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ASHP Foundation's forecast report feels more relevant than ever this year

ASHP Foundation's forecast report feels more relevant than ever this year

FlorentBédécarrats, IsabelleGuérin, FrançoisRoubaud (Eds.) Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development: A Critical PerspectiveOxford University Press, 2020, 448 p., $100.00

FlorentBédécarrats, IsabelleGuérin, FrançoisRoubaud (Eds.) Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development: A Critical PerspectiveOxford University Press, 2020, 448 p., $100.00

Peroral endoscopic myotomy: techniques and outcomes.

Achalasia is progressive neurodegenerative disorder of the esophagus, resulting in uncoordinated esophageal motility and failure of lower esophageal sphincter relaxation, leading to impaired swallowing. Surgical myotomy of the lower esophageal sphincter, either open or minimally invasive, has been a standard of care for the past several decades. Recently, new procedure-peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) has been introduced into clinical practice. This procedure accomplishes the same objective of controlled myotomy only via endoscopic approach. In the current chapter authors review the present state, clinical applications, outcomes and future directions of the POEM procedure.

Editorial introductions.

Editorial introductions.

A Place for Volunteers in Field Sciences

A Place for Volunteers in Field Sciences

Константин Кузьмич Логинов: основные вехи биографии ученого-этнограф

This article is dedicated to the memory of Konstantin Kuzmich Loginov (1952–2020), a first-rate professional ethnographer, who worked at the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The article presents a biographical study of the most important stages of the researcher’s life and an analysis of his scholarly activities. Loginov is known as the foremost scholar of the ethnic history and the traditional culture of the Russian population of Karelia and of the features of its ethno-local groups. He is the author of about 185 research articles in which he applied descriptive and comparative-historical methods to the rich field material that he himself collected. Loginov’s most significant works are the five books (including one co-authored) devoted to the study of the Russian population of the north shore of Lake Onega (Zaonezhye) and territories around Lake Vodlozero (Vodlozerye). He is also the author of chapters in seven major collective scholarly works, including books about the Karelian settlements of Suisar, Yukkoguba, and Syamozero. The last work of this kind was the book The Peoples of Karelia. Historical and Ethnographic Essays. Loginov also devoted much time and effort to such scholarly activities as expeditions, presentations at conferences, popularization of ethnographic knowledge, and teaching.

The Business Transformation Enterprise Architecture Framework

This chapter's author based his cross-functional research on an authentic and proprietary mixed research method that is supported by intelligent neural networks combined with a heuristics motor, named the applied mathematical model (AMM). The proposed AMM base functions like the human empiric decision-making process that can be compared to the behaviour-driven development. The AMM is supported by many real-life cases of business and architecture transformation projects in the domain of intelligent strategic development and operations (iSDevOps) that is supported by the alignment of various standards and development strategies that biases the standard market development and operations (DevOps) procedures, which are Sisyphean tasks.

Form and formalism in linguistics ed. by James McElvenny

Reviewed by: Form and formalism in linguistics ed. by James McElvenny Margaret Thomas Form and formalism in linguistics. Ed. by James McElvenny. ( History and philosophy of the language sciences 1.) Berlin: Language Science, 2019. Pp. viii, 271. ISBN 9783961101832. $47 (Hb). The nine essays in this collection do not dwell on the well-known contrast between 'formalism' and 'functionalism' in linguistics as discussed in Newmeyer 1998, although they are not irrelevant to that debate. What they do dwell on is various senses of the word form and its derivatives, as they have been used in Euro-American history and philosophy of linguistics since the nineteenth century. Together, the chapters form a mosaic of scholarship on studies of language that variously incorporate diverse meanings of the terms 'form', 'formal', and 'formalism'. The assembly of chapters does, indeed, have a mosaic-like character in that it comprises independent, nonoverlapping texts. Chapter authors sometimes remark on how the edges of their topic approach those of other authors, but the individual contributions have not been forced into a unified tableau. The text presupposes some exposure to the history of western linguistics and to the history of philosophy. It would make bracing, but not impenetrable, reading for linguists without that background. Although only one of the nine authors has an affiliation in the United States, most chapters center on the work of well-known US-based scholars. Following a scene-setting preface by editor James McElvenny (iii–viii), Judith Kaplan's Ch. 1 (1–33) offers an analysis of 'formalism' in the sense of the diagrams or figures that comparativehistorical linguistics has used to visually communicate genealogical ('vertical') relationships among languages versus the ('horizontal') spread of features across languages spoken by adjacent populations. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Kaplan reports that scholars first conveyed these facts in words and verbal metaphors, then adopted lists, tables, and graphic displays. All of these are 'formal' moves in that they distill complex relationships (of descent and of influence) into tables, trees, waves, or Venn-diagram-like figures, where the strategic arrangement of data in twodimensional space implies a specific position of those data vis-à-vis neighboring data. [End Page 643] Kaplan concedes at the beginning of her analysis that these diagrams or figures 'highlight certain notions of relationship while removing others from view' (3), because they typically prioritize either genealogical descent (e.g. trees) or crosslinguistic spreading (e.g. waves), and rarely both. She demonstrates how visual aids both reveal and conceal by analyzing their use in twentieth-century textbooks directed at beginning linguists. The chapter ends with an exposition of digital-era efforts to visualize vertical and horizontal relationships simultaneously in n-dimensional space while remaining faithful to the complexities of the data. Kaplan singles out multi-dimensional scaling as one promising technique. Unfortunately, her account of it is hampered by poor reproduction of the examples she cites (one in full color), as they appear both on the printed page (26, 28) and in the online version of her chapter (available at http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/214). Kaplan's case study of graphic representation in comparative-historical linguistics stands alone at the head of this collection as the only paper that takes 'formal' to mean 'amenable to summarizing complex facts and relationships in graphic form'. The attention Kaplan pays to student textbooks, however, returns at the end of the book. In between, the remaining eight chapters seem to fall into three sections. Chs. 2 through 4 address specific figures in the history of linguistics who make provocative use of the concept of 'form', or the partially overlapping concept 'structure', in their analyses of language phenomena. James McElvenny contributes a study pairing Columbia University anthropologist Franz Boas (1858–1942) with German philologist Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) (35–58). Both scholars responded to the then-current claim that speakers of so-called 'primitive' languages freely and unsystematically alternate in their pronunciation of speech sounds, so that their words lack the fixity that characterizes languages not considered 'primitive'. Boas denied that 'alternating sounds' existed in the Native American languages that he studied. He attributed the...

Imre József a magyar nyelőcsősebészet megalapitója

József Imre as a member of Surgical Clinic personnel of Szeged University spent several months at the surgical department of the world-known R. Belsey in Leeds in the 6th decade of the last century. After returning home he introduced such operations in the domestic surgical practice as the Belsey-Mark IV antireflux fundoplication, fundoplication combined with myotomy, diverticulectomy + myotomy in Zenker diverticula, the Belsey type long left colonic graft for replacement of esophageal corrosive strictures and the monofil suture of oesophagal anastomosis. He prepared Tygon prosthesis for palliative oesophagal intubation. J. Imre was the author of the oesophagus chapter in Imre Littman’s monography of surgery. A large number of oesophagus operations was performed in his professional life. He left a total body of work behind. Cut in stone, his exceptional personality is commemorated in the pantheon of Surgical Clinic at Szeged University.

Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy ed. by Joe Lockard and A. Robert Lee

Reviewed by: Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy ed. by Joe Lockard and A. Robert Lee Steven B. Sexton Joe Lockard and A. Robert Lee, eds. Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. 328 pp. Hardcover, $75.00. In the introduction to Louis Owens: Literary Reflections and His Life and Work (University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), editor Jacquelyn Kilpatrick relates a story of introducing Louis Owens at a conference, mentioning his various literary and scholarly accolades. When she asked Owens if she had failed to mention anything, he replies, "I'm the former crosscut saw champion of the Prescott National Forest." Kilpatrick credits his humorous response on the complexity he saw in "literature, culture, and life" (3). As anyone who is familiar with Owens's work can attest, that complexity is manifest in his creative, critical, and autobiographical works. Seventeen years after Owens's passing, Joe Lockard and A. Robert Lee offer us a new collection of essays, Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy, which offers fresh and updated perspectives on his works. This volume was undertaken "with an understanding that diffuse Owens scholarship needed a renewed center that brought together both younger and older scholars" (7). The collection stands as testimony to that complexity and to the perseverance of his work. Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy includes thirteen critical chapters and two poems. The critical pieces offer a wide range of subjects, including those often associated with Owens such as "mixed-blood" identity and hybridity, as well as other topics such as transnationalism, anticolonialism, and eco-gothic criticism. The poems, Diane Glancy's "Letter to Louis" and Kimberly Blaeser's "Of Nalusachito and the Course of Rivers," act as a nice ending to the collection. As a way of corralling such diversity, the editors organize the critical writings into three parts: "Owens and the World," "Owens and California," and "The Novels." The three chapters in the first section offer a "tour d'horizon" of Owens's works. The chapters are each written by one of the editors, and Paul Whitehouse. Lee analyzes how memory operates throughout Owens's novels, while Whitehouse's eco-gothic reading examines the Euramerican concept of the wilderness. Lockard analyzes the anticolonial themes inherent in Owens's works, particularly noteworthy since this aspect of his work is severely overlooked. His goal, however, does not seem to be convincing the reader that Owens's works are [End Page 300] anticolonial but instead assumes it as a given. The critiques leveled at Owens, particularly those from literary nationalists, may have rendered Owens's works as apolitical, at least connotatively. Lockard's assumption reestablishes that political/ anticolonial nature and encourages other critics to explore how Owens's anticolonialism intersects with and deviates from other anticolonial works. "Owens and California" centers on Owens's relationship to California. Chapter authors include Chris Lalonde, David Carlson, and Billy J. Stratton; all three reference one of Owens's essays, "Where Things Can Happen: California and Writing." They also make reference to Owens's criticism of John Steinbeck regarding his literary erasure of California Indigenes. While one could argue that Owens considered multiple places home, Lalonde explores how California haunts Owens's works, and vice versa. Carlson argues that Owens's work is foundational to the emerging field of California Indigenous literature and asserts that the works contribute to Indigenous modernism. Stratton uses Owens's work on Steinbeck to discuss Owens's development of a post-Indian aesthetics. All three chapters offer a rounded and nuanced understanding of Owens's ambivalent relationship to the Golden State. The third section, "The Novels," is the largest, offering seven essays that cover all of Owens's novels. The contributors include James Mackay, Alan Velie, David Moore, Birgit Däwes, Cathy Covell Waegner, Joseph Coulombe, and John Gamber. These essays offer a variety of literary methods to discuss Owens's novels. Some focus a particular critical lens on a singular novel; for example, Coulombe examines the humor in Nightland, while Gamber articulates Dark River's nuanced understanding of citizenship and belonging. Some critics use non-Indigenous texts as a point of comparison, which seems appropriate considering Owens's penchant for...

Development of System Solution for Public Transport System Sustainability and Adapting it to the Challenge of COVID-19

The main goal of current article is to offer a system solution for keeping public transport system in sustainable and safe position by adapting it to the COVID-19 challenge, ensuring its sustainability.The introduction of the paper deals with the analysis of the public transport system in 2020 under the unclear epidemiological situation in the World by spread of Covid-19. Second chapter shows the beginning of the process of planning of system solution for adapting the public transport system to the challenge of Covid-19. Author deals with own vision of such solution. In third chapter author shows the vision of the system solution for the control of public transport system to ensure its sustainability taking into account also epidemiological situation. Last chapter shows some ideas, advanced practices and last achievements for public transport system sustainability.

A History of the (Attempted) Institutionalization of Parapsychology

In addition to an introduction, the present book contains 14 chapters. Most of them represent elaborated text versions of contributions that were presented by the authors at a (nearly) eponymous conference held in Freiburg, Germany, on the 17.10.2014. As the book title announces, the chapter authors trace the development of parapsychological research in different countries. Usually they focusing on the more or usually less successful attempts to academicize and institutionalize parapsychology as a legitimate scientific discipline, but sometimes they cover also related aspects. The chapters include historical parapsychological treatises for Germany (Ulrich Linse, Anna Lux, Uwe Schellinger, Martin Schneider, Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe) including the GDR (Andreas Anton, Ina Schmied-Knittel, Michael Schetsche), France (Renaud Evrard), Great Britain (Elizabeth Valentine), Hungary (Júlia Gyimesi), the Netherlands (Ingrid Kloosterman), Russia in the Soviet and post-Soviet area (Birgit Menzel), and the USA (Eberhard Bauer, Anna Lux). The four chapters covering France, Great Britain, Hungary, and the Netherlands are written in English, the others in German. In the following, will briefly touch upon topics I found most interesting.
 Anna Lux from the university in Freiburg, Germany, identified several characteristic aspects of academic parapsychological work in Germany and compared them with those in the USA, which took place at about the same time and were more strongly focused on the experimental paradigm. She shows how different social circumstances and also private predilections of the main actors involved resulted in different developments. This also applies to the fate of parapsychology in the other countries mentioned, which is surprisingly multifaceted: While in the Netherlands the situation with official professorships at the University of Utrecht can be compared most closely to that of Germany where Hans Bender (1907-1991) held a professorship at the university of Freiburg, the academization of parapsychology in Hungary was hindered by an influential spiritualist and religious social current. In France, however, comparable efforts were mainly impeded by continued opposition of established scientists. After all, the private research institute “Institute Métapsychique International” (IMI) was founded in France in 1919, which has survived to this day despite adverse circumstances. Great Britain has always played a special role in Western parapsychology, mainly due to the foundation of the “Society for Psychical Research” as early as 1882, which is still considered an international figurehead for a constructive and critical examination of parapsychological topics. However, in Great Britain existed several other societies and “institutes”, which were often small and short-lived. It was not until 1985 that parapsychological research was able to gain a foothold at a British university for the first time through an endowed professorship in Edinburgh, held by Robert Morris (1942–2004) until 2004. From here, numerous graduates were able to carry the work on parapsychological research questions further to other universities.

Dose, Benefit, and Risk in Medical Imaging, 1st Edition.

When interacting with colleagues, patients, and members of the public, medical physicists are frequently asked questions about radiation doses, clinical benefits, and biological risks of medical imaging. This book collects some of the latest data and understanding on these subjects into a single concise and well-organized volume and makes it accessible to a wide variety of potential readers. The editors and many of the chapter authors are from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Despite the variety of authors, the content is well-organized and fits together seamlessly.

In Memoriam: Duane L. Garner, PhD.

In Memoriam: Duane L. Garner, PhD.

Is Legal Really Legal?: The Evolving World of Cannabis.

Lynn S. Muller, JD, BA-HCM, RN, CCM, is a nurse attorney and managing partner of Muller & Muller with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Health Care Management from St. Peter's University of New Jersey. She earned her Juris Doctor from Quinnipiac University School of Law in Connecticut. Her practice includes defense of health care professionals before the state licensing boards, case management litigation, family law, wills, trusts, and estates, as well as consulting representation of medical practitioners, facilities, and health service corporations on such issues as regulatory compliance and day-to-day operations. Dr. Muller is a popular and sought-after keynote and session speaker at national and regional conferences. She is the Contributing Editor of the journal Professional Case Management. She is an adjunct professor at St. Peter's University School of Nursing in the MSN and DNP programs. Dr. Muller is the author of more than 50 articles in nursing and case management journals and was featured in the Journal of Nurse Administrators. She is a contributor to the 2016 CMSA Standards of Practice and CMSA Career & Knowledge Pathways, the author of the Legal & Ethical Chapter of the sixth edition of the Case and Population Health Chapter for Leadership and Nursing Case Management by Diane L. Huber, published by Elsevier. Dr. Muller is the author of both legal chapters of the third edition of Case Management: A Practical Guide for Education and Practice and third edition of the CMSA Core Curriculum for Case Management. She is a former Commissioner for the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC), where she now serves on the Professional Development and Education Subcommittee, is a facilitator for the CMCC360 2-Day Immersion Program, and is a contributor to the CCMC Case Management Body of Knowledge (CMBOK). She is a past President of the New Jersey Chapter of CMSA and the former Director of Social Services for the Borough of Bergenfield, NJ, a community-based case management program she developed and initiated. Dr. Muller has also served her community as a public defender, a municipal court judge, a councilwoman, and chaired the Borough's Barrier Free Committee. Address correspondence to Lynn S. Muller, JD, BA-HCM, RN, CCM, Muller & Muller, P.O. Box 164, Bergenfield, NJ 07621 ([email protected]). Disclaimer: The information contained in this department is for educational purposes only. It is not legal advice, which can only be given by an attorney admitted to practice in the jurisdiction/state(s) in which you practice. Do you have a question or issue you would like addressed here? Questions are always welcome. We encourage ALL readers to submit questions and/or manuscripts, as well as topics you would like to see addressed in this department. Questions and other inquiries are accepted by e-mail at: [email protected]. If you have an idea you would like to discuss, send your contact information by e-mail and you will be contacted via your preferred method. The author reports no conflicts of interest.

An Interview with Professor Wilma Vialle

This is an interview with Dr Wilma Vialle, Ph.D, Professor in Educational Psychology and Gifted Education in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Dr Vialle is the author of several books, articles, and chapters on gifted education and child psychology. Her research interests are centred on giftedness and talent development and she is predominantly interested in issues concerning social justice. Recent research projects include an international study of effective teachers of the gifted, a longitudinal study of adolescent academic and social emotional outcomes, the development of expertise in competitive Scrabble players, popular culture and giftedness, and the development of spiritual understanding in children. Dr Vialle is the chief editor of the journal Talent Development and Excellence and is on the editorial board of several international journals. She is also on the Executive Board of the International Research Association for Talent Development and Excellence (IRATDE). In 2006, Dr Vialle was awarded the Eminent Australian award by the Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented (AAEGT) for her contributions to gifted education.

Information Literacy and Theological Librarianship: Theory and Praxis. Bobby Smiley, ed. Chicago, IL: Atla Open Press, an imprint of the American Theological Library Association, 2019. 189p. Paper, $35.00 (ISBN: 978-1-949800-01-2).

It is easy to think that, since a book may focus on a particular topic, it means that it is not useful beyond those in that field. That is not the case when it comes to American Theological Library Association’s new edited publication Information Literacy and Theological Librarianship . Bobby Smiley, editor and librarian at Vanderbilt University’s Divinity Library, has pulled together authors whose chapters can easily serve both theological librarians and information literacy and instruction librarians. The latter group will find useful information that can be tailored to their needs. The subject-level perspective also provides a lens that can help in approaching other fields. All of the chapter authors are affiliated with a range of different theological libraries at colleges, universities, and seminaries.

Book Review: Successful Campus Outreach for Academic Libraries: Building Community through Collaboration

Outreach is an increasingly important responsibility for academic libraries, fulfilling the library’s own mission and supporting the wider institution’s goals around retention and student success. Unfortunately, it can be challenging to connect outreach initiatives to desired outcomes. Into this knowledge gap step Peggy Keeran and Carrie Forbes, who have edited a collection of outreach initiatives and strategies organized around four key elements of a successful outreach program: strategic vision and planning, program development and implementation, community outreach, and expanding outreach audiences. Individual chapter authors come from large and small universities in both public and private contexts, and present library outreach initiatives from the United States, Canada, and Indonesia.

Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times

Arkansas Women is the most recent addition and represents the eleventh state featured in the remarkable University of Georgia Press series Southern Women: Their Lives and Times. It is extensive in scope, featuring fourteen chapters that include Native American and European women in frontier Arkansas, slave and slaveholding women, Civil War survivors, a Socialist activist, a U.S. senator, multiple civic leaders and artists, and civil rights activists. Among the chapter authors are Michael B. Dougan, Gary T. Edwards, Dianna Owens Fraley, Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, Rebecca A. Howard, Elizabeth Jacoway, Kelly Houston Jones, John A. Kirk, Marianne Leung, Loretta N. McGregor, Michael Pierce, Debra A. Reid, Rachel Reynolds, Yulonda Eadie Sano, and Sonia Toudji. Cherisse Jones-Branch and Edwards, as editors, provide the introduction. Arkansas frontier history cannot be complete without women's narratives. The history of Caddo, Quapaw, and Osage women may be found in Spanish and French settlers' accounts. Native women's...

What are we waiting for? Anticipating the second edition of The Handbook of Music Therapy by Bunt, Hoskyns and Swamy

This report, based on a conversation with all three editors, provides a tantalising glimpse into the upcoming second edition of The Handbook of Music Therapy, edited by Leslie Bunt, Sarah Hoskyns and Sangeeta Swamy. The editors are enthusiastic about their collaboration and the resulting expansion of the original text. They describe how they have responded to prolific and widespread developments in music therapy theory, practice and research by working with both original and new chapter authors. These authors bring a variety of perspectives articulated in ways that will speak to music therapists, music therapy students and other professionals.