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ASEAN Paradigm Shift from a State to People-Oriented Organization: A Neo-Communitarian Perspective
Authors: SANI MOHD AZIZUDDIN MOHD , HARA ABUBAKAR EBY 
Published: August 2013

AbstractThis paper attempts to examine the paradigm shift in ASEAN from a state-based to a people-based organization. We argue that by adopting a people-based organization, ASEAN now enters an era of Neo-Communitarianism replacing the Old Communitarianism of the old generation of ASEAN. By using communitarian perspectives, we look at the continuities and changes in ASEAN with regard to how it deals with issues involving their members. Three important issues namely the debates on intervention principle; the adoption of the three pillars of the ASEAN Community; and the inclusion of human rights are seen as the signposts where ASEAN departs from their Old to a Neo-Communitarianism. Although there have been a lot of challenges to the realization of the people-based organization, we see that the dynamics of debates and the active participation of the community in the debates show good prospects for the new paradigm to realize. In this paper, we use debate on the formation of ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (ICHR), to show the involvements of people in setting the agendas for the future ASEAN.
Contemporary Arab Uprisings: Different Processes and Outcomes
Authors: NIAKOOEE SEYED AMIR 
Published: August 2013

AbstractThus far, recent protests in the Arab world have led to different political outcomes including regime change, civil war, and suppression by regime. The present paper explores the reasons behind these different outcomes. The research methodology is a comparative case study approach, and five countries of Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, and Syria are examined. The hypothesis is that the different political outcomes of the protests are due to a combination of factors, including the level of mobilization of anti-regime movements, the responses of national militaries, and finally the reaction of international powers. Different configurations of these components in the crisis-stricken countries have led to different political outcomes.
Final decisions: How hospice enrollment prompts meaningful choices about life closure
Authors: Waldrop Deborah P. , Meeker Mary Ann 
Published: August 2013

AbstractObjective:The purpose of this study was to explore and describe decisions that faced newly enrolled hospice patients and their caregivers after hospice enrollment.Method:An exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional design was employed using qualitative methods. In-depth in-person interviews were conducted with current hospice patients (n = 35) and caregivers (n = 45) from 53 families.Results:The decision to enroll in hospice was a critical juncture on the trajectory of a terminal illness that allowed patients and their families an opportunity to consider subsequent tasks that were important for life closure. A typology of five decisions is presented: (1) operationalized advance care planning (ACP): a renewed focus on decisions about care at life's end; (2) surrogate decision-making: caregivers begin making both informal and formal decisions for the dying person; (3) meaning-making: the foreshortened time brings into focus decisions about seeing special people, attending events, and creating memories; (4) Location of death: decisions about whether the person wants to and can remain at home to die; and (5) final acts: decisions about funeral arrangements, wills, and leaving a legacy become central. ACP was found to exist on a continuum that ranged from absent ACP, dormant ACP, simplified ACP to activated ACP. Hospice enrollment became a catalyst for reactivating discussion of end-of-life choices.Significance of results:Hospice enrollment prompts the need to consider subsequent important choices that contribute to meaningful life closure, are central to the completion of a family relationship, and may influence adaptation in bereaved caregivers. It is important for clinicians to recognize that well-timed encouragement to consider and explore the use of hospice services, although it may indeed diminish hope for cure or recovery, simultaneously offers an opportunity to engage with important and time-sensitive developmental tasks.
Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder at the end-of-life: Application of the stepwise psychosocial palliative care model
Authors: Feldman David B. , Sorocco Kristen H. , Bratkovich Kristi L. 
Published: August 2013

AbstractObjectives:Feldman (2011) has proposed a new approach to the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in individuals at the end-of-life known as Stepwise Psychosocial Palliative Care (SPPC). This approach helps to compensate for the disadvantages of existing PTSD interventions with regard to treating patients with life-limiting and terminal illnesses by employing a palliative care philosophy. The model relies on cognitive and behavioral techniques drawn from evidence-based approaches to PTSD, deploying them in a stage-wise manner designed to allow for interventions to track with patents’ needs and prognoses. Because this model is relatively new, we seek to explore issues related to its implementation in the complex settings in which providers encounter patients at the end-of-life. We also seek to provide concrete guidance to providers regarding the management of PTSD at the end-of-life in diverse palliative care settings.Methods:We examine three specific cases in which the SPPC model was utilized, highlighting particular treatment challenges and strategies. These case studies provide information regarding the SPPC model's application to patients in two distinct palliative care settings—a palliative care consult team and an inpatient palliative care unit.Results:The SPPC model's stage-wise approach allows for its flexible use given a variety of constraints related to setting and patient issues.Significance of results:The SPPC model provides an alternative to existing psychosocial treatments for PTSD that may be more appropriate for patients at the end of life.
Cancer distress screening data: Translating knowledge into clinical action for a quality response
Authors: Howell Doris , Hack Thomas F. , Green Esther , Fitch Margaret 
Published: August 2013

AbstractObjectives:The purpose of this paper is to summarize the use of the knowledge to action framework for adapting guidelines for practice and the evidence for effective implementation interventions to promote a quality response to cancer distress screening data.Methods:We summarize progress in screening implementation in Ontario, Canada and the application of a systematic approach for adapting knowledge to practice and use of evidence-based knowledge translation interventions to ensure the uptake of best practices to manage distress.Results:While significant progress has been made in the uptake of distress screening it is less clear if this has resulted in improvements in patient outcomes, i.e., reduced distress. The use of evidence-based knowledge translation strategies tailored to barriers at many levels of care delivery is critical to facilitate the uptake of distress screening data by the primary oncology team.Significance of results:There is a wealth of knowledge about the approaches that can be applied to translate knowledge into practice to improve psychosocial care and promote evidence-based distress management by the primary care oncology team. However, further implementation research is needed to advance knowledge about the most effective strategies in the context of cancer care.
Weber, Marx and Contemporary Thailand
Authors: Hewison Kevin 
Published: August 2013

AbstractThailand's on-going political crisis began with agitation against the Thaksin Shinawatra-led government, saw a military coup and a spate of street-based protest and violence. Drawing on Marx and Weber and using the categories of class, status and party, it is argued that Thailand has reached a political turning point. Subaltern challenges to the hierarchical institutions of military, monarchy and bureaucracy appear to have resulted in political patterns of the past being set on a new trajectory. The social forces that congregate around old ideas associated with status honour – hierarchy, social closure and inequality, ‘Thai-style democracy’ and privilege – are challenged by those championing equality, access, voting and populism. While the balance of forces would suggest that an historical turning point has been achieved, reaction and unexpected outcomes remain possible.
Late to the Party: The Development of Partisanship in Thailand
Authors: Hicken Allen 
Published: August 2013

AbstractThis article investigates the emergence of new partisan identities in Thailand. Using data from Thailand's last several elections I trace the emergence of partisanship over the last 15 years, particularly in the north and northeast. The change in the nature of partisanship has helped turn long-simmering tensions into an increasingly intractable political conflict. This mass partisan alignment has upset the equilibrium of Thai politics, transforming what was once an inefficient but modest-stakes game of political horse-trading into a zero sum game with extremely high stakes.
Islamic Politics in Southeast Asia: A Critical Reassessment
Authors: Hadiz Vedi R. 
Published: August 2013

AbstractThe article argues for the utility of infusing the literature on Islamic politics in Southeast Asia with insights that may be gained from the literature on Islamic politics in North Africa and the Middle East. It suggests that such infusion, particularly of more explicitly historical sociology and political economy concerns, could reinvigorate the study of Islamic politics in Southeast Asia, which has been mostly dominated by cultural politics approaches and a concern for issues of doctrinal interpretation. Though this sort of literature has a rich and established tradition, it has lately succumbed to a more superficial security-oriented approach that has grown in influence since the advent of the War on Terror, in which Southeast Asia supposedly acts as a second front. Ironically, security-oriented analysts draw much of the material for their observations about Islamic ‘moderation’ and ‘radicalism’ from cultural politics analyses of Southeast Asian Islamic politics. Analyses based on historical sociology and political economy may provide alternative ways of understanding the evolution of Islamic politics in Southeast Asia by integrating such matters as post-colonial state development, Cold War era conflicts and the transforming effects of capitalist development on its social bases.
Being Chinese and Being Political in Southeast Asia
Authors: Khoo Boo Teik 
Published: August 2013

AbstractRecent studies of the Chinese in Southeast Asia have tended to deconstruct the hybrid, transnational, diasporic, and de-territorialized attributes of ‘Chinese-ness’, and theorize the politics thereof. In contrast, earlier scholarship on the politics of Southeast Asia's ethnic Chinese raised many questions over the positions, rights, and roles associated with being ‘overseas Chinese’. Hence, many analyses of Chinese politics, from suppressed quietude to militant contestation, tended to ask, ‘Why and how was that politics Chinese?’ This article asks, instead, ‘Why and how were the Chinese political?’ within the larger rubric of Southeast Asian politics. It argues that posing the first question helped officialdom, academia and media to determine who among the ‘overseas Chinese’ were friends or foes. Asking the second question, it is argued, involves a boundary-crossing shift that sees the immigrant Chinese engaged in a full spectrum of Southeast Asian politics under the impacts of colonialism and nationalism, and capitalism and anti-capitalism. After exploring the shift in perspective from ‘being Chinese’ to ‘being political’, the article suggests that politics beyond China-oriented positions, state-bound stances, or preoccupations of ethnic identity, particularly in Malaysia transformed Southeast Asia to the point of ‘creating’ a ‘largely Chinese’ state out of Singapore.
Southeast Asia's New Nationalism: Causes and Significance
Authors: Vu Tuong 
Published: August 2013

AbstractThis paper explains the post-Cold War surge of nationalism in Southeast Asia and discusses its significance for regional peace and cooperation. As argued, the growth of nationalism as a form of mass politics has different causes in each Southeast Asian context where it occurs, but at the regional level the phenomenon can be explained by three factors: the failure of earlier nationalist movements to fully deliver their promises; a shift in the international and regional order (the end of the Cold War and the rise of China); and a change in domestic order (political liberalisation and democratisation) that was also occurring across many countries in the region. While the main mission of the new nationalism is the defence of national territory, the movements have the unintended impact of bringing together national communities once divided by Cold War ideologies. The phenomenon also poses some serious risks to regional peace and cooperation.
In Defence of Southeast Asia: A Case for Methodological Regionalism
Authors: Thompson Eric C. 
Published: August 2013

AbstractOpen nearly any general text on Southeast Asia and you will find that some space is taken up in the introduction assessing the reality and validity of the regional framework on which that text rests. Likewise, with the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), many scholars question whether or not the regional entity amounts to anything of any substance. In this article, I mount a defence of Southeast Asia as a regional framework in scholarship and draw attention to ASEAN as an evolving regional entity. While the concept of Southeast Asia among researchers and the politics of ASEAN are distinct issues, I treat them together in this article to highlight their interrelationship and parallels. My primary objective is to outline the displaced politics – of both academic andrealpolitikvarieties – embedded in deconstructive and dismissive critiques of both Southeast Asia and ASEAN. Critiques of both are not without value, as they sharpen our attention to processes through which supra-national regionalism is produced. Nevertheless, I argue that regionalism remains a valuable method in both politics and scholarship, in no small part as a counterweight to the hegemony of methodological nationalism in contemporary thought and research.
Transient, afferent input-dependent, postnatal niche for neural progenitor cells in the cochlear nucleus
Authors: Volkenstein Stefan , Oshima Kazuo , Sinkkonen Saku T. , Corrales C. Eduardo , Most Sam P. , Chai Renjie , Jan Taha A. , van Amerongen Renée , Cheng Alan G. , Heller Stefan 
Published: August 2013

Significance
The cochlear nucleus is the first central relay station for auditory signals from the cochlea. Like many other central relays for sensory systems, the cochlear nucleus features a period in newborn animals during which neuron survival and the number of synaptic contacts depends on afferent innervation from the periphery. This study extends this concept of postnatal plasticity toward neurogenesis. We identified neural progenitor cells in the cochlear nucleus whose proliferative capacity is controlled by interplay of several signaling pathways. When the cochlea was removed, the proliferating cell population diminished, suggesting that signals from the periphery are required to maintain this plasticity.
Growth hormone is a cellular senescence target in pituitary and nonpituitary cells
Authors: Chesnokova Vera , Zhou Cuiqi , Ben-Shlomo Anat , Zonis Svetlana , Tani Yuji , Ren Song-Guang , Melmed Shlomo 
Published: August 2013

SignificanceGrowth hormone (GH) is secreted to the circulation by anterior pituitary somatotroph cells and is also expressed locally in peripheral tissues. This study identifies GH as a target for p53-induced senescence in both pituitary and nonpituitary cells. We show marked induction of intracellular GH expression and secretion in response to activation of the p53 DNA damage pathway. GH is shown to be a direct transcriptional target for p53, and up-regulated GH protects pituitary tumor cells from apoptosis. The results demonstrate a novel mechanism determining the pathophysiology of GH-secreting pituitary tumors and elucidate a basis for the invariably benign nature of these adenomas. Our findings show that induced GH can serve as a readily measurable marker for p53-induced senescence.
Isothermal amplification method for next-generation sequencing
Authors: Ma Zhaochun , Lee Raymond W. , Li Bin , Kenney Paul , Wang Yufang , Erikson Jonathan , Goyal Swati , Lao Kaiqin 
Published: August 2013

Significance
We have developed a cost-effective in situ isothermal amplification method for next-generation sequencing (NGS) that can generate billions of monoclonal colonies in less than 30 minutes. This method can be used on NGS platforms to make the $1,000 genome possible and simplify the workflow for clinical genomic applications.
Mortality and Growth of Crayfish Internally Tagged with PIT Tags
Authors: Westhoff Jacob T. , Sievert Nicholas A. 
Published: August 2013

Abstract
Advances in PIT technology have resulted in its increased use to answer ecological questions related to small-bodied organisms. Crayfish are increasingly the subject of such study, and information is needed to guide researchers in determining appropriate uses of the technology for various applications. We internally tagged woodland crayfish Orconectes hylas with either 8.5 mm or 12.5 mm PIT tags and evaluated mortality and growth in the laboratory over 55 d. A logistic model showed that the probability of mortality drops below 20% for crayfish tagged with 8.5-mm or 12.5-mm tags when carapace length (CL) was greater than 23 mm and 26 mm, respectively. There was a positive relation between CL and growth, a difference between growth in males and females, and no statistical difference in growth among treatment types (8.5-mm tag, 12.5-mm tag, controls). Internal implantation of PIT tags into appropriately sized crayfish represents a viable tagging option for many crayfish research applications.
Received February 19, 2013; accepted June 11, 2013
Profile of Addicted Patients who Reenter Treatment Programs
Authors: López-Goñi José J. , Fernández-Montalvo Javier , Cacho Raúl , Arteaga Alfonso 
Published: August 2013

Background Clinical experience shows that some patients who suffer from drug addiction are readmitted to treatment programs multiple times because of relapses that occur after they leave these programs. Patients who reenter treatment programs repeatedly may do so because they have problems or difficulties that were not addressed or that were not satisfactorily solved during previous treatment periods. This study explored the differential profile of addicted patients who reenter treatment programs. Methods A sample of 252 addicted patients (203 male and 49 female) who sought outpatient treatment was assessed. Data regarding sociodemographic factors, drug consumption factors (assessed using the EuropASI), psychopathological factors (assessed using the Symptom Checklist-90—Revised [SCL-90-R]), and personality variables (assessed using the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory II [MCMI-II]) were collected. Results A 65.9% ( n = 166) of drug-addicted patients were readmitted into treatment programs. All of the variables for which data were collected were compared between these treatment repeaters and patients who were admitted for the first time. Significant differences between the 2 groups of patients were found for some of the variables that we examined. Treatment repeaters were generally older and had a poorer employment situation than first-time admits. Treatment repeaters were also more likely to report polyconsumption and to have sought treatment for alcohol abuse. Moreover, some of the scores for several EuropASI, SCL-90-R, and MCMI-II variables were statistically significantly different from those of the first-time admits. Conclusions According to these results, patients who reenter treatment programs often present with more severe addiction problems. All of these data suggest that treatment programs should incorporate a detailed analysis regarding the existence and nature of prior treatments into the baseline protocols and they should offer follow-up services to patients who have completed their treatments. The implications of these results for further research and clinical practice are discussed.
Intraesophageal Pressure Recording Improves the Detection of Cough During Multichannel Intraluminal Impedance Testing in Children
Authors: Rosen Rachel , Amirault Janine , Giligan Emily , Khatwa Umakanth , Nurko Samuel 
Published: August 2013

ABSTRACTBackground:One of the primary reasons for referral for reflux testing is to correlate reflux events with symptoms such as cough. Adult studies have suggested that symptom recording is flawed and pediatricians feel this is an even more significant problem because there may be errors in both parental and patient reports. We hypothesize that intraesophageal pressure recording (IEPR) provides an objective method to identify coughs during reflux testing in children.Methods:We recruited 20 children undergoing multichannel intraluminal impedance with pH (pH‐MII) testing for the evaluation of cough. We placed simultaneous intraesophageal pressure and pH‐MII catheters. Tracings were blindly scored by 2 observers without knowledge of patient/parent symptom report. After the blinded scoring, patient/parent report of symptoms was recorded.Results:Ninety‐four percent of all coughs were detected by IEPR and only 48% of all coughs were reported by patients/parents. The mean time from the IEPR cough to the patient/parent cough was 11 ± 16 seconds. Using IEPR as the criterion standard for the detection of cough, the sensitivity of patient report for the detection of cough is 46%. Using varying symptom windows because of the increased precision of IEPR, the number of patients with a positive symptom index could be reduced from 30% to 0%, preventing children from being falsely categorized as having reflux‐related lung disease.Conclusions:Parental and patient symptom recording in children is inadequate for making the diagnosis of reflux‐related lung disease. If patients undergo pH‐MII testing for reflux‐related cough, IEPR should become the new standard by which to correlate reflux with cough.