Breaking the Mold: Four Asian American women define beauty, detail identity, and deconstruct stereotypes

The experiences of four women reveal how notions of outer beauty touch ideas of personal ethnic identity, racism, media-imposed pressure, and social stereotypes; shaping the lives of Chinese, Chinese American, and Asian American women

To Describe Clinical Profile and Meticulous Documentation in Ocular Medico-Legal Cases at Tertiary Hospital in Ahmedabad

Background: Ophthalmologists play an important role in the management and fixing of legal responsibility in ocular medico legal cases (MLCs). All penetrating or non-penetrating intentional ocular trauma causing loss of an organ or part of organ and which have as consequence the facial disfigurement or post trauma complication have forensic implications. Objective: To describe the clinical profile and meticulous documentation in ocular medico-legal cases attending the ophthalmic unit at a tertiary care hospital in Ahmedabad. Methods: Medical records of ocular MLC from May 2018 to November 2020 were considered. A total of 112 cases of ocular injury constituted the sample size. The injuries were categorized as adnexal and globe injuries. The clinical profile was recorded in the clinical record forms and analyzed accordingly. Results: A total of 112 patients with ocular trauma were recruited with follow up to 6 months following recruitment. The most affected age group was 26-40 years (25.89%). The most common mode of injury was assault with fist in 22 (18.74) of cases. Most patients had open globe injury (28, 25%), while 20 (16.5%) had closed globe injury, 38 (33.93%) had the adnexal injury, 7 (6.25%) had open plus adnexal, 7 (6.25%) had closed plus adnexal and 12 (10.71%) had chemical injury. Adnexal injuries were the most common (38,33.93%). Lid / periorbital contusion and sub-conjunctival hemorrhage were the most common presentations among adnexal and globe injuries respectively. Malingering was present in 3(3 %) cases. Furthermore, among the adult population, majority 28 (25%) had ocular injury at workplace, while most pediatrics injuries 23(20.54%) occurred at home during play. Incidence of monocular blindness was 2(9%) at 6 months follow up. Factor that was associated with monocular blindness was open globe injuries. Conclusion: Fist injury was the most common cause of trauma to the eye. A substantial number of patients who had adnexal injuries or sub-conjunctival hemorrhage had good vision, contrary to open globe injuries which resulted in very poor vision

A Hitchhiker's guide to humanized mice: new pathways to studying viral infections

Humanized mice are increasingly appreciated as an incredibly powerful platform for infectious disease research. The often very narrow species tropism of many viral infections, coupled with the sometimes misleading results from preclinical studies in animal models further emphasize the need for more predictive model systems based on human cells rather than surrogates. Humanized mice represent such a model and have been greatly enhanced with regards to their immune system reconstitution as well as immune functionality in the past years, resulting in their recommendation as a preclinical model by the US Food and Drug Administration. This review aims to give a detailed summary of the generation of human peripheral blood lymphocyte‐, CD34+ haematopoietic stem cell‐ and bone marrow/liver/thymus‐reconstituted mice and available improved models (e.g. myeloid‐ or T‐cell‐only mice, MISTRG, NSG‐SGM3). Additionally, we summarize human‐tropic viral infections, for which humanized mice offer a novel approach for the study of disease pathogenesis as well as future perspectives for their use in biomedical, drug and vaccine research

The Citizen of the World

1 hAn illustrated talk that surveys the entanglements of scientific and aesthetic operations within processes of imperial expansion, knowledge-formation and the pursuit of collecting “the World as Image” in the nineteenth century. The research project «Double Lives» charts unorthodox figures whose practices straddled the line between art and science, unleashing a certain ambivalence between the observer and the world as material under observation. This project was presented as a part of the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Natasha Ginwala is an independent curator, researcher and writer. She was a member of the artistic team at the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014). Her recent work includes the multi-part curatorial project «Landings» (with Vivian Ziherl) presented at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, David Roberts Art Foundation, NGBK (as part of the Tagore, Pedagogy and Contemporary Visual Cultures Network), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and other partner organizations, 2013-ongoing, as well as «The Museum of Rhythm» at Taipei Biennial 2012 (with Anselm Franke). Ginwala has contributed to several publications including Afterall Online, Art Agenda, C Magazine, e-flux Journal, Pages Magazine and Scapegoat Journal. She is currently curator-in-residence at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen