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We are South African self-study researchers who started building our collaborative relationship as critical friends completing our doctoral studies. We have a keen interest in self-study research, and we all received our doctorates through self-study using arts-based research. Our collective self-study explores our doctoral work as critical friends teaching and learning using arts-based research in education. This article presents how we used memory work in a self-study project to elicit childhood memories for teacher-learner engagement and mentor-mentee knowledge sharing. We understand that a sociocultural theoretical perspective highlights the fundamental requirement of working together in educational contexts to make sense of collective and personal experiences. In addition, employing self-study research and revisiting our learning has assisted or even encouraged us to engage deeply with past life experiences to improve our teaching practice. We understand that our past experiences have the power to shape our teaching practices now and in the future. Although these experiences occur both inside and outside the classroom, the principles that we endorse remain the same: collaborative and interactive teaching and learning, and acknowledging the children's and our own earlier learning and backgrounds.

The impact of depression on post-menopausal women is an important public health issue but remains largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of post-menopausal depression in Greece and outline the profile of the women it affects.A sample of post-menopausal women completed an anonymous, self-administered, web-based survey which included the Beck Depression Inventory-ΙΙ (BDI-II) and questions regarding socio-demographic data.The dependent variable of interest was a BDI-II score ≥ 20 (the cut-off for moderate depression according to the BDI).Overall, 502 post-menopausal women participated in the study. The median BDI-II score was 13 (range 0-50); 136 (27.1%) of the women scored ≥ 20 and were considered screen-positive for depression. According to the multivariate logistic regression model, age 55 years (OR: 1.621; 95% CI: 1.036-2.535), not working (OR: 1.580; 95% CI: 1.013-2.465), smoking (OR: 1.656; 95% CI: 1.081-2.536) and history of depression (OR: 1.650; 95% CI: 1.045-2.604) were independently associated with post-menopausal depression. Subgroup analyses revealed that current smokers (OR: 2.514; 95% CI: 1.485-4.256) had higher odds of moderate depression, while obesity (OR: 2.455; 95% CI: 1.206-4.996), absence of healthcare insurance (OR: 4.413; 95% CI: 1.970-9.887) and a history of depression (OR: 2.253; 95% CI: 1.212-4.190) were identified as independent risk factors for severe post-menopausal depression.More than one out of four post-menopausal women were screen-positive for symptoms indicative of depression, while a personal history of depression, age 55 years, smoking and current working status were independent predictors of its emergence.

This article reconstructs the early history of the Soviet militia in Western Siberia. The research was based on the personal archive of Lieutenant Colonel A. N. Ovchinnikov and previously unpublished official documents stored in the archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Altai Krai and in the Novosibirsk Region. The research featured A. N. Ovchinnikov’s professional activity and personal participation in the development of militia in the Altai Krai and Kuzbass. When A. N. Ovchinnikov joined the militia forces, the institution was undergoing some radical reforms, e.g. it merged with the Joint State Political Directorate, became militarized and politicized, etc. In the 1920s – 1940s, the Soviet militia turned into a command and administrative system that made collectivization and industrialization possible. Militia officers were evaluated not only by their professional qualities, but also by their party affiliation, political views, and education. The sources made it possible to reveal A. N. Ovchinnikov’s personal position in the process of militia development in the 1930s – 1940s. Despite the constant personnel shortage and the low level of education, the party managed to improve the discipline, qualifications, moral qualities, and political consciousness of militia officers, thus increasing their performance. The authors believe that personal historic narratives can be a valuable contribution to the historical studies of Soviet militia.

Rationale and Objectives To compare abbreviated MRI with mammography and US for screening in women with a personal history of breast cancer. In addition, the first and subsequent rounds of abbreviated MRI were compared. Materials and Methods The Institutional Review Board approved this retrospective study. Nine hundred and thirty-nine abbreviated MRI scans of 710 women with a personal history of breast cancer were included (mean age, 54.1±9.4 years). The diagnostic performances of abbreviated MRI, mammography, and US for the detection of the second breast cancer were compared. When more than one round of abbreviated MRI was performed, we compared the scans of the first and subsequent rounds. Results There were 15 (2.1%) cases of second breast cancer. Thirty-nine of the 939 abbreviated MRI scans were diagnosed as positive; of them, 11 were diagnosed as breast cancer, with a PPV2 of 28.2% (US, 19.0%; mammography, 28.6%). The AUC, sensitivity, and cancer detection rate (per 1000) were the highest for abbreviated MRI (0.829, 68.8% and 11.7) (US: 0.616, 25.0%, and 4.3; mammography: 0.560, 12.5%, and 2.1, respectively). Two hundred women underwent multiple rounds of abbreviated MRI. AUC, PPV2, and the cancer detection rates were higher during the subsequent rounds (0.987, 45.5, and 21.8) than during the first round (0.605, 11.1, and 5). Conclusion Abbreviated MRI for women with a personal history of breast cancer was more sensitive for the diagnosis of second breast cancer than US or mammography. In addition, subsequent rounds of MRI showed better performance than the first round.

At the Wiesbaden Internist Congress of 1949, Alexander Mitscherlich and Viktor von Weizsacker called for an expansion of the scientific concept of causality to include the search for the meaning of illness in one's personal history. This called into question a traditional psychiatric paradigm which presumed somatic causes of mental illness. Additionally, common psychiatric evidence practices were put to the test. In the first part of this article, three psychiatric positions that were presented at the 1949 congress are reconstructed. In the second part, the development of one of the psychiatrists involved, Jurg Zutt, is examined by focusing on the question of the possible effects of the Wiesbaden debate on his scientific reorientation as well as its consequences for his view of psychiatric evidence.

Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) is an engagement in layers of shifting identities and their eventual unravelling. The novel is dominated by the character and voice of Iris Chase, an octogenarian who slowly and fumblingly presents to the reader the fragmented and complex personal history of her family. The novel becomes an exercise in historiography through Iris’s visitations to her and her sister Laura’s youth in order to explain their tenuous relationship which is achieved through three parallel sources: Iris’s own attempts at a memoir, journalistic documents and letters from the past, and excerpts from an infamous novel published forty years previously. My paper will explore the three narrative structures present in the novel, and attempt to understand the questions of authorship and writing, and their importance in building a historiographic narrative. It will try to examine the ways in which retrospective interventions into public history helps to counter and create identities which were hitherto repressed under social decorum. This paper will borrow from Linda Hutcheon’s writings of the postmodern metanarratives in order to compose a lucid understanding of what alternative historiography in literature can achieve, keeping at the centre Atwood’s novel.

First staged at the Edinburgh Festival fringe in 1966, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard garnered acclaim by presenting an inverse play in which the two peripheral Elizabethan courtiers in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, remain the focus whereas the characters in Hamlet have only minor roles, make brief appearances and enact fragments from the original play in scenes where the two plays converge. The crux of this existential comedy revolves around the exploits of the duo, who were summoned by the king to “glean what afflicts” the Prince of Denmark, and whose tragic deaths go unnoticed amidst the chaotic turmoil at the end of the original play. Stoppard’s absurdist text expands against the backdrop of Hamlet and lays bare the mishaps of the two childhood friends of Hamlet off the stage. This article is committed to exploring the central conflicts in Stoppard’s play such as identity, memory, and personal history through the lenses of Derridean “spectres”, and investigating how far the characters’ conception of the past, present and future accord with the narratives of “hauntology”.

BACKGROUND. Patients with a history of breast cancer are at higher risk of subsequent breast cancers and need close clinical and imaging follow-up. Limited data are available on screening of these ...

Although Jack Michael has greatly influenced the field of behavior analysis, very few have had the opportunity to be directly supervised by him. In this article, I share my personal history as one of Jack's last graduate students to illustrate his teaching and mentorship approach. Jack was a caring advisor who has had a long-lasting impact on both my personal life and my professional career.

Residency programs should use a systematic method of recruitment that begins with defining unique desired candidate attributes. Commonly sought-after characteristics may be delineated via the residency application. Scores from standardized examinations taken in medical school predict academic success, and may correlate to overall performance. Strong letters of recommendation and a personal history of prior success outside the medical field both forecast success in residency. Interviews are crucial to determining fit within a program, and remain a valid measure of an applicant's ability to prosper in a particular program, even with many interviews being completed in the virtual realm.

Background. Although previous studies have reported weight bias among students and professionals in exercise science, physical education, kinesiology, and fitness instruction, predictors of weight bias in these professions have not been extensively reviewed. Aim. The purpose of this scoping review was to explore the available literature on predictors of weight bias in exercise science students and fitness professionals to identify key concepts and research gaps. Methods. PubMed and ERIC were searched from January 1990 to May 2019. Eighteen studies were included in this review. A thematic analysis was conducted. Findings. Six main themes were drawn from these studies including beliefs in the personal controllability of weight; sex differences; enrollment in a health sciences-related program; psychosocial and personal factors; knowledge of obesity; lack of personal history, family, or friend with obesity. Our scoping review highlighted diverse predictors of weight bias among exercise science students and professionals that warrant further study and intervention.

Fabry disease (FD) is an inborn X-linked lysosomal storage disorder resulting from α–galactosidase A (α-Gal) activity deficiency in lysosomes. This results in the accumulation of particularly globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) within lysosomes in a wide variety of cells. This study aimed to analyze the clinical presentation, findings and family screenings of index cases, management and outcomes of FD patients in our center. Methods. Data including demographic characteristics, personal history of comorbidities, laboratory findings at the time of diagnosis were recorded. α – Gal activity was measured in all males and females as initial analysis. The cut-off trigger was determined as 1.2 mmol/L per hour. Mutation analysis was performed in males and females with decreased α – Gal activity as a diagnostic assay. In addition, mutation analysis was performed change in females with normal α – Gal providing they have clinical signs or family history for FD. Results. The individuals from nine FD families were presented. Conclusion. Screening for genetic diseases such as FD has crucial conclusions. The detection of FD in an index case leads to appropriate therapy for that patient. Family screening can be started and additional undiagnosed individuals can be detected.

ICF-luokitus on biopsykososiaalinen viitekehys, joka mahdollistaa asiakkaan toimintakyvyn ja siihen nivoutuvien tekijöiden kokonaisvaltaisen ymmärtämisen. ICF-luokituksen Yksilötekijät -osa-alueen tarkempi kuvaus on kesken, mikä vaikeuttaa ICF-luokituksen täysipainoista hyödyntämistä. Tämän kartoittavan kirjallisuuskatsauksen tavoitteena oli kuvata, mitä teemoja tutkimuksissa oli tunnistettu ICF-luokituksen mukaisiksi yksilötekijöiksi ja miten yksilötekijöiden luokittelun ja huomioisen tarvetta käytännön työssä perusteltiin. Systemaattinen tiedonhaku tehtiin Cinahl, Pubmed, Science Direct ja Sport Discus sekä Finna, Helda, Helka, Julkari ja Medic -tietokannoista rajautuen vuosina 2010–2020 julkaistuihin artikkeleihin. Teoriaohjaavan aineiston analyysimenetelmällä artikkeleista eritellyt yksilötekijät luokiteltiin Geyh ym. (2019) mukaan seitsemään luokkaan: 1. Sosio-demografiset tekijät, 2. Asema välittömässä sosiaalisessa ja fyysisessä kontekstissa, 3. Henkilökohtaisen elämän historia, 4. Henkilökohtainen kokemus tunteista, 5. Henkilökohtainen kokemus omista ajatuksista ja uskomuksista, 6. Motiivit ja 7. Toistuvat kokemukselliset ja käyttäytymisen mallit. Mukaanottokriteerit täyttävissä 226 artikkelissa oli käsitelty runsaasti erilaisia yksilötekijöitä. Ne linkittyivät kaikkiin Geyh ym. (2019) luokkiin ja osa jäi luokituksen ulkopuolelle. Lisäksi osassa tutkimuksissa oli määritelty yksilötekijöiksi tekijöitä, jotka olivat linkitettävissä jollekin toiselle ICF-osa-alueelle tai jotka eivät kuvanneet toimintakykyä. Päätelmiä yksilötekijöiden roolista kuntoutuksessa oli tehty 50 (22 %) tutkimuksista. ICF:n yksilötekijöiden kirjo tutkimuksissa oli laaja, ja niiden huomioiminen osana toimintakykytietoa laajentaa ymmärrystä asiakkaan tilanteesta ja kuntoutumiseen vaikuttavista tekijöistä. Tämän tutkimuksen perusteella ei kuitenkaan ole mahdollista suositella, tulisiko ja miten yksilötekijöitä luokitella tarkemmin. Abstract The ICF personal factors are part of a comprehensive assessment of functioning - a scoping review of ICF personal factors in the rehabilitation studies The ICF classification is a biopsychosocial frame of reference that contributes to a holistic understanding of the client’s functioning and the factors involved. A more detailed description of the ICF personal factors is pending, which makes it difficult to apply the ICF classification in full. The aim of this scoping review was to describe which themes were identified in the studies as personal factors according to the ICF classification and what conclusions have been drawn about their further coding in the ICF classification. A systematic search was performed on the Cinahl, Pubmed, Science Direct and Sport Discus as well as Finnish databases (Finna, Helda, Helka, Julkari and Medic), based on articles published in 2010–2020. According to Geyh et al. (2019), the personal factors specified in the articles by, were classified into seven categories: socio-demographical factors, position in the immediate social and physical context, personal history and biography, feelings, thoughts and beliefs, motives, and general patterns of experience and behavior. The search yielded 226 studies that met the inclusion criteria. The articles had addressed a wide variety of personal factors that linked to all seven categories defined by Geyh et al. (2019). In addition, some studies had defined as personal factors that were linkable to other components of the ICF or that did not describe functioning. About 50 (22 %) of the studies had made conclusions on the role of personal factors in rehabilitation. The range of personal factors in the ICF classification addressed in the studies is wide and taking them into account as part of functioning information expands the understanding of the client's situation and the factors influencing rehabilitation However, based on this study, it is not possible to recommend a more precise coding of personal factors. Keywords: ICF, personal factors, rehabilitation, scoping review

Bystander intervention programs have consistently demonstrated a positive change in communitywide norms regarding sexual assault. However, much of the extant research is limited by the failure to measure the prevalence of opportunities to intervene relative to actual intervention behavior and the failure to examine how bystander behaviors may be affected by a personal history of sexual victimization. The current study aims to determine the relationship between a bystander’s previous history of sexual victimization, perceived barriers to intervention, observed opportunities to intervene, and actual intervention behavior in a range of high-risk, low-risk, and post-assault bystander opportunities in undergraduate students. Male and female undergraduate students ( N = 591) completed retrospective measures of their opportunities for and intervention in a range of bystander behaviors and perceived barriers to intervention. They also reported on their personal history of sexual victimization. The results indicated that those with a history of sexual victimization tended to perceive greater barriers to intervention than those without such history. Notably, individuals with a victimization history reported that they were less likely to notice a risky situation and to identify the situation as dangerous. However, noticing or intervening did not vary across different types of bystander intervention situations. In terms of gender differences, although men reported perceiving greater barriers due to the diffusion of responsibility and fewer barriers related to audience inhibition and skill deficits when compared to women, there were no significant gender differences in intervention behavior. Data were situated within current empirical and theoretical models of sexual and intimate partner violence, and implications of these findings for bystander intervention programs and directions for future research are discussed.

Аннотация История славистики складывается как из истории различных идей, концепций и научных организаций, так и из судеб отдельных ученых, на которые влияют не только состояние названной области науки, но и жизнь общества в целом. Публикуемый труд относится к области историко-антропологических исследований и проведен с позиций «новой биографической истории» или «персональной истории», особенно плодотворных при изучении судьбы ученых, в данном случае известного слависта, и предполагающих повышенное внимание к культурно-историческому контексту эпохи. Анализ архивных документов позволяет реконструировать обстоятельства жизненного и научного пути ученого, проследить причины научной командировки Н.Н. Дурново за границу, которую он использовал для чтения лекций в университете Брно, работы в библиотеках в Праге, организации и участия в диалектологических экспедициях с целью изучения диалектов Карпатской Руси. Важным научным результатом Дурново стала подготовка и издание в Чехословакии его книги «Введение в историю русского языка», получившей высокую оценку его зарубежных и отечественных коллег и не утратившей своей актуальности для современной лингвистики.

In this article, we analyze several works of art which portray individuals with short stature ("dwarfism"). We have focused on eight individuals who we believe have short stature due to growth hormone deficiency (GHD) or closely related disorders, rather than skeletal dysplasia. We discuss them individually, suggest the potential diagnosis, review the characteristics of their life and personal history, and briefly outline the artistic framework in which these works of art were created. This work is a posthumous tribute to the people with short stature portrayed in these works of art, who likely experienced harassment and inappropriate treatment by others and called by derogatory names. We have tried to acknowledge their identities with the respect they deserve.

A personal history of sumanene chemistry: from the encounter with Prof. Mehta’s first report to the synthesis of pristine triazasumanene is described.

Objetivo: Descrever o Modelo de Promoção da Saúde de Nola J. Pender como aporte í prática de enfermagem. Método: Trata-se de uma revisão narrativa da literatura com a busca sendo realizada em março de 2020 por meio do buscador Google Acadêmico utilizando a expressão "Modelo de Promoção da Saúde de Nola J. Pender" para realização da busca. Resultados: Foram utilizados um total de quatro (100%) estudos, onde um (25%) é do tipo artigo de revisão, dois (50%) de natureza transversal, dois (50%) estudos são de caráter descritivo e um (25%) possui perfil observacional ou quantitativo. Conclusão: O Modelo de Promoção da Saúde proposto por Pender busca identificar padrões de vida e histórico pessoal do indiví­duo e facilita o direcionamento da assistência.

This article is a hybrid of various forms of prose, conventional historical narrative, memoir, and family history. It links World War I land agitation in the Scottish Highlands with later imaginings and rememberings of the region's land use politics, and with their enduring significance. At its heart is one small croft on the Isle of Skye and one Skye family. These are anchored in one of the many land raids of the Great War era and through it they connect with other crofting families, with the longer history of the region's land politics, and with the Highland Diaspora.

A descriptive, cross sectional design was used to compare perceptions of compassion and well-being of volunteers with and without a personal history of cancer. Most (79%) were60 years of age, female (63%), married (75%), White (88%), and Non-Hispanic (79%). Thirteen (54%) had a history of cancer; two were still on treatment. Compassion scores were similar between groups. Volunteers with a history of cancer scored higher (

Carl Schmitt's personal history was notoriously closely linked to Spain, a nation with which he also shared religious faith and therefore partly a culture of origin. But Schmitt's thought was linked to Spain for many other reasons, which made this country, for the German thinker, a very particular point of view on the destiny of the world. From the political predictions of Donoso Cortés, to the decline of Eurocentrism, to the elemental struggle between land and sea, to guerrilla warfare, the role of this Western European country remained pre-eminent for Schmitt in the history of civilization.

Intergenerational Health Review (IHR) postulates that reminiscence of personal history is a reconciling process beneficial to individuals since it helps to find meaning in life and gain a better se...

Nelson Mandela’s autobiography had the evocative title, Long Walk to Freedom (Mandela 2008). It was a personal history intertwined with a history of South Africa. Every country, every community, ev...

espanolObjetivo Describir una serie multicentrica de casos de induccion o empeoramiento de psoriasis en pacientes tratados con farmacos biologicos. Material y metodos Estudio descriptivo. Se reviso la historia clinica de pacientes con enfermedad inflamatoria cronica (EIC) en tratamiento con farmacos biologicos, y que presentaron durante el periodo de seguimiento, psoriasis de nueva aparicion o empeoramiento de la misma. Resultados Se registraron 26 casos de psoriasis paradojica (PP). El 93% de los pacientes estaban en tratamiento con un anti-TNFα, siendo el adalimumab el responsable del 50% de los casos. Solo 5 pacientes presentaban antecedentes personales de psoriasis. En 13 pacientes fue necesario retirar el farmaco biologico y la recidiva de las lesiones fue mas frecuente en los pacientes en los que se reintrodujo otro anti-TNFα. Conclusiones La PP es un efecto adverso reversible que se puede observar en pacientes expuestos a farmacos biologicos, principalmente a anti-TNFα. EnglishObjective To describe a multicentre case series of new onset or worsening of psoriasis in patients treated with biological drugs. Material and methods Descriptive study. We reviewed the clinical history of patients with chronic inflammatory disease (CID) treated with biological drugs, who developed new onset or worsening of psoriasis during the follow-up period. Results Twenty-six cases of paradoxical psoriasis (PP) were recorded. Ninety-three percent of the patients were treated with anti-TNFα and adalimumab was responsible for 50% of the cases. Only 5 patients had a personal history of psoriasis. The biological drug was discontinued in 13 patients. Lesion recurrence was more frequent when another anti-TNFα was reintroduced. Conclusions The PP is a reversible adverse effect that can be observed in patients exposed to biological drugs, mainly anti-TNFα.

John Henry Newman is one of the most famous person on the Catholic and Anglican Church. In his works he was writing on the both theological position. In the article author showed selected aspects of John Henry Newman’s theology of the Church, so-calledecclesiology. For understanding Newman’s theological position very important are his personal history in the Church of England, situation in the Catholic Church and two dogmas proclaimed during the life of this new Catholic saint. In the last part of the article theecclesiology of John Henry Newman is rereading in the light of modern problems in the Catholic and Anglican theology.

Limited data exist to guide appropriate use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) screening in women with a personal history of breast cancer. We developed an algorithm to inform the use of MRI screening in patients with a personal history, implemented it, and evaluated initial implementation at our community and academic practice sites.A multidisciplinary committee of providers developed the initial algorithm on the basis of available literature and consensus. To evaluate projected MRI utilization based on the initial algorithm and inform algorithm revision, charts of patients 80 years of age diagnosed and treated in 2010 with stage 0-III breast cancer (n = 236) were reviewed. The revised algorithm was implemented into the electronic medical record (September 2013). Thirteen months after implementation (2014-2015), chart review of patients with a personal history of breast cancer who underwent screening MRI was performed to assess algorithm adherence.Before algorithm development, 9% (20/236) of patients received MRI screening (6 genetic mutation/family history, 4 occult primary, 8 young age/breast density, 2 unknown). Use of MRI screening was projected to increase to 25% with algorithm implementation. In postimplementation review, we identified 183 patients with a personal history of breast cancer who underwent screening MRI, with 94% algorithm adherence.We successfully developed and implemented an algorithm to guide MRI screening in patients with a personal breast cancer history. Clinicians can use this algorithm to guide patient discussions regarding the utility of MRI screening. Further prospective study, including cancer detection rates, biopsy rate, and mortality, are necessary to confirm the algorithm's usefulness.

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This article is dedicated to the research of the structures and meaningful concepts of women’s stories about the first childbirth, obtained by their personal experience in the governmental obstetrical system. Narratives of childbirth contain complex knowledge including description of physiological and emotional reactions and characteristics of Russian maternal initiation practices, culminating in the maternity ward. Similar narratives posted on social network and web pages of family portals reveal elements of hypertext and several leading factors of their origin, such as being the consolidation of a new identity through a retrospective autobiographical story, joining the community of motherhood, broadcasting experience to its new members, etc.

This is a personal history of how I came to view cigarette smoking as an addiction to nicotine. I discuss working with Stanley Schachter and Murray Jarvik. Although I note the importance of Michael...

A personal history of how former US Defense Secretary William J. Perry’s thinking on nuclear weapons has evolved from Hiroshima to the present time.

This article surveys the development of Canadian Studies in Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic from 1985 (the year the first such course was offered at a Czech university) down to the present. It also deals with the wider context of the development of Canadian Studies in Central Europe under the aegis of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies, established in 2003 with its Secretariat located at Masaryk University, Brno. In both the Czech Republic and the wider region, the late 1990s saw a steady growth in Canadian Studies, fostered by financial support from the Canadian government and outreach activities by Western European Canadian Studies associations. The first decade of the twenty-first century saw an explosion of activities - many new courses and degree programmes, conferences and specialized seminars, international projects, publications, the launching of the Central European Journal for Canadian Studies. The century’s second decade, however, has witnessed retrenchment, the result of systemic changes in higher education systems and the Canadian government’s cancellation of all support for Canadian Studies activities in 2012. Nevertheless, in both the Czech Republic and Central Europe, Canadian Studies continues to enjoy a significant and respected presence in the higher education sphere.

The authors publish the memories of the famous Soviet archaeologist, doctor of Historical Sciences K. A. Smirnov about his father, Alexey Petrovich Smirnov. A. P. Smirnov is an outstanding Soviet scientist, representative of the first generation of Soviet archaeologists. He is known for his numerous studies on Finno-Ugric and Bulgar archaeology. From the second half of the 1920s to the 1930s, A. P. Smirnov conducted archaeological research into the territory of Udmurtia. His research, as well as the research of many other scientists, was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. In the 1990s, the scientist’s son, K. A. Smirnov, compiled memoirs about his father, in which he describes the scientist's attitude to the war, and gives the facts of the archaeologist’s biography in connection with military events. These memoirs are supplemented by the letter from A. P. Smirnov to Kazan archaeologist A. M. Efimova. The documents allow to reveal the facts of A. P. Smirnov’s personal biography, and have an important social significance, reflecting the tragic events of the wartime through personal history.

Introducción: La hipoacusia es una enfermedad ocupacional frecuente y ocasiona deterioro en la calidad de vida de los trabajadores. Objetivo: Identificar la prevalencia y los factores asociados a hipoacusia inducida por ruido en trabajadores de una empresa metalmecánica. Material y Métodos: Estudio transversal analítico. Se utilizaron datos de historias clínicas ocupacionales para determinar la frecuencia de hipoacusia debido a ruido y sus potenciales factores asociados (edad, sexo, antecedentes personales). Se construyeron modelos de regresión simple y múltiple, estimando razones de prevalencia (RP) utilizando modelos lineales generalizados, familia Poisson y función de enlace log. Resultados: De 1543 trabajadores, la media de edad fue 36.7 años y la mayoría era hombre (93,6%). Solo el 8,2% reportó enfermedad y/o accidente laboral previo a la evaluación ocupacional. El 10,7% presentó hipoacusia debido al ruido. La frecuencia de presentar hipoacusia incrementaba 10% por cada año adicional de edad (RP=1.10, IC95%: 1,09-1,12, p

This book by Professor John Dugard is both an autobiography as well as a critical legal history from a well-placed insider. As I have read it, the book’s first goal is to explain apartheid as an op...

This retrospective, covering half a century, is a personal history of modern libertarianism. It provides some historical perspective on the growth of libertarianism and its impact on society, especially for those who were born into an existing libertarian movement, including political and academic paths. As outsiders, Austrians and libertarians can expect more than their share of difficult times and roadblocks, although that situation has improved over time. It also shows the limitations of the political path to liberty and the importance of the Austrian view that society changes via emphasis on sound economic science, its practicality, and its subsequent impact on ideology. Finally, it conveys the importance of solving practical problems and puzzles via the thin, radical version of libertarianism.

This article articulates the notion of silences that endure in the aftermath of the Indochina war and the traumatic impact on children. Through an analysis of two Francophone texts, Grace Ly’s Jeune fille modèle and Kim Thúy’s Ru, this study demonstrates that it is silence which evokes and solidifies the trauma experienced by victims of war; this is transmitted to their children despite attempts at secrecy and endeavours to protect children from such trauma. It examines the ways in which narrating trauma and breaking silences play a role in recuperating both history and personal history. In foregrounding the voices of those who have died and haunt subsequent generations, the article discusses the silences that pervade Ru and Jeune fille modèle in order to gauge the extent to which narrating stories, finding one’s voice and breaking silences become a means of obtaining freedom and alleviating some of the dolour of war and losses. In so doing, it analyses the ways in which children enable these healing processes to take place and eventually permit multiple voices to break through the narrative fibre in order to create redemption stories.

Objective. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and clinical characteristics of aquagenic pruritus (AP) in medical students in Lomé (Togo). Methods. This was a prospective and descriptive study conducted among medical students in Lomé from June 1st to August 30th, 2019. The data collection questionnaire was anonymous composed of sociodemographic variables, bathing habits, and history of allergy responding to the concept of aquagenic pruritus and its characteristics. Results. In our study, 129/591 medical students had AP, giving a prevalence of AP to 21.8%. The average age of students with AP was 23.9 years, and the M/F sex ratio was 1.5. AP was not present after each bath in 100% of the medical students who suffered from it and lasted an average of 9.09 minutes. It was characteristically pruritic (60.5%) or tingling (38.0%) and localized (45.0%) or generalized (55.0%) in respondents with history of AP. There was a significant association between the presence of AP and a personal history of allergic rhinitis (p<0.01) and the presence of AP and a family AP (p<0.01). Twenty-six (20.2%) respondents with AP feared taking a bath. Bathing with warm or lukewarm water (29.5%) or applying menthol ointment (27.1%) were the main precautions taken to reduce AP. Conclusion. Aquagenic pruritus is a common condition in medical students in Togo. It occurs mainly in males and can be familial.

This article deals with a critical perspective on modern schooling based on my own experience as a child and young adult. I illustrate the effects of what I call a pedagogic of detachment and argue for a decolonial option of the modern school system. I will start with my personal history as a minority pupil in Argentina and will also use cases from my experiences as an immigrant in the Norwegian school system and from my ethnographic work among the Mbya-Guaraní in Northern Argentina.

More detailed studies of the history of the Tamil text editions are being carried out with the help of micro data. Thus, edition history is no longer a personal history. Because the history of the edition is not without consideration of the dynamics of the social movement as a whole of the European priests, monasteries, institutions and individuals who operated in the sphere of history. Thus article discusses the edition history of the text called Aruvagai Ilakkanam.

Bobby Baker has been making innovative performance work for more than forty years. This essay takes a fresh look at two works – Drawing on a Mother’s Experience and Table Occasion No 19 – through t...

This is a personal history of a feminist journey which began in the period leading up to the United Nations Fourth Conference on Women at Beijing in 1995. It offers a first-hand account that might ...

As part of the intention to document the recent and current history of psychiatry, I was asked to present memories of my involvement in psychiatry over the past 50 years. Reviewers suggested that I should start this personal history of psychiatry with a summary of my curriculum vitae because this will make it easier to place the events I describe into their historical context. Here it goes, then.

PURPOSE: Women with personal history of breast cancer (PHBC) are currently recommended to receive annual mammography for surveillance of breast cancer recurrence or new primary. However, given issues in accuracy with mammography, there is a need for evolving evidence-based surveillance recommendations with supplemental imaging. In this systematic review, we compiled and compared existing studies that describe the test performance of surveillance breast MRI among women with PHBC. METHODS: We searched PubMed and EMBASE using MeSH terms for studies (2000–2019) that described the diagnostic characteristics of breast MRI in women with PHBC. Search results were reviewed and included based on PICOTS criteria; quality of included articles was assessed using QUADAS-2. Meta-analysis of single proportions was conducted for diagnostic characteristics of breast MRI, including tests of heterogeneity. RESULTS: Our review included 11 articles in which unique cohorts were studied, comprised of a total of 8338 women with PHBC and 12,335 breast MRI done for the purpose of surveillance. We predict intervals (PI) for cancer detection rate per 1000 examinations (PI 9–15; I(2) = 10%), recall rate (PI 5–31%; I(2) = 97%), sensitivity (PI 58–95%; I(2) = 47%), specificity (PI 76–97%; I(2) = 97%), and PPV3 (PI 16–40%; I(2) = 44%). CONCLUSIONS: Studies addressing performance of breast MRI are variable and limited in population-based studies. The summary of evidence to date is insufficient to recommend for or against use of breast MRI for surveillance among women with PHBC.

To investigate the clinicopathological characteristics and survival of patients with malignant ovarian carcinoid tumor (OC).The National Cancer Database was accessed and patients diagnosed between 2004 and 2015 with a OC who did not have a personal history of a tumor at another site were selected. Overall survival (OS) was assessed for patients who had ≥1 month of follow-up. OS rates were estimated following generation of Kaplan-Meier curves and compared with the log-rank test.A total of 588 patients with a median age of 51.5 years were identified. The majority were White (71.6%), had unilateral tumors (94.2%) with a median size of 3.8 cm that were confined to the ovary (88%). Patients with early stage disease (n = 431) had excellent OS compared to those with advanced stage (II-IV) disease (n = 51), p 0.001; 5-yr OS rates were 95.4% and 53.1% respectively. For patients with stage I disease, there was no difference in OS between those who did (n = 211) and did not (n = 175) have hysterectomy, p = 0.92. For patients with advanced stage disease, administration of adjuvant chemotherapy was not associated with better survival, p = 0.093.OCs are typically small, unilateral tumors confined to the ovary arising in perimenopausal patients. Survival outcomes are excellent for patients with early stage disease and unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy appears to be curative.

espanolEl recto puede presentar una patologia diversa y una importante sintomatologia que puede incidir de forma significativa en la calidad de vida de los pacientes. Es importante realizar una detallada historia clinica y anamnesis, haciendo especial hincapie en los antecedentes personales y la presencia de factores de riesgo para desarrollar determinadas patologias. La exploracion clinica del recto y de la region perianal, asi como el uso de tecnicas diagnosticas adecuadas, permite diferenciar la naturaleza organica o funcional del trastorno subyacente, siendo el enfoque terapeutico diferente en uno u otro caso. EnglishThe rectum can present diverse disorders and major symptoms that can significantly affect patients’ quality of life. A detailed medical history and anamnesis is important, with special emphasis on the patient's personal history and the presence of risk factors for developing certain diseases. The clinical examination of the rectum and perianal region, as well as the use of appropriate diagnostic techniques, helps differentiate the organic or functional nature of the underlying disorder, with differing therapeutic approaches from one case to another.