Uninterrupted Continuity Research Articles

Enhanced immigration enforcement in the USA and the transnational continuity of HIV care for Latin American immigrants in deportation proceedings

In our work as clinicians, researchers, and immigrant rights advocates, we have noted increased anxiety about the possibility of deportation and disruptions in care among immigrants with HIV. Before the 2016 US elections, patients rarely asked about HIV treatment in their home countries. However, since the increase in anti-immigrant rhetoric and arrests by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, patients have voiced concerns about the availability of HIV treatment in their home countries much more frequently. Although antiretroviral therapy is available throughout Latin America, access depends on economic, social, and political circumstances. Maintaining uninterrupted continuity of care among immigrants held in detention or deported to their home countries is challenging. In this Viewpoint, we identify periods of particular vulnerability for immigrants during deportation proceedings, from initial detention to deposition in their country of origin. We discuss the effect of enhanced immigration enforcement on the health and wellbeing of HIV-infected immigrants, and on public health. Finally, we also discuss recommendations for clinicians, immigration authorities, and public health institutions in the USA and in receiving countries.

Editor's Note: In Transition, a Moment for Gratitude

Editor's Note: In Transition, a Moment for Gratitude

Editor's Note: In Transition, a Moment for Gratitude

Editor's Note: In Transition, a Moment for Gratitude

Judith 5:5-21 ou le récit d’Akhior: les mémoires dans la construction de l’identité narrative du peuple d’Israël

In the book of Judith, the Ammonite official Achior tries to dissuade Holofernes from engaging in war against the people of Israel. In fact, he is convinced that the God of Israel will protect his people. Achior’s description of these “mountain folk” is an example of how the identity of an entire people can be conceived. Like a single person’s identity, collective identity finds its roots in memory and, by consequence, within the various human memory systems. In particular, one can distinguish an episodic (“remembering” events or situations already experienced) and and a semantic (“knowing” about events, concepts, objects, ideas or facts) memory. The present study attempts to describe how episodic and semantic memories contribute in constructing and narrating the identity of the people of Israel. Achior’s speech also allows for a distinction between two other facets of identity, as described by Paul Ricoeur: that of “sameness” (“idem” identity, based on uninterrupted continuity or permanence in time) and that of “selfhood” (“ipse” identity, based on self-constancy or self-maintenance). Thus, the narration of such a collective identity enables Achior to project himself into the future and to affirm that the God of Israel would protect his people against the Assyrian army.

The Identification of Residents with their Region and the Continuity of Socio-Historical Development / Identifikace Obyvatel Se Svým Regionem A Kontinuita Socio-Historického Vývoje

Abstract The regional identity of inhabitants in typologically different regions, which differ mainly in terms of the continuity of their socio-historical development, is examined in this article using the example of two case study areas. An important dimension of the concept of any population’s regional identity is the phenomenon of the identification of inhabitants with their region, and this is subject to analysis in this paper. The research demonstrated that a stronger form of the identity phenomenon could be reported for the case study region in which socio-historical development had an uninterrupted continuity. The observed findings helped to confirm the importance of long-term processes in a region’s formation.

Aboriginal sovereignty claims: contemporary voices in Australia

On 26 January 2012, at the 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra, a number of Aboriginal activists from across Australia re-asserted the uninterrupted continuity of Aboriginal sovereignty in Australia. New tent embassies appeared in various urban centres (such as Brisbane, Perth and Moree) and on 24 May 2012 at Sandon Point a number of activists discussed the establishment of a National Unity Government. This paper will explore both the broader political context within which Aboriginal sovereignty claims are voiced – by looking at the growing number of similar assertions across Australia – and the legal documents and doctrines involved in such claims – such as, for example, the Pacific Islanders’ Protection Acts (1872 and 1875) and the Doctrine of Discovery – and their implications for any hegemonic assertion of sovereignty. A distinctive feature of contemporary claims to Aboriginal sovereignty is the inscription of such claims within arguments fully articulated in the colonial legal language. While this strategy is constitutive and productive of actions that are intrinsically shaped and determined by the colonial event, the strategic choices independently adopted by Aboriginal sovereignty advocates also create intersecting spaces that constitute a creative terrain for a meaningful dialogue about post-colonial identity.

Accuracy of regenerating motor neurons: Influence of diffusion in denervated nerve

Following injury to a peripheral nerve the denervated distal nerve segment undergoes remarkable changes including loss of the blood–nerve barrier, Schwann cell proliferation, macrophage invasion, and the production of many cytokines and neurotrophic factors. The aggregate consequence of such changes is that the denervated nerve becomes a permissive and even preferred target for regenerating axons from the proximal nerve segment. The possible role that an original end-organ target (e.g. muscle) may play in this phenomenon during the regeneration period is largely unexplored. We used the rat femoral nerve as an in vivo model to begin to address this question. We also examined the effects of disrupting communication with muscle in terms of accuracy of regenerating motor neurons as judged by their ability to correctly project to their original terminal nerve branch. Our results demonstrate that the accuracy of regenerating motor neurons is dependent upon the denervated nerve segment remaining in uninterrupted continuity with muscle. We hypothesized that this influence of muscle on the denervated nerve might be via diffusion-driven movement of biomolecules or the active axonal transport that continues in severed axons for several days in the rat, so we devised experiments to separate these two possibilities. Our data show that disrupting ongoing diffusion-driven movement in a denervated nerve significantly reduces the accuracy of regenerating motor neurons.

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE: WOOLF'S SEARCH FOR THE MEANING OF LIFE THROUGH COLORS

Commonly discussed as a product of the emotional and spiritual pain, Woolf’s To the Lighthouse has been also observed to be a representational vehicle employed to discuss the meaning of life through Woolf’s distinctive and subtle skill to use colorswhich are external indicators of her inner realities, evoking various experiences and sensations. The connection between color and words is frequently addressed by Woolf in To the Lighthouse in which the size and movement of color shapes, explains, and intensifies the narrative. In the novel, the colors are perfect reflections of the eternal flux of time and life surrounding characters’ inner thoughts to represent the uninterrupted continuity of human life and the meaning of life behind. This paper aims to explore Woolf’s representations of colors expressing her search for the meaning of life, and consider how Woolf incorporated words and colors into these representations. To answer the question “What is the meaning of life?” and to deepen the argument in detail, Terry Eagleton’s The Meaning of Life will be taken as a reference shedding light on the colors employed by Woolf as a meaning of life.

Slavenski paljevinski grob iz Lobora

Pri arheološkim istraživanjima na lokalitetu Lobor, Majka Božja Gorska, provedenim 2009. godine, na prostoru na kojem se nalaze ostatci drvene crkve iz 9. stoljeća, otkrivena je posuda s ostatcima spaljenog pokojnika. Posuda je nađena u jami od stupa drvene crkve, kamo je najvjerojatnije upala pri njezinu podizanju. Grobovi s ostatcima spaljenih pokojnika nisu nađeni na lokalitetu, jer je taj prostor korišten kao mjesto ukapanja kroz više stoljeća. U članku će biti prikazani rezultati najnovijih arheoloških istraživanja, a posebno će se analizirati urna kao jedan od dokaza dugog i neprekinutog kontinuiteta pokapanja na tome mjestu.

An analytical evaluation of mobility management in integrated WLAN-UMTS networks

Ensuring uninterrupted service continuity for handoff calls in an all-IP inter-networked heterogeneous environment requires successful session management among participating access networks. As such, a mobility-aware novel interworking architecture is presented in this article that facilitates session management including session establishment and seamless session handoff across different networks. This framework conveniently enables any 3G cellular technology such as the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) to interwork with a given Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) technology such as the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) network or the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) under a common signaling platform. This framework exploits the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) as a universal coupling mediator for real-time session negotiation and management. Next, a Queuing Theory based analytical model for evaluating the performance of vertical handoff management between these interworked 3rd Generation (3G) cellular networks and the WLANs is presented. The analysis includes vertical handoff performance measures such as delay, transient packet loss, jitter, and signaling overhead/cost. The latter part of this paper presents some results from OPNET based simulations for the verification of the analytical model and results.

Designing VoIP session management over interworked WLAN-3G networks

In an all-IP internetworked heterogeneous environment, ongoing VoIP sessions from roaming users will be subject to frequent vertical handoffs across network boundaries. Ensuring uninterrupted service continuity for these handoff calls requires successful session management among the participating access networks. As such, a mobility-aware novel interworking network design (interconnecting UMTS and WLAN over an IP-based common platform) [1] is presented in this article that facilitates VoIP session management, including session establishment and seamless session handoff across different networks. For comparison purposes, VoIP session management is evaluated in terms of session establishment, handoff delays, transient packet loss, end-to-end traffic delays, and jitter value for different voice codecs, which demonstrate satisfactory and feasible results. In the event (e.g., network congestion, buffer overflow) that session continuity cannot be guaranteed (also known as outage) across network boundaries, this article proposes an algorithm that compensates the user by reducing the unit service charge of future sessions (governed by the outage period) through a noncooperative game-theory-based pricing mechanism.

Adaptation, Intertextuality, and the Endless Deferral of Meaning

Adaptation, Intertextuality, and the Endless Deferral of Meaning

Gora in the picture - Gora in the heart

It has been said many times before and it will doubtless be repeated here today, and from very competent sources that Goranies are a truly unique, specfic ethnic community in our lands. They have carried their specfic character through the turbulent history of the Balkans, in uninterrupted continuity, since the Middle Ages to this day, and there are irrefutable records to prove it. What is the true essence of this specfic Gorany identity, which history and their neighbours are constantly challenging and threatening, and to which they cling so powerfully and so passionately as a guarantee of their survival? In short, in our time, the essence lies in that Goranies are Serbs by origin and Muslims by religion, or, even more fatefully, that this is how they want to remain, cherishing both components of their collective being. Can one be a Serb and a Muslim in this day and age? Processes in southeastern Europe, among the South Slavs, their politics and churches, have long moved in the direction where the only possible answer to this question is in the negative. All the forces of the world seem to have come into collusion not for the first time to persuade the Goranies of the impossibility of their survival as they are in their own lands. But Goranies are still here, in their beautiful Sar Mountains, and this is where they want to stay. The Gorany story, thus, is a testimonial to the threatened identity of a small ethnic group of peaceful, good and proud people, the target for the intolerant chauvinistic passions of Balkan nationalism, which Academician Milovan Ekmecic has aptly named doomsday nationalism. The right to be different, which is all that Goranies ask, is under attack. The message of their philosophy of life is simple: Be whatever you want to be, but let us be what we are. We leave you alone, so please leave us alone! We are prepared to cooperate with everybody, we can endure and survive even without cooperation with those who do not want to cooperate; the only thing we are not prepared to do is to disappear just because somebody seems to wish and to be trying to make us disappear. Is it so much to ask? It seems to be far too

The Rock Art of the Côa Valley (Portugal) and its Archaeological Context: First Results of Current Research

The Côa rock art covers 17 km of the river valley and extends along the banks of the Douro, downstream of the confluence between the two rivers. A total of 194 different panels with Palaeolithic zoomorphic motifs have already been identified. Later prehistoric and historic periods, especially the Iron Age, are also represented. Settlement of the valley in Upper Palaeolithic times is documented by residential sites dating to the Gravettian, the Solutrean and the Magdalenian periods. Results of stylistic analysis, whose chronological predictions have been independently confirmed by superposition patterns derived from the figurative stratigraphies observed in the numerous palimpsests known, indicate that all these periods are also represented in the art. The outdoor location of the Palaeolithic art, the size of the territory, the number and aesthetic quality of the motifs represented and the almost uninterrupted continuity to the present of the artistic use of the region's rock faces concur to the uniqueness of this complex of sites. Accordingly, an Archaeological Park was established in the area, the construction of the dam that threatened to flood the rock art has been abandoned and the valley is to be included in UNESCO's World Heritage List.

Problems of style: foundations for a history of ornament

Written at the height of the arts and crafts movement in fin-de-siecle Vienna, Alois Riegl's Stilfragen represented a turning point in defining and understanding the sources of its inspiration. Demonstrating an uninterrupted continuity in the history of ornament from the ancient Egyptian through the Islamic period, Riegl argued that the creative urge manifests itself in both great art and the most humble artifact, and that change is an inherent part of style. This new translation, which renders Riegl's seminal work in contemporary, readable prose, allows for a fresh reexamination of his thought in light of current revisionist debate. His discovery of infinite variation in the restatement of several decorative motifs - the palmette, rosette, tendril - led Riegl to believe that is completely independent from exterior conditions and is beyond individual volition. This thinking laid the groundwork for his famous concept of Kunstwollen, or artistic intention.

M. K. Gandhi: some experiments with truth

Gandhiists, scholarly and otherwise, have consistently manipulated ‘the Mahatma image’ in accounting for M.K. Gandhi's role as a social and political ‘revolutionary’ and as the founder of ‘non‐violent resistance’. Uncritically assuming a consistent, virtually uninterrupted continuity between Mahatma Gandhi at the height of his career in India and M.K. Gandhi's career as a social and political reformer in Natal and the Transvaal (1893–1914), Gandhiists have systematically suppressed evidence which problematises their historiographical practice and ‘the Mahatma image’. In this paper I argue that Gandhi's practices in South Africa, particularly those resulting from his editorship of Indian Opinion, were often discontinuous with and even contradictory to the soothing fiction of ‘the Mahatma image’, but were at the same time significant factors in the genealogy of Satyagraha.

Alternative Models of Scientific Rationality: Theorisation in Classical Indian Sciences

The roots of scientific epistemology have generally been recognized in the Greeks, Aristotle and Euclid,—the former representing an empiricist trend whereas the latter representing a rationalist trend. Very little is known about classical Indian scientific epistemologies which are generally considered at least two centuries earlier than Aristotle. Inspired by the Aristotelian and Euclidean models of scientific rationality, various new models have flourished in contemporary Western thought, the prominent ones being the logical-empiricist-inductivist model (Reichenbach), the hypothet-ico-deductivist-falsificationist model (Popper), conventionalist-rationalist model (Pioncaré, Duhem), dialectical-historicist model (Kuhn), and rationalist-historicist model (Lakatos, Feyerabend). While the researches in and debates about these models are still going on, it may be profitable to examine the models of scientific rationality that are presupposed in the most prominent classical Indian sciences such as Yoga, Vyākarana, Jyotisa Siddhānt, and Ayurvijñan. All these sciences have enjoyed an uninterrupted continuity ever since their origin although their evolution has suffered generally after 1200 A.D. (save Yoga) due to cultural-historical vicissitudes.

A HIGHER DUTY

We are but transient passengers on this planet Earth. It does not belong to us. We are not free to doom generations yet unborn. We are not at liberty to erase humanity's past or dim its future. Social systems do not endure for an eternity. Only life can lay claim to uninterrupted continuity. This continuity is sacred. We physicians, who shepherd human life from birth to death, are aware of the resiliency, courage, and creativeness that human beings possess. We have an abiding faith in the concept that humanity can control what humanity creates. This perception provides optimistic purpose in reversing the direction of humankind's potential tragic destiny.

The Finanz- und Hofkammerarchiv

Insofar as its present organizational structure is concerned, the Finanz- und Hofkammerarchiv is a new archive established in 1945. Before that year the only connection between the two archives, which had previously been administered separately, lay in the continuity of the records housed in both repositories. During the course of the years the documents stored in the two archives remained unchanged in type even though they were written in offices that bore different names. What led to their amalgamation shortly after the end of World War II was the uninterrupted continuity of the records in both archives.

Political and Economic Life

UP. SUBJECT is Colonial Institutions and Contemporary Latin America: my portion is political and economic life. Both subject and portion are vast and attractive but fearfully complex. As we all know, Latin America is a continent and a half, by no means of uniform heritage and with regions of considerable cultural diversity. Furthermore, these regions are undergoing change which moves at differential rates and may not even be in the same direction. There are, in addition, ambiguities and assumptions within the topic itself that require at least mention. Within this context, what is an institution? One can accept at once the statement that it is an organized society, or a form of social organization, or an established practice or custom. But is it also an attitude or a complex of attitudes that constitute a way of looking at life and of organizing life? I think that this too must fall within our definition. Next, the subject would seem to contain the idea of survival. Is that term to mean that a colonial institution continues to the present day in demonstrably uninterrupted continuity and value? Here the lapse of old needs and the appearance of new ones obviously have meant in many instances extinction but in many others change in function and value so that one must examine the degree of alteration. Again, the topic, it seems to me, carries within it a conception of divisions of time and nature of change, which may be summarized as follows: There was a colonial period which began some time after 1492 with the European incursion and came to a close about 1825 when most of Latin America became politically independent of