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Changes in neurotic personality profile associated with reduction of suicidal ideation in patients who underwent psychotherapy in the day hospital for the treatment of neurotic and behavioral disorders
Authors: Rodziński Paweł , Rutkowski Krzysztof , Sobański Jerzy , Mielimąka Michał , Murzyn Agnieszka , Cyranka Katarzyna , Dembińska Edyta , Grządziel Karolina , Klasa Katarzyna , Müldner-Nieckowski Łukasz , Smiatek-Mazgaj Bogna 
Published: March 2015

CelAnaliza związków pomiędzy zmianami w profilu osobowości nerwicowej a redukcją myśli samobójczych (MS) – definiowaną jako ich ustąpienie lub redukcja ich nasilenia – u pacjentów, którzy przebyli cykl intensywnej psychoterapii prowadzonej w podejściu integracyjnym z przewagą podejścia psychodynamicznego w oddziale dziennym.MetodaKwestionariusz objawowy KO”0”, Kwestionariusz osobowości nerwicowej KON-2006 oraz Ankieta życiorysowa wypełnione przez 473 kobiety i 207 mężczyzn leczonych z powodu zaburzeń nerwicowych, behawioralnych i zaburzeń osobowości w latach 2005-2013. Podczas kwalifikacji MS zadeklarowało 134 kobiet i 80 mężczyzn, z czego poprawę w tym zakresie uzyskało odpowiednio 84,3% oraz 77,5%.WynikiPacjentom obu płci, którzy uzyskali poprawę w zakresie MS, towarzyszyła istotnie większa redukcja globalnej nerwicowej dezintegracji osobowości (neurotyczności), niż pozostałym (p<0,0005 u kobiet oraz p=0,015 u mężczyzn). Z poprawą w zakresie MS istotnie powiązana była również większa redukcja nasilenia wielu cech osobowości nerwicowej (p<0,05) u obu płci: Negatywna samoocena, Impulsywność, Poczucie wyobcowania, Demobilizacja, Trudności w relacjach emocjonalnych, Brak witalności, Poczucie braku wpływu, Poczucie winy, Trudności w relacjach interpersonalnych, Poczucie zagrożenia, Egzaltacja, Rozpamiętywanie; zaś wyłącznie u kobiet: Poczucie uzależnienia od otoczenia, Astenia, Trudności podejmowania decyzji, Przekonanie o niezaradności życiowej, Brak wewnątrzsterowności i Wyobraźnia, fantazjowanie.WnioskiUzyskane wyniki potwierdzają skuteczność intensywnej psychoterapii, jako metody leczenia prowadzącej do kompleksowej poprawy obejmującej zmniejszenie nasilenia nerwicowych zaburzeń osobowości (poziomu neurotyczności) oraz większości cech osobowości nerwicowej, jak i redukcję MS. Ujawnione powiązania wspierają hipotezę o neurotyczności u pacjentów z zaburzeniami nerwicowymi, behawioralnymi i zaburzeniami osobowości, jako czynniku predysponującym do występowania MS.
Changes in personality functioning as a result of group psychotherapy with elements of individual psychotherapy in persons with neurotic and personality disorders – MMPI-2
Authors: Cyranka Katarzyna , Rutkowski Krzysztof , Mielimąka Michał , Sobański Jerzy , Smiatek-Mazgaj Bogna , Klasa Katarzyna , Dembińska Edyta , Müldner-Nieckowski Łukasz , Rodziński Paweł 
Published: March 2015

CelAnaliza wpływu psychoterapii grupowej na funkcjonowanie osobowości pacjentów leczonych z powodu zaburzeń nerwicowych i wybranych zaburzeń osobowości (F4 i F6 wg ICD-10).MetodaW badaniu uczestniczyło 82 pacjentów (61 kobiet i 21 mężczyzn) leczonych intensywną krótkoterminową psychoterapią grupową w oddziale dziennym. Dokonano kompleksowej oceny funkcjonowania osobowości pacjentów na początku i na końcu psychoterapii przy użyciu kwestionariusza MMPI-2.WynikiU większości pacjentów objętych badaniem uzyskane w pomiarze na początku terapii wyniki w pięciu skalach klinicznych MMPI-2 (Depresja, Histeria, Odchylenia Psychopatyczne, Psychastenia, Schizofrenia) wskazywały na znaczny poziom zaburzeń, a w zakresie Hipochondrii na patologię umiarkowaną. W skali Manii większość pacjentów rozpoczynających leczenie uzyskała wyniki podobne do uzyskiwanych w populacji osób zdrowych. W wyniku zastosowania psychoterapii u większości badanych pacjentów zaobserwowano korzystne zmiany w tych obszarach funkcjonowania osobowości, w których na początku terapii stwierdzono znaczną lub umiarkowaną patologię.WnioskiKrótkoterminowa, intensywna, kompleksowa psychoterapia grupowa z elementami psychoterapii indywidualnej prowadzi do uzyskania pożądanych zmian w funkcjonowaniu osobowości.
It’s Ok to be joyful? My Little Pony and Brony masculinity
Authors: Hautakangas Mikko 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
Bronies, the adult male fans of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2010–), have raised controversy in public discussions and on the Internet: male interest in something so obviously non-masculine seems to call for some kind of explanation, for instance, as a sexual subculture or as one more ironic Internet meme. Bronies, however, emphasize their sincere enjoyment of the show and foreground their identification with the characters and stories in the series, as well as the significance of the active fan community. This article discusses the Brony fandom as a site for renegotiating male gender norms and constructing masculine identities. The focus is on the fan discourse that Bronies themselves produce and circulate, i.e. how Bronies talk about being a Brony. The empirical material consists of interviews and observations within the Finnish Brony community, both online and offline. It is argued that the ‘neo-sincere’ attitude of Bronies illustrates the centrality of humour in the construction of gendered identities. Bronies themselves emphasize that Brony fandom offers a kind of joy that is hard to find among more traditional masculine discourses.
My Little Pony, tolerance is magic: Gender policing and Brony anti-fandom
Authors: Jones Bethan 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
‘Creepy and immature’; ‘paedophiles’; ‘a freaking embarrassment’; and ‘pathetic sissies [who] giggle like school girls’ are all phrases which have been used to describe fans of My Little Pony. More specifically, they are all phrases which have been used to describe Bronies, male fans of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2010–) cartoon. Bronies are often a source of ridicule, both on forums like Reddit and 4chan, where scores of threads dedicated to ‘Brony hate’ have been posted, and within the more mainstream press which fails to understand why grown men might watch and engage with a children’s show. Furthermore, criticisms aimed at Bronies commonly resort to gendered stereotyping: My Little Pony is pink and sparkly, things that men are not supposed to like. That Bronies disrupt traditional notions of gender makes them both objects of ridicule and a means by which the gendered voice of anti-fandom can be complicated. Discussions on anti-fandom and gender often focus on ‘female’ texts like Twilight (Meyer, 2005) and Fifty Shades of Grey (James, 2012). As Matt Hills (2012) points out in his analysis of Twilight anti-fandom, girls’ desires are frequently attacked by cultural commentators and the mainstream media. However, in this article I argue that the realm of Brony fandom, and anti-fandom, is far more complex. I build upon the work of Jonathan Gray (2003) and Cornel Sandvoss (2005) by examining Brony anti-fandom, particularly in relation to its use of social media and its heavily gendered pathologizing of Bronies by both men and women.
Finding Bronies – The accidental audience of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Authors: Burdfield Claire 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
The practice of audience segregation, demographic profiling and manufactured viewerships has become common practice in the television industry since the turn towards niche programming and narrowcasting in an increasingly multichannel environment. While much critical scholarship has been devoted to the way that media companies undertake extensive market research to target their products to specific demographic segments, this article concentrates on the way that untargeted and unexpected viewers have coalesced around certain television programmes, and become the ‘accidental audience’. ‘Bronies’ have become the most well-known accidental audience in recent years, and are a perfect case study by which this phenomenon can be examined. The article therefore explores the way that accidental audiences develop, and how they offer both opportunity and threat to the managed selling of media brands. This article will also engage with the issues surrounding identifying and responding to these accidental audiences. Using the ‘Brony’ fandom of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, this article asks how accidental audiences develop and how, in particular, the Internet serves to shape and cultivate them.
The classical world is 20 per cent cooler: Greco-Roman pegasi in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Authors: Cresswell Jen 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
This article will look at the successful fantasy cartoon series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2010–) and its representation of Greco-Roman aesthetics in connection with the pegasi tribe in the depiction of the Pegasus city, Cloudsdale, and in the origins of the Pegasus tribe in the episode ‘Hearth’s Warming Eve’. In this episode, the ponies take part in a performance about the founding of their magical homeland, Equestria. The three tribes of ponies all represent different periods: the Earth ponies are Pioneer settlers, the Unicorns are mediaeval nobility, and the Pegasi are militaristic Greco-Roman. The article will explore the depiction of the Pegasi ponies with Greco-Roman elements and what this tells of the popular perception from cinema of the Greeks and celestial landscapes, and the Romans as a militaristic community. It will trace the evolution of these images within various media and how an association was created between Greco-Roman architecture, astral cities and military prowess, and how Pegasus became associated with this military fortitude and ancient world.
The ‘vegetative part’: Organic and plant life in The Walking Dead
Authors: Keetley Dawn 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
The ‘zombie gaze’ of AMC’s The Walking Dead (2010–) signals and elicits the inexorable presence of the ‘vegetative part’ in the human – the uncontrolled organic life that unsettles the very notion of the ‘person’ as well as those political systems founded upon it. Drawing on Roberto Esposito’s Third Person (2012) and late eighteenth-century physiologist Xavier Bichat, both of whom argue that humans have a ‘double life’ – our voluntary will inextricably embedded in an involuntary ‘vegetative part’ – I argue that the characters of Shane Walsh and Merle Dixon exemplify the ‘organic’ life, the automaticity of the biological. But while Esposito and Bichat use ‘vegetative’ metaphorically, in Season 4, The Walking Dead begins to explore the more literal ‘vegetal life’ of and surrounding the human, suggesting humans’ proximity not just to the ‘guts’ that mark the presence of the organic but also to plants that signal the ‘vegetative part’. The series thus asks what it might mean, in the words of philosopher Michael Marder, to think of ‘the constitutive vegetal otherness in ourselves’.
From classical Greece to science fiction: Heroic aesthetics and the popularity of the Eagle pilot Alan Carter in Space: 1999
Authors: Bussières Marie-Pierre 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
This article analyses the success of a support character in comparison to the stars in the 1970s television series Space: 1999 (1975–1977), in light of the permeation of Greek classical aesthetic codes in on-screen representation of heroes. Although the name of the actor impersonating the chief Eagle pilot Alan Carter was not even in the opening credits of the show and his character, like most support characters of Space: 1999, had but a few lines per episode, this series won actor Nick Tate international attention and his character quickly became among the favourites of the show, especially in the realm of science fiction fandom. While he is in the frame without actually doing any action, Carter oftentimes adopts a posture known as contrapposto, a pose characteristic of the idealized heroic body. This pose had been deliberately used in the early days of Hollywood to enhance the cultic status of some stars, and because of its cultural identification with a heroic type and its erotic potential, Carter was recognized as a hero more than the rest of the support characters on the show. Moreover, Carter’s persona in the scripts is that of an engaging, faithful, trustworthy fellow, which completes the picture of the ideal of manliness in Greek philosophy, that of spiritual goodness (agathon) reflected in physical beauty (kallos), placing Carter among the most popular characters with the audience of Space: 1999.
Age, gender and television in the United Kingdom
Authors: Redfern Nick 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
I apply correspondence analysis (CA) to data produced for the British Film Institute’s (BFI) ‘Opening our eyes’ report published in 2011 to discover how age and gender shape the experience of television for audiences in the United Kingdom. Age is an important factor in shaping how audience perceive television, with older viewers describing the medium as ‘informative’, ‘thought provoking’, ‘artistic’, ‘good for people’s self-development’ and ‘escapist’, while younger viewers are more likely to describe television as ‘exciting’, ‘fashionable, and ‘sociable’. Younger respondents are also more likely to describe the effect of television on people/society as negative. Variation in programme choice is highly structured in terms of age and gender, though the extent to which of these factors determine audience choice varies greatly. Gender is the dominant factor in explaining preferences for some programme types with age a secondary factor in several cases, while age is the explanatory factor for other genres for which gender seemingly has little influence. Male audiences prefer sports, factual entertainment, and culture programmes and female audiences reality TV/talent shows, game/quiz/panel shows, chat shows and soap operas. Older audiences prefer news, documentaries, and wildlife/nature programmes, while music shows/concerts and comedy/sitcoms are more popular with younger viewers.
‘We’re physicists’: Gender, genre and the image of scientists in The Big Bang Theory
Authors: Weitekamp Margaret A. 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
As a comedy, the popular CBS television show The Big Bang Theory (2007–) has made an international commercial success of its portrayal of scientists, complete with equation-laden white boards and an affectionate depiction of nerd culture. Working both with and against the gendered stereotypes of the nerd and the mad scientist – and drawing upon many of the core characteristics of situation comedy as a genre – The Big Bang Theory offers a sympathetic and nuanced depiction of scientists, including a more diverse group of scientists by gender, ethnicity, and scientific subfields than usually seen in either television or movies.
From toys to television and back: My Little Pony appropriated in adult toy play
Authors: Heljakka Katriina 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
In the era of the ludic turn the cultures of play are in convergence. Although the traditional toy industry is faced with challenges relating to the digitalization and dematerialization of play culture, physical toys are surviving due to unique tactile and manipulable qualities that still cannot be substituted by digital or even hybrid playthings. Contemporary toy characters such as those of My Little Pony (MLP) are given narratives in the form of backstories as represented in products of toy design, toy marketing and licensed toy-related merchandise. In play, these narratives are challenged, creatively cultivated, and finally circulated through social media platforms. Ponies are used in various play activities such as collecting, customizing and creating visual and animated stories, including play patterns such as toy tourism, photoplay and other forms of transmedia-inspired play. Research demonstrates that personalized play content and the documenting and sharing of such practices create both engagement with toys and mimicking of the aforementioned play patterns. In sum, the play practices of adults who use pony toys during leisure time suggest that uses of MLP characters are not only activities carried out in domestic spheres, but in public spaces and social contexts. Thus, it is evident that MLP as contemporary mass-marketed toys are frequently being used as creative, social tools by adult players.
Organocatalysts for enantioselective synthesis of fine chemicals: definitions, trends and developments
Authors: Palumbo Chiara , Guidotti Matteo 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
Organocatalysis, that is the use of small organic molecules to catalyze organic transformations, has been included among the most successful concepts in asymmetric catalysis, and it has been used for the enantioselective construction of C–C, C–N, C–O, C–S, C–P and C–halide bonds. Since the seminal works in early 2000, the scientific community has been paying an ever-growing attention to the use of organocatalysts for the synthesis, with high yields and remarkable stereoselectivities, of optically active fine chemicals of interest for the pharmaceutical industry. A brief overview is here presented about the two main classes of substrate activation by the catalyst: covalent organocatalysis and non-covalent organocatalysis, with a more stringent focus on some recent outcomes in the field of the latter and of hydrogen bond-based catalysis. Finally, some successful examples of heterogenization of organocatalysts are also discussed, in the view of a potential industrial exploitation.
EU Crises Multiplier - From One Crisis To Another
Authors: Pešić Ivana V. , Vanka Gajo M. 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
Since the wide spreading of the European Union (EU) crisis begun, the research papers have been providing different definitions such as currency crisis, competitiveness crisis, banking crisis, balance of payment crisis, but the most frequent notion of EU crises is the sovereign debt crisis. In this paper, the researchers agree that the current European crisis can be identified as sovereign debt crises at its surface, but in order to search for solutions of EU problems, we must look deeper into the sources of this crisis. Through this paper, the multiplication of crisis is explained, whereby it is being concluded that one type of crisis led to another, while staying on the point that the Eurozone current crisis is basically a combination of two core crisis: balance of payment crisis and banking crisis. In order to support the hypothesis that sovereign debt crisis is deeply connected with balance of payment crisis, we have analysed the trade and capital flows of European countries. It was discovered that periphery countries mostly financed their current account deficit, trade deficits and public deficit through external borrowing from creditor countries. Further, the periphery countries have been cumulating not only trade deficit in trade activity with other European partners, but also in trade with the rest of the world. The key source of imbalances between the European countries seems to be a different level of competitiveness caused by different level of productivity. As the second face of EU crises, we recognised a banking crisis. We found that sovereign debt crisis and banking crisis are interconnected but banking crisis usually precedes the debt crisis. With the fast growth of international capital flows, financial integration was strongly regionally concentrated and became especially important within the EU. Through the analysis of the international investment position of creditor countries, it was concluded that these countries are more integrated within the euro area through financial flows than through real economic flows. Additionally, it was discovered that creditor countries’ banks were among the biggest investors in bonds of periphery countries such as Greece. In other periphery countries such as Ireland, banking crisis and subsequent measures for the rescuing of banking system led to the increase of public debt. In the other countries, banks were faced with solvency problems due to bad debt holdings. Having in mind that we found interconnection of the debt crisis with balance of payment crisis on the one side, and with the banking crisis on the other side, the conclusion is that sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone is a result of two-core crisis: balance of payment crisis and bank crisis. Reckoning on the European Union history where each crisis usually led to the stronger integration, maybe the current crisis is a step further towards better and deeper integration.
Not all fats are created equal: adipose vs. ectopic fat, implication in cardiometabolic diseases
Authors: Gaggini Melania , Saponaro Chiara , Gastaldelli Amalia 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
Adipose tissue is a recognized endocrine organ that acts not only as a fuel storage but also is able to secrete adipokines that can modulate inflammation. Most of the fat is composed of white adipocytes (WAT), although also brown/beige adipocytes (BAT/BeAT) have been found in humans. BAT is located close to the neck but also among WAT in the epicardial fat and perivascular fat. Adipocyte hypertrophy and infiltration of macrophages impair adipose tissue metabolism determining “adiposopathy” (i.e., sick fat) and increasing the risk to develop metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. The purpose of this review was to search and discuss the available literature on the impact of different types of fat and fat distribution on cardiometabolic risk. Visceral fat, but also ectopic fat, either in liver, muscle and heart, can increase the risk to develop insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Results recently published showed that BAT could have an impact on cardiometabolic risk, not only because it is implicated in energy metabolism but also because it can modulate glucose and lipid metabolism. Therapeutical interventions that can increase energy expenditure, successfully change fat distribution and reduce ectopic fat, also through BAT activation, were discussed.
Cuticle Integrity and Biogenic Amine Synthesis in Caenorhabditis elegans Require the Cofactor Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4)
Authors: Loer Curtis M , Calvo Ana C , Watschinger Katrin , Werner-Felmayer Gabriele , O’Rourke Delia , Stroud Dave , Tong Amy , Gotenstein Jennifer R , Chisholm Andrew D , Hodgkin Jonathan , Werner Ernst R , Martinez Aurora 
Published: March 2015

Abstract
Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is the natural cofactor of several enzymes widely distributed among eukaryotes, including aromatic amino acid hydroxylases (AAAHs), nitric oxide synthases (NOSs), and alkylglycerol monooxygenase (AGMO). We show here that the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, which has three AAAH genes and one AGMO gene, contains BH4 and has genes that function in BH4 synthesis and regeneration. Knockout mutants for putative BH4 synthetic enzyme genes lack the predicted enzymatic activities, synthesize no BH4, and have indistinguishable behavioral and neurotransmitter phenotypes, including serotonin and dopamine deficiency. The BH4 regeneration enzymes are not required for steady-state levels of biogenic amines, but become rate limiting in conditions of reduced BH4 synthesis. BH4-deficient mutants also have a fragile cuticle and are generally hypersensitive to exogenous agents, a phenotype that is not due to AAAH deficiency, but rather to dysfunction in the lipid metabolic enzyme AGMO, which is expressed in the epidermis. Loss of AGMO or BH4 synthesis also specifically alters the sensitivity of C. elegans to bacterial pathogens, revealing a cuticular function for AGMO-dependent lipid metabolism in host–pathogen interactions.