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'Indigenising' or 'interculturalising' universities in Mexico?: Towards an ethnography of diversity discourses and practices inside the Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural
Authors: Dietz Gunther , Cortés Laura Mateos 
Published: June 2011

Multicultural discourse has reached Latin American higher education in the form of a set of policies targeting indigenous peoples. These policies are strongly influenced by the transfer of European notions of 'interculturality', which, in the Mexican context, are understood as positive interactions between members of minority and majority cultures. In Mexico, innovative and often polemical 'intercultural universities or colleges' are being created by governments, by NGOs or by pre-existing universities. This trend towards 'diversifying' the ethnocultural profiles of students and curricular contents coincides with a broader tendency to force institutions of higher education to become more 'efficient', 'corporate' and 'outcome-oriented'. Accordingly, these still very recently established 'intercultural universities' are often criticised as being part of a common policy of 'privatisation' and 'neoliberalisation' and of developing curricula particular to specific groups which weakens the universalist and comprehensive nature of Latin American public universities. Indigenous leaders, on the contrary, frequently claim and celebrate the appearance of these new higher education opportunities as part of a strategy of empowering actors of indigenous origin or African descent.Going beyond this polemic, this paper presents the first findings of an activist anthropological and ethnographically-based case study of the actors participating in the configuration of one of these new institutions of higher education, the Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural (UVI), located on the Mexican gulf coast. This article examines the way UVI has appropriated the discourse of interculturality on the basis of fieldwork conducted in the four indigenous regions where the UVI offers a B.A. in Intercultural Management for Development. The study focuses on the actors' teaching and learning practices, which are strongly shaped by an innovative and hybrid mixture of conventional university teaching, community-oriented research and 'employability'-driven development projects.
Book Reviews
Authors: Hargreaves-Heap Shaun , Hudak Stefan , Huisman Jeroen 
Published: June 2011

Walter W. McMahon (2009) Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher EducationReview by Shaun Hargreaves-HeapAlberto Amaral, Guy Neave, Christine Musselin and Peter Maassen (eds) (2009) European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and ResearchReview by Stefan HudakJill Blackmore, Marie Brennan and Lew Zipin (eds) (2010) Re-positioning University Governance and Academic Work Review by Jeroen Huisman
Traitement psychothérapique d'une adolescente en colère
Authors: Smadja Ruben , Moro Marie Rose 
Published: June 2011

Résumé À travers le récit du suivi psychothérapique de Sandrine, une jeune adolescente à l’histoire marquée par de nombreuses ruptures, les cliniques de la colère, des troubles du comportement, de la boulimie sont examinés sous l’angle de la capacité progressive de mentalisation. Penser son histoire, supporter la relation transférentielle à son thérapeute, deux axes pour envisager les allers-retours vers la position dépressive de la théorie kleinienne. La position dépressive est mise en relation avec la notion de mal-être, compris par l’auteur comme un « en deçà » psychique de la dépression, un « hors psychique ».
Manifestation conversive pour clore l'âge de latence
Authors: de Becker Emmanuel 
Published: June 2011

Résumé L’intérêt des professionnels de la santé mentale pour les manifestations hystériques n’a jamais faibli, que ce soit pour lui donner un statut à part entière, pour la réduire à une attitude de simulation ou tenter d’en comprendre les mécanismes étiopathogéniques. L’article développe une situation clinique d’une jeune à l’aube de l’adolescence, présentant une amnésie qualifiée de psychogène. Devant un tel tableau, la prudence s’impose ; en effet, les symptômes faisant évoquer des troubles de nature hystérique chez l’enfant nécessitent une évaluation avec diagnostic différentiel incluant les volets physique et psychique, ce qui justifie pleinement une approche pédiatrique et pédopsychiatrique conjointe. L’auteur, après avoir repris quelques considérations psychopathologiques sur le concept d’hystérie, propose de discuter des significations possibles de la manifestation conversive. Parmi les hypothèses, on peut retenir celle qui consiste à comprendre l’apparition du trouble comme modalité pour clore l’âge de latence.
Posteromedial Anatomical Plate for the Treatment of Distal Tibial Fractures with Anterior Soft Tissue Injury
Authors: Hong Jiayuan , Zeng Rongming , Lin Dasheng , Guo Linxin , Kang Liangqi , Ding Zhenqi , Xiao Jianhua 
Published: June 2011

The treatment of distal tibial fractures with anterior soft tissue injury is relatively difficult. The aim of this study was to explore the efficacy and safety of the posteromedial anatomical plate for such fractures. Between February 2006 and January 2009, twenty-six cases of distal tibial fracture with anterior soft tissue injury were treated with posteromedial anatomical plates designed by our traumatic orthopedic center. Of the 26 cases, 12 were open fractures (4 Gustilo-Anderson type I, 5 type II, 2 type IIIA, and 1 type IIIB), and 14 were closed fractures (3 Tscherne-Oestern type I, 9 type II, 2 type III). Operation time, intraoperative blood loss, fracture healing time, American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) ankle score, and complications were recorded to evaluate treatment effects.
Mean operation time was 72.5±15.8 minutes (range, 45–105 minutes) with a mean intraoperative blood loss volume of 86.4±17.3 mL (range, 50–150 mL). All 26 patients had good postoperative fracture healing. Mean union time was 19.2±4.4 weeks (range, 13–30 weeks). Average AOFAS ankle score was 87.3±9.2 (range, 68–99). No malunion, nonunion, limb-shortening deformity, or neurovascular injury occurred. Our results suggest that the posteromedial anatomical plate for the treatment of distal tibial fractures with anterior soft tissue injury is effective and results in no severe complications.
Arthroscopic Management of Stiff Elbow
Authors: Singh Harpreet , Nam Ki Young , Moon Young Lae 
Published: June 2011

Elbow stiffness is a common problem encountered by orthopedic surgeons. Various management options have been described in the literature, including conservative measures and open and arthroscopic surgery. Arthroscopic management of stiff elbow remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the functional results of arthroscopic management of stiff elbow.
Thirty patients with stiff elbow underwent arthroscopic release surgery and were followed up for an average of 27.3 months. Surgery included anterior and posterior capsular release, coronoid process debridement, bony spur excision, and loose body removal. Postoperative outcome was assessed using the Mayo Elbow Performance Score and range of motion at the elbow. Mayo Elbow Performance Score increased from a mean 64.5 preoperatively to a mean 83.17 postoperatively. Range of motion also improved, from a mean preoperative extension and flexion of 22.83° and 96.83°, respectively, vs a mean 10.83° and 120.84°, respectively, at final follow-up. No intra- or postoperative complication was seen in any case. Underlying etiology and timing of surgery influenced the end result, with better results seen in patients with traumatic etiology and those with a shorter duration of symptoms.
Arthroscopic release allows good visualization and rectification of intra-articular pathology and is a safe and effective tool for the management of stiff elbow.
LASIK Flap Thickness Profile and Reproducibility of the Standard vs Zero Compression Hansatome Microkeratomes: Three-Dimensional Display with Artemis VHF Digital Ultrasound
Authors: Reinstein Dan Z. , Archer Timothy J. , Gobbe Marine 
Published: June 2011

Purpose:
To measure the mean flap thickness profile and calculate accuracy and reproducibility for standard and zero compression Hansatome microkeratomes (Bausch & Lomb).

Methods:
Retrospective study of 99 myopic eyes (51 patients) after LASIK using the standard or zero compression Hansatome microkeratomes (160-μm head). Reinstein Flap Thickness was calculated as preoperative epithelial thickness plus postoperative stromal component of the flap as measured by Artemis VHF digital ultrasound (ArcScan Inc). Mean and standard deviation flap thickness were calculated and plotted for a 10-mm diameter. Accuracy was calculated as the difference between the mean and intended flap thickness. Reproducibility was evaluated as the flap thickness standard deviation between eyes. Multivariate regression was performed for flap thickness against surgery order, atmospheric/vacuum pressure difference, spherical equivalent refraction, pachymetry, and keratometry.

Results:

For both Hansatome models, the mean flap thickness profile showed a thinnest region inferotemporally and thicker in the periphery of the inferotemporal edge and nasally. Mean central flap thickness was 140.3±17.5 μm (accuracy: −19.7 μm) and 119.0±12.7 μm (accuracy: −41.0 μm) for standard and zero compression Hansatomes, respectively. Eyes treated second were thinner (15.4 μm and 12.6 μm thinner for standard and zero compression Hansatomes, respectively). Multivariate regression improved the reproducibility to 14.8 μm (
P
<.05; surgery order, pachymetry) and 9.4 μm (
P
<.05; surgery order, atmospheric/vacuum pressure difference) for standard and zero compression Hansatomes, respectively.

Conclusions:
The flap thickness profiles were similar for standard and zero compression Hansatomes characterized by a thinnest region inferotemporally, rather than a meniscus shape as has been suggested previously. The zero compression Hansatome created thinner, more reproducible flaps. Surgery order and atmospheric/vacuum pressure difference might be used to obtain thinner flaps using a Hansatome.
The New North African Syndrome: A Fanonian Commemoration
Authors: Gibson Nigel C. 
Published: June 2011

What better way to celebrate, commemorate, critically reflect on, and think through Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth fifty years after its publication with a new North African syndrome: Revolution—or at least a series of revolts that continue to rock regimes across North Africa and the region. Fanon begins The Wretched writing of decolonization as a program of complete disorder, an overturning of order—often against the odds—willed from the bottom up. Without time or space for a transition, there is instead an absolute replacement of one “species” of humanity by another. In periods of revolution, like the one we are experiencing today, such absolutes appear quite normal. Indeed, radical change becomes the “new normal” and the idea that revolutionary change is impossible is simply the rantings and ravings of the conservatives and reactionaries of the ancient regime. Too long buried under the weight of the tomes of academic discourse, Fanon has been resuscitated by the new dawn of North African revolutions. To celebrate Fanon, the revolutionary, all of a sudden seems contemporary and pertinent, while the musings of the critics who consigned him to postcolonial oblivion seem out of touch. But rather than continuing the painstaking work of exhuming Fanon from the postcolonial burial site, let us turn a commemoration of Fanon into an event. Indeed, why assume that a commemoration of Fanon after fifty years is not critical? Moreover why begin a contemporary engagement with Fanon assuming a priori the limits of his thought? Indeed, where to begin is a philosophic question. It is a question of “intention” as Edward Said puts it in one of his most radical and Vicoian works. Beginnings are revolutionary, implying return and repetition and, following Said, “a sort of historical dialectic that changes its character and meaning.” Vico, Said argues “said that the word human comes from root to bury” suggesting that “his humanistic philosophy” contained “elements of its own negation.”
Timogel® vs Timolol 0.5% Ophthalmic Solution: Efficacy, Safety, and Acceptance
Authors: Rolle Teresa , Curto Daniela , Alovisi Camilla , Franzone Mauro , Brogliatti Beatrice , Grignolo Federico M. 
Published: June 2011

Purpose To evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of Timogel® preservative-free once daily compared to timolol 0.5% ophthalmic solution bid in patients with ocular hypertension (OHT) and patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG). Methods A total of 75 patients with OHT and patients with POAG treated with timolol 0.5% bid with intraocular pressure (IOP) ≤21 mmHg were enrolled. They underwent complete ophthalmologic examination, IOP measurements (at trough and daytime curve), evaluation of side effects, Schirmer test, break-up time [BUT], blood pressure, heart rate, ocular diastolic perfusion pressure measurements, and acceptance (Comparison of Ophthalmic Medications for Tolerability). Patients switched to Timogel® and were re-evaluated 3 months later. The analysis of variance and the Pearson χ2 tests were used to test differences between the treatments. Results Intraocular pressure reduction at trough was 23.6% with timolol 0.5% and 22.3% with Timogel®. No statistical differences were observed in IOP values at trough and in the daytime curve between the 2 treatments. Local and systemic side effects were less frequent with Timogel® (hazard ratio: p<0.05). Patients demonstrated a significant improvement of Schirmer test and BUT (p<0.05) and a reduction of dryness and foreign body sensation (42.6% vs 15.4%; p<0.01) after switching to Timogel®. Mild and short-lasting blurred vision after Timogel® instillation occurred in about 18.5% of patients. A total of 82% of patients were satisfied or very satisfied with Timogel® vs 61% with previous treatment (p<0.01). Conclusions Timogel® preservative-free dosed once every morning has a 24-hour hypotensive effect with a better safety profile than timolol 0.5% bid and it is well-accepted by patients. The once-daily dosing improved acceptance and compliance.
Hammering Force during Cementless Total Hip Arthroplasty and Risk of Microfracture
Authors: Sakai Rina , Takahashi Akiko , Takahira Naonobu , Uchiyama Katsufumi , Yamamoto Takeaki , Uchida Kentaro , Fukushima Kensuke , Moriya Mistutoshi , Takaso Masashi , Itoman Moritoshi , Mabuchi Kiyoshi 
Published: June 2011

During cementless stem fixation, impaction of the stem is occasionally complicated by bony injuries. Small fractures not visible to the eye during surgery or on post-operative radiographs may remain undetected, and the incidence of such injuries may be underestimated. Employing the same techniques as those employed during total hip arthroplasty, we implanted cementless stems into artificial femora, with equivalent mechanical characteristics to living femora. The hammering force applied to the femur and the displacement of the stem and femur were measured using a load sensor and imaging, respectively. The von Mises stress generated in the femur during cementless stem press-fixation was also measured using finite element analysis. Average hammering force under these conditions (9.25 kN) was sufficient to cause damage to the artificial femur. The first two of eight hammer strikes caused most displacement of the stem. The von Mises stresses generated by the first and second hammer strikes were 31 and 68 MPa, respectively. Applying a high average hammering force to the stem after displacement has ceased probably contributes to the generation of intraoperative fractures during cementless stem fixation. Given that two strikes appeared to be sufficient, we believe that hammering force should be reduced to a micro-adjustment level after the second hit.
A Breakthrough Technique for the Removal of a Hemodialysis Catheter Stuck in the Central Vein: Endoluminal Balloon Dilatation of the Stuck Catheter
Authors: Hong Joon Ho 
Published: June 2011

Background Hemodialysis (HD) catheters can get stuck in the central vein after long-term use and their removal might become difficult especially in patients with fibrosed or occluded central veins. Herein, a breakthrough technique is reported for the easy removal of a stuck HD catheter from the central vein. Case Report Attempts were made to remove a tunneled double-lumen HD catheter from the central vein of a 74-year-old woman, only to find that the catheter was stuck. The patient was transferred to the operating room and a skin incision was made in the neck and the subcutaneous portion of the HD catheter was retrieved from the tunnel. Under fluoroscopy, a guide wire was inserted into one lumen of the HD catheter and advanced into the right atrium beyond the catheter tip. A 5 mm × 4 cm balloon angioplasty catheter was then inserted into the HD catheter lumen over the guide wire and advanced into the jugular vein junction of the HD catheter around the thoracic inlet. The balloon was inflated to its maximum dimension and pressure. This endoluminal dilatation of the HD catheter was continued by deflating the balloon and then pushing the angioplasty catheter 4 cm at a time towards the tip of the HD catheter in the right atrium. After a second balloon angioplasty catheter of 6 mm × 4 cm was used to expand the entire segment of the other lumen, the HD catheter was pulled out easily from the central vein without any resistance. Comments The endoluminal balloon dilatation of the HD catheter not only separates the stuck HD catheter from the adherent vein by breaking the adhesions between them, but also expands the vein simultaneously, thus enabling easy removal of the HD catheter.
Nuevas especies de <i>Dalbergia</i> (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Dalbergieae) en México y Centroamérica
Authors: Linares José , Sousa S. Mario 
Published: June 2011

Se describen e ilustran siete especies nuevas de Dalbergia para México y Centroamérica. Asimismo, se discuten sus afinidades taxonómicas con otras especies.Palabras clave: Centroamérica, Dalbergia, especies nuevas, Leguminosae, México. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/ceiba.v48i1-2.439 Ceiba, 2007. Volumen 48(1-2):61-82
Fault diagnosis for a class of descriptor linear parameter‐varying systems
Authors: Astorga‐Zaragoza C. M. , Theilliol D. , Ponsart J. C. , Rodrigues M. 
Published: June 2011

SUMMARYIn this paper, a model‐based fault estimation method for a particular class of discrete‐time descriptor linear parameter‐varying systems is developed. The main contribution of this work consists in the design of an observer that performs simultaneously both, the states estimation and the fault magnitude vectors, considered as unknown inputs. The conditions for the existence of such observer are given. Such conditions guarantee the observer stability and they are proved through a Lyapunov analysis combined with a linear matrix inequalities formulation. The fault estimation scheme is evaluated through numerical simulations. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Pretreatment of polypropylene films for the creation of thin polymer layers, part 1: The use of chemical, electrochemical, and UV methods
Authors: Urbaniak‐Domagala Wieslawa 
Published: June 2011

AbstractThe surface of a polypropylene (PP) film was activated with chemical, electrochemical, and physical methods, and the effectiveness of these methods was compared. The effects of PP activation were assessed with attenuated total reflection IR spectroscopy (ATR‐IR), SEM microscopy, and an analysis, based on the liquid contact angle, of the free energy components of the surface. The activation of the PP surface, which was dependent on the oxidizing medium, increased the energy of the PP surface layer and formed new chemical (carbonyl) groups, which were identified by IR (ATR) absorption spectroscopy and confirmed by selective surface dyeing. The treatments were ranked in the following order of increasing effectiveness: UV irradiation < 3M nitric acid < 30% hydrogen peroxide < silver nitrate (electrochemical method) < chromic mixture. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2011
Imprinted poly (vinyl alcohol) as a promising tool for xanthine derivatives separation
Authors: Patachia Silvia , Croitoru Catalin 
Published: June 2011

AbstractIn this work, we report the obtaining of an ecological imprinted polymer for the selective sorption of xanthine derivatives (caffeine and theobromine) from aqueous solutions, through an innovative approach. Poly (vinyl alcohol) [PVA]‐xanthine films have been obtained by aqueous solution casting. PVA crosslinking has been performed by using glutaraldehyde in gaseous phase. Template elimination has been achieved by “washing” of crosslinked films with water. To check the polymer imprentation and to determine the imprinted material effectiveness in xanthines separation, sorption studies have been performed. Freundlich, Langmuir, BET, Extended Langmuir models, and Scatchard analysis have been applied on the experimental data to better characterize the sorption mechanism. Fluorescence microscopy has been proposed as suitable method to check the imprentation level of the polymer. The information obtained by this method is in good agreement with the values for the efficiency of the imprinted polymer and could serve as an easier tool for prediction of the imprinted polymers performance. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 122:2081–2089, 2011
Voyeurism, Violence, and the Power of the Media: The Reader's/Spectator's Complicity in Jelinek's The Piano Teacher and Haneke's La Pianiste, Caché, The White Ribbon
Authors: Landwehr Margarete Johanna 
Published: June 2011

ABSTRACTBoth Jelinek's and Haneke's works focus on the media's detrimental effect on relationships. Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and Baudrillard's The Vital Illusion serve as the basis for a discussion of Jelinek's Vienna, which consists of a society of voyeurs in which spectatorship replaces intimate engagement. The author draws upon media and film studies that link an increase in violent images with increased aggression in her analysis of Haneke's films that depict the role the media plays in violent behavior. The article concludes with a discussion of the ways in which both artists provoke the readers/viewers into an awareness of their own voyeuristic roles as passive bystanders and the responsibility that entails. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
A Contribution from Film to a Psychoanalytic Explanation of Large Consequence – Haneke's Affirmation of Historical Antecedents to Nazism
Authors: Parens Henri 
Published: June 2011

ABSTRACTIn his masterpiece, The White Ribbon, writer and film‐maker Michael Haneke creates a tale that jars the viewer with his portrayal of life in a (German) village at the threshold of World War I. But he also gratifies this psychoanalytic viewer in two ways: (1) in the historically documented realistic portrayal of harsh child rearing and its then‐unrecognized potential highly destructive consequences; and (2) in the psychoanalytic cogency of his portrayal, given that established psychoanalytic and psychological theorizing compelled by evidence‐based findings asserts just what Haneke tells us: that abuse (and neglect) of children generate the hostile‐destructive‐laden psychodynamic that underlies the formation of delinquent and criminal characterology. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.