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A comparative analysis of Women’s Clothing designs in Minab and kalpouregan pottery in Baluchestan based on intertextual approachAbstractThe political and geographical proximity of Sistan and Baluchestan and Hormozgan provinces is effective in creating their cultural commonalities. Is the study of prefixes as well as the commonalities and differences between the designs used in the two mentioned art industries. The questions of this article are what is the background of the designs of Minab women's clothing and Kalpurgan pottery and what are the similarities and differences between them? This research is qualitative, descriptive-analytical and has theoretical foundations based on the intertextuality approach. Its information is based on library studies and field observations. The results indicate that the use of common contexts such as nature, ethnic beliefs and women's tastes in creating commonalities between Kalpurgan pottery motifs and Minab women's clothing motifs, these commonalities in the use of visual techniques such as repetition, symmetry and balance. It is evident in the design structure of the designs, which includes three types of plants, animals and geometric, especially the widespread use of geometric patterns that are mainly manifested in the form of circles and rhombuses in pottery and can be seen in the shape of triangles in women's clothing designs. The existence of these commonalities along with a few differences leads to the emergence of commonalities in the culture and arts of other regions and, of course, is effective in strengthening their cultural values. Key Words: Sistan and Baluchestan, Minab, kalpouregan pottery, Women's Clothing.Key Words: Sistan and Baluchestan, Minab, kalpouregan pottery, Women's ClothingKey Words: Sistan and Baluchestan, Minab, kalpouregan pottery, Women's ClothingKey Words: Sistan and Baluchestan, Minab, kalpouregan pottery, Women's ClothingKey Words: Sistan and Baluchestan, Minab, kalpouregan pottery, Women's ClothingKey Words: Sistan and Baluchestan, Minab, kalpouregan pottery, Women's Clothing

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Background: Uric acid is the end product of the purine metabolism pathway, and has been linked to cancer risks and prognosis, but its relationship with hepatoblastoma (HB) remains unclear. This study aims to investigate the association between serum uric acid (SUA) and the advanced tumor staging and unfavorable extra-parenchymal tumor characteristics in patients with HB. Methods: This study enrolled pediatric patients from Xinhua Hospital between 2007 to 2021. A total of 101 participants with newly diagnosed HB were recruited in the study. PRETreatment EXTent of disease (PRETEXT)/PostTreatment Extent of disease (POSTTEXT) staging were evaluated at diagnosis and following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). Adjusted smoothing spline plots, subgroup analysis and multivariate logistic regression analysis were conducted to estimate the association of different levels of SUA with the advanced tumor staging and present annotation factors. Results: In accordance with SUA tertiles, those patients with higher pretreatment SUA levels showed increased percentages of PRETEXT group IV, vessel involvement and multifocality of tumors. After fully adjustment with the confounding factors, SUA was positively associated with advanced PRETEXT stage IV (OR: 1.72, 95%CI 1.15-2.57, p=0.0080), as well as vascular invasion (OR: 1.29, 95%CI 1.01-1.64, p=0.0396). Compared with the lowest SUA concentration tertile, the highest tertile were independently associated with vessel involvement of tumor in all of the adjusted models. Following NAC, SUA levels were significantly reduced in response to the downstaging of tumors. SUA remained positively associated with advanced POSTTEXT staging and vessel involvement in adjusted models. Patients with highest tertile of posttreatment SUA showed worse 5-year EFS and OS. Conclusion: Elevated SUA were associated with an increased occurrence of advanced PRETEXT/POSTTEXT staging and unfavorable vessel involvement at diagnosis and following NAC in patients with HB. High posttreatment SUA reflected poor tumor responses to NAC. This study linked SUA, a non-invasive laboratory test, with tumor staging and risk prediction for HB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is devoted to the study of the category of intertextuality on the material of the English song of the XX-XXI centuries. The work examines various approaches to the interpretation of the concept of intertextuality in the works of domestic and foreign linguists, distinguishes two models of intertextuality – wide and narrow, as a result of which intertextuality is defined, on the one hand, as a universal property of the text in general, when any text is read as intertext, and, on the other hand, as a specific quality of certain texts. The article studies types of intertextual relations, gives the definition of the pretext. The authors focus on intertextual inclusions, the sources of which are religious pretexts. The texts of English songs are examined as receiving texts, and the texts of religious content are considered from the perspective of precedence. In the work, the problem of interpretation of intertextual inclusions is associated with the problem of reader’s perception.

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The article analyses the model of the cultural space underlying the image of Galicia in the novel The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck. The research is focused on the intertextual elements used to create this image, their functions and the range of their interactions with the concept of the frontier. The myth of Galicia, the works of Karl Emil Franzos, Joseph Roth, Johann Wolfgang Goethe as well as Old Testament stories and psalms are considered as the main sources of intertextuality. Based on the analysis it can be inferred that the novel uses the intertextual elements not only for the wide cultural contextualization of the image of Galicia but also for the subversion of both the myth of Galicia and the literary pretexts from which these elements are borrowed.

Abstract Background Prognostic factors in hepatoblastoma need to be reevaluated considering the advances in treatment modalities. The study aimed to evaluate current outcomes of hepatoblastoma and reappraise the association of prognostic factors, including pre‐treatment extent of tumor (PRETEXT) stage with annotation factors and Children's Hepatic tumors International Collaboration‐Hepatoblastoma Stratification (CHIC‐HS) system, with survival outcomes. Methods We evaluated 103 consecutive patients with hepatoblastoma retrospectively according to the treatment period based on the introduction of a liver transplantation program. Results The 5‐year overall survival (OS), event‐free survival (EFS), and transplant‐free survival rates were 80.2%, 74.2%, and 61.8%, respectively. EFS and OS were improved significantly from 58.6% to 81.6% (P = 0.024) and from 58.6% to 90.8% (P

Purpose In 2017, the Children's Hepatic Tumors International Collaboration-Hepatoblastoma Stratification (CHIC-HS) system was introduced. We aimed to evaluate the accuracy of CHIC-HS System for the prediction of event-free survival (EFS) in Korean pediatric patients with hepatoblastoma. Materials and Methods This two-center retrospective study included consecutive Korean pediatric patients with histopathologically confirmed hepatoblastoma from March 1988 through September 2019. We compared EFS among four risk groups according to the CHIC-HS system. Discriminatory ability of CHIC-HS system was also evaluated using optimism-corrected C-statistics. Factors associated with EFS were explored using multivariable Cox regression analysis. Results We included 129 patients (mean age, 2.6±3.3 years; female:male, 63:66). The 5-year EFS rates in the very low, low, intermediate, and high-risk groups, according to the CHIC-HS system were 90.0%, 82.8%, 73.5%, and 51.3%, respectively. The CHIC-HS system aligned significantly well with EFS outcomes (p=0.004). The optimism-corrected C index of CHIC-HS was 0.644 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.561 to 0.727). Age = 8 (vs. age = 2; hazard ratio [HR], 2.781; 95% CI, 1.187 to 6.512; p=0.018), PRE-Treatment EXTent of tumor (PRETEXT) stage IV (vs. PRETEXT I or II; HR, 2.774; 95% CI, 1.228 to 5.974; p=0.009), and presence of metastasis (HR, 2.886; 95% CI, 1.457 to 5.719; p=0.002), which are incorporated as the first three nodes in the CHIC-HS system, were independently associated with EFS. Conclusion The CHIC-HS system aligned significantly well with EFS outcomes in Korean pediatric patients with hepatoblastoma. Age group, PRETEXT stage, and presence of metastasis were independently associated with EFS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intertextual layers of the stories by N. Gaiman “A Study in Emerald” and Ya. Wagner “A Study in Purple” are examined in this article. It is shown in the article that the intertextual fields of modern texts are allusions, reminiscences, metatextuality, paratextuality, architextuality, as well as onomastic quotations. It is concluded that the images and motives of the classic detective work of the early XX century create a visible intertext in the works of the XXI century and become a central device that generates secondary artistic worlds. It is emphasized that contextual correlation with A. K. Doyle’s story allows modern writers (both English-speaking and Russian-speaking) to create clear projections to the text about the famous detective, expanding the chronotopic organization of their metatexts. Particular attention is paid to the comparative intertextual analysis of the classical text of Arthur Conan Doyle with the stories of modern writers — English (N. Gaiman) and Russian (Ya. Wagner). The novelty of the research is seen in the insufficient appeal of literary science and literary criticism to the analysis of Doyle’s intertextuality and intertextual references to the story “A Study in Scarlet”, in particular. The relevance of the study is also due to the enduring reader’s interest in the detective genre and in the work of Arthur Conan Doyle.

The purpose of the article is to determine the specifi city of the organization of intertextual links of R. Borodulin’s lyrics as an idiostylistic feature, essential for the formation of the artistic content of his poems. The works included in R. Borodulin’s collections of diff erent times have been analyzed on the basis of the positions of the theory of intertextuality developed in text linguistics. The author comes to the conclusion that R. Borodulin’s lyrics are oriented to the folk element – folklore, the texts of which are most often referred to by intertextually marked elements. They can perform various functions, from the creation of a local image to the formation of compositional and / or fi gurative structure of the whole poem, but they are always related to the value orientations of the poet. The Bible and Belarusian literature (texts of predecessors and – to a greater extent – contemporaries) are in the second place in terms of the number of references among the sources of intertextuality. The connection with the biblical pretext is present at all stages of R. Borodulin’s work, but in the course of time such references become more refl ective and commented. Formally, intertextuality is represented by all possible structural types. Among the various forms of intertextuality proper in the works of R. Borodulin the most frequent are allusions. “Playing” upon the titles of collections and individual works of predecessors and contemporaries can be considered as a distinctive feature of R Borodulin’s lyrics. Meanwhile the title quotes do not require the reader to know the pretexts. Parody and elements of parody are widely presented in the collections (including genre parody which is associated with the actualization of “negative” architextual connections).

Background: Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver (UESL) is a rare tumor for which there are few evidence-based guidelines. The aim of this study was to define current management strategies and outcomes for these patients using a multi-institutional dataset curated by the Pediatric Surgical Oncology Research Collaborative., Methods: Data were collected retrospectively for patients with UESL treated across 17 children's hospitals in North America from 1989 to 2019. Factors analyzed included patient and tumor characteristics, PRETEXT group, operative details, and neoadjuvant/adjuvant regimens. Event-free and overall survival (EFS, OS) were the primary and secondary outcomes, respectively., Results: Seventy-eight patients were identified with a median age of 9.9 years [interquartile range [IQR): 7-12]. Twenty-seven patients underwent resection at diagnosis, and 47 patients underwent delayed resection, including eight liver transplants. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy led to a median change in maximum tumor diameter of 1.6 cm [IQR: 0.0-4.4] and greater than 90% tumor necrosis in 79% of the patients undergoing delayed resection. R 0 resections were accomplished in 63 patients (81%). Univariate analysis found that metastatic disease impacted OS, and completeness of resection impacted both EFS and OS, while multivariate analysis revealed that R 0 resection was associated with decreased expected hazards of experiencing an event [hazard ratio (HR): 0.14, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.04-0.6]. At a median follow-up of 4 years [IQR: 2-8], the EFS was 70.0% [95% CI: 60%-82%] and OS was 83% [95% CI: 75%-93%]., Conclusion: Complete resection is associated with improved survival for patients with UESL. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy causes minimal radiographic response, but significant tumor necrosis., (© 2024 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)

The present research refers to reading and reinterpretation of the texts from a new ontological, paradigmatic and eschatological, comparative point of view, from the present to the immemorable, from the national to the universal, going from the under- standing through the net of the world and literature genesis. We stand for the supreme pure test in the case of the critique, of the literary historian and philosopher of all the times, who dream about the giving up of the ephemeral, the ash, the ballast, sanctioning the long protecting delaying in an undulated original matrix space.

Background: Prognostic factors in hepatoblastoma need to be reevaluated considering the advances in treatment modalities. The study aimed to evaluate current outcomes of hepatoblastoma and reappraise the association of prognostic factors, including pre‐treatment extent of tumor (PRETEXT) stage with annotation factors and Children's Hepatic tumors International Collaboration‐Hepatoblastoma Stratification (CHIC‐HS) system, with survival outcomes. Methods: We evaluated 103 consecutive patients with hepatoblastoma retrospectively according to the treatment period based on the introduction of a liver transplantation program. Results: The 5‐year overall survival (OS), event‐free survival (EFS), and transplant‐free survival rates were 80.2%, 74.2%, and 61.8%, respectively. EFS and OS were improved significantly from 58.6% to 81.6% (P = 0.024) and from 58.6% to 90.8% (P < 0.001), respectively, in the late period (N = 74) compared with the early period (N = 29). The PRETEXT stage was significant or marginally significant for EFS and OS in the early period but not in the late period. The P, F, R, and C factors were significant for OS and EFS in the early period. However, in the late period, only the P factor was significant for OS, and the F and M factors were significant for EFS. The CHIC‐HS system was significant or marginally significant for EFS in both the early and late periods; however, it was significant for OS only in the early period. Conclusion: Survival rates were significantly improved in children with hepatoblastoma, especially in those with advanced PRETEXT stages with positive annotation factors and in a high‐risk CHIC‐HS group. Prognostic factors had different clinical implications with evolved treatment modalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Hepatoblastoma is the most common primary hepatic malignancy in the pediatric population. Advances in pathological evaluation, imaging, risk stratification, neo-adjuvant chemotherapy, and surgery including transplantation have improved survival of these children in the western countries. However, a successful outcome in developing countries such as India with limited resources poses great challenges to the clinician and the family. Histology plays a major role in determining the prognosis of these patients. Methods: A retrospective study was done on 10 children diagnosed with hepatoblastoma between January 2010 and December 2015 in our institution. Clinical, laboratory, radiological, histopathological diagnoses, treatment, and outcome data were collected and analyzed. Results: The median age of these children at diagnosis was 11 months, and only 1 child was premature at birth. Most children were presented with abdominal distension. One child had lung metastasis at presentation. Elevated alpha fetoprotein levels were present in 90% of the children. The histological types were fetal, embryonal, macrotrabecular, and mixed epithelial-mesenchymal types. SIOPEL risk stratification was done, which showed 40% of the children to be of high risk. Three children had PRETEXT 1, 2, and 4, respectively. Conclusion: Our study is significant with respect to the information on PRETEXT staging, risk status, and histological favorability. In developing countries with limited resources and low-socioeconomic status, it is important to have a multidisciplinary team approach and tailor treatment to manage these patients effectively and improve the overall survival.

Рассматривается интертекстуальное поле повести Сергея Довлатова „Заповедник”, устанавливаются пушкинские и постпушкинские диалоговые межтекстовые связи и аллюзии. Среди претекстов Довлатова названы пушкинские „Евгений Онегин”, „Повести Белкина”, „Дубровский”, „Каменный гость”, „Капитанская дочка”, „Я вас любил…”, „Андрей Шенье”, „Вновь я посетил…”, „Я памятник себе воздвиг нерукотворный…” и др. Однако, как показано в статье, мозаика претекстов „Заповедника” много шире и богаче. Постпушкинские претексты в работе означены именами И. Гончарова („Обломов”), А. Блока („Незнакомка” и др.), А. Солженицына („Матренин двор”), В. Шукшина („Срезал”), Вен. Ерофеева („Москва – Петушки”), Вяч. Пьецуха („Жизнь негодяя”), романами И. Ильфа и Евг. Петрова („Двенадцать стульев”, „Золотой теленок”) и др. Делается вывод, что осмысление интертекста в повести Довлатова позволяет выйти на более емкие („вечные”) литературные аллюзии и параллели, установить между классическими и современными текстами вневременную смысловую синхронию.

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The present research refers to reading and reinterpretation of the texts from new ontic, ontologic, paradigmatic and escatologic, comparativistic point of view, from the present to the immemorable, from the national to the universal, going from the under-standing through the ”net” of the world and literature genesis. We stand for the supreme pure test in the case of the critique, of the literary historian and philosopher of all the times, who dream about the giving up of the efemerity, the ash, the ballast, sanctioning the long protecting delaying in an ondulate original matrix space.

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This article discusses the way two traditional tales were adapted and modified for use as pretexts in the Connected: Adult Language Learning through Drama program (CALLD) with migrant populations, including refugees and asylum seekers, in two sites during 2017 & 2018 in Sydney, Australia. The focus of this article is to explore the way ancient stories such as folktales and myths function in these settings, and how through action and reflection the authors, as teaching artists on the program, adapted these tales to better engage the participants in the process drama that followed. Through a generative conversation the authors discuss this experience, reviewing aspects of the narrative that worked and those that did not, resulting in a deeper understanding about the efficacy of various narrative elements to engage and motivate learning in the CALLD setting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Hepatoblastomas are complex pediatric tumors with several pathological subtypes, some of which demonstrate differing imaging features and portend varying prognosis. The radiologist plays a major role not only in the pre-surgical evaluation and baseline staging of the tumor, but also in guiding management and evaluating prognosis based on the PRETEXT (pretreatment extent of tumor) classification. We discuss the pathology, imaging features, and baseline evaluation, with a focus on the role of the radiologist in the management of these tumors. Highlights • Hepatoblastoma pathological subtypes can have different imaging findings and prognosis. • The PRETEXT classification helps in prognostication and management of hepatoblastomas. • There is a recent focus on risk-adapted treatment and limiting long-term toxicities in hepatoblastoma management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Hepatoblastoma (HB) is the most common primary malignant liver neoplasm in children. Its increasing survival rate is related to the progress in modern imaging, surgical techniques, and new chemotherapy regimens. Clinical approach: One of the past achievements was the development of the pretreatment extension of disease (PRETEXT) system. Gradually, the HB therapeutic approach has become more individualized with better stratification of patients. Controversies: These include the need for preoperative chemotherapy and its optimal duration; intensity of preoperative chemotherapy required for locally advanced cases (PRETEXT 4); optimal surgical treatment for locally advanced tumors: aggressive hepatic resections versus liver transplantation; the role of postoperative chemotherapy in the post-transplant setting; the timing and role of metastasectomy in patients with disseminated disease who undergo partial liver resection; and the prognostic significance of several HB pathology variants. Hepatoblastoma biology: Beta-catenin mutations and the beta-catenin/Wnt pathway play an important role in HB development. There have been at least two molecular signatures in HB published. Unluckily, all of these findings are based on relatively small clinical series and require confirmation. Conclusion: The treatment of HB started from one and the same therapy for all patients and aimed at increased treatment individualization, but the future seems to lie in biology-driven patient-tailored therapies.

The article studies the functional role of biblical reminiscence in Ivan S. Turgenev’s short novel “A Strange Story” (1870). A pretextual function of the Bible and interpretations of certain biblical theses, sayings and maxims are revealed through the artistic analysis of moral choice of Sophie and the embodiment of the existential motif. In the ethics of selfexpression the main character of the short novel relies on the Old Testament dogmas and evangelical preaching as well as asserts her own understanding of the necessity of self-renunciation in the name of implementation of the moral ideal. Sophie’s moral views despite being formed under the infl uence of religious ethics are not limited by the very ethics. Her faith in Christ is accompanied with the consciousness of her duty to people. The biblical ethics of self-dedication is based on antinomy of self-obsession and renunciation of one’s own self. The personal is sacrifi ced for the sake of the public. This unites Sophie with the selfl ess girls, participants of the populist movement, and describes the world perception of a new person of the watershed times in the “national history”.

The hepatoblastoma is the hepatic tumor more prevalent in infancy. The stage of the hepatoblastoma is based upon the PRETEXT system. Stage IV is considered not surgical and confers the worst prognosis. The treatment of this stage is based in neoadjuvant quimiotherapy and posterior partial or total hepatectomia plus hepatic transplantation, accordingly with the POSTEXT. We report the case of a toddler with stage IV quimiosensitive hepatoblastoma, with invasion of the retrohepatic vena cava and pulmonary metastasis who underwent a right trisegmentectomy with resection of the retrohepatic vena cava. This procedure was allowed by the presence of collateral circulation provide for the acigus vena, offering a curative option for our patient. The resection of the retrohepatic vena cava could be a feasible and useful alternative to allow partial hepatectomia with clean boards, and offer a potential cure in selected patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]