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Pathar dye (paraphenyldiamine) poisoning: our experience of this lethal emerging health problem in a tertiary care centre
Authors: Nautiyal Shivani , Tiwari Shashwat , Ashutosh Kumar
Published: September 2017

Background: The aim of this case series study is to share our experiences regarding paraphenylenediamine (PPD) poisoning, its otolaryngological clinical presentation ,outcomes and need of tracheostomy in patients of hair dye poisoning at GSVM Medical College, Kanpur, U.P.

Methods: This prospective study was carried out on 165 patients who presented in GSVM medical college Kanpur in period of December 2012 till December 2014. Data including demographic features (age, sex, marital status, socio-economic status), clinical features, laboratory findings, mode of intoxication (accidental or suicide) were collected and recorded.  

Results: A majority of the patients were young females (21-30 years) and belonged to a low socioeconomic class. The main cause was intentional suicidal ingestion. Cervicofacial edema, stridor, hoarseness of voice and pain in throat were initial symptoms. Tracheostomy was needed in 115 (69.69%) patients. Mortality of 21 (12.72%) patients was observeds.

Conclusions: It is a major emerging health problem with high mortality. It is a medical emergency and early intervention is needed to save patient's life. It is imperative to raise public awareness of the potential toxicity of the dye as well as to educate physicians about the need for aggressive and early treatment. 
An unusual presentation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Authors: Sandhu Kulwinder Singh , Chaudary Priyanka , Kumari Anjana , Singh Jagdeepak
Published: September 2017

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is one of the most difficult tumors to diagnose at early state and intracranial spread is common. We report the case of 45 years old Indian female with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, who presented with nasal obstruction and repeated cough and cold from last two months. X-ray PNS imaging revealed mild septal deviation to right side. Nasal endoscopy revealed lobulated greyish coloured mass involving both choana and mass protruded out on expiration. CT scan revealed soft tissue density in nasopharynx involving bilateral choanae. Excision mass done with presumptive diagnosis of lymphoma. Histopathological examination diagnosed non keratinizing undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Serum EBV-DNA levels were raised. Radiotherapy started immediately after diagnosis of NPC. Non-specific symptoms in this case, when followed up carefully diagnosed as NPC. Diagnosis is important for proper management.
A large sinonasal schwannoma: a rare entity
Authors: Singh Manwinder , Bhagat Sanjeev , Sharma Dinesh Kumar , Monga Rabia , Chhabra Nitin
Published: September 2017

Schwannoma is a rare neoplasm of nose and PNS which develops from Schwann’s cells of neural sheath and most are benign and encapsulated and amenable to surgical excision. The aim of this write-up is to report a rare case of schwannoma of nose and PNS. We report a case of 40 year old female, a housewife, presented in ENT OPD with complaints of nasal obstruction on right side, post nasal drip and headache. On diagnostic nasal endoscopy, there was a polypoidal mass coming from the middle meatus which was pushing the medial turbinate medially. NCCT and MRI of nose and PNS showed soft tissue density mass involving right ethmoidal air cells, maxillary sinus and bilateral sphenoid sinuses and eroding the lateral wall of right maxillary sinus reaching upto infratemporal fossa, superiorly mass was seen eroding the inferior wall of right orbit. The tumour was removed endoscopically piecemeal and sent for histopathology which showed it to be a schwannoma. The conclusion of the finding was schwannoma involving nasal cavity, maxillary sinus and sphenoid sinus eroded the lateral wall of maxillary sinus going into infratemporal fossa and floor of the orbit. Schwannoma should also be kept as a possibility in the differential diagnosis of tumors of nose and PNS. 
Managerial Practices that Support Lean and Socially Sustainable Working Conditions
Authors: Håkansson Malin , Holden Richard J. , Eriksson Andrea , Dellve Lotta
Published: September 2017

Despite decades of using lean, there is little knowledge of how lean managerial practices affect working conditions. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate in what ways managerial practices support socially sustainable working conditions (SSWCs) during a lean transformation. A mixed methods approach was used in this multiyear case study in a midsize Swedish manufacturing company. Assessment of work characteristics was combined with employee questionnaires and interviews with managers. Four practices were identified as instrumental for SSWCs: 1) a coherent lean approach with clear direction, 2) a value-creating leadership style comprising a participatorypromoting and caring leadership approach with joint focus on production and well-being, 3) conscious involvement of employees in a stepwise fashion, and 4) a focus on promoting meaningful jobs and health, aided by work environment management. Thus, managerial practices actively supporting important job resources as an integral part of the lean system seemed to support SSWCs.
Without a Safety Net: Precarization Among Young Danish Employees
Authors: Nielsen Mette Lykke , Görlich Anne , Grytnes Regine , Dyreborg Johnny
Published: September 2017

Precarisation’ is one of the concepts that has become important in efforts to explain how neoliberal politics and changed economic conditions produce new forms of marginalization and increased insecurity. The aim of this article is to examine how subjectivity is produced among young Danish employees through socio-material processes of precarization at workplaces and employment projects. Drawing on ethnographic observations and qualitative interviews with 35 young employees and young people ‘Neither in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET), the three case examples show how processes of precarization, rooted in global economic and political conditions, can be understood as situated contextual practices. It is demonstrated how being positioned as an easily replaceable source of labor is shaping young people’s processes of subjectification.
Tratamento da estomatite protética: revisão de literatura
Authors: Martins Karine Vitor , Gontijo Sávio Morato de Lacerda
Published: September 2017

Objetivo: este estudo teve como objetivo investigar as principais opções terapêuticas para estomatite protética em pacientes utilizando próteses removíveis completas, para determinar o melhor método de tratamento, evitando recaídas e melhorando a qualidade de vida dos pacientes. Material e Métodos: foi realizada uma busca nas bases de dados e ferramentas eletrônicas de busca PubMed, LILACS, SciELO e Web of Science utilizando palavras-chave, em português e inglês, como estomatite protética, Candida albicans, antifúngica, candidíase oral e tratamento. Resultados: os estudos demonstraram que os principais fármacos utilizados no tratamento da estomatite protética são miconazol, fluconazol, itraconazol, nistatina, anfotericina B, cetoconazol, clotrimazol e clorexidina. Independentemente do tratamento empregado, há melhora dos sintomas clínicos da doença, mas não impede a recolonização da mucosa oral em pacientes com pouca higiene da prótese dentária. Conclusão: não é possível determinar a melhor terapia para estomatite por prótese dentária, uma vez que os estudos avaliados mostraram eficácia do medicamento, mas com recidivas, especialmente em pacientes com pouca higiene da prótese dentária.
Prioritization of factors affecting the safety of sport facilities in Kermanshah Based on AHP
Authors: Zarei Bahieh , Hatami Kheidan , Keshtmand Zahra
Published: September 2017

This prioritize the factors affecting the safety of sport facilities based on AHP model is examined. This research strategy in terms of quantity and type AHP, in terms of sectional, both practical and in terms of gathering data is the type of field. The study was based questionnaire measurement elite views were set. In order to test the hypothesis-of a comparison test was used categories together. The Expert Choice software was used in this study. The findings obtained showed that 27 items in 5 categories are involved in determining the safety of sporting venues. On this basis and according to safety experts, sports facilities and sports equipment is the most important component of the Earth's surface. 0.320 is the significance of these items. Management factors weighing 0.268, 0.182 weight room equipment, first aid dressing and platform weighing 0.134 and 0.094 in second weight with the audience. The results showed that the use of safe floors, the use of qualified instructors, the use of appropriate sports flooring, installing warning signs in the hall and regular periodic visits to the salon equipment coefficients 0.070, 0.059, 0.052, 0.049 and 0.047 of the most important items in the factors affecting the safety of the sport.
Resistência bacteriana aos antibióticos e Saúde Pública: uma breve revisão de literatura
Authors: Da Costa Anderson Luiz Pena , Silva Junior Antonio Carlos Souza
Published: September 2017

Nesta revisão de literatura, elaborada a partir da análise de 73 trabalhos científicos, é introduzido ao leitor aspectos farmacodinâmicos dos antibióticos, seus usos terapêuticos (humano e veterinário), nas produções animal e industrial, e as limitações que a resistência bacteriana impõe à utilização destes fármacos em diferentes âmbitos. Sendo os mecanismos bioquímicos e genéticos da resistência bacteriana, assim como os fatores econômicos, sociais, propedêuticos, terapêuticos e epidemiológicos associados ao aparecimento de patógenos resistentes e o ônus que tais organismos geram sobre a saúde pública, o foco deste trabalho.
Challenges of Implementing Free and Open Source Software (FOSS): Evidence from the Indian Educational Setting
Authors: Thankachan Briju , Moore David Richard
Published: September 2017

The use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), a subset of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), can reduce the cost of purchasing software. Despite the benefit in the initial purchase price of software, deploying software requires total cost that goes beyond the initial purchase price. Total cost is a silent issue of FOSS and can only be evaluated in the particular environment in which it is adopted, in this case Kerala, India, fora state-level FOSS project called IT@School. This project is one of the largest deployments of free open source software FOSS-based ICT education in the world and impacts 6 million students and 200,000 teachers every year. This study analyzes the perception of 43 senior FOSS implementation project officials. It details how FOSS was introduced and reports on major challenges and how those challenges were overcome in a secondary educational setting in India. Email interviews, document analysis, and online case studies were used to collect the data. The lack of adequate resources to train the teachers was the single biggest challenge in the adoption of FOSS. The emerging strategies for efficient FOSS implementation could be used in other states in India and in other developing countries.
Cut-off Values of Hematologic Parameters to Predict the Number of Alpha Genes Deleted in Subjects with Deletional Alpha Thalassemia
Authors: Velasco-Rodríguez Diego , Blas Carlos , Alonso-Domínguez Juan-Manuel , Vega Gala , Soto Carlos , García-Raso Aránzazu , Llamas-Sillero Pilar
Published: September 2017

Most of α-thalassemia cases are caused by deletions of the structural α-globin genes. The degree of microcytosis and hypochromia has been correlated with the number of affected α-globin genes, suggesting a promising role of hematologic parameters as predictive diagnostic tools. However, specific cut-off points for these parameters to discriminate between the different subtypes of α-thalassemia remain to be clearly defined. Six hematologic parameters (total number of erythrocytes, hemoglobin concentration, mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration and red cell distribution width) were evaluated in 174 cases of deletional α-thalassemia (92 heterozygous α+ thalassemia, 39 homozygous α+ thalassemia, 34 heterozygous α0 thalassemia and 9 cases of Hb H disease). A good correlation between the number of deleted alpha genes and MCV (r = -0.672, p<0.001), MCH (r = -0.788, p<0.001) and RDW (r = 0.633, p<0.001) was observed. The deletion of at least two alpha genes in adult individuals with microcytosis without iron deficiency and normal values of Hb A2 and Hb F should be discarded when MCH levels are lower than 23.15 pg. Furthermore, MCH <21.90 pg and/or MCV <70.80 fL are strongly suggestive of the presence of one α0 allele. Finally, an accurate presumptive diagnosis of Hb H disease can be made if both RDW ≥20% and MCH <18.45 pg are seen.
Novel Supervisory Control Algorithm to Improve the Performance of a Real-Time PV Power-Hardware-In-Loop Simulator with Non-RTDS
Authors: Kim Dae-Jin , Kim Byungki , Ko Hee-Sang , Jang Moon-Seok , Ryu Kyung-Sang
Published: September 2017

A programmable DC power supply with Real-time Digital Simulator (RTDS)-based photovoltaic (PV) Power Hardware-In-the-Loop (PHIL) simulators have been used to improve the control algorithm and reliability of PV Inverter. This paper proposes a supervisory control algorithm for PV PHIL simulator with non-RTDS device that is an alternative solution of high cost PHIL simulator. However, when such a simulator with conventional algorithm which is used in RTDS is connected to a PV inverter, the output is in the transient state and it makes it impossible to evaluate the performance of the PV Inverter. Therefore proposed algorithm controls the voltage and current target values according to the constant voltage (CV) and constant current (CC) modes to overcome the limitation of the Computing Unit, DC power supply and also uses a multi-rate system to account for the characteristics of each component of simulator. A mathematical models of a PV system, programmable DC power supply, isolated DC measurement device and Computing Unit are integrated to form a real-time processing simulator. Performance tests using a PV PHIL simulator which is applied proposed algorithm connected a PV inverter are carried out and proved superiority and utility of this method against conventional methods.
Dynamics of Dual Scale-Free Polymer Networks
Authors: Galiceanu Mircea , Tota de Carvalho Luan , Mülken Oliver , Dolgushev Maxim
Published: September 2017

We focus on macromolecules which are modelled as sequentially growing dual scale-free networks. The dual networks are built by replacing star-like units of the primal treelike scale-free networks through rings, which are then transformed in a small-world manner up to the complete graphs. In this respect, the parameter γ describing the degree distribution in the primal treelike scale-free networks regulates the size of the dual units. The transition towards the networks of complete graphs is controlled by the probability p of adding link between non-neighbouring nodes of the same initial ring. The relaxation dynamics of the polymer networks is studied in the framework of generalized Gaussian structures by using the full eigenvalue spectrum of the Laplacian matrix. The dynamical quantities on which we focus here are the averaged monomer displacement and the mechanical relaxation moduli. For several intermediate values of the parameter’s set (γ, p) we encounter for these dynamical properties regions of constant in-between slope.
Proposing a Framework for Airline Service Quality Evaluation Using Type-2 Fuzzy TOPSIS and Non-parametric Analysis
Authors: Haghighat Navid
Published: September 2017

This paper focuses on evaluating airline service quality from the perspective of passengers view. Until now a lot of researches has performed in airline service quality evaluation in the world but a little research has been conducted in Iran, yet. In this research a framework for measuring airline service quality in Iran is proposed. After reviewing airline service quality criteria, SSQAI model was selected because of its comprehensiveness in covering airline service quality dimensions. SSQAI questionnaire items were redesigned to adopt with Iranian airlines requirements and environmental circumstances in the Iran's economic and cultural context. This study includes fuzzy decision-making theory, considering the possible fuzzy subjective judgment of the evaluators during airline service quality evaluation. Fuzzy TOPSIS have been applied for ranking airlines service quality performances. Three major Iranian airlines which have the most passenger transfer volumes in domestic and foreign flights, were chosen for evaluation in this research. Results demonstrated Mahan airline has got the best service quality performance rank in gaining passengers' satisfaction with delivery of high quality services to its passengers, among the three major Iranian airlines. IranAir and Aseman airlines placed in the second and third rank, respectively, according to passenger's evaluation.Statistical analysis have been used in analyzing passenger responses. Due to abnormality of data, Non-parametric tests were applied. To demonstrate airline ranks in every criterion separately, Friedman test was performed. Variance analysis and Tukey test were applied to study the influence of increasing in age and educational level of passengers' on degree of their satisfaction from airline's service quality. Results showed that age has not significant relation with passenger satisfaction of airlines, however increasing in educational level demonstrated a negative impact on passengers' satisfaction from airline's service quality.
Integral Representations for Multivariate Logarithmic Polynomials
Authors: Qi Feng
Published: September 2017

In the paper, by induction and recursively, the author proves that the generating function of multivariate logarithmic polynomials and its reciprocal are a Bernstein function and a completely monotonic function respectively, establishes a Lévy-Khintchine representation for the generating function of multivariate logarithmic polynomials, deduces an integral representation for multivariate logarithmic polynomials, presents an integral representation for the reciprocal of the generating function of multivariate logarithmic polynomials, computes real and imaginary parts for the generating function of multivariate logarithmic polynomials, derives two integral formulas, and denies the uniform convergence of a known integral representation for Bernstein functions.
DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING MODEL SMASH VOLLEYBALL BASED MULTIPLE TRAINING IN FACULTY OF SPORT SCIENCES STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
Authors: Hanif Sofyan , Kasih Indra
Published: September 2017

This research is to development learning model smash volleyball based multiple training in State University of Medan. This method was research and development/R & D proposed by Borg and Gall (2005). Based on trial results found, multiple based learning model increaset the skill of volley ball smash technique mastery at faculty of Sport Science of Medan Stated University. Multiple training based learning model is wearing 7 group, and 21 forms of learning. 21 models of learning based training deemed necessary multiple training applied in each learning smash volleyball. The results of this the new model of learning assessment indicators is more effective than the old one. The average effectiveness of the attitudes perfect/SS indicator is older models of learning is 78.33% and 86.67% of new models of learning. The average of effectiveness in SW indicator is older models of learning is 73.33% and 80.00% of new models of learning. The average effectiveness of the NT indicator on older models of learning is 71.67% and 85.00% of new models of learning. The average effectiveness of the indicators of S^ on the old model of learning is 70.00% and 78.33% of new models of learning. Learning outcomes (average of all indicators) that reach increased from 73.33% to 82.50%. It can be concluded that multiple training based learning model more effective than the old learning model.
Introduction
Authors: Saito Hiro
Published: September 2017

In essence, East Asia’s history problem resulted from a collision of nationalist commemorations in Japan as well as in South Korea and China. To understand how the history problem evolved, this chapter draws on field theory and proposes to analyze the history problem as a field inhabited by various political actors—governments, political parties, NGOs, and so on—competing for the legitimate commemoration of the Asia-Pacific War. The Japanese government is the most important actor in this field because it has the power to define Japan’s official commemoration, the focal point of political struggles. In addition, commemorative positions of the Japanese government and other relevant actors can be identified in terms of the spectrum ranging between nationalism and cosmopolitanism—the two logics of commemoration available in the institutional environment. These actors then try to influence Japan’s official commemoration by exploiting available mobilizing structures and political opportunities.
The Coexistence of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, 1997–2015
Authors: Saito Hiro
Published: September 2017

Between 1997 and 2015, the history problem became more complex due to changes in both domestic and international situations of the three countries. The LDP returned to power, but it had to form a coalition government with other small parties. Various new actors also entered the field, including the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform that promoted “healthy nationalism” in history education. At the same time, historians and educators in the three countries began organizing joint historical research and education projects to promote the logic of cosmopolitanism, and even the LDP-led coalition government launched bilateral joint historical research projects with South Korea and China to prevent a further escalation of the history problem. Thus, nationalist commemorations in the three countries continued to fuel the history problem, but they came to coexist, in a complex manner, with mutual cosmopolitan commemoration initiated by the governmental and nongovernmental joint projects.
Special Marxist, Special Buddhist
Authors: Curley Melissa Anne-Marie
Published: September 2017

Kawakami Hajime was one of the most influential Japanese Marxist thinkers of his time. Before turning to Marxism, Kawakami had briefly been involved with Itō Shōshin’s utopian movement, Muga-ai (Selfless Love). Kawakami was sent to prison in 1933 as a result of his involvement with the Japanese Communist Party; while in prison, resisting ideological conversion (tenkō), he took up the question of religious truth and its relationship to Marxist social science. In his Prison Ramblings, Kawakami presents his theory of religious truth. In his autobiography, he details the connections between this theory of religious truth and the religious experience he had as a young man, triggered by his encounter with Itō. Kawakami’s interpretation of Pure Land Buddhism reflects his understanding of religious truth as thoroughly subjective and internal, allowing him to use Buddhism as a tool for securing a stable, autonomous self.
A Documentary Biography
Authors: Atkins Paul S.
Published: September 2017

Teika lived to the age of eighty, and we have a great deal of information about his life. Much of it comes from his own diary, Meigetsuki, which he kept for over fifty years. Teika was born into a literary house and achieved early success as a poet, but suffered a number of setbacks, including the fall from power of his patrons, the Kujō family. He returned to the center of poetic activity thanks to the backing of Retired Emperor Go-Toba, commissioner of the eighth imperial anthology of waka poetry, the Shin Kokinshū. After Teika and Go-Toba became estranged, Teika’s career advanced even further when military authorities exiled Go-Toba and his sons in retaliation for their attempt to topple the Kamakura shogunate.
Teika’s Poetics
Authors: Atkins Paul S.
Published: September 2017

Numerous poetic treatises have been attributed to Teika, some fraudulently. This chapter attempts to derive Teika’s poetics based on explicit and implicit remarks he made about waka poetry. It begins by first determining the limits of Teika’s theoretical oeuvre, and excludes from consideration the texts Maigetsushō (Monthly Notes) and Teika jittei (Teika’s Ten Styles). The remaining texts suggest that Teika held a pessimistic view of the ability of language to represent lived experience, and that he valorized a style prevalent among poets in the ninth century, in which the words carried unspoken overtones.
Conclusion
Authors: Atkins Paul S.
Published: September 2017

The conclusion offers reasons for Teika’s success as a poet and courtier. His rise to fame was contingent on historical vicissitudes, but required a formidable degree of talent and perseverance. Various paradoxes observed in Teika’s personality, career, and environment are ultimately unresolvable.
“Evolutionary Theory Is the Superstition of Modernity”
Authors: Godart G. Clinton
Published: September 2017

The 1930s and the wartime period saw the rise of religious—mainly Shintō—antievolutionary thought. Evolutionary theory took on a complex role in this period, as it was discussed by biologists, Marxists, liberals, Kyoto School philosophers, and Shintō ideologues, among whom Kihira Tadayoshi is the central figure. Antievolutionary thought in Japan emerged largely as a reaction against the use of evolution by the Japanese Left, and also as part of a larger skepticism and reaction against modernity, ideas of progress, and the West. Evolutionary theory was attacked for its association with both liberalism and Marxism. Ultimately, despite the conflict between religiously inspired state ideology, evolutionary theory and religion found an uneasy coexistence.
Buddha Images and Devotees
Authors: Chiu Angela S.
Published: September 2017

The fifteenth to early sixteenth centuries have been remembered as the “golden age” of Lanna. Royal support for Buddhism expanded on an unprecedented scale. Buddha statues such as the Emerald, Sihing, Sikhi, Sandalwood and Setangkhamani became famous at this time. Monastic chronicles were written narrating the ‘biography’ of each of these ‘travelling images,’ which journeyed around Asia over many hundreds of years. These chronicles, not without humor and entertainment, drew lineages of revered persons, mainly kings, who honored each statue through time. Lanna’s kings were positioned as the heirs to great Buddhist leaders of the past. The histories of the Lanna monarchy and a wider world of Buddhism were thus intertwined and materialized by a Buddha image. These accounts were probably not merely political messages but efforts by the monkhood to educate and encourage ambitious rulers to economically support the monasteries.
Buddha Images and Place
Authors: Chiu Angela S.
Published: September 2017

Certain Lanna chronicles recount that the Buddha visited southeast Asia during his lifetime. He left strands of his hair and imprints of his feet for his devotees and made predictions about the future greatness of Lanna cities. These accounts depict Lanna places not as sites of Buddhist conquest or reform but as special places that through the ages have been sources of attraction and inspiration to multiple Buddhas. Lanna’s towns, lakes and hills play a distinctive role in Buddhist history as the channels that enable the ongoing agency of Buddhas. Buddha statues were created in these places to mark these channels that are crucial to the prosperity of the world. The relationship of Buddha to place echoes that depicted in classical Buddhist texts and is also found in the story of the Burmese Mahāmuni image. A Lanna story from Lampang also distinctively casts light on gender relations in Buddhism.
Buddha Images as Objects of Donation
Authors: Chiu Angela S.
Published: September 2017

In 1976, Hans Penth, pioneering scholar of Lanna, published a catalogue of over three hundred Buddha statues bearing inscriptions and dating from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries found in central Chiang Mai monasteries. This invaluable record is here analyzed in depth as a whole for the first time. It provides further insight into the relationship between Buddha images and donors. Statues were often sponsored through collaboration, reflecting the image’s role in materializing sociokarmic groupings seen as extending through the future. Donor resolutions reflect the significance of producing Buddha statues for Buddhism’s future prosperity as well as for donors’ individual spiritual and material aspirations. Images are often described by material and size, reflecting the relation between financial donation and merit generated. Also, refurbishments to statues indicate how they were never seen as finished, nor their appearance seen as sacrosanct; a statue is a palimpsest of its interactions with devotees through time.
Introduction
Authors: Park Jin Y.
Published: September 2017

HOW AND WHY DO women engage with Buddhism? This is the fundamental question that Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp proposes to answer through discussions of Kim Iryŏp’s (金一葉‎ 1896–1971) life and philosophy. With her Christian background and feminist activist perspective, Kim Iryŏp offers a creative interpretation of how Buddhism as a philosophy and a religion can engage with lived experience. Her awareness of gender discrimination, suffering, and discontent in the secular world led Iryŏp to explore the Buddhist teaching of absolute equality, which conceives of individuals as free beings with infinite capability. She also employs Buddhism to answer existential questions regarding the scope of an individual’s identity, the meaning of being human, and the ultimate value of existence. Moving beyond current Buddhist scholarship on gender, ...
Between Light and Darkness (1896–1920)
Authors: Park Jin Y.
Published: September 2017

Chapter 1 deals with Kim Iryŏp’s childhood and young adult life. Iryŏp was a daughter of a Christian pastor and his wife. She was raised as a faithful Christian, envisioning her future as a Christian missionary. During her teenage years, questions on Christian doctrines eventually led her to lose faith in Christianity. In the 1920s, she actively engaged with women’s movements in Korea, at the forefront of the group known as the New Women. She found society’s control of feminine sexuality in the name of virginity and chastity a visible form of gender discrimination in Korean society and demanded sexual freedom, as well as free love and free divorce. Behind this glitzy life as a public figure, her private life was marked by a series of death in her family that made Iryŏp felt the existential loneliness as the condition of her existence.
Sense and Nonsense of Revolt (1924–1927)
Authors: Park Jin Y.
Published: September 2017

Chapter 3 discusses the philosophical foundation of the New Women’s theory of chastity by exploring Swedish feminist Ellen Key (1849–1926). Key was one of the major sources of influence for the New Women in the United States, Japan, and Korea, during the 1880s, 1910s and 1920s. Relying on Key’s writings, the New Women formulated their visions of women’s liberation and women’s rights in terms of marriage, sexuality, and love, as well as maternity and child-rearing. The chapter also discusses the transition in Iryŏp’s thought from a feminist activist to an existential thinker to better understand her existential reality by exercising what Iryŏp calls new individualism.
A Life Lived
Authors: Park Jin Y.
Published: September 2017

Chapter 7 aims to identify the nature of women’s Buddhist philosophy. Iryŏp’s approach to Buddhism also directs us to different dimensions in which women encounter Buddhist philosophy, which is identified as narrative philosophy, philosophy of life, based on lived experience. By examining Kim Iryŏp’s life and philosophy as a paradigmatic example of women’s philosophy in connection with Buddhism, this chapter brings attention to the way women engage with Buddhism and philosophy and offers a way of philosophizing that challenges the male dominated and Western philosophy based mode of philosophizing.
Imagining Amerika
Authors: Bulloch Hannah C. M.
Published: September 2017

The term “colonial mentality” is popularly used among many Filipinos to refer to a tendency to compare themselves negatively to Amerikanos. This chapter explores the everyday form such deprecating self/other constructions take on Siquijor, shedding light on how these constructions are socially situated and reproduced, their limits and their effects. It shows that comparisons between categories of Filipino and Amerikano must be understood in relation to local hierarchies. On Siquijor, local imaginings of Amerikano lifestyles and bodies not only serve as reference points for ideals of affluence and beauty, but act as markers of prestige in competitions for status between neighbours and kin, sustaining a sense of Amerikano superordinancy. While, on Siquijor, superordinancy usually presumes neither innate nor moral superiority, there is a strong presumption specifically that the “failure” of the Philippines to achieve similar levels of affluence to the US is due to moral deficiencies of the Filipino self.
Performing Development
Authors: Bulloch Hannah C. M.
Published: September 2017

This chapter focuses on development as a “civic project.” It explores local symbols of orchestrated community-wide development, including infrastructure, ceremony and signage. The chapter argues that a defining feature of such symbols is a concern with development as a performative display. Tied as they are to clientelist politics, local government-led development initiatives are largely about “branding” both projects and people in their patron’s name, (re)producing webs of utang kabubut-on(debt of obligation), intended to reinforce the status quo. Entangled in this local political economy of development, are international bilateral and multilateral agencies, equipped with the latest international development orthodoxy and a remit to work in “partnership” with the local government. The incommensurability of these approaches is revealed when “partnership” morphs into a system of largely separate and parallel structures for implementing local development.
Conclusion
Authors: Bulloch Hannah C. M.
Published: September 2017

This book shows that far from simply a narrative about societal change, for many people throughout the world development is a narrative about transforming selves. As such, it both shapes and is shaped by local categories of difference and intergenerational life aspirations. It also shows that notions of development vary not only across localities and between groups, but individuals can at once hold multiple and even contending ideals of development, prioritizing different views in different contexts. These contending notions are underscored by wider tensions in society regarding what constitutes a good life and how we should relate to one another morally, as social and economic beings.
Introduction
Authors: Lowe Bryan D.
Published: September 2017

This chapter introduces the notion of ritualized writing, a specific mode set apart from more quotidian forms. It traces the development of sutra transcription in terms of the “cult of the book” in the Buddhist tradition and highlights similar practices in a variety of religions around the world. It then outlines a practice based approach to ritual that focuses on ethical cultivation and social function, while arguing against a classic functionalist position. The introduction then turns to historiographical issues related to the “state Buddhism model” as well as its critics. It proposes new approaches to get beyond common elite/folk binaries. It outlines the structure and logic of the book and overviews the sources with a detailed description of Shōsōin documents, a collection of roughly 10,000 documents from the eighth century that deal primarily with sutra copying.
Merit, Purity, and Ceremony
Authors: Lowe Bryan D.
Published: September 2017

Chapter one outlines three ways that writing was ritualized in East Asian Buddhism: the discourse of wholesome action and merit that treated sutra transcription as uniquely pious and instrumental; the purification of scribal bodies prior to transcription through practices such as performing ablutions, wearing special garments, and avoiding defilements including meat, death, and illness; and participation in ceremonies to dedicate merit on calendrically significant days, when it was believed that deities descended from the heavens to observe human conduct. It uses a variety of sources from throughout the Buddhist world including quotations from Indic sutras, Dunhuang manuscripts from western China, tales that circulated throughout East Asia, and Shōsōin documents.
Ritual Compositions
Authors: Lowe Bryan D.
Published: September 2017

Chapter two focuses on the prayers inscribed in colophons to sutra manuscripts that were vocalized at the dedication ceremonies studied in chapter one. It argues that ritual and literary expectations generated a particular expression of the cosmos and moral responsibility derived from diverse cultural and literary repertoires not limited to canonical Buddhist texts. It highlights shared structural and stylistic features in prayers throughout East Asia. It looks at the ways patrons praised scripture, mourned the dead, and imagined the realms of rebirth in creative ways that synthesized metaphors and concepts rooted in the Chinese literary tradition with ideas from Buddhist texts. It reflects more broadly on the relationship between literature and ritual.
Introduction
Authors: McDaniel Justin Thomas
Published: September 2017

Of the top thirty tallest statues in the world, 26 are either Buddhas or Bodhisattvas. Buddhists, especially in the 20th century, have been built some of the largest spectacle attractions in global history. The history of these sites in Japan, China, Thailand, Burma, and other places are briefly described followed by the introduction to the contents and the arguments of the book. The book examines the very idea of Buddhist public culture, spectacle culture, and leisure culture, as well as argues that these sites reflect a growing Buddhist ecumenism and the power of affective encounters in teaching Buddhism. It asks the reader to question the very category of “religious” architecture and instead think of the Japanese category of misemono (spectacle attractions) as an unexplored Buddhist category. The theoretical work of Daniel Miller, Miriam Hansen, Johan Huizinga, Michael Taussig, Scott Page, Lauren Rabinovitz, Witold Rybczynski, E.H. Gombrich, Jürgen Habermas, Gregory Seigworth, Eve Sedgwick, Melissa Gregg, Gregory Levine, and others are consulted in developing a material culture approach to the study of modern Buddhist architecture.
The Therapy of Translocal Community
Authors: Avenell Simon
Published: September 2017

This chapter examines the early overseas activities of Japanese environmental activists in the 1960s and 1970s. The chapter traces Ui Jun’s investigations into mercury contamination in Europe, and the tours of the World Environment Investigative Mission in 1975. This latter group consisting of Japanese social and natural scientists and journalists studied forms of pollution in Europe and North America and reported on conditions in Japan to their foreign hosts. The chapter ends with discussion of Japanese environmental activists’ meetings with and support for indigenous Canadians fighting against mercury contamination of their living environment in Ontario.
The Human Limits to Growth
Authors: Avenell Simon
Published: September 2017

This chapter examines Japanese activists’ involvement in the landmark United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972. The chapter traces two narratives: first, the involvement of Ui Jun and industrial pollution disease sufferers in the various nongovernmental conferences run parallel to the main event and, second, the role of the economist Tsuru Shigeto in shaping debates about the limits to growth and the nature of development. The chapter argues that Japanese activists influenced the debate over the environment and development by suggesting that there are clear human health limits to economic growth which must not be violated. Japanese industrial pollution victims were living proof of this.
Pacific Solidarity and Atomic Aggression
Authors: Avenell Simon
Published: September 2017

This chapter traces the emergence and evolution of a transnational movement opposing the planned dumping of Japanese radioactive waste material in the Pacific Ocean near the Mariana Trench. With its growing stockpile of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants, in the 1970s Japanese officials hatched plans to dump radioactive material in steel canisters in the Pacific. In response, activists on islands in Micronesia mobilized in staunch opposition in the late 1970s. They were joined by Japanese antinuclear groups who brought Pacific activists to Japan to give speeches and lobby officials. The chapter explores how this transnational struggle was able to force a postponement and ultimately the abandonment of the ocean dumping plan. As with movements opposing industrial pollution export in the 1970s, this mobilization opened Japanese activists’ eyes to the nuclear victimization of Pacific peoples and, in turn, forced a reconsideration of Japan as the only victim of radiation worldwide.
Introduction
Authors: Holt John Clifford
Published: September 2017

The introduction consists of discussions about the meaning and use of the terms “Theravada” and “ritual cultures.” The introduction also provides an overview of each of the chapters making up the book as a whole.
Upasampada and Pabbajja
Authors: Holt John Clifford
Published: September 2017

This chapter includes a study of a textual account of the origins of the Buddhist monastic sangha (and thus the beginnings of the the ritual of ordination) in the canonical Vinayapitaka (“Book of Discipline”). It then recounts the dramatic economic and social changes witnessed in Thailand in the late 20th c. before recounting how the seemingly ubiquitous practice of temporary ordination into the sangha by Thai males can be contrasted by a study of its observance in a rural village in northwest Thailand with its observance at a powerful and well-endowed temple in the suburbs of Bangkok.
Pchum Ben
Authors: Holt John Clifford
Published: September 2017

This is a study about how the killing of almost two million people by the Khmer Rouge brought about the great importance now attached to an annual ritual that emphasizes assisting the dead in their after-lives by transferring merit for their benefit. The chapter provides accounts of how ritual performances on behalf of the dead are performed at major Buddhist temples in Phnom Penh as well as in the rural areas of Cambodia. There are extensive interviews with the relatives of survivors.
Avoiding the Technological Imperative: Criteria for Genetic Screening Programs
Authors:   Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal, Laberge Anne-Marie ,   Medical Genetics and Research Center, CHU Sainte-Justine, 3175 Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montréal, Qc, Canada, Burke Wylie ,   Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington, Box 357120, Seattle WA 98195, USA
Published: September 2017

Genetic screening is the process of systematically evaluating a defined population for genetic conditions or predispositions, in the hope of providing benefit to those with a positive result. With advances in sequencing technology, genetic screening is moving from phenotype-based to genotype-based testing. Although sequencing technology offers expanded opportunities for early identification of disease, the availability of a suitable and acceptable test is not a sufficient justification to proceed: established criteria for screening apply to genetic screening efforts as to other screening programs. We review here criteria for screening developed in public health practice, applications of screening in genetics, and particular challenges posed by genetic screening. These challenges include the potential for overdiagnosis of rare conditions, the special case of reproductive genetic screening, the pitfalls of opportunistic screening, and the implications of genotype-based population screening for individuals and health care systems. Promising opportunities in genetic screening underscore the need for evidence to evaluate proposed genetic screening programs to determine whether they can meet the established criteria for screening. Some contested issues, such as indications for prenatal screening and opportunistic screening, cannot be resolved by research but also require judgements about values and priorities, ideally involving input from all stakeholders (clinicians, healthcare payers, and the public). If technology capacity is allowed to drive genetic screening activities in the absence of evidence for benefit, a growing number of asymptomatic individuals will receive a genetic diagnosis yet will remain uncertain about whether their test results represent a legitimate diagnosis, overdiagnosis, or a false positive finding. This will in turn drive additional medical work-up and treatment, resulting in costs to the healthcare system and the risk of iatrogenic harm. Criteria for screening were developed to minimize these potential harms and apply to genetic screening as much as to other types of screening.
Percepção e estratégias de equipes pedagógicas em relação ao luto de alunos dos anos iniciais
Authors: Souza Maiara Cardoso dos Santos , Zwolinski Renata Lissa , Glidden Rosina Forteski
Published: September 2017

Morrer é um acontecimento natural, a qualquer momento as crianças podem experienciar o luto e demandar da equipe pedagógica suporte e intervenção. Essa pesquisa teve por objetivo analisar a percepção da equipe pedagógica sobre o luto de alunos dos anos iniciais sobre as possibilidades de acolhimento e intervenção frente a essa demanda e possíveis relações com a vivência de luto dos próprios profissionais. Participaram 33 profissionais de duas escolas de Santa Catarina. Foi aplicado um questionário semiestruturado construído e a análise dos dados foi feita com estatística não paramétrica e análise semântica das perguntas abertas. Os resultados mostraram que os profissionais consideram importante trabalhar o tema luto com os alunos para prepará-los vivenciar a morte de um ente.
Identification of Patch Phase Array Antenna at 28GHz in Different Orientation for 5th Generation Wireless Application
Authors: Kumari Simpal , Barik Deepak Kumar , Mishra Satyasis
Published: September 2017

In this paper a wide band microstrip patch for next generation of wireless communication is proposed with three different configuration of patch array are designed with different orientation and excitation phase at 28GHz for 5th generation application. To think the current generation of the cellular mobile communication the rapidly increasing number of mobile devices, voluminous data and higher data rate are pushing. The proposed antenna is benefited at 28GHz frequency band. For the matching between radiating patch and the microstrip feedline inset feeding technique is used. With different orientation the excitation are changed to study the radiation pattern of each patch array antenna. The parameter presented , ,radiation pattern ,gain, directivity after simulation using HFSS software. The designed antenna are able to operate at 28 GHz which is shown by simulation result.antenna1 provide beam shifting cover the angle up to 60,and antenna2 beam shifting cover the angle up to 47 while the antenna3 is 102.Based on the simulation result at 28GHz the proposed antenna can cover 5G requirements. the gain of antenna is 9.20 dB with a directivity 7.42 dB and a bandwidth of more than 3GHz is obtained.