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National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the presence of effective medical care (ie, amenable mortality). Previous analyses of mortality amenable to health care only focused on high-income countries and faced several methodological challenges. In the present analysis, we use the highly standardised cause of death and risk factor estimates generated through the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) to improve and expand the quantification of personal health-care access and quality for 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2015. We mapped the most widely used list of causes amenable to personal health care developed by Nolte and McKee to 32 GBD causes. We accounted for variations in cause of death certification and misclassifications through the extensive data standardisation processes and redistribution algorithms developed for GBD. To isolate the effects of personal health-care access and quality, we risk-standardised cause-specific mortality rates for each geography-year by removing the joint effects of local environmental and behavioural risks, and adding back the global levels of risk exposure as estimated for GBD 2015. We employed principal component analysis to create a single, interpretable summary measure–the Healthcare Quality and Access (HAQ) Index–on a scale of 0 to 100. The HAQ Index showed strong convergence validity as compared with other health-system indicators, including health expenditure per capita (r=0·88), an index of 11 universal health coverage interventions (r=0·83), and human resources for health per 1000 (r=0·77). We used free disposal hull analysis with bootstrapping to produce a frontier based on the relationship between the HAQ Index and the Socio-demographic Index (SDI), a measure of overall development consisting of income per capita, average years of education, and total fertility rates. This frontier allowed us to better quantify the maximum levels of personal health-care access and quality achieved across the development spectrum, and pinpoint geographies where gaps between observed and potential levels have narrowed or widened over time. Between 1990 and 2015, nearly all countries and territories saw their HAQ Index values improve; nonetheless, the difference between the highest and lowest observed HAQ Index was larger in 2015 than in 1990, ranging from 28·6 to 94·6. Of 195 geographies, 167 had statistically significant increases in HAQ Index levels since 1990, with South Korea, Turkey, Peru, China, and the Maldives recording among the largest gains by 2015. Performance on the HAQ Index and individual causes showed distinct patterns by region and level of development, yet substantial heterogeneities emerged for several causes, including cancers in highest-SDI countries; chronic kidney disease, diabetes, diarrhoeal diseases, and lower respiratory infections among middle-SDI countries; and measles and tetanus among lowest-SDI countries. While the global HAQ Index average rose from 40·7 (95% uncertainty interval, 39·0–42·8) in 1990 to 53·7 (52·2–55·4) in 2015, far less progress occurred in narrowing the gap between observed HAQ Index values and maximum levels achieved; at the global level, the difference between the observed and frontier HAQ Index only decreased from 21·2 in 1990 to 20·1 in 2015. If every country and territory had achieved the highest observed HAQ Index by their corresponding level of SDI, the global average would have been 73·8 in 2015. Several countries, particularly in eastern and western sub-Saharan Africa, reached HAQ Index values similar to or beyond their development levels, whereas others, namely in southern sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and south Asia, lagged behind what geographies of similar development attained between 1990 and 2015. This novel extension of the GBD Study shows the untapped potential for personal health-care access and quality improvement across the development spectrum. Amid substantive advances in personal health care at the national level, heterogeneous patterns for individual causes in given countries or territories suggest that few places have consistently achieved optimal health-care access and quality across health-system functions and therapeutic areas. This is especially evident in middle-SDI countries, many of which have recently undergone or are currently experiencing epidemiological transitions. The HAQ Index, if paired with other measures of health-system characteristics such as intervention coverage, could provide a robust avenue for tracking progress on universal health coverage and identifying local priorities for strengthening personal health-care quality and access throughout the world. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Artykuł poświęcony jest polskim śpiewaczkom operowym Marcelli Sembrich i Loli Beeth wykształconym we Lwowie, transmigrantkom rozwijającym kariery artystyczne poza ojczyzną. Obie zintegrowały się ze społeczeństwami i kulturami krajów osiedlenia, przyczyniły się do ich rozwoju, jednocześnie podtrzymując więź z Polską przez kontakty interpersonalne, działania artystyczne i polityczne. Autorka omawia kolejne etapy życia bohaterek: migracja edukacyjna, przebieg kariery artystycznej, związki z Polską, dziedzictwo i pamięć o śpiewaczkach. Zwraca uwagę, że na ich światowe kariery wpłynęły tak różne czynniki jak: talent, motywacja i intensywna praca, autokreacja publicznego wizerunku, a także współdziałanie innych osób: członków rodziny, pedagogów, mecenasów, menedżerów, impresariów oraz dyrektorów oper.

This theological reflection is a motivation to walk in the footsteps of Marcella Althaus-Reid to discover the disruptive principles of Latin American Queer Theology. Between tangos and popular music, libertine evocations and dissident stories, prosthetic considerations, and transit strategies, this indecent text indicates some revitalizing ideas that manifest the need to think and inhabit the Global South in a more queer way. The voice of the South is powerfully theological and potentially revolutionary.

Usprkos svojoj povijesnoumjetničkoj vrijednosti i simboličkom značenju, ninski relikvijar sv. Azela dosad nije bio temeljito proučen. Polazeći od nedavne pretpostavke o milanskom podrijetlu burse i reinterpretacije identiteta troje svetačkih likova prikazanih na njoj, svrha je rada rasvijetliti podrijetlo njihova kulta te predložiti novo tumačenje njihova identiteta. Prvi dio rada donosi povijesnu kontekstualizaciju podrijetla kulta (pretpostavljenih) ninskih svetaca zaštitnika sv. Ambrozija, sv. Marcel(in)e i sv. Anselma u Milanu u vrijeme karolinške/franačke prevlasti. Drugi dio rada predstavlja rezultate komparativnog povijesnoumjetničkog istraživanja same burse s naglaskom na ikonografskoj, stilskoj i tipološkoj analizi. Rezultati obaju smjerova istraživanja (onog povijesno-kontekstualnog i likovno-komparativnog) sugeriraju da središnji ženski lik na aversu burse nije sv. Marcela kako se dosad držalo, već Bogorodica te da bursa vjerojatno ipak nije milanski proizvod s prijelaza 8. na 9. stoljeće, već da je vjerojatnije izrađena nakon uspostave Ninske biskupije, ako ne i prigodom njezine obnove u 11. stoljeću. 

Theodor Boveri is best remembered for his chromosome theory of heredity. However, the contributions that he and his wife, Marcella O'Grady Boveri, made to the early days of genetics are greater than just this. The chromosome theory of heredity, developed in 1902–1904, became one of the foundation stones of twentieth-century genetics. It is usually referred to as the Sutton–Boveri theory after Walter Sutton and Theodor Boveri. However, the contributions of Theodor Boveri and his co-worker, Marcella O'Grady Boveri (also his wife), to the understanding of heredity and development go beyond the localization of the Mendelian hereditary factors onto the chromosomes. They investigated the interaction of cytoplasm and chromosomes, and demonstrated its relevance in heredity and development.

ISBN: 978-859-4750-74-7 A traduçao de \"Deus queer\", da teóloga Marcella Althaus-Reid, para a lingua portuguesa foi muito esperada por todos aqueles e aquelas que se interessam pela Teologia Queer, como releva o prefacio escrito pelo teólogo André S. Musskopf. Publicado originalmente em ingles, The queer God (2003) pode ser considerada como uma das principais produçöes teológicas que abordam a temática cristianismo e sexualidade em uma perspectiva queer. O terceiro capítulo, \"Queerizando Deus nos relacionamentos: trinitários e Deus, a Orgia\", aborda a ideia da kenosis de Deus como sendo \"saída de Deus do armário\". A teóloga explica que \"queerizar é a arte de desconstruir as leis em busca de justiça, uma arte que procede a partir das experiencias de amor as margens do legal ou, usando termos cristaos, fora do redimível\" (p. 114).

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Rad predstavlja prilog raspravi o kultu ninskih svetaca zaštitnika putem identifikacije dvaju srednjovjekovnih ninskih relikvijara poznatih u literaturi kao škrinjice – relikvijari sv. Asela i sv. Marcele. Svrha je rasprave potkrijepiti i detaljnije obrazložiti autorovu prije iznesenu pretpostavku da je drugi od dvaju relikvijara u domaćoj historiografiji bio pogrešno identificiran. Na tom tragu, putem raščlambe i tumačenja sačuvanih popisa ninskih relikvijara, pokazuje se da je, nasuprot proširenom mišljenju, zapravo riječ o relikvijarima sv. Asela i, vjerojatno, sv. Ambroza. Taj zaključak ne samo što pomaže razumjeti ikonografiju obaju relikvijara već doprinosi i rasvjetljavanju zbunjujućih i dosad nerazriješenih odnosa između troje ninskih svetaca zaštitnika. Naime, upozoravajući na činjenicu da evidencija o povezivanju sv. Marcele s drugom dvojicom ninskih svetaca zaštitnika nije poznata prije 15. stoljeća, autor zaključuje da predmetni relikvijar povijesno nije bio smatran relikvijarom sv. Marcele prije 19. stoljeća.

Little is known about the community of dragonflies and damselflies in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. To address this gap, we conducted 2 longitudinal surveys of adult odonates in a natural floodplain of the Hillsborough River in 2013 and 2017. Along with abundance and species diversity, we also measured intraspecific variation in body size, sexual dimorphism, wing-cell asymmetry, and water mite ectoparasitism. Our first weekly survey from Oct 2013 to Oct 2014 sampled 327 adults (230 female, 97 male) from 8 dragonfly species, with the eastern pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis Say; Odonata: Libellulidae) representing 79% of captures, followed by the second most abundant (14%), the Florida non-native and neotropical hyacinth glider (Miathyria marcella Selys; Odonata: Libellulidae). Our second weekly survey from Sept to Dec 2017, which focused on both damselflies and dragonflies and captured 205 adults from 8 species, with the fragile forktail (Ischnura posita Hagen; Odonata: Coenagrionidae) being the most abundant with 70% of captures. Female-biased sexual size dimorphism was found in both E. simplicicollis and I. posita; however, both sexes were equally variable in size and symmetric in a meristic trait. Female and male M. marcella were equally variable, monomorphic, and symmetric. Combing symmetry data from each sex, only I. posita damselflies were asymmetric overall. Finally, we did not observe any parasitism by larval water mites in either survey. We aim to continue surveys to track seasonal and climate-driven changes in dragonfly diversity and phenology in this region.