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High-Grade T1 on Re-Transurethral Resection after Initial High-Grade T1 Confers Worse Oncological Outcomes: Results of a Multi-Institutional Study
2018
The aim of this multicenter study was to investigate the prognostic impact of residual T1 high-grade (HG)/G3 tumors at re-transurethral resection (TUR of bladder tumor) in a large multi-institutional cohort of patients with primary T1 HG/G3 bladder cancer (BC).
A `little world of your own': stigma, gender and narratives of venereal disease contact tracing
2008
As in other countries, in order to protect the public from venereal disease (syphilis and gonorrhoea), contact tracing in New Zealand has been a public health strategy since the mid-20th century. So far, scholars have predominantly focused on the aspect of control of the cases traced. Based on a rare interview with a female contact tracer, together with a range of archival material, this article aims to expand the scholarship by focusing on the tracer instead of the patient. Using Erving Goffman's original concept of `courtesy stigma', the article will show that his idea can be nuanced to take into account contact tracers and the ways in which this stigma can be refracted through gender. Wo…
Intellectual engagements of accounting academics: The ‘forecasted losses' intervention
2022
This paper explores the social and political potential of accounting scholarship, presenting and discussing an intellectual intervention challenging a legislative reform that significantly affected Spanish industrial relations. In this reform, an accounting artifact (forecasted losses) played an unexpected role and was misrepresented, prompting a sizeable number of scholars to sign two manifestos in 2010 and 2012 against the use of forecasted losses made by the new legislation. As promoters of this manifesto, we perform in this paper a collaborative autoethnography to reflect on the context, events, reactions, and significance of this intervention for both the academic and the industrial re…
“How innovation in knowledge reduces food destruction and hunger in the world”. Presentation of the volume
2017
Transition towards a tourist innovation model: The smart tourism destination
2020
Implantation of the smart city model in intermediate tourist towns on their transition to becoming smart destinations involves an inescapable commitment to their habitat and improving the quality of civic life and the economy of cities through more sustainable and technologically advanced elements. Based on this work, the aim is to achieve an overview of the current smart cities paradigm from the standpoint of territorial interest groups, by analysing a tourist town on the Mediterranean coast (Gandia, Valencia) to diagnose its current status. The ultimate aim is to answer the question of whether these intermediate tourist cities are in a position to align themselves with the necessary requi…
VIAGENS E LEITURAS JAPONESAS EM RAKUSHISHA, DE ADRIANA LISBOA
2014
Resumo: No romance Rakushisha (2007), Adriana Lisboa representa varias dimensoes da experiencia da alteridade. Os dois protagonistas brasileiros que viajam ao Japao – Haruki em busca de suas raizes culturais, Celina em busca dela mesma – refletem a estadia da propria autora em Quioto, experiencia necessaria para poder escrever o livro, como afirma ela. A viagem do protagonsitas ao Japao tambem funciona como guia para os leitores na descoberta e no dialogo com as obras dos poetas japoneses Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694) e Sei Shōnagon (966-1025) – particularmente o Saga Nikki e o Livro de cabeceira – assim como a experiencia do Japao relatada por Roland Barthes em L’Empire des signes . Abstract: I…
El caballero en el mar: don Pero Niño, conde de Buelna, entre el Mediterráneo y el Atlántico
2013
El artículo se propone repasar y actualizar datos en torno a la vida de uno de los más significados caballeros del otoño de la Edad Media castellana, cotejando estos datos con el avance en los estudios sobre su principal testimonio biográfico, que es a su vez uno de los textos literarios medievales clásicos. Nacido hacia 1378, Pero Niño, futuro conde de Buelna, se educó en el ambiente de la corte real, donde su madre sirvió como ama de cría del futuro rey Enrique III. Hacia 1430, Gutierre Díaz de Games empezaría a escribir sus hechos en forma de extensa biografía. El Victorial es un documento crucial para la historia de España y Francia, especialmente significativo para la historia militar …
Musical inter-language in film: Trans-culturality and communicative integration
2012
En el cine, la música basa frecuentemente su efectividad significativa en cierta codificación empírica compartida con la audiencia. Esta participación no impone un significado único y necesario, sino que sólo media entre la construcción aparentemente objetiva del film y la subjetividad del espectador. Al actuar de manera simbólica, introduce un elemento metatextual que sólo adquiere sentido en el imaginario del receptor, quien adapta el mensaje a su propio paradigma y permite así su interpretación desde una amplia variedad de contextos socioculturales. Esta circunstancia justifica que el lenguaje musical cinematográfico sea aceptado, comprendido y utilizado en numerosos centros de producció…
Economicism and Nihilism in the Eclipse of Humanism
2014
This article is based on the conviction that the major problems nowadays are not technical, but ethical, and are incumbent on homo qua homo. The origin of these problems is the advancement of economicism as a supreme interpretation of human and social reality, which means the primacy of the “market” and considering human beings in terms of what they have rather than what they are. Economicism emerges in “modernity” and assumes that everything that does not have market value is either devaluated or rejected. In consequence, the human being has been devaluated and has turned into a simple object of the market. “Postmodernity” mixes economicism and techno-scientificism (chrematistics and instr…
Submitting “Alternative Facts” to Debate: A Weberian Perspective on Post-truth Politics
2018
'Oxford Dictionaries' chose “post-truth” as the “Word of the Year 2016”, while the association of German linguists (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache) did the same for '“postfaktische Politik'”. “Alternative facts”, launched by Kellyanne Conway concerning the attendance at Donald Trump’s inaugural, was a third variant in this cluster. In this article, I shall discuss Max Weber’s parliamentary perspective on the critique of given facts and of the powers of science in relation to the debates around post-truth politics. A critical assessment of Leo Strauss’s critique of Weber as a nihilist and relativist introduces the problematic. One aim of the article is to illustrate how even trivial sloga…