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I can feel his heart beating through the sole of my foot: Reflections on improvisation from a dancer finding her feet
Authors: Harrop Angharad 
Published: December 2014

Abstract
This article delves into the experiences of a recent graduate exploring improvised dance. By analysing experiences of performing, watching and reflecting, this article questions the role of the dancer within improvised performance, and gives insight into the discovery, self-reflection and development involved in the journey of an improvising performer. The article discusses and reflects upon the practice of British dance artists, including Kirstie Simon, Julyen Hamilton and Rosemary Lee, through the eyes of the enquiring and developing dancer: each of these practitioners has influenced and moulded improvisational practice in the United Kingdom since the 1970s. In addition to this discussion of practice, the article also draws upon the published research of artists including Nina Martin and Susan Sgorbati in order to explore the concerns of improvised performance as negotiated by the performer. From a consideration of the thoughts, reflections and observations that occur in the moment of improvised performance, this article examines how dancers engaging with improvised performance are involved in a journey that provokes, challenges and questions concepts of authenticity, honesty and presence. It questions the processes through which dancers are able to negotiate these concerns to fully engage, with both fellow performer and audience, in improvised performance.
The three-ness of three ones
Authors: Fitzpatrick Marie 
Published: December 2014

Abstract
This article explores processes within a dance practice as research (PaR) case study and draws upon theoretical and philosophical conceptions of the interval and kinaesthetic empathy to discuss relational and emergent processes that have arisen out of three ones (2012). Artistic processes that deal with the embodied experience are prioritized, and commentaries from dancers in the work and from audience members are centralized in a discussion on touch-based, improvisational practice. The subjective perspective and experience of the mover is considered and the discussion further focuses on the between-ness of movement to provoke questions about inter-subjectivity and notions of self and other. I propose that attending to touch-based, improvisational processes elicits a three-ness between the three dancers that offers ways to consider the multiple nature of exchange. I question how gained understandings of relationality through this PaR case study can lead to new understandings of the affective potentiality in our everyday interactions with other bodies and objects and our relationship with environment.
Relative proximity: Reaching towards an ethics of touch in cross-generational dance practice
Authors: Pethybridge Ruth 
Published: December 2014

Abstract
This article addresses the potential for an embodied ethics of touch in the context of cross-generational dance work, in particular through the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Focusing on choreographic processes and performances involving parents and children I examine the relationships that are reoriented through the shifting mode of being that is dancing together. This is in part an auto-ethnographic enquiry as I reflect on my own experiences as a new mother dancing with my daughter in Baby Jam1 and relating to her in life. Proximity is used as a way to frame the auto-ethnographic lens and to discuss ethics as a way of relating. This article suggests an ambiguous definition of ‘contact’: conceiving of it as a mode of communication as well as a dance practice The article questions how contact might be defined without the use of touch, by including the potential of touch as well as its actualization. Using Manning’s 2009 notion of relational movement, I refer to the ‘about-to-be’ moment in contact and the ethical relationships that this engenders. This article references three case studies as examples: my own cross-generational duet project with an adult mother and daughter, my experiences as a new mother and the work of Giulio D’Anna and his recent piece choreographed with his father Parkin’son. It discusses the ontological implications of contact across generations as a way of being together, reaching towards an ethics of touch rather than fixing its meaning.
Contact improvisation, the non-eroticized touch in an ‘art-sport’
Authors: Dymoke Katy 
Published: December 2014

Abstract
This article is from the first chapter of a Ph.D. thesis and introduces some pivotal experiences and emerging beliefs that inspired the past two decades of professional practice, incorporating contact improvisation (CI), Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) and Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP). The purpose of this article is to indicate the epistemology of my professional self, a touch specialist, presented in three emerging roles: the CI practitioner/teacher, the BMC practitioner/teacher and the DMP practitioner/teacher. Through the practice of CI and BMC I learnt essential touch and movement skills, and sharing them with deafblind people had an unexpected outcome – I discovered the effects of touch deprivation. In working with people who experience social exclusion in the context of socially inclusive arts projects I learnt that I too had been deprived of the universal language of touch. My personal and professional paths became intertwined as I undertook to work with touch-based methods in health contexts and encountered the dilemma of working in a non-touch culture and the negative effects on patients. CI and BMC combine as effective methods within DMP practice as they operate within the territory of humanistic and body-oriented psychotherapy and enrich this with specialist skills including reflexivity, hermeneutics and self-enquiry.
Ergative, antipassive and other verb derivational morphemes in Gaahmg
Authors: Stirtz Timothy M. 
Published: December 2014

AbstractGaahmg has ergative traces in a predominately nominative-accusative system. Clauses with object focus demonstrate ergative case marking on postverbal noun and pronoun agents, and an ergative morpheme is also bound to verbs. Other evidence for ergativity is that the ergative morpheme is morphologically and syntactically distinct from the passive morpheme. Ergative morphemes and constructions in Gaahmg are similar to those of other Nilo-Saharan languages, including Luwo, Päri, and Shilluk. The Gaahmg antipassive also resembles that of other Nilo-Saharan languages. Yet, unlike other languages with ergativity and antipassives, Gaahmg readily combines the antipassive with ergative, passive, and causative morphemes in the same verb form. The Gaahmg antipassive occurs in nominative-accusative structures, as well as in object-focus clauses with ergative-absolutive structures. Further, the antipassive co-occurs with the passive, as if both the nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive structures are simultaneously present in the same clause, and the language is currently shifting from one structure to the other.
Acute high blood glucose level attenuates histamine-stimulated acid secretion in male Wistar rats
Authors: Usman Taofeek O. , Olatunji Lawrence A. , Alada Abdul Rasak A. 
Published: December 2014

Abstract

Background: Studies have shown that the hyperglycemic state induced by intravenous glucagon or glucose infusion may lead to inhibition of gastric acid secretion through the inhibition of gastric vagus activity. Histamine is a well-known mammalian acid secretagogue and it stimulates acid secretion through H2 receptors. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine what effect an acute hyperglycemic or hypoglycemic state would have on histamine-stimulated acid secretion.

Methods: Male Wistar rats weighing between 200 and 250 g were divided into three groups that received an intravenous infusion of normal saline (control group), glucose (hyperglycemic group), or insulin (hypoglycemic group) followed by injection of histamine to stimulate acid secretion. The oesophageal and duodenal ends of the rats’ stomach were cannulated with polythene tubing and the stomach was perfused at room temperature using a Langendoff perfusion apparatus. The effluent was collected in aliquots over 10 min per sample and its pH was measured.

Results: There was a significant (p<0.05) decrease in acid secretion following histamine injection in the hyperglycemic rats, while histamine injection led to an increase (p<0.05) in acid secretion in the hypoglycemic rats.

Conclusions: These results show that hyperglycemic state would result in attenuated histamine-stimulated gastric acid secretion, while hypoglycemic state would lead to increased histamine-stimulated gastric acid secretion.
A live trap and trapping technique for subterranean zokors (Rodentia)
Authors: Limin Hua , Weihong Ji , Jianwei Zhou , Songtao Zuo 
Published: December 2014

AbstractEcological and behavioural studies of subterranean animals are challenging because their subterranean lifestyle make direct observations difficult. Effective live trapping without causing injuries to an animal and handling of captured individuals are crucial for ecological and behavioural studies. In this paper, we report the design and structure of a live trap and trapping technique for zokors. The trap is made up of a stainless steel cage with a gate, a trigger and a GSM/GPRS module, and it is installed in the tunnel of a fossorial rodent (
Review of dermatology use of 5-aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy in China from 1997 to 2013
Authors: Wang Peiru , Fan Zhixia , Zhang Linglin , Huang Zheng , Wang Xiuli 
Published: December 2014

AbstractThe prodrug 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and its ester derivatives have been used in photodynamic therapy (PDT) in dermatology worldwide. In China, ALA-PDT was first used to treat urethral
A second course of antithyroid drug therapy for recurrent Graves' disease: an experience in endocrine practice
Authors: Liu Xiaomei , Qiang Wei , Liu Xingjun , Liu Lianye , Liu Shu , Gao Aibo , Gao Shan , Shi Bingyin 
Published: December 2014

ObjectiveThere are scarce reports regarding the prognosis of a second course of antithyroid drug (ATD) therapy on recurrent Graves' disease (GD). The aim of this study was to assess the long-term remission rate after a second ATD therapy and verify significant clinical predictors of a remission.DesignA prospective randomized clinical trial with long-term follow-up was conducted to evaluate the effects of a second course of ATD therapy.MethodsA total of 128 recurrent GD patients who had finished a first regular ATD therapy were enrolled in this study, and prescribed methimazole (MMI) treatment with titration regimen. The patients were randomly assigned to two groups when the drug doses were reduced to 2.5 mg daily (qd). Group 1 was discontinued with 2.5 mg qd after about 5 months. Group 2 was continuously reduced to 2.5 mg every other day (qod) after 5 months and then discontinued with 2.5 mg qod after about a further 5 months. The patients were followed for 48 months after drug withdrawal.ResultsOf the total number of patients, 97 cases (75.78%) achieved permanent remission at the end of follow-up, with the recurrence of 31 cases (24.22%). The remission rate of group 2 (84.62%) was significantly higher than that of group 1 (66.67%) (P=0.024). Cox regression showed that the hazard ratio for recurrence decreased under a high or high normal TSH level at drug withdrawal.ConclusionA second course of ATD therapy can bring about a satisfying long-term remission on recurrent GD. The drug dose of 2.5 mg qod and a high or high normal TSH level at drug withdrawal may increase the likelihood of permanent remission.
A Comparison of ree Chromogranin A Assays in Patients with Neuroendocrine Tumours
Authors: Hoej Lise Brehm , Parkner Tina , Knudsen Cindy Soendersoe , Grønbaek Henning 
Published: December 2014

Background & Aims: Chromogranin A (CgA) is the most important general tumour marker used in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with neuroendocrine tumours (NET). Chromogranin A assays may have different sensitivities, which is of importance for the clinical diagnosis and handling of NET patients. The aim of this study was to compare the clinical sensitivities of three different CgA assays in NET patients.Methods: We measured CgA level in 42 NET patients (male/female: 23/19, median age: 63 years, range 29- 85 years). Twenty-five patients had liver metastases, eight had local disease, and nine were disease free after surgery. We studied an in-house RIA: RH RIA assay (Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark); NEOLISATM (Euro Diagnostica, Malmö, Sweden) and EURIA CgA RIA (Euro Diagnostica, Malmö, Sweden).Results: The RH RIA assay showed a clinical sensitivity of 97%, while the NEOLISA and EURIA assays both showed similar clinical sensitivities of 79%. Patients with liver metastases had significantly higher CgA levels compared to disease free patients by all three assays (P<0.001), but only the RH RIA assay was able to discriminate between patients with liver metastases and with regional disease (P<0.01).Conclusion: Chromogranin A measurements are significantly assay-dependent and caution should be applied in the interpretation of CgA measurement for assessment of NET status. The in-house RH RIA assay was better at predicting NET status than the NEOLISA and EURIA assays.List of abbreviations: CgA: chromogranin A; EURIA: Eurodiagnostica, radioimmunoassay; GFR: glomerular filtration rate; NEOLISA: Eurodiagnostica, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; NET: neuroendocrine tumour; PET-CT: positron emission tomography; PPI: proton pump inhibitor; RH RIA: Rigshospitalet, radioimmunoassay ; SPECT-CT: single photon emission computed tomography.
Acute Colonic Diverticulitis: Diagnostic Evidence, Demographic and Clinical Features in ree Practice Settings
Authors: Iyer Rajan , Longstreth George F. , Chu Li-Hao , Chen Wansu , Yen Linnette , Hodgkins Paul , Kawatkar Aniket A. 
Published: December 2014

Background & Aims: Diverticulitis is often diagnosed in outpatients, yet little evidence exists on diagnostic evidence and demographic/clinical features in various practice settings. We assessed variation in clinical characteristics and diagnostic evidence in inpatients, outpatients, and emergency department cases and effects of demographic and clinical variables on presentation features.Methods: In a retrospective cohort study of 1749 patients in an integrated health care system, we compared presenting features and computed tomography findings by practice setting and assessed independent effects of demographic and clinical factors on presenting features.Results: Inpatients were older and more often underweight/normal weight and lacked a diverticulitis past history and had more comorbidities than other patients. Outpatients were most often Hispanic/Latino. The classical triad (abdominal pain, fever, leukocytosis) occurred in 78 (38.6%) inpatients, 29 (5.2%) outpatients and 34 (10.7%) emergency department cases. Computed tomography was performed on 196 (94.4%) inpatients, 110 (9.2%) outpatients and 296 (87.6%) emergency department cases and was diagnostic in 153 (78.6%) inpatients, 62 (56.4%) outpatients and 243 (82.1%) emergency department cases. Multiple variables affected presenting features. Notably, female sex had lower odds for the presence of the triad features (odds ratio [95% CI], 0.65 [0.45-0.94], P<0.05) and increased odds of vomiting (1.78 [1.26-2.53], P<0.01). Patients in age group 56 to 65 and 66 or older had decreased odds of fever (0.67 [0.46-0.98], P<0.05) and 0.46 [0.26-0.81], P<0.01), respectively, while ≥1 co-morbidity increased the odds of observing the triad (1.88 [1.26-2.81], P<0.01).Conclusion: There was little objective evidence for physician-diagnosed diverticulitis in most outpatients. Demographic and clinical characteristics vary among settings and independently affect presenting features.Abbreviations: AD: acute colonic diverticulitis; BMI: body mass index; CT: computed tomography; ED: emergency department; IBS: irritable bowel syndrome; ICD-9-CM: International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification; IP: inpatient; KPSC: Kaiser Permanente Southern California; OP: outpatient.
Disappearance of an Advanced Adenomatous Colon Polyp aer Intratumoural Injection with Viscum album (European mistletoe) Extract: a Case Report
Authors: Von Schoen-Angerer Tido , Goyert Andreas , Vagedes Jan , Kiene Helmut , Merckens Harald , Kienle Gunver S. 
Published: December 2014

Background & Aim: Extracts of Viscum album (European mistletoe) have immune-stimulatory and cytotoxic effects, with trials showing a well-established effect on the quality of life and prolonged survival in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. Regression of tumours following intratumoural injection with Viscum album extract has been documented in individual cases. However, its influence on colon polyps has not been investigated.Case presentation: We present the case of a 78-year-old Caucasian male who had undergone hemi-colectomy for a stage IIIC colon cancer but who refused adjuvant chemotherapy. Five years later a newly detected highgrade dysplasia colon adenoma was discovered; however, the adenoma could not be resected endoscopically and the patient did not consent to surgery. Intratumoural injections with Viscum album L extract (Quercus; Iscador®Qu) were administered twice in an attempt to limit tumour growth. Eight months after the second intratumoural injection the adenoma had disappeared and biopsy revealed no intraepithelial dysplasia or adenoma.Conclusions: This is the first report showing complete regression of a colon adenoma after intratumoural injection with Viscum album extract. Prospective studies should evaluate if the treatment effect is reproducible and if this approach could be a useful pre-operative measure for colon adenomas too large for endoscopic resection.
Non-invasive Biomarkers in Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitisinduced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Authors: Voiculescu Mihai , Nanau Radu M. , Neuman Manuela G. 
Published: December 2014

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is by far the most common form of chronic liver disease worldwide, affecting adults as well as children. Under the term of NAFLD there is a wide spectrum of diseases ranging from simple steatosis to the non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which can progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Several mechanisms have been described to influence the progression of the disease from the benign NAFL to the aggressive NASH. The imbalance between pro- and anti-oxidant mechanisms and between pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines is thought to play a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of NAFLD and disease progression toward NASH and fibrosis. The present review intends to look at some of the mechanistic biomarkers to be employed in establishing an early diagnosis in HCC derived from NASH.Abbreviations: ANGPT: angiopoietin-2; AFP: α-fetoprotein; ALT: alanine aminotransferase; AST: aspartate aminotransferase; CI: confidence interval; COL: collagen; DCP: des-carboxyprothrombin; γGT: gamma glutamyl transpeptidase; HBV: hepatitis B virus; HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma; HCV: hepatitis C virus; HR: hazard ratio; ITG: integrin; LAM: laminin collagen genes; MMP: matrix metalloproteinase; MS: metabolic syndrome; NAFLD: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; NASH: non-alcoholic steatohepatitis; PDGFRA: platelet derived growth factor receptor-α
Clinical Usefulness of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration for Gastric Subepithelial Lesions Smaller than 2 cm
Authors: Akahoshi Kazuya , Oya Masafumi , Koga Tadashi , Koga Hidenobu , Motomura Yasuaki , Kubokawa Masaru , Gibo Jyuya , Nakamura Kazuhiko 
Published: December 2014

Background & Aims: There is no evidence of postoperative metastasis of gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) smaller than 2 cm. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) for gastric subepithelial lesions (SELs) smaller than 2 cm.Patients and methods: Using a prospectively maintained EUS-FNA database, 90 consecutive EUS-FNAs of gastric hypoechoic solid SELs smaller than 2 cm diagnosed by EUS were evaluated retrospectively. The reference standards for the final diagnosis were surgery (n=44) and/or clinical follow-up (n=46) using esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), CT, and/or ultrasonography (US). Additionally, immunophenotyping of specimens obtained by EUS-FNA and surgical resection specimens were compared.Results: The diagnostic rate of EUS-FNA for gastric hypoechoic solid SELs smaller than 2 cm was 73% (66/90). Histological diagnosis of EUS-FNA showed 47 (52%) malignant SELs (44 GISTs, 1 glomus tumor, 1 SEL like cancer, and 1 malignant lymphoma), 19 (21%) benign SELs (14 leiomyomas, 4 ectopic pancreas, and 1 neurinoma), and 24 (27%) indeterminate SELs. In 44 surgically resected cases, the diagnostic accuracy of EUS-FNA using immunohistochemical analysis was 98% (43/44). There were no complications. Appropriate 5 out of 66 SELs (98%) diagnosed by definitive EUS-FNA. After surgery, there was no recurrence of malignant SELs.Conclusions: EUS-FNA is an accurate and safe method in the pre-therapeutic diagnosis of gastric SELs smaller than 2 cm. EUS-FNA for gastric SELs smaller than 2 cm is a promising way to permit early management of patients with gastric SELs including GIST.Abbreviations: EGD: esophagogastroduodenoscopy; EUS: endoscopic ultrasonography; EUS-FNA:endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration; GIST: gastrointestinal stromal tumor; HPF: high power field; SEL: subepithelial lesion; SMT: submucosal tumor.
Audiovisualización del papel. Usos del código QR para innovar en la industria periodística impresa
Authors: Meneses Fernández María Dolores , Martín Gutiérrez Jorge , Álvarez Martín Esther 
Published: December 2014

El código de respuesta rápida QR es una tecnología reciente en proceso de desarrollo y aplicación continua. Su carácter novedoso excusa el aún insuficiente conocimiento y aprovechamiento por el periodismo impreso, frente a su normalización en publicidad y marketing, dos sectores de la comunicación social en los que calan antes las tecnologías de visualización emergentes. La fase de expansión periodística del QR, en la que se encuentra ahora, comienza a ofrecer ejemplos de uso innovador para la industria editorial, los profesionales del periodismo en papel y los lectores. Esta investigación se justifica por el potencial info-comunicativo que brinda este sistema de visualización a un sector en crisis: el periodismo impreso. Los autores exponen los beneficios derivados de las sinergias entre el papel y lo audiovisual, gracias a las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, más acordes con la misión de garantizar el derecho a la información, frente a los malos augurios que se le presuponen a la prensa. Para ello se basan en el estudio de casos, ejemplificados con cabeceras de referencia internacional, nacional y local. También es objetivo de este artículo contribuir a mitigar la escasa bibliografía académica y profesional sobre la aplicación de las tecnologías de visualización emergentes en el periodismo impreso, en concreto del código QR.