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Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art
Authors: Irish Sharon 
Published: December 2020

This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant.
For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish’s study demonstrates the power of Willats’s multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about “audience” and “art.” Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.
Women and Evacuation in the Second World War
Authors: Andrews Maggie 
Published: December 2020

Groups of young evacuees, standing on railway stations with gas masks and cardboard suitcases have become an iconic image of wartime Britain, but their histories have eclipsed those of women whose domestic lives were affected. This book explores the effects of this unparalleled interference in the domestic lives of women, looking at the impact on everyday experience and on ideas of femininity, domesticity and motherhood.
Maggie Andrews argues that wartime evacuation is important for understanding the experience and the contested meanings of domesticity and motherhood in the 20th century. As this book shows, evacuation represents a significant and unrecognised area of women’s war work, and precipitated the rise of competing public discourses about domestic labour and motherhood.
Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy
Authors: Gadamer Hans-Georg 
Published: December 2020

Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy collects together Gadamer’s remaining important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics. In these writings, Gadamer examines important thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bourdieu and Habermas and their ongoing legacies.
This volume includes a preface by the editors and translators, presenting the structure of the volume, and a substantial introduction situating Gadamer’s particular project and examining the place of hermeneutics in relation to the disciplines of history and philosophy in the 20th century. The translation is followed by a glossary of German terms and Greek and Latin expressions, as well as a bibliography of all the works cited and alluded to by Gadamer. Together, the essays and critical apparatus provide an overarching account of Gadamer’s understanding of human life as embedded within history.
Sakhiyani
Authors: Thadani Giti 
Published: December 2020

The product of many years of research, this unique book presents fascinating perspectives on contemporary lesbian life in India and unravels some of the history of lesbian desire from centuries past.
Through detailed examination of mythology, cosmology, ancient art and artefacts and her exegesis of ancient Sanskrit texts, Thadani constructs a tapestry of feminine kinship, genealogy and sexual or erotic bonding between women (sakhiyani) in ancient India. The author offers an historical perspective on the effect of colonization upon lesbian identities in India, showing how women were viewed by Western imperialists either as soft victims or as sexually dangerous, possessing an overgrown clitoris and in need of heterosexual domestication.
The second half of the book focuses on contemporary lesbian realities and issues, including lesbian marriages, suicide pacts, forging lesbian space, lesbian human rights, lesbophobia, sexual exile and the different construction of gender, family and possible kinship alliances.
Pearl Jam's Vs.
Authors: Brownlee Clint 
Published: December 2020

Vs. is the sound of a band on fire. The same confluence of talent, passion, timing, and fate that made “grunge” the world’s soundtrack also lit a short fuse beneath Pearl Jam. The band combusted between late 1992 and mid-1994, the span during which they planned, recorded, and supported their sophomore record. The spotlight, the pressure, the pace—it all nearly turned the thriving act to ash.
Eddie Vedder, the reluctant public face of the band, responded by lashing out lyrically. Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, and Stone Gossard, who beheld success with varying degrees of anxious satisfaction, attacked their instruments in solidarity. Dave Abbruzzese welcomed the rock-star lifestyle, and left his mark on the record with more than just potent percussion.
Vs. roils with fury—and at times, gently steams—over the trappings of fame, human faults, and societal injustice. The record is a thrashing testament to Pearl Jam’s urgent creativity and greater-good interests, and the band’s logistical calculations behind it drew a career-defining line in the sand. It promised the world that Pearl Jam would neither burn out nor fade away. This book weaves research, little-known details, and band members’ memories into a definitive account of how Vs. set them on a path toward enduring integrity and relevance.
Musician in the Museum
Authors: Fairchild Charles 
Published: December 2020

In recent years, popular music museums have been established in high profile locations in many of the presumed “musical capitals” of the world, such as Los Angeles, Liverpool, Seattle, Memphis, and Nashville. Most of these are defined by expansive experiential infrastructures centered around spectacular, high-tech displays of varying sizes and types. Through over-the-top acts of display, these museums influence and reflect the values and priorities in the public life of popular music.
This book examines the phenomenon of the popular music museum outside the typical and familiar frames of heritage and tourism. Instead, it looks at these institutions as markers of the broader entertainment industry in the era of its rise to global dominance. It highlights the multiple manifestations of power as read across a range of institutions and material forms and discusses how this contributes to shaping the experience of popular culture.
Access and Cartel Cases
Authors: Andersson Helene 
Published: December 2020

This book examines the legislative patchwork surrounding access to the European Commission’s cartel case files.
Recent legislative changes have increased the value of the files and have also highlighted the inherent tension between a number of competing interests affecting their accessibility. The Commission is undoubtedly caught between a rock and a hard place, charged with the task of ensuring due process, transparency and effectiveness, while at the same time promoting both public and private enforcement of the EU competition rules. The author considers how best to ensure a proper balance between the legitimate but often diverging interests of parties, third parties and national competition authorities in these cases.
The book provides a unique and comprehensive presentation of the EU legislation and case law surrounding access to the Commission’s cartel case files. The author examines the question of accessibility from three different perspectives: that of the parties under investigation, cartel victims and national competition authorities. The author also considers the EU leniency system and whether any legislative changes could make the attractiveness of the system less dependent on the possibilities for cartel victims to access the evidence contained in the Commission’s case files.
Volume 28 in the series Hart Studies in Competition Law
Pease, Chitty and Cousins
Authors: Cousins Edward F , Wilson Graham 
Published: December 2020

Containing in-depth commentary and analysis on the history of market and fair rights together with current developments in the law relating to franchise and statutory markets in the UK, this is the leading authority covering this complex area of law in the UK. Concentrating on certain aspects of practice and procedure, it provides practical guidance for local government and land law practitioners in the UK and Ireland, local authorities and private market officers.
Offering legal analysis of all relevant UK and European legislation and case law, coverage includes:
- practice and procedure in relation to rival markets and car boot sales by use of the tort of disturbance
- UK regulation and control by means of byelaws, street trading and the laws relating to pedlars, tolls and stallage, and highway obstruction
- the law of markets, fairs and street trading in the Republic of Ireland
This new edition also provides a practical toolkit of model byelaws and precedents for market officers and local authorities as well as analysis of EU implications post Brexit.
Caravaggio
Authors: Bersani Leo , Dutoit Ulysse 
Published: December 2020

Caravaggio (1986), Derek Jarman's portrait of the Italian Baroque artist, shows the painter at work with models drawn from Rome's homeless and prostitutes, and his relationship with two very different lovers: Ranuccio, played by Sean Bean, and Lena, played by Tilda Swinton. It is probably the closest Derek Jarman came to a mainstream film. And yet the film is a uniquely complex and lucid treatment of Jarman's major concerns: violence, history, homosexuality, and the relation between film and painting. In particular, according to Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Caravaggio is unlike Jarman's other work in avoiding a sentimentalising of gay relationships and in making no neat distinction between the exercise and the suffering of violence.
Film-making involves a coercive power which, for Bersani and Dutoit, Jarman may, without admitting it to himself, have found deeply seductive. But in Caravaggio this power is renounced, and the result is Jarman’s most profound, unsettling and astonishing reflection on sexuality and identity.
The Matrix
Authors: Clover Joshua 
Published: December 2020

The Matrix (1999), directed by the Wachowski sisters and produced by Joel Silver, was a true end-of-the-millennium movie, a statement of the American zeitgeist, and, as the original film in a blockbusting franchise, a prognosis for the future of big-budget Hollywood film-making.
Starring Keanu Reeves as Neo, a computer programmer transformed into a messianic freedom fighter, The Matrix blends science fiction with conspiracy thriller conventions and outlandish martial arts created with groundbreaking digital techniques. A box-office triumph, the film was no populist confection: its blatant allusions to highbrow contemporary philosophy added to its appeal as a mystery to be decoded.
In this compelling study, Joshua Clover undertakes the task of decoding the film. Examining The Matrix's digital effects and how they were achieved, he shows how the film represents a melding of cinema and video games (the greatest commercial threat to have faced Hollywood since the advent of television) and achieves a hybrid kind of immersive entertainment. He also unpacks the movie's references to philosophy, showing how The Matrix ultimately expresses the crisis American culture faced at the end of the 1990s.
Decolonizing Theory
Authors: Nigam Aditya 
Published: December 2020

Decolonizing Theory: Thinking across Traditions aims at disentangling theory from its exclusively Western provenance, drawing insights and concepts from other thought traditions, connecting to what it argues is a new global moment in the reconstitution of theory. The key argument, which is the point of departure of the book, is that any serious theorizing in the non-West should be fundamentally suspicious of any theory that only gives you one result-that four-fifths of the world does not and cannot do anything right. Everything in the non-West, from its modernity and secularism to its democracy and even capitalism, is always seen to be deficient. In other words, all it tells us is that we do not live up to the standards set by Western modernity. From this point of departure, it seeks to create a conceptual space outside (Western) modernity and capitalism, by insisting on a rethink of non-synchronous synchronicities.
The book takes three key themes around which the whole story of modernity can be unraveled, namely the question of the political, capital and historical time, and secularism for a detailed discussion. It does so by bracketing, in a sense, the autobiographical story that Western modernity gives itself. In each case, it tries to show that past forms never simply disappear, without residue, to be fully supplanted by the modern, and merely applying theory produced in one context to another is, therefore, very misleading.
The association of diabetes with ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attacks in a tertiary center in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Homoud Bareen , Alhakami Alanoud , Almalki Malak , Shaheen Miselareem , Althubaiti Alaa , AlKhathaami Ali , Khatri Ismail A. 
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:
Diabetes mellitus increases stroke risk 1.5 to 3 fold, particularly ischemic stroke. There is limited literature on the impact of diabetes on stroke patients in Saudi Arabia.

OBJECTIVES:
Determine the association of diabetes on the presentation, subtypes, in-hospital complications and outcomes of ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).

DESIGN:
IRB approved, retrospective chart review.

SETTING:
Tertiary care center.

PATIENTS AND METHODS:
All adult patients with ischemic stroke or TIA aged 18 years or older admitted from January 2016 to December 2017 were included.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:
Stroke severity at presentation, stroke-related complications, discharge disposition and discharge modified Rankin Scale (mRS) in relation to diabetes.

SAMPLE SIZE:
802 patients.

RESULTS:

Among 802 cases, 584 (72.8%) had diabetes; the majority (63.1%) were males. The mean age was younger in the non-diabetic stroke group (54.6 [15.5] years vs. 63.3 [9.9],
P
<.001). Hypertension (83.6% vs 49.1%,
P
<.001), dyslipidemia (38.9% vs. 28.9%,
P
=.009), prior stroke (27.7% vs. 19.3%
P
=.014), and ischemic heart disease (20.4% vs. 7.8%,
P
<.001) were more common in diabetic patients whereas smoking was more common (19.3% vs. 11.1%,
P
=.003) in the non-diabetic patients. The commonest subtype of stroke was large artery disease followed by small vessel disease. Both were more common in diabetic vs. non-diabetic patients (55.8% vs. 44%,
P
=.003), and (16.6% vs. 11%,
P
=.05) respectively. Diabetic stroke patients were more likely to have lacunar stroke (16.4% versus 9.2%,
P
=.009). TIAs occurred more commonly in the non-diabetic group (26.1% vs. 13.7%,
P
<.001). Non-diabetic patients had a better outcome (mRS score of 0–2) at discharge (62.4% vs. 45.9%,
P
=.002).

CONCLUSIONS:
Almost three-fourth stroke patients were diabetic in our cohort. Diabetic stroke patients were older, had multiple vascular comorbid conditions, presented late to the hospital, and were likely to have more disability at the time of discharge. Large vessel atherosclerosis as well as lacunar infarctions were more common in diabetic stroke patients.

LIMITATIONS:
Missing data about time of presentation in few patients, missing modified Rankin Scale score at discharge.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
None.
Endobronchial valve vs coil for lung volume reduction in emphysema: results from a tertiary care centre in Turkey
Authors: Dumanli Ahmet , Metin Bayram , Gunay Ersin 
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:
Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) by either the endobronchial valve (EBV) or coil (EBC) procedure is recommended for severe emphysematous patients. BLVR applications generally help healthy lung areas ventilate more comfortably by reducing the hyperinflation and improving the contraction capacity of diaphragm.

OBJECTIVES:
Compare our experience with valve and coil BLVR devices.

DESIGN:
Retrospective.

SETTING:
Single tertiary care centre.

PATIENTS AND METHODS:
Demographic data, vital signs, pulmonary function tests (PFTs), the six-minute walking test (6MWT), vital signs, arterial blood gases and complications were recorded.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:
Change in PFTs and completion of the 6MWT.

SAMPLE SIZE:
60 Turkish men with a diagnosis of chronic pulmonary lung disease.

RESULTS:

Clinical and demographic characteristics were similar in patients who underwent EBV and EBC. Thirty (96.8%) EBV patients and 27 (93.1%) of the EBC patients were able to properly complete the PFT before the procedures, but all complied after the procedures. Significant improvement in PFTs were achieved after the procedure and there were no statistically significant differences in post-procedure performance. For the 6MWT, the completion rate improved from 15 (48.4%) to 19 (61.3%) patients in the EBV patients (
P
=.125) and from 19 (65.5%) to 21 (72.4%) patients in the EBC patients (
P
=.500). There was no significant difference in completion rates for the walking test for either group (median 32 meters in EBV patients and 37 meters in EBC patients;
P
=.652). Vital signs and arterial blood gases were similar in the two groups. The rates of complications were similar in both groups.

CONCLUSION:
Endobronchial valves and coils are safe and effective methods for BLVR for patients with severe emphysema.

LIMITATIONS:
Relatively small sample, retrospective design, single-centre retrospective study.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
None.
Consensus Statement of the Saudi Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery on practice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Nadershah Mohammed , Al-Sebaei Maisa , AlJabbab Abdulsalam , AlMajid Emtenan , AlShadwi Ahmad 
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT
The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has impacted essentially every country's healthcare system in extraordinary ways, fundamentally changing the way we deliver care. The practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery is no exception. In response to this global health crisis, the Saudi Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery has prepared this consensus statement to inform our clinical and other medical colleagues and the public at large on proper procedures during this time. The statement is based on the best scientific evidence available and follows the guidelines put forth by the Saudi Ministry of Health on the COVID-19 response. It explains how to manage and triage oral and maxillofacial patients based on the level of care needed at the time of clinical presentation.
A second wave of COVID-19 in Cook County: What lessons can be applied?
Authors: Arling Gregory , Blaser Matthew , Cailas Michael , Canar John , Cooper Brian , Geraci Peter , Osiecki Kristin , Sambanis Apostolis 
Published: December 2020

During the ongoing public health crisis, many agencies are reporting COVID-19 health outcome information based on the overall population. This practice can lead to misleading results and underestimation of high risk areas. To gain a better understanding of spatial and temporal distribution of COVID-19 deaths; the long term care facility (LTCF) and household population (HP) deaths must be used. This approach allows us to better discern high risk areas and provides policy makers with reliable information for community engagement and mitigation strategies. By focusing on high-risk LTCFs and residential areas, protective measures can be implemented to minimize COVID-19 spread and subsequent mortality. These areas should be a high priority target when COVID-19 vaccines become available.
A framework for comparing R&D productivity at big pharma companies vs. biotech startups
Authors: Murphey Richard 
Published: December 2020

Biopharmaceutical research and development (R&D) productivity has been steadily declining for several decades. Preliminary evidence suggests that this trend is stabilizing or reversing. One hypothesis explaining this improvement in R&D productivity is that the industry has shifted early-stage R&D activity from large multinational pharmaceutical companies to more smaller venture-backed startup companies. We examine recent trends in FDA approvals and biopharmaceutical R&D investment to develop a framework to evaluate whether small companies are more productive at R&D than larger companies.
The lexical semantics of blaguer: French ways of bringing people together through persuasion, deception and laughter
Authors: Waters Sophia 
Published: December 2020

This study presents a lexical semantic analysis of the French verb blaguer and related expressions. This verb belongs to a suite of “French humour practices”, and French-English dictionaries translate it as ‘to joke’. However, Anglo-specific terminology such as “joke” does not match the conceptual semantics of blaguer and its related noun blague. Relying on Anglo-specific terms to categorise culture-specific practices perpetuates conceptual and terminological Anglocentrism. This study furthers the call to avoid the dangers of sustaining Anglocentrism in the theoretical vocabulary of humour studies (Goddard & Mullan 2020; Goddard 2018; Wierzbicka 2014a). Working from the assumption that semantic categories reflect particular ways of speaking, thinking, and behaving, this study’s goal is to capture the insider perspective that French speakers have about the meaning of the verb blaguer and the noun blague. Making local understandings more obvious and accessible to cultural and linguistic outsiders will increase cross-cultural understanding and foster appreciation for the different ways that speakers construct and interpret their world with words (Levisen & Waters 2017). The analytical tool for this study is the technique of semantic explication couched in the simple cross-translatable and culture-neutral words of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (Goddard & Wierzbicka 2014). Carefully chosen example sentences are drawn from Google searches (google.fr) of authentic language use of the verb blaguer and the noun blague. Comparative reference is made to the verb ‘to joke’ from Australian English to highlight the differences in the conversational humour cultures of French and English speakers (Goddard & Mullan 2020; Béal & Mullan 2013, 2017).
Multilevel effects of alcohol among early adolescents in an urban school district
Authors: Croff Julie , Cox Ronald , Washburn Isaac , Liu Chao , Broadbent Clinton 
Published: December 2020

Aims: To examine how interpersonal interactions within and between the social networks formed by teachers, parents, students, and others shape the unique culture of the school, which in turn, reciprocally exerts a determining influence on each individual in the network.
Design: Cross-sectional study exploring whether factors associated with alcohol use at the individual level also exert influence on the culture of a school.
Setting: Twelve middle schools within an urban school district in the Midwestern United States.
Participants: Seventh grade students (N = 1,620).
Measures: Lifetime alcohol use behaviors; mothers’ and fathers’ involvement in their child’s education; and peer deviance.
Findings: The findings of this study suggest that as parents’ involvement in education increases, and as peer deviance decreases, there are direct benefits to the child, and a protective effect for other children within the school when, in the aggregate, parental involvement increases and peer deviance decreases.
Conclusions: The effect of interventions to improve parent involvement and reduce peer deviance, with examinations at the individual-level and school-level, warrant future study.