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Applied Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: An Overview and Update
Authors: Hersh Richard G.
Published: June 2021

Transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), developed and studied as an extended individual psychotherapy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD), rests on a rich theoretical foundation informed by psychoanalytic object relations theory. “Applied TFP” is a developing initiative using TFP principles in multiple clinical situations other than the standard extended individual psychotherapy, which has been empirically validated and is detailed in the TFP treatment manual. The growing application of TFP principles in innovative, overlapping ways has been focused primarily in three spheres: (1) the integration of TFP principles in pluralistic theoretical approaches to treatment of patients with personality disorder pathology; (2) the use of TFP elements in multiple teaching situations as part of curricula for trainees and practicing clinicians, and (3) the employment of TFP theory and interventions in settings across a continuum of patient acuity, tailored for patients with varying diagnoses. The use of TFP principles in the situations described directly addresses needs emerging in particular contexts that reflect specific requirements of clinician practice and training and of broader public health missions.
Functions of the Treatment Contract in TFP
Authors: Delaney Jill C. , Yeomans Frank
Published: June 2021

The use of a verbal or written contract has been employed in many different modalities of treatment as a means of establishing the expectations and parameters of treatment. Traditionally, the contract is seen as serving a somewhat utilitarian purpose: setting up the practical conditions of treatment and providing a containing frame for the patient. Contracts, however, can extend to establishing agreed-upon goals of treatment, anticipating obstacles that may arise in the treatment and clarifying how they will be dealt with should they arise, and clearly defining the roles of the patient and therapist in a way that aids the exploratory process once the treatment has begun. Importantly, the mutually agreed-upon contract serves as a useful roadmap to keep the treatment focused and on track. In this article we will emphasize how the treatment contract can facilitate in-depth understanding of the patient's internal world, particularly when challenges to the contract are enacted by the patient. We will begin by briefly summarizing the functions of the contract and then focus on the key role of the treatment contract in furthering the exploratory process of the patient's dynamics as expressed in the transference/countertransference matrix.
Listening to Metal
Authors: Benson-Allott Caetlin
Published: June 2021

Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal (2020) is a film about many things: severe hearing loss, grief, community, and sound itself. These themes cohere through its narrative but find even fuller expression in the film’s sound design, as FQ columnist Benson-Allott argues in this article. Unlike most films with Deaf or deafened protagonists, Sound of Metal makes frequent use of subjective sound mixes that represent the protagonist’s sonic perceptions. By contrasting subjective and hearing-normative sound in their design, Marder and sound supervisor Nicolas Becker demonstrate how sound’s power exceeds its auditory range and social uses in hearing culture. They show their audience that, as neglected as sound may be in contemporary film culture, it still contains cultural biases that audiences must learn to hear. In doing so, they encourage viewers to reconceptualize themselves as auditors and reappraise sound’s role in their personal cinephilia and within the cinematic experience more broadly.
Travel Beyond Streaming
Authors: Qureshi Bilal
Published: June 2021

FQ columnist Bilal Qureshi responds to the uncertainties and restrictions of life in lockdown by probing the liminality of two films released since the onset of Covid-10: Luxor (dir. Zeina Durra, 2020) and Monsoon (Hong Khaou, 2020). Taking liminality as the embodiment of transitional periods, defined by questions and possibility rather than by answers that provide closure, Qureshi explores the quiet revelations of these two films, both of which follow protagonists who find themselves adrift between cultures, and between the past, present, and future. While reminiscent of the cinematic travelogue and films of flânerie, both Luxor and Monsoon expand these concepts—historically, the privileged domain of the white, male wanderer—while avoiding overt identity politics in the service of timeless, universal themes of loss, healing, and transition.
Fugitive Voice
Authors: Feldman Martha
Published: June 2021

This essay proposes that current-day notions of fugitivity, understood in the terms Fred Moten proposes as a category of the irregular that escapes easy representations and predications, can undiscipline music histories in productive ways. Among these: it can inflect musicological thinking through attention to sonic remainders of haunted pasts; it can decenter understandings of the aesthetic; and it can lead to more nuanced thinking about the imbrication of music in an “undercommons” of life that refuses ever to fully sound in harmony, residing instead in a disordered space of restless, noisy sound. The essay asks, finally, how such thinking, developed by Moten, Nathaniel Mackey, and Daphne Brooks, among others, can remake aspects of musicological thinking about voice.
Certain Loves for Opera
Authors: Abbate Carolyn
Published: June 2021

The attraction of objects has motivated a swerve within the humanities—a move away from texts and exegesis, linguistics, and semiotics; a move toward the body, the senses, materiality, and physiology. A musical instrument, a scientific artifact, a collection of sounds, an antique postcard: yes, all these objects are expressive and sometimes aesthetically pleasing, and in being so they can be understood to embody an epistemology, with theories and realms of knowledge written into their every contour. Or they can be understood as traces of global exchange and displacement. But what if the object is not very good, not loveable at all? Crumbling, toxic paper or banal images, with no exit from a strange historical or cultural space, perhaps an uncomfortable space to which you feel averse (or at least, feel you should disdain, as beneath contempt)? Or what if the object is misdirecting? What if it is ephemeral, like sound, something that cannot be held? These questions are woven in this essay into a reflection on the forms taken by certain loves for opera, a reflection centered on some nineteenth-century material objects that relate to act 4 of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera Les Huguenots (1836).
Memories Are Made of This
Authors: Chandler James
Published: June 2021

This essay considers the cultural implications of a brief period in the life of New York’s Brill Building, America’s second Tin Pan Alley, a transformative moment in R&B that involved music performed by African American artists but written by songwriters committed to “Jewish Latin.” Recorded on 45 rpm vinyl, circulated in jukeboxes and on radio in new Top 40 radio formats, this sound formed young taste, and, in the bargain, its commercial cycles produced staggered temporal segments that shaped feeling and memory for a generation. One’s sense of life history, of history itself, was time-coded by what we heard and how we heard it, with some interesting implications.
Thyroid function is not associated with brown adipose tissue volume and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in young euthyroid adults
Authors: Merchan-Ramirez Elisa , Sanchez-Delgado Guillermo , Arrizabalaga-Arriazu Cristina , Martinez-Tellez Borja , Mendez-Gutierrez Andrea , Muñoz-Torres Manuel , Llamas-Elvira Jose M , Ruiz Jonatan R
Published: June 2021

Purpose

Thyroid hormones (THs) are important mediators of brown adipose tissue (BAT) differentiation. However, the association of TH concentrations with human BAT is unclear. The present work examines the associations between circulating thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and THs concentrations (i.e. free triiodothyronine, FT3, and free thyroxine, FT4), under thermoneutral (22–23°C) and cold-induced conditions, and BAT volume, 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) uptake and mean radiodensity.

Methods

A total of 106 young healthy, euthyroid adults (34 men/72 women; 22.0 ± 2.1 years old; 24.9 ± 4.6 kg/m2) participated in this cross-sectional study. BAT volume, 18F-FDG uptake and mean radiodensity were assessed after 2 h of personalized (i.e. contemplating each individual's shivering threshold) cold exposure via positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) static scanning. TSH and THs levels were determined before (thermoneutral) and 1 h after the cold exposure.

Results

Cold exposure increased circulating FT4 (P = 0.038) and reduced TSH levels (P ≤ 0.001). Conversely, the FT3 serum concentration was not modified by cold exposure (P = 0.435). No associations were found between the TSH and THs thermoneutral (all P > 0.111) or cold-induced levels (all P > 0.067) and BAT volume, 18F-FDG uptake and mean radiodensity. These findings were independent of sex and BMI.

Conclusions

Thyroid function is modulated by cold exposure, yet it is not associated with BAT volume or glucose metabolism assessed after 2 h of cold exposure in young healthy, euthyroid adults.
Global epidemiology of acromegaly: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Crisafulli Salvatore , Luxi Nicoletta , Sultana Janet , Fontana Andrea , Spagnolo Federica , Giuffrida Giuseppe , Ferraù Francesco , Gianfrilli Daniele , Cozzolino Alessia , Cristina De Martino Maria , Gatto Federico , Barone-Adesi Francesco , Cannavò Salvatore , Trifirò Gianluca
Published: June 2021

Objective

To date, no systematic reviews and meta-analysis on the global epidemiology of acromegaly are available in the literature. The aims of this study are to provide a systematic review and a meta-analysis of the global epidemiology of acromegaly and to evaluate the quality of study reporting for the identified studies.

Methods

MEDLINE, EMBASE and The Cochrane Library databases were searched for studies assessing the epidemiology of acromegaly from inception until 31 January 2020. We included original observational studies written in English, reporting acromegaly prevalence and/or incidence for a well-defined geographic area. Two reviewers independently extracted data and performed quality assessments. Prevalence and incidence pooled estimates were derived by performing a random-effects meta-analysis.

Results

A total of 32 studies were included in the systematic review, and 22 of them were included in the meta-analysis. The pooled prevalence of acromegaly was 5.9 (95% CI: 4.4–7.9) per 100 000 persons, while the incidence rate (IR) was 0.38 (95% CI: 0.32–0.44) cases per 100 000 person-years. For both prevalence and IR, considerable between-study heterogeneity was found (I2 = 99.3 and 86.0%, respectively). The quality of study reporting was rated as the medium for 20 studies and low for 12 studies.

Conclusions

Although the largest amount of heterogeneity was due to the high precision of the studies’ estimates, data source and geographic area could represent relevant study-level factors which could explain about 50% of the total between-study variability. Large-scale high-quality studies on the epidemiology of acromegaly are warranted to help the public health system in making decisions.
Persistent improvement of bone mineral density up to 20 years after treatment of Cushing’s syndrome
Authors: van Houten Pepijn , Netea-Maier Romana , Wagenmakers Margreet , Roerink Sean , Hermus Ad , van de Ven Annenienke
Published: June 2021

Objective

Cushing’s syndrome (CS) is associated with osteoporosis and high fracture risk. Besides male sex, it is unknown which variables influence bone mineral density (BMD) at diagnosis and it is unclear to what extent BMD normalizes during long-term follow-up after treatment of CS. The aim of this study was to determine factors associated with BMD at diagnosis of CS and to determine the long-term course of BMD and fracture rate after successful treatment of CS.

Design

Retrospective cross-sectional and longitudinal cohort study.

Methods

Data were collected from 231 patients with CS who were treated at the Radboud University Medical Centre between 1968 and 2020.

Results

At diagnosis, male sex was associated with lower Z-scores at the lumbar spine (LS) compared with female sex: −0.97s.d. (−1.45 to −0.49) after correction for possible confounders. Shorter duration of symptoms and younger age were also associated with lower Z-scores at diagnosis, while etiology of CS, urinary cortisol excretion and gonadal status were not associated with Z-scores at diagnosis. Z-scores improved up to 20 years after treatment. Fifteen years after treatment, men showed larger improvements of Z-scores than women; +2.56 (1.82–3.30) increase in LS Z-score vs +1.48 (0.96–2.00) respectively. Fracture incidence was highest during the 2 years before diagnosis and decreased after treatment.

Conclusion

Male sex, younger age and shorter duration of symptoms are associated with lower BMD at diagnosis of CS. BMD continues to improve up to 20 years after treatment of CS. Fracture rate decreases after treatment of CS.
El contacto y la comunicación en la pandemia
Authors: Chaves Ignacio
Published: June 2021

El ser humano es un animal social y físico que se construye desde y por el cuerpo. Es porque los demás son y le hacen ser; y se “alimenta” del contacto con sus congéneres. Parte de ese “contacto” es la comunicación por la que establece relaciones sociales con otras personas.

La sociabilidad es un tema de contacto y de comunicación, o viceversa; porque por la comunicación mantenemos el contacto con los otros y el contacto es una manera de comunicarnos. ¿Cómo han sido la comunicación y el contacto durante la pandemia? Parece que hemos entrado en un museo virtual en el que nuestros acercamientos se han visto constreñidos a las conexiones a través de las pantallas.

Reflexionar alrededor de la comunicación y el contacto en estos inciertos tiempos pandémicos es necesario para saber qué lugar ocupan y cómo se están viendo afectadas y cuáles están siendo sus repercusiones en las relaciones sociales. El futuro dependerá en gran parte de cómo nos enfrentemos comunicacional y afectivamente a la “nueva” situación surgida de esta metamorfosis social que estamos sufriendo.
Essential oil extracted from wood of Phoebe bournei (Hemsl.) Yang: Chemical constituents, antitumor, antibacterial, and hypoglycemic activities
Authors: Ding Wen , Ning Liping , Wei Shaoxuan , Xing Huizi , Wei Zhiting , Li Yingjian
Published: June 2021

The essential oil was extracted from the wood of Phoebe bournei (Hemsl.) Yang by a hydrothermal method and then analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The wood oil was comprised mainly of α-copaene (5.44%), α-muurolene (7.32%), δ-cadinene (11.44%), and 1s-calamenene (5.18%). P. bournei wood essential oil exhibited significant antifungal properties against Candida albicans, Trichophyton rubrum, Epidermophyton floccosum, and Microsporum gypseum, and it showed good potential antitumor activity against leukemia cell lines. Although P. bournei (Hemsl.) Yang wood essential oil exhibited weaker activity against the four tested bacteria, it had some effect on promoting glucose uptake by adipocytes.
Effects of vacuum heat treatment and wax impregnation on the color of Pterocarpus macrocarpus Kurz.
Authors: Yang Lin , Han Tianqi , Liu Yunxia , Yin Qin
Published: June 2021

Pterocarpus macrocarpus Kurz. wood was vacuum heat treated (VHT)　at 120, 150, and 180 °C, under a pressure of 13.3 kPa. Half of the VHT specimens at 120 and 150 °C were subjected to wax impregnation　(WI) for 48 h at 90 °C under an atmospheric pressure. The effect of VHT and WI on wood color were investigated. The results showed that the VHT at 120 and 150 °C resulted in minor changes in lightness (L*), green-red chromatic coordinate (a*), blue-yellow chromatic coordinate (b*), total color change (ΔE*), and chroma (C*). However, the effect of VHT on L*, a*, b*, and C* at 180 °C became more obvious over the duration. After WI, the L*, a*, b*, and C* of the VHT wood at moderate temperatures varied noticeably, showing similar behavior with the VHT wood at 180 °C as L*, b*, and C* decreased and ΔE increased. However, a* increased after WI compared to that of VHT at 180 °C. The wood color of P. macrocarpus Kurz. after WI became reddish and blue, and the color deviation decreased. The wood color was closer to the dark mahogany, which facilitates its further application in rosewood furniture and woodwork art.
What Happened to Transitional Justice in Croatia After the EU Accession?
Authors: Strupinskienė Lina , Vaškevičiūtė Simona
Published: June 2021

This paper proposes to see Croatia’s becoming a member state of the European Union in 2013 as a particular critical juncture that created uncertainty over the type of decisions the government would take in the field of transitional justice once international pressure had stopped. It compares the period before and after the accession by looking into the three elements of transitional justice policy that were given priority by the EU conditionality framework – fighting impunity for war crimes, fostering reconciliation and respect for and protection of minority rights. It finds that all three have deteriorated in the post-accession period. On the one hand, the findings illustrate the power of international pressure, but on the other hand, they question the overall effectiveness of the conditionality policy, as it seems to not have affected deeper societal issues at stake and has not resulted in true transformation.
The Dynamics of Meranao Political Participation in Southern Philippines: An Analysis Using Milbrath’s Hierarchy of Political Involvement
Authors: Cayamodin Jamel Rombo
Published: June 2021

The study analyzes the dynamics of political participation of the largest Muslim ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines – the Meranao. Using Milbrath’s hierarchy of political involvement, the researcher examines the nature of Meranaos’ political processes and the role played by demographic and socioeconomic factors including gender, place of origin, age, income, education, and occupation on the nature of their political participation. The study adopted quantitative approach whereby survey method is the primary technique during the collection of data. There were 315 respondents who took part in the five-month survey period in the two districts of the province of Lanao del Sur in Southern Philippines. The research question is summed up on how do Meranaos participate in Philippine politics vis-a-vis Milbrath’s Hierarchy of Political Involvement, and how do social stratification in the Meranao society influence their political participation. The study found that the nature of Meranaos’ political participation is not up to democratic setup as they are confined only to spectatorial level, while rarely participating in transitional and gladiatorial levels. In the same manner, there were no significant impacts of demographic and socioeconomic factors on political participation. The effects were only found in individual formative items at a lesser extent. The study recommends the massive information drive on the status and significant roles of political institutions in the Meranao society in order to entice higher political participation. Extension of this study to other Muslim ethnolinguistic groups and communities in the Philippines is essential.
One Call Away: Addressing a Safety Gap for Urgent Issues Post Discharge
Authors: Yale Sarah , Bauer Sarah Corey , Stephany Alyssa , Porada Kelsey , Liljestrom Tracey
Published: June 2021

OBJECTIVES:

The transition period from hospitalization to outpatient care can be high risk for pediatric patients. Our aim was to profile the use of a “safety net” for families through provision of specific inpatient provider contact information for urgent issues post discharge.

METHODS:

In this prospective study, we implemented an updated after-visit summary that directed families to call the hospital operator and specifically ask for the pediatric hospital medicine attending on call if they were unable to reach their primary care provider (PCP) with an urgent postdischarge concern. Education for nursing staff, operators, and pediatric hospital medicine providers was completed, and contact information was automatically populated into the after-visit summary. Information collected included the number of calls, the topic, time spent, whether the family contacted the PCP first, and the time of day. Descriptive statistics and Fisher’s exact test were used to summarize findings.

RESULTS:

Over a 13-month period, of 5145 discharges, there were 47 postdischarge phone calls, which averaged to 3.6 calls per month. The average length of time spent on a call was 21 minutes. For 30% of calls, families had tried contacting their PCPs first, and 55% of calls occurred at night. Topics of calls included requesting advice about symptoms, time line for reevaluation, and assistance with medications.

CONCLUSIONS:

This safety net provided families with real-time problem-solving for an urgent need post discharge, which included triaging patient symptoms at home, counseling on medication questions, information about the time line of illness recovery, and provision of additional resources.
Letting Residents Lead: Implementing Resident Admission Triage Call Curriculum and Practice
Authors: Bauer Sarah Corey , McFadden Vanessa , Madhani Kavi , Kaeppler Caitlin , Porada Kelsey , Weisgerber Michael C.
Published: June 2021

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:

Graduating residents are expected to be competent in triaging patients to appropriate resources. Before 2017, pediatric residents were not involved in admission triage decisions. In 2017, after implementing an admission triage curriculum (ATC), residents had opportunities to be involved in overnight admission calls with the emergency department (ED), which were initially supervised (joint calls), and as skills progressed, residents conducted calls and admitted patients independently. We implemented and evaluated the impact of a graduated ATC intervention bundle on pediatric resident opportunities to participate in admission triage, while monitoring resident confidence, the ED experience, and patient safety.

METHODS:

We evaluated the impact of our ATC using quality improvement methodology. The primary outcome was the frequency of resident participation in joint and independent triage calls. Other measures included resident confidence, the ED clinician experience, and patient safety. Resident confidence and the ED clinician experience were rated via surveys. Safety was monitored with daytime hospitalist morning assessments and postadmission complications documented in the medical record.

RESULTS:

The percent of joint calls with the hospitalist increased from 7% to 88%, and 125 patients were admitted independently. Residents reported significant increases in adequacy of triage training and confidence in 3 triage skills (P < .001) after ATC. There were no complications or safety concerns on patients admitted by residents. ED clinicians reported increased admitting process efficiency and satisfaction.

CONCLUSIONS:

Our ATC intervention bundle increased the number of admission decision opportunities for pediatric residents, while increasing resident triage confidence, maintaining safety, and improving ED clinician experience.
Outcomes Associated With High- Versus Low-Frequency Laboratory Testing Among Hospitalized Children
Authors: Stephens John R. , Hall Matt , Markham Jessica L. , Tchou Michael J. , Cotter Jillian M. , Shah Samir S. , Steiner Michael J. , Gay James C.
Published: June 2021

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:

Previous pediatric studies have revealed substantial variation in laboratory testing for specific conditions, but clinical outcomes associated with high- versus low-frequency testing are unclear. We hypothesized that hospitals with high- versus low-testing frequency would have worse clinical outcomes.

METHODS:

We conducted a multicenter retrospective cohort study of patients 0 to 18 years old with low-acuity hospitalizations in the years 2018–2019 for 1 of 10 common All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups. We identified hospitals with high-, moderate-, and low-frequency testing for 3 common groups of laboratory tests: complete blood cell count, basic chemistry studies, and inflammatory markers. Outcomes included length of stay, 7- and 30-day emergency department revisit and readmission rates, and hospital costs, comparing hospitals with high- versus low-frequency testing.

RESULTS:

We identified 132 391 study encounters across 44 hospitals. Laboratory testing frequency varied by hospital and condition. We identified hospitals with high- (13), moderate- (20), and low-frequency (11) laboratory testing. When we compared hospitals with high- versus low-frequency testing, there were no differences in adjusted hospital costs (rate ratio 0.89; 95% confidence interval 0.71–1.12), length of stay (rate ratio 0.98; 95% confidence interval 0.91–1.06), 7-day (odds ratio 0.99; 95% confidence interval 0.81–1.21) or 30-day (odds ratio 1.01; 95% confidence interval 0.82–1.25) emergency department revisit rates, or 7-day (odds ratio 0.84; 95% confidence interval 0.65–1.25) or 30-day (odds ratio 0.91; 95% confidence interval 0.76–1.09) readmission rates.

CONCLUSIONS:

In a multicenter study of children hospitalized for common low-acuity conditions, laboratory testing frequency varied widely across hospitals, without substantial differences in outcomes. Our results suggest opportunities to reduce laboratory overuse across conditions and children’s hospitals.
Discharge of Medically Complex Infants and Developmental Follow-up
Authors: Connors Jillian , Havranek Tomas , Campbell Deborah
Published: June 2021

At the time of discharge from the NICU, many infants have ongoing complex medical issues that will require coordinated, multispecialty follow-up. Discharge planning and transfer of care for infants with medical complexity require a multidisciplinary team effort that begins early during the NICU hospitalization. It is critical that the primary care physician is involved in this process because he or she will serve as the chief communicator and coordinator of care after discharge. Although some infants with medical complexity may be followed in specialized multidisciplinary NICU follow-up clinics, these are not universally available. The responsibility then falls to the primary care physician to coordinate with different subspecialties based on the infant’s needs. Many infants with medical complexity are technology-dependent at the time of discharge and may require home oxygen, ventilators, monitors, or tube feeding. Prematurity, critical illness, and prolonged NICU hospitalization that lead to medical complexity also increase the risk of neurodevelopmental delay or impairment. As such, these infants will not only require routine developmental surveillance and screening by the primary care physician but also should be followed longitudinally by a neurodevelopmental specialist, either a developmental-behavioral pediatrician or a neonatologist with experience in neurodevelopmental assessment.
New records of four tree species in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil: Canellaceae, Lauraceae, Melastomataceae, and Myristicaceae
Authors: Brotto Marcelo Leandro , Völtz Rafael Rosenstock
Published: June 2021

The teams of Escola de Florestas de Curitiba (EFC) and Museu Botânico Municipal (MBM) herbaria, Curitiba, Brazil, made field expeditions between the years 2017 and 2019 to increase the knowledge of the flora of Paraná state, southern Brazil. Four new records of tree species are reported: Cinnamodendron occhionianum F.Barros & J.Salazar (Canellaceae), Cryptocarya botelhensis P.L.R.Moraes (Lauraceae), Henriettea glabra (Vell.) Penneys, Michelang., Judd et Almeda (Melastomataceae) and Virola gardneri (A.DC.) Warb. (Myristicaceae). The genus Henriettea is recorded from the state of Paraná for the first time. All four species occur in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil.
Streaming Minority Languages: The Case of Basque Language Cinema on Netflix
Authors: Agirre Katixa
Published: June 2021

This article explores the way Basque language cinema is adapting to streaming platforms, focusing on the case of the three Basque language films that have made it to Netflix: Loreak (2014), Handia (2017) and Errementari (2018). Firstly, it explains Netflix particularities and its emphasis on diversity, among other reasons that could explain the platform’s interest in these particular films. Secondly, it describes the way these aforementioned films have landed on Netflix and the impact this exhibition has had. I base my research on in-depth interviews with directors Jon Garaño and Paul Urkijo as well as producer Xabi Berzosa to know the insights of the process. More broadly, the article discusses the impact that becoming available on Netflix and other SVOD platforms might have for Basque cinema, especially when it comes to production and transnational distribution. On the other hand, I will also point at the challenges that this new landscape poses for the Basque audiovisual industry, and non-hegemonic languages in general. The streaming revolution, of which Netflix is currently the epitome, is changing the production, distribution, exhibition and consumption model globally, and policy makers and Basque institutions should take this transformation seriously. Loreak, Handia and Errementari should not just become happy exceptions.
Las existencias plurales, seguimos siendo y resistiendo
Authors: Quispe Sofía Chipana
Published: June 2021

El compartir ofrece la resistencia de los pueblos ancestrales en Abya Yala,rescatando de manera específica la ancestralidad andina desde la que secultiva sabidurías, saberes y espiritualidades que resistieron a ser extirpadaspor la imposición colonial que se sostuvo a partir del monoteísmo y elmonocultivo mental que generaron diversas rupturas y desequilibrios enlos ciclos de la vida compartida en el Gran tejido de la Vida que fluye enla Pachamama, cuyas consecuencias se reflejan en la actual pandemia, quees una de las múltiples consecuencias del sistema depredador que gira entorno a la explotación sin medida de la vida. Por lo que, desde las memoriastransgresoras vinculadas a las fuerzas milenarias de los pueblos se intencionaconstantemente el quiebre de ese mundo que denominamos de lo uno; apartir del reconocimiento del pluriverso, de esos otros mundos humanos yno humanos, los que vemos y no vemos, a fin de subvertir los desequilibriosy restablecer la armonización de los ciclos cósmicos y su sacralidad perdida.
A comunidade do Povo da Rua na Baixada do Glicério
Authors: Toseli Cecilia , Manoel Regina Maria
Published: June 2021

Este artigo apresenta a história da comunidade do Povo da Rua na Baixadado Glicério, na cidade de São Paulo/Brasil, ao longo de seus 40 anos. O caminhode formação de comunidade de fé e vida com pessoas que viviam (eainda vivem) nas ruas da cidade de São Paulo e o processo de conquista dedireitos e elaboração de políticas públicas tiveram (e ainda têm) como objetivoreconhecer o protagonismo/profetismo político e eclesial do povo da ruana transformação do modo de lidar com estruturas opressoras.
Manuel Villalobos Mendoza, Masculinidad y otredad en crisis en las Epístolas Pastorales.
Authors: Mansilla Sandra Nancy
Published: June 2021

Esta obra constituye un ensayo hermenéutico original, profundo ysólidamente fundamentado. El autor nos invita a trasladar el punto de análisisde la lectura bíblica para ponernos en la óptica del “otro lado”; ladoque se atreve a dar voz a esos grupos marginales, silenciados y excluidosdel mismo texto bíblico. Para lograr este objetivo, Manuel Villalobos haseleccionado textos de las Cartas Pastorales donde se tratan cuestiones demasculinidad, otredad, sexualidad, género, poder, raza, economía, y (ab)uso de la religión.
Apresentação do Programa de Terapia para Manejo da Tosse Crônica
Authors: Ribeiro Vanessa Veis , Lopes Leonardo Wanderley , Behlau Mara
Published: June 2021

RESUMO Objetivo Apresentar uma proposta de reabilitação fonoaudiológica denominada Programa de Terapia para Manejo da Tosse Crônica (TMTC) para tratamento da tosse crônica refratária. Método O TMTC foi elaborado com base em duas etapas: análise de literatura e análise clínica. A etapa de análise de literatura foi realizada por meio dos procedimentos: busca eletrônica e manual por artigos e livros publicados até junho de 2019 que contemplassem participantes adultos com tosse crônica, e intervenção com terapia fonoaudiológica; seleção das fontes; análise dos artigos e livros incluídos; e, elaboração da versão inicial do programa de terapia. A versão inicial do programa de terapia resultante da etapa de análise de literatura foi submetida a etapa de análise clínica por meio dos procedimentos: análise de três juízes; revisão da proposta pelos autores; reanálise dos juízes; elaboração da versão final denominada Programa de Terapia para Manejo da Tosse Crônica (TMTC). Resultados O TMTC sintetiza o conhecimento científico e a experiência clínica atual sobre o manejo comportamental da tosse crônica refratária em um programa com três componentes principais, cada um com objetivos e estratégias específicos. O TMTC é composto por quatro sessões, com frequência semanal, e duração entre 30 e 45 minutos por sessão, executadas em fases hierárquicas, com objetivos e estratégias específicos por sessão. Conclusão O TMTC é um programa estruturado para oferecer uma reabilitação global da tosse. Faz-se necessário obter evidências científicas sobre sua efetividade para que ele possa ser utilizado na prática clínica.
Indicators of surgical patients after the implementation of an Internal Bed Regulation Committee in a university hospital
Authors: Maldonado Rayane Nascimbeni , Feijó Vivian Biazon El Reda , Balsanelli Alexandre Pazetto , Ribeiro Renata Perfeito , Rossaneis Mariana Angela , Haddad Maria do Carmo Fernandez Lourenço
Published: June 2021

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the indicators of surgical patients after the implementation of an Internal Bed Regulation Committee in a university hospital. Method: Longitudinal, quantitative, and retrospective study. The data collection was conducted in the Hospital Management Information institutional system, from which the information of patients submitted to surgical procedures from January 2015 to June 2018 were obtained. To verify the data trends, a simple linear regression model was used. Results: The predominance of patients aged 20 to 39 and hospitalized on an emergency basis was observed. An ascending trend for structure indicators was verified regarding the number of surgical procedures and patients per surgical room. The process indicators were stagnant. An ascending trend was presented by the result indicators related to the number of surgical patients, hospitalized surgical patients, surgical procedures, and patients with Hospitalization Authorization. Conclusion: A change in the mean values of the process indicators was observed, showing the performance of this service. Organizational changes were also observed regarding the establishment of norms, processes, and flows.
Risk Factors for Nosocomial Infections in Children
Authors: ÇATAKLI Tülin , YÖNEY Aysel
Published: June 2021

ABSTRACT
Aim: To determine the frequency of nosocomial infections developed within a year in patients admitted to a tertiary pediatric hospital.
Materials and Method: The patients who have been hospitalized at Dr Sami Ulus Children Hospital in a one-year period between February 1996 - February 1997 and diagnosed ‘nosocomial infection’ during their follow up were included in this study. The ‘nosocomial infection’ diagnosis used was based on Center for Disease Control (CDC) diagnostics criteria. Clinical findings were recorded besides laboratory and imaging data.
Results
In one-year period under consideration, a total number of 3420 patients were hospitalized. Nosocomial infection was detected in 9.1% (n=311) of these patients. 28.6% (n=89) of them were acute gastroenteritis, 23.4% (n=73) were urinary tract infection and 25.4% (n=79) were sepsis. The most common etiologic agents were K. pneumoniae (%40.3), Salmonella spp. (%43.0) and E. coli (%13.4). 77.8% of the patients with nosocomial infection were younger than one year old. In patients with urinary tract infection, 28.7% had urethral catheterization. Nosocomial infection was being observed after 16.9±10 days of hospitalization. 12.2% (n=38) of the patients with nosocomial infection have died. Inadequacy of professional staff, insufficient number of nurses per patient and failures in hand washing were thought to be the risk factors in the development of nosocomial infection.
Conclusion: Nosocomial infection is an important cause for mortality and morbidity in pediatrics clinics. The most important steps in the efforts to decrease nosocomial infection frequency may be listed as the surveillance, detection of the problems and taking corresponding precautions to take the nosocomial infection under control.
Monetary Policy and Housing Prices Dynamics in India
Authors:   Jamia Millia Islamia, NAIKOO M. Waseem , PEER Arshid H. ,   Jamia Millia Islamia, AHMED Farhan ,   Centre for Distance Education, ISHTIAQ M. ,   Jamia Millia Islamia
Published: June 2021

This study attempts to examine the relationship between monetary policy and housing prices in India. We use monthly data from January 2009 to December 2018 of four variables- Housing Price Index (HPI), Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER), Gross Domestic Price (GDP), and interest rate for our estimations using the Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) Model. The results from the study show that the impact of monetary policy on housing prices is significant only on lag three; however, the coefficient is very small. The results from the ARDL model are also supported by the variance decomposition of housing price. The variance decomposition of housing prices highlights that monetary policy explains around 13 percent of the variation in housing prices over a period of ten months. Further, the accumulated impulse response function reveals that with one-unit shock to interest rate results in a -0.000875 unit change in housing price. The study stipulates that, since conventional monetary policy has a modest impact on housing prices, therefore, it is insignificant for addressing the problems of real estate in India.
AS CONDIÇÕES DE SAÚDE DE IDOSOS RESIDENTES DO MEIO RURAL
Authors: Da Rosa Diorginis Luis Fontoura , Areosa Silvia Virginia Coutinho
Published: June 2021

A transição demográfica e epidemiológica que atingiu o Brasil trouxe consigo o aumento da expectativa de vida e, consequentemente, do número de idosos na população. Neste sentido, o presente artigo objetivou verificar quais as condições de saúde de idosos residentes na zona rural do Município de Santa Cruz do Sul. Para isto, utilizou-se uma pesquisa transversal descritiva com abordagem quantitativa, e os resultados apresentados foram obtidos a partir de um questionário socioeconômico e demográfico. Foram selecionados resultados acerca de problemas de saúde, doenças crônicas e a autopercepção da saúde. Ao todo participaram da pesquisa 236 pessoas idosas, entre 60 e 96 anos de idade. Acerca da autopercepção de saúde, 50,2% dos entrevistados afirmam possuir boas condições de saúde, demonstrando um bom índice de capacidade funcional, já que 51,2% relatam não ter dificuldades na realização de tarefas da vida diária ou de trabalho. Apesar destes indicadores parecerem positivos, todos pesquisados alegam sofrer de algum tipo de doença crônico-degenerativa, como diabetes, hipertensão e problemas de coluna.
CONNECTED BRAZIL AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES: THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTERPRETING MUSEUMS IN PORTO ALEGRE
Authors:   Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Bittencourt-Francisco J.
Published: June 2021

A connected society implies a new concept of cultural patrimony which starts to exist when the space is changing from physical to the one of data flow. Cyberspace and new technologies in cultural institutions provide up-to-date information to their public that has the potential of acting as a co-author by creating and sharing. Accessing cultural information of the museum's collection online through the screen or electronic device is a global trend and leads individuals to interact, exchange knowledge and absorb social change. Can one think that it is the “Digital Age” that is imposing itself on teaching during the pandemic? Can you imagine that everyone will migrate to digital on equal terms, including the population most vulnerable to poverty? Are digital educational resources within easy reach of the entire student community? Do all families have sufficient digital literacy and financial conditions to assist and enable their children to access and use digital tools? The answers seem obvious. It is not possible to disregard or pretend to be a minor problem, which was known before the covid-19: the digital inequality. It has already been revealed that the place where you live defines insertion in the digital world. The outskirts of Porto Alegre, like many others in Brazil, are full of families with school-age children who face serious obstacles to accessing the world wide web. Difficulties ranging from not being able to buy a computer to being unable to pay the cost of equipment or connection services. That is why they are classified, in the surveys, as “second-class users”, for making use of the internet based on more limited tools, such as cell phones, limited data access and access in public places. Digital inequalities connected with the pandemic. The article analyzes the connected Brazilian society and characterizes its involvement in the social media using the example of the museums of the city of Porto Alegre.
ETHNICITY AND RELIGIOSITY IN INTERCULTURAL INTERACTIONS IN SAMARA TRANS-VOLGA REGION IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURIES
Authors:   Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Iagafova E. A.
Published: June 2021

The article discusses the influence of ethnic and religious factors on intercultural interactions in Samara Trans-Volga region in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries. The analysis of inter-ethnic contacts was made taking into account the national and confessional composition of the region’s population and the nature of settlement in mixed villages and groups of villages. The study is based on archival and published sources, including statistical data, as well as on the author's field materials (Samara region, 1997–2018). Intercultural interaction in Samara Trans-Volga region has historically been determined not only by ethnic, but largely by religious differences of contacting groups. Ethnically and confessionally mixed settlements were the main platform for communication, ranging from mutual hostility and socio-cultural isolation to the assimilation of one community by another. Historically, Orthodoxy and Islam acted as factors in consolidating ethnic groups within confessions in the region and, at the same time, as the reasons for the destruction of ethnic “boundaries” and formation of supra-ethnic sociocultural spaces (temple, cemetery, rural settlement, family-related circle, common holidays and rituals, etc.). Such an orientation of the religious factor resulted in assimilation processes (russification of the Mordovians and the Chuvash, tatarization of the Chuvash, etc.). At the same time, confessional differences separated ethnic groups and / or parts of one group, contributed to their relative mutual socio-cultural isolation, while maintaining the necessary level of intergroup communication in industrial and social spheres. Perception of confessional differences varied from tolerance to open hostility and enmity. These patterns of influence of the religious factor on the development of inter-ethnic relations are still relevant today.
AUTHORSHIP AS "THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE WORKING MAN" IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BOOKS OF URAL WORKERS OF THE 1930s
Authors:   Institute of History and Archeology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Litovskaуа M. A. , Podlubnova Iu. S. ,   Institute of History and Archeology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Published: June 2021

The article analyzes the phenomenon of the so called author-worker, who turned to literary creativity and created a fictional autobiography, in which the living conditions of the proletarian before and after the revolution of 1917 were opposed. In the historical and literary context, the author considers, in particular, the role of the UralAPP, which predetermined the creation of the novels "I Love" (1933) by Aleksandr Avdeenko and "My Life" (1936) by Agrippina Korevanova, the story "My School" (1934) by Aleksei Bondin, and memoirs of workers of the Vysokogorsky iron mine “True stories of the mount Vysokaya” (1935). The role of Maksim Gorky in the final editing and publication of these works is noted. In the 1930s, he repeatedly attempted to find the sources for “human rebirth” under the influence of new living conditions. Institutionally, these efforts resulted in the creation of a number of autobiographical books – "historical documents", by Gorky’s definition, the authors of which – the proletarians, exotic for the written culture, demonstrated the emergence of a new Soviet subject. They created texts from which the editors removed most of the traces of the author's lack of culture, lack of mastery of the word, leaving the hero's story about overcoming lack of culture. The autobiographical hero, endowed with the will to culture, emerges from the "darkness", an important part of which is the very proletarian existence. Reading and then writing are portrayed as the main result of the "shock work" of the author and the state, which provided the subject with the opportunity to master a complex form of self-presentation – a detailed fictional autobiography, become a writer and change radically his social status, taking the highest place in the symbolic hierarchy of professions in the same field as the well-known "masters" of written culture.
POLITICS OF MEMORY, CHALLENGES TO IDENTITY AND STRATEGIES FOR OVERCOMING SOCIAL AND CULTURAL THREATS IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH-SPEAKING CULTURAL STUDIES
Authors:   Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vorobyeva O. V. , Nikolai F. V. ,   Privolzhsky Research Medical University, Minina i Pozharskogo,   Russian State University for the Humanities
Published: June 2021

The article presents a brief overview of contemporary debates on the politics of memory in Russian and English-speaking cultural studies. In Russian studies, the focus is on the loss of national identity and the crisis of professional standards in historiography. The main bearers of memory are state institutions and the academic community of historians. From this point of view, the global neoliberal elites are contractors and bearers of threats to national identity, which can only be resisted by preserving established traditions and building binary oppositions of “our'” and “alien”. In English-speaking studies, the emphasis is predominantly on cross-cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary cooperation, which involves revision of the boundaries between history, anthropology, psychology and social research. The key memory carriers are individuals and (informal) cultural communities, which are always engaged and cannot follow the positivist criteria of scientific objectivity of the 19th century model. Contractors and bearers of threats here are the conservative nationalist institutions and states that restrict private practices of commemoration. Both these models prove to be limited and contain internal contradictions. This is especially true for the transcultural dialogue and maintenance of academic standards, which are impossible in the conditions of constructing “our” – “alien” opposition. In this respect, an important function of research on memory and culture as a whole can be a rethinking of the very binary nature of these oppositions and the rejection of alarmism, largely caused by the specifics of the modern (present day) temporal regime, which tries to completely control and subjugate both the past and the future.