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Theorizing the Demise of Greek and Roman Religions
Authors: Brodd Jeffrey 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Analyzing the demise of religions is rendered considerably more difficult when lack of sufficient evidence causes gaps in historical understanding of the progressions of religions from being clearly alive to apparently no longer existing – an acute problem with regard to most Greek and Roman religions. Drawing on the Ghost Dance religion as a parallel case and presenting by way of example considerations regarding emperor Julian’s attempt to rebuild the Jerusalem temple, this article explores the common challenges of dearth of evidence, the need to argue from silence, and a ‘religion’ as category prone to (at least) the complication of transmutation.
Vestal Virgins Revived
Authors: Undheim Sissel 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Looking at three examples from 2021 of ‘Vestal rituals’ transmitted on social media, this article revisits some discussions about the reception, afterlife, and ongoing presence of so-called ‘dead religions.’ Focusing on the terms ‘reception’ and ‘afterlife’ as they are presented in two recent works on contemporary Greek polytheism on the one hand and indigenous religion(s) in Sápmi on the other, the overarching aim of the case study is to initiate new reflections on reception and afterlives, and on how these terms tie into notions of death and demise of religion(s).
Ismaili Taʾwīl of Religious Rites: Interpretation of Obligatory Prayer in Jaʿfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman’s Riḍāʿ fī l-Bāṭin
Authors: Gillon Fârès 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
In what was labelled “exaggerating” Shiʿism (ghuluww) by various Islamic orthodoxies (Twelver Shiʿism, Sunnism, and Fatimid Ismailism), it was commonly held that the Islamic prescriptions had to be interpreted as referring to specific persons (ashkhāṣ)—which sometimes led to antinomianism. Stemming from this tradition, Jaʿfar b. Manṣūr al-Yaman, a tenth-century Fatimid Ismaili author, proposes in his Riḍāʿ fī l-bāṭin an exegesis of the ritual ablutions and the five daily prayers that identifies them with specific individuals and sacred ranks of the daʿwa. This work illustrates how Ismailism developed its distinctiveness by reinterpreting and reshaping classical Shiʿi themes. Jaʿfar’s esoteric interpretation of prayer suggests that the core of early Ismaili doctrine resides in the acknowledgement of the esoteric hierarchy of the daʿwa, as well as in the expectation of the coming Mahdī, while insisting on the necessity of both the esoteric and exoteric aspects of religion.
The Beginnings of Yemeni and Zaydi Studies in Europe: The Eugenio Griffini Archive, Milan
Authors: Sagaria Rossi Valentina , Schmidtke Sabine 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
The arrival of large numbers of Yemeni manuscripts in European libraries towards the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century was a sensation that was enthusiastically received by the scholarly world. One of the principal reasons for this enthusiastic reception was the upsurge of South Arabian studies in Europe since the first half of the nineteenth century, together with the hope that the new material would fill some of the gaps in the literary sources on the history and geography of southern Arabia, especially during the pre-Islamic period. The most significant such lacuna was the missing volumes 1 through 7 and 9 of al-Hamdānī’s Iklīl. The two most important collections of Yemeni manuscripts that arrived in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had been gathered by Eduard Glaser and Giuseppe Caprotti, respectively, and their collections were sold to Berlin, London, and Vienna (Glaser) and to Munich, Milan, and the Vatican (Caprotti). The collections included some new material on South Arabian history (including volumes 1, 2, and 6 of the Iklīl), but they also opened up entirely new vistas and laid the foundation for the new discipline of Zaydi studies. Unlike South Arabian studies, the study of Zaydism had a slow start, with initially only a few scholars being interested in this entirely new field. Moreover, the scholarly exploration of the respective subcollections depended on the availability of catalogues. The early history of the Caprotti collection is intimately linked to Eugenio Griffini. Caprotti had dispatched nearly his entire manuscript collection of some 1,600 codices to Griffini, who kept it in his apartment in Milan until 1909, when the collection was donated to the Ambrosiana Library. Griffini was also the first and, for a long time, the only scholar to study the collection and prepare studies as well as catalogues of it. The process of his engagement with the material can be reconstructed on the basis of the Griffini archive, the whereabouts of which were for decades uncertain. This study outlines the discovery of the Griffini archive in the Biblioteca Comunale Centrale Palazzo Sormani in Milan and provides an initial overview of its contents, including Griffini’s epistolary exchanges with some ninety-nine correspondents, his descriptions of some of the Ethiopic manuscripts of the Ambrosiana, and, most importantly, his schedario, containing his extensive notes on all manuscripts of series A of the Caprotti collection. The large corpus of so far unexplored material promises to provide new insights into the network of Islamicists and Arabists at the turn of the twentieth century and the nascent phase of Zaydi studies in Europe.
The Fifth/Eleventh-Century Zaydi Jurist and Theologian al-Muwaffaq bi-llāh al-Jurjānī on the Consensus of the Family of the Prophet: An Editio Princeps of His Masʾala fī anna ijmāʿ ahl al-bayt ḥujja (MS Milan, Ambrosiana, ar. F 29/5, Fols 295v–309v)
Authors: Ansari Hassan , Falahieh Zadeh Ammar Jomah , Schmidtke Sabine 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
The article presents an editio princeps of Masʾala fī anna ijmāʿ ahl al-bayt ḥujja by the fifth/eleventh-century Zaydī al-Muwaffaq bi-llāh al-Jurjānī, author of the K. al-Iḥāṭa fī ʿilm al-kalām and the K. al-Iʿtibār wa-salwat al-ʿārifīn, one of the earliest extant substantial discussions on the consensis of the family of the Prophet among the Zaydis.
Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Sulaymān’s Miʿrāj al-salāma and Miṣbāḥ al-ʿirfān: Edition (with Introduction) of Two Early Witnesses to the Incorporation of Avicennian Metaphysics into Imāmī Shiite Kalām
Authors: Ansari Hassan , Wisnovsky Robert 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
This article provides an editio princeps of two short philosophical treatises, Miʿrāj al-salāma wa-minhāj al-karāma and Miṣbāḥ al-ʿirfān wa-miftāḥ al-bayān, by the Imāmī Shiite thinker Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Sulaymān al-Baḥrānī (d. ca. 670/1271). ʿAlī b. Sulaymān served to link Ibn Saʿāda and Ibn Maytham, who were fellow scholars from Bahrain and ʿAlī’s teacher and student, respectively. Like them, ʿAlī played an important role in introducing Avicenna’s philosophy to Imāmī Shiite theology.
‘Keywording Taiwan’: Report of the 26th North American Taiwan Studies Association (natsa) Annual Conference, Online, 20–21 May 2021
Authors: Jhang JhuCin Rita , Wu Chee-Hann 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
This report details the origination, organisation, and reflections of the 26th North American Taiwan Studies Association (natsa) 2020/2021 (2020 + 1) conference. The theme—‘Keywording Taiwan’—aims to identify core issues, historical turning points, critical populations, and fundamental theoretical arguments on Taiwan among transregional and interdisciplinary scholarship. We challenged scholars to synthesise decades of literature and, from there, offer cutting-edge and timely research to answer fundamental questions as well as effectively respond to the various injustices during this uncertain time. In this report, we discuss how a ‘keyword’ is not a fixed concept but a restless confrontation from within, as practices of deconstruction and recontextualisation that frame the recurring issues for Taiwan studies. We also discuss how we intentionally structured our conference to be more accessible, inclusive, and interactive. Lastly, we walk through our major reflections, concluding with unfinished conversations that foreshadow the theme of the next natsa conference—‘Taiwan Studies in Application’.
Radio Pictures, Blank Transmissions
Authors: Armand Louis 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
A key aspect of avant-garde practice is the critique of the relation between medium and genre. Following Cage’s chance-procedural experiments, Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell explored a radical repurposing of medium as technology, transforming TV and radio from sites of broadcast performance to sources of indeterminate electronic sound and image. This in turn fed into a reconception of the verbo-visuo dichotomy as text-effect, or cinemato/graphy, and a parallel conceptualisation of text as sites of transmission. While new media tends towards instantaneous full-immersion virtual reality, mimetic technologies remain haunted by what does not transmit—between sound/image, speech/writing, and in the work of erasure, silence, blankness and noise (all of which acquire the status of aesthetic information). In this relation I propose to examine a piece nominally cast as “cinema”: Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993), a 79-minute poetic meditation in the voices of Jarman, John Quentin, Nigel Terry and Tilda Swinton over a monochrome blue screen (inspired by Yves Klein’s Symphonie Monotone and the tonal quality of IKB). The production of Blue, in the form ostensibly of both a “transmission error” and a “radio picture,” speaks to the idea of invisible cinema. In doing so, Blue harks back to Guy Debord’s anti-cinematic pronouncement ‘there’s no more cinema, cinema’s dead’: a blank cinema broadcasting from beyond the grave.
Machine learning classification of multiple sclerosis in children using optical coherence tomography
Authors: Ciftci Kavaklioglu Beyza , Erdman Lauren , Goldenberg Anna , Kavaklioglu Can , Alexander Cara , Oppermann Hannah M , Patel Amish , Hossain Soaad , Berenbaum Tara , Yau Olivia , Yea Carmen , Ly Mina , Costello Fiona , Mah Jean K , Reginald Arun , Banwell Brenda , Longoni Giulia , Ann Yeh E 
Published: August 2022

Background: In children, multiple sclerosis (MS) is the ultimate diagnosis in only 1/5 to 1/3 of cases after a first episode of central nervous system (CNS) demyelination. As the visual pathway is frequently affected in MS and other CNS demyelinating disorders (DDs), structural retinal imaging such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) can be used to differentiate MS. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the utility of machine learning (ML) based on OCT features to identify distinct structural retinal features in children with DDs. Methods: This study included 512 eyes from 187 ( neyes = 374) children with demyelinating diseases and 69 ( neyes = 138) controls. Input features of the analysis comprised of 24 auto-segmented OCT features. Results: Random Forest classifier with recursive feature elimination yielded the highest predictive values and identified DDs with 75% and MS with 80% accuracy, while multiclass distinction between MS and monophasic DD was performed with 64% accuracy. A set of eight retinal features were identified as the most important features in this classification. Conclusion: This study demonstrates that ML based on OCT features can be used to support a diagnosis of MS in children.
Cardiovascular risk associated with allopurinol or benzbromarone treatment in patients with gout
Authors: Eun Yeonghee , Han Heewon , Kim Kyunga , Kang Seonyoung , Lee Seulkee , Kim Hyungjin , Lee Jaejoon , Koh Eun-Mi , Cha Hoon-Suk 
Published: August 2022

Background: In previous studies, cardiovascular (CV) risk was increased in patients with gout. The effects of uric acid–lowering therapy on CV risk in gout patients have been investigated in numerous studies; however, allopurinol and benzbromarone have rarely been compared. Objectives: To compare CV risk based on allopurinol and benzbromarone treatment in Korean gout patients. Design: A nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study. Methods: We used South Korea database of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment (HIRA) service to identify gout patients ⩾18 years of age who newly started allopurinol or benzbromarone between 2009 and 2015. The primary outcome of the study was the occurrence of a composite CV endpoint, which included coronary revascularization, hospitalization due to myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, and transient ischemic attack. Cox proportional hazard regression analysis and Kaplan–Meier curves were used for analysis. Results: The study included 257,097 allopurinol initiators and 7868 benzbromarone initiators. Compared with allopurinol initiators, the adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) of the composite CV endpoint of benzbromarone initiators was 1.01 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.83−1.21], which was not significantly different. The results did not change even when 1:3 propensity score matching was performed for baseline characteristics. In subgroup analysis of high-risk patients with CV disease, significant difference was not observed between allopurinol and benzbromarone initiators. Conclusion: In this study, significant difference was not found in CV risk between allopurinol and benzbromarone initiators. In the high-CV-risk group, the incidence of CV events did not differ between allopurinol and benzbromarone initiators.
E-Scooters and Craniofacial Trauma: A Systematic Review
Authors: Goh Elizabeth Z. , Beech Nicholas , Johnson Nigel R. 
Published: August 2022

Study Design Systematic review. Objective Standing electric scooters (e-scooters) provide a cheap and environmentally friendly transport alternative, but also elicit substantial concern regarding their volume of associated injuries especially in the craniofacial region. This review aims to explore the demographics, risk factors, types of injury and surgical management of craniofacial trauma associated with e-scooters. Methods PubMed and Scopus databases were systematically searched. Inclusion criteria were clinical studies investigating craniofacial trauma associated with e-scooters. Exclusion criteria were duplicates; non-English publications; non-full-text publications; studies with insufficient data. Results Of the 73 articles identified, 10 eligible articles representing 539 patients were included. The mean age was 31.5 years. Most cases were male (63.7%). Common risk factors were alcohol/drug intoxication, absence of distal extremity injuries and lack of helmet use. The most common mechanism of injury was mechanical falls (72.4%). The most common facial fracture pattern was middle third fractures (58.3%). Surgical management was required for 43.3% of fractures. Other types of injuries reported were traumatic brain injuries (17.6%), soft tissue injuries (58.3%), dental injuries (32.9%) and ophthalmological injuries (20.6%). Conclusions The findings of this review suggest common presentations for craniofacial trauma associated with e-scooters. Robust longitudinal evaluations with standardised descriptions of types of injuries are required. Gaps in knowledge relate to surgical management, post-operative complications and associated risk factors.
Assessing eHealth literacy among internet users in Lebanon: A cross-sectional study
Authors: Bardus Marco , Keriabian Arda , Elbejjani Martine , Al-Hajj Samar 
Published: August 2022

ObjectiveAssessing the level of eHealth literacy in a population is essential to designing appropriate public health interventions. This study aimed to assess eHealth literacy among adult internet users in Lebanon, recruited through social media and printed materials. The study examined the relationship between internet use, perceived eHealth literacy, and sociodemographic characteristics.MethodsA cross-sectional study based on a web-based questionnaire was conducted between January and May 2020. The survey assessed internet use and eHealth literacy using the homonymous scale (eHEALS) in English and Arabic. Cronbach's alpha and factor analyses were used to evaluate eHEALS’ psychometric properties. A generalized linear model was used to identify factors predicting the eHEALS.ResultsA total of 2715 respondents were recruited mostly through Facebook (78%) and printed materials (17%). Most respondents completed the survey in English (82%), were aged 30 ± 11 years, female (60%), Lebanese (84%), unmarried (62%), employed (54%), and with a graduate-level education (53%). Those who completed the eHEALS questionnaire ( n = 2336) had a moderate eHealth literacy ( M = 28.7, SD = 5.5). eHEALS was significantly higher among older females with a high education level, recruited from Facebook, Instagram, or ResearchGate, and perceived the Internet as a useful and important source of information.ConclusionsFuture internet-delivered public health campaigns in Lebanon should account for moderate-to-low levels of eHealth literacy and find ways to engage older males with low education levels representing neglected segments (e.g. Syrians). To be more inclusive, campaigns should reach neglected population segments through non-digital, community-based outreach activities.
Educating rehabilitation professionals on clinical skills for postural care services: A scoping review
Authors: McGuire Faye E , Hutson Jennifer , Oldenburg Hannah 
Published: August 2022

Background: This scoping review aims to identify evidence-based practices for educating rehabilitation professionals who provide assistive technology interventions, specifically night-time postural care, to children with cerebral palsy. Methods: A review of both peer-reviewed and grey literature published between 2000 and 2021 was undertaken in June 2021. The articles were analyzed using a process outlined by Arksey and O’Malley in 2005: scanning abstracts, completing initial and critical reviews, collating and summarizing data into themes. Results: The search resulted in 15 articles, predominantly from the United Kingdom and the United States: 10 primary research, two reviews, two conceptual/theoretical, and one gray-literature source. Four themes emerged (1) Successful service delivery required competence, (2) Benefits of incorporating practice, collaboration, and feedback, (3) Effective online education through multifactorial approaches, (4) Considering different learning requirements among team members. Conclusions: There’s beginning evidence that rehabilitation professionals’ competence with night-time postural care might be achieved via active, interactive, multi-factorial online training.
Bioavailability and speciation of Cadmium in contaminated paddy soil as alleviated by biochar from co-pyrolysis of peanut shells and maize straw
Authors: Xu Weijie , Xiao Linlin , Hou Shuzhen , Rukh Gul , Xu Meizhen , Pan Yatian , Xu Jingweng , Lan Wangkaining , Ruan Zhongqiang , Zhong Bing , Liu Dan 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Background
Biochar is an important material for remediation of Cd in contaminated paddy soils. However, different biochars have variable effects on bioavailability of Cd while single biochar cannot properly amend immobilized Cd. Co-production of biochar from peanut shells and maize straw at different mass mixing ratios (1:0, 1:1, 1:2, 1:3). The characteristics, properties and effects of co-pyrolysis biochars on amendments of Cd polluted paddy soil was evaluated.

Results
Our research revealed that yield, ash, elemental contents and specific surface area of co-pyrolysis biochars have variable amendment effects compared with single biochar. The co-pyrolysis biochars have produced rich oxygen-containing functional groups and crystal structure, especially 1P3M (co-pyrolysis biochar produced from peanut shell and maize straw in mass ratios of 1:3). The addition of biochar has significantly enhanced pH and EC value, however, content of available Cd during incubation was significantly reduced compared with control treatment. The efficiency of biochars have reduced available Cd in order of 1P3M > M > 1P1M > 1P2M > 2P1M > 3P1M > P after incubation. The 1P3M was most effective in reducing CaCl2-extractable Cd concentration up to 43.97%. The BCR sequential extraction method has produced lowest exchangeable fraction Cd content and highest residual fraction Cd content in 1P3M among all biochar amended treatments.

Conclusions
It is concluded that 1P3M has a much greater potential to decreased the bioavailability of Cd in contaminated paddy soil. And 1P3M was highly effective for transporting Cd from soluble form to less toxic stable forms in polluted paddy soils.

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Genetic diversity of DGAT1 gene linked to milk production in cattle populations of Ethiopia
Authors: Samuel Behailu , Mengistie Dejenie , Assefa Ermias , Kang Mingue , Park Chankyu , Dadi Hailu , Dinka Hunduma 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Background
Diacylglycerol acyl-CoA acyltransferase 1 (DGAT1) has become a promising candidate gene for milk production traits because of its important role as a key enzyme in catalyzing the final step of triglyceride synthesis. Thus use of bovine DGAT1 gene as milk production markers in cattle is well established. However, there is no report on polymorphism of the DGAT1 gene in Ethiopian cattle breeds. The present study is the first comprehensive report on diversity, evolution, neutrality evaluation and genetic differentiation of DGAT1 gene in Ethiopian cattle population. The aim of this study was to characterize the genetic variability of exon 8 region of DGAT1 gene in Ethiopian cattle breeds.

Results
Analysis of the level of genetic variability at the population and sequence levels with genetic distance in the breeds considered revealed that studied breeds had 11, 0.615 and 0.010 haplotypes, haplotype diversity and nucleotide diversity respectively. Boran-Holstein showed low minor allele frequency and heterozygosity, while Horro showed low nucleotide and haplotype diversities. The studied cattle DGAT1 genes were under purifying selection. The neutrality test statistics in most populations were negative and statistically non-significant (p > 0.10) and consistent with a populations in genetic equilibrium or in expansion. Analysis for heterozygosity, polymorphic information content and inbreeding coefficient revealed sufficient genetic variation in DGAT1 gene. The pairwise FST values indicated significant differentiation among all the breeds (FST = 0.13; p ≤ 0.05), besides the rooting from the evolutionary or domestication history of the cattle inferred from the phylogenetic tree based on the neighbourhood joining method. There was four separated cluster among the studied cattle breeds, and they shared a common node from the constructed tree.

Conclusion
The cattle populations studied were polymorphic for DGAT1 locus. The DGAT1 gene locus is extremely crucial and may provide baseline information for in-depth understanding, exploitation of milk gene variation and could be used as a marker in selection programmes to enhance the production potential and to accelerate the rate of genetic gain in Ethiopian cattle populations exposed to different agro ecology condition.