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The 3-Step Pyramid Insole Treatment Concept for Idiopathic Toe Walking
Authors: Pomarino David , Ramírez-Llamas Juliana , Martin Stephan , Pomarino Andrea
Published: September 2016

The idiopathic toe walking (ITW) gait pattern is characterized in children for walking since the beginning on their first steps on the forefoot; however, these children are able to support their whole foot on the ground. ITW can only be diagnosed in the absence of any orthopaedic or neurological condition known to cause tiptoe walking. The aim of this article is to review other references and provide an outline of the different treatment options, including the 3-step-pyramid insole treatment concept for children with ITW. Methods. Fifty-four articles in English, German, and Spanish were reviewed. There were comparative, retrospective or case studies, classifications or literature reviews and they were divided according with these categories. All the literature reviewed was published between 2000 and 2015. Results. There are some studies that proved the 3-step pyramid insole treatment concept as an effective option compared with other therapeutic modalities such as physical therapy, casting, botolinum toxin type A (BTX), and surgery. Conclusion. There is a wide spectrum regarding the therapeutic options for children with ITW, from physical therapy to surgery options. However, any of these treatment modalities have been reported to be fully successful for the whole toe walking population. Some procedures seem to have achieved faster results or seem to have longer lasting effects. Therefore, further research on the causes of ITW is recommended.

Levels of Evidence: Therapeutic, Level II: Systematic review, prospective, comparative
An international multicenter study of early intravenous fluid administration and outcome in acute pancreatitis
Authors: Singh Vikesh K , Gardner Timothy B , Papachristou Georgios I , Rey‐Riveiro Mónica , Faghih Mahya , Koutroumpakis Efstratios , Afghani Elham , Acevedo‐Piedra Nelly G , Seth Nikhil , Sinha Amitasha , Quesada‐Vázquez Noé , Moya‐Hoyo Neftalí , Sánchez‐Marin Claudia , Martínez Juan , Lluís Félix , Whitcomb David C , Zapater Pedro , de‐Madaria Enrique
Published: September 2016

Aims

Early aggressive fluid resuscitation in acute pancreatitis is frequently recommended but its benefits remain unproven. The aim of this study was to determine the outcomes associated with early fluid volume administration in the emergency room (FVER) in patients with acute pancreatitis.

Methods

A four‐center retrospective cohort study of 1010 patients with acute pancreatitis was conducted. FVER was defined as any fluid administered from the time of arrival to the emergency room to 4 h after diagnosis of acute pancreatitis, and was divided into tertiles: nonaggressive (<500 ml), moderate (500 to 1000 ml), and aggressive (>1000 ml).

Results

Two hundred sixty‐nine (26.6%), 427 (42.3%), and 314 (31.1%) patients received nonaggressive, moderate, and aggressive FVER respectively. Compared with the nonaggressive fluid group, the moderate group was associated with lower rates of local complications in univariable analysis, and interventions, both in univariable and multivariable analysis (adjusted odds ratio (95% confidence interval): 0.37 (0.14–0.98)). The aggressive resuscitation group was associated with a significantly lower need for interventions, both in univariable and multivariable analysis (adjusted odds ratio 0.21 (0.05–0.84)). Increasing fluid administration categories were associated with decreasing hospital stay in univariable analysis.

Conclusions

Early moderate to aggressive FVER was associated with lower need for invasive interventions.
Property regimes and the commodification of geographic information: An examination of Google Street View
Authors: Alvarez León Luis F
Published: September 2016

The body of information on the Internet is becoming increasingly geographical. This is both due to the expansion of established categories of geographic information (e.g., digital maps and geospatial databases) and to the simultaneous enrichment of other types of information through geographic identifiers (e.g., geotags, check-ins, and global positioning system coordinates). As this repository of geographic information expands, it is also a key site for multiple processes of commodification transforming informational resources into market goods. Understanding the dynamics driving the integration of geographic information into the digital economy requires a comprehensive political economic analysis. A key component of this analysis is to explain the logics of creation and allocation of economic value from geographic information on the Internet. Addressing this need, in the present article I deploy the property regimes schema developed by Schlager and Ostrom and expand it to elucidate the differentiated commodification processes of geographic information on the Internet. Property regimes are arrangements that define rules, distribute rights, and delineate roles with respect to particular goods. These arrangements are enabled by elements such as legal frameworks, jurisdictions, type of information, and technologies of access. In this article, I explore how the legal frameworks regulating traditional categories of geographic information (such as maps) have been destabilized in the process of technological innovation, leading to the creation of new informational goods along with their respective property regimes, and rearticulating legal, economic, and sociotechnical relations. To illustrate this, I analyze the case of Google Street View images through their property regimes in various jurisdictions.
Affect and value in critical examinations of the production and ‘prosumption’ of Big Data
Authors: Cockayne Daniel G
Published: September 2016

In this paper I explore the relationship between the production and the value of Big Data. In particular I examine the concept of social media ‘prosumption’—which has predominantly been theorized from a Marxist, political economic perspective—to consider what other forms of value Big Data have, imbricated with their often speculative economic value. I take the example of social media firms in their early stages of operation to suggest that, since these firms do not necessarily generate revenue, data collected through user contributions do not always realize economic value, at least in a Marxist sense, and that, in addition to their speculative value, these data have value beyond an economic valence. Instead I argue that in addition to their function as systems for accumulation, social media and their associated data have an affective value, related closely to their economic value, and demonstrate the efficacy of social media as systems designed for the appropriation and circulation of user attention.
The object of mobile spatial data, the subject in mobile spatial research
Authors: Thatcher Jim
Published: September 2016

With an estimated one billion smartphones producing over 5 petabytes of data a day, the spatially aware mobile device has become a near ubiquitous presence in daily life. Cogent, excellent research in a variety of fields has explored what the spatial data these devices produce can reveal of society, such as analysis of Foursquare check-ins to reveal patterns of mobility for groups through a city. In such studies, the individual intentions, motivations, and desires behind the production of said data can become lost through computational aggregation and analysis. In this commentary, I argue for a rethinking of the epistemological leap from individual to data point through a (re)seating of the reflexive, self-eliciting subject as an object for spatial big data research. To do so, I first situate current research on spatial big data within a computational turn in social sciences that relies overly on the data produced as a stand-in for the subject producing said data. Second, I argue that a recent shift within geography and cognate disciplines toward viewing spatial big data as a form of spatial media allows for study of the sociotechnical processes that produce modern assemblages of data and society. As spatial media, the spatial big data created through mobile device use can be understood as the data of everyday life and as part of the sociotechnical processes that produce individuals, data, and space. Ultimately, to understand the data of everyday life, researchers must write thick descriptions of the stories we tell ourselves about the data we give off to others.
Relationships Between Social TV and Enjoyment: A Content Analysis of The Walking Dead’s Story Sync Experience
Authors: Auverset Lauren A. , Billings Andrew C.
Published: September 2016

Some of the most influential conversations about television shows are happening via Twitter, in a process dubbed Social TV. Content analysis of publicly available conversations of The Walking Dead was facilitated through AMC’s Story Sync, facilitating Twitter responses. Results show that Social TV is about far more than isolated immediate reactions to television content; rather, Social TV involves behaviors and cognitions before, during, and after consuming TV programming.
Electronic Cigarette Toxicity
Authors: Payne J. Drew , Michaels David , Orellana-Barrios Menfil , Nugent Kenneth
Published: September 2016

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are often advertised as a healthier product when compared with traditional cigarettes. Currently, there are limited data to support this and only a threat of federal regulation from the US Food and Drug Administration. Calls to poison control centers about e-cigarette toxicity, especially in children, and case reports of toxic exposures have increased over the past 3 years. This research letter reports the frequency of hazardous exposures to e-cigarettes and characterizes the reported adverse health effects associated with e-cigarette toxicity.
Family Intervention for Obese/Overweight Children Using Portion Control Strategy (FOCUS) for Weight Control
Authors: Ho Josephine , Pedersen Sue D. , Virtanen Heidi , Nettel-Aguirre Alberto , Huang Carol
Published: September 2016

Nutritional counseling for children with obesity is an important component of management. This randomized controlled trial was conducted to compare change in body mass index (BMI) z score after 6 months. Children 8 to 16 years with a BMI greater than the 85th percentile were randomized to standard of care nutrition counseling versus intervention with standard nutrition counseling including portion control tool training for the family. Measures were completed at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months. Fifty-one children were randomized to control and 48 to intervention. Mean age was 11 years (SD = 2.2). Mean BMI z score was 2.7 (SD = 0.4). Forty-five percent were male (n = 45). Follow-up at 6 months was 73.7% (73/99). Although no differences were seen between the groups, there was a significant decrease in BMI z score between baseline and 6 months within each group.
The E3 ubiquitin ligase Hace1 is required for early embryonic development in Xenopus laevis
Authors: Iimura Akira , Yamazaki Fuhito , Suzuki Toshiyasu , Endo Tatsuya , Nishida Eisuke , Kusakabe Morioh
Published: September 2016

Background

HECT domain and ankyrin repeat containing E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1 (HACE1) regulates a wide variety of cellular processes. It has been shown that one of the targets of HACE1 is the GTP-bound form of the small GTPase Rac1. However, the role of HACE1 in early development remains unknown.

Results

In situ hybridization revealed that Xenopus laevis hace1 is specifically expressed in the ectoderm at the blastula and gastrula stages and in the epidermis, branchial arch, kidney, and central nervous system at the tailbud stage. Knockdown of hace1 in Xenopus laevis embryos via antisense morpholino oligonucleotides led to defects in body axis elongation, pigment formation, and eye formation at the tadpole stage. Experiments with Keller sandwich explants showed that hace1 knockdown inhibited convergent extension, a morphogenetic movement known to be crucial for body axis elongation. In addition, time lapse imaging of whole embryos during the neurula stage indicated that hace1 knockdown also delayed neural tube closure. The defects caused by hace1 knockdown were partly rescued by knockdown of rac1. Moreover, embryos expressing a constitutively active form of Rac1 displayed phenotypes similar to those of embryos with hace1 knocked down.

Conclusions

Our results suggest that Xenopus laevis hace1 plays an important role in early embryonic development, possibly via regulation of Rac1 activity.
Adaptive waveform inversion: Theory
Authors: Warner Michael , Guasch Lluís
Published: September 2016

Conventional full-waveform seismic inversion attempts to find a model of the subsurface that is able to predict observed seismic waveforms exactly; it proceeds by minimizing the difference between the observed and predicted data directly, iterating in a series of linearized steps from an assumed starting model. If this starting model is too far removed from the true model, then this approach leads to a spurious model in which the predicted data are cycle skipped with respect to the observed data. Adaptive waveform inversion (AWI) provides a new form of full-waveform inversion (FWI) that appears to be immune to the problems otherwise generated by cycle skipping. In this method, least-squares convolutional filters are designed that transform the predicted data into the observed data. The inversion problem is formulated such that the subsurface model is iteratively updated to force these Wiener filters toward zero-lag delta functions. As that is achieved, the predicted data evolve toward the observed data and the assumed model evolves toward the true model. This new method is able to invert synthetic data successfully, beginning from starting models and under conditions for which conventional FWI fails entirely. AWI has a similar computational cost to conventional FWI per iteration, and it appears to converge at a similar rate. The principal advantages of this new method are that it allows waveform inversion to begin from less-accurate starting models, does not require the presence of low frequencies in the field data, and appears to provide a better balance between the influence of refracted and reflected arrivals upon the final-velocity model. The AWI is also able to invert successfully when the assumed source wavelet is severely in error.
Use of nonlinear chaos inversion in predicting deep thin lithologic hydrocarbon reservoirs: A case study from the Tazhong oil field of the Tarim Basin, China
Authors: Huang Handong , Yuan Sanyi , Zhang Yintao , Zeng Jing , Mu Wentao
Published: September 2016

With the gradual disappearance of traditional structural reservoirs, widely distributed deep thin lithologic reservoirs developed in continental and transitional sedimentary environments may offer significant petroleum reserves. Reservoir characterization through conventional impedance inversion methods without appropriate selection of regularization parameters and other empirical constraints cannot easily detect and assess these reserves, however, due to their size, variation, and features that conceal them. We have evaluated a nonlinear chaos inversion method that uses well data and seismic facies to characterize the oil and gas reservoirs of the Tazhong oil field in the Tarim Basin, China. The inverted results exhibited high agreement with the well data in highlighting the interfaces and lithologic bodies. This integrated method also provided enhanced resolution of depositional contacts and variable lithologic bodies. Specifically, the approach was able to describe a highly variable, approximately 5 m thick Carboniferous formation at depths greater than 3400 m. Borehole and core data provided a complementary hydrocarbon accumulation model. We used background information on hydrocarbon-bearing units within the main structure (an anticline) to detect and access (drill) ultra-thin lithologic reservoirs located in deeper areas of the structural high. Two wells drilled according to predictions derived from this new approach have each reached production rates of more than 30 tons of oil per day. Thus, we have determined the effectiveness of combining chaos inversion methods with empirical constraints in exploration of deep thin hydrocarbon reservoirs.
Electronic Intervention to Improve Structured Cancer Stage Data Capture
Authors: Cecchini Michael , Framski Kim , Lazette Patricia , Vega Teresita , Strait Michael , Adelson Kerin
Published: September 2016

Purpose:

Cancer staging is critical for prognostication, treatment planning, and determining clinical trial eligibility. Electronic health records (EHRs) have structured staging modules, but physician use is inconsistent. Typically, stage is entered as unstructured free text in clinical notes and cannot easily be used for reporting.

Methods:

We created an Epic Best Practice Advisory (BPA) decision support tool that requires physicians to enter cancer stage in a structured module. If certain conditions are met, the BPA is triggered as a hard stop, and the physician cannot chart until staging is complete or a reason for not staging is selected. We used Plan, Do, Study, Act methodology to inform the intervention and compared preexisting staging rates to rates at 4, 8, and 12 months postintervention.

Results:

For 12 months before BPA implementation, 1,480 of 5,222 (28%) patients had cancer stage structured within the Epic problem list. From 1 to 4 months after the BPA 2,057 of 1,788 (115%) cases were staged in Epic. In the 5- to 8-month period after the BPA, 1,057 of 1,893 (56%) cases were staged, and 9 to 12 months after the BPA 1,082 of 1,817 (60%) were staged.

Conclusion:

Electronic decision support improves the rate of structured cancer staging at our institution. The staging rates between 56% and 60% for the 5- to 8-month and 9- to 12-month periods likely reflect accurate postintervention staging rates, whereas the initial 115% rate for 1 to 4 months is inflated by providers staging cancers diagnosed before the BPA.
Regional Multiteam Systems in Cancer Care Delivery
Authors: Noyes Katia , Monson John R.T. , Rizvi Irfan , Savastano Ann , Green James S.A. , Sevdalis Nick
Published: September 2016

Teamwork is essential for addressing many of the challenges that arise in the coordination and delivery of cancer care, especially for the problems that are presented by patients who cross geographic boundaries and enter and exit multiple health care systems at various times during their cancer care journeys. The problem of coordinating the care of patients with cancer is further complicated by the growing number of treatment options and modalities, incompatibilities among the vast variety of technology platforms that have recently been adopted by the health care industry, and competing and misaligned incentives for providers and systems. Here we examine the issue of regional care coordination in cancer through the prism of a real patient journey. This article will synthesize and elaborate on existing knowledge about coordination approaches for complex systems, in particular, in general and cancer care multidisciplinary teams; define elements of coordination derived from organizational psychology and human factors research that are applicable to team-based cancer care delivery; and suggest approaches for improving multidisciplinary team coordination in regional cancer care delivery and avenues for future research. The phenomenon of the mobile, multisystem patient represents a growing challenge in cancer care. Paradoxically, development of high-quality, high-volume centers of excellence and the ease of virtual communication and data sharing by using electronic medical records have introduced significant barriers to effective team-based cancer care. These challenges urgently require solutions.
Accessibility and Barriers to Oncology Appointments at 40 National Cancer Institute–Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers: Results of a Mystery Shopper Project
Authors: Hamlyn Geoffrey S. , Hutchins Kathryn E. , Johnston Abby L. , Thomas Rishonda T. , Tian James , Kamal Arif H.
Published: September 2016

Purpose:

Patients turn to National Cancer Institute (NCI) –designated comprehensive cancer centers because of perceived better quality and more timely access to care. However, recent studies have found that patients at various institutions may struggle to gain access to an appointment or obtain consistent information from attendants. Our study employs a mystery shopper format to identify and quantify barriers faced by patients seeking to make a first consultation appointment across a homogenous sample of 40 NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers.

Methods:

Five mystery shoppers used a standardized call script to inquire about first available appointment times and service offerings.

Results:

When inquiring about a date for a first available appointment, 29% of callers were unable to secure an estimated date without registering into the center’s database, 51% were able to secure an estimated date, and 20% were provided with an actual date. Of estimated or actual dates for a first available appointment, 74% were greater than 1 week away. There was no statistically significant variation between appointment availability across insurance type or US region.

Conclusion:

Our study highlights the difficulty of accessing information about appointment availability. Although not statistically significant, inquiries regarding first available appointments for Medicaid patients resulted in longer estimated or actual wait times than those for patients with private insurance, and Medicaid shoppers noted qualitative differences. Although our study was limited by small sample size and imperfect analytic methods, our results suggest the need for more efficient and accessible care for patients at our nation’s top cancer centers.
Shoaling reduces metabolic rate in a gregarious coral reef fish species
Authors: Nadler Lauren E. , Killen Shaun S. , McClure Eva C. , Munday Philip L. , McCormick Mark I.
Published: September 2016

Many animals live in groups because of the potential benefits associated with defense and foraging. Group living may also induce a ‘calming effect’ on individuals, reducing overall metabolic demand. This effect could occur by minimising the need for individual vigilance and reducing stress through social buffering. However, this effect has proved difficult to quantify. We examined the effect of shoaling on metabolism and body condition in the gregarious damselfish Chromis viridis. Using a novel respirometry methodology for social species, we found that the presence of shoal-mate visual and olfactory cues led to a reduction in the minimum metabolic rate of individuals. Fish held in isolation for 1 week also exhibited a reduction in body condition when compared with those held in shoals. These results indicate that social isolation as a result of environmental disturbance could have physiological consequences for gregarious species.
Typification of selected Neotropical Selaginella (Lycopodiophyta: Selaginellaceae) taxon names and some nomenclatural innovations
Authors: Valdespino Iván A. , Zimmer Brigitte
Published: September 2016

Eighty‐five Selaginella taxon names from the Neotropics are examined based on previous available revisionary work and on the study here undertaken. Of these, we provide lectotypification for thirty‐nine names, corresponding to twenty‐one species and three varieties currently accepted, and the remainders are synonyms. We also provide second‐step lectotypification for nine names, corresponding to five accepted species and four synonyms, while further documenting two previously conducted in one of each of those categories. A new variety is proposed, S. moritziana var. pearcei, and three new synonyms are recommended (i.e., S. cunninghamii [= S. muscosa ], S. daguensis [= S. xiphophylla], and S. leprieurii [= S. porelloides]). Also, we submit complementary information on herbarium sheet numbers or barcode data for most taxa, as well as for the location of duplicates of type material. Finally, of the examined taxa we recognize thirty‐six valid taxa of Selaginella, including three varieties.
Hotel industry in the people´s republic of china: current status and development prospects
Authors: Власова Елизавета , Vlasova Elizaveta
Published: September 2016

Today the competitive struggle for a guest in the highly competitive domestic market of hospitality is sharpened. It is connected with the development of hotel business in Russia and the decision of a large number of pressing problems such as a reduction of the tourist flows and number of business trips. Unfortunately, these issues cannot be always solved with the help of the experience of foreign colleagues. The article discusses the hotel business development in the People´s Republic of China and the reasons for its growth. The author considers further opportunities for problem-solving in the service sector in a highly competitive and describes innovative methods for the solution of social problems and increasing the standard of living through tourism in areas remote from the cities. Taking into account the huge potential of outgoing tourism in China, the whole world is struggling to attract tourists from China. According to the latest statistics of the Federal Agency for Tourism of the Russian Federation, the growth of tourist flow from Southeast Asia was recorded in Russia in 2015. For example, China has come on top by the number of foreign travelers, who visited our country, leaving behind Germany that was a leader in this for several years. The number of Chinese tourists coming to Russia already more than a million people a year. Today the following issues are actively studied. What visitors from China are interested in? What sites attract their attention? Which tourist attraction they choose firstly at all? What qualities are needed to increase the tourist flow from the PRC? The potential of Russia for tourists from China is huge, therefore research is conducted and program of some kind of prompts to the owners of the local hotels in the provision of high quality services for guests from China are introduced.
Systematic approach to the quality assessment of river cruise product
Authors: Безрукова Наталья , Bezrukova Natalya
Published: September 2016

Cruise segment of the market is stable and dynamically developing part of the international tourism. This determines the relevance of the issue of cruise product quality. Determination of its components is no less important. The article discusses the issues of the cruise product quality as a multifactor model system. The author presents the main components of the cruise system, and defines its mobile element - a cruise ship. The article also examines the interaction of the cruise environment with other systems: tourism, transport, security and mega-environment. The author has developed the scheme of comprehensive cruise services quality system, which takes into account not only the traditional components: accommodation, feeding, excursions, but also elements of port services and infrastructure. The article touches on the questions of passenger accommodations standards for cruise ships, which have not been revised since mid XX century. The author suggests the need to review existing norms and standards in the design of the interior of a cruise ship, refusal of tiered cabins projects, and introduction of projects of such structural element as pool. The author presents the results of Russian consumers’ survey. Their perception of a ship’s quality and priorities are studied, and value of feeding and tour service as the most important competitive factors and elements of integrated cruise product is identified. Importance of feeding factor is consistent with studies of foreign markets consumers conducted by leading European operators and the International Association of cruise companies. The quality of excursion service depends largely on the development of inland waterways, namely the small rivers, infrastructure and shipbuilding, including small.
A Differential Game for a Multiclass Queueing Model in the Moderate-Deviation Heavy-Traffic Regime
Authors: Atar Rami , Cohen Asaf
Published: September 2016

We study a differential game that governs the moderate-deviation heavy-traffic asymptotics of a multiclass single-server queueing control problem with a risk-sensitive cost. We consider a cost set on a finite but sufficiently large time horizon, and show that this formulation leads to stationary feedback policies for the game. Several aspects of the game are explored, including its characterization via a (one-dimensional) free boundary problem, the semi-explicit solution of an optimal strategy, and the specification of a saddle point. We emphasize the analogy to the well-known Harrison-Taksar free boundary problem which plays a similar role in the diffusion-scale heavy-traffic literature.
Hard to swallow: strategies to enable medication administration
Authors: Nazarko Linda
Published: September 2016

Care home residents may have difficulty swallowing tablets and capsules. In this article, Linda Nazarko explains why older people living in care homes may develop these problems, and describes how staff can help overcome them
Therapeutic use of gardening and horticulture in dementia care
Authors: Mendes Aysha , Palmer Sarah Jane
Published: September 2016

Horticulture can offer a unique form of therapy for people living with dementia. In this article, Aysha Mendes and Sarah Jane Palmer explain how gardening can lead to better sleep, reduced medication and a higher quality of life for people living with dementia
Learning from our colleagues ‘across the pond’
Authors: Thompson Juliana , Beverly Claudia , Tiplady Sue , de Gravelles Pamela , Proud Carole
Published: September 2016

Care home placements in the UK can leave student nurses under-equipped for the care home nurse role. In this article, Juliana Thompson et al describe how student placements at Northumbria University were influenced by placements in the US
Staying covered with the new legislation: the Insurance Act 2015600
Authors: Bernstein Adam
Published: September 2016

Insurance law can be difficult to navigate—especially when new legislation is being introduced. Adam Bernstein spoke to the head of insurance at an international law firm, to shed some light on how the Insurance Act 2015 affects care homes here in the UK
Key CQC inspection questions: is your care home safe?
Authors: Rose Elspeth , Farrer Lisa
Published: September 2016

One of the five key questions CQC inspectors ask when assessing the services a care home provides is ‘Are they safe?’ In this article, Elspeth Rose and Lisa Farrer discuss how to ensure a home is deemed safe by the CQC, and the repercussions when it is not
The new CQC inspection strategy: what does it mean?
Authors: Frankova Helena
Published: September 2016

The CQC recently launched its new five-year strategy. In this article, Helena Frankova examines the impact this will have for providers, the public, and the regulator's partners, looking at what homes can expect, and the changes they would do well to prepare for
How to … get started using computers in the workplace
Authors: Ashurst Adrian
Published: September 2016

Computer technology offers a huge number of benefits to those working in residential care. In the first article of a new mini-series, Adrian Ashurst discusses the importance of all staff being taught to work with computers in the care environment
Art as research: Defending the significance of art practice in high school
Authors: Letsiou Maria
Published: September 2016

Recent reconsideration of education policies in Greece to include experiential learning in the high school curriculum signals a positive transformation of education. It is obvious that art as a school subject can benefit from this reconsideration. I hypothesize that experiential learning can be a proper context in which to teach art through the concept of art as research. To support this thesis, I draw on my involvement as art teacher in two experiential research courses during the 2014–2015 academic year. The first course is being taught in two eighth-grade, junior-high classes and the second in a tenth-grade, senior-high class. Given that the two courses are not yet completed, I will herein describe some of my decisions so far in constructing students’ research journeys.
Book Reviews
Authors: Gregory Peter , Piaścik Wioletta Anna , Wasilewski Marek
Published: September 2016

Exploring Studio Materials: Teaching Creative Art Making to Children, Mary Hafeli (2015) New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 258 pp., ISBN: 9780199975556, p/bk, US$44.95

At the Heart of Art and Earth: An Exploration of Practices in Arts-Based Environmental Education, Jan Van Boeckel (2013) Helsinki: Aalto University publication series (doctoral dissertation 73/2013), 420 pp., ISBN: 9789526051451, p/bk, €39

Akademie X Lessons in Art + Life, Rebecca Morrill (ed.) (2015) London: Phaidon Press, 352 pp., ISBN: 9780714867366, p/bk, £24.95
To boldly go where we should have gone before: Symbolic annihilation and queer interventions in the Star Trek textual universe
Authors: Venzo Paul
Published: September 2016

Despite queer readings and interpretations by scholars and fans alike, the official Star Trek universe is devoid of any concrete or obvious representation of LGBTIQ identities. While this appears to be a case of symbolic annihilation, two recent episodes of the Internet series Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II (2004–, webseries), titled ‘Blood and Fire: Part One’ and ‘Blood and Fire: Part Two’, finally go where official Star Trek texts could, or would, not. Taking up the dual perspective of both fan and scholar, in this article I argue that these episodes use the conspicuous absence of representations of sexual diversity in the Star Trek franchise proper as the impetus for a creative intervention, one that embodies the capacity of science fiction texts to explore human sexuality beyond the confines of heteronormative identities.
Making sense of a bromance: Talking with straight men about I Love You, Man
Authors: Becker Ron , Weiner Judith
Published: September 2016

This article explores the relationship between mediated bromance narratives and shifting constructions of heterosexual masculinity through a qualitative, cultural studies audience analysis of I Love You, Man (Hamburg, 2009). We conducted one-on-one interviews with 38 straight-identified male college students in which respondents were asked to discuss their reactions to the film, their friendships with men (including gay men) and their use of the bromance discourse. The film’s depiction of male bonding and the bromance discourse itself, we argue, spoke most productively to the men seeking to reconcile their investment in traditional norms of manhood with emerging incentives to renounce such norms as regressive.
The Queer Porn Mafia: Redefining identity, sex and feminism through commodified sexuality
Authors: Jackson Crystal A. , Mccubbin Laurenn
Published: September 2016

This article explores the queering of identity and industry in relation to the selflabelled Queer Porn Mafia (QPM), a group of US queer and feminist porn producers and performers. Through in-depth interviews with ten key QPM colleagues, it explores the meanings of ‘queer’ and ‘feminism’ for queer adult film performers and producers. It examines ‘queer’ as both an identity and a politics in the business practices of queer porn and in the relationship between queer porn and the mainstream porn industry. It then interrogates the relationship between ‘queer’ and ‘feminism’ for queer porn performers and producers, arguing that the Queer Porn Mafia is evidence that commercial forms of resistance can be effective tools of representation, visibility and community building. The article concludes with a discussion of how the Queer Porn Mafia’s critique of heteronormative gender, sex and desire illuminates the limitations of feminism as identity and practice for those who queer gender, sex and activism. It demonstrates how the politics of queer porn challenge feminist notions of the relationship between sex and the market as well as disconcerting remnants of gender essentialism in feminist thought.
Book Reviews
Authors: González Octavio R. , Reinke Rachel
Published: September 2016

SENSATIONAL FLESH: RACE, POWER, AND MASOCHISM, AMBER JAMILLA MUSSER (2014) New York: New York University Press, 272 pp., ISBN: 9781479891818, h/bk, $79.00, ISBN: 9781479832491, p/bk, $24.00

VIRTUAL INTIMACIES: MEDIA, AFFECT, AND QUEER SOCIALITY, SHAKA MCGLOTTEN (2013) Albany: State University of New York Press, 178 pp., ISBN: 9781438448770, h/bk, $75.00, ISBN: 9781438448787, p/bk, $25.95
Tv Review
Authors: Fryett Sarah E.
Published: September 2016

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, CREATED BY JENJI KOHAN (2013–) North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Lionsgate Television
Accented cinema and beyond: Latin American minor cinemas in Sweden, 1970–1990
Authors: Andersson Lars Gustaf , Sundholm John
Published: September 2016

The aim of this article is to map and present professional and non-professional Latin American film-making that took place in Sweden from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. Most of the films from this period have been excluded from the established, canonical film history, both nationally and internationally. Another aim of the article is to argue for the importance of the concept of ‘minor cinemas’. This concept has the benefit of overcoming generalizing and reductive models of analysis and the historiography of Latin American film-making beyond that continent. Owing to an extensive focus on political documentary, third cinema, or the aesthetics of accented cinemas, the diversity of Latin American film-making in countries like Sweden has been neglected. Thus, this article calls for a transnational historiography that also encompasses minor histories and presents a critique of Hamid Naficy’s seminal theory of an accented cinema. In terms of theory, the article argues for a return to the theoretical interventions of the concept of minor cinemas made by David E. James and for a reactualization of Zuzana M. Pick’s early study on exilic Chilean cinema.
Un/framing identity: Space and colour in Pedro Almodóvar’s Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón/Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980)
Authors: Ceia Vanessa
Published: September 2016

Pedro Almodóvar’s Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón/Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980) is considered by many critics as a chronicle of the Movida madrileña, a social and cultural renaissance that materialized shortly after the death of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. Despite the film’s much-discussed underground beginnings and prioritization of alternative and once-marginalized social groups and sexual practices, less frequently discussed is Almodóvar’s questioning of the dichotomy between institutionalized and alternative social identities in post-authoritarian Spain. Through his use of negative and positive space, terms akin to background and foreground, Almodóvar demonstrates how, just as bodies can be individualized and semanticized, they can be de-scribed of meaning, de-individualized and banalized. Almodóvar’s manipulation of space reveals the film-maker’s agenda to not only neutralize and critique the uniformity of stereotypical and traditional Spain but to do so with all collectivities, including those as cutting-edge as those of the Movida. In this way, Almodóvar’s film proposes a visually utopian agenda whereby social differences are impossible to fix and social hierarchies impossible to maintain.
Remembering in ruins: Touching, seeing and feeling the past in Nostalgia de la luz/Nostalgia for the Light ([2010] 2011)
Authors: Murphy Kaitlin M.
Published: September 2016

In the wake of the atrocities of the twentieth century in countries across Latin America, the question of how to reconcile with past trauma and move towards a more peaceful future has often been fraught and divisive, with little consensus as to how and what to remember or whether to even remember at all. In Chile, the 1990 transition from dictatorship to democracy is several decades in the past, yet debates about memory and justice, and the quest to find the bodies of those disappeared by the State during the dictatorship, continue unresolved. This article examines the documentary film Nostalgia for the Light ([2010] 2011), made by Chilean film-maker Patricio Guzmán and asks: How is memory documented, preserved, constructed and transmitted through documentary film? Can and how does the very materiality of memory become a historiographical strategy? What is the relationship between materiality and memory? Ultimately, the article argues that the film performs an affective, polyvocal, temporally layered memory mapping that both works to explore and elucidate the ongoing influence of the past in the present, and to intervene in the contemporary memory landscape.
Cryptanalysis on prime power RSA modulus of the form \(N = p^r q\)
Authors: Ariffin Muhammad Rezal Kamel , Shehu Sadiq
Published: September 2016

Let \(N = p^r q\) be an RSA prime power modulus for \(r \geq 2\) and \(q < p < 2 q\). This paper propose three new attacks. In the first attack we consider the class of public exponents satisfying an equation \(e X - N Y = u p^r + \frac{q^r}{u} + Z\) for suitably small positive integer \(u\). Using continued fraction we show that \(\frac{Y}{X}\) can be recovered among the convergents of the continued fraction expansion of \(\frac{e}{N}\) and leads to the successful factorization of \(N p^r q\). Moreover we show that the number of such exponents is at least \(N^{\frac{r+3}{2(r+1)}-\varepsilon}\) where \(\varepsilon \geq 0\) is arbitrarily small for large \(N\). The second and third attacks works when \(k\) RSA public keys \((N_i,e_i)\) are such that there exist \(k\) relations of the shape \(e_i x - N_i y_i = p_i^r u + \frac{q_i^r}{u} + z_i\) or of the shape \(e_i x_i - N_i y = p_i^r u + \frac{q_i^r}{u} + z_i\) where the parameters \(x\), \(x_i\), \(y\), \(y_i\), \(z_i\) are suitably small in terms of the prime factors of the moduli. We apply the LLL algorithm, and show that our strategy enable us to simultaneously factor the \(k\) prime power RSA moduli \(N_i\).
Conceptualisation and framework for developing an educational program for caregivers of the elderly
Authors: Kloppers Joan.M , Van Dyk Agnes
Published: September 2016

Most frequently, elderly are cared for in institutions by lay people. This can result in poor quality of care and neglect of the elderly. These caregivers lack skills and knowledge in the delivering of care for the elderly. The aim of the study was to do a situational analysis of the experiences of the elderly as well as the caregivers in respect of caring for the elderly in old age homes. The objective of the study were to explore and describe the experiences of the caregivers and the elderly with respect to caring for the elderly and nursing care they receive. A qualitative, explorative, descriptive, contextual and phenomenological design was used to perform this study. Themes were identified, as for example interpersonal relationship and communication (positive as well as negative). A Lack of in-service training for caregivers was revealed, as well as a lack of caring procedures, policies and guidelines. Staff shortages, were also identified. Out of these findings a conceptual framework was developed.
Some variables predicting five factor personality of adolescents
Ergenlerin beş faktör kişilik özelliğini yordayan bazı değişkenler
Authors: Bilgin Mehmet
Published: September 2016

In this study, variables predicting the five-factor personality traits of adolescents were examined. These variables are cognitive flexibility, social self-efficacy, and cognitive errors. Research on middle and high school students from 7th.8th.9th.10th.11th.and 12th grades, a total of 441 students, participated to the study. In the study, the Five Factor Personality Inventory, Social Self Efficacy Scale, Cognitive Flexibility Scale and Cognitive Errors Questionnaire were used. The findings of the study show that significant predictied variables for five personality traits are cognitive flexibility, social self-efficacy and cognitive errors. As a result, positive relationship between social self-efficacy and extraversion, aggreeablesness, and openness to experiences personality traits were emerged. It was determined that there was a positive relationship between self-control personality traits and cognitive flexibility, and a negative relationship cognitive flexibility with neuroticism. However, results showed that over-generalization error was commonly used by people who had self-control and neuroticism personality traits. Self-control and agreeablesness of the personality traits were used at the same time personalization errors.  It is determined that only individuals with agreeablesness trait seemed to made error of selective abstraction. Overall, It is seen that people who are cognitive flexibility are extraversion, agreeablesness, self-control and openness to experiences personality traits.  ÖzetBu çalışmada, ergenlerin beş faktör kişilik özelliklerini yordayan değişkenler incelenmeye çalışılmıştır.  Bu değişkenler bilişsel esneklik, sosyal yetkinlik ve bilişsel hatalardır. Araştırmaya 7.8.9.10.11.ve 12 sınıf öğrencileri olmak üzere toplam 441 öğrenci katılmıştır. Araştırmada beş faktör kişilik envanteri, bilişsel esneklik ölçeği, bilişsel hatalar ölçeği ve sosyal yetkinlik beklentisi ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonunda elde edilen bulgular, beş faktör kişilik özelliklerine anlamlı olarak etkiedendeğişkenlerin, bilişsel esneklik, bilişsel hatalar ve sosyal yetkinlik beklentisi olduğunu göstermektedir. Sonuç olarak, dışadönüklük, yumuşakbaşlılık, ve gelişime açıklık kişilik özellikleri ile sosyal yetkinlik arasında pozitif bir ilişki olduğu görülmektedir. Bilişsel esneklik ile özdenetim kişilik özelliği arasında pozitif, nevrotizm ile negatif bir ilişki olduğu belirlenmiştir. Bununla birlikte aşırı genelleme hatasının özdenetim ve nevrotizm kişilik özelliklerine sahip kişiler tarafından daha çok kullanıldığı, özdenetim kişilik özelliğine sahip kişilerin ve yumuşakbaşlılık kişilik özelliğine sahip kişilerin aynı zamanda kişiselleştirme hatalarını da kullandıkları saptanmıştır. Sadece yumuşakbaşlılık kişilik özelliğine sahip bireylerin seçici soyutlama hatasını yaptıkları belirlenmiştir.
Visual Functions after Laser Photocoagulation in Central Serous Chorioretinopathy
Authors: Hejcmanová Dagmar , Macháčková Markéta , Rencová Eva , Kyprianou Georgia , Langrová Hana
Published: September 2016

The authors evalute the visual functions of patients with unilateral central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) and compare them with their non-affected eye and with a control group. Fourteen patients with CSC treated with direct laserphotocoagulation were examined preoperatively and followed-up, up to 2 years postoperatively. Baseline best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and contrast sensitivity (CS) of both eyes of patients was significantly lower in comparison with the controls. BCVA and CS in affected eyes were significantly lower compared to the fellow eye of patients. The final BCVA and CS of patients did not differ significantly from the controls, except CS of affected eyes in the spatial frequency of 3.69 c/deg. Two years after laser treatment, there were only nonsignificant differences of both photopic full-field electroretinography (phERG) and multifocal electroretinography (mfERG) responses between the treated, the nonaffected eye of the patients and the control group with exception of a significantly longer P1 implicit time in the parafoveolar region in affected eyes. Colour discrimination was normal in 85.8% of affected eyes of the patients. Despite a significant improvement of macular function in CSC eyes, functional examination methods do not prove complete resolution of function 2 years after laser-treatment.