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Cyclosporin A therapy on idiopathic thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in the relapse setting: two case reports and a review of the literature
Authors: Yilmaz Murvet , Eskazan Ahmet Emre , Unsal Abdulkadir , Taninmis Hakan , Kara Ekrem , Cetiner Mustafa , Ferhanoglu Burhan 
Published: November 2012

BackgroundThrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a life‐threatening disease, characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, fever, neurologic disturbances, and renal failure. Plasma therapy has dramatically improved prognosis of TTP, whereas recurrent acute episodes still occur in approximately 40% of patients. Moreover, patients with acquired ADAMTS13 deficiency, which is a significant factor for relapse, may require additional immunosuppressive treatment to get a durable remission.Study Design and MethodsWe hereby report two patients with a history of relapsed idiopathic TTP, who both received cyclosporin A (CSA) as a prophylactic manner after the remission was achieved. We also discuss the efficacy of CSA in patients with relapsed idiopathic TTP with a review of the published literature.ResultsUnder CSA therapy, both patients maintained their clinical remission state, and the ADAMTS13 levels were normalized.ConclusionTo conclude, CSA therapy may be useful for the prevention of relapsed idiopathic TTP in patients with a history of frequent relapses.
Another Angle on Pollution Experience: Toward an Anthropology of the Emotional Ecology of Risk Mitigation
Authors: Little Peter C. 
Published: November 2012

AbstractEnvironmental contamination is socially experienced as environmental suffering, bodily distress, frustration, and even pain. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of a contaminated community in New York, I engage the complex and variegated ways in which angst, frustration, and uncertainty linger even after state and corporate scientific schemes to mitigate environmental disaster and contamination are initiated. Inspired by emerging discussions of “emotional geography,” I explore how in a sociospatial context where residents live in homes mitigated for intrusive toxic substances, frustration, and uncertainty—both frequent problems experienced by residents living in environments threatened by hazardous substances—continue to inform the pollution experience. Moreover, I address how ethnographic narrative exposes what I call the “emotional ecology of risk mitigation.”
Grown folks radio: U.S. election politics and a “hidden” black counterpublic
Authors: LEONARDO MICAELA DI 
Published: November 2012

ABSTRACTPresident Obama's 2008 electoral triumph garnered enormous journalistic and scholarly attention, but analysts have shown very little interest in African American media coverage of the campaign. In this piece, I focus on one major, nearly ignored, black media outlet: a syndicated radio show with a huge audience, commercial success, and progressive politics. I analyze the show's construction of a powerful mediatized black counterpublic, consider its rise parallel to the neoliberal deregulation of U.S. media, and narrate its coverage of the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. I also consider the political effects of a new cross‐media platform synergy among black and progressive outlets.
Producing affect: Transnational volunteerism in a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center
Authors: PARREÑAS RHEANA “JUNO” SALAZAR 
Published: November 2012

ABSTRACTIn a postcolonial economy of volunteer tourism from the Global North to the Global South, mostly British women pay thousands of U.S. dollars to travel to Sarawak, on Malaysian Borneo, to work in a wildlife rehabilitation center. There, in a program operated as a public–private partnership, they provide hard labor to maintain and improve the facility and assist subcontracted indigenous Iban men in caring for displaced orangutans. Through the concept of “custodial labor,” I argue that affect produced at the interface of bodies in the work of orangutan rehabilitation also produces an unequal distribution of risk and vulnerability among those involved, across differences of species, classes, nationalities, and genders. My findings contribute to understandings of how humanity is constituted through multispecies encounters, help demonstrate how animals can be treated as subjects in ethnography, and show how affective encounters produce human and nonhuman subjectivities.
Commentary: The corporation, oil, and the financialization of risk
Authors: SAWYER SUZANA 
Published: November 2012

ABSTRACTHannah Appel's notion of “modularity” in her analysis of contemporary transnational oil operations exquisitely captures the work required to create the illusion that petroleum production is removed from and uncompromised by local entanglements. Her study belies the notion (peddled by the industry) that the extraction of crude oil is a technoscientific wonder detached from disruptive inequalities and tumultuous political conditions that too frequently haunt places where oil development occurs. In this commentary, I sketch two directions for further research inspired by Appel's work that could extend the disentangling calculus of corporate profit, liability, and risk. One centers on the corporate form and the other on the financialization of risk.
“This is our little hajj”: Muslim holy sites and reappropriation of the sacred landscape in contemporary Bosnia
Authors: HENIG DAVID 
Published: November 2012

ABSTRACTBosnian Muslims’ understandings of Islam and relationships with the sacred landscape have undergone significant transformations since the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia. I explore these transformations as I analyze discourses and debates on what constitutes “correct” Islamic tradition in Bosnia today, when Muslim practice has been exposed to a global Islamic orthodoxy and entangled in new supraregional hierarchies of power, values, and moral imagination. I specifically focus on how intracommunal Muslim politics intertwines with contemporary Bosnian Muslim shrine pilgrimages.
Naming chaos: Accident, precariousness, and the spirits of wildness in urban Thai spirit cults
Authors: JOHNSON ANDREW ALAN 
Published: November 2012

ABSTRACTConceptions of wildness (theuan) and accident pervade the Thai informal economy and infuse certain forms of popular religious practice. I look at the propitiation of wilderness spirits in urban Bangkok at shrines that migrant and marginal workers see as sites of hope and danger. I argue that, by naming the potential for accident and death as a spirit with which they can communicate, informal‐economy workers attempt to change the potential for misfortune into its opposite. My study draws on recent work on neoliberal and precarious labor in Europe as well as connections between the occult and the economy.
“Good individualism”? Psychology, ethics, and neoliberalism in postsocialist Russia
Authors: MATZA TOMAS 
Published: November 2012

ABSTRACTPsychologists working in Russia's cities have found it both desirable and profitable to offer “psychological education” to the children of the elite. I examine two characterizations of this work—as a form of neoliberal subjectivation and as a post‐Soviet project focused on progressive sociopolitical reform. Exploring the tensions between them illuminates the historical specificity of self‐work in Russia, its relation to commerce and biopolitics, and its political ambiguity. I conclude that studies of governmentality that attend to both subjectivation as an ethical practice and social history can effectively render capitalist complicity and ordinary ethics in the same frame.
What Explains Divorced Women's Poorer Health? The Mediating Role of Health Insurance and Access to Health Care in a Rural Iowan Sample
Authors: Lavelle Bridget , Lorenz Frederick O. , Wickrama K. A. S. 
Published: November 2012

AbstractEconomic restructuring in rural areas in recent decades has been accompanied by rising marital instability. To examine the implications of the increase in divorce for the health of rural women, we examine how marital status predicts adequacy of health insurance coverage and health care access, and whether these factors help to account for the documented association between divorce and later illness. Analyzing longitudinal data from a cohort of over 400 married and recently divorced rural Iowan women, we decompose the total effect of divorce on physical illness a decade later using structural equation modeling. Divorced women are less likely to report adequate health insurance in the years following divorce, inhibiting their access to medical care and threatening their physical health. Full‐time employment acts as a buffer against insurance loss for divorced women. The growth of marital instability in rural areas has had significant ramifications for women's health; the decline of adequate health insurance coverage following divorce explains a component of the association between divorced status and poorer long‐term health outcomes.
Association of swine vertnin (VRTN) gene with production traits in Duroc pigs improved using a closed nucleus breeding system
Authors: Hirose Kensuke , Mikawa Satoshi , Okumura Naohiko , Noguchi Go , Fukawa Kazuo , Kanaya Naoe , Mikawa Ayumi , Arakawa Aisaku , Ito Tetsuya , Hayashi Yoichi , Tachibana Fumio , Awata Takashi 
Published: November 2012

AbstractVertnin (VRTN) is involved in the variation of vertebral number in pigs and it is located on Sus scrofa chromosome 7. Vertebral number is related to body size in pigs, and many reports have suggested presence of an association between body length (BL) and meat production traits. Therefore, we analyzed the relationship between the VRTN genotype and the production and body composition traits in purebred Duroc pigs. Intramuscular fat content (IMF) in the Longissimus muscle was significantly associated with the VRTN genotype. The mean IMF of individuals with the wild‐type genotype (Wt/Wt) (5.22%) was greater than that of individuals with the Wt/Q (4.99%) and Q/Q genotypes (4.79%). In addition, a best linear unbiased predictor of multiple traits animal model showed that the Wt allele had a positive effect on the IMF breeding value. No associations were observed between the VRTN genotype and other production traits. The VRTN genotype was related to BL. The Q/Q genotype individuals (100.0 cm) were longer than individuals with the Wt/Q (99.5 cm) and Wt/Wt genotypes (98.9 cm). These results suggest that in addition to the maintenance of an appropriate backfat thickness value, VRTN has the potential to act as a genetic marker of IMF.
The Loss of Oil: Constituting Disaster in Amazonian Ecuador
Authors: Cepek Michael 
Published: November 2012

ResumenExisten pocos objetos que provocan tanta discusión de finales radicales que el petróleo, la materia prima industrial más importante del mundo. En este artículo, examino la pérdida asociada con el petróleo a través de una exploración de la medida en la que su extracción llega a ser “desastrosa” para las vidas y las tierras de los pueblos que habitan las regiones productoras de petróleo. En Ecuador, país miembro de la OPEP, el símbolo más visible del poder destructivo del petróleo es el pueblo cofán. Varios artículos, documentales, sitios web y juicios representan al territorio cofán como una tierra ecológica y socioculturalmente devastada. Para contrarrestar el espíritu derrotista y el cierre analítico de las narrativas de la asolación, propongo un marco conceptual alternativo que reconozca la presencia indeterminada del petróleo en el discurso y la práctica del pueblo cofán. Mucho más que una historia sencilla de pérdida, una fenomenología cofán del petróleo combina la realidad de la destrucción con una serie de elipsis, contradicciones y oportunidades que permiten que los cofanes nieguen su destrucción mientras que también la prevengan. [ecología/medio ambiente, desarrollo, pueblos indígenas, política, antropología social]
Parental Migration in Colombia: Children's Voices in National and International Perspectives
Authors: Duque‐Páramo María Claudia 
Published: November 2012

ResumenAsumiendo que los niños son al mismo tiempo actores y sujetos de fuerzas sociales, y que los niños en circunstancias migratorias son agentes que, aunque comparten algunas realidades con otros miembros de sus familias, viven sus propias experiencias, este artículo se centra en la discusión sobre las experiencias relacionadas con la migración parental de un grupo de niños en Bogotá y en dos municipios del Departamento de Risaralda. Se abordan tres temas relevantes en las discusiones nacionales e internacionales sobre migración parental: sus razones e impactos, los significados de la separación familiar y de la migración de la madre y las diversas representaciones sobre los niños. El artículo concluye con algunas recomendaciones para hacedores de políticas públicas, medios de comunicación, instituciones educativas, padres de familia y niños que viven situaciones de migración parental.
Commodifying Intimacy: Women, Work, and Care in Peruvian Migration
Authors: Paerregaard Karsten 
Published: November 2012

ResumenEste artículo explora la migración femenina desde el Perú a los EE.UU., Europa y otros países sudamericanos. Examina tres casos de estudio en España, Argentina y Chile, y analiza etnográficamente cómo mujeres migrantes se ganan la vida como trabajadoras domésticas y cuidadoras de ancianos, y cómo negocian las relaciones de trabajo con sus empleadores. En particular, el artículo investiga los lazos emocionales que las migrantes crean con las personas que cuidan, y cómo las políticas de migración y mercado laboral en los países receptores forman estos lazos. El texto sugiere que mientras los empleadores reclaman el derecho de controlar la fuerza “motivadora” de las mujeres, ellas solo reconocen el derecho de estos sobre su trabajo físico. Concluye que la causa de los conflictos entre las mujeres y sus empleadores es una tensión inmanente entre las fuerzas “motivadoras” y las fuerzas “no‐motivadoras” de la industria global para el cuidado de ancianos.
Stop Loss: Developing Interethnic Relations in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park
Authors: Ball Christopher 
Published: November 2012

ResumoEste artigo aborda a facilitação de percepções da perda por diferenças entre ideologias de cambio na política cultural na Amazônia indígena. Etnografia de relações entre o povo Wauja do Parque Indígena do Xingu e não‐índios mostra que pessoas indígenas tentam enfocar‐se nos aspectos abertos de relações de troca, enquanto agentes de desenvolvimento não‐índios tentam enfocar‐se em resultados finais. Pessoas de ambos lados percebem problemas em interação como índices de perda. Para os Wauja, cerramento em relações de cambio é um sinal da perda da possibilidade de relações sociais futuros. Para não‐índios resistência em negociações é um sinal de perda cultural. Isso contribua á reprodução dos discursos de perda que estão na base do instituição do parque e do desenvolvimento na Amazônia em geral. Desenvolvimento representa até elementos de continuidade indígena em termos de perda. Os Wauja respondem em parte com a indigenização das ideologias de cambio externais.
Dried blood spots for the enzymatic diagnosis of lysosomal storage diseases in dogs and cats
Authors: Sewell Adrian C. , Haskins Mark E. , Giger Urs 
Published: November 2012

BackgroundIn people, lysosomal storage diseases (LSD) can be diagnosed by assaying enzyme activities in dried blood spots (DBS).ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using DBS samples from dogs and cats to measure lysosomal enzymatic activities and diagnose LSD.MethodsDrops of fresh whole blood collected in EDTA from dogs and cats with known or suspected LSD and from clinically healthy dogs and cats were placed on neonatal screening cards, dried, and mailed to the Metabolic Laboratory, University Children's Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany. Activities of selected lysosomal enzymes were measured using fluorescent substrates in a 2‐mm diameter disk (~2.6 μL blood) punched from the DBS. Results were expressed as nmol substrate hydrolyzed per mL of blood per minute or hour.ResultsReference values were established for several lysosomal enzyme activities in DBS from dogs and cats; for most enzymes, activities were higher than those published for human samples. Activities of β‐glucuronidase, N‐acetylglucosamine‐4‐sulfatase (arylsulfatase B), α‐mannosidase, α‐galactosidase, α‐fucosidase, and hexosaminidase A were measureable in DBS from healthy cats and dogs; α‐iduronidase activity was measureable only in cats. In samples from animals with LSD, markedly reduced activity of a specific enzyme was found. In contrast, in samples from cats affected with mucolipidosis II, activities of lysosomal enzymes were markedly increased.ConclusionsMeasurement of lysosomal enzyme activities in DBS provides an inexpensive, simple, and convenient method to screen animals for suspected LSD and requires only a small sample volume. For diseases in which the relevant enzyme activity can be measured in DBS, a specific diagnosis can be made.
Copper toxicosis in a Boer goat
Authors: Cregar Laura C. , Wiedmeyer Charles E. , Ringen Davin R. , Evans Tim J. , Johnson Gayle C. , Kuroki Keiichi 
Published: November 2012

AbstractA 1‐year‐old female Boer goat was presented with a 1‐day history of pigmenturia, anorexia, and shivering. Anemia was not present initially, but progressive hemolytic anemia developed subsequently and was characterized by the finding of Heinz bodies in both intact RBCs and in ghost cells and the presence of atypical fusiform RBCs. Plasma biochemical analysis revealed increased activities of aspartate aminotransferase and gamma‐glutamyltransferase, hyperbilirubinemia, and azotemia. Histopathologic examination of a liver biopsy revealed necrosis of individual hepatocytes and intracytoplasmic rhodamine‐positive granules, consistent with copper. Copper concentration in ante‐mortem hepatic tissue was increased, and a diagnosis of copper toxicosis was made. Despite supportive therapy, the goat continued to decline and was euthanized. Necropsy findings included hepatic necrosis and hemoglobinuric nephrosis. Freshly collected specimens of liver and kidney had markedly increased copper concentrations. The mineral composition of the water, grass hay, and goat chow was evaluated, and toxins and significant mineral imbalances were not found. The underlying cause of the hepatic accumulation and subsequent release of copper remains unclear in this goat. Recently, Boer goats have been recognized as being prone to copper toxicosis and may be more susceptible than other breeds; similar to sheep, Boer goats may experience a hemolytic crisis secondary to copper toxicosis.
Direct Coagulation Casting of Alumina Suspension via Controlled Release of High Valence Counterions from Thermo‐sensitive Liposomes
Authors: Yang Jinlong , Xu Jie , Wen Ning , Qu Yanan , Qi Fei , Xi Xiaoqing 
Published: November 2012

Thermo‐sensitive liposomes were prepared using reverse phase evaporation method using natural lipid egg phosphatidylcholine (EPC) and cholesterol (CH). Inorganic salts containing high valence counterions (HVCI) are encapsulated by the liposomes. The phase transition temperature of the liposome is at 38°C with 50 wt% addition of cholesterol. The encapsulation rate of liposomes reaches 85% for high valence anion (SO42−) and 55% for high valence cation (Ca2+). The liposomes are introduced into ceramic colloidal forming and dispersed in the suspension for identical charge with alumina particles at room temperature. The release of HCVI from the liposomes can coagulate the alumina suspension after heating at 38°C for 3 h, but the de‐moldable time is ~ 6–7 h. Dense ceramic products with relative density of above 98% and uniform microstructure can be prepared by this method without burnout process.
Biogeography of the Mesoamerican Cichlidae (Teleostei: Heroini): colonization through the GAARlandia land bridge and early diversification
Authors: Říčan Oldřich , Piálek Lubomír , Zardoya Rafael , Doadrio Ignacio , Zrzavý Jan 
Published: November 2012

AbstractAimWe present a molecular phylogenetic and biogeographical analysis of the Mesoamerican cichlid fishes (Cichlidae: Cichlasomatinae: Heroini), a dominant part of the freshwater biodiversity of the region. Based on these analyses we investigate the spatial and temporal origins and diversification of the group.LocationMesoamerica.MethodsModel‐based phylogenetic methods (MrBayes) using seven molecular markers with a virtually complete species‐level taxon sampling, together with the Bayesian approach to statistical dispersal–vicariance analysis (S‐DIVA), and fossil‐ and palaeogeography‐calibrated beast molecular clock analyses were used to assess the timing of dispersal, vicariance and diversification events.ResultsWe present a robust multigene phylogeny resolved from the deepest nodes to the species level. Two colonizations of Middle America and one of the Greater Antilles occurred from South America within a narrow time window during the Oligocene epoch. Cichlid colonization of Central America proceeded from the north in the Early–Middle Miocene. Central America later became repeatedly fragmented during the latter half of the Miocene, which led to the formation of the present ichthyological provinces prior to the final closure of the Panama Isthmus.Main conclusionsThe heroine cichlid fishes colonized the Greater Antilles and Middle America simultaneously through the GAARlandia land bridge during the Oligocene. Central America (including eastern Panama) was colonized from northern Middle America in the Early–Middle Miocene. Thus our results do not support a direct colonization of Middle America from South America, or a Cretaceous–Palaeocene colonization through the proto‐Antilles, or a colonization of the Greater Antilles from Middle America as suggested by previous studies.
Prenatal family adversity and maternal mental health and vulnerability to peer victimisation at school
Authors: Lereya Suzet Tanya , Wolke Dieter 
Published: November 2012

Background:  Prenatal stress has been shown to predict persistent behavioural abnormalities in offspring. Unknown is whether prenatal stress makes children more vulnerable to peer victimisation.Methods:  The current study is based on the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a prospective community‐based study. Family adversity, maternal anxiety and depression were assessed at repeated intervals in pregnancy and the postnatal period. Parenting, partner conflict and temperament were measured at preschool age. Peer victimisation was assessed using multiple informants (child, parent, teacher) at primary school age (between ages 7 and 10).Results:  Prenatal severe family adversity and maternal mental health directly increased the risk of victimisation at school even when controlled for postnatal family adversity and maternal mental health, parenting, partner conflict and temperament. Effects were found to be independent of sources of information of peer victimisation. Partner conflict and maladaptive parenting also independently increased the risk of peer victimisation.Conclusions:  Experiences in pregnancy may affect the developing foetus and increase vulnerability to be victimised by peers. Conflict between parents and their parenting further increase the risk of being victimised by peers at school.