The Polish-Catholic National Church: Between Messianism and Socialism

Religious reformism is sometimes linked with social radicalism. In Poland, perhaps the most striking example of this was Father Andrzej Huszno’s Polish-Catholic National Church, which was active in the 1920’s. The PKKN doctrine linked proletarian anti-capitalism and Polish national messianism of romantic provenance with an attempt to re-interpret Christianity in the theosophical spirit. This made Huszno’s movement a tactical ally of the Piłsudkiites, who initially tried to maintain their social-radical and anticlerical traditions, and also make religious structures subordinate to the state (the Orthodox Church first in line). The Piłsudkiites’ turn towards conservatism after the May Coup meant that the PKKN lost ground under its feet

Promoting Heart Healthy Behavior in Adolescents at the Boys and Girls Club

https://louis.uah.edu/rceu-hcr/1326/thumbnail.jp

Sex Trafficking of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youth in the United States

There is a growing body of research from a variety of disciplines highlighting the overrepresentation of LGBTQ identified individuals among sex trafficked and commercially sexually exploited (CSE) youth. A much smaller subset of this research specifically focuses on transgender female youth. Transgender male, GNC, and intersex youth are largely excluded from the available literature. The issues and obstacles faced by the transgender and GNC communities require specialized services that are not necessarily applicable to the LGBTQ community as a whole due to population-specific healthcare, mental health, and safety factors in addition to employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and familial rejection. By separating transgender and GNC youth from the larger LGBTQ community in studies addressing youth sex trafficking, researchers will be better prepared to identify appropriate methods for prevention, identification, and service provision. It is some of the most marginalized populations that are disproportionately represented among victims of sex trafficking. This reality reveals the systemic issues at play and consequently puts a mandatory responsibility on the public to take preventative measures. Protecting gender identity under anti-discrimination laws, providing accessible and available housing opportunities, and making gender affirming health care and service provision the norm can be considered minimum protections for U.S. transgender and GNC youth

Pseudo-Dionysius’ concept of hierarchy and the imperial cult in the early Roman Empire

This article focuses on the relationship between the imperial cult in pagan Rome and the heavenly hierarchy taught by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The latter’s thought played a significant role in the construction of the medieval image of the world. Medieval reflection on the state and law drew from it as well. Therefore, possible analogies between the imperial cult and the philosophy of Corpus Dionysiacum would indicate an indirect influence that the imperial cult of the emperor had on certain later ideas about state power, on the legitimacy of certain forms of social and constitutional organization, and on prophetic visions inspiring social and political movements. Against this background, the article compares the emperor’s genius (as well as the imperial virtues and the emperor’s numen) with the immaterial beings described by the Areopagite. It reveals clear parallels regarding the hierarchical construction of geniuses in the imperial cult of ancient Rome and Pseudo-Dionysius’ Angels, Names of God, and divine providences. The similarities in mediation between the human world and the divine reality regarding the granting of creative power and supernatural knowledge are also associated with this structure. In both cases, the divine element (genius and heavenly beings) has a historiosophical aspect, consisting of justification of belief about care that the deity exercises over the universal history of mankind. The conducted research constitutes an impulse for further research in the field of political aspects of medieval angelology

Promoting Heart Healthy Behavior in Adolescents at the Boys and Girls Club

https://louis.uah.edu/research-horizons/1014/thumbnail.jp

Variability of soil salinity and nitrate within a saline area: consequences for soil testing and fertilizer response

Non-Peer ReviewedSoil test field calibration trials are most often established within apparently uniform, usually small, areas within fields. Results from many such sites over several years are then used to develop criteria for providing fertilizer recommendations based on analysis of samples representing entire fields, typically 40 to 160 acres. Implicit in this approach is an assumption that optimum fertilization for the field (if fertilization is not to be varied within the field) will be similar to optimum fertilization for the average soil condition (as determined by the soil analysis) present in field. The validity of this assumption should always be a concern in soil test interpretation; it becomes a major concern where a field soil test shows a sufficient test level of a nutrient which is expected to be highly variable within the field In those cases potentially large fertilizer response in deficient portions of the field may justify (economically) fertilization of the entire field. Soil salinity is known to be highly variable within fields, and to influence crop growth and soil residual nitrogen (N). This study examined the variation in levels of salinity and N present as nitrate (NO3-N) within a 40-acre saline stubble area, to assess the effectiveness of routine soil testing procedures for this situation. It is recognized that truly economic optimum fertilization cannot be achieved for variable fields unless the fertilizer applications are correspondingly varied within the fields. However, the objective of this study was to evaluate conventional soil testing and fertilization practices, rather than to develop a variable rate fertilization system

The nitrogen supplying power of alfalfa in irrigated crop rotations

Non-Peer Reviewe

The effect of anhydrous ammonia on Saskatchewan soils

Non-Peer Reviewe

Safety and efficacy of glecaprevir/pibrentasvir in patients with chronic hepatitis C genotypes 1-6 receiving opioid substitution therapy

Background: International guidelines recommend treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in people who inject drugs (PWID), including those on opioid substitution therapy (OST). The pangenotypic combination of glecaprevir and pibrentasvir has shown high sustained virologic response at post-treatment Week 12 (SVR12) in clinical trials. Herein, we evaluate the safety and efficacy of glecaprevir/pibrentasvir in patients receiving OST. Methods: Pooled data from patients with HCV genotypes 1–6 who were treated with glecaprevir/pibrentasvir for 8, 12, or 16 weeks in eight Phase 2 and 3 trials were categorized by use of OST. Treatment completion, treatment adherence, SVR12, adverse events (AEs), and laboratory abnormalities were evaluated for patients receiving and not receiving OST. Results: Among 2256 patients, 157 (7%) were receiving OST. Compared with patients not receiving OST, OST patients were younger (mean age, 46.8 vs 52.8 years), male (69% vs 54%), white (93% vs 80%), HCV treatment-naïve (86% vs 72%), had HCV genotype 3 (60% vs 26%), and had a history of depression or bipolar disorder (43% vs 19%). Most patients completed (OST: 98% [n/N = 154/157]; non-OST: 99% [n/N = 2070/2099]) and were adherent (received ≥90% of study drug doses) to glecaprevir/pibrentasvir treatment (OST: 98% [n/N = 121/123]; non-OST: 99% [n/N = 1884/1905] among patients with available data). In the intention-to-treat population, SVR12 rates in OST and non-OST patients were 96.2% (n/N = 151/157; 95% CI 93.2–99.2) and 97.9% (n/N = 2055/2099; 95% CI 97.3–98.5), respectively. For OST patients, reasons for nonresponse included virologic relapse (&lt;1%; n = 1), premature study drug discontinuation (&lt;1%; n = 1), and loss to follow-up (3%; n = 4). AEs occurring in ≥10% of OST patients were headache, fatigue, and nausea. Drug-related serious AEs, AEs leading to study drug discontinuation, and Grade 3 or higher laboratory abnormalities were infrequent in both groups (&lt;1%). No HCV reinfections occurred through post-treatment Week 12. Conclusion: Glecaprevir/pibrentasvir is highly efficacious and well tolerated in HCV-infected patients receiving OST.</p