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Evolutionary, Cognitive, and Contextual Approaches to the Study of Religious Systems
Authors: Lang Martin , Kundt Radek 
Published: August 2019

Abstract
The explanatory gap between the life sciences and the humanities that is present in the study of human phenomena impedes productive interdisciplinary examination that such a complex subject requires. Manifested as epistemological tensions over reductionism vs. holism, nature vs. nurture, and the study of micro vs. macro context, the divergent research approaches in the humanities and the sciences produce separate bodies of knowledge that are difficult to reconcile. To remedy this incommensurability, the article proposes to employ the complex adaptive systems approach, which allows to study specific cultural systems in their ecologies and to account for the myriads of factors that constitute such systems, including nonlinear interactions between these factors and their evolution. On a specific example of religious systems, we show that by studying cultural systems in their contextual variability, mechanistic composition, and evolutionary history, the humanities and the sciences should be able to fruitfully collaborate while avoiding previous pitfalls of excessive reductionism, genetic determinism, and sweeping overgeneralizations, on the one hand, and pitfalls of excessive holism, cultural determinism, and aversion to any generalizations, on the other hand.
Flooded Catholicism
Authors: Pasquier Michael 
Published: August 2019

Abstract
In 2016 a massive rain storm flooded over 75,000 structures throughout Louisiana, contributing to the deaths of thirteen people and transforming the lives of thousands of victims. A representative of the Red Cross described the event as “the worst [natural disaster] to hit the United States since Superstorm Sandy.” Prayer during times of disaster is something to be expected. By listening to Catholics talk about praying and flooding in Louisiana, one can witness the breakdown of the Catholic Church’s theological and devotional prescriptions for prayer. The multivalence and diversity of prayer is on display in the lives and memories of those who flooded, challenging the notion that there is some kind of distinctly Catholic imagination that equips Catholics with the wherewithal to navigate the natural and supernatural tumult of something like a flood.
Catholicism Doesn’t Always Mean What You Think It Means
Authors: Byrne Julie 
Published: August 2019

Abstract
Anthropologists of Catholicism should consider “floating” Catholicism as a signifier and resisting ingrained habits of essentializing and assuming its referent or content, exemplified by still-frequent quotations of sociologist Andrew Greeley’s exceptionalist idea of the “sacramental imagination.” I use examples from my work including everyday micropolitics, independent Catholics, and cultural Catholics, as well as the work of Maya Mayblin and Jon Bialecki, to suggest a catholic—in the small-c sense of all-encompassing—approach that has the potential to sustain the anthropology of Catholicism as a radical space for investigation and discovery. I revisit Greeley’s “sacramental imagination” in the context of its quotation in a U.S. museum exhibit and connect its appeal to Roman Catholic empire-making.
Fieldwork in Ecclesial Borderlands
Authors: Reynolds Susan Bigelow 
Published: August 2019

Abstract
Roman Catholic parishes in the United States are steadily becoming more diverse. This article examines St. Mary of the Angels, a small, urban, economically marginal, highly diverse Roman Catholic parish in Boston, as a case study in the question of how researchers might approach the tension between cultural dynamism and structural stability at the heart of multiethnic parish life. Attending to the ways in which parishioners articulated their decisions to belong to St. Mary’s, I demonstrate how their renegotiation of the relationship between parish, place, and belonging reflects broader dynamics underway in U.S. Catholicism. I propose the metaphor of the ecclesial borderland as lens through which to interpret parishes where multiple cultural subcommunities coexist and converge.
Soul Murder
Authors: Clites Brian J. 
Published: August 2019

Abstract
This article explores the Catholic imaginaries of survivors of clergy sexual abuse by focusing on soul murder, a psychoanalytic concept that the survivor movement appropriated and which has now become central to Catholic survivors’ understandings of their trauma as children. Soul murder names the experience of child sexual abuse as the annihilation of a child’s network of relationships and the ongoing loss as adults of basic relational skills such as intimacy and trust. In addition to losing these social networks, clergy abuse victims frequently lose their relationship with God. This article provides examples of survivors’ efforts to resurrect their faith by reimagining and reconstructing their relationships with one another, God, the sacraments, and the Roman Catholic Church. Through their material culture, reform efforts, home liturgies, and protests, survivors embody a Catholic imaginary whose abundance both enabled their childhood abuse and gives meaning to their adult suffering.
A new species of Dryocoetoides Hopkins from southern Florida (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
Authors: ATKINSON T. H. 
Published: August 2019

During the course of an extensive survey of Coleoptera from tropical southern Florida, a specimen of the exclusively Neotropical genus Dryocoetoides was found in flight intercept traps (Atkinson and Peck, 1994; Peck, 1989). Over the intervening years I have had the opportunity to compare the specimen with material in the U.S. National Museum and in the S. L. Wood collection (recently transferred to the USNM). Wood's ( 2007) recent monograph of the South American species of Scolytinae included a key to all the known species of the genus, not only those known from South America. Based on that key and included descriptions I was able narrow down the possibilities and to borrow selected Schedl types from the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. As a result, I have reached the conclusion that this specimen represents an undescribed species. It is described here to make the name available for a regional monograph of the bark and ambrosia beetles of the southeastern U.S. (Atkinson, in prep.).
Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopy surgery in lung cancer: largest experience
Authors: Venkitaraman Balasubramanian , Lei Jiang , Liang Wu , Jianqiao Cai 
Published: August 2019

Background Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is one of the latest development in minimal invasive thoracic surgery. It is being increasing applied in various parts of the world for the treatment of lung cancer. Although the technique has become popular, there is a lack of largescale literature addressing the safety and oncological outcomes. We aimed to describe our experience, highlighting the short-term outcomes and oncological efficacy. Methods From July 2013 to December 2017, 441 uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic procedures were carried out in patients with primary lung cancer and no metastatic disease. The male-to-female ratio was 240:201. The median age of the patients was 63 years (range10 to 85 years). Results The median number of mediastinal lymph node stations dissected and median number of mediastinal nodes were 5 and 14, respectively. Ten or more nodes were dissected in 93.1% of patients. All surgeries were complete R0 resection. Minor postoperative morbidity according to the Clavien-Dindo classification was 4%. Seven patients experienced major morbidity requiring intensive care management. There was no 30-day mortality. Conclusion Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic anatomical resection for lung cancer appears to have similar postoperative outcomes to multiport surgery in terms of short-term morbidity and oncological efficacy. Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery can be offered as a standard of care for lung cancer surgery in centers with adequate surgical expertise. Long-term follow-up will be needed to establish the long-term oncological outcomes.
Effect of Pushen capsule for treating vascular mild cognitive impairment: a pilot observational study
Authors: Li Shuo , Cao Geyin , Deng Qiwen , Zhu Dan , Yan Fuling 
Published: August 2019

Objective Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) may be beneficial for vascular dementia (VaD). We evaluated the efficacy of Pushen capsule, a compound containing several TCM components, for treating vascular mild cognitive impairment (VaMCI). Methods Seventy outpatients with VaMCI were randomized to Pushen capsule or control treatment with Ginkgo biloba. Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), and Subjective Memory Loss Rating Scale scores; and lipid, lipoprotein, and haemorheological parameters were collected at baseline, week 4, and week 12 of treatment. Results MMSE score at week 12 was significantly higher in the treatment group compared with baseline ( t = −2.352) but was not significantly different from week 12 in the control group. The MoCA score at week 12 was higher than that at baseline for both the treatment and control groups ( t = −2.619 and −2.582, respectively), as was the “delayed recall” item score. Subjective memory loss score and the cognitive function “forgetting acquaintance's name” were significantly higher in the treatment group at week 12 than at baseline ( t = −2.621 and χ2 = 4.419, respectively). Lipid, lipoprotein, and haemorheological parameters were significantly different after treatment in both groups. Conclusion The benefits of Pushen capsule on cognitive function in VaMCI were comparable with that of Ginkgo biloba.
A review of functional latissimus dorsi transfers for absent elbow flexion and supination
Authors: Martin Serena , McBride Michael , McGarry Kevin , Eames Michael , Lewis Harry 
Published: August 2019

Aims To review patients treated with a functional latissimus dorsi flap for congenital and acquired elbow flexion deficits. Methods Retrospective review of functional latissimus dorsi flaps performed in one regional unit. Patient notes were reviewed to determine aetiology, pre-op deficits and function, surgical technique, complications and outcomes. Results A total of six functional latissimus dorsi transfers were performed on four patients. Two patients had bilateral latissimus dorsi transfers for congenital defects. The remaining two procedures were for traumatic defects. Post-operatively both children had excellent outcomes with full range of active movement allowing them to perform key activities of daily living. Surgical Technique Epimysium of latissimus dorsi folded to form a pseudo-tendon, tunnelled subcutaneously and either attached to a remnant of biceps tendon or secured to the radius. Congenital patients achieved better outcomes; pre-operatively, there was no active elbow flexion in all four elbows but 90–100 of passive flexion. Complications One latissimus dorsi dehiscence which required revision surgery. Two donor-site seromas. Conclusions Functional latissimus dorsi transfer has been shown to achieve excellent elbow flexion in patients with congenital absence of biceps and brachialis muscles. Outcomes in older patients with traumatic injuries have been less successful in achieving a full range of active flexion.
Longitudinal relationships between cognition and functioning over 2 years in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder: a cross-lagged panel model approach with the FACE-BD cohort
Authors: Ehrminger Mickael , Brunet-Gouet Eric , Cannavo Anne-Sophie , Aouizerate Bruno , Cussac Irena , Azorin Jean-Michel , Bellivier Frank , Bougerol Thierry , Courtet Philippe , Dubertret Caroline , Etain Bruno , Kahn Jean-Pierre , Leboyer Marion , Olié Emilie ,   the FondaMental Advanced Centers of Expertise in Bipolar Disorders (FACE-BD) Collaborators, Passerieux Christine , Roux Paul 
Published: August 2019

BackgroundLongitudinal studies of the relationship between cognition and functioning in bipolar disorder are scarce, although cognition is thought to be a key determinant of functioning. The causal structure between cognition and psychosocial functioning in bipolar disorder is unknown.AimsWe sought to examine the direction of causality between cognitive performance and functional outcome over 2 years in a large cohort of euthymic patients with bipolar disorder.MethodThe sample consisted of 272 adults diagnosed with bipolar disorder who were euthymic at baseline, 12 and 24 months. All participants were recruited via the FondaMental Advanced Centers of Expertise in Bipolar Disorders. We used a battery of tests, assessing six domains of cognition at baseline and 24 months. Residual depressive symptoms and psychosocial functioning were measured at baseline and 12 and 24 months. The possible causal structure between cognition and psychosocial functioning was investigated with cross-lagged panel models with residual depressive symptoms as a covariate.ResultsThe analyses support a causal model in which cognition moderately predicts and is causally primary to functional outcome 1 year later, whereas psychosocial functioning does not predict later cognitive performance. Subthreshold depressive symptoms concurrently affected functioning at each time of measure.ConclusionsOur results are compatible with an upward causal effect of cognition on functional outcome in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder. Neuropsychological assessment may help specify individual prognoses. Further studies are warranted to confirm this causal link and evaluate cognitive remediation, before or simultaneously with functional remediation, as an intervention to improve functional outcome.
HDL-Cholesterol, Its Variability, and the Risk of Diabetes: A Nationwide Population-Based Study
Authors: Lee Seung-Hwan , Kim Hun-Sung , Park Yong-Moon , Kwon Hyuk-Sang , Yoon Kun-Ho , Han Kyungdo , Kim Mee Kyoung 
Published: August 2019

Abstract

Context
The bidirectional relationship between low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and glucose intolerance is well established. Recent studies suggested an association of lipid variability with various health outcomes.

Objective
To investigate the combined effect of HDL-C levels and their variability on the risk of diabetes.

Design
A population-based cohort study.

Setting and Participants
In all, 5,114,735 adults without known diabetes in the Korean National Health Insurance System cohort who underwent three or more health examinations from 2009 to 2013 were included. Visit-to-visit HDL-C variability was calculated using variability independent of the mean (VIM) and the coefficient of variation (CV). Low mean and high variability groups were defined as the lowest and highest quartiles of HDL-C mean and variability, respectively.

Main Outcome Measures
Newly developed diabetes.

Results
There were 122,192 cases (2.4%) of incident diabetes during the median follow-up of 5.1 years. Lower mean or higher variability of HDL-C was associated with higher risk of diabetes in a stepwise manner, and an additive effect of the two measures was noted. In the multivariable-adjusted model, the hazard ratios and 95% CIs for incident diabetes were 1.20 (1.18 to 1.22) in the high mean/high VIM group, 1.35 (1.33 to 1.37) in the low mean/low VIM group, and 1.40 (1.38 to 1.42) in the low mean/high VIM group compared with the high mean/low VIM group. Similar results were observed when modeling the variability using CV and in various subgroup analyses.

Conclusions
Low mean and high variability in HDL-C were independent predictors of diabetes with an additive effect. Both elevating and stabilizing HDL-C may be important goals for reducing diabetes risk.
Adapting Coercion: How Three Industrialized Nations Manufacture Vaccination Compliance
Authors: McCoy Charles Allan 
Published: August 2019

AbstractContext: This research examines the development of vaccination policy in Britain, the United States, and Australia to begin to understand the different forms of coercion that industrialized states utilize to achieve vaccination compliance from the majority of their citizens.Methods: This research applies a comparative-historical analysis of the three countries listed, using a combination of primary and secondary documents.Findings: The different degrees of compulsion in the vaccination policies of Britain, the United States, and Australia is explained through an analysis of the path-dependent ways that each nation adapted coercion in response to civil society resistance. Each nation has moved up and down a continuum of coercion searching for a policy that balances overcoming passive noncompliance without engendering active resistance. Arriving at different balancing points between these two objectives, the three nations have now institutionalized policies with different degrees of coercion.Conclusions: This research shows that vaccination policy is not just created top-down by the state, but through an ongoing interactive process with citizens and civil society. Furthermore, as vaccination is a “wicked problem” that faces ongoing civil society resistance, states will need to perpetually adapt the coerciveness of their policies into the foreseeable future.
Histrionics of the Pulpit
Authors: Larson Scott 
Published: August 2019

AbstractThe eighteenth-century Atlantic world was swept with a radical new form of Christian preaching that aimed to engage the feelings and sensations of mass audiences. In the nineteenth century, this heart-centered preaching became a mainstream form of American Christianity, but in its first hundred years, it was widely regarded as perverse, effeminate, and depraved. Early evangelical Christianity threatened to destabilize social and political orders, to drive the masses “out of their senses,” and to throw gender norms into chaos. This article argues that attention to “trans tonality”—an investigation of trans at the level of tone, expression, and sensation—offers a surprising trans history of early American culture and opens up an archive rich with accounts of gender and sensory variance.
“Artifacts from the Future”
Authors: Green Nicki , Crasnow S. J. 
Published: August 2019

Abstract
What follows is a conversation between artist Nicki Green and scholar S. J. Crasnow. In this conversation they consider two of Green's artworks in relationship to historical and contemporary Jewish practice and especially in relationship to queer and trans Jewish communities. Green's pieces, Incantation Crock and Bedikah Quilt Topper, are themselves trans, Jewish ritual objects, and in this conversation Green and Crasnow investigate the underlying themes of queer/trans Jewish futures, history preservation, ritual innovation and challenges to “traditional” Judaism, the queer/trans body as a holy site of transformation, and craft and cultural production to parse and question modes of making and of religious practice.
Monoallelic, antisense and total RNA transcription in an in vitro neural differentiation system based on F1 hybrid mice
Authors: Kondo Shinji , Kato Hidemasa , Suzuki Yutaka , Takada Toyoyuki , Eitoku Masamitsu , Shiroishi Toshihiko , Suganuma Narufumi , Sugano Sumio , Kiyosawa Hidenori 
Published: August 2019

ABSTRACT
We developed an in vitro system to differentiate embryonic stem cells (ESCs) derived from reciprocally crossed F1 hybrid mice into neurons, and used it to investigate poly(A)+ and total RNA transcription at different stages of cell differentiation. By comparing expression profiles of transcripts assembled from 20 RNA sequencing datasets [2 alleles×(2 cell lines×4 time-points+2 mouse brains)], the relative influence of strain, cell and parent specificities to overall expression could be assessed. Divergent expression profiles of ESCs converged tightly at neural progenitor stage. Patterns of temporal variation of monoallelically expressed transcripts and antisense transcripts were quantified. Comparison of sense and antisense transcript pairs within the poly(A)+ sample, within the total RNA sample, and across poly(A)+ and total RNA samples revealed distinct rates of pairs showing anti-correlated expression variation. Unique patterns of sharing of poly(A)+ and poly(A)− transcription were identified in distinct RNA species. Regulation and functionality of monoallelic expression, antisense transcripts and poly(A)− transcription remain elusive. We demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach to capture these transcriptional activities, and provided new resources to elucidate the mammalian developmental transcriptome.
Cooperação internacional e políticas públicas no GT-ITAIPU/saúde
Authors: Lisboa Marcelino Teixeira , Peron Vanessa Demarchi 
Published: August 2019

O artigo analisa a gênese e a atuação do GT Itaipu Saúde, considerando as questões de cooperação internacional e políticas públicas. O GT é uma iniciativa que provê formas para a resolução de problemas de saúde pública na região da Tríplice Fronteira (Argentina-Brasil-Paraguai). Foram utilizados documentos e atas de reuniões além de entrevistas e observação das discussões das reuniões do grupo. Como resultados, foi possível verificar o histórico do grupo e entender o funcionamento do GT. Concluiu-se que o GT iniciou como uma tentativa de cooperação internacional, que se tornou um tipo de ator que viabiliza políticas públicas de saúde na região da Tríplice Fronteira.
¿Reacción institucional o avanzada dictatorial? Las tensiones entre el Congreso y el Ejecutivo a comienzos del siglo XX
Authors: Castro Martín Omar 
Published: August 2019

La clausura de las sesiones del Congreso argentino dispuesta por José Figueroa Alcorta en 1908 dejó expuestas la fragilidad de los alineamientos políticos y las dificultades del gobierno para consolidar una coalición parlamentaria estable. Este artículo explora el rol del Congreso en el ordenamiento político argentino a partir del análisis del debate sobre la legitimidad del llamado «golpe de Estado». Se analiza el carácter disruptivo de la medida introducida por el gobierno de Figueroa Alcorta y se procura avanzar en la comprensión de las relaciones entre el Poder Ejecutivo Nacional y el Congreso durante el orden conservador» a la luz de la comparación del conflicto de 1908 con las tensiones experimentadas en la década de 1890 relativas a la solidez de los ejecutivos, la legitimidad de los representantes y el alcance de la división de poderes.
Predictions of the shear modulus of cheese, a soft matter approach
Authors: Gillies Graeme 
Published: August 2019

Abstract
The rheological and structural properties of cheese govern many physical processes associated with cheese such as slumping, slicing and melting. To date there is no quantitative model that predicts shear modulus, viscosity or any other rheological property across the entire range of cheeses; only empirical fits that interpolate existing data. A lack of a comprehensive model is in part due to the many variables that can affect rheology such as salt, pH, calcium levels, protein to moisture ratio, age and temperature. By modelling the casein matrix as a series core-shell nano particles assembled from calcium and protein these variables can be reduced onto a simpler two-dimensional format consisting of attraction and equivalent hard sphere volume fraction. Approximating the interaction between core-shell nano particles with a Mie potential enables numerical predictions of shear moduli. More qualitatively, this two-dimensional picture can be applied quite broadly and captures the viscoelastic behaviour of soft and hard cheeses as well as their melting phenomena.