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Influence of Food Security Status and Anemia-Related Knowledge on Perceptions About 2 Nutritious Underutilized Foods Among Ghanaian Caregivers
Authors: Agbemafle Isaac , Francis Sarah L. , Jensen Helen H. , Reddy Manju B. 
Published: August 2019

Background: Nutritious underutilized foods (NUFs) significantly contribute to sustainable dietary diversity but are often unused for many reasons. Objective: We assessed the influence of food security status (FSS) and anemia-related knowledge (ARK) on perceptions about Solanum torvum (turkey berry) and Rhynchophorus phoenicis Fabricius (palm weevil larvae) among Ghanaian caregivers. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 891 caregivers (aged 20-49 years), who have children 6 to 59 months old, from Upper Manya Krobo district (Eastern region), Kumasi metropolitan (Ashanti region), Ho municipality (Volta region), La-Nkwantanang-Madina, and Ga West municipality (Greater-Accra region), Ghana. Food security status, ARK, and perceptions about the 2 NUFs were obtained using pretested semi-structured questionnaire. Logistic regression models were used to determine effect of FSS and ARK on perception outcomes. Results: Thirty-six percent of caregivers were food secure, while 13.9%, 28.4%, and 21.7%, respectively, were mildly, moderately, and severely food insecure. Most caregivers (62.0%) scored above 70% on ARK. High favorable perception was significantly lower for palm weevil larvae than that for turkey berry. Food secure caregivers were 4.5 times more likely to have poor favorable perceptions about palm weevil larvae than food insecure caregivers ( P = .03). However, food secure caregivers were 2.9 times more likely to have high favorable perceptions about turkey berry than food insecure caregivers ( P < .001). Caregivers’ knowledge about anemia was associated with high favorable perception about turkey berry by 3.3-fold (95% confidence interval: 2-5.5, P = .001). Conclusions: Nutrition education about turkey berry and palm weevil larvae is needed to encourage their use for promoting nutrient density of complementary and household foods.
Beyond psychoanalysis and group analysis. The urgent need for a new paradigm of the human being
Authors: Tubert-Oklander Juan 
Published: August 2019

Freud’s momentous discovery that the largest part of mental life, both individual and collective is unknown to us and out of our control, brought about a major revolution in epistemology and our conception of the human being, but such evolution was stalled by Freud’s adherence to several assumptions that were an essential part of his Weltanschauung or ‘Conception of the World’. These were the individualistic paradigm and the misguided attempt to turn the discipline he had created into a positivistic science, framed in the model of the natural sciences. Orthodox psychoanalysis has since focused on the intrapsychic, leaving out the interpersonal and social dimensions. Group analysis, as introduced by Foulkes has been a bold attempt to transcend the limitations of psychoanalysis and integrate the dimensions it has ignored or denied. Nonetheless, the development of Foulkes’ revolutionary contributions was encumbered by his adherence to Freudian theory, just like the latter was by his creator’s subservience to positivistic natural science. Psychoanalysis and group analysis are two aspects of the wider field of analysis, but they are still impeded by a series of assumptions held by both science and common sense. These are: i) materialistic metaphysics, ii) the Cartesian subject, iii) deterministic positivism, iv) neutral objectivism, and v) rejection of teleology. Hence, the need to go beyond psychoanalysis and group analysis and formulate a new paradigm of the human being. This is a work in progress, being tackled by many people from different fields of human knowledge and practice, such as physical science, biology, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, group analysis, sociology, political science, philosophy, theology, hermeneutics, and the Humanities, among many others. It is an interdisciplinary enterprise, to which analysis may and should contribute, but only through an open dialogue with its peers in the field of human thought.
Pecking Order Test at Varying Debt Levels: A Comparative Study of Indian and Chinese Firms
Authors: Bhama Vandana , Jain Pramod Kumar , Yadav Surendra Singh 
Published: August 2019

The present study tests the pecking order of firms at varying debt levels. The findings indicate that deficit firms at low debt levels raise significant amounts of debt, thus indicating the adherence to the pecking order theory. Deficit firms (from both countries) at exceptionally high debt levels do not adjust their capital structure by issuing less debt. In a surplus situation, Chinese firms at very high level redeem the substantial debt because of the dominance of short-term debt in their capital structure. In contrast, Indian surplus firms hesitate to redeem more debt if their existing debt levels are extremely high. JEL Classification: Q14, G32
Confirmatory analysis of a health state classification system for people living with dementia: a qualitative approach
Authors: Welch Alyssa , Kim-Huong Nguyen , Quinn John , Gregory Caroline , Moyle Wendy , Ratcliffe Julie , Comans Tracy 
Published: August 2019

Objectives This paper aims to confirm the content validity of the domains identified during the development of the Alzheimer’s disease – five dimensions (AD-5D) algorithm for the quality of life – Alzheimer’s disease (QOL-AD) and to identify the rationale for stated quality of life preferences. Methods Focus groups were conducted to elicit the priorities for quality of life in dementia from three perspectives: the person with dementia; family caregivers; and the community. Participants were recruited through industry research partners (long-term care providers) based on knowledge of their experience with dementia. Three focus groups were conducted – one each in Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, Australia – between November 2016 and February 2017. Each focus group included participants providing a different perspective on dementia – people with dementia ( n = 3), caregivers ( n = 9) and general community members or relatives of residents of a long-term care facility ( n = 10), although some groups contained one participant with a different perspective. The focus groups were used to validate the AD-5D domains and examine quality of life preferences across the three perspectives. Thematic analysis was used to identify the priorities underlying preference selection. Results All activities affecting the quality of life for people with dementia could be mapped to one of the five AD-5D domains: memory, mood, physical health, living situation and ability to do things for fun. The domains considered most important for quality of life differed between people with dementia, their caregivers and members of the community, with memory the least important domain for all three groups. The rationale for priorities also varied between groups. Conclusions This study confirmed the content validity of the selection of the AD-5D domains and identified multiple differences in the reasons behind stated priorities for quality of life for people with dementia, their caregivers and community members.
Fructose causes endothelial cell damage via activation of advanced glycation end products–receptor system
Authors: Sotokawauchi Ami , Matsui Takanori , Higashimoto Yuichiro , Yamagishi Sho-ichi 
Published: August 2019

Objective: Advanced glycation end products and their receptor – RAGE – in the adipose tissues contribute to metabolic derangements in fructose-fed rats. However, it remains unclear whether fructose could cause endothelial cell damage via the activation of AGE-RAGE. Methods: Intracellular advanced glycation end products were evaluated by dot blot analysis. Fructose-derived advanced glycation end products (Fruc-AGEs) were prepared by incubating bovine serum albumin with fructose for 8 weeks. Reactive oxygen species generation was measured using a fluorescent probe. Vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 gene expression was analysed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. Binding affinities of Fruc-AGEs to DNA-aptamer raised against Fruc-AGEs (Fruc-AGE-aptamer) or RAGE were measured with a quartz crystal microbalance. Results: Fructose increased the advanced glycation end product–specific fluorescence intensity in assay medium, while it stimulated intracellular formation of advanced glycation end products in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Furthermore, 0.3 mM fructose for 4 days significantly increased reactive oxygen species generation and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 gene expression in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Fruc-AGE-aptamer, but not Control-aptamer, bound to Fruc-AGEs with Kd value of 5.60 × 10−6 M and dose-dependently inhibited the binding of Fruc-AGEs to RAGE. Moreover, Fruc-AGE-aptamer prevented the Fruc-AGE- and fructose-induced reactive oxygen species generation and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 gene expression in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Conclusion: This study suggests that fructose may elicit endothelial cell damage partly via the activation of AGE-RAGE axis.
Patient Satisfaction With a New, High Accuracy Blood Glucose Meter That Provides Personalized Guidance, Insight, and Encouragement
Authors: Katz Laurence B. , Stewart Lorna , Guthrie Brian , Cameron Hilary 
Published: August 2019

Background: Accurate self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is a key component of effective self-management of glycemic control. Methods: The OneTouch Verio Reflect and OneTouch Ultra Plus Reflect BG monitoring systems were evaluated for accuracy in a clinical setting. Subjects also used the meters for a one-week trial period and reported their level of satisfaction with meter features. Results: Both systems were accurate over a wide glucose range and met lay user and system accuracy BG standards described in ISO15197:2015. Subjects felt that the features of a meter with a dynamic color range indicator and personalized guidance, insight, and encouragement could provide significant benefits to them in the management of their diabetes. Conclusions: Both meter systems were accurate over a wide glucose range and the features of the meter and messages were well received by patients in a short take-home trial. Clinical trial registration: Clinicaltrials.gov NCT0351542
Nizwa Fort
Authors: Sachedina Amal 
Published: August 2019

AbstractSince becoming a nation-state in 1970, Oman's expanding heritage industry has included the restoration of castles and citadels, including the fort at Nizwa. The fort was once the administrative and juridical center of the Ibadi Imamate (1913–58). As the site of sharia adjudication, it sanctioned a past of primarily moral nature, oriented toward God and salvation and grounded in Ibadi doctrine and practice. This mode of history implied that everyday interactions and relationships could be assessed through exemplary forms of morality, as embodied by virtuous forbears. Yet the heritage project in modern Oman has treated history and Islam as seemingly separate, erasing formal awareness of the sociopolitical and ethical relationships that once characterized Ibadi rule. Today, the historical work done by the fort as a heritage site entails a progress-oriented future, reconfiguring Ibadi Islam in the process.
The Historicization of Sharia and Historical Generalization
Authors: Burak Guy 
Published: August 2019

Abstract
This review essay seeks to offer an analytic/historiographical framework that would pay closer attention to the imperial legal landscape and the Hanafi jurisprudential tradition. This framework, I believe, adds to the continuum that Beshara B. Doumani proposes, which is based on the political economy of different localities across the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean and, perhaps, well beyond. Taken together, both aspects of the framework reveal the complexity of the Ottoman legal landscape. They also suggest new directions in which Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean could be generalized while retaining the rich local dimension of the work.
Accounting for aetiology: can regional surveillance data alongside host biomarker-guided antibiotic therapy improve treatment of febrile illness in remote settings?
Authors: Chandna Arjun , White Lisa J. , Pongvongsa Tiengkham , Mayxay Mayfong , Newton Paul N. , Day Nicholas P. J. , Lubell Yoel 
Published: August 2019

Background: Across Southeast Asia, declining malaria incidence poses a challenge for healthcare providers, in how best to manage the vast majority of patients with febrile illnesses who have a negative malaria test. In rural regions, where the majority of the population reside, empirical treatment guidelines derived from central urban hospitals are often of limited relevance. In these settings, health workers with limited training deliver care, often without any laboratory diagnostic support. In this paper, we model the impact of point-of-care C-reactive protein testing to inform the decision to prescribe antibiotics and regional surveillance data to inform antibiotic selection, and then stimulate thesubsequent impact on mortality from febrile illnesses, rooted in the real-world context of rural Savannakhet province, southern Laos. Methods: Our model simulates 100 scenarios with varying quarterly incidence of six key pathogens known to be prevalent in rural Laos. In the simulations, community health workers either prescribe antibiotics in-line with current practice as documented in health facilities in rural Laos, or with the aid of the two interventions. We provide cost-effectiveness estimates for each strategy alone and then for an integrated approach using both interventions. Results: We find that each strategy is predicted to be highly cost-effective, and that the combined approach is predicted to result in the biggest reduction in mortality (averting a predicted 510 deaths per year in rural Savannakhet, a 28% reduction compared to standard practice) and is highly cost-effective, with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of just USD $66 per disability-adjusted life year averted. Conclusions: Substantial seasonal variation in the predicted optimal empirical antibiotic treatment for febrile illness highlights the benefits of up-to-date information on regional causes of fever. In this modelling analysis, an integrated system incorporating point-of-care host biomarker testing and regional surveillance data appears highly cost-effective, and may warrant piloting in a real-life setting.
The Economic Consequences of Audit Firms’ Quality Control System Deficiencies
Authors: Aobdia Daniel 
Published: August 2019

This study seeks to determine the role of audit firms’ quality control (QC) system deficiencies, as measured by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspection program, on audit quality and profitability. Using a unique data set of firmwide QC deficiencies identified by the PCAOB during its inspections of audit firms, I find a negative association between QC deficiencies, mainly performance related, and audit quality. Furthermore, audits conducted by larger audit firms with more organization-level deficiencies appear less profitable, evidenced by more hours worked on the engagements, leading to lower fees per hour. These results appear to be partly explained by deficiencies in the tone at the top (a proxy for culture) and the audit methodology. Further evidence suggests that a lack of remediation of QC system deficiencies has a negative influence on audit quality. This paper was accepted by Suraj Srinivasan, accounting.
Development Of Waqf Based Microfinance And Its Impact In Alleviating The Poverty
Authors: Diniyya Aulia Arifatu 
Published: August 2019

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential role of the institution of Waqf in poverty alleviation. Poverty is a complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon that has captured the attention of numerous scholars and agencies globally. The social role of the Islamic financial sector can be best exemplified by providing finance to the poor to increase their income and wealth. This paper will explore on how microfinance can be provided on Shariah compliant basis through Waqf model. This research also reviewing the development of the integrated Waqf based Islamic microfinance which aimed to provide solutions to reduce poverty. An integration of Waqf-based Islamic microfinance (IWIM) model is proposed to address all the practical challenges of microfinance faced in Muslim communities. In this model, microfinance is practised in compliance with Shari’ah to address the multi-dimensional aspects of poverty and empowering the poor in order to enhance the socio-economic development and hence the well- being of the Ummah. With this aspiration, the IWIM model aims to tackle the challenges related to the scarcity of capital, inadequate human resources, absence of proper Takaful programs and project financing in an integrated approach. However, Waqf based microfinance still may be facing some problems should be addressed which related to credit risk, moral hazard, and economic viability.
Com quantos sociólogos se desenvolve um programa de pesquisa em Sociologia da Arte?
Authors: Marcondes Guilherme 
Published: August 2019

Resenha do livro VILLAS BÔAS, Glaucia (org.). (2016). Um vermelho não é um vermelho – estudos sociológicossobre as artes visuais. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras.
Estudos Africanos e Relações Internacionais: Paradigmas e Dinâmicas do Território Africano
Authors: Guimarães Reis Gonçalves Vinícius 
Published: August 2019

Este artigo tem como objetivo abordar uma literatura crítica em relação ao discurso apriorístico e determinista que discorre sobre a natureza, e por consequência formação histórica, do Estado e das Relações Internacionais nas sociedades africanas. Com base nessa premissa nota-se a existência de diagnósticos, referentes aos Estados Africanos, que a partir de visões inerentemente negativas sobre as sociedades e economias analisadas, chegam a conclusões enviesadas. Portanto, discute-se sobre algumas das dificuldades inerentes, e por tanto inevitáveis, de toda pesquisa no campo das RI que envolva, de alguma forma, os países africanos em seu objeto de estudo. A região, territorialmente e culturalmente extensa, do continente Africano demanda um olhar crítico sobre a dicotomia das questões que envolvem o ambiente doméstico e o internacional, de maneira a abrir novas perspectivas e agendas de pesquisa.
LA VIOLENCIA DICTATORIAL LATINOAMERICANA DESDE LA MIRADA DE CARLOS LISCANO
Authors: Zó Ramiro Esteban 
Published: August 2019

Este trabajo intenta analizar la presencia de la violencia dictatorial en algunos textos de Carlos Liscano: La mansión del tirano ([1992] 2011), El furgón de los locos ([2001] 2007), El escritor y el otro (2007) y Ejercicio de impunidad. El caso Gelman (2009). La violencia en Liscano a menudo se cristaliza en ciertos tópicos recurrentes: la escritura carcelaria, la figura del otro dominador, la retórica del discurso dictatorial, el encierro como génesis escritural, entre otros. Este examen posibilitará no solo comprender la obra de uno de los escritores uruguayos más renombrados de los últimos tiempos sino también desentrañar la dinámica de la violencia simbólica, fáctica e institucional de las dictaduras latinoamericanas.Palabras clave: Violencia dictatorial; Carlos Liscano; Narrativa del encierro; Dictaduras latinoamericanas.
LAS FRONTERAS DEL MAPA DE LA “LITERATURA ARGENTINA” DE MEDIADOS DEL SIGLO XX: EL CASO DE HÉCTOR TIZÓN Y LA TRASGRESIÓN DE LOS LÍMITES NACIONALES
Authors: Campoy Emiliano Matías 
Published: August 2019

La crítica especializada en literatura argentina suele señalar que la obra de Héctor Tizón ocupa un lugar marginal en el marco de la literatura nacional. Este desplazamiento ha sido una marcada tendencia de una crítica que se gesta desde la capital de un país que cuenta con una larga tradición centralista y que tiende a concebir a toda obra que se crea más allá de los límites de Buenos Aires a partir de rótulos, por lo general peyorativos, como los de “literatura del Interior” o literatura regional. El propósito de este trabajo es cuestionar la validez de ese mapa que se traza desde la metrópoli argentina, en la que se concentra el grueso de la crítica, tomando como punto de partida las reflexiones de un escritor que deliberadamente vivió y escribió desde un espacio apartado geográfica y culturalmente de Buenos Aires. En este planteamiento cobra interés la noción de frontera pues permite indagar la cartografía desde la que se piensa la literatura nacional y, aún más, obliga a reflexionar sobre la existencia de una literatura acotada a los límites nacionales. La reconfiguración del trazado de ese mapa literario se realiza a partir de la idea de región literaria, concebida a partir de un carácter transnacional, es decir, como superadora de las demarcaciones de los estados nacionales. Esta apertura encuentra su justificación en la necesidad de reintegrar espacios geosocioculturales divididos por arbitrarias fronteras políticas. Esta mirada permitiría, en última instancia, valorar la obra de Tizón en el marco de una tradición latinoamericana en la que ya no se concibe desde la marginalidad por medio de la identificación con otras propuestas narrativa, fundamentalmente la de aquellos escritores a los que Ángel Rama denomina como transculturadores.Palabras claves: Literatura argentina; Región literaria; Frontera; Héctor Tizón; Marginalidad.
ALTERIDAD E IDENTIDAD EN LA NOVELA LOS TOPOS DE FÉLIX BRUZZONE. LA TEMPORALIDAD INSCRIPTA EN LA HISTORIA LITERARIA ARGENTINA
Authors: Hernando Ana Maria 
Published: August 2019

Este trabajo intenta “leer” en el sentido derrideano, la novela de Félix Bruzzone, Los Topos, publicada en el año 2008, texto que plantea una nueva alternativa de escribir literatura y nos enfrenta con una diferente “realidad” escritural. Estamos escuchando y sintiendo la voz de un hijo de desaparecidos, como consecuencia de la Dictadura Militar (1976-1983), una voz narradora sin nombre, como sin nombre fueron muchos de los hijos dispersados en el territorio argentino. Es posible afirmar que la narrativa escrita en Argentina en las últimas décadas del siglo XX –más precisamente después de la Dictadura Militar–, y en lo que va del XXI, puede estar inscripta en el marco de una crisis de la representación realista, en el ámbito de la manifestación de un conjunto de tendencias estéticas que trabaja sobre problemas constructivos de identidad y de alteridad, de emergencia de discursos y de relación entre identidad y literatura, entre otros problemas de género. Narrativa muy diversa que muestra la pluralidad genérica y un abanico de estilos escriturales –el policial, el ensayo, la novela testimonial y la literatura de “versiones”, entre otros hechos de lenguaje–, a los que se suma la tendencia a la crítica al presente, a la complejidad de lo contado y a la necesidad de subvertir el discurso único y hegemónico del autoritarismo. Así es posible detectar la aparición de un “nuevo realismo” ficcional acorde con la historia vivida y padecida en la Argentina, en los tiempos aciagos de la Dictadura Militar.Los Topos es una vuelta de tuerca de la historia que quiere escribirse para permanecer como alegoría estética y como testimonio de las consecuencias de políticas equivocadas. Novela que marca el quiebre y la aparición de una nueva generación literaria transgresora, que quiere contar la historia nacional reciente. Palabras Clave: búsqueda; desaparecidos; topos; realismo epocal; dictadura militar.