Melaena with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome: a case report

Introduction: Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) is a rare familial disorder characterised by mucocutaneous pigmentation, gastrointestinal and extragastrointestinal hamartomatous polyps and an increased risk of malignancy. Peutz-Jeghers polyps in the bowel may result in intussusception. This complication usually manifests with abdominal pain and signs of intestinal obstruction. Case Presentation: We report the case of a 24-year-old Caucasian male who presented with melaena. Pigmentation of the buccal mucosa was noted but he was pain-free and examination of the abdomen was unremarkable. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed multiple polyps. An urgent abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan revealed multiple small bowel intussusceptions. Laparotomy was undertaken on our patient, reducing the intussusceptions and removing the polyps by enterotomies. Bowel resection was not needed. Conclusion: Melaena in PJS needs to be urgently investigated through a CT scan even in the absence of abdominal pain and when clinical examination of the abdomen shows normal findings. Although rare, the underlying cause could be intussusception, which if missed could result in grave consequences

European Survey on Scholarly Practices and Digital Needs in the Arts and Humanities

This report summarizes the statistical analysis of the findings of a web-based survey conducted by the Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO), a working group under VCC2 of the DARIAH research infrastructure (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities). In order to provide an evidence-based, up-to-date, and meaningful account of the emerging information practices, needs and attitudes of arts and humanities researchers in the evolving European digital scholarly environment, the web survey involved a transnational team of researchers from more than a dozen countries, and addressed digitally-enabled research practices, attitudes and needs in all areas of Europe and across different arts and humanities disciplines and contexts

Digital humanities: centres and peripheries

"This paper explores a history of humanities computing over the past decade as embodied in or represented by 'A Companion to Digital Humanities' (first published in 2004), methodologically, theoretically, and in terms of community practice. It explores digital humanities as an emerging discipline through changes in technology, as well as through evolving conceptions of the field, particularly through the lens of literary studies and new media. The article also explores how the field' s major conference Digital Humanities, but previously titled the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ACH/ ALLC), reflects these changes, through not only the themes presented in conference papers, but in the change of the title of the conference itself." (author's abstract

Quantifying the Grimm Corpus: Transgressive and Transformative Bodies in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales

What do bodies mean in fairy tales? Donald Haase’s engagement with the Grimms’ fairy tales has offered some hints, ranging from his attention to feminist scholarship on the Grimms to his multifaceted review of recent Grimm scholarship that addresses various meanings of bodies in the language and translation of their tales. Inspired by Haase’s work and encouragement, I created a database that lists every mention or description of a body in the Grimms’ tales and in five other European tale collections. I detailed the results of this quantitative investigation in my dissertation, generally treating all the tale collections as part of one large corpus. In this essay, however, to add to the conversation that Haase has generated and curated, I refilter the data to solely examine which body parts (nouns, adjectives, and actions) appear in the Grimm tales. A major thematic focus is transgression and transformation, especially their gendered dimensions

Beyond Infrastructure -- Modelling Scholarly Research and Collaboration

International audienceThis paper explores what is needed to foster an acceptance of digital practices in the humanities beyond the creation of pure infrastructure, specifically in terms of understanding and technically modelling traditional scholarly research within a digital medium while enabling new modes of scholarly work that could only be carried out within a digitally-mediated environment

Feminist DH:A Historial Perspective Excavating the Lives of Women of the Past

This chapter explores how the Irish history project Letters 1916–1923adopted a feminist approach to surface marginalized women’s voices ina heterogeneous historical collection of letters dominated by male voices.Begun in 2013, Letters 1916–1923 sought to revise the narrative of the revo-lutionary period in Irish history through a project of social relevance thatbreaks down barriers between the public and traditional academic research

3D Digital Scholarly Editions:The Text as Object

Digital scholarly editions have a long history in the area of digital scholarship. While the idea of treating a 3D model as the “text” of a digital scholarly edition is novel, it has the potential to re-imagine the role of these models within the scholarly ecosystem. Publishing 3D models as the central node within a scholarly knowledge site that includes apparatus, annotation, and paradata within an unbounded digital space, provides a new environment for 3D models to be studied within

3D Digital Scholarly Editions:The Text as Object

Digital scholarly editions have a long history in the area of digital scholarship. While the idea of treating a 3D model as the “text” of a digital scholarly edition is novel, it has the potential to re-imagine the role of these models within the scholarly ecosystem. Publishing 3D models as the central node within a scholarly knowledge site that includes apparatus, annotation, and paradata within an unbounded digital space, provides a new environment for 3D models to be studied within