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Acute Coronary Syndrome Following Long-Term Erlotinib Treatment
Authors: Panciu Traian Constantin , Masgras Bianca , Ciuca Catrinel , Ciomag Raluca , Mihăilescu Anca , Gurghean Adriana 
Published: July 2018

Abstract

Introduction. The treatment of neoplasia has advanced due to targeted molecular therapies. Erlotinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor that acts by blocking epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), is used to treat advanced or metastatic chemotherapy-resistant non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC).
Erlotinib is a safe and well tolerated medication. Although the most common adverse effects are cutaneous or gastrointestinal, its cardiotoxicity is an important topic in the treatment and follow-up of neoplastic patients.

Clinical case. A 76-year-old male patient with 40 Pack Year history of smoking that has quitted 20 years ago, was admitted in 2009 for night sweats, dry cough and weight loss. He is diagnosed with lung cancer in the right upper lobe (T4N2M1), with the histopathological diagnosis of clear cell adenocarcinoma. The patient performs radiotherapy and chemotherapy with 6 series of Gemcitabine and Cisplatin with partial response, followed by Erlotinib treatment with favorable progression with regression of tumor size.
In December 2017, he presents recurrent episodes of atypical angina lasting about 2 weeks. The electrocardiographic examination reveals ST segment elevation, with tall T waves and Q waves are present in the lower branches, associated with the increase of myocardial necrosis enzymes. Echocardiography highlights inferior hypokinesia with left ventricle ejection rate estimated at 45%. The patient has a favorable evolution during admission without recurrence of pain. Coronary angiography is performed at distance with evidence of vascular atherosclerotic lesions and the installation of active pharmacodynamic stents.

Discussions. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors may be the cause of acute coronary events both by affecting myocardiocytes following EGFR inhibition, but also by increasing atheromatic plaque instability and by prolonging theQT segment.
In conclusion a systemic cardiologic assessment of Erlotinib-treated patients may be recommended throughout the course of therapy.
Thermal and electrical properties of polyimide/PANI nanofiber composites prepared via in situ polymerization
Authors: Kareem Aseel A. 
Published: July 2018

Abstract
Polyimide/polyaniline nanofiber composites were prepared by in situ polymerization with various weight percentages of polyaniline (PANI) nanofibers. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectra (FT-IR), proved the successful preparation of PANI nanofiber composite films. In addition, thermal stability of PI/PANI nanofiber composites was superior relative to PI, having 10 % gravimetric loss in the range of 623 °C to 671 °C and glass transition temperature of 289 °C to 297 °C. Furthermore, the values of the loss tangent tanδ and AC conductivity σAC of the nanocomposite films were notably higher than those of pure polyimide. The addition of 5 wt.% to 15 wt.% PANI nanofiber filler enhanced the activation energy of PI composites from 0.37 eV to 0.34 eV.
PMSM Servo-Drive Fed by SiC MOSFETs Based VSI
Authors: Tarczewski Tomasz , Skiwski Michal , Grzesiak Lech M. , Zieliński Marek 
Published: July 2018

Abstract
The article presents modern PMSM servo-drive with SiC MOSFETs power devices and microprocessor with ARM Cortex core. The high switching frequency is obtained due to the application of high efficient power switching components and powerful microprocessor. It allows to achieve good dynamical properties of current control loop, proper disturbance compensation and silent operation of servo-drive. Experimental tests results obtained for two different control schemes (i.e., cascade control structure and state feedback position control) are presented.
STRATEGI PENGEMBANGAN PRODUK KAIN TENUN IKAT SINTANG
Authors: Nurcahyani Lisyawati 
Published: July 2018

enun ikat Sintang is one of the traditional products whose existence is threatened with extinction. The purpose of this study explains how Sintang communityâ€™s strategies and local governments respond to these threats through policy and cooperation in the development of weaving products. This study used library method and field observations. Interviews were conducted with artisans, private organizations (NGO) and local governments. The results of this study were variety of efforts such as the development of human resources artisans, provision of raw materials, product diversification, the provision of the means of production and marketing. In order for this strategy to work well it needed the intervention of authorities and institution such as non-governmental organizations such and the local government. Despite efforts towards the developmen had been done, the problems still remain especially in the supply of raw materials on natural resources in the forest as well as marketing as the effect of high production costs that make the Ikat weaving more expensive.Â AbstrakTenun Ikat Sintang merupakan salah satu produk tradisional yang keberadaannya terancam punah. Tujuan penelitian ini menjelaskan bagaimana strategi masyarakat Sintang dan pemerintah daerah merespon ancaman ini melalui kebijakan dan kerja sama dalam pengembangan produk tenun ikat. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan melakukan wawancara dan pengamatan di lapangan serta didukung dengan studi kepustakaan. Subyek penelitian adalah para perajin, lembaga swadaya masyarakat, dan Pemerintah Daerah. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa strategi yang dilakukan berjalan dengan baik dan diperlukan keterlibatan pihak lain seperti yayasan dan Pemerintah Daerah. Walaupun pengembangan telah dilakukan, masih ada hambatan yang belum terselesaikan terutama dalam penyediaan bahan baku dari tumbuh-tumbuhan alam yang ada di hutan dan dalam bidang pemasaran yang disebabkan tingginya biaya produksi sehingga membuat harga tenun ikat menjadi mahal.Â Â Â
International Service Learning Design Projects: Educating Tomorrow's Engineers, Serving the Global Community, and Helping to Meet ABET Criterion
Authors: Budny Dan , Gradoville Robert Thomas 
Published: July 2018

International service-learning projects are an effective educational tool for universities striving to meet the ABET engineering criterion, while also providing transformational experiences to their students and a service to needy populations in the world. This paper discusses the benefits of international service-learning projects for students, the international community, and the university. The year-long process of development and piloting of the first international humanitarian engineering service-learning project within the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh is presented. Also, the ABET engineering criterion are then discussed, with specific attention to the criterion that are harder to address with traditional engineering education. This pilot project was a collaboration between the senior design course, a local chapter of Engineers Without Borders, and various domestic and international entities. The benefits of international service learning projects are discussed, in the hopes of catalyzing development of similar projects in the future.
Insecure Identities. The Approval of a Biometric ID Card in Mexico
Authors: Vélez Alejandro 
Published: July 2018

Former Mexican President, Felipe Calderón, signed a decree to implement a compulsory ID with biometric traits for all the Mexican population. At first sight it seems like a good policy because Mexico has suffered a lot of problems with identification, but if we analyze the policy we find it to be full of problems and contradictions, particularly because of the corrupt nature of Mexican politics.
Surveillance, Repression and the Welfare State: Aspects of Continuity and Discontinuity in post-Fascist Italy
Authors: Fonio Chiara , Agnoletto Stefano 
Published: July 2018

This paper seeks to explore political, cultural, legal and socio-economic legacies of the Fascist regime (1922-1943) in Italy. With the fall of the regime, in fact, the overall surveillance apparatus did not fade away. Former fascists were not purged from political and cultural life and very few were found guilty. The transition to democracy was thus marked by a substantial continuity of men and institutions (Della Porta and Reiter 2004) due to the active involvement of ex-OVRA (Organization of Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism) officers in public institutions (Author 2011). It comes as no surprise that forms of pervasive non-technological social control continued for more than twenty years after the fall of the duce. Moreover, police state surveillance was combined with a meaningful continuity in other areas. For instance, the welfare state immediately after World War II was actually based upon the model built during Fascism. The “Fascist Social State” (Silei, 2000) had a corporative and authoritarian inspiration and was a strategy of social control and a tool to create consensus. In the 1950s and 1960s the institutional features of the Italian social security system remained fundamentally unchanged (Giorgi, 2009; Silei, 2000): an excess of bureaucracy and discretionary power; a system based on specific categories of people needing assistance and not on a more universal approach. The Italian post-fascist experience is a paradigmatic case-study that allows us to deal with ambiguities of the welfare state experience, described either as a tool of social control or as a vector of social justice. This paper is an attempt to analyze “social control strategies” in post-Fascist Italy with a focus both on aspects of continuity and on crucial socio-political discontinuities that are often overlooked in the literature.
“(Self-)Surveillance, Anti-Doping, and Health in Non-Elite Road Running”
Authors: Henning April D 
Published: July 2018

This article explores disciplining effects of current anti-doping surveillance systems on the health consequences of non-elites’ daily behaviors and habits. As they are left out of direct anti-doping testing and enforcement, it is tempting to argue non-elites are unaffected by anti-doping efforts focused on the elite level of their sport. However, it is because they are not subject to anti-doping surveillance systems nor forced to comply with anti-doping regulations that non-elites are implicated within the wider arena of disciplinary power that envelops both elite and non-elite athletes and anti-doping agencies (Foucault 1979). Drawing on data from 28 interviews with non-elite runners I argue these runners do conform to the rules and norms of their sport as far as they understand them, but their knowledge of banned substances is inadequate and many non-elite runners have only a superficial and sometimes incorrect understanding of doping. Many view doping and its associated health risks as a problem only of elite running, as well as a problem limited to only a handful of widely publicized performance enhancing drugs or doping methods. As a result of these misunderstandings non-elite runners are vulnerable to negative health effects of over the counter (OTC) medications and nutritional supplements, which they view as “safe” and part of normal training as a result of the current elite surveillance model of anti-doping. The recent death of a non-elite marathon runner linked to use of the unregulated energy supplement DMAA demonstrates, questionable products are used by runners who may not be fully aware of the risks of use.
The Snowden Stakes: Challenges for Understanding Surveillance Today
Authors: Lyon David 
Published: July 2018

The drip-feed disclosures about state surveillance following Edward Snowden’s dramatic departure from his NSA contractor, Booz Allen, carrying over one million revealing files, have ired some and prompted some serious heart-searching in others. One of the challenges is to those who engage in surveillance studies. Three kinds of issues present themselves: One, research disregard: responses to the revelations show a surprising lack of understanding of the large-scale multi-faceted panoply of surveillance that has been constructed over the past 40 years or so that includes but is far from exhausted by state surveillance itself. Two, research deficits: we find that a number of crucial areas require much more research. These include the role of physical conduits including fibre-optic cables within circuits or power, of global networks of security and intelligence professionals, and of the minutiae of everyday social media practices. Three, research direction: the kinds of surveillance that have developed over several decades are heavily dependent on the digital – and, increasingly, on so-called big data -- but also extend beyond it. However, if there is a key issue raised by the Snowden revelations, it is the future of the internet. Information and its central conduits have become an unprecedented arena of political struggle, centred on surveillance and privacy. Those concepts themselves require rethinking.
Notes Toward a Meteorology of the Cloud
Authors: Vredenburg Elliot 
Published: July 2018

The premise of detailed forecasts is meteorological observation. An ominous cloud has eclipsed the global horizon of neoliberal capitalist realism. Researching cloud formations, I queried Google with the search term “clouds.” However, when using the term “cloud,” I only received results about server-based computing. Thus the cloud is singular, not plural: 100% cloud cover, blanketing the sky with grey. This is not a marketing-friendly cumulus cloud, but rather a dark, sheetlike formation—what meteorologists call a pallium. Whereas curative approaches require consideration and cogitation—care—what the pallium offers instead is palliation; alleviation of symptoms without any real remedy. In accordance with the techno-utopian walled garden, opposing or divergent views are eradicated under the pallium, leaving us with an AstroTurfed landscape that is paralyzing in its uniformity. Luke Howard’s categories of tropospheric clouds parallel the multifarious manifestations of the contemporary cloud: in commercial data collection for targeted marketing, as well as in government surveillance for preemptive law enforcement. A digital meteorology of these formations—the benign cumuliform, appearing in the logos of corporate cloud-computing services; the grey, ominous stratiform; and the striated, interstellar cirriform—must be considered, in order to predict and prepare for the imminent approach of the panoptic pharmakon of the pallium, as it arrives under the guise of a swarm of cutesy cumulus clouds. Drawing from studies of panopticism, contemporary marketing practices, and the effluence tapped by Edward Snowden, this essay deploys hydrous analogies to forecast whether anything but AstroTurf can survive in the current climate.
Policing Made Visible: Mobile Technologies and the Importance of Point of View
Authors: Brucato Ben 
Published: July 2018

Cameras are ubiquitous and increasingly mobile. While CCTV has captured considerable attention by surveillance researchers, the new visibility of police activities is increasingly produced by incidental sousveillance and wearable on-officer camera systems. This article considers advocacy for policing’s new visibility, contrasting that of police accountability activists who film police with designers and early adopters of on-officer cameras. In both accounts, these devices promise accountability by virtue of their mechanical objectivity. However, to each party, accountability functions rather differently. By attending to the social and legal privileging of police officers’ perspectives, the article provides an explanation for design decisions that produced Taser’s AXON Flex on-officer cameras and for why police are embracing these new technologies. Critics of these cameras cite privacy concerns, officer discretion in operating cameras, and department disclosure of footage. Nonetheless, advocates of police accountability often presume more video documenting police use of force is always helpful. However, the utility of surveillance video is conditioned by point of view. Police agencies in the U.S. are rapidly adopting on-officer camera systems, because they acknowledge ubiquitous surveillance and that these devices aid in nullifying third-party documentation in favor of a perspective that favors officers. As such, these cameras are counter-sousveillance technologies.
Performing Imperceptibility: Google Street View and the Tableau Vivant
Authors: Ingraham Chris , Rowland Allison 
Published: July 2018

When Google introduced its Street View technology in 2007, by taking panoramic photographs of ordinary street scenes around the globe, it brought us one step closer to the dystopian reality of universal surveillance. In response to Google's roving camera, some people have staged street-side performances in hopes of being photographed and uploaded online. We think of these performances as contemporary iterations of the historical performance genre known as the tableau vivant: “living images” that resist biopolitical control by “performing imperceptibility.” Drawing upon Rosi Braidotti’s nomadic ethics and Jon McKenzie’s general theory of performance, we argue that the tableau vivant staged for Street View cameras subvert the dividuation of control societies by affirming, through their affective intensity, the possibility of enduring as a subject.
Criticising Surveillance and Surveillance Critique: Why privacy and humanism are necessary but insufficient
Authors: Hong Sun-ha 
Published: July 2018

The current debate on surveillance, both academic and public, is constantly tempted towards a ‘negative’ criticism of present surveillance systems. In contrast, a ‘positive’ critique would be one which seeks to present alternative ways of thinking, evaluating, and even undertaking surveillance. Surveillance discourse today propagates a host of normative claims about what is admissible as ‘true’, ‘probable’, ‘efficient’ – based upon which it cannot fail to justify itself. A positive critique questions and subverts this epistemological foundation. It believes that surveillance must be held accountable by terms other than those of its own making. The objective is an open debate not only about ‘surveillance or not’, but the possibility of ‘another surveillance’. To demonstrate the necessity of this shift, I first examine two existing frames of criticism. Privacy and humanism (appeal to human rights, freedoms and decency) are necessary but insufficient tools for positive critique. They implicitly accept surveillance’s bargain of trade-offs: the benefit of security ‘measured’ against the cost of rights. To demonstrate paths towards positive critique, I analyse risk and security: two ‘load-bearing’ concepts that ground existing rationalisations of surveillance – and thus are ‘openings’ for reforming those evaluative paradigms and rigged bargains on offer today.
Uncertainty and Insecurity in Privacyless India: A Despotic Push towards Digitalisation
Authors: Arun P 
Published: July 2018

On November 2016, an unexpected imposition of demonetisation policy in India by Modi’s government changed the role of digital technologies in mundane lives. It was unfolded with the discourse of its potential to generate a trail of long-term benefits. Such as reduced corruption, enhanced governance and greater digitizing of the economy which could eventually lead to development of the nation.
Such a despotic push in one of the world’s largest democracies had consequential effects on individual’s privacy and altered the nature of surveillance. The grand digitalisation project was veiled and fanatically endorsed with a tunnel vision while there was absence of any robust privacy legislation to protect the flow of data. This article intends to investigate the political dimensions and consequences. It will trace the contours of a despotic and authoritarian push by the government to digitise mundane lives. Therefore, it will unravel the nature of governance under the emerging new technologies, emerging legalities, and interlinking policies to understand the persistent uncertainty and perpetual fear of insecurity under this Privacyless India.
Online Monitoring of ‘Localists’ in Hong Kong: A Return to Political Policing?
Authors: Hargreaves Stuart 
Published: July 2018

Hong Kong's new 'localist' movement - advocating for total autonomy or even secession - has provoked a crackdown from both the local government and the central authorities in Beijing. This paper argues that the incoming administration of Carrie Lam is likely to continue to pursuse online surveillance of localist political groups as one part of this crackdown, but that ultimately this may prove to be counterproductive if the goal is reduce support for the movement.
Disappearing Citizenship: surveillance and the state of exception
Authors: Douglas Jeremy 
Published: July 2018

Surveillance is an ancient concept and an ancient practice. As such, we must undertake a theoretical examination of surveillance that looks at the changes in the function of surveillance within a juridical-political model, rather than superficially studying the nature of surveillance mechanisms. What emerges is a surveillance system that is fundamentally biopolitical and is in many ways - as a defining ‘modern’ characteristic - the reason for a permanent state of exception and the loss of rights and citizenship.
Woven of War-Time Fabrics: The globalization of public health surveillance
Authors: French Martin A. 
Published: July 2018

This article considers the imbrication of war-time logics with the ideational and institutional development of public health surveillance. It suggests that, as the Cold-War–era gave way to the ‘age of globalization’, public health discourse became less concerned with ideological enemies, and more concerned with ontological enemies. The discourse of emerging infectious disease exemplifies this preoccupation and illustrates how public health surveillance, dominated by war-time logics, is both globalized and predisposed to marginalized local orders of concern. However, at the same time that militarized configurations of public health surveillance set certain tendencies in motion, local orders of concern deconstruct, contest, resist, and negotiate these tendencies. Hence, this article concludes with a call for further empirical attention by Surveillance Studies scholars to the multiplicity of local sites that enact public health surveillance.
Understanding resistance to digital surveillance: Towards a multi-disciplinary, multi-actor framework
Authors: Martin Aaron K , Van Brakel Rosamunde E , Bernhard Daniel J 
Published: July 2018

Despite being central to the dynamics of surveillance, the concept of resistance remains underdeveloped within the surveillance studies corpus. We review theoretical work on surveillance before summarising the main treatments of resistance from within surveillance studies. We find that the majority of resistance literature in surveillance studies is focussed on resistance relations between the surveyor and the surveilled, and neglects other relevant actors. To expand the list of relevant actors, we look to what other disciplines have to say about the who and the how of resistance. Using these lessons, we then elaborate a multi-actor framework to better understand complex resistance relationships. Beyond the surveyor and the surveilled, surveillance authorities, commercial enterprises, international governmental and non-governmental agencies, and the surveillance technologies themselves form a complex resistance nexus, capable of resisting and being resisted in a diversity of ways. Further, we conclude that these distinctive roles produce unique methods, directions and opportunities for resistance. The roles of these additional actors will be demonstrated through a discussion of the United Kingdom National Identity Scheme, where we believe they are presently engaged in a series of multi-level, multi-actor resistance relationships at various stages of the scheme’s development.