Book Review: Fr. Bouchet\u27s India: An 18th Century Jesuit\u27s Encounter with Hinduism

A review of Fr. Bouchet\u27s India: An 18th Century Jesuit\u27s Encounter with Hinduism by Francis X. Clooney

Embodying Memories: Early Bible Translations in Tranquebar and Serampore

This essay examines how Bible translations retain cultural memories

Review Article on Jehu Hancile's Migration and the Making of Global Christianity

This book evidences how Christian migrants from the origins of Christianity until 1500 helped establish Christianity as a world religion. Its socio-historical methodology identifies and celebrates the contributions of ordinary Christian migrants in cross-cultural and transnational contexts. It argues that Christian missionary engagements are often incorrectly associated with empire and institutional authorities; in reality, however, most of the cross-cultural missionary work was done by ordinary Christian women and men, who migrated for various purposes. Thus, this book embodies a new historiography based on migration and provides ample evidence to exemplify the reality, complexity and relevance of migration for World Christianity

Tamil Grammars by Germans: Grammatica Damulica (1716) and its Successors

Tamil grammar governs morphology, syntax, and semantics on the one hand and the proper use of nouns, verbs, voices, and their meanings on the other. It reflects aspects of Tamil society, culture, history and religions. Young children learn it as they grow among the Tamil people. By contrast, adults belonging to a different cultural or national background learn Tamil differently. Their nuanced understanding combines elements of their native upbringing and of their new language. Merchants engaged in trade transcending cultural boundaries, families with relatives living or working in different cultural settings, travellers, religious missionaries, and a few colonial administrators have been in the forefront of learning and propagating the languages and customs of other people. This article demonstrates how Germans, mostly Christian missionaries, learnt, perceived and presented Tamil grammar to their contemporaries from the sixteenth century onward

A Clinico Pathological Study of 300 cases of warts in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients.

Among all the common cutaneous viral infections, warts are the commonest. Warts form an interesting study because of their frequent occurrence, varied morphological appearance, relatively asymptomatic behavior and their unpredictable course. Warts are mostly self-limiting and benign conditions. But the possibility of malignant in some types like genital warts, epidermodysplasia verruciformis and the heterogeneity in serotypes have additional importance in their study. The possibility of increase in both oral and anogenital pathologic conditions due to HPV in patients infected with HIV is of concern and is the focus of numerous current research studies. HIV-infected women are at a higher risk for cervical HPV infection with high oncogenic types of HPV leading to cervical intraepithelial neoplasms. HIV-infected men are at increased risk for anal HPV infection with high oncogenic types of HPV with persisting type of infection. Recent studies have shown an increased risk of oral warts in HIV-infected individuals despite treatment with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). It appears that transplant recipients are susceptible to infections with diverse HPV types including rare types, that multiple infections are possible and that the site specificity of certain HPV types differs from normal population and is often recalcitrant, painful and deeply affects the patient’s quality of life. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY : 1. To study the prevalence of various types of warts among the patients attending the Dermatology department. 2. To study the age and sex distribution of various types of warts 3. To find out the clinical presentations of different morphological types and blood group distribution in the study group 4. To find the clinical presentation and distribution of different morphological types in Human Immunodeficiency virus infected, Renal transplant recipients. 5. The histopathological aspects of various types of warts encountered. CONCLUSION : 1. The commonest age group affected by warts was the 16 – 25 year age group; males were commonly affected than females. 2. Verruca vulgaris was the most common type of wart found in this study, followed by plantar warts, anogenital warts and plane warts. 3. The most common sites affected by verruca vulgaris were fingers, hands, forearms, dorsum of feet, indicating trauma as the most common mode of spread. 4. Immunocompromised patients, whether due to disease or drugs showed a profusion. 5. Histopathological features of various clinical types of warts were characteristic and classical as described. 6. A predominance of blood group B was observed in the present study, which needs further evaluation in a larger group. 7. In HIV positive patients increase in anogenital warts with florid manifestations was seen especially in homosexual men. 8. In Renal Transplant recipients the decreased incidence of warts in this study may be due to the difference in skin type, immunosuppressant used, ethnic group and geographical location which needs further evaluation in a larger population

Should An Organization’s Strategic and Social Media Orientations Align? A Text Mining Approach

This paper intends to show that social media, as a big data resource for organizations, can augment organizational competitiveness if it is strategically aligned with their goals, objectives and vision

Impact of COVID-19 on liver transplantation in Hong Kong and Singapore: A modelling study

Liver transplantation (LT) activities during the COVID-19 pandemic have been curtailed in many countries. The impact of various policies restricting LT on outcomes of potential LT candidates is unclear. We studied all patients on the nationwide LT waitlists in Hong Kong and Singapore between January 2016 and May 2020. We used continuous time Markov chains to model the effects of different scenarios and varying durations of disruption on LT candidates

Effects of antiplatelet therapy on stroke risk by brain imaging features of intracerebral haemorrhage and cerebral small vessel diseases: subgroup analyses of the RESTART randomised, open-label trial

Background Findings from the RESTART trial suggest that starting antiplatelet therapy might reduce the risk of recurrent symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage compared with avoiding antiplatelet therapy. Brain imaging features of intracerebral haemorrhage and cerebral small vessel diseases (such as cerebral microbleeds) are associated with greater risks of recurrent intracerebral haemorrhage. We did subgroup analyses of the RESTART trial to explore whether these brain imaging features modify the effects of antiplatelet therapy