bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Treatment of Acute Zonal Occult Outer Retinopathy With Intravitreal Steroids
Authors: Barnes Alexander C , Lowder Careen Y. , Bessette Angela P. , Baynes Kimberly , Srivastava Sunil K. 
Published: July 2018

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:
To report on the use of intravitreal steroids in the management of acute zonal occult outer retinopathy (AZOOR), a rare disorder affecting the outer retina.

PATIENTS AND METHODS:
Retrospective case series of nine eyes of five patients with AZOOR who received intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA), dexamethasone intravitreal implant, and/or fluocinolone acetonide implant. Treatment response was determined by reported symptoms and multimodal imaging findings. Patients were observed for at least 1 year following intravitreal steroid treatment (range: 14 months to 63 months).

RESULTS:
Seven eyes received IVTA, six eyes received the dexamethasone intravitreal implant, and one eye received the fluocinolone acetonide implant. All patients experienced disease stability or improvement based on symptomatic response and multimodal imaging findings after intravitreal steroids. One eye developed central serous retinopathy, and another eye a choroidal neovascular membrane. Five of nine eyes experienced ocular hypertension. All phakic eyes developed cataracts.

CONCLUSION:
Intravitreal steroids effectively achieved disease stability in patients with AZOOR.

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Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina
. 2018;49:504–509.]
Le respect de la vie familiale et la protection subsidiaire : l’Allemagne plafonne les droits fondamentaux
Authors: Tometten Christoph 
Published: July 2018

Sous prétexte de garantir le fonctionnement de ses systèmes d’accueil et d’intégration, l’Allemagne a, en mars 2016, suspendu le regroupement familial pour les bénéficiaires de la protection subsidiaire pour une durée de deux ans. Cette période a été reconduite jusqu’au 31 juillet 2018 par une loi votée début 2018. À partir du 1er août 2018, le regroupement familial pour les bénéficiaires de la protection subsidiaire sera subordonné à des conditions spécifiques et plafonné à 1000 personnes par mois. La suspension et le plafonnement du regroupement familial ne sont toutefois pas conformes avec les droits fondamentaux garantis par le droit constitutionnel allemand et le droit de l’Union européenne. La justice allemande est appelée à assurer la primauté du droit de l’Union européenne afin d’écarter la menace que représente le plafonnement du regroupement familial pour le régime des droits fondamentaux.
Pre-Existing Maternal Antibodies Cause Rapid Prenatal Rejection of Allotransplants in the Mouse Model of In Utero Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Authors: Riley John S. , McClain Lauren E. , Stratigis John D. , Coons Barbara E. , Li Haiying , Hartman Heather A. , Peranteau William H. 
Published: July 2018

Abstract
In utero hematopoietic cell transplantation (IUHCT) is a nonmyeloablative nonimmunosuppressive alternative to postnatal hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for the treatment of congenital hemoglobinopathies. Anti-HLA donor-specific Abs (DSA) are associated with a high incidence of graft rejection following postnatal hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. We determine if DSA present in the mother can similarly cause graft rejection in the fetus following IUHCT. Ten million C57BL/6 (B6, H2kb) bone marrow cells were transplanted in utero into gestational day 14 BALB/c (H2kd) fetuses. The pregnant BALB/c dams carrying these fetuses either had been previously sensitized to B6 Ag or were injected on gestational days 13–15 with serum from B6-sensitized BALB/c females. Maternal–fetal Ab transmission, Ab opsonization of donor cells, chimerism, and frequency of macrochimeric engraftment (chimerism &gt;1%) were assessed by flow cytometry. Maternal IgG was transmitted to the fetus and rapidly opsonized donor cells following IUHCT. Donor cell rejection was observed as early as 4 h after IUHCT in B6-sensitized dams and 24 h after IUHCT in dams injected with B6-sensitized serum. Efficient opsonization was strongly correlated with decreased chimerism. No IUHCT recipients born to B6-sensitized dams or dams injected with B6-sensitized serum demonstrated macrochimeric engraftment at birth compared with 100% of IUHCT recipients born to naive dams or dams injected with naive serum (p &lt; 0.001). In summary, maternal donor–specific IgG causes rapid, complete graft rejection in the fetus following IUHCT. When a third-party donor must be used for clinical IUHCT, the maternal serum should be screened for DSA to optimize the chance for successful engraftment.
Screening the church: A study of clergy representation in contemporary Afrikaans cinema
Authors: Joynt Shaun , Broodryk Chris 
Published: July 2018

The church-funded CARFO or KARFO (Afrikaans Christian Filmmaking Organisation) was established in 1947, and aimed to ‘[socialise] the newly urbanized Afrikaner into a Christian urban society’ (Tomaselli 1985:25; Paleker 2009:45). This initiative was supported and sustained by the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), which had itself been part of the sociopolitical and ideological fabric of Afrikaans religious life for a while and would guide Afrikaners through tensions between religious conservatism and liberalism and into apartheid. Given Afrikaans cinema’s ties with Christian religious and political conservatism, we explore the role – even the centrality – of the Afrikaans church in cultural activity before 1994, and then after 1994. Here, Afrikaans church is an inclusive term that brings together various denominations of Afrikaans-speaking churches, but which mainly suggests the domination of the DRC. After establishing the role of the Afrikaans church in the way described above, we move towards the primary focus of our study: exploring the representation of clergy in the contemporary Afrikaans film Faan se Trein in order to describe certain theological implications of this representation. With reference to Faan se Trein, our article notes and comments on the shifts that have occurred in clergy representation in Afrikaans cinema over the past decades. Osmer’s four tasks of practical theology, namely, descriptive, interpretive, normative and strategic are used for theological reflection. With due contextual reference to Afrikaans film dramas such as Broer Matie [Brother Matie], Saak van Geloof [A Matter of Faith], Roepman [Stargazer], Stilte [Silence], Suiderkruis [Southern Cross] and Faan se Trein, we arrive at some preliminary conclusions about the representation of clergy in mainly contemporary Afrikaans cinema.
Challenges and opportunities for monitoring wild Nile crocodiles with scute mark-recapture photography
Authors: Coetzee Bernard W.T. , Ferreira Sam M. , Maciejewski Kristine 
Published: July 2018

The global conservation status of Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) was last assessed in 1996. The species presents particular difficulty in monitoring because it can be cryptic, require expertise to handle, and caudal tail tags and transmitters are often lost. Some studies advocate mark-recapture techniques based on photograph identification of the unique scute markings of crocodile tails as a non-invasive means of monitoring their populations. Researchers developed this method with crocodiles in captivity. In this study, we test the technique under field conditions by monitoring crocodiles from 2015 to 2017 in the Sunset Dam in the Kruger National Park. Using a Cormack-Jolly-Seber open population model, we found that the dam may host 15–30 individuals, but that there is a high turnover of individuals and much uncertainty in model outputs. The dam’s population thus has high rates of immigration and emigration. The method proved challenging under field conditions, as there was bias in identifying scute markings consistently. The efficient use of the method requires an exceptional quality of photographic equipment. Animal crypsis, however, remains an issue. In this study, we discuss how to improve the mark-recapture photography methodology, especially to adapt the technique for citizen science initiatives.Conservation implications: Using scute mark-recapture photography presents challenges under field conditions. These challenges require innovative, practical and analytical solutions to successfully use the technique before monitoring programmes, aimed at ensuring the persistence of crocodiles in the wild, can be implemented.
平生足悲吒----論韓愈詩的憂憤悲懷/The Sadness of Life-Han Yu's Poetry of Grief and Sorrow
Authors: LIN Ming-chang 
Published: July 2018

摘要本文從悲苦憂懼的角度重新詮釋韓愈的詩作與人生，以「老病之懼」、「飢寒之憂」、「喪生之畏」三項主題為核心，解析韓愈藉詩抒發對生命老化、漂泊與死亡的深深恐懼。本文是學界至今為止極少數探討韓愈文學此一面向的研究。關鍵詞：韓愈詩、諧謔、以文為詩、以文為戲 This paper is a study of the element of melancholy apprehension in Han Yu’s poetry. Han’s apprehension of melancholy, which up to now has received very little attention, is discussed in three aspects: (1) the fear of old age and sickness, (2) the fear of hunger and cold, and (3) the fear of death. Against the background of Han Yu’s unstable and uncertain life and career, the new reading and analysis show that melancholy lies at the very heart of his personality and writing.
Role of the Sword Futsunomitama-no-tsurugi in the Origin of the Japanese Bushidō Tradition
Authors: CHRISTIANSON G. Björn , VILENIUS Mikko , SEKI Humitake 
Published: July 2018

One of the formative narratives in Japanese martial arts is the bestowal of the mystical sword “Futsunomitama-no-tsurugi” upon Emperor Jinmu, the legendary founder of Japan. Within the Kashima Shinden Bujutsu lineage, this bestowal is attested as a critical event in the initiation of the principles of Bushidō martiality. However, the practical reasons for its significance has been unclear. Drawing on historical and archaeological records, in this paper we hypothesise that the physical conformation of the legendary sword Futsunomitama-no-tsurugi represented a comparatively incremental progression from the one-handed short swords imported from mainland Asia. These modifications, however, allowed for a new, two-handed style of swordsmanship, and therefore it was the combination of the physical conformation of Futsunomitama-no-tsurugi and the development of appropriate techniques for wielding it that formed the basis of the martial significance of the “Law of Futsu-no-mitama”. Drawing on various traditions and records linking Futsunomitama-no-tsurugi to the Kashima Grand Shrine, we also argue that this new tradition of swordsmanship was the nucleus around which the Kashima Shinden Bujutsu lineage would develop, and therefore represented a critical first step towards the later concepts of Bushidō. Based on the kabala of the Kashima Shinryū, we also present a working model of what the techniques for usage of Futsunomitama-no-tsurugi might have been, and provide an account of an experiment testing its application.
Housing Sydney
Authors: Darcy Michael 
Published: July 2018

Housing processes and products provide an invaluable contribution to understanding the city. The form, location and condition of its dwellings are a key feature of Sydney, reflecting its historical development, household and social structure, economic conditions and response to climate.
Four aspects of Sydney’s housing - type, tenure, cost and location - provide indispensable insights into the city’s social makeup, its economic foundations and cultural identity. Unfortunately, as in most large cities around the world, a proportion of Sydney’s residents are unable to secure housing of any kind.
All-sky information content analysis for novel passive microwave instruments in the range from 23.8 to 874.4 GHz
Authors: Grützun Verena , Buehler Stefan A. , Kluft Lukas , Mendrok Jana , Brath Manfred , Eriksson Patrick 
Published: July 2018

Abstract. We perform an all-sky information content analysis for channels in the millimetre and sub-millimetre wavelength with 24 channels in the region from 23.8 to 874.4 GHz. The employed set of channels corresponds to the instruments ISMAR and MARSS, which are available on the British FAAM research aircraft, and it is complemented by two precipitation channels at low frequencies from Deimos. The channels also cover ICI, which will be part of the MetOp-SG mission. We use simulated atmospheres from the ICON model as basis for the study and quantify the information content with the reduction of degrees of freedom (ΔDOF). The required Jacobians are calculated with the radiative transfer model ARTS. Specifically we focus on the dependence of the information content on the atmospheric composition. In general we find a high information content for the frozen hydrometeors, which mainly comes from the higher frequency channels beyond 183.31 GHz (on average 3.10 for cloud ice and 2.57 for snow). Considerable information about the microphysical properties, especially for cloud ice, can be gained. The information content about the liquid hydrometeors comes from the lower frequency channels. It is 1.69 for liquid cloud water and 1.08 for rain using the full set of channels. The Jacobians for a specific cloud hydrometeor strongly depend on the atmospheric composition. Especially for the liquid hydrometeors the Jacobians even change sign in some cases. However, the information content is robust across different atmospheric compositions. For liquid hydrometeors the information content decreases in the presence of any frozen hydrometeor, for the frozen hydrometeors it decreases slightly in the presence of the respective other frozen hydrometeor. Due to the lack of channels below 183 GHz liquid hydrometeors are hardly seen by ICI. However, the overall results with regard to the frozen hydrometeors also hold for the ICI sensor. This points to ICI's great ability to observe ice clouds from space on a global scale with a good spatial coverage in unprecedented detail.
Soils rich in biological ice-nucleating particles abound in ice-nucleating macromolecules likely produced by fungi
Authors: Conen Franz , Yakutin Mikhail V. 
Published: July 2018

Abstract. Soil organic
matter carries ice-nucleating particles (INPs) the origin of which is hard to
define and that are active at slight supercooling. The discovery and
characterization of INPs produced by the widespread soil fungus
Mortierella alpina permits a more targeted investigation of the
likely origin of INPs in soils. We searched for INPs with characteristics
similar to those reported for M. alpina in 20 soil samples from four
areas in the northern midlatitudes and one area in the tropics. In the
15 samples where we could detect such INPs, they constituted between 1 and
94 % (median 11 %) of all INPs active at −10 ∘C or warmer
(INP−10) associated with soil particles < 5 µm. Their
concentration increased overproportionately with the concentration of
INP−10 in soil and seems to be greater in colder climates. Large
regional differences and prevalently high concentrations allow us to make
inferences regarding their potential role in the atmosphere and the soil.
Black on the Outside, White on the Inside: Peter Abelard's Use of Race
Authors: McCluskey Colleen 
Published: July 2018

Abstract
In his reply to Heloise's complaints in the fourth of the so-called personal letters, Peter Abelard (a twelfth-century theologian) draws upon the figure of the Ethiopian queen from the biblical Song of Songs, who proclaims that she is black on the outside but beautiful on the inside. While some scholars have interpreted his discussion as a commentary on the persona of a nun, this article considers what Abelard's remarks might mean for understanding the development of the concept of race in Western thought. In particular, it considers whether Abelard's discussion, both in the letter and in his metaphysical writings, challenges the common (although not universal) position that Europeans did not develop a concept of race until at least the early modern period. It examines these texts to determine the extent to which his remarks reveal congruities or differences with later more explicit conceptions of race.
Reforming Racializing Bodily Habits: Affective Environment and Mindfulness Meditation
Authors: Leboeuf Céline 
Published: July 2018

Abstract
Much phenomenological work on race has focused on the bodily experiences of persons of color in white spaces or in the face of the white gaze. But comparatively little has been written about how to change these bodily experiences. This article fills this gap by discussing the perspective of those who enact bodily habits alienate persons of color, or what this article calls “racializing bodily habits.” It defends a novel path toward reforming these habits: the practice of mindfulness meditation. The key premise in this argument is that reforming racializing bodily habits requires that one transform one's perception of and affective responses to racialized others. It explains that mindfulness meditation slows our experience of time, thereby opening up the possibility for new affective responses, perceptual habits, and bodily habits. This article bases its argument on qualitative descriptions of mindfulness meditation and on empirical research on its effects.
Ruptures in Separate Spheres: Deconstruction of Cross-Gender Solidarity in George Noyes Miller's The Strike of a Sex and Annie Denton Cridge's Man's Rights
Authors: Galant Justyna 
Published: July 2018

ABSTRACT
This article examines George Noyes Miller's The Strike of a Sex (1891) and Annie Denton Cridge's Man's Rights (1870) as dystopias attempting to depict the ideal of human equality achieved through cross-gender solidarity. The novels' inconsistencies are seen as resulting from an erosion of generic patterns, rhetorical strategies, and stereotypical characterizations as the authors seek to express new sentiments in a cultural ambience still governed by binary thinking and well-established beliefs. The result of the juxtaposition of the fossilized conventions and advanced, idealistic approaches produces a rudimentary form of dialogism where crucial roles are played by the imagery of separate spheres and the concept of boundary crossing, while the notion of cross-gender solidarity becomes the textual dominant of both works.
The Utopia of “Solidarity” Between Public Sphere and Counterpublics: Institutions of the Common Revisited
Authors: Majewska Ewa Alicja 
Published: July 2018

ABSTRACT
This article argues that we need to see the utopian dimension of the early days of the “Solidarność” independent workers' union, created in August 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland, not as a nostalgically recalled event of the distant past, exceptional and therefore petrified as a remnant of past generations, but as a lively political inspiration for our theory and practice for the future. In order to discuss Solidarność as utopia, the article revisits the “proletarian counterpublics” of Kluge and Negt, seeking in their analysis an alternative to the highly elitist analysis of the bourgeois public sphere offered by Jürgen Habermas, which still constitutes the main reference for public articulation of oppositional political will. This article asserts that between the Solidarność counterpublic practice and today there is an intergenerational pact, a weak messianism, to explore: not merely a nostalgic one but with a vision of the future.
Desire, Friendship, and the Politics of Refusal: The Utopian Afterlives of La Boétie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
Authors: Mazzocchi Paul 
Published: July 2018

ABSTRACT
In charting out a prehistory of the “new utopian spirit,” this article explores the utopian afterlives of Étienne de La Boétie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. La Boétie's text has exercised an important influence on a number of scholars who have contributed to the critical rethinking of utopia, centrally Miguel Abensour, Pierre Clastres, Gustav Landauer, and Pierre Leroux. By exploring their appropriations of the text, the article aims to understand the contribution La Boétie has made to a critical conception of utopia. This emerges centrally in the understanding of the relationship between desire, friendship, and refusal, particularly when connected to the dialectic of emancipation and the problem of plurality.
Arbeidsvermogensschade van jonge kinderen
Authors: Karimi I. 
Published: July 2018

Arbeidsvermogensschade van jonge kinderen. Naar een nieuwe wijze van schadeberekening vanuit het perspectief van gelijkebehandelingswetgeving
Op grond van het huidige wettelijke systeem heeft de Nederlandse rechter de ruimte om bij de begroting van verlies van arbeidsvermogen van jonge kinderen te differentiëren naar al hun persoonlijke kenmerken. Daar waar het gaat om persoonlijke kenmerken op basis waarvan het verboden is om onderscheid te maken, levert dit een spanningsveld op met gelijkebehandelingswetgeving. In deze bijdrage worden alternatieve benaderingen verkend. Gekeken zal worden in hoeverre de Nederlandse alternatieven aansluiten bij de normen zoals neergelegd in de Grondwet en Europese regelgeving.
Nieuw licht op de arbeidsrechtelijke omkeringsregel?
Authors: Oskam Veneta 
Published: July 2018

Nieuw licht op de arbeidsrechtelijke omkeringsregel? HR 6 april 2018, ECLI:NL:HR:2018:536
Bij beantwoording van de vraag of causaal verband aanwezig is tussen de asbestblootstelling en het ontstaan van mesothelioom, en of ter vaststelling hiervan de arbeidsrechtelijke omkeringsregel moet worden toegepast, is – overeenkomstig de arresten HR 7 juni 2013, ECLI:NL:HR:2013:BZ1717 (SVB/Van der Wege) en ECLI:HR:2013:BZ1721 (Lansink/Ritsma) – van belang dat het verband tussen de gezondheidsschade en de arbeidsomstandigheden niet te onzeker dan wel te onbepaald dient te zijn. De Hoge Raad bekrachtigt het oordeel van het hof dat de enkele blootstelling aan asbest onvoldoende is om toepassing te geven aan de omkeringsregel. De in de eerdergenoemde arresten vastgestelde regels gelden ook bij schade als gevolg van mesothelioom. Ook hier kan het causaal verband te onzeker of te onbepaald zijn wanneer de werknemer ook buiten de werkzaamheden aan asbest blootgesteld is geweest. Daarom komt, gelet op hetgeen in het algemeen bekend is omtrent de ziekte mesothelioom en haar oorzaak, betekenis toe aan (1) de duur en de intensiteit van de blootstelling bij deze werkgever, en in voorkomend geval (2) de duur en de intensiteit van andere blootstelling(en) aan asbest gedurende de latentieperiode en (3) de verhouding tussen (1) en (2).
De Hoge Raad en de uitleg van de opzetclausule: een antwoord op alle vragen?
Authors: de Vries M. 
Published: July 2018

De Hoge Raad en de uitleg van de opzetclausule: een antwoord op alle vragen?
In deze annotatie staat het arrest van de Hoge Raad van 13 april 2018 centraal. Daarin buigt Nederlands hoogste rechtscollege zich voor het eerst over de opzetclausule 2000. Deze clausule is in veel aansprakelijkheidsverzekeringen voor particulieren (AVP) opgenomen, maar de uitleg daarvan staat ter discussie. De Hoge Raad ziet dan ook aanleiding om met het oog op de rechtseenheid enkele fundamentele overwegingen te wijden aan de uitleg van deze opzetclausule.