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Combined Effect of Pelvic Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation with Core Strengthening on Trunk Control, Balance, and Gait in Paraplegia
Authors: Sharma Adarsh , Saxena Akanksha 
Published: December 2023

AbstractSpinal cord injury (SCI) has deleterious effects on quality of life and vocation. A partial or complete loss of sensory and motor functions below the site of injury is a potential clinical sign of SCI. Trunk and pelvic control are crucial for balance and gait to perform vocational tasks of daily living. In this case report, a 40-year-old male with traumatic incomplete paraplegia (AIS Grade C, neurological level T6) received 45 min of intervention per session, which included pelvic proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation combined with core strengthening exercises 5 times a week for 4 weeks. Baseline and postassessments were done for trunk control with the trunk control test for SCI, balance with the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and the SCI-functional ambulation inventory (SCI-FAI), and gait with the walking index for SCI II (WISCI). After 4 weeks of intervention, there were significant differences between baseline and postintervention scores on the trunk control test for SCI (16–18), WISCI (Level 1–2), SCI-FAI (03–06), and BBS (04–08). This is the first case report that enabled and promoted potentiate intervention to improve trunk control, balance, and gait in paraplegics. This outcome motivates additional research on its therapeutic potential and mechanism.
Prevalence of Self-care Practices among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients and its Effect on Glycemic Control: A Cross-sectional Study in Secondary and Tertiary Health-care Centers in Lucknow
Authors: Khan Maviya , Agarwal Monika , Usman Kauser , Mishra Prabhakar 
Published: December 2023

Abstract

Background:
Globally, prevalence of diabetes is 10.5%, and in 2019, approximately 463 million adults were living with diabetes by 2045; this will increase to 700 million (10.9%). India is a diabetic capital of world, prevalence of diabetes in India is 8.3%.

Aim:
This study aimed to assess self-care practices (SCPs) among type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients, its predictors, and effect of SCP on glycemic control.

Materials and Methods:
A cross-sectional hospital-based study was conducted among 300 known T2DM patients in the age group of 18–60 years attending noncommunicable diseases clinic at Secondary and Tertiary Care Hospitals of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, selected using two-stage purposive sampling method. Data were collected using a predesigned and pretested semi-structured questionnaire. Data were collected from consenting respondents on the sociodemographic profile (about their residence, gender, marital status, type of family, educational status, family income, employment status, etc.). SCP was assessed using Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities. Data were analyzed using SPSS.

Results:
Among 300 patients with a mean age 50 ± 8.9 years, the prevalence of good SCPs was 37%. Out of 189 T2DM patients with poor SCPs, 66.4% had uncontrolled blood sugar level (285.4 ± 67 mg/dL). Out of 73 T2DM patients with poor SCPs, 65.7% had uncontrolled glycated hemoglobin level (8.4% ± 2%), and this was statistically significant.

Conclusion:
The practice of self-care was found to be suboptimal among patients with T2DM in the study.
Contextual Factors to Improve Implementation of Malaria Chemoprevention in Children: A Systematic Review
Authors: Gatiba Peris , Laury Jessica , Steinhardt Laura , Hwang Jimee , Thwing Julie I. , Zulliger Rose , Emerson Courtney , Gutman Julie R. 
Published: December 2023

ABSTRACT.
Malaria remains a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among children under 5 years of age. To help address this challenge, the WHO recommends chemoprevention for certain populations. For children and infants, the WHO recommends seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), perennial malaria chemoprevention (PMC; formerly intermittent preventive treatment in infants [IPTi]), and, more recently, intermittent preventive treatment in school children (IPTsc). This review describes the contextual factors, including feasibility, acceptability, health equity, financial considerations, and values and preferences, that impact implementation of these strategies. A systematic search was conducted on July 5, 2022, and repeated April 13, 2023, to identify relevant literature. Two reviewers independently screened titles for eligibility, extracted data from eligible articles, and identified and summarized themes. Of 6,295 unique titles identified, 65 were included. The most frequently evaluated strategy was SMC (n = 40), followed by IPTi (n = 18) and then IPTsc (n = 6). Overall, these strategies were highly acceptable, although with IPTsc, there were community concerns with providing drugs to girls of reproductive age and the use of nonmedical staff for drug distribution. For SMC, door-to-door delivery resulted in higher coverage, improved caregiver acceptance, and reduced cost. Lower adherence was noted when caregivers were charged with giving doses 2 and 3 unsupervised. For SMC and IPTi, travel distances and inclement weather limited accessibility. Sensitization and caregiver education efforts, retention of high-quality drug distributors, and improved transportation were key to improving coverage. Additional research is needed to understand the role of community values and preferences in chemoprevention implementation.
Technical Error Factors On Panoramic Radiographic Examination At The Radiology Installation Of Unjani Dental and Mouth Hospital
Authors: Asriningrum Surdiyah , Sudrajat Ismayanti , Meliawati Mely 
Published: December 2023

Panoramic is a three-dimensional curved zone where anatomical structures are well defined on panoramic radiography. Panoramic radiography includes a detailed anatomy of the jaw complex with some superimpositions and distortions that can be exacerbated by technical errors in image acquisition as well as many extra-jaw anatomical structures that are able to give clear description to interpretate. Therefore, in obtaining a panoramic radiograph it is necessary to obtain the desired structure with high quality and minimal distortion. Errors that often occur in producing good panoramic radiographs are technical errors or when positioning the patient and during the panoramic examination. The purpose of this study was to determine the main factors causing the errors so that technician can produce good quality radiographs, take into account patient placement at the time of examination, perform film processing, and handle general film procedures. The research method used was a quantitative method with a descriptive observational approach. The number of samples was 64 radiographs, which are adult patients over 18 years old with the use of exposure factors in the range of 60kV, 10mA and 16.4s. All radiographs were taken by qualified radiographers with more than 5 years of experience. The radiographs were viewed and observed without any modification on a computed radiography monitor screen. Radiographic results will be evaluated by experienced technician who have worked more than 5 years. Evaluation is obtained by analyzing the data descriptively in the form of assessment of the percentage of rejection of panoramic radiographs to make conclusions. Out of the 2418 panoramic radiographs viewed, 2354 (97%) radiographs had no errors while 64 (3%) radiographs showed one or more positioning error. The most common positioning error observed in the radiographs was failuer to position chin tipped high (56,02%). Whereas the least common error recorded were movement and apron shadow (1.15%).
Early Capitalism in Colonial Missions
Authors: Petterson Christina 
Published: December 2023

Drawing on unpublished archival material, this volume compares two Moravian missions, in Greenland and Australia, to demonstrate how their practices evolved over the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries as part of a globalizing world and economy. Delivering in-depth analysis of the far-reaching and deep-seated effects of missionary activity on indigenous communities and social relations, it also explores how the indigenous were ‘othered’ in empire, and the role missionaries played in this process.
Petterson provides an insight into the lives of indigenous peoples, and the missionaries who lived amongst them, at a time of changing identities and socio-economic change. Analysing how missionary practice developed over this period, it also demonstrates how attitudes to and engagement with indigenous peoples transformed. Standing outside of national and imperial boundaries, and ambivalent about the political notion of imperialism and colonisation itself, nonetheless missionaries functioned in parallel with colonial structures, and were part of a broadly culturally colonial mission. On the outskirts of imperial organisation, they were often a crucial part of colonial practice. This book examines both missionaries and indigenous peoples as ‘others’ in imperial systems through the economic and cultural practices of their spiritual colonialism.
Getting Illustration Clients
Authors: Davies Jo , Brazell Derek 
Published: December 2023

The commissioning process can be a confusing maze for the commercial illustrator just starting out – so let Getting Illustration Clients be your beacon for success. Written by the duo that brought you Becoming a Successful Illustrator, here Jo Davies and Derek Brazell demystify the commissioning process for commercial illustration, from the point of the view of those hiring and briefing freelance illustrators: the art editors, the designers, the agents and more.
With insider tips that will make your work garner attention and satisfy the needs of the brief, each section is beautifully illustrated with full-colour examples of projects typical to main areas of practice from around the globe. The book features key action points and summaries, as well as case studies from commissioning professionals for Harper Collins, VMLR&Y, Wooga Games and many more. Supporting exercises underpin Jo and Derek’s guidance, to be used off the shelf by students, graduates and early-career professionals working independently.
For the practicing illustrator who wants to see the commissioning process from ‘the other side’, you will always have to hand expert advice on what clients want, how commissioning works and how to get your work noticed. For lecturers in illustration, this is your go-to recommendation for recent graduates looking for advice on the working world of commercial illustration.
The Fear of Chinese Power
Authors: Crean Jeffrey 
Published: December 2023

The real and potential power of China, the world’s most populous nation, has long been seen as a threat by its smaller neighbors and global powers alike. The Fear of Chinese Power provides a history of this perceived threat from the 1880s to the present day, and offers rich historical context to an enduring and current concern.
Focusing on the United States, but also exploring perceptions from Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union and Japan, this book asks why these fears exist and shows how they have played out on both a strategic, diplomatic level, and in the public sphere. Taking a chronological approach, the chapters explore themes such as western opposition to Chinese immigration, international views of China’s new republic, hopes of friendship during the rule of Chiang Kai-Shek, the Korean and Cold Wars, Communist China’s economic growth, the Chinese in popular culture and China as a modern global power.
Developing a Neo-Peircean Approach to Signs
Authors: Jappy Tony 
Published: December 2023

This book takes up the most important of Charles Sanders Peirce’s undeveloped semiotic concepts and highlights their theoretical interest for a general semiotics.
Peirce’s career as a logician spanned almost half a century, during which time he produced several increasingly complex sign systems. The best-known, from 1903, included a signifying process involving sign, object and interpretant, the universally known icon-index-symbol division and, finally, a system of 10 distinct classes of signs. Peirce subsequently expanded this signifying process to include 2 objects, the sign and 3 interpretants; however, in the 5 years between 1903 and his final systems of 1908, he introduced a number of highly innovative semiotic concepts which he never developed.
Among these concepts is hypoiconicity, which comprises 3 levels of isomorphism holding between sign and object and offers an interesting alternative to the traditional literal-figurative distinction in the analysis of verbal and non-verbal signs, in spite of the mutations the subdivisions of the icon subsequently underwent. Another is semiosis, which Peirce introduced and defined in 1907 but rarely illustrated. This is shown to be a far more complex signifying process than the well-known three-correlate definition of 1903. Exploring the changing theoretical background to the introduction of these new concepts, this book identifies and explains these developments.
Mapping Middle-earth
Authors: Behrooz Anahit 
Published: December 2023

In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien’s most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power.
Far more than just illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien’s corpus of maps are crucial to understanding the broader narratives between humans and their political and environmental landscapes within his legendarium. Undertaking a diegetic literary analysis of the maps as examples of Middle-earth’s own cultural output, Behrooz reveals a sub-created tradition of cartography that articulates specific power dynamics between mapmaker, map reader, and what is being mapped, as well as the human/nonhuman binary that represents human’s control over the natural world.
Mapping Middle-earth surveys how Tolkien frames cartography as an inherently political act that embodies a desire for control of that which it maps. In turn, it analyses harmful contemporary engagements with land that intersect with, but also move beyond, cartography such as environmental damage; human-induced geological change; and the natural and bodily costs of political violence and imperialism. Using historical, eco-critical, and postcolonial frameworks, and such theorists as Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway and Edward Said, this book explores Tolkien’s employment of particular generic tropes including medievalism, fantasy, and the interplay between image and text to highlight, and at times correct, his contemporary socio-political epoch and its destructive relationship with the wider world.
Subsistence Strategies and Craft Production at the Ancient Egyptian Ramesside Fort of Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham
Authors: Nielsen Nicky , Crist Walter , Shaw Ian , Mairs Rachel , Saretta Phyllis , Grajetzki Wolfram , Grajetzki Wolfram , Anthony Flora Brooke , Hollis Susan Tower , Quirke Stephen , Grajetzki Wolfram , Eaton-Krauss Marianne , Gillam Robyn , Dunn-Vaturi Anne-Elizabeth , Voogt Alex de , Muratov Maya 
Published: December 2023

Drawing on more than twenty years of archaeological study and investigation at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham by a team from the University of Liverpool (led by Professor Steven Snape), this book paints a nuanced picture of daily life not only at this liminal military site, but also in Ramesside Egypt more broadly. Constructed during the reign of Ramesses II, the fortified settlement was situated 300 kilometres west of Alexandria and represents the furthest western outpost of the Egyptian New Kingdom empire. Excavations in Area K of the fortress have uncovered extensive evidence for the living arrangements, minor industries, food production and daily life of the fort’s inhabitants.
This previously unpublished material forms the bedrock of this volume, which focuses on analysing the various subsistence and craft production strategies that were conducted alongside each other in this area, from baking, brewing and butchery to lithics working, bone-carving and weaving. These traces of the activities of the soldiers and their families shed new light on what life was like at this military installation and for ordinary Egyptians more widely, shifting away from a focus on elite social groups. The archaeological evidence covered in this book prompts a re-evaluation of the realities of the relationship between Egyptians and Libyans at the close of the Late Bronze Age. The purpose of the fortress’ construction was primarily defensive, however the surviving material points to co-operation by means of collaborative farming and trading, and provides a direct counterpoint to the more belligerent contemporary royal monumental inscriptions describing Egypto-Libyan relations.
Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice
Authors: Davey Nicholas 
Published: December 2023

How do words and images function hermeneutically? How does hermeneutic practice work? Answering these questions and more, Nicholas Davey develops the hermeneutical foundations of creative practice. In doing so, he not only uncovers the significance of philosophical hermeneutics for the arts and the humanities, but defends the humanities as a whole from the current scepticism inspired by deconstruction and post-structuralism.
Taking Gadamer’s language ontology as its cue, this pioneering volume not only addresses certain weaknesses that Davey observes in Gadamer’s thought but further takes Gadamerian thinking beyond Gadamer himself. In particular, Davey investigates the productive value of negativity that is central to hermeneutics and to wider spheres of creative learning.
Advocating a renewed confidence in hermeneutics and the humanities, Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice reveals how hermeneutical thinking provides a map of the dynamics within creative practice, eliminating the need for an externally imposed ‘theory’ of the arts.
Ideology and Interpellation
Authors: Fardy Jonathan 
Published: December 2023

Ideology and Interpellation examines the relation between ideology, the humanist subject, interpellation, and the role of theory. Placing the work of Althusser, Rancière, Baudrillard, and Laruelle into dialogue, this book offers a useful starting point for understanding the demands and possibilities for ideological critique after the deconstruction of the subject.
With chapters devoted to each French theorist’s critique, the book first examines the historical and political roots of Althusser's theory of ideology, then placing focus on Rancière's historiographic work in the following chapter. Coming hot on the heels of his blistering critique of his teacher, Althusser, in Althusser's Lesson, Rancière argues that employers' failure to “interpellate” or recruit workers was due to their work-centric attitude and failure to understand the workers' dreams of lives devoted to unwaged aesthetic and philosophical labour. The fifth chapter shows how Baudrillard disrupts Althusser's fundamental belief that ideology can be unmasked to reveal true structures, by exposing how a society of simulation realizes the untrue by integrating it into the fabric of experience. Finally, Fardy explores how Laruelle calls into question Althusser's presumption that “standard philosophy” is sufficiently guarded against the lures of ideology. On the contrary, Laruelle suggests that this view is in fact that of the ideology of standard philosophy.
Shedding light on the continuing relevance of post-Althusserian Marxist thought, Ideology and Interpellation further demonstrates the need today for a rigorous theory of ideology, traces of which can be found in Althusser's legacy.
The Poetics of the Sensible
Authors: Breton Stanislas 
Published: December 2023

In the first English language translation of this classic late 20th-century text within French Catholic thought, Poetics of the Sensible brings together insights from Neoplatonism and phenomenology with a distinctive and innovative approach.
Taking a stance within the generative conception of human language represented by continental thinkers such as Humboldt and Herder and powerfully articulated today by Charles Taylor, Stanislas Breton expands the sense of the “poetic”—the constructive meaning-bearing capacity that is a core characteristic of humanity—to include the body and its senses phenomenologically intertwined with the world. Defying Heidegger’s prohibition on the question of God alongside contemporary thinkers such as Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Louis Chrétien and Emmanuel Falque, he boldly writes of God, of the angel, of the icon, and of prayer in a refusal to bracket his religious faith. Against a Neoplatonic backdrop, Breton promotes the dense material dimensions of embodied signification as paradoxically harbouring meaning that is greater than that of conceptual abstraction alone.
Illuminating Breton’s poetic and allusive discourse, Poetics of the Sensible showcases his unique voice in French philosophy, phenomenology and the philosophy of religion and is essential reading for scholars and students alike.
The Problem of Free Will and Naturalism
Authors: Onof Christian 
Published: December 2023

The problem of free will is one of the oldest and most central philosophical conundrums. The contemporary debate around it has produced a range of sophisticated proposals, but shows no sign of leading to convergence. Christian Onof reviews these contemporary approaches and argues that their main shortcomings are ultimately due to paradoxical requirements on free will imposed by the naturalistic framework.
Onof singles out Kant’s critical solution as one that stands out among historical approaches insofar as it is based upon a rejection of this framework. By using the same methodological tool that he applies to contemporary proposals, namely a distinction between a volitional account of how we control our actions, a psychological account of the reasons for it and a metaphysical account of our status as agent, Onof shows that Kant’s solution constitutes a coherent picture of free will.
By exhibiting the structure running through several key publications of Kant's critical period and drawing upon unpublished notes, Onof addresses several debates which loom large in contemporary Kant literature. His exegetical work puts Kant’s theory into conversation with contemporary analytic theories of free will and leads to defining a Kantian position that overcomes the issues plaguing existing approaches to the problem of free will.
Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape
Authors: Evans Jennifer V. , Fagen Erica , Lundrigan Meghan 
Published: December 2023

This is a comprehensive study of Holocaust memory in the digital age of social media and an important examination of how social technology affects the way history is made and circulated online.
Social media has become a place where memories of the Holocaust take shape through user-driven content shared in elaborately interconnected communication networks. Curated exhibits, documentaries and scholarly research, smartphone photos, short videos and online texts act as windows into the popular consciousness. They document how everyday people make sense of the crime of genocide, presenting unique challenges to historians. Does participatory media create a different understanding of genocide than more traditional forms of writing? How does expertise manifest in the digital public sphere? Do YouTube tourist videos and concentration camp selfies undermine the seriousness of the Holocaust and Holocaust studies by extension? Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape provides valuable answers to these questions and much more.
The book comes with a range of helpful images and it also analyzes the way vernacular memory around the Holocaust and postwar reckoning and reconciliation is mobilized as well as contested in the digital sphere. It is an important volume for all scholars and students of the Holocaust, its history and memory.