scholarly journals Children of the Night in The Others

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
H. David Urquiza Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Disease ◽  
Xeroderma Pigmentosum ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Rare Genetic Disease ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Family ◽  
Alejandro Amenabar

Children of the Night, Children of the Moon or Children of the Dark are names used for referring to children suffering from xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare genetic disease in which the affected children cannot be exposed to sunlight, which can be fatal for them. This disease have been explored in a few films: Children of the Dark (a made-for-TV film), Dark Side of the Sun, a direct-to-DVD film and, finally, a mainstream film depicting children with this disease, The Others, an acclaimed and award-winning film directed by Alejandro Amenábar, starring Nicole Kidman as Grace, Fionnula Flanagan as Bertha and Alakina Mann and James Bentley as the children1. In The Others, Grace, the mother, and her two children Anna and Nicholas live in a big, dark, almost empty house. Later, we find out that the children cannot be exposed to the sun, so they only play inside the house, which has been emptied of superfluous furniture for the children to have more space in which to run around. The mother employs a new maid (Bertha) and two other new servants, and a series of events occur in such a way that the family, and the audience, begins to believe that the house is haunted. This article focuses on the depiction of children with xeroderma pigmentosum as represented in this film and how the film's approach and description of the disease match with the reality that families with affected children find every day.

The Dark Side of the Moon

2020 ◽  
pp. 279-298
Author(s):  
Emma Gee
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Universe

This chapter brings us from Plato to a second-century CE reception of his dialogues, in the work of Plutarch. It concentrates on one dialogue of Plutarch, the De facie in orbe lunae (On the Face in the Moon’s Disc). In the myth that concludes this dialogue, the speaker, Sulla, references Homer’s Elysium from Odyssey 4. But Sulla lifts the Homeric Elysium from “the ends of the earth,” up a level, so that it is situated in the moon. This sets the scene for the rest of Plutarch’s eschatological myth, in which Elysium is repositioned as part of an ascending world-system. Cosmos in Plutarch is the theater for soul. Soul and cosmos in Plutarch are bound up in a sequence of functional interrelationships. Plutarch’s tripartite cosmos functions like the human entity and in fact is the physical area of operation in the life and death of the human entity. There is a truly intertwined relationship between the tripartite human entity and the tripartite cosmos: a three-stage cosmos gives a three-stage cycle of death to life and back, from the sun to the moon to the earth, over and over again. Plutarch’s whole cosmos takes on the role of an afterlife landscape. The De facie gives us the clearest instance we’ve yet seen of the phenomenon of psychic harmonization, in which the soul is entirely integrated with the universe.

scholarly journals Clementine Photographs of the Inner Zodiacal Light

1996 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 333-336
Author(s):  
B. L. Cooper ◽  
H. A. Zook ◽  
A. E. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Exposure Time ◽  
Field Of View ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Star Tracker ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Detailed Structure ◽  
Zodiacal Light ◽  
X 43

AbstractOver 700 photographs of the inner zodiacal light were taken from the Clementine spacecraft while it was in orbit around the Moon. These exposures were taken with the 28° x 43° field-of-view Star Tracker camera and the 4.2° x 5.6° field-of-view UV/Vis camera. The images were made while the Clementine spacecraft was on the dark side of the Moon such that the Sun was occulted. Most of the photos were taken at the highest possible sensitivity and longest exposure time (0.7 sec) in order to detect an expected weak lunar horizon glow. Consequently, many of the photos are over exposed where the zodiacal light is the brightest. However, a subset of photos were purposefully taken with a range of exposure times to reveal the entire inner zodiacal light structure, both in latitude and longitude, to within 1° of the Sun. These Star Tracker images show the lenticular shape of the inner zodiacal light. When work to correct the images to absolute photometry is concluded, the detailed structure of the entire inner zodiacal light will be derived.

scholarly journals Presence of the topic Xeroderma Pigmentoso in scientific articles published between 2003 and 2018

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-134
Author(s):  
Danilo José Silva Moreira ◽  
Juliana Brito da Fonseca ◽  
Karoline Rossi ◽  
Suzana dos Santos Vasconcelos ◽  
Vinicius Faustino Lima de Oliveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rare Disease ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Genetic Disease ◽  
Xeroderma Pigmentosum ◽  
Recessive Character ◽  
Rare Genetic Disease ◽  
Publication Rates ◽  
Selection Of

Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a rare genetic disease, of autosomal and recessive character, and may affect both sexes, regardless of race, and often one case per 250,000 people. This disease has several other symptoms that present themselves heterogeneously over its carriers. The aim of this article was to quantitatively analyze the presence of the topic Xeroderma pigmentoso in scientific articles published between 2003 and 2018. In the identification, a total of 674 results were obtained. The follow-up of the following steps allowed, in the end, the selection of 24 papers. Regarding the language, most of the selected papers were written in Portuguese (around 58.33%), the rest in English (around 41.67%). The highest publication rates occurred between 2015 and 2017 (13%). The years 2007, 2007, 2011, 2014 and 2018 presented intermediate rates (9%) and the lowest rates (4%) occurred in 2003, 2008, 2010 and 2012, and 75% papers were published/presented in the 2nd decade of the 21st century, while the others (25%) were in the 1st decade of the 21st century. The findings of this study showed that there are few scientific studies on XP because it is a rare disease, which possibly leads to few investments in this area, especially with regard to treatment and medications.

scholarly journals The case of rare genetic mutation in a child with the Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome from the family irradiated during the Chernobyl accident

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 104-108
Author(s):  
M. P. Safonova ◽  
A. E. Sipyagina ◽  
L. S. Baleva ◽  
I. V. Kanivets
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Chernobyl Accident ◽  
Genetic Disease ◽  
Congenital Malformations ◽  
Genetic Mutation ◽  
Psychomotor Development ◽  
Rare Genetic Disease ◽  
The Family

Wolf – Hirschhorn syndrome is a rare genetic disease caused by the deletion of the end of the short arm of the 4th chromosome; it is manifested by numerous congenital malformations, delayed physical and psychomotor development. The article describes clinical experience of managing a patient with Wolff – Hirschhorn syndrome born to exposed parents who lived in a territory contaminated with radionuclides after the Chernobyl accident. The article describes pathogenetic aspects of the development of the disease and the need for timely diagnostics.

scholarly journals Health and the Value of Inheritance: The meanings surrounding a rare genetic disease

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-140
Author(s):  
Waleska de Araújo Aureliano
Keyword(s):  
Rare Disease ◽  
Genetic Disease ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Genetic Inheritance ◽  
Medical Progress ◽  
Rare Genetic Disease ◽  
The Family ◽  
Machado Joseph Disease

In this article I explore the meanings acquired by the notion of 'genetic inheritance' for families in Rio de Janeiro affected by a rare hereditary disorder, Machado-Joseph disease. My analysis examines three points: 1) how experience of the disease was thematized in the family prior to knowledge of its genetic and hereditary origin; 2) how knowledge of genetics affected the family's perception of their health and reproduction through the notion of risk contained in medical explanations; 3) finally, I problematize the meanings of 'hope,' a sentiment frequently cited by people with the disease and their descendants. Notably, despite the high value attributed to science and 'medical progress,' the use of certain biotechnologies is not always seen as positive or capable of enabling choices and actions in response to a rare disease. Notions of risk, responsibility and hope thus acquire singular contours for managing life and the continuity of the family.

Modelling Lunar Extremes

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fisher ◽  
Lionel Sims
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Celestial Mechanics ◽  
Computer Modelling ◽  
Landscape Context ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Moon

Claims first made over half a century ago that certain prehistoric monuments utilised high-precision alignments on the horizon risings and settings of the Sun and the Moon have recently resurfaced. While archaeoastronomy early on retreated from these claims, as a way to preserve the discipline in an academic boundary dispute, it did so without a rigorous examination of Thom’s concept of a “lunar standstill”. Gough’s uncritical resurrection of Thom’s usage of the term provides a long-overdue opportunity for the discipline to correct this slippage. Gough (2013), in keeping with Thom (1971), claims that certain standing stones and short stone rows point to distant horizon features which allow high-precision alignments on the risings and settings of the Sun and the Moon dating from about 1700 BC. To assist archaeoastronomy in breaking out of its interpretive rut and from “going round in circles” (Ruggles 2011), this paper evaluates the validity of this claim. Through computer modelling, the celestial mechanics of horizon alignments are here explored in their landscape context with a view to testing the very possibility of high-precision alignments to the lunar extremes. It is found that, due to the motion of the Moon on the horizon, only low-precision alignments are feasible, which would seem to indicate that the properties of lunar standstills could not have included high-precision markers for prehistoric megalith builders.

The Dark Side Of The Moon: Nocebo Effects In Medicine

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Enck ◽  
Sibylle Klosterhalfen
Keyword(s):  
Dark Side ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Nocebo Effects
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