Title Participants Abstract "Exploring the stable practices of everyday life: A multi-day time-diary approach." "Theun Pieter van Tienoven, Ignace Glorieux, Joeri Minnen" "Everyday life is neither the result of mundane, common-sense, habitual human behaviour as theorized by the agency-centred approach of methodological individualism nor the sheer result of the conformation to temporal norms of the structural approach of social holism. In fact, everyday life is marked by a rhythmic, temporal structure that is brought into effect by the modality of repetitive action. In this article, a praxeological approach is used to conceptualize everyday life as a social structure in terms of its underlying stable practices. Multi-day time-diary data and optimal matching with clustering techniques show empirically that everyday life consists of stable practices that vary in function of temporal and social demands, in function of handling coordination of practice, and in function of embedding these practices in collectively shared temporal orders." "Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models—Best Practices for Data Acquisition" "Christina Cheung, Paul Szpak" "Using stable isotope mixing models (SIMMs) to quantify past diets is becoming increasingly common in archaeology. This study highlights important field-specific difficulties encountered by archaeologists in reconstructing palaeodiets using SIMMs. Focusing on the data acquisition stage, we discuss several issues that could confound dietary quantification if not accounted for. These issues are categorized under several broad categories: diagenesis, intra-individual variability, representativeness of both the consumers and sources, and other commonly encountered field-specific problems. We summarize these issues with a flow chart to help archaeologists to select the most appropriate samples for dietary reconstruction using SIMMs, thereby decreasing the probability that the outputs of the SIMM are inaccurate. We conclude by discussing the ways in which SIMMs may not be appropriate for all archaeological contexts, highlighting those areas that are likely to be the most problematic for end users." "Stable isotopes reveal agricultural practices in the Swifterbant period" "Wim Van Neer" "Hydroclimatic conditions and fishing practices at Late Paleolithic Makhadma 4 (Egypt) inferred from stable isotope analysis of otoliths" "Wim Van Neer, Pierre Vermeersch" "The late Paleolithic site of Makhadma 4, located along the Nile River in Upper Egypt, yielded an important ichthyofauna characterized by a very high proportion of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). We used isotopic analysis (d18O) of well-preserved otoliths (“ear stones”) of tilapia to reconstruct the former hydrological conditions, as well as the fishing strategies of the site's inhabitants. Otoliths from two modern fish captured in the Nile River near Esna were also examined to test how accurately tilapia otoliths reflect their ambient environment. All otoliths were sequentially micromilled to recover high resolution isotopic profiles along the main growth axis. Comparison of the modern otolith profiles with environmental data shows that tilapia d18O values record seasonal variations of the modern Nile hydroclimate but that their values are offset. The archaeological otoliths record very large intraindividual cyclical variations in d18O values, with relatively consistent amplitude, as well as very high seasonal maximum values (up to þ8.3‰), compared with the modern otoliths. The hydrological regime of the water body in which the archaeological fish lived was characterized by a reduced Nile water inflow that could not negate the effect of local evaporation during spring. The reconstructed hydrological conditions are in accordance with a new model of Nilotic behavior that assumes the creation of lakes by damming of the Nile as a result of a high eolian activity during hyper-arid periods of the Late Pleistocene. Although large seasonal evaporation may have resulted in a severe seasonal reduction in the lake's volume and extent, the lake was, nevertheless, maintained for several years. Cyclic variations in otolith d18O values permit reconstruction of the period of the hydrological cycle during which the fish were captured. Fishing of young individuals occurred mostly after the maximum input of inflow water from the Nile, when evaporitic conditions were at their lowest, i.e. during fall." "The Clinical Utility of Post-Transplant Monitoring of Donor-Specific Antibodies in Stable Renal Transplant Recipients: A Consensus Report With Guideline Statements for Clinical Practice" "Marie-Paule Emonds, Maarten Naesens" "Solid phase immunoassays improved the detection and determination of the antigen-specificity of donor-specific antibodies (DSA) to human leukocyte antigens (HLA). The widespread use of SPI in kidney transplantation also introduced new clinical dilemmas, such as whether patients should be monitored for DSA pre- or post-transplantation. Pretransplant screening through SPI has become standard practice and DSA are readily determined in case of suspected rejection. However, DSA monitoring in recipients with stable graft function has not been universally established as standard of care. This may be related to uncertainty regarding the clinical utility of DSA monitoring as a screening tool. This consensus report aims to appraise the clinical utility of DSA monitoring in recipients without overt signs of graft dysfunction, using the Wilson & Junger criteria for assessing the validity of a screening practice. To assess the evidence on DSA monitoring, the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) convened a dedicated workgroup, comprised of experts in transplantation nephrology and immunology, to review relevant literature. Guidelines and statements were developed during a consensus conference by Delphi methodology that took place in person in November 2022 in Prague. The findings and recommendations of the workgroup on subclinical DSA monitoring are presented in this article." "Chronic medication intake in patients with stable coronary heart disease across Europe : evidence from the daily clinical practice : results from the ESC EORP European Survey of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Diabetes (EUROASPIRE IV) registry" "Delphine De Smedt, Tine De Backer, Mirko Petrovic, Gui De Backer, David Wood, Kornelia Kotseva, Dirk De Bacquer" "Population pharmacokinetics of tacrolimus in stable paediatric renal transplant recipients translated into clinical practice" "Agnieszka Prytula-Ebels, Karlien Cransberg, Saskia De Wildt, Ron Van Schaik, Ron Mathôt" "Population pharmackinetics of tracrolimus in stable paediatric renal transplant recipients translated into clinical practice" "Agnieszka Prytula-Ebels, Karlien Cransberg, Antonia Bouts, Saskia De Wildt, Ron Van Schaik, Ron Mathot" "Nurturing solidarity in diversity: Can local currencies enable transformative practices?" "Joke Vandenabeele" "Weed species diversity on arable land of the dryland areas of central Tanzania: impacts of continuous application of traditional tillage practices" "Riziki S Shemdoe, Frank M Mbago, Idris S Kikula, Patrick Van Damme"