bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Blood Flow Alterations in the Anterior Maxillary Mucosa as Induced by Implant‐Retained Overdenture
Authors: Alsrouji Mohamed Samih , Ahmad Rohana , Ibrahim Norliza , Kuntjoro Wahyu , Al‐Harbi Fahad A. , Baba Nadim Z.
Published: March 2019

Purpose

Blood flow disturbance from functional pressure may lead to ischemia and accumulation of metabolites leading to residual ridge resorption (RRR) underneath complete dentures. The purposes of this study were to determine the effect of mandibular complete denture (CD) and implant‐retained overdenture (IRO) on blood flow disturbance in the opposing denture bearing‐mucosa of maxillary CD and to compare the blood flow disturbance to RRR of the anterior maxilla.

Materials and Methods

The test group included 9 participants rehabilitated by maxillary CD opposing mandibular IRO, while the control group consisted of 4 participants with CDs. Blood flow was measured by laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) after denture removal for 0, 30, 60, and 90 minutes. RRR was quantified as reduction in bone volume a year post‐treatment. The measurement of blood flow was then compared to the quantification of RRR.

Results

The mean blood flow measure for the IRO group was significantly lower than CD after immediate denture removal and 30 minutes later. After 60 minutes, the mean difference was not significant between groups, and at 90 minutes, the mean blood flow of both groups equalized to reach a steady state of 377 BPU. The mandibular IRO had reduced the initial blood flow measure in the opposing anterior maxilla mucosa to almost a quarter (103 BPU) of the steady state value (377 BPU) compared to the CD, which reduced it to only about one half (183 BPU), suggesting greater blood flow disturbance in the IRO group. This result is in tandem with the greater reduction of bone volume observed in the IRO group, which was 7.3 ± 1.3% after a year, almost three times higher than CD group at 2.6 ± 1.7%.

Conclusion

IRO may cause significantly higher blood flow disturbance than CD and may have contributed to greater RRR in the anterior maxilla.
School quality and rural in‐migration: Can better rural schools attract new residents?
Authors: Marré Alexander W. , Rupasingha Anil
Published: March 2019

Studies in the nonmetropolitan population change literature have largely focused on the role of natural amenities and economic restructuring, but few have focused on the role of public services. This paper addresses the question of whether public services in nonmetropolitan counties, specifically the outcomes of public schools, could attract migrants. We use a Poisson regression technique little‐used in the migration literature to control for push and pull factors driving migration patterns and control for school quality. Results show that better schools can draw migrants to nonmetropolitan areas. Marginal effects are larger for nonmetropolitan counties not adjacent to metropolitan areas.
Low incidence of HHV‐6 reactivation in haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with corticosteroid as graft‐vs‐host disease prophylaxis compared with cord blood transplantation
Authors: Tamaki Hiroya , Ikegame Kazuhiro , Yoshihara Satoshi , Kaida Katsuji , Yoshihara Kyoko , Inoue Takayuki , Kato Ruri , Nakata Jun , Fujioka Tatsuya , Soma Toshihiro , Okada Masaya , Ogawa Hiroyasu
Published: March 2019

Background

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) mismatch and the administration of immunosuppressive agents are considered risks for human herpesvirus 6 (HHV‐6) reactivation after stem cell transplantation (SCT). However, the incidence of HHV‐6 reactivation in HLA‐mismatched related SCT remains unknown.

Methods

We monitored plasma HHV‐6 DNA loads weekly using real‐time quantitative polymerase chain reaction for 5 weeks after SCT and compared serum IL‐6 levels in HLA‐mismatched SCT groups.

Results

Compared with detection in all 11 umbilical cord blood transplantation (CBT) patients (100%), plasma HHV‐6 DNA was detected in only 3 of 42 haplo‐SCT patients (7.1%) despite the use of methylprednisolone and antithymocyte globulin as graft‐vs‐host disease prophylaxis and a reduced‐intensity conditioning regimen, respectively. Correspondingly, serum IL‐6 levels in haplo‐SCT patients were significantly lower than those in CBT patients. No HHV‐6‐associated encephalitis developed in either groups.

Conclusions

Neither HLA disparity nor the use of methylprednisolone and antithymocyte globulin were risk factors for HHV‐6 reactivation in our haplo‐SCT patients. Rather than increasing risk, the administration of immunosuppressive agents potentially prevented HHV‐6 reactivation after haplo‐SCT by suppressing IL‐6 production.
A Study on the Unit-logistic, Unit-Weibull and Topp-Leone Cumulative Sigmoids
Authors: Iliev Anton Iliev , Rahnev Asen , Kyurkchiev Nikolay , Markov Svetoslav
Published: March 2019

In this paper we study the one--sided Hausdorff approximation of the Heaviside step function by a families of Unit-Logistic (UL), Unit-Weibull (UW) and Topp-Leone (TL) cumulative sigmoids.The estimates of the value of the best Hausdorff approximation obtained in this article can be used in practice as one possible additional criterion in ''saturation'' study.Numerical examples are presented using CAS MATHEMATICA.
Traceable Porosity Measurements in Industrial Components Using X-Ray Computed Tomography
Authors: Hermanek Petr , Zanini Filippo , Carmignato Simone
Published: March 2019

Manufacturing technologies deliver products that can suffer from various defects, one of which is internal porosity. Pores are present in most of the parts produced by, e.g., casting, additive manufacturing, and injection molding and can significantly affect the performance of the final products. Due to technological and economic limits, typically porosity cannot be completely removed by optimizing process parameters. It is therefore essential to have a measurement technique that can detect and evaluate these defects accurately. Apart from conventional nondestructive techniques, such as ultrasonic testing or Archimedes’ method that suffer from various limitations, X-ray computed tomography has emerged as a promising solution capable of measuring size, spatial distribution, and shape of pores. In this paper, a method to achieve traceable computed tomography measurements of internal porosity using a reference object with calibrated internal artificial defects is described and demonstrated on an industrial case study. Furthermore, the possibility to improve measurement results by optimizing parameters used for the evaluation of acquired data is discussed. The optimization method is based on an iterative procedure that reduces to ±5 × 10−5 mm3 the error of the measured values of total void content in the reference object.
Do Student Trials Predict What Professionals Value in Sustainable Design Practices?
Authors: Faludi Jeremy , Yiu Felix , Srour Ola , Kamareddine Rami , Ali Omar , Mecanna Selim
Published: March 2019

When teaching sustainable design in industry or academia, we should teach design methods, activities, and mindsets that are most effective at driving real change in a industry. However, most studies of design practices are performed on students, not on professionals. How strongly do student perceptions of value predict those of industry teams designing real products? This study provided workshops on three sustainable design methods (The Natural Step, Whole System Mapping, and Biomimicry) for 172 professionals and 204 students, applying the methods to their actual products being developed. It surveyed both populations about which activities or mindsets within each design method provided sustainability value, innovation value, and overall value. Quantitatively, student results did not strongly predict professional opinions; professionals chose clearer favorites and valued more things. However, qualitatively, student results did predict the reasons why professionals would value the design activities and mindsets. Therefore, care should be taken to choose appropriate participants for the questions being asked in sustainable design research.
Reflections Over the Dual Ring—Applications to Kinematic Synthesis
Authors: Belzile Bruno , Angeles Jorge
Published: March 2019

Least-square problems arise in multiple application areas. The numerical algorithm intended to compute offline the minimum (Euclidian)-norm approximation to an overdetermined system of linear equations, the core of least squares, is based on Householder reflections. It is self-understood, in the application of this algorithm, that the coefficient matrix is dimensionally homogeneous, i.e., all its entries bear the same physical units. Not all applications lead to such matrices, a case in point being parameter identification in mechanical systems involving rigid bodies, whereby both rotation and translation occur; the former being dimensionless and the latter bearing units of length. Because of this feature, dual numbers have found extensive applications in these fields, as they allow the analyst to include translations within the same relations applicable to rotations, on dualization2 of the rotation equations, as occurring in the geometric, kinematic, or dynamic analyses of mechanical systems. After recalling the basic background on dual numbers and introducing reflection matrices defined over the dual ring, we obtain the dual version of Householder reflections applicable to the offline implementation of parameter identification. For the online parameter identification, recursive least squares are to be applied. We provide also the dual version of recursive least squares. Numerical examples are included to illustrate the underlying principles and algorithms.
Cycle-to-Cycle NO and NOx Emissions From a HSDI Diesel Engine
Authors: Leach Felix , Davy Martin , Peckham Mark
Published: March 2019

Engine-out NOx emissions from diesel engines continue to be a major topic of research interest. While substantial understanding has been obtained of engine-out (i.e., before any aftertreatment) NOx formation and reduction techniques, not least exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) which is now well established and fitted to production vehicles, much less data are available on cycle resolved NOx emissions. In this work, crank-angle resolved NO and NOx measurements have been taken from a high-speed light duty diesel engine at test conditions both with and without EGR. These have been combined with 1D data of exhaust flow, and this used to form a mass average of NO and NOx emissions per cycle. These results have been compared with combustion data and other emissions. The results show that there is a very strong correlation (R2 > 0.95) between the NOx emitted per cycle and the peak cylinder pressure of that cycle. In addition, the crank-angle resolved NO and NOx measurements also reveal that there is a difference in NO : NO2 ratio (where NO2 is assumed to be the difference between NO and NOx) during the exhaust period, with proportionally more NO2 being emitted during the blowdown period compared to the rest of the exhaust stroke.
Rare complication of milk-alkali ingestion: severe pancreatitis and acute kidney injury in a chronic hypocalcaemic patient with DiGeorge’s syndrome
Authors: Bhadra Rajarshi , Khan Fareeha Ahmed , Soliman Mona , Somasundaram Meyappan , Iltchev Daniel V , Ravakhah Keyvan
Published: March 2019

Injudicious use of over-the-counter calcium supplements has resulted in increased incidences of hypercalcaemia and related complications. We present a case of acute pancreatitis in a chronic hypocalcaemic patient of DiGeorge’s syndrome. The patient came into the ED with sepsis syndrome, right upper quadrant and epigastric pain and no obvious source of infection. Lab results and imaging were indicative of acute pancreatitis. There was severe renal dysfunction. The patient needed haemodialysis and had a prolonged stay in intensive care. The medical history was negative for biliary duct pathology or alcohol use. The patient had vomiting and diarrhoea in the nursing home for about a week, but she continued to receive her regular medications that included the calcium supplements and thiazide diuretics. It is likely that a complex interplay between calcium supplementation, dehydration and thiazide diuretics resulted in the development of acute pancreatitis and severe renal dysfunction in a chronic hypocalcaemic patient.
ACL rupture in the immediate build-up to the Olympic Games: return to elite alpine ski competition 5 months after injury and ACL repair
Authors: Praz Cesar , Kandhari Vikram Kishor , Saithna Adnan , Sonnery-Cottet Bertrand
Published: March 2019

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture in the immediate build-up to a major international competition can preclude an athletes' participation due to the prolonged period of rehabilitation that is typically required after ACL reconstruction. ACL repair is an alternative strategy that has been postulated to confer the advantage of rapid rehabilitation and earlier return to sport. A 33-year-old professional alpine skier sustained a right knee ACL rupture in September 2017. The athlete indicated that she wanted to participate in the 2018 Olympics. Arthroscopic ACL repair and reconstruction of the anterolateral ligament was undertaken. At 3 months, Lachman’s test revealed a hard end point, a negative pivot shift and no side-to-side laxity difference. MRI at 6 and 12 weeks demonstrated a continuous ACL with no intraligament signal change. At 20 weeks postoperatively, she successfully participated in the slalom at the 2018 Olympic Games.
Primary amenorrhoea secondary to two different syndromes: a case study
Authors: Kiran Zareen , Jamil Tayyaba
Published: March 2019

Turner syndrome is a relatively common chromosomal abnormality presenting as primary amenorrhoea in gynaecological and endocrine clinics, caused by complete or partial X monosomy in some or all cells. Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome is another common cause of primary amenorrhoea characterised by Mullerian agenesis of varying degrees. We report a case of an 18-year-old girl, who presented with primary amenorrhoea, absence of secondary sexual characteristics and short stature. Hormonal profile confirms hypergonadotrophic hypogonadism. Karyotyping was consistent with Turner syndrome (45,XO). In addition, radiological imaging of the pelvis showed the absence of both ovaries as well as the uterus, cervix and vagina. This patient had therefore presented with two different syndromes as the cause of her primary amenorrhoea, which is extremely rare in a single patient. Moreover, oestrogen replacement therapy will trigger the development of secondary sexual characteristic and promote bone growth, but induction of menstruation and fertility is impossible.
A rare cause of abdominal pain with fever
Authors: Oliveira Diana Martins , Correia Catarina , Cunha Flávia , Dias Patrícia
Published: March 2019

An 89-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 1-month history of upper right quadrant pain, worsened in the last 3 days and accompanied by fever and chills. On physical examination, he had scleral icterus and right upper quadrant tenderness. Laboratory findings showed hyperbilirubinemia, elevated liver enzymes and C reactive protein. The patient was admitted, suspecting of an acute cholangitis and started on antibiotics. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed the presence of a juxtapapillary diverticulum in the second portion of the duodenum, which was confirmed by a magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography, along with upstream biliary tract ectasia. The imaging findings allowed us to diagnose a Lemmel’s syndrome. Due to potential surgical risk, we decided for a conservative approach. The patient had a favourable course and was discharged home.
Association between perinatal interventional activity and 2-year outcome of Swiss extremely preterm born infants: a population-based cohort study
Authors: Adams Mark , Berger Thomas M , Borradori-Tolsa Cristina , Bickle-Graz Myriam , Grunt Sebastian , Gerull Roland , Bassler Dirk , Natalucci Giancarlo
Published: March 2019

Objectives

To investigate if centre-specific levels of perinatal interventional activity were associated with neonatal and neurodevelopmental outcome at 2 years of age in two separately analysed cohorts of infants: cohort A born at 22–25 and cohort B born at 26–27 gestational weeks, respectively.

Design

Geographically defined, retrospective cohort study.

Setting

All nine level III perinatal centres (neonatal intensive care units and affiliated obstetrical services) in Switzerland.

Patients

All live-born infants in Switzerland in 2006–2013 below 28 gestational weeks, excluding infants with major congenital malformation.

Outcome measures

Outcomes at 2 years corrected for prematurity were mortality, survival with any major neonatal morbidity and with severe-to-moderate neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI).

Results

Cohort A associated birth in a centre with high perinatal activity with low mortality adjusted OR (aOR 0.22; 95% CI 0.16 to 0.32), while no association was observed with survival with major morbidity (aOR 0.74; 95% CI 0.46 to 1.19) and with NDI (aOR 0.97; 95% CI 0.46 to 2.02). Median age at death (8 vs 4 days) and length of stay (100 vs 73 days) were higher in high than in low activity centres. The results for cohort B mirrored those for cohort A.

Conclusions

Centres with high perinatal activity in Switzerland have a significantly lower risk for mortality while having comparable outcomes among survivors. This confirms the results of other studies but in a geographically defined area applying a more restrictive approach to initiation of perinatal intensive care than previous studies. The study adds that infants up to 28 weeks benefited from a higher perinatal activity and why further research is required to better estimate the added burden on children who ultimately do not survive.
What are the characteristics and progression of visual field defects in patients with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy: a prospective single-centre study in China
Authors: Liu Hong-Li , Yuan Jia-Jia , Tian Zhen , Li Xin , Song Lin , Li Bin
Published: March 2019

Objective

To study the characteristics and progression of visual field defects in patients with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy.

Design

Prospective study.

Setting

3-A-class hospital in China; single-centre study.

Participants

From 100 patients diagnosed with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, 80 (160 eyes; 68 men and 12 women; youngest patient, 6 years; oldest patient, 35 years) were recruited.

Exposure

All patients were followed up for at least 12 months. Each patient underwent at least three visual field examinations. Patient groups 1–6 were created according to the time of visual field data acquisition. Patient group 7 included patients with a different onset of disease between eyes. Group 8 was composed of patients with a course of disease of 12–24 months when one of the examinations performed. Patients who performed the third examination made up patient group 9.

Primary outcome measures

Prevalence of the different visual field defect types on the basis of severity in groups 1–6. Mean of the difference of visual function between eyes in group 7.

Result

In groups 1–6, the prevalences of defects classified using Visual Field Index values were significantly different between groups 1 and 3. In group 7, with the prolongation of the course of the disease, the mean of the difference of visual function between eyes decreased. There was no significant correlation between age and the severity of visual field defect. There was significant correlation between visual acuity and the severity of visual field defect.

Conclusion

Visual field defects in patients with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (G11778A) may continuously progress within 6 months of disease development, and remain stable after 9 months. With the progression of the disease, the differences in visual function between eyes may decrease. The severity of visual field defect seems to be independent of age; however, could be related to visual acuity.

Trial registration number

NCT03428178,NCT01267422.
Healthy migrant effect in the Swedish context: a register-based, longitudinal cohort study.
Authors: Helgesson Magnus , Johansson Bo , Nordquist Tobias , Vingård Eva , Svartengren Magnus
Published: March 2019

Objectives

Studies have found a ‘healthy-migrant effect’ (HME) among arriving migrants, that is, a better health status compared with others in the home country, but also in comparison with the population in the host country. The aims were to investigate whether the HME hypothesis is applicable to the Swedish context, that is, if health outcomes differed between a group of mainly labour migrants (Western migrants) and a group of mainly refugee/family reunion migrants (non-Western migrants) compared with the native Swedish population, and if there were any correlations between labour market attachment (LMA) and these health outcomes.

Design

Register-based, longitudinal cohort study.

Participants

The cohort was defined on 31 December 1990 and consisted of all migrants aged 18–47 years who arrived in Sweden in 1985–1990 (n=74 954) and a reference population of native Swedes (n=1 405 047) in the same age span. They were followed for three consecutive 6-year periods (1991–1996, 1997–2002 and 2003–2008) and were assessed for five measures of health: hospitalisation for cardiovascular and psychiatric disorders, mortality, disability pension, and sick leave.

Results

Western migrants had, compared with native Swedes, lower or equal HRs for all health measures during all time periods, while non-Western migrants displayed higher or equal HRs for all health measures, except for mortality, during all time periods. Age, educational level, occupation and LMA explained part of the difference between migrants and native Swedes. High LMA was associated with higher HRs for cardiovascular disorders among Western migrants, higher HRs of psychiatric disorders among non-Western migrants and higher HRs of mortality among both migrant groups compared with native Swedes.

Conclusions

There were indications of a HME among Western migrants, while less proof of a HME among non-Western migrants. Stratification for LMA and different migrant categories showed some interesting differences, and measurements of the HME may be inconclusive if not stratified by migrant category or other relevant variables.
Firearms training and storage practices among US gun owners: a nationally representative study
Authors: Berrigan John , Azrael Deborah , Hemenway David , Miller Matthew
Published: March 2019

Objectives

To describe firearm storage practices among US adults and examine the relationship between having received formal firearms training and firearm storage.

Methods

In 2015 we asked a nationally representative online sample of 2072 gun owners how they stored household firearms, their reasons for owning guns, the number and types owned, had they carried a loaded handgun in the prior month and whether they had formal firearms training (and if so, whether training covered suicide prevention, accident prevention, firearm theft prevention, safe handling and safe storage). Unadjusted associations between gun owner characteristics and storage practices were estimated using Pearson’s χ2tests; adjusted associations used multivariate logistic regressions. Final survey weights that combined presample and study-specific poststratification weights account for oversampling of firearm owners and survey non-response.

Results

29.7% (95% CI 27.4% to 32.1%) stored ≥1 firearm loaded and unlocked. Of the 61.4% (95% CI 58.9% to 63.9%) of gun owners with firearms training, 32.3% (95% CI 29.4% to 35.3%) stored ≥1 firearm loaded and unlocked, compared with 25.8% (95% CI 22.3% to 29.7%) of those without training. Storage did not differ by training component, age, sex or race. However, firearms were more likely stored loaded and unlocked when respondents owned for protection, owned >1 firearm, owned handguns or carried a loaded gun. After adjusting for firearm-related characteristics, firearms training was not associated with storing firearms loaded and unlocked (adjusted OR=1.11, 95% Cl 0.80 to 1.53).

Conclusion

Firearms training, as currently provided, is unlikely to reduce unsafe firearm storage.
Selective screening of late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD) in patients with non-diagnostic muscle biopsies
Authors: Meznaric Marija , Fumic Ksenija , Leonardis Lea
Published: March 2019

Aims

As of 2016, there were five patients with Pompe in Slovenia (two infantile, one childhood and two adult onset) with a prevalence of 1:400 000; however, the prevalence of late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD) in some other countries means this ratio could be an underestimate. Since an LOPD muscle biopsy could be unspecific or even normal, the purpose of this study is to assess the prevalence of LOPD in patients with non-diagnostic muscle biopsies.

Methods

Six hundred biopsies were recorded at the Neuromuscular Tissue Bank of the University of Ljubljana for the period 2004–2014. All adult patients with non-diagnostic muscle biopsies were invited to the National Slovenian Neuromuscular Centre for dried blood spot testing for LOPD.

Results

A total of 90 patients (56% of those invited) responded. No patient with LOPD was found. A total of 49 patients (54%) had fixed muscle weakness, 31 (34%) had mild symptoms and no weakness and 10 (11%) had asymptomatic hyperCKemia. Ventilatory insufficiency associated with proximal muscle weakness was found in two patients (2%). No patients exhibited vacuolar myopathy, globular accumulations of glycogen or regions of increased acid phosphatase activity within the sarcoplasm.

Conclusions

The study results do not support the hypothesis that LOPD is underestimated in Slovenian patients with non-diagnostic muscle biopsies; this could be consistent with the fact that LOPD is of low prevalence in Slovenia, as is the case in the populations of Finland, French-speaking Belgium, west Sweden and west Denmark.
Diagnosis of organisational culture within an NHS Emergency Department
Authors: Armstrong Brian , Maxwell John , Ferrie Eoghan , Greenwood Emma , Sheerin Linsey
Published: March 2019

Background

The academic literature demonstrates that organisational culture contributes to variation between healthcare organisations in outcomes and performance, patient satisfaction, innovation, healthcare quality and safety and employee job satisfaction.

Objectives/methods

The aims of this research were: (1) to review literature on organisational culture; (2) to identify the dominant culture within the Belfast RVH Emergency Department by using a combination of both the ‘Organisational Culture Assessment Instrument’ and ‘Rich Pictures’ soft systems methodology; and (3) to formulate recommendations.

Results/conclusion

We found that the dominant organisational culture is a market culture (29.74 points), followed by hierarchy culture (28.97 points) then a clan culture (25.55 points) and an adhocracy culture (15.74 points), this infers an emphasis is placed predominantly on results and profitability. The results also look at the difference between current and preferred organisational culture. The largest desired difference can be seen in clan culture, with an increase of 12.93 points. Market culture decreases by 12.39 points. Hierarchy culture decreases with 3.58 points and adhocracy culture increases with 3.04 points. The dominant culture in the preferred situation becomes clan culture, followed by hierarchy culture, adhocracy culture and market culture. The results also show there was a differing gap within all professional groupings with admin (24.97 points), doctors (33.71 points), nurses (40.36 points) and others (11.08 points). The Rich Pictures results highlight contrasting multidisciplinary dynamics in regard to hierarchy, interteam cooperation and a team while working under extreme pressure, and were committed to quality, patient safety and service innovation.
Infectious encephalitis: mimics and chameleons
Authors: Toledano Michel , Davies Nicholas W S
Published: March 2019

‘Query encephalitis’ is a common neurological consultation in hospitalised patients. Identifying the syndrome is only part of the puzzle. Although historically encephalitis has been almost synonymous with infection, we increasingly recognise parainfectious or postinfectious as well as other immune-mediated causes. We must also distinguish encephalitis from other causes of encephalopathy, including systemic infection, metabolic derangements, toxins, inherited metabolic disorders, hypoxia, trauma and vasculopathies. Here, we review the most important differential diagnoses (mimics) of patients presenting with an encephalitic syndrome and highlight some unusual presentations (chameleons) of infectious encephalitis.
A CENA PERTURBADA: PERSONAGENS DRAMÁTICAS FEMININAS DE GERVÁSIO LOBATO E GUIOMAR TORRESÃO
Authors: Masseran Claudia Barbieri
Published: March 2019

O artigo recupera três personagens dramáticas femininas pertencentes a duas peças originais: D. Leonor Gonçalves da comédia em um ato A burguesa, da pena de Gervásio Lobato (1850-1895), de 1882 e D. Christiana e D. Gabriela de Educação Moderna, comédia em três atos, escrita por Guiomar Torresão em 1891. Para tanto, faz-se necessária uma breve incursão na história da educação feminina em Portugal no século XIX e o entendimento do papel reservado às mulheres na sociedade coeva.
AS FEIURAS FÍSICA E MORAL FEMININAS EM CANTIGAS DE ESCÁRNIO E MALDIZER DE AFONSO X
Authors: Tavares Vanessa Giuliani Barbosa
Published: March 2019

Estuda a descrição feminina em três cantigas de escárnio e maldizer do rei e trovador medieval Afonso X, fundamentado em estudos interdisciplinares: crítico-literários, filológicos e histórico-culturais. Partindo de uma investigação histórica sobre a misoginia medieval, analisa nas cantigas as descrições que escarnecem as mulheres por sua feiura física ou moral. Identifica que a literatura satírica afonsina, embora lúdica, se configura como um discurso misógino, o qual, ao zombar a aparência ou a conduta das mulheres satirizadas, atuava como um instrumento de denúncia e de regulação da conduta feminina na sociedade medieval peninsular. Tais descrições oportunizam uma reflexão acerca da condição feminina e das imposições estéticas e comportamentais a que as mulheres ainda hoje estão sujeitas.
EROS EM PENA DE MULHER: O MOTIVO DA CAMA EM POEMAS DE MARIA TERESA HORTA E SALETTE TAVARES
Authors: Morais Carlos Francisco de
Published: March 2019

O objetivo deste estudo é investigar como a cama se converte em um motivo literário típico da linguagem poética de duas importantes escritoras portuguesas do século XX, Maria Teresa Horta e Salette Tavares. Para isso, se observará como esse móvel, a exemplo do que acontece em textos de autores tão diversos como Safo, John Donne, Guy de Maupassant e Carlos Drummond de Andrade, se converte na escrita das duas autoras num símbolo da dimensão erótica da vida humana, entendido o erotismo como experiência essencial para a união dos opostos e a comunicação profunda entre os amantes.
HERBERTO HELDER E FIAMA HASSE PAIS BRANDÃO: DOIS LEITORES DA TRADIÇÃO POR UM LUGAR EM COMUM
Authors: Felizi Natasha Furlan
Published: March 2019

O trabalho compara poemas de Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão e Herberto Helder que podem ser considerados releituras do Soneto 96 de Camões. Através da comparação, tentamos compreender o que os autores modernos têm em comum e no que diferem a respeito da tradição literária.
SOBRE A RESPONSABILIDADE DE SER E ESTAR NO MUNDO: UMA ENTREVISTA COM PILAR DEL RÍO
Authors: Mattia Bianca Rosina , Del Río Pilar , Del Río Pilar
Published: March 2019

Entrevista com Pilar del Río, Presidenta da Fundação José Saramago.
ENTREVISTA COM HELDER MACEDO, PARTE II
Authors: Joaquim Ana Cristina , Nascimento Sousa Rui Daniel , Santos Sofia , Macedo Helder
Published: March 2019

A primeira parte da entrevista foi publicada em: DESASSOSSEGO 15|JUN/2016 (acesso: http://www.revistas.usp.br/desassossego/article/view/112710/116999)
CONTRASTE, EMBATE E VONTADE EM O RETORNO, DE DULCE MARIA CARDOSO
Authors: Sedlmayer Sabrina , Ribeiro Guilherme
Published: March 2019

Partindo de estudos sobre a agonia, sentimento desassossegado que (des)articula desejo e escolha, este ensaio propõe uma linha argumentativa que relaciona a reinvenção da identidade pessoal dentro de uma complexa situação histórica. Para tanto, aproxima-se da voz do narrador do romance O Retorno (2012), de Dulce Maria Cardoso, para explorar as polaridades que marcam as migrações portuguesas não voluntárias dentro do processo histórico que transformou colonos em retornados. A descolonização dos antigos territórios portugueses em África, a chegada de uma família específica em Lisboa e as reflexões do adolescente Rui servem como base para as análises que tratarão da luta que se dá, nessa narrativa, entre polos díspares: brancos e negros; Luanda e Lisboa; retornados e portugueses; cordialidade idílica e mito luso-tropicalista; discurso paterno e discurso revolucionário, entre outros, numa densa rede de embate na qual se encena a vontade humana de deixar rastros e de sobreviver.
MULHERES EM “O PRIMO BASÍLIO”: FRONTEIRAS E LIMITAÇÕES DO FEMININO NA SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA NOVECENTISTA
Authors: Andrade José Roberto de
Published: March 2019

Neste trabalho, procuro analisar duas personagens femininas do romance O Primo Basílio, Luísa e Juliana. Na análise, considero vários aspectos de sua caracterização, inclusive os contrastes que surgem quando comparadas a outras personagens de mesmo nível social, como Leopoldina e Joana. Também procuro relacionar texto, história, projetos e possibilidades de representação, com o objetivo de ampliar as possibilidades de interpretação dessas personagens e entender seu papel na construção da narrativa e na crítica à sociedade lisboeta do século XIX.
A ZOOMORFIZAÇÃO E A DESUMANIZAÇÃO NO ROMANCE "O REMORSO DE BALTAZAR SERAPIÃO" DE VALTER HUGO MÃE
Authors: Gomes Murilo de Assis Macedo
Published: March 2019

O objetivo desse artigo é discutir o processo de zoormofização e desumanização das personagens na obra O remorso de baltazar serapião (2010), do escritor português Valter Hugo Mãe. Esse processo está em consonância com a organização social tratada na obra, na qual prevalece uma estrutura hierárquica rígida e arcaica, típica da Idade Média. Nesse tipo de sociedade, o papel de cada homem era delimitado de acordo com suas origens sociais e econômicas. Desse modo, percebe-se na obra um fatalismo do destino associado à vida das personagens. A elas é atribuída uma certa condição animalesca que as metamorfoseia em seres híbridos, cujas características encontradas em outros animais as constituiriam. Nesse processo, todas, com exceção de El-rei e da rainha, são zoomorfizadas e algumas, tais como as personagens femininas, são, sobretudo, desumanizadas. Em contraste a isso, a vaca, Sarga, da família de Baltazar seria humanizada. A análise proposta fundamenta-se a partir dos conceitos discutidos por Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari (1995/1997). Dentre eles destaca-se a aliança inter-reinos baseada na ideia de contágio e, em contraposição, a de hereditariedade, como a verdadeira dinâmica da vida e da Natureza. Tal aliança trata principalmente da integração de seres díspares (homem, bactéria, vírus, animais etc.), diferentemente da ideia de classificação e/ou separação dos animais da natureza em espécie, em que o ser humano apareceria como ser superior aos outros seres vivos. Ademais, a análise recairá nas relações de poder dos sujeitos dessa sociedade, onde a tensão da maioria se contrapõe ao da minoria, como tratado por esses teóricos.
MÃE E A INVENÇÃO DA FAMÍLIA: UMA LEITURA PSICANALÍTICA DO ROMANCE O FILHO DE MIL HOMENS COMO UM CONTRAPONTO AO ESTATUTO DA FAMÍLIA
Authors: Oliveira Humberto Moacir de
Published: March 2019

Em 2013 a Câmara dos Deputados apresentou um projeto de lei que dispunha sobre o Estatuto da Família. O projeto, aprovado em Comissão Especial em 2015, aguarda, até o presente momento, votação no plenário. O Estatuto provocou muitas querelas, principalmente em torno de sua estreita definição de entidade familiar, que em alguns trechos se limita a união conjugal firmada entre um homem e uma mulher. Em 2012, um ano antes de o projeto ser apresentado na Câmara, chegou ao Brasil o livro O filho de mil homens, quinto romance de Valter Hugo Mãe. A obra traz como um dos seus temas principais a invenção de uma família e expõe, através dela, como o laço afetivo muitas vezes participa mais do engendramento do núcleo familiar do que laços sanguíneos ou disposições de gêneros. O presente artigo pretende fazer uma leitura psicanalítica do romance de Mãe apresentando-o como um contraponto à definição de entidade familiar proposta pela Estatuto da Família, já que para a teoria psicanalítica, assim como revela também a prosa de Mãe, a família abarca um arranjo muito mais complexo do que o Estatuto busca delimitar.
COLOCAR POESIA NA FITA MÉTRICA
Authors: Roriz Paloma
Published: March 2019

Este artigo propõe refletir acerca de algumas imagens do livro Atlas do corpo e da imaginação, de Gonçalo M. Tavares, feitas pelo grupo Os Espacialistas, a partir da relação pensada pelo autor e pelo coletivo entre corpo, arquitetura, espaço e movimento, em seu possível cruzamento com projetos heteróclitos como os de Aby Warburg e Georges Bataille, tomados na perspectiva de Georges Didi-Huberman.
CÃO ANALISTA SOCIAL: A IRONIA DE UM TEXTO QUEIROSIANO QUE SUBVERTE AS RELAÇÕES ENTRE SERES HUMANOS E ANIMAIS
Authors: Bittencourt Rodrigo do Prado , Oliveira Laís Maria de
Published: March 2019

Este artigo analisa um texto de Eça de Queirós publicado na imprensa portuguesa, em 1884: “A Inglaterra e a França julgadas por um inglês”. Neste conto, um cão inglês escreve para sua amiga – uma gata – a respeito da França. Há ironia e intensa crítica social na carta canina. O conto analisa questões como a hipocrisia, a superficialidade, a arrogância, a imparcialidade e a relação entre os humanos e os animais. Há nele uma espécie de humanização do cão e desumanização do povo inglês, descrito como repleto de vícios, tolo e infeliz.
MEMÓRIAS DAS TRINCHEIRAS: OS ANIMAIS NA LITERATURA DA GRANDE GUERRA
Authors: Neves Márcia Seabra
Published: March 2019

Embora até recentemente o homem tenha detido o papel principal nos relatos sobre a Grande Guerra, a verdade é que os animais também foram atores diretos desse cenário bélico. No entanto, o contributo do soldado não-humano parece ter sido relegado para os bastidores deste teatro apocalíptico até às últimas décadas do século 20, altura em que se assiste a uma verdadeira revolução do pensamento ocidental relativamente à condição animal e sua relação com o humano. Neste contexto, o crescente interesse teórico e crítico pela condição animal e a sua revalorização ético-científica lançaram um novo olhar – não especista, nem antropocêntrico – sobre a atuação militar destes heróis marginalizados e a sua relação com os seus companheiros humanos, com quem partilharam o inferno das trincheiras. Com efeito, os grandes discursos contemporâneos sobre a animalidade, centrados na renegociação da cartografia humano-animal a partir de um descentramento antropológico, propõem uma releitura simbólica da presença do animal da Grande Guerra, amplamente celebrada pelos soldados nos seus escritos memorialísticos, que compõem o abundante corpus de literatura testemunhal do pós-guerra.
NO TABULEIRO PESSOANO
Authors: Nery Garcez Maria Helena
Published: March 2019

O texto analisa as relações estabelecidas entre os heterônimos das Ficções do interlúdio no tabuleiro pessoano e tira conclusões sobre sua liberdade e pessoalidade. Analisa também outro jogador dentro do tabuleiro, embora fora das Ficções, o ortônimo, dando ênfase especial a poemas, muitos deles só publicados a partir das edições críticas e nas completas. Das análises realizadas, concluo que o ethos do ortônimo precisa ser revisto e completado e qual é o maior valor que preside à obra pessoana.
OS DIÁLOGOS INTERARTÍSTICOS DA POESIA SEGUNDO FERNANDO PESSOA
Authors: Martelo Rosa Maria
Published: March 2019

Para Fernando Pessoa, a literatura sensacionista deveria “ser a fusão de todas as artes”, proporcionando, em si mesma e sincreticamente, todas as sensações que as outras artes trabalham e dão a conhecer. Sensações associadas a artes tão díspares quanto a dança, o canto, a representação, e também a pintura, a escultura, a arquitectura e a música poderiam ser integradas pela literatura porque – dizia Pessoa – esta “contém tudo quanto essas artes dão às criaturas inferiores, mas transcendentaliza-as pela ideia para uso da aristocracia doente e completa que a nossa hiper-civilização produziu” (cf. Sensacionismo e outros ismos, 2009: 77). Conceber deste modo a literatura, particularmente a poesia, como uma arte de síntese estética destinada a uma hiper-civilização, envolveu uma vasta experimentação ao nível da visualidade no discurso verbal, da plasticidade e rapidez da imagem, da estrutura e do ritmo; e essa experimentação foi certamente bem menos autonomizável de diálogos interartísticos do que Pessoa sugere. Como devemos então ler a presença das outras artes na poética sensacionista e de que modo esta dialoga com outras poéticas de Orpheu? Tentarei equacionar algumas possíveis respostas para estas questões, auscultando a existência de uma espécie de diálogo interartístico sob rasura no sensacionismo pessoano.
PESSOANAMENTE: FICÇÕES ACERCA DA PESSOA DO PESSOA
Authors: Boniatti André
Published: March 2019

Texto poético-dramático que se usa das figuras heteronímicas de Alberto Caeiro e Fernando Pessoa na construção de um enredo fictício, o qual explora as expressões poéticas de ambos: O Pessoa sombrio, com toques poenianos, e o estilo céptico e despreocupado de Caeiro.
O HOMEM ABSURDO E O SUICÍDIO SACRIFICIAL EM O APOCALIPSE DOS TRABALHADORES
Authors: Almeida Rogério Caetano , Lobo Jope Leão
Published: March 2019

Este artigo pretende analisar como o suicídio possibilita uma profunda tomada de consciência sobre si e o mundo circundante em o apocalipse dos trabalhadores (2013), de Valter Hugo Mãe. Tal perspectiva permitirá analisar o que subjaz ao suicídio dos personagens senhor ferreira e maria da graça e a crítica à exploração, não só do trabalhador, mas do homem em si. A partir da reflexão sobre o mito de Sísifo e sua reverberação no conceito de homem absurdo, de Albert Camus, parte-se para uma interpretação dos detalhes que antecedem os suicídios e suas reverberações na sociedade em que os dois personagens estão inseridos. O artigo estabelece uma relação entre três temáticas importantes – o trabalho, o absurdo e a morte – através da já referida tomada de consciência, que, inevitavelmente, humaniza e, consequentemente, leva a uma morte sacrificial. Em menor intensidade, outros teóricos foram utilizados quando pertinente. São eles: Karl Marx (1996[1867]) e (1848), Michel Foucault (2010[1972]), Georges Minois (1998[1995]) e Mircea Eliade (1998[1995]).
MEMÓRIA DE ELEFANTE, DE ANTÓNIO LOBO ANTUNES: DIÁLOGOS INTERTEXTUAIS
Authors: Navas Diana
Published: March 2019

O artigo propõe-se a discutir o diálogo estabelecido por António Lobo Antunes, em Memória de Elefante, com a pintura, a música e a própria literatura. Almeja-se demonstrar como tal diálogo, diferentemente do que ocorre na maioria dos romances, não se limita a permitir a aproximação entre as diferentes formas artísticas, buscando nelas encontrar características comuns. O romance de Lobo Antunes, em uma espécie de atitude antropofágica, incorpora tais produções artísticas, bem como suas técnicas de composição, exibindo-as por meio de um intenso e cuidadoso trabalho com a linguagem literária e mantendo com elas estreita relação em termos compositivos.
ORPHEU, UMA REVISTA-MANIFESTO
Authors: Pizarro Jeronimo
Published: March 2019

Nas páginas da Orpheu, a revista que hoje mais identifica o Primeiro Modernismo Português, não apareceu um programa nem um manifesto, embora vários fossem contemplados. Estudar este aparente paradoxo e os planos de publicação desses tipo de textos é o intuito deste artigo. Apresentam-se alguns documentos do espólio pessoano datáveis de 1915-1917.
ORPHEU ENTRE TRADIÇÃO E VANGUARDA: ECOS DA MELANCOLIA DE ANTÓNIO NOBRE NAS POÉTICAS DE SÁ-CARNEIRO E ALFREDO GUISADO
Authors: Gebra Fernando De Moraes
Published: March 2019

Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890-1916) e Alfredo Pedro Guisado (1891-1975) escreveram poemas em homenagem àquele que cantou em versos o desencanto com o presente e a saudade de um passado mítico perdido, enlutando-o e figurando-o nos castelos desmoronados por um “vento seco de Deserto e spleen”. Trata-se de António Nobre (1867-1900), caracterizado com o seu “olhar doente”, em “Só”, de Guisado, e como “pajem débil” em “Anto”, de Sá-Carneiro, poemas que serão analisados no presente trabalho. A poesia do Modernismo português situa-se em uma relação dialética da tradição simbolista e dos experimentalismos vanguardistas. Encontram-se, pois, muitos ecos da melancolia da poesia de António Nobre nos textos dos jovens de Orpheu, cujas paisagens crepusculares simbolistas parecem pinturas da sensação de aniquilamento do sujeito, que se sente ao mesmo tempo merecedor e deserdado de um bem supremo. Os poemas de Sá-Carneiro e de Alfredo Guisado serão analisados pelo viés imanentista, considerando seus recursos estilísticos, e também pelo viés intertextual, relacionando a poética desses dois autores com a de António Nobre. Para o estudo das paisagens melancólicas e crepusculares, tomar-se-ão como referentes os estudos de Sigmund Freud, acerca da relação entre literatura e melancolia.
ELEMENTAR, MEU CARO PESSOA! NARRATIVA POLICIALESCA EM TERRAS LUSITANAS
Authors: Reblin Filipe
Published: March 2019

O objetivo deste artigo é verificar como as nuances da literatura policialesca estão presentes na escrita de Fernando Pessoa, gênero a qual se dedicou de forma acurada, produzindo um bom conjunto de textos. Para tanto, começamos o mesmo com um breve levantamento teórico-crítico acerca desta literatura para, logo em seguida, apresentarmos nossas percepções destas matizes na obra pessoana tendo na figura de Dr. Quaresma — detetive, ou decifrador como preferia Pessoa —  nosso lastro.
A PERSONAGEM PLANA E O DISCURSO DO MEDO COMO ESTEIOS DE A INSTALAÇÃO DO MEDO, DE RUI ZINK
Authors: Dunder Mauro
Published: March 2019

A partir das reflexões teóricas de Michel Zéraffa (2010) e Carlos Reis (2014), nos campos da teoria do romance e da narratologia, respectivamente, este artigo realizará uma análise do processo constitutivo de A instalação do medo (2012), do romancista português Rui Zink, a partir do pressuposto de que a obra lança mão da construção de personagens planas, na acepção de E.M.Forster, para constituir não apenas a realidade em que elas se inserem, mas para, a partir dela, estabelecer uma possibilidade de leitura da realidade em que se insere o leitor, caracterizando o fenômeno da metalepse, como a compreende a teoria dos estudos narrativos.
DA SUJEIÇÃO AO AUTOCONHECIMENTO: A PRESENÇA DA PAIXÃO EM ENSAIO SOBRE A CEGUEIRA
Authors: Gonçalves Neto Nefatalin
Published: March 2019

Este artigo tem por objetivo trabalhar a questão da paixão no livro Ensaio sobre a cegueira de José Saramago. Partindo de sua conceitualização, procuramos verificar suas potencialidades nos livro supracitado em relação, principalmente, a sujeição e os processos de construção de identidade da personagem protagonista frente aos desmandos de uma humanidade decadente e vilipendiadora. Pretendemos, com base nesta investigação, propor algumas linhas diretivas de leitura dos textos do escritor português, bem como algumas reflexões sobre literatura enquanto espaço natural de expurgamento das paixões.
VERGONHA É NÃO AMAR, CARTAS DE ANA LUÍSA AMARAL
Authors: Willmer Rhea Silvia
Published: March 2019

Por considerar que o lançamento de Ara (Portugal, 2013; Brasil, 2016) neste momento de retrocessos políticos e de direitos – que implica maior repressão aos direitos individuais e, consequentemente, maior repressão às mulheres – lança um novo olhar sobre a obra de Ana Luísa Amaral, acreditamos ser necessário fazer uma leitura atenta deste livro, relacionando-o com algumas obras com as quais dialoga, nomeadamente as Novas Cartas Portuguesas – em suas dimensões literária e política – e as teorias feministas de Adrienne Rich a respeito da heterossexualidade compulsória e da existência lésbica, que abarca a ideia de um continuum lésbico entre as mulheres.