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A Challenging Case of Recurrent Ogilvie Syndrome: Exploring Causes and Treatment Modalities
Authors: Alnasarat Ahmad , Elrazzaz Mostafa , Manasrah Nouraldeen 
Published: December 2024

Introduction: Acute colonic pseudo‐obstruction (ACPO), or Ogilvie syndrome, is a rare condition marked by significant colon distention without mechanical obstruction. Symptoms include abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, vomiting, and an inability to pass gas or stool. Although common in males over 60, we report a challenging case of a 44‐year‐old man from Africa with recurrent abdominal distention and discomfort. Ultimately, he improved after receiving multiple treatment modalities, highlighting the complexities of Ogilvie syndrome management.Case Presentation: A 44‐year‐old Nigerian male in the United States with hypertension and significant alcohol use disorder presented with altered mental status and bilateral lower extremity weakness after fasting and hydrochlorothiazide abuse. Initial diagnostics indicated metabolic encephalopathy from hypokalemia and dehydration. Despite aggressive treatment, he developed severe abdominal distension and obstipation. A CT scan showed diffuse colonic dilatation without a normal small bowel. Conservative measures failed, necessitating ICU transfer, TPN, and empiric antibiotics. Despite an initial response to colonoscopy decompression, the patient experienced recurrence. Neostigmine significantly improved his condition, leading to full recovery and discharge.Conclusion: This challenging case highlights the complexities of managing Ogilvie syndrome and the importance of early identification and a stepwise approach to treatment. Incorporating a patient‐centered plan utilizing conservative measures, pharmacological agents and endoscopic interventions are essential for improving outcomes in these cases.
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) With T‐Cell Differentiation Arising From Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML)
Authors: Crymes Anthony , Evans Mark G. , Jeyakumar Deepa , Lou Jerry J. , Zhao Xiaohui , Rezk Sherif A. 
Published: December 2024

Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) is a myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized by peripheral blood monocytosis and bone marrow dysplasia. In approximately one‐fourth of cases, CMML can demonstrate progression to acute myeloid leukemia (AML), referred to as AML ex CMML. We present a 58‐year‐old woman with a past medical history of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) who demonstrated 24% bone marrow blasts on a repeat biopsy obtained two years after being diagnosed with CMML. By the flow cytometric analysis, the blasts expressed partial CD34, CD13, CD117, partial MPO, and partial CD123 with coexpression of the T‐lymphoid markers CD2, CD5, CD7, partial CD4, cytoplasmic CD3, partial cytoplasmic TDT, and CD38, suggestive of AML with rare mixed myeloid/T‐cell phenotype. Treatment with various agents including decitabine, cytarabine, daunorubicin, etoposide, and venetoclax, and two experimental bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) inhibitors did not produce sustained remissions, and the patient eventually succumbed to her disease. T‐cell phenotype is an exceedingly rare feature of AML ex CMML, and whether this unique differentiation pathway contributed to the aggressive disease course remains unclear.Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02543879, NCT03360006
Coffee Consumption Correlates With Better Cognitive Performance in Patients With a High Incidence for Stroke
Authors: Barbagallo Massimo , Springer Anne , Vanetta Chiara , Allemann Meret , Lee Pratintip , Saeedi Soheil , Aeschbacher Stefanie , Luciani Marco , Bonati Leo H. , Moschovitis Giorgio , Scheu Victor , Rutishauser Jonas , Kobza Richard , Di Valentino Marcello , Meyre Pascal B. , Rodondi Nicolas , Conen David , Kühne Michael , Osswald Stefan , Beer Jürg H. ,   the Swiss‐AF investigators
Published: December 2024

Background
Atrial fibrillation is an independent risk factor for the development of cognitive impairments. Regular coffee consumption has shown cognitive benefits in healthy individuals. Whether regular consumption reduces cognitive decline in vulnerable patients is controversial. We investigated the association in elderly people with atrial fibrillation.

Methods and Results

Daily coffee consumption was assessed using a structured nutrition questionnaire, and cognitive function was evaluated by a detailed neurocognitive‐test‐battery, including the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, Trail‐Making Test, semantic fluency, and Digit‐Symbol‐Substitution Test. The cognitive construct score combines all neurocognitive tests mentioned and provides an overall cognitive performance indicator. Hs‐CRP (high‐sensitivity C‐reactive protein) and IL‐6 (interleukin‐6) were measured to explore an association with inflammation. Results were estimated using linear mixed‐effects‐models with detailed adjustments for confounders. The <1 cup/day consumers (reference group) reached a cognitive construct score of −0.24 (95% CI, –0.27 to –0.16), and the group with the highest consumption (>5 cups/day) was at −0.10 (95% CI, –0.10 to 0.04;
p
=0.048). Montreal Cognitive Assessment score in the reference group was 24.58 (95% CI, 24.58–25.32); the group with the highest intake achieved 25.25 (95% CI, 24.98–26.85;
p
=0.163). Inflammatory markers decreased with higher coffee consumption (hs‐CRP with 5 compared with <1 cup/day by factor 0.78 [95% CI, 0.54–1.13],
p
= 0.188, IL‐6 significantly by factor 0.73 [95% CI, 0.57–0.95],
p
=0.017).

Conclusions
Coffee consumption in patients with atrial fibrillation may be associated with improved cognitive performance and reduced inflammatory markers. Further research is needed to confirm these findings and to consider implementation in dietary counseling for atrial fibrillation management.

Registration

URL:
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov
; Identifier: NCT02105844.
Dio Chrysostom, Or. 36.55 and the Stoic Conflagration
Authors: Salles Ricardo 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
The present paper questions the assumption in modern scholarship that section 55 of Dio Chrysostom’s Borysthenitic discourse is a reliable source for Chrysippus’ theory of conflagration. We may suppose instead that it is a description of the conflagration in broad Stoic terms that does not contain features that distinguish Chrysippus from other members of the school. And there is also room for disputing that the passage is a description of the conflagration. The phenomenon it describes may not be the conflagration at all, but the cosmogony.
Mission and Human Dignity in the Black Sea Region – Philosophical Considerations
Authors: Lebech Mette 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Because human dignity presents us, in all regions of the world, with a cause for celebration and a steep challenge, it constitutes a problem for humanity. Engagement with the idea tends to happen when the problem makes itself felt and the ethical challenges that mark a region are therefore testified to in its writings on human dignity. Engaging with such writings make it possible, for example for the Black Sea Region, to move more concertedly towards appreciation of human dignity. This engagement is precious because it promotes both the understanding of and thereby the possible appreciation of the fundamental value of the human being. It is argued in this article that such promotion pertains to the central task of Christian mission, in so far as concern for human dignity stands at the heart of Christ’s own mission.
Keeping This Place: Contemplative Vision and Ecological Living as Christian Witness: An Orthodox View
Authors: Theokritoff Elizabeth 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
At a time when the ecological crisis is increasingly seen as a spiritual crisis, the Orthodox Christian tradition has resources for a powerful witness, especially to ‘post-Christian’ spiritual seekers. This witness depends on the example of monastic communities especially; on the grounding of their way of life in a theology of the Incarnation and the logoi of God in creation. Their contemplative vision of the world enables us to accept a “sacredness” of the earth without pantheism. Many have discovered that vision through the Philokalia and the Jesus Prayer, and the teaching of some prominent spokesmen for Orthodoxy especially of the Russian emigre tradition. Some of the best-loved modern saints also witness to a transformed relationship between holy people and their natural environment. More recently, we have many examples of specifically environmental practice, notable for its balance of love and care for the human and natural worlds.
Competing Visions of Human Dignity: on the Foundation of Missions
Authors: Nash Ryan 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Human dignity, superficially at least, seems a noncontroversial goal or basis for mission, specifically Christian mission, to further. This brief essay will challenge this assumption by sharing perspectives on human dignity from the field of bioethics. A moral narrative is given on how appeals to human dignity have failed to resolve ethical controversy. Finally, the essay encourages that only an incarnational and embodied human dignity is worthy of furthering in Christian missions. Some practical advice gained from the field of bioethics is offered regarding how to live and advance the good despite competing visions of human dignity.
Urban Policies, Architectural Dissonances, and Not So ‘Modern’ Buildings in Late Colonial Luanda
Authors: Serrazina Beatriz 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This article examines urban policies and projects in Luanda during the 1950s, focusing on the housing and offices built by Diamang, a colonial mining enterprise that operated in northern Angola but maintained premises in the city. Although Diamang was criticized in the public sphere for being at odds with the drive to modernise Luanda, it was still permitted to construct housing for its officials and indigenous workers. The article explores overlooked agents, bureaucratic procedures, and an apparent institutional autocracy that constrained architectural practices in the city. These contrasting perspectives shed light on the period preceding significant “modernising” policies, providing a fundamental understanding of the tensions and complexities surrounding urban space in Portuguese-speaking late-colonial African cities.
Reparations for Settlers? The “Despoiled” from Africa and Postcolonial Portugal (1975–2021)
Authors: Kalter Christoph 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Should colonial settlers receive compensation for their material losses after the end of colonial rule? Today, we see a global trend toward reparations for colonial crimes, yet compensating settlers was a common practice after 1945. Japan, France, and Belgium all compensated their colonists after decolonisation. In 1975, settlers returning from Portugal’s collapsing empire in Africa called for a similar treatment. However, despite some conservative support, the elitist associational movement of self-styled ‘despoiled’ or ‘dispossessed’ settlers failed to sway policymakers or gain public backing, resulting in no compensation. This article examines the reasons for their failure, exploring cross-national similarities and connections among postcolonial societies in Europe while highlighting key specifics of the Portuguese case: first, the assimilationist integration of the returning settlers, whose political movements remained weak; second, the significant resonance their colonialist ideas found within a society that made few serious efforts to abandon its imperialist nationalist myths after decolonisation.
Integrating Triple Helix and Sustainable Transition Research for Transformational Governance
Authors: Gebhardt Christiane , Pique Huerta Josep Miquel 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
The critical literature review discusses the principles of Participation and Interconnectedness underlying the Triple Helix Model and Learning and Adaptation in the Sustainable Transition Model for their relevance in governing urban climate change adaptation. In this new framing, a secondary literature analysis of Barcelona’s struggle against air pollution is exemplified as a wicked problem caused by diverse stakeholder interests and their different sustainability concepts in socio-economic and environmental development. The paper offers a new perspective on sustainable, transformative pathways in cities which run on participative and adaptive governance principles. The backwards integration into the underlying principles of the meta-theories illustrates the value of triple helix and transition research and the benefit of their integration for examining and designing sustainable transition pathways.
For the Future-Wary: Eco-eschatology in Four Steps
Authors: Jasarevic Larisa 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This essay gleans insights from local ecological practices and Islamic sources to address global climate futures. It outlines an eco-eschatology, as a disposition and practice of living towards the possibility of the end of the world. Key themes of eco-eschatology – attentiveness to the multispecies world, contemplation of human responsibility, hopefulness against the odds, and commitment to activism – are resonant with current eco-concerns. What eco-eschatology recommends, however, are due considerations of human contingency and divine agency in the climate disaster that makes us all muslim: subjects rather than sovereigns, at the mercy of what is, at the same time, beyond us and intimately involved with us.
Muslim(s), Future(s), Europe
Authors: Bolghiran Sara , Berger Maurits 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This introduction to the special ‘Muslim Futures’ in the Journal of Muslims in Europe expounds the new development of Muslims imagining their future in Europe. This special has selected a number of themes: AI and transhumanism, children’s literature, environment and sustainability, pedagogy and education, charity, urban spaces, sufism, and art, beauty, and ethics. These contributions are not meant to provide a conclusive insight on Muslim futures but are merely steppingstones in exploring new avenues of study and knowledge production. ‘Muslim futures’ is a new trend with global implications, and this Introduction provides background to this trend and argues that the study of this trend will constitute a much-needed academic alternative in Muslim and Islam Studies in Europe.
“A Halal Happy Ever After”: Envisioning Muslim Futures in Islamically Minded Children’s Literature
Authors: Janson Torsten 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
What future aspirations have informed the incentives for producing children’s literature in Muslim minority communities? What social dynamics and theological debates have accompanied its visions of Islamic futures? What narrative tropes, visual-aesthetics norms and literary genres has it appropriated, while maturing into an innovative religious-pedagogic-literary expression? Probing such questions, this article challenges distinctions between “Islamic” and “secular” to build a concept of Islamically minded children’s literature. It follows the diversification of the literature as a globalised child cultural format, emulating genres such as picture books, fairy tales, detective stories, romantic fiction, autobiographies, handbooks, graphic novels and comics. As cultural texts, Islamically minded children’s literature has developed through increasingly confident, open-ended and dialogic literary negotiations of the socio-cultural complexities of Muslim minority life vis-à-vis the formative pasts of sacred history, theology and textual canons – all under the pedagogical sway of envisioning Islam and Muslim futures, in minority communities and beyond.
Allahu Akbar: When the Imaginative, the Beautiful and the Ethical Meet in Muslim Futures
Authors: Bolghiran Sara 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This article explores and situates the manifestation of Muslim futures, a socio-ethical and aesthetic movement encompassing young Muslims creating artworks in which they engage a wide range of moral dilemmas ranging from systemic oppression (in both Islamic and non-Islamic countries), unequal wealth distribution, to the consequences of climate change. Taking a Muslim futures exhibition in Berlin as point of entry, this article argues that within the praxis and intellectual paradigms of imagining and articulating Muslim futures, the entities of ethics imagination (khayal), ethics (akhlaq), and beauty (jamal) are intrinsically linked and paramount in an understanding of how the Islamically meaningful influences these endeavors. This paper aims to contribute to understandings of Muslim subjectivity through a decolonial framework by situating analysis into a non-secular framework of reference, exercising the latest calls to go “beyond the human horizon”, placing the spiritual undertones of the project at the center of consideration.
Colloquium 1: Theophrastus on Intellect in Aristotle’s De Anima
Authors: Reece Bryan C. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Aristotle’s cryptic De Anima III 5 has precipitated an enormous volume of commentary, especially about the identity of what has come to be known as active intellect and how it relates to potential intellect. Some take active intellect to be the prime mover of Metaphysics Λ, others a hypostatic or cosmic principle (for example, an ideal Intellect, intellect associated with the tenth celestial sphere, etc.), and others a faculty, potentiality, or power of the human soul that is distinct in function, office, or operation from potential intellect. But a very different, ontologically lightweight way of characterizing active and potential intellect can be reconstructed from fragments of a work by the only interpreter personally acquainted with Aristotle, his junior colleague, Theophrastus of Eresus. This reconstruction suggests various philosophically attractive solutions to notorious problems raised by Aristotle’s text.
Colloquium 2: Commentary on Shaw
Authors: Healow C.G. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
In “Aristotle, Empedocles, and the Unity of All Things,” Michael Shaw has provided a novel and intriguing account of Empedocles’ cosmology, wherein he attempts to outline a few ways in which interpreters (beginning with Aristotle) have failed to capture fully Empedocles’ most important ideas. Central to Shaw’s account of Empedoclean cosmology is a distinctive interpretation of the life cycle of the cosmos that presupposes that the four elements that make up everything and the twin forces that govern them—Love and Strife—interact in ways quite different than often is supposed. The upshot of this is that Shaw thinks Empedocles’ theory may not fall prey to the Aristotelian critiques designed to undermine it because they are based on a misunderstanding of his actual view. While I am sympathetic to his impulse to defend Empedocles against Aristotle’s attacks, I am not convinced that Shaw’s reading should be widely adopted, both because I highly doubt that the depiction of Empedoclean cosmology developed by Shaw is Empedocles’ own and because I think the traditional interpretation of Empedocles’ cosmology fares better against Aristotelian critiques than Shaw’s interpretation of it does. Such are the contentions I intend to show in what follows.
Colloquium 4: Commentary on Wians
Authors: DeMarco C. Wesley 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
This comment responds to the paper deliver by William Wians, evaluating his reading of book Epsilon of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and the role of Aristotle’s predecessors in the formation of his view, such as the Pythagoreans and Plato. A series of four questions are raised about the nature and strength of Wians’s thesis, providing critical notes on the conclusions of the argument.
Biomanufacturing of a functional microbial phytase in an insect host
Authors: Retief C. , Kumar S. , Tepper K. , Maselko M. 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
Insects, such as Black Soldier Flies (Hermetia illucens), are increasingly used as sustainable animal feed ingredients that can be reared on plentiful organic substrates such as agricultural residues and pre-consumer food waste. Genetically engineering insects to heterologously express feed additive enzymes has the potential to generate more value from organic waste, while improving livestock health and productivity. Phytases are widely used feed additive enzymes that hydrolyse the phosphate groups from the myo-inositol backbone of phytic acid, a phosphate rich antinutrient compound that monogastric animals cannot efficiently digest. Dietary phytase supplementation improves absorption of phosphorous, proteins, and cationic nutrients, while mitigating the negative environmental effects of phytic acid rich excreta. We evaluated the potential of using insects to biomanufacture microbial feed additive enzymes by engineering the model insect, Drosophila melanogaster, to express phytases. One histidine acid phytase, three beta propellor phytases, three purple acid phosphatases, and one PTP-like phytase were selected for screening in D. melanogaster. Transgenic flies expressing the AppA histidine acid phytase from E. coli had 27.82 FTU/g of phytase activity, which exceeds the 0.5-1.0 FTU/g required in animal feed. Maximum activity from AppA phytase expressed by D. melanogaster was observed at pH 5 and 55 °C, however, more than 50% of phytase activity was present at 25 °C and pH 2. Here we demonstrate that insects may be suitable hosts for the heterologous expression of a microbial phytase enzyme with applications for improving animal feed nutrition and organic waste valorisation.
Elizabeth Tudor’s Domestic Theatricality in the Windows of Kenilworth Castle
Authors: Loomis Allen 
Published: December 2024

Abstract
In the first half of the sixteenth century, England’s window glass industry was on the verge of collapse. The glass that was available was translucent, opaque, or stained—it was not intended to provide a clear view. In 1567, Jean Carré introduced advanced glassmaking technologies to England that produced clearer and more uniform glass, though it remained a luxury item. At Robert Dudley’s Kenilworth Castle in 1575, Queen Elizabeth appeared behind transparent bay windows, establishing a new paradigm of royal performance. She was able to observe the festivities outside while becoming a spectacle herself, seated within the bay window. Following this event, a trend emerged among aristocrats who sought to impress the queen with grand homes featuring expansive glass façades, hoping to host her and display her within their own ‘lantern houses.’ A notable example is Christopher Hatton’s Holdenby House, distinguished by its extensive use of transparent glass. To theorize how transparent glass windows blurred the boundaries between inside and outside, allowing the queen to see and be seen by her subjects, the article uses the term ‘domestic theatricality.’ Such reciprocal visibility shaped monarchical subjectivity by framing the queen as both observer and observed. This article argues that transparent glass windows transformed domestic architecture by turning homes into theaters where the queen and her subjects became both performers and spectators.