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The book of Love
Maureen learns about Matilda, an eleventh-century warrior countess who was secretly married to a pope, and begins to see the eerie connections between herself and Matilda-- connections she must trace to their source if she is to stop the wrong people from finding the Book of Love and hiding it forever.
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Double-blind acupuncture needles: a multi-needle, multi-session randomized feasibility study
Background
Efficacy of acupuncture is difficult to demonstrate without a feasible double-blind milieu. Double-blind acupuncture needles have been validated in single session protocols with one or two needles but not been tested in a protocol requiring many needles and repeated sessions.
Methods
We determined the feasibility of a 13-needle, 10-session study protocol. Feasibility focused on (1) enrolling and retaining participants; (2) two acupuncturists accurately implementing a double-blind, multi-needle, multi-session protocol; (3) participants completing measures; and (4) protocol acceptability to participants. In this double-blind randomized controlled pilot study, participants were randomized 1:1 to a penetrating needle group or a skin-touch placebo control group.
Results
Six women with vulvodynia (mean age 31.5 ± 8 years; five white, non-Latina, one black/African American) met the eligibility requirements, consented to participation, and were enrolled. All six participants (100%) completed the 10-session study protocol in 5 weeks without missing any treatment sessions. Per observed checklist documented technique, two acupuncturists flawlessly administered the 13-needle, 10-session acupuncture protocol; no needles malfunctioned. Six participants attended all sessions and completed 99% of measurement items. One participant did not like acupuncture (60% acceptability score) and five liked acupuncture (100% acceptability scores); the mean acceptability score was 93.3%.
Conclusion
Study feasibility was supported. This protocol can be used in a double-blind efficacy trial of acupuncture for vulvodynia.
Trial registration
ClinicalTrials.gov,
NCT02704234
. Registered 30 November 2015.
Journal Article
Let's Not Do It
For more than a decade, asexuality has been coming out of the closet. David Jay created a web site in 2001. It was called the Asexual Visibility and Education Network. Forums were added to the site which was a repository of information. Today, the site has about 80,000 registered users. There is a lot variability in how people define themselves. Demisexual describes someone who is mostly, but not entirely asexual. There is little research on asexuality or its variations.
Magazine Article
Clementi and the Woman at the Piano: Virtuosity and the Marketing of Music in Eighteenth-Century London
Chapter 1 focuses on establishing Clementi's relationships to other more famous composers (namely, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, and Spohr), to the work concept, and to virtuosity as it was generally understood in the eighteenth century. Late-eighteenth century London society (i.e., Clementi's primary market for this music) had very specific, and sometimes contradictory, expectations for the level of musical skill that someone could display and still be considered both \"amateur\" and \"respectable.\" Helyard brings novels, sermons, and conduct books into the conversation to elucidate eighteenth-century social expectations about the purpose of music and respectable music performance, specifically for women but also for men. To no one's surprise, cultural and symbolic capital often concentrate in social classes with the necessary resources to acquire them (e.g., time, money, instruction, mentorship, etc.); performing music requires significant resources and is therefore typically more couched in wealth (155-56).
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