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Relocating to Hawai‘i: Dwelling with Islamic art at Doris Duke’s Shangri La
Authors: Bush Olga
Published: July 2014

This article explores Doris Duke’s (1912–93) practices as the ‘creative persona’ in building Shangri La, both her home in Hawai‘i and the fifth largest collection of Islamic art in America. Discussion begins with historical contextualization. A brief review of elite collecting in the 1930s extends the timeline of American orientalism to Duke’s project at Shangri La. Enabled by the emergence of interior design as a field for women’s creativity, her practices as the first major western female collector of Islamic art are considered against American orientalism’s gendered slant. Thereafter, the discussion turns to theoretical concerns. First, Duke’s deliberately hybrid spaces, mixing Islamic art from various regions and also combining historical objects with replicas, is studied as the creation of an Islamicate dwelling place, which, contrary to the colonial bases of orientalism, recognized the contemporaneity of the Islamic world. Duke’s practices of replication and recollection suggest relocation as the conceptual mode in which mobile objects create a sense of the transitory that supplants static architecture. Finally, the concept of relocation enables an examination of Duke’s major innovation. She moves Islamic tentage indoors to express her understanding of transitional space in Islamic architecture relocated to its setting in Hawai‘i.
Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Becker Lutz , Quraishi Fatima , Skurvida Sandra , Valor Magdalena
Published: July 2014

‘The House is Black’, Rose Issa Projects, London, United Kingdom, October 14–November 14, 2013

‘Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 16, 2013–5 January 2014

‘Iran Modern’, Asia Society, New York City, September 6, 2013–January 5, 2014

‘Nur: Light in Art and Science From the Islamic World’, Focus-Abengoa Foundation, Seville, Spain, October 2013–March 2014
‘Conservative nativist’ Chinese art in Hong Kong and Mainland China
Authors: Vigneron Frank
Published: July 2014

In the discourse on ‘nativism’ and ‘cultural conservatism’, now dominant in Mainland China, the position of ‘traditional’ art, and especially painting made with Chinese ink, has been promoted by official institutions like the China Artists Association, thus emphasizing the support of the state. The discourse accompanying the appreciation and creation of Ink art in Mainland China has thus been stated with an often extremely nationalistic attitude. When Ink art belongs to art practices seen as ‘contemporary’ and therefore not ‘traditional’ in Mainland China, it is generally ignored by official, state-sponsored institutions. Both ‘traditional’ and ‘contemporary’ Ink art practices also coexist in Hong Kong, but even the traditional is generally defended without recourse to the kind of excessive cultural nationalism prevalent in the Mainland (even though there is always the possibility for Hong Kong nativist conservatives to exhibit in China, where they can rely on the official promotion of their art). Hong Kong public and private art institutions have also defended Ink art, thus redefining its function and boundaries. The role of M+ and the museums of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department have been instrumental in the promotion and expansion of the field of Ink art.
Explorations of genealogy in experimental art in China
Authors: Moner Laia Manonelles
Published: July 2014

This article aims to show how different artists propose an approach to their own family tree and, at the same time, examine new family relationships currently being established in China. These creators explore various issues such as maternity, paternity, and agreements and disagreements between grandparents, parents and children. Other realities that are reflected in their works are the processes of adoption, and how the one-child policy – that began in the 1970s – has affected and currently affects families and Chinese society.

Artists such as Song Dong, He Chengyao, Xing Danwen, Lin Tianmiao, Ma Qiusha, He Chongyue and O Zhang and Shen Yuan deal with their own genealogy in their artworks, linking the individual and the collective, the personal and the social. Their art becomes a tool to focus on different problems that remain in the domestic and intimate sphere. Here, the transition from private to public becomes a political act. The objective is to question, to create spaces for debate and reflection.
Between film and TV: Cursilería and the return of politics in 1970s’ Spain
Authors: Medina Alberto
Published: July 2014

Only recently have some critics started challenging the image of an elitist New Spanish Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, disconnected from the general public and in indirect complicity with Francoist strategies of international self-promotion. Within that trend, the fact that the most important names of the New Spanish Cinema were simultaneously working as publicists, scriptwriters or TV directors allows us to map a more complex reality. Fascinated with a new medium full of unknown possibilities, those directors assimilated new techniques and the possibilities of dealing with a different and much bigger audience. The TV experience was not only the point of departure for a renewed aesthetic, but also for a more complex positioning of film as a political tool that was conceived then not in radical opposition to Francoist mass media but as strategically linked to them. This analysis of a paradigmatic film of the period in dialogue with TV aesthetics, Martín Patino’s Canciones para después de una Guerra/Songs for After a War (1976), opens the possibility of a re-contextualization of TV ‘cursilería’ and its transformation into modern kitsch as an innovative aesthetic and, simultaneously, an oppositional discourse.
Times of transition in Hispanic cinemas
Authors: Palacio Manuel , Labayen Miguel Fernández
Published: July 2014

This special issue of Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas contains selected contributions presented at the international conference ‘In Transition: Historical, Political and Cultural Changes in Cinema and Television’, held in November 2012 at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Both the conference and the articles included in the following pages explore technological connotations of ‘the transitional’ from historically conscious and comparative perspectives in an effort to better understand and appreciate the impact of transnationalism for the field of Hispanic and Latin American studies. While ‘the transnational’ has already been explored by other scholars in film and media studies, the articles to follow add a strong political dimension to the field as they present a variety of case studies of transnational practices in the cinemas of Spain and Latin America. By placing the studies of transnational activities in Spanish and Latin American contexts, we are better able to assess the implications of these different types of transition for the Hispanic world, both from a national and a transnational level.
Reflexiones sobre los medios audiovisuales en las publicaciones clandestinas del PCE y de las comisiones de trabajadores y trabajadoras del cine y la televisión
Authors: Souto Xose Prieto
Published: July 2014

This article explores the theoretical writings on cinema and television that were published in the underground media promoted by the Partido Comunista de España (PCE, Communist Party of Spain) and in a series of bulletins edited by workers’ commissions devoted to the audio-visual sector. This research takes the 1st International Symposium on Film Schools as a starting point and ends in 1977, when the PCE was legalized in Spain.
Don’t miss a bloody thing: [REC] and the Spanish adaptation of found footage horror
Authors: Rowan-Legg Shelagh M.
Published: July 2014

Although found footage as aesthetic expression was common in documentary and avant-garde cinema, it was not until the end of the 1990s that it was adapted for use in the horror film. This sub-genre gave film-makers a new means of cognitive and emotional connection with the spectator. Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró’s films [REC] (2007) and [REC] 2 (2009) recycled the format, creating films rooted in the national while at the same time projecting a post-national image of the genre. [REC] turned the found footage film into a commentary on Spanish tabloid television, its vapid journalistic presentation and the public’s appetite for scandal. [REC] 2 adapted the form further, expanding it from a single to several cameras, and expanding the narrative to issues of political and religious ideology. The [REC] films present a directly lived representation through found footage, where the spectator has limited scope of knowledge that goes beyond mere subjectivity to the limits of visualization and knowledge the form depicts. [REC] moves beyond the use of found footage as a tool for horror, and transitions it into a commentary on filmic presentation and spectatorial engagement, re-positioning contemporary Spanish horror film into a post-national context.
Book Reviews
Authors: Camí-Vela María , Davies Ann , Whittaker Tom
Published: July 2014

The cinema of Iciar Bollaín, Isabel Santaolalla (2012) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 272 pp., ISBN 978-0-7190-8058-6 (hbk), £65

Spanish horror film, Antonio Lázaro-Reboll (2012) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 308 pp., ISBN 978 0 7486 3638 9, (hbk), £65

Alejandro Amenábar, Barry Jordan (2012) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 336 pp., ISBN 978-0-7190-7589-6 (hbk), £65
Looking amid the rubble: New Spanish documentary film and the residues of urban transformation (Joaquim Jordà and José Luis Guerín)
Authors: Moreno-Caballud Luis
Published: July 2014

Spanish documentary film has experienced an extraordinary flourishing during the beginning of the twenty-first century, in parallel with the increasing democratization of audiovisual means of production. In this essay I link this democratization with Spanish documentary’s tendency to become a collective social experiment that emphasizes interactions between film-makers and filmed social actors. In particular, I analyze the case of films dealing with urban transformation, because their capacity of intervening in the processes of social construction of reality is especially significant.
Reconfiguring gender and the representation of the Soldadera in the Mexican revolution film
Authors: Pick Zuzana
Published: July 2014

In keeping with the meticulous enterprise of rewriting women’s history in Mexico, rescuing their stories and re-inscribing their identities, undertaken in the last two decades by cultural historians, feminist writers and film scholars, this article proposes a detailed analysis of the soldadera as a protagonist in La negra Angustias (The Black Angustias, Matilde Landeta, Mexico 1949) and La soldadera (The Camp Follower, José Bolaños, Mexico 1966). Whether portrayed as a combative mulatta colonel who takes charge of her destiny or a suffering fair-skinned bride-to-be doomed to drift aimlessly, she is restored to history. Although the directors draw on existing depictions of the archetypal female of Mexican war culture and revolution, their films reveal how the identity and social reality of their characters have been shaped by discrimination and misogyny.
Report on Madrid de Cine-Spanish Film Screenings
Authors: Smith Paul Julian
Published: July 2014

This report covers the eighth edition of Madrid de Cine-Spanish Film Screenings, the major marketplace for Spanish cinema, which took place on 17–19 June 2013. Based on industry sources at the event, it offers a survey of Spanish film over the previous year and identifies five trends in current production: post-apocalyptic films, romantic dramedies, genre movies, auteurist films and titles that are innovative in their distribution and exhibition.
Book Reviews
Authors: Jordan Barry , Smith Paul Julian , Zecchi Barbara , del Mar Azcona María
Published: July 2014

Companion to Spanish Cinema, Jo Labanyi and Tatjana Pavlovic´ (eds) (2013) Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 638 pp., ISBN 978-14051-9438-9 (hbk), £120

Aesthetics and Politics in the Mexican Film Industry, Misha MacLaird (2013) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 230 pp., ISBN 978-1137008060 (hbk), $90.

Spanish Spaces: Landscape, Space and Place in Contemporary Spanish Culture, Ann Davies (2012) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, vii + 190 pp., ISBN 978–184631–822–1 (hbk), $99.95

Cinema on the Periphery: Contemporary Irish and Spanish Film, Conn Holohan (2010) Dublin and Portland: Irish Academic Press, 198 pp., ISBN 978-0716530220 €60 (hbk); €29.95
O Marquês de Pombal e a universidade
Authors: Araújo Ana Cristina
Published: July 2014

A ideia desta obra nasceu e amadureceu no ano em que se comemorou o tricentenário do nascimento de Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo. Apesar da abundante bibliografia consagrada ao pombalismo e à História da Universidade, e do reconhecido valor atribuído a trabalhos de referência obrigatória sobre ambas as temáticas, entendeu-se que não seria inútil uma compilação alargada de estudos sobre a esfera de atuação e o sentido da política cultural do ministro de D. José I no domínio do ensino superior. Sob diversos ângulos, as análises produzidas aspiram a uma compreensão mais sólida da função e do lugar que coube, de facto, à Universidade de Coimbra na modernização cultural do país, e da importância que a institucionalização do iluminismo revestiu no processo de secularização da sociedade e na consumação do “Absolutismo Esclarecido “ em Portugal. Excerto do prefácio de Ana Cristina Araújo.
Soziologische Kapitaltheorie
Authors: Streckeisen Peter
Published: July 2014

Sozialkapital, Kulturkapital, Gesundheitskapital, Schönheitskapital, Humankapital, Naturkapital - alles scheint heute »Kapital« zu sein. Gegen den Imperialismus der Ökonomie liest Peter Streckeisen »Das Kapital« von Karl Marx neu. Er legt das Augenmerk auf die gesellschaftlichen Formen des Kapitals und weist auf blinde Flecken in Bourdieus Kapitaltheorie hin. Seine Marxismuskritik hilft, Marx als Ökonomiekritiker neu zu entdecken und für die soziologische Kapitaltheorie zu gewinnen. Das Buch richtet sich auch an eine interessierte Öffentlichkeit, die der zunehmenden Vorherrschaft des ökonomischen Denkens skeptisch gegenübersteht.
Baukunst als unmögliche Möglichkeit
Authors: Grothaus Christian J.
Published: July 2014

Der Begriff Architektur bezeugt die Balance zwischen »Arché« und »Techné«, die in der europäischen Entwicklung ins Ungleichgewicht zulasten der »Arché« geriet. Christian J. Grothaus zeigt mit den Mitteln der Ästhetik und u.a. entlang an Martin Heideggers Denken über »Physis, Ge-Stell, Kunstwerk und Gegnet« Auswege aus der Dominanz einer »Techné« auf, die als Rationalität, Formalismus und Technikselbstzweck missverstanden wurde. Eine Baukunst als unmögliche Möglichkeit kann die Architektur vor einer latenten Transzendenz-Sehnsucht und der aktuellen Virtualitätsfalle bewahren oder aus dem Tunnelblick der Bauwirtschafts-Effizienz befreien - und ihr über die Themen Präsenz, Ereignis sowie Zeit(-lichkeit) helfen, die »Arché« wiederzufinden.
The Intelligible Metropolis
Authors: Pleßke Nora
Published: July 2014

Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.
Kultur zwischen Nationalstaatlichkeit und Migration
Authors: Yildirim-Krannig Yeliz
Published: July 2014

Aktuelle Diskussionen und soziologisch-politische Wirklichkeiten von »Migration« und »Integration« sind als diskursive Konstrukte wirksam geworden. Damit verknüpfte, in der Öffentlichkeit etablierte Semantiken erweisen sich nicht zuletzt vor dem Hintergrund der durch den aktuellen demographischen Wandel hervorgebrachten Herausforderungen (Fachkräftemangel, Rentenfinanzierung etc.) als problematisch. Yeliz Yildirim-Krannig widmet sich einer Rekonstruktion des Migrations-/Integrationsdiskurses. Sie zeigt neue theoretische Positionen und Perspektiven für eine der veränderten Migrationswirklichkeit angemessene Praxis auf und entwickelt alternative Zugänge zum Migrations- und Integrationskontext.
The Impact of Voter Uncertainty and Alienation on Turnout and Candidate Policy Choice
Authors: Brown Natalya R.
Published: July 2014

Formal models of elections typically assume that voters are sure of their ideal points on the policy spectrum. Meanwhile, the empirical evidence suggests that voters are often uncertain about their ideal positions. In addition, alienation appears to play a key role in explaining voter turnout in elections. Using a spatial model that incorporates abstentions and the concepts of alienation and tolerance, I show that a positive correlation between extreme policy preferences and certainty among voters can affect voter turnout and result in the divergence of candidate policy choices.
The acquisition of determiners in child L2 German
Authors: Schönenberger Manuela
Published: July 2014

The object of this study is to test Meisel’s (2009) hypothesis that there is a sensitive phase in language acquisition that ends around age 4. Early L2 acquisition may therefore already show differences from L1 acquisition. To test this hypothesis, determiner production in the naturalistic speech of four successive bilingual Turkish-German children recorded during free-play situations was compared to that of monolingual German children discussed in the literature. The successive bilinguals had an age of onset of German between 3 and 4 years and were studied over a period of 20 months. Determiner production was examined because Turkish, as opposed to German, does not have an article system. Determiner omission and incorrect article use were considered. A clear difference emerged in determiner omission, but not in article misuse. After some initial variability in determiner production, determiner omission by the monolingual children was found to gradually fall below 10 per cent, while a plateau effect could be observed in the bilingual children. There was no clear evidence for article misuse in either the L1 or the child L2 data. Our findings about determiner omission suggest that early L2 acquisition differs from L1 acquisition. It is unclear, however, whether the child L2 learners will persist in omitting determiners from obligatory contexts, since data collection was ended while the children were still in the process of acquiring German
Comprehension of degree modifiers by pre-school children: What does it mean to be ‘a bit cold’?
Authors: Tribushinina Elena
Published: July 2014

Although even young infants were shown to have some understanding of (adjectival) scalarity, studies of children’s spontaneous speech suggest that the acquisition of scalar semantics may not yet be completed by the time children enter primary school. In the present study, this hypothesis is tested by investigating the comprehension of diminishers (‘a bit’) and consequential degree modifiers (‘too’) modifying relative adjectives (long, warm) in a group of 5-year-old Dutch-speaking children. Based on earlier production studies, it is hypothesized that by age 6 children are adult-like in their comprehension of ‘too’ and not yet target-like in the comprehension of ‘a bit’ modifying relative adjectives. The results of the comprehension experiment demonstrate that some children have already acquired the semantics of both ‘too’ and ‘a bit’, whereas others still have trouble understanding combinations of relative adjectives with each of these degree adverbs. Furthermore, poor comprehenders need more time to process sentences with ‘a bit’ compared to the same sentences with ‘too’, presumably revealing a greater conceptual complexity of diminishers. These findings are consistent with the idea that the acquisition of scalarity has a protracted time course
Entropy generation in silicon thin film: Influence of film thickness on entropy generation rate
Authors: Ali Haider , Yilbas Bekir S.
Published: July 2014

Thermodynamic irreversibility in thin silicon film is considered and entropy
generation in the film is predicted. The Boltzmann equation is incorporated
to formulate the phonon transport in the film due to temperature disturbance
across the film edges. Frequency-dependent and frequency-independent phonon
transport are introduced to compare the entropy predictions due to both
cases. The study is extended to include the effect of the film thickness on
the entropy generation in the film. A numerical code is developed using the
discrete ordinate method and the predictions are validated with the data
presented in our previous study. It is found that entropy generation is
higher in the close region of the high temperature film edge.
As the film thickness increases towards the cold temperature of the film edge, entropy generation rate becomes gradual. Entropy generation due to the frequency-independent case is
higher than that corresponding to the frequency-dependent case. This
behavior is attributed to the ballistic phonons, which do not contribute to
the film resistance; therefore, they do not contribute to entropy generation
in the film.
Study on crystallization performance of polyethylene terephthalate/polybutylene terephthalate alloys
Authors: Wang Rui-yuan , Chen Xiao-dong , Xu Qun-jie , Wang Yin-jie , Zhang Qiang
Published: July 2014

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a kind of high performance engineering plastic. However, the application of pure PET is subject to limitation because of its slow crystallization rate. In order to overcome this difficulty, thermoplastic resins are often added into PET matrix by a compounding technique. Polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) possesses many advantages such as a high degree of crystallinity and rapid molding, thus, is very suitable to adjust the crystallization behaviors of PET. In this work, the crystallization behaviors of PET/PBT alloys were studied by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and thermal platform polarizing microscope. The obtained results indicate that the content of PBT could tune the melting and crystallization behaviors of the alloy. The parameters of non-isothermal crystallization of the alloys for blends were analyzed by the Jeziorny and Kissinger methods. The non-isothermal crystallization process for PET, PBT and PET/PBT alloys fit the Jeziorny model well at the early stage, but there is a certain small deviation at the later stage, indicating that the nucleation mechanism of PET/PBT alloy is complicated. In addition, the crystallization rate accelerates with an increase in cooling rate. The alloys show the best crystallization performance when the content of PBT is 10 wt%, and their crystallization activation energy reaches up to -201.78 kJ/mol.
HPLC Method for Determination of Th, U and Pu in Irradiated (Th,Pu)O2 using Mandelic Acid as an Eluent
Authors: Kumar Pranaw , Paul Sumana , Jaison Perumpillil George , Telmore Vijay Madhukar , Alamelu Devanathan , Aggarwal Suresh Kumar
Published: July 2014

Studies for chromatographic separation of Th, U(VI) and Pu(IV) were carried out using mandelic acid as an eluent. The different
chromatographic conditions like concentration of mandelic acid, pH of the mobile phase, presence of MeOH and effect of ion interaction
reagent (IIR) were studied. The method was optimized for the separation of Th, U(VI) and Pu(IV). At pH < 3.5 of mobile phase, Pu(IV)
was more retained compared to U(VI) whereas at pH > 3.5, reverse trend was observed. The optimized parameters were employed for the
separation and determination of Th, U(VI) and Pu(IV) in a dissolved solution of irradiated (Th, Pu)O2. Sample treatment was
optimized to minimize loss of Pu and Th during chromatographic determination. Studies were carried out using two IIRs to understand the
anomalous chromatographic behavior of Pu(IV). Retention behavior of different oxidation states of Pu viz. Pu(III), Pu(IV) and
Pu(VI) was also studied in mandelic acid.
Spatio‐temporally precise activation of engineered receptor tyrosine kinases by light
Authors: Grusch Michael , Schelch Karin , Riedler Robert , Reichhart Eva , Differ Christopher , Berger Walter , Inglés‐Prieto Álvaro , Janovjak Harald
Published: July 2014

Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are a large family of cell surface receptors that sense growth factors and hormones and regulate a variety of cell behaviours in health and disease. Contactless activation of RTKs with spatial and temporal precision is currently not feasible. Here, we generated RTKs that are insensitive to endogenous ligands but can be selectively activated by low‐intensity blue light. We screened light‐oxygen‐voltage (LOV)‐sensing domains for their ability to activate RTKs by light‐activated dimerization. Incorporation of LOV domains found in aureochrome photoreceptors of stramenopiles resulted in robust activation of the fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1), epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and rearranged during transfection (RET). In human cancer and endothelial cells, light induced cellular signalling with spatial and temporal precision. Furthermore, light faithfully mimicked complex mitogenic and morphogenic cell behaviour induced by growth factors. RTKs under optical control (Opto‐RTKs) provide a powerful optogenetic approach to actuate cellular signals and manipulate cell behaviour.
Measuring error rates in genomic perturbation screens: gold standards for human functional genomics
Authors: Hart Traver , Brown Kevin R , Sircoulomb Fabrice , Rottapel Robert , Moffat Jason
Published: July 2014

Technological advancement has opened the door to systematic genetics in mammalian cells. Genome‐scale loss‐of‐function screens can assay fitness defects induced by partial gene knockdown, using RNA interference, or complete gene knockout, using new CRISPR techniques. These screens can reveal the basic blueprint required for cellular proliferation. Moreover, comparing healthy to cancerous tissue can uncover genes that are essential only in the tumor; these genes are targets for the development of specific anticancer therapies. Unfortunately, progress in this field has been hampered by off‐target effects of perturbation reagents and poorly quantified error rates in large‐scale screens. To improve the quality of information derived from these screens, and to provide a framework for understanding the capabilities and limitations of CRISPR technology, we derive gold‐standard reference sets of essential and nonessential genes, and provide a Bayesian classifier of gene essentiality that outperforms current methods on both RNAi and CRISPR screens. Our results indicate that CRISPR technology is more sensitive than RNAi and that both techniques have nontrivial false discovery rates that can be mitigated by rigorous analytical methods.
Abangan-Islam or Making Islam Indigeneous?
Authors: Ali Fachry
Published: July 2014

Book Review:Mystic Synthesis in Java: A History of Islamization from the Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries, by M.C. Ricklefs (Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2006), 275 pp. (English). Price $25.44. ISBN-13: 978-1891936616
Histomorphometric and 3D Cone-Beam Computerized Tomographic Evaluation of Socket Preservation in Molar Extraction Sites Using Human Particulate Mineralized Cancellous Allograft Bone With a Porcine Collagen Xenograft Barrier: A Case Series
Authors: Wallace Stephen
Published: July 2014

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the results of socket preservation after extraction using human particulate mineralized cancellous allograft bone (MCAB) and type I porcine collagen membranes (PCM) as a guided bone regeneration barrier. Fourteen patients, 12 women and 2 men, were selected who had a diagnosis of one or more unsalvageable teeth with a treatment plan to replace them with implant-supported single crown restorations. Extractions were preformed atraumatically by sectioning teeth for removal to avoid damaging the socket walls and by immediately placing MCAB graft to fill the sockets. The sockets were occluded with a new PCM. The membranes were cut to overlap the facial and lingual (or palatal) socket rim by at least 5 mm (or more if necessary) to cover bony wall fenestration or dehiscence defects. Implants were then placed 16 weeks after the extractions and augmentation. The results were evaluated clinically, histomorphometrically, and with cone-beam computerized tomographic scanning. The formation of new bone in the treated sites averaged 11.2%, with a range of 1.8% to 43%, in bone biopsies trephined from the center of the grafted socket sites. Density, calculated with proprietary software and measured in Hounsfield units (HUs), was 543 HU with a range of 420 to 822 HU. The resulting new bone regeneration varied widely, but the barrier membranes showed potential for promoting significant bone regeneration. A larger sample of treated cases is needed. Wall defects did not appear to influence the histologic results, but the number of sites was too small to determine their significance.
Indigenous nurses: participation of nursing technicians and auxiliary in indigenous health care services
Authors: Diehl Eliana Elisabeth , Follmann Helga Bruxel Carvalho
Published: July 2014

The aim of this study was to analyze the participation of Indigenous nursing technicians and aides in Indigenous health care services offered in the Xapecó Reserve, Santa Catarina, Brazil, focusing on the training and activities executed. Data collection (participant observation and interviews) and analysis were based on the ethnographic method. Sixteen key informants were interviewed, including nursing technicians and aides, training instructors, staff nurses and health service users. The training courses contained little or no emphasis on local knowledge and health practices. Other than the role of facilitator and mediator between the health team and community, the activities performed by the Indigenous nursing technicians and aides differed little from those of non-Indigenous people in the same categories. In this context, both the training of these workers and the activities executed by them reinforce the clinical curative model, which hinders articulation with local knowledge and Indigenous health practices, a principle of the National Policy of Health Care for Indigenous People.
Nurses' knowledge regarding the handling of the totally-implanted venous access device
Authors: Pires Nayara Nárley , Vasques Christiane Inocêncio
Published: July 2014

In the light of nurses' questions regarding the handling of the totally-implanted venous access device, this study aimed to evaluate these professionals' knowledge. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, whose sample was made up of 28 nurses working on the Internal Medicine ward and in the Emergency Room. The study was undertaken in two stages: interviewing, to evaluate knowledge regarding the handling of the implanted port; and an integrative review to clarify the doubts identified. The results indicated that the nurses' knowledge was inadequate regarding when to use the implanted port, its purpose, the puncture technique, maintenance and handling. It is concluded that the knowledge of the subjects evaluated is inadequate, and that it is necessary for these professionals' clinical skills to be standardized and for them to receive theoretical-practical training.
Family organization for the care of children with chronic conditions, discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit
Authors: Nishimoto Corina Lemos Jamal , Duarte Elysângela Dittz
Published: July 2014

A qualitative study that aimed to examine family organization for the care of children with chronic conditions, discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The subjects were 12 relatives of children with chronic health conditions. Data were collected through genograms, ecomaps and semi-structured interviews, developed based on the Family Management Style Framework theoretical model and analyzed using thematic content analysis. The organization of families is related to the ongoing care requirements of the children, considering the routines of care established in the period immediately after discharge from the hospital and continuing up to the present. It was established that families access their social networks to handle the required care.
The identity of the nursing academic: between education and research
Authors: González Mariela Aguayo , Castelló Badia Montserrat , Font Carles Monereo
Published: July 2014

This study aimed to analyze how nurses represent their role as nursing academics and their conceptions, strategies and feelings involved in teaching-learning and research in nursing. A qualitative study was conducted. To achieve this goal, a semi-structured interview was carried out with seven nurses who worked as teachers and researchers at a university in Barcelona, Spain. The data were analyzed through categories validated in a previous study with the support of The Atlas Ti program. The results evidenced that nurses are less equipped to develop the researcher role, and that the profession is not justified without a close relationship between nursing theory and practice. The nursing academics look for a balance between teaching and research and they also wish to promote the development of models and theories in their own discipline.
Continuing education in the development of competences in nurses
Authors: Salum Nádia Chiodelli , Prado Marta Lenise
Published: July 2014

This study aimed at characterizing the potential of continuing education to develop technical, relational/communicational, and ethical/political competences in nurses. This is a qualitative study undertaken with 12 nurses. Data collection was performed through documental analysis, interviews, and observation. Data were analysed on the basis of pre-determined categories: technical, communicational/relational, and ethical/political competences. Our results show that continuing education significantly contributes to the development of professional competences and indicate a predominance of the technical dimension as a way of ensuring security and professional recognition. However, relational/communicational and ethical/political competences are consolidating. They contribute to the interpersonal relationships and to the way of organizing work. Continuing educational processes, which include multiple dimensions of competences, potentiate the process, favoring integration among professionals in a changing world.
Nurses' voice when perceiving the pain of child burn patients
Authors: Gómez-Torres Danelia , Maldonado-González Victoria , Reyes-Robles Berenice , Muciño-Carrera Ana Laura
Published: July 2014

The objective of this study was to reveal nurses' perception in view of the nociceptive pain in child burn patients. This qualitative descriptive study was conducted at the Federal District Pediatric Hospital in Mexico City. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews with ten nurses working in the burn unit; they were analyzed by content analysis, which yielded three categories. The theoretical framework was based on phenomenology. The results showed the nurses' experiences, their expression, and their self-defense mechanisms, as revealed in the perception of their interventions. This highlighted the humanistic load regarding emotions, as the exposure to these feelings implies spending additional strength and energy, because the emotional work becomes more intense as their workloadincreases. Thus, the study concluded that subjects learn about their own experience through experience itself.
Perceptions of the nursing staff regarding the safety of elderly patients in the cardiac computed tomography with contrast
Authors: Acauan Laura Vargas , Rodrigues Maria Cristina Soares
Published: July 2014

Descriptive study, with qualitative approach, in order to understand the perception of the nursing staff regarding the safety of elderly patients in the administration of iodinated contrast media, conducted at the diagnostic imaging centers of two private hospitals, located in Brasília, Federal District, Brazil. Data were collected by technical interview of eleven participants, between July and August 2012. The analysis and processing of the data were made by means of the method of content analysis, bringing out the safety category of the elderly in the realization of cardiac computed tomography - coronarian angiography. The nursing staff understood that the safety of the elderly in the exam is associated with the ability to assess risks for adverse events related to the administration of the radiopharmaceutical, in which processes, technologies and human interactions intertwine, implying in safe practices.
Actions of women farmers in family care: use of medicinal plants in Southern Brazil
Authors: Lima Ângela Roberta Alves , Heck Rita Maria , Vasconcelos Márcia Kaster Portelina , Barbieri Rosa Lía
Published: July 2014

The aim of this study was to describe actions in family care and use of medicinal plants by women farmers in the south of Rio Grande do Sul, RS, Brazil. This is a qualitative study with a group of 15 women farmers from District of Rincão da Cruz, Pelotas, RS. Data were collected in 2011 and 2012. Participant observations, focus groups, and individual interviews were performed, resulting in two thematic cores. The theoretical reference for this study was based on publications by Geertz and Leininger. Content analysis of discourses was developed in three stages: pre-analysis, analysis, and interpretation of results. These women were shown to have knowledge on medicinal plants and the most prevalent diseases in the region. This knowledge is used in the context of the family and community care. These women farmers are recognized in the region by their persistent work with medicinal plants as a health resource.
Relationship between functional fitness, medication costs and mood in elderly people
Authors: Laureano Michelli Luciana Massolini , Martins Raul Agostinho , Sousa Nuno M. , Machado-Rodrigues Aristides M. , Valente-Santos João , Coelho-e-Silva Manoel João
Published: July 2014

Objective: to verify if functional fitness (FF) is associated with the annual cost of medication consumption and mood states (MSt) in elderly people. Methods: a cross-sectional study with 229 elderly people aged 65 years or more at Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Coimbra, Portugal. Seniors with physical and psychological limitations were excluded, as well as those using medication that limits performance on the tests. The Senior Fitness Test was used to evaluate FF, and the Profile of Mood States - Short Form to evaluate the MSt. The statistical analysis was based on Mancova, with adjustment for age, for comparison between men and women, and adjustment for sex, for comparison between cardiorespiratory fitness quintiles. The association between the variables under study was made with partial correlation, controlling for the effects of age, sex and body mass index. Results: an inverse correlation between cardiorespiratory fitness and the annual cost of medication consumption was found (p < 0.01). FF is also inversely associated with MSt (p < 0.05). Comparisons between cardiorespiratory fitness quintiles showed higher medication consumption costs in seniors with lower aerobic endurance, as well as higher deterioration in MSt (p < 0.01). Conclusion: elderly people with better FF and, specifically, better cardiorespiratory fitness present lower medication consumption costs and a more positive MSt.
Correlation between Bhalla score and spirometry in children and adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis
Authors: Pereira Flavia Fajardo Linhares , Ibiapina Cassio da Cunha , Alvim Cristina Gonçalves , Camargos Paulo Augusto Moreira , Figueiredo Reginaldo , Pedrosa Jesiana Ferreira
Published: July 2014

Objective: to correlate the findings of high resolution computed tomography of the chest based on the Bhalla score with the clinical data and spirometry in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis, and to study the concordance between two radiologists for the Bhalla score and its categories. Methods: we evaluated the medical records of 23 patients from the outpatient clinic. The items evaluated included age, weight, height, height/age Z-score, weight/age Z-score, body mass index (BMI), O2 saturation, spirometry and Bhalla score. Results: the patients had a mean age of 17.4 years ± 5.7 years, with fifteen females and eight males. There was good correlation between Bhalla score and spirometry (FVC-r =0.718, p<0.001; FEV1-r=0.830, p<0.001; FEF25-75%-r =0.786, p<0.001; FEV1/FVC-r=0.714, p<0.001). It was also noted that some patients with FEF25-75%> 70% already had changes in their final Bhalla score. In the analysis of the concordance between the examiners a Kappa coefficient of 0.81 (p <0.001) was found, and an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.98. Conclusion: a good correlation between Bhalla scores with spirometry confirmed its usefulness in evaluating and monitoring patients with cystic fibrosis, given it can be used both in patients who are unable to perform spirometry as well as for a pooled analysis of the two examinations since the HRCT scans show early changes in patients with normal function tests.
Epstein-Barr virus in oral mucosa from human immunodeficiency virus positive patients
Authors: Santos Larissa , Azevedo Kátia , Silva Licinio , Oliveira Ledy
Published: July 2014

Objective: the detection rate of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is higher in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In an attempt to contribute to our epidemiological understanding of this coinfection and to investigate the activity of EBV in normal oral mucosa, we performed a cross-sectional study with HIV-positive patients. Methods: oral smears from 145 HIV-positive patients were collected between March 2010 and March 2011. Nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and reverse transcriptase-PCR (RT-PCR) were used to genotype EBV and to detect EBNA-2 expression, respectively. Results: EBV DNA was detected in 48.3% of the study participants, of whom 32.85% were EBV-1 and 45.71% were EBV-2 carriers. Additionally, 14.28% were coinfected with both types. EBNA-2 mRNA was expressed in 45.7% of the EBV -positive samples, including 20.0% with EBV-1 only, 20.0% with EBV-2 only and 1.4% with both genotypes. Immune status affected the overall EBV infection, and EBV-2 positivity was significantly correlated with sexual lifestyle of the participants. EBV co-infection with both viral types was dependent upon HIV viral load and the activity of the EBNA-2 gene. Conclusion: we report a high prevalence of active EBV in the oral mucosa of asymptomatic HIV-seropositive individuals. This study addresses the need for monitoring and treatment of HIV-infected patients with EBV reactivation.
Flexibilidad en la resolución de problemas de identificación de patrones lineales en estudiantes de educación secundaria
Authors: Callejo María Luz , Zapatera Alberto
Published: July 2014

El objetivo de este trabajo es caracterizar la flexibilidad, entendida como habilidad para modificar la estrategia de resolución de un problema cuando se modifica la demanda de la tarea, de estudiantes de educación secundaria (12-16 años) en problemas de reconocimiento de patrones con varios apartados. Se utiliza una metodología de tipo cualitativo analizando las respuestas de los estudiantes en base a dos criterios: corrección de las respuestas y estrategias de resolución, y agrupando las que presentan características semejantes. Los resultados indican tres perfiles de estudiantes en relación a la flexibilidad en el uso de estrategias y el éxito alcanzado. El primero agrupa a los estudiantes que usan sólo la estrategia recursiva; la mayor parte de ellos se bloquea al aumentar la demanda cognitiva de la tarea; predominan los estudiantes de 12-13 años. El segundo perfil corresponde a los que cambian de una estrategia recursiva a una aproximación proporcional dando un resultado incorrecto; es más frecuente en los estudiantes de 13-14 años. Finalmente, el tercer perfil agrupa a los estudiantes que al aumentar la demanda cognitiva de la tarea cambian con éxito de una estrategia recursiva a una funcional; su frecuencia aumenta con la edad. Se concluye que la flexibilidad necesaria para identificar patrones cuando se incrementa la demanda de la tarea está relacionada con los conocimientos de los estudiantes y con el control y la regulación del proceso de resolución. Por otra parte, los estudiantes más jóvenes manifestaron menor grado de flexibilidad que los más mayores.
Educação matemática na educação profissional de nível médio: análise sobre possibilidades de abordagens interdisciplinares
Authors: Gonçalves Harryson Júnio Lessa , Pires Célia Maria Carolino
Published: July 2014

No presente artigo nosso objetivo é ampliar a discussão sobre a educação matemática de alunos da Educação Profissional de Nível Médio no Brasil (EPTNM), focalizando a questão da interdisciplinaridade, apontada em documentos oficiais como um dos eixos organizadores dos currículos para essa modalidade de ensino. Estudos nesse campo justificam-se, tanto pela dimensão que essa modalidade vem tomando no sistema educacional brasileiro, como pela carência de investigações específicas na área de Educação Matemática sobre EPTNM. Nossa investigação orienta-se pelas questões: a adoção de uma perspectiva de organização curricular interdisciplinar pode contribuir para a articulação entre a formação profissional técnica e a formação mais acadêmica como é colocada para o Ensino Médio? Quais suas potencialidades para a constituição de aprendizagens mais significativas de conteúdos matemáticos nessa modalidade de ensino? Avaliamos que a superficialidade com que o tema da interdisciplinaridade tem sido tratado e a falta de sua contextualização no âmbito das demais pesquisas em Educação Matemática são alguns dos fatores da não implementação da ideia com sucesso. Nesse sentido, neste artigo, retomamos a contribuição de diferentes autores que investigam o tema e incluímos proposições no sentido de explorar a Etnomatemática e a Modelagem como possibilidades de enriquecimento curricular da EPTNM, articulando diferentes áreas do conhecimento e contextualizando a matemática na realidade do mundo do trabalho.
Una introducción a la derivada desde la variación y el cambio: resultados de una investigación con estudiantes de primer año de la universidad
Authors: Vrancken Silvia , Engler Adriana
Published: July 2014

El estudio del cálculo juega un rol importante cuando es necesario cuantificar o medir algún fenómeno. Sin embargo, en el sistema educativo se han priorizado, en general, procesos de construcción formales y aspectos algorítmicos. Buscando dar respuesta a esta problemática se inició una investigación, abordando el estudio de la derivada. El trabajo se enmarcó en la línea del Pensamiento y Lenguaje Variacional, que estudia la articulación entre la investigación y las prácticas sociales que dan vida a la matemática de la variación y el cambio en los sistemas didácticos. En el contexto de una ingeniería didáctica, se diseñó una secuencia que se llevó al aula con alumnos de Matemática II de la carrera Ingeniería Agronómica. Las actividades permitieron analizar diversos escenarios de variación (qué magnitudes cambian, cómo y cuánto cambian), caracterizar variaciones entre las magnitudes, a través del cálculo de razones de cambio, y explorar cómo la pendiente de una curva se relaciona con la razón de cambio. Su presentación, desde diferentes representaciones, favorece el desarrollo de uno de los procesos cognitivos implicados en el pensamiento matemático, el de visualización. En este artículo se describen brevemente los aspectos teóricos y metodológicos que fundamentan el diseño de la secuencia y se presentan algunos resultados obtenidos de su implementación a partir de la observación de las actividades desarrolladas por los alumnos. La propuesta logró motivar a los alumnos y movilizar sus concepciones. La discusión de los resultados obtenidos favorece la optimización de la secuencia.