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Item Urinary Incontinence & Female Athletes Systematic Review Search Strategy(2025-02-27)To identify studies to include or consider for this systematic review, the review team worked with a medical librarian to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The search was developed for PubMed (NLM) translated into Embase (Elsevier), and Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics), CINAHL (Ebscohost), SPORTDiscus with Full Text (Ebscohost), Sports Medicine & Education Index (ProQuest), and Cochrane CENTRAL (Wiley),using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search included Clinicaltrails.gov(https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/)and WHO International Clinical Trials (https://trialsearch.who.int/). The search was not limited. The final search was completed on February 27, 2025.Item Nerve transfer for restoration of lower motor neuron-lesioned bladder, urethral and anal sphincter function. Part 4: Effectiveness of the motor reinnervation(2024-03)The original design and necessary modifications of the project plan are as described in part 1 of this series (26). The current study is part 4 of a series reports and results from 30 animals with three main groups (Fig. 1A). The ObNT-ScNT Reinn group consisted of 8 dogs that were in the study a total of 22 months (22 ± 0.4 mo, mean ± SEM, Fig. 1B). At study onset, these ObNT-ScNT Reinn animals functionally decentralized by bilaterally transecting the dorsal roots of L7, all spinal roots caudal to L7, and the hypogastric nerves, followed by a 9-13 mo recovery period (10.4 ± 0.7 mo, Fig. 1C), then reinnervation by transfer of the obturator nerve to the vesical branch of the pelvic nerve, as well as a branch of the sciatic nerve to the pudendal nerve, that was then followed by an additional 8-12 mo recovery (11.9 ± 0.4 mo, Fig. 1C). The Decentralized group consisted of 4 animals that underwent similar decentralization followed by an 11-21 mo recovery (18 ± 2.5 mo, Fig. 1B), but no reinnervation surgeries. Controls consists of 7 sham-operated and 11 unoperated animals (18 total; Fig. 1A).Item The US Intervention, Pinochet’s Neoliberalism and the Fall of ISI in Latin America: The Domino Effect of the Failure of Collective Actions(2025-03-15)Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) is a well-known development path historically deployed by developing countries during the era of Cold War, which promoted the economic development of those countries and undermined the global inequality. This article explores a novel perspective of the fall of ISI especially in Latin America, namely analyzing the connections between the US intervention, the neoliberalism of Pinochet, the fall of ISI and finding that the US wielded an indirect way, namely supporting the coup d’état of Gen. Pinochet in 1973 through CIA and the spillover of neoliberalism in Chile by the Chilean military junta, to contribute to the fall of ISI, the economic dissent of Latin America, via the strike to Andean Group and restored its economic hegemony over the western hemisphere and Latin America, maintaining the global inequality. This paper may fill the gap in the previous and current literatures about ISI and related research field but there are still shortcomings needed to be furtherly discussed.Item At the Other End of the Bus Ride: How Majority-White Suburbanites Understood Voluntary Busing in Massachusetts(2025-03-15)By defining racial imbalance in terms of « non-white population », the first legislation in the United States to address the issue sealed its fate as a minority problem, letting suburban majority-white schools off the hook. According to the 1965 Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Act, whites attending all-white schools constituted cases of « racial isolation », which were non-ideal situations for preparing students for a multicultural world, but not as harmful as cases of Black and Brown segregation. However, the creation of the Council for Metropolitan Educational Opportunity (METCO), today’s main by-product of the law, still tried in 1966 to kill two birds with one stone through the use of voluntary busing. By organizing the daily transportation of Black students from Boston to vacant seats in the surrounding majority-white suburban schools, the avowed goals of the program have always been twofold: to provide a quality education for the urban students and to spur a more diverse learning experience for suburban children. While the success of the program has often been judged by the numerous positive evaluations of the former, the latter has yet to be properly evaluated. This paper constitutes a first step in this direction by analyzing perceptions of voluntary busing drawn from 20 semi-directed oral interviews conducted with former suburban students in a school system that participated in the METCO program. From the unanimous voiced belief in the mutual benefits of racial integration to the subtler but still very common understanding of voluntary busing as a charity case, the interviews highlight both the racial ambivalences of suburban liberalism and the fundamental importance of interracial friendships.Item A Conciliatory Kissinger?: Analyzing Accommodationist Approaches at the Bab-el-Mandeb and the Panama Canal(2025-03-15)The late Henry A. Kissinger, who served in the policy roles of both US National Security Advisor (1969-75) and US Secretary of State (1973-77), has frequently been regarded as a steadfast and even archetypal practitioner of realism (or realpolitik) by historians of US foreign relations, alongside other analysts and scholars of international affairs. In particular, Kissinger has often accurately been assessed as a policymaker who prioritized seeking a modus vivendi with other great powers such as the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, even if and when this came at the expense of sacrificing the interests of less dominant or influential actors in the international system, yielding tragic outcomes in assorted societies ranging from Chile to East Timor during the Cold War. Nevertheless, a variety of commentary and scholarship, primarily published during the twenty-first century, has attempted to complicate this not altogether wrong but somewhat reductive image of Kissinger as an uncompromising Thucydidean in the tradition of the "Melian Dialogue." Consistent with this recent literature that questions or critiques the actual extent of Kissinger's realpolitik in practice, multiple sources from US foreign relations and intelligence documents to the autobiography of Representative Paul Findley (R-IL) provide evidence that Kissinger sought to improve relations with and accommodate the interests of small states such as Panama under a non-aligned military government, and Marxist-Leninist regimes in South Yemen and Somalia, during his policymaking tenure, even as adjacent waterways were considered geostrategically-vital arteries by Kissinger and contemporaneous foreign policy analysts, intellectuals, and practitioners.