bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Non Traumatic Hip Osteonecrosis Treated By Non Vascularised Bone Graft Versus Core Decompression
Authors: Hassan Dhary F. , Majeed Ghadeer H. , Al-Sudani Abed Falih
Published: May 2021

Background: Avascular necrosis (AVN) is defined as cellular death of bone components due to interruption of the blood supply; the bone structures then collapse, resulting in bone destruction, pain, and loss of joint function. AVN is associated with numerous conditions and usually involves the epiphysis of long bones, such as the femoral head. In clinical practice, AVN is most commonly encountered in the hip. Early diagnosis and appropriate intervention can delay the need for joint replacement. However, most patients present late in the disease course. Without treatment, the process is almost always progressive, leading to joint destruction within 5 years.Treatment of a vascular necrosis depends mainly on early diagnosis which mainly based on clinical findings, x-ray finding & MRI.A variety of non vascularized bone grafting techniques have been proposed with varying degrees of success as treatment alternatives for osteonecrosis of the femoral head. The success of these procedures may be enhanced using ancillary growth and differentiation factors. Objectives: To treat non traumatic hip osteonecrosis by non vascularized bone graft versus core decompression. Type of the study: A retrospective study. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 72 patients (88 hips) with osteonecrosis of the femoral head between May 2009, and March 2014,divided into two groups . Group A include 34 patients (44 hips) with osteonecrosis of the femoral head who had non vascularized bone grafting procedures done for them . Minimum follow-up was 12 months. We compared the outcomes in this cohort to similar hip number (44 hips) in 40 patients treated with core decompression only (group B). We used Phemister technique to make a window at the posterior aspect of greater trochanter to remove necrotic bone and packed the excavated area with autogenous cancellous bone graft taken from ipsilateral iliac crest or leave it without bone graft (decompression only). Results: We report the result of treatment for femoral head avascular necrosis depending on Ficat classification stage I, II, & III. The minimum follow up was 12 months (12m-36m). The success percentage of hips in our cohort of patients with non vascularized bone grafting group A are 86% (38 of 44 hips), which is higher than group B 63% (28 of 44 hips) with core decompression alone. Conclusions: These procedures core decompression and autogenous cancellous bone graft may defer joint arthroplasty in selected patients & it is more effective than core decompression alone in treating early stages of femoral head osteonecrosis.
Removal of Malachite Green Dye using Keggin Polyoxometalate Intercalated ZnAl Layered Double Hydroxide
Authors: LESBANI Aldes , TAHER Tarmizi , PALAPA Neza Rahayu , MOHADI Risfidian , Mardiyanto Mardiyanto , Miksusanti Miksusanti , ARSYAD Fitri Suryani
Published: May 2021

The ZnAl Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) have been successfully synthesized by the coprecipitation method, followed by intercalation using Keggin ion of α-dodecatungstosilicic acid [α-SiW12O40]4- to form ZnAl-[α-SiW12O40] LDHs. The prepared ZnAl-[SiW12O40] LDHs were characterized by using X-Ray, FTIR, and BET surface area analyses, which were, then, used as adsorbents of malachite green dye from aqueous solution. The synthesized ZnAl LDH showed a typical diffraction peak of the layered compound at 11o (003) with an interlayer space of 8.59 Å. After intercalation, it was recorded that the interlayer space of ZnAl-[SiW12O40] LDH increased to 10.65 Å. Moreover, the specific surface area of the intercalated LDH increased from 1.9685 to 14.0422 Å. The adsorption study revealed that the adsorption capacity of ZnAl-[SiW12O40] LDH toward malachite green dye was higher (37.514 mg.g-1) than the pristine ZnAl LDH (32.845 mg.g-1). The adsorption kinetics study showed that malachite green adsorption onto both pristine and intercalate LDH followed the pseudo-2nd-order model. The adsorption thermodynamic investigation indicated that adsorption of malachite green onto ZnAl-[SiW12O40] LDH was a spontaneous process and was classified as physical adsorption with activation energy ranging from 10.074 to 15.476 kJ.mol-1.
HIGHLIGHTS

ZnAl LDH intercalated by Keggin ion has been successfully synthesized by facile coprecipitation followed by ion exchange method
The basal spacing of the intercalated ZnAl LDH increased up to 10.65 A
The intercalated ZnAl LDH exhibited higher adsorption capacity for malachite green dye removal compared with the original ZnAl LDH
INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS OF BOA ESPERANÇA AS A FAIR-TRADE TOWN
Authors: Silveira Aline Villas-Bôas , dos Santos Gilmar José
Published: May 2021

This paper aims to analyze institutional entrepreneurship as a driving force for the consolidation of an emergent field. Therefore, it analyzes the role of institutional entrepreneurs for the certification of the city of Boa Esperança, Brazil, as a Fair-Trade Town, based upon the proposition that the creation and transformation of institutions are partly explained by the activities of actors whose resources and positions allow them to articulate and reinforce innovations. The study was done under a qualitative approach,following an exploratory-descriptive case study design. Therefore, the agencies of eight actors that performed key roles in the certification process were studied, along with documental analysis and in locus observations. Results revealed that these actors were invested with legitimacy among stakeholders, were able to articulate their support and shared locally legitimated values.Nevertheless, because there was no need for further negotiation, such theoretical proposition could not be analyzed. Because the case is recent, it was also impossible to assess whether the field’s complete stabilization was achieved or not. However, it can be inferred that they had not only a technical role in the certification process, but they were crucial in the building of a symbolic universe that will allow the institutionalization of such structure and its transmission for future generations. This paper contributes by examining theoretical propositions by means of a thorough analysis of facts. It also indicates trends for public, social and private organizations, which must be aware of the behaviors and actions of key actors, in order to legitimate and institutionalize politics and programs.
Current status of cancer immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors
Authors: Lee Myung Ah
Published: May 2021

The clinical outcome in advanced cancer has improved since the development of targeted therapies and immune checkpoint inhibitors. We can expect better overall survival after a combination treatment with these therapeutic agents. Classical cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents directly kill tumor cells by destroying the cell structure and DNA of tumor cells or inhibiting their metabolism. Targeted therapy also directly affects tumor cells by inhibiting the cell growth signaling system. Conversely, immune checkpoint inhibitors can enhance immune responses by using the host immune system in the tumor microenvironment, leading to the direct killing of tumor cells. Therefore, immune checkpoint inhibitors are less toxic and have longer response durations. Even in solid tumors with nonimmunogenic backgrounds, cytotoxic chemotherapy or targeted treatment can induce immune responses to place the tumor microenvironment in an immunogenic state. Synergistic anticancer effects can be expected when immune checkpoint inhibitors are added during this state. Moreover, drug resistance may be overcome by combination therapies. If patients with cancer are treated with a combination of these therapeutic agents and the characteristics of each tumor are identified with data from next generation sequencing, personalized treatments can be tailored, making it possible to control cancers as a curable disease just like other benign chronic diseases.
Current advances in the treatment of lung cancer with immune checkpoint inhibitors
Authors: Lee Gyeong-Won
Published: May 2021

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide despite major advances in platinum-based chemotherapy and targeted therapy based on activating driving mutations. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized the treatment paradigms in lung cancers. When used as a second-line or later treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), ICIs improve overall survival and exhibit better safety profiles than the standard chemotherapeutic agent, docetaxel. In front-line treatment, ICI monotherapy is significantly associated with improved clinical outcomes and fewer adverse events than platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with advanced NSCLC, who express programmed death-ligand 1 in at least 50% of all tumor cells. Moreover, ICIs combined with platinumbased chemotherapy have become the standard first-line treatment for patients with metastatic NSCLC without sensitizing mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor gene or translocation of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase gene, regardless of programmed death-ligand 1 expression. Additionally, maintenance treatment using ICIs has also been demonstrated to improve clinical outcomes in patients with stage III unresectable NSCLC following chemoradiotherapy. Recently, the addition of ICIs to chemotherapy as the first-line treatment for extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer resulted in significantly longer overall survival and progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy alone. Although immune checkpoint inhibitors significantly improved overall survival and showed a durable response in lung cancer compared with platinum-based chemotherapy, we should foster further prospective studies to identify predictive biomarkers to determine those individuals who may benefit more from ICIs. It is also essential to overcome the development of drug resistance in patients treated with ICIs.
Gastrointestinal cancer treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors
Authors: Kim Jin Won
Published: May 2021

Immuno-oncological treatment approaches, particularly with the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors such as antiprogrammed death 1 (PD-1)/programmed death ligand 1 antibody or anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 antibody, have become the standard treatment for gastrointestinal cancers. However, gastrointestinal cancers show an overall modest tumor response to immune checkpoint inhibitors. Nevertheless, subgroups such as tumors that are DNA mismatch repair-deficient or have high microsatellite instability particularly benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors. Even in the first-line setting for colorectal cancer, the clinical efficacy of pembrolizumab, an anti–PD-1 antibody, was superior to that of chemotherapy. Recently, a combination of atezolizumab, an anti-programmed death ligand 1 antibody, and bevacizumab was approved as the first-line treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma, and was reported as superior to sorafenib. Nivolumab, an anti–PD-1 antibody that is added to chemotherapy as the first-line treatment for gastric cancer, resulted in longer survival compared with chemotherapy alone. Further studies are ongoing to investigate additional immune checkpoint inhibitors for other gastrointestinal cancers. This review aims to provide an overview of the results of clinical trials for immune checkpoint inhibitors in gastrointestinal cancers, including colorectal cancer, gastric cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, pancreatic cancer, and biliary tract cancer.
Treatment of advanced urogenital cancers with immune checkpoint inhibitors
Authors: Jung Eun Hee , Kim Se Hyun
Published: May 2021

The development of immune checkpoint inhibitors has improved the long-term survival of patients with several types of cancers, including bladder and renal cell carcinomas. Atezolizumab, an anti-programmed death-ligand 1 monoclonal antibody, became the first immune checkpoint inhibitor to receive the US Food and Drug Administration approval for the treatment of advanced bladder cancer in 2016. Four additional immune checkpoint inhibitors have shown a durable efficacy and have been approved for the treatment of metastatic bladder cancers with progressive disease after treatment with platinum-containing chemotherapy. Currently, trials are exploring the effectiveness of these immune checkpoint inhibitors for first-line or perioperative cancer treatments. The treatment paradigm for advanced and metastatic renal cell carcinomas has also evolved rapidly since the introduction of immune checkpoint inhibitors. Various combinations with immune checkpoint inhibitors, such as nivolumab plus ipilimumab and pembrolizumab plus axitinib, have shown better efficacy than the treatment with sunitinib as first-line treatment for metastatic renal cell carcinoma. The challenges include the development of biomarkers to guide the selection of optimal patients to receive the therapies, the optimization of the sequences of immune checkpoint inhibitors, and the determination of more effective combinations with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
Rehabilitation therapy for patients with osteoporosis
Authors: Kim Dong Hwan
Published: May 2021

Fractures in patients with osteoporosis are attributable to falls and reduced bone mass. Therefore, balance and muscle strength should be improved and bone mass should be increased to prevent fractures. This study aims to investigate a rehabilitation treatment for osteoporosis. Exercise is a potentially safe and effective way to increase bone density and prevent postmenopausal bone loss. Based on bone densitometry results, rehabilitation exercises can be applied variably. Fractures caused by osteoporotic fragility may be prevented with multidisciplinary intervention programs including education, environmental modifications, aids, and individually tailored exercise programs. In addition, strengthening the paraspinal muscles may not only maintain bone mineral density but also reduce the risk of vertebral fractures. Rehabilitation after vertebral fractures includes proprioceptive dynamic posture training that decreases kyphotic posturing through the recruitment of back extensors. This training reduces pain, improves mobility, and leads to a better quality of life. Hip fractures may be prevented by hip protectors and exercise programs that can improve the strength and mobility of patients with hip fractures. Considering the musculoskeletal condition, the spine should be protected using a spinal orthosis, taping, hip pad, and walking aid, if necessary. Efforts to activate programs such as fracture liaison services should also be considered.
Self-Efficacy and Performance of Grade 7 Students
Authors: P. Guro Analyn
Published: May 2021

Individual person believe his own abilities to meet the challenges in life. In psychology, that belief is called self-efficacy. In general perspective, self-efficacy is the overall belief of individual persons to succeed in every endeavor. This study aimed to determine the grade 7 self- efficacy and its relation to their problem solving performances in math. Qualitative and quantitative approach was used in this survey descriptive survey analysis research. Quantitative data were obtained from students grades in math and scores in the Mathematics Achievement Test of the students. Qualitative data were obtained from student’s interview and responses in the Self- Efficacy Questionnaire. Findings revealed that student’s self-efficacy wasrated Very Well. This means that they have the capability to do homework, schoolwork, as well as to study their algebra and pass the test. However, achievement test showed that students ‘problem solving performances were minimally low in mental math, addition, and subtraction operations and there was significant relationship between the students‘ self-efficacy and their problem solving performances in math. With these findings, school should regularly hold activities that could enhance and challenge students’ mathematical ability and proficiency, and award the winners to boost their ego to keep and do well in their studies.
TrainME (Training Management Endeavors): A Web-based Training Needs Assessment and Management System (The Development Process)
Authors: D. Panes Wenda , S. Mejos Romel
Published: May 2021

TrainME is a web-based and mobile-responsive system that addresses the training needs assessment and management concerns of the Office of Extension Services and Community Development that community-based clients to submit their profile and convey interest in training areas; notifies registered trainers to accept a lecturer task, view clients’ information, and download training documents; and provides a dashboard for system administrator to manage the training programs, trainers, schedule, notifications, and reports via a web-based application. The waterfall model of Systems Development Life Cycle served as the guiding methodology in developing the system while the IEEE standard format for documentation was employed in writing the SRS, SPMP, SDD and STD. The system was subjected to use case testing by the office of the extension services staff. Result of the use case testing showed that the application meet the requirements, indicated as “Passed” set by the clients. Graphical data representation, opinion mining, and word cloud generation are some of the recommendations noted for future improvements of the project.
Tourism Insurance Market, Risks and Prospects
Authors: Diakonidze Maia
Published: May 2021

According to the global pandemic conditions, tourism and therefore, the travel insurance market faces new challenges. This study is aimed to determine appropriate approaches that will contribute to tourism development during and post-pandemic period. Tourism insurance is one of the most important contents of travel planning, which protects tourists from certain financial risks and wastage that can occur during travelling. This wastage can be minor, such as delayed luggage, or significant – a medical emergency overseas. Within pandemic conditions, emergency medical care, which will cover Covid -19 has become an inevitability part of an offered insurance packages. The design of the article includes secondary data review, theoretical explanations and empirical evidence (survey) regarding insurance updates in the travel planning, development of proposals for the future tourism development in Georgia’s without significant wastage or outcomes from the pandemic conditions. There are proposed some ideas and examples about to enhance knowledge in insurance adapting accordance with the requirements of the modern situation, with an aim for the future tourism unceasing development. It has been identified several approaches in terms of enhancement quality and gullibility of supplied tourism services, which is most important in the last pandemic period. This is a first attempt describing and identifying issues related to the Georgian tourism sector in terms of travel insurance adaptation to the Covid-19 conditions. It is a valuable piece of information for tourism product makers to adopt the article’s proposals for the improvement of future tourism development.
Evaluation of financial statements of sports clubs for 2019 and 2020 operational periods in terms of the covid-19 pandemic and research in terms of financial risk
Authors: Sevim Adnan
Published: May 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic and the accompanying uncertainties deeply affected the activities and financial structures of businesses and caused negative effects on their financial statements in many respects. Sports clubs are at the top of the list of businesses that suffer the most from the negativities of the pandemic process and experience a lot of loss in their financial and operational activities. Considering the developments both in Europe and in the World, the temporary postponement of sports matches, the start of competitions without spectators, the restructuring of club debts have seriously affected sports clubs, which are currently experiencing economic difficulties, deteriorate their liquidity, cash flows and increase uncertainty by making debt payments difficult. In addition, as the impact of risks on future performance increases, risk management practices have gained importance. In this context, information on the current ratio, cash ratio, financial leverage ratio, financing ratio, debt/equity ratio, and financial risk ratio obtained from the financial statement data for the period of 2019 and 2020 were used to evaluate the financial risk levels of 12 sports clubs. The deterioration in the financial structures of the sports clubs most affected by the pandemic process was examined and the risks encountered were discussed. In addition, the comparative financial analysis results were evaluated by analysing the effect of the financial structure and financial reporting of the clubs.
Wie Imagination und intentionales Lügen die Erinnerung und die Überzeugung von der Richtigkeit der Erinnerung verändern
Authors: Posten Ann-Christin , Christmann Sherin
Published: May 2021

Aussagen von Augenzeugen und Augenzeuginnen sind eine äußerst wichtige Informationsquelle im Rechtssystem. Allerdings wurde bislang erst wenig untersucht, wie sich Falschaussagen auf spätere Aussagen auswirken, wenn Zeugen und Zeuginnen versuchen, wahrheitsgemäße Antworten zu geben. Hierbei interessiert uns insbesondere, inwiefern intentionales Lügen über einen Sachverhalt die Überzeugung der Zeugen und Zeuginnen von dem Wahrheitsgehalt dieser Falschaussagen beeinflusst und sich in weiteren (unabsichtlichen) Falschangaben manifestiert. Um diese Fragestellung zu untersuchen, wurden Probanden und Probandinnen im Labor gebeten, sich in einer ersten Sitzung ein Video eines bewaffneten Raubüberfalls mit zwei Tätern anzusehen. Die Teilnehmenden hatten die Aufgabe, entweder über einen der beiden Täter (Tatperson A) absichtlich zu lügen (Lügen-Bedingung) oder vorgestellte Informationen vorzubringen (Imaginations-Bedingung). Tatperson B sollte in beiden Bedingungen wahrheitsgemäß beschrieben werden. Eine Woche später wurden die Probanden und Probandinnen (n = 125) online gebeten, wahrheitsgemäße Angaben über beide Tatpersonen zu machen. Zudem wurde ihre Überzeugung von dem Wahrheitsgehalt ihrer Angaben gemessen. Es zeigte sich, dass sowohl bei Lügen als auch bei Imagination über Tatperson A eine Woche später vermehrt falsche Details angegeben wurden und zudem die Überzeugung stieg, dass die gemachten Angaben wahr seien. Implikationen für die rechtspsychologische Praxis werden diskutiert.
Lacanian Ethics, the Psychoanalytic Group, and the Question of Queer Sociality
Authors: Valle Junior Luiz
Published: May 2021

This article is an attempt to frontally pose a question queer theory gravitates around, yet never effectively spells out: what is a togetherness of those who have nothing in common but their desire to undo group ties? First, I consider the take-up of Lacan’s ethical experiment in Seminar VII, the Ethics of Psychoanalysis by queer theorists. I contend that queer theory has not given Lacan’s interpretation of Antigone its full import, which demands its placement in the philosophical tradition of the West brought to its highest fruition in Kant. I further contend, however, that to do so does not quite offer a solution to the queer problem, for, as contemporary debate on the political import of Antigone shows, the purity of her desire does not immediately translate into a sustainable politics. Lacan himself was faced with the problem of translating his ethics into a politics after his “excommunication” from the psychoanalytic establishment, and came to falter before it. Nevertheless, Lacan’s efforts allow us to pose the undoubtedly queer question of how to group together those whose only attribute is to undo group ties. Responding to the unanswerable demands of a theory and a practice that allows us to answer that question, I propose the figure of the smoker’s communism, as elaborated upon by Mladen Dolar, as a preliminary queer suggestion as to how we might go about mitigating the gap between Lacan’s ethical brilliance and his admitted political failure.
Instrumental Trouble: A Queer Organology of Hugh Davies’s Found Instruments
Authors: Palermo Settimio Fiorenzo
Published: May 2021

Organology, the study of musical instruments, has traditionally concentrated on the documentation of instru­ments: their history, roles in culture, and classification. However, as post-modern, feminist, and post-colonial perspectives have questioned some of the assumptions inherent in historiographical, ethnographic, and posi­tivist endeavours because of their part in reproducing hegemonic ideologies, re-thinking organology and thus developing a richer account of musical instruments has become an urgent task. With this regard a queer pe­rspective in organology, in particular informed by Judith Butler’s theories of “gender trouble,” is crucial in agi­tating normative beliefs, values, and attitudes that underpin notions of instrumental identity, interaction, and meaning. A queer organology becomes especially significant in the critical engagement with musical instru­ments like those invented by the British composer, performer, and inventor Hugh Davies (1943-2005), and in particular his entirely found, amplified, new musical instruments. This is because the challenges to traditional instrumental ontologies, the “instrumental trouble” that these instruments pose: reveal the boundaries of con­ventional organological approaches and methodologies, which are unsuitable in capturing their full signi­fi­cance. Deploying Butler’s concepts of recognition, performativity, and subversion in their study can thus repre­sent an effective strategy in the development of a coherent critique of Davies’s instruments, but also in offering an opportunity to further the understanding of the fundamental importance that musical instruments play in the articulations of music, as part of what may be called an “instrumental turn.”
The Front Runner Patricii Nell Warren. Coming out, czyli zwycięstwo i koniec tragedii
Authors: Świetlicki Mateusz
Published: May 2021

Before coming out of the closet and publishing a series of successful gay novels, Patricia Nell Warren was known as Patricia Kilina, wife of a Ukrainian émigré writer George Tarnawsky. Her early poetry, written in Ukrainian, includes numerous references to non-traditional gender roles which she further explored in her anglophone novels. The Front Runner (1974) was published when Warren had already divorced her husband and came out of the closet. It was met with commercial success and became the first contemporary American bestseller about gay love. In this paper, I focus on the mixed reader-response of The Front Runner in the LGBTQ+ community, as well as the role of homophobia and misogyny in Patricia Nell Warren’s novel. I argue that The Front Runner provides readers with a thought-provoking literary representation of the changing social attitudes towards non-binary gender roles and non-heterosexuality right after Stonewall and before the AIDS epidemic.
INTEGRAL INDEX OF HEALTH IMPAIRMENT OF SERVICEMEN
Authors: Chernov D. A.
Published: May 2021

Object. To create an integral index of health impairment of servicemen as a part of the implementation of scientific research work. Materials and methods. Following medical and statistical indicators of morbidity among military personnel were used: general and primary morbidity, necessity in dispensary observation, hospitalization, days of disability, dismission for health reasons and mortality. An expert survey was conducted to determine the significance coefficients of medical and statistical indicators of morbidity. Results. In the structure of health impairment integral assessment among conscripts ranks were following: 1st – respiratory diseases (chapter X), 2nd – trauma, poisoning and some other consequences from external causes (chapter XIX), 3rd – diseases of the gastro-intestinal system (chapter XI), 4th – diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (chapter XIII), 5th – diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (chapter XII). In the structure of the integral assessment ranks dispensed as following: 1st – acute respiratory infections of the upper respiratory tract (J00 – J06), the 2nd – diseases of the esophagus, stomach and duodenum (K20 – K31), the 3rd – injuries involving several areas of the body (T00 – T09), 4th – the consequences of trauma, poisoning and other consequences from external causes (T90 – T98), 5th – diseases of the oral cavity, salivary glands and jaws (K00 – K14). Conclusions. The developed integral index of health impairment optimizes the effect of some indicators of morbidity and reliably correlates the contribution of chapters and nosologies to the final assessment, which allows timely, completely and promptly assess the quality of medical support to conscripts.
X-RAY-ENDOVASCULAR EMBOLIZATION OF PARAPANCREATIC VESSELS IN THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC PANCREATITIS COMPLICATIONS
Authors: Belyuk K.S. , Mogilevets E.V. , Shilo R.S. , Vasilchuk L.F. , Antonenko S.P. , Soroka O.S. , Radikevich M.O.
Published: May 2021

Goal. To improve the results of surgical treatment of chronic pancreatitis complicated by vascular pathology of the parapancreatic zone. Materials and methods. On the basis of the "Grodno University Clinic" in the department of X-ray Endovascular Surgery of the period 2010 to April 2020, were performed 16 embolizations of the arteries of the parapancreatic zone due to complications of chronic pancreatitis. Among the patients there were 13 (81.25%) men and 3 (18.75%) women. They had a history of chronic pancreatitis, which was confirmed using instrumental and laboratory research methods. One of the patients (6.25%) had a stationary aneurysm.15 (93.75%) patients had a bleeding clinic, which required urgent surgical interventions. Results. Angioembolization of the parapancreatic arteries was effective in 15 (93.75%) patients, which was confirmed by the results of control angiograms. Conclusions. The use of intraluminal embolization for vascular pathology of the parapancreatic zone in treatment of chronic pancreatitis complications is a minimally invasive and effective method.
ORGANIZATION OF INTERDEPARTMENTAL INTERACTION IN THE CONDITIONS OF COMPLICATED EPIDSITUATION
Authors: Shilova M.A. , Valchuk E.E. , Shnitko S.N. ,   Belarusian State Medical University, Terekhovich T.I. , Maksimovich M.M.
Published: May 2021

The article reflects the experience of the response of the Republic of Belarus and other countries to emergencies of biological origin and the importance of interagency cooperation for their prevention, localization and elimination.
Turkish Patronymic Surnames Ending with -oğlu ‘Son of
Authors: Tüm Gülden
Published: May 2021

This study examines Turkish patronymic surnames ending with the suffix -oğlu ‘son of.’ For this examination, this investigation compiled three corpora of Turkish surnames (N = 10,369) representative of the Turkish population. The aim of this corpus analysis was the identification of the conceptual and grammatical functional elements of these surnames as markers of linguistic and cultural diversity within Turkey. The findings reveal that the Turkish patronymic surnames did not merely denote the name of someone’s father. They also reflect manifold cognitive diversity and express meta-language awareness of Turkey’s intercultural richness. Consequently, this article contends that integrating insights gained from surname research into the foreign language classroom may assist learners of Turkish in overcoming language and cultural barriers. As this study concludes, the findings presented here and in analogous research can help language learners gain a better understanding of the meanings and cultural symbolism embedded in names.
Book Review
Authors: Baird Scott
Published: May 2021

Texas Place Names. By Edward Callary and Jean K. Callary. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2020. Pp. 411. ISBN 1-4773-2064-8. $35.00.
Alternative futures for the Creative Writing doctorate (by way of the past)
Authors: Magee Paul
Published: May 2021

This paper contributes to the project of mapping alternative futures for the creative writing doctorate, by way of deep excavation into the history of scholarly forms. A key aim is to undermine the apparent necessity of an exegetical component to any current creative writing doctoral portfolio. To this end, the paper attempts to think through those traditions of humanities scholarship that have long assumed the presentational forms of novelistic and poetic art. It has a specific eye to works in the post-structuralist tradition, in particular those of Michel Foucault, the scholarly writer whom Georges Canguilhem saw fit to label a ‘poet’ in the course of examining the doctorate that we would come to know as Histoire de la folie. The paper asks why that naming makes intuitive sense. A philosophical engagement with Anthony Grafton’s work on the form and origins of the footnote suggests that normative scholarly texts are ruled by a bifurcation between what is said and the story of how one came to say it, a story offered there at the bottom of the page, or in some other like apparatus or mode. The self-justificatory functions associated with the footnote are minimised in Foucault’s and his peers’ work, just as they are banished from art itself. In their place, if anything, we find strategies devised for the fomenting of doubt, that have the emotional and intellectual effect of making knowledge the responsibility of the reader. In other words, a form of creative intellectual work without exegetical documentation is not only possible in humanities scholarship, it is a feature of some of the most valorised work in the field. Could we not take our bearings from there?
The Uses and Enchantments of the Writers Notebook
Authors: Falconer Delia
Published: May 2021

This paper examines the writer’s notebook to ask: why does it persist as such an effective generative tool? Drawing primarily on the work of Michael Taussig and Roland Barthes, while focusing on the ways in which writers have themselves described their experience of using journals, it examines the notebook as a remarkably polyvalent and talismanic text. In its first part it explores the difference, often strongly marked by writers, between the journal and diary, arguing that it is exactly the notebook’s ‘album’-like quality of fragmentation and interchangeability, which bothered Barthes, that creates its value for writers. In its second half, it examines the different discursive or formal strands typically found within the notebook: its ‘extractive realist’ (Gibson 2009) techniques for briefly recording the ‘real’ in ways that transform it for creative use; its curation of quotes, which descends from the Renaissance commonplace book, as a means of professional self-fashioning; and its appeal as a physical object representing an enchanted promise of creativity. It concludes that the notebook’s longevity and energy derive from the constant juxtaposition of these often-contradictory elements, which create the ongoing quality of ‘something else’ that writers so often remark upon.
Incoherence/coherence in narratives of illness or trauma: On the necessity of challenging conventional narrative structures
Authors: Papas Maria
Published: May 2021

Informed by my own experience of bearing witness to and being made vulnerable by a life-threatening event in a loved one, this essay draws on philosophical, psychological and narratological underpinnings to investigate the gap that exists between conventional narrative structures and the narratives employed by those with lived experience of trauma or critical illness. Overall, I argue that writers and other creative artists have a responsibility to represent trauma or illness in ways that resist the temporal unification, neat closures and trajectories that often present such events as disruptions to be overcome. Following this line of thinking I argue that narrative coherence is not dependent on the cohesion of a whole. Instead it relies on the shared understandings and the process of recognition that forms between the teller and recipient of a story. In other words, coherence is dependent on the recipient’s ability to read structural characteristics such as fragmentation, discontinuity, irresolution and uncertainty not as aberrations to narrative stability, but as potential signifiers of the trauma itself. As such I suggest creative professionals can do more to experiment with the language of trauma. I conclude with a personal reflection that illustrates how knowledge of this language allows for coherence even in the most fraught narratives.
Memoryscope experiments on the Bunurong Coast
Authors: Quilford Rees
Published: May 2021

This essay performs that restless search, undertaken in countless iterations across the globe, for meaning in the places that are important to us. By engaging with the everyday historical forces and currents that shape localities, it examines the intimate associations and connections that exist between people and the places they inhabit. Experimenting with the use of Ross Gibson’s notion of the memoryscope – an aesthetic form created to ‘contain, focus and direct the forces of the past’ (Gibson 2015b: vi) – as a framework to inform place-based historically informed storytelling, it offers a series of speculations on an unruly strip of the southern Australian bush, the Bunurong Coast. In doing so, the paper explores how disparate echoes of the past plucked from various sources – the archives, memories, reflections, and the landscape itself – might be cajoled to form coherent reflections on personal connections to a specific place. Speculating on local stories, objects and experiences, it examines how an aesthetic and forensic creative practice might be used to develop intimate narratives about our complex associations to places and their past.
Structural whiteness and the business of creative writing in Australia: Developing reflexive pedagogy
Authors: Cassidy Bonny
Published: May 2021

Two decades in my academic discipline have accreted a strata of assumptions within my practices. Most of these are about knowledge: its source in me and my informants, its places and modes of production, and methods or processes for its communication. From these have grown assumptions about myself within the discipline: the extent of my expertise, and others’ expectations of it; and its relationship to other elements of my life. I take responsibility for these assumptions, however, I also understand them to be intimately connected to the cultural systems of knowledge in which I have been brought up as an Australian academic. In this discussion I contextualise how, when provoked, our discipline of creative writing reveals its local, systemic contingencies. Using my experiences within RMIT University’s Bundyi Girri program as a launching point, I reflect on the ways that non-Indigenous awareness of historically excluded sovereign knowledges provokes the discipline and how recognition of these might look through the practices of the academy. I argue that reflexivity is a tool for structural change, and that it can be focused and fostered through pedagogy. To illustrate this, I share some process notes from my own recent teaching and learning. The questions that preoccupy me are: What is the readiness of creative writing as an academic discipline towards acknowledgement of sovereign knowledges? How does working within sovereign relationships differ or distinguish itself from cultural awareness or from ‘Indigenising’ curriculum? How is my expertise and authority as a creative writing practitioner challenged by this acknowledgement?
These lips that are not (d)one: Writing with the ‘pash’ of translation
Authors: Fisher Abigail
Published: May 2021

Taking up the embodied erotics of translation put forward by Aarón Lacayo and drawing on Luce Irigaray’s figure of the lips as meeting the other at the threshold of their irreducible becoming, this paper presents the make-out session, or ‘pash’ of translation, as a framework for producing multilingual writing that preserves the messy, multidirectional movement of interlingual translation on the page. Close textual analysis of Kathy Acker’s Don Quixote and Giannina Braschi’s Yo-Yo Boing! serves to demonstrate that such a mode of translative writing defers textual closure so as to facilitate the emergence of a multiplicity of textual resonances and highlight the asymmetries and discomfort of the interlingual encounter. An accompanying creative text, also published in this edition of TEXT (Fisher 2020), experiments with the application of such multidirectional and ‘suspended’ translation techniques to produce a response to a poem by the Argentinian author Alejandra Pizarnik, moving between Old Provençal, Castellano and English to produce a piece of poetic prose that interrogates the frustration of displaced infatuation, the ethically questionable state of travelling ‘for pleasure’ and the embodied resonances between material discursive bodies in various states of becoming and becoming undone in desire.
‘The Chernobyl hibakusha’: Dark poetry, the ineffable and abject realities
Authors: Miller Alyson , Atherton Cassandra
Published: May 2021

Chernobyl occupies a complex space in the Western cultural imagination, complicated by science fiction fantasies, crime thrillers, military-style video games, haunting photo installations, and a recent HBO drama series focusing on the nuclear disaster. While the devastation of the reactor is often regarded as a ‘dark metonym for the fate of the Soviet Union’ (Milne 2017: 95), the nuclear crisis is also at the centre of increasing anxieties about the ‘fate of future generations, species extinction and the damage done to the environment’ (93). Indeed, the enormity of Chernobyl, like Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima, is often regarded as beyond representation. By examining a range of poems produced by Chernobylites or derived from witness testimonies, we argue that in confronting the unthinkable, poetry is uniquely able to convey the inexpressible and abject horror of nuclear destruction. Further, in considering the potential for commodification in writing about sites of tragedy, we define poetry about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster as an example of ‘dark poetry’ – that is, poetry exploring or attempting to imagine or reanimate examples of dark tourism. We specifically explore this example of dark poetry to contend that while it often lobbies for nuclear international cooperation, it can also be read as exploitative and romanticising the macabre spectacle of nuclear explosion.
Imagination is the queen of truth: The realist text as a sensory narrative image
Authors: Prendergast Julia
Published: May 2021

This article focuses the realist text as a sensory narrative image. I propose that realist fiction, or abstracted realism, is an attempt to capture the incompleteness of human experience through carefully crafted narrative detail – interwoven narrative images. The central premise of this article is that productive engagement with our own writing and the work of fellow writers involves paying close attention to the relationship between sensory narrative detail and a focalising consciousness, as a representation of the ideas that lurk beneath the surface of the text. This analysis occurs within the more specific context of dark subject matter in realist writing. Ideasthesia (from neuroscience) and the unthought known (from psychoanalysis) provide a theoretical frame for a broader examination of the relationship between a focalising consciousness and the transposition of narrative detail. Through this frame, and in relation to examples from long- and short-form fiction, including my own practice, and with reference to William Maxwell, Marcel Proust, Luke Davies, Arnold Zable, Flannery O’Connor, Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, as well as Francis Bacon, Charles Baudelaire and Victoria Walsh, this article contemplates the realist text as a sensory narrative image. I track the relationship between form and feeling, both within the narrative world as well as with reference to authorial intention, more broadly.
Fragmented narratives: Minding the textual gap
Authors: Krauth Nigel
Published: May 2021

This paper establishes a general view of how writers have utilised the process ofwriting in fragments since ancient times in expository, memoir, biography andfiction genres. A selection of fragmented narratives from classical, medieval, twentieth century and recent authors is discussed with particular focus on three forms – the aphorism, the feuilleton and hypertext – building to the idea that writers fashion a fragmented text so as to hand over a significant part of its meaning-making to the reader. In doing so, the writer manipulates the work as a mosaic of fragments and writes meaning – ie ‘directions for reading’ – into the gaps between the fragments. Relevant theoretical work by Walter Benjamin, Wolfgang Iser, J Hillis Miller, Simon Barton and others is applied to the discussion.

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Making recipes: Essaying with mess and embodied knowledges
Authors: Langley Sophie
Published: May 2021

How might a writing form that includes both creative and academic work explorewhat sociologist John Law might call the ‘messiness’ of embodied knowledges (Law 2004)? Meeting the challenges of learning to live differently in a world that appears to be becoming increasingly uninhabitable for humans (and many other species) requires different methods of research that allow us to think anew about ‘the messes of reality’ and embodied knowledges (Law 2004: 2). My research threads together the practice of making things with food scraps that would usually otherwise be wasted and the practice of essaying. Drawing on philosopher Lisa Heldke’s notion of ‘cooking as inquiry’ and recipes as tools this paper uses an autoethnographic approach (Ellis et al 2011; Spry 2001) to explore how the form of the essay might expand recipes for things to make from food scraps to include theoretical and philosophical inquiries that have both informed and been informed by the practice of making things with the scraps. In this way, my research and this paper are both about experimentation in everyday cooking-like practices, and experimenting in writing, theorising and research, where the writing is not merely a metaphor, but also enacts the modes of inquiry discovered, explored and played with in the physical practices.
Collaborating upwards: writing across hierarchical boundaries
Authors: Ellison Elizabeth , Batty Craig
Published: May 2021

As a practice, collaborative writing between students and supervisors is hardly new and can be considered common in STEM disciplines. This has not always been the case in the creative arts, where there are different expectations around authorship and, as in other contexts, potentially deeper considerations of power and authority. In this article, we examine modes of collaborative writing practice in the creative arts, with a particular focus on writing across hierarchical boundaries in research training scenarios. Using screenwriting practice as a context for this discussion, and informed by our own reflective practice, we identify a number of collaborative writing ‘modes’ (which we have named ‘take the lead’, ‘share the load’, and ‘learn the ropes’) and offer possible strategies for those writing across hierarchical relationships and boundaries. This is important for understanding what might otherwise become an assumed, misunderstood or, worse, predatory practice that disempowers students and unfairly advantages supervisors. As part of our exploration, we draw on our experiences of running cohort-based, collaborative research opportunities in creative disciplines. Reflecting on our experiences in regard to our own collaborations allows us to examine how these structures have enabled students to find their own agency within these collaborative spaces.