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Yenkar, Dr Pradnya s. "Women Novelists and their Novels in the First Half of Twentieth Century." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 4, no. 4 (2019): 1144–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.4436.
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Gârdan, Daiana. "The Great Female Unread. Romanian Women Novelists in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: a Quantitative Approach." Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 4, no. 1 (July 5, 2018): 109–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2018.5.07.
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Bergsland, Kristin J., Jennifer K. Kelly, Brian J. Coe, and Fredric L. Coe. "Urine protein markers distinguish stone-forming from non-stone-forming relatives of calcium stone formers." American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology 291, no. 3 (September 2006): F530—F536. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00370.2005.
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We have investigated urine protein inhibitors of calcium oxalate crystallization to determine whether variations in these proteins are associated with kidney stone disease and whether protein measurements improve the identification of stone formers compared with conventional risk factors (RF). Using Western blotting, we studied variations in the electrophoretic mobility patterns and relative abundances of crystallization-inhibitory proteins in urine from 50 stone-forming (SF) and 50 non-stone-forming (NS) first-degree relatives of calcium SF patients, matched by gender and age. Standard urine chemistry stone risk measurements were also made. Multivariate discriminant analysis was used to test the association of these proteins with nephrolithiasis. Differences in form and abundance of several urine proteins including inter-α-trypsin inhibitor (ITI), prothrombin fragment 1 (PF1), CD59, and calgranulin B (calB) were found to be associated with stone formation. By multivariate discriminant analysis, measurements of forms of PF1, ITI, and calB in men and ITI and CD59 in women, classified 84% of men and 76% of women correctly by stone status. In contrast, standard urine chemistry RF identified only 70% of men correctly and failed to distinguish female SF from NS. Thus a small subset of protein measurements distinguished SF from NS far better than conventional RF in a population of relatives of calcium SF, illustrating the significant association of these proteins with stone disease. Variations in these proteins may serve as markers of stone disease activity or vulnerability to recurrence and may provide new insights into mechanisms of stone formation.
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Tangren, Jessica Sheehan, Camille E. Powe, Jeffrey Ecker, Kate Bramham, Elizabeth Ankers, S. Ananth Karumanchi, and Ravi Thadhani. "Metabolic and Hypertensive Complications of Pregnancy in Women with Nephrolithiasis." Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 13, no. 4 (February 22, 2018): 612–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2215/cjn.12171017.
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Background and objectivesKidney stones are associated with future development of hypertension, diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome. Our objective was to assess whether stone formation before pregnancy was associated with metabolic and hypertensive complications in pregnancy. We hypothesized that stone formation is a marker of metabolic disease and would be associated with higher risk for maternal complications in pregnancy.Design, setting, participants, & measurementsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study of women who delivered infants at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 2006 to 2015. Women with abdominal imaging (computed tomography or ultrasound) before pregnancy were included in the analysis. Pregnancy outcomes in women with documented kidney stones on imaging (stone formers, n=166) were compared with those of women without stones on imaging (controls, n=1264). Women with preexisting CKD, hypertension, and diabetes were excluded.ResultsGestational diabetes and preeclampsia were more common in stone formers than nonstone formers (18% versus 6%, respectively; P<0.001 and 16% versus 8%, respectively; P=0.002). After multivariable adjustment, previous nephrolithiasis was associated with higher risks of gestational diabetes (adjusted odds ratio, 3.1; 95% confidence interval, 1.8 to 5.3) and preeclampsia (adjusted odds ratio, 2.2; 95% confidence interval, 1.3 to 3.6). Infants of stone formers were born earlier (38.7±2.0 versus 39.2±1.7 weeks, respectively; P=0.01); however, rates of small for gestational age offspring and neonatal intensive care admission were similar between groups (8% versus 7%, respectively; P=0.33 and 10% versus 6%, respectively; P=0.08). First trimester body mass index significantly influenced the association between stone disease and hypertensive complications of pregnancy: in a multivariable linear regression model, stone formation acted as an effect modifier of the relationship between maximum systolic BP in the third trimester and body mass index (P interaction <0.001).ConclusionsIn women without preexisting diabetes, hypertension, and CKD, a history of nephrolithiasis was associated with gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, especially in women with high first trimester body mass index.
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Chakraborty, Arijit. "Love and Spirituality in Anita Desai’s ‘Cry, the Peacock’ and Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Breezy April’." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 2 (February 28, 2020): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i2.10408.
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the first non-European and the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He was awarded the prize for Gitanjali. Tagore was a multi-faceted personality who not only composed poems, verses, short stories, novels etc but also sketched and painted with equal brilliance. As a flag-bearer, he presented the best of India to the West and vice-versa. In Breezy April, Tagore combines romanticism with spiritualism. On the other hand, Anita Desai (born-1937) is the youngest among the women novelists of eminence in India. The spiritual aspect of human life is at the centre of attention in her works. Women protagonists of fragile exterior and strong interior take the lead in Anita Desai’s works of fiction. Spirituality is an integral part of most of her works. In her first novel Cry, the Peacock (1963), Desai minutely depicts both love as well as deep spiritual intricacies.
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Mahapatra, Aruni. "Irreverent Reading: Humor, Erudition and Subalternity in the fiction of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and Fakir Mohan Senapati." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 6, no. 2 (March 26, 2019): 179–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2018.52.
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This essay examines scenes from prose fiction in which two Indian novelists (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Fakir Mohan Senapati) interrogated subalternity in colonial India by talking about books. It first examines narrators’ frustration with books as acts of “irreverent reading” in colonial India, where the presence and scarcity of readable print produced anxieties about language and community. It then examines “reading” in the novels and compares how different kinds of irreverence allows narrators to introduce women characters as agents of very different kinds of violence in colonial India. Following insights of Gayatri Spivak, Elleke Boehmer, and Leah Price, and others, this article argues that Fakir Mohan Senapati’s sensitivity to his readers’ inability to access books enabled his novel to empower readers without books and emphasize how community in colonial India was constituted by the collective forgetting of women.
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Eyvazi, Mojgan, Mohsen Momen, and Homa Poorkaramali. "A Study of Selected Works of Iranian Female Novelists Based on Elaine Showalter’s Gynocriticism." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 6, no. 4 (May 2, 2017): 211. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.6n.4p.211.
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Iranian literature, like other literary works throughout the world, follows the social issues in society and attempt to depict them. One of such issues is portraying women position in the society. The present study focuses on three different novels by Iranian female writers to show three stages of female writing development in them based on Elain Showalter’s theory of gynocriticism: Feminine stage which is represented through concepts like home, immovability, consumption, reading, house chores, dependence and past, feminist stage dealing with concepts like mobility, production, independence and future, and female stage that presents a new awareness of women consciousness. The chosen works are: Hangover Dawn (1995) by Fataneh Haj Sejed Javadi that portrays the tragic life of a woman who insisted on marrying a person who is not a suitable match for her. The author has shown the pains that this woman has to suffer because of her wrong choice in patriarchal society. The next novel is titled Don’t Worry (2008) by Mahsa Moheb Ali which deals with the life of an addicted girl named Shadi. She is the main character whose life is corrupted by family issues. Shadi wanders throughout the streets to find drug and ironically herself. My Bird (2002) by Fariba Vafi shows the life of an anonymous married woman who is stuck in her matrimonial life. The woman is neglected and cheated by her own husband. However, gradually she can come to a realization of her own self as a woman and redefines her own role. Having analyzed these three stories, it can be said that these three chosen novels match Showalter’s model of female writing development. It can be concluded that Hangover Dawn follows the first stage – feminine stage - Don’t Worry follows the second stage – feminist stage – and My Bird follows the third stage – female stage – that Showalter has proposed.
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Ngozi Dick, Angela. "Technique of Exploring Women’s Choice in Select Novels of El Sadaawi, Ba, Alkali and Adichie." English Linguistics Research 7, no. 3 (September 27, 2018): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v7n3p42.
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Women writers in Africa have enjoyed wider audience especially in higher institutions where the curriculum includes African Women Writers, Gender Studies and other related courses. African women writers may focus on a variety of subject matters but what is common to their literary art is that they concentrate on the experience of women. This article focuses on how the authors use their literary art to portray women’s experiences in their social melieu. Nawal El Sadaawi, Mariama Ba, Zaynab Alkali and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are women writers from Africa. The first three women are older and from Moslem background. Adichie is younger and from a Christian background. The choice made of the novels of these women is due to the recurrent problem of being a woman everywhere. In contemporary times women are still treated differently just because they are women. However, it has been observed that there is nothing intrinsic in women that depict them as the bad or inferior species of human beings. This article focuses on the commonality of style used by the select African novelists in couching the predicament of women in the African society. The novels chosen in this research are El Sadaawi’s Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile; Ba’s So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song; Alkali’s The Stillborn and The Virtuous Woman and Adichie’s Americanah.
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Dowdall, George W. "Casting the First Stone: Portraits of Men and Women on Both Sides of the Abortion War." Teaching Sociology 21, no. 1 (January 1993): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1318865.
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Sheets, Robin Ann. ""The Farcical History of Richard Greenow": Aldous Huxley and the Anxieties of Male Authorship." Keeping Ourselves Alive 3, no. 2-3 (January 1, 1993): 197–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.3.2-3.06far.
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Abstract Aldous Huxley's first piece of published fiction, "The Farcical History of Richard Greenow" (1920), reveals anxieties about authorship and sexual iden-tity that were typical of modernist male writers. This article situates this nou-vella in two contexts. The first concerns Huxley's relationship with his aunt, novelist and social activist Mary Augusta Arnold Ward; the second centers on medical theories of homosexuality presented by Havelock Ellis in Sexual Inversion (1897). The protagonist calls himself a spiritual hermaphrodite because his body is inhabited by two personalities: a male intellectual and an increasingly aggressive female novelist and war propagandist named Pearl Bellairs. As a caricature of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Pearl reveals Huxley's antagonism toward powerful and popular women novelists. But she also provides a way for protag-onist and author to defend themselves against same-sex eroticism. Ideology does not determine desire. Rather, in the story, as in Sexual Inversion, fears aroused by certain desires seek expression in specific cultural forms. (Literary criticism, psychological approach; gender studies)
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Nesbitt, Eleanor. "‘Woman Seems to Be Given Her Proper Place’: Western Women’s Encounter with Sikh Women 1809–2012." Religions 10, no. 9 (September 18, 2019): 534. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10090534.
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Over a period of two centuries, western women—travellers, army wives, administrators’ wives, missionaries, teachers, artists and novelists—have been portraying their Sikh counterparts. Commentary by over eighty European and north American ‘lay’ women on Sikh religion and society complements—and in most cases predates—publications on Sikhs by twentieth and twenty-first century academics, but this literature has not been discussed in the field of Sikh studies. This article looks at the women’s ‘wide spectrum of gazes’ encompassing Sikh women’s appearance, their status and, in a few cases, their character, and including their reactions to the ‘social evils’ of suttee and female infanticide. Key questions are, firstly, whether race outweighs gender in the western women’s account of their Sikh counterparts and, secondly, whether 1947 is a pivotal date in their changing attitudes. The women’s words illustrate their curious gaze as well as their varying judgements on the status of Sikh women and some women’s exercise of sympathetic imagination. They characterise Sikh women as, variously, helpless, deferential, courageous, resourceful and adaptive, as well as (in one case) ‘ambitious’ and ‘unprincipled’. Their commentary entails both implicit and explicit comparisons. In their range of social relationships with Sikh women, it appears that social class, Christian commitment, political stance and national origin tend to outweigh gender. At the same time, however, it is women’s gender that allows access to Sikh women and makes befriending—and ultimately friendship—possible.
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Gambaro, G., F. Marchini, A. Piccoli, M. A. Nassuato, F. Bilora, and B. Baggio. "The abnormal red-cell oxalate transport is a risk factor for idiopathic calcium nephrolithiasis: a prospective study." Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 7, no. 4 (April 1996): 608–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1681/asn.v74608.
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An abnormal erythrocyte transmembrane oxalate flux was described in recurrent idiopathic calcium nephrolithiasis. To verify whether it might represent a risk marker of renal stone disease, two prospective studies were carried out. One hundred ninety patients with idiopathic calcium nephrolithiasis who were enrolled at their first episode of lithiasis during the period 1984 to 1986, form the basis of the first prospective study. The impact of erythrocyte oxalate transport anomaly, gender, familial occurrence of nephrolithiasis, hypercalciuria, hyperoxaluria, and hyperuricosuria on stone recurrence by both bivariate and multivariate analysis of frequencies was assessed. The predictive value of the erythrocyte anomaly for a patient's becoming a stone former was also assessed in five nephrolithiasis families. Recurrence occurred in 57.9% of patients; this was significantly associated with the erythrocyte anomaly, hyperoxaluria, and male gender. However, when using multivariate analysis, only gender and the erythrocyte anomaly were statistically significant and were independent predictors of recurrency. The probability of stone recurrency predicted by the logistic model ranged from 30.1% for women with normal erythrocyte oxalate transport, to 73.4% for men with the erythrocyte anomaly. The family follow-up showed that only subjects with the erythrocyte abnormality become renal stone-formers in the 8-yr survey. By showing the predictive value of the erythrocyte oxalate anomaly for recurrent calcium nephrolithiasis, our findings support the notion that this anomaly is a risk factor in renal stone disease.
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Ghane, Fateme, and Amir Ali Nojoumian. "Modern Iranian Female Identity in Farhad Hassanzadeh's Hasti." International Research in Children's Literature 14, no. 2 (June 2021): 213–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2021.0398.
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Iranian women's first attempt at changing their social conditions dates back to the Qajar era, continuing up to the present time. In recent years, the traditional discourse on women in Iran has changed significantly, resulting in ongoing revisions concerning modern Iranian female gender identity. Yet, this new conception of identity has not been reflected in official Iranian media. Similarly, children's books usually depict women and girls mostly within pre-established ideological frameworks. However, a seminal publication project acted as a game-changer in 2010. ‘Today's Young Adult Fiction’, commissioned by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, invited many children's and adolescents' novelists to contribute to a collection of novels with a new outlook. Among the published books, some writers narrated women's issues and struggles in the guise of young adult literature. Hasti (2013), a novel by Farhad Hassanzadeh, comes from this project, emerging as an exemplar of protest against gender stereotypes. We argue that Hassanzadeh's book has been influenced by radical changes in gender identity in Iran's recent years, and in turn, this novel, among other literary and artistic works, may raise awareness and affect the process of change in Iranian society.
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Broomfield, Andrea L. "MUCH MORE THAN AN ANTIFEMINIST: ELIZA LYNN LINTON’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE RISE OF VICTORIAN POPULAR JOURNALISM." Victorian Literature and Culture 29, no. 2 (September 2001): 267–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150301002029.
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IT IS DIFFICULT TO DISCUSS the Victorian women’s rights movement and the antifeminist backlash which ensued without mentioning Eliza Lynn Linton’s contribution. Known primarily as the author of the notorious Saturday Review essay, “The Girl of the Period” (1868), Linton was and has been viewed primarily as an essayist who verbally lashed middle-class, progressive women. As late as the 1880s and 1890s, she maintained an active role in the woman-question debate, publishing her “Wild Women” essays, writing a New Woman novel, The New Woman in Haste and At Leisure, and reissuing her Girl of the Period (G.O.P) essays in volume form. Linton scholars have been particularly intrigued by the discrepancies between Linton’s emancipated lifestyle and the restricted one she advocated for other women. How could the first salaried woman journalist in England maintain such a hostile attitude towards her professionally inclined cohorts? More significantly, how could a woman who wrote one of the most radical, protofeminist novels of her time, Realities (1851), suddenly shift to promoting women’s subjection? Various, compelling answers have been offered to such questions. Vineta Colby, in The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century, and Elizabeth Helsinger, Robin Sheets, and William Veeder in The Woman Question. Society and Literature in Britain and America, 1837–1883 contend that the contradictions between Linton’s lifestyle and her antifeminist essays mirror Victorian England’s own contradictory attitudes regarding gender relations.1
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Selover, Stephanie. "Of Winged Women and Stone Tombs: Identity and Agency through Iron Age Lycian Mortuary Architecture." Religions 12, no. 8 (August 14, 2021): 643. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12080643.
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The people collectively named the Lycians in modern scholarship are the best represented of the western Anatolian first millennium BC cultures in terms of philological, historical, and archaeological data. This article seeks to better understand the meanings behind Iron Age Lycian mortuary monuments and religious images, and how they reflect Lycian identity and agency in a time of political turmoil. By studying the Lycian mortuary landscape, tombs and images, we can begin to comprehend Lycian perceptions of the afterlife, religion and cultural identity. In particular, we look to the images of the so-called “Harpies” and “Running Men” to better understand evidence of the afterlife, connections to the past and the creation of their own identity of what it means to be Lycian. The study of Lycian mortuary trends, monumental architecture, and religion gives us a small but tantalizing view into the Lycian understanding of religion and death, and how they wielded their own culture as a tool for survival in a politically fraught world.
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Byqvist, Siv. "Siv Byqvist: Cannabis, Amphetamine, or Opiates? Addicts' Choices of Drugs from First use to Established Abuse." Nordisk Alkoholtisdkrift (Nordic Alcohol Studies) 13, no. 5-6 (October 1996): 294–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1455072596013005-602.
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The progression of narcotics abuse from first use to regular use (> 2 days per week) to established abuse (a year prior to enrollment in a rehabilitation program) was analysed from a sample of 1 268 men and women in Sweden, who were interviewed at the beginning of treatment (BAK/SWEDATE-project). Cannabis was the most common initial substance, but amphetamine (CS), heroin (opiates) and hallucinogens were also cited. There were a number of paths from debut toward regular use and established abuse. However, from first use to regular use, most subjects continued with the initial substance. Between regular use and established abuse, subjects began using other substances as well. After approximately 10 years of abuse, extensive multiple drug abuse could be noted. Four main paths are described. Also cannabis, CS and heroin abuser progression is described. The results show significant gender differences. The progression was quicker for women: first use occurred earlier, the transition to regular use took place quickly and they were younger when they entered treatment. A larger share of women than men used heroin and amphetamine. Alcohol consumption was high and most extensive among cannabis-abusing women. The results are discussed in relation to earlier research on the stepping stone model and the drug career and show the importance of early intervention.
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Barber, Brian K., Clea McNeely, Chenoa Allen, Rita Giacaman, Cairo Arafat, Mahmoud Daher, Eyad El Sarraj, Mohammed Abu Mallouh, and Robert F. Belli. "Whither the “Children of the Stone”? An Entire Life under Occupation." Journal of Palestine Studies 45, no. 2 (2016): 77–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jps.2016.45.2.77.
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This article summarizes a uniquely thorough study of the first generation of Palestinians to have lived the whole of their lives under occupation. Findings from group interviews and large, representative surveys of men and women from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in 2011 draw a complex portrait of day-to-day life both currently and historically, including: widespread political activism that they continue to prize; high levels of exposure to often demeaning political violence and restriction of movement; limited access to basic resources, low employment stability and poverty; high levels of social cohesion, but also of lack of safety, political instability, fear for the future, stress, and feeling broken. Most were not optimistic in 2011 about the peace process but remained, confident in their ability to manage what the future brings. The findings also show that each of the three territories has unique types and levels of challenges.
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Jang, Dong Kee, Sang Hyub Lee, Dong Won Ahn, Woo Hyun Paik, Jae Min Lee, Jun Kyu Lee, Ji Kon Ryu, and Yong-Tae Kim. "Factors associated with complete clearance of difficult common bile duct stones after temporary biliary stenting followed by a second ERCP: a multicenter, retrospective, cohort study." Endoscopy 52, no. 06 (February 27, 2020): 462–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-1117-3393.
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Abstract Background Although temporary endoscopic biliary stenting is considered effective for difficult common bile duct (CBD) stones, few studies have investigated the optimal conditions for complete stone clearance at the second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) after temporary biliary stenting. We aimed to evaluate factors associated with complete clearance. Methods Patients with difficult CBD stones (a large [≥ 20 mm] or multiple [≥ 3 sized ≥ 15 mm] CBD stones) were retrospectively enrolled from three institutions. Patients who underwent temporary biliary stenting at the first ERCP were analyzed. Double-pigtail plastic stents (7 or 10 Fr) were placed with the proximal ends above the stones. Complete clearance rate and stone size reduction at the second ERCP, and factors associated with complete clearance were evaluated using univariate and multivariate analyses. Results 85 patients were enrolled (mean age 74.5 years [SD 11.3]; 47 women). Stone size and CBD diameter significantly decreased during the interval. The overall complete stone clearance rate was 64.7 % (55/85) at the second ERCP. The mean stone size reduction was 5.6 mm (SD 6.8). In multivariate analysis, complete clearance rate was significantly lower in male patients, in patients aged > 80 years, and in stones > 25 mm initially, but was significantly higher when 7-Fr stents were placed and stone size was reduced by > 5 mm. Conclusion Use of 7-Fr rather than 10-Fr plastic stents was beneficial for complete clearance of difficult CBD stones after temporary biliary stenting; older male patients as well as patients with initial stones > 25 mm had a lower clearance rate.
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Johinke, Rebecca. "BEHIND THE COVERS OF AUSTRALIAN ROLLING STONE: NEGOTIATING THE PERSONA OF A FEMALE MUSIC MAGAZINE EDITOR." Persona Studies 5, no. 1 (July 11, 2019): 75–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/psj2019vol5no1art843.
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Singers, songwriters and musicians create personas and perform the (gendered) role of rock star, punk, heart-throb, crooner, diva, or rock chick. Magazine covers are a key factor in consolidating and marketing that constructed persona. Magazine covers have visual power that is calibrated for maximum impact with a defined audience and a key part of the editor’s role is to decide on the cover image and cover lines. Moreover, there is now an expectation that editors of glossy magazines are recognisable ‘influencers’ who personify the values and commodities that their titles promote. We expect performers to put on a show, but do we expect music magazine editors to adopt a gendered celebrity persona and a public self too? This article examines the persona of the music magazine editor and the construction of music celebrity with a particular focus on Australian Rolling Stone magazine. Interviews with Kathy Bail and Elissa Blake, the first two women to edit the title in magazine format, underscore the self-fashioning of cultural intermediaries and the challenges for women in leadership roles in Australian media workplaces.
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Malathi, V. P. "Sufferings and Starvation in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve." Shanlax International Journal of English 9, no. 3 (June 1, 2021): 70–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v9i3.3992.
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Kamala Markandaya is one of the best known contemporary Indian novelists. Her novels are remarkable for their range of experience. Her first novel Nectar in a Sieve is set in a village and it examines the hard agricultural life of the south Indian village where industry and modern technology played havoc. Kamala Markandaya occupies a very important position among the women novelist who have made substantial contribution to Indian fiction after the Second World War. Markandaya had not always lived abroad. She was born as Kamala Purnaiya in 1924 in Mysore and she was also a journalist. At some point, she decided to spend 18 months in a village “out of curiosity”. This inspired the setting of her first novel, centred on Rukmani and her husband Nathan. Nectar in a Sieve is remarkable for its portrayal of rustics who live in fear, hunger and despair. It is of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of blackness of death. Almost all the characters in this novel lead miserable life and most of them fail to survive. There are at least a couple of them who were not successfully struggle and have the concept of survival. This novel tells the story of landless peasants of India who face starvation, oppression, breakup of family, home and death. Yet they retain their compassion, love, the strength to face their life and take delight in the little pleasures of the daily existence.
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Stanley-Price, Nicholas. "The Old Cemetery for Foreigners in Rome with a new Inventory of its burials." Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 13 (November 2, 2020): 187–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-13-08.
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From at least 1716 until formal closure of the Cemetery in 1822, non-Catholic foreigners dying in Rome were usually buried adjacent to the Pyramid of Gaius Cestius in Testaccio. Some 80 stone monuments in the Old Cemetery were systematically recorded in the 1980s. To these can now be added a similar number of burials known from travel accounts and archival sources. This new, combined Inventory of 157 entries provides notes on the life and death in Rome for each individual. Its information modifies current perceptions that the Old Cemetery burials reflect mainly an élite, male population of Grand Tourists and aristocrats. Women are better represented, as are a wide range of professions, crafts, and domestic roles. A reassessment of the Cemetery’s layout leads to conclusions about its original extent, the first appearance of stone memorials in the 1760s, and the deliberate planning of graves in a burial-ground usually considered as lacking any organizing principle.
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Talwar, Harkirat Singh, Vikas Kumar Panwar, Rudra Prasad Ghorai, and Ankur Mittal. "Catastrophic complications of urolithiasis in pregnancy." BMJ Case Reports 14, no. 5 (May 2021): e241597. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-241597.
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Urolithiasis is the most common non-obstetric complication in pregnancy and has the potential to cause grave consequences resulting in pregnancy loss. We present two such cases. First, a 24-year-old woman, 5 weeks pregnant with a history of urolithiasis presented with right flank pain and fever. She was found to have a right perinephric collection and during the course of her treatment suffered an abortion. The second case was a 25-year-old woman who presented in septic shock. She underwent emergency lower segment caesarean section elsewhere 10 days ago for intrauterine death at 38 weeks of gestation. On evaluation, she was found to have bilateral stone disease with a left subcapsular haematoma. Both the cases were managed conservatively and are planned for definitive management. Thus, women of childbearing age with diagnosed urolithiasis should get themselves evaluated and be free of stone disease before planning a family to prevent increased obstetric complications during pregnancy.
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Thouaille, Marie-Alix. "“Nice White Ladies Don’t Go Around Barefoot”." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 10 (December 16, 2015): 96–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.10.06.
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Not only is The Help(2009; 2011) a text within which a white woman author (Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, played by Emma Stone) profits from the lives of women of colour, but it is also a text originally written by a white woman author (Kathryn Stockett) who profits from the real and/or imagined lives of women of colour. Both authors rely on the invisibility of their whiteness and white privilege in order to inhabit, and, appropriate from, marginalised subjectivities. Through an analysis of The Help’s filmic strategies for inscribing whiteness as a form of absence, this article posits that women of colour are erased and excluded by our continuing cultural reluctance to “see” whiteness and its privileges. I go on to argue that the film simultaneously offers a sceptical reading of Stockett’s and Skeeter’s appropriative projects, finding ways to make characters’ whiteness visible, embodied and accountable. Only in interrogating this cultural invisibility can we contest the ways in which neoliberalism and postracism interplay to reify middle-class whiteness as the default subject position for women in screen media in the twenty-first century.
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Winters, Jeffrey. "Have Duct Tape, Will Travel." Mechanical Engineering 127, no. 06 (June 1, 2005): 40–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2005-jun-4.
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This article discusses how Amy Smith, a mechanical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, has turned simple materials into life-changing tools. One of the first was developing a new type of grain mill that could revolutionize the lives of women in the Third World. A motor-driven mill can accomplish the same task in just a couple of minutes, but motorized mills are difficult to come by and expensive to maintain. Smith realized that coming up with a simpler, cheaper mill would be a boon for many families. Often in underdeveloped areas, this grinding must be done by hand, with women crushing the kernels between a rock or mortar and a flat stone or bowl. Smith’s group has developed a clamp for controlling intravenous fluid that could help nurses care for more patients during an epidemic.
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Verjus, Anne. "Une société sans pères peut-elle être féministe ?" French Historical Studies 42, no. 3 (August 1, 2019): 359–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00161071-7558292.
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PrécisL'empire des Nairs, publié en 1793, imagine une société dans laquelle mariage et paternité ont été abolis. L'amour et la sexualité y sont libres pour les deux sexes. Les femmes sont payées par l'Etat pour s'occuper des enfants. Les hommes, libérés de toute responsabilité paternelle, placent leur énergie au service de la science ou de la guerre. Lawrence, l'auteur de cette utopie qui connaît de multiples éditions en allemand, anglais et français, se réclame du féminisme. Mais une société qui charge exclusivement les femmes du soin des enfants peut-elle être considérée comme féministe ? Promouvoir l'amour libre, à une époque où l'on ne maîtrise pas la contraception, n'est-il pas une vision androcentrée de l'égalité des sexes ? On répond à ces questions en comparant les propositions de Lawrence avec la législation française et les romans féministes anglais sur le mariage et la paternité dans l'espace transnational de la cause des femmes des années 1790.The Empire of the Nairs, first published in 1793, imagines a society in which marriage and paternity would be abolished. Love and sexuality would be free for both sexes. Girls and boys would receive the same education. Mothers, not fathers, would give their name to children. Women would be paid by the state for taking care of children, while daughters and sons would inherit from the maternal lineage. Fathers, by contrast, having no familial obligations, would reserve their sexual energy for love, genius, or war. Lawrence, the English author of this utopia, considered himself a feminist. But how can a society that places the entire burden of raising children on women be feminist? Wasn't advocating free love, in a time with no contraception, an androcentric point of view? Only by examining the way French legislators and English feminist novelists during the 1790s thought about marriage and paternity can we answer these questions.
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Entwistle, Alice. "Counting Form: Gender and the Geometries of Address, in Frances Presley and Carol Watts." Humanities 9, no. 2 (June 3, 2020): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9020048.
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This essay treats two innovative site-specific sequences produced by women in the first decade of the twenty first century. Both are explicitly interested in the relationship between geometry, writing (as material and political practice) and geo-cultural space, a relationship each finds inflected to some extent by gender emphases. Starting from the premise that any piece of writing is itself a place, the essay considers the self-conscious textualities of its primary texts—one concerned with Exmoor; the other with a sheep-farm in rural mid-Wales—in the light of their different, if similarly rural and relatively remote, contexts. Presley’s ‘Stone Settings’ explores the relationship between some of the quasi-geometrical Neolithic stone arrangements dotted across Exmoor, and the mediation of their apparently Euclidean sometimes barely visible forms in/as text. Watts’ work-in-progress Zeta Landscape mobilises in the ‘analytical’ or ‘projective’ (ie non-Euclidean) geometry of its title the complex weave of routine care-giving and accountancy charging the contemporary (Michel Foucault’s ‘distributive’) pastoral. Both sequences wryly suggest that poetic form can finally no more adequately figure place than the abstractions of mathematical discourse can utter the cultural ecology of any environment, however concrete-seeming. Aided by Jacques Derrida’s powerful essay ‘White Mythology’, the account comes to rest on the equally equivocal recognition of the in/effectuality of metaphor in any kind of address, critical or creative.
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Grasso, Linda. "Masking Volcanic Anger: The Repressive World of 19th-Century White Female Emotional Culture." Prospects 27 (October 2002): 27–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300001125.
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In the antebellum period, gendered ideologies of anger made it difficult, if not impossible, for many women to acknowledge that their feelings of disappointment were masking their feelings of anger. Instructed that domesticity was their highest calling, their sole reason for being, more often than not, revolutionary white daughters were disappointed when they encountered its constrictions. “In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman,” Lucy Stone, one such daughter, declared. “From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman. When, with my brothers, I reached forth after the sources of knowledge, I was reproved with ‘It isn't fit for you; it doesn't belong to women.’… I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being — every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper” (Schneir, 106–109).
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Mehrabi, Sadrollah, Parisa Behnam, Leila Manzouri, and Amir Mehrabi. "Comparison efficacy and side effects of combined cystone and hydrochlorothiazide with cystone monotherapy in treatment and passage of upper urinary stones; a randomized clinical trial." Journal of Renal Injury Prevention 8, no. 3 (May 23, 2019): 211–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/jrip.2019.39.
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Introduction: Urinary stones are one of the most common and painful diseases of humans after urinary tract infections and prostate diseases. Objectives: The aim of this study was comparing the efficacy and complications of combined cystone and hydrochlorothiazide with cystone monotherapy in the treatment of upper urinary stones. Patients and Methods: In this randomized clinical trial 80 patients older than 15 years old with renal and ureteral stones less than 10 mm after taking informed consent form were allocated randomly in one of two groups. Patients with azotemia, hydronephrosis, bothersome pain and pregnant women were excluded. In the first group, combinations of cystone and hydrochlorothiazide tablets (every 12 hours, two 100 mg cystone and 25 mg hydrochlorothiazide) were prescribed. In the second group, cystone were prescribed as the first group. One month later, patients were followed by kidney, ureter, and bladder x-ray (KUB) and ultrasonography and the success of treatment was determined by changing the size of stones and report of stone passage by the patients. All data were collected and analyzed by SPSS software version 23 and statistical tests. Results: The mean age of the patients in combined and single groups were 48.02±13.72 and 44.15 ± 14.86(P = 0.24) years respectively. The mean size of stone after treatment in two groups was 1.72±0.98 and 1.85±0.78 mm respectively (P=0.53). Regarding efficacy of combined and single group, more than 90% of the patients reported stones passage after the intervention (P=0.06). There were no significant differences in mean blood urea (P=0.38) and serum creatinine (P=0.53) after treatment in two groups. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that combination of cystone and hydrochlorothiazide do not increase the efficacy of cystone in treatment and passage of urinary stones, although in both groups stone passage significantly increased.
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Windsor, Tara Talwar. "Marginalized Memories and Multi-Layered Narratives of the Great War in Kamila Shamsie’s A God In Every Stone (2014)." Forum for Modern Language Studies 56, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 229–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqaa005.
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Abstract Taking Kamila Shamsie’s 2014 war novel A God in Every Stone as its core case study, this article examines the development of increasingly complex, heterogeneous and inclusive understandings and memories of the Great War in the twenty-first century. It demonstrates how the novel’s complex and intricate narrative, as well as its paratextual framing and much of its reception, offer a timely engagement with a range of hitherto hidden or marginalized histories, particularly in relation to the role of women and experiences of South Asian soldiers, as well as with colonial violence and anti-colonial resistance in the war’s aftermath. At the same time, the novel underscores the ambivalences contained in those stories. Through this analysis, the article considers the extent to which A God in Every Stone can be seen as a ‘more expansive form of commemoration [...] with the scope for multiple narratives’.1 The novel is also ‘historically and ethically responsible’, not least in its critical reflection on the purposes, practices and power structures behind longer-standing historical narratives and cultural memories of the war itself and the (imperial) past in a post-colonial global context.
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Muñoz-Comet, Jacobo, and Stephanie Steinmetz. "Trapped in Precariousness? Risks and Opportunities of Female Immigrants and Natives Transitioning from Part-Time Jobs in Spain." Work, Employment and Society 34, no. 5 (April 8, 2020): 749–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017020902974.
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Using panel data from the Spanish Labour Force Survey (2008–2016), we explore the risks and opportunities of job transitions (to unemployment, inactivity, full-time work and promotion) of female immigrants and natives in part-time work. This is the first study examining the two possible functions of part-time employment (stepping stone or trap) for different types of women across different working time categories. It contributes to the ongoing discussion about the function of non-standard work by applying an intersectional lens. Our results confirm that the signalling of different types of part-time job works positively, although the signal is weaker for immigrant women, particularly for those working in marginal and substantial part-time employment. The main sociodemographic and structural drivers of labour transitions explain only partially the gross migrant–native differences. As female immigrants experience a stronger outsider position, additional determinants of signalling beyond human capital and labour market segmentation factors might be at work.
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Çeçen, Kürşat, and Kahraman Ülker. "The Comparison of Double J Stent Insertion and Conservative Treatment Alone in Severe Pure Gestational Hydronephrosis: A Case Controlled Clinical Study." Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/989173.
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Objective. Management options of gestational hydronephrosis are based on the coexisting stone disease, pyelonephritis, and renal disease. However, the management option and its consequences in the absence of a coexisting disease state are not clear. In this study we aimed to compare the effectiveness of conservative treatment and double J insertion in symptomatic pure gestational hydronephrosis.Material and Methods. The data of the women with severe pure gestational hydronephrosis over a nine-year period was collected retrospectively. The included women were grouped into two according to receiving double J stent insertion or conservative treatments.Results. Double J insertion and conservative treatment groups included 24 and 29 women, respectively. Hydronephrosis was demonstrated on the right, left, or both kidneys in 37 (70%), 13 (24%), and 3 (6%) women, respectively. None of the participants gave birth prior to the 37th week. The demographics, initial pain scores, the severity of the hydronephrosis during first admission, and pain scores one week after the interventions did not differ significantly between groups (P>0.05). Similarly, the rates of complications, postpartum pain scores, and permanent hydronephrosis did not differ between groups (P>0.05).Conclusion. Double J insertion in symptomatic pure gestational hydronephrosis adds no benefit to conservative treatment.
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Horton, Mark. "Asiatic colonization of the East African coast: the Manda evidence." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 118, no. 2 (April 1986): 201–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0035869x00139899.
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The history of early settlement of the East African coast is currently interpreted in widely differing ways. One view takes as its premise the idea that the coast was first colonized from Asia. This hypothesis, which has its roots in the work of XlXth century historians suggests that there was substantial settlement by non-Africans who established trading and religious communities. These colonies formed the basis of what has come to be known as the Swahili Culture. At first defensible peninsulas and offshore islands were chosen as safe refuges from the African tribes of the interior. Eventually contact was established between these new communities and the African coastal peoples, to the benefit of both parties. Raw materials were obtained from the hinterland of these trading outposts, which were traded and taken across the Western Indian Ocean on the seasonal monsoons. The foreign merchants married local African women and an Afro-Arab culture developed, building stone towns, mosques, and tombs, that still remain today along the coastline from Somalia to Mozambique.
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Panin, S. I., A. V. Bykov, A. B. Doronin, A. A. Kuznetsov, S. V. Shchelkov, A. A. Panina, E. A. Morozov, and S. N. Karpenko. "EVALUATION OF TREATMENT RESULTS OF UROLITHIASIS COMPLICATIONS AMONG COVID-19 PATIENTS." Novosti Khirurgii 29, no. 3 (July 25, 2021): 318–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.18484/2305-0047.2021.3.318.
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Objective. To study the peculiarities of diagnostics and treatment of urolithiasis complications among patients with new coronavirus infection COVID-19. Methods. The prospective cohort study evaluated the treatment outcomes of patients (n=146). The first group (n=30) included patients treated in infectious diseases hospital with a complicated urinary calculi disease and a new coronavirus infection COVID-19, the second group (n=116) included patients treated in the urological department of multidisciplinary non-infectious hospital due to complicated urinary tract stone disease who were not infected by new coronavirus infection COVID-19. As for COVID 19 diagnostics, patients of the first group were done PCR tests that were positive in 19 (63,3%) cases, and thoracic cavity computer tomography scanning (upon admission the percentage of pulmonary tissue involvement varied since 5% up to 90%). Results. Among the patients of the first group, elderly people prevailed (61+15 years) and there were more women among them (66%). The characteristic features of complicated urinary calculi disease in patients with COVID-19 are the prevalence of infectious and inflammatory complications (50%) and a combination of several complications of urolithiasis (40%). Among peculiarities of treatment, patients of the first group in 6.6% of cases underwent the lumbotomy with open nephrostomy, due to the spread of secondary suppurative process over the retroperitoneal space. According to the Clavien-Dindo scale, in the first group of patients the incidence of complications after surgery was 40%, in the second - 13.8%. Mortality rate in the first group reached 30%, in the second - 0.9%. The duration of hospital treatment among patients of the first group reached 21 (5-39) days, among patients of the second group - 8 (1-56) days. Conclusion. The specificity of the course associated with significant morbidity and mortality require further optimization therapeutic approachesto achieve success in patientswith complications of urolithiasis duringCOVID-19outbreak. What this paper adds The peculiarities of diagnostics and treatment of urinary tract stone disease complications among patients with new coronavirus infection COVID-19 have been studied. It is shown that the typical differences of patients with complicated urolithiasis and new coronavirus infection COVID-19 are elderly and old age, being a female, prevalence of pyelonephritis and paranephritis in clinical presentations, and presence of several combined complications of the urolithiasis. Mortality rate upon complicated urolithiasis and new coronavirus infection COVID-19 since the pandemic onset has reached 30% that demands optimization of treatment approaches in patients of this group.
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Stojanoski, Ivica, Toni Krstev, Lazar Iievski, Nerhim Tufekgioski, and Sotir Stavridis. "Treatment of Moderate-sized Kidney Stone with Third-generation Electromagnetic Shock Wave Lithotripter." Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences 8, B (August 30, 2020): 851–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2020.5258.
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BACKGROUND: The extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) is a non-invasive method in the treatment of urinary tract stones and its discovery has led to a complete change in the therapeutic strategy for urolithiasis. Due to the low morbidity and excellent fragmentation of the stones, ESWL has proven to be an effective and non-invasive method in the treatment of renal stones.
AIM: The aim of this retrospective study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the ESWL as a monotherapy in the treatment of moderate size kidney stones with stone area (SA) of 100–300 mm².
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We made a retrospective study of 98 patients with moderate size kidney stones with SA of 100–300 mm², divided into two subgroups, into a group with a SA of 100–200 mm² and with 200–300 mm², treated with ESWL in the period of November 2018–December 2019. The patients were treated with a third-generation electromagnetic lithotripter (Lithoskop®, Siemens Medical Systems, Erlangen, Germany), with a source of electromagnetic shocks (Pulso™) and dual ultrasonographic/fluoroscopic system for detection of the stones. The stone location, size, maximum energy used, localization technique, number of shock waves, sessions, re-treatment rate, and additional procedures were reviewed. All the patients before the intervention had a complete laboratory and radiological examinations. Postoperatively, patients were monitored on the 1st, 30th, and 90th post-operative days.
RESULTS: Ninety-eight patients with solitary kidney stone with a SA of 100–300 mm² were treated with ESWL. The study included 58 men (59.18%) and 44 women (40.81%). The average length and width of the stone were 15.47 ± 2.68 mm and 12.99 ± 2.83 mm, respectively. The average surface area of the stones in our series was 203.78 ± 72.85 mm². The mean number of treatments for the entire series of patients was 1.82 ± 0.91. The mean number of shock waves for the total series of patients was 3899.11 ± 40. The mean energy used for the overall patient series was 110106.17 ± 21489.61 mJ. The total re-treatment rate was 47.95%. The entire rate of additional procedures was 19.38%. The overall success rate (SR) in our study was 77.55%. The efficiency quotient for the upper-middle and lower calyx was 55.57, 57.15, and 30.81, respectively.
CONCLUSION: ESWL is a safe and effective method in the treatment of renal stones, and we recommend as the first method in the treatment of moderate size kidney stone with a surface area of 100–300 mm². The treatment of each patient should be individualized and take into account all favored and non-favored factors that influence the decision to choose extracorporeal lithotripsy as a method of treatment of medium-sized stones.
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Morgan, Jenny. "The Power of Storytelling: a Quest for a Public Discourse on Sexual Harassment." International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 7, no. 1-4 (September 2005): 5–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135822910500700402.
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This article explores the possible reasons for the absence of a public discourse about sexual harassment in Australia, which can be contrasted with a relatively well-developed legal discourse. It also briefly compares the debate about sexual harassment in the United States and Australia that followed in the wake of controversial and very public sexual harassment cases in each country. It argues that the debate in the wake of the Clarence Hill-Anita Thomas hearings in the United States was much more productive than the debate in Australia after the publication of Helen Garner’s book, The First Stone. The discussion in Australia focused on whether the young women in the case had ‘over-reacted’ and whether there were generational differences in women’s reactions to sexual harassment. The more interesting (and I would argue, far more important) questions of what is sexual harassment is and what are its effects were ignored. This article goes on to explore one aspect of what sexual harassment is and does by examining what women actually do in response to sexual harassment through an analysis of some of the stories of targets of harassment as they appear in the law reports. In this way it tries to make some of the legal discourse about sexual harassment a part of the public discourse about the phenomenon.
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Wright, Katherine I. "The Social Origins of Cooking and Dining in Early Villages of Western Asia." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 66 (2000): 89–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x0000178x.
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This paper explores social customs of cooking and dining as farming emerged in the earliest villages of Palestine and Jordan (12,650–6850 cal BC). The approach is a spatial analysis of in situ hearths, pits, bins, benches, platforms, activity areas, caches, and ground stone artefacts. Mortars, pestles, and bowls first appear in significant numbers in base camps of semi-sedentary Natufian hunter-gatherers. Elaborate and decorated, these artefacts imply a newly formal social etiquette of food-sharing. They were used within houses, near hearths, and in outdoor areas. The earliest farmers of the Khiamian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A used simple, mostly undecorated, ground stone tools. One-room houses were often fitted with a hearth and a small mortar in the centre, features that also occur in outdoor areas. In the Early and Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, firepits, milling stations, and storage features were placed on porches and outdoor areas near house doors. These areas formed a transition zone between house and community, where food preparation provided opportunities for social contacts. The most private rooms in houses were supplied with benches, platforms, and decorated hearths, and probably sheltered household meals. In the Late PPNB, when some villages grew to unprecedented sizes, storage, and cooking facilities were placed in constricted, private spaces comparatively hidden from community view. Numerous milling tools and multiple milling stations in individual houses suggest intensification of production of prepared foods. It is argued that adult women bore the brunt of the increased labour and that these activities placed them under new restrictions of daily activity and visibility in relation to village communities.
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Stepanova, N., N. Stashevska, L. Lebid, and M. Kolesnyk. "EFFECTS OF LACTIC ACID BACTERIA PROBIOTIC ON URINARE OXALATE EXCRETION AND PREVENTION OF RECURRENT PYELONEPHRITIS." Ukrainian Journal of Nephrology and Dialysis, no. 4(56) (October 24, 2017): 37–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31450/ukrjnd.4(56).2017.03.
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The present study was performed to evaluate the ability of Lactobacillus probiotics to reduce the urinary oxalate excretion level and prevent recurrent pyelonephritis.
Methods. The open, 6 months randomized controlled trial was followed up. 80 women with recurrent pyelonephritis, caused by E. coli or S. faecalis, were randomly allocated into 2 groups. The 1st Group (n = 40) took Symbiform® which contained acidophilic and plantar Lactobacilli, Lactococci (lactis and cremoris), Bifidobacteria (adolescentis and bifidum) and thermophilic non–pathogenic Streptococcus. The 2nd one (n = 40) received oxalate–soluble herbal remedy Uronefron® containing 188 mg of city extract from 9 plants. Probiotic was prescribed in a dose of 1 sachet 2 times a day during the first 5 days, followed by a dose reduction of 1 sachet per day for a month. Uronefron® was prescribed in a dose of 3 pills a day for a month.
Results. 1 month after the end of the treatment, microbiological studies of the colon microflora demonstrated the increasing level of Lactobacillus spp. colonization more than 7 million CPU/1 g of faeces: 35/40 (87.5 %) in the patients of the 1st Group vs 6/40 (15 %) in the women of the comparison Group f/f = 41.5; p < 0.0001).
The levels of daily urinary oxalate excretion were significantly decreased in both groups: the patients of Probiotic Group: 117.6 ± 11.7 vs 71.9 ± 10.07mg/d after the treatment (p < 0.0001) and 122.02 ± 17 vs 84.8 ± 9.8 mg/d (p < 0.0001) in the women of the 2nd Group, respectively.
In the 6 months preceding randomization, at least 1 recurrence of pyelonephritis occurred in 2/40 (5 %) women of the Probiotic Group and 9/40 (22.5 %) in the patients of Group II (//= 5,1; p = 0,02).
Conclusions. The use of lactobacillus probiotics in non–stone fanners women with recurrent pyelonephritis increases the quantitative content of Lactobacillus spp. in the gut, reduces daily urinary oxalate excretion and the number of pyelonephritis recurrences.
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Baranova, I. A., T. A. Zykova, and A. V. Baranov. "Features of the clinical course of nephrolithiasis in patients with hyperparathyroidism." Kazan medical journal 102, no. 2 (April 6, 2021): 192–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/kmj2021-192.
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Aim. To assess the incidence of kidney stone disease and to identify its clinical course in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism.
Methods. 48 medical records of patients hospitalized with primary hyperparathyroidism were retrospectively analyzed. The average age of the patients was 57 [53; 61] years. The medical history, complaints upon admission, the clinical presentation, the results of laboratory test and instrumental examination were studied in evaluating the medical records. The patients were divided into the group with nephrolithiasis (n=33) and the group without nephrolithiasis (n=15). The differences between the two groups were tested for statistical significance by the MannWhitney U test.
Results. Among patients with primary hyperparathyroidism, nephrolithiasis was detected in 69% of patients, of which 90% were women in the postmenopausal period. The course of the kidney stone disease in these patients was characterized by frequent recurrence with a predominance of bilateral renal impairment (62%). The duration of nephrolithiasis before the diagnosis of primary hyperparathyroidism was 6 [1; 19] years, and this complication was often the first manifestation of the disease. According to the instrumental examination of kidney in patients with nephrolithiasis, small stones up to 5 mm in diameter were detected in 42% of cases, asymptomatic kidney stones in 15% of cases. A severe complication of primary hyperparathyroidism staghorn calculi were found in 2 (10%) patients. The patients in the group with nephrolithiasis showed higher serum calcium (p=0.022) and parathyroid hormone (p=0.007) levels compared with patients in the group without nephrolithiasis.
Conclusion. Nephrolithiasis is a common complication of primary hyperparathyroidism; the presence of nephrolithiasis is associated with more significant changes in calcium and phosphate metabolism and is also characterized by a frequent asymptomatic course, thus requiring attention of specialists to this type of complications in primary hyperparathyroidism.
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Chen, Wen-Chi, San-Yuan Wu, Po-Chi Liao, Tzu-Yang Chou, Huey-Yi Chen, Jen-Huai Chiang, Yuan-Chih Su, Kee-Ming Man, Ming-Yen Tsai, and Yung-Hsiang Chen. "Treatment of Urolithiasis with Medicinal Plant Salvia miltiorrhiza: A Nationwide Cohort Study." Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2018 (2018): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/8403648.
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Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (Danshen), a common medicinal plant in traditional Chinese medicine, has been tested effectively to prevent urolithiasis in animals; nevertheless, the clinical application for urolithiasis remains unclear. We thus investigated the clinical effect of Danshen by analyzing the database from the Taiwan National Institute of Health. The cohort “Danshen-users” was prescribed Chinese herb medicine Danshen after the initial diagnosis of calculus. The control group (non-Danshen-users) was not given Danshen after the initial diagnosis of calculus. The date of first using Danshen after new diagnosis date of calculus was considered as index date. The outcome variables were categorized into two categories: the first category included calculus surgical treatment, including extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, ureteroscopy, percutaneous nephrostomy with fragmentation, and ureterolithotomy; the second category included any bleeding disorders, including gastrointestinal bleeding, intracranial hemorrhage, and blood transfusions. The incidence of calculus surgical treatment in the Danshen-users was less than that in the non-Danshen-users: 1.071% in 1,000 person-years (200 people followed up for 5 years) and 3.142% in 1,000 person-years, respectively. The adjusted hazard ratio for calculus surgical treatment in the Danshen-users was 0.34 (95% confidence intervals: 0.31–0.38) as compared to the non-Danshen-users. When stratified by sex, the incidence of calculus surgical treatment in Danshen-users was 0.685% in 1,000 person-years and 1.575% in 1,000 person-years for women and men, respectively, which was lower than that in non-Danshen-users. Danshen decreased the ratio of subsequent stone treatment after the first treatment in the study population; there was no increased bleeding risk due to long-term Danshen use.
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Gal-Or, Noemi. "Is the Law Empowering or Patronizing Women? The Dilemma in the French Burqa Decision as the Tip of the Secular Law Iceberg." Religion & Human Rights 6, no. 3 (March 10, 2011): 315–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187103211x592604.
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The article analyses a French seminal legal award which served as a stepping stone in the recent French debate concerning the legislation banning women from wearing the Burqa headscarf in public. Under this wording—Burqa—a special style of the hijab—a scarf donned by Muslim women—is being targeted. It represents a more extreme form of covering: The Burqa is worn by the Pashtun women of Pakistan and in Afghanistan and covers the body from head to toes in a continuous piece of fabric, whereas the veil banned in France also includes the niqab which may or may not cover the entire body, and allows visibility of the eyes but not the entire face. In the relevant debate, gender equality has been the banner hoisted by court and parliamentarians purporting to protect women against the unsettling impact of the Burqa. This article represents a critical study of this claim. The article describes and analyses the ambivalent tenor of the Burqa Decision and arrives at two main conclusions. First, having distinguished two key values addressed (directly and indirectly) by the Conseil d’État—equality and freedom—the article concludes that although hailed as defying gender discrimination, the judgment must also be construed as contributing to inequality among women. The award remains just as unclear in regards to the protection of freedom of religious expression suggesting that women equality offers only one among other explanations for this ruling. Second, the article’s analysis applies several feminist approaches to the Burqa Decision and finds that the pluralist feminist discourse results in different and inconsistent potential resolutions to the case. The upshot is that the Burqa Decision, which was taken as a strong condemnation of a practise said to be symbolising the subjugation of the female to male domination, was confirming a view espoused largely by Western secular women. In doing so, and given the approval by France’s mainstream society, the award appears to have empowered this particular segment in the female population. At the same time however, the tribunal also stated the obvious namely, that gender equality has been serving as a powerful tool in the adjudicative struggle between secularism and religion. While women’s struggle for gender equality, especially in politics and the economy, has been protracted and not yet fully achieved, the comparatively brief and hurried commitment to gender equality at the intersection of religion and secularism, suggest that gender equality was not the only priority on the adjudicator’s mind, hence is not necessarily the ultimate winner of this award.
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AlAmeel, Turki, Vincent Bain, and Gurpal Sandha. "Clinical Application of a Single-Operator Direct Visualization System Improves the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Yield of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography." Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology 27, no. 1 (2013): 15–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/278758.
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BACKGROUND: Single-operator cholangioscopy enables direct diagnostic visualization and therapeutic intervention in the biliary tree. There is increasing evidence of its clinical utility in the assessment of biliary strictures and treatment of difficult stones.OBJECTIVE: To describe the first reported Canadian experience with managing biliary disease using single-operator cholangioscopy.METHODS: The present study was a retrospective analysis of data collected from all sequential patients undergoing single-operator cholangioscopy for assessment of biliary strictures and treatment of biliary stones. The main outcome measures were the ability to make an overall diagnosis of stricture (based on visual appearances and tissue histology), and to fragment and extract biliary stones.RESULTS: Thirty patients (17 women), mean age 66 years (range 41 to 89 years) underwent single-operator cholangioscopy. In biliary strictures (20 patients), overall accuracy for visual and tissue diagnosis was 84% and 81%, respectively. Successful electrohydraulic lithotripsy with stone clearance was achieved in 90% of the 10 patients who failed previous conventional therapy. The mean (± SD) procedure time was 61±21 min (range 20 min to 119 min). One patient developed mild postendoscopic retrograde cholangioscopy pancreatitis.CONCLUSION: The results of this experience reaffirms the clinical utility and safety of single-operator cholangioscopy for the management of biliary pathology. Further improvements can be achieved with increasing operator experience and refinements in optical technology.
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Chen, Q., C. Viall, P. R. Stone, and L. W. Chamley. "432. How do antiphospholipid antibodies contribute to preeclampsia?" Reproduction, Fertility and Development 20, no. 9 (2008): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/srb08abs432.
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Preeclampsia is characterised by elevated maternal blood pressure which is preceded by endothelial activation. The cause of this endothelial cell dysfunction is unclear but it appears to be triggered by a placental factor. One of the risk factors for developing preeclampsia is the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) in the maternal blood but exactly how aPL predispose women to developing preeclampsia is unclear. A second feature known to be associated with preeclampsia is excessive shedding and deportation of dead trophoblasts. We have previously shown that shed trophoblasts are phagocytosed by endothelial cells and that phagocytosis of necrotic trophoblasts leads to endothelial cell activation1. In this study we examined the hypothesis that aPL alter the number or nature of trophoblasts shed from the placenta resulting in endothelial cell activation. Using our published model of trophoblast shedding 2 human first trimester placental explants were treated with monoclonal aPL, IIC5 or ID2, or control antibody CD45 for 72 h. Shed trophoblasts then were harvested and counted using a Cellometer AutoT4 automated cell counter. The activity of caspases 3&7 was analysed in all treated shed trophoblasts using a FLICA™ kit. The treated shed trophoblasts also were exposed to the endothelial cell line HMEC-1 for 24 h. The level of ICAM-1 by HMEC-1 was determined by cell-based ELISA. The number of trophoblasts shed from placental explants was increased 2 fold following aPL treatment whereas, treatment with CD45 resulted in only a 1.3 fold increase in shedding. Trophoblasts shed from aPL-treated explants contained less active caspases 3 & 7 compared with control shed trophoblasts. Moreover, phagocytosis of trophoblasts shed from aPL-treated explants induced significantly increased expression of ICAM-1 compared with controls. aPL treatment affected the number and nature of trophoblasts shed from placentae in such a way that phagocytosing endothelium become activated. These findings suggest that aPL treatment may have shifted the type of cell death that shed trophoblasts are undergoing from apoptosis to a more necrotic or aponecrotic mechanism. This type of shedding of trophoblasts in vivo might contribute to the endothelial cell activation which is a hallmark feature of preeclampsia. (1) Chen Q, Stone PR, McCowan LM et al. Phagocytosis of necrotic but not apoptotic trophoblasts induces endothelial cell activation. Hypertension. 2006;47:116–121. (2) Abumaree MH, Stone PR, Chamley LW. An in vitro model of human placental trophoblast deportation/shedding. Mol Hum Reprod. 2006;12:687–694.
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Patil, Girija, Siddarth Srinivasan, and Sriram Prabhu Pandireddiyar Janakiraman. "Correlation between serum ferritin and gall stones." International Surgery Journal 7, no. 6 (May 26, 2020): 1862. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20202397.
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Background: The incidence of gall stones is in increasing trend. The old axiom that a typical gall stone sufferer is a fat, fertile, female of fifty, is only partially true, as the disease is found in women soon after their first delivery, in underweight and thin people. So, while searching for other parameters, iron deficiency was found to be a new parameter of interest in the aetiology of gall stones.7Methods: 50 cases of cholelithiasis and 40 cases of anaemia with low serum ferritin levels from September 2017 to August 2019 was studied. Serum iron was estimated by carbonyl metallo-immunoassay method. Serum cholesterol was estimated by the CHOD-POD Enzymatic method. Biliary cholesterol was estimated after extraction of biliary lipids from bile from the gallbladder specimen of the patients by the method of Folch et al which was followed by the procedure similar to the analysis of serum cholesterol by CHOD-POD enzymatic method. Fischer’s chi square exact test was used as statistical method.Results: It was observed that 70% of the group A study group with cholelithiasis had normal serum ferritin levels and 30% had low serum ferritin levels. It was observed that 95% had normal sonographic findings and 5% had cholelithiasis with normal ferritin levels in group B.Conclusions: In our study low serum ferritin levels with cholelithiasis was associated with raised bile cholesterol levels and so it can be concluded that low serum ferritin level is causing biliary stasis and hence leading to increase in the incidence of cholelithiasis.
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Chochorowski, Ja. "ARISTOCRAT?, AMAZON?, OR PRIESTESS? (Some Remarks on the Status of Women in Greco-Scythian Communities)." Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine 27, no. 2 (June 22, 2018): 193–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.37445/adiu.2018.02.13.
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In the year 2000, a joint expedition from the Archaeological Museum in Odessa and the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków conducted excavations in a Greco-Scythian necropolis at Koshary, near the Tiligul Estuary. In a circle of tombs surrounding a Scythian barrow (no. 55), grave no. 111 (dated to the late 4th century BC) stood out with its noticeably special status. In a large niche tomb meticulously carved in the bedrock, a young woman aged Infans II / Iuvenis (i. e. 14—15 years old) was buried on a bed made from reeds and grass and covered with felt. The body was placed to grave with the head to the east, and the burial stands out from other female graves in the Koshary necropolis by an impressive set of jewellery. The set was comprised of the following: silver earrings in the shapes of the heads of Demeter and Persephone, with bronze hooks for attachment, glass beads from a string on the neck, 6 bronze finger rings (4 on the left and 2 on the right hand), and 2 round bosses or appliques made of bronze on the chest. In addition, a tray containing a portion of meat and an iron knife provided with a bone handle was placed by the woman’s head. Immediately by the tray, a set of Greek vessels was placed, consisting of a thin-walled cup-skyphos, a saltcellar, and two small handmade bowls. Four bronze rings (possibly earrings) were also found near the vessels. A leather quiver with Scythian-type arrowheads, deposited to the right from the body, is a unique element. The deceased most likely had Greek origins (buried with the head to the east), but was connected with the family / lineage whose progenitor had been the man buried in the Scythian (in terms of burial orientation) barrow no. 55. Taking into account the over-standard furnishing, the size of the tomb, careful arrangement of the burial, and the monumental size of the stone barrier closing the niche, one can certainly regard the deceased woman as belonging to a group or class of high economic status and representing local elites. Her social role seems to be hinted at by the symbolism of Demeter and Persephone featuring on the ceremonial earrings, namely that of the longing mother and daughter lured by Hades into the underworld, whose cyclical, spring-summer meetings were supposed to bless the Earth with good harvest. The deposition of a «Scythian» quiver by the body was probably meant to additionally emphasise her prestige and social status, and her role as a guardian of her kinsmen’s fortunes. The newly forming, syncretic communities developing at the fringes of civilisations were undoubtedly distinguished by a very high degree of «openness» of their social structures towards «foreign» individuals. Of crucial importance were economic objectives determining the strategy of subsistence. For the Koshary community this was first of all cereal farming, as evidenced by a significant number of grain-storing structures (suggesting an industrial scale) discovered in a settlement adjoining the necropolis. This role of the Black Sea coast as a supplier of food (cereals in particular) for Greece allowed the region to be introduced into civilizational arteries of the Mediterranean world. This is why agricultural cults and Eleusinian Mysteries became important elements of spiritual life in the region. Thus, it comes as no surprise that individuals engaged in agricultural cults (associated with the ideology of immortality and afterlife) enjoyed high prestige in the analysed community. Perhaps, such person was the young women buried in grave no. 111, with the set of exquisite jewellery including impressive silver earrings with the heads of Demeter and Persephone.
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Francis, Sagar Simon, and Dr Cynthia Catherine Michael. "The Mediocre Growth of a Grandiose Simpleton: An Analysis of Howard Jackobson’s The Mighty Walzer." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 1 (January 28, 2021): 240–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i1.10896.
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The Mighty Walzer is the story of a boy who dreams of winning fame, fortune and the adoration of beautiful women, as a table tennis player. He wants to make his life grandiose like all of us. However, it is a pity that he fails. Oliver, the protagonist is not disheartened. Even though he has not struck his fortune, life gives him other riches- the riches of life and growing up itself. Thus, the novel can be seen as the celebration of the trivial processes of growing up. The more we read, the more we realise that the mediocre lives presented in the novel are grandiose in their own ways. Thus, the author is examining the grandiosities of our mediocre lives. The novel is the life story of each and every one of us. It is the celebration of the simple life of a commoner with its trivialities and mediocrities. However, there is an exuberant grandiosity in this existence. It is this grandiose process of life which is emphasised in this study.
Set in the1950s England, The Mighty Walzer is semi-autobiographical. Howard Jacobson in the veil of the character Oliver,Walzer depicts his own self as a confused Jewish boy growing up in Manchester. When it comes to home, nothing is closer to heart than the childhood memories. Jacobson’s the Mighty Walzer is indeed a childhood memoir. The novel is a bildungs roman narrative. It is absolutely hilarious, comic and sublime. It has the grace and charm of a childhood dream. Jacobson’s wit was lauded from all quarters, when the novel was first published. Sunday Times observes: “Jacobson writes with agility that gives pleasure akin to humour even when it isn’t actually funny. It is the sheer charm of his intelligence that feels like wit.” The Independent in its review quotes: “This mature novel has the sustained exuberance and passion of his youthful writing but within an epic…. An achingly funny book….An amazing achievement….There is few novelists today who can imbue the trifles of life with such poetry.”
Jacobson wrote this rollicking, loose limbed, semi-autobiographical novel in Australia at the end of 90s, having finally put enough distance between events to revisit the humiliation. He puts before us a number of childhood milieus in a straight forward and grandiose fashion. There is no holding back when it comes to a number of intimate sexual and mental give and takes. It is these truthful ejaculations that make the novel hilarious. One can really denominate the novel in Mario Vargas Illosa’s terms as a piece of ‘mental masturbation.’Howard Jacobson amuses his readers in The Mighty Walzer. The characters and milieus in the novel are regular, common and mediocre. We can connect ourselves with the various characters and their eccentricities. The more we go into the novel, the more we realize that the desires, anxieties, failures, successes, sufferings and frailties of the characters are in fact the mirror reflections of our own milieus. Thus, when we look at with disdain the ‘jacking off’ –of Oliver, Sheeney’s women hunting, Sabine’s promiscuity, Aunt Fay’s mid 30’s love affair etc., we are pitying our own repressed desires and inhibitions. Such is the psychological depth with which each of the characters are handled.
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Yta, Edisua Merab, Gloria Mayen Umukoro, and Moses Essien Ekpe. "Increasing Community discourse and Action on GBV prevention in Akai Effa and Idundu, Cross River State." PINISI Discretion Review 4, no. 1 (October 8, 2020): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.26858/pdr.v4i1.15272.
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Gender-Based Violence is an issue of high global concern and has serious implications for every aspect of women’s lives. The aim of the study was twofold, to increase awareness and knowledge of community members on the contexts in which GBV occurs through the narrative based methodology. It also sought to generate community actions and stem the tide of gender-based violence in Akai Effa and Idundu, Cross River State. The work used a creative narrative based research methodology to explore the contexts in which GBV and inequalities occur. The study had several phases including advocacy visits, production of films, film tours, and the formation of neighbourhood committees. The film “Women of our Land” was a collage of various scenes from different authors produced by DreamBoat Theatre for Development Foundation including; Tess Onwume’s ‘The Broken Calabash’ and ‘The Reign of Wazobia’, Edisua Yta’s ‘Because I am a woman’ and ‘Wives, mothers and daughters’ TV, and radio serials, Liwhu Betiang's ‘The First Stone’, Data Phido’s ‘Rainbow City’ and Chris Nwamuo’s ‘The Substitute’. The film (an enter-educate strategy) was used as a starting point for dialogues in the communities. About three hundred community members were involved in Akai Effa and Idundu and the project ran for six months. Findings identified the following factors as manifestations of gender-based violence in the communities: Domestic violence especially wife battery, sexual abuse, harassment and rape of young girls, restriction placed on women's economic activities, loss of land, assets, and properties, forceful ejections, and young girls denied opportunities to go to school. It is recommended that an extension of project time is essential to allow for adequate behaviour change and stamp out GBV in our communities.
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Sinika, Vitalij, Sergey Lysenko, Sergey Razumov, Nikolaj Telnov, and Sylwia Łukasik. "Barrow 11 of the “Garden” Group in the Lower Dniester Region and Contemporary “Mythmaking” About Scythian “Amazons”." Nizhnevolzhskiy Arheologicheskiy Vestnik, no. 1 (July 2020): 64–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/nav.jvolsu.2020.1.4.
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The article publishes and analyzes materials obtained during the study of the Scythian barrow 11 of the “Garden” group excavated in 2018 near village Glinoe, Slobodzeya district, on the left bank of the Lower Dniester, for the first time.The barrow was surrounded by a circular ditch and contained four burials – one infant and three female. The tools from the barrow are represented by knives, spindle-whorls, needle. The only piece of tableware was found and it was a wooden bowl. The adornments (a pair of earrings, two bead necklaces, one bead bracelet, two “elbow bracelets”) were also discovered. Earrings with conical bulges on one of the endings testify to the Thracian influence on the material culture of the Scythians of the North-West Black Sea region. All female graves contained mirrors. Two of them are identical, and both were laid under the body of the buried. One of the mirrors has handle aforethoughtly broken in antiquity. The cult objects are a pendant made of a dog’s tooth and a stone slab, the arrowheads are the only weapons. The barrow dates back to the second half (preferably the third quarter) of the 4th century BC. Finding a quiver set in the grave 4 of barrow 11 of Glinoe/”Garden” group made the authors to analyze the burials of the so-called Scythian “amazons” of the North Black Sea region. It turned out that many of them were attributed with flagrant violations of scientific methods as burials of women-warriors, which is nothing more than modern “myth-making”. As a result, the authors claim that an open-minded analysis allows us to distinguish three groups of Scythian burials with weapons: 1) containing weapons, placement of which reflects certain “ethnographic” features of the rite or the special status of buried; 2) containing arrowheads that may indicate hunting; 3) the burials of warriors with diverse and numerous weapons.
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Syrikova, P. V., S. G. Roslyakov, and A. V. Zubova. "Paleoanthropological and Archaeological Studies of Early Bronze Age materials from Berezovy Ostrov-1 Burial Ground (Novosibirsk Ob Region): Preliminary Results." Archaeology and Ethnography 18, no. 3 (2019): 121–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2019-18-3-121-136.
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Purpose. This article aims at analyzing anthropological data from the burial ground Berezovy Ostrov-1. The materials studied belong to the Siberian population of the Early Bronze Age. We studied the demographic situation, dental and postcranial pathologies. We also analyzed the burial rites and inventory in terms of the sex and age of the buried. Our main aim was to characterize the lifestyle, the diet and the ritual practice of this micropopulation. Results. We estimated the safety of the anthropological materials related to the Early Bronze Age community from the burial ground Berezovy Ostrov-1, analyzed the sex and age composition and pathological status of the buried and compared the demographic data of the Berezovy Ostrov-1 micropopulation with the distribution of sex and age in the Sopka-2/3 and Sopka-2/3A groups, which attribute to the Ust’-Tartas culture. As a result of sex and age identification, we found some similarities of the demographic structure of the population studied and the Ust’-Tartas groups from the burial ground Sopka-2. As for the ritual rites, we can ascertain some regularity. Stone tools, arrowheads and ornaments as objects of the same nature are typical for women, as well as for men and children. At the same time, we observe no burials of cremated women, newborns and children under 2 years old. In terms of pathologies, Berezovy Ostrov-1 site is characterized by increased frequencies of linear hypoplasia, calculus and periodontal diseases and an average frequency of caries. We can assume that the basic diet of the population included meat and wild plants, which is typical for hunter-gatherers. An increased frequency of linear hypoplasia indicates a possible famine or transferred diseases at the stage of tooth enamel formation. Our comparison with the Neolithic and Odinovo groups of the Baraba forest-steppe indicates that the diet in the Berezovy Ostrov-1 group was similar to that in the Neolithic series from Vengerovo-2A. Conclusion. The first results of our analysis reveal general correspondence of the adaptation models observed on the territory of the Novosibirsk Ob region to the characteristics of the populations of hunter-gatherers. We draw a conclusion about difficult conditions for the population of Berezovy Ostrov-1 and acute shortage of food resources. Correlation of the sex-age characteristics of the buried with the peculiarities of the funeral rite allows us to assume that there existed a special burial rite for newborns and children under the age of one year.
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Tabitha, S., and Madishetti Rajini. "The study of arterial and venous Doppler in high risk pregnancies and its role in perinatal outcome." International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology 7, no. 3 (February 27, 2018): 1116. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20180904.
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Background: Antepartum foetal surveillance is the corner stone in the management of high risk pregnancies, aimed at reducing maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. This study was conducted to analyse the blood flow in umbilical artery, middle cerebral artery, umbilical vein and ductus venous using doppler ultrasound in high risk pregnancies.Methods: This was a prospective study conducted in pregnant patients with high risk factors after 28 weeks of gestation who got admitted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Care Hospital, Hyderabad during the period from October 2013 to December 2014.Results: Patients were divided into two groups, first with normal Doppler and second with abnormal Doppler, containing 76 and 20 patients respectively. Group 2 is again 4 sub-groups according to the vessel affected. Group A included the cases with affected umbilical artery, Group B included the cases with affected middle cerebral artery, Group C included the cases with both affected umbilical artery and middle cerebral artery (UA+MCA), Group D included the Cases with the affected umbilical artery, middle cerebral artery and Ductus Venosus (UA+MCA+DV) containing 12, 2, 4 and 2 patients respectively. There were more number of emergency caesarean sections than vaginal deliveries which is statistically significant (p <0.034), there were more number of sick babies than healthy babies and there are more number of still births which is statistically significant (p <0.0001), there are more number of low birth weight babies in comparison to normal weight, which is statistically significant (p <0.0037). Distribution of cases with abnormal Doppler depending on vessel abnormality according to gestational age at the time of delivery, mode of delivery, perinatal outcome, birth weight, which was statistically significant. The sensitivity and specificity of abnormal Doppler in predicting perinatal outcome is 45% with (95% CI 26.9-64.0) and 89.5% with (95% CI 79.0-95.3) respectively. The positive predictive value is 65% with (95% CI 40.9-83.6) and negative predictive value is 78.9% with (95% CI 67.7-87.1).Conclusions: This study recommends that all high risk pregnant women should undergo serial foetal monitoring. When doppler abnormalities are detected, delivery should be conducted at a tertiary care centre where facilities for caesarean section and NICU are present.
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Valodzina, Tatsiana, and Tatsiana Marmysh. "COVID-19 tingitud folkloristlikud reaktsioonid Valgevenes." Mäetagused 79 (April 2021): 35–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/mt2021.79.valodzina_marmysh.
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The article gives an overview of the folk culture mechanisms that helped to cope with the pandemic situation in Belorussia during the first wave of COVID-19 (until midsummer 2020). The article is based on the qualitative analysis of interview texts related to the pandemic as well as the content of internet users’ visual reactions (memes, poems, proverbs). In folk culture the mechanisms helping to overcome the crisis situation often have a ritual-magical nature. When describing the influence of the pandemic on some practices, the authors conclude that their performing in the crisis situation was especially important for the community. One of the ancient rituals activated for preventing the epidemic was the creation of a magic circle around the village by conducting a procession around the village with a ritual towel (‘rushnik-abydzionnik’), which had to be made within one day. On March 28, this one-day-ritual was performed in Minsk with the greatest possible adherence to tradition. The initiators and participants of the practice were mainly representatives of the Students Ethnographic Society. Not all women present knew how to spin or weave, but some of the simplest operations were mastered. The towel was carried around Minsk and brought to a stone on the site of a pagan temple in the centre of Minsk at the sunset. The towel was tied around the stone, and the latter was also covered with threads spun on the same day. The ritual relieved the tension of the participants and fostered awareness of their solidarity, strengthening collective networks, and the feeling of empathy and unity. COVID-19 also affected the living traditions in Belarus. Some traditional practices were cancelled or postponed. The spread of the pandemic created a negative backdrop for living traditions. However, a number of rites and ceremonies were carried out despite the pandemic in accordance with their spatial and temporal reference. Due to the difficult epidemiological situation, the usual order of ceremonies was changed – their duration was reduced without changing the traditional rite structure. Only local residents participated in the rituals; although, formerly, many journalists and tourists had come to the villages from different parts of the country on the days of the ceremonies. For tradition bearers, such practices during a pandemic are a way to relieve stress and to share problems with people with similar interests. Traditions are one of the constants of their life; maintaining them in times of crises stabilizes the community. The coronavirus pandemic has caused a powerful explosion of folk art. The texts of various genres, both oral and written (graphic), are rapidly spreading on the Internet. A large number of them are based on the traditional worldview of Belarusians and are expressed in traditional forms (alterations, ditties, anecdotes, anti-sayings, paroemias, etc.). The role of humour has grown tremendously. Jokes and laughter in the face of an external threat are a compensatory mechanism that helps to overcome fear and uncertainty, and common laughter unites and helps to learn new rules of behaviour. Humour is not concerned with the threat of getting ill, but rather individual hygiene practices, the situation of quarantine, and circumstances of the new reality. Thus, humorous folklore becomes a way to adapt to new norms and to overcome fear and instability.