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Temporal differences in eye–hand coordination between children and adults during manual action on objects
Authors: Kim Hye Jin , Lee Cho Hee , Kim Eun Young
Published: January 2019

Background/Objective

Eye–hand coordination, which is essential for activities of daily living, develops with age. The objective of this study was to investigate the temporal patterns of visual fixation coupled with hands during manual action on objects in children and young adults.

Methods

Twelve eight-year-old children and 12 young adults performed the Jebsen–Taylor Hand Function Test (JTT) wearing eye-tracking glasses. The interval from the eye arrival time to the hand arrival time on an object was measured as eye–hand arrival span. The interval between the eye departure time and the hand departure time from the object was measured as eye–hand departure span. Eye–hand arrival span, eye–hand departure span and the performance time to complete the JTT were compared between children and young adults. Correlation between eye–hand arrival span and eye–hand departure span was analysed to identify the mechanism of eye–hand coordination.

Results

Compared with young adults, children showed longer performance time but shorter eye–hand arrival span and eye–hand departure span in the JTT. The difference in mean eye–hand arrival span of overall JTT between children and young adults was significant for both hands, whereas differences in the mean eye–hand departure span on the overall JTT and the total performance time were significant for the non-dominant hand. The eye–hand arrival span was positively correlated with the eye–hand departure span.

Conclusion

This study demonstrated temporal differences in eye–hand coordination between children and young adults. Temporal patterns of visual fixation coupled to object manipulation could be useful information about the sensorimotor system in the field of occupational therapy.
Evolution of epidermoid cyst into dermoid cyst: Embryological explanation and radiological-pathological correlation
Authors: Balasundaram Parthiban , Garg Ajay , Prabhakar Anuj , Joseph Devarajan Leve S , Gaikwad Shailesh B , Khanna Gaurav
Published: January 2019

Intracranial dermoid and epidermoid cysts are usually considered to be two different entities in the radiological and surgical literature. Epidermoid cysts are classically off midline in location, isointense to cerebrospinal fluid on T1 and T2-weighted images and have restricted diffusion, whereas dermoid cysts are classically midline in location, have T1-hyperintense regions due to the presence of fat and show facilitated diffusion. We report a case of radiological epidermoid cyst in baseline imaging, which evolved into a radiological dermoid cyst over time, and explain this unique occurrence with a review of the embryology and histopathogenesis of these cysts.
Burden and impact of multifactorial geriatric syndromes in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for older adults
Authors: Lin Richard J. , Hilden Patrick D. , Elko Theresa A. , Dahi Parastoo B. , Shahrokni Armin , Jakubowski Ann A. , Perales Miguel-Angel , Sauter Craig S. , Castro-Malaspina Hugo R. , Barker Juliet N. , Shaffer Brian C. , Tamari Roni , Papadopoulos Esperanza B. , Maloy Molly A. , Korc-Grodzicki Beatriz , Giralt Sergio A.
Published: January 2019

Multifactorial geriatric syndromes are highly prevalent in older patients with cancer. Because an increasing number of older patients undergo allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT), we examined the incidence and impact of transplant-related geriatric syndromes using our institutional database and electronic medical records. We identified 527 patients age 60 years or older who had undergone first allo-HCT from 2001 to 2016 for hematologic malignancies. From the initiation of conditioning to 100 days posttransplant, new geriatric syndromes were predominantly delirium with a cumulative incidence of 21% (95% confidence interval [CI], 18%-25%) at day 100 followed by fall at 7% (95% CI, 5%-9%). In multivariable analyses of available pretransplant variables, fall within the last year, potentially inappropriate use of medication, thrombocytopenia, and reduced creatinine clearance were significantly associated with delirium; age older than 70 years and impaired activities of daily living were significantly associated with fall. In the 100-day landmark analysis, both delirium (hazard ratio [HR], 1.66; 95% CI, 1.09-2.52; P = .023) and fall (HR, 2.14; 95% CI, 1.16-3.95; P = .026) were significantly associated with increased nonrelapse mortality; moreover, fall (HR, 1.93; 95% CI, 1.18-3.14; P = .016), but not delirium, was significantly associated with reduced overall survival. Here, we establish baseline incidences and risk factors of common transplant-related geriatric syndromes. Importantly, we demonstrate significant associations of delirium and fall with inferior transplant outcomes. The burden and impact of transplant-related geriatric syndromes warrant the institution of patient-centered, preemptive, longitudinal, and multidisciplinary interventions to improve outcomes for older allo-HCT patients.
IoT + AR: pervasive and augmented environments for “Digi-log” shopping experience
Authors: Jo Dongsik , Kim Gerard Jounghyun
Published: January 2019

The current bare Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure has recently been extended to include smarter and more effective user interactions. Individual or meaningful sets and groups of IoT objects can be imbued with data and/or content in a distributed manner and efficiently utilized by the client. This distribution makes it possible to scale and customize interaction techniques such as augmented reality (AR). This paper proposes an architecture for combining the AR interface with IoT for an improved shopping experience. The proposed architecture is distributed and therefore scalable such that any IoT product can be accessed on the spot locally without any server restriction and provide intuitive AR-based visualization and interaction for a flexible product trial in the showroom. We identify three key architectural components required to support such a seamless and scalable AR service and experience for IoT-ready products: (1) object-centric data management and visualization, (2) mechanism for accessing, controlling, and interacting with the object, and (3) content exchange interoperability. We illustrate the possible scenarios of shopping in the future with the interactive and smart digital information combined with the analog, that is, the real world. A proof-of-concept implementation is presented as applied to such a “digital–analog” style of shopping. In addition, its usability is experimentally assessed as compared to using the conventional control interface. Our experimental study shows that the subjects clearly experience higher usability and greater satisfaction with AR-interactive shopping, thereby demonstrating the potential of the proposed approach.
Comparative studies on thin polycaprolactone-tricalcium phosphate composite scaffolds and its interaction with mesenchymal stem cells
Authors: Janarthanan Gopinathan , Kim In Gul , Chung Eun-Jae , Noh Insup
Published: January 2019

Background

Hybrid scaffolds combining biodegradable polymers and ceramic particles for control of cell adhesion and proliferation are interesting materials for tissue engineering applications. Combinations of biodegradable polymers and ceramics are to provide higher beneficial functionalities to tissue engineering scaffolds with addition of different cell specific bio-factors. Many such hybrid combinations have been reported by several researchers around the world by using various methods and solvents as well as bioactive matrix polymers to fabricate such biomaterials. However, thin hybrid scaffolds with high porosity, cell adhesion factors and biodegradability, as well as the ability to support stem cells often require tedious processes like electrospinning, freeze drying, etc. A simple method to develop porous biodegradable hybrid scaffolds with proper cell adhesion factors is still the need of the hour in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Method

Thin biodegradable poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) based hybrid scaffolds were developed in combination with α-tricalcium phosphate (TCP) particles, gelatin and fibronectin separately and the fabricated scaffolds were evaluated systematically using human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) for tissue engineering applications. A simple modified solvent casting method combined with gas foaming process was used to develop porous thin hybrid structures and compared their properties with those of corresponding non-porous hybrid scaffolds. The TCP particles distribution, morphology, biodegradability and functional groups of the different hybrid scaffolds were analyzed using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), light microscopy/scanning electron microscopy (SEM), buffer solutions and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), respectively The cellular and tissue regeneration behaviors such as in vitro cell attachment (live/dead assay), cell proliferation (CCK-8 assay) and histological studies were performed using hMSCs.

Results

Thin PCL-based hybrid scaffolds were fabricated using modified solvent casting method. Homogeneous distribution of TCP particles in the scaffolds were confirmed by EDX. Cellular interactions of the hybrid scaffolds demonstrated overall higher cell adhesion, proliferation and tissue regeneration on the non-porous thin films of PCL-TCP, PCL-TCP-gelatin and PCL-TCP-fibronectin. Coating of fibronectin was remarkable in induction of cell adhesion and proliferation.

Conclusions

The experimental results revealed that diversely designed PCL-TCP thin hybrid films showed high cell interaction and proliferation with hMSCs. From the results of the cell viability, attachment, proliferation and histological analyses as well as their biodegradation and coating effects, we conclude that these thin PCL-TCP hybrid films are suitable for tissue engineering applications.
Wnt Pathway Inhibitor DKK1: A Potential Novel Biomarker for Adiposity
Authors: Ali Hira , Zmuda Joseph M , Cvejkus Ryan K , Kershaw Erin E , Kuipers Allison L , Oczypok Elizabeth A , Wheeler Victor , Bunker Clareann H , Miljkovic Iva
Published: January 2019

Emerging evidence indicates that ectopic skeletal muscle adiposity may be a risk factor for type 2 diabetes (T2D), especially in persons of African ancestry. In vitro studies suggest that a Wnt pathway inhibitor, Dickkopf-related protein 1 (DKK1), plays a role in adiposity regulation and could be a biomarker for adiposity in humans. The objective of this study was to test whether serum DKK1 levels relate to adiposity measures in a cohort from an African ancestry population at high risk for T2D. Fasting serum DKK1 was measured in a sample of 159 men of African ancestry aged ≥40 years (mean age ± SD, 63.5 ± 8.2 years; mean body mass index, 27.8 ± 4.5 kg/m2). Anthropometrics included total-body and trunk adiposity measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry and lower-leg skeletal muscle density measured by CT [which reflects the intramuscular adiposity content (mg/cm3)]. Serum DKK1 was positively correlated with BMI (r = 0.20; P = 0.01), waist circumference (r = 0.15; P = 0.046), DXA total-body adiposity (r = 0.24; P = 0.003), and DXA trunk adiposity (r = 0.21; P = 0.009), independent of age and height. In addition, serum DKK1 was inversely correlated with skeletal muscle density (r = −0.25; P = 0.002), independent of age, BMI, and calf muscle area. No significant correlation was found between serum DKK1 and fasting serum glucose or insulin levels or insulin resistance estimated by homeostasis model assessment. These findings suggest that higher levels of serum DKK1 may be associated with greater overall, central, and ectopic skeletal muscle adiposity. Further studies are needed to unravel the potential role of DKK1 in the regulation of adiposity in humans.
Strategic Citizenship: Negotiating Public Law 280 in Arizona, 1953–1968
Authors: Osburn Katherine M. B.
Published: January 2019

This article analyzes how Arizona’s Indigenous leaders responded to attempts by the Arizona legislature to impose the state’s criminal and civil jurisdiction over Indian reservations under Public Law 280. Indigenous Arizonans’ activism included requiring tribal consent to any jurisdictional changes, significant cross-cultural cooperation in law enforcement, and insistence that non-Indian officials respect Indigenous methods of jurisprudence and learn from them. In each of these campaigns, Indigenous Arizonans articulated a vision of citizenship grounded in the opportunity to develop one’s “full potential” as an American citizen. This language signaled a hybrid political identity: sovereign Indigenous peoples with a unique contribution to make to America, who as Arizonans were entitled to participate in post–World War II prosperity as equal citizens.
Partners in Crime
Authors: Billings Stephen B. , Deming David J. , Ross Stephen L.
Published: January 2019

Social interactions may explain the large variance in criminal activity across neighborhoods and time. We present direct evidence of social spillovers in crime using random variation in neighborhood residence along opposite sides of a newly drawn school boundary. We first show evidence for agglomeration effects—within small neighborhood areas, grouping more disadvantaged students together in the same school increases total crime. We then show that these youths are more likely to be arrested for committing crimes together—to be “partners in crime.” Our results show that neighborhood and school segregation increase crime by fostering social interactions between at-risk youth. (JEL I24, I28, J13, K42, R11, R23, Z13)
The Welfare Effects of Nudges: A Case Study of Energy Use Social Comparisons
Authors: Allcott Hunt , Kessler Judd B.
Published: January 2019

“Nudge”-style interventions are often deemed successful if they generate large behavior change at low cost, but they are rarely subjected to full social welfare evaluations. We combine a field experiment with a simple theoretical framework to evaluate the welfare effects of one especially policy-relevant intervention, home energy social comparison reports. In our sample, the reports increase social welfare, although traditional evaluation approaches overstate gains because they ignore significant costs incurred by nudge recipients. Overall, home energy report welfare gains might be overstated by $620 million. We develop a prediction algorithm for optimal targeting; this approach would double the welfare gains. (JEL C93, D91, L95, Q41, Q48)
Labor Drops: Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises
Authors: de Mel Suresh , McKenzie David , Woodruff Christopher
Published: January 2019

A field experiment in Sri Lanka provided wage subsidies to randomly chosen microenterprises to test whether hiring additional labor benefits such firms and whether a short-term subsidy can have a lasting impact on firm employment. Using 12 rounds of surveys to track dynamics 4 years after treatment, we find that firms increased employment during the subsidy period. Treated firms were more likely to survive, but there was no lasting impact on employment and no effect on profitability or sales either during or after the subsidy period. There is some heterogeneity in effects; the subsidies have a more durable effect on manufacturers. (JEL C93, J22, J24, J31, J38, O14, O15)
Monetary Policy, Real Activity, and Credit Spreads: Evidence from Bayesian Proxy SVARs
Authors: Caldara Dario , Herbst Edward
Published: January 2019

In this paper, we develop a Bayesian framework to estimate a proxy structural vector autoregression to identify monetary policy shocks. We find that during the Great Moderation period, monetary policy shocks induce a persistent decline in real activity and tightening in financial conditions. Central to this result is a systematic component of monetary policy characterized by a direct and economically significant reaction to changes in corporate credit spreads. The failure to account for this endogenous reaction induces an attenuation in the response of all variables to monetary shocks, a result that also applies to the narrative identification of Romer and Romer (2004). (JEL C32, E23, E32, E44, E52, E58)
The “Doubles” in Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Authors: Junping Zhang , Bin Zhang
Published: January 2019

The ambiguous identities of the two heroes, V. and Sebastian, in Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, is of great interest to Nabokovian criticism and scholarship. This paper, in light of theories on the “double”, intents to figure out the problem and reveal Nabokov’s design of Sebastian and V. as “doubles”. In The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov structures delicate mappings for the doubling relationship between the two heroes. His intricate design of doubles aims to show the dynamic process of Sebastian and V.’s selfdevelopment by erasing the psychic distance between them.
Eros and Ethics in Martin A. Hansen’s Novel The Liar
Authors: Veisland Jørgen
Published: January 2019

Seduction plays a dual role in Martin A. Hansen’s novel The Liar. Johannes Vig, the narrator/protagonist is prone to repeat a pattern of triangular erotic relationships while at the same time engaging in literary seduction. He hides and reveals the truth through a rhetoric of fiction that carries Kierkegaardian overtones. Johannes who is both teacher and preacher on an island off the mainland at some points approximates the Kierkegaardian category of the demonic, being afraid of opening up. Johannes is suffering from a Freudian compulsion to repeat threatening to bar him from the ethical metamorphosis that would absolve him. The repetitiveness of his sexuality paradoxically spurs on a search for truth and ethics as Johannes distances himself from the past in an attempt to transcend the barriers of dualism implicit in the past-present dichotomy. Fictional seduction and rhetorical persuasion become ways of approximating the truth. Yet fiction is abandoned in the end in favour of a different form of writing as Johannes realizes that a new writing project is necessary whereby ethics becomes understood as selflessness. This insight paves the way for the recognition of nature as flux and the recognition of truth as something that cannot be pinned down since it is fundamentally unsubstantial, in the Buddhist sense of sunyata.
Urban Gothic and the Sphinx Factor: Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet
Authors: Tian Zhang
Published: January 2019

Saul Bellow, as a cerebral, analytical, and philosophical writer, unflinchingly describes the world and gives the readers tremendous thoughts about life and society. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 for his human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture. In Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Bellow shows the readers a death-burdened, rotting, spoiled, sullied, exasperating, sinful earth. This insane world is full of droll mortality and morbid entertainments. The coexistence of rationality and bestiality in man is vividly displayed in this novel. In his Introduction to Ethical Literary Criticism, Professor Nie Zhenzhao formulated the theory of the Sphinx factor as composed of the human factor and the animal factor, and the combination of the two makes an integrated man. The animal factor in the novel is fully demonstrated in the black pickpocket’s bestiality, Mr. Sammler’s voyeurism, the Holocaust, killings and thefts. However, the human factor is not so salient as the animal factor in this novel. I argue that the tension between the two factors not only intensifies the conflicts but shows how the author perceives the world. Bellow shows a strong contempt for the world. A pessimistic and critical outlook is conveyed in Bellow’s understanding of cities, represented by Chicago and New York. Robbery, cheating, speculation, beauty, money and lust construct a corrupted panorama of industrial cities. This is one of the reasons why Bellow highlights the animal factor more than the human factor. He seeks to criticize the American city from different perspectives of city culture, including the corruption of the bureaucracy, vices in public transport, changes in the urban landscape, competition between the pursuit of art and the pursuit of money.
Deconstruction of Ethical Predicament in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
Authors: Hui Huang
Published: January 2019

Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegorical novel by J. M. Coetzee, which tells a story of the confrontation of civilization and barbarism. The old Magistrate, as the main character of the novel is called, is a defender of the civilization of the Empire at the very beginning. He falls into the dilemma of the binary opposition between civilization and barbarism through the cruel torture of the Empire and the contact with the barbarians; he breaks completely with the civilization of the Empire, and achieves the salvation of his soul ultimately, after witnessing the torture of the Empire by himself. This paper, with the approaches of Ethical Literary Criticism, throws light on the construction of ethical discourse and metaphor in the novel, and analyzes how the old Magistrate falls into the ethical predicament and comes out of it through ethical choices, thus deconstructing the old Magistrate’s psychological cognitive process of civilization and barbarism, and revealing the ethical callings and moral reflections of this work in relation to realistic social problems.
Comparative Literature, World Literature and Ethical Literary Criticism. Literature’s “Infra-Other”
Authors: Talvet Jüri
Published: January 2019

Relying on some of the ideas of Yuri M. Lotman on “semiosphere”, the dynamics and dialogue between “centres” and “peripheries”, as well as on my own ideas on cultural symbiosis expounded in my essay books A Call for Cultural Symbiosis. Meditations from U (Toronto, 2005) and Kümme kirja Montaigne’ile. “Ise ja “teine” (Ten Letters to Montaigne. ‘Self ” and ‘Other’, in Estonian: Tartu, 2014; in English, 2018) and inspired by the recent foundation in China of the International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism, I will try to meditate on the interrelation of Comparative Literature, World Literature and Ethical Literary Criticism both in theory and in the practice of teaching and researching literature at universities and high schools. The main purpose is to look at the ways how a “self”-centred practice of literary research and teaching (formalistic as well as sociological approaches, restricting World Literature to the Western mainstream, or just dealing with one’s own national literature, avoiding its comparative contextualization) could be gradually replaced by a symbioticdialogical treatment of literature, capable of providing our activity with a firm and solid ethical dimension, something that would definitely strengthen the position of humanities in the world academia.
Ethical Anguish, Ethical Conflict and Ethical Choice: An Exploration of Futon from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism
Authors: Jian Yang
Published: January 2019

The transcendence of society and ethical dimension are often embodied in the Japanese I-Novel. The writers of the I-Novel are not outside society, actually their social care permeates their literary works in which the characters possess a strong ethical awareness within a deep, dignified, and sentimental ethical narrative wri ting strategy. Futon, an I-Novel masterpiece, contains many ethical implications from the perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism, such as the ethical anguish in love affairs which is caused by their ethical environment in the late Meiji. With violent conflicts between individual desire and social ethics, the common Japanese faced the crisis of emotion and belief and felt confused on ethical issues during that period. The ethical choices made by the hero and heroine in this novel had touched the moral bottom line of human being.
Literary Symbols as the Creative and Original Impulses of Literary Creation
Authors: Mihkelev Anneli
Published: January 2019

Literary symbols contain something archaic, sometimes going back to pre-literate times, and every new context gives to these symbols a new meaning. The poetical text segment carries with it its old context from the older or archaic text and, if it is situated in a new context, the new context also adds new meaning to the symbol. The archaic aspect and a new textual context combine in the literary symbols; it comes from the past and passes on into the future. That is the most important idea in terms of the essence and the dynamics of the literary symbol. This paper analyses the well-known literary figure Hamlet, how Hamlet has become a literary symbol, and how it works as a literary symbol in unexpected cultural relationships. There are very different performances and interpretations throughout the world, but thanks to the archaic aspect we still recognize the old story of Hamlet. The paper concentrates on the examples of Hamlet as a literary or cultural symbol in various cultural and literary texts from Estonian culture. For example, Hamlet as a symbol of new life in Gustav Suits’s poetry or Hamlet as a symbol of the resistance movement in Paul-Eerik Rummo’s poetry, Estonian theatre and choral music. There are several religious myths and symbols embedded in Suits’s poem “Hamleti proloog” (“The Prologue of Hamlet”, 1913). Suits’s poem “Oma saar” (“My Island”) is a literary text which represents the possibility that whole the poem may be a symbol (cf. William Blake’s poem “Sick Rose”). A symbol works in culture as a place where the fundamentally new is created, and it is a process which contains the moment of explosion, as we see in different cultures, including in the Estonian culture’s use of the literary symbol Hamlet or an island. All these symbols are dynamic and it depends on the context and on readers how these literary figures and texts are interpreted.
Eccentric Sonnets: Ciaran Carson’s poetics in The Twelfth of Never
Authors: McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov Miriam
Published: January 2019

The dialogic nature of language use and the impossibility of an uninfluenced work of literature complicate the notion of poet-as-originator. Yet originality persists as a sought-after quality in literature for both writers and readers. The article focuses on the Northern Irish poet, writer, and translator Ciaran Carson, known for his fascination with language as a medium and his linguistic experimentalism. In 1998, Carson published two collections of poetry: The Alexandrine Plan, translations of sonnets by Mallarmé, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, and The Twelfth of Never, a sequence of his own sonnets – both in rhyming alexandrines, suggestive of simultaneous composition. In its borrowed form, The Twelfth of Never offers a kaleidoscopic montage of motifs and discourses from Irish history, literature, folklore, music, and myth, and flits to and fro between Ireland, France, and Japan, evoking a never-land in which “everything is metaphor and simile”.

The article adopts a neuro-anthropological view of human culture as distributed cognition and of art as a way of knowing and self-reflectively putting the world together for both artist and audience. The analysis of Carson’s poems seeks to explicate how recognisable characters, emblems, and rhetoric appear in and are altered by unfamiliar guises and settings; how cultural symbols and literary forms are interrupted in the act of representing; and how the dreamlike quality of the collection depends on the looping and metamorphosing of motifs, images and voices from one poem to another. I suggest that this does not generate a chaotic textual product but amounts to an engaging reflection on the nature of originality in the making and making sense of poetry.
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Estudios comparativos en la versología
Authors: Franek Ladislav
Published: January 2019

Comparative research in versology. The place of comparative literature in Slovak literary studies from the 1960s. Mikuláš Bakoš’s inspiration by the model of historical poetics in his writing on the Slovak verse in the late 1930s. The influence of Russian formalism and Czech structuralism (J. Mukařovský, J. Levý). The focus on the stylistic and typological aspect in verse analysis. The effort towards the symbiosis of the structuraldevelopmental and the traditional historical-critical approaches. The inspiration by Jozef Felix’s emphasis on the universal message of the finest French and world literature for the development of Slovak literature. The contribution of the theory of literary communication for the analysis of Slovak reception of translations from Russian literature (A. Popovič). The re-evaluation of the term “influence” on the basis of a dialectical understanding of the roles of comparative literature (D. Ďurišin). The aspect of the developmental progress of national literatures. The central role of poetic rhythm through the specific application of metric accent in comparing Slovak verse with French and Spanish verse (L. Franek). The meaning of comparative study of poetry in symbiosis with objective-normative and subjective-critical criteria in relation to aesthetic level of translations. The unity of theoretical and empirical research as a reliable instrument in contemporary search for literary and cultural identity of nations (Slovak translations of Paul Claudel).
Aliens in Love: Testing Bloom’s Theory of the Anxiety of Influence
Authors: Parksepp Tõnis
Published: January 2019

The article aims to test the universality of Harold Bloom’s theory of the anxiety of influence. Underneath Bloom’s favourite tropes (Kabbalistic, psychoanalytic, Shakespearean, Miltonian, Blakean etc.) lies a diachronic system of misreading, which can be useful in analysing texts without any direct connections between them. By comparing two culturally distant but rhetorically similar prose texts, Friedebert Tuglas’s short story At the End of the World (1915) and Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris (1961), this article suggests that it is possible to overcome the accustomed boundaries of national literary histories. Both of these stories depict a communication error when humans are confronted with the unknown other. The texts have alternative figures describing the alien and similar tropes presenting the human. To explore the potentiality of figurative kinship between the two authors who are strangers to each other is not an ill-fated quest, but a search, which would eventually allow us to see some hidden patterns that literary studies usually miss.
Poetic Dialogue from the Periphery of World Literature: Goethe’s Faust and the Korean Novel Kumo-shinwha
Authors: Chon Young-Ae
Published: January 2019

A short but cardinal passage of Goethe’s Faust is the rhymed dialogue between Faust and Helen at their first encounter: the depiction of the very idealistic encounter consists of the process by which the ancient Greek mythical figure Helen learns about the difference and charm of the German poetic language, as well as its formal practices explained and guided by Faust. This passage is not only a description of the meeting of Helen and Faust but also, at the same time, verses on poetry and poetics.

This remarkable passage leads us to look into other cases in world literature. With this inquiry I have found out many similar cases in the literature of my own country and of other East Asian countries, Japan and China. As an example, here is presented a highly sublime poetic dialogue, drawn from an outstanding work of premodern Korean literature, the very first Korean “novel” Kumo-shinhwa, from the mid-fifteenth century: an exchange of ekphrasis, verses of picture description. With its perfect, more than perfect, rhyme, the poetic dialogue presents the symbolized union of two persons as a matter of course. By means of this poetic dialogue it will be pointed out how a standard canon does not remain itself but finds its incessant dialogues on behalf of other rather hidden works. Or in short: how the margin shifts itself through exchanges and translations.
Theoretical basis for improving the process of adaptation of young professionals of state and municipal institutions
Authors: Ванюшина Наталья , Vanyushina Natalya
Published: January 2019

Adaptation of young employees is multidimensional, with its implementation the issues of organizing work with personnel, psychological and educational work are closely intertwined. This process is not only an important personnel management function, which allows to increase its potential through systematic replenishment with qualified specialists, but also acts as a process of successful outcome, which depends on two main factors: the state of the youngest employee and the state of the professional environment surrounding him. At present, the main problem of the adaptation of young employees is the non-systemic nature of this activity. The formal attitude of managers to the implementation of activities aimed at the professional development of young employees. The success of the process of adaptation of young employees primarily depends on taking into account the comprehensive aspects of the profession, the characteristics of young employees, abilities and skills, as well as a systematic approach that creates a synergistic effect of all the activities carried out.
The Double ABCX Model, Family Stress Theory, Risk, Protection, and Resilience in the Movie “Precious”
Authors: Chaney Cassandra
Published: January 2019

The critically acclaimed movie Precious [1] highlights the multiple stressors and crises experienced by an abused Black teen female living in poverty. Given its introduction to the screen, scholars have yet to make critical connections between the family dynamics portrayed in this movie and a particular family theory. The purpose of this paper is to help scholars who teach family stress courses apply the experiences of this young woman and her family to McCubbin and Patterson’s [2] Double ABCX Model. Furthermore, this paper will examine the risk factors, the protective factors, and the resilience demonstrated by the movie’s protagonist, Claireece Precious Jones. By using several definitions related to Family Stress Theory (FST) provided by Pauline Boss [3] [4] and accompanying examples and quotes from the movie, I use this movie as a lens to bridge scholarship and practical demonstrations of risk, protection and resilience. The following five questions were foundational to this study: (1) How can the Double ABCX Model be applied to the experiences of Claireece Precious Jones and her family? (2) How can Family Stress Theory be applied to the experiences of Claireece Precious Jones and her family? (3) What were the risk factors in the life of Claireece Precious Jones? (4) What were the protective factors in the life of Claireece Precious Jones? (5) How did Claireece Precious Jones demonstrate resilience? Recommendations regarding identifying risk and resilience among low-income, high-risk Black children and families in poverty are also discussed.
Peptide Sharing between Parvovirus B19 and DNA Methylating/ Histone Modifying Enzymes. A Potential Link to Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Authors: Polito Anna , Polimeno Riccardo , Kanduc Darja
Published: January 2019

The present study investigates the hypothesis that the immune responses that follow active infections may crossreact with (and damage) molecules related to DNA methylation and histone modification, in this way determining the aberrant gene expression so often reported in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). We used Parvovirus B19 - a pathogen that has been repeatedly studied in ALL – as a model and analysed the viral polyprotein for peptide sharing with human proteins involved in gene expression. Data are reported that document an ample peptide sharing between Parvovirus B19 and human DNA/histone methylation and modification enzymes. Remarkably, the shared peptide platform is endowed with a high immunologic potential. This study calls attention on immune cross reactivity as a molecular mechanism that may connect infections to cancer and warns against active immunizations based on entire viral antigens.
Can Increased Endotoxin Levels in House Dust be used as an Indicator of a Mould Problem?
Authors: Mussalo-Rauhamaa Helena , Elg Peter , Paloheimo Lea , Koukila-Kähkölä Pirkko
Published: January 2019

Endotoxins are common indoor biocontaminants. Our purpose was to investigate the association of endotoxin content with mould problems in house dust in buildings, to determine whether endotoxins can be used as an indicator of the presence of moulds in buildings. The participants were selected from the Clinic for Indoor Air Health Problems on the basis of symptoms attributed to indoor air problems. We examined their health status. House dust was collected in new vacuum cleaner bags from surfaces in the rooms of their homes or workplaces. We measured the endotoxin concentrations in the house dust of 13 homes and 9 workplaces of the 19 participants, using a quantitative limulus test. The median endotoxin concentrations in the house dust of their homes was 9.9, and the range was 1.9–103 EU/mg; and in the house dust of workplaces it was 4.5, and the range 0.5–81 EU/mg. We found higher house dust endotoxin concentrations in rooms in which moisture problems had been identified or in dwellings in which pets were kept. Our pilot study suggests that endotoxins may be a useful additional tool for estimating possible mould contamination at homes or workplaces.
Precarity and Resilience: The Wellbeing of U.S. Latinos in a Time of Mounting Climate Change
Authors: Singer Merrill
Published: January 2019

This environmental epidemiology article examines the understudied issue of Latino risk in the context of climate change. The largest ethnic minority group in the U.S., Latino socioeconomic characteristics put them disproportionately in harm’s way for the adverse health impacts of climate change, including being subject to diverse forms of discrimination in gaining access to government resources for prevention and recovery from climate impacts. The specific ways climate change is experienced in Latino communities varies by physical location, employment and residence patterns, and community resilience. Failure to address the threat of climate change, and to identify the specific needs of those who are most vulnerable, including not including them directly in preparedness planning, enhances the likelihood that official responses to climate change will perpetuate historic patterns of denial of Latino concerns about the environment, and existing patterns of inequality, and widen prevailing differences in climate-driven adversity.
Giant angiolipoma of the back complicated with ulceration and sepsis: unusual presentation of a rare benign tumour
Authors: Elfallal AH , Laimon YN , Emile SH
Published: January 2019

A 63-year-old woman presented to the emergency unit with a huge (40 × 35 × 10 cm) oval-shaped pedunculated growth in the back with superficial ulceration in its lower aspect, associated with signs of sepsis. After adequate resuscitation, the patient was transferred to the operation theatre where the tumour was completely excised and the resultant wound was closed in primary manner using polypropylene sutures with suction drains inserted in the wound bed. The patient was discharged home after two days and was followed-up for two months. No wound complications were recorded on follow-up.

Angiolipoma is a benign variant of lipoma that, despite what has been reported in the literature, may affect any age and any region of the body. Complications of angiolipoma may include ulceration, sepsis, gangrene and possible systemic inflammatory response syndrome which may pose a threat to the patient’s life, hence should be managed promptly after adequate patient preparation.
Gênero textual carta e ensino: considerações sobre a tradição epistolar
Authors: Oldack Gutemberg , E Santos Elane Santos , Brito Rosana Carvalho , Carneiro Zenaide De Oliveira Novais , Lacerda Mariana Fagundes de Oliveira
Published: January 2019

Neste artigo, apresentam-se algumas considerações acerca do gênero carta, enfocando seu percurso histórico, o conceito de tradições discursivas, estruturas que se repetem ao longo do tempo em um determinado contexto, e a possibilidade de empregar o gênero “carta do leitor”no ensino de língua.
Do ensino de gramática à análise linguístico-visual: uma reflexão acerca de atividades com textos multimodais em livros didáticos do ensino médio
Authors: Rutiquewiski Andreia De Fátima , Silva Luciana Pereira , Prado Aneliana Da Silva
Published: January 2019

linguística em textos multimodais (que, para adequação ao objeto, propõe-se a nomenclatura análise linguístico-visual). Essa prática, segundo a literatura, deve subsidiar as aulas língua materna e ocorrer em atividades de leitura e/ou escrita de textos, em substituição a um ensino centrado apenas na gramática tradicional. Para o estudo, foram realizadas pesquisas de caráter documental (documentos oficiais de ensino) e bibliográfico (BAKHTIN, 2006; MENDONÇA, 2006; DIONÍSIO 2011, 2014). Em seguida, a partir da literatura, efetivou-se um trabalho analítico-comparativo dos materiais didáticos. Os resultados confirmam que há um privilégio da exploração dos aspectos verbais em detrimento dos não-verbais, embora um dos dois manuais didáticos tenha apresentado importante parcela de textos em que há exploração de ambos os aspectos. Propõe-se, para a categorização do corpus, a formação de quatro categorias de análise: 1) texto como pretexto; 2) texto em que apenas os aspectos verbais são explorados; 3) texto em que os aspectos verbais e apenas alguns/poucos não-verbais são explorados; e 4) texto em que os aspectos verbais e não-verbais são explorados.
O discurso educacional e a propagação de (pre) conceitos
Authors: De Sousa Marcio Jean Fialho
Published: January 2019

A responsabilidade do professor de educação infantil e das séries iniciais é decisiva para toda a carreira acadêmica da criança e para a formação da sua cidadania, claro que os pais têm maior responsabilidade nesse processo, porém não é possível ignorar a ação dos professores nesse ínterim, mas quanto a isso, seria necessário um outro espaço para essa discussão. Deste modo, o objetivo desta comunicação é promover um debate acerca dos discursos educacionais como formador de conceitos a partir de dois textos literários, a saber “A menina Vitória”, de 1965, escrito pelo angolano Arnaldo Santos, e “A menina do lápis de cor”, de Silvana Martins. Como base teórica, a justificativa se dá pela aplicação das leis 10,639, de 2003, e à 11.645, de 2008, e pelas questões de linguagem trabalhadas por Kabengele Munanga (2005-2006), Maria Antonieta Alba Celani (2005) e Ruth Amossy (2005).
The Effect Of Erythropoietin Administration In Experimental Burns Wound Healing: An Animal Study
Authors: Sandhi Afriyanti , Wardhana Aditya
Published: January 2019

Background: The hematopoietic growth factor erythropoietin (EPO) attracts attention due to its all-tissue-protective pleiotropic properties. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of EPO in experimental burn wounds healing.
Methods: Fifteen healthy Sprague-Dawley, strain of Rattus Novergicus weighing 300-350 grams, were prepared to achieve deep dermal burns. Animals were randomized to receive either low-dose EPO injection (600 IU/mL), high-dose EPO injection (3000 IU/mL) or nothing (control group). After 14 days of observations, quantitative and qualitative assessments of wound healing was determined.
Results: The size of the wound area and re-epithelialization rate percentage was determined on Day-0, Day-5, Day-10, and Day-14. The average of raw surface areas measurement (p value: 0.012 in day-5; 0.009 in day-10 and 0.000 in day-14) and healing percentage of the lesions (p value: 0.011 in day-5; 0.016 in day-10 and 0.010 in day-14) were significantly best in the low-dose EPO grup compared to the control group and high-dose EPO grup. The histopathology evaluation revealed that the highest score for for re-epithelialization, granulation tissue and neo-angiogenesis were achieved by the low-dose EPO injection group than in both control and high-dose EPO injection groups.
Conclusion: In this animal study using Sprague-Dawley rats, Recombinant Human EPO (rHuEPO) injection administration prompted the evidences of improved re-epithelialization and wound healing process of the skin caused by deep dermal burns. These findings may lead to a new therapeutic approach to improve the clinical outcomes for the management of burns wound healing.
Right Zygomaticomaxillary Complex Fracture With Rupture Of Internal Maxillary Artery: A Case Report
Authors: Herlambang Beni , Budiman Budiman
Published: January 2019

Background: This case report gives prominence to the risk of delayed, possibly life - threatening bleeding following mid-facial fractures.
Methods: A 42-year-old male was involved in an accident during which he suffered from right zygomaticomaxillary complex fractures with massive bleeding. The hemoglobin level was decreased from 11 to 5 g/dL, suspected caused by rupture of internal maxillary artery. Incidence of massive bleeding due to zygomaticomaxillary complex fracture is quite rare. Patient also felt right visual loss due to retrobulbar hematoma compression. He was given nasal tampon and transfusion in referral hospital. The patient had fracture reconstruction (reduction and fixation), ligation of right facial artery and temporary ligation of external carotid artery with Ethiloop for 5 days. Nevertheless, the bleeding still occurred. The patient then underwent Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) and coiling procedure from radiologic intervention. Twenty days after last procedure, we ligated the right external carotid artery due to recurrence of bleeding.
Results: There are many modalities and procedure for the therapy of massive bleeding on midface fracture, ranging from conservative, minimal invasive to operative surgery. Patient that has gone through DSA procedure can still bleed. After ligation of external carotid artery, no more bleeding occurred.
Conclusion: Patient suffering from extensive midfacial fracture, the internal maxillary artery and its branches are at special risk of injury due to their close anatomical relationship to bony structures. Its bleeding is possibly life threatening. Tampon and nasal packing are non-essential initial treatment, but digital pressure procedure can be performed to stop the bleeding temporarily. Ligation of external carotid artery is the best choice of treatment for permanent outcome.
Antropometric Evaluation Of Gentur's Cheiloplasty Method In Unilateral Cleft Lip
Authors: Septrina Rani , Sudjatmiko Gentur
Published: January 2019

Background: Cheiloplasty, the earliest surgical procedure in cleft lip and palate patient, has impact on functional and aesthetical appearance1. The Gentur’s technique is a method of cleft lip surgery that has been developed by him and has been used in RSUPN Cipto Mangunkusumo/Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia2. It uses the rotation-advancement, small triangular, preventing notching concepts with some other details to overcome the wide cleft. This study was conducted to answer whether the Gentur’s technique gives symmetrical result in anthropometric measurements.
Methods: Cross sectional analytic study will be taken from medical record in 14 unilateral cleft lip patients underwent cheiloplasty procedure. Direct anthropometric data before and after procedure were analyzed using SPSS17. Anthropometric data such as cupid’s bow, vertical height, horizontal height, vermillion and nostril were noted.
Results: From 14 patients, we found 9 patients who underwent surgery in 3 months of age (64.3%) are mostly female (n=9, 64.3%), have complete defect (n=12, 85.8%) and left sided defect (n=8, 57.1%). Gentur’s technique is able to produce significant lip and nose symmetry (CI 95%, pvalue <0.005) in cupid’s bow, vertical height, horizontal height, thickness of vermillion and nose. By doing this technique, the author is able to create good lip and nose symmetry (78.57%) even in wide defect (64.3%) and palatal collapse (57.1%).
Conclusion: Gentur’s technique is able to utilize tissue deficiency to create ideal lip and nose in unilateral cleft lip repair even in patients with wide gap.