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Atypical Sjögren presentation of pruriginous rash and mild eosinophilia with minor sicca symptoms: A case report
Authors: Tremblay Noemie , Bourque Alexandra , Costa Jean-Pascal 
Published: January 2018

We report a case of an 82-year-old woman diagnosed with Sjögren syndrome on the basis of salivary gland biopsy and anti-Ro/SSA antibodies who presented to our institution with a pruriginous maculopapular pancorporeal rash with diffuse eosinophilic infiltrate and mild eosinophilia. Sicca symptoms were mild. Cutaneous and hematologic findings resolved spontaneously within 4 weeks, the rash did not respond to antihistamines but was mildly attenuated by topical corticosteroid. Both the rash and hypereosinophilia greatly improved while the patient received oral corticosteroids for a contrast medium allergy before a CT-scan. When the patient was diagnosed with SS, hydroxychloroquine treatment was introduced. This case report aims to raise awareness of the possibility of such a clinical presentation, considering the known increased risk of non-hodgkin lymphoma associated with Sjögren syndrome estimated to 5%-10% lifetime risk which is 5 to 44 times higher than that of the general population.
Women Playwrights of Early Modern Spain [Reseña]
Authors: Vizán Rico Blanca 
Published: January 2018

Enríquez de Guzmán, Feliciana; Ana Caro Mallén y sor Marcela de San Félix, Women Playwrights of Early Modern Spain, Nieves Romero-Díaz and Lisa Vollendorf (eds.), Harley Erdman (trad.), Toronto ; Tempe: Ontario Iter Press ; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 2016, 272 pp. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. The Toronto Series, 49; Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 501) ISBN 978-0866985567
The role of the sugar receptor IR60b for Drosophila melanogaster: A hypothesis
Authors: Szyszka Paul , Galizia C. Giovanni 
Published: January 2018

In a recent paper, Joseph and colleagues (Joseph et al., 2017) have characterized the selective sucrose receptor IR60b in Drosophila, and proposed that it serves to limit sucrose consumption, and thus to prevent overfeeding. Here, we propose an alternative hypothesis for this sucrose receptor. Adult fruit flies feed by excreting saliva onto the food, and imbibing
the predigested liquefied food, or by filling the crop, where the food is predigested. Enzymes in the saliva hydrolyse starch and disacharides into absorbable monosacharides. Premature ingestion into the midgut would not give the enzymes in the saliva enough time to predigest the food. Thus, IR60b might be used as a sensor to monitor the digestive state of external food or crop content: when disaccharides (sucrose) concentration is high, ingestion is inhibited, preventing the malabsorption of sucrose in the gut.
Racial and Ethnic Variation in the Relationship Between Student Loan Debt and the Transition to First Birth
Authors: Min Stella , Taylor Miles G. 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The present study employs discrete-time hazard regression models to investigate the relationship between student loan debt and the probability of transitioning to either marital or nonmarital first childbirth using the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97). Accounting for nonrandom selection into student loans using propensity scores, our study reveals that the effect of student loan debt on the transition to motherhood differs among white, black, and Hispanic women. Hispanic women holding student loans experience significant declines in the probability of transitioning to both marital and nonmarital motherhood, whereas black women with student loans are significantly more likely to transition to any first childbirth. Indebted white women experience only a decrease in the probability of a marital first birth. The results from this study suggest that student loans will likely play a key role in shaping future demographic patterns and behaviors.
Sexual Dysfunction Among Young Men: Overview of Dietary Components Associated With Erectile Dysfunction
Authors: Mykoniatis Ioannis , Grammatikopoulou Maria G. , Bouras Emmanouil , Karampasi Efthalia , Tsionga Aikaterini , Kogias Athanasios , Vakalopoulos Ioannis , Haidich Anna-Bettina , Chourdakis Michael 
Published: January 2018

Abstract

Background
Sexual dysfunction is relatively common in young men, presenting in diverse manifestations, including erectile dysfunction (ED), for which dietary modifications, including increased intake of dietary antioxidants, have been suggested as promising and cost-efficient approaches.

Aim
To assess the consumption of selected dietary antioxidants, in particular flavonoids, in relation to ED symptoms in young men.

Methods
Men 18 to 40 years old were invited to complete an anonymous web-based questionnaire for this case-control study. ED was diagnosed with the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) and flavonoid intake was recorded using food-frequency questionnaires, with an emphasis on flavonoid-rich foods such as coffee, fruits, etc. Participants without ED (IIEF score ≥ 26; n = 264) formed the control group and those with ED (IIEF score &lt; 26; n = 86) formed the case group.

Outcomes
Dietary flavonoid intake.

Results
Men with ED reported a lower median monthly intake of total flavonoids (−2.18 g, 95% CI = −3.15 to −1.21, P &lt; .001) and all flavonoid subclasses (P &lt; .001) compared with controls. Adjustment of intake for age and body mass index showed that consumption of flavonoids 50 mg/day lowered the risk for ED by 32% (odds ratio = 0.68, 95% CI = 0.55–0.85, P &lt; .001). Of all recorded flavonoids, flavones appeared to contribute the most to healthy erectile function. Controls reported a greater consumption of vegetables and fruits, a lower intake of dairy and alcoholic beverages, and a less intense smoking habit compared with cases (P &lt; .001).

Clinical Implications
Increased intake of fruits, vegetables, and flavonoids decreases the risk of ED in young men.

Strength and Limitations
The strength of this study stems from the innovative hypothesis, the young age of participants, and the suggested therapeutic effects of cheap dietary components against ED. Limitations include the relatively small sample and cross-sectional design.

Conclusion
Low flavonoid—in particular flavone—intake is associated with ED in young adult men.
Osteotomias femorais distais com cunha de fechamento medial—estudo retrospectivo
Authors: Cabral Pedro Barreira , Astur Diego Costa , Freitas Eduardo Vasconcelos , Pavei Bruno Silveira , Kaleka Camila Cohen , Cohen Moises 
Published: January 2018

Resumo
Objetivo Descrever a técnica cirúrgica da osteotomia femoral com cunha de fechamento medial e uma série de casos submetidos a essa técnica.
Métodos Foram avaliados 26 pacientes submetidos a osteotomia femoral distal com cunha de fechamento medial de 2002 a 2013. Os prontuários e exames de imagem de todos os pacientes foram revisados para avaliação do grau de correção e estado atual.
Resultados Dos 26 pacientes operados, 12 eram do sexo masculino e 14 do feminino. A idade média foi de 47,15 anos. Em todos os casos, obteve-se alinhamento neutro em relação ao eixo anatômico. A maioria dos pacientes alcançou a consolidação óssea da osteotomia com seis semanas. Não foram observados casos de sangramentos durante a cirurgia. Um paciente apresentou retardo da consolidação óssea. Um paciente apresentou desconforto sobre a placa, foi necessária sua retirada. Um paciente apresentou infecção superficial sem necessidade de revisão da osteotomia. Não foram observados casos de trombose venosa profunda e tromboembolismo pulmonar. Até o momento não houve conversão para artroplastia total de joelho.
Conclusão O tratamento com osteotomia femoral distal com cunha de fechamento medial manteve a correção proposta em pacientes com seguimento de até 15 anos.
Treaty Exit and Latin America's Constitutional Courts
Authors: Huneeus Alexandra , Urueña René 
Published: January 2018

Constitutional courts in Latin America have used judicial review to enhance the relevance of international law in recent years. Some scholars even speak of a growing “constitutionalization of international law” in the region. But these domestic courts can also act as gatekeepers that blunt or entirely deflect the domestic impact of international law. This essay explores three recent episodes in which constitutional courts joined or led efforts to escape treaty obligations: the Venezuelan Supreme Court's judgment urging the Chávez Administration to denounce the American Convention of Human Rights on constitutional grounds, which Chavez then did in 2012 (a court-inspired treaty exit); the Colombian executive's 2013 petition to have Colombia's acceptance of the International Court of Justice's (ICJ's) jurisdiction under the Pact of Bogotá declared unconstitutional (a court-legitimated treaty exit); and the Dominican Republic (DR) Constitutional Tribunal's 2014 judgment holding that the DR's acceptance of the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) had been unconstitutional (a court-led treaty exit).
The Rise of the Migration-Development Nexus in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960–2010
Authors: Dedieu Jean-Philippe 
Published: January 2018

Abstract:This article aims to analyze the emergence of the migration-development nexus after decolonization in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa. The first section explores the way in which French governmental bodies and NGOs started to frame public policies linking migration and development in the 1960s and 1970s. The second section highlights how developmentalist ideology was mobilized in the 1980s in order to set up return policies in partnership with African governments who were increasingly inclined to control migrants’ monetary remittances. The last section emphasizes how the migration-development nexus was orchestrated to control migratory flows from the late 1980s onwards.
Towards a Ritual Turn in Comparative Theology: Opportunities, Challenges, and Problems
Authors: Moyaert Marianne 
Published: January 2018

AbstractComparative theology generally begins from a study of texts, scriptural texts that have been canonized, and commentaries on these texts—as well as philosophical, theological and mystical treatises. Though this textual focus gives us access to some of the most subtle and nuanced reasonings developed in various traditions, I am concerned that this textual focus may limit our understanding of religion, and I am convinced that broadening the scope of comparative theology beyond texts will also contribute to the theological creativity of this approach. I hypothesize that, depending on the sort of source from which we theologize, different questions will come to mind relating to different theological problems. Indeed, turning to material and ritual practices, in addition to textual sources, will reveal aspects of the divine that remain invisible when one stays within the limits of textual study. I do not, in any way, want to turn this into an either/or story in which reading texts is placed over against engaging ritual and material practices. What I envision is a complementarity between textual and ritual comparison, not a privileging of one over the other.
The Casuistic Priestly Law in Ancient Mediterranean Context: The History of the Genre and itsSitz im Leben
Authors: Darshan Guy 
Published: January 2018

AbstractWhile numerous scholars have compared the Priestly regulations in the Pentateuch to ancient Near Eastern “ritual texts,” the Priestly legal material more generally corresponds in form and style to ancient Near Eastern casuistic law collections than to descriptive or prescriptive “ritual texts.” At the same time, ancient Near Eastern law collections do not contain any ritual or religious ordinances, relating instead primarily to civil and financial affairs or social law and order. This paper examines the formal, substantive, and generic affinities between the Priestly laws and the casuistic Greek “Sacred Laws” inscribed on stone and other materials throughout the eastern Mediterranean basin from the sixth century BCE onwards. Analysis of related Northwest-Semitic and Punic texts, as well as potential precedents from the Hittite world, further contributes to our understanding of theSitz im Lebenof the casuistic Priestly law.
The Death of Tragedy: The Form of God in Euripides'sBacchaeand Paul'sCarmen Christi
Authors: Cover Michael Benjamin 
Published: January 2018

AbstractScholarship on Phil 2:6–11 has long wrestled with the question of “interpretive staging.” While acknowledging that Jewish sapiential and apocalyptic literature as well as Roman apotheosis narratives provide important matrices for the hymn, the following study pinpoints a third backdrop against which Paul's dramatic christology would have been heard in Philippi: Euripidean tragedy. Echoes of Dionysus's opening monologue from Euripides'sBacchaein thecarmen Christisuggest that Roman hearers of Paul's letter likely understood Christ's kenoticmetamorphosisas a species of Dionysian revelation. This interpretive recognition accomplishes a new integration of the hymn's Jewish and imperial-cultic transcripts. Jesus's Bacchic portraiture supports a theology of Christ's pre-existence, while simultaneously establishing him as a Dionysian antithesis to the imperial Apolloniankyrios Caesar. These Dionysian echoes also elevate the status of slaves and women, and suggest that “the tragic” remains modally present within the otherwise comicfabulaof the Christ myth.
Older people in Sweden without means: on the importance of age at immigration for being ‘twice poor’
Authors: GUSTAFSSON BJÖRN , MAC INNES HANNA , ÖSTERBERG TORUN 
Published: January 2018

ABSTRACTThis paper examines immigrant poverty at an older age in Sweden with an emphasis on late-in-life immigrants. We analyse tax data for the entire Swedish-born and non-Swedish-born population. The poverty status of a household is assessed using two criteria. First, the disposable income of the household in which the person lived in 2007 must be below 60 per cent of the median equivalent income in Sweden as a whole. Second, to be classified as ‘twice poor’ a household's net assets must be below SEK 10,000. The results indicate that three out of four Swedish-born older persons were not classified as poor by either of the criteria, and only 1 per cent by both criteria. In contrast, among older persons born in low-income countries almost three out of four were classified as poor according to one of the criteria and not fewer than one in three according to both. Results of estimating logistic models indicate that the risk of being considered poor according to both criteria is strongly positively related to one's age at immigration. Our results indicate that it is crucial that migrants, particularly those who arrive after age 40, be better integrated into the Swedish labour market. To alleviate poverty among those migrants who are already of older age, increased transfers are probably the only possible alternative.
Outbreak epidemiologically linked with a composite product of beef, mechanically separated chicken and textured vegetable protein contaminated with multiple serotypes of Salmonella enterica including multidrug-resistant Infantis, California 2016
Authors: Hutchinson J. A. , Wheeler C. , Mohle-Boetani J. C. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractA salmonellosis outbreak occurred at a California prison in April and May 2016. In a cohort study of 371 inmates, persons who consumed dishes from the prison kitchen made from ground meat had a higher attack rate (15%) than those who did not (4%) (risk ratio 3.4, 95% CI 1.1–10.6). The ground meat product was composed exclusively of beef, mechanically separated chicken (MSC) and textured vegetable protein; eight of eight lots of the product collected from the prison and processing facility were contaminated with Salmonella enterica of eight serotypes and 17 distinct PFGE patterns, including multidrug-resistant S. Infantis. Either the MSC or the beef could have been the source of the particular strains of S. enterica isolated from patients or the product. The microbiological evidence is most consistent with MSC as the source of the high levels of S. enterica in the epidemiologically linked meat product. Our findings contribute to the growing body of evidence about the hazard posed by the use of products containing raw mechanically separated poultry in kitchens in institutions.
Pilot survey of norovirus in Northern Italy: an example of surveillance of norovirus gastroenteritis
Authors: Pagani E. , Folli F. , Tofani S. , Ruggeri F. M. , Ostanello F. , Di Bartolo I. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractIn this study, we describe the results of virological investigations carried out on cases of gastroenteritis reported in different communities within a 2-year pilot surveillance programme (January 2012 to December 2013) in the autonomous province of Bolzano (Northern Italy). Among the 162 norovirus (NoV)-positive cases out of 702 cases investigated, 76 were grouped in nine suspected outbreaks, 37 were hospital-acquired and 49 were community-acquired sporadic cases. NoV infections were found in all age groups in outbreak and community-acquired cases, while the highest peak of hospital-acquired infections occurred in the elderly. Sequence analyses helped to identify suspected outbreaks both in the community and in hospital wards. Although GII.4 is the predominant genotype, sequence data confirmed that at least seven genotypes circulate causing sporadic cases. Findings in this study confirmed the relevance of NoV infections as a cause of outbreaks, and impact of NoV infections in community-acquired sporadic cases in adults that are rarely described because of a lack of reporting.
Effectiveness of echocardiography simulation training for paediatric cardiology fellows in CHD
Authors: Dayton Jeffrey D. , Groves Alan M. , Glickstein Julie S. , Flynn Patrick A. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractSimulation is used in many aspects of medical training but less so for echocardiography instruction in paediatric cardiology. We report our experience with the introduction of simulator-based echocardiography training at Weill Cornell Medicine for paediatric cardiology fellows of the New York–Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia University and Weill Cornell Medicine. Knowledge of CHD and echocardiographic performance improved following simulation-based training. Simulator training in echocardiography can be an effective addition to standard training for paediatric cardiology trainees.
After the Massacres: Nursing Survivors of Partition Violence in Pakistan Punjab Camps
Authors: CHATTHA ILYAS 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThis article explores the conditions and treatment of the ordinary refugees—survivors of the 1947 partition violence—in the Pakistan Punjab relief camps, in particular the circumstances of women, children and those who arrived with terrible wounds, yet received at best rudimentary medical assistance when the emergent Pakistan state was still working out its responsibilities in the process of transition. A large number of them succumbed to the epidemics which swept refugee camps. The impact of cholera on the camp population will be addressed in a discussion of the episode in Hanfia School Camp. This created the circumstances for the second major theme of this article—the adoption of children. Little if anything has previously been written about the extent of adoption following partition, or on its mixed motivations and social implications. Finally, the article considers the governmental responses to the camp population and state provision to the orphan refugee children. Much of the previously un-used material in this article is both harrowing in its character and disturbing for sanitised nationalist historiography. It is necessary however to address it in order to provide a full appreciation of the ‘lived experience’ of the partition.
The Music Room: Betty Freeman's Musical Soirées
Authors: JOHNSON JAKE 
Published: January 2018

AbstractFor over ten years, Los Angeles arts patron Betty Freeman (1921–2009) welcomed composers, performers, scholars, patrons, and invited guests into her home for a series of monthly musicales that were known as ‘Salotto’. In this article, I analyse Freeman's musicales within a sociological framework of gender and what Randall Collins calls ‘interaction rituals’. I contextualize these events, which took place in a space in her Beverly Hills home known as the Music Room, within a broader history of salon culture in Los Angeles in the twentieth century – a history that shaped the city's relationship with the artistic avant-garde and made Los Angeles an important amplifier for many of the most important voices in contemporary Western art music of the last sixty years.
Music and Revolution in the Long 1960s
Authors: HEILBRONNER ODED 
Published: January 2018

When discussing the relationship between popular music and social-political change in the long 1960s, historians and critics have tended to fluctuate between two opposing poles. On the one hand, there is Arthur Marwick's approach, echoed in Jon Savage's recent book1966:The Year the Decade Exploded.In Marwick's cross-national survey, he examines social change in the West during the ‘Long Sixties’ (1958–72), when a ‘cultural revolution’ occurred in which protest music played a major role. On the other hand, there are Peter Doggett's and Dominic Sandbrook's observations that the top-selling albums of the 1960s and 1970s did not include some masterpiece by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Queen, or other leading figures in rock music, but rather the soundtrack ofThe Sound of Music. Sandbrook writes that it ‘projected a familiar, even conservative vision of the world, based on romantic love and family life. In a period of change it offered a sense of reassurance and stability, not only in its plot but also in its musical style . . . [T]hese were the values of millions . . . in the Swinging Sixties’. Doggett similarly points to the popularity of Julie Andrews and the soundtracks ofMary PoppinsandThe Sound of Music. These soundtracks ‘made no attempt to alter the culture or educate the listener’ he suggests, and that is why they have been relegated ‘to a footnote in the history of popular music’ even while being the top-selling records of 1965 and 1966.
Creating a ‘hostile environment for migrants’: the British government’s use of health service data to restrict immigration is a very bad idea
Authors: Hiam Lucinda , Steele Sarah , McKee Martin 
Published: January 2018

AbstractIn January 2017, the UK Government made public a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Department of Health, National Health Service (NHS) Digital and the Home Office. This Memorandum allows for the more expedited sharing of a patient’s non-clinical data, specifically from the NHS England to the Home Office. The Government justified the MoU as in the ‘public interest to support effective immigration enforcement’. In this review, we seek to unpack this justification by providing, first, a background to the MoU, placing it in the context of creating a ‘hostile environment’ for migrants – a project initially sought by Theresa May in her time as Home Secretary. We then explore the potential impact of data sharing on individual health, public health and on health professionals. We conclude that the MoU could threaten both individual and public health, while placing health professionals in an unworkable position both practically and in terms of their duties to patients around confidentiality. As such, we agree with colleagues’ position that it should be suspended, at least until a full consultation and health impact assessment can be carried out.