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"Elegies of Chu: An Anthology of Early Chinese Poetry" is a translation and analysis of the Chuci, a collection of poetic texts from the ancient state of Chu in China. The translator, Nicholas Morrow Williams, offers new insights into the Chuci and presents the poetry in clear and concise arguments. Williams prioritizes semantic accuracy in his translation, particularly in translating plant names, and provides a glossary for readers to navigate the text. He also deviates from previous editions of the Chuci by reorganizing the sequence of selections. Overall, Williams approaches the materials with modesty and caution, emphasizing the importance of reading the poems in relation to one another and being mindful of the complexities of the traditional materials. [Extracted from the article]

Objective: To investigate the humoral and cellular immune response to messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) on immunomodulatory treatment.Methods: Established patients at New York University Langone Health with IMID (n=51) receiving the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination were assessed at baseline and after second immunisation. Healthy subjects served as controls (n=26). IgG antibody responses to the spike protein were analysed for humoral response. Cellular immune response to SARS-CoV-2 was further analysed using high-parameter spectral flow cytometry. A second independent, validation cohort of controls (n=182) and patients with IMID (n=31) from Erlangen, Germany, were also analysed for humoral immune response.Results: Although healthy subjects (n=208) and patients with IMID on biologic treatments (mostly on tumour necrosis factor blockers, n=37) demonstrate robust antibody responses (over 90%), those patients with IMID on background methotrexate (n=45) achieve an adequate response in only 62.2% of cases. Similarly, patients with IMID on methotrexate do not demonstrate an increase in CD8+ T-cell activation after vaccination.Conclusions: In two independent cohorts of patients with IMID, methotrexate, a widely used immunomodulator for the treatment of several IMIDs, adversely affected humoral and cellular immune response to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Although precise cut-offs for immunogenicity that correlate with vaccine efficacy are yet to be established, our findings suggest that different strategies may need to be explored in patients with IMID taking methotrexate to increase the chances of immunisation efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 as has been demonstrated for augmenting immunogenicity to other viral vaccines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]