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Preface, The Editors Wacana

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

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Normalization Of China-Indonesia's Diplomatic Relations And The Role Of The Mianzi Concept, R. Tuty Nur Mutia Enoch Muas

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This thesis examines the normalization of China-Indonesia's diplomatic relations in order to understand China's main motivation. The "micro-macro linkage" approach is used to uphold the empirical evidence that is enhanced by the mianzi concept. In Chinese culture, mianzi consists of honourable values and meanings. The result of this research shows that the changes in China's foreign policy priority have been caused by the demise of the socialist power in the late 1980s and the Tiananmen incident in 1989. Threat to China's sovereignty and unity has been the basis of the priority to keep the country's honour and existence. The term …

Risk Factors Associated With Death In In-Hospital Pediatric Convulsive Status Epilepticus, Tobias Loddenkemper, Tanvir U. Syed, Sriram Ramgopal, Deepak Gulati, Sikawat Thanaviratananich, Sanjeev V. Kothare, Amer Alshekhlee, Mohamad Z. Koubeissi

Neurology Faculty Publications

Objective

To evaluate in-patient mortality and predictors of death associated with convulsive status epilepticus (SE) in a large, multi-center, pediatric cohort.

Patients and Methods

We identified our cohort from the KID Inpatient Database for the years 1997, 2000, 2003 and 2006. We queried the database for convulsive SE, associated diagnoses, and for inpatient death. Univariate logistic testing was used to screen for potential risk factors. These risk factors were then entered into a stepwise backwards conditional multivariable logistic regression procedure. P-values less than 0.05 were taken as significant.

Results

We identified 12,365 (5,541 female) patients with convulsive SE aged …

Material Memory: Willa Cather, “My First Novels [There Were Two]”, And The Colophon: A Book Collector’S Quarterly, Matthew J. Lavin

Digital Initiatives and Special Collections

Willa Cather's 1931 essay "My First Novels [There Were Two]" is an often-cited statement on place in the author's literary oeuvre. In the essay, Cather distances herself from her first novel 'Alexander's Bridge' (1912) and its imitative, Jamesian motifs and setting. Her second novel 'O Pioneers!', she writes, was a kind of second "first" novel, one written "entirely for myself" and preoccupied with the story of "Scandinavians and Bohemians who had been neighbors of ours when I lived on a ranch in Nebraska." As Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Robert Thacker and Emmy Stark Zitter have argued, "My First Novels [There Were …

Country Profile: Libya, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Libya, located on the north coast of Africa between Egypt and Algeria, was contaminated with landmines and unexploded ordnance during World War II and the wars with Egypt (1977) and Chad (1980–1987).

One Of Greatest Living Historians Presents Unh Dunfey Lecture Oct. 18, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

The Language of Music (Deryck Cooke) (Reviewed by Herbert M. Schueller, Wayne State University)

Sir Joshua Reynolds: Discourses on Art (ed. by Robert R. Wark) (Reviewed by Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota)

The Revival of Metaphysical Poetry (Joseph E. Duncan) (Reviewed by Cleanth Brooks, Yale University)

William Faulkner: From Jefferson to the World (Hyatt H. Waggoner) (Reviewed by Frederick J. Hoffman, University of Wisconsin

Max's Nineties (Max Beerbohm, intro. Osbert Lancaster) (Reviewed by Roy Huss, University of Messina, Sicily)

Interpretations of American Literature (ed. Charles Feidelson, Jr. and Paul Brodtkorb, Jr.) (Reviewed by Robert M. Farnsworth)