.  doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.2(ICON).8975

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Game Changing Solutions in Healthcare
Authors: Fahim Ammad , Reza Sayyeda Ezra
Published: December 2023

doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.2(ICON).9128

How to cite this: Fahim A, Reza SE. Game Changing Solutions in Healthcare. Pak J Med Sci. 2024;40(2):S3. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.2(ICON).9128

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Marketing communication strategies and consumer response to corporate social irresponsibility
Authors: Παπαδημητρίου Ευαγγελία
Published: December 2023

Αυτή η διατριβή υποστηρίζει ότι οι καταναλωτές διαφέρουν ως προς την απόκριση τους σε περιστατικά Εταιρικής Κοινωνικής Ανευθυνότητας (ΕΚΑ) συναρτήσει της αυστηρότητας – χαλαρότητας της κουλτούρας. Η αυστηρότητα – χαλαρότητα της κουλτούρας αναφέρεται στη διακύμανση της ισχύος του κανόνα και της ανοχής για απόκλιση από τον κανόνα μεταξύ των κουλτούρων. Συγκεκριμένα, σε περίπτωση περιστατικού ΕΚΑ, οι καταναλωτές με πιο αυστηρή κουλτούρα αντιλαμβάνονται την εταιρεία ως λιγότερο ηθική, προκαλώντας αυξημένα αρνητικά ηθικά συναισθήματα. Κατά συνέπεια, αυτό οδηγεί σε λιγότερο ευνοϊκές αντιδράσεις των καταναλωτών προς την εταιρεία. Μέσω μίας σειράς από πέντε μελέτες, αυτή η διατριβή παρέχει συγκλίνουσες αποδείξεις για το φαινόμενο της αυστηρότητας – χαλαρότητας και τον υποκείμενο μηχανισμό μέσω της αντιληπτής ηθικής. Επιπροσθέτως, προσδιορίζει τις στρατηγικές επικοινωνίας μάρκετινγκ ως θεωρητικά και εμπειρικά σημαντικούς ρυθμιστές. Ειδικότερα, το φαινόμενο της αυστηρότητας – χαλαρότητας εμφανίζεται όταν η εταιρεία είναι είτε μη ανθρωπομορφοποιημένη είτε στερείται ζεστασιάς, προκαλώντας λιγότερη αντιληπτή ηθική στους καταναλωτές με πιο αυστηρές κουλτούρες. Ωστόσο, μετριάζεται όταν η εταιρεία είναι είτε ανθρωπομορφοποιημένη είτε υψηλή σε ζεστασιά. Επιπλέον, η επιρροή της αυστηρότητας – χαλαρότητας στην απόκριση των καταναλωτών προς την εταιρεία εξασθενεί όταν η εταιρεία χρησιμοποιεί την συγγνώμη και την αποζημίωση ως στρατηγική αντιμετώπισης κρίσεων. Τα ευρήματα των προαναφερθέντων μελετών υπογραμμίζουν ότι οι αντιδράσεις των καταναλωτών σε περιστατικά ΕΚΑ εξαρτώνται από την κουλτούρα καθώς και τις στρατηγικές επικοινωνίας μάρκετινγκ. Ως εκ τούτου, αυτή η έρευνα παρέχει πρακτικές πληροφορίες για την διαχείριση κρίσεων.
Αξιολόγηση της επίδρασης της κατάστασης θρέψης στην εξέλιξη της νόσου και στην επιβίωση ασθενών με σκλήρυνση κατά πλάκας
Authors: Τρύφωνος Χριστίνα
Published: December 2023

Εισαγωγή: Η κατάσταση θρέψης επηρεάζει την καλή επιβίωση των ασθενών με Σκληρυνση κατά πλάκας (ΣΚΠ). Υπάρχουν λίγες μελέτες που διερευνούν το ρόλο της κατάστασης θρέψης στην επιβίωση χωρίς υποτροπή σε άτομα με ΣΚΠ, και ακόμη λιγότερες σχετικά με τον αντίκτυπο της υιοθέτησης της Μεσογειακής Διατροφής. Μέθοδοι: Στην παρούσα μελέτη συμμετείχαν 186 άτομα (140 ασθενείς ήταν γυναίκες και οι 46 ήταν άντρες), ηλικίας 22-54 ετών, με ΣΚΠ, από Θεσσαλονίκη και Αλεξανδρούπολη. Λήφθηκαν υπόψιν ποικίλοι βιοχημικού δείκτες, και μετρήθηκαν οι ανθρωπομετρικοί δείκτες από εκπαιδευμένο προσωπκό. Αξιολογήθηκε η κατάσταση θρέψης με διαπιστευμένα διαγνωστικά (Mini Nutritional Assessment), (Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool), (Nutrition Risk Score), καθώς και η συμμόρφωση με το πρότυπο της Μεσογειακής Διατροφής (Mediterranean Diet Score). Οι συμμετέχοντες παρακολουθήθηκαν έως και 36 μήνες.Αποτελέσματα: Το 52% των ασθενών ήταν υπέρβαροι ή παχύσαρκοι. Το ερωτηματολόγιο MUST έδειξε πως το 3% των ασθενών βρισκόντουσαν σε υποθρεψία, και το 8% βρισκόντουσαν σε κίνδυνο υποσιτισμού. Το 62% των ασθενών είχε διαγνωστεί με υποτροπιάζα –διαλείπουσα ΣΚΠ, το 17% είχε δευτεροπαθή προιούσα ΣΚΠ, το 8% μπρωτοπαθή προίουσα ΣΚΠ και το 13% προιούσα υποτροπιάζουσα ΣΚΠ. Η χαμηλή προσκόλληση στη Μεσογειακή Διατροφή σχετίστηκε με προχωρημένο στάδιο της νόσου και εντονότερη συμπτωματολογία, καθώς και μεγαλύτερο ΔΜΣ. Η χειρότερη κατάσταση θρέψης σχετίστηκε με προχωρημένο στάδιο νόσου και υψηλότερο πηλίκο περιμέτρου μέσης/ισχύων (δείκτης κοιλιακής παχυσαρκίας). Συμπέρασμα: Ο αντίκτυπος της Μεσογειακής Διατροφής στην καλύτερη επιβίωση καοι ποιότητα ζωής των ασθενών με ΣΚΠ είναι ακόμη υπό διερεύνηση και μελλοντικές μελέτες διατροφικής παρέμβασης πρέπει να επικεντρωθούν στον ρόλο της υιοθέτησης της Μεσογειακής Διατροφής ως μέρος της συμπληρωματικής θεραπεία για την επιβράδυνση της εξέλιξης της νόσου, αλλά και ως μέσο πρόληψης της νόσου. Επιπλέον, η παρούσα μελέτη αναδεικνύει τη σημασία μιας καλής κατάστασης θρέψης στην εξέλιξη της νόσου και την ανάγκη για διατροφική αξιολόγηση, διατροφική εκπαίδευση και διατροφική παρέμβαση στα άτομα με ΣΚΠ.
Maternal anaemia care in Kano state, Nigeria: an exploratory qualitative study of experiences of uptake and provision
Authors: Kuliya-Gwarzo Aisha , Tancred Tara , Gordon Daniel , Bates Imelda , Raven Joanna
Published: December 2023

Background Maternal anaemia (anaemia in pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period) remains a persistent challenge, particularly in Kano State, Nigeria, which has the highest prevalence of maternal anaemia globally, at 72%. Methods We conducted a qualitative study in Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano State, Nigeria. We aimed to identify factors constraining uptake and provision of maternal anaemia care, exploring perspectives across different stakeholders. We carried out 10 key informant interviews with policymakers and hospital managers, 28 in-depth interviews with healthcare providers and pregnant women using antenatal services and four focus group discussions with pregnant women’s husbands and mothers-in-law. Data were analysed thematically. Results Issues with provision include a lack of provider training and guidelines specific to maternal anaemia and blood transfusion, insufficient staff to meet increasing demand, and inadequate resources. Issues with uptake include the inability to afford informal user fees, distrust in health services and the blood transfusion process, and a lack of understanding of the causes, consequences, and treatment for anaemia, resulting in poor uptake of care and adherence to treatment. Conclusions This study recommends the implementation of standardized guidelines and training sessions to better support healthcare providers in offering quality services and increasing funding allocated to supporting maternal anaemia care. Education initiatives for service users and the public are also recommended to build public trust in health services and to improve understanding of maternal anaemia.
Perceptions of professional nurses towards the inclusion of spiritual activities in oncology practice in the uMgungundlovu and eThekwini Health Districts, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A quantitative descriptive study.
Authors: Sewkarran Vashni , Gumede Emelda Zandile
Published: December 2023

Background Internationally the inclusion of spiritual activities has been well adopted into nursing care. Spiritual activities could be used as one of the coping strategies for cancer patients in times of emotional distress. The South African perspective highlights a huge gap regarding incorporating spiritual activities into oncology practice. Due to popularity and frequent use, the need for identifying the perceptions of professional nurse’s regarding the inclusion of spiritual activities in oncology nursing practice was vital. Methods The study followed a quantitative descriptive survey. Four health care institutions were selected in the eThekwini and uMgungundlovu health district. Simple random selection of 89 participants that met the eligibility criteria was conducted. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data over a period of four weeks from 3rd January 2022 to 9th February 2022, followed by analysis using the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale SPSS, version 27. Results The findings revealed that professional nurses agree that spiritual care can be provided by including various spiritual activities into oncology nursing practice. More than 80% of professional nurses believed in God. Activities like arranging visits by chaplains, showing kindness, cheerfulness, and reassurance were highly rated, exceeding 80%; however, activities like art and creativity were poorly rated, 32.6%. Conclusion This study produced empirical evidence that spiritual care can be provided by including various spiritual activities in oncology practice to promote comprehensive nursing care. A module on spirituality should be included in the new oncology program to boost the nurse’s levels of confidence in spiritual care. The study will enhance the nurses’ awareness and expertise in providing a range of activities.
ADvAnced PhysioTherapy in MuSculosKeletal Triage: Investigating prognostic factors, healthcare utilisation and clinical outcomes (ADAPT MSK) - a cohort study protocol.
Authors: Callan Fiona , Keating Louise , Casserley-Feeney Sarah , French Helen P.
Published: December 2023

Background: Clinical specialist physiotherapist-led musculoskeletal triage clinics were introduced nationally in Ireland in 2011 to improve patient care and reduce waiting times for secondary care orthopaedics and rheumatology. Evidence has shown them to be effective in reducing waiting lists, however there are currently no data on longitudinal patient outcomes following clinic attendance. The primary aim of this cohort study is to identify predictors of pain and function outcomes up to one year following musculoskeletal triage review. Secondary aims include measuring self-reported use of healthcare resources over the 12-month follow-up period and to explore musculoskeletal phenotypes based on established prognostic factors for musculoskeletal pain. This is a prospective cohort study.

Methods: ADvAnced PhysioTherapy in MuSculosKeletal Triage (ADAPT MSK) will recruit a cohort of 252 adults through musculoskeletal triage clinics across five secondary care sites in Ireland. The STrengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines will be adhered to for future reporting. Adults (≥ 18 years old) attending physiotherapist-led musculoskeletal triage clinics with musculoskeletal pain, who do not require surgical or consultant-led medical care will be considered for participation. Participant demographics, health literacy, healthcare utilisation, and self-report questionnaires on pain, function, musculoskeletal health, musculoskeletal risk stratification, fear of movement, and psychological distress will be obtained at baseline, with follow-ups at three, six, and 12 months. Primary outcomes are pain intensity and function. Secondary outcomes include musculoskeletal risk stratification status, musculoskeletal health, healthcare utilisation, and work-related factors. Descriptive statistics will be used to profile the participants and predictors of outcome will be assessed using multivariable linear regression. Musculoskeletal phenotypes will be explored using latent class analysis.

Results: Results will be disseminated via peer-reviewed journal publication and presentation at national and international conferences. Engagement with a public patient involvement (PPI) panel will explore dissemination strategies for public and service user engagement.
Towards achieving transnational research partnership equity: lessons from implementing adaptive platform trials in low- and middle-income countries
Authors: Modlin Chelsea , Sugarman Jeremy , Chongwe Gershom , Kass Nancy , Nazziwa Winfred , Tegli Jemee , Shrestha Prakriti , Ali Joseph
Published: December 2023

Background Use of adaptive clinical trials, particularly adaptive platform trials, has grown exponentially in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Implementation of these trials in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been fostered through the formation or modification of transnational research partnerships, typically between research groups from LMICs and high-income countries (HICs). While these partnerships are important to promote collaboration and overcome the structural and economic disadvantages faced by LMIC health researchers, it is critical to focus attention on the multiple dimensions of partnership equity. Methods Based on informal literature reviews and a meeting with leaders of one of the multinational COVID-19 adaptive platform trials, we describe some important considerations about research partnership equity in this context. Results We organize these considerations into eight thematic categories: 1) epistemic structures, 2) funding, 3) ethics oversight, 4) regulatory oversight, 5) leadership, 6) post-trial access to interventions, data, and specimens, 7) knowledge translation and dissemination, and 8) research capacity strengthening and maintenance. Within each category we review normative claims that support its relevance to research partnership equity followed by discussion of how adaptive platform trials highlight new dimensions, considerations, or challenges. Conclusion In aggregate, these observations provide insight into procedural and substantive equity-building measures within transnational global health research partnerships more broadly.
The genome sequence of the Large Bear Hoverfly, Criorhina ranunculi (Panzer, 1804)
Authors: Crowley Liam M. , Woodcock Katie J. ,   University of Oxford and Wytham Woods Genome Acquisition Lab,   Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective,   Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme,   Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective,   Tree of Life Core Informatics collective,   Darwin Tree of Life Consortium
Published: December 2023

We present a genome assembly from one male Criorhina ranunculi (the Large Bear Hoverfly; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Syrphidae). The genome sequence is 357.6 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 6 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 16.37 kilobases in length.
„Kolekcja Niemcewiczowska”. Pożytki dla badacza historii literatury romantyzmu
Authors: Dąbrowicz Elżbieta
Published: December 2023

Dorobek Juliana Ursyna Niemcewicza nie został dotąd edytorsko scalony. Z wielu powodów. Jest obszerny, różnorodny i rozproszony. Ponadto ciążyły na Niemcewiczu opinie pozwalające na marginalizowanie jego miejsca w historii literatury. Widziano w nim głównie pisarza okolicznościowego, a więc literacko ułomnego. Widziano w nim też rusofoba, propagatora żarliwego, lecz źle pojętego patriotyzmu. Zaniedbania edytorskie mają ten skutek, że nie pozwalają na rozpoznanie pozycji Niemcewicza na mapie zjawisk literackich pierwszej połowy XIX wieku. Nieliczne wydania, w których częściowo zebrano jego spuściznę, sporządzili dziewiętnastowieczni edytorzy. Jedynym przedsięwzięciem późniejszym jest „Kolekcja Niemcewiczowska” firmowana przez Bibliotekę Publiczną dzielnicy Ursynów w Warszawie. Jest to jednak seria wydawnicza, nie zaś wielotomowa edycja w ścisłym sensie. Zamiarem inicjatorów „Kolekcji” było przede wszystkim udostępnienie czytelnikom tekstów Niemcewicza zalegających w autografach, wśród nich trzech powieści (Władysław Bojomir, Mniemana sierota, czyli obraz czasów oraz Konstancya, czyliże nieszczęścia występnej zalotności). Pierwotny plan uległ rozszerzeniu: dokonano również kilku przedruków publikacji, niewznawianych od XIX wieku, ponadto dwóch reedycji dzieł biograficznych poświęconych Niemcewiczowi. Ostatni tom zawiera francuski oryginał i przekład Notatek o mojej niewoli w Petersburgu w latach 1794, 1795 i 1796.

„Kolekcja” uprzystępnia wprawdzie zaledwie część spuścizny Niemcewicza, ale mimo to przynosi niemały zysk poznawczy. Pozwala m.in. przyjrzeć się od nowa popularnej w XIX wieku tematyce więziennej, tak ważnej dla polskiego narodowego imaginarium głównie za sprawą Dziadów cz. III. Niemcewicz okazuje się poprzednikiem Mickiewicza na tym polu jako autor wspomnianych Notatek oraz powieści Władysław Bojomir. Tematu więziennego nie wykorzystuje jednak – jak później Mickiewicz – w celach mitotwórczych, lecz w obronie idei państwa prawa.
Altenbergowie – słów kilka
Authors: Zarych Elżbieta
Published: December 2023

Uwagi do artykułu M. Komzy, Zdobione edycje pomnikiem literaturze krajowej wzniesionym, „Sztuka Edycji. Studia Tekstologiczne i Edytorskie” 2013, nr 2 (5): Wokół typografii i idei pięknej książki, pod red. M. Pest.
Informacje o Autorach
Authors: Markuszewska Agnieszka
Published: December 2023

Informacje o Autorach.
Studia nad tytulaturą Baldwina I, króla Jerozolimy (1100–1118)
Authors: Pełech Tomasz
Published: December 2023

Przedmiotem analizy jest tytulatura Baldwina I, króla Jerozolimy w latach 1100–1118. Na podstawie korpusu źródeł dyplomatycznych, uzupełnionych o materiał sfragistyczny oraz zabytki historiograficzne, przedstawiono kontekst społeczno-polityczny kształtowania się królewskiego tytułu, wykuwającego się w czasie konfliktu między monarchą a patriarchą jerozolimskim Dagobertem z Pizy o władzę nad świętym miastem. Stąd też szczególną rolę w tytulaturze i programie ideologicznym Baldwina I odgrywała Jerozolima.
Czy badania pamięci rodziny mogą rozświetlić mroki genealogii? Nowe spojrzenie na pochodzenie książąt Czartoryskich
Authors: Rogulski Jakub
Published: December 2023

Artykuł poświęcony jest kwestii pochodzenia książąt Czartoryskich. Problem ten jest od dawna przedmiotem dyskusji w historiografii, mimo to wciąż nie może zostać uznany za rozstrzygnięty. Wobec ostatnich prac negujących Olgierdowe korzenie Czartoryskich, Autor proponuje nowe spojrzenie na rodowód rodziny, próbując rozświetlić problem jej pochodzenia na podstawie krytycznego rozbioru przekonań funkcjonujących w pamięci i tradycji familii w epoce staropolskiej. Przeprowadzona w tekście analiza, rozpatrująca w porządku retrogresywnym tradycję rodzinną Czartoryskich XVII i XVIII w., pamięć zbiorową familii w XVI w. i wreszcie przekaz kluczowego dla badanej kwestii dokumentu Władysława III Jagiellończyka z 1442 r. dostarczają argumentów potwierdzających Olgierdowy rodowód książąt.
Zaginiony sumariusz dokumentów miasta Krakowa z 1545 r.
Authors: Okniński Piotr
Published: December 2023

Najstarszy znany sumariusz dokumentów miasta Krakowa, zniszczony w trakcie II wojny światowej, został spisany ok. 1545 r. przez Waleriana Pernusa, wybitnego przełożonego krakowskiej kancelarii miejskiej. Autor artykułu porządkuje i uzupełnia ustalenia odnoszące się do genezy i historii użytkowania kodeksu Pernusa, rozproszone w dawnej literaturze przedmiotu.
Attention and Dread: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information
Authors: Falk Armin , Zimmermann Florian
Published: December 2023

Recent models assume that the anticipation of future consumption can have direct utility consequences. This gives rise to preferences over the timing and structure of information. Using a novel and purposefully simple setup, we study the determinants of preferences for sooner versus later information. Our main results are as follows. We find that the majority of subjects prefer receiving information sooner. This preference, however, is not uniform but depends on the context. When the environment allows subjects to not focus attention on (negative) consumption events, later information becomes more attractive. Finally, variations in prior beliefs do not seem to have strong effects on information preferences.

This paper was accepted by Marie Claire Villeval, behavioral economics and decision analysis.

Funding: This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Germany’s Excellence Strategy EXC 2126/1 Grant 390838866 and Grant CRC TR 224 Project A01].

Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4975
ALEVİ-BEKTAŞİ MÜZİĞİ VE KÜLTÜRÜNÜN YAYGINLAŞMASINDA BAĞLAMA’DA İLERİ İCRA NİTELİĞİNİN ETKİSİ
Authors: BENLİ Yusuf
Published: December 2023

ÖZ: Anadolu müzik kültürünü zenginleştiren Alevi-Bektaşi müzik birikimi, ezgisel yapısı ve anlamsal derinliğiyle Türk halk müziği içerisinde önemli bir yere sahiptir. Bu müzik birikimi özellikle bağlama eşlikli olarak icra edilmiş ve nesiller boyunca aktarıla gelmiştir. Çalışmada bağlama icrasındaki ileri icra niteliğinin alevi kültürünün aktarım ve yayılmasına olan etkisinin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmada tarihsel süreç içerisinde Anadolu alevi müziği ve kültürünün geçirdiği sosyolojik ve kültürel değişimlere dikkat çekilerek genel bir bakış açısı oluşturulmuştur. Toplumsal bağlamda değişen yaşam koşullarının, aktarım ve yayılım süreçlerine etkisi ortaya konarak Anadolu alevi müziği ve kültüründe aktarım ve yayılım süreçleri ile ilgili açıklayıcı bilgiler verilmiştir. Anadolu Alevi–Bektaşi düşüncesi ve müzik kültürünün en temel aktarım araçlarından birinin “Cem” törenleri olduğu belirtilerek konu bağlamında kültürel yayılım süreci, muhabbet geleneği, ulusal ve uluslararası etkinlikler ile kültür endüstrisi üzerinden belli örnekler verilerek değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışmada bağlamada ileri icra niteliğinin, sanatsal iletişim bağlamında çoklu sanat ortamında, Anadolu Alevi-Bektaşi müzik kültürünün yayılım sürecine olan katkısına dikkat çekilmiştir. Alevi müzik kültürünün örnek eser ve icracılarının çalışmalarının teknik açıdan bağlamada ileri icra nitelikleri eser bazlı ifade edilerek sürece katkısı belirtilmiş ve performans kuramı açısından da bağlamada ileri icra niteliği ele alınmıştır. Bağlama çalgısında ileri icra niteliği açıklanıp ileri icra kriterleri belirtilerek Alevi müzik kültüründeki amaç-araç ilişkisi üzerinde durulmuştur. Arşiv taraması sonucunda titizlikle seçilmiş olan örnek eser ve icracılar kronolojik bir sıralama gözetilerek konu bağlamında yaptıkları ileri düzey icraları incelenmiştir. Çalışmada, nitel araştırma tekniklerinden konuya dair kaynak, arşiv taraması ve yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme yapılmıştır. Görüşme 15 Ocak 2015 yılında araştırmacı tarafından yapılmıştır. Sonuç itibariyle araştırmada alevi müziğini icra eden icracıların ileri düzey bağlama icralarının, gerek bağlama icrasına gerek alevi müziğine olan ilgiyi artırdığı ve öğrenme/öğretme ve icra etme yolu ile Anadolu alevi müziği ve kültürünün aktarımı ve yayılımına olumlu katkı sağladığı ortaya koyulmuştur.
A Tale of Optics: Poe, Visual Culture, and Antebellum Literary Celebrity
Authors: Cannon Michael Von
Published: December 2023

“A Tale of Optics” situates many of Poe’s tales and sketches—including “The Man of the Crowd” and “The Literati of New York City”—alongside antebellum interest in magazine illustrations and daguerreotypy. In a publishing world where editors and mass readership privileged commodified visual culture, Poe crafted his image in various, often contradictory, ways. In some moments he satirizes that readership, and in others he markets a symbiotic relationship between writer and visual artist. Likewise, he touts the “realism” of early photography (in opposition to engravings and other kinds of illustrations) while using the veil of objectivity to hide his own self-interest. Poe’s image is as familiar to us as some of his best-known works. “A Tale of Optics” reveals an intriguing literary history behind such image making by including but also moving beyond daguerreotype portraiture.
Poe’s “Some Words with a Mummy” and Blackface Anatomy
Authors: Nichols Marcia D.
Published: December 2023

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “Some Words with a Mummy” (1845), a group of professional and amateur Egyptologists gather to unwrap a supernumerary mummy, only to have their fun interrupted when the mummy awakes. By reanimating a silenced Other who interrogates and tramples the pretensions of his would-be dissectors, relativizing and thus diminishing all they have accomplished, Poe’s story gleefully pokes holes in elite white male privilege. Moreover, “Some Words” picks up on and exaggerates a subtext of guilt about the act of dissection itself that often runs through published dissection accounts of the time, in particular those that include galvanic experiments. By having the mummy defend himself and refuse to be appropriated, “Some Words with a Mummy” functions as a blackface performance that magnifies that dis-ease. The mummy becomes a ludicrous and yet powerful combination of two minstrel show characters—Zip Coon and the high-minded interlocutor—that confounds and humiliates the white unwrappers, who stand in for the show’s low-comic endmen but lack the protective covering of burnt cork. His performance powerfully subverts nineteenth-century white manhood and its fraternal institutions, including science.
Edgar Allan Poe’s The (Unnatural): Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Authors: Lilly Mitchell C.
Published: December 2023

This essay reads Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym as a work of unnatural narrative fiction by examining a number of antirealistic scenarios—physically, logically, and humanly impossible events—that exist alongside the novel’s otherwise realistic narrative world. I argue that Pym ’s unnaturalism expands the limits and possibilities of the narrative rather than shrinking them, while at the same time its impossible texts, intelligences, and persons strain the abilities of human cognizance. The contradictory racial descriptions of Dirk Peters are interpreted as an unnatural transformation physically actualized in the narrative world, which distinguishes Pym ’s position as an unnatural narrative produced amid the racial epistemologies of nineteenth-century America.
“Nevermore!”: Non-Normative Desire and Queer Temporality in Poe’s “The Raven”
Authors: Jones Paul Christian
Published: December 2023

ABSTRACT: This essay argues that queer approaches to Poe’s work can benefit from a consideration of his poem “The Raven,” a work invested in finding connections between a subject’s desire and object-choice and his experience of time. The poem is especially relevant to what has been called the “temporal turn” in queer theory over the last decade: it demonstrates how non-normative desire excludes individuals from what Lee Edelman has called “reproductive futurism,” the heteronormative prescription that requires individuals to produce future generations through heterosexual pairing, and that casts individuals who do not participate in this behavior as “queer.” In the poem’s famous repetition of “nevermore,” first by the raven and then by the narrator, we can see a growing acknowledgment of the subject’s exclusion from “reproductive futurism.” And, in its conclusion, “The Raven” gestures toward the potential liberation that this exclusion offers as a temporal orientation to queer individuals—the freedom to invent new and more creative life paths as they deviate from heteronormative norms.
The Voyeur in the Confessional: Reader, Hoax, and Unity of Effect in Poe's Short Fiction
Authors: Dykstal Andrew
Published: December 2023

ABSTRACT: Poe's short fiction tends toward extremes—toward the grotesque and arabesque. This crowd-pleasing (or crowd-horrifying) content plays within carefully designed formal structures that complicate the act of reading and draw attention to "the reader," a figure of some interest to Poe's critical essays. I argue that the play between content and form in Poe, coupled with his ideas of readership, exposes a series of traps within many of his tales. Poe's stories draw the reader into an active role responsive to moral problems before shifting ground and rendering a moral response difficult, impossible, or paradoxical. Through the confessional mode in particular, Poe guides readers into positions that extend the work of the tale beyond the fictional realm, transmuting his stories into practical jokes or complex moral problems. The visibility of these jokes and problems, however, and their deliberate layering into so many of Poe's works, suggest an author working to prepare his audience for a specific flavor of hoax. By blurring the boundaries of the short story, and perhaps even finding ways to undermine its shortness, Poe opens a relationship between himself, his "reader," and whatever human being happens to actually be holding a copy of his tales. Poe's famous "unity of effect" unfolds through the creation of a predictable, synthetic commonality between author, reader, and audience.
Before the After: Anticipatory Anxiety and Experience Claimed in Poe's Angelic Dialogues
Authors: Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew
Published: December 2023

ABSTRACT: Poe's three "angelic dialogues" or "colloquies"—"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" (1839), "The Colloquy of Monos and Una" (1841), and "The Power of Words" (1845)—are narratives of the most profound forms of trauma possible: the literal end of the world in the sense of both the death of an individual and the apocalyptic destruction of the entire planet. In each narrative, angels converse in Aidenn, Poe's version of heaven, about their deaths, the annihilation of the planet, and the uncertainties of the universe. This essay argues that Poe's angelic dialogues possess the potential to elicit what E. Ann Kaplan calls "Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome"—anticipatory fear and anxiety created by narratives set in a post-apocalyptic or dystopian future. They do so by thematizing what we could refer to as "anticipatory belatedness," the unsettling proposition that the only prediction we can make from the present is that we will not understand what has happened until we somehow impossibly put the pieces together after the end. In other words, the anticipatory anxiety evoked by Poe's post-apocalyptic angelic narratives—in keeping with post-apocalyptic narratives in general—is that our future will be a traumatic one that we will miss while it is happening.
Poe's "Vast Island-Studded Ocean"
Authors: Doan Caleb
Published: December 2023

ABSTRACT: This article surveys Edgar Allan Poe's transpacific writings in the 1830s and analyzes competing conceptualizations of islands in and between his literary reviews, "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833), and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838). Whereas his reviews find him promoting a national expedition to the Pacific and supporting the associated expansion of US commercial and imperial interests, Poe's fiction offers coded warnings about the dangers of Western imperialism. In "MS." and Pym , Poe discredits imperial maps and seeks to transcend imperial frameworks by illustrating archipelagic resistance . The new readings identify sources from Pacific accounts that Poe had read or reviewed. "MS." provides a nightmarish allegory in which a racialized hurricane—a virtual, deterritorialized Malay Archipelago—dashes the prospects of its Euro-American traders. In Pym , Poe uses geographical misdirection to turn Tsalal into a Pacific island unlike the romantic fantasies in the popular imaginary. In this dangerous contact zone that regenerates the disastrous consequences from previous transpacific voyages, Tsalalians use anti-imperial strategies employed by Oceanians in other antebellum narratives. The conclusion considers how Poe gestures to a "black Pacific" in "MS." and Pym , which is inspired by reactionary racial views but emerges in opposition to Euro-American imperial fantasies.
Uncertain Relationships: Probability and Natural Law in "The Colloquy of Monos and Una" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt"
Authors: Little Jean
Published: December 2023

ABSTRACT: This essay builds on recent accounts of Edgar Allan Poe's reliance on scientific theory by tracing aspects of probability and natural law in "The Colloquy of Monos and Una" (1841) and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1843). In these stories, Poe explores the implications of a non-local connection between distinct individuals and the relationship between perception and the physical world in a way that will contribute to his later work, Eureka (1848). By analyzing his writing in relation to the probability theories that pervaded scientific discourse in his time, including that of Laplace, this article argues that Poe's interest in chance, his rejection of popular accounts of causality and deductive inference, and his resistance to determinism all hinge on his investment in the governing principle of unity and the recognition that a true understanding of the world becomes legible primarily through narrative.
The Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Lifetime Fertility for Men and Women in South Korea: Is There a Gender Difference?
Authors: Seo Jin Young , Stotzer Rebecca L.
Published: December 2023

Abstract: This study seeks to examine the association between socioeconomic status of men and women and their lifetime fertility or childlessness. Declining fertility is a concern for many industrialized economies and childlessness is an important phenomenon that contributes to low fertility rates. This study used data from 4,705 of the over 10,000 people in the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA), Wave 1 collected in 2006, a nationally representative sample of people aged 45 and over in South Korea. This sample of middle-aged individuals provides information about lifetime fertility of men and women of South Korea, including those who have never been married. Results from logistic regression analyses showed that, for men, education, employment, and income were significantly positively associated having a child/children, whereas no significant association was found among women. The findings imply that in South Korea, men who have difficulty bearing the normative expectation of financial responsibility of fatherhood tend not to have children.
Lived experiences and drivers of induced abortion among women in central Uganda
Authors: Kibira Simon Peter Sebina , Stillman Melissa , Makumbi Fredrick E. , Giorgio Margaret , Nabukeera Sarah , Nalwoga Grace Kigozi , Sully Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2023

Although unsafe abortions are preventable, they are one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and morbidity. Despite the serious potential health consequences, there is limited published information about drivers and challenges of obtaining abortions in restrictive settings such as Uganda. This limits efforts to improve programing for preventing unsafe abortion and providing comprehensive post abortion care. This study sought to understand the drivers and explain the lived abortion experiences among women from central Uganda, in an effort to promote greater access to safe reproductive healthcare services, and reduce unsafe abortions. This qualitative study included 40 purposely selected women who self-reported an abortion, living in Kampala and greater Rakai district, Uganda. They were part of a larger survey using respondent driven sampling, where seed participants were recruited from selected facilities offering post-abortion care, or through social referrals. Data were collected from May to September 2021 through in-depth interviews. Audio data were transcribed, managed using Atlas.ti 9, and analyzed thematically. The findings show that the underlying drivers stemmed from partners who were unsupportive, denied responsibility, or had raped/defiled women. Career and education decisions, stigma and fear to disappoint family also contributed. Women had feelings of confusion, neglect, betrayal, or shame after conception. Abortion and post-abortion experiences were mixed with physical and emotional pain including stigma, even when the conditions for safe abortion in the guidelines were satisfied. Although most women sought care from health facilities judged to provide safe and quality care, there was barely any counselling in these venues. Confidantes and health providers informed the choice of abortion methods, although the cost ultimately mattered most. The mental health of women whose partners are unsupportive or who conceive unintendedly need consideration. Abortion provided psychological relief from more complicated consequences of having an unplanned birth for women.
Metagenomic discovery of lipases with predicted structural similarity to Candida antarctica lipase B
Authors: Jaito Nongluck , Kaewsawat Nattha , Phetlum Suthathip , Uengwetwanit Tanaporn
Published: December 2023

Here we employed sequence-based and structure-based screening for prospecting lipases that have structural homolog to Candida antarctica lipase B (CalB). CalB, a widely used biocatalyst, was used as structural template reference because of its enzymatic properties. Structural homolog could aid in the discovery of novel wild-type enzymes with desirable features and serve as a scaffold for further biocatalyst design. The available metagenomic data isolated from various environments was leveraged as a source for bioprospecting. We identified two bacteria lipases that showed high structural similarity to CalB with <40% sequence identity. Partial purification was conducted. In comparison to CalB, the enzymatic characteristics of two potential lipases were examined. A candidate exhibited optimal pH of 8 and temperature of 50°C similar to CalB. The second lipase candidate demonstrated an optimal pH of 8 and a higher optimal temperature of 55°C. Notably, this candidate sustained considerable activity at extreme conditions, maintaining high activity at 70°C or pH 9, contrasting with the diminished activity of CalB under similar conditions. Further comprehensive experimentation is warranted to uncover and exploit these novel enzymatic properties for practical biotechnological purposes.
Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins, Artemis Leontis (2019)
Authors: Papargyriou Eleni
Published: December 2023

Review of: Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins, Artemis Leontis (2019)

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 339 pp.,

ISBN 978-0-69117-172-2, h/bk, $37.00

ISBN 978-0-69121-076-6, p/bk, $27.95

Eva Palmer Sikelianos: Yfainontas Ton Mytho Mias Zois (‘Eva Palmer Sikelianos: Weaving a Life’s Myth’), Artemis Leontis, K. Schina (Trans.) (2022)

Athens: Patakis, 480 pp.,

ISBN 978-9-60166-920-5, p/bk, €22.20
SomaHut: ‘Somatic Hut. A Space: Real and Imaginary, Concrete and Abstract, where People Gather and Meet’.
Authors: Mihanović Zrinka Šimičić
Published: December 2023

SomaHut is a platform launched in 2020 under the aegis of Multimedia Hut – an art organization from Zagreb, as a response to the needs articulated at the initial meeting of the “Somatic Network,” organized within the festival Improspekcije 2017.I The initiative aims to create a structure of networking of various groups, projects, associations and individuals, connected through an interest in the moving/living body in relation to different branches and fields of human activity, and through the need to affirm a somatic approach in the context of arts, education and care.