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Nasal conchae increase the surface area of these cavities, thus providing for rapid warming and humidification of air and by regulating nasal airflow, play a role in immune surveillance because they are the first intranasal structures to come into contact with outside air. The present study aimed to depict the onset time of the first appearance and origin as well as developmental changes of Nasal conchae. This study was carried out on 116 rabbit embryos and fetuses of both sexes. all specimens of the heads assembled for normal histological technique, stained with H&E. Some were processed for scanning E/M. At day13: The primitive nasal cavity was surrounded by a condensa - tion of mesenchymal tissue giving rise the miniature of the nasal capsule (Fig.8). As well, the anlage of the ventral nasal concha was detected in the lateral nasal wall. At day14: The secondary nasal septum appeared as a wedge like structure formed of mesenchymal connective tissue. It was covered ventrally by a thin layer of undifferentiated epithelium which faced the dorsum of the tongue through the primitive choana. At D16: the nasal cavity and the dorsal and ventral conchae plugged inside the nasal cavity and separated by the middle meatus and surrounded externally by nasal capsule. The caudodorsal part of the future nasal cavity demonstrated many folds forming the future ethomoidal conchae. At Day 18: there were many processes which were differentiated into ectoturbinates and endoturbi - nates in the ethmoidal region. At Day 20: At the ethmoidal region of nasal cavity showed nerve bundles extended from the covering epithelium toward the olfactory bulb. At Day 22: The core of fold contained the cartilaginous extension of ventral nasal conchae was clear. The cells of the olfactory mucous membrane were differentiated and the shape of the nuclei of its cells was tapered in the basal cell layer or rounded or oval in the intermediate layers. At Day 25: The ethmoidal conchae had primary and secondary branches housing in between ethmoidal meatuses. The top of the ethmoidal conchae was capped by olfactory epithelium [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ljubomir Micić was the founder of Zenitism and the editor of Zenit, the international avant-garde magazine published in Zagreb and Belgrade from 1921 to 1926. Sharply criticising a decadent European culture after the Great War and accepting progressive avant-garde ideas, Micić praised the New art founded on the principles of NEO-primitivism and Russian constructivism, following the technological and scientific progress of the 20th century. Analysing the Zenitist Balkanisation of Europe project led by Barbarogenius, I will point out to Micić's attitude towards the old continent, his efforts to oppose the image of the Balkans as "the inner other of Europe", and his aspiration to revive European culture with the primordial Balkan energy. Declaring the Balkans the sixth continent, the geographical space of the poets, Micić postulated a model of cultural barbarism by which he stood against the established primacy of Western European nations over those that were characterised "less civilised". This paper aims to point out to Micić's understanding of the relationship between the Balkans and Europe, as well as the so-called primitive-civilised opposition, in order to highlight internationalism, pacifism and cosmopolitanism as the key elements of his Zenitosophy

This article shows how some early-modern British travellers found in the idea of travelling among and writing about Arabs an opportunity to reflect on a changing society at home. In Enlightenment Britain, many philosophers and writers thought of economic achievements as the roadmap to civility, humanity and progress. Many conservative moralists and clergymen of the period, however, protested this ideology and associated excessive materialism with moral decline, but they were not the dominant force in society. British travel writings about Arabs during the period confirmed and unsettled this dominant discourse. In these accounts, the images of primitive and polite Arabs appeared as screens upon which British anxieties about improvement were projected. This paper concludes with the contention that British travel writers appeared more concerned about their own society than about those about whom they wrote. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study on the behaviour of DNA strands lead to the introduction of the mathematical term 'partial word' by Berstel and Boasson and extended partial words with an arbitrary number of holes. The concept of a special partial word is crucial for these extensions. In this paper, we consider some cases on non-primitive partial words in which we have fixed the position of the hole and constructed a sequence of (k; l)-special for a fixed k where l varies. The periodicity is generalized for the considered partial words with the help of gcd(k; l) and it can be determined whether a partial word is (k; l)-special or not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study focuses on the usage and effect of the 'primitive' concept in social sciences. This concept, which is used to express both people who lived in the deep past and people who did not come into contact with modernity, has a rather ambiguous world of meaning. It is possible to say that non-Western societies are coded as 'primitive' in this approach, which is basically based on the Western and other dichotomy. The Western mind, which sees itself at the top of the line of progress, people who did not come into contact with modernity as irrational, unaware of his surroundings, and lacking many values and institutions. It can be said that the 'theory of primitive society' plays a dominant role in the background of transferring democracy and prosperity to 'developing societies'. This article also discusses the transformation of the ancient human, coded as barbarian and savage, under the influence of the progressive approach, into a creature with knowledge and wisdom, with the effect of romance over time. The concept of 'primitive', which continues to find a place for itself in the literature despite some criticisms, has a influence of domain beyond what is thought. The criticism of the 'primitive' contributes to the correct understanding of both the ancient human and the traditionally expressed contemporary societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The problem description language (PDL) has been developed. The main architectural features of the PDL language are considered. The advantages of using PDL are discussed. The rules for creating descriptions in PDL are described. A universal software configurator for the Web server security software package is considered. Here is an example of testing PDL using a translator that converts the task description to the executable Perl code. The structure of the PDL task description translator in Perl (analysis phase and synthesis phase) is given. The features of this translator at the synthesis stage [13-15, 24, 26, 27] are described. There are 3 modes of operation at the synthesis phase: 1. If the task description does not specify any of the action operators (a special class of operators in the PDL). 2. If the description contains at least one action operator and you need to search the algorithm in the database. 3. If the required module is not found in the algorithm bank under the same conditions as in point 2. In the first case, primitives are used. The second one searches for modules in the algorithm bank. In the 3rd case, the required module must be partially written by the programmer himself. The procedure for generating a web server security software package in Perl using the PDL task description is considered. Examples are given and the reasons for reducing the number of program errors when using the PDL translator in Perl are described.

Como ciencia de la cultura, la historia del arte ha estudiado el fenómeno sobre la inclinación por lo primitivo y su influencia en las artes visuales del siglo XX. Este fenómeno también puede entenderse paralelamente desde la historia y teoría de la arquitectura al explicar las características de determinados movimientos que surgieron como reacción a la estandarización de la arquitectura moderna. En este texto se reflexiona sobre el caso del neobrutalismo, movimiento propio del periodo de la segunda posguerra en Inglaterra. El artículo se desarrolla reconstruyendo la gestación del mismo, exponiendo cómo lo primitivo fue interpretado a través de la arquitectura de Alison y Peter Smithson y recordando la posición sobre la imagen memorable del crítico Reyner Banham. Esta lectura permite explicar el síntoma de algo más profundo desde los significados culturales, sugiriendo el neobrutalismo y su relación con lo primitivo como el inicio de la posmodernidad, en la que la imagen arquitectónica se posiciona como un nuevo principio.

I use the artwork O Peixe by Jonathas de Andrade (2016) to analyze how a mock ethnographic documentary operates by faking the recuperation of an ancestral ritual of anthropological significance. De Andrade denaturalizes the tropes with which Otherness and historical narratives have been constructed and shows how 'Latin America' sponsored the manufacture of an identity of 'indigenous peoples' and 'blacks,' which was domesticated and prepared for museum display, as part of the Nation-State project. In Brazil, those 'differences' were depoliticized with a discourse of 'racial democracy' and 'multiculturalism.' The artwork challenges the spectator by appropriating and mobilizing essentialist categories anchored in the 'culture'/'race'/'ethnicity' used to classify the allegedly 'non-Western' population even within the national territory under subalternizing ends. O Peixe offers a path of experiential knowledge and promotes an ethnography at the time of its projection. The fishermen embody, in a parodic performance, an archetypal myth by which they are dreamt challenging their objectification. They look back at the spectator, refusing to be subjugated and forging alternative stories by following the traces of cut lineages. In doing so, they show a being that since colonial times has been 'modern in another way,' globalized and always hybrid, 'cannibal,' 'impure.'Tomaremos la obra O Peixe de Jonathas de Andrade (2016) para observar cómo actúa un simulacro de documental etnográfico que falsea el rescate de un ritual ancestral de interés antropológico. De Andrade desnaturaliza soportes con los que se ha construido la alteridad y el relato histórico y pone en presencia cómo 'Latinoamérica' patrocinó la museificación identitaria de 'indígenas' y 'negros' para domesticarlos como parte del proyecto de Estado-nación, 'diferencias' que más tarde en Brasil se pretendieron (también) despolitizar bajo la fórmula de la 'democracia racial' y el 'multiculturalismo.' Interpela al espectador apropiándose y movilizando categorías esencialistas ancladas en la 'cultura'/'raza'/'etnia' que habitúan ser usadas para clasificar a parte de la población pretendidamente 'no occidental' -aún dentro del territorio nacional- bajo fines subalternizantes. O Peixe ofrece un camino de conocimiento experiencial y promueve etnografiar su visualización. Los pescadores, al encarnar -en un performance paródico- un mito arquetípico con el que se los sueña, trastocan su objetualización para devolver una mirada que no se deja subyugar, que retoma linajes cortados y gesta historias alternativas mostrando un ser que desde tiempos de la colonia fue 'moderno de otra manera,' globalizado y, desde siempre, híbrido, 'caníbal,' 'impuro.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work I ponder about the archive based on three images from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the drawing of a monster from the Teratology collection of the Museo Nacional de México preserved today in the Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia; the photography of animals that are part of what was the collection of the Museo de Historia Natural del Chopo and that today protects the Fototeca Nacional; and the copy of a drawing of a hysterical woman that is part of the iconography of the French hospital de la Salpêtrière and that was reproduced in Mexico in a scientific journal. With the perspective offered by the “archival turn”, these individual images speak about the procedures of classification, hierarchy and exclusion that organized the knowledge system. They also show three ways of articulating madness, the bestial and the primitive, three figures of the Other from the West, three paths that lead to the “Indian”, that descendant of the pre-Hispanic inhabitants of the American continent on whose erasure was erected the scientific normalizing discourse and the nation-state.

This essay provides an intellectual history for the cultural turn that transformed the human sciences in the mid-20th century and led to the creation of cultural sociology in the late 20th century. It does so by conceptualizing and contextualizing the limitations of the binary primitive/modernity. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, leading thinkers – among them Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Freud – confined thinking and feeling styles like ritual, symbolism, totem, and devotional practice to a primitivism that would be transformed by the rationality and universalism of modernity. While the barbarisms of the 20th century cast doubt on such predictions, only an intellectual revolution could provide the foundations for an alternative social theory. The cultural turn in philosophy, aesthetics, and anthropology erased the division between primitive and modern; in sociology, the classical writings of Durkheim were recentered around his later, religious sociology. These intellectual currents fed into a cultural sociology that challenged the sociology of culture, creating radically new research programs in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ontology of time and space has always been a subject of materialist prospectus bearing a halo effect of 'modernity' and 'progress'. The enquiry into the sign of modern is a mechanical category of production where substantial copies of 'progress' have religiously been equated with a break from the past. This breaking away from the centre (soul) is, of course, associated with a desire for the non-native design. Simultaneously, the past becomes historicized as primitive dangers while the present/'modern' morphs into a non-past spectacular diffusion. Satyajit Ray reloads his artillery of the cerebral one last time in his masterpiece titled, Agantuk (The Stranger), where he pits the idea of a spectral past having an agency to redo the class binary against the totalitarian time(s) in a modern urban space which prides itself on the abuse of power-as-civility. Ray introduces a nuclear family of three (a married couple and their son) where the protagonist, Manmohan Mitra, returns as an archived data in the body of a forgotten relative. His entry into the house ruptures the canny knots of the 'home' where the director exposes limits of the modernized time. This paper tries to analyze how Ray uses the motif of 'travel' in its cinematic cloth to critique the ingestion of global progress as nothing but an accumulation of fallen spectacles that commodify both a subject who is consuming the object-in-time (progress) and also the object that is all the time getting alienated from its own subjective merit. Mitra becomes the mouthpiece of the director for conveying the paradoxes of time-as-capital in the burgeoning of speculative modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Primary bronchial cancer in women is a major public health problem; its incidence has increased steadily over the past 20 years. Objective: The objective of this work was to analyze the epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic and prognostic characteristics of lung cancer in women in the region of Sidi Bel Abbés. Materials and methods: A descriptive retrospective study of 50 women diagnosed with primary lung cancer collected in the oncology and radiotherapy department of anti cancer centre between January 2008 and May 2019. Results: The average age of our patients was 64 years (±15,063). Respiratory symptoms were dominated by chest pain. The main risk factors were passive smoking (26% of cases), family history of cancer, hormonal factors, environmental factors, history of respiratory diseases. The most common histological type was adenocarcinoma (74% of cases), stages III and IV accounted for 95% of cases. The main metastatic locations were bone and cervical (23.8%). Treatment management was based mainly on chemotherapy (50% of cases), of which 19% were palliative. Discussion: Our results confirm that bronchial cancer in women is steadily increasing. Its risk factors are different from those of men. The dominant histological type in women was adenocarcinoma, which has a better prognosis, however, the diagnosis remains late, which explains the predominance of stages III and IV in women. Conclusion: The female primary broncho-pulmonary cancer has anatomopathological, hormonal and genetic peculiarities that characterize it, which should encourage us to apprehend it differently from the therapeutic strategies better for women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cp (X) is distinguished ↔ the strong dual Lβ (X) is barrelled ↔ the strong bidual M (X) =RX. So one may judge how nearly distinguished Cp (X) is by how nearly barrelled Lβ (X) is, and also by how near the dense subspace M (X) is to the Baire space RX. Being Baire-like, M (X) is always fairly close to RX in that sense. But if Cp (X) is not distinguished, we show the codimension of M (X) is uncountable, i.e., M (X) is algebraically far from RX, and moreover, Lβ (X) is very far from barrelled, not even primitive. Thus we profile weak barrelledness for Lβ(X) and M (X) spaces. At the same time, we characterize those Tychonoff spaces X for which Cp (X) is distinguished, solving the original problem from our series of papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three histological variants are known within the family of embryonal rosette-forming neuroepithelial brain tumors. These include embryonal tumor with abundant neuropil and true rosettes (ETANTR), ependymoblastoma (EBL), and medulloepithelioma (MEPL). In this study, we performed a comprehensive clinical, pathological, and molecular analysis of 97 cases of these rare brain neoplasms, including genome-wide DNA methylation and copy number profiling of 41 tumors. We identified uniform molecular signatures in all tumors irrespective of histological patterns, indicating that ETANTR, EBL, and MEPL comprise a single biological entity. As such, future WHO classification schemes should consider lumping these variants into a single diagnostic category, such as embryonal tumor with multilayered rosettes (ETMR). We recommend combined LIN28A immunohistochemistry and FISH analysis of the 19q13.42 locus for molecular diagnosis of this tumor category. Recognition of this distinct pediatric brain tumor entity based on the fact that the three histological variants are molecularly and clinically uniform will help to distinguish ETMR from other embryonal CNS tumors and to better understand the biology of these highly aggressive and therapy-resistant pediatric CNS malignancies, possibly leading to alternate treatment strategies.

Durkheim is widely regarded as one of the most prominent scholars of the sociology of religion. While many scholars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been criticised for racist bias in support of imperial projects by decolonial and postcolonial thinkers in recent years, Durkheim is often celebrated for his rejection of the questionable evolutionist ideas of his time. This paper reconsiders Durkheim’s theory of so-called ‘primitive’ religion in relation to other preeminent theories of religion of his era, such as Edward Burnett Tylor’s theory of religion as animism. Utilising a postcolonial approach, the paper firstly critically examines the use of concepts such as ‘primitive’ in Tylor and Durkheim’s anthropological and sociological theories of religion, respectively. It is demonstrated that, although Durkheim was overtly critical of evolutionist approaches of his day and attempted to break from this dominant paradigm by focusing more on social structures, rather than temporal development, he failed in freeing himself from prevalent racist assumptions. Despite this failing and the fact that his theorising of religion as totemism has long since fallen out of favour, however, his focus on the social nature and function of religion should still be celebrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Uli is the body and wall painting tradition of the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria. It was popular and common across Igbo villages until recently. The decline of uli like many other such cultural resources results from nescience and devaluation of autochthonous cultural expressions that do not measure up to prescribed Western ideas of art in the postcolonial experience. As part of efforts to save uli from possible extinction, artists of Nsukka School have researched the uli creative idiom and also appropriated it in their work. However, this appropriation, while trying to prolong the tradition, has also subtly added to the shadow of primitivism cast on the work of uli classical women painters in scholarship as the two paradigms have existed along the lines of the traditional–contemporary binary championed by Western scholars of African art in the early 1990s and beyond. This paper studies the uli revivalist painting sessions organized by Obiora Udechukwu and Krydz Ikwuemesi in 2003 and 2004 and uses the process and outcome of the paintings to argue that the women are not primitives, but classicists, if classicism is to be seen as a multi-versal experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Embryonal tumor with multilayered rosettes (ETMR, previously known as ETANTR) is a highly aggressive embryonal CNS tumor, which almost exclusively affects infants and is associated with a dismal prognosis. Accurate diagnosis is of critical clinical importance because of its poor response to current treatment protocols and its distinct biology. Amplification of the miRNA cluster at 19q13.42 has been identified previously as a genetic hallmark for ETMR, but an immunohistochemistry-based assay for clinical routine diagnostics [such as INI-1 for atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT)] is still lacking. In this study, we screened for an ETMR-specific marker using a gene-expression profiling dataset of more than 1,400 brain tumors and identified LIN28A as a highly specific marker for ETMR. The encoded protein binds small RNA and has been implicated in stem cell pluripotency, metabolism and tumorigenesis. Using an LIN28A specific antibody, we carried out immunohistochemical analysis of LIN28A in more than 800 childhood brain-tumor samples and confirmed its high specificity for ETMR. Strong LIN28A immunoexpression was found in all 37 ETMR samples tested, whereas focal reactivity was only present in a small (6/50) proportion of AT/RT samples. All other pediatric brain tumors were completely LIN28A-negative. In summary, we established LIN28A immunohistochemistry as a highly sensitive and specific, rapid, inexpensive diagnostic tool for routine pathological verification of ETMR.

Book Review: Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea

Une femme de 29 ans, a consulté pour une tuméfaction de la région parotidienne gauche légèrement sensible avec limitation de l´ouverture de la bouche évoluant depuis 3 mois. Son anamnèse ne retrouve pas notion de chirurgie ou d´extraction dentaire. L´examen clinique retrouve une tuméfaction de la région parotidienne gauche ferme, légèrement sensible mal limité sans signes inflammatoires en regard, l´examen endobucal ne retrouve pas de foyer infectieux dentaire ou d´écoulement purulent du canal de Sténon. La tomodensitométrie a montré un remaniement osseux de la face externe de la branche montante de la mandibule, une image d´ostéolyse mal limitée sous condylienne gauche, des séquestres osseux et un épaississement des parties molles et muscles autour de la branche en question. Une biopsie osseuse a montré des remaniements inflammatoires chroniques en rapport avec une ostéomyélite chronique primitive sans germe identifiable ni signes de malignité. La patiente a bénéficié d´un traitement antibiotique à base de pénicilline et un traitement chirurgical de décortication et de séquestréctomie. L´évolution était favorable. L´ostéomyélite primitive de la mandibule est une affection rare d´étiologie pas claire, elle est dite chronique quand l´évolution dépasse 1mois. Elle se distingue de l´ostéomyélite secondaire par l´absence de pus ou de fistule. Les données radiologiques comprennent l´ostéolyse, l´ostéosclérose et parfois l´hypertrophie des muscles masséters. L´histologie est essentielle pour éliminer des diagnostics différentiels de malignité. Le traitement est basé principalement sur les antibiotiques et la décortication, parfois on peut associer les corticostéroïdes, et l´oxygénothérapie hyperbare.

L´appendagite épiploïque primitive est une cause rare d´abdomen aigue. Elle peut simuler le tableau clinique d´autre processus inflammatoire tels que la diverticulite ou l´appendicite. Le diagnostic repose sur le scanner. Le traitement est médical en dehors des complications.

В статье рассматривается творческое наследие ученицы Иркутской художественной мастерской-студии И.Л. Копылова Антонины Емельяновой. Она принимала активное участие в культурной жизни Иркутска 1920-х, была отмечена своим учителем, а также художественными критиками как перспективный график и один из представителей «сибирского стиля» в искусстве. Предпринята попытка обобщить разрозненный материал о художнице, встречающийся в искусствоведческой литературе, дополнить его новыми сведениями, полученными в процессе работы с источниками: документами, хранящимися в архиве Иркутского областного художественного музея имени В.П. Сукачева, публикациями в периодике 1920-х. Одна из задач исследования – ответить на вопрос, что есть «сибирское» в искусстве для А. Емельяновой.

Ewing's sarcomas/primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) are a group of tumors characterized by small round cells that rarely affect the bone and soft tissues of the nasal cavities. Herein, we describe the case of a 38-year-old man who presented with a one-year history of epistaxis, headache, hyposmia, anosmia, night sweats, weight loss, hearing loss, dysphagia, and nasal blockage. A computed tomography (CT) scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies revealed a lesion in the posterior nasal cavities with extension into the sphenoid and ethmoid sinuses. Histological examination of a biopsied specimen obtained via flexible fiberoptic endoscopy showed small dark round cells with scanty cytoplasm arranged in solid nests and pseudorosette formations. The diagnosis of Ewing's sarcoma was confirmed by the positive reactive pattern of the neoplastic cells for CD99 by immunohistochemistry studies and also identification of a chromosomal translocation of FLI1 in PCR studies. Cervical lymph nodes and bone marrow involvement were also observed. The patient was treated by adjuvant chemotherapy including vincristine, endoxan, and adriamycin for 6 cycles followed by radiotherapy (eleven courses). Unfortunately, before completion of treatment, the patient died due to disease progression and brain metastasis.

Olivine is typically the first phase to crystallise from basaltic melts and its chemistry can therefore inform on the earliest stages of magmatic evolution, not recorded by later crystallising phases. Despite the potential of olivine for understanding primitive differentiation, limited analytical capabilities have previously restricted the range of elements that can be routinely measured. Consequently, important processes controlling early magma evolution may have been overlooked or misidentified. This study reports a wide range of minor and trace elements in forsteritic (up to Fo 92.2) olivine macrocrysts from the primitive Borgarhraun lava flow in northern Iceland. We define two distinct populations of olivine based on their forsterite (Fo) content and then apply minor and trace element data to discern mixing and crystallisation of subtly different high-MgO parental melts. High-Fo (90.9–92.2 mol%) olivines show approximately linear trends between Cr and other incompatible trace elements (Li, Na, Ca, Ti, Al and Y), implying mixing and concurrent crystallisation of two highly primitive melts. Low-Fo (87.4–90.0 mol%) olivines show trends that indicate mixing and crystallisation of multiple, genetically distinct and less primitive melts. The outermost 50 μm of the olivine microcrysts record diffusive re-equilibration of the olivine macrocrysts to a single, significantly more evolved carrier liquid over an ascent timescale of 70–250 days. Compared to the rest of Iceland, the Borgarhraun olivine macrocrysts are distinguished by their Cr contents, which extend from 97 to 1150 ppm. The uniquely steep trend in Fo vs. Cr can be explained by early crystallisation of Cr-spinel and Cr-rich clinopyroxene, stabilised by high pressures of differentiation (>0.8 GPa). Chromium-forsterite systematics may therefore be a powerful tool for qualitatively assessing relative pressures of crystallisation for different magmatic systems. Collectively, our new dataset clearly demonstrates the importance of measuring trace elements in olivine for identifying the formative stages and conditions of basaltic magmatic systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This personal account charts the changing relationship to a Jungian identity arising from the interrelated processes of understanding the roots of the colonial and racial ideologies that underpin Jung's thinking, and a developing awareness of what it means to be a white person in a system of racism that maintains white supremacy. This is illustrated with reference to the image of a black man appearing in the dream of the white author and with use of post-Jungian thinking to critique the notion of an objective, non-racial psyche. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The pedal of a curve in the Euclidean plane is a classical subject which has a singular point at the inflection point of the original curve. The primitive of a curve is a curve given by the inverse construction for making the pedal. We consider relatives of the primitive of a plane curve which we call primitivoids. We investigate the relationship of primitivoids and pedals of plane curves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Epiploic appendagitis is a rare cause of acute abdomen. It can mimic other inflammatory processes such as diverticulitis or appendicitis. Diagnosis is based on CT scan. Medical management is the approach of choice in the absence of complications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Flaubert claimed mastery in matters of style in the French language as well as in the psychological sciences. Mastery in both areas is on clear display in the writing of Madame Bovary. Our heroine presents as a new kind of personality, namely as someone who depends greatly on sensory experience in order to maintain her emotional equilibrium. So, when under stress, she can only find some kind of soothing comfort in her perfumes, silks, and cashmeres. This dynamic pattern leaves her at a disadvantage when tasked with higher level life requirements – such as the payment of bills, the very thing that, in the end, causes her ruin. Dynamically, failures of memory and the resulting fragmentation of experience leave her with a precarious sense of self. For our heroine, there is little ability to link present experience to the past and therefore no possibility of metaphoric or symbolic thinking; in other words, she is condemned to repeat. Flaubert felt that Madame Bovary would only have original value as the sum of his psychological understandings. Further, he hoped his psychological work, often hidden under the form, would be deeply felt by the reader, as it was by him. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report a case of bilateral Primary tuberculosis of the parotid gland that evolve more than one year, in a 35 years old patient, without any pathologic antecedent, where physical examination showed bilateral parotid swelling, in a context of conservation of general state. Ultrasound showed parotids increased in volume, heterogeneous with many fluid tissue formations, whose largest voluminous at right measure 28 millimeters, against 25 millimeters at left, with necrosis areas. The scan showed homogenous tissue density lesions, enhanced after contrast product injection. The fine needle aspiration was in favor of granulomatous lymphadenitis, suggestive of tuberculosis. Intradermoreaction to tuberculin was positive (15 millimeters in diameter). The diagnosis of bilateral primary tuberculosis of the parotid was retained. A 6 months antituberculosis medical treatment was established with disappearance of parotid swelling, without recidive or others complications, on a decline of 14 months after treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ewing's sarcomas are a less common malignant neoplasms that can be located both in skeletal and extra skeletal areas. The primitive neuroectodermic tumor (PNET) shows more neuronal differentiation than Ewing's sarcoma and rarely invades the skin and soft tissues. This tumor occasionally presents as a primary skin cancer which has distinctive features such as a superficial tumor with a 2-3 cm, soft, mobile and eventually painful. Most affected areas of the body are paravertebral spaces, lower limbs, head, neck and pelvis. We report here the case of a 13 year old male presenting with 2 superficial tumors located on the scalp, the histo pathological examination revealed a proliferation of small, basophilic and monomorphic cells that showed FLI1 positive immunohistochemistry pattern compatible with PNET. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumors (pPNETs) are rare, small cell carcinomas with a poor prognosis. The aim of the present study was to describe therapeutic approaches, outcomes and probable prognostic factors. The clinical features, treatments, and outcomes of 89 consecutive patients with pPNET treated at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital from 1999 to 2018 were retrospectively reviewed. A total of 43 males and 46 females were included in the study, with a median age of 25 years (range, 5–73 years). The predominantly affected regions were the abdomen and pelvis, followed by the thoracopulmonary region. The mean primary tumor size was 12.6 cm (range, 1–30 cm). A total of 16 patients (18%) initially presented with metastasis. A total of 46 patients received combined therapy, 35 received mono-therapy, and 8 underwent only biopsy with no further treatment. The period of observation ranged from 1–232 months. The median overall survival (OS) time was 15 months [95% confidence interval (CI), 9–21 months], with 3- and 5-year OS rates of 32 and 25%, respectively. Large tumor size [adjusted hazard ratio (aHR)=3.65; 95% CI, 2.07–6.42; P<0.001), metastasis at initial presentation (aHR=4.34, 95% CI, 2.23–8.42; P<0.001), and combined modality treatment (aHR=0.16, 95% CI, 0.06–0.39; P<0.001) were significantly associated with OS. The prognosis of pPNET is, overall, poor. Large tumor size and metastasis at initial presentation are associated with poorer outcomes. This highly malignant tumor requires an aggressive combination of radical resection, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, when indicated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics, and to determine prognostic factors, event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) of patients with Ewing sarcoma family tumors (ESFT). Materials and methods: A retrospective study conducted in patients under 18 years of age with ESFT, treated at the Unit of Pediatric and Adolescent Oncology of the Hospital Edgardo Rebagliati between January 2006 and June 2016. The descriptive analysis was performed by frequency distribution. Kaplan-Meier curves were used for EFS and OS analysis. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed according to the Cox regression model for demographic, clinical and surgical variables, and prognostic factors. The measure of strength of association was expressed in hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI), and p

Background: Functional upper extremity (UE) motion enables humans to execute activities of daily living (ADLs). There currently exists no universal language to systematically characterize this type of motion or its fundamental building blocks, called functional primitives. Without a standardized classification approach, pooling mechanistic knowledge and unpacking rehabilitation content will remain challenging.Methods: We created a taxonomy to characterize functional UE motions occurring during ADLs, classifying them by motion presence, temporal cyclicity, upper body effector, and contact type. We identified five functional primitives by their phenotype and purpose: reach, reposition, transport, stabilize, and idle. The taxonomy was assessed for its validity and interrater reliability in right-paretic chronic stroke patients performing a selection of ADL tasks. We applied the taxonomy to identify the primitive content and motion characteristics of these tasks, and to evaluate the influence of impairment level on these outcomes.Results: The taxonomy could account for all motions in the sampled activities. Interrater reliability was high for primitive identification (Cohen's kappa = 0.95–0.99). Using the taxonomy, the ADL tasks were found to be composed primarily of transport and stabilize primitives mainly executed with discrete, proximal motions. Compared to mildly impaired patients, moderately impaired patients used more repeated reaches and axial-proximal UE motion to execute the tasks.Conclusions: The proposed taxonomy yields objective, quantitative data on human functional UE motion. This new method could facilitate the decomposition and quantification of UE rehabilitation, the characterization of functional abnormality after stroke, and the mechanistic examination of shared behavior in motor studies.