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Jeremiah’s Deathscapes
Authors: Mills Mary 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
This chapter explores the rhetorical structures of the book of Jeremiah with regard to its message of violent destruction—a topic that the chapter defines under the heading of “deathscape.” This term is defined as having two sub-strands: embodiment and spatiality. Jeremiah contains much material relating to the experiences of the central prophetic figure, which provides a solid textual resource for examining how the human person is impacted by the task of proclaiming terror and loss. The Confessions especially display a persona traumatized by this task. At the same time, land is rendered desolate, alongside the human inhabitants. Spatiality provides a tool for reading urban destruction via the lens of a withered landscape. Reading Jeremiah as a single work employs the methodological lens of rhetorical criticism, examining the way in which violent imagery expresses the link between historical events and literary depictions of the impact of warfare. Seeking for the cause of great suffering, Jeremiah locates it in the action of divine justice, a manner of providing order for chaos that renders the deity monstrous since it is the divine sphere that contextualizes unbearable human pain. Evaluation of Jeremiah’s urban imaginary aligns not only with material events but also with responses from differing audiences and parallel subject areas, such as gender, disability, and colonialism. Ultimately, the chapter suggests, further reflection on the inanimate agency of urban environments in creating textual poetics of deathscape will be useful.
Jeremiah in Art
Authors: Callaway Mary Chilton 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
The story of Jeremiah in art reveals a dynamic process of traditional tropes that signaled the ancient prophet blended with contemporary features mirroring the viewer. This interplay made artistic representations of Jeremiah at once familiar, yet also at times unsettling in the way they contemporized the prophetic message. The chapter explores the developing image of Jeremiah through the centuries in five media: painted images on ancient frescoes, stone statues in medieval cathedrals and monasteries, illuminations in medieval manuscripts, woodcuts in early modern printed books, and various forms in modernity. Jewish, Christian, and Muslim images of the prophet together display a process in which historically contingent tropes gradually became timeless markers of the prophet. At the same time, these images show the power of Jeremiah to speak prophetically in new circumstances.
Ecological Hermeneutics and Jeremiah
Authors: Clayville Kristel 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the relationship between ethics and the Bible, then turns to focus on the specific role of environmental ethics in biblical interpretation and the development of ecological hermeneutics. After this brief history of ethical thinking in and with the Bible, the chapter offers a critical summary of various interpretive typologies that scholars have developed to describe the Israelite relationship to land in the Bible. Building on this background, this chapter offers an analysis of Jeremiah that is informed by ecological hermeneutics. This reading focuses on the role of the land in the Israelite imaginary, the loss of land as punishment, the natural versus unnatural as a diagnostic for moral purity, and reading from the perspective of the land.
Written on the Heart, Erased from the Mind
Authors: Balentine Samuel E. 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Can there be moral agency without autonomy? Absent the freedom to deliberate, make a choice, and enact a decision, does the covenantal relationship described in Jeremiah 31 understand fidelity to God to be anything more than involuntary obedience? Put differently, if both the covenantal requirements and the decision to obey them are externally inscribed on the human heart, if like computer software they are “programmed” into the operating system, do humans automatically surrender their freedom for thinking about moral decisions? This chapter examines the language of moral selfhood (both divine and human) in Jeremiah, with special attention to trauma theory as a hermeneutical lens for thinking about the “wounding of the mind” wrought by the experience of exile.
Parties and Party Systems
Authors: Lim Sunghack 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
Since the late 1980s, South Korea has established democratic rules and institutions to protect the political freedom and civil rights of its citizens. In this process, political parties played a pivotal role in building democratic institutions and became a necessary actor for democratic governance. The characteristics of South Korean political parties and party system such as non-ideological regional factionalism, personality-based party organization, growing electoral volatility due to party changes, and a cartelized two-party system have contributed to weak party system institutionalization (PSI). Despite weak PSI, South Korea successfully underwent three peaceful power transfers, thus exceeding Huntington’s two turnover test of democratic consolidation. The stability of interparty competition has been maintained despite moderate electoral volatility. While regionalism is still the most important factor in voter decisions, the ideological linkage between parties and voters has been tightening. The South Korean parties and party system have a long way to go before achieving the levels of PSI seen in the West, but they have followed in these countries’ footstep to some extent. More sophisticated measures and concepts should be developed to analyse political parties and party systems in new democracies.
Regionalism
Authors: Yoon Kwang-Il 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
This chapter examines regional division, or regionalism, in South Korea, a dominant factor determining the country’s politics. The conceptual definition of regionalism in the context of South Korean politics refers to regional patterns of voting behaviour, with voters deciding their vote based on their birthplace. But regionalism has been also understood from different perspectives focusing on its history, public emotional antagonism, regional party system, etc. This chapter elaborates the origins of regionalism and conceptualizes regionalism according to the level of analysis and the domain of its manifestation. The chapter then promotes the theoretical understanding of regionalism by drawing on prejudice, social identity, and cleavage theory. It argues that the regional cleavage based on birthplace-based regional prejudice and identity that have determined electoral behaviour and party system will not change significantly in the near future. The chapter concludes with a discussion of recent developments in regionalism.
Language and Domain Specificity: A Chinese Financial Sentiment Dictionary
Authors: Du Zijia , Huang Alan Guoming , Wermers Russ , Wu Wenfeng 
Published: December 2021

Abstract
We use Word2vec to develop a financial sentiment dictionary from 3.1 million Chinese-language financial news articles. Our dictionary maps semantically similar words to a subset of human-expert generated financial sentiment words. In validation tests, our dictionary scores the sentiment of articles consistently with human reading of full articles. In return association tests, our dictionary outperforms and subsumes previous Chinese financial sentiment dictionaries, such as direct translations of Loughran and McDonald’s (2011, Journal of Finance, 66, 35–65) English-language financial dictionary. We also generate a list of politically related positive words that is unique to China; we find that this list has a weaker association with returns than does the list of other positive words. We demonstrate that state media uses more politically related positive and fewer negative words, and exhibits a sentiment bias. This bias renders the state media’s sentiment as less return-informative. Our findings demonstrate that dictionary-based sentiment analysis exhibits strong language and domain specificity.
DNA Sequence-Based Identification ofFusarium: A Work in Progress
Authors: O’Donnell Kerry , Whitaker Briana K. , Laraba Imane , Proctor Robert H. , Brown Daren W. , Broders Kirk , Kim Hye-Seon , McCormick Susan P. , Busman Mark , Aoki Takayuki , Torres-Cruz Terry J. , Geiser David M. 
Published: December 2021

Accurate species-level identification of an etiological agent is crucial for disease diagnosis and management because knowing the agent’s identity connects it with what is known about its host range, geographic distribution, and toxin production potential. This is particularly true in publishing peer-reviewed disease reports, where imprecise and/or incorrect identifications weaken the public knowledge base. This can be a daunting task for phytopathologists and other applied biologists that need to identify Fusarium in particular, because published and ongoing multilocus molecular systematic studies have highlighted several confounding issues. Paramount among these are: (i) this agriculturally and clinically important genus is currently estimated to comprise more than 400 phylogenetically distinct species (i.e., phylospecies), with more than 80% of these discovered within the past 25 years; (ii) approximately one-third of the phylospecies have not been formally described; (iii) morphology alone is inadequate to distinguish most of these species from one another; and (iv) the current rapid discovery of novel fusaria from pathogen surveys and accompanying impact on the taxonomic landscape is expected to continue well into the foreseeable future. To address the critical need for accurate pathogen identification, our research groups are focused on populating two web-accessible databases (FUSARIUM-ID v.3.0 and the nonredundant National Center for Biotechnology Information nucleotide collection that includes GenBank) with portions of three phylogenetically informative genes (i.e., TEF1, RPB1, and RPB2) that resolve at or near the species level in every Fusarium species. The objectives of this Special Report, and its companion in this issue ( Torres-Cruz et al. 2022 ), are to provide a progress report on our efforts to populate these databases and to outline a set of best practices for DNA sequence-based identification of fusaria.
Virtual reality-based rehabilitation in patients following total knee arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Authors: Peng Linbo , Zeng Yi , Wu Yuangang , Si Haibo , Shen Bin 
Published: December 2021

Abstract

Background:
Physical therapy is regarded as an essential aspect in achieving optimal outcomes following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has made face-to-face rehabilitation inaccessible. Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly regarded as a potentially effective option for offering health care interventions. This systematic review and meta-analysis investigate VR-based rehabilitation's effectiveness on outcomes following TKA.

Methods:
From inception to May 22, 2021, PubMed/Medline, Embase, Web of Science, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Scopus, PsycINFO, Physiotherapy Evidence Database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and Wanfang were comprehensively searched to identify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the effect of VR-based rehabilitation on patients following TKA according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement and the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions.

Results:
Eight studies were included in the systematic review, and seven studies were included in the meta-analysis. VR-based rehabilitation significantly improved visual analog scale (VAS) scores within 1 month (standardized mean difference [SMD]: −0.44; 95% confidence interval [CI]: −0.79 to −0.08, P = 0.02), the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) within 1 month (SMD: −0.71; 95% CI: −1.03 to −0.40, P < 0.01), and the Hospital for Special Surgery Knee Score (HSS) within 1 month and between 2 months and 3 months (MD: 7.62; 95% CI: 5.77 to 9.47, P < 0.01; MD: 10.15; 95% CI: 8.03 to 12.27, P < 0.01; respectively) following TKA compared to conventional rehabilitation. No significant difference was found in terms of the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test.

Conclusions:
VR-based rehabilitation improved pain and function but not postural control following TKA compared to conventional rehabilitation. More high-quality RCTs are needed to prove the advantage of VR-based rehabilitation. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, it is necessary to promote this rehabilitation model.
Conservative Management of Median Nerve Brachial Plexopathy after Microwave-based MiraDry Treatment for Axillary Hyperhidrosis
Authors: Lee Frank G. , Mansour Ahmed M. , Wallace Sean J. , Miller Nathan F. 
Published: December 2021

Summary:
Axillary hyperhidrosis is characterized by excessive sweating of the armpits, which can significantly affect quality of life. A new microwave-based therapy, MiraDry (Miramar labs, Sunnyvale, Calif.), is a promising minimally-invasive treatment option. We report a case of unilateral brachial plexus thermal injury in a thin 19-year-old man treated for axillary hyperhidrosis with the MiraDry system. He initially experienced swelling and pain in the left hand and was prescribed 1 week of methylprednisolone. He then presented 1 week later with induration and swelling of bilateral axillae with swelling of left thumb, left index, and left long fingers, decreased sensation in median nerve distribution of the left hand, and the inability to flex the left index finger DIP joint. EMG showed absent median nerve motor and sensory function, consistent with median nerve plexopathy. He was conservatively managed with close observation and regular occupational hand therapy appointments. At his 12-month follow-up, there was complete return of left pronator teres strength, thumb flexion, and index finger flexion. Decreased sensation remained at the tip of the left index finger. We report the case of median nerve palsy after MiraDry therapy for axillary hyperhidrosis in a thin young man. We recommend using low-energy settings and pre-procedural ultrasound for young, thin patients because of the more superficial course of the brachial plexus within the axilla.
INTERNATIONAL IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN ON INTRAVITREAL THERAPY OUTCOMES
Authors: Zarranz-Ventura Javier , Nguyen Vuong , Creuzot-Garcher Catherine , Verbraak Frank , O´Toole Louise , Invernizzi Alessandro , Viola Francesco , Squirrel David , Barthelmes Daniel , Gillies Mark C. ,   from the FRB International committee
Published: December 2021

Purpose:
To evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on the outcomes of eyes treated for neovascular age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema, and retinal vein occlusion in eight countries.

Methods:
A multicenter international database study of 5,782 eyes (4,708 patients) receiving intravitreal antivascular endothelial growth factor injections before, during, and after national lockdowns. The baseline visit was defined as the last visit within 3 months before lockdown, and prelockdown and postlockdown periods were defined as 6 months before and after the lockdown date.

Results:
Eyes with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (n = 4,649) lost vision in all countries in proportion to the reduced number of injections. The mean visual acuity change postlockdown ranged from −0.4 to −3.8 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution letters, and the median number of injections/visits decreased from 4–5/4–7 to 2–4/2–4 postlockdown. The diabetic macular edema (n = 654) and retinal vein occlusion (n = 479) eyes' mean visual acuity change ranged from −2.8 to +1.7 letters and −1.6 to +0.1 letters, and the median number of injections/visits decreased from 2.5–5/4–6 to 1–3/2–4 and from 3–5.5/4–5 to 1–3.5/2–3.5, respectively. The 6-month dropout rates postlockdown were 20% for neovascular age-related macular degeneration, 27% for diabetic macular edema, and 28% for retinal vein occlusion.

Conclusion:
This international study provides estimates of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on intravitreal therapy and suggests that prioritizing neovascular age-related macular degeneration eyes seems appropriate.
FACTORS RELATED TO UNFAVORABLE VISUAL OUTCOME AFTER IDIOPATHIC EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE SURGERY IN PATIENTS WITH GLAUCOMA
Authors: Ko Yu-Chieh , Chen Yen-Cheng , Huang Yi-Ming , Chang Yu-Fan , Chou Yu-Bai , Liu Catherine Jui-ling , Chen Shih-Jen 
Published: December 2021

Purpose:
To evaluate the visual outcomes after idiopathic epiretinal membrane surgery in glaucomatous and nonglaucomatous eyes and factors related to unfavorable outcomes in glaucomatous eyes.

Methods:
This was a retrospective cohort study including patients undergoing idiopathic epiretinal membrane surgery with ≥12-month follow-up. Final visual acuity at pseudophakic status was compared among groups of glaucoma, glaucoma suspect, and nonglaucoma and correlated with optical coherence tomography and visual field characteristics in patients with glaucoma.

Results:
Of the 314 patients enrolled, 31 had glaucoma and 22 were glaucoma suspect. Baseline visual acuity and central foveal thickness were similar across the groups. Most patients had improved/stable visual acuity postoperatively, with a lower proportion of 83.9% with glaucoma than 96.9% and 100% without glaucoma and glaucoma suspect, respectively (P = 0.002). The mean visual acuity did not change in the glaucoma group (from 6/29 to 6/23), but it improved from 6/25 to 6/12 (a gain of 16.7 approxETDRS letters) in nonglaucoma and 6/26 to 6/14 in glaucoma suspect (a gain of 14.0 approxETDRS letters) (both P < 0.001). The change of visual acuity was correlated with preoperative visual field defects (P < 0.001, r2 = 0.554). Patients with glaucoma with more advanced, fixation-threatening defects or temporally located inner nuclear layer microcysts were more likely to have worsened visual acuity.

Conclusion:
Visual field testing is imperative for patients with glaucoma before idiopathic epiretinal membrane surgery for outcome assessment.
CLINICAL FEATURES OF INTRAVITREAL DEXAMETHASONE IMPLANTATION IN VITRECTOMIZED EYES OF PATIENTS WITH DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA
Authors: Kwon Jin-woo , Park Young-Gun 
Published: December 2021

Purpose:
To identify the clinical outcomes of intravitreal dexamethasone implantation (IVD) in previously vitrectomized eyes of patients with diabetic macular edema.

Method:
We performed a retrospective observational study. We recorded central subfield thickness, best-corrected visual acuity, and intraocular pressure up to 12 months after IVD implant placement. We compared the duration of IVD action, intraocular pressure trends, and the prevalence of ocular hypertension after the first IVD treatment of nonvitrectomized and vitrectomized eyes. We also compared the central subfield thickness, best-corrected visual acuity, number of IVD treatments, and prevalence of ocular hypertension between the 2 groups after 12 months.

Results:
We found no significant between-group differences in the central subfield thickness, best-corrected visual acuity, or the prevalence of ocular hypertension during treatment. However, the duration of action of the first IVD treatment was significantly shorter in vitrectomized eyes, and these eyes required more IVD treatments during the 12-month follow-up period. The maximal average intraocular pressure was observed at 2 months after the first IVD treatment in the nonvitrectomized group, but 1 month after the first IVD treatment in the vitrectomized group.

Conclusion:
These findings suggest that the IVD pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics differ between vitrectomized and nonvitrectomized eyes. Nevertheless, given the relatively long-lasting effectiveness of the treatment and the good clinical results, consecutive IVD treatments may be beneficial for patients with diabetic macular edema with previously vitrectomized eyes.
Correlation of epidermal growth factor receptor mutation status and PD-L1 expression with [18F]FDG PET using volume-based parameters in non-small cell lung cancer
Authors: Ishimura Mariko , Norikane Takashi , Mitamura Katsuya , Yamamoto Yuka , Arai-Okuda Hanae , Murota Makiko , Ibuki Emi , Kanaji Nobuhiro , Nishiyama Yoshihiro 
Published: December 2021

Objective
We investigated the relationship between 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) PET using volume-based parameters and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation status, programmed death-ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression level, and their combination, in pretreated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Methods
FDG PET findings and EGFR mutation status and PD-L1 expression level were investigated retrospectively in 93 patients with newly diagnosed NSCLC (77 adenocarcinomas, 16 squamous cell carcinomas). Tumors were divided into six groups: EGFR mutant/negative PD-L1, EGFR mutant/low PD-L1, EGFR mutant/high PD-L1, EGFR wild/negative PD-L1, EGFR wild/low PD-L1, and EGFR wild/high PD-L1. The maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax), metabolic tumor volume (MTV), and total lesion glycolysis (TLG) for primary tumor were measured from PET images. The EGFR mutation status and PD-L1 expression level were estimated in tumor tissue specimens and compared with the PET parameters.

Results
None of the PET parameters differed significantly between EGFR-mutated and wild-type EGFR. According to the PD-L1 level, significant differences were detected in SUVmax (P = 0.001) and TLG (P = 0.016), but not MTV. Comparing all six groups, significant difference was detected in only SUVmax (P = 0.011).

Conclusion
Based on the preliminary results of this study, FDG PET may help in the prediction of PD-L1 expression level, but not EGFR mutation status, in patients with newly diagnosed NSCLC. The SUVmax rather than MTV or TLG, may be of value in predicting the six groups according to the combination of EGFR mutation status and PD-L1 expression level.
Dietary fat and carbohydrate affect the metabolism of protein-based high-density lipoprotein subspecies
Authors: Sacks Frank M. , Andraski Allison B. 
Published: December 2021

Purpose of review
Dietary fat compared to carbohydrate increases the plasma concentration of high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol. However, neither the mechanism nor its connection to cardiovascular disease is known.

Recent findings
Protein-based subspecies of HDL, especially those containing apolipoprotein E (apoE) or apolipoprotein C3 (apoC3), offer a glimpse of a vast metabolic system related to atherogenicity, coronary heart disease (CHD) and other diseases. ApoE stimulates several processes that define reverse cholesterol transport through HDL, specifically secretion of active HDL subspecies, cholesterol efflux to HDL from macrophages involved in atherogenesis, size enlargement of HDL with cholesterol ester, and rapid clearance from the circulation. Dietary unsaturated fat stimulates the flux of HDL that contains apoE through these protective pathways. Effective reverse cholesterol transport may lessen atherogenesis and prevent disease. In contrast, apoC3 abrogates the benefit of apoE on reverse cholesterol transport, which may account for the association of HDL that contains apoC3 with dyslipidemia, obesity and CHD.

Summary
Dietary unsaturated fat and carbohydrate affect the metabolism of protein-defined HDL subspecies containing apoE or apoC3 accelerating or retarding reverse cholesterol transport, thus demonstrating new mechanisms that may link diet to HDL and to CHD.