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Authentic Contextualization of Theology & Practice in Youth Ministry
Authors: Hill Graham
Published: March 2015

The contention of Hill is that the world of theological formation and reflection is often quite distinct from the realm of youth ministry practice. Many ministerial problems are directly related to a poor theology of youth ministry, and a poor ability to conduct a conversation between the two. Fragmented youth ministry practices, personal conflict and dissatisfaction, retreat from asking broad questions of programs and purposes, and unquestioning adoption of offshore solutions, are some of the results. For these reasons a well-developed theology of youth ministry is crucial to longevity, integrity, and theological and personal conviction in the life of the youth leader and pastor. This paper explores some broad theological concepts and applies them to the practice of youth ministry.
My Generation: A Story of Youth Ministry to the 1960s Biker Culture
Authors: Griffiths Steve
Published: March 2015

This article explores one example of ministry to a notoriously difficult 1960s youth culture: the bikers. The article breaks new ground in detailing for the first time in print the ministry of a most remarkable man, Father Bill Shergold. As well as being a historically important and fascinating story, the article provides real challenge to modern youth ministry methodologies.
A Qualitative Study Construction of how 14-16 year olds understand worship
Authors: Emery-Wright Steve
Published: March 2015

It has long been the concern of the church to present acts of worship in a manner that engages the creative potential of young people. What has been needed, however, is in-depth research concerning the views of contemporary young people on this issue. In this article, Emery-Wright draws on his doctoral thesis to provide quantitative data from the Methodist Church in the United Kingdom. From this, he is able to draw conclusions, and thereby provide further insights to the wider church, as to the way forward.
Why Theology? It is Only Youth Ministry
Authors: Nel Malan
Published: March 2015

This article explores what it means to be theologically motivated and equipped for youth ministry. It examines the relationship between theology as a discipline and youth ministry practice and offers some potential trajectories for considering the theological task of youth ministry itself.
Light of Day Scaffolding a Theology of Youth Ministry
Authors: Roebben Bert
Published: March 2015

Is Youth Ministry involved in the creation of new theology? This article assesses the potential of engaging in a 'living theology' by listening to and liaising with the spiritual insights of young people. The conditions for such a theology are created by three movements towards young people. Initially, by noticing and respecting their voices, secondly through crafting space within our theorising for young people's insight to shape theological understanding and thirdly by embracing the lives of young people as a site for connection with God and the construction of theology.
Seeing and Being with Youth: Bildungsroman and Coming of Age from Goethe to Star Wars and The Matrix
Authors: Keuss Jeff
Published: March 2015

This article examines the potential of reinterpreting Goethe's 18th century literary representation of Bildungsroman for the contemporary context. The concept of adolescent formation (Bildung) which Goethe draws upon is examined as is the place and power of narrative both as metaphor and mechanism for adolescent development. From this, a missional theology for engaging young people is suggested by viewing narratives of formation observed in contemporary cinema as a continuation of this tradition. The article then explores how young people might use such narratives in their own quest for meaning and how youth ministry could by more proactive in supporting and mentoring such use to support and encourage transition to adult maturity.
The practice of music in youth ministry and the mystery of the Divine
Authors: Rodkey Christopher Demuth
Published: March 2015

How do musical preferences of youth influence conceptions of transcendence and imminence of the Divine? This article will address this question based upon responses of teens to a Life Meaning Inventory administered by the Youth Theological Initiative at Candler School of Theology. The teens' responses will point toward important philosophical questions that wrest the foundations of Christian theology; this is to say that these questions position the youth minister in a unique position to address the polarity of transcendence and immanence in Christian thought. As such, this essay suggests that a discussion of transcendence and immanence offers a new means of thinking about or re-thinking the practice of music in youth ministry.1
Soul in the City - Mission as Package Holiday: The potential implications of a 'tourist' paradigm in youth mission
Authors: Shepherd Nicholas M
Published: March 2015

Soul in the City happened in the summer of 2004 in London. Its impact on the UK Christian youth scene has been wide and varied - some loved it; some hated it. It brought 9,000 young people to London to engage in 'mission'. But did it? Was it really just a Christian themed package holiday with mission as the main day trips? This paper draws on reflection from participation in the planning and running of Soul in the City (SITC) and textual analysis of publicity material. Whist primarily a theological reflection, significant use is made of sociological and anthropological thinking on 'tourism' to analyse phenomena observed in SITC. This assessment illustrates the emergence of a tourism motif in youth mission and highlights key missiological limitations and possibilities that this paradigm
The relation between Parachurch Youth Organisations and the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN)
Authors: Erna Zonne
Published: March 2015

This paper assesses the relationship between parachurch organisations and local congregations with respect to the life orientation and religious education that youth ministry provides young people within these congregations ..Using data from qualitative empirical research the ways in which the partners in this venture relate. is analysed from sociological and theological perspectives on ecclesiology. This analysis suggests that a division of labour is at the same time a demonstration
of ecclesial unity.
The Emerging Church - Completing the Reformation?
Authors: Griffiths Steve
Published: March 2015

The Emerging Church Movement is understood by many to be seeking fresh expressions of church. for a contemporary culture. However, setting this movement in a broader historical ecclesiological context provides substantial food for thought on the theological motifs and practical outworking of such 'new' communities. Assessing the self-defined principles of emerging church against the writing and history of the Reformation illustrates that both the questions and solutions that ECM seek to address have afar deeper historical and theological location.
Facilitating Healing and Reconciliation with Young People Living in the Aftermath of Political and Cultural Conflict. The Challenge to the Church and its Youth Ministry
Authors: Thesnaar Christo
Published: March 2015

Writing from his considerable experience as a pastoral theologian working for reconciliation and healing in post-apartheid South Africa, Dr Christo Thesnaar offers a timely and challenging article here. His. development of a consistent theological and pastoral approach to healing and reconciliation in the. aftermath of political and cultural conflict is strengthened by his pragmatic suggestions for all youth workers who may be engaged in a similar ministry.
Union With Christ: The Subplot of Evangelical Soteriology
Authors: Ward Pete
Published: March 2015

This paper. explores the shifting patterns An evangelical soteriology. In particular it suggests that continual encounter with God in worship has replaced conversion as the primary focus of evangelical spirituality. At the same time evangelicals have continued to preach a substitutionary soteriology. This soteriology does not adequately fund, interpret, or fuel the contemporary charismatic practice of encounter with God in worship. It is suggested that ideas of Union with Christ might be used to offer a more robust and functional doctrine of salvation.
Youth Ministry as Discerning Christopraxis: A Hermeneutical Model
Authors: Root Andrew
Published: March 2015

This article provides a picture of how discernment happens within ministry, and how the process of discernment can be done theologically. The great challenge for those teaching youth and family ministry is to help students begin to think beyond simple implementation of successful program strategies and move into reflection on context and theology. This then calls for a commitment to a God living and active in the world through Jesus Christ. Jurgen Moltmann has called this Christopraxis. Drawing on a series of epoch making theologians and philosophers, this paper constructs a paradigm for discerning Christopraxis which allows the youth minister to move past seeing him or herself as a church programmer and instead to recognize his or her place as participating in the dynamic actions of God in the world, and in the lives of adolescents.
After theology: growing up as youth ministers
Authors: Davis Richard
Published: March 2015

In this paper I critique the claim that 'youth ministry is a part of theology'. I argue that such a position is both misplaced and damaging to the development of the profession. It is a residual belief of our corporate juvenilia. I propose a greater focus on the 'critical common sense' of the faith community arguing that this is distinct from 'theology'.

I discuss a number of different approaches to theology arguing that none provides an adequate foundation to practical youth ministry. I then explore the notion of 'critical common sense' through a consideration of perception, and MacIntyre's idea of an 'educated public'.
Youth Ministry in a World of Diversity: A review of the international research project on youth spirituality
Authors: McQuillan Paul
Published: March 2015

The research project came about at the suggestion of Nick Shepherd and was intended to source articles from IASYM members from around the world to outline the issues surrounding youth spirituality today. The articles generated by this collaboration included two each from Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom and a very valuable contribution from an African perspective.
Reaching the plateau: A follow up study on active adolescent Catholics.
Authors: Rymarz Richard
Published: March 2015

The weakening of religious identity amongst young people from so-called mainstream Churches is a well-described phenomenon in Australia as well as a number of European countries. This paper attempts to get a better understanding of this process by reinterviewing, three years after initial. contact, six active Catholic adolescents on their religious beliefs, practices, and identity. As a way of explaining the disaffiliation process, the concept of a Catholic plateau is introduced. It is typified by reaching a level of maximum commitment relatively early. and then 'experiencing a stabilization often followed by a gradual reduction in commitment. The paper will focus on factors such as changing social networking to help explain this phenomenon. The paper will rely on the narratives of these adolescents to illustrate various stages of the Catholic plateau.
Raising Christian Consciousness: Creating Place
Authors: Nash Sally , Collins-Mayo Sylvia , Rev Bob Mayo
Published: March 2015

This paper explores the role of place in raising Christian consciousness amongst young people. It is primarily based on qualitative data collected through a survey of young people's experiences of Christian youth work. The paper argues that for Christian youth work to be more effective in helping young people develop a Christian consciousness there needs to be a deliberate fostering of the significance of place.
Beyond a Godless Understanding of Youth: Why Exegesis Matters to Youth Ministry
Authors: Becker Ron
Published: March 2015

This article considers the discipline of Biblical exegesis and its potential as a tool for both the academic study and practical outworking of youth ministry. I argue that theological method within youth ministry does not incorporate an effective use of biblical exegesis and this is of determinant to the overalLproject of studying the context and content of youth ministry. The article presents a pattern of reading a/Young Testament' (narratives that inform a rich biblical account of the experience of youth and the part youths play in the overarching story of God). The author provides two worked examples of how biblical exegesis can provide both rigor and resources to complement data and theory drawn from the insights of practical theology. The piece ends with some reflections on the potential of exegetical work in relation to the authors own experience of practice.
Clinopodium serpyllifolium subsp. sirnakense (Lamiaceae), a new taxon from south-eastern Anatolia, Turkey
Authors: Fırat Mehmet , Akçiçek Ekrem , Kaya Ayla
Published: March 2015

Clinopodium serpyllifolium subsp. sirnakense (Lamiaceae) is described as a new subspecies from south-eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It is considered morphologically similar to Clinopodium serpyllifolium subsp. brachycalyx, from which it differs in indumentum, calyx characters and mericarp surface. Detailed illustrations are provided along with a distribution map, an IUCN ranking and notes on taxonomic affinities.
Effects of Design Properties on Parameter Estimation in Large-Scale Assessments
Authors: Hecht Martin , Weirich Sebastian , Siegle Thilo , Frey Andreas
Published: March 2015

The selection of an appropriate booklet design is an important element of large-scale assessments of student achievement. Two design properties that are typically optimized are the balance with respect to the positions the items are presented and with respect to the mutual occurrence of pairs of items in the same booklet. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of these two design properties on bias and root mean square error of item parameter estimates from the Rasch model. First, position effects are estimated using data from a large-scale assessment study measuring the competencies of 19,107 ninth graders in science. These results were then used for a simulation study with 1,540 booklet designs with systematically varied position balance and cluster pair balance. The simulation results showed a small effect of position balancing on bias and root mean square error of the item parameter estimates while the cluster pair balance was ignorable. This null effect is actually good news for test designers since it allows for deliberately reducing the degree of cluster pair balance without negative effects on item parameter estimates. However, it is recommended to try to achieve a high position balance when designing large-scale assessment studies.
The Advocacy Experiences of Parents of Elementary Age, Twice-Exceptional Children
Authors: Besnoy Kevin D. , Swoszowski Nicole C. , Newman Jane L. , Floyd Amanda , Jones Parrish , Byrne Caitlin
Published: March 2015

For many parents, successfully advocating for their twice-exceptional child can be intimidating and overwhelming. Using grounded theory, we conducted a study with parents ( n = 8) of elementary age, twice-exceptional children to learn about their advocacy experiences. Findings revealed that parents simultaneously advocated for their child’s disability and protected their child’s giftedness. This overarching theme influenced parents’ expectations of their local school system, while highlighting their lack of professional knowledge. All participants wanted their child to maximize her or his potential and not be limited by her or his disability. Data gathered from individual interviews and focus group sessions revealed that all parents struggled with developing advocacy strategies to manage their child’s dual diagnosis. Only after parents acquired professional knowledge about educational terminology and official policies, were they able to become successful advocates. The lack of readily available resources focusing on twice-exceptional children was an obstacle to successful advocacy. Suggestions for future research and collaboration are discussed.
Transforming classic Discrete Event System Specification models to Specification and Description Language
Authors: Fonseca i Casas Pau
Published: March 2015

Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) is one of the main widely used formal languages to represent simulation models, while Specification and Description Language (SDL) is a graphical ITU-T standard language, commonly used in telecommunication and engineering areas. In this paper, we present an algorithm, and a simulation infrastructure that implements this algorithm, to transform a simulation model represented using the DEVS formalism to the SDL standard language. The algorithm can be viewed as a mechanism to represent graphically DEVS models. In addition, because of the transformation, one can use SDL tools in order to implement DEVS models. To implement the algorithm, we propose an Extensible Markup Language representation for the DEVS and SDL models. For practical application of the algorithm, it is implemented in a simulation infrastructure named the Specification and Description Language Parallel Simulator that allows defining the models with both formalisms.
Adaptive position tracking control of electro-hydraulic six-degree-of-freedom driving simulator subject to perturbation
Authors: Zhao Qiang , Wang Na , Spencer Billie F
Published: March 2015

In this paper, a new Lyapunov-based adaptive control scheme for the position tracking of an electro-hydraulic Stewart–Gough platform type six-degree-of-freedom (DOF) driving simulator is proposed. The kinematics and the dynamics of both the moving platform and the hydraulic actuator are first derived, and the linearized dynamic equation of the moving platform is developed for the controller design. Two control loops are employed, in which the platform controller is in the outer loop and the actuator controllers are in the inner loop. In the platform controller, the compound proportional-differential (PD) feedback and adaptive compensation controller is designed. The PD part is used to create the principal control signal, and the adaptive part is used to compensate for the parameter uncertainty and external disturbance. To suppose that the upper bound of the perturbation is known, a gradient descent method-based adaptive law is developed for parameter estimation. For each actuator controller a servo force control scheme is designed to ensure the actuator to accurately track the desired force output by the platform controller. All the controllers are designed together based on the Lyapunov method to guarantee the stability of the whole system. Numerical simulation on a six-DOF simulator shows that the proposed control scheme has better tracking performance than its non-adaptive counterpart.
GAMED: digital educational game development methodology
Authors: Aslan Serdar , Balci Osman
Published: March 2015

Development of a game in the form of software for game-based learning poses significant technical challenges for educators, researchers, game designers, and software engineers. The game development consists of a set of complex processes requiring multi-faceted knowledge in multiple disciplines such as digital graphic design, education, gaming, instructional design, modeling and simulation, psychology, software engineering, visual arts, and the learning subject area. Planning and managing such a complex multidisciplinary development project require a unifying methodology and should not be performed in an ad hoc manner. This paper presents such a methodology named GAMED (diGital educAtional gaMe dEvelopment methoDology). GAMED consists of a body of methods, rules, and postulates and is embedded within a digital educational game life cycle. The life cycle describes a framework for organization of the phases, processes, work products, quality assurance activities, and project management activities required to develop, use, maintain, and evolve a digital educational game from birth to retirement. GAMED provides a modular structured approach for overcoming the development complexity and guides the developers throughout the entire life cycle.
From Organic Growth to Liturgico-Plasticity: Reconceptualizing the Process of Liturgical Reform
Authors: Johnson Clare V.
Published: March 2015

Vatican II introduced the principle of “organic growth” to describe its preferred postconciliar liturgical reform process. Botanical interpretations have dominated scholarly readings of this analogy and restricted the emergence of richer analogies for understanding liturgical change. This article interprets “organic growth” in the liturgy via the analogy of neuroplasticity both to explore historic and prognostic considerations of liturgical changes undertaken in response to internal and external change agents and to advance a fresh perspective on the process of liturgical reform.
Mystagogy and Mission: The Challenge of Nonbelief and the Task of Theology
Authors: Crowley Paul
Published: March 2015

Christian engagement with nonbelievers is problematic when believing itself proves difficult even for people of faith. A recovery of the original unity of the fides quae (the “content” of faith held in belief) and the fides qua (how faith’s content is lived) can lead to a deeper sense of believing. Rahner’s understanding of faith as a “mystagogy” that leads to mission serves as a framework for recovering that original unity, and for addressing the contemporary problem of belief, not only for nonbelievers, but also for believers themselves.
PTSD and Cannabis-Related Coping Among Recent Veterans in New York City
Authors: Elliott Luther , Golub Andrew , Bennett Alexander , Guarino Honoria
Published: March 2015

This article presents interview and focus group data from veterans of recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan about their use of cannabis as a coping tool for dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder. Veterans’ comparisons of cannabis, alcohol, and psychopharmaceuticals tended to highlight advantages to cannabis use as more effective and less complicated by side effects. Some participants suggested that cannabis can be part of an approach-based coping strategy that aids with introspection and direct confrontation of the sources of personal trauma. Others, however, held that cannabis use was part of a less productive, avoidant coping strategy. Some self-reports suggested the need for more nuanced theorizations of coping behaviors, as they indicated motivations for use that were grounded in symptom alleviation rather than any direct confrontation with (or avoidance of) sources of trauma.
In Silico Analysis of RET Variants in Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Authors: Heineman Thomas E. , Joshi Rohan , Cohen Marc A. , Kuhel William I. , Kutler David I.
Published: March 2015

Objective

The American Thyroid Association (ATA) medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) guidelines group RET variants, in the setting of familial medullary thyroid cancer and multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2, into 4 classes of severity based on epidemiological data. The aim of this study was to determine if genotype correlates with phenotype in RET missense mutations.

Study Design

In silico mutational tolerance prediction.

Setting

Academic research hospital.

Subjects and Methods

We analyzed all RET variants currently listed in the ATA guidelines for the management of MTC using 2 computer‐based (in silico) mutation tolerance prediction approaches: PolyPhen‐2 HumVar and PolyPhen‐2 HumDiv. Our analysis also included 27 different RET single‐nucleotide polymorphisms resulting in missense variants.

Results

There was a statistically significant difference in the overall HumDiv score between ATA groups A and B (P =. 025) and a statistically significant different HumVar score between benign polymorphisms and ATA group A (P =. 023). Overall, RET variants associated with a less aggressive clinical phenotype generally had a lower Hum Div/Var score.

Conclusions

Polyphen‐2 Hum Div/Var may provide additional clinical data to help distinguish benign from MEN2/familial medullary thyroid carcinoma–causing RET variants as well as less aggressive phenotypes (ATA A) from more aggressive ones (ATA B‐C). In silico genetic analyses, with proper validation, may predict the phenotypic severity of RET variants, providing clinicians with a tool to aid clinical decision making in cases in which the RET variant is currently unknown or little epidemiological data are available.
Causes and Costs for ED Visits after Pediatric Adenotonsillectomy
Authors: Curtis Jonathan L. , Harvey D. Brandon , Willie Scott , Narasimhan Evan , Andrews Seth , Henrichsen Jake , Van Buren Nicholas C. , Srivastava Rajendu , Meier Jeremy D.
Published: March 2015

Objective

(1) Review the reasons, timing, and costs for children presenting to the emergency department (ED) after adenotonsillectomy (T&A).

Study Design

Case series with chart review.

Setting

Tertiary care children’s hospital.

Subjects and Methods

A standardized activity‐based hospital accounting system was used to identify 437 children from an academic pediatric otolaryngology practice presenting to the ED after T&A from 2009 to 2012. The reason for presentation, timing after surgery, and facility costs were recorded.

Results

The study cohort represented 13.3% of the 3198 patients who underwent T&A during that time period. Overall, 133 (4.2%) presented for dehydration, 106 (3.3%) presented for post‐tonsillectomy hemorrhage, 65 (2.0%) for poorly controlled pain, 42 (1.3%) for fever, 29 (1.0%) for vomiting/nausea/GI discomfort, 22 (0.7%) for respiratory complications, and 12 (0.4%) for miscellaneous reasons related to the operation; 28 (0.8%) were unrelated to the T&A and excluded. Mean postoperative day at the time of ED presentation was 4.4 (95% CI, 4.1‐4.7). The mean cost per patient presenting to the ED was $1420 (95% CI, $1104‐$1737), the most costly subgroups being those presenting with respiratory complications ($2855; 95% CI, $1434‐$4277), hemorrhage ($1502; 95% CI, $1216‐$1787), and dehydration ($1372; 95% CI, $995‐$1750). The least costly subgroup was acute postoperative pain ($781; 95% CI, $282‐$1200).

Conclusion

A significant portion of children present to the ED after T&A for poorly controlled pain, dehydration, or fever. The costs from these visits are significant. Accounting for these costs in the global care for pediatric T&A could assist in calculating appropriate reimbursement for bundled payments in this climate of health care reform.
Multistate Statistical Modeling
Authors: Bongers Mathilda L. , de Ruysscher Dirk , Oberije Cary , Lambin Philippe , Uyl–de Groot Carin A. , Coupé V. M. H.
Published: March 2015

With the shift toward individualized treatment, cost-effectiveness models need to incorporate patient and tumor characteristics that may be relevant to treatment planning. In this study, we used multistate statistical modeling to inform a microsimulation model for cost-effectiveness analysis of individualized radiotherapy in lung cancer. The model tracks clinical events over time and takes patient and tumor features into account. Four clinical states were included in the model: alive without progression, local recurrence, metastasis, and death. Individual patients were simulated by repeatedly sampling a patient profile, consisting of patient and tumor characteristics. The transitioning of patients between the health states is governed by personalized time-dependent hazard rates, which were obtained from multistate statistical modeling (MSSM). The model simulations for both the individualized and conventional radiotherapy strategies demonstrated internal and external validity. Therefore, MSSM is a useful technique for obtaining the correlated individualized transition rates that are required for the quantification of a microsimulation model. Moreover, we have used the hazard ratios, their 95% confidence intervals, and their covariance to quantify the parameter uncertainty of the model in a correlated way. The obtained model will be used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of individualized radiotherapy treatment planning, including the uncertainty of input parameters. We discuss the model-building process and the strengths and weaknesses of using MSSM in a microsimulation model for individualized radiotherapy in lung cancer.
Economic regulation and the value of concealment in highland Guatemala
Authors: Thomas Kedron
Published: March 2015

In this article, I contribute to conversations in anthropology regarding the dynamics of secrecy that so often attend to informal and illegal practices. Tracing the historical unfolding of an industry that involves indigenous Maya men who make clothing to sell in regional markets, I am interested in the contemporary value of concealment for clothing producers whose work was once regulated by the state, but is now regulated by an array of market and non-market actors. I find that practices of concealment hold particular value for Maya men whose relationships to various forms of political and economic authority have been marked largely by violence and exploitation.
Illegality for the general good? Vigilantism and social responsibility in contemporary Indonesia
Authors: Bakker Laurens
Published: March 2015

This article analyses the impact of ormas – mass organizations – as non-state violent actors in the politics and economy of Indonesian regional society. The central element is the question whether threats of violence as well as the actual performance of violence by non-state actors serve the ‘general good’ that the state, and therefore these non-state actors appropriating its authority, stand to protect or rather the particular interests of those in charge of the organizations. The article considers the tainted history of ormas as militias affiliated to the New Order regime and involved in crime in seeking to come to terms with the present claim of regional ormas to being lawful and patriotic defenders of regional interests against predatory national elites. Using heuristic analyses of ormas activities, the article considers discourses of ormas legitimacy in the light of the appropriation of sovereign violent practices as manifestations of democracy.
Enhancing engagement with community sector organisations working in sustainable waste management: A case study
Authors: Dururu John , Anderson Craig , Bates Margaret , Montasser Waleed , Tudor Terry
Published: March 2015

Voluntary and community sector organisations are increasingly being viewed as key agents of change in the shifts towards the concepts of resource efficiency and circular economy, at the community level. Using a meta-analysis and questionnaire surveys across three towns in the East Midlands of England, namely Northampton, Milton Keynes and Luton, this study aimed to understand public engagement with these organisations. The findings suggest that these organisations play a significant and wide-spread role, not only with regard to sustainable environmental management, but also a social role in community development and regeneration. The surveys indicated that there were generally high levels of awareness of the organisations and strong engagement with them. Clothes were the items most donated. Key reasons for engagement included the financial value offered and the perception that it helped the environment. However, potential limitations in future public engagement were also determined and recommendations for addressing these suggested.
“I Know Down to My Ribs”
Authors: Tobin Jennifer A. , Tisdell Elizabeth J.
Published: March 2015

This article reports the findings of a qualitative study that used narrative analysis to explore the role of embodied learning in the writing processes of creative writers. From a theoretical framework that draws on Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of the body, Gendlin’s concepts of felt sense and focusing, and Jordi’s analysis of reflection for integrating mind and body, this study highlights one participant’s narrative and then discusses primary themes that emerged across narratives. Findings revealed a history of encouragement to write, writing that was used for healing, and an expanded sense of body awareness that encouraged flow in the writing process.
Public service and private trade: Northern seamen in seventeenth-century Venetian courts of justice
Authors: Fusaro Maria
Published: March 2015

This article presents some of the findings of ‘ Sailing into Modernity: Comparative Perspectives on the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century European Economic Transition’ (ERC, Starting Grant), a research project designed to analyse the diversities and peculiarities of the civil maritime jurisdictions of Northern and Southern Europe during the long seventeenth century (1570–1729). This article concentrates on a subsection of this research, merchantmen employed in support of naval activities, especially those English and Dutch mercantile vessels providing logistic support to Venetian naval campaigns during the War of Candia, 1646–1669. Through some particularly detailed cases of common legal challenges experienced by Northern ships active in the Venetian Mediterranean, the article explores the variety of employment opportunities available in the Mediterranean to Northern European vessels and highlights the Venetian Republic’s efforts to guarantee the regular functioning of sea trade in the region even when it was an active theatre of naval war.
Piracy, patronage & political economy: Captain Kidd and the East India Trade
Authors: Wilson David
Published: March 2015

At the end of the seventeenth century, Whig and Tory debate over the organization and future of the East India trade recognized the need for a closer relationship between merchant and state. However, the existence of an illicit pirate enterprise between New York, Madagascar and the Red Sea proved an obstruction to the future of this trade. This article seeks to explore the ill-fated voyage of Captain William Kidd of 1696–1699 during which Kidd was commissioned to confront the Red Sea marauders as part of the state’s war on piracy. It will be argued that in the process, he became intertwined with the development of political economy in post-revolution England and, ultimately, became the necessary catalyst and martyr for political and economic change.
Meditation Interventions for Chronic Disease Populations
Authors: Chan Roxane Raffin , Larson Janet L.
Published: March 2015

The rapidly growing body of research regarding the use of meditation interventions in chronic disease presents an opportunity to compare outcomes based on intervention content. For this review, meditation interventions were described as those interventions delivered to persons with chronic disease where sitting meditation was the main or only content of the intervention with or without the addition of mindful movement. This systematic review identified 45 individual research studies that examined meditations effect on levels of anxiety, depression, and chronic disease symptoms in persons with chronic disease. Individual studies were assessed based on interventional content, the consistency with which interventions were applied, and the research quality. This study identified seven categories of meditation interventions based on the meditation skills and mindful movement practices that were included in the intervention. Overall, half of the interventions had clearly defined and specific meditation interventions (25/45) and half of the studies were conducted using randomized control trials (24/45).
Thrombolytic therapy in a patient with inferolateral myocardial infarction after carbon monoxide poisoning
Authors: Unlu M , Ozturk C , Demirkol S , Balta S , Malek A , Celik T , Iyisoy A
Published: March 2015

Introduction:

ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) due to coronary artery occlusion caused by intracoronary thrombosis in the setting of acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a very rare presentation. We present a case of intracoronary large and mobile thrombus formation after CO poisoning.

Case presentation:

A previously healthy 50-year-old woman was referred for CO poisoning. She had chest pain after exposure to CO. Her initial mental status was preoccupied with chest pain. Her initial CO fraction was 28.1%, and initial laboratory data showed creatine kinase–myocardial isoenzyme of 134 U/L (upper limit 25 U/L) and troponin I of >50 ng/mL (upper limit 0.06 ng/mL). Electrocardiography was carried out on admission, revealing an ST segment elevation in the inferolateral leads. After initial evaluation, coronary angiography was performed and an intracoronary large mobile thrombus was seen in the proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery with no significant stenosis. We administered tenecteplase with heparin. After the thrombolytic therapy, ST elevation in the inferolateral leads resolved. Repeat angiography was performed after 24 h; the thrombus in LAD had resolved. The patient was discharged after 5 days, with persistent Q wave in the inferior leads and mild hypokinesia of the inferoposterior wall suggesting myocardial injury.

Conclusion:

We describe intracoronary thrombus formation induced by CO poisoning. Because intracoronary thrombus can result in myocardial infarction, its consideration following CO poisoning is important. Patients with CO poisoning who have symptoms of STEMI should be carefully evaluated with serial electrocardiograms, cardiac biomarkers, and an echocardiogram. When there is evidence of acute myocardial injury, a primer in coronary angiography can determine which patients could benefit from intervention.
Detecting disease association signals with multiple genetic variants and covariates
Authors: Cheng KF , Lee JY
Published: March 2015

Due to the improvements in the efficiency of resequencing technologies, discoveries and analyses of rare variants in sequencing-based association studies at the gene level, or even exome-wide are becoming increasingly feasible. Powerful association tests have been suggested in literature for testing whether a group of variants in a gene region is associated with a particular disease of interest. Their performance depends on the correct assumption of regression model and conditions such as the size of the case and control sample, numbers of causal and noncausal variants (rare or common), variant frequency, effect size and directionality, rate of missing genotype, etc. Most of these model-based tests require genotype data to be complete at each variant. Our previous results showed that in the case of no covariate, the power of these tests might be greatly influenced, when there were missing genotypes and only simple imputation was used. In this paper, we demonstrate by simulations that in the presence of covariates, the type I errors of these approaches might be inflated, even when genotype missing rate was very small. We present an association test based on testing zero proportion of causal variants in the gene region, and show this test to be almost uniformly most powerful among the competing tests under very general simulation conditions. This test does not require genotype to be complete and hence is robust against missing genotype. We discuss how to adjust for population stratification based on principal components and show the power loss of this approach was small when the population stratification effect was moderate. We use a Shanghai Breast Cancer Study to demonstrate application of the tests and show the proposed test is more powerful in detecting variants related to breast cancer, and robust against the inclusion of noncausal variants.
History of Family Violence, Childhood Behavior Problems, and Adolescent High-Risk Behaviors as Predictors of Girls’ Repeated Patterns of Dating Victimization in Two Developmental Periods
Authors: Vézina Johanne , Hébert Martine , Poulin François , Lavoie Francine , Vitaro Frank , Tremblay Richard E.
Published: March 2015

This study aims to document the prevalence of repeated patterns of dating victimization and to examine, within the frameworks of an ecological model and lifestyle/routine activities theories, associations between such patterns and family, peer, and individual factors. Dating victimization in adolescence (age 15) and early adulthood (age 21) was evaluated in 443 female participants. Multinomial logistic regression analyses revealed that history of family violence, childhood behavior problems, and adolescent high-risk behaviors were associated with an increased risk for girls of being victimized (psychologically and/or physically/sexually) in their dating relationships, either in adolescence or early adulthood, or at both developmental periods.
Effects of pressure-dependent viscosity variation on the squeeze film lubrication between a sphere and a rough flat plate with couple stress fluids
Authors: Naduvinamani NB , Siddangouda A , Hiremath Ayyappa G , Biradar SN
Published: March 2015

In this paper, a theoretical study of the combined effects of surface roughness and the variation of viscosity with pressure on the squeeze film lubrication between sphere and a flat plate is presented. Based on the Christensen’s stochastic theory for the hydrodynamic lubrication of rough surfaces, two types of one-dimensional surface roughness (radial and azimutal) patterns are considered. The generalized averaged Reynold’s equation for Stokes couple stress fluids accounting for the pressure dependent viscosity is mathematically derived for the problem under consideration. The standard perturbation technique is used to solve the averaged nonlinear Reynold’s equation and an approximate analytical solution for the fluid film mean pressure is obtained for the two types of one-dimensional roughness patterns. It is found that, the effects of couple stresses and pressure dependent viscosity variation are to improve the squeeze film characteristics.
Diasporic virginities: Social representations of virginity and identity formation amongst British Arab Muslim women
Authors: Amer Amena , Howarth Caroline , Sen Ragini
Published: March 2015

This study compares how practising and non-practising British Arab Muslim women position themselves in relation to representations of virginity. Overall, in our qualitative study, we found that representations of culture and religion influenced social practices and social beliefs in different ways: non-practising Muslim women felt bound by culture to remain virgins, while practising Muslim women saw it as a religious obligation but were still governed by culture regarding the consequences of engaging in premarital sex. Interestingly, some practising Muslim participants used Mut’a (a form of temporary ‘marriage’) to justify premarital sex. This, however, did not diminish the importance of virginity in their understanding and identification as Arab women. In fact, this study found that virginity, for the British Arabs interviewed, embodied a sense of ‘Arabness’ in British society. Positioning themselves as virgins went beyond simply honour; it was a significant cultural symbol that secured their sense of cultural identity. In fact this cultural identity was often so powerful that it overrode their Islamic identities, prescribing their behaviour even if religion was seen as more ‘forgiving’.
The culture of family secrets
Authors: Orgad Yariv
Published: March 2015

In mainstream psychology, family secrets are usually discussed in terms of intra-psychological processes. However, the sense making of the family, which is a multilayered system, is mediated through culture. Hence, a complementary intersubjective perspective is inevitable for understanding secrecy formation. Merging psychoanalytic ideas with cultural-semiotic analysis, the current paper explores the relationships between three complementary levels of secrecy formation: the macro-level of cultural mediation, the mesoscopic-level of family dynamics, and the micro-level of intra-psychological processes. This perspective is developed and illustrated through an in-depth reading of Amir Gutfreund’s novel, Our Holocaust.
In or out? Barriers and facilitators to refugee-background young people accessing mental health services
Authors: Colucci Erminia , Minas Harry , Szwarc Josef , Guerra Carmel , Paxton Georgia
Published: March 2015

Refugee young people have been identified as a group with high risk for mental health problems, due to their experience of trauma, forced migration, and stressors associated with settlement. A high prevalence of mental health problems is reported in this group, however some research suggests refugee young people have low rates of mental health service access. There is little information available on barriers and facilitators to mental service delivery for this group. Using data from 15 focus groups and five key informant interviews with a total of 115 service providers from 12 agencies in Melbourne, Australia, this paper explores barriers and facilitators to engaging young people from refugee backgrounds with mental health services. Eight key themes emerged: cultural concepts of mental health, illness, and treatment; service accessibility; trust; working with interpreters; engaging family and community; the style and approach of mental health providers; advocacy; and continuity of care.
A gift to the community? Public relations, public art and the news media
Authors: Chambers Deborah , Baines David
Published: March 2015

The use of public art to regenerate former mining regions is now commonplace. This article assesses the function of public art within the public relations strategy of a mining company to facilitate planning and manage local opposition. A case study of the land sculpture, Northumberlandia (2012) and media-framing analysis demonstrate how corporately funded public art serves as a powerful public relations tool to justify the renaissance of surface coal mining. Media releases and more than 90 news items are analysed to understand PR strategies and media dynamics involved in representing the affected community. The article explains how public art functions as a public relations news framing device within a discourse of economic and cultural regeneration. Referring to the sculpture as a ‘gift to the community’, corporate public art claims a civic role. This preferred set of meanings is recycled in mainstream news as a process of ‘PR framing’ to circumvent local opposition.
Political intimization as a key to bypassing traditional leadership selection procedures: The case of Matteo Renzi
Authors: Ciaglia Antonio , Mazzoni Marco
Published: March 2015

Italy’s Partito Democratico has for a long time been characterized by rigid mechanisms of leadership selection. Prior to Renzi’s ascent to leadership, no leader had managed to rise to power without being backed up by the party’s key figures. By undertaking a content analysis of Italy’s most important entertainment magazine, Chi, and by comparing Matteo Renzi’s coverage with the coverage received by another three Partito Democratico leading figures, Pier Luigi Bersani, Massimo D’Alema and Enrico Letta, this article argues that when demand for political innovation is particularly high, political intimization can represent an alternative and fruitful way to party leadership.