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Background Helicobacter pylori is an important public health concern due to its status as a carcinogenic bacterium. Well adapted to the acidic environment of the human stomach, the variety of strains and virulence factors of the organism when interacting with the host immune system creates an individualistic response. Although estimates suggest that approximately half of the global population is infected with H pylori , the majority of infected persons remain asymptomatic while harboring an increased risk of intestinal metaplasia and gastric cancers. Therefore, appropriate diagnostic testing protocols are imperative. Methods This study compared labeling methodologies, including Wright stain, alcian yellow toluidine blue (AYTB), and immunohistochemistry (IHC) on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded stomach resections from sleeve gastrectomy patients, to detect H pylori infection. Results Although all 3 labeling methods evidenced similar specificity in H pylori detection, the IHC method was significantly more sensitive. However, the IHC cost per test was approximately 5-fold higher than that of the Wright or AYTB stains, and the technical time required per test was at least 6-fold that of Wright or AYTB. Conclusion Despite the higher cost per test, IHC is the most sensitive and preferred method for determination of H pylori infection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his book (2021) Trueman attempts to provide a solution to the problem of the concept horse, which according to Frege’s published writings is an object, not a concept. In the course of doing so Trueman rejects Wright’s response (1998) according to which some objects are also concepts, for example, the concept horse, so the categories are not exclusive. Trueman’s argument for exclusivity (Chapter 4) is the heart of the book, and as he says, it is his response to holders of differing views, like Wright. I think that there is a gap in Trueman’s argument which needs to be filled if Wright is to be considered refuted.

Este artículo elabora una aproximación fenomenológica a Torres Blancas, edificio de viviendas en Madrid diseñado por Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza, entre 1961 y 1964, y construido entre 1964 y 1968. Mediante la revisión de fuentes bibliográficas primarias y de archivo (incluyendo revistas especializadas e iconografía), así como la elaboración de entrevistas y análisis in situ, esta investigación revela un proceso marcado por el cambio continuo e influenciado por la dinámica de trabajo de Oíza, su experiencia académica, y sobre todo por sus lecturas y reflexiones en el campo de la Fenomenología. El acercamiento parte de la reexaminación de las referencias orgánicas y utópicas utilizadas por Oíza (provenientes de F. L. Wright y Le Corbusier respectivamente) para adentrarse gradualmente en el carácter evocativo de Torres Blancas y en las estrategias arquitectónicas seguidas para tal fin por el arquitecto, siempre girando en torno a la definición de la fachada e incorporando el concepto de “umbral” como mediador —tanto físico como simbólico— entre exterior e interior.

Background and Aim: Brucellosis is one of the most common infectious diseases between humans and livestock in Iran. Because of the diagnostic problems of brucellosis, especially in endemic areas, the use of new diagnostic methods is of great importance. Therefore, this study was performed to compare BrucellacapT sensitivity and specificity with the standard Wright tube agglutination test in the diagnosis of Brucella. Materials and Methods: A total of 100 sera from a patient with suspected symptoms of brucellosis and without laboratory confirmation were studied. Wright, Coombs wright, and BrucellacapT tests were performed at diagnostic threshold titers of 1.160 and 1.80 Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were evaluated and finally, data were analyzed with SPSS software version 14. Results: A total of 100 patients were included in the study, of which 45% were female and 55% were male. In titrate 1.160 positive Wright test as a diagnostic threshold, sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values for the BrucellacapT test were 97.95, 86.27, 87.27, and 97.97 percent, respectively. In titrate 1.80 positive Wright test as a diagnostic threshold, sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of BrucellacapT test were 98.43, 97.50, 95.45, and 97.05 percent, respectively. Conclusion: The results showed that the BrucellacapT test in the studied cut points has acceptable sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive value for the diagnosis of brucellosis and the diagnostic and accuracy of this test in the titrate 1.160 is very close to the Coombs Wright test.

I will argue that Davidson's account of pure intending can be construed as a first-person-based judgement-dependent account of intention. For Davidson, pure intending to do φ is to make an all-out judgement that φing is desirable. On this anti-reductionist account, intention is treated as an irreducible state of the subject. I will draw a comparison between this account and Wright's and I will show that Davidson's account can be viewed as a non-reductionist judgement-dependent account along the lines suggested by Wright. I then explain how this account can help deal with various perplexities in Davidson's later view of meaning and mental content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aims: Arthroplasty has become increasingly popular to treat end-stage ankle arthritis. Iatrogenic posterior neurovascular and tendinous injury have been described from saw cuts. However, it is hypothesized that posterior ankle structures could be damaged by inserting tibial guide pins too deeply and be a potential cause of residual hindfoot pain. Methods: The preparation steps for ankle arthroplasty were performed using the Infinity total ankle system in five right-sided cadaveric ankles. All tibial guide pins were intentionally inserted past the posterior tibial cortex for assessment. All posterior ankles were subsequently dissected, with the primary endpoint being the presence of direct contact between the structure and pin. Results: All pin locations confer a risk of damaging posterior ankle structures, with all posterior ankle structures except the flexor hallucis longus tendon being contacted by at least one pin. Centrally-aligned transcortical pins were more likely to contact posteromedial neurovascular structures. Conclusion: These findings support our hypothesis that tibial guide pins pose a considerable risk of contacting and potentially damaging posterior ankle structures during ankle arthroplasty. This study is the first of its kind to assess this risk in the Infinity total ankle system.

Charles Wright is one of the contemporary American poets who have most profoundly absorbed Dante’s Commedia into their work. This paper places Wright’s interest in Dante in context, focusing on Purgatorio as the canticle he relates to most in his poetry, and the book closest to his own poetics. Examples taken from various texts support this reading of Wright’s relationship with the medieval Florentine poet.

The problem of epistemic circularity involved in justifying fundamental epistemic principles is one of the fundamental problems of epistemology. One important way out of this problem is a Sellarsian social practice theory of justification, according to which we are justified in accepting an epistemic principle if we can answer all objections raised against it in our social practice of demanding justification and responding to such demands. The main goal of this paper is to show that this social practice theory can accomplish better than its rival theories, such as Alston's doxastic practice approach, Sosa's reliabilist virtue epistemology, and Wright's entitlement theory, by making comparisons with these influential theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We present a model of a continuous-time Markov branching process with the infinitesimal generating function defined by the geometric probability distribution. It is proved that the solution of the backward Kolmogorov equation is expressed by the composition of special functions – Wright function in the subcritical case and Lambert-W function in the critical case. We found the explicit form of conditional limit distribution in the subcritical branching reproduction. In the critical case, the extinction probability and probability mass function are expressed as a series containing Bell polynomial, Stirling numbers, and Lah numbers.

While the more frequent historiographic tendency is to associate the early modern occurrences of “self-love” in English texts with the Augustinian template (the “infected love” of a postlapsarian “wicked will”), this paper aims to highlight several instances of a different usage. The seventeenth-century writings on the passions it will investigate work with a notion of “self-love” which only formally carries Augustinian echoes but whose content is rather in tune with notions belonging to a Stoic-inspired scenario of a cure of the soul (resistance to cure, failure of self-examination, narrowness of self – to be gradually shed off by means of a discipline of judgment, self and emotions). As such, they are interesting cases of a typical early modern phenomenon of eclectic discourse formation and mutual contamination of traditions of thought, and testify to a generally neglected early modern concern with a doctrine and a practice of the “cure of the soul” which typically aims to graft Christian theology onto ancient philosophy.

According to Wright's Judgement-Dependent account of intention, facts about a subject's intentions can be taken to be constituted by facts about the subject's best opinions about them formed under certain optimal conditions. This paper aims to defend this account against three main objections which have been made to it by Boghossian, Miller and implicitly by Wright himself. It will be argued that Miller's objection is implausible because it fails to take into account the partial-determination claim in this account. Boghossian's objection also fails because it is based on an unjustified reductionist reading of Wright's account. However, Wright's own attempt to resist Boghossian's objection seems to display a shift from his Judgement-Dependent account to an Interpretationist account of self-knowledge, in which case Wright's new account would face the same problem which he himself has previously put forward in the case of Davidson's Interpretationist account of self-knowledge. Nonetheless, I will argue that Wright does not need to make such a move because Boghossian's objection is not applicable to his account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Judith Wright's (1915-2000) concern about man's disintegration with the natural world and the horror of the destruction of the earth reflects a high sense of ecological awareness caused by the threat of pollution that pervades the environment. Wright's ecopoetry draws attention to the danger of displacing oneself from the natural world that would also cause an inner alienation in man. The purpose of this paper is to explore Wright’s ecopoetical representation of the Australian ecology and its integral connection with Australia’s national unity. As the study examines Wright’s various volumes of poems, it argues that the lack of ecological awareness weakens the national and social fabric of Australia and deteriorates its environment. It also asserts that the poet’s ecopoetic quest for preserving the Australian ecology generates a new articulation of the Australian cultural identity and nationhood.

Wittgenstein's On Certainty is sometimes read as providing a response to the skeptical puzzle from closure, according to which our commitment to the trustworthiness of our evidence is not itself evidentially grounded. In this paper, I argue both that this standard reading of Wittgenstein is incorrect, and that a more accurate reading of Wittgenstein provides us with a more plausible solution to the Closure Puzzle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We are interested here in libertarian writings that make the past a reserve of experiences likely to inspire a more just society, by focusing our attention on the valuations of the commune, understood as a grouping on a territorial basis of individuals self-managing in general assembly. We then question the writings of Murray Bookchin with a focus on the emancipatory role of real utopia, as put forward by Erik Olin Wright. Starting from the plea developed by the latter in favour of the adoption, by researchers in particular, of a posture of uncomplicated utopianism opening up the field of democratic possibilities, we question the relationship between anarchy, utopia and history, by analysing Bookchin's work in a new light. We begin by returning to the implications of Wright's posture : to make known the actual functioning of various alternative experiments, the social sciences being distinguished in this respect from purely imaginary utopian narratives. We then show that the relationship of some anarchist authors to utopia is close to this perspective. Based on an analysis of Bookchin's writings, we show that communalism constitutes a more powerful real utopia than those to which Wright refers. While Wright's approach is presentist, Bookchin's reference to the past allows him to go further. His view of history is rich in lessons for the development of a true democracy in the form of communalism today.

Scholars writing within the historical Jesus research paradigm often write different books on the same topic: heavy tomes for other scholars and shorter books on the same subject for lay readers. While the scholarly works have been reviewed by other scholars, the books for lay readers have not. This article analyzes works on the historical Jesus for lay readers authored by N.T. Wright and John Dominic Crossan, comparing the popular works to the scholarly ones. The analyses show that in Wright's case the ontological norms of historical Jesus research are consistently compromised in his work for a lay audience (Simply Jesus). In Crossan's case, the voice of the dispassionate scholar yields to the passionate denunciator in his popular Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following the 1892 cholera pandemic, Richard Pfeiffer, Director of the science section of Robert Koch's Institute for Hygiene in Berlin, began laboratory-based studies on the pathogenesis of the disease using an animal model. These investigations resulted in his discovery of bacterial endotoxin; recognition of the bacteriolytic properties of both animal and human immune sera; and identification of the specific nature of protective immune responses. His research led naturally from cholera to typhoid fever and in November 1896 Pfeiffer published the results of experimental studies on a typhoid vaccine. In September 1896 Almroth Wright, a professor of pathology in the British Army Medical School, published a short note entitled "Typhoid Vaccination". It was appended to a review on the use of styptics to control defective blood coagulation: his previous research studies had a physiological basis that stemmed from earlier studies on tissue fibrinogen. In December 1895, Wright had been commissioned by the Army Medical Department to develop a typhoid vaccine and he later admitted that such work began only after he had spoken with Pfeiffer. In January 1897 Wright published a further paper in which he claimed precedence over Pfeiffer in the introduction of anti-typhoid vaccination. This self-entitlement has subsequently been accepted, primarily because the British Army approved typhoid vaccination in 1914 at the beginning of the First World War. That time has been used as their starting point by many of Wright's biographers, but without any attempt to confirm Wright's claim to priority. This paper concludes Richard Pfeiffer, not Almroth Wright, provided the first account of human typhoid vaccination. It also provides early examples of laboratory-based responses to pandemic and epidemic infectious diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The popularity of theodicy over the past several decades has given rise to a countermovement, "anti-theodicy", which admonishes attempts at theodicy for various reasons. This paper examines one prominent anti-theodical objection: that it is hubristic, and attempts to form an approach to theodicy which evades this objection. To do so I draw from the work of Eleonore Stump, who provides a framework by which we can glean second-personal knowledge of God. From this knowledge, I argue that we can derive a theodicy which does not utilise the kind of analytic theorising anti-theodicists accuse of intellectual hubris. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This lecture reflects on the difficulties of democracy in Erik Olin Wright's democratic socialist vision, one he elaborates in How to Be an Anti-capitalist in the 21st Century and Envisioning Real Utopias. It rejects the notion that radical democratic projects in cities, workplaces, and cooperatives can simply be scaled up for purposes of national or postnational political rule. It reflects on selected requirements of democracy apart from democratic governing institutions and practices: from democratic political culture, to education and accountability, to handling globalized powers and problems such as finance, capital, and the climate crisis. The lecture concludes ambivalently, suggesting that democracy may be both necessary and impossible in realizing a politically free, socially just, and ecologically sustainable future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a model of a continuous-time Markov branching process with the infinitesimal generating function defined by the geometric probability distribution. It is proved that the solution of the backward Kolmogorov equation is expressed by the composition of special functions - Wright function in the subcritical case and Lambert-W function in the critical case. We found the explicit form of conditional limit distribution in the subcritical branching reproduction. In the critical case, the extinction probability and probability mass function are expressed as a series containing Bell polynomial, Stirling numbers, and Lah numbers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we will discuss what is called “Manifestation Challenge” to semantic realism, which was originally developed by Michael Dummett and has been further refined by Crispin Wright. According to this challenge, semantic realism has to meet the requirement that knowledge of meaning must be publically manifested in linguistic behaviour. In this regard, we will introduce and evaluate John McDowell’s response to this anti-realistic challenge, which was put forward to show that the challenge cannot undermine realism. According to McDowell, knowledge of undecidable sentences’ truth-conditions can be properly manifested in our ordinary practice of asserting such sentences under certain circumstances, and any further requirement will be redundant. Wright’s further objection to McDowell’s response will be also discussed and it will be argued that this objection fails to raise any serious problem for McDowell’s response and that it is an implausible objection in general.

This paper discusses Claudine Verheggen's account of what she takes to be Donald Davidson's response to the sceptical paradox about rule-following and meaning developed in Saul Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein's 'rule-following considerations.' It focusses on questions about the normativity of meaning, the social character of meaning, and the role of triangulation in Davidson's account of the determination of meaning, and invites Verheggen to compare the non-reductionism she finds in Davidson with that developed in Crispin Wright's judgement-dependent account of meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

James Homer Wright is a distinguished figure in the history of pathology and one of the founders of the discipline in the hospitals of Harvard Medical School. While he has been recognized as a highly accomplished investigative pathologist, historical sources have described him as austere, formidable, forbidding, disheartening, and gruff. Wright once did something seemingly so impulsive that it astonished his colleagues. When he heard a beautiful Norwegian contralto named Aagot Lunde perform, he anonymously sent her roses on a daily basis until she eventually agreed to meet him. They fell in love, married, and lived happily together until Aagot's death. This article paper explores the lives and careers of J. Homer Wright and Aagot Lunde Wright using unique archival materials as well as newspaper and magazine coverage of their life and travels together. After their marriage, Aagot soon stopped performing, but Mrs. Wright continued as a New England socialite for about a decade, which also coincided with the timeframe in which J. Homer made almost all of his important discoveries. James Homer Wright was covertly a romantic who thrived academically when supported by his wife, both of their families, and close friends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with diff erent reconstructions of the personality, life and teaching of the historical Jesus. These reconstructions were made by the most prominent members of the ‛Search for the historical Jesus’ movement from the late 20th to the beginning of the 21st century. The article explores the specifi cs of the current stage of the ‛Search for the historical Jesus’ movement in its distinction from the earlier era (the middle of the 18th – the beginning of the 20th century). For the purpose of the article works of Edward Parish Sanders, John Mayer, John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg, Nicholas Thomas Wright are thoroughly examined. The article provides the summary of major works of these scholars. In the end of the article it is shown in which aspects reconstructions of these authors diff er from each other. Reconstructions are compared on the following parameters: how the historical Jesus of the specifi c reconstruction fi ts the Judaism of His epoch, and how the specifi c reconstruction deals with the question of eschatology. Some suggestions are made concerning the question of why there is a decline in current stage of the ‘Quest for the historical Jesus’ and how this movement could be revitalized.

Introduction: Rapid and accurate diagnosis of the disease can have many effects on the healing and recovery of patients, so we decided to investigate the accuracy of Brucella capture diagnosis with Coombs-Wright in patients with brucellosis. Materials and Methods: The present study was descriptive and on patients who were referred to clinics with symptoms of brucellosis. Blood samples were taken from all patients. Patient information including age, sex, response to Coombs, Coombs Wright, and Brucella capture tests, as well as patient response to treatment, were entered into a pre-prepared checklist. After obtaining laboratory tests for serological tests, patients were finally included in all patient information, including demographic information, laboratory tests, and analyzed by SPSS v16. Results: This study was performed on 91 patients with brucellosis with a mean age of 34.6 years and 75.8% male. In this study, 84.6% of patients showed a positive Coombs test and 26.4% of patients showed a titer of 1.80. 85.7% of the patients showed positive Coombs Wright test and 29.7% of the patients had a titer of 160.1. In the study of Brucella capture tests in patients, 98.9% of patients showed a positive test, of which 34.1% had a titer of 1.60% of the test. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the Brucella capture test is a powerful test for the diagnosis of brucellosis, and in the same condition, patients are more likely to be diagnosed with two Wright and Coombs-Wright tests.

In this article, I challenge Wright's view that the bodily resurrection of Jesus provides the "only sufficient and necessary explanation" for the New Testament accounts of the empty tomb and post-resurrection appearances. I then outline Lüdemann's version of the hallucination hypothesis, critique a range of evangelical responses to it, and suggest that part of the reason for the continuing impasse is that neither side engages seriously enough with the psychological and psychiatric literature in the field. My conclusion is that some form of hallucination hypothesis in combination with the concept of collective delusion may be the equal of the evangelical view in terms of its explanatory power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the framework of Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, significant modern architects dialogued with Japanese Culture. Such is the case of the Czech-American architect Antonin Raymond who developed an extensive work in Japan pursuing a quest of synthesis between the West and Japan. Soon, followed Rudolf Schindler and his comrade Richard Neutra, previously qualified as architects in Vienna, whence Japonism represented a sensation to the cultural circles of the epoch. This article discusses the proposals of the trio, stressing the consistency in relationship to Japanese culture and its inherent link with Nature, pillar of Daoist philosophy. The authors intend to demonstrate that theirs was a deliberate search for the uncertain direction of modern architecture, once it was unleashed from dusk clichés of historicism, especially for distant and promising lands. We conducted this between Japan, Europe and the USA and consulted original documents in the archives of Columbia, UCLA, the Toyô Bunko in Tokyo, Arquivio Ultramarino (Lisbon) and the Getty Research Institute. The results reveal unheard of connections between key aspects of the work of those influential architects and environmental features of Japanism. The authors consider such nexus, as instrumental for a novel scientific approach to global architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]