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The article explores Suzanne Duchamp's work Scottish Espagnole (1920), examining how her integration of dance and painting challenges traditional boundaries between media and highlights the influence of dance within Dadaism. It mentions that Duchamp's innovative approach, merging abstraction, dance diagrams, and a playful verbal pun, pushes the limits of painting as an artistic medium, while simultaneously acknowledging dance as both a subject and method of artistic expression.

Hospitalization rates among US Persian Gulf War veterans during the two years after the war were not higher than in a group of veterans who did not serve in the Persian Gulf. This was demonstrated by researchers who studied hospital data on 547,076 Persian Gulf veterans and 618,335 other veterans. Hospitalization rates were essentially similar in both groups. The Persian Gulf veterans had a higher incidence of certain diagnoses such as benign tumors, anemia and mental disorders. However, postwar stress and a delay in receiving health care could account for this difference.

Liisa Kanerva. Between Science and Drawings: Renaissance Architects on Vitruvius s Educational Ideas. SuomalaisenTiedeakatemian Toimituksia Humaniora 339. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2006. 203 [...]

Abstract Objective To assess factors associated with drug-related harms related to policing among injection drug users (IDUs) in Tijuana, Mexico. Methods IDUs who were over 18 years old and had injected drugs within the last six months were recruited via respondent-driven sampling and underwent questionnaires and testing for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), syphilis and TB (tuberculosis). Random effects logistic regression was used to simultaneously model factors associated with five drug-related harms related to policing practices in the prior six months (i.e., police led them to rush injections; affected where they bought drugs; affected locations where they used drugs; feared that police will interfere with their drug use; receptive syringe sharing). Results Of 727 IDUs, 85% were male; median age was 38 years. Within the last 6 months, 231 (32%) of IDUs reported that police had led them to rush injections, affected where they bought or used drugs or were very afraid police would interfere with their drug use, or shared syringes. Factors independently associated with drug-related harms related to policing within the last six months included: recent arrest, homelessness, higher frequencies of drug injection, use of methamphetamine, using the local needle exchange program and perceiving a decrease in the purity of at least one drug. Conclusions IDUs who experienced drug-related harms related to policing were those who were most affected by other micro and macro influences in the physical risk environment. Police education programs are needed to ensure that policing practices do not exacerbate risky behaviors or discourage protective behaviors such as needle exchange program use, which undermines the right to health for people who inject drugs.

Margaret Aston takes a painting of King Edward VI and the Pope (now in the National Portrait Gallery, London) as her starting point, constructing around this work a complex story [...]

The author offers insights on scholarship and the collaboration between art historians and artists. Topics discussed include the impact of digital photography on the operations of the art history department slide library, the way art exhibitions and catalogues serve as models of collaboration between art scholars, curators, and conservators, and the need for more collaborative publications in the art industry.

Background: Investigations into which human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) sequence features may be selected for transmission during sexual exposure have been hampered by the small number of characterized transmission pairs in individual studies.Methods: To boost statistical power to detect differences in glycosylation, length, and electrical charge in the HIV-1 V1-V4 coding region, we reanalyzed all available 2485 env sequences derived from 114 subjects representing 58 transmission pairs from previous studies using mixed-effects linear regression and an approach to approximate the unobserved transmitted virus.Results: The recipient partner had a shorter V1-V4 region and fewer potential N-linked glycosylation sites (PNGS) than sequences from the source partner. We also detected a trend toward more PNGS and lower isoelectric points in transmitted sequences with source partner and the evolutionary tendency to shorten V1-V4 sequences, reduce the number of PNGS, and lower isoelectric points in the recipient following transmission.Conclusions: By using all available well-characterized env sequences from transmission pairs via sexual exposure, we were able to identify several important virologic factors that may be important in the development of biomedical preventive interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These fourteen essays honor the academic career of Oliver Millar and his service as Surveyor and Director of the Royal Collections on the occasion of his retirement in 1988. In [...]