bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Embodied Spectator and the Uncomfortable Experience of Watching Romance and The Piano Teacher
Authors: Sellevold Orning Sara Elisabeth
Published: March 2020

In this article I investigate the embodied and multi-sensual spectator, whose film experience is not dominated by the disembodied, voyeuristic distance to the screen posited as inevitable by much psychoanalytic film theory. This is a spectator who is 'making sense' of the film through eyes that hear and ears that see, and whose affective disposition allows for an experience not limited to vision as the only sense-maker. I bring into play issues of the body, embodiment, experience, and affect in order to identify possible sources of the ambiguous, bodily discomfort engendered in the spectator by Romance (Catherine Breillat, 1999) and The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001). The reactions of discomfort to these films seem to be symptomatic of a not entirely conscious rejoinder to the visual image. I suggest that such reactions indicate that the cinematic bodies touch the spectators on a bodily and psychical level, one that cannot be divided into mind and body but which must be considered embodied. As such, my argument addresses the visual and artistic representation of bodies, but it does so by going beyond traditional ways of 'interpreting the body' as object, seeking instead to investigate the very embodied processes of creating and acquiring this spectatorial knowledge.
Writing the world: photographing the text of the landscape
Authors: Wall Gina
Published: March 2020

I am engaged in a practice led thesis, which has been challenged and shaped by thinkers in the fields of critical theory and philosophy. Although I work in dialogue with these theorists, I am principally a visual practitioner who is most at home with traditional, wet process photography.I began with a general concern regarding my own resistance to landscape photography as the depiction of the view, which has led me to question the persistence of the (illusion of) the unified photographic moment. My visual process, which began quite simply as a reaction against the pervasiveness of the view in photography, has, in dialogue with writers such as Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Rosalind Krauss, enabled me to theorise my own photographic practice as a form of writing. Central to this has been the investigation of different theoretical configurations of the semiotic sign.I contend that Rosalind Krauss’ conception of Surrealist photography as a practice of écriture, in fact accounts for photographic practice more broadly speaking. The spacing of the photographic sign, which Krauss describes as an ‘invagination of presence,’ defers the confluence of the signified and the signifier thus rupturing the illusion of presence in the photographic moment: the shutter differences the image from the world and the practice of photography reconfigures the world as a form of writing. However, not simply in the sense of a surface inscribed by light, but writing as a space in which the possibility for meaning is realised.
Conference Review: Empirical approaches to Performance: Empirical Musicology II conference (25-26 March 2010, School of Music, University of Leeds, UK)
Authors: Jordanous Anna
Published: March 2020

A review of the "Empirical approaches to Performance: Empirical Musicology II" conference (25-26 March 2010, School of Music, University of Leeds, UK).
(re) Performing the Posthuman: a conference on performance arts and posthumanism, University of Sussex, 21st-22nd May 2010
Authors: Sage Liz
Published: March 2020

Review of (re) Performing the Posthuman: a conference on performance arts and posthumanism, University of Sussex, 21st-22nd May 2010
Luke Jerram’s ‘Glass Microbiology’
Authors: Daw Naomi
Published: March 2020

A review of Luke Jerram’s ‘Glass Microbiology’.
Conference Review: First Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference, Queens University Belfast, 14th-15th October 2011
Authors: Fisher Davies Paul
Published: March 2020

A review of the First Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference held at Queens University Belfast, 14th-15th October 2011.
Review: Living Fanon: Global Perspectives
Authors: Harris Katharine Ann
Published: March 2020

Review of Nigel Gibson's Living Fanon: Global Perspectives, a recently published critical survey of the life and works of Frantz Fanon.
A New Hegemonic Hope: Daemonic Agency in the Techno-Thriller Novels of Daniel Suarez
Authors: Giguère Christian
Published: March 2020

The article reflects on how contemporary science fiction has initiated a paradigmatic shift in the conceptualization of hegemonic force. Focussing on the figure of the Daemon depicted in two recent techno-thriller novels – Daemon (2009) et Freedom (2010) by American author Daniel Suarez – I show how the pervasive conceptions surrounding the agency of modern technology that we find in the late writings of Martin Heidegger are confronted in twenty-first century narratives that question the way we conceptualize the hegemonic directing of human consciousness by re-examining the figures of Ancient Greco-Roman thought. In the article, I pay particular attention to how what I call the “daemonic mobility” of human thought that we find in the writings of the Neo-Platonist Apuleius is eliminated by Augustine in his devising (in City of God and his other writings) of a permanent locus of existential consciousness, and how this contributes to Heidegger’s understanding of the essence of technology as the “coming to presence of art”. By re-investing the figure of the daemon and the mobility of human thought, Suarez narratives allow us to renew our understanding of the nature of this poeisis.
Dismembering the Cautionary Cliché: Re-Reading the Techno-Science Ethics in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Authors: Hageman Andrew C
Published: March 2020

In a wide range of academic, public, and governmental policy discourses, Frankenstein continues to appear today with an uncanny persistence. Many of these appearances, however, have taken on identities not recognizably connected to Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel.  Instead, the word “Frankenstein” has been transformed into a cultural signifier of theological and/or technological cautionary tales about limits to and transgressions of human techno-scientific endeavors. This essay presents methodical close readings of the 1818 and 1831 prefaces to the novel as well as key passages within the novel to argue that Shelley's writing does not support the cautionary uses to which her novel is put today. The essay further argues that only by re-animating the horror present in the dun white sockets of this monumental novel that the cautionary cliché has obfuscated can we work through the trauma that drives us obsessively to repeat this story while consistently avoiding the anxieties and imaginations that constitute our techno-scientific trauma.
‘You Know the Business and I Know the Chemistry’: The Scientific Ethos of Breaking Bad
Authors: Wetherbee Ben , Weaver Stephanie
Published: March 2020

We conduct an analysis of the American television drama Breaking Bad as a show that resists the label of 'science fiction', while its use of scientific imagery and discourse create what we call a 'scientific ethos'. This essay explores the use of science as an appeal to intelligence and credibility in Breaking Bad. We include a theoretical discussion of how ethos emerges in serial television narratives, an analysis of the show's textual construction of its ethos, and a discussion of the intertexual and social effects of that ethos. Finally, we recommend the adoption of a rhetorical perspective in analysing how images of science circulate in fictional texts.
Inputs and Outputs: Engagement in digital media from the maker's perspective
Authors: Witchel Dr. Harry J , Westling Carina E I
Published: March 2020

In the process of developing a technology assembly that can objectively measure engagement on a moment-by-moment basis, subjective responses to stimuli must be shown to correlate with the component technologies, such as motion capture or psychophysiology.  Subjective scales for engagement are not all consistent in segregating the measurement of causes (inputs to the audience) and effects (outputs from the audience); this lack of separation can obscure appropriate inferences in the relationship between cause and effect.  Inputs to the audience are scripted, and are controllable by the maker.  An output is what the designed experience engenders in the end-user, and outputs can include both mental states (satisfaction) and physical activities (heart rate) during the stimulus and subsequently.  Inputs can be maximised by design, whereas to optimise outputs from the end-user, one needs an empirical process because outputs are dependent upon an interpretive process or entry into a biological system.  Outputs will be highly dependent on audience and context, and they will often be quite variable, even in individuals from a similar audience profile. It is critical that, in instruments assessing the relationship between inputs and outputs, controllable inputs to the end-user must not be conflated with outputs engendered in the end-user.
Review of 'Bruno Latour - Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World' by Anders Blok & Torben Elgaard Jensen - Routledge 2012
Authors: Gray Alastair
Published: March 2020

A review of the paperback edition of Blok and Jensen's introduction to the thought of Bruno Latour
Conference Report: Science and Literary Criticism, St. John’s College, Oxford, 12 April 2012.
Authors: Rowlinson Zac
Published: March 2020

A report on a conference held at St. John's College, Oxford, which was entitled 'Science and Literary Criticism,' with wider reflections on the so-called 'cognitive turn' in literary criticism.
Dirty History and America's White Trash: American Eugenics and the Problem of Purity
Authors: Currell Sue
Published: March 2020

Sue Currell’s paper discussed the idea of purity on several levels of discourse: firstly, as a historical trope by which both “welfare” and eugenics were promoted as progress, seen in the metaphorical ideas of welfare as “social house cleaning” or the pure and thereby efficient body during the 1930s. Secondly, how “pure” records such as well-intentioned documentary photographs aiming to uplift the rural poor were “infected” with the “fictions” of eugenic discourse around gene impurity. Finally, how researching the history of eugenics raises further trouble by hanging out the “dirty laundry” of the process of history making itself, in raising the problematic of historical knowledge and pure truths/transparent meanings, arguing that the methodological issues raised by researching eugenics highlight mostly an “impure”, tainted, or incomplete historical record that needs acknowledgment.
Rape, Possession and the Law in Thomas Middleton's 'Women Beware Women' and 'The Changeling'
Authors: Piraino Annaliese Beth
Published: March 2020

Patriarchal constructsordain male dominance over female lifestyle and livelihood, additionallydetermining feminine value: more specifically what should happen with, and to, awoman's body.  Outlined within Renaissanceproductions such as Thomas Middleton’s WomenBeware Women and The Changeling, possessiveinequality lies behind each woman taken by her rapist.  Early laws such as the 1275 Statute of Westminster liken rape to theft and help fashionthe practice to be resultant of female Edenic flaw.  Thus, both culture and law reveal the trivializationof rape through the necessity of possession. Rape and other sexual inequities become justifiable as a requisite rightof the man, and part of the natural order to satisfy the woman. Throughout culture and law, rape and chastity expectations demonstratethe need for men to “purify” male dominated societies of women that "drivemen" to sexual compulsion.  Women arerepresentative of societal atrocities--manifestations of patriarchal fearspertaining to the loss of power.  Purgingsociety of supposed forces proves a valuable service to patriarchal order, as aloss of these controls over the woman could prove disastrous.  Thus, in order for the familial and societalpatriarchy to maintain stability, it is the right of the man to exercise his jurisdiction.  Because women are possessions, theirviolation directly relates back to their possessors; therefore, the woman’snatural propensity to be ravished, elicits a man’s cultural predisposition topossess.            Ultimately, these texts expose possession as the factor used to justify man’s desire to rape, and denote the woman’s fault in her own rape.  The act of rape is a political means of advancement in a culture filled with women in need of being ruled.  Thus, patriarchal construct requires rule over sexuality, which must be regulated to protect women, the men that possess them, and the patriarchal society as a whole.
Putrefaction and Purity: Death and Denial in Andrew Miller’s Pure
Authors: Downes Rebecca
Published: March 2020

The great carapace of human culture is erected to deny our essential corporeality, our persistent vulnerability, and our inevitable extinction; death is quite simply an elephant in the room of Western culture. Inspired by Phillipe Ariès’s The Hour of Our Death, Andrew Miller’s 2011 novel, Pure, is a fictionalised account of the clearing of Les Innocents cemetery in Paris in 1785. True to Foucault’s conception of history as a means of interrogating the present, Miller’s novel investigates the origins of contemporary attitudes to death in Enlightenment values of reason, sanitation and medicalization. This rationalisation coupled with, and complicated by, the Romantic revolution in sentiment that dates back to the late eighteenth century and still reverberates throughout Western society today has led to a collective denial of death and a denunciation of the decaying and diseased body. The book’s title, Pure, refers to this purification of culture through the purgation of death, but it also brings to mind Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, which is contemporaneous with the novel’s setting. This paper will argue that Miller’s novel is itself a critique of the kind of abstract thinking or pure reason that serves to deny the body and banish death. Miller’s sensuous, voluptuous prose brings death to life, so to speak, literally and metaphorically depicting the resurgence of the dead body and resituating death within daily life. A contemporary ars moriendi, Pure exemplifies the praxis of storytelling as a form of embodied knowledge that transcends abstract theory and situates discourse in the arena of shared sentience and shared mortality.
Pure Painting and Mottled Colour
Authors: Ward Tara
Published: March 2020

On the eve of World War I, Guillaume Apollinaire announced the birth of ‘pure painting’.  Scholars have typically understood this as an early version of mid-century theories of abstract art; however, that interpretation ignores the poet’s close association with Robert and Sonia Delaunay.  Those artists were deeply influenced by M. E. Chevreul, a nineteenth-century colour theorist who showed that complementary hues appear more pure when seen simultaneously.  Most often discussed in relation to the phenomenological changes that occur when red and green are viewed side-by-side, simultaneous contrast suggests an alternative view of purity.  For the Delaunays, pure painting was not a retreat from the world, but a way of making its dichotomies and conflicts more visible.
My Most Prized Possession, an American Obsession. Virginity and the Sexual Politics of the American Teen Film.
Authors: Sonnenberg-Schrank Björn
Published: March 2020

American "teen films" and TV series can be regarded as mass consumerculture's version of literature's "bildungsroman". Their main trope isthe adolescent individual's search for identity and independence,narrated via the personal and social initiation associated with acoming-of-age experience, often ignited and/or epitomized by a sexualinitiation, most commonly in the form of virginity loss. Thus, manyteen films are negotiations of purity, chastity, and virginity—withquite mixed messages.With recourses to Jean Paul Sartre, Barrington Moore Jr., MichelFoucault, Sigmund Freud, Laura M. Carpenter and others, this paperaddresses how the transitional in-between state of adolescence isevaluated in American (popular) culture, the sexual politics of manyof these narratives, and their agency in reflecting as well as shapingadolescent sexual identities.
Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism
Authors: Di Bernardo Francesco
Published: March 2020

Jeremy Gilbert’s new book is an intellectually compelling work which not only provides a detailed and rigorous account of the philosophical, cultural and historical formation of individualism in Western world and its latest developments under the aegis of neoliberal cultural hegemony, but most importantly seeks to envisage viable alternatives to both the hegemonic culture of competitive individualism and to conservative communitarianism.
Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean
Authors: Newell Penny
Published: March 2020

This review expounds on the implications of the central tenet of Water Worlds:Human Geographies of the Ocean (2014), analysing and problematising internal contradictions inhered by the structural qualities of the book.
A Monstrous Ideal
Authors: Stearn Robert
Published: March 2020

The paper suggests that 17th-century writers sometimes thought about disciplines, methods, and concepts as skilful, in the sense that these objects and processes held information, were used as tools to aid discrimination (where their use might also be skilful), and were the aggregated experience of people with skill as well as the product of their activities. The paper also suggests that servants were thought about in a similar way. Drawing on range of printed texts and a series of 'ideal servant' emblems from the 16th to the 18th century – in which servant chimeras and cyborgs appear with limbs and heads replaced by animal parts and/or inanimate objects connected with domestic service – the paper asks: in what ways did these materials place servants placed in relation to skill, or make them part of an institution in which one might be skilled, or part of a practice susceptible to modification by skill? The paper concludes by looking closely at a 1682 print and argues that it articulates a similar sense of skill as that found in 17th-century written materials. The print – in which a servant holds the tools of high-status arts in which one might be skilled, but servants were not – occupies an intermediate position between the emblematic servant of the sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century (whose capacities and attributes are expressed by the conventional significance of animals and tools) and the joke automaton maidservant of the eighteenth and nineteenth (made out of the objects around which and through which the work of domestic service takes place – the composite servant-body figures the energy of the living servant that puts them in motion).
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Ethic Fail!
Authors: Calvert-Giddings Rebecca
Published: March 2020

What failed in order to cause the 'perfect storm' that lead to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis? Did the leaders, managers and employees of financial institutions have a complete disregard for regulation, a breakdown in human ethics, a contempt for customers, or in fact ignorance to anything apart from profit and bonuses? If so, is increased regulation going to prevent this from happening again? Or is increasing regulation causing a dissociation in staff from ethical decision making and placing an almost co-dependent and ultimately unrealistic reliance on complance and legal departments, which is in turn setting the industry up to fail again?
'Could not want a lover … more than freedom': Failing in Sarah Waters’s Affinity and Fingersmith
Authors: G Adair Joshua
Published: March 2020

Using J. Jack Halberstam's theories of queer failure, this essay examines Sarah Waters's neo-Victorian novels Affinity and Fingersmith. The author argues that we must read Waters’s novels as narratives of queer failure, rich with negative potential for scuttling normativity and dismantling schemas of queer progress, while resisting the temptation to insert narratives of progress or positivity.
The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information
Authors: Lovering Ian
Published: March 2020

Review of the book The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information
Radical Happiness
Authors: Minozzo Ana Carolina
Published: March 2020

Review of the book Radical Happines: Moments of Collective Joy, Lynne Segal, London: Verso, 2017
Research Image Competition
Authors: Various Competition
Published: March 2020

Winners of the University of Sussex Doctoral School's Research Image Competition, as part of the Festival of Doctoral Research at the University in June 2018.
‘What happened to the truth is not recorded’: Anticipating the Shift from Postmodern Consumer Culture to Post-Truth in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot
Authors: Thomas Ashely
Published: March 2020

This paper will explore the concept of “fakeness” in Julian Barnes’ Flaubert’s Parrot. Defining “fake” as something “formed by or adapted to an artificial or conventional standard,” I will show how Barnes’ novel exposes the “fakeness” of historical knowledge. Utilizing Linda Hutcheon’s theories regarding postmodern literature—as well has Hayden White’s theories regarding historiography—I will analyze how Flaubert’s Parrot fakes literary biography, historical documents, academic conventions, female voices, and even the novel itself. This paper shows how Flaubert’s Parrot exposes the weaknesses in our understanding of history, as well as our willingness to believe in problematic historical narratives. More than this, my paper will show how Barnes’ novel ultimately succumbs to the narrative conventionality that it claims to subvert—illustrating how it is impossible to escape factitious conventions if one wants to impart a sense of meaning. Flaubert’s Parrot serves as a case study within the fields of deconstruction, narrative theory, and historiography—showing how problematic historical accounts can easily mime conventional academic standards and be readily accepted by readers. My study of Flaubert’s Parrot is particularly relevant with regard to our “Post-Truth” political era, as it shows how the quest to include multiple truths in the historical narrative can be taken advantage of in order to include lies. Flaubert’s Parrot emphasizes Linda Hutcheon’s claim that our understanding of history is based upon unreliable “traces” and “relics,” and is susceptible to being radically altered by the addition or subtraction of historical “relics” (Hutcheon 119). Although Flaubert’s Parrot problematizes our system of historical knowledge, its ultimate submission to the conventional novel form shows that it may be impossible to escape from the factitious conventions that shape our modes of knowledge.
Female street vendors’ (dis)engagement with politics in Rwanda – Orientalising women’s political participation
Authors: JIN Xia Nan
Published: March 2020

Women’s political participation was initiated as an instrument for gender equality yet now is under research scrutiny. Due to gender quotas and other institutionalization of women’s political inclusion, Rwanda has the highest number of women in its parliament – 67%. But is women’s political participation a real tool for gender equality, or is it one that through the artificial guise of women’s political representation sets up an exclusive political space? Apart from women who work in political institutions, who else are participating in politics and how and where are they engaging with politics? Feminists should claim back this discussion, reject neoliberal approach to ‘empower’ women and propose a more distributive and collective agenda. As part of my PhD project regarding women’s (dis)engagement with politics in Rwanda, female vendors drew my attention during my fieldwork in Rwanda. In Rwanda, female vendors are among the groups who are the ‘furthest’ to participate and influence the political decision-making process, yet are heavily influenced by various political policies on a daily base. For example, the by-law forbidding street vendors was initiated in 2015 and further enforced in 2017 was designed to punish street vendors because they build “unfair competition for customers with legitimate businesses paying rent and taxes” . Consequently, many female vendors face a great deal of violence by local forces. Using feminist ethnography as the methodology, I choose visual methods to tell the stories of female vendors. That is, the photography project is designed to elicit stories of ‘what happened when’, and to encourage participants to ‘remember’ past events, and past dynamics on the street, as well as to express their own opinions and ideas. My task is to reconstruct the process of female street vendor’s engagement with politics and in doing so deconstruct the fake formal image of female political participation in Rwanda.
When private property masquerades as public space: the shifting face of publicness in London’s city squares
Authors: Martin Jessie
Published: March 2020

"Access to space is fundamentally related to social status and power...changing the allocation of space is inherently related to changing society" (Weisman, 1992)

 

In contemporary London, a pattern has emerged whereby private corporations create and take ownership of public space, but the type of publicness they promote is conditional. In private-public space, private property masquerades as public land with rules of inhabitation often impenetrable, unknowable until they are broken. International owners activate networks of relations beyond the local; I question how private-public space fits with local communities, and how these networks shift notions of authenticity and inauthenticity in relation to public belonging. There is a specific focus on the public square as a form of private-public space, because the city square has a long-established spatial identity that embodies notions of publicity. The public square stimulates and contains public life, and neoliberal dynamics of ownership and management threaten public assemblages. Private-public squares do not fit into the majority of theories that have been developed on place, public space and private dynamics, but they are exemplative of a type of space increasingly prominent in Britain. I focus on four private-public squares in London to examine what can be learnt when a format of space is reproduced under incompatible conditions. How do these spaces work on a quotidian level and how does this intervention in public life shift urban identities and behavioural paradigms? The basis of my research is to examine concepts of publicness and privateness and how they apply to private-public squares in London, whilst utilising the practice of photography, observation and inhabitation to gain empirical ethnographic evidence. My research intends to assemble a toolkit to facilitate understanding about pseudo-public space, rather than ascribe fixed meanings to a subject which requires specificity.
Short-Term Moderate-Dose Corticosteroid Plus Immunoglobulin Effectively Reverses COVID-19 Patients Who Have Failed Low-Dose Therapy
Authors: Zhou Zhi-Guo , Xie Shu-Min , Zhang Jing , Zheng Fang , Jiang Di-Xuan , Li Ke-Yu , Zuo Qi , Yan Yu-Sheng , Liu Ji-Yang , Xie Yuan-Lin , Peng Hong , Zhang Lei
Published: March 2020

Background: The coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has spread globally with more than 80,000 people infected, and nearly 3000 patients died. Currently, we are in an urgent need for effective treatment strategy to control the clinical deterioration of COVID-19 patients. Methods: The clinical data of 10 COVID-19 patients receiving short-term moderate-dose corticosteroid (160mg/d) plus immunoglobulin (20g/d) were studied in the North Yard of The First Hospital of Changsha, Hunan from January 17th to February 27th, 2020. Epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, radiological findings were analyzed. Results: After treatment with combination of low-dose corticosteroid (40-80mg/d) and immunoglobulin (10g/d), patients’ lymphocyte count (0.88±0.34 vs 0.59±0.18, P<0.05), oxygenation index including SPO2 (94.90±2.51 vs 90.50±5.91, P<0.05) and PaO2/FiO2 (321.36±136.91 vs 129.30±64.97, P<0.05) were significantly lower than pre-treatment, and CT showed that the pulmonary lesion deteriorated in all patients. While after treatment of short-term moderate-dose corticosteroid plus immunoglobulin, patients’ APACHE Ⅱ score (9.10±6.15 vs 5.50±9.01, P<0.05), body temperature (37.59±1.16 vs 36.46±0.25, P<0.05), lymphocyte count (0.59±0.18 vs 1.36±0.51, P<0.05), Lactate dehydrogenase (419.24±251.31 vs 257.40±177.88, P<0.05), and C-reactive protein (49.94±26.21 vs 14.58±15.25, P<0.05) significantly improved compared with post-treatment with low-dose therapy. In addition, oxygenation index including SPO2 (90.50±5.91 vs 97.50±1.18, P<0.05), PaO2 (60.47±14.53 vs 99.07±34.31, P<0.05), and PaO2/FiO2 (129.30±64.97 vs 340.86±146.72, P<0.05) significant improved. Furthermore, CT showed that pulmonary lesions obviously improved in 7 patients. After systematic therapy, 4 out of 10 COVID-19 patients recovered and discharged. Conclusions: Short-term moderate-dose corticosteroid plus immunoglobulin is effective for reversing the continued deterioration of COVID-19 patients who failed to respond to the low-dose therapy. Funding: This work was supported by the Innovative Major Emergency Project Funding against the New Coronavirus Pneumonia in Hunan Province (Dr. Ji-Yang Liu, number 2020SK3014; Dr. Yuan-Lin Xie, number 2020SK3013).
Low-rank Updates of Preconditioners for Sequences of Symmetric Linear Systems
Authors: Bergamaschi Luca
Published: March 2020

The aim of this survey is to review some recent developements in devising efficient preconditioners for sequences of linear systems A x = b. Such a problem arise in many scientific applications, such as discretization of transient PDEs, solution of eigenvalue problems, (Inexact) Newton method applied to nonlinear systems, rational Krylov methods for computing a function of a matrix. Full purpose preconditioners such as the Incomplete Cholesky (IC) factorization or approximate inverses are aimed at clustering eigenvalues of the preconditioned matrices around one. In this paper we will analyze a number of techniques of updating a given IC preconditioner (which we denote as P0 in the sequel) by a low-rank matrix with the aim of further improving this clustering. The most popular low-rank strategies are aimed at removing the smallest eigenvalues (deflation) or at shifting them towards the middle of the spectrum. The low-rank correction is based on a (small) number of linearly independent vectors whose choice is crucial for the effectiveness of the approach. In many cases these vectors are approximations of eigenvectors corresponding to the smallest eigenvalues of the preconditioned matrix P0 A. We will also review some techniques to efficiently approximate these vectors when incorporated within a sequence of linear systems all possibly having constant (or slightly changing) coefficient matrices. Numerical results concerning sequences arising from discretization of linear/nonlinear PDEs and iterative solution of eigenvalue problems show that the performance of a given iterative solver can be very much enhanced by the use of low-rank updates.
Short-Stem Prostheses in Total Hip Arthroplasty: An Unexpected Short-Term Complication
Authors: Harper Katharine D. , Incavo Stephen J. , Clyburn Terry A.
Published: March 2020

Case:

We present here 2 cases of postoperative stress fractures in the setting of a short-stem implant. Both patients had well-aligned implants with good bone quality and presented with delayed onset and atraumatic thigh pain. They were diagnosed with periprosthetic fractures around stable implants.

Conclusions:

We now reserve the use of these stems for patients who have femoral morphology and are unable to accept standard stems. Patients who complain of new-onset thigh pain in the setting of short-stem total hip arthroplasty should have a femoral stress fracture included in the differential diagnosis and be worked up appropriately.
The Collegiate Irish Dancer’s Experience of Injury: A Qualitative Study
Authors: Higginbotham Owen , Cahalan Roisin
Published: March 2020

OBJECTIVES: A high incidence of injury is reported amongst student and professional dancers, impacting negatively upon the quality of life and biopsychological health of dancers. Research examining the impact of injury on Irish dancing (ID) students is lacking. There is a need to understand
dancer’s emotional and cognitive reaction to injury, to inform management strategies for same. METHODS: Fifteen fulltime university students of ID participated in two semi-structured focus groups interviews. Transcribed interviews were analysed using a bottom-up inductive approach. RESULTS:
Thematic analysis of the data collected produced three themes and a number of associated subthemes: Theme 1: cognitive, emotional and behavioural responses, with three subthemes (questioning, feelings and emotions, dancer identity and subculture of risk); Theme 2: management strategies, with
two subthemes (resilience, evaluating injury risk); and Theme 3: social supports, with two subthemes (personal relationships, professional relationships). CONCLUSIONS: Students of ID experience significant psychosocial challenges when they are injured, many of which are negative. The importance
of dancer identity combined with a subculture of injury concealment and perseverance may compromise the optimal management of dancer injury. Social supports are critical in facilitating successful management of injury. A disconnect exists between dancers and healthcare professionals when seeking
medical treatment.
Physiological Characteristics of Musical Theatre Performers and the Effect on Cardiorespiratory Demand Whilst Singing and Dancing
Authors: Stephens N , Wyon Matthew
Published: March 2020

AIMS: Musical theatre (MT) combines acting, singing, and dancing within a performance. The purpose of the current study was two-fold: 1) to report on the cardiorespiratory fitness of pre-professional MT dancers, and 2) to examine the cardiorespiratory demand of singing whilst dancing.
METHODS: Twenty-one participants (16 females, 5 males; age 20±1.23 yrs; height 169.1±9.24 cm; weight 62.7±10.56) in their final year of pre-professional training volunteered for the study. All participants performed a maximal aerobic capacity test on a treadmill using
a portable breath-by-breath gas analyser. Nine participants completed a 4-minute section from Chorus Line twice, singing and dancing and just dancing, in a randomised order whilst wearing the same portable gas analyser. Blood lactate was measured at the end of each trial. RESULTS: Male participants
had significantly greater peak oxygen consumption (M vs F, 67.6±2.30 vs 55.6±4.42 mL/kg/min, p<0.001) and anaerobic threshold (% of peak VO2) (54.6±4.04% vs 43.1±3.68%, p<0.001), whilst maximum heart rate and heart rate at anaerobic threshold were similar.
The physiological demands of dancing vs singing + dancing were similar, with the exception of the singing + dancing trial having significantly reduced mean breathing frequency and increased lactate (p<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: MT dancers’ aerobic capacity is greater than that observed in
other theatre-based dance genres. The observed breathing frequency and lactate differences in the Chorus Line trails could be due to singing reducing breathing frequency, thereby influencing cardiorespiratory recovery mechanics and subsequently blood lactate levels.
KONSEP PENGEMBANGAN EKOWISATA GARAM MELALUI PENDEKATAN TRIPLE HELIX DI PULAU MADURA
Authors: Setiyarini Triana , Chrismardani Yustina
Published: March 2020

Madura Island has long been known as a salt island. Alt hough there are many tourist destinat ions in Madura, no one hasutilized and developed salt as an ecotourism potent ial. Throughsalt ecotourism, it is expected to be a solution to some of theproblems associated with salt, especially to improve the welfareof salt farmers. The purpose of this study was to determine theconcept of salt ecotourism development through the triple helixapproach on Madura Island. This type of research is induct iveanalysis by collect ing, compiling and describing various actualdata, documents and informat ion. The data that has beenobtained is then analyzed by descriptive analysis method. Theresults showed that the potential for salt cult ivation in fourdistricts in Madura namely Bangkalan, Sampang, Pamekasanand Sumenep can be used as an opportunit y to develop attractivetourism through the concept of salt ecotourism. This is becauseMadura's land could meet five basic principles of ecotourismdevelopment in Indonesia, namely the principles ofconservation, educat ion, tourism, economy, and participat ion oflocal communit ies. Salt ecotourism requires collaboration fromacademics, businesses represented by groups of salt farmers, andthe government. These three actors, called triple helix, havedifferent roles in order to develop salt ecotourism starting fromplanning, utilizat ion and control.
PENGARUH KARAKTERISTIK PEKERJAAN DAN KARAKTERISTIK INDIVIDU TERHADAP KINERJA KARYAWAN MELALUI MOTIVASI KERJA SEBAGAI VARIABEL MEDIASI PADA UNIT BISNIS COMMERCIAL BANKING BANK Y SURABAYA
Authors: Ramdhani Dyike Adella , Sridadi Ahmad Rizki
Published: March 2020

Persaingan dunia bisnis semakin ketat sehingga sumber daya manusia sebagai sumber penting yang dimiliki perusahaan perlu dimanfaatkan dan dikelola secara efektif dan efisien untuk mencapai tujuannya. Tetapi, rata-rata pencapaian kinerja karyawan selama tahun 2018 hanya 87% dari target yang ditentukan. Seiring dengan perubahan yang terjadi, perusahaan melakukan upaya-upaya untuk mengkatkan kinerja karyawan. Penelitian ini menggunakan beberapa variabel sebagai anteseden untuk meningkatkan kinerja karyawan. Pertama, karakteristik pekerjaan yang mengacu pada isi dan sifat dasar dari pekerjaan. Kedua, karakteristik individu yang mengacu pada kompetensi, komitmen, organizational citizenship behavior dan pengalam kerja. Ketiga, motivasi kerja digunakan sebagai variabel mediasi karena dianggap dapat mendorong kinerja karyawan yang lebih baik karena dapat mendorong faktor-faktor di dalam karakteristik pekerjaan yang cocok dengan karakteristik individu, maka karyawan tersebut akan termotivasi dan meningkatkan kinerja karyawan. Objek penelitian ini adalah karyawan tetap unit bisnis commercial banking bank Y. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan teknik analisis SEM-PLS.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa karakteristik pekerjaan dan karakteristik individu berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja karyawan melalui motivasi kerja sebagai variabel mediasi. Motivasi kerja memiliki efek mediasi parsial terhadap kinerja karyawan. Arah pengaruh dari variabel ini juga positif, yang artinya bahwa semakin tinggi tingkat kesesuaian karakteristik pekerjaan dan karakteristik individu karyawan maka akan meningkatkan kinerja karyawan
PERAN KERJA KERAS DAN KERJA CERDAS MELALUI MOTIVASI KERJA DALAM MENINGKATKAN KINERJA KARYAWAN AGENT ASURANSI (Studi Pada PT. Prudential Life Assurance Surabaya)
Authors: Hartono Rudi , Anshori Mochammad Isa
Published: March 2020

This study aims to empirically examine the role of hard work and smart work through work motivation in improving the performance of insurance agents PT. Prudential Life Assurance Surabaya, this analysis uses an independent variable that is the variable of hard work, smart work and work motivation. For the dependent variable is the performance of the sample of this study is the insurance agent PT. Prudential Life Assurance Surabaya Titans Surabaya office unit. The sample is done by random sampling method. Collecting data by distributing questionnaires directly to insurance agents as many as 91 respondents. The statistical method uses multiple linear analysis, by testing the hypothesis R test, t test and f test. the results of this study indicate that hard work, smart work and work motivation have a positive and significant effect on the performance of insurance agents, and the most dominant influence is an indirect relationship with the performance of insurance agents.
DIGITAL MARKETING AS AN INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATION STRATEGY IN BADAN USAHA MILIK DESA (BUMDesa) IN EAST JAVA
Authors: Pambudi Bambang Setiyo , Suyono Suyono
Published: March 2020

The purpose of this study is how the marketing communication strategy through digital marketing is carried out by BUMDesa businesses as a driver of the village economy in order to prosper the Village Communities in East Java in marketing their products. This research is focused on the online media such as Instagram Business, Facebook Business and Whatshapp Business.This study used qualitative research methods to provide data and facts about the application of digital marketing in Badan Usaha Milik Desa (BUMDesa). Interviews, documentation, and observation used as data collection techniques. Data is analyzed with a grounded theory approach that provides development of the field of research studies. The analysis techniques consisted of data reduction, data presentation and conclusion.The research findings show that in marketing BUMDesa products, marketing trends are shifting from conventional (offline) to digital (online). The concept of digital marketing for BUMDesa businesses is to be able to market their products from anywhere and anytime through the internet / online media. So the communication strategy is done through digital marketing are the submission of positioning statements in each post on online media (Instagram Bisnis, Facebook Bisnis and Whatshap Bisnis) and the speed of response to online reviews of online media. Suggestions for BUMDesa in carrying out marketing activities, both conventional and especially digital marketing, can be developed for better management.
Effect of new onset of jaundice on outcomes in patients with sepsis: A population-based propensity score-matched study
Authors: Qi Desheng , Deng Fuxing , Ai Yuhang , Zhang Lina , Zhao Shuangping , Xu Daomiao , Peng Milin
Published: March 2020

Background Although jaundice have been associated with mortality in critically ill patients, yet no data from large studies demonstrates its effect in sepsis. The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of jaundice on outcomes in septic patients.Methods Propensity-matched analysis of cohort database from Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III (MIMIC-III), a large database of septic patients at a tertiary care hospital in Boston, Massachusetts (June 2001 to October 2012). Individuals with preexisting jaundice or liver diseases at the time of admission were excluded from analysis. Jaundice was diagnosed in septic patients with total bilirubin levels >2mg/dL at any time during hospitalization. The multivariate Cox was employed to adjust for baseline and confounding parameters.Results A total of 2784 septic patients were enrolled in the study, including 456 patients in jaundice group, and 2328 in non-jaundice group. Before propensity score matching, multivariate Cox hazard analysis showed age [HR 1.029; 95% CI (1.009-1.049); P=0.005], malignancy [HR 3.244; 95% CI (1.729h-6.085); P<0.001], SOFA score [HR 1.179; 95% CI (1.054-1.318); P=0.004], serum total bilirubin at hospital discharge [HR 1.050; 95% CI (1.022-1.079); P<0.001] were the independent risk factors of mortality in sepsis. In 432 pairs after matching according to new presented jaundice status, jaundice group had higher in-hospital mortality (76±17.6 vs. 49±11.3; P=0.012) than non-jaundice group. In multivariate logistic regression model, the only independent risk for jaundice in sepsis was SOFA score [OR 1.314; 95% CI (1.248-1.385); P<0.001], whereas mechanical ventilation [OR 0.310; 95% CI (0.222-0.432); P<0.001], serum platelet [OR 0.998; 95% CI (0.997-1.00); P=0.015] and serum bicarbonate [OR 0.962; 95% CI (0.929-0.996); P=0.030] were jaundice’s independent protective factors.Conclusions New onset of jaundice is associated with higher risk rate of in-hospital mortality in sepsis. In addition, our study demonstrates that serum total bilirubin at hospital discharge is an independent determinant for mortality.
Effect of different prophylactic therapies on the recurrence pattern of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after radical surgery
Authors: Ye Jin-Jun , Gu Da-Yong , Chen Cheng , Zhu Huan-Feng , Zhou Yi-Qin , Zhang Hao , Lu Jin-Cheng
Published: March 2020

Background To compared the patterns of lymph node recurrence after different prophylactic therapies to identify specific and effective target areas for prophylactic radiotherapy. Methods This retrospective study enrolled patients with recurrence from August 2011 to November 2015, who underwent different prophylactic therapies for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after radical surgery previously. The patients were divided into unprotected, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and radiochemotherapy groups. The recurrence patterns between these groups were compared. Results A total of 186 patients who met the above criteria were enrolled. The recurrence ratios of regional lymph nodes were 84.2%, 31.3%, 84.0%, and 48.0% in the unprotected, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and radiochemotherapy groups, respectively. The recurrence ratio of regional lymph nodes in patients who received radiotherapy was significantly decreased ( P =0.009). The recurrence ratio of superior mediastinal lymph node was significantly lower than those of the chemotherapy and unprotected groups ( P =0.000). The recurrence ratios of the radiotherapy group with and without epigastrium coverage were 4/16 and 4/25, respectively, indicating no statistical difference with those of other groups ( P =0.259). The recurrence ratios with and without the coverage of anastomotic sites were 2/19 and 3/22, respectively, revealing no statistical difference with those of other groups ( P =0.712). Conclusion Prophylactic radiotherapy can significantly reduce the recurrence of regional lymph nodes, especially lymph node recurrence on the superior mediastinum.
Kommunikationswissenschaftliche Online-Forschung
Authors: Schmidt Jan-Hinrik
Published: March 2020

Online-Forschung – also Forschung über, in und mit dem Internet – hat das (Selbst-)Verständnis der Kommunikationswissenschaft grundlegend gewandelt. Der zentrale Bezugspunkt des Faches, die öffentliche Kommunikation, war lange Zeit an eine recht stabile Konstellation von publizistischen Print- und Rundfunkmedien gebunden, die klar von interpersonaler Kommunikation abgrenzbar war. Mit der Diffusion des Internet löste sich diese Konstellation auf und neue Fragestellungen rückten ins Zentrum, was sich u.a. auch in einer eigenständigen DGPuK-Fachgruppe ausdrückte. Spätestens in den 2010er Jahren hat das Internet eine neue Gestalt gewonnen, die massgeblich von Informationsintermediären geprägt wird. Zudem gewinnen neue Methoden der Datenerhebung und -analyse («Computational Methods») sowie forschungsethische Probleme, etwa der Wahrung der Privatsphäre von untersuchten Personen an Bedeutung. Der Veränderungsprozess, den das Internet für das Fach Kommunikationswissenschaft angestossen hat, ist also 25 Jahre nach seinem Beginn keinesfalls beendet.
Personal Data für Entscheidungsimpulse setzende Akteurinnen und Akteure
Authors: Swertz Christian , Barberi Alessandro
Published: March 2020

Entscheidungsimpulse setzende Akteurinnen und Akteure können Big Data als marktradikale Kapital- und Akkumulationsmaschine theoretisch und praktisch kritisieren und Personal Data in einer demokratischen Gesellschaft selbstgewiss gestalten. Um diese These zu begründen, wird das Verhältnis von Daten und Macht historisch diskutiert und die Freiheit von Akteurinnen und Akteuren begründet. Damit wird eine demokratische und deshalb handlungsorientierte Medienpädagogik reproduziert, mit der im Zeitalter der Informationsreproduktion eine partizipatorische Medienkompetenzvermittlung in Gang gesetzt werden kann.