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Restoring Eden in the Amish Anthropocene
Authors: Welk-Joerger Nicole 
Published: May 2019

AbstractSince Eugene Stoermer and Paul Crutzen popularized the concept the “Anthropocene” in 2000, scholars from many disciplines have taken up and adapted the term to better account for multiple worldviews and environmentalist strategies. However, such attempts have not solved the problems that motivated the creation of the analytic in the first place: convincing lay individuals to actively respond to anthropogenic environmental change. Climate change denial persists, even within the rural and agricultural communities most affected by these environmental changes. These same communities do not always welcome regulatory and technological interventions aiming to limit environmental impact, and climate change, environmentalism, and the Anthropocene are often perceived as distant and empty intellectualisms.Through an ethnographic account about an uncanny technology, this article explores a conceptual meeting ground between sacred and secular worldviews in efforts that address the Anthropocene. In 2013 an unlikely agricultural group—the Amish—adopted an electromagnetic water device known as the Talya Water System. Studying the use of this water system, this article explores how this conservative Christian community incorporated different worldviews and stresses the importance of taking sacred timelines seriously when considering the Anthropocene. In highlighting an “Amish Anthropocene” located within a fundamentalist Christian timeline, I argue that the Amish embrace of the Talya Water System was achieved through its alignment with their religious worldviews. I propose this alignment as one strategy that may be adopted to make environmental change more meaningful across disparate communities.
Asbestos
Authors: Litvintseva Sasha 
Published: May 2019

AbstractAsbestos is a fibrous mineral. Airborne asbestos—similar to nuclear radiation and chemical atmospheric pollutants—is invisible to the naked eye, and living and breathing alongside it has deferred toxic effects on human bodies. The toxicity of asbestos operates by breaching the boundary that appears to separate the insides of our bodies from our outward environments. Asbestos attests to the fact that the human does not just touch the nonhuman, culture does not just touch nature, but the boundaries between them operate within a framework of trans-corporeality, viscous porosity, and reciprocal interpenetration. In this article the author examines the history and materiality of asbestos to theorize toxic embodiment through the mutuality of the haptic sense and the breaching of boundaries of inside and outside. The author develops this through an analysis of her own film project Asbestos (2016), shot at the mining town of Asbestos, Quebec, mobilizing a discussion of haptic visuality to theorize toxic embodiment in its relationship to reciprocity, vulnerability, and responsibility. In the case of asbestos, the boundary of inside and outside traverses a series of unfolding scales: from the boundedness of a single cell, to a single organism encased in skin, to a body enclosed in a hazmat suit, to architecture and surrounding space, city and hazardous-waste landfill site, contaminated and safe, local and global. Asbestos shows that there is no spatial or temporal “outside” in which to deposit toxic materials, and that being an embedded part of the environment means there is no “outside” to either vulnerability or responsibility.
Overactivation of the Reward System and Deficient Inhibition in Exercise Addiction
Authors: HUANG QIN , HUANG JIAAI , CHEN YANXIA , LIN DENG , XU SHUN , WEI JINGPING , QI CHANGZHU , XU XIA 
Published: May 2019

ABSTRACT

Purpose
Behavior studies have found that exercise addiction is associated with high impulsivity. In other addictions, neural mechanisms of impulsivity reflect abnormalities in the reward and inhibition systems. In this study, we determined whether abnormalities existed in the reward and inhibition systems of exercise addicts.

Methods
Three groups of male participants (15 exercise addicts, 18 regular exercisers, and 16 exercise avoiders) completed the Mini International Personality Item Pool (Mini-IPIP), the classic go/no-go task, and the exercise-related go/no-go task. Event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded during the go/no-go tasks, and correctly performed trials were analyzed.

Results
Exercise addicts scored lower for extraversion and higher for neuroticism, reflecting a poor capacity for emotional regulation and impulse control, and had larger N2 and P3d amplitudes during the exercise-related go/no-go task. Exercise addicts and exercise avoiders demonstrated impaired accuracy in the exercise-related go/no-go task and had larger N2 amplitudes compared with regular exercisers during the letter–digit go/no-go task. Exercise addicts and regular exercisers showed larger Go-N1 and Go-P2 amplitudes compared with exercise avoiders during the exercise-related go/no-go task. Exercisers (exercise addicts and regular exercisers) demonstrated higher activation in response to exercise-related stimuli as reflected by larger N1 and P2, and addicts (exercise addicts) demonstrated poorer inhibition as reflected by larger N2 and P3d amplitudes. Go-N1 and Go-P2 were significantly correlated with no-go accuracy in exercise-related task.

Conclusions
Exercise addicts scored higher for the neuroticism personality trait and exhibited overactivation of the reward system and underactivation of the inhibition system. Overactivation of the reward system may be related to long-term exposure to exercise. Underactivation of the inhibition system may be a crucial factor in exercise addiction.
Novel compound heterozygous mutations in WDR62 gene leading to developmental delay and Primary Microcephaly in Saudi Family
Authors: Naseer Muhammad Imran , Rasool Mahmood , Abdulkareem Angham Abdulrahman , Chaudhary Adeel G. , Zaidi Syed Kashif , Al-Qahtani Mohammad H. 
Published: May 2019

Objective: Primary microcephaly (MCPH) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by impaired congenital reduction of brain size along with head circumference and intellectual disability. MCPH is a heterogeneous disorder and more than twenty four genes associated with this disease have been identified so far. The objective of this study was to find out the novel genes or mutations leading to the genetic defect in a Saudi family with primary microcephaly.
Methods: Whole exome sequencing was carried out to find the novel mutation and the results was further validated using Sanger sequencing analysis. This study was done in the Center of excellence in Genomic Medicine and Research, King Abdulaziz University under KACST project during 2017 and 2018.
Results: We report a novel compound heterozygous mutations c.797C>T in exon 7 and c.1102G>A in exon 9 of the WD repeat domain 62 (WDR62) (OMIM 604317) gene in two affected siblings in Saudi family with intellectual disability, speech impediments walking difficulty along with primary microcephaly. Two rare, missense variants were detected in heterozygous state in the WDR62 gene in these two affected individuals from the heterozygous parents.
Conclusions: A compound heterozygous mutations c.797C>T in exon 7 and c.1102G> A in exon 9 of the WDR62 gene was identified. WDR62 gene is very important gene and mutation can lead to neuro developmental defects, brain malformations, reduced brain and head size. These results should be taken into consideration during prognostic discussions and mutation spectrum with affected patients and their families in the Saudi population.
doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.3.36
How to cite this:Naseer MI, Rasool M, Abdulkareem AA, Chaudhary AG, Zaidi SK, Al-Qahtani MH. Novel compound heterozygous mutations in WDR62 gene leading to developmental delay and Primary Microcephaly in Saudi Family. Pak J Med Sci. 2019;35(3):764-770. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.3.36
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Pattern of electrolyte imbalance in Type 2 diabetes patients: Experience from a tertiary care hospital
Authors: Khan Rashid Naseem , Saba Farhana , Kausar Syedhh Fatima , Siddique Mohammad Hassan 
Published: May 2019

Objective: To determine frequency of electrolyte imbalance including sodium, chloride, potassium and magnesium levels present in patients with uncontrolled diabetes at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi.
Methods: This was a descriptive cross sectional study conducted at Medicine Department, Darul Sehat Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan from March 2017 to October 2017. A total of one hundred and eighty one admitted and OPD patients with uncontrolled diabetes (HbA1c more than 7%) were included and their demographics, comorbidities, microvascular complications, drug history, fasting and random blood glucose and serum electrolyte levels were recorded.
Results: In uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, decrease in serum sodium and chloride levels were observed to be statistically highly significant (p-value less than or equal to 0.05) while that of potassium and magnesium showed insignificant alterations. Sodium level was also observed to decline with increasing pattern of urine for microalbumin.
Conclusion: Electrolyte imbalance is markedly present in patients with uncontrolled blood sugars therefore serum electrolytes should be routinely measured in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Serum fasting blood glucose can be used as a predictor for electrolytes.
doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.3.844
How to cite this:Khan RN, Saba F, Kausar SF, Siddiqui MH. Pattern of electrolyte imbalance in Type 2 diabetes patients: Experience from a tertiary care hospital. Pak J Med Sci. 2019;35(3):797-801. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.3.844
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Innovative Activity of Russian Enterprises in the Conditions of Industrialization of the Economy
Authors: Махмудова Мухаббат , Mahmudova Muhabbat 
Published: May 2019

At the present stage of development of the world and Russian economy there is a change of technological structure or a long cycle of economic conjuncture of D. Kondratyev. Innovative technologies based on biotechnologies, nanotechnologies, global information networks, artificial intelligence system, etc. are the basis for the formation of a new wave of the cycle. The use of innovative technologies allows for a significant increase in production efficiency, cost reduction, reduction of energy and capital intensity.
The article reveals the role of innovation in the economic development of the state and the region in the transition to an innovative type of development. The characteristic of regional and branch differentiation on the level of innovative activity of the enterprises is given. The priority directions of development of innovative activity of enterprises-innovators are revealed. Conclusions are drawn on the need for policies to enhance innovation. The mechanism of increase of activity and efficiency of innovative activity of subjects of the Russian economy is offered.
The theoretical and practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of using its results to substantiate the perspective directions of development of modernization of the national economy and to substantiate the main methods and tools for the formation and implementation of the innovation policy of the state.
When You Work with a Superman, Will You Also Fly? An Empirical Study of the Impact of Coworkers on Performance
Authors: Tan Tom Fangyun , Netessine Serguei 
Published: May 2019

We examine a large operational data set in a casual restaurant setting to study how coworkers’ sales ability level affects other workers’ sales performance. We find that waiters react nonlinearly to their coworkers’ ability. In particular, when coworkers’ overall sales ability is low, increasing this ability may prompt waiters to redouble both upselling and cross-selling efforts. When overall coworkers’ ability is high, however, further increasing their ability may trigger waiters to reduce sales efforts. Our empirical findings imply that, to maximize sales, managers should mix waiters with heterogeneous ability levels during the same shift. Through a counterfactual analysis, we find that considering the inverted U-shaped peer effects when optimizing current waiters’ schedules without changing their utilization may increase total sales by approximately 2.48% at no extra cost. This paper was accepted by Vishal Gaur, operations management.
Advance care planning: what do patients want?
Authors: Owen Lucy , Steel Anna 
Published: May 2019

Introduction: Advance care planning is the process by which patients can make decisions about their future health care should they lose capacity. Such conversations are shown to improve quality of life and reduce institutionalization. This article explores the preferences and wishes of patients in terms of advance care planning. Methods: CINAHL, Medline, Embase and Pubmed were searched. Key words included ‘elderly’, ‘advance care planning’, ‘advance directive’, ‘views’ and ‘opinions’. Results: A total of 64 abstracts were screened and 20 full text articles read; 11 articles were included in the final study. Individual and cultural differences influence the level of decision making that patients want. Most studies agreed that conversations should be carried out opportunistically by a trained health-care professional. Patients value honest and open conversations, without which they may make misinformed decisions. Conclusions: The level of shared decision making that individuals personally want should be established. Open and honest conversations should be initiated at the earliest opportunity.
Book Reviews
Authors: Marglin Jessica M. , Chatty Dawn , Francis Razan , Gürbüzel Aslıhan , Straughn Ian , Verderame Nicola 
Published: May 2019

JEWISH SALONICA: BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND MODERN GREECE, DEVIN E. NAAR (2016) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, xxviii, 366 pp., illustrations, maps, ISBN: 9780804798877 (hardback), ISBN: 9781503600089 (paperback), ISBN: 9781503600096 (e-book), $24.95
THE MERCHANTS OF ORAN: A JEWISH PORT AT THE DAWN OF EMPIRE, JOSHUA SCHREIER (2017) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 216 pp., ISBN: 9780804799140 (hardbacsk), ISBN: 9781503602168 (e-book), $50.00
THE CONSTRUCTION OF EQUALITY: SYRIAC IMMIGRATION AND THE SWEDISH CITY, JENNIFER MACK (2017) Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 344 pages, 78 b&w photos, 6 maps ISBN: 9780816698714 (paperback), $30.00; ISBN: 9780816698691 (hardback), $120.00
POWER, PATRONAGE, AND MEMORY IN EARLY ISLAM: PERSPECTIVES ON UMAYYAD ELITES, EDS ALAIN GEORGE AND ANDREW MARSHAM (2018) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 384 pp., 119 b&w and 13 colour illus. ISBN: 9780190498931 (hardback), £64.00
AFFECT, EMOTION, AND SUBJECTIVITY IN EARLY MODERN MUSLIM EMPIRES: NEW STUDIES IN OTTOMAN, SAFAVID, AND MUGHAL ART AND CULTURE, ED. KISHWAR RIZVI (2018) Leiden and Boston: Brill, xii, 222 pp., 94 illus. ISBN: 9789004352841 (hardback), $140.00
THE TEMPTATION OF GRAVES IN SALAFI ISLAM: ICONOCLASM, DESTRUCTION, AND IDOLATRY, ONDREJ BERÁNEK AND PAVEL TUPEK (2018) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 272 pp., 17 b/w illus. ISBN: 9781474417570 (hardback), $125
ITALIAN ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND MODERN TURKEY: DESIGN ACROSS BORDERS, EDS PAOLO GIRARDELLI AND EZIO GODOLI (2017) Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, xvi, 285 pp, illustrations, plans ISBN: 9781443851947 (hardback), £61.99
Association Between Leukocyte Telomere Length and Colorectal Cancer Risk in the Singapore Chinese Health Study
Authors: Luu Hung N. , Qi Meiyuzhen , Wang Renwei , Adams-Haduch Jennifer , Miljkovic Iva , Opresko Patricia L. , Jin Aizhen , Koh Woon-Puay , Yuan Jian-Min 
Published: May 2019

OBJECTIVES:
Telomeres and telomerase play important roles in maintaining chromosome integrity and genomic stability. To address a lack of consensus about the association between leukocyte telomere length and colorectal cancer, we investigated this association in the Singapore Chinese Health Study.

METHODS:
Relative telomere length in white blood cells was quantified using a validated quantitative polymerase chain reaction method in 26,761 participants, including 776 incident colorectal cancer cases. The Cox proportional hazard regression method was used to calculate the hazard ratio and the corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI) for colorectal cancer associated with longer telomeres.

RESULTS:
Longer telomeres were significantly associated with a higher risk of colorectal cancer (P
trend
= 0.02). Compared with the lowest quartile, subjects with the highest quartile of telomere length had a hazard ratio of 1.32 (95% CI: 1.08–1.62) for developing colorectal cancer. The corresponding elevation in rectal cancer risk for the highest quartile of telomere length was 71% (95% CI: 22–140, P

trend

= 0.02). There was no statistically significant association between telomere length and risk of colon cancer.

DISCUSSION:
This large cohort study of Singapore Chinese, the first study using a cohort study design with more than 26,000 participants that yielded 776 incidence colorectal cancer cases during 12 years of follow-up, provides evidence in support of longer telomeres being associated with a higher risk of colorectal cancer, particularly rectal cancer.
Dynamic Landscapes, Emerging Territories
Authors: Abudayyeh Rana 
Published: May 2019

As a result of the pressing environmental and technological conditions dominant today, new frontiers for architectural production are emerging. Fueled by accelerated change and increased connectivity, these trajectories operate across multiple scales and domains. The evolving relationship between place, technology, and occupancy formulates a complex active structure that tends to have fluctuating levels of activity and impact. These conditions are giving way to hybridized settings where the interdependence of digital and analog is altering the very politics of place and identity. In response to the prevalence of amalgamated settings, the paradigm of “Dynamic Landscapes, Emerging Territories” is presented.
Dynamic Landscapes have definitions and presence in multiple locations simultaneously, requiring new methods of documentation and assessment in order to conceive appropriate design responses. The paper uses the Syrian Refugee Crisis as a case study for deciphering the implications inherent in displacement in the context of dynamic landscapes. Furthermore, it presents an opportunity to think of new architectural trajectories rooted and driven by the animation of such sites. Inherently dynamic, forced displacement presents rich emerging territories where design carries significant impact and facilitates a tangible reassessment of a refugee’s narrative. Supported by robust information networks and active feedback loops, displaced landscapes as such can learn from their residents and inform their imminent futures specifically, as well as our collective human occupancy at large.
Within constantly changing milieus, architecture’s premises and processes are being challenged to respond to fluctuating contexts and provide for transient occupancies. While some may see this as a loss of spatial agency when it comes to design, these conditions present an opportunity to think of new architectural trajectories that are rooted and driven by the dynamism of multilayered landscapes and new approaches towards practice.
La enseñanza del inglés en escuelas primarias santafesinas en territorios de pobreza: pensar una perspectiva crítica en didáctica específica. Contribuciones desde un estudio de tesis de maestría
Authors: Trevisani Sandra 
Published: May 2019

El artículo presenta parte de las conclusionesde una tesis de maestría que estudia el trabajo con unalengua extranjera en escuelas primarias en contextos devulnerabilidad de la ciudad de Santa Fe. Retoma unaprescripción que se deriva de la Ley de Educación Nacional26206/06 en cuyo capítulo II, artículo 87, dice:«La enseñanza de al menos un idioma extranjero seráobligatoria en todas las escuelas primarias y secundariasdel país». Así, la tesis estudia el aula de 7mo. grado,en la que el inglés es un espacio curricular, de escuelasenclavadas en barrios marginales de la ciudad, y analizacondiciones institucionales y pedagógicas necesariaspara su implementación desde una perspectiva didácticacrítica. Se trata de un trabajo donde pobreza y enseñanza
se van constituyendo en territorios con particularidadesque los identifican y diferencian, en los que se visibilizaa niños sujetos de cultura y en los que se va planteandola impronta de una práctica docente como proceso noenajenante, con un discurso no hegemónico que valorelo cultural propiciando la construcción de identidad ysubjetividad de estos tiempos. De este modo, se estudianlas posibilidades de construcción de saberes socialmenteproductivos en el aula. [...]
Theory of gateway in case of time travel
Authors: Ahamed Sahriar 
Published: May 2019

When we record any video, where do we keep and store it? In a space- that we call memory card or disk or any other kind of storage device. When we are required to see our memories, what we do? We play it with a video player software which is known as media player, dvd player or video player etc. These video player software works as the gate way to visualize the past in-front of us. Same way our reality is storing in another place/space which is another dimension that we know as our past. We can always see it by creating a gate way same as video player software or we may say it as knowledge.Â Â
Reliability of digital radiographs in measuring the vertical and horizontal dental implantsâ€™ dimensions a retrospective study
Authors: Rakan Shaheen Dr. , Muna Binladin Dr. , Alanoud Bin Muammar Dr. , Shuaa Alonazi Dr. , Amjad Alharbi Dr. , Bader Bamousa Dr. , Ahmed Alahmari Dr. 
Published: May 2019

Introduction: Digital radiography can take accurate measurements. In implant dentistry, intraoral periapical (PA), bite-wing (BW) and panoramic (OPG) radiographs are being used, although it had limitations of distortion. This research aims to assess the accuracy of digital radiography in measuring dental implants and to evaluate the SIDEXIS softwareâ€™s reliability in measuring their dimensions.Materials and Methods: Over 192 implants from 316 radiographs were selected. All radiographs were analyzed using SIDEXIS software. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS.Results: Statistically significant differences (P < 0.5) between the actual heights and widths compared to the measured radiographic dimensions. Over all the distortion was greatest in OPGs. The magnifications were 2.48mm in height and 0.82mm in width for OPGS, 0.17mm in width for BWs while in PAs it was 1.37mm in height and 0.156mm in width. The magnification was more in maxilla for PAs and OPGs. Anteriorly the PAs had the greatest magnification (2.16mm), and OPGs had the greatest at (3.03mm) in height posteriorly.Conclusion: Digital OPG, PA and Bitewing radiographs are reliable for performing dimensions linear measurements for implants, and PAs have the highest precision. Additionally, SIDEXIS software provided accurate results and can be considered a reliable method for implantsâ€™ assessment.Â Â