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Overcoming Otherness in Flavian Rome:Flavius Josephus and the Rhetoric of Identity in the Bellum Judaicum
No full textMeeting a person with pedophilia:Attitudes towards pedophilia among psychology students: A pilot study
No full textPeople with pedophilia (PWP) are highly stigmatized. Public opinion is strongly pre-consolidated – it is often assumed that every PWP commits child sex offenses. This presumption not only affects PWP negatively. Research suggests that this stigmatization may cohere with PWP actually committing child sex offenses. Various recent studies have investigated different kinds of anti-stigma interventions and their effectiveness. Direct contact to a PWP has not yet been investigated. The present pilot study aimed at finding out whether a dichotomous anti-stigma intervention can change psychology students’ attitudes towards PWP regarding perceived dangerousness, intentionality, deviance, and punitive attitudes. In a one sample pre-post design, we presented 162 students of the University of Groningen with both an educational lecture and direct contact to a PWP. Participants learned about child sex offending and pedophilia. Then, Gabriel, a PWP shared his experiences about growing up, coping, and living with pedophilia. Results of the one-sample Wilcoxon signed-rank test revealed significantly diminished negative attitudes towards PWP after the intervention. Students perceived PWP as less dangerous, having less intent, and being less psychologically deviant. Additionally, students’ punitive attitudes towards PWP diminished significantly. Also, a thematic analysis revealed that students were highly interested in the topic of pedophilia and greatly appreciative of Gabriel sharing his story. This pilot study was the first to provide evidence for the effectiveness of a combination of an educational lecture and direct contact to a PWP as an anti-stigma intervention
The Easter Tuesday Procession in Early Medieval Montecassino:The Path as Cultural Technique
No full textThis chapter explores the the origins and developments of a length-procession that constituted a highpoint of the year for the monks of Montecassino in the eighth and ninth century, and remained prominent in the community's memory for centuries later: the Easter Tuesday Procession. It asks what the procession did in and with the space in which it was performed in four steps: texts, sites, zones, and the path. A new way of a approaching the procession as a cultural technique of spatialization is proposed
The Consolations of Travel:Reading Seneca's Ad Marciam vis-à-vis Paul of Tarsus
No full textThe chapter compares the use of travel vocabulary and imagery in Seneca, with a specific focus on the Ad Marciam, and Paul. It also discusses comparative methodology. Two extended travel narratives take a surprising space in Seneca’s Ad Marciam (nearly a fifth of the text), while there is a surprising scarcity of travel vocabulary in Paul. The chapter argues that we cannot explain this difference by interpreting Paul as mostly interested in the journeys of “the inner human being” and Seneca as mostly interested in the “superficially visible.” It explains the key role of the two travel narratives in the context of Seneca’s consolatory project, aimed at the spiritual transformation of his addressee. The chapter argues for a properly contextualized, bi-directional comparative strategy, which investigates not only the underpinning worldviews that might lead to contrasting motifs and concepts, but also how different concepts and theories fulfil comparable functions in the context of different worldviews. In this vein the chapter points to fundamental differences between Seneca and Paul regarding the nature and scope of cosmic permanence and human immortality, but also to differences between Seneca’s and Paul’s axiologies, as factors determining the relative neglect of travel motifs in Paul compared to Seneca. The structure of Paul’s overall theology and mission allow us to understand why he tends to avoid travel metaphors, since they aggregate positive and negative aspects of travel. Paul “offloads” the negative aspects of travelling on to the word field of “work,” and is thus able to address his communities with a more positive, flattering message than could be achieved with the word field of “travel.
Prevalence of internalizing disorders, symptoms, and traits across age using advanced nonlinear models
No full textBACKGROUND: Most epidemiological studies show a decrease of internalizing disorders at older ages, but it is unclear how the prevalence exactly changes with age, and whether there are different patterns for internalizing symptoms and traits, and for men and women. This study investigates the impact of age and sex on the point prevalence across different mood and anxiety disorders, internalizing symptoms, and neuroticism.METHODS: We used cross-sectional data on 146 315 subjects, aged 18-80 years, from the Lifelines Cohort Study, a Dutch general population sample. Between 2012 and 2016, five current internalizing disorders - major depression, dysthymia, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, and panic disorder - were assessed according to DSM-IV criteria. Depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, neuroticism, and negative affect (NA) were also measured. Generalized additive models were used to identify nonlinear patterns across age, and to investigate sex differences.RESULTS: The point prevalence of internalizing disorders generally increased between the ages of 18 and 30 years, stabilized between 30 and 50, and decreased after age 50. The patterns of internalizing symptoms and traits were different. NA and neuroticism gradually decreased after age 18. Women reported more internalizing disorders than men, but the relative difference remained stable across age (relative risk ~1.7).CONCLUSIONS: The point prevalence of internalizing disorders was typically highest between age 30 and 50, but there were differences between the disorders, which could indicate differences in etiology. The relative gap between the sexes remained similar across age, suggesting that changes in sex hormones around the menopause do not significantly influence women's risk of internalizing disorders.</p
Heat Stroke as a Cause of Liver Failure and Evaluation of Liver Transplant
No full textHeat stroke is a multiple organ dysfunction syndrome of poorly understood pathogenesis. Exertional heat stroke with acute liver failure is a rarely reported condition. Liver transplant has been recommended as treatment in cases of severe liver dysfunction; however, there are only 5 described cases of long-term survival after this procedure in patients with heat stroke. Here, we present 2 cases of young athletes who developed heat stroke. Both patients developed acute liver failure and were listed for liver transplant. Liver function tests of one patient improved, and he was discharged on postoperative day 13. The other patient showed no signs of improvement and liver biopsy showed massive necrosis. The patient underwent combined kidney-liver transplant and was discharged on postoperative day 17. After a follow-up of longer than 6 years, both patients are doing well with normal liver function and no neurologic sequelae. We also reviewed all published cases of hepatic failure associated with heat stroke and found 9 published cases of liver transplant for heat stroke in the English literature. Conservative management appears to be justified in heat stroke-associated liver failure, even in the presence of accepted criteria for emergency liver transplant.</p
Music and Tourism
No full textPopular music scholars have long been interested in the connection between place and music. This collection brings together a number of key scholars in order to introduce readers to concepts and theories used to explore the relationships between place and music. An interdisciplinary volume, drawing from sociology, geography, ethnomusicology, media, cultural, and communication studies, this book covers a wide-range of topics germane to the production and consumption of place in popular music. Through considerations of changes in technology and the mediascape that have shaped the experience of popular music (vinyl, iPods, social media), the role of social difference and how it shapes sociomusical encounters (queer spaces, gendered and racialised spaces), as well as the construction and representations of place (musical tourism, city branding, urban mythologies), this is an up-to-the-moment overview of central discussions about place and music. The contributors explore a range of contexts, moving from the studio to the stage, the city to the suburb, the bedroom to festival, from nightclub to museum, with each entry highlighting the diverse and complex ways in which music and place are mutually constitutive
MEDIAMUSIC OF POLITICAL PROTEST
No full textThe review article attempts to reveal the evolution of protest actions of musicians in the new era, to trace the change in musical genres in which political protest has become most pronounced. If at the beginning of the twentieth century we can speak of melodically bright revolutionary songs, then in the first decades of the twenty-first century we can mainly hear recitative raps containing sharp criticism of the actions of governments' officials and civil servants. The author shows how the protest music movement is shifting to the Internet and becoming a network video creation, how repressive actions and online opposition journalism become the reasons for a retaliatory artistic and musical media protest. The main persons involved in the article are Soviet and Russian rock musicians and rappers and their protest songs. Similar examples from the other countries such as United States, Spain, Belarus and Thailand are given.http://mediamusic-journal.com/Issues/12_2.htm