bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Infectious Fiction: Plague and the Novelist in Arthur Mervyn and The Last Man
Authors: Tarr Clayton Carlyle
Published: June 2015

Opponents of the burgeoning novel often compared its effects to the plague. Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Mervyn (1799) and Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826) overturn these accusations by demonstrating that the distinctive occupation of novel-writing promotes survival amidst the devastation of apocalyptic contagion. Both Brown and Shelley used writing as therapy after great loss, and their protagonists similarly survive by becoming novelists. Arthur Mervyn and Lionel Verney continue to record and to imagine when all other systems of communication collapse. Brown and Shelley suggest not only that novel-writing offers medication against the world’s infections, moral and otherwise, but also that it has the potential to prevent future outbreaks. This effect is especially evident in The Last Man , in which Lionel’s writing travels through time with the result that the apocalyptic future that he records could be prevented due to the particular infectiousness of the novel form.
Heroes, Villains, and Balkans: Intertextual Masculinities in Ralph Fiennes’s Coriolanus
Authors: Pittman L. Monique
Published: June 2015

Filmed Shakespeare often reinvents the poet’s drama by appropriating popular representational devices. One technique, intertextual referencing by means of casting or setting selection, provides a crucial but ontologically unstable means by which the adaptor of Shakespeare heightens relevance and increases popular appeal. Ralph Fiennes’s 2011 adaptation of Coriolanus (1607/08) instantiates the vexed layers of association generated by means of such intertextuality. By casting himself as the titular general and Gerard Butler as his nemesis Aufidius, Fiennes shorthands filmic intertexts that shape a viewer’s access to the Roman play; both the Harry Potter oeuvre and 300 serve as notable reference points pressuring characterization. On the one hand, these intertexts access film idiom to confront mythologies of masculinity grounded in violence and to explore such myths both as self-defining and self-annihilating. However, complicating the movie’s critique of masculine identity is Fiennes’s choice to film in Serbia and Montenegro as well as to utilize found news footage from the 1990s Yugoslav Wars. Fiennes’s recontextualization of the Roman-Volsce conflict accesses a raft of stereotypes of the Balkan male as violent and uncontrollable that yoke an entire European region to the patterns of self-destruction manifested by Coriolanus and Aufidius. Thus, Fiennes’s filmic and historical intertexts inadvertently impress the seal of Shakespearean approval on dubious European stereotypes of the Balkan Other. We see in Fiennes’s film that as adaptative alterations strive to render the canon relevant and accessible, they simultaneously provoke new interpretive and ethical considerations.
Queer Shakespeare at the Citizens Theatre
Authors: Thomas Chad Allen
Published: June 2015

The Citizens Theatre of Glasgow (or Citz) has captivated audiences with its cross-gender cast productions of Shakespeare’s plays; however in the early 1970s, when it was developing its signature performance style, critical response was frequently hostile and homophobic. The “Citz’ style” of Shakespeare includes young actors, recurrent cross-dressing, outrageous actions, frequent nudity, raw sexuality, irreverent tone, frenetic energy, and a camp sensibility. Such a style of performance is appreciably contingent on its appropriation of aspects of gay male culture; although the Citz’ did not consider its work self-referentially “queer,” in examining the company’s 1972 cross-dressed production of Antony and Cleopatra it becomes evident that the signifier applies. I argue that the Citz alludes to several social and historical queer referents: including Shakespeare as a gay icon, gay cultural practices, and gay commodification. These signifiers function concurrently and undergo a process of appropriation and rebranding by the Citz, which then recycles the referents as part of its aforementioned house style. My argument relies on review discourse and a few photographs from the Scottish Theatre archive, taken alongside a consideration of gay culture and queer theatre in the early 1970s. In offering my analysis, I queer the Citz in retrospect, bringing Shakespeare scholars and historians of queer theatre into conversation and intellectual collaboration, and begin to offer a history of queer Shakespeare in the present (and recent past).
The Performance of Counter-Sorcery in Lemi Ponifasio’s Tempest: Without a Body
Authors: Zimmerman Guy
Published: June 2015

Created in 2007, and toured through 2013, Polynesian director and choreographer Lemi Ponifasio’s striking Tempest: Without a Body marks a new phase in environmentally-focused, postcolonial discourse. Shakespeare’s The Tempest plays a central role in Ponifasio’s move in the direction of political theology, as does the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Giorgio Agamben, and Isabelle Stengers. By linking the imagery of Shakespeare’s text to Samoan conceptions of temporality--how past, present and future interpenetrate--Ponifasio identifies the linearity of Western temporality as a crucial source of disempowerment for colonized people. Ponifasio’s awareness of Western philosophical and literary history arms him against this form epistemic capture, and allows him to enlist Shakespeare in his counter-assault on Enlightenment temporality. Stengers’s analysis of “capitalist sorcery” (developed with Philippe Pignarre) helps illuminate the relevance of this reconfiguration to the study of Shakespeare. Through the Deleuzian figure of the sorcerer we come to see how Shakespeare’s work connects to contemporary postdramatic theater in a new era defined by global protest politics and the shadow of the Anthropocene.
A Jew’s Daughter and a Christian’s Wife: Performing Jessica’s Multiplicity in The Merchant of Venice
Authors: Middleton Irene
Published: June 2015

Shylock’s daughter, Jessica, yokes together the disparate pieces of The Merchant of Venice from her position at the intersection of the play’s mutable definition of Judaism and gender concerns. Post-Holocaust British productions of The Merchant of Venice capitalize on Jessica’s shifting cluster of identity traits to mitigate audiences’ potential abhorrence of her betrayal of family, faith, and culture. Moving away from the binary arguments dominating textual studies, theatre productions present Jessica as both “a Jew’s daughter” and “a Christian and […] loving wife” rather than one or the other (3.5.26-27, 2.3.20). The profusion of identity markers Jessica acquires in the text gives her role a surprising adaptability and influence in modern performance. Surveying productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, and the Royal National, this article investigates how and why productions adapt the text to achieve a “rehabilitation” of Jessica’s character. The power of her role has been tacitly acknowledged in productions’ recent tendency to emphasize her presence at the end of act five; this concludes by analyzing several versions of the conclusion to demonstrate how Jessica’s malleability is not only the lynchpin between the play’s two plots but serves to banish the specter of anti-Semitism by offering the possible reconstruction of the entire play to suit the expectations of modern audiences.
Acting in the Paratext: Theatrical Material in Horace Howard Furness’s New Variorum Shakespeare
Authors: Cross Lezlie C.
Published: June 2015

In 1866 amateur scholar Horace Howard Furness began work on a new American edition of Shakespeare which he designed to be the ultimate resource for all students of the plays. Inspired by the work of eighteenth-century Shakespearean scholar Edmond Malone, Furness created a new variorum edition of Shakespeare which included the text of each play, extensive textual notes and a broad selection of critical and aesthetic commentary. Additionally, unlike most of his predecessors, contemporaries and successors, Furness integrated the history of theatrical production with that of textual editing and criticism. His aim was to provide all students of Shakespeare—including theatrical practitioners—the comments of editors, scholars, critics and actors on textual, critical, aesthetic, dramatic and interpretive issues on the same page as the text to which they referred. Furness strived to give scholars, students and practitioners the ability to make informed interpretive choices about the texts of Shakespeare. This article explicates the many reasons why Furness infused his edition with the evidence of performance practice and demonstrates the use-value of the New Variorum series to nineteenth-century theatrical professionals. I argue that Furness’s serious treatment of textual choices by actors and producers and critical writings by and about actors anticipated the shift in editorial theory in the mid-twentieth century which admitted stage practice as valid scholarly material.
Alon Hilu and the Hebrew Historical Novel
Authors: Ginsburg Shai P.
Published: June 2015

In this paper, I discuss Alon Hilu’s two historical novels, Death of a Monk (2004) and The Dejani Estate (2008), as symptomatic of Israeli culture of the twenty-first century. I argue that the question of genre—historical fiction—is as central to the construction of the novels as it is to their reception. As the latter evinces, historical fiction is perceived as blurring the proper boundaries between the “objective” and the imaginary and thus feeds anxieties about the relationship of Jews to history, anxieties that have been haunting Zionist discourses from their inception. Hilu’s novels trace these anxieties to concerns about sexuality and desire and employ them to explore the relationship between two central foci of the Hebrew historical novel, namely, historical agency and historical writing. The novels construct numerous “scenes of writing,” in which writing seeks to retrieve historical agency, embodied in the two novels by desire and sexual potency. Simultaneously, writing is revealed as a mere substitute for desire and sex. Both novels consequently suggest that writing attests to the failure to produce historical agency.
Femininity and Authenticity in Ethiopia and Israel: Asfu Beru’s A Different Moon
Authors: Mendelson-Maoz Adia
Published: June 2015

This article discusses the work of the female Ethiopian-Israeli author Asfu Beru, whose collection of stories, Yare’ah Aher (A Different Moon) was published in 2002. The small corpus of contemporary Hebrew literature by Ethiopian-Jewish immigrants in Israel usually focuses on the narrative of homecoming and the journey to “Yerussalem,” while often viewing the African space retrospectively in utopian terms. By contrast, the stories in Beru’s collection are set in Ethiopia and do not deal with the journey or immigration to Israel. They depict a rigid traditional society that the protagonist, an adolescent female in many of the stories, has to confront. This article analyzes the convoluted relationship between multiculturalism and feminism through Beru’s hyphenated identity as a member of a traditional society, a woman, a Jew, and a Black, but who identifies at times with the hegemonic Israeli-Western perspective and takes a critical stance toward traditional Ethiopian society.
Hebrew in English: The New Transnational Hebrew Literature
Authors: Weininger Melissa
Published: June 2015

Although the historiography of Hebrew literature has often retrospectively portrayed its development as an Israeli phenomenon, recent scholarship has shown the ways in which Hebrew literature’s origins lie largely in the Diaspora. Two new books by Israeli writers written in English, Shani Boianjiu’s The People of Forever Are Not Afraid and Ayelet Tsabari’s The Best Place on Earth , return to the diasporic roots of Hebrew literature by deliberately placing themselves as a challenge to the Zionist narrative of literary historiography. This article elaborates the ways that these books use English to explore the transnational nature of Hebrew literature and participate in a larger literary conversation about globalization. Their linguistic experimentation is also tied to the thematic challenges they pose to foundational Israeli mythologies, like that of the New Hebrew Man, through an emphasis on marginal characters and themes. This literature, which I call “Hebrew in English,” stands as a critique of hegemonic constructions of Israeli identity, nationalism, and culture.
Settlers versus Pioneers: The Deconstruction of the Settler in Assaf Gavron’s The Hilltop
Authors: Herskovitz Yaakov
Published: June 2015

This paper engages in a close reading of settlers, settlements, and the portrayal of settler ideology in the novel The Hilltop . This trailblazing novel from 2013, written by Assaf Gavron, foregrounds the image of the settlers in the West Bank and their relationship to the State of Israel. The paper explores this relationship through a discussion of settler ideology and how this set of beliefs comperes to Zionist ideology at large. Thus, the images of the settler and of Zionist pioneers are coupled and reexamined.
Between the Backpack and the Tent: Home, Zionism, and a New Generation in Eshkol Nevo’s Novels Homesick and Neuland
Authors: Harris Rachel S.
Published: June 2015

The relationship between travel and home are given new life in the novels of Eshkol Nevo. Framing the contemporary reality in narratives that explore Zionism, travel, and social activism, Nevo offers a conception of the new generation of Israeli writers torn between an Israeli identity, with its increasingly inclusive and polyethnic state, and a Jewish identity with its diasporic roots.
A Spatial Identity Crisis: Space and Identities in Nir Baram’s Novels
Authors: Weiss Vered
Published: June 2015

The following article focuses on the use of spatial metaphors, and the presence (or absence) of Jewish-Israeli identities in Nir Baram’s novels, offering an overview of his work and locating it within a Hebrew literary tradition. In order to explore individual and collective identities in a (post)modern world, Baram makes extensive and elaborate use of spatial metaphors, blurring the boundaries between inside and outside, tampering with the stable organization of the world, and presenting homes that offer neither shelter nor warmth. The various characters in Baram’s texts—Israeli or not—are either homeless or otherwise displaced, yearning for a home they cannot fully comprehend or construct. The defamiliarization of space in Baram’s work creates the sense that Jewish-Israeli identities are implicitly present even when they are explicitly absent, and detached when they are, indeed, overtly present. This elusiveness seems to be the core of Jewish-Israeli identities as they manifest, or are alluded to, in Baram’s work.
Where You Are From: The Poetry of Vaan Nguyen
Authors: Jacobs Adriana X.
Published: June 2015

In her debut collection The Truffle Eye (2014), the Vietnamese-Israeli poet Vaan Nguyen brings a mix of cultural and linguistic affiliations to her Hebrew writing that is arguably standard in today’s multilingual and multicultural Israeli society, particularly in the cosmopolitan milieu of Tel Aviv, where she locates much of her work. But as the daughter of Vietnamese refugees who have settled in Israel, Vaan also engages and challenges—through the double position of the insider/outsider—the discourse of exile and return and the politics of memory in Israeli culture. In the 2005 film The Journey of Vaan Nguyen , the Israeli filmmaker Duki Dror offered a nuanced portrait of the friction between Nguyen’s Israeli and Vietnamese identities and her family’s Israeli present and Vietnamese past. In this article, I address how Vaan negotiates and articulates her double position through a close examination of scenes from the film and selections from The Truffle Eye . Against the problematic reception and reading of her poetry as exotic, I argue that the cosmopolitan and transnational movements that shape her work evince a characteristically twenty-first century Israeli mode of travel and translation.
The Shape of Time in Microfiction: Alex Epstein and the Search for Lost Time
Authors: Rovner Adam
Published: June 2015

This article presents a general theory of microfiction that focuses on the formal elements of the genre’s poetics. My analysis argues that a symmetry exists between microfiction’s contracted spatialization, and the compression—and hence violation—of temporal norms of the reader’s anticipation. The violation of conventional reading anticipation makes microfiction seem not only to be new but also transgressive. Indeed, much microfiction is transgressive of prevailing ideologies of time that are premised on the existence of contingency and the efficacy of human agency. This article takes the work of Israeli microfiction author Alex Epstein as its touchstone while advancing a framework for a theory of the genre.
Happiness About Unintended Pregnancy And Its Relationship to Contraceptive Desires Among a Predominantly Latina Cohort
Authors: Aiken Abigail R.A.
Published: June 2015

CONTEXT

Women frequently profess happiness about unintended pregnancies; such incongruence is associated with use of less effective contraceptive methods and inconsistent or incorrect method use. Yet, the methods women use may differ from those they desire.

METHODS

Data on 578 women were drawn from a prospective survey of postpartum women aged 18–44 recruited from three hospitals in Texas between 2012 and 2014. Jonckheere‐Terpstra tests were used to compare women's feelings about a future pregnancy with their childbearing intentions. Fisher‐Freeman‐Halton tests compared distributions of contraceptive methods currently used and desired by women who professed happiness about a future unintended pregnancy, as well as distributions of desired methods by women's reported feelings.

RESULTS

The proportion of women who reported happiness about a future pregnancy was 59% among those intending to wait two or three years for another child, 46% among those intending to wait four or more years, and 36% among those intending to have no more children. Among women who professed happiness, a greater proportion desired to use a highly effective contraceptive method than were currently using one (72% vs. 15% among those intending no more children; 55% vs. 23% among those intending to wait at least four years; and 36% vs. 10% among those intending to wait two or three years). Across intention categories, the types of methods desired did not differ by whether women professed happiness or unhappiness.

CONCLUSIONS

Women who profess happiness about a future unintended pregnancy may nonetheless desire highly effective contraceptive methods.
Bilateral accessory renal arteries in a fetus: importance for surgical and radiological practice
Authors: AragÃ£o JosÃ© Aderval , Santana Danillo Primo Andrade , BrandÃ£o Ellen Caroline da ConceiÃ§Ã£o , Andrade Viviane Freitas , Freire Marianna Ribeiro de Menezes , Reis Francisco Prado
Published: June 2015

Context: Knowledge of anatomical variations of the renal vessels is considered important, in view of the increasing use of kidney transplantation, vascular reconstruction and imaging methods.Objective: To report on a case of triple right renal artery, and double left renal artery and its clinical-surgical implications.Case report: In a female fetal cadaver of age 30 weeks, multiple renal arteries were observed: triple in the right and double in the left renal artery. All the arteries were hilar and originated from the lateral face of the abdominal aorta. The lengths of the triple renal arteries were 17, 10 and 12 mm respectively for the upper, middle and lower arteries. The lengths of the double arteries were 10 and 12 mm respectively for the upper and lower arteries. There was no extrarenal segmentation.Conclusion: Knowledge of possible variations in the renal arteries may be very useful for radiologists, urologists and vascular surgeons.
An investigation of physical properties and user behaviours in children's parks/playgrounds
Çocuk oyun alanlarının/parklarının fiziksel özelliklerinin ve kullanıcılarının davranışlarının incelenmesi
Authors: Ramazan M. Oya , Adak Özdemir Atiye
Published: June 2015

The purpose of this study is to investigate the physical properties and user (48-72 month children and adults accompanying them) behaviours in children's parks/playground. Participants of the study consist of 12 children (6 girls and 6 boys) selected on random basis from six different parks located in Kadıköy, Üsküdar, and Ataşehir districts in İstanbul. The qualitative research design was used in the study. Data were collected with structured interviews and naturalistic observations. During the observations in the parks, all activities and behaviors of children were recorded on an individual basis by using an observation form. Additionally, short interviews were conducted with children and their relatives (mother, father, grandmother, aunt) in the parks.

The results of the study revealed that all of the parks have traditional playground equipments. Observation results of the study indicated that children do not play with each other out of making contact only to state their wishes in limited verbal communication. Moreover, the results obtained by interviews showed that adults bring their children to the parks to prevent them to get bored at home while children stated that they came the park to play.

 

Özet

Bu araştırmanın amacı çocuk oyun alanlarının/parklarının fiziksel özelliklerinin ve kullanıcılarının (48-72 ay çocuklar ve onlara eşlik eden yetişkinler) davranışlarını incelemektir. Katılımcılar İstanbul ili Üsküdar, Kadıköy ve Ataşehir ilçelerindeki altı farklı parkta rastgele seçilen 12 çocuk (6 kız, 6 erkek)'tan oluşmaktadır. Nitel araştırma deseni kullanılarak gerçekleştirilen araştırmanın verilerinin toplanmasında ‘doğal ortamda gözlem’ ve ‘yapılandırılmış görüşme’ bir arada kullanılmıştır. Parklarda yapılan gözlemler sırasında çocukların tüm davranış ve eylemleri ayrı ayrı gözlem formuna kaydedilmiştir. Ayrıca çocuklar ve onlara eşlik eden yetişkinlerle kısa bir görüşme yapılmıştır.

Araştırmadan elde edilen bulgular parkların tamamında geleneksel tipte oyun materyallerinin bulunduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Gözlem sonucunda elde edilen veriler çocukların parkta birbirleri ile oyun oynamadıklarını ancak isteklerini belirtmek için sınırlı düzeyde sözel iletişimde bulunduklarını ortaya koymuştur. Görüşmelerden elde edilen veriler, yetişkinlerin evde sıkılmalarını önlemek için çocuklarını parka getirdiklerini; çocuklar ise oynamak için oyun parkına geldiklerini göstermektedir.
The validity and reliability of the Interpersonal Attractiveness Scale
Kişilerarası Çekicilik Ölçeği: Geçerlik güvenirlik çalışması
Authors: Yaman Erkan
Published: June 2015

The aim of this research is to develop the Interpersonal Attractiveness Scale and examine its validity and reliability. The sample of the study consisted of 1145 students from Sakarya University. In this study, construct validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and item analysis of the scale were examined. As a result of factor analysis for construct validity, four factors have emerged which are named physical appearance, personal characteristics, the frequency of visual, and values. These subscales consist of 19 items and account for the 46% of the total variance. The internal consistency reliability coefficients were .77 for physical appearance, .74 for personal characteristics, .81 for the frequency of visual, and .74 for values. Findings also demonstrated that item-total correlations ranged from .40 to .72. Test-retest reliability coefficients were .38 and .60 for four subscales, respectively. The item-total correlations ranged from .40 to .72. According to these findings the Interpersonal Attractiveness Scale can be regarded as a valid and reliable instrument that could be used in the field of psychology.

 

Özet

Bu araştırmanın amacı Kişilerarası Çekicilik Ölçeğini geliştirmek ve geçerlik, güvenirlik analizlerini yapmaktır. Araştırmanın örneklemini, Sakarya Üniversitesinde öğrenim gören 1145 üniversite öğrencisi oluşturmaktadır. Yapılan faktör analizi sonucunda toplam varyansın % 46’sını açıklayan, on dokuz madde ve dört alt boyuttan oluşan bir ölçme aracı elde edilmiştir. Bu alt boyutlar sırasıyla fiziksel görünüm, kişisel özellikler, görme sıklığı ve değerlerdir. Ölçeğin faktör yükleri .59 ile .74 arasında değişmektedir. İç tutarlık güvenirlik katsayıları fiziksel görünüm için .77, kişisel özellikler için .74, görme sıklığı için .81 ve değerler için .74 olarak hesaplanmıştır. Ölçeğin güvenirlik kat sayıları ise fiziksel görünüm için .38, kişisel özellikler için .42, görme sıklığı için .60 ve değerler için .53 olarak bulunmuştur. Madde analizi sonucunda alt ölçeklerin madde toplam puan korelasyonlarının .40 ile .72 arasında değiştiği görülmüştür. Bu bulgulara dayanarak Kişilerarası Çekicilik Ölçeği’nin psikolojik araştırmalarda kullanılabilecek, geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçme aracı olduğu söylenebilir.
Palynostratigraphy and vegetation changes during the early Middle Pleistocene, based on new studies of deposits from Ferdynandów (central eastern Poland)
Authors: Pidek Irena Agnieszka
Published: June 2015

New palynological data from the Ferdynandów site are presented and interpreted against the background of the earlier division of this stratotype pollen sequence by Janczyk-Kopikowa (1975), with special attention to a comparison with the nearest profile of a complete Ferdynandovian succession in Łuków (Łuków Plain). The proposed division of the new pollen diagram from Ferdynandów - into two warm periods of interglacial rank separated by a succession typical of glacial periods - is based on the new division of the Ferdynandovian pollen sequence s.l., applied for the first time by Mamakowa (1996) to the Podgórze B1 pollen profile close to Nowe Miasto on the Pilica river. The two warm units and the cold one between them in the new pollen diagram from the Ferdynandów site correspond to the climatostratigraphic units named Ferdynandovian 1 and 2. Together with the cooling/glaciation (Ferdynandovian 1/2) separating them, the whole Ferdynandovian sequence s.l. can be related to the early Middle Pleistocene Cromerian Complex (Cromerian II Westerhoven and Cromerian III Rosmalen) and Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 13-15.
Multiplication of the Enterocyte Mass by Serosal Patch Technique / Umnožavanje Enterocitne Mase Tehnikom Seroznog Patch-A
Authors: Grebeldinger P. Slobodan , Radojčić S. Branka , Ćulafić N. Jelena , Andrejić Višnjić M. Bojana
Published: June 2015

Damage to the small intestine and impairment of the intestinal epithelium occur in various diseases, resulting in a need for new epithelium. Therefore, bioengineering of the small intestine is becoming an attractive field of research where all contributions are highly appreciated.

The purpose of this study was to determine the possibility of the multiplication of the enterocyte mass using the technique of serosal patch with the application of hematopoietic stem cells, as well as the assessment of the quality of newly formed mucosa.

Sixty Mill Hill hooded rats were divided in 4 groups, 15 animals each. In the control group animals, the patch was not created. In the other three groups, the animals were operated on and in each group 8 parietal and 7 visceral patches have been created. One of the groups with operated animals (Group NS) was not postoperatively treated. The second group of operated animals (Group G) was stimulated with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). The third group of operated animals (Group GM) was stimulated with recombined humane granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rHuGM-CSF).

In the group of animals that were not stimulated, epithelium proliferated slowly. In the group of animals stimulated with G-CSF stimulants, the epithelium initially proliferated rapidly, but appeared atrophic after eight weeks. Stimulation by rHuGM-CSF led to faster epithelization, and epithelium showed signs of advancing proliferation after eight weeks.

We confirmed the possibility of enterocyte mass multiplication by using the serosal patch technique, as well as that stimulation with rHuGM-CSF is more effective than stimulation with G-CSF.
Bronchial Colonization in Patients with Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer / Kolonizacija bronha kod bolesnika sa nesitnoćelijskim karcinomom pluća
Authors: Stojanović Ana
Published: June 2015

Lower airways are sterile, but many researchers have reported the existence of bronchial colonization with pathogenic and non-pathogenic microorganisms in smokers and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. The aim of this study was to determine the existence and type of bronchial colonization in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as well as to determine whether colonization depends on patient's age, smoking habit, pulmonary function and body mass index (BMI). Another aim was to estimate whether colonization causes early postoperative complications. Fifty-five subjects with pathohistologically confirmed non-small cell lung cancer in the resectable stage and good performance status (ECOG 0 or 1) participated in this cross-sectional study. We assessed patient's degree of smoking, calculated their BMI and determined the existence and severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease if there was one. The patients underwent a flexible bronchoscopy when biopsy samples were taken with protected specimen brush (PSB) and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL); the retrieved samples were inoculated. Colonization was marked by an increase in the number of bacteria, yielding >10³CFU⁄L. In our study, bronchial colonization was found in 21 patients (38%). Potentially pathogenic microorganisms were isolated in 13 patients (Streptococcus pneumonia was found in five patients, Streptococcus B haemoliticus and Pseudononans in three patients each, Haemophilus influencae and Enterobacter in one patient each). Potentially non-pathogenic microorganisms were isolated in 8 patients (Streptococcus viridans was found in 7 patients and Achromobacter xylosoxidans in 1 patient). Patients' sex, age, smoking habit, body mass index and severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were not statistically significant for developing bronchial colonization. Only one operated patient developed postoperative pneumonia, but he had not previously been diagnosed with bronchial colonization
Some more Properties of γ-S-Closed Spaces
Authors: Hussain Sabir
Published: June 2015

The concept of γ-s-closed spaces have been introduced and explored by S. Hussain and B. Ahmad [6]. In this paper, some more interesting characterizations have been constructed for the description of such spaces.
Continuity Via ΛI-Open Sets
Authors: Sanabria J. , Acosta E. , Salas-Brown M. , Garcia O.
Published: June 2015

Noiri and Keskin [8] introduced the notions of ΛI -sets and ΛI-closed sets using ideals on topological spaces. In this work we use sets that are complements of ΛI-closed sets, which are called ΛI-open, to characterize new variants of continuity namely ΛI-continuous, quasi-ΛI-continuous and ΛI -irresolute functions
The Aesthetic Individual and the New South in the Age of Alienation in Walker Percy’S the Moviegoer
Authors: Popescu Dan Nicolae
Published: June 2015

This paper addresses Walker Percy’s first novel, The Moviegoer, tracing the use of existentialist tropes in its narrative construction in order to delineate the problematic condition of the human individual in the postwar South. The protagonist’s search for an authentic self and his escape from the snares of everydayness are put into perspective in the context of Percy’s professed understanding of Kierkegaard and Sartre, against the background of a South increasingly alienated from her ancient traditions
Negotiation and Discursive Conflict in Within Opinion: Public Vs. Private in the Social Romanian Imaginary
Authors: Marian-Arnat Petru Ioan
Published: June 2015

The paper approaches contemporary Romanian media in order to outline negotiation and discursive conflict strategies in public storytelling about the country’s recent history. In the so-called Romanian social imaginary, notions of public versus private highlight the way public officials resort to the language of culture-specific communication-related concepts that are a starting point for much of the discourse on decision-making
Crystal structure of bis-(5-bromo-2-methyl-phenyl)-diazene, C14H12Br2N2
Authors: Li Shi-Hui , Zhang Tian , Feng Xun , Huoi Su-Zhen
Published: June 2015

C14H12Br2N2, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 7.07(1) Å, b = 4.079(7) Å, c = 23.86(4) Å, β = 90.13(2)°, V = 687.6 Å3, Z = 2, Rgt(F) = 0.0346, wRref(F2) = 0.1166, T = 296 K.
Former heavy drinkers' multiple narratives of recovery
Authors: Christensen Anne-Sofie , Elmeland Karen
Published: June 2015

Aim

This article explores the multiplicity of former heavy drinkers' narratives. The focus lies on turning points from heavy drinking among people who have recovered through self-change and among those who recovered by participating in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings.

Design

We conducted 42 qualitative interviews with media-recruited informants in 2009–2013. The interviews allowed the respondents to narrate their life histories of drinking and quitting drinking, including accounts of causality and order of events.

Results

These narratives are enactments shaped in the practice and context in which they were experienced. It is argued that the multiplicity of drinking narratives results not only from the fact that people have different experiences while drinking nor only from different people having different ways of recovering from a problematic consumption. The multiplicity is also the result of the very enactment of recovering and the lives lived after the recovery. The multiplicity is created in practice and is revealed in the narratives.

Conclusions

The narratives and the enactment of the narratives of one's past, present and future that occur when making momentous changes in one's life – such as stopping drinking – are all essential for the process of quitting alcohol and the life to be lived hereafter. We should therefore pay more attention to the multiplicity that is created in the enactment of narratives in the process of recovery.
Study On The Prevalence Of Various Forms Of Cancer In Diabetic Patients Hospitalized In The National Institute Of Diabetes, Nutrition And Metabolic Diseases “Prof. N.C. Paulescu”
Authors: Popescu-Vâlceanu Horaţiu-Cristian , Bratu Matei , Stancu Dan Matei , Antonescu Maria , Tudor Dianna Paula , Nan Raluca , Drăguţ Ramona Maria , Rusu Emilia , Posea Mihaela , Radulian Gabriela
Published: June 2015

Background and aims: Epidemiological evidence suggests that people with diabetes have a significantly increased risk of developing various cancers. The aim of the study was to assess the frequency of various cancers in diabetic patients admitted in the National Institute of Diabetes Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases “Prof. N.C. Paulescu” between 01.01.2011 and 01.09.2014.

Material and methods: The study analyzed a total of 24.104 admissions, corresponding to a total of 13.960 patients. A total of 520 hospitalizations with a diagnosis of cancer and diabetes were indentified. Finally, 298 patients meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria were included in the study. For these patients, personal history, clinical and laboratory data were assessed.

Results: The prevalence of cancer in hospitalized diabetic patients was 2.13%. The most frequent types of cancer (number of cases) were: breast - 63 patients, colorectal - 45 patients, pancreatic - 37 patients, lung - 31 patients and prostate - 20 patients.

Conclusions: Our data showed that the most common form of cancer associated with diabetes was breast cancer (21%), followed by colorectal cancer (15.10%) and pancreatic cancer (12.42%). Further prospective studies are needed in the long term on larger study groups to evaluate the incidence and prevalence of various forms of cancer in the diabetic population.
The Role Of Elevated NT-ProbNP And Albuminuria As Cardio-Vascular Risk Factors In Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients After Acute Coronary Syndrome
Authors: Trutz Johann , Babeş Aurel , Babeş Katalin
Published: June 2015

Background and Aims. The identification of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with high cardio-vascular risk became more crucial, especially in patients with known coronary artery disease (CAD). Our study is focusing on T2DM patients who suffered recently an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and evaluates the importance of albuminuria and NT-proBNP level as risk factors for short-term recurrence.

Material and methods. 221 T2DM patients with recent ACS were evaluated 1 month after discharge, assessing NT-proBNP and albuminuria level and followed for 12 months for major adverse cardiac events (MACE).

Results. Patients who reached the endpoint (33%) presented significantly higher levels of NT-proBNP (458.5 vs. 207.4 pg/ml, p<0.0001) and urinary albumin/creatinine ratio (80 vs. 27 mg/g, p<0.0001) than those who did not present a MACE in the follow-up period. Comparison of the MACE-free survival curves revealed that NT-proBNP has a better power than albuminuria in the prediction of the short-term outcome: hazard ratio (HR)=1.6176 (95%CI: 1.0047-2.6044), p=0.0433 vs. HR=1.4813 (95%CI: 0.8497-2.5824), p=0.1921. Only the NT-proBNP level entered the multivariable regression model besides age and represents an independent risk factor (HR=1.0025, 95%CI: 1.0014-1.0035, p=0.0036).

Conclusion. NT-proBNP provides excellent prognostic information in patients with diabetes mellitus who recently suffered an ACS. Albuminuria wasn’t an independent risk factor in this cohort.
Risk Factors For Diabetic Retinopathy Progression
Authors: Deák Mónika , Lasca Monica , Vereşiu Ioan Andrei
Published: June 2015

Background and Aims. There is no unanimous opinion regarding the risk factors associated with progression of diabetic retinopathy (DR). We have done a retrospective analysis of risk factors and clinical features associated with DR progression.

Material and Methods. This analysis included consecutive patients with moderate non-proliferative or severe retinopathy between December 1, 2013 and May 31, 2014 who had at least two eye examinations before that period. We have collected demographic, clinical and lab data.

Results. 51.28% of patients were diagnosed with moderate non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR), 24.68% with severe NPDR and 21.05% with proliferative diabetic retinopathy. In 82.16% of cases, DR had progressed. The risk factor correlated with DR progression in the whole group was anemia; hypertension, anemia and diabetes duration were risk factors in type 1 and smoking status at diabetes diagnosis in type 2 diabetes. Total cholesterol, triglycerides, diabetes control and presence of diabetic renal disease were positively but not statistically significant correlated with DR progression.

Conclusions. In our study the risk factors correlated with DR progression were hypertension, anemia and diabetes duration in type 1, respectively smoking at diabetes diagnosis in type 2 diabetes. Glycemic goals were achieved in a small number of patients.
Platelet indices in Philadelphia-negative chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms / Indicii plachetari de volum în neoplasmele mieloproliferative cronice Philadelphia-negative
Authors: Olteanu Ariela-Ligia , Mihaila Romeo-Gabriel , Catana Alina-Camelia , Flucus Ofelia , Bus Cristina , Mihalache Manuela
Published: June 2015

Introduction: Philadelphia-negative chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms (Ph-MPN): polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythaemia (ET), and primary myelofibrosis (PMF) are characterized by an increased rate of thrombosis complications partly due to platelets activation. Large platelets are more active, have an enhanced procoagulant function and have a pathogenic role in arterial and venous thrombosis. In our study we tried to establish if platelet volume indices (MPV, PDW, P-LCR) issued from automated complete blood count determination are significantly different in Ph-MPN patients in comparison to healthy subjects. Materials and methods: Blood cell counts including platelet volume indices were assessed for 102 Ph-MPN and 102 healthy subjects using the impedance method on Sysmex XS 1000i and glucose and lipid profile, were assessed on Architect c 8000. Assessement of JAK2V617 positivity was conducted with amplification refractory mutation system polymerase chain reaction (ARMS-PCR), in whole peripheral blood. Results: Platelet volume indices (PVI) measured with the impedance based method, did not show significant differences in Ph-MPN patients in comparison to healthy controls. We noticed a moderate correlation between these indices and the presence of JAK2V617F mutation. PVI were increased in the small subgroup of patients treated with anagrelide and decreased in patients treated with simvastatin, comparatively with untreated patients. Conclusion: In our study we did not find a significant difference between platelet volume indices from Ph-MPN patients and healthy subjects. Further studies are required to demonstrate correlations between platelet volume indices and JAK2 V617F mutation, treatment with anagrelide and statins, respectively
Co-expression of the CBFβ-MYH11 and BCR-ABL fusion genes in chronic myeloid leukaemia / Coexistenţa genelor de fuziune CBFβ-MYH11 şi BCR-ABL în leucemia mieloidă cronică
Authors: Popescu Roxana , Dăscălescu Angela , Dănăilă Cătălin , Ghiorghiu Doramina , Zlei Mihaela , Ivanov Anca , Sireteanu Adriana , Gorduza Eusebiu Vlad , Azoicăi Doina
Published: June 2015

The coexistence of t(9;22) and inv(16) has been described in a very limited number of cases of CML, de novo or therapy-related AML. We report a patient with CML who presented both inversion of chromosome 16 and Philadelphia chromosome and evolved towards the blast phase under treatment with Imatinib. Laboratory diagnosis and monitoring was made by flow cytometry, conventional cytogenetics and molecular genetics techniques. The inv(16), detected by karyotyping in the Philadelphia chromosome positive clone at the moment of the blast transformation, was retrospectively assessed by means of real-time PCR, and was proved to have been present since diagnosis. The bone marrow biopsy performed in the blast phase of CML confirmed the presence of blasts belonging to the myeloid lineage, with indications of monocytic differentiation, frequently associated with inv(16). Moreover, the case also associated a F359V tyrosine kinase domain mutation, resulting in intermediate resistance to Imatinib and Nilotinib, which imposed therapy-switch to Dasatinib. In our case the evolution was progressive, followed by death due to lack of response to tyrosine kinase inhibitors, 18 months after diagnosis. The coexistence of t(9;22) and inv(16) in CML seems to be associated with an aggressive clinical evolution and resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy. Due to the very small number of cases described in literature, therapeutic decisions are still difficult for patients displaying these abnormalities
Variability of morphological conditions of the Vistula river channel in the section Czerwińsk-Kępa Polska
Authors: Popek Zbigniew , Wasilewicz Michał
Published: June 2015

Variability of morphological conditions of the Vistula river channel in the section Czerwińsk-Kępa Polska. The paper presents an assessment of morphological changes that occurred in the Vistula river channel in selected section of about 33 km long, located in the middle of the Vistula river course between Czerwińsk and Kępa Polska (km 576–609). Based on the analysis of archival material from 1972–2009, a characteristics of river channel changes, taking primarily into account the horizontal layout (shape in the plan), was obtained. An attempt was made to estimate the trends and rate of transformation of the following parameters in the river channel: width, length, and position of the riverbanks, abundance and size of islands and fluvial deposits, as well as their percentage in the total area of the main river channel and the floodplain area between levees.
Pelestarian Situs Cagar Budaya Plawangan Rembang Perspektif Undang-Undang Cagar Budaya
Authors: Akbar Deky
Published: June 2015

Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2010 tentang Cagar Budaya, mengatur bahwa semua Cagar Budaya di Indonesia harus dilindungi dan Pemerintah harus melestarikan Cagar Budaya tersebut. Namun dalam kenyataannya di Situs Plawangan Kabupaten Rembang banyak benda-benda Cagar Budaya Situs Plawangan yang mengalami kerusakan dan benda-benda tersebut terabaikan, bahkan mengalami kehilangan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis kebijakan pelestarian Situs Cagar Budaya Plawangan Kabupaten Rembang dilihat dari perspektif Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2010 Tentang Cagar Budaya dan menganalisis model yang relevan dalam Pelestarian Situs Cagar Budaya Plawangan Kabupaten Rembang. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian yuridis sosiologis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan secara normatif pelestarian cagar budaya Plawangan dilakukan dalam rangka menjalankan amanat Undang-Undang Nomor 11 tahun 2010 tentang Cagar Budaya. Sementara secara sosiologis pelestarian situs cagar budaya disebabkan karena masyarakat tidak peduli dengan Situs Plawangan, sehingga banyak terjadi kerusakan di Situs Plawangan. Kemudian model pelestarian Situs Plawangan yang dilakukan oleh Dinas Kebudayaan, Pariwisata, Pemuda, dan Olahraga Kabupaten Rembang tidak optimal. Oleh sebab itu, maka masyarakat harus didorong kepedulian masyarakat terhadap pelestarian Situs Plawangan.

Act No. 11 Year 2010 on Heritage, provides that all Heritage in Indonesia must be protected. But in reality in Plawangan Site Rembang many objects Heritage Site Plawangan damaged and neglected these objects, and even experience loss. This study aims to analyze the preservation of the heritage policy Plawangan Rembang viewed from the perspective of Law No. 11 Year 2010 on Heritage and analyze the relevant models in Preservation of Cultural Heritage Sites Plawangan Rembang. This study uses socio-juridical research. The results showed normatively, cultural heritage preservation Plawangan done in order to carry out the mandate of Act No. 11 Year 2010 on Heritage. While sociological preservation of cultural heritage sites because people do not care about the site Plawangan, so much damage in Plawangan. Later models of preservation site Plawangan conducted by the Department of Culture, Tourism, Youth, and Sports Rembang not optimal. Therefore, the public should be encouraged their awareness to conserv Plawangan site.
Pedunculated Hepatic Hemangioma - A case report
Authors: Elhajjam Mostafa , Lahkim Mohamed , Karji Al-Marzouqi Mohamed , Lacombe Pascal
Published: June 2015

Pedunculated hemangioma is a rare and atypical hepatic angioma. We report the case of a pedunculated hepatic hemangioma presenting as an abdominal sub-hepatic mass incidentally discovered in a 66-year-old woman with anal cancer. The diagnosis was strongly suggested by the vascular features of the lesion on spiral computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. A surgical removal of the mass was decided to prevent potential risk of ischemic volvulus along the pedicle. Histo-pathological examination confirmed this diagnosis. Contrast enhanced thin sections and subsequent multiplanar reconstructions on CT and MR are very helpful to show the angioma features and the pedicle linking the lesion with the liver.