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On Pólya–Szegö and Čebyšev type inequalities via generalized k-fractional integrals
Authors: Rashid Saima , Jarad Fahd , Kalsoom Humaira , Chu Yu-Ming 
Published: March 2020

AbstractIn this paper, we introduce the generalizedk-fractional integral in terms of a new parameter$k>0$k>0, present some new important inequalities of Pólya–Szegö and Čebyšev types by use of the generalizedk-fractional integral. Our consequences with this new integral operator have the abilities to implement the evaluation of many mathematical problems related to real world applications.
Risk of hypoglycemia associated with repaglinide combined with clopidogrel, a retrospective cohort study
Authors: Akagi Yuuki , Iketaki Akiko , Kimura Haruna , Matsudaira Yuki , Yoshida Takami , Nishimura Takahiro , Kawano Yohei , Mano Yasunari , Shigematsu Erina , Ujihara Makoto 
Published: March 2020

Abstract
Background
Repaglinide is widely prescribed to reduce postprandial hyperglycemia and elevated glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels associated with type 2 diabetes, and clopidogrel is a thienopyridine antiplatelet agent and widely used in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. It has been suggested that the concomitant use of repaglinide with clopidogrel may inhibit repaglinide metabolism, because repaglinide is a substrate of cytochrome P450 2C8 (CYP2C8) and the main metabolite of clopidogrel acyl-β-D-glucuronide inhibits CYP2C8 activity. In this study, we retrospectively investigated the effect of clopidogrel with repaglinide on plasma glucose and the risk of hypoglycemia associated with the combination of both drugs.

Method
Patients were taking clopidogrel (75 mg/day) and started taking glinide (1.5 mg/day repaglinide or 30 mg/day mitiglinide) for the first time from April 2012 to March 2017. We targeted subjects who were hospitalized at the start of glinide and whose preprandial plasma glucose was measured by a nurse. The glucose levels were collected for up to 5 days before and after the glinide start date.

Results
Average fasting plasma glucose levels (before breakfast) in the repaglinide and clopidogrel group before and after starting repaglinide were 180.1±35.5 and 136.5 ± 44.1 mg/dL, with a mean decrease of 43.6 ± 33.6 mg/dL. In contrast, there was only a moderate decrease of 11.6 ± 30.0 mg/dL in the mitiglinide and clopidogrel group. Minimum plasma glucose levels in the repaglinide and clopidogrel group before and after starting repaglinide were 145.2 ± 42.9 and 93.3 ± 36.3 mg/dL, respectively. Decrease in minimum levels after starting glinide in the repaglinide and clopidogrel group (51.9 ± 47.5 mg/dL) was more significant than those in the mitiglinide and clopidogrel group (only 2.1 ± 29.1 mg/dL), and the repaglinide group (without clopidogrel, 15.5 ± 20.0 mg/dL). Hypoglycemia was observed in 6 of 15 patients in the repaglinide and clopidogrel group, but only 1 of 15 patients in the mitiglinide and clopidogrel group, and no patients in the repaglinide group.

Conclusion
These findings indicate that minimum plasma glucose levels were significantly decreased in patients taking repaglinide and clopidogrel. Considering the risk of hypoglycemia associated with taking repaglinide and clopidogrel, when a glinide is required in patients taking clopidogrel, mitiglinide may be a better choice.
Effect of cold storage on the performance of Trichogramma bourarachae (Pintureau and Babault) (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)
Authors: Abbes Khaled , Zouba Anis , Harbi Ahlem , Chermiti Brahim 
Published: March 2020

AbstractIn Tunisia, the use of the egg parasitoid trichogrammatid wasps to cope with several economic pests is gaining increasing attention. Trichogramma bourarachae (Pintureau & Babault) is among the Trichogramma wasps naturally present in Tunisia and regarded as a potential natural enemy to be used in biological control programs of many lepidopteran pests that cause economic losses. The propensity of T. bourarachae to cold storage with and without diapause induction was studied. The effect of this technique on its emergence rate and parasitic activity was investigated. The study showed that wasps of T. bourarachae treated at the induction temperature of 15 °C for 5 days can be stored at 4 ± 1 °C for more than 30 days without significant loss of their performances. By using this prestorage temperature, T. bourarachae could keep its emergence capacity (77.5%) up to 60 days of cold storage at 4 ± 1 °C. However, its parasitic activity decreased significantly (37.16%) after 45 days of cold storage. These results are promising for its mass production, transport, and release in the framework of national campaigns to control several agricultural pests of economic importance.
Clinical characteristics and care pathways of patients with personality disorder who died by suicide
Authors: Flynn Sandra , Graney Jane , Nyathi Thabiso , Raphael Jessica , Abraham Seri , Singh-Dernevik Sandeep , Williams Alyson , Kapur Nav , Appleby Louis , Shaw Jenny 
Published: March 2020

Background
It is estimated that 1 in 10 people have a personality disorder. People with emotionally unstable personality disorder are at high risk of suicide. Despite being frequent users of mental health services, there is often no clear pathway for patients to access effective treatments.

Aims
To describe the characteristics of patients with personality disorder who died by suicide, examine clinical care pathways and explore whether the care adhered to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance.

Method
National consecutive case series (1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013). The study examined the health records and serious incident reports of patients with personality disorder who died by suicide in the UK.

Results
The majority had a diagnosis of borderline/emotionally unstable or antisocial personality disorder. A high proportion of patients had a history of self-harm (n = 146, 95%) and alcohol (n = 101, 66%) or drug misuse (n = 79, 52%). We found an extensive pattern of service contact in the year before death, with no clear pathway for patients. Care was inconsistent and there were gaps in service provision. In 99 (70%) of the 141 patients with data, the last episode of care followed a crisis. Access to specialised psychological therapies was limited; short-term in-patient admissions was adhered to; however, guidance on short-term prescribing for comorbid conditions was not followed for two-thirds of patients.

Conclusions
Continuity and stability of care is required to prevent, rather than respond to individuals in crisis. A comprehensive audit of services for people with personality disorder across the UK is recommended to assess the quality of care provided.
The ACA's Choice Problem
Authors: Hoffman Allison K. 
Published: March 2020

AbstractThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) is in many ways a success. Millions more Americans now have access to health care, and the ACA catalyzed advances in health care delivery reform. Simultaneously, it has reinforced and bolstered a problem at the heart of American health policy and regulation: a love affair with choice. The ACA's insurance reforms doubled down on the particularly American obsession with choice. This article describes three ways in which that doubling down is problematic for the future of US health policy. First, pragmatically, health policy theory predicts that choice among health plans will produce tangible benefits that it does not actually produce. Most people do not like choosing among health plan options, and many people—even if well educated and knowledgeable—do not make good choices. Second, creating the regulatory structures to support these choices built and reinforced a massive market bureaucracy. Finally, and most important, philosophically and sociologically the ACA reinforces the idea that the goal of health regulation should be to preserve choice, even when that choice is empty. This vicious cycle seems likely to persist based on the lead up to the 2020 presidential election.
The Affordable Care Act's Enduring Resilience
Authors: Levitt Larry 
Published: March 2020

Abstract
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has taken numerous blows, both from the courts and from opponents seeking to undermine it. Yet, due to its policy design and the political forces the ACA has unleashed, the law has shown remarkable resilience. While there remain ongoing efforts to undo the ACA, the smart money has to be on its continued existence.
What Is the Affordable Care Act a Case of? Understanding the ACA through the Comparative Method
Authors: Jarman Holly , Greer Scott L. 
Published: March 2020

AbstractInternational comparisons of US health care are common but mostly focus on comparing its performance to peers or asking why the United States remains so far from universal coverage. Here the authors ask how other comparative research could shed light on the unusual politics and structure of US health care and how the US experience could bring more to international conversations about health care and the welfare state. After introducing the concept of casing—asking what the Affordable Care Act (ACA) might be a case of—the authors discuss different “casings” of the ACA: complex legislation, path dependency, demos-constraining institutions, deep social cleavages, segmentalism, or the persistence of the welfare state. Each of these pictures of the ACA has strong support in the US-focused literature. Each also cases the ACA as part of a different experience shared with other countries, with different implications for how to analyze it and what we can learn from it. The final section discusses the implications for selecting cases that might shed light on the US experience and that make the United States look less exceptional and more tractable as an object of research.
Philip Jaisohn, the Political Evangelist, 1896–98
Authors: Choi Young-Chan 
Published: March 2020

Abstract
The objective of this article is twofold: first to argue that Philip Jaisohn, upon his return from the United States to Korea in 1896, sought to subvert, if not overthrow, the monarchical government, and second, to argue that Jaisohn drew on specifically Christian intellectual and ideological resources to articulate his arguments. The rhetoric of loyalty, love, lawful resistance, private property, and slavery are, as such, in need of analysis through the Protestant conceptual prism. Previous studies analyzing modern political thought have focused on the nature of translation from the West; this study focuses on the conceptual aspect of the political language Jaisohn introduced in order to effect revolutionary changes in the popular vernacular. His goal was not just to present resistance against the incumbent governing authority as morally defensible, but to frame it in terms of the right of individual property. Finally the article suggests avenues through which religious thinking affected the reception and dissemination of Western political thought in Korea, and concludes by reflecting on the relevance of religious thought in the analysis of modern Korean political thought.
Creating a “Home Away from Home”: Korean Women’s Performances of the Imaginary American Home at US Military Clubs in South Korea, 1955–64
Authors: Lee Yu Jung 
Published: March 2020

AbstractThis article considers the proliferation of Korean native camp shows and the roles of Korean women entertainers at the military service clubs of the Eighth United States Army in Korea in the 1950s and the 1960s. The role of the “American sweethearts” in USO camp shows—to create a “home away from home” and boost the morale of the American troops during wartime—was carried out by female Korean entertainers in the occupied zone at a critical moment in US-ROK relations during the Cold War. The article argues that Korean entertainers at military clubs were meant to perform the entertainment of “home” and evoke nostalgia for American soldiers by imitating well-known American singers and songs. However, what they performed as America was not simply the reproduction of American entertainment but often a manifestation of their imagination; they were constructing their own version of the American home. Their hybrid styles of American performance were indicative of how the discourse of the American home itself was constructed around ambivalence, the very site where women entertainers were enabled to exceed the rigid boundaries of race and gender, transcend their roles as imitators, and exercise their agency by productively negotiating this ambivalence.
The Reaction Pathway Leading to Dinuclear Rhodium and Iridium Complexes from Alkyne-Containing Bisphosphine Ligands
Authors: Sasakura Kohei , Okamoto Kazuhiro , Sakaki Shigeyoshi , Ohe Kouichi 
Published: March 2020

Abstract
A mechanistic study of a series of dinuclear complexes produced by the complexation of alkyne-containing bisphosphine ligands with Ir and Rh has been performed by experimental analysis as well as density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The key process is oxidative cyclization involving two metals and two alkyne-containing ligands 1. The related alkyne-bridged dimer 7, considered as an intermediate, was determined using X-ray measurements. The DFT calculation supported that the core metals alter the reorganization pathways from alkyne-bridged dimer, leading to the unique structures 4 and 5.
Three-dimensional versus four-dimensional dose calculation for breast intensity-modulated radiation therapy
Authors: Chung Joo-Hyun , Chun Minsoo , Kim Jung-in , Park Jong Min , Shin Kyung Hwan 
Published: March 2020

Objective:
To analyze the effect of intra- and interfractional motion during breast intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) by calculating dose distribution based on four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT).

Methods:
20 patients diagnosed with left breast cancer were enrolled. Three-dimensional CT (3DCT) along with 10 phases of 4DCT were collected for each patient, with target volumes independently delineated on both 3DCT and all phases of 4DCT. IMRT plans were generated based on 3DCT (43.2 Gy in 16 fractions). The plan parameters for each segment were split into phases based on time duration estimates for each respiratory phase, with phase-specific dose distributions calculated and summated (4D-calculated dose). The procedure is repeated for 16 fractionations by randomly allocating starting phase using random-number generation to simulate interfractional discrepancy caused by different starting phase. Comparisons of plan quality between the original and 4D-calculated doses were analyzed.

Results:
There was a significant distortion in 4D-calculated dose induced by respiratory motion in terms of conformity and homogeneity index compared to those of the original 3D plan. Mean doses of the heart and the ipsilateral lung were significantly higher in the 4D-calculated doses compared to those of the original 3D plan (0.34 Gy, p = 0.010 and 0.59 Gy, p &lt; 0.001), respectively). The mean internal mammary lymph node (IMN) dose was significantly greater in the 4D-calculated plan, compared to the original 3D plan (1.42 Gy, p &lt; 0.001).

Conclusions:
IMN doses should be optimized during the dose-calculation for the free-breathing left breast IMRT.

Advances in knowledge:
The interplay effect between respiratory motion and multileaf collimator modulation caused discrepancies in dose distribution, particularly in IMN.
Determinants of preeclampsia and eclampsia among women delivering in county hospitals in Nairobi, Kenya
Authors: Logan Gorbee G. , Njoroge Peter K. , Nyabola Lambert O. , Mweu Marshal M. 
Published: March 2020

Background: Preeclampsia is defined as the onset of a new episode of high blood pressure in a woman usually after 20 weeks gestation plus proteinuria, whereas eclampsia is defined as generalized seizures in a pregnant woman who generally has preeclampsia criteria. Preeclampsia and eclampsia are hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and thus, among the top causes of maternal death worldwide. The objective of this study was to investigate risk factors for preeclampsia/eclampsia. Methods: This was a hospital-based unmatched case-control study carried out among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) who have given birth at Nairobi County Hospitals and admitted to the postnatal ward July-September 2019 with a sample size of 352 participants (88 cases and 264 controls). All cases were selected, while controls were simple random sampled, as per eligibility criteria. Information or data were gathered using a structured interviewer-administered questionnaire and data abstraction tool. Descriptive analysis was carried out, where, categorical variables were presented in percentages or proportions, whereas; continuous variables were presented in means, standard deviations, and range. This was followed by a bivariable mixed-effect logistic regression analysis and a multivariable mixed-effect logistic regression analysis using the significant variables from bivariable analysis. Results: Of all the 88 cases enrolled in the study 5 (5.68%) had eclampsia and 83 (94.32%) had preeclampsia. There was a significant association between personal history of hypertension (AOR=7.1; 95% CI: 2.6-19.3, p=0.001), Occupation as a housewife (AOR=3.1; 95% CI: 1.1-8.8, p=0.034), nulliparity (AOR=7.5; 95% CI: 1.5-37.5, p=0.015) , primiparity (AOR=2.1; 95% CI: 1.1-4.2, p=0.031), advanced maternal age 35-49 years (AOR=5.9; 95% CI: 1.1-33.3, p=0.042), and the occurrence of preeclampsia/eclampsia. Conclusions: The following conclusions were made regarding the study findings: Personal history of hypertension, older/advanced maternal age (35-49 years), occupation, and parity were factors significantly associated with preeclampsia/eclampsia.
EL GIRO DE LA TRADUCCIÓN EN LA CULTURA VISUAL
Authors: Di Paola Modesta 
Published: March 2020

Este volumen de REGAC se propone investigar la alianza teórica entre el arte visual y la traducción. El concepto de traducción visual se relaciona con una noción hermenéutica que reflexiona sobre las complejidades del artefacto artístico contemporáneo, pero también con un intento epistemológico de reflexionar entorno a los intercambios culturales y lingüísticos que se dan entre sujetos y eventos internacionales. Los artículos reunidos en cuatro ejes temáticos, o zonas de contactos – lingüística, cultural, intercultural e intermedial - permiten validar la teorización de un giro de la traducción dentro de la teoría del arte visual en los últimos veinte años
Antoni Muntadas. La traducción visual como un «prototipar»: gesto poético y hospitalario
Authors: Avendaño Lynda 
Published: March 2020

Antoni Muntadas, artista poliédrico, ha desarrollado una extensa producción, dentro de la que podemos encontrar proyectos paradigmáticos cuyas obras el artista denomina artefactos, que son propuestas de marcado carácter dialogante con la alteridadde la otredad. Entre ellos se encuentra The File Roomque se inicia en 1994; On Translationque comienza en 1995 —en Helsinki— que son una serie de obras-proyecto que nacen de mixturas intermediales de carácter trasnacional (un conjunto de works in progress); y Asian Protocols,proyecto que comienza 2011. Todas son proyectos —donde utiliza las exposiciones como dispositivos comunicacionales—, marcadas por una voluntad visible de que los espectadores, sean coautores o participes activos de ellas para lo cual el artista se encarga de exponer y/o destacar las consecuencias de sus artefactos. El proceso de traducción involucrado en las obras de Muntadas pasa no únicamente por la hospitalidad a la alteridadde laotredad, sino por su capacidad de asumir poéticamente que el arte en su concepción benjaminiana es uno de los instrumentos de comunicación más capaces de activar la conciencia estética y social de las personas.Y en ese «prototipar» —en la acepción del procomún—el artista busca diluir los yoconceptuales que habitan en las obras que dirigen los significados de los signos, para dar paso a un diálogo crítico y hospitalario con la alteridad de la otredad. Antoni Muntadas, a polyhedron like artist, has developed an extensive production in which we can find paradigmatic projects with works the artist calls artifacts, meaning projects with a strong conversational connotation with alterityand the otherness. Among them we find The File Roominitiated in 1994: On Translationwhich started in 1995 in Helsinki a series of works-projects arise from intermediary mixtures of transitional connotations (works in progress); and Asian Protocols, a project that started in 2011. All of them are initiatives in which exhibits are used as communication tools with a clear willingness of making the audience be them co- authors or active participants, for that purpose the artist takes responsibility on exposing and/or highlighting the consequences of its artifacts. The translation process involved in Muntade’s works does not only involve hospitality for alterityand the otherness, but it also poetically assumes that art, on its Benjaminian conception, is one of the most efficient tools when it comes to activate people’s aesthetic and social consciousness.And creating a «prototype»—in the sense of the commons— the artist tries to dilute conceptual egos in his works that direct meaning of the sign to give way to a critical and hospitable dialogue with alterityand the otherness.
Characterization of scattering losses in tapered optical fibers perturbed by a microfiber tip
Authors: Zhang Pengfei , Wang Xin , Song Lijun , Wang Chenxi , Li Gang , Zhang Tiancai 
Published: March 2020

We demonstrate the characterization of the exponential-decay scattering losses in a tapered optical fiber (TOF) based on near-field-probe-induced scattering. A hemispherical microfiber tip (MFT) with a diameter of 37.3 µm is immersed into the evanescent field of a TOF and induces scattering losses of the TOF. The near-field scattering losses perturbed by the MFT depend on the distance between the MFT and the TOF. The MFT can elongate the penetration depth of the evanescent field significantly when the TOF diameter is small because the effective refractive index outside the TOF is changed by the MFT. The relationship between the scattering loss and the TOF-MFT distance is measured experimentally and is in good agreement with the numerical simulations. The lengthened evanescent field of the TOF can sense the multifarious matter on a substrate which is farther from the TOF sensitively.
Kunstapotheke: Site-responsive choreographies within the premises of an abandoned pharmacy
Authors: Rainer Lucia 
Published: March 2020

Abstract

Kunstapotheke is a choreographic project that was based in the premises of an abandoned pharmacy and shopping district in the northern part of Hamburg, Germany. Meandering between disused pharmacy facilities and its urban surroundings, a group of performers and myself explored how urban scores render possible to journey through time. Being interested in how past narratives might craft and shape possible urban futures, we experienced that time often shatters into fragments, evoking the question: How can urban scores respond to and subvert urban narratives and their choreographies? To be able to answer this question we explored the urban surroundings with the following choreographic tools: (1) pre-selection and re-selection, (2) combination, (3) intermedial variation and (4) contextualization and re-contextualization. Working with these choreographic tools revealed that past narratives are inevitably tied to spatiotemporal frameworks, frames and framings, which are unavoidably linked to overall complexes interrelated with autobiographical, cultural, political and economic constellations. Thus, we incessantly found ourselves within spatiotemporal encounters that allowed for different types of temporalities to not only bubble beyond the surface, but effectively irrupt and disrupt one another. In the course of this, different spatial realities unfolded, preoccupying themselves exclusively with individual processes of occurrence. The project Kunstapotheke repeatedly contextualized and re-contextualized these occurrences, defining the choreographic process as a practice of simultaneous reference and transcription.