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Post-anoxic myoclonus
Authors: Laengvejkal Pavis , Julayanont Parunyou , Payne Drew 
Published: January 2017

Myoclonus is a movement disorder characterized by involuntary, sudden, brief muscle jerks caused by muscular contraction (positive myoclonus) or inhibition (negative myoclonus).1,2 Myoclonus is generally a medical sign and not a diagnosis. It can occur in multiple disorders. A short differential diagnosis list includes anoxic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. One way to classify the etiologies is through review of the clinical presentation and comorbid conditions. This article presents a review of anoxic brain injury related myoclonus. Post-anoxic myoclonus (PAM) can develop in either acute or chronic phase. Acute PAM occurs within hours after hypoxic event; chronic PAM (Lance-Adams syndrome) develops in survivors several days to weeks after the episodes of brain hypoxia.
Inferior vena cava dimensions in patients with acute kidney injury
Authors: Yepes-Hurtado Andres , Omar Sabry , Monzer Khalid , Alalawi Raed , Nugent Kenneth 
Published: January 2017

Background: Volume contraction frequently contributes to the development of acute kidney injury. The rapid assessment of volume status in patients with acute kidney injury could improve decision making and outcomes. Methods: The maximum and minimum diameters and percent collapsibility of the inferior vena cava (IVC) were measured in 30 patients admitted to the medical intensive care unit with laboratory evidence of acute kidney injury. These measurements were made on the day of admission and 24 hours following admission. Information about age, gender, body mass index, serum creatinine levels, and fluid balances was recorded. Results: This study included 30 patients with a mean age is 62.4 ±16.0 years. The mean initial creatinine was 4.3 ± 4.2 mg/dL (range: 1.7 mg/dL to 22.1 mg/dL). The mean fractional excretion of sodium was 2.06 ± 2.65%. The mean maximum diameter of inferior vena cava was 1.8 ± 0.5 cm with the range is 0.4-2.65 cm. The mean percent collapse was 32 ± 20%. Five patients had evidence of hypovolemia using guidelines from the American Society of Echocardiology; 6 patients had evidence of hypervolemia. Nineteen patients had measurements between these 2 categories. There is no significant change in mean diameters following fluid administration for 24 hours. An initial IVC diameter of 0.94 cm predicted ≥ 30% collapsibility with an area under the curve is 0.748. Discussion: Patients with acute kidney injury based on laboratory measurements had evidence for hypovolemia, euvolemia, and hypervolemia based on IVC measurements. There was no consistent change in IVC dimensions following fluid administration, even though the creatinine fell in most patients. Simple bedside measurements of IVC dimensions can facilitate fluid administration decisions but must be used with clinical assessment.
Ethanol Infusion for Alcohol Withdrawal Prophylaxis Does Not Cause Intoxication
Authors: Dillard Robert , Welch Tanis , Abdul-Hamed Senan , Kesey Jennifer , Dissanaike Sharmila 
Published: January 2017

Objective: Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (AWS) remains a common problem, especially in trauma and surgical patients. An intravenous ethanol infusion protocol was developed at this institution and previously validated for AWS prophylaxis. One concern with intravenous ethanol has been potential for intoxication and/or side effects. This study was performed on patients receiving AWS prophylaxis with an intravenous ethanol protocol to evaluate for intoxication and the occurrence of any adverse effects. Methods: We did a retrospective review of all patients in our hospital who received AWS prophylaxis by ethanol infusion between 2008 and 2013. Information collected specific to ethanol infusion included rate of administration, serum ethanol levels, serum sodium level, use of benzodiazepines and anti-emetics, and development of AWS. Intoxication was defined using the Texas limit for blood alcohol content in a driver of .08% (80mg/dL). The study period began at admission and lasted 7 days. Results: Ninety-seven patient charts were reviewed. Average serum ethanol level on admission was 137 mg/dL. Serum ethanol levels increased in 12% of patients after administration of ethanol infusion, and levels generally decreased over time. Asymptomatic hyponatremia (serum sodium <135) occurred in 60% of patients. Benzodiazepines were administered to 52 patients (54%); of these, only 15 received increases in infusion rates indicating appropriate protocol use. In addition, 32 of the 52 had the ethanol infusion discontinued prior to scheduled protocol wean. Conclusion: Ethanol infusion for alcohol withdrawal prophylaxis in the hospitalized patient rarely induces alcohol intoxication. However, a majority of patients experience asymptomatic hyponatremia. The high rate of concomitant benzodiazepine use suggests possible low efficacy of the infusion, although low adherence to the protocol could be a contributing factor.
When the sun goes down: Sex, desire and cinema in 1970s Tehran
Authors: Atwood Blake 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
The 1970s witnessed an explosion of sex in Iranian cinema, and the representation of bodies and desires became more explicit than ever. The rise of on-screen sex flew in the face of successive guidelines released by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs (MCA) in 1966 and 1972, which sought to limit the production and exhibition of films that featured sexual relations. This article explores this paradox and begins to trace the contours of a history of cinematic sex in mid-century Iran by examining film industry advertising schemes, especially film posters, alongside three sex-driven films: Mansur Purmand’s Shir tu shir (Chaos) (1972), Feraidun Goleh’s Zir-e pust-e shab (Under the Skin of the Night) (1974), and Parviz Sayyad’s Dar emtedād-e shab (Into the Night) (1978). I argue that what emerges from such an analysis is a complex capitalist system wherein the film industry both produces and markets sex but also creates the illusion that anyone can purchase the visual experience of sex. By democratizing sex through its popular representations, the film industry fuelled its own capitalist agenda but also contributed to the larger systems of consumerism and sex that was overtaking the surfaces of Iran, particularly Tehran, in the final decade before the Islamic Revolution
‘Le Vent Nous Portera’: Of lovers possessed, of times entangled and bodies carried away
Authors: Mottahedeh Negar 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
Representations of corporal struggle with and against the wind correspond in a very immediate sense to struggles for liberation from enslavement in Iranian history. They unfold in acknowledgement of Iran’s legacy of trade in black bodies. This article is a meditation on the ways that the wind in post-Revolutionary Iranian cinema functions to liberate the film viewer from its enslavement by the cinematic codes of sexual difference to the normative spatio-temporal coordinates of voyeurism and melodrama. This liberation plunges the viewer into the pleasures of a spirit that dwells in two worlds and forges a bond in complicity with film that is cinephelia otherwise.
‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’: Reflections on routes into reading, writing and mentoring
Authors: Kiernan Anna 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’, the title of the poem by Sylvia Plath, forms the starting point of this reflective account because it captures the interdisciplinarity that characterizes my practice and pedagogy, in terms of writing and collaborative working. This article draws on various creative writing methods in response to work by, and projects undertaken with, a range of writers, journalists, musicians and artists. Beginning by re-examining Dorothea Brande’s seminal text The Habit of Writing (1981) as a means of identifying the tensions writers often experience between their ‘creative’ and ‘critical’ selves, the article concludes that cross-disciplinary working may offer a way of expanding on Brande’s notion of these binary selves in favour of a creative/critical/collaborative self.
Kardashian komplicity: Performing post-feminist beauty
Authors: Monteverde Giuliana 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
This article explores complicity by way of beauty, post-feminist neo-liberalism and the Kardashian-Jenner family. I begin by contextualizing complicity and outlining my approach to beauty. I assert that dismissals of the family as vulgar stem from sexist and femmephobic interpretations of their hypersexual, hyperfeminine gender performances, and the genre they are most famous for: reality television. Alongside this, I point to the neo-liberal post-feminist discourses utilized by the family in their presentation of beauty work. The Kardashian-Jenners should be approached from a feminist perspective, with appropriate nuance and reflexivity. Acknowledgement of complicity (theirs and mine) provides the space to do this.
TV drama and fashion: 1992, An Italian case
Authors: Mascio Antonella 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
The aim of this article is to explore an Italian TV drama, 1992. As other recent examples, it represents a ‘quality’ drama, a new kind of Italian TV production. In these products the attention to costumes and fashion is really important. If it is true that fashion has long enjoyed a close relationship with mass media, its role in audiovisuals and particularly in fiction products seems to have recently changed. In this new context, dressing issues are no longer related only to clothing: fashion is increasingly included inside stories. Yuniya Kawamura (2005) argues that, regarding fashion, production influences consumption and at the same time consumption affects production. This circularity makes us ask where we can place fashion TV serials, because they assume a clear role of mediation between high fashion brands, or underground styles, and their possible reference worlds. The TV drama 1992 focuses on the Italian political crises of that period. The story is set in Milan, the Italian city of fashion. In the same years we saw the growing success of Italian fashion in the world. In the analysis we will try to focus on the role of clothes inside narration, to show how fashion is important to determine some specific cultural contexts. Our hypothesis is that – under the main narrative line – it is possible to see other levels, such as the clothes and fashion level, that indicate a specific connection with characters’ personality, spaces and places, and historical periods. Is it also possible to trace a creative vision of all of this? How do the costumes connect to the historical period? How are they connected in some ways to more recent fashion shows? Is it possible to see in 1992 a specificity of Italian fashion style?
(Re)branding a (Post)colonial Streetscape: Tunis’s Avenue Habib Bourguiba and the Road Ahead
Authors: Coslett Daniel E. 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
Arguably Tunis’s premier public space, the iconic Avenue Bourguiba is today the product of over 150 years of manipulation, regulation and interpretation. Its development can be seen as an early example of thematic place branding, thereby complicating the notion that the widespread phenomenon is an exclusively postmodern and western one. In identifying three potential place-brand labels, this article considers the establishment of the ‘Parisian Colonial’ Avenue by French colonial authorities, its ‘Tunisian Modern’ modification at independence, and its more recent historicist ‘Parisian Global’ refurbishment within the contexts of colonialism, authoritarian governance and globalization. On the eve of the January 2011 revolution, the space reinforced the Ben Ali regime’s maintenance of control and capitalized on the long-since entrenched image of a dual – eastern and western, traditional and modern – postcolonial city. In the revolution’s wake the Avenue has become a reinvigorated public forum with a more complex character. Indeed, while the Avenue’s existing form and function remain emblematic of Tunis’s hybrid postcolonial identity, the thoroughfare now exemplifies the ongoing ‘Arab Spring’. Its cultural brandscape and heritage content, though enhanced with new aspects of democratic empowerment, are likely to endure as the transitioning country continues to participate in the process of globalization.
New interactive teaching technologies and education process at the UAE University: What are the uses, obstacles and added values?
Authors: Hamidou Kamal 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
This study revolves around the use of new teaching technologies as media in course delivery. It examines the differences in the uses of and gratifications from new teaching technologies in a sample of students who are digital natives and a sample of instructors who are mostly reluctant to adopt and use new teaching technologies in their course delivery. The purpose is to assess the usefulness, as well as the effective use, of new tools from both students’ and instructors’ perspectives. By using a TAM approach, the study investigates the educational benefits from those technologies by listing the different uses and expectations in students and instructors. The study also focuses on identifying the potential barriers posed by those technologies in the teaching and learning processes, as well as identifying the added values brought by those technologies to the teaching process. But more than identifying the uses of and gratifications accruing from new teaching technologies, the study highlights the mental fracture operating between nonlinear-thinking digital natives and linear-thinking instructors, a gap that places the education community in front of new challenges, as it imposes a deep re-adaptation of class pedagogy and teaching methods.
Gender mainstreaming in media and journalism education – an audit of media departments in Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia
Authors: Dralega Carol Azungi , Jemaneh Agaredech , Jjuko Margaret , Kantono Rehema 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
Gender mainstreaming (GM) within media and journalism education and practice has been described by several scholars as good, representative, critical, ethical, just and balanced journalism. This article presents findings of a study exploring the extent of GM in media and journalism in university departments in Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia. Drawing on qualitative research approaches, the study found minimal, unclear and uncoordinated GM activities within most departmental policies, curricula, assessment and research. Whereas some respondents attributed this to the lack of teaching resources, others pointed to the lack of policy guidance and ‘know-how’ as well as a commitment to implement existing policies. There were also attitudinal standpoints dismissive of the significance of GM, posing concerns about perpetuating the hegemony of patriarchy already witnessed in journalism practice today. The findings underscore the need to revisit not just the policies and pedagogical approaches but also a focus on awareness- and knowledge-building especially among the teaching staff.
Reading cartoons’ interpretation of the verdict and sentence in the Pistorius murder trial: The case of Zulu and English newspapers
Authors: Ndlovu Musawenkosi W. 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
This article is an interpretation of cartoons’ interpretation of both the verdict and the sentence in the Oscar Pistorious trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Selected for analysis, in terms of methodology and sampling, are those cartoons that appeared in isiZulu and English newspapers in South Africa, during September and October 2014. Specifically interpreted in these cartoons is their production of social meaning(s). This work is concerned mainly with cartoons’ content and their ideology, and less so with aesthetics and form. If cartoonists, by nature, read a particular subject and then reproduce social meaning from it through references to other familiar happenings in the public sphere, this work examines the allusions/metaphors used by cartoonists in this regard. Cartoons, in this work, are regarded as texts that represent cartoonists’ conscious decoding of both the verdict and the sentence, and subsequent representation of them for public reception. In reading the ‘reading’ of the verdict and the sentence, the article concludes that cartoons made little references to race, gun control, urban violence, violence against women, wealth and celebrity status, which had already engulfed public discourse about the Pistorius trial. Cartoons did find Judge Masipa ‘guilty’ of a lenient verdict and sentence.
The trials of the centuries: Murder and the media in South Africa
Authors: Phelps Kelly , Glenn Ian 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
Several important critical perspectives on media coverage of the Pistorius trial emerge in comparison to the most famous murder trial in South Africa in the first half of the twentieth century. In both cases, a well-known sports star shoots a young woman under circumstances that cause speculation and conjecture. The trials led to huge public interest and crowded courtrooms. While there are many points of comparison between the cases, in this article we do not discuss what the comparison reveals about the legal intricacies of the Pistorius case, or on the current state of the subjudice laws, or on the effect of the live broadcast (matters to which we plan to return), but rather on the different ways in which the legal protagonists and media framed the accused and other major figures in the two cases. We find that in the earlier trial the media, after the trial, played the role of criticizing the ways in which the jury and the judge had understood the events, while in the Pistorius trial the media overwhelmingly followed a framing narrative produced by the police and the prosecution, neglecting their watchdog function.
Transparency and reciprocity: Respecting fannish spaces in scholarly research
Authors: Fathallah Judith 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
Accountability to participants is a topic of some debate within fan studies. Whilst working with people requires informed consent, it may be legally defensible to freely quote any fan work found online. Reflecting on my research experience, this article argues for a responsibility to ask permission from fan creators before sharing their work in academic and other contexts. An ethics of transparency is beneficial not only to fans, I argue, but to the development of fan studies and its continued dialogue with fandoms.
‘I hate Beyoncé and I don’t care who knows it’: Towards an ethics of studying anti-fandom
Authors: Jones Bethan 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
The field of audience studies has undergone something of a change in the last twenty years. From considering film and television viewers to be passive consumers, scholars now recognize the active role that audiences play in the construction and reception of texts. Similarly, understandings of the need to look beyond the fan to the non-fan and anti-fan have also changed the ways we view the text and its audiences. This work has been fuelled, at least in part, by the development of fan studies, with academics like Henry Jenkins, Matt Hills and Jonathan Gray arguing that fans actively work with a text to change its meaning, or uncover hidden meanings, through fan cultural production. The emergence of Web 2.0 has further changed the nature of audience interaction, with fannish activities like fan fiction no longer the preserve of paper ‘zines. The growth of social media sites along with the shifting interest in analysing fans and their engagement with texts raises complex ethical questions about how scholars negotiate the study of fandom, but the ethics of how we engage with anti-fans and analyse anti-fannish response to a text has thus far been ignored. Fan studies, as a relatively new area of scholarship, has traditionally adopted two different means of dealing with fans. The first, drawing on the literary studies tradition, prioritizes the text. In this mode, texts are properly cited to ensure that others can find them and it may not occur to scholars to not point to the source. The second, however, arises from the social sciences in which human subjects are worked with and ethical considerations come above and beyond the research. In this mode, fans’ privacy is respected and permission obtained in order to cite fannish works. In this article I examine the ethics of approaching anti-fans. Is it enough to approach them in the same way as we approach fans or are there other factors to consider? Is it appropriate to use anti-fan texts without the authors’ consent? Where do the power structures lie in analysing anti-fans as opposed to fans? And should fan studies scholars even be asking for consent from anti-fans in an increasingly open media space?
Avatars as transitional objects: The impact of avatars and digital objects on adolescent gamers
Authors: Koles Bernadett , Nagy Peter 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
With practically unlimited opportunities for having fun, the Internet and numerous applications rapidly became favourable means of popular media among members of the younger generation, who enthusiastically embraced the contributions of the new Digital Age. The purpose of the current article is to explore the nature of adolescent gamers’ use of avatars as transitional objects, via employing object-relations theory to understand the psychological use of objects within a digital material culture. Incorporating the psychoanalytic research interview method, the current study builds on in-depth interviews with two adolescent males. By equipping their avatars with special skills, attributes and possessions, users were able to establish their virtual presence, and in turn address and compensate for certain difficulties, shortcomings and anxieties deriving from their offline existence and family conflicts. The avatars were viewed as objects of perfection and collectors of meaningful artefacts, and served as a source of status, recognition and accomplishment; frequently reaching beyond offline realities. Throughout the manuscript, we discuss relevant implications for the field of game studies.
The Time of Your Life: Gene Kelly, working-class masculinity, and music
Authors: Lindberg Julianne 
Published: January 2017

Abstract
William Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life (1939) is typically discussed alongside the works of great American playwrights. Music and dance, however, are major symbolic and structuring devices in the narrative of the play. Two characters in the play purposely embody music and dance: the pianist Wesley (a ‘colored boy’ who plays a ‘mean and melancholy boogie-woogie piano’), played by Reginald Beane, and Harry (a ‘natural born hoofer’), played by the then-stage novice Gene Kelly. Though no records remain of Kelly’s original choreography, he often spoke of the importance of music to his conception of the character Harry. I suggest that Kelly/Saroyan’s Harry is a product of the mainstream acceptance of working-class masculinities, an outgrowth of the progressive politics of the 1930s. Kelly’s relationship to the music of marginalized identities, I argue, informed the development of his iconic ‘average Joe’ persona.