Years Of Hope Research Articles

Over 25 Years of Hope: Development of Lymphatic Filariasis Patient Support Groups in Haiti.

Support groups can create environments that are conducive to healing and well-being, particularly for persons with stigmatizing chronic diseases. In 1998, the support group concept was adapted in Haiti for persons with disabling lymphedema caused by lymphatic filariasis (LF). The project was developed with the expectation that the support group model conceived in the developed world be interpreted and modified by persons affected with lymphedema in the Haitian setting. Initiated with modest financial support within a research initiative to eliminate LF, a total of 50 "Hope Clubs" were formed from 1998 to 2023 across seven communes (districts) located in 3 of Haiti's 10 regional Departments. Documented benefits of the support groups included improved limb self-care, decreased incidence of inflammatory episodes (adenolymphangitis), enhanced self-efficacy, economic benefit through microenterprise, and improved quality of life. Despite challenges of funding shortfalls, natural disasters, and political insecurity, persistence of LF support groups in Haiti highlights the crucial role of group ownership by affected persons and the freedom to reinvent the support group concept in light of local social, cultural, and economic conditions.

The political cartoons of Derso and Kelen: years of hope and despair

The political cartoons of Derso and Kelen: years of hope and despair

Not Much Feels Right.

Not Much Feels Right.

Managing Editor’s Message

Managing Editor’s Message Conxita Domènech With this December 2022 issue of the journal, allow me to recap on what happened for our organization, AATSP, and our journal, Hispania, during the present year. 2022 has been a year of hope and desire to put a long pandemic behind us. After the cancellation of the 2020 conference in Puerto Rico, we finally had the opportunity to present our papers and listen to our colleagues in a setting of encanto—the iconic San Juan hotel, Hilton Caribe—and we returned to our homes with a great feeling of satisfaction. The 2022 conference in Puerto Rico has reminded us of the pre-COVID conferences, but it also warned us that complete normalcy had not yet arrived: masks were present and messages notifying exposure were not lacking. We cannot forget, furthermore, the moment of sadness, but also of understanding, when our Executive Director, Sheri Spaine Long, announced that she will retire from her position on June 30, 2023. I knew that one day Sheri’s departure was going to happen. Nevertheless, I cannot imagine our organization and our journal without her. She interviewed me for my initial position as Assistant Managing Editor of Hispania in 2013 when she was the editor-in-chief. From then until today, Sheri has been a fabulous boss, a wonderful colleague, a fantastic mentor, a good friend, and most of all, the best role model. Her previous departure from Hispania in 2018 also caused me sadness, but then I was relieved to know that she was moving up from editor of the journal to director of the organization. We know that Sheri will never completely leave the journal, as she has always been our strongest supporter. Your example and your legacy, Sheri, inspire us to be better Portuguese and Spanish teachers and scholars. Mil gracias and muitíssimo obrigada for your impressive work at AATSP and Hispania. I cannot wait for June 26–29, 2023 in Salamanca to celebrate Sheri’s accomplishments. Let me set aside the past and the future and concentrate on the present issue of Hispania. This December 2022 issue contains a short-form article, seven research articles, and a robust collection of book reviews. The short-form article by Marisa Filgueras-Gómez titled “En defensa de la formación de los futuros profesores de Español como Lengua de Herencia” focusses on the need for university departments to offer training programs for future teachers of Spanish as a heritage language. The research article section begins with Emily Joy Clark. Her essay, “Arranged Marriages and Imprisonment: The Domestic Gothic Horrors of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s La baronesa de Joux (1844) and Dolores (1851),” examines how Gómez de Avellaneda employs techniques and tropes associated with women’s Gothic writing to communicate proto-feminist messages and to reveal the potential dangers of marriage and domesticity. Clark’s article is followed by “On Blackness and Belonging in Contemporary Spain: Desirée Bela-Lobedde’s Ser mujer negra en España.” Eva María Copeland analyzes this 2018 autobiographical narrative which creates a space for the Black, Spanish female lived experience as a maker of meaning and identity. In “Business Spanish in the United States: Origins and Continuum,” Michael Scott Doyle revisits the foundational importance of business Spanish to the United States and tracks its early formalization in American secondary and higher education. Meanwhile, Mehl Allan Penrose with his article, “The Society of San Guiñolé: Pederasty and Prostitution in La chula by Francisco de Sales Mayo,” presents a rigorous and in-depth study on male homosexuality in La chula. In “The Medicalization of the Economy in Early Modern Spanish [End Page 485] Political Discourse,” Rocío G. Sumillera explores how early modern Spanish political authors applied the discourse of medicine to the economic and fiscal arenas during times of severe economic crisis. The last two research articles of the issue take us to Brazil and China, respectively, or better yet, make a further contribution to the Portuguese of Brazil and the Spanish of Chinese students in “Ditongos <ai>, <ei> e <ou> no português brasileiro” by Nancy Mendes Torres Vieira and Gabriel Antunes...

Incisional and Surrounding Periarticular Soft Tissue Management With Negative Pressure Therapy.

Periarticular injuries of the lower extremity are known for wound healing and infection complications. The role for incisional negative pressure wound therapy for lower extremity periarticular fractures has expanded over the last 10 years in hopes of minimizing complications. To date, there is no standardized published protocol of how negative pressure wound therapy is best used in lower extremity periarticular fractures. A review of strategies to decrease complications associated with the operative management of lower extremity periarticular fractures to include the use of incisional negative pressure wound therapy is presented.

2001, die NG Kerk se Jaar van Hoop. Twintig jaar later: ’n Kerkhistoriese oorsig

2001, the Dutch Reformed Church’s Year of Hope. Twenty years onwards: A church historiographic review. The Dutch Reformed Church (DR Church) proclaimed the Year of Hope in 2001 as part of the church’s response to complex social problems regarding poverty and factors affecting reconciliation and morality within the South African society at that stage. The ultimate objective was to mobilise the church to address these matters through different means, on different levels and within the respective contexts. In this church historiographic article, newspaper articles and official church documents are reviewed to assess the church’s dealing with the Year of Hope and its subsequent effects in the years that followed, on the DR Church’s resolutions, declarations and activities concerning the matters first articulated when introducing the Year of Hope. It is clear that the DR Church has not neglected its social and prophetic responsibilities. In this article, interest is also expressed, particularly in how the theme of hope is superposing matters of poverty, reconciliation and morality. Twenty years had lapsed since the Year of Hope. In this article it is argued that the theme of hope in social and ecclesiastical matters is still acutely relevant, and in the conclusion the idea is introduced of a theology of hope to direct the church in continuing to be a bearer of hope within society.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Although the focus of this study falls within the field of Church Historiography, the study of the matters concerned, furthers inquiry in relation to Practical Theology and, more specifically, from a public theological perspective.

When I had you, Baby

When I had you, Baby Terese Marie Mailhot (bio) You want to open his large mouth. Even now with your little feet in stirrups. You feel like an abomination—and spectacle. The labor room is full of doubt and prodding. There's no easy way to examine a cervix. After surgery, you said to the father, "I named him after you so maybe you won't leave." You can't recant those thoughts—you can't even remember saying them. It's the man you had a baby with who remembers and tells you, like you should be ashamed. You're never ashamed about thinking men leave: that's what they do. It's okay to be cynical and scared at this point, after so many years of hope. You want his large mouth like you want his baby—and you have it all like you have his baby: there and beyond you both. What does it mean they cut you open and told you not to do this again—that maybe it's impossible to ever do this again. How many c-sections can a stomach have. Maybe you want to open his large mouth, wide, so he can know the pain of being torn. He visited you in the hospital when you were crazy. He stopped calling you crazy because you started writing about it. How many Indian women have survived mistreatment from hospitals and men. You want him to say you're doing a good job, even when you're both watching crime stories on the television welded to the wall. He doesn't ever look at you—the way he did when you were his student. Holding back tears is something you never used to do. Your best friend is already booking flights. The day you went into labor, you were workshopped. Sherman Alexie pointed out to the class that Indigenous identity is hard to pin. "Look at Terese. She could be Middle-Eastern." [End Page 65] He said you were too self-congratulatory, which was ironically the problem with him. You're still thankful that he saw you. You're still so thankful for this baby, even though he's not born in perfect love, even though your eyes follow your husband as he leaves a room, worried he won't come back. Sometimes he doesn't, until you call to beg. And, instead of thinking, I'm a beggar, you consider the baby. You love the light weight of the baby and how he needs you. How he kicked, every night, at eleven pm sharp. Sometimes drank root beer to rile him up. "This boy will be serious. This baby will be lightning," you told the father. When the baby is born, it's the father who does skin to skin. You can't. You're too tired. The drugs, the way you were sewn up, the way your intestines don't exactly go back inside exactly right, it hurts. There are weeks of bleeding and cleaning the wound. To impress your husband, you try to work. You teach a week postpartum. The one time you call it in, and try to rest on the couch, he asks you what you're doing. At first you laugh, but then you cry the colder he stares. He stands while you curl up on a couch, saying it's just too hard. "What if you lose your job?" he says. "Then I do." My baby, some things are too hard. It's okay to be soft with yourself. My baby, every time you couldn't sleep and had a fever or your throat needed clearing, I was in the tub holding you, soaked but happy I had a baby to protect. I would do anything to love you as I've not been loved. Is it selfish to explore this love? I think about it. How many Indian women have had to carve new measures, new actions, new languages for our love. What does it mean you've inherited my history of genocide, of struggle and survival. Don't let it make you desperate for love or humanity. Those are things we all deserve, even the...

Five Years of MBSAQIP Data: Characteristics, Outcomes, and Trends for Patients with Super-obesity.

Incidence of super obesity (SO; BMI ≥ 50 kg/m2) is growing rapidly and confers worse metabolic complications than non-SO (BMI 30-50 kg/m2). We aim to characterize bariatric surgery patients with SO, their postoperative complications, and treatment trends over the last 5 years in hopes of informing SO-specific treatment protocols. The MBSAQIP database was analyzed, and two cohorts were compared, those with SO and non-SO. Univariate analysis was performed to determine between-group differences. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to determine if SO was independently associated with serious complications or mortality. We evaluated 751,952 patients with 173,110 (23.0%) having SO. Patients with SO were younger (42.2 ± 11.8 SO vs 45.1 ± 12.0 years non-SO, p < 0.001) and less likely to be female (74.8% vs 81.1%, p < 0.001). While comorbidities seem to be decreasing overall in bariatric surgery patients, those with SO have worse functional capacity and more endocrine, pulmonary, and vascular comorbidities. Patients with SO also have worse 30-day postoperative complications, and SO was independently associated with severe complications (OR 1.08; CI 1.05-1.11, p < 0.001) and mortality (OR 2.49; CI 2.12-2.92, p < 0.001) CONCLUSIONS: Patients with SO have significantly increased preoperative comorbidities resulting in worse postoperative outcomes. SO remains an independent risk factor for serious complications and the greatest independent risk factor for 30-day postoperative mortality. Considering the expected increase in patients with SO, substantial work is required to optimize bariatric surgery strategies specific to these patients.

THE ALBANIAN PROBLEM AND THE USA ON THE EVE OF THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE IN 1919

Nineteen-nineteen was a year of peacemaking and national boundaries were being revised throughout the world. It was also a year of hope, especially for the Albanians, when many people believed that the world could be remade according to Wilson. The year was crucial in the development of Albania. For Albania the story of 1919 is both national and international. On the international scene the problem of what to do with Albania was as always tied to other issues. Albania had been created in 1913 by the Great Powers in an attempt to preserve the stability of the Balkans by preventing the growth of the states which were victorious in the first Balkan War and by maintaining Albania as a foreign dominated balancing factor. This system by which the Great powers maintained their control over the Balkans was broken completely by the First World War. During the peacemaking the Albanian problem became part of both the Adriatic question of Greece and the question of Greek and Italian claims in the Eastern Mediterranean. The aim of this paper is to consider these claims, the influence of Essad Pasha on the eve of the Paris Peace Conference and the American attitude towards the Albanian issue.

Using Biometric Tools to Investigate How Students Cognitively Process the Structure of Prostaglandin H 2 Synthase

Protein representations such as those found in the Protein Data Bank repository are important for any practicing biochemist to be able to use, interpret, and manipulate; skills commonly referred to as visual literacy in biochemistry. As such, any student enrolled in a biochemistry course should be trained in these skills. However, little is known as to how students navigate these 3-dimensional representations and how to best teach these skills to biochemistry students, especially using virtual 3D modeling software. An additional barrier to learning these skills are that they are associated with the students’ spatial ability. The proposed study uses biometric tools such as eye tracking and electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate how biochemistry students cognitively process and use modeling software UCSF Chimera to explore the structure of Prostaglandin H2 Synthase. Nine biochemistry students were sampled at a metropolitan Midwestern campus in fall 2018 while completing the activity. During the activity, the students’ cognitive processing was captured using EEG while gaze patterns and areas of fixation were captured by Tobii Glasses 2. Additionally, each student completed a series of spatial ability assessments (Hidden Figures Test and Purdue Visualizations of Rotations Test) to capture their level of ability to think visually. This presentation will answer the following research questions: 1) Which combination of electrode channels suggests the most appropriate measurement of cognitive load? 2) How does the cognitive load measurement change when students analyze a quaternary structure versus a tertiary structure of the same protein? and 3) How can we optimize the cognitive load of a 3D virtual modeling activity? The answers to these questions will be used to improve the activity for replication in following years in hopes of decreasing the impact of extraneous factors on cognition and providing the mental space needed for learning the skills associated with visual literacy in biochemistry.

2021: A Year of Hope, Change, and Possibilities for AE

2021: A Year of Hope, Change, and Possibilities for AE Kevin L Steffey Kevin L Steffey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Entomologist, Volume 67, Issue 1, Spring 2021, Page 3, https://doi.org/10.1093/ae/tmab008 Published: 11 March 2021

America's Teilhard: Christ and Hope in the 1960s by Susan Kassman Sack

Reviewed by: America's Teilhard: Christ and Hope in the 1960s by Susan Kassman Sack Laura Eloe (bio) Susan Kassman Sack, America's Teilhard: Christ and Hope in the 1960s (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2019), 324 pages. When French Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin died in New York City in 1955, the nearly two hundred essays he wrote between 1916 and his death became the property of his long-time secretary and archivist Jeanne Mortier. Since she had already organized an international committee to oversee their publication, Le Phénomène humaine rolled off French presses later that year. Its translation into English (The Phenomenon of Man) appeared in the U.S. in 1959, beginning the availability of Teilhard's long-suppressed work in the country that was his home during his final exile. Twelve more volumes of Teilhard's essays followed, as did volumes of his correspondence with family and friends. In America's Teilhard: Christ and Hope in the 1960s, Susan Kassman Sack tells the story of the American reception of his work during the turbulent 1960s. A short introduction acquaints the reader with Teilhard and summarizes the Christological core of his thought. The rest of the book unfolds along a timeline between Teilhard's death in 1955 during the post-World-War-II consensus and the 1970s' increasing disillusionment with the war in Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement. This timeline is divided into four subintervals: "The Threshold of Change, 1955−1960," "The Early Years, 1961−1964," "The Years of Hope, 1965−1967," and "The Bitter Years, 1968−1970." Sack follows American Catholics through their economic, educational, political, and social ascendancy, the elections and untimely deaths of Pope John XXIII and President John F. Kennedy, their reception [End Page 73] of Vatican II, their inspiration by Civil Rights and the counterculture, their disillusionment following the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and their rebellion against capitalistic values, the Vietnam conflict, and Humanae Vitae. The American sense that knowledge of science would liberate humanity created an atmosphere of optimism just as Teilhard's writing was hitting American shores, and Teilhard's affirmation of the secular world and his positive stance toward scientific progress quickly made him popular. Conferences and symposia on his thought sprung up across the country, and the American Teilhard Association was founded. The number of worldwide publications about Teilhard grew steadily until 1968. Then the reception of his work was swept into society's turn away from secularism and mainstream churches and toward New Age religions and mysticism. Because most of his readers had never grasped the Christological grounding of Teilhard's thought, doubt about his optimistic worldview ensued. Publications about Teilhard steadily fell. Most of the works detailing how Teilhard was initially received were concerned with either Teilhard's context or his thought, and Sack surveys these with skill. After 1970, concern for his thought in context gradually increased, but by the time such projects became commonplace, Teilhard had moved into relative obscurity. As a reception history, Sack's project considers the subjectivity of the first U.S. audience to encounter his work in English. As good reception histories do, it makes the reader aware that what someone writes may well be different from how it is understood. The most substantial contribution of Sack's book is her linking of the missed Christological teleology of Teilhard's thought with his rise and fall in popularity in the U.S. As theologians tack back and forth between historical theology and reception history to fill in the picture of the Church in the modern era, Sack's book makes a valuable contribution to understanding the peculiar place America has in the broader historical and ecclesiological narrative. Two things weigh down this book. First, there are many errors. Some, like the misspelling of names (Marguerite Teillard-Chambon, Paul Troussard, and Henri Bergson) are irritating; others, like mixing up the names of Popes Pius and Paul, and incorrect years for Teilhard's ordination, the finishing of his doctorate, and the end of the Cold War, diminish its value as a source of accurate historical information. Second, the titles and...

Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Hunted: Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala

American Religion 1, no. 2 (Spring 2020), pp. 151–153 Copyright © 2020, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.1.2.11 Book Review Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Hunted: Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019) Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, USA Kevin Lewis O’Neill’s Hunted sits alongside recent ethnographies of Pentecostal men, street ministries, and prisons, including Helena Hansen’s Addicted to Christ, Andrew Johnson’s If I Give My Soul, and Brendan Thornton’s Negotiating Respect. These books explore how Pentecostal conversion offers dignity and supportive community to Latino men on the margins—like addicts, convicts, and ex-gang members—who have been abandoned by the state, and deemed expendable. Through testimony and the sharing of personal stories of redemption, Pentecostals enact a reformed self. For men, the more they narrativize their past ungodly lives of sex, drugs, and violence, the more Pentecostal prestige and religious authority they win, becoming leaders, pastors, and living proof of Jesus’ power. Hunted does not center on the tearful scenes of renewal that have become so part of the genre of ethnographic work on Pentecostals. Instead, O’Neill offers stories of continual falls and relapses, in which men constantly chase—but sometimes never win—redemption. Saving the sinners and addicts of Guatemala City takes handcuffs and straightjackets as much as prayer and worship. In the absence of state social services and rehabilitation for “substance use disorders,” Pentecostal treatment centers hold men captive for months and sometimes years in hopes of providing salvation American Religion 1:2 152 from drug use and alcoholism through Jesus. They function on the idea that rehabilitation is a miracle, as “substance abuse is a sin not a disease.” O’Neill demonstrates that Pentecostalism in captivity does not so much provide a guaranteed path to a clean-cut life as it guarantees a place where men can remain alive. Caring for vulnerable men meant not just praying for them, but preying on them. Bands of hunters prowled the streets looking for wayward addicts. Summoned by worried relatives, hunters enter homes in the dark of night, stir addicts from bed, subdue them, and transport them to the center by any means possible. In the center featured in Hunted, affection and violence were two sides of the same coin that is the “Christian commandment to love thy neighbor” (148). Pedro, the center’s pastor, imagined himself as a shepherd: tracking, keeping, and protecting wayward sheep. He ruled his herd with a metal bat. Hunting involved beatings and restraint, but what is so striking about O’Neill’s book is that he argues that these violent acts are not necessarily contrary to Christianity—these logics of predation are part and parcel of Pentecostalism. Pedro put families at ease. His pastoral and rehabilitative services assured them that their sons, husbands, and brothers would be safe behind the walls of the center rather than open to the drugs and gun violence of the streets. Captivity meant life. Freedom surely meant death. The book troubles liberal ideas about the autonomy of self, ideas core to US-centered conceptions about individual freedom of religion and religious choice. O’Neill challenges readers to see how hunting and predation are central to Christian ideas about the sinful and evil self as an enemy that must be escaped (143, 87). The men in the center do not always choose religion—they are kidnapped into it. Religious practice and identity is as much—or more—about force and discipline than belief, choice, and free will. During services men pick the paint off the walls to pass the time instead of singing, dancing, and weeping—exuberant scenes so central to many other representations of Pentecostalism. Here we see how boredom and forced labor are too central to the making of the religious and righteous self. This book is provocative for the field in its exploration of money—not as an abstract economic concept, but as actual dollar amounts put on the promise and potential of safety and salvation. Kidnapping is often a profitable transaction, requested by families who make “offerings” for the duration of their loved ones’ stay, generating a steady...

Bibliography (in English) for 2017

Bibliography (in English) for 2017 David Bratman (bio) Primary Sources Tolkien, J.R.R. Beren and Lúthien. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. [Compiled from texts extracted from The History of Middle-earth] Books Cholewa-Purgał, Anna. Therapy Through Faërie: Therapeutic Properties of Fantasy Literature by the Inklings and by U. K. Le Guin. Frankfurt; New York: Peter Lang, 2017. Cilli, Oronzo, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne. J.R.R. Tolkien the Esperantist: Before the Arrival of Bilbo Baggins. Barletta, Italy: Cafagna, 2017. [Reprint of 2000 article by Smith and Wynne, "Tolkien and Esperanto," and translation of article by Cilli, "Tolkien and the British Esperantist Movement," with foreword by John Garth and introduction, "1887–1937: 50 Years of Hope and Optimism, with Particular Reference to Great Britain," by Tim Owen.] Clinton, Greg. Reading and Interpreting the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien. New York: Enslow, 2017. Critchley, Peter. Tolkien and the Fellowship of All Living Things: The Politics of Proximity, Person and Place. [UK]: P. Critchley, 2017. Electronic book. http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6513TV47 Eilmann, Julian. J.R.R. Tolkien, Romanticist and Poet. Zurich: Walking Tree, 2017. Ellis, James, ed. J.R.R. Tolkien: The Mind of a Genius. (Special Newsweek Edition.) New York: Topix Media Lab, 2017. Flieger, Verlyn. There Would Always Be a Fairy-tale: More Essays on Tolkien. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2017. Helen, Daniel, ed. Death and Immortality in Middle-earth: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Seminar 2016. Edinburgh: Luna Press, 2017. Higgins, Sørina, ed. The Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain. Berkeley, CA: Apocryphile Press, 2017. [End Page 255] Jallings, Fiona. A Fan's Guide to Neo-Sindarin: A Textbook for the Elvish of Middle-earth. Lexington, KY: Nemvus, 2017. Judd, Walter S., and Graham A. Judd. Flora of Middle-earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium. New York: Oxford UP, 2017. Kirner-Ludwig, Monika, Stephan Köser, and Sebastian Streitberger, ed. Binding Them All: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien and His Works. Zurich: Walking Tree, 2017. Kuijpers, Nathalie, Renée Vink, and Cécile van Zon, ed. Tolkien Among Scholars. (Lembas Extra 2016) [Netherlands]: Tolkien Genootschap Unquendor, 2016. Lee, Stuart D., ed. J.R.R. Tolkien. (Critical Assessments of Major Writers) Abingdon, UK; New York: Routledge, 2017. McAlister, Caroline. John Ronald's Dragons: The Story of J.R.R. Tolkien. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2017. McIntosh, Jonathan S. The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie. Kettering, OH: Angelico Press, 2017. Morrow, Jeffrey L. Seeking the Lord of Middle Earth: Theological Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017. Rhone, Zachary A. The Great Tower of Elfland: The Mythopoeic Worldview of J.R.R. Tolkien, G S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and George MacDonald. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2017. Ryken, Philip. The Messiah Gomes to Middle-earth: Images of Christ's Threefold Office in The Lord of the Rings. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017. Scull, Christina, and Wayne G. Hammond. The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion & Guide. Rev. and expanded ed. London: HarperCollins, 2017. 3 vols. Vaccaro, Christopher, and Yvette Kisor, ed. Tolkien and Alterity. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Articles and Book Chapters Abaléa, Gaëlle. "Transmission: An Escape from Death in Tolkien's Work?" Helen 135–42. Alberto, Maria. "'It had been his virtue, and therefore also the cause of his fall': Seduction as a Mythopoeic Accounting for Evil in Tolkien's Work." Mythlore 35.2 (Spring–Summer 2017): 63–79. Amendt-Raduege, Amy. "Revising Lobelia." Vaccaro and Kisor 77–93. [End Page 256] Anver, Gazala. "A Deconstructive Reading of Tolkien Criticism with Special Emphasis on The Silmarillion." Kuijpers et al. 237–52. Arul, Melissa Ruth. "Silmarils and Obsession: The Undoing of Fëanor." Vaccaro and Kisor 225–39. Atkins, Jay. "On Tolkien's Presentation of Distributism through the Shire." Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society 58 (Winter 2017): 23–28. Azevedo, Tânia. "Tolkien and T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land and a Fallen...

Understanding Iliotibial Band-Sparing Total Hip Arthroplasty: Alternatives to Traditional THA Approaches

Excellent long term results in total hip arthroplasty (THA are achievable through a variety of surgical techniques. However, the push for cost savings and higher patient expectations has shifted the focus to improving short term outcomes such as length of stay and in-hospital narcotic requirements. While approximately 87% of surgeons worldwide continue to prefer traditional posterolateral (PL) or lateral approaches for arthroplasty,1alternative approaches that spare the iliotibial band have emerged over the last several years in hopes of improved outcomes. This review explores the iliotibial band-sparing approaches, their advantages and disadvantages, and provides an overview of their published results.

How human embryonic stem cells sparked a revolution.

After 20 years of hope, promise and controversy, human embryonic stem cells are reshaping biological concepts and starting to move into the clinic. After 20 years of hope, promise and controversy, human embryonic stem cells are reshaping biological concepts and starting to move into the clinic.

Quantification of Inter-Erythrocyte Forces with Ultra-High Frequency (410MHz) Single Beam Acoustic Tweezer.

Efforts on quantitative measurements of the interactive forces of red blood cells (RBC) have been pursued for many years in hopes of a better understanding of hemodynamics and blood rheology. In this paper, we report an approach based on an ultra-high frequency (410MHz) single beam acoustic tweezer (SBAT) for quantitative measurements of inter-RBC forces at a single cell level. The trapping forces produced by this ultra-high frequency (UHF) SBAT can be quantitatively estimated with a micropipette. Since the focal beam diameter of the 410MHz ultrasonic transducer used in this SBAT was only 6.5micrometer (μm), which was smaller than that of a RBC (~7.5μm), it was made possible to directly apply the beam to a single RBC and measure inter-RBC forces against the pre-calibrated acoustic trapping forces as another example of potential cellular applications of the SBAT. The magnitude of these forces was found to be 391.0±86.4pN. Finally, it is worth noting that unlike several other methods, this method does not require the measuring device to be in contact with the cells.

The mirage of “Rainbowism” within the nightmare of #MustFall campaigns. Exploring the penetrating hermeneutics of compassionate being-with against the background of decolonising activism and xenophobic suspicion

Decolonising activism in South African is currently oscillating between social disillusionment (disillusionment about the ability to create a new South Africa by means of Constitutional Justice after twenty-two years of hope for a better life for all) and existential pain (internalised anger resulting from experiences of rejection and humiliating oppression). #MustFall campaigns have become vehicles for the expression of unarticulated feelings of inferiority, suppressed anger and cultural exclusion. It also reveals signs of new forms of racism and increasing exponents of black-white polarisation and xenophobic suspicion. The latter should not be interpreted merely in terms of local modes of radicalization and upcoming modes of political populism, but also against the background of new, global forms of “fear for the other” as expressed in the refugee paranoia and migrant crisis. It becomes a burning pastoral question for communities of faith how to penetrate the bottom line of a possible political cul de sac and cultural intolerance. The question is posed: What is meant by an ecclesial approach within the bleak situation of no-solution-at-all? Instead of a pessimistic retrotopia (back to the past) (Zygmunt Bauman) or an optimistic utopia (the pursuit of happiness in affluent societal projections), the perichoresis of compassionate being-with is explored within the theological parameters of oiktirmos, rḥm, ḥnn and pathē. It is argued that a pastoral mode of hospitable presence should be implied in order to penetrate the danger of a complete xenophobic deadlock in civil society.

‘Days of Rage’ Downunder: Considering American Influences on ‘Home-Grown’ Terrorism and ASIO's response in 1970s Australia

Between late 1969 and mid-1972 there were 176 premeditated and politically motivated attacks against a range of mostly government, military, judicial, diplomatic and commercial targets in Australia. Most were undertaken by radical left-wing actors. Such incidents and the organisations and individuals who carried them out can be examined through the lens of ‘home-grown’ terrorism. This article corrects the popular and historiographical amnesia associated with these events and demonstrates that like the moderate social movements of the ‘long Sixties’ that sustained Australia's ‘Years of Hope’, the home-grown terrorist actors who contributed to Australia's ‘Days of Rage’ were, most especially, influenced by American developments, cultural productions and actors. Further, in its attempts to understand and deal with these new threats, elements of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) were similarly influenced by a range of American ideas and events including social science research methodologies.

Oximes in organophosphate poisoning: 60 years of hope and despair

The high number of annual fatalities following suicidal poisoning by organophosphorus (OP) pesticides and the recent homicidal use of the chemical warfare nerve agent sarin against civilian population in Syria underlines the continuous threat by these highly toxic agents. The need for an effective treatment of OP poisoning resulted in the implementation of a combination therapy with the muscarinic receptor antagonist atropine and an oxime for the reactivation of OP-inhibited acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Since the invention of the first clinically used oxime pralidoxime (2-PAM) in the 1950s ongoing research attempted to identify more effective oximes. In fact, several thousand oximes were synthesized in the past six decades. These include charged and non-charged compounds, mono- and bispyridinium oximes, asymmetric oximes, oximes with different substitutes and more recently non-oxime reactivators. Multiple in vitro and in vivo studies investigated the potential of oximes to reactivate OP-inhibited AChE and to reverse OP-induced cholinergic signs. Depending on the experimental model, the investigated species and the tested OP largely variable results were obtained by different laboratories. These findings and the inconsistent effectiveness of oximes in the treatment of OP-pesticide poisoned patients led to a continuous discussion on the value of oximes. In order to provide a forward-looking evaluation of the significance of oximes in OP poisoning multiple aspects, including intrinsic toxicity, in vitro reactivation potency, efficacy and pharmacokinetics, as well as the impact of the causative OP have to be considered. The different influencing factors in order to define the benefit and limitations of oximes in OP poisoning will be discussed.