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Poverty's Monument: Social Problems and Organizational Field Emergence in Historical Perspective
Authors: Wadhwani R. Daniel 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThis article draws on historical institutionalism as an approach to studying the relationship between business institutions and major social problems. Using the historical case of the emergence of savings banking as an organizational response to poverty in the nineteenth‐century United States, I develop three conceptual claims about how social problems shape the processes of institutional and organizational change. First, I show how the ‘historical framing’ of social problems shapes the processes of problematization, design, and legitimation related to institutional change. Second, I demonstrate how the dynamics of cooperation, competition, and alignment between an emerging organizational field and other fields shape the evolution of institutional responses to social problems. And finally, I illustrate how historical revisionism as a methodological approach can help management scholars re‐consider settled empirical and theoretical claims in a way that takes social problems into account.
Hypergammaglobulinemia is a strong predictor of disease progression, hepatocellular carcinoma, and death in patients with compensated cirrhosis
Authors: Cacciola Irene , Filomia Roberto , Alibrandi Angela , Franzè Maria Stella , Caccamo Gaia , Maimone Sergio , Saitta Carlo , Saffioti Francesca , Squadrito Giovanni , Raimondo Giovanni 
Published: December 2017

AbstractBackground & AimsThe outcome of compensated cirrhosis may vary considerably and cannot be predicted by routinely performed tests at present. The aim of this study was to evaluate possible predictors of clinical evolution in patients with Child‐Pugh (C‐P) class A cirrhosis because of untreatable causes by analysing clinical/biochemical/instrumental parameters evaluated at the time of diagnosis and during the subsequent long‐lasting follow‐up.MethodsTwo hundred and seventy‐two consecutive C‐P class A cirrhotic patients (155 males; median age 63 years, range 34‐81) were analysed. All patients were followed up for a median time of 96 months (range 21‐144) through periodically performed clinical/biochemical/ultrasonographic and esophagogastroduodenoscopic examinations.ResultsDuring the follow‐up, 97 individuals (36%) were clinically stable, 104 (38%) developed hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and 71 (26%) progressed towards C‐P class B/C without developing cancer. One hundred and thirty‐one patients (48%) died or underwent liver transplantation. Multivariate regression analysis showed that clinical stability was significantly associated with older age (P < .001), the absence of diabetes (P = .04) and of oesophageal varices (P < .001), serum albumin >3.5 gr/dL (P = .01) and gamma globulin <1.8 gr/dL (P = .01). HCC development was significantly associated with younger age (P = .01) and serum gamma globulin values ≥1.8 gr/dL (P < .001). C‐P score progression was associated with oesophageal varices (P < .001), lower serum albumin (P = .03) and cholesterol (P = .01) values, and hypergammaglobulinemia (P = .02). Death was associated with younger age (P < .001) and hypergammaglobulinemia (P = .01). Multivariate Cox regression analysis and Kaplan‐Meier's survival test confirmed that gammaglobulinemia ≥1.8 g/dL was a significant predictor of death (P < .02, and P < .01 respectively).ConclusionsHypergammaglobulinemia identifies C‐P class A cirrhotic patients at higher risk of disease progression, HCC development and death.
A Risky Place? Media and the Health Landscape in the (In)secure U.S.‐Mexico Borderlands
Authors: Fleuriet Kathryn Jill , Castañeda Heide 
Published: December 2017

AbstractIn this paper, we consider how news stories about one area of the U.S.‐Mexico borderlands, the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, further propagate notions of a region filled with people characterized as dangerously noncompliant with American ideals of citizenship, prosperity, and security. Using Ethnographic Content Analysis, we conducted a systematic analysis of Valley, state and national mainstream news media stories from 2010–2016 about health or health care in the Rio Grande Valley. Ethnographic research with Valley leaders, residents, and journalists completed the media analysis. We argue that the Rio Grande Valley is framed as both an unruly internal colony as well as a racialized periphery, due to its proximity to Mexico. We detail how these news stories are received and acted upon by seasoned local journalists who use their trade to offer different scripts, rooted in actual lives and experiences of residents. We conclude with alternative versions of the U.S.‐Mexico border region from borderlands scholars to reflect on how dominant media representations of places and people can be weathervanes for political discourse that shape state and national action about “the border.”
Long‐standing overt ventriculomegaly without aqueductal stenosis: A case report
Authors: Ikumi Kazuhiro , Tsuboi Takashi , Atsuta Naoki , Takeuchi Kazuhito , Koike Haruki , Katsuno Masahisa 
Published: December 2017

AbstractWe report a case of long‐standing overt ventriculomegaly without aqueductal stenosis. A 66‐year‐old woman developed progressive gait disturbance. Her gait was wide‐based, with a difficulty in turning. Prominent macrocephaly was present, which suggests the presence of long‐standing hydrocephalus since childhood. Cognitive impairments were detected on neuropsychological tests. Cerebral magnetic resonance imaging revealed marked enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles. Aqueductal stenosis was not apparent; however, endoscopic third ventriculostomy partly ameliorated gait disturbance. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy can be a therapeutic option for long‐standing overt ventriculomegaly even if the aqueduct is patent.
Case of congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles type 1 with progressive cerebellar ataxia
Authors: Yamashita Toru , Takahashi Yoshiaki , Tsunoda Keiichiro , Nomura Emi , Shang Jingwei , Sato Kota , Takemoto Mami , Hishikawa Nozomi , Ohta Yasuyuki , Abe Koji 
Published: December 2017

AbstractA 70‐year‐old women presented classical CEFOM1 phenotypes such as bilateral ptosis and external ophthalmoplegia, but also progressive cerebellar ataxia, carrying a previously reported heterozygous missense mutation of KIF21A p.Arg941Gln. The present case is the first report of CFEOM1 showing cerebellar atrophy with hypoperfusion, mainly of the vermis, indicating that cerebellar function should be carefully evaluated in CFFOM1 patients.
Safety and efficacy analysis of one‐stop intervention for treating nonvalvular atrial fibrillation
Authors: Hu Hongde , Cui Kaijun , Jiang Jian , Fu Hua , Zeng Rui 
Published: December 2017

AbstractBackgroundNonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia. The treatment strategy for AF mainly includes controlling symptoms and decreasing the rate of complications. Our study aimed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of combination treatment of catheter ablation and left atrial appendage (LAA) closure (one‐stop intervention) in patients with nonvalvular AF.Methods and resultsThirty‐four patients with symptomatic AF (mean CHA2DS2‐VASc score 4.1 ± 1.3, mean HAS‐BLED score 3.8 ± 1.2) were included. Patients first received radiofrequency‐based left atrial ablation, and then the Watchman device (Boston Scientific, Natick, MA, USA) or AMPLATZER Cardiac Plug (ACP) (St. Jude Medical, Inc., St. Paul, MN, USA) was implanted for LAA closure. Follow‐up was performed at 45 days and 3 months after LAA closure to assess for recurrence of AF and prevent stroke. Radiofrequency ablation and LAA closure were successful in 100% of patients without evidence of residual flow at the final transesophageal echocardiography evaluation. A Watchman device was implanted in 29 (85.3%) patients, and an ACP was implanted in five (14.7%) patients. No device‐related thrombus formation or embolization was identified at the 45‐day or 3‐month follow‐up. Serious complications, including death, transient ischemic attack, ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, or major bleeding, were also not identified during the follow‐ups.ConclusionFor symptomatic patients with nonvalvular AF and a high risk of stroke, the one‐stop intervention is feasible, safe, and efficacious.
The Power of Intersectionality to Transcend National Identity in the United States
Authors: Lawrence Amanda 
Published: December 2017

AbstractSince the mid‐1800s, when the early women's movement began in the United States, Women of Colour have been marginalized by white Feminists. The ‘waves of Feminism’ frame the movement by marking changes in American history that benefit white women while excluding the diverse and unequal experiences of Non‐white women. It is necessary to re‐evaluate the history of women in America and the many ways in which Non‐white women shape the Feminist dialogue. White Feminists must be intersectional and expand their understanding of Feminism beyond the realm of gender, to include race, class, religion, sexual orientation, etc., in order for Feminism to successfully achieve its mission to transcend socio‐cultural limitations on women.
The Burden of Proof: Women and National Identity in ‘Islamic’ and ‘Secular’ States – The Case of Egypt
Authors: Davis‐Packard Kent 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThe call for the implementation of Shari'a law to create an ‘Islamic’ national identity can go no farther than a mere political statement in the Middle East and North Africa. The case of Egypt provides a model example of parallel examples in the region. In Egypt, Shari'a is not defined consistently, has evolved over time to include European legal codes, and the legitimate voice over the interpretation of its source texts is constantly put into question by entities vying for political power through the use of religious dogmatism. The result of these ambiguities is a weak national identity that must draw upon the only source accepted, for the time being, by society as validation that the state is ‘Islamic’. Over time, the jurisdiction of Islamic law has been limited to matters of personal status, because the exigencies of the law would prove fatal to the long‐standing military‐backed, authoritarian regimes in the region. As personal status laws primarily affect women's rights – including the right to marry, divorce, work, travel, have custody over their children, and inherit – it is women who bear the burden of the weak national ‘Islamic’ state identity. The irony is that the resulting restrictions imposed by the state on women are not authentically Islamic and reflect instead the need to differentiate from the West as well as norms associated with pre‐Islamic customary laws. The key to stabilizing states in the Middle East and North Africa and ending the perpetual state of Islamic revivalism in the region, therefore, is to liberate women by disentangling national identity from this false version of Islam. To do this, Egyptians from across the political spectrum must unify around authentic spiritual principles found in both secularism and Islam.
Levinas's Philosophy of Perception
Authors: Bower Matt E. M. 
Published: December 2017

AbstractLevinas is usually discussed as a philosopher wrestling with the nature of our experience of others, ethical obligation, and the divine. Unlike other phenomenologists, such as Husserl and Heidegger, he is not often mentioned in discussions about issues in philosophy of mind. His work in that area, especially on perception, is underappreciated. He gives an account of the nature of perceptual experience that is remarkable both in how it departs from that of others in the phenomenological tradition and for how it fits in among presently available views about the nature of perceptual experience, namely, as a form of naïve realism.
The Rise of the Machines: Deleuze's Flight from Structuralism
Authors: Thornton Edward 
Published: December 2017

AbstractIn this paper, I offer an account of the conceptual shift that occurs between the work completed by Gilles Deleuze prior to 1969 and his later work with Félix Guattari, beginning in 1972 with Anti‐Oedipus. Against previous interpretations, which have concentrated on the developments initiated by Deleuze, I argue for the primary importance of Guattari's influence, especially his insistence on a theory of “machinic processes.” The importance of these processes is made manifest in Deleuze and Guattari's move away from theories of structuralism. In order to carry out this task, I offer a close reading of Guattari's essay “Machine and Structure.” This essay was first written as a review of Deleuze's acclaimed work in Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense and formed the basis for Deleuze and Guattari's first meeting. In the concluding sections of the paper, I show how the integration of the concept of the machine allows Deleuze and Guattari to develop a theory of the unconscious that operates outside of the boundaries traditionally set by structuralist analysis.
Constitutivism, Error, and Moral Responsibility in Bishop Butler's Ethics
Authors: Dick David G. 
Published: December 2017

AbstractIn his writings on moral philosophy, Bishop Joseph Butler adopts an identifiably “constitutivist” strategy because he seeks to ground normativity in features of agency. Butler's constitutivist strategy deserves our attention both because he is an influential precursor to much modern moral philosophy and because it sheds light on current debates about constitutivism. For example, Butler's approach can easily satisfy the “error constraint” that is often thought to derail modern constitutivist approaches. It does this by defining actions relative to the kind of being who performs them, instead of relative to the circumstances of their performance. This gives Butler a conceptually stable account of something that is both fully an action yet morally bad, for which an agent might be held morally responsible. Should modern constitutivists wish to model their views on Butler's in order to satisfy the error constraint, they need not adopt all his theological and other commitments, but they will have to avoid the currently popular constitutivist strategy of deriving normative force from the inescapability of a given principle.
Turning Liberal: Legislators’ Individual Preferences and the Regulation of Pre‐Implantation Genetic Diagnosis in Switzerland
Authors: Baumann Markus 
Published: December 2017

AbstractMost policy‐making decisions taken in parliamentary democracies are essentially matters of party competition. Yet, in some policies, the linkage function of political parties is limited by purpose, which is frequently the case in free votes with a morality dimension. This has led to a debate in the literature on the determinants of Legislators’ preferences in free votes. The present research note adds to this debate by analyzing the parliamentary procedure to regulate pre‐implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in Switzerland. By assessing whether and to what degree MPs based their decision on their personal characteristics and on the preferences of their constituents, the contribution shows that not only are MPs’ voting decisions determined by these individual level factors, but also that these factors have detectable effects on the legislative outcome.
Making News: Newspapers and the Institutionalisation of New Regions
Authors: van Gorp Bouke , Terlouw Kees 
Published: December 2017

AbstractRegions have gained importance over the last decades. Old regions have picked up momentum while novel forms of municipal co‐operation and multi‐level governance have generated new regions. This paper examines the extent to which some new regions in the Netherlands have become familiar to the population, based on evidence from an analysis of newspaper articles. The study focused on the reports about several old and new regions within the borders of the traditional region of Noord‐Brabant, a Dutch province with a well‐established identity. In the dynamic constellation of Noord‐Brabant, news reports hinted at the institutionalisation of some of the new regions that have become meaningful places outside the administrative context in which they were originally created. The institutionalisation of some new regions did not result in a de‐institutionalisation of older regions in the same area but in a more complex layering of the identities of these regions with respect to each other.
Evaluation of the impact of banking umbilical cord blood units with high cell dose for ethnically diverse patients
Authors: Stritesky Gretta , Wadsworth Kimberly , Duffy Merry , Buck Kelly , Dehn Jason 
Published: December 2017

BACKGROUNDUmbilical cord blood units provide an important stem cell source for transplantation, particularly for patients of ethnic diversity who may not have suitably matched available, adult‐unrelated donors. However, with the cost of cord blood unit acquisition from public banks significantly higher than that for adult‐unrelated donors, attention is focused on decreasing cost yet still providing cord blood units to patients in need. Historical practices of banking units with low total nucleated cell counts, including units with approximately 90 × 107 total nucleated cells, indicates that most banked cord blood units have much lower total nucleated cell counts than are required for transplant.STUDY DESIGN AND METHODSThe objective of this study was to determine the impact on the ability to identify suitable cord blood units for transplantation if the minimum total nucleated cell count for banking were increased from 90 × 107 to 124 or 149 × 107. We analyzed ethnically diverse patients (median age, 3 years) who underwent transplantation of a single cord blood unit in 2005 to 2016. A cord blood unit search was evaluated to identify units with equal or greater human leukocyte antigen matching and a greater total nucleated cell count than that of the transplanted cord blood unit (the replacement cord blood unit).RESULTSIf the minimum total nucleated cell count for banking increased to 124 or 149 × 107, then from 75 to 80% of patients would still have at least 1 replacement cord blood unit in the current (2016) cord blood unit inventory. The best replacement cord blood units were often found among cords with the same ethnic background as the patient.CONCLUSIONThe current data suggest that, if the minimum total nucleated cell count were increased for banking, then it would likely lead to an inventory of more desirable cord blood units while having minimal impact on the identification of suitable cord blood units for transplantation.
The pathogenesis of paraesophageal empyema in dogs and constancy of radiographic and computed tomography signs are linked to involvement of the mediastinal serous cavity
Authors: Gendron Karine , McDonough Sean P. , Flanders James A. , Tse May , Scrivani Peter V. 
Published: December 2017

AbstractThe mediastinal serous cavity is a normal anatomic space in the caudal mediastinum. Aims of this anatomic and case series study were to describe the signs of pathologic expansion of the mediastinal serous cavity observed during computed tomography (CT), review the underlying anatomy, perform a literature review, and evaluate the medical records of several dogs with mediastinal serous cavity empyema (paraesophageal empyema). The mesothelial lined mediastinal serous cavity is a cranial extension of the omental bursa, separated from the peritoneal cavity by the diaphragm, in the dorsal part of the caudal mediastinum, to the right of the esophagus, between the heart base and diaphragm. In five adult, large‐breed dogs with surgically and histologically confirmed paraesophageal empyema, macroscopic plant material was found at surgery in two dogs, adherence to adjacent lung was present in three different dogs, accessory lobectomy was performed in two dogs with subacute‐chronic pyogranulomatous pneumonia, and one dog had concurrent pyothorax and mediastinitis, but none had esophageal abnormalities. This study expands our understanding of the pathogenesis and basis for the imaging appearance of paraesophageal empyema in dogs by clarifying the underlying anatomic structures that direct development of this condition. The term empyema accurately describes this condition because the purulent material accumulates within an existing body cavity. The study also provides initial evidence that the development of paraesophageal empyema might be due to local extension of lung disease, such as foreign body migration or pneumonia. Computed tomography was helpful for diagnosis, assessing size, and determining the spread of disease.
HOW RADICALLY CAN GOD BE RECONCEIVED BEFORE CEASING TO BE GOD? THE FOUR FACES OF PANENTHEISM
Authors: Clayton Philip 
Published: December 2017

AbstractPanentheism has often been put forward as a means for bringing theology and science into dialogue, perhaps even resolving some of the major tensions between them. A variety of “faces” of panentheism are distinguished, including conservative, metaphysical, apophatic, and naturalist panentheisms. This series of increasingly radical panentheisms is explored, each one bringing its own core commitments, and each describing very different relationships between religion and science. We consider, for example, the diverse ways that the radical panentheisms construe emergent phenomena in the natural world. In the end, comparing the increasingly radical forms of panentheism yields a new understanding of the state of the religion/science dialogue today.
Dispositivos intraorales utilizados para el tratamiento de la apnea obstructiva del sueño en pacientes edéntulos. Revisión de la literatura y bases de patentes
Authors: Galdón Torres Roneith Alexandra , Peña Petit Vanessa , Zuluaga Daniel , Suárez Castillo Angela , Lara Hernández Laura Catalina , Otero Mendoza Liliana Margarita , Hidalgo Martínez Patricia 
Published: December 2017

<strong>Introducción: </strong>la apnea obstructiva del sueño (AOS) se considera un problema de salud pública que afecta en gran medida a hombres y mujeres entre 50 y 70 años de edad, donde en ocasiones son, además, pacientes edéntulos, lo cual dificulta su tratamiento. <strong>Objetivo:</strong> identificar los aparatos intraorales existentes para tratar la AOS leve y moderada en pacientes edéntulos. <strong>Metodología: </strong>se buscó literatura sobre el tema en bases de datos y de patentes. <strong>Resultados: </strong>se encontraron cinco artículos y dos patentes. El objetivo terapéutico de todos los dispositivos es aumentar la vía aérea superior entre la base de la lengua y la pared posterior de la faringe, mediante el avance mandibular. Dentro de las principales desventajas que presentan estos dispositivos están falta de retención, dificultad para mantener la dimensión vertical, problemas musculares y trastornos en la articulación temporomandibular.<strong> Conclusión: </strong>existen pocos dispositivos intraorales efectivos en la literatura para el tratamiento de la AOS en pacientes edéntulos. Esto hace necesario diseñar futuras investigaciones en esta área.