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sj-pdf-1-sel-10.1177_17585732211007443 - Supplemental material for A systematic review of clinical outcomes for outpatient vs. inpatient shoulder arthroplasty
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-sel-10.1177_17585732211007443 for A systematic review of clinical outcomes for outpatient vs. inpatient shoulder arthroplasty by Edward Perera, Breanne Flood, Kim Madden, Danny P Goel, Timothy Leroux and Moin Khan in Shoulder & Elbow</p
The Victor Perera Papers: The Archive of a Twentieth Century Sephardic-American Writer
No full textThe author shares the circumstances that led to his encounter with the personal archives of Victor Haim Perera (1934–2003), an award-winning Sephardic-American writer, journalist, environmental and political activist, and academic born in Guatemala City. Perera published six books on topics as varied as Sephardic history, the Maya Indians, and the Loch Ness monster, and contributed dozens of articles, short stories, and essays to newspapers, trade journals, magazines, and literary anthologies. This paper also provides an overview of Perera’s life and work and shares information about the Victor Perera Papers collection at the University of Michigan Library. It presents a case study illustrating that library catalogers can improve discoverability of and access to library special collections by expanding beyond their core duties and investigating the contexts behind the materials that cross their desks. The article ends with a preliminary bibliography of Perera’s works
Originalism: Reclaiming the American Promise
No full textOriginalism best reflects the Founding Fathers’ faith in self-government and also best preserves the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Author information: Ayesh Perera arrived in the United States from Sri Lanka in 2014. He graduated (2018) from Miami University with majors in Economics and Political Science, and is pursuing his Master’s Degree at Harvard University
Book Review: Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle, Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change
No full text Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle, Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. xvi + 247, 39 (PB). ISBN 978-0-230-24961-5 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-230-24962-2 (paperback). </jats:p
Colección Mi gran libro
No full textThis is a heavy book with thick covers and 192 pages filled with colorful illustrations, most frequently one fable to a page. The illustration style is that popular in published books these days: colorful and sometimes sentimental sketches including the main characters of the story. The style tends to be adequate to the fables but also to produce, I believe, few memorable images. Still, my favorites here include La zorra y el perro (31), Laz zorras y el río Meandro (135), MM (146), FG (165), and TMCM (192). This edition identifies the author with each fable and gives an explicit moral after each. The book's first page declares Fábulas de Animales. Other sections include Fábulas Fantásticas, Fábulas de Naturaleza, and Fábulas Escogidas. The selection represents a wonderfully wide spectrum of authors, including a number from Eastern cultures. Lessing is sometimes listed with one name and sometimes with three. I am surprised at the Aesopic fable about a dragon on 52. On 64, we find the fable usually presenting a woman who is transformed into a cat, but here it is a man who is transformed. The illustration shows him reaching for a mouse at the wedding! On 81, we find a good representation of Four Friends from Kalila and Dimna, here presented as Popular India. The AI at the end is curious because it works off of Il and La. Almost all of the titles are grouped together under those two initial words.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: Spanishavec des notes par Mme Amable Tast
Matemáticas, física y metafísica en el pensamiento de Benet Perera (1535-1610)
No full textPrograma de Doctorat en Filosofia Contemporània i Estudis ClàssicsEl objetivo de este trabajo es examinar el pensamiento filosófico del jesuita valenciano Benet Perera (1535-1610), dividiendo dicho examen en tres secciones temáticas, dedicadas a la reflexión de este autor sobre las matemáticas, la filosofía natural y la metafísica. Célebre entre sus contemporáneos por sus monumentales obras de exégesis bíblica, en el latín humanista de Perera se unen una inagotable erudición con la agudeza necesaria para dar cuenta de los grandes problemas filosóficos de su época en consonancia con el espíritu reformista y militante que emana del Concilio de Trento. Su De communibus omnium rerum naturalium, tratado de filosofía natural publicado en 1576, ha despertado últimamente un creciente interés entre los historiadores de la filosofía del renacimiento, no solamente por representar un exhaustivo compendio de las cuestiones filosóficas que constituyen el fermento en el que se fraguó la naciente filosofía moderna, sino también por constituir un texto de referencia para figuras como Giordano Bruno, Galileo o Leibniz. Compartiendo las coordenadas metodológicas y las claves hermenéuticas de las más recientes investigaciones sobre la obra de Perera, en nuestro trabajo hemos tratado de ofrecer una visión integral del pensamiento del valenciano, entendiéndolo como el intento de construir una cosmovisión adecuada a las exigencias religiosas de la Compañía de Jesús. De esta manera, mostraremos cómo la intervención de Perera en la renacentista quaestio de certitudine mathematicarum no sólo responde a un intento de conservar el paradigma aristotélico tradicional, sino que también se debe vincular con las tendencias anti-astrológicas presentes en el proyecto reformista católico. Examinaremos, asimismo, cómo la filosofía natural desplegada en la obra de nuestro autor se construye en franca oposición a lo que podríamos considerar una «física protestante», desarrollada en torno al círculo de Melanchthon. En nuestra tercera sección, en fin, analizaremos de qué modo la disolución de la estructura onto-teológica de la metafísica, que Perera opera al distinguir entre una filosofía primera dedicada al ens y una metafísica consagrada al estudio de la realidad suprasensible, constituye también el reflejo de la estructura jerárquica que la joven Compañía de Jesús trató de imprimir a su visión del mundo. En todo este recorrido, trataremos de rastrear la influencia que las tesis filosóficas de Perera ejercieron en autores contemporáneos y posteriores, con el fin de probar que el peso de nuestro autor en el devenir de la historia de la filosofía justifica con creces la necesidad de estudiar a fondo sus textos publicados e inéditos.The aim of this work is to examine the philosophical works of the Valencian Jesuit Benet Perera (1535-1610) on philosophy of mathematics, natural philosophy and metaphysics. Celebrated among his contemporaries for his monumental works of biblical exegesis, in the humanist latin of Perera an inexhaustible erudition is joined with the acuity necessary to account for the great philosophical problems of his time in line with the reformist and militant spirit emanating from the Council of Trent. His De communibus omnium rerum naturalium (1576) represents an exhaustive compendium of the early modern philosophical issues later used by Giordano Bruno, Galileo or Leibniz. Sharing the methodological coordinates and hermeneutic keys of the most recent research on Perera's work, we offer here a comprehensive vision of his thought as an effort to build an appropriate weltanschauung to the religious demands of the Society of Jesus. We will show how Perera's intervention in the Renaissance Quaestio de certitudine mathematicarum not only aims to preserve the traditional Aristotelian paradigm but must also be linked to the anti-astrological tendencies of the Catholic reformist project. We will also examine how Perera’s natural philosophy is deployed in opposition to what we might consider a "Protestant physics", developed around Melanchthon's circle. Finally, we study how the dissolution of the onto-theological structure of metaphysics, which Perera operates by distinguishing between a first philosophy dedicated to ens and a metaphysics of suprasensitive reality, is also a reflection of the hierarchical structure that the young Society of Jesus sought to print into her world-view. Throughout our work, we will trace the influence that Perera exerted on contemporary and later authors, in order to prove that the weight of our author in the history of modern philosophy more than justifies a careful read of his published and unpublished texts
The diagnostic accuracy of a single CEA blood test in detecting colorectal cancer recurrence: Results from the FACS trial
No full textObjective: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a single CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen) blood test in detecting colorectal cancer recurrence. Background: Patients who have undergone curative resection for primary colorectal cancer are typically followed up with scheduled CEA testing for 5 years. Decisions to investigate further (usually by CT imaging) are based on single test results, reflecting international guidelines. Methods: A secondary analysis was undertaken of data from the FACS trial (two arms included CEA testing). The composite reference standard applied included CT-CAP imaging, clinical assessment and colonoscopy. Accuracy in detecting recurrence was evaluated in terms of sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios, predictive values, time-dependent area under the ROC curves, and operational performance when used prospectively in clinical practice are reported. Results: Of 582 patients, 104 (17.9%) developed recurrence during the 5 year follow-up period. Applying the recommended threshold of 5µg/L achieves at best 50.0% sensitivity (95% CI: 40.1-59.9%); in prospective use in clinical practice it would lead to 56 missed recurrences (53.8%; 95% CI: 44.2-64.4%) and 89 false alarms (56.7% of 157 patients referred for investigation). Applying a lower threshold of 2.5µg/L would reduce the number of missed recurrences to 36.5% (95% CI: 26.5-46.5%) but would increase the false alarms to 84.2% (924/1097 referred). Some patients are more prone to false alarms than others – at the 5µg/L threshold, the 89 episodes of unnecessary investigation were clustered in 29 individuals. Conclusion: Our results demonstrated very low sensitivity for CEA, bringing to question whether it could ever be used as an independent triage test. It is not feasible to improve the diagnostic performance of a single test result by reducing the recommended action threshold because of the workload and false alarms generated. Current national and international guidelines merit re-evaluation and options to improve performance, such as making clinical decisions on the basis of CEA trend, should be further assessed
El manuscrito latino de Harry Luke, cuaderno de viaje de Juan Perera en su peregrinación de Roma a Jerusalén
No full textThe little-known Latin manuscript owned by Harry Ch. Luke, which was translated into English and published in London in 1927 under the title A Spanish Franciscan’s Narrative of a Journey to the Holy Land contains an account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land that can be dated the mid-16th century and that is very little known. Harry Luke thought that the author could have been a Spanish Franciscan, but its abundant textual coincidences with the «Camino y peregrinación que hizo Juan Perera», published by his nephew Josepe de Sessé in his Cosmographía Universal (Zaragoza, 1619), assures us that the aforesaid Latin manuscript was the travel notebook used by Canon Juan Perera on his pilgrimage through Syria and the Holy Land in 1553. Although the manuscript is unaccounted for today and we know of it only due to the English translation by Harry Luke, it deserves to be studied in relation to the 1619 edition of Juan Perera’s voyage.El manuscrito latino que Harry Ch. Luke poseyó, tradujo al inglés y publicó en Londres en 1927 con el título A Spanish Franciscan´s Narrative of a Journey to the Holy Land contiene un relato de peregrinación a Tierra Santa de los años centrales del siglo XVI y que es muy poco conocido. Harry Luke pensó que su autor pudo ser un franciscano español, pero sus abundantes coincidencias textuales con el «Camino y peregrinación que hizo Juan Perera», publicado por su sobrino Iosepe de Sessé en su Cosmographía Universal (Zaragoza, 1619), nos permiten asegurar que dicho manuscrito latino fue el cuaderno de viaje que utilizó el canónigo Juan Perera en su peregrinación por Siria y Tierra Santa en 1553. Aunque dicho manuscrito se encuentra hoy en paradero desconocido y lo conocemos solo por la traducción inglesa de Harry Luke, merece ser estudiado en relación con la edición de 1619 del viaje de Juan Perera.El manuscrito latino que Harry Ch. Luke poseyó, tradujo al inglés y publicó en Londres en 1927 con el título A Spanish Franciscan´s Narrative of a Journey to the Holy Land contiene un relato de peregrinación a Tierra Santa de los años centrales del siglo XVI y que es muy poco conocido. Harry Luke pensó que su autor pudo ser un franciscano español, pero sus abundantes coincidencias textuales con el «Camino y peregrinación que hizo Juan Perera», publicado por su sobrino Iosepe de Sessé en su Cosmographía Universal (Zaragoza, 1619), nos permiten asegurar que dicho manuscrito latino fue el cuaderno de viaje que utilizó el canónigo Juan Perera en su peregrinación por Siria y Tierra Santa en 1553. Aunque dicho manuscrito se encuentra hoy en paradero desconocido y lo conocemos solo por la traducción inglesa de Harry Luke, merece ser estudiado en relación con la edición de 1619 del viaje de Juan Perera
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