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Les déterminants du faible degré d'intégration commerciale de la CEEAC: le poids de la fragmentation politique, de la prolifération des Communautés Economiques Régionales et du niveau de démocratie
Authors: Gandjon Fankem Gislain Stéphane 
Published: December 2016

RésuméL'objectif de cet article est d'évaluer empiriquement le poids de la fragmentation politique, de la prolifération des Communautés Economiques Régionales et du niveau de démocratie dans l'explication du faible degré d'intégration commerciale de la Communauté Economique des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale (CEEAC). La méthodologie utilisée repose sur les avancées théoriques du modèle de gravité et des techniques d'estimation en panel. Ceteris paribus, les principaux résultats montrent que: (i) la fragmentation politique réduit le commerce bilatéral dans la CEEAC de 51,42 %; (ii) plus un pays de la CEEAC est membre d'accords régionaux concurrents, moins il commerce avec un autre pays de la CEEAC. Une augmentation de 1 % de l'indicateur de prolifération des Communautés Economiques Régionales se traduit par une réduction des exportations de 0,69 %; (iii) les pays de la CEEAC commercent également moins entre eux parce qu'ils sont peu démocratiques. Une diminution d'un écart‐type par rapport à la moyenne du niveau de démocratie du pays importateur se traduit par une baisse des importations de 20,99 %. Ces résultats invitent les autorités de la CEEAC à agir prioritairement sur ces facteurs de répulsion pour parvenir à un niveau de commerce interne élevé.
Pouvoir de marché et stabilité financière: Etude du secteur bancaire Tunisien
Authors: Zidi Manel , Djelassi Mouldi , Hamdi Helmi 
Published: December 2016

RésuméCette étude vise à tester empiriquement la relation entre la diversification des revenus et le pouvoir de marché ainsi que la relation entre le pouvoir de marché, la diversification des revenus et la stabilité financière bancaire. En se basant sur une base de données de 10 banques commerciales Tunisiennes sur la période allant de 1990 à 2013, on démontre qu'il existe une relation significative et positive entre le pouvoir de marché et la stabilité financière. Ceci vient renforcer les résultats des recherches antérieures portant sur différents systèmes bancaires dans plusieurs pays.
The dark side of public participation: Participative processes that legitimize elected officials’ values
Authors: Bouchard Nancy 
Published: December 2016

AbstractThe literature on public participation suggests that engaging the public in policy‐making empowers citizens and enhances democracy. Drawing on conditions of “authentic” participation derived from this literature, this critical analysis shows that the public consultation said to have informed Canada's new prostitution laws served to legitimize the governing party's policy orientation. The contribution of this article is twofold: providing an in‐depth, critical account of how a public participation process can endorse elected officials’ values; and identifying factors that may be associated to this outcome. Ultimately, this article shines the spotlight on a force often neglected in the public participation literature: power.
Processes of Racialization in New York City's Child Welfare System
Authors: LEE TINA 
Published: December 2016

AbstractThis paper argues that daily practices in the child welfare system in the urban United States contribute to the racialization—the process of creating and recreating racial groups, meanings, experiences, and inequalities—of African American communities. First, child welfare practices reinforce and legitimize views of poor women of color as irresponsible mothers and urban black communities and families as in need of state supervision. Second, the child welfare system plays an important role in the “prison pipeline,” the interrelated factors that converge to make minority boys more likely to end up in prison. Child welfare is thus a key, yet relatively unexamined, set of state practices that perpetuates inequalities and recreates race. [Race; Racialization; Child Welfare; Urban United States; Prison Pipeline]
Xenophilia in Muizenberg, South Africa: New potentials for race relations?
Authors: OWEN JOY 
Published: December 2016

AbstractSince the advent of democracy in 1994 race relations in South Africa have not improved substantially. The arrival of transmigrants from other African countries has emphasized a wounded South African psyche, as various xenophobic attitudes and attacks attest. However, a lesser known reality is the expression of xenophilia by South African women. In this article I argue that an intimate relationship between a South African coloured woman and a Congolese black man scripts a different potentiality for multiracial relations in the private and public spaces of urban Cape Town, South Africa. [Coloured; Congolese; Xenophilia; South Africa; Race; Love; Transnationalism]
Transoral laser microsurgery versus radiation therapy in the management of T1 and T2 laryngeal glottic carcinoma: which modality is cost‐effective within the UK?
Authors: Prettyjohns M. , Winter S. , Kerawala C. , Paleri V. ,   the NICE cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract guideline committee
Published: December 2016

ObjectivesTo identify the most cost‐effective treatment strategy in patients with early stage (T1 and T2) cancers of the laryngeal glottis.DesignA Markov decision model populated using data from updated systematic reviews and meta‐analyses, with attributable costs from NHS sources. Data on local control and mortality were obtained from updates of existing systematic reviews conducted for the NICE guideline on cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract. Procedure costs were sourced from NHS reference costs 2013/14 by applying tariffs associated with the appropriate health resource group codeSettingThe UK National Health Service.PopulationPatients with early stage (T1 and T2) cancers of the laryngeal glottis.InterventionsTransoral laser microsurgery (TLM) and radiation therapy (RT).Main outcome measuresTotal costs, incremental costs and quality adjusted life years (QALYs) over a 10‐year time horizon.ResultsRadiation therapy as the initial treatment strategy was found to be more expensive (£2654 versus £623) and less effective (QALY reduction of 0.141 and 0.04 in T1a and T1b–T2 laryngeal cancers, respectively) than TLM. The dominance of TLM for T1a cancers was unchanged in most scenarios modelled in sensitivity analysis. For T1b–T2 laryngeal cancers, the result changed in numerous scenarios. In probabilistic sensitivity analysis, TLM was found to have a 71% and 58% probability of being cost‐effective in T1a and T1b–T2 laryngeal cancers, respectively.ConclusionsTransoral laser microsurgery is a cost‐effective strategy to adopt in the management of T1a laryngeal cancers. Uncertainty remains over the optimal strategy to adopt in T1b–T2 laryngeal cancers.
Theology of the Cross and the Experience of God's Presence: A Lutheran Response to Pentecostal Wonderings
Authors: Peterson Cheryl M. 
Published: December 2016

AbstractAs Lutherans and Pentecostals begin an official international dialogue, the author, a Lutheran member of the dialogue, responds to two related sets of questions raised by a Pentecostal member of the dialogue during a preceding six‐year consultation between these traditions: whether there is a place in the Lutheran tradition for a “theology of glory,” considering the centrality of “a theology of the cross” for Luther; and how Lutherans speak about experiencing the presence of God, and the means through which one encounters God.
Pure Gospel or Full Gospel: On the Principles of Lutheran and Pentecostal Theology
Authors: Vondey Wolfgang 
Published: December 2016

AbstractThe claim in recent conversations among Lutherans and Pentecostals that the “pure gospel” and “full gospel” paradigms held respectively by each tradition represent contrasting theological principles is examined through a historical and theological study of the notion of “gospel.” The two paradigms, although not mutually exclusive, identify different hermeneutical and doctrinal commitments that suggest that the contrast between the two traditions exists not in the idea of the gospel but in its mode of expression.
The Means of Prosperity: The Neo‐Pentecostal Interpretation of the Lord's Supper in Nigeria
Authors: Bitrus Ibrahim 
Published: December 2016

AbstractThis article investigates the Nigerian neo‐Pentecostal reinterpretation of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper using the lens of the prosperity gospel. This article describes the neo‐Pentecostal view of prosperity as an integral part of salvation, and shows how this impacts its hermeneutics of the Lord's Supper as the means of prosperity. The article argues that such neo‐Pentecostal reinterpretation does not distort the traditional significance of the Lord's Supper, but expands and complements it. As a result, Lutherans may have much to learn from the neo‐Pentecostal view of the Lord's Supper.
Exploring Pietism as an Intermediary for Lutheran‐Pentecostal Dialogue
Authors: Brunner Daniel L. , Payne Leah 
Published: December 2016

AbstractThe authors, a Lutheran and a Pentecostal, explore similarities and differences between their respective traditions using German Lutheran Pietism as a bridge. Parallels include conversionism, devotion to the Bible, practical holiness, missional activism, and opposition to the shortcomings of the religious status quo. Key divergences between the movements include the role of the sacraments, the place of manifestational gifts, and eschatology. The authors highlight how Pietism can be a useful channel and translator for dialogue.
Unthinkable Solitude: Successful Aging in Denmark Through the Lacanian Real
Authors: Mikkelsen Henrik Hvenegaard 
Published: December 2016

AbstractAs states across the world develop strategies for administering their aging populations, different assumptions and anxieties regarding the condition of old age and how they haunt people are disclosed, across national‐cultural settings. Within recent years, loneliness has been identified as one of the key threats to the well‐being of the elderly in the Danish welfare society, and the tendency to view solitary seniors in terms of “loneliness” and “social isolation”—along with the attempts to reintegrate these solitary seniors into society—reveals how solitude is being tied to detrimental states of existence. Based on an ethnographic fieldwork among healthcare workers and solitary elderly men in the rural area of southern Sealand, Denmark, this article lays out the Danish configuration of what has been called the paradigm of “successful aging.” However, not only is the attention to loneliness among Danish eldercare professionals a sign of an inherent fear; at the same time, I will argue, it reveals an inherent inability to conceptualize “solitude” as other than “loneliness.” By employing the concept of the Real—the enigmatic realm within Lacanian psychoanalysis that represents the limit of language—the aim of this article is to uncover how the current discourse on successful aging renders solitude “unthinkable.”
The Legacy of Agrarian Reform in Latin America: Foundations of the Fair Trade Cooperative System
Authors: Bruce Analena 
Published: December 2016

AbstractCooperatives are essential to the success of fair trade because small farmers must be organized into cooperatives in order to be certified. Fair trade aims to empower small farmers, yet many farmers are only able to obtain fair trade certification because they fought for land and organized themselves into strong cooperatives through state‐led agrarian reform programs. To explore the link between agrarian reform and fair trade, I review the history of agrarian reform in Nicaragua, describing how many of the country's fair trade‐certified cooperatives have roots in the reform programs of the 1980s. The review contributes to a broader historical perspective on the cooperative system at the heart of fair trade. It brings together scholarship with archived magazine articles to explore the connection between the contemporary fair trade system and the hard‐won successes of peasant movements for land reform.
Can twice weekly hemodialysis expand patient access under resource constraints?
Authors: Savla Dipal , Chertow Glenn M. , Meyer Timothy , Anand Shuchi 
Published: December 2016

AbstractThe convention of prescribing hemodialysis on a thrice weekly schedule began empirically when it seemed that this frequency was convenient and likely to treat symptoms for a majority of patients. Later, when urea was identified as the main target and marker of clearance, studies supported the prevailing notion that thrice weekly dialysis provided appropriate clearance of urea. Today, national guidelines on hemodialysis from most countries recommend patients receive at least thrice weekly therapy. However, resource constraints in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMIC) have resulted in a substantial proportion of patients using less frequent hemodialysis in these settings. Observational studies of patients on twice weekly dialysis show that twice weekly therapy has noninferior survival rates compared with thrice weekly therapy. In fact, models of urea clearance also show that twice weekly therapy can meet urea clearance “targets” if patients have significant residual function or if they follow a protein‐restricted diet, as may be common in LMIC. Greater reliance on twice weekly therapy, at least at the start of hemodialysis, therefore has potential to reduce health care costs and increase access to renal replacement therapy in low‐resource settings; however, randomized control trials are needed to better understand long‐term outcomes of twice versus thrice weekly therapy.
Treatment of a soft tissue calcification in a patient receiving peritoneal dialysis
Authors: Lindhard Kristine , Broberg Bo , Groenberg Henrik , Post Hansen Henrik 
Published: December 2016

AbstractChronic Kidney Disease patients suffer from Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD‐MBD) leading to increased vascular and soft‐tissue calcification. The prevalence of soft tissue calcification in dialysis patients is not well described, and most cases describe such calcifications in hemodialysis patients. We describe a case of a massive soft tissue calcification in the right gluteal region in a peritoneal dialysis patient. The patient had severe pain and were disabled. The treatment was converted to an intensive hemodialysis regimen with a minimal calcium load and high dose of cinacalcet. During the treatment, the calcification diminished rapidly from a diameter of 26.6 to 2.9 cm, and the patient symptoms were relieved, leaving the patient with no pain or restriction in mobilization.
A Variation of The Birthday Problem
Authors: Borja Mario Cortina 
Published: December 2016

Abstract
Alec Campbell of Bellevue College writes: I've read about the birthday problem, and how you only need 23 randomly chosen people for there to be a 50% chance that two people share a birthday. But how many people would you need for there to be a 50% chance that every possible birthday is represented by at least one person?
Autonomic Tone Activity Before the Onset of Atrial Fibrillation
Authors: GALLO CRISTINA , BOCCHINO PIER PAOLO , MAGNANO MASSIMO , GAIDO LUCA , ZEMA DOMENICA , BATTAGLIA ALBERTO , ANSELMINO MATTEO , GAITA FIORENZO 
Published: December 2016

Autonomic Nervous System Activity Before AF OnsetIntroductionThe autonomic nervous system has been proven to play a major role in the onset of atrial fibrillation (AF), along with a predisposing substrate and a specific trigger event usually consisting of a premature supraventricular ectopic beat (SVEB). By means of heart rate variability (HRV) analysis, we investigated the activity of the autonomic nervous system before SVEBs nontriggering and triggering AF.Methods and ResultsWe evaluated 28 patients with at least 1 episode of sustained AF (>30 seconds) recorded during 24‐hour Holter monitorings. We performed HRV analysis during the hour preceding 35 AF onsets and compared these results with the HRV values before nontriggering SVEBs with similar prematurity. According to the low frequency (LF)/high frequency (HF) ratio in the 5 minutes before the onset, AF episodes were classified as either vagal (LF/HF ratio <1.5) or adrenergic (LF/HF ratio ≥1.5).Vagal episodes (16) showed a decrease in LF (from 50.81 ± 1.67 to 32.73 ± 3.54) and an increase in HF (from 36.00 ± 2.30 to 54.7 ± 3.69) throughout the hour preceding the onset. Adrenergic episodes (19) had opposite changes in LF (from 55.4 ± 4.95 to 67.51 ± 5.24) and HF (from 33.78 ± 5.82 to 27.96 ± 3.51) during the same period. No similar trends were observed before the selected nontriggering SVEBs.ConclusionOnly SVEBs occurring during a phase of hyperactivity of one of the 2 branches of the autonomic nervous system are able to trigger episodes of AF.
Fluid pathways and high‐P metasomatism in a subducted continental slice (Mt. Emilius klippe, W. Alps)
Authors: Angiboust S. , Yamato P. , Hertgen S. , Hyppolito T. , Bebout G. E. , Morales L. 
Published: December 2016

AbstractThe Mt. Emilius klippe (Western Alps, Italy) corresponds to a segment of the stretched Adriatic continental margin metamorphosed at granulite facies during Permian. This slice was subducted during the early Cenozoic Alpine subduction with the underlying eclogite facies remnants of the Tethyan seafloor (Zermatt‐Saas zone). Near the base of the Mt. Emilius massif, there is a shear zone with eclogite facies hydrofracture systems associated with deformation‐induced re‐equilibration of granulites during high‐P metamorphism. In the basal part of the massif, a pluri‐hectometre domain of sheared mafic boudins is hosted in the granulitic paragneiss. In these mafic boudins, there are garnetites, garnet veins and clinopyroxenites, as well as clinozoisite and calcite veins. These features record multiple events of fracture opening, brecciation, boudinage and parallelization of structures coevally with fluid–rock interaction, metasomatism and volume change. This integrated petrological, micro‐textural and geochemical investigation illustrates the multiplicity and the chemical variability of fluid sources during prograde to peak metamorphic evolution in the lawsonite–eclogite‐facies field (at ~2.15–2.4 GPa, 500–550 °C) during subduction of the Mt. Emilius slice. The calcite veins crosscutting the garnetites have relatively low δ18OVSMOW values (∼+6.5‰) near those for marble layers (and nearby calcsilicates) embedded within the metasomatized granulites (+8 to +10‰). It is proposed that infiltration of externally‐derived H2O‐rich fluids derived from the plate interface flushed the marbles, promoting decarbonation followed by short‐distance transport and re‐precipitation along garnetite fractures. This study highlights the importance of inherited structural heterogeneities (such as mafic bodies or sills) in localizing deformation, draining fluids from the downgoing plate and creating long‐lasting mechanical instabilities during subduction zone deformation.
To Consent or Decline HPV Vaccination: A Pilot Study at the Start of the National School‐Based Vaccination Program in Sweden
Authors: Grandahl Maria , Tydén Tanja , Westerling Ragnar , Nevéus Tryggve , Rosenblad Andreas , Hedin Erik , Oscarsson Marie 
Published: December 2016

ABSTRACTBACKGROUNDParents' beliefs about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination influence whether they allow their daughters to be vaccinated. We examined the association between parents' refusal and sociodemographic background, knowledge and beliefs about HPV, and the HPV vaccination in relation to the Health Belief Model.METHODSThe sample consisted of 200 (55%) parents of children aged 11‐12 years in the Swedish national vaccination program. Data were collected using a self‐reported questionnaire. Most parents (N = 186) agreed to the vaccination. Pearson's chi‐square, Fisher's exact test, and the Mann‐Whitney U test were used to analyze data.RESULTSDeclining parents saw more risks and fewer benefits of HPV vaccination but no differences in beliefs regarding the severity or young girls' susceptibility to HPV were found. There was an association between refusing the HPV vaccine and lower acceptance of previous childhood vaccinations, and their main source of information was the Internet. Parents who declined the vaccine believed it could adversely affect condom use, the age of their daughter's sexual debut, and the number of sexual partners.CONCLUSIONParents should have the possibility to discuss HPV and HPV vaccine with a school nurse or other health care professionals, and should have access to evidence‐based information on the Internet.
Clinical and pathological features of hair coat abnormalities in curly coated retrievers from UK and Sweden
Authors: Bond R. , Varjonen K. , Hendricks A. , Chang Y. M. , Brooks Brownlie H. 
Published: December 2016

ObjectivesTo gain information on hair loss amongst curly coated retrievers by questionnaire and to define the clinical and pathological features of hair coat abnormalities in affected dogs in the United Kingdom and Sweden.Materials and MethodsQuestionnaires were completed by members of the Curly Coated Retriever Clubs. Fourteen dogs (six in the United Kingdom, eight in Sweden) were clinically examined and skin/hair samples collected for microscopy and histopathology. Blood was collected for haematological, biochemical and endocrine assays.ResultsOf 90 dogs surveyed, 39 had current or previous episodes of symmetrical, non‐pruritic alopecia and or frizzy coat changes, usually affecting caudal thighs, axillae, dorsum and neck before 18 months of age; 23 dogs had a waxing/waning course. Examined dogs generally matched the pattern described in questionnaires. Hair shaft anomalies comprised occasional distorted anagen bulbs (10 dogs) and transverse fractures (8 dogs). Vertical histopathological sections showed infundibular hyperkeratosis (28 of 30 sections) and low‐grade pigment clumping (17 of 30). Subtle telogenisation of hair follicles was unequivocally confirmed by transverse histomorphometric analyses.Clinical SignificanceThe follicular dysplasia of curly coated retriever reported here is similar to that of Irish water spaniels and Chesapeake Bay retrievers but distinct from that of Portuguese water dogs. The genetic basis requires further assessment.
Stage beauties: Actresses and celebrity culture in the long eighteenth century
Authors: Engel Laura 
Published: December 2016

AbstractOver the past 20 years, the study of eighteenth‐century British actresses has blossomed into an emerging interdisciplinary field. Early works on actresses in the 1990's coincided with a heightened interest in recovering non‐canonical eighteenth‐century texts by female authors as well as the publication of Judith Butler's ground breakingGender Troublein 1992. Actresses became, in many ways, the perfect vehicle for looking at how ideologies of femininity, performance, and embodiment materialized in eighteenth‐century culture. The publication of Felicity Nussbaum'sRival Queensin 2010 signaled a new phase in actress studies. This article looks closely at the ways in which scholarship on eighteenth‐century actresses and celebrity produced since 2010 responds to and/or complicates Nussbaum's invitation to move beyond the parameters of the lady/prostitute divide in actress studies towards more “productive frames of reference” and methodologies. In 2016, actress studies is a truly interdisciplinary field intersecting with art, music, literature, history, economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and fashion. Scholars in actress studies have pioneered new theoretical approaches to theater history, archives and evidence, re‐enactment and performance, as well as studies of sound and material culture. Studies of actresses have contributed significantly to the history of early modern women specifically focusing on maternity, professionalism, marriage, domestic life, and kinship networks. Considering “Actress Studies” as a distinct field highlights an important legacy of paradoxical ideologies about women, power, and fame that still operate today.