It has been proposed that idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis may be a consequence of 'healed' retroperitoneal lesions of systemic Weber-Christian disease. However ureteric obstruction which is the hallmark of idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis, has not been described in systemic Weber-Christian disease. We report a patient with systemic Weber-Christian disease who, during a relapse, developed...

The purpose of this paper is to challenge the dominant narrative of Christian service providers working for North Korean refugees’ welfare, and to articulate the perspectives of non-Christian aid recipients, especially North Korean refugees in China and South Korea. Drawing upon postcolonialism, I will unpack dysfunctions of Christian missions and ministries while relating them to anthropologic...

Weber Christian disease or idiopathic lobular panniculitis is a skin condition that features recurring inflammation in the fat layer of the skin. We report a case of a 17 year old boy with Weber Christian disease as its occurence is extremely rare with only sparse case reports available, who presented with eighteen-month history off fever with chills off and on, arthralgia predominantly of the ...

In this article, I seek to put Engelhardt’s work on Christian bioethics in the wider context. First, I discuss some fundamental issues inextricably linked to his work: the difference and relation of a “secular world” to the Christian notion of the “world,” the difference and relation between the concepts of “history” given with human “progress” appearing in the field of bioethics, in contrast t...

The purpose of this paper is to explore motivation from a Christian perspective and its implications for relationships between management and consumers, managers and employees, and stockholders and managers. The contribution of this paper is twofold: first, it provides a brief review of the literature on motivation as it appears in college business-related textbooks. Second, it introduces a phi...

BACKGROUND Weber-Christian disease is a controversial entity that histologically presents as a lobular panniculitis. A systemic variant of this disorder, in which visceral fat is affected, has been reported. OBJECTIVE A 29-year-old woman with Weber-Christian disease developed a rapidly enlarging abdominal mass during hospitalization for a flare of her skin condition. The mass resolved spontan...

Much has changed in the ten years since I argued for Levinasian alternatives to the Law and Economics movements in one of the first articles on Levinas to appear in a U.S. law review. 1 Levinas scholarship has expanded considerably, especially with respect to the practical applications of his purposefully impractical philosophy. Despite his well-known aversion to the subject, Levinas' political...

In this paper, we describe CCEL, a language that allows programmers to formally express constraints on their software systems and to automatically detect violations of these constraints. We demonstrate the power, the flexibility, and the overall utility of CCEL by showing how it can express real constraints from real software developers for real systems.