The 1808 American Burns ‘edition’, unrecorded in earlier Burns scholarship, which is described here from the copy in Mr Todd’s collection. is significant both for its nineteenth century owner, the American politician and orator Edward Everett (1794–1865), and for its strange printing history. Everett’s bookplate and a manuscript inscription show that the Todd copy was presented to Everett by a young American poet Epes Sargent (1813–1880), and together these suggest an under-documented interest in Burns in America outside the Scottish diaspora before the 1840s, when Burns’s work would be championed by Emerson, Frederick Douglass and others. The title page states the edition was published in Boston, Massachusetts, but the book’s irregular pagination shows that it was printed in Scotland, not Boston, and was made up of sheets of an 1807 Scottish edition. The American title page (a close but not exact match with the Scottish one), whether printed in Edinburgh or Boston, disguised its Scottish origin during a period of strong protectionism in the American book-trade; if the title page were printed in Scotland, the 1808 Boston Burns would seem to be the only known early nineteenth century example of such an arrangement.

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Pediatric mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) represent an evolving field of interest in youth athletics. Although most players recover within 4 weeks, some have symptoms that last longer. Little is known about youth health-related quality of life (HRQoL) after mTBI. To characterize youth HRQoL after soccer-related mTBI and to identify predictors of individual differences in HRQoL recovery. Prospective cohort study. Youth soccer. Soccer players, aged 8 to 17 years, who sustained an mTBI (n = 23) or orthopaedic injury (OI, n = 24) or remained uninjured (n = 23) during a single season. We assessed HRQoL via the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, version 4.0, and postconcussive symptoms via the Health and Behavior Index. Serial assessments occurred at 24 to 48 hours, 7 days, 30 days, and 90 days postinjury via telephone interview. At 7 days postinjury, the mTBI and OI groups had poorer total HRQoL (F2,67 = 11.35, P < .001) than the uninjured control group. At 7 days, the mTBI group had the poorest psychosocial HRQoL, whereas the OI group had the poorest physical HRQoL. Differences between the mTBI and uninjured control groups resolved by 30 days. Within the mTBI group, players with significant postconcussive symptoms at 7 days had poorer total (F1,21 = 23.071, P ≤ .001; F1,21 = 5.798, P = .028), psychosocial (F1,21 = 16.488, P = < .001; F1,21 = 5.050, P = .039), and physical (F1,21 = 21.671, P = < .001; F1,21 = 5.119, P = .038) HRQoL at 7 and 30 days, respectively, than players with minimal symptoms; these differences resolved by 90 days. As a group, youth soccer players who sustained mTBI had transient impairments in HRQoL that resolved by 30 days. A subset of players with significant postconcussive symptoms at 7 days postinjury had poorer HRQoL for at least 30 days postinjury than those whose postconcussive symptoms had resolved within a week of injury. This suggests ongoing recovery in this subset at 30 days and the potential utility of HRQoL as a measure of recovery.

One manuscript of an oratorio in I-Mc dating from 1784 is described, on its title page, as a pasticcio by “celebrated Neapolitan maestri”. I suggest that the source is actually a forgery and linked to three non-Neapolitan composers. The inference is that it was associ- ated with Naples purely for marketing reasons.

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The article considers the role of metaphor in the art decoration of 17th–18th centuries Ukrainian editions of church books. It claims that the book art of this period is marked by generous use of symbolic and allegoric visual images which play metaphorical role in general structure of the book. Structural-semiotical exploration of title pages, frontispieces, and illustration cycles in more than one hundred reeditions of Ukrainian church books of 17th–18th centuries enabled us to single out the main types of structure forming visual metaphors. All metaphorical visual images, used in decoration of the church books, transfer the meaning of the book through picturing its author, addressee, or the central theological concept. The image of the author in the tradition of the Ukrainian church book art decoration is inserted in the composition of the title page and frontispiece. It visually presents the church book as a creation of a saint person, inspired by God. The addressee is expressed both by the emblem of a patron, who supported book printing, and by an icon of a divine person to whom the prayer content of the book is addressed. The emblem of a patron is positioned on the title page and/or backside of the title page. It visually generalizes the image of the church book edition, printed due to support of notable person. The icons of a prayer addressee on the backside of the title page, on the frontispieces, or on in-text miniatures, reflect the conceptual idea of a church book as a tool for praying. The main idea of a church book is commonly expressed by symbolic and allegoric compositions. Such compositions, positioned on the title pages and frontispieces, summarize the content of the book by the most unexpected visual images. All the complexity of meanings expressed by images of author, addressee, and theological content, demonstrate the baroque means, which Ukrainian church book editors applied to visualize the church book essence.

Abstract Sir Walter Scott’s three-volume Rob Roy was the first of his novels to be issued in three ‘factitious editions’—i.e. of the one setting of type, in an edition number totalling 10,000, 2,500 were issued with ‘Second edition’ on the title pages, 2,500 with ‘Third edition’. Publication of the [first] edition was scheduled for 30 December 1817 (title page dated 1818), and the second and third followed on 7 January 1818 and 10 January 1818 respectively. The closeness of the dates is explained by the publishing stratagem, but there is also a difficulty in that Scott did not return proofs of the final three and a half gatherings of volume 3 until late on 26 December (a Friday). It is proposed that these gatherings were printed (in at least the first 5,000) by concurrent perfecting, thus meeting the deadline. In bibliographical terms the three editions are at best three issues of the one edition.

We ask, “What genre conventions are shared in 18th- and 21st-century midwifery manuals?” The article responds to this question by situating manuals as cultural arbiters and defining genre in a cultural context. The article identifies parallels between 18th-century and 21st-century midwifery manuals that focus on the rhetorical situation (via front matter, including title pages and prefaces) and accessibility of information (via design, definitions, and step-by-step procedures). Midwifery practices have changed drastically in the modern era, but the underlying goals—safety and health for the birthing person and child—remain constant. Increased publication of manuals dedicated to midwifery in the 18th century suggests a heightened focus on practices leading to successful outcomes in childbirth that highlight the value of examining manuals as a genre reflecting humanistic elements in technical documents. We argue that midwifery manuals emphasize underlying ideologies in the production and reproduction of socio-cultural consciousness still present today.

ObjectiveAccording to the diagnosis-related group (DRG) requirement, issues of diagnosis and procedure coding in the gastroenterology department of our hospital were analyzed and improvement plans were proposed to lay the foundation for effective implementation of DRGs.MethodsThe title page of case-history of 1600 patients admitted to the Department of Gastroenterology of this hospital from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 was sampled as a data source, and the primary and other diagnostic codes, operation or procedure codes involved in the title page of case-history were categorized and statistically analyzed.ResultsOf the 531 cases treated with gastrointestinal endoscopy in our hospital in 2021, coding errors were identified in 66 cases and unsuccessful DRG enrollment in 35 cases, including 14 cases with incorrect coding of the primary diagnosis (8 cases with unsuccessful DRG enrollment), 37 cases with incorrect coding of the primary operation (23 cases with unsuccessful DRG enrollment), and 8 cases with incorrect coding of both the primary diagnosis and the primary operation (4 cases with unsuccessful DRG enrollment). Analysis of 66 inpatient cases with coding problems showed a total of 167 deficiencies, including 36 deficiencies in major diagnoses, 84 deficiencies in other diagnoses, and 47 deficiencies in surgery or operation coding.ConclusionThe accuracy of coding of disease diagnosis and surgical operation is the basis for the smooth implementation of DRGs. The medical staff of this hospital has poor cognition of DRGs coding and fails to recognize the important role of the title page of case-history quality to DRGs system, and their attention to DRGs and knowledge base of disease classification coding should be improved. In addition, the high incidence of coding errors, especially the omission of disease diagnosis, requires increased training of physicians and nurses on clinical knowledge and requirements for DRGs medical records, thereby improving the quality of medical cases and ensuring the accuracy of DRGs information.

The American minister Charles Monroe Sheldon published the “runaway bestseller” In His Steps “What Would Jesus Do?” in 1896. The initial, and stupendous, popularity of Sheldon’s social gospel novel has not yet been scrutinised in relation to its historical antecedents. By 1899 the weekly Outlook remarked on the transatlantic cross-over of the book, stating: “wherever one went in London, whether on trains or buses, in bookstores or shops, [one] found people talking about In His Steps.” In that same year W. T. Stead reissued his non-fiction book If Christ Came to Chicago, which had first been published in Chicago in 1894, two years before Sheldon’s sermon-story. The 1899 title page declared: “The Precursor of ‘In His Steps’/ If Christ came to Chicago!... /What Would Jesus Do?” Stead’s non-fiction book sold well on both sides of the Atlantic, before and after Sheldon’s novel was published. So, was this simply a marketing stunt designed to attract more readers? Or did Stead’s new title register deeper concerns about the relationship between fiction, journalism, and the social gospel movement? Investigating the somewhat vexed relationship between these two texts, this article traces the transatlantic roots of In His Steps. Comparing the afterlife of the novel with its immediate non-fiction ancestor, I explore the synergetic, if at times uncomfortable, relationship that developed between the social gospel movement and the periodical press at the end of the nineteenth century.

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The publication attempts to analyse the engravings of the prominent Ukrainian master Hryhorii Levytskyi and his contacts with the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The article presents biographical information about the master, including his probable education at the Academy.A group of so-called engraved theses dedicated to Kyivan leaders is analysed. Attention is paid to the analysis of a previously unknown engraving depicting the Virgin Mary and Divine Infant. The frame of this engraving was used in the decoration of the title page of Mytrofan Dovhalevskyi’s manuscript lectures on poetics of 1736.The reattribution of the frame prompted a more thorough review of other examples of engraved copperplate frames in Levytskyi’s creative heritage, including the so-called «frame for theatre posters» of 1735 and the engraving used for the title of «The Journey to Jerusalem» 1751 by Serapion Kadianov-Mnozhynskyi. Both of these frames are not separate works but were made to illustrate panegyric texts of the academic circles, which were either not printed or not discovered and require further research. Similarly, the unsigned engraving, depicting the Epiphany, on the back of the title of «The Journey to Jerusalem» is probably made by Levytskyi and was intended to illustrate a text related to the Academy. The correct spelling of the surname of the author of «The Journey to Jerusalem», Serapion Kadian (or Kadianov)-Mnozhynskyi, was established. Also, by analogy, a version of the toponymic origin of the engraver Hryhorii Levytskyi’s surname was proposed.The study of the engravings in the context of the history of their use traces Hryhorii Levytskyi’s contacts with the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, its teachers and students, including Hilarion Negrebetskyi, Mytrofan Dovhalevskyi, Mykhailo Kozachynskyi, Sylvester Kuliabka, Damian Halakhovskyi, Ambrose Negrebetskyi, Serapion Mnohynynskyi Kadyanov, Yosyp Narodovskyi, and others. It is also recorded that the cultural environment of the time, which functioned around the Academy and to which H. Levytskyi belonged, was united thanks to the efforts of its patron and developer, Kyiv Metropolitan Raphael Zaborovsky.

Patients complain differently about their experiences of post-operative pain. However, clinicians are often guided by their own viewpoints despite the highly subjective nature of pain resulting in suboptimal post-operative pain management. This impacts negatively on the quality of life of patients in the immediate post-operative period. Investigating patients' pain behavior in the pre-operative period may therefore help to predict the intensity of post-operative pain, thereby assisting in identifying patients who are at risk of greater pain after third molar surgery, and allocating extra resources for pain control. This study aims to predict the intensity of pain after third molar surgery by correlating post-operative pain perception with the sensory-discriminative dimension and affective response to a cold pressor stimulus. This study is a quasi-experimental study that was conducted in the oral surgery clinic of (name of hospital in the title page). The procedure was undertaken in an isolated clinic cubicle with well-controlled room temperature and minimal distraction. Study participants were recruited by convenience sampling. Forty-three consenting participants, 20 years and above, who met eligibility criteria were subjected to pre-operative cold pressor testing. Subsequently, third molar surgery was done and post-operative pain intensity was recorded at specific intervals. Data analyses were completed using IBM SPSS version 25. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test was used to test for normality of continuous variables. Ordinal regression was used to test for contributory value of pre-operative measurement while Spearman's rank correlation test was used to test their degree of relationships with post-operative pain P < 0.05. The median pain threshold was 20 s (Interquartile Range, IQR 12.75-32.25) and the median pain tolerance was 33 s (IQR = 23.00-54.00) from the cold pressor test. The peak median pain score in this study was reached at 3-h after the last stitch. There was a statistically significant predictive effect of both variables on post-operative pain at 3-h. Sensory-discriminative dimension and affective response to cold pressor test are significant predictors of peak post-operative pain after impacted mandibular third molar surgery.

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