Changing trends in the incidence of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma: seven decades of experience at King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India

AbstractBackground:The occurrence of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is reportedly higher in India than in some other parts of the world, and our centre has seen a four-fold increase in its occurrence across seven decades.Methods:This paper reports a retrospective archival analysis of 701 juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma cases from 1958 to 2013, and considers probable environmental factors in an Indian context that may affect its biology and the global distribution, as reported in the literature.Results:A continuously progressive increase in occurrence was evident, but the rapid rise observed in the current decade was alarming. The world map of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma incidence does not reflect true global distribution given the paucity of reporting. Our centre has dealt with approximately 400 cases in the last 24 years.Conclusion:With the alarming increase in juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma incidence, there is a need for a registry to define its epidemiology. The world literature needs to reflect the status of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma incidence in the third world as well. Environmental factors known for hormone disruptive actions may influence its occurrence. Such aspects need to be considered to plan specific prevention policies.

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Tradition Versus and Modernity in Laila al-Juhani’s The Waste Paradise: An Intertextual Approach

Theory and Practice in Language Studies ◽

10.17507/tpls.1110.07 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (10) ◽

pp. 1197-1202

Author(s):

Mohammed Abdullah Abduldaim Hizabr Alhusami

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Short Story ◽

World Literature ◽

Narrative Structure ◽

The Novel ◽

Saudi Women ◽

The Core ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

Story Writer

The aim of this paper is to investigate the issue of intertextuality in the novel Alfirdaws Alyabab (The Waste Paradise) by the female Saudi novelist and short story writer Laila al-Juhani. Intertextuality is a rhetoric and literary technique defined as a textual reference deliberate or subtle to some other texts with a view of drawing more significance to the core text; and hence it is employed by an author to communicate and discuss ideas in a critical style. The narrative structure of Alfirdaws Alyabab (The Waste Paradise) showcases references of religious, literary, historical, and folkloric intertextuality. In analyzing these references, the study follows the intertextual approach. In her novel The Waste Paradise, Laila al-Juhani portrays the suffering of Saudi women who are less tormented by social marginalization than by an inner conflict between openness to Western culture and conformity to cultural heritage. Intertextuality relates to words, texts, or discourses among each other. Moreover, the intertextual relations are subject to reader’s response to the text. The relation of one text with other texts or contexts never reduces the prestige of writing. Therefore, this study, does not diminish the status of the writer or the text; rather, it is in itself a kind of literary creativity. Finally, this paper aims to introduce Saudi writers in general and the female writers in particular to the world literature.

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The global distribution of tribes of the gramineae in relation to historical and environmental factors

Australian Journal of Agricultural Research ◽

10.1071/ar9500355 ◽

1950 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 355 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

W Hartley

Keyword(s):

Environmental Factors ◽

Climatic Factors ◽

Global Distribution ◽

Special Significance ◽

Average Percentage ◽

Extensive Survey ◽

The World ◽

Present Distribution ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

An extensive survey of the literature on grass distribution throughout the world has been made to determine the average percentage of species of each of the major grass tribes in the total grass flora. These average percentages for the six largest tribes are as follows: Agrosteae 8.2 per cent. Eragrosteae 8.1 per cent. Andropogoneae 11.9 per cent. Festuceae 16.5 per cent. Aveneae 6.3 per cent. Paniceae 24.7 per cent. The distribution of each of the above tribes is shown on world maps, and the relationship of this distribution to climatic, historical, and taxonomic factors is discussed. It is shown that the present distribution of each of the major tribes can be explained by a few readily recognizable factors. Climatic factors are of primary importance in relation to grass distribution and winter temperature has special significance.

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Dhat Syndrome: A Review of the World Literature

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0303.212 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Altaf Ahmad Malla ◽

Nasir Mohammad Bhat

Keyword(s):

World Literature ◽

Classification Systems ◽

World Health ◽

Geographical Regions ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

Classification Of Diseases ◽

Icd 10 ◽

International Statistical Classification ◽

Health Organization

Dhat syndrome is described as a culture bound syndrome (CBS). There is an ongoing debate on the nosological status of CBS. Dhat syndrome has been found to be prevalent in different geographical regions of the world. It has been described in literature from China, Europe, Americas, and Russia at different points of time in history. Mention of semen as a “soul substance” could be found in the works of Galen and Aristotle who have explained the physical and psychological features associated with its loss. However, the current classification systems such as International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Conditions‑10 (ICD‑10) (World Health Organization (WHO)) and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)‑IV‑TR (American Psychiatric Association) do not give guidelines to diagnose these culture‑bound conditions in the main text. The revisions of these two most commonly used nosological systems (the ICD and DSM) are due in near future. The status of this condition in these upcoming revisions is likely to have important implications. The article reviews the existing literature on dhat syndrome.

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The Emergence of the Global South Novel: Red Sorghum, Présence Africaine, and the Third Novelists' International

NOVEL A Forum on Fiction ◽

10.1215/00295132-7738524 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 347-368

Author(s):

Y. P. Zhang

Keyword(s):

World Literature ◽

Third World ◽

Chinese Literature ◽

Literary Culture ◽

Global South ◽

The State ◽

The Third ◽

The World ◽

The Third World ◽

Change Of Consciousness

Abstract This article focuses on an overlooked connection between the “cultural fever” in China in the 1980s and a comparable cultural fever that emerged in Africa and the Caribbean in the mid-1950s through the writing of Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Stéphen Alexis, and others. It argues that, in the mid-1950s, these writers politicized their discourse on culture partly under the influence of Mao's “Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art.” In particular, they translated the tension between the state and the local, which is intrinsic to Mao's “Talks,” into the dialectical opposition between nationalism and pan-Africanism. In post-Mao China, Chinese writers released the local from the grip of the state and aligned localism with a nascent cosmopolitanism, which inclined them to identify with Third World cosmopolitan writers. In the process of translating post-Mao Chinese literature into the mechanism of the world literary system, writers and translators transformed localism into an assimilable cult of culture. By looking at the shift of value in Chinese literature in the 1980s in relation to a change of consciousness in Euro-American literary culture in the same period, this article further argues that the context of Third Worldism is largely eliminated in the reception of global South literature in the world literary setting. It contends that recognizing the formation of Third World cosmopolitan novelists in the milieu of an international socialist literary culture oriented to the Third World necessitates the construction of a global history of the novel that will redress the myopia in novel studies, postcolonialism, and contemporary theories of world literature.

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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, 1961–1968

Winning the Third World ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631707.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Gregg A. Brazinsky

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Third World ◽

Mao Zedong ◽

Diverse Group ◽

The Third ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Third World ◽

The Cold War

Even as the PRC sought to win over radical and neutralist Afro-Asian states through diplomacy, it also sought to gain prestige in the Third World by becoming a leader of revolutionary forces. The PRC befriended a diverse group of Afro-Asian and insurgents guerilla that espoused Maoist doctrines during the 1960s. They believed that doing so would help to spread Mao Zedong thought throughout the world, raising the status of both the PRC and its leader. America’s fear that insurgent victories in countries such as Vietnam, Thailand and the Congo would enhance Chinese prestige and legitimate Maoism played a key role in precipitating some of the most dramatic and costly instances of U.S. intervention of the Cold War.

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Life in a Dead Language

Journal of World Literature ◽

10.1163/24056480-00204004 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 411-432

Author(s):

Matthew Nelson

Keyword(s):

World Literature ◽

British Colonialism ◽

The World ◽

The Status

Literature written in Sanskrit after the onset of British colonialism is sorely neglected. Modern Sanskrit, as it is often called, suffers from the bad image of being written in a dead language. Many of its writers would disagree with that image, but they would know that they are disagreeing. That defensiveness has come to shape their writing, a fact which I argue arises in response to the status of their work as an ultraminor literature, a status which was born with the formation of the “world literature” field and its elevation/absorption of classical Sanskrit at the expense of the latter’s perceived potential for contemporaneity.

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Does art therapy need a theory? Considerations on terminology, models and paradigms of art therapy

Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana ◽

10.12775/spi.2021.4.001 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 23-50

Author(s):

Wita Szulc

Keyword(s):

Art Therapy ◽

World Literature ◽

Critical Approach ◽

Chronological Order ◽

Polish Literature ◽

Sources Of Knowledge ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

Theoretical Foundations ◽

The Way

The author discusses Polish publications on the theoretical foundations of art therapy published in Poland in chronological order and confronts them with the world literature of Art Therapy. One of theproblems discussed in this paper is plagiarism in the Polish literature on Art Therapy, which is an obstacle on the way to Art Therapy achieving the status of science. The article covers such issues as sources of knowledge about Art Therapies, terminology, types, models and paradigms of Arts therapy. The aim of this article is to draw attention to the need for a critical approach to the available and disseminated sources of knowledge about the theory.

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