HEADS AND TAILS REVISITED

This research report revisits Keith Hart’s work on the mutual implication of token and commodity theories of money, focusing on his classic Malinowski lecture on the coin’s two sides. Hart associates ‘heads’ with political authority and token theories and ‘tails’ with quantitative value, market exchange and commodity theories. Yet, even as he argues for the necessity of a rapprochement between the intellectual approaches delimited by the coin’s two sides, the coin conceit as he elaborates it is unprepared to deal with the quotidian intermixing of ‘heads’ and ‘tails’ one encounters in actual rather than theoretical coinage. Starting from the problems posed by actual coins to the apparent clarities of Hart’s coin, this essay argues that on a material, micro-level the relationships between state power and market exchange on the one hand and ‘heads’ and ‘tails’ on the other are rather more contingent in practice than in theory. On this level, actually-existing forms of Western money are only poorly parsed by the ‘sidedness’ of the coin conceit. The a priori divisions between power and quantification, symbols and amounts, as well as their topological mapping onto discretely divided material surfaces freighted in the virtualism of ‘heads’ and ‘tails’ are a poor fit with complex amalgams of numbers, power, states, symbols and exchange we may read off the surfaces of particular coins

A comparative study of the marketing of cotton in India and America.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University Includes bibliographical references (leaves p. 121)

ANGIOTENSIN CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITION ACTIVITY OF DAIDZEIN

Daidzein produces antihypertensive and beneficial cardiovascular effects, although the mechanisms for these effects are not known. We examined whether genistein inhibits the in vivo responses to angiotensin I or enhances the responses to bradykinin in anaesthetized rats as a result of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition. We have also studied the in vitro effects produced by genistein on the angiotensin-converting enzyme activity. We measured the changes in systemic arterial pressure induced by angiotensin I in doses of 0.05 to 10 µg/kg, by angiotensin II in doses of 0.025 to 5 µg/kg, and to bradykinin in doses of 0.03 to 10 µg/kg in anaesthetized rats pretreated with vehicle (controls), or a single i.v. dose of daidzein 25 mg/kg, or a single i.v. dose of enalapril 2 mg/kg. Plasma angiotensin-converting enzyme activity was determined in controls and daidzein-treated rats using a fluorometric method. The effects of genistein (3–300 µmol/l) on in vitro angiotensin-converting enzyme activity were assessed by adding daidzein to plasma samples and measuring angiotensin-converting enzyme activity. We found significant lower angiotensin-converting enzyme activity in plasma samples from rats pretreated with daidzein compared with those found in the control group (84.23±7.4 his-leu nmol/min/ml and 100.45±9.2 his-leu nmol/min/ml, respectively; P = 0.01). The incubation of daidzein with plasma samples showed that daidzein decreased the angiotensin-converting enzyme activity in plasma in a concentration-dependent manner (P=0.01). These findings indicate that daidzein inhibits the angiotensin-converting enzyme in vivo and in vitro and may explain, at least in part, the antihypertensive and beneficial vascular effects produced by daidzein.Keyword: Angiotensin, Daidzein, Bradykinin, Arterial pressure.Â

Gorlin Goltz syndrome: a rare case report

Gorlin-Goltz syndrome is uncommon multisystemic disease with an autosomal dominant trait, with complete penetrance and variable expressivity, though sporadic cases have been described. We report a case of 18 years old male patient having features of Gorlin Goltz syndrome. Gorlin-Goltz syndrome is characterized by multiple basal cell nevi or carcinomas, odontogenic keratocysts, palmar and/or plantar pits, calcification of the falx cerebri, and is associated with internal malignancies. It is important to know the major and minor criteria for the diagnosis and early preventive treatment of this syndrome

Comparative Study of Caudal Ropivacaine Combined with Ketamine and with Midazolam for Analgesic Efficiency in Pediatric Infraumbilical Procedures

Background: Postoperative pain management in pediatric patients undergoing infraumbilical surgeries can be challenging. Caudal epidural analgesia with local anesthetics like ropivacaine is commonly used, but adjunct medications like ketamine and midazolam are often added to enhance analgesic efficacy. Aim: To compare the analgesic efficacy of caudal ropivacaine combined with ketamine versus ropivacaine combined with midazolam in pediatric patients undergoing infraumbilical surgeries. Material and Methods: A prospective, randomized study was conducted with pediatric patients aged 2-12 years undergoing elective infraumbilical surgeries. Group A received caudal ropivacaine + ketamine, and Group B received ropivacaine + midazolam. Postoperative pain scores, opioid consumption, and adverse effects were assessed at various time points. Results: Group A demonstrated significantly lower pain scores at 1, 4, and 8 hours postoperatively and required less opioid consumption compared to Group B. No significant differences were observed at 24 hours. Both combinations had similar safety profiles, with mild sedation and nausea observed in both groups. Conclusion: Caudal ropivacaine combined with ketamine provides superior early postoperative pain relief and reduces opioid consumption compared to ropivacaine with midazolam in pediatric infraumbilical surgeries

‘Edgy’ politics and European anthropology in 2016

Focusing on anthropological publications in Europe-based journals in 2016, this review reflects on the politicisation of anthropology in recent years, tracing the contours of this scholarship through the trope of ‘edges’. From debates about the marginalisation of Euro-anthropology and analyses of lives ‘on edge’ within Europe, to efforts to push political thinking to its conceptual edges as a form of ‘alter-politics’, this review explores the ‘edgy’ politics of Euro-anthropology in 2016. The paper examines how the edges of state and solidarity, self and sociality, human and non-human futures intersect in the political emphasis of European scholarship in 2016. At the same time, it critically reflects on how and why it is important not to allow this form of political optimism to turn into Eurocentrism, arguing for the continued importance of comparison and encounter outside of epistemic central Anglo-European worlds

Tibetan diaspora, mobility and place : 'exiles in their own homeland'

This article elaborates a theoretical framework for making sense of Tibetans in Tibet who live as 'exiles in their own homeland'. Placing questions of mobility at the centre of anthropological approaches to diaspora, it subjects 'the fact of movement' to critical scrutiny. In so doing it calls into question three fundamental assumptions of recent work in both 'new mobilities' and the study of diaspora more broadly: first, that people move and territory does not; second, that 'place(s)' and 'movement(s)' are different sorts of things, and clearly distinguishable; and, third, that movement takes places only in Euclidean space. Beginning by placing recent Tibetan experiences of exile and diaspora in comparative context, it then works through recent deconstructions of the boundary between movement and place, a critique of Western ethno-epistemologies of movement, and Law and Mol's work on social topology as theoretical orientations that might allow us to make sense of mobile homelands and diasporas in situ.22 page(s