scholarly journals Miguel Rio Branco and the Curse of Cities (Maldicidades 2014)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-113
Author(s):  
Karl Erik Schollhammer
Keyword(s):  
Common Condition ◽  
Text And Image ◽  
The Common ◽  
Big Cities ◽  
Contemporary Reality

This essay will discuss the book Maldicidade (2014) by the Spanish-Brazilian photographer Miguel Rio Branco with a special attention to its organization as a narrative and poetic unity as a photobook. In focus is the book’s composition as an implicit dialogue between text and image and the use of modernist avantgarde techniques of montage and collage aiming at the expression of a contemporary reality of misery and hardship in the big cities of the Americas. The overarching argument is that the unity of the book as a photobook surpasses the referential nature of photography through visual narrativity in the effort to reveal the common condition of its posthuman urbanity.

Managing otalgia in general practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-64
Author(s):  
Margaret Ann Perry
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Common Condition ◽  
Minor Illness ◽  
Common Causes ◽  
The Common ◽  
Frequent Reason

Otalgia is a frequent reason for minor illness consultations in general practice. Margaret Ann Perry provides an overview of the common causes, complications and treatments Otalgia, also known as earache, is a common condition, which has a variety of causes. It is a frequent reason for visits to GP surgeries or walk-in centres and can potentially affect any age. Most of the common causes of otalgia are benign conditions that can be easily treated; however, there are a few more sinister diagnoses that need to be considered in some cases. This article therefore aims to give nurses and non-medical prescribers confidence in assessing and treating patients who present with this common condition.

scholarly journals Feature Specific Attention and Return of Fear after Extinction

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom J. Barry ◽  
Bram Vervliet ◽  
Dirk Hermans
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Common Condition ◽  
Similar Stimulus ◽  
Return Of Fear ◽  
The Common ◽  
Fear Potentiated Startle ◽  
Report Measure ◽  
Unique Condition

Anxiety disorders are often treated by repeatedly presenting stimuli that are perceptually similar to original stimuli to which fear was originally acquired. Fear can return after it is extinguished because of the differences between these stimuli. It may possible to attenuate return of fear by manipulating attention to the commonalities between feared stimuli and extinction stimuli. After acquiring fear for an animal-like stimulus by pairing with an electro-cutaneous shock, fear was extinguished by repeatedly presenting a similar stimulus. During extinction participants were asked questions that instructed them to attend towards the features in common between the acquisition and extinction stimulus or towards the unique features of the extinction stimulus. Return of fear was assessed by presenting a second perceptually similar stimulus after extinction. Participants showed a return in skin conductance responding after extinction in the unique condition, and not in the common condition. Both groups showed a return in self-report ratings of US expectancy. Neither group showed a return in fear potentiated startle, but there was evidence that this may have been due to individual differences in emotional attentional control. Our conclusions are limited by the use of a self-report measure of emotional attentional control and the absence of limits on the length of time participants could take to answer the extinction questions. It may be possible to enhance extinction and prevent a return of the physiological aspects of fear by manipulating attention during extinction. However, this does not appear to influence explicit expectancy of aversive outcomes. Individual differences in attentional control may influence this process.

scholarly journals An NMR Study of the Bortezomib Degradation under Clinical Use Conditions

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adele Bolognese ◽  
Anna Esposito ◽  
Michele Manfra ◽  
Lucio Catalano ◽  
Fara Petruzziello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Boronic Acid ◽  
High Field ◽  
Degradation Products ◽  
Degradation Process ◽  
Spectroscopic Properties ◽  
Resonance Spectroscopy ◽  
Clinical Use ◽  
Common Condition ◽  
Nmr Study ◽  
The Common

The (R)-3-methyl-1-((S)-3-phenyl-2-(pyrazine-2-carboxamido)propanamido)butyl-boronic acid, bortezomib (BTZ), which binds the 20S proteasome subunit and causes a large inhibition of its activity, is a peptidomimetic boronic drug mainly used for the treatment of multiple myeloma. CommercialBTZ, stabilized as mannitol derivative, has been investigated under the common conditions of the clinical use because it is suspected to be easily degradable in the region of its boronic moiety. CommercialBTZsamples, reconstituted according to the reported commercial instructions and stored at , were analyzed by high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in comparison with identical samples bubbled with air and argon, respectively. All the samples remained unchanged for a week. After a month, the air filled samples showed the presence of two main degradation products (6% of starting material), the N-(1-(1-hydroxy-3-methylbutylamino)-1-oxo-3-phenylpropan-2-yl) pyrazine-2-carboxamide (BTZ1; 5%, determined from NMR integration) and the (S)-N-(1-(3-methylbutanamido)-1-oxo-3-phenylpropan-2-yl)pyrazine-2-carboxamide (BTZ2; 1%, determined from NMR integration), identified on the basis of their chemical and spectroscopic properties. TheBTZ1andBTZ2finding suggests that, under the common condition of use and at , commercial BTZ-mannitol is stable for a week, and that, in time, it undergoes slow oxidative deboronation which partially inactivates the product. Low temperature and scarce contact with air decrease the degradation process.

Ligamentous Stability of the Base of the Thumb

HAND ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol os-13 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Pagalidis ◽  
K. Kuczynski ◽  
D. W. Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Common Condition ◽  
Operative Reconstruction ◽  
Ligamentous Structure ◽  
The Common ◽  
Ligamentous Instability

Radial and dorsal subluxation of the base of the first metacarpal is a frequent clinical and radiological phenomenon in association with the common condition of osteoarthrosis of the base of the thumb. In an attempt to determine if any ligamentous instability could be responsible for this displacement, a series of seventeen joints was dissected. The ligamentous structure is constant. Division of the first intermetacarpal ligament was alone found to be responsible for the development of the characteristic displacement of the base of the first metacarpal. In two specimens in which there was advanced osteoarthrosis, spontaneous attenuation of the first intermetacarpal ligament was demonstrated. In attempts at operative reconstruction it is the first intermetacarpal ligament which must be reinforced to provide stability.

scholarly journals Urban Transport in Vietnam:

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 117-122
Author(s):  
Thi Hoa Nguyen ◽  
Thi Thuy Hoa Phan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Challenging Problem ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Common ◽  
Big Cities

Environmental pollution has become a problem not only for one nation, one region but also for the common concern of all humanity. The process of socio-economic development of the countries in the world has led to tremendous impacts on the environment, causing the human environment to change and become increasingly degraded. important. These are climate change - global warming, depletion of the ozone layer and acid rain ... especially air pollution caused by transportation. In Vietnam, environmental pollution in big cities is becoming a pressing problem. The problem of overcrowding of transport in big cities, which has been very difficult, now adds a serious situation of pollution that is increasing to worrying levels. What a challenging problem that is posing on the shoulders of managers. The paper presents the realities of environmental pollution, especially air pollution from vehicle emissions. Besides, also initially offering solutions to reduce pollution caused by urban transport in Vietnam.

scholarly journals Civilising the Citizens: Political Slogans and the Right to the City

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Marinelli
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Text And Image ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This paper focuses on the artwork of Chinese artist Zhang Dali entitled ‘The Slogan Series.’ Zhang uses a particular technique of text and image juxtaposition to engage with the civic political slogans that were plastered on the streets of Beijing on the eve of the 2008 Olympic Games. His ‘Slogan Series’ consists of large paintings: each of them reproduces the human face of a common person, either in red and white or in black and white, which is literally covered by repeated civic political slogans. The paper investigates the origin of Zhang’s artwork, shedding light on the aesthetics and socio–political implications of a double juxtaposition: in the government’s ‘new citizenship’ campaign, the slogans are juxtaposed with the cityscape, while in Zhang Dali’s work the slogans are imposed on the common people’s faces.

Thoughts on Geographic Variation in Behavior

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan A. Foster ◽  
John A. Endler
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Variation ◽  
Species Recognition ◽  
Behavioral Characteristics ◽  
Combined Effects ◽  
Common Condition ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Past Behavior ◽  
The Common ◽  
Selection Gene

In the past, behavior was assumed to be largely invariant within species, particularly those elements of behavior used as criteria of mate choice or in species recognition (see Magurran this volume, Verrell this volume). As is obvious from this volume, geographic variation could well be the common condition rather than the exception, and this applies to the full spectrum of behavioral phenotypes. Not only must students of behavior avoid typological thinking (Mayr 1963), but those wishing to infer similarity of behavior among populations must demonstrate the similarity just as surely as those interested in exploring population differentiation must demonstrate the differences. Behavior is as much a phenotype as is morphology; it is the expression of the combined effects of genotype and environment. Like other traits, behavior varies geographically because it is subject to geographically varying conditions and, hence, to natural selection, gene flow, and genetic drift. The chapters in this book provide examples of this variation, of the underlying genetic bases for the differences, and in many cases, the causes of the geographic variation. The study of geographic variation in behavior is in very early stages and lags well behind research on geographic variation in other kinds of traits (Endler 1977, 1986, 1995). Consequently, we cannot answer with assurance many of the questions we would like to be able to answer. However, we can take a first step using the insights offered by the research presented in this book. Before doing so, we briefly address some of the methodological issues that emerged over the course of the research because many are specific to the study of behavior or of geographic variation. We hope this will help others avoid problems encountered in these early studies. Many of the methodological issues discussed in the chapters in this book are related to the difficulty of working with behavioral characteristics that are extremely labile and responsive to environmental conditions. The remainder are issues related to the interpretation of data collected to assess patterns and causes of geographic variation. We will examine them in turn.

scholarly journals Prevalence and pattern of hand eczema in a tertiary referral hospital of Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-133
Author(s):  
Rushma Shrestha ◽  
Anupama Karki
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Hand Eczema ◽  
Daily Functioning ◽  
Common Condition ◽  
Tertiary Referral ◽  
Tertiary Referral Hospital ◽  
Chronic Hand Eczema ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Finger Tip

 Background: Hand eczema is a very common condition that has a significant effect on an individual’s life in terms of daily functioning including various occupations. Studies show that the point prevalence of hand eczema is around 4% and the lifetime prevalence is 15%. Objective: The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence and pattern of hand eczemas in patients attending the Dermatology outpatient department of Bir hospital. Materials and methods: This is a retrospective study, where all the cases of hand eczema who presented to the Dermatology Out-Patient Department of Bir Hospital during the period from Baisakh 2075 till Chaitra 2075 B.S were recorded. Results: Eczema was diagnosed in 5,100 new cases (15.74%) and among them, hand eczema was seen in 494 cases, which accounts for 9.68% of all eczemas. The mean age was 37.43 years. Out of all the hand eczemas recorded, 334 (67.6%) were unspecified hand eczemas, pompholyx was seen in 92 (18.6%) cases, chronic hand eczema in 27 (5.5%), contact dermatitis in 20 (4%) patients and finger tip eczema was seen in 15 (3%) cases. Conclusion: Hand eczema is one of the common dermatological conditions. Our study showed the prevalence of hand eczema to be 9.68%.

scholarly journals Pulled elbow: A paediatrician's experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanti Regmi
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Method ◽  
Arrival Time ◽  
Paediatric Population ◽  
Common Condition ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Mean ◽  
High Index Of Suspicion

Pulled elbow is a common condition but may not be recognized by most of the paediatric physician. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the common age, mechanism, site of pain, reduction maneuver and its efficacy among paediatric population. Among 40 patients, 31 patients meeting the inclusion criteria were included in this study. Simple analytical method was used to analyze the data due to small number of patients. Supination-flexion maneuver was used for reduction. Among 31, 15 (48.38%) were male and 16(51.61%) were female. The mean age was 3.12 years, mean arrival time was 13.03 hours. 32.25% of patients had history of pulling the child up and 41.93% of patient complained of pain around forearm. All patient underwent supination- flexion maneuver and was successful in first attempt, except one, that required second attempt. There were no recurrences. There should be a high index of suspicion among paediatricians, so that they can correctly diagnose and treat this condition satisfactorily.

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