bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Psychological conditions of caregivers of adult subjects with Prader-Willi syndrome
Authors: Usubini Anna Guerrini , Bondesan Adele , Caroli Diana , Frigerio Francesca , Grugni Graziano , Castelnuovo Gianluca , Sartorio Alessandro
Published: October 2024

Background

Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorder. Individuals with PWS face a range of cognitive, behavioral, and emotional challenges that require comprehensive and lifelong care, posing significant demands on their caregivers. The study is not only aimed to assess the psychological conditions of caregivers of adult subjects with PWS focusing on psychological distress and coping, but also to shed light on a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of healthcare. This study aims to compare the psychological well-being of individuals with PWS and their caregivers, providing valuable insights that can potentially improve the quality of care for these individuals. The sample recruited at the Division of Auxology, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, was composed of 30 adult subjects with PWS (11 men and 19 women; mean age ± SD: 36.4 ± 10.31 years; mean Body Mass Index (BMI): 35.7 ± 8.92: kg/m2) and their caregivers (10 men and 20 women). To assess the psychological condition of caregivers, the Italian-validated versions of the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) and the Coping Orientation to the Problems Experiences (COPE) were used, while to assess the psychological well-being of individuals with PWS and their caregivers, the Italian validated version of the Psychological General Well-Being Index (PGWBI) was used.

Results

Depression (p < 0.001), Stress (p = 0.050), and Total score (p = 0.009) of DASS 21 were higher in the caregivers of subjects with PWS than in the general population. PGWBI scores of caregivers were significantly lower than in individuals with PWS in Positive Well-being (p < 0.001), General Health (p = 0.006), Vitality (p = 0.004), and the total score (p = 0.006). The depression subscale of PGWBI was higher in caregivers than in subjects with PWS. Correlations between the subscales of COPE and the total score of PGWBI in caregivers revealed that the Avoidance subscale of COPE had a negative significant correlation with the total score of PGWBI (p = 0.003).

Conclusions

Our results highlighted several critical insights into the profound emotional and psychological challenges faced by the caregivers of individuals with PWS.
Effects of supportive hemodialysis on the management of a pregnant woman with advanced chronic kidney disease: a case report and literature review
Authors: Kakizoe Yutaka , Okagawa Hiroko , Yamamoto Mayuko , Matsushita Koki , Yamamura Ryosuke , Hirano Takahiro , Nakagawa Terumasa , Izumi Yuichiro , Kuwabara Takashige , Adachi Masataka , Ohba Takashi , Mukoyama Masashi
Published: October 2024

Background

Pregnancy in women with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with an increased risk of adverse maternal and fetal outcomes, including worsening renal function, hypertension, proteinuria, preeclampsia, preterm delivery, stillbirth, and intrauterine growth restriction. Some pregnant women with CKD may require dialysis after conception. Clinical guidelines provide recommendations for optimal hemodialysis prescription in pregnant women undergoing maintenance hemodialysis for end-stage kidney disease. However, the timing of initiation and optimal doses of hemodialysis for pregnant women with non-dialysis advanced CKD remain uncertain.

Case presentation

We describe the case of a 29-year-old woman with a history of CKD for at least 2 years. She was referred to our department with a serum creatinine level of 2.48 mg/dL and an estimated glomerular filtration rate of 20 mL/min/1.73 m2. Because she was found to be pregnant at the initial visit, she was referred to the Department of Obstetrics. At 23 weeks’ gestation, she was admitted due to threatened premature delivery and urinary tract infection, which were managed with ritodrine hydrochloride and antibiotics. Owing to maternal weight loss and asymmetrical fetal growth restriction, daily protein intake was increased from 40 g/day to 60–80 g/day. Additionally, supportive hemodialysis (three times per week) was initiated at 26 weeks’ gestation, and the pre-dialysis blood urea nitrogen (BUN) level was consistently maintained < 40 mg/dL. Consequently, the patient’s weight increased, and fetal growth recovered. Because her blood pressure increased particularly during and after dialysis sessions, dialysis was discontinued at 32 weeks’ gestation. Urinary protein increased to a nephrotic level, and blood pressure was poorly controlled by medication, suggesting the onset of preeclampsia. Thus, a cesarean section was performed at 33 weeks’ gestation, and she delivered a male baby weighing 1449 g. Following childbirth, the patient did not require hemodialysis.

Conclusions

Supportive hemodialysis during pregnancy in women with advanced CKD can increase maternal protein intake without elevating BUN levels, leading to improved fetal growth.
Between Queer Joy and Injury
Authors: Ahmed Rasel , Huq Efadul
Published: October 2024

This article expands the notion of queer domesticity from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing on autoethnography, ephemeral archives, and secondary sources, the authors examine Nanur Basha, the residence of a Bangladeshi queer activist and community mentor, which in 2016 was the site of two murders committed by a local chapter of Al-Qaeda. By empirically interrogating the events leading up to the unmaking of Nanur Basha, the authors argue that global South queer domesticities — constituted by quotidian practices of queer worlding and expanding from apartments to rooftops to streets to political discourses — aspire to greater political freedom by deploying imaginative and counterhegemonic practices. As queer domesticities open up interstitial sanctuaries in nationalist discourses and within the urban fabric, they are also unmade by competing postcolonial nationalisms. Contesting Nanur Basha's reduction to a site of victimhood under Islamic terrorism and homophobia, this article illustrates how Nanur Basha indexes a subterranean modality of southern queer domesticity that negotiates secrecy, safety, celebration, and survival under heterosexist nationalist surveillance and violence. Such queer domesticities underpin an affective sanctuary at the borderlands between queer joy and injury. The article contributes to emerging conversations in transnational queer studies by situating queer worldmaking practices within landscapes of authoritarianism and queerphobia.
Dziedzictwo rzemiosła artystycznego – tradycyjne techniki oraz nowoczesna konserwacja i restauracja. Tom 2
Authors: Niemcewicz Piotr , Rubnikowicz-Góźdź Hanna
Published: October 2024

This monograph is a collection of articles related to the broadly understood artistic craft, which covers issues related to research, technology, as well as conservation and restoration. It demonstrates how professional research is used to identify the technology of making a historic object and presents conservation and restoration works already carried out on metal, ceramic, stone, lacquer and ivory objects. The presented contents have been supported by photographs illustrating them and making them easier to understand. The editors of the monograph presented to the reader hope that it will contribute not only to the exchange of ideas or various concepts and methods, but also to the search for modern conservation and restoration methods that would be safe for objects of artistic craftsmanship.
Dydaktyka fizyki współczesnej
Authors:   https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7090-3123, Karwasz Grzegorz , Karbowski Andrzej , Fedus Kamil
Published: October 2024

This teaching material has been developed as part of the project Innovative methods of teaching physics POWR.03.01.00-00-KN04/18 financed by the European Union Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development 2014–2020 Dydaktyka fizyki współczesnej (Didactics of contemporary physics) is a publication containing an interesting vision of teaching contemporary physics, based on, on the one hand, historical experience, which reaches deep into the past, and, on the other hand, on the latest achievements in physics, referring to the original works of contemporary scientists. The authors of the textbook are well-known authorities in didactics, and it can be expected that the concept of selecting various topics has been well thought out to make the book reach the widest possible group of readers. The book’s thematic range is huge, and it will certainly be of interest not only to young adepts of modern physics, but also to those who are more advanced and educated in the field discussed. Particular issues were presented in the form of short chapters, in which the authors tried to convey as much knowledge as possible in simple language, with the help of illustrations and sometimes patterns and diagrams. Contemporary times are filled with increasingly excellent technological discoveries, and in order to explore and understand the surrounding world, but also the cosmos, at least basic knowledge of modern physics is necessary.
Dydaktyka i pedagogika kognitywistyczna. Zasady ogólne i implementacje w fizyce
Authors: Siemieniecka Dorota , Karwasz Grzegorz
Published: October 2024

Physics is a field of science without which modern technological progress in virtually any field would be impossible. The need for effective physics pedagogy in any field, especially in recent years, is truly enormous. Virtually every field of science could be mentioned here, starting of course from basic research in the field of physics, biophysics, photophysics, through research related to the exploration of space through engineering, chemistry and biology, ending with modern medicine. In my opinion, the textbook Dydaktyka i pedagogika kognitywistyczna. Zasady ogólne i implementacje w fizyce [Didactics and Cognitive Pedagogy. General principles and implementations in physics] responds to contemporary market needs with extraordinary accuracy. The high substantive level of this book, written in a very accessible and incredibly interesting way, deserves special emphasis. The book can be successfully used in the education process at elementary, school and academic levels. I also think that representatives of various professional groups will also reach for it. Excerpt from the review Although there are many works on cognitive pedagogy, there are few works related to cognitive didactics of physics. What is new is the presentation of applications in teaching at various levels of physics and astronomy – many didactic methods, means and strategies, such as: paths, interactive exhibitions, textbooks, computer-assisted experiments, theatre, interactive lecture or educational programmes and websites. The work consists a new, valuable intake on the problem of both didactics and pedagogy and responds to current social demand. Excerpt from the review Presentation of the book with the participation of the authors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf4vxxUaN1c
Implementacja wybranych założeń teorii uczenia się muzyki Edwina E. Gordona do praktyki kształcenia słuchu uczniów szkoły muzycznej pierwszego stopnia
Authors: Kołodziejski Maciej
Published: October 2024

In line with the current of positive, developmental and creative music pedagogy, the author has prepared this publication with reflective and critical teachers of primary music schools in mind. The assumptions of Edwin E. Gordon’s music learning theory, understood as a scientific-empirical approach, became the impulse to write this book. It is closely related to the development of musical hearing, including the ability to aurally recognise melodic, meter-rhythmic and harmonic structures, developing musical expression (imagination and musical sensitivity) and acquiring basic knowledge of music theory, which is necessary for use in musical practice. In the theoretical part, the author performed an in-depth analysis of the basic assumptions of Edwin E. Gordon’s music learning theory from the perspective of Polish and foreign sources, and in the last chapter, he presented wide possibilities of practical exemplification of selected threads of this theory in terms of its praxeological usefulness in a first-level music school. The presented work is of a theoretical and practical character and is addressed mainly to people who teach ear training on a daily basis in the older grades of a first-level music school (grades 4–6 of the children’s section and grades 3–4 of the youth section).
Niewolnictwo w późnym Cesarstwie Rzymskim
Authors: Olszaniec Szymon
Published: October 2024

W artykule przedstawiono główne wątki dyskusji naukowej o niewolnictwie w okresie późnego Cesarstwa Rzymskiego. Podjęto temat liczebności niewolników oraz sposobów zdobywania nowych. Niewolników pozyskiwano z zewnątrz cesarstwa, a także  poprzez zniewolenie nowych osób na jego terenie. Z zasady niewolnikami były dzieci niewolnych rodziców. Bieda i popadnięcie w długi niekiedy również skutkowały wprowadzeniem w stan niewolny: sprzedawano siebie i osoby bliskie (szczególnie dzieci). Zniewalano także porzucone dzieci. W materiałach źródłowych niewolnicy są przedstawiani głównie jako wykonawcy prac  domowych, w przypadku majątków wiejskich często jako administratorzy (procuratores i actores). W końcowej części artykułu przedstawiono najważniejsze zadania niewolnych administratorów majątków ziemskich.
Konfessionszwang und Kirchenzucht nach dem Augsburger Religionsfrieden von 1555
Authors: Wüst Wolfgang
Published: October 2024

Die Religionsfreiheit nach dem Augsburger Frieden von 1555 war an den sozialen Status geknüpft und konnte vor allem von Eliten genossen werden, denen die Teilnahme an Reichstagssitzungen gestattet war. Freiheit war im Alltag der Frühen Neuzeit – als der Prozess der  Konfessionalisierung für die meisten Menschen von großer Bedeutung war – verknüpft mit kirchlicher Tradition und religiöser Ausgestaltung. Ungezählte Kirchen-, Gerichts- und Policeyordnungen ließen vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert nur selten Glaubensoptionen zu. „Ordnung“ bedeutete meist, sich der einzig „seligmachenden“ Religion anzuschließen, die als „rechter“ Glaube propagiert wurde. Das Privileg, unter Konfessionen zu wählen, blieb für Gläubige die Ausnahme von der Regel.
Wkład uczonych polskich i niemieckich w dyskusje o wolności na Uniwersytecie Charkowskim w pierwszej połowie XIX wieku
Authors: Abaschnik Volodymyr O.
Published: October 2024

Wraz z założeniem Uniwersytetu Charkowskiego (1804), który wkrótce stał się ważnym ośrodkiem edukacji i oświecenia, na Ukrainie rozpowszechniły się oświeceniowe idee wolności, sprawiedliwości i równości. Ważną rolę odegrali naukowcy zaproszeni do Charkowa z krajów Europy Zachodniej. W artykule skupiono się na wkładzie uczonych polskich i niemieckich w debaty o wolności na Uniwersytecie Charkowskim. Tłumaczenie Renata Skowrońska
Tätigkeit des deutschen Kinderarztes Josef Ströder im besetzten Krakau
Authors: Hapanowicz Piotr
Published: October 2024

Josef Ströder (1912–1993) war ein Arzt aus Berufung, ein hervorragender Kinderarzt, ein Mann von großem Wissen und ein Humanist. Von 1942 bis 1944 war er kommissarischer Verwalter der Universitätskinderklinik in Krakau und der Kinderkrankenhäuser in dieser Stadt. Ströders Haltung, ein ehrlicher Mensch und Arzt, war von Erfolg gekrönt, denn er rettete Hunderte von Kindern vor dem Tod. Bei seinen polnischen Kollegen und Patienten blieb er in guter Erinnerung. Nach dem Krieg setzte er seine medizinische und  wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit in Würzburg erfolgreich fort.
Dąmbska o konwencjonalizmie i relatywizmie
Authors: Woleński Jan
Published: October 2024

Artykuł przedstawia poglądy Izydory Dąmbskiej na temat relacji pomiędzy relatywizmem a konwencjonalizmem.
Museum Shops. An Anthropological Essay on Heritage Commodification Exemplified by Three Museums in Amsterdam
Authors: Latocha Sebastian
Published: October 2024

The paper presents in an essayistic form three Amsterdam’s museums: Rijksuseum, Tropenmuseum and Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder not in terms of a presentation of their history and collections, but in terms of the idea of heritage commodification and planning, which is embodied in museum shops combined with cafés and restaurants. Amsterdam’s museums are overshadowed by high-profile stereotypes about the city. They are not among the world’s most popular museums as the Netherlands itself is not a top tourist destination. Therefore, the relaxed atmosphere of Amsterdam’s museums – distinguished by its own style between heritage conservation, pragmatism, Protestant ethics, and the existential concept of gezelligheid – needs to be operationalised as an implementation model in other museums around the world. Furthermore, the very subject of museum shops – in terms of their role in heritage commodification and planning – has not been a crucial subject of reflection in the humanities or social sciences. This essay contributes to the study of museum shops as places where the exhibits “exit” the museum room, while the museum “enters” the market. The author points out that the concept of “museum shop” in the context of Amsterdam has a double meaning, emphasising that in this city the division between the sacred museum and the profane street is fluid.
„Muzeum etnograficzne na rozdrożu” Czwarte wiosenne seminarium muzeologiczne
Authors: Nadolska-Styczyńska Anna
Published: October 2024

In previous years, the Department of Ethnology of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, the Faculty of Theology of the University of Warsaw and the Missionary Seminary of the Verbist Fathers in Pieniężno organized a series of meetings under the common title "Spring Museological Seminars". Until 2019, we met three times, and reports from the conference and some texts of the speeches were published in ZWAM. In 2024, the Fourth Spring Museological Seminar was held (May 13–15), entitled: The Ethnographic Museum at the Crossroads, which this time took as its main topic the role and position of the contemporary ethnographic museum. The organizers of this year's meeting were: the Polish Ethnological Society, Branch in Łódź and the Missionary House of St. Stanisław Kostka in Chludowo, as well as the Editorial Office of the magazine ZWAM in cooperation with the Museological Section of the Polish Ethnological Society and the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. This time we met at the Mission House of St. Stanisław Kostka in Chludowo (SVD) near Poznań. The text presents the nature of this meeting and is also an introduction to selected articles resulting from the workshops.
Z terenu do muzeum. Współczesny przykład współpracy między akademią a muzeum
Authors: Kleśta-Nawrocki Rafał
Published: October 2024

Artykuł przedstawia konkretny przykład zrealizowanych badań terenowych wskazując na przydatność zbieranego w terenie materiału dla muzealnych aplikacji, a tym samym na potencjalne pola współpracy i ewentualne możliwości ekspozycyjne. Omówiony przykład dotyczy badań terenowych przeprowadzonych w 2019 r. na obszarze ziemi dobrzyńskiej, a dokładnie pow. rypińskiego, w trakcie których przeprowadzono prawie 80 wywiadów. Dokumentacja badań została zarchiwizowana i posłużyła budowie stałej ekspozycji w Muzeum Ziemi Dobrzyńskiej w Rypinie. Omówiony przykład służy wskazaniu jak wysiłek badań etnograficznych może zostać wykorzystany przez muzeum, i jak ono jako jedyne, przez swoje możliwości ekspozycyjne, może w istocie odzwierciedlić terenowe artykulacje badanych społeczności. W przeciwieństwie do akademii, współczesne muzeum, znacznie lepiej i z korzyścią dla siebie jest w stanie wyartykułować emocjonalność, sensoryczność, afektywność, nietekstowość, materialność, cielesność i nostalgiczność, które towarzyszą sytuacji badawczej i relacjom społeczności lokalnej z rzeczami. W tej optyce współpraca akademii i muzeum, jej kontynuacja we współczesnych warunkach jawi się jako obopólnie korzystna i konieczna.
Lista uchybień, czyli o bolączkach ludzi kultury
Authors: Janaszak Michalina
Published: October 2024

Tekst dotyczy spektaklu Lista uchybień, poruszającego tematykę pracy w instytucjach kultury; sytuacji pracowników w zmieniających się realiach społecznych i instytucjonalnych oraz trudności, z którymi borykają się na skutek rozdźwięku pomiędzy oczekiwaniami a możliwościami. Performance wpisuje się tym samym w szerszy dyskurs dotyczący przeobrażeń zachodzących w postrzeganiu roli instytucji kultury.
Visual Art Activities as a Means of Realizing Aspects of Empowerment for Blind and Visually Impaired Young People
Authors: Potočnik Robert , Zavšek Klementina , Vidrih Alenka
Published: October 2024

In this article, we present a study that examined the effects of visual art activities on the realization of aspects of empowerment in a blind ninth-grade elementary school female student with minimal residual vision. We focused on three key aspects: well-being, positive self-image, and empowerment of strengths and weaknesses. In addition to the student, her mother and a personal assistant who accompanies the student during each activity in art class participated in the study. Based on initial interviews with all three participants, we developed ten visual art activities that address at least one of the listed aspects in different ways. Based on interviews, rating scales, observations and analysis of the visual art solutions, we found that visual art activities have a significant impact on improving a person's well-being, helping to strengthen a good self-image, reinforcing strong areas and developing weaker ones. In the future, we could broaden the range of psychological aspects that could be influenced by artistic activities, and we would also obtain more interesting and reliable results if more people with different special needs were included in the research.
Cytokine release syndrome induced by anti-programmed death-1 treatment in a psoriasis patient: A dark side of immune checkpoint inhibitors
Authors: Maldonado-García José Luis , Fragozo Ana , Pavón Lenin
Published: October 2024

In recent years, cancer immunotherapy has introduced novel treatments, such as monoclonal antibodies, which have facilitated targeted therapies against tumor cells. Programmed death-1 (PD-1) is an immune checkpoint expressed in T cells that regulates the immune system’s activity to prevent over-activation and tissue damage caused by inflammation. However, PD-1 is also expressed in tumor cells and functions as an immune evasion mechanism, making it a therapeutic target to enhance the immune response and eliminate tumor cells. Consequently, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have emerged as an option for certain tumor types. Nevertheless, blocking immune checkpoints can lead to immune-related adverse events (irAEs), such as psoriasis and cytokine release syndrome (CRS), as exemplified in the clinical case presented by Zhou et al . involving a patient with advanced gastric cancer who received sintilimab, a monoclonal antibody targeting PD-1. Subsequently, the patient experienced exacerbation of psoriasis and CRS. The objective of this editorial article is to elucidate potential immunologic mechanisms that may contribute to the development of CRS and psoriasis in patients receiving ICIs. It is crucial to acknowledge that while ICIs offer superior safety and efficacy compared to conventional therapies, they can also manifest irAEs affecting the skin, gastrointestinal tract, or respiratory system. In severe cases, these irAEs can lead to life-threatening complications such as circulatory shock or multiorgan failure. Consequently, it is recommended that patients receiving ICIs undergo regular monitoring to identify and manage these adverse events effectively.
Acellular dermal matrices in reconstructive surgery; history, current implications and future perspectives for surgeons
Authors: Dilek Ömer F , Sevim Kamuran Z , Dilek Osman N
Published: October 2024

Large-scale defects of body in the reconstructive surgical practice, and the helplessness of their repair with autologous tissues, have been an important factor in the development of artificial biological products for the temporary, definitive, or staged repair of these defects. A major advance in the field of plastic and other reconstructive surgery in this regard has been the introduction and successful use of acellular dermal matrices (ADMs). In recent years, not only the type of tissue from which ADMs are produced, product range, diversity and areas of use have increased, but their use in reconstructive fields, especially in post oncologic breast surgery, has become highly regarded and this has favored ADMs to be a potential cornerstone in specific and well-defined surgical fields in future. It is essential that reconstructive surgeons become familiar with some of the ADM’s as well as the advantages and limitations to their use. This review not only provides basic science and clinical evidence of the current use of ADMs in wide range of surgical fields but also targets to keep them as an important backdrop in the armamentarium of reconstructive surgeons. Brief considerations of possible future directions for ADMs are also conducted in the end.
Comprehensive epidemiological assessment of trauma incidents at a level I trauma center
Authors: Su Zhao-Yin , Wei Hui , Wang Wei-Ning , Lin Yi-Feng , He Yu-Li , Liu Yao , Lin Ru-Bing , Liu Ya-Tao , Michael Nerich
Published: October 2024

BACKGROUND

The continuous development of social and economic progress and ongoing enhancement of infrastructure construction has led to drastic changes in the occurrence of trauma.

AIM

To analyze the epidemiological characteristics of trauma in Lanzhou City to provide theoretical references for improving quality of trauma care.

METHODS

A retrospective analysis of clinical data from 16585 trauma patients treated at the First Hospital of Lanzhou University Trauma Center from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2023 was conducted. Data including age, sex, time of trauma, cause of trauma, and major injured body parts were statistically analyzed.

RESULTS

A total of 18235 patients were admitted, with complete data for 16585 cases. Of these, 9793 were male and 6792 were female (male-to-female ratio of 1.44:1). The peak times for trauma occurrence were 10 AM-12 PM and 6-10 PM, and the peak months were from May to October. The leading causes of trauma were falls (45.32%), other trauma (15.88%), road traffic accidents (15.15%), violence (10.82%), cutting/stabbing (9.41%), mechanical injuries (2.65%), winter sports injuries (0.36%), animal bites (0.22%), burns (0.09%), and electrical injuries (0.02%). The distribution of majorly injured body parts showed statistical significance, with limbs/skin being the most affected followed by the head/neck, chest/abdomen, and back.

CONCLUSION

Medical institutions and government agencies can implement preventive measures and policies based on the characteristics of trauma determined in this study to enhance the quality and level of trauma care.
Cat scratch disease in children with nocturnal fever: A case report
Authors: Yin Qi-Ling , Liu You-Qiong , Zhang Hui-Min , Zhang Ya-Le , Qi Shu-Min , Wen Jin-Quan , Zhang Wei-Hua
Published: October 2024

BACKGROUND

Cat scratch disease (CSD) is the most common human infection caused by Bartonella henselae (B. henselae ). The main manifestation is self-limited lymphadenopathy that primarily affects adolescents, and typically resolves without treatment within 2-4 months. However, individuals with compromised immune systems or immunodeficiency require specific antibacterial therapy following diagnosis. Due to its low incidence, nonspecific clinical manifestations, and diagnostic limitations, this condition often poses challenges for clinicians in terms of missed diagnoses and misdiagnoses.

CASE SUMMARY

The child was ultimately diagnosed with CSD. The primary manifestations included nocturnal fever, enlargement of lymph nodes in the neck, axilla and groin, and suspected brucellosis; however, both brucellosis tests conducted during the course of the illness yielded negative results. Bone marrow cytology indicated stimulated proliferation. Lymph node biopsy indicated hyperplasia of lymphoid tissue in the cervical lymph nodes (right), with combined immunohistochemical findings indicating reactive hyperplasia. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed CD20 B (+), CD3 T (+), BCL-6 (+), and BCL-2 (). CD21 FDC networks were present and Ki67 expression in the germinal center was ~80%. Blood next-generation sequencing indicated B. henselae sequence number was 3. Serological test results demonstrated positive antibody response to B. henselae IgG (+), B. henselae IgM (+), Bartonella quintana (B. quintana ) IgG () and B. quintana IgM (), and the final diagnosis was CSD.

CONCLUSION

In patients presenting with fever at night and swollen lymph nodes of unknown origin, CSD should be considered.
3D Marine Controlled-Source Electromagnetic Numerical Simulation Considering Terrain and Static Effect
Authors: Gu Chunying , Li Suyi , Zhang Wanyue , Peng Silun
Published: October 2024

The marine controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) method is an important geophysical method for the exploration of marine hydrocarbon resources. In marine CSEM forward modeling the uplift terrain, such as submarine hills and seamounts, the static effects caused by polymetallic nodules and hydrothermal sulfide are ignored which can lead to the deviation of marine CSEM data. To improve the accuracy of data processing and interpretation, this study realizes efficient 3D numerical simulation considering submarine uplift terrain and static effect based on the finite difference (FD) algorithm in a fictitious wave domain. First, based on the correspondence principle between the fictitious wave domain and a real diffusive domain, we derive the FD electromagnetic field iteration equations of the fictitious wave domain, and apply the fictitious emission source and the boundary condition of complex frequency shifted-perfectly matched layer (CFS-PML). We use the inverse transformation method to convert the electromagnetic response to the diffusive domain. Then, we carry out simulations on typical 1D and 3D reservoir models to verify the correctness and effectiveness of the algorithm. Furthermore, we design an uplift terrain model and a static effect model and study the influence of parameters such as top width, bottom width, height and volume of uplift terrain on the CSEM field response characteristics through the forward modeling of multiple models and discuss the influence of parameters such as electrical conductivity, length, width, thickness, depth and volume of a shallow anomaly on the marine CSEM response. Finally, we analyze the characteristics and rules of electromagnetic field propagation of uplift terrain and static effect, which provides theoretical guidance for the design of marine CSEM exploration systems.
Ultra Miniaturization and Transparency Frequency Selective Surface for Dual Band ISM Shielding
Authors: Guo Dongming , Zhu Huaxin
Published: October 2024

This article presents an ultraminiaturized frequency selective surface (FSS) for shielding 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz (ISM) signals. The unit cell size is 0.056λ × 0.056λ (λ is the free space wavelength at the first resonant frequency). It has smaller cell size and good transparency compared to previous ISM band studies, and transparency at 54%. The proposed FSS design consists of a wall structure and a compound square loop with 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz resonance frequencies for ISM band coverage. This FSS structure was fabricated on float glass with a dielectric constant of 8 by a photolithographic process. The fabricated FSS structure has excellent angular stability and polarization stability, which is further verified by experimentation. An easy optimization method is proposed to tune the independent resonant frequencies by optimizing the geometries individually. This FSS is interpreted by filtering through surface induced currents and equivalent circuit models. A prototype of the proposed FSS is fabricated and measured. The simulation results are in good agreement with the measured results. The proposed FSS has polarization insensitivity and 80∘ angle stability and is suitable for solving the EMI problem in ISM band.
Silica Fume – An Admixture for High Quality Concrete
Authors: Vikas Srivastava  , V.C. Agarwal  , Atul  , Rakesh Kumar  , Rakesh Kumar  , P. K. Mehta
Published: October 2024

By addition of some pozzolanic materials, the various properties of concrerte viz, workability, durability, strength, resistance to cracks and permeability can be improved. Silica fume is one such pozzolanic material. Silica fume is a by product obtained from the reduction of high – purity quartz with coal or coke and wood chips in an electric arc furnace during the production of silicon metal or silicon alloys. The use of Silica fume as admixture in concrete has opened up one more chapter on the advancement in concrete technology. More sticky mix can be obtained by addition of Silica fume in concrete. Using Silica fume in concrete increases its compressive, tensile, flexural and impact strengths and decreases permeability and bleeding. In this paper, an attempt is made to describe the suitability of silica fume in concrete.
Impulse Modelled Response of a 300 MHz ST-Quartz SAW Device For Sensor Specific Applications
Authors: Haresh M. Pandya  , M.U. Sharma  , A.T. Nimal  , K.B. Rajesh
Published: October 2024

In recent years a big spurt has been observed in the usage and applications of Surface Acoustic Wave(SAW) devices as sensors not only for the detection of physical and chemical quantities but also as environmental biosensors for detecting volatiles, toxic agents, explosives and narcotics. The design of such sensors assumes importance as the technology enables reproducibility, reliability, portability and cost-effective sensing in real time. This paper presents the frequency response of a 300 MHz ST-Quartz SAW delay line device fabricated with uniform IDTs. Based on the first order Impulse response model and employing a unique custom made MATLAB algorithm, the device is accurately modelled. The results obtained are analyzed to ultimately help in the effective design, development and modelling of such devices as application specific sensors. Comparison of modelled and simulated results with experimental device response shows good agreement.
Protection of SAE 213 T-22 Boiler Steel Tube Material with Various Power Coatings using HVOF Spray Technique
Authors: B. P. Garg  , Navdeep Kumar
Published: October 2024

Corrosion is an unintentional gradual degradation of metal that occurs because of chemical or electrochemical attach. The corrosive nature of the gaseous environment at high temperature may cause rapid material degradation and result in premature failure of components. Boiler tubes in power plant are subjected to a wide variety of failure due to high temperature corrosion fatigue. For the reduction of corrosion either a material of required mechanical properties is used, which is impossible for a single material to have all these properties or provide the coating to existing material with surface coating methods, which improves the existing properties in economical way and reduce the cost of replacement. In this paper an attempt has been made by conducting the experimental work on SAE213 T-22 boiler steel tubes with different coating powders having composition of WC-10% CO-4% Cr and WC-12% Cr by adopting the High Velocity Oxy Fuel (HVOF) thermal spray technique to protect the boiler tubes from hot corrosion in gaseous environment and do the various calculations to made the comparison between uncoated and coated tube materials, by creating the artificial environment in the lab.
Mammary myofibroblastoma of the male breast: a case report and literature review
Authors: Elayyan R , Rizk M , Shah C , Price R , Garg N
Published: October 2024

Mammary myofibroblastoma (MFB) is a rare benign spindle cell tumour predominantly affecting males, but also observed in postmenopausal females. Its diagnosis remains challenging owing to overlapping histological features with malignant lesions and limited tissue sampling in core biopsies. We present a case of incidentally discovered mammary MFB in a 63-year-old man and review its clinical, radiological and histopathological characteristics. The patient, who had a history of distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy, presented with an incidental left anterior chest wall nodule discovered on computed tomography scan. Clinical examination revealed a benign left retroareolar lump, confirmed by breast ultrasound and mammography. Ultrasound-guided core biopsy demonstrated characteristic spindle cells, prompting immunohistochemical staining confirming the diagnosis of MFB. The lesion was surgically excised with clear margins. Mammary MFB is commonly seen in postmenopausal women and older men, presenting as painless, mobile breast lumps. Imaging findings are nonspecific, resembling fibroadenomas or fat necrosis. Histologically, MFB lacks mammary ducts or lobules and displays characteristic spindle cells with collagenous stroma. Immunohistochemistry aids in differentiating it from other spindle cell tumours. Surgical excision is curative, with no reported cases with recurrence. Mammary MFB should be considered in the differential diagnosis of breast masses in males and postmenopausal women. Despite the challenges in diagnosis, its benign nature and favourable prognosis warrant timely recognition and appropriate management through surgical excision. Further research is needed to establish clear management guidelines and explore its underlying pathogenesis.
Improving communication during damage control surgery: a survey of adult major trauma centres in England
Authors: Patton EN , Lisagors I , Tyrrell-Marsh I , Agarwal S , Wee LV , Darwish A , Smith SR
Published: October 2024

Introduction

Deficiencies in non-technical skills can severely impede the functioning of teams in high-intensity scenarios, such as in damage control surgery for the critically injured trauma patient. Truncated preoperative checklists, modified from the standard World Health Organization preoperative checklist, and situational reporting at intervals during surgery are long-established practices in the military, and are recommended in the National Health Service guidelines on major incidents. These tools allow the multiprofessional team to create a shared mental model of the anaesthetic and operative plan, thereby improving team efficiency. Our aim was to establish whether adult major trauma centres in England are using truncated preoperative checklists and situational reporting for damage control surgery.

Methods

An online survey was devised and distributed via the national programme of care for trauma in November 2020.

Results

Responses were received from all 23 adult major trauma centres in England. Nine centres (39.1%) reported using a truncated preoperative checklist for damage control surgery albeit in a variety of formats. Common components were blood products received and/or available, presence of allergies, tranexamic acid and antibiotic administration, availability of viscoelastic tests, equipment required, availability of cell saver, role allocation and reference to other personnel needed, and discussion of the plan. Twelve centres (52.2%) have formal policies in place for situational reporting. Again, these were in multiple formats but all focused on patient physiology to direct surgical planning.

Conclusions

We have identified key components to advanced communication aids for damage control surgery, providing a foundation on which other major trauma centres can build their own versions of these potentially lifesaving tools.
Could resistance training prevent or improve work-related musculoskeletal disorders among surgeons?
Authors: Vijay A , Brennan PA , Fagbohun M , Oeppen RS , Parry D
Published: October 2024

Studies have demonstrated the negative impact that work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) have on surgeons. These are also likely to affect some allied healthcare professionals such as interventional radiologists. Problems from WMSDs include pain, diminished technical and cognitive performance, and work absence. These could contribute to burnout, to which surgeons are already vulnerable owing to other working practices such as shift patterns and long hours. WMSDs could negatively affect working performance, and lead to poorer surgical outcomes and patient care. Surgeons are at risk of WMSDs of the neck and back that result from fixed and damaging postures while operating. Some have reduced their operation numbers and working days as result of WMSDs. Theatre ergonomics (e.g. table positioning, operating stools and monitors), intraoperative breaks and stretching may improve WMSDs for some.

Strength/resistance training (RT) may be used to prevent or mitigate WMSDs. RT can also enhance general health and concentration, and combat intraoperative fatigue. Low engagement times of moderate-intensity RT of 20 minutes, twice a week, improve neck and back pain from WMSDs. Moreover, RT has been shown to reduce all-cause mortality by up to 15%, increase bone density, improve proprioception and reduce the fear of movement due to pain. Alongside ergonomic improvement and stretching, we recommend RT as an activity to improve general health and WMSDs.
The Sexual and Racial Politics of Intimacy in Thomas A. Digges's Adventures of Alonso (1775)
Authors: Lippert Leopold
Published: October 2024

Abstract: This article examines the uses of intimacy in Thomas A. Digges's understudied 1775 novel Adventures of Alonso . Throughout the transatlantic travels of the picaresque hero Alonso, Digges narrates various constellations of intimacy among men in order to espouse an idea of liberal interiority and relationality that depends on the exclusion and affective distancing of racialized, gendered, and sexualized persons and populations. The article reads and contrasts two scenes of male intimacy and their larger repercussions in the novel. In the first, intimacy represents a social feeling that enables and fosters the public reasoning of white men on a ship crossing the Atlantic; in the second, Digges uses the intimacies of the sexually deviant Arab body in a Barbary captivity episode in order to demarcate and police the racial and sexual boundaries of liberal personhood. In doing so, Adventures of Alonso functionalizes intimacy to reorganize the bodies of white men into a fantasy of (proto-) democratic social form while it dismisses the bodies of racial and sexual others as politically expendable.
The Bewildering Affect of Representative Democracy: Sheppard Lee's "Confusion of Characters, Propensities, and Associations"
Authors: Couch Daniel Diez
Published: October 2024

Abstract: This essay examines how Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee (1836) uses the political affect of "democratic confusion" to detail the potentials and pitfalls of representation in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America. Bird's novel describes the journeys of Sheppard Lee, a man who discovers he can move his consciousness into corpses and reanimate them. Instead of focusing solely on Lee, the novel uses the conceit of metempsychosis to depict Lee's transformation into six other characters, adapting Ancient Greek definitions of "character" that stressed the concept's exemplifying power. Yet with each transformation, Lee experiences bafflement, and these states of confusion provide an analogy to the political representation of a variegated constituency by an official. For Bird, representation depends on what Alexis de Tocqueville called a "confused clamour"; indeed, personifying voters could not occur without it. At the same time, this article charts out Bird's limitations for this vision of a prolific, if complicated, democracy. The novel ultimately contends that representatives could not comprehend voters without this affective state, even as Bird curtails its productive nature along racial lines. By the ending of the novel, private bewilderment moves into the public domain in a scene of mass racial violence that clarifies the tension Bird identifies in democratic confusion.
W. E. B. Du Bois in Berlin, 1926: Political Mourning, the Rise of the Worker, and a Pan-Africanist's Rethinking of Blackness in Europe
Authors: Saman Michael
Published: October 2024

abstract: W. E. B. Du Bois's 1926 travels in Germany have remained an almost blank page in our knowledge of his life until now. On the basis of archival and other materials, this article reconstructs the political and aesthetic turning point that the trip represents in his thought and writing. The Berlin that Du Bois had experienced in the 1890s serves as the backdrop for his observations in 1926, and his engagement with contemporaneous German intellectual and political life, as well as his interest in museums and visual art, inform the way he constructs Berlin as an idealized cosmopolitan space in his 1928 novel The Dark Princess .
Georg Lukács in China: Vom ideologischen Feind zum Zeitgenossen
Authors: Liu Jian , Zhang Liang
Published: October 2024

abstract: The article aims to demonstrate the history of the reception of Georg Lukács in China since 1935 and its role in shaping modern Chinese philosophical and literary theories. While Lukács was attacked as one of the greatest ideological enemies in the period marked by Soviet dogma, his humanitarian realism and undogmatic understanding of Marxism offered a theoretical way out of the Soviet system since the beginning of the reform and opening policy of 1978. In the twenty-first century, he is envisioned by Chinese academia as a contemporary while his theories are indigenized to analyze new forms of capitalism.
Später: Objectless Eschatology and Radical Hope in the Poetry of Paul Celan
Authors: Rahamim Asif
Published: October 2024

abstract: In this article, I examine Paul Celan's career-long preoccupation with the notion of a new beginning and the eschatological possibility of bringing about a hoped-for better future through the artistic act. Drawing on three major reference points in Celan's conceptualization of this struggle—Heideggerian eschatological thought, Jewish messianism, and the utopian tendencies of the early 20th century European avant-garde—I suggest another theoretical framework through which to understand Celan's divergence from these approaches: Jonathan Lear's theory of "radical hope." Although not a literary concept, I argue that Lear's "radical hope" offers a unique vantage point from which to consider what I call Celan's "objectless hope," shedding new light on its peculiarities and on the poetic techniques with which it is made manifest.
Ferdinand Khittl's Die Parallelstraße : Ecological Thinking and the Implicated Subject
Authors: Ewing Megan
Published: October 2024

abstract: Ferdinand Khittl's Die Parallelstraße ( The Parallel Street , 1962) is an understudied docufiction from an early moment in the Young German Cinema. It hybridizes industrial film techniques, cross-sectional montage in particular, with experimental prose poetry to achieve an ecological mode of storytelling. These aesthetic strategies make a network of global extraction and exchange sensuously cognizable, facilitating the viewer's self-recognition as an implicated subject. In an early instance of multidirectional memory (Rothberg), representations of particular nodes in this network are shown to take up the project of Vergangenheitsbewältigung and unite it with postcolonial concerns around environmental degradation and exploitation throughout the Global South.
The First German in Space: Sigmund Jähn and East Germany
Authors: Anderson Colleen
Published: October 2024

abstract: In August 1978, Sigmund Jähn became East Germany's first—and only—cosmonaut when he flew aboard the Soviet Union's Soyuz 31 mission. After the initial celebrations, the SED and East German state media quickly turned to attributing meaning to the person and the mission. They defined Jähn and his spaceflight in terms of the allegiance with the Soviet Union, growing GDR accomplishments at home, and the continuing competition with the FRG. The Jähn mission—one of the standout events in GDR history—shows the SED's varied modes of self-presentation in the late 1970s and popular responses to them.