Deceptive Appearance Research Articles

Kite String or Manja Cut Injury: A New Culprit.

Background Kite string injuries (manja cut injuries), particularly those caused by Chinese manja, are new culprit of emergencies especially in the month of January in Maharashtra region. These injuries commonly affect the neck, face, hands, and legs, especially among individuals traveling on two wheelers. The visibility challenge, where the kite's thread is difficult to see, further exacerbates the risk. Materials and Methods We have studied 10 cases of manja cut injuries presented to a tertiary care center in Nagpur during the last 2 years. Result A total of 10 patients reported kite string-related injuries to our department over a period of 2 years. All patients were male. The majority of patients presented in the younger age group with the mean age of presentation was 25 years. Majority of the patients had injuries in zone 2 of the hand. Conclusion Kite flying is a traditional festival celebrated in the month of January in Gujarat and Maharashtra for years. However, the introduction of Chinese or nylon manja has led to serious injuries and fate, affecting not only kite flyers but also bystanders, animals, and birds. This study seeks to highlight the harmful consequences of Chinese manja and deceptive appearance of manja giving false impression of simple lacerated wound which could be just a tip of the iceberg.

Photography, Film and Storytelling of Posthuman Crises in Blade Runner

Blade Runner (1982), directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), incorporates the media of film and photography and utilizes various filmmaking techniques, including cinematography, sound effects, and dialogues, to reflect on the complex relationship between humans, technology and power. Through cinematographic techniques such as light and dark contrast, shifting eye-level and high camera angles, as well as geometric patterns, the film portrays a technologically-advanced futuristic city and its underlying issues of power struggles and social hierarchy. The portrayal of replicants, through static and moving images and sound effects, emphasizes their close resemblance to humans, particularly their performance of emotions, and how technology alters the fundamental concept of humanity. Photography, as a medium, captures an unreliable and incomplete moment of childhood to expose the dystopian nightmare of memory manipulation that severs the connection between memory and identity. This article analyses Blade Runner as an intermedial narrative that highlights the tension between the deceptive appearance of a futuristic city, with flying cars, replicants, and other technologies created for human convenience, and the harsh reality of posthuman crises such as social hierarchy, technological dominance, memory manipulation, and replicant rebellion.

Type 2 calyceal diverticulum with an unusual appearance in the lower pole of the kidney

A 45-year-old woman presented to our clinic with intermittent left flank pain. The family physician referred her for renal cystic mass with a calcified appearance. The non-contrast spiral abdominal computed tomographic (CT) scan demonstrated the mass-like cystic lesion with a densely calcified lesion in the lower pole of the kidney. A detailed history revealed that she underwent shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) for the lower pole renal stone one year ago. After SWL, the stone fragments migrated to the dependent diverticulum region and produced the misleading appearance of a Bosniak type III lesion. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan was done for further evaluation, and finally, the diagnosis of the calyceal diverticulum was confirmed in the lower pole of the kidney. Calyceal diverticula are the outpouching of the pyelocalyceal system lined by non-secretory transitional epithelium. It is a rare condition that occurs in less than 0.5% of the population. Most patients are asymptomatic and have been discovered incidentally in routine imaging modalities. As most of the patients are asymptomatic, many do not need intervention. However, in some instances, patients present with flank pain, hematuria, urinary tract infection, and stone formation in the diverticulum. They are in the differential diagnosis of renal cystic lesions such as simple renal cyst, renal cortical abscess, and parapelvic cyst. In renal cystic lesion besides of simple renal cyst or renal cystic mass, we should keep the differential diagnosis of the calyceal diverticulum type 2, especially in patients that underwent SWL for renal stones; the fragmented residual stone may have migrated to this dilated region and produce the deceptive appearance of a Bosniak type III lesion.

Историзм мышления и концепция эпохи в романе З. Толгурова «Голубой типчак»

The article focuses on a comprehensive, conceptual analysis of the novel Z. Tolgurov’s “Blue Tip-chak”, a holistic presentation of various semiotic levels of the work. The work determines condi-tionality of the epic beginning and the principles of implementing the author’s plan by the histori-cism of the writer’s thinking. Important in interpreting semantic perspectives of a literary text is the category of time. The dominant storylines are considered through the correlation of the desti-nies of the main characters with the dramatic nature of the depicted era of the 40-50s of the last century. The study emphasizes the multi-aspect nature of the problematic of the work (ideologi-cal, moral, psychological). In conjunction with the designated thematic blocks, the article explores the potential of the symbolic imagery of the novel. The idea of how the ideological situation can influence the fate of a person, cause internal transformations in him, followed by complete deper-sonalization, separation from ethnic roots (the image of the boy of the Crimea is indicative in this regard) acts as a nodal content line. The narrative space of the epic canvas contributes to the dis-closure of a powerful mythological layer, realized through parallels with the animal world (for example, the images of the stallion Alakez and the wolf Gazhai). The ambiguous interpretation of the Soviet era is guessed in the meanings of the symbol displayed in the title of the work. The blue tipchak in the writer's interpretation personifies the deceptive appearance of communist ideology, implying the danger hidden in it. In the research's course, the multilevel nature of the novel con-text is revealed, because of the historical approach to understanding reality.

Les Prologues au ‘Conte du Graal’: ‘Élucidation’, ‘Bliocadran’, ‘L’Elucidation de l’hystoire du Graal’ (1530). Édition critique par Hélène Bouget

At first glance, this slim volume may seem to the reader merely to bring together, in one place and for the first time, the three known prologues — or prequels — to Chrétien de Troyes’s famously unfinished Conte du Graal, all of which were written after the master storyteller had laid down his pen. The Bliocadran is extant in two manuscripts, one of which also contains the only copy of the Élucidation; both texts have been previously edited, by Leonora Wolfgang (1976) and Albert W. Thompson (1982) respectively. The 1530 printed edition of the Élucidation appears to be the work of a prosifier who had access to both texts, perhaps in one manuscript, though it is unlikely to have been identical with the sole such manuscript that survives today. Despite this new edition’s deceptive appearance, its pages contain a wealth of critical, contextual, and codicological information, with more than half of the book dedicated to an in-depth discussion of the current scholarly status quo, the manuscripts’ linguistic characteristics, and the methods of edition used in preparing the text. That such a vast amount of detail is so deftly and succinctly laid out by Hélène Bouget is to be applauded. The arrangement of these texts in a reliable and affordable critical form was long overdue; but for them also to be so meticulously presented, with an apparatus, glossary, and bibliography that even new scholars will be able to navigate comfortably, is a considerable feat of scholarship, and one which will be sure to prompt new enquiries into these fascinating works. This is not, of course, to say that any one of these three texts can claim to be entirely unstudied. All three have been subject to scholarly enquiry, both individually and together, by scholars such as Maria Colombo Timelli, Jane H. M. Taylor, and Thomas Hinton, amongst many others. Nonetheless, they have still never been given quite the same weight of significance as indexes of medieval rewriting and reception as have the four so-called Continuations of Chrétien’s text. Indeed, although I opened this review with the assurance that this volume does much more than simply bring these three prologues together, in some ways the idea to curate the three texts in one place is Bouget’s most important contribution. In gathering these three texts together, and accompanying them with a scholarly analysis which positions them as part of a collective movement, Bouget underlines, importantly, that the prequel is just as legitimate a form of medieval rewriting as any other, and thus holds just as much potential to inform us about medieval reception as do continuations, sequels, and adaptations.

Extra skeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma: A rare case report

EMC is an uncommon malignant neoplasm. In spite of its distinctive clinicopathological features, its clinical features remain debated. 1 Few cases with EMC did not show any apparent enhancement in enhanced CT scan. 2 we report a case of 82 years old male, who presented with elbow swelling and was diagnosed clinically as ganglion or bursitis, which turned out to be extra skeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma. This case is reported for its deceptive appearance clinically and for its rarity. Keywords: Chondrosarcoma, Myxoid neoplasm.

The 'Art' of Framing Risk: The Attentional Process of Risk Framing in Organizations

Managing uncertainty and risk has always been an inherent component of organizations’ life. However, facing the growing complexity and unpredictability of our society, firms struggle with their very ability of developing a clear, accurate and intelligible representation of risks. How and why an organization comes to consider something as a risk is thus an essential question, which is often hidden behind the deceptive appearance of risk as an objective calculation. In this paper, we argue that risk rather refers to a subjective and normative frame of thinking and acting toward uncertainty, which both reflects and shapes allocation of organizational attention. We intend to explore the process of “risk framing”, by investigating the attentional patterns that underpin the construction and mobilization of risk frames in daily decisions and activities. Through a qualitative inductive study of 36 processes, we reveal that risk framing occurs through four distinct modes – capture, revelation, incorporation and assimilation –, depending on the role of risk in the process (as an object or a structure of attention), and on the allocation of attention (emergent or deliberate).

How does evidence-based practice in psychology work? – As an ethical demarcation

ABSTRACTEvidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP) is ordinarily understood to demarcate between legitimate and illegitimate psychotherapy practice, based upon the epistemic demarcation distinguishing scientific from non-scientific knowledge. EBPP emphasizes the value of effective and efficient interventions identified through randomized controlled trials and cost-benefit analyses. Basing the template for choice of action or strategy on randomized controlled trials and cost-benefit analyses create a deceptive appearance of ethical neutrality. However, there is an implicit ethical demarcation at work in EBPP, which favors a non-articulated specific position in normative ethics. More particularly, evidence-based practice in psychology is structured according to a utilitarian framework, severely limiting the kinds of ethical perspectives available to assess psychotherapy practice. The latter point is illustrated through a new mode of delivering psychotherapy services called “Internet-based guided self-help” (IBGSH). In EBPP the only relevant ethical question is to what extent any intervention, such as IBGSH, is effective and efficient. Some of the limiting effects of the ethical, utilitarian, demarcation are showcased by presenting three alternative ethical perspectives by which psychotherapy practice in general and IBGSH in particular can be analyzed. The analysis concludes that EBPP is not suited to ethically regulate the practice of psychotherapy.

THE CHALLENGE OF ETHICAL-CULTURAL PLURALISM TO THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

One of the main criticisms directed against the legitimacy of internationally recognized human rights is that they are ethnocentric or parochial. The examination of this objection leads to the conclusion that it is not relativism but cultural-ethical pluralism the main challenge to the universal validity of human rights. Ethical pluralism queries that the justification of human rights that has prevailed since the approval of the UDHR has arbitrarily given, under a deceptive appearance of universality, a weight far superior to individualistic values than to collectivistic. After examining some of the main attempts to overcome this challenge (the constructive theory of human rights and justificatory minimalism), the one based on the defense of a kind of ethical individualism compatible with a moderate ethical objectivism is defended as a preferable alternative.

Oral pulse granuloma and oral pulse granuloma associated with odontogenic keratocyst: Two clinical cases and a review of the literature

Two cases of oral pulse granuloma (OPG) or vegetable granuloma (VG) are presented, one of which was concomitant with an odontogenic keratocyst (OKC), which is an unusual finding. OKC is characterized by the presence of hyaline rings which include vessels, giant cells, other inflammatory cells and collagen fibres. There are two hypotheses as to its histogenesis: firstly, as a reaction to vegetable matter, such as legumes (thus the nomenclature “pulse” or edible seed) and secondly as a degenerative change in the vessel walls as a result of localized vasculitis.Due to the deceptive appearance of OPG, diagnosis can be challenging.

Machiavelli’o Valdovas: dorybių galvosūkis

[only abstract in English; full article and abstract in Lithuanian] The article deals with the attitude of Nicollo Machiavelli towards virtues and its political meaning explained in his famous work The Prince. Philosopher discusses the meaning of virtues in different stages of his reasoning. He makes partial conclusions at each stage and leads to the final conclusion, which states that virtues are harmful for the prince, while the deceptive appearance of virtues is most useful. The context of classical political philosophy allows to demonstrate that Machiavelli’s proposal to use deception of virtues equates to a perfect injustice. It can be concluded that Machiavelli breaks radically with the Platonic tradition of political philosophy and starts creating a new tradition on the grounds of ideas of ancient sophists about human nature and politics.

Narrowing of the Boolchand intermediate phase window for amorphous hydrogenated silicon carbide

Intermediate phases represent the so called “sweet spot” in amorphous material systems where the bond stretching and bond bending constraint forces are equally balanced by the total degrees of freedom in the system. They are sometimes also referred to as “Boolchand” phases in recognition of the seminal contributions of Dr. Punit Boolchand to the study of these materials. In a prior publication (King et al., J. Non-Cryst. Solids 379 (2013) 67), we presented possible evidence for the existance of an intermediate (i.e. “Boolchand”) phase in amorphous hydrogenated silicon carbide (a-SiC:H) with a wide range in mean atomic coordination (〈r〉 = 2.4 − 2.7). Support for such a wide phase window was based primarily on a correlation between the post plasma deposition bi-axial film stress and 〈r〉. However, we demonstrate in the present article that the apparent width of the Boolchand intermediate phase window in the prior study was inflated due to two competing film stress contributions, and that the true range in 〈r〉 for the phase window is substantially narrower. Specifically, opposing tensile and compressive film stress components were identified to arise during the plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) of a-SiC:H. The tensile film stress component was attributed to film/substrate thermal contraction mismatch on cooling from the deposition temperature, while the compressive stress component was attributed to ion bombardment of the a-SiC:H growth surface during PECVD. In the prior study, the energy of the ions during PECVD was primarily modulated by the addition of a low frequency bias to the plasma and was intentionally utilized to produce films with varying compressive stress and 〈r〉. In the present study, the low frequency bias was removed from the PECVD of a-SiC:H and instead the deposition pressure was varied to produce films with varying 〈r〉 and exclusively tensile stress. Through detailed analysis of the tensile bi-axial film stress and Young's modulus dependence on 〈r〉, we found conclusive evidence that the film-substrate thermal contraction mismatch was the dominant film stress component in this case and that the magnitidue of the tensile stress was purely due to rigidity percolation in the a-SiC:H film. We therefore conclude that in our previous study the balance of the tensile and compressive stress components resulted in the deceptive appearance of a potentially wide Boolchand intermediate phase window for a-SiC:H. Based on the a-SiC:H films generated in the present study where only the tensile stress component was significant, we have found the window for a possible intermediate phase to be greatly narrowed at Δ〈r〉 ≤ 0.05.

Have wars and violence declined?

For over 150 years liberal optimism has dominated theories of war and violence. It has been repeatedly argued that war and violence either are declining or will shortly decline. There have been exceptions, especially in Germany and more generally in the first half of the twentieth century, but there has been a recent revival of such optimism, especially in the work of Azar Gat, John Mueller, Joshua Goldstein, and Steven Pinker who all perceive a long-term decline in war and violence through history, speeding up in the post-1945 period. Critiquing Pinker’s statistics on war fatalities, I show that the overall pattern is not a decline in war, but substantial variation between periods and places. War has not declined and current trends are slightly in the opposite direction. The conventional view is that civil wars in the global South have largely replaced inter-state wars in the North, but this is misleading since there is major involvement in most civil wars by outside powers, including those of the North. There is more support for their view that homicide has declined in the long-term, at least in the North of the world (with the United States lagging somewhat). This is reinforced by technological improvements in long-distance weaponry and the two transformations have shifted war, especially in the North, from being “ferocious” to “callous” in character. This renders war less visible and less central to Northern culture, which has the deceptive appearance of being rather pacific. Viewed from the South the view has been bleaker both in the colonial period and today. Globally war and violence are not declining, but they are being transformed.

Deceptive Appearance of Pelvic Actinomycosis in a Middle Aged Woman with Diabetes Mellitus and Long Standing Intra-Uterine Device: Mimicking an Ovarian Carcinoma

Deceptive Appearance of Pelvic Actinomycosis in a Middle Aged Woman with Diabetes Mellitus and Long Standing Intra-Uterine Device: Mimicking an Ovarian Carcinoma

Valence space techniques and QRPA vibrational mass parameters

The vibrational mass parameters entering the quadrupolar 5DCH Hamiltonian are commonly obtained neglecting beyond mean-field correlations and the dynamical mean-field rearrangement. The Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation (QRPA) framework would allow to avoid these disadvantages [1], if the computation time, when using density dependent force, was not prohibitive. Here, a significant time reduction is obtained by applying valence space (VS) techniques (energy cut-off and inert core) in QRPA calculations. The VS techniques allow to probe the physical content of the mass parameter. The QRPA mass parameter exhibit robustness toward VS limitations contrarily to the intrinsic QRPA outputs, that show deceptive appearance when an inert core is used. Excited states energy, and associated transition probabilities, should not be considered for optimizing the valence space limits.

Book Review: Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert

Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert. By John Drury. Chicago, 111.: University of Chicago Press, 2014. xix + 396 pp. $35.00 (cloth).Late in this splendid literary biography, John Drury writes that achievement of candour and simplicity invited imitation. He had made poetry look as if anyone could do it so long as they did not put on airs: the deceptive appearance of an which concealed art (p. 285). Like the poetparson of Bemerton, Drury, through his elegant prose style, mastery of a wide variety of scholarly sources, attunement to poetry, and passion for Herbert the artist in all his complexity, makes it look easy. However, there are a number of reasons why no one before him has managed to write this book. Drury delivers a learned but accessible biography that offers the reader rich readings of the poetry and an invitation into the shifting landscape of early seventeenth-century England, when religious and political storms were brewing that would eventually, after Herbert's death, break into Civil War.George Herbert (1593-1633) poses a number of challenges as the subject of biography. He had a reputation for saintliness immediately upon his death, capitalized on by one of his early biographers, Izaak Walton, who made him a model clergyman of a lost golden age of the English Church. Herbert did not have a dramatic life. He spent his childhood and youth in intense study. Early in his career, he held a prestigious position as University Orator for Cambridge, making florid Latin and Greek speeches to visiting dignitaries. He struggled between choosing a prestigious court career and the ministiy, delaying his priestly ordination for years. He was often ill, and recovered in various country houses. Finally, in his late thirties, he married, was at last ordained priest, and received a living at Fugglestone and Bemerton, serving his parishioners faithfully for three years before succumbing to tuberculosis just shy of his fortieth birthday.The facts of Herbert's life alone do not make for scintillating reading; fortunately, Drury focuses on Herbert's rich inner life, his fascinating aristocratic family, and his friends, some of the brightest luminaries of his age (including Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne, and Francis Bacon). Throughout, he gives excellent readings of the poems.Drury is the best of anyone who has written on Herbert's vocational crises, making a solid case from surviving letters that from his student days he was torn between a strong desire to take holy orders, serving the church either through parish ministry or theological scholarship, and the equally strong desire for secular preferment and a prestigious career at court. …

Oswaldo Costa, Antropofagia, y la crítica caníbal de la modernidad colonial

Oswaldo Costa was a key member of the Brazilian modernist Antropofagia (Anthropophagy) movement of the late 1920s, yet he has been largely forgotten by critics and marginalized from national cultural history. Costa articulated —as no other member of the movement did, including his famous leader Oswald de Andrade— an Antropofagia intellectually engaged in what we call a cannibal critique of colonial modernity and Occidentalism. Costa’s Antropofagia cannibalized the historical archive, reading against the grain of a triumphant Western imperial history. Throughout his contributions to the Revista de Antropofagia , he questioned Brazil’s cultural allegiance to Europe, pointed out the existence of asynchronous temporalities within Brazil, and defied Eurocentric notions of civilization and progress that ideologically structure Brazilian nationalism in the ninetieth and twentieth centuries. He also enacted an anthropophagous re-reading of Brazilian historiography against its celebration of colonialism and proposed the necessity of a cultural decolonization. This article analyzes Costa’s principal contributions to Antropofagia and rescues his hitherto overlooked countercolonial thought from the oblivion of collective forgetting. Moreover, it examines Costa’s significant view of Brazilian modernity as a perfidious armistice with other barbarous temporalities, and of the Westernization of Brazil as a deceptive appearance that hides ever-present colonial antagonisms.

Aesop’s wolves: the deceptive appearance of espionage and attacks in cyberspace

Appearances in cyberspace are deceptive and problematic. Deception in the cyber domain poses an immensely difficult challenge for states to differentiate between espionage activities in cyberspace and cyber attacks. The inability to distinguish between cyber activities places US cyber infrastructure in a perilous position and increases the possibility of a disproportionate or inadequate response to cyber incidents. This paper uses case analysis to examine the characteristics associated with the tools and decisions related to cyber espionage and cyber attacks to develop a framework for distinction leveraging epidemiological models for combating disease.

Adenoma-like adenocarcinoma: a subtype of colorectal carcinoma with good prognosis, deceptive appearance on biopsy and frequent KRAS mutation.

A subset of colorectal carcinomas (CRCs) architecturally and cytologically resembles adenomatous change, making them difficult to diagnose on biopsy. This subset has not been well characterized to date. For 35 carcinomas with adenomatous-like areas (cytological and surface architectural appearance that would be insufficient to warrant a diagnosis of adenocarcinoma if evaluated on biopsy), we recorded staging information, molecular data, clinical outcome, whether precursor adenoma was present and whether previous biopsy had been diagnosed as malignant. Despite advanced T-category in 23 (66%) tumours, only seven (20%) had nodal metastases, and only five patients (15%) developed distant metastases. Fifteen cases (43%) had been diagnosed as adenoma on biopsy. Twenty-one resections (60%) showed no residual associated adenoma, including nine called adenoma on biopsy. Median follow-up was 44 months. Four patients (12%) died of disease; 22 were alive at last follow-up. KRAS mutation was seen in 14 of 24 (58%) and four of 17 (24%) were microsatellite-unstable. Patients had significantly improved survival compared to a cohort of patients with conventional well-differentiated CRC after controlling for age and stage (P = 0.011). Adenoma-like adenocarcinoma is an uncommon variant of CRC with a low rate of metastasis and good prognosis. Biopsy diagnosis of this lesion may be challenging.

José Luis Borau, un cineasta furtivo

Abstract The objective of this article is to demonstrate that under the deceptive appearance of realism, Borau’s cinema reveals a rich layer of symbolism rooted in intellectual depth. The article begins by reviewing Borau’s unique contributions promoting film culture in Spain through his activities as president of the Spanish Film Academy (AACC). It then focusses on Borau’s most emblematic film Furtivos (Poachers, 1975), which, among its other qualities, also inscribes the features of the multifaceted personality of the famed Aragonese film-maker.