618 JEFFERY P. DENNIS received a master’s degree from Indiana University and taught English and comparative literature in California and Tennessee prior to returning to graduate school. He is currently completing a doctorate in sociology at the State University of New York–Stony Brook, writing his dissertation on communities of desire in the postmodern city. “What is required is a new framework...

Methods Based on a literature review, we identified RCTs of abatacept, adalimumab (ADA), etanercept, infliximab and tocilizumab (TCZ) in pcJIA. Comparative effectiveness was estimated on the reported American College of Rheumatology response rates (JIA ACR30/50/70/90) measured at the end of the randomised, double-blind phase by means of a Bayesian indirect comparison using a fixed-effects order...

On the walls of the Museum there hangs a picture symbolic of one of the strangest phenomena in the history of modern art. It shows five painters gathered in a studio. One is commenting on a drawing by a second, while the other three look up from their work to listen. Painted in London during 1765 by the Pennsylvaniaborn portraitist Matthew Pratt, the canvas was exhibited a year later at the Soc...

In his paper, "Asian-American Literature and a Lacanian Reading of Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey," Fu-jen Chen explores the protagonist's subjective progression into the post-Symbolic Real in Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey -from subject as Demand, through subject as Desire, to subject as jouissance. Tripmaster Monkey records Ah Sing's transformation from a racial paranoiac at the begin...

Public librarians do not publish as regularly in LIS literature as do library school faculty and academic librarians, whose positions often require them to contribute and who consequently dominate the literature. Using content analysis, this study identifies North American public librarians who have contributed to LIS literature within a five-year period, from 1999 to 2003, and explores where t...

Background: Online learning is a growing delivery model for education; however, there exists a void in the literature regarding the adoption of online learning models in rural K-12 school systems. Purpose: To provide pertinent data to the rural school administrator so that they may make an informed decision in regards to the potential implementation of asynchronous online learning within their ...

Typologies are an important way of organizing the complex cause-effect relationships that are key building blocks of the strategy and organization literatures. Here, I develop a novel theoretical perspective on causal core and periphery, which is based on how elements of a configuration are connected to outcomes. Using data on hightechnology firms, I empirically investigate configurations based...

comparative literature is defined as an empiric disciplinewithin literary studies that focuses on the comparison between a literature andother literature(s) or other forms of human expression. nowadays, due to theclash between the two trends existing in the discipline -the historical and thetheoretical, comparative literature is immersed in a process of theoretical andpractical renewal that foc...

Original scientific paper Amongst the modern engineering technologies which have found broad application in the field of dentistry, one of the most widely used is the 3D digitization. This paper deals with the application of 3D digitization systems in the field of dental prosthetics, and attempt to contribute in this field through comparative analysis of this kind of systems. Special attention ...