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‘Due Regard’ Obligations, with Particular Emphasis on Fisheries in the Exclusive Economic Zone
Authors: Scovazzi Tullio
Published: February 2019

‘Due regard’ obligations occur when a state, in exercising a right, is bound to take into consideration the existence of conflicting rights and interests of other states and to balance their respective importance. They are frequently found in international law of the sea and the LOSC. Within the exclusive economic zone, where the applicable regime is the result of the balancing of the rights of the coastal state with those of other states, international practice shows that the balance shifts in favour of the coastal state if conflicting fishing activities are at stake. The balance may change if other kinds of activities are in conflict within the same zone. Two recent arbitral awards—on the Chagos Marine Protected Area case and the South China Sea case—elaborate on ‘due regard obligations’.
What is the Autonomy of eu Law, and Why Does that Matter?
Authors: Shuibhne Niamh Nic
Published: February 2019

This article argues that the autonomy of eu law conveys a set of rules and principles but also constitutes a principle of eu law on its own terms. Its features suggest a distinctive existential character, in light of its internal and external reach but, particularly, a quality of extremity that has come to define its implications. Reflecting on the nature of autonomy matters because of the closing down of space for compromise it produces and what is uncovered about the nature of eu primary law in consequence. The effects of autonomy have principally concerned the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice, but the wider focus on autonomy of “Union decision-making” as a “core principle” of Brexit negotiations, for the eu part, reactivates a more generalised understanding of what the principle commands. That process also tests the extent to which an understanding of autonomy as an existential principle should be sustained.
Interminable Disagreement: Reflections on the Autonomy of International Organisations
Authors: Klabbers J.
Published: February 2019

This article suggests that the autonomy of international organisations stems not so much – or not only – from intentional action on the part of international organisations and their member states, but also results well-nigh inevitably from the exercise of autonomy by international organisations. Whenever organisations act, they affirm their autonomy, and their autonomy is affirmed by their audiences. This is illustrated by brief discussions of the three main settings in which international organisations operate: vis-à-vis their member states (discussing the proposed expulsion of Liberia from the League of Nations), their staff (discussing manifestations of McCarthyism in unesco), and the outside world (discussing the immunities of the un in relation to the Haiti cholera affair).
Doctrine and Life: The Theological Legacy of Stephen Sykes
Authors: Pickard Stephen
Published: February 2019

Throughout Stephen Sykes’ theological career a number of key themes continually re-emerged with respect to the Church, Christ, the ministry, the Christian life and the doctrinal tradition. This article offers a survey of and a commentary on these themes. It does this by employing a simple framework focusing on issues concerning Christian identity and relevance. Identity issues are considered from a personal, theological and ecclesial perspective. Relevance issues briefly cover Sykes’ concerns for the ministry of men and women and the question of power and leadership. Stephen Sykes’ theological and ecclesial leadership provide a remarkable resource and lasting legacy for the Church.
Stephen Sykes: Koinonia, Conflict and Conciliarity
Authors: Sagovsky Nicholas
Published: February 2019

Stephen Sykes thought that an overuse of koinonia language pointed to doctrinal fudge. His desire for clarity in the Church’s doctrine led him to emphasise the place that conflict plays in the life of the Church. His concern with the failure of Anglicanism to address the tensions within it led him to reflect on the exercise of authority and the deployment of power within Anglicanism. In the Orthodox and Roman Catholic traditions, koinonia is primarily a way of speaking about the life of the Holy Trinity and of participation in the Trinitarian life of God. It cannot then imply or contain conflict. Over thirty years, Sykes came to use koinonia confidently as a way of speaking about the conflicted outworking of authority within the Anglican Communion. He modelled a ‘conciliar magisterium’ – a magisterium that is embedded in synodality, that listens to many voices, but affirms episcopacy, and is prepared to teach. Whether such teaching is received can only be seen in the ongoing conciliar process which is the life of the Church.
Stephen Sykes and the Essence of Christianity
Authors: Avis Paul
Published: February 2019

Stephen Sykes chastised English (especially Anglican) theology for its neglect of systematic and doctrinal theology and worked for its revival. He viewed the liberal tendency in English theology in the 1960s and 1970s as attributable, at least in part, to lack of doctrinal rigour and to ecclesiastical woolliness. Sykes contributed to methodological reflection on systematic theology, but his occasional forays into systematics were not his major efforts. However, one systematic theological topic to which Sykes made a significant contribution was the question of the essence of Christianity, which he pursued in critical dialogue with a galaxy of modern theologians. His account of the essence in relation to the ‘external’ and ‘internal’ aspects of Christianity is not satisfactory and his conclusion that the essence is an ‘essentially contested concept’ is disappointing. Nevertheless, his discussion sheds light on the problem and remains a stimulus and resource for further work on this topic.
Stephen Sykes and Anglican Ecclesiology
Authors: Sedgwick Peter
Published: February 2019

The English, Anglican theologian Bishop Stephen W. Sykes (1939–2014) used German and American sociology to inform his ecclesiology. He argued that the concepts of power and authority had been insufficiently analysed with regard to their sociological as well as their ecclesiological meaning. Sykes used this dual analysis to critique ecumenical dialogue, in particular the reports of the Anglican – Roman Catholic International Commission (arcic). He was, however, sympathetic to the use of power in papal claims, so long as it was sociologically self-aware. Sykes also developed an apologia for Anglican ecclesiology because he believed that Anglicanism made the role of the ecclesial critic integral to its self-understanding. This article contrasts the earlier arcic texts, criticized by Sykes, with the 2018 publication from arcic, Walking Together in the Way, which is much more aware of the dangers inherent in the use of power.
“… It Was Highly Desirable They Should Be Illustrated”
Authors: Valdés Catalina , Montalbán Magdalena
Published: February 2019

The purpose of this article is to study the images included in the report made by the U.S. Navy Astronomical Expedition in the Southern Hemisphere between 1849 and 1852, directed by Navy lieutenant and astronomer James Melville Gilliss (1881–1865). Together with astronomical studies, the expedition addressed different aspects of the natural and social history of the Republic of Chile setting down in six volumes a pioneering panoramic vision of the young nation. Considering the different aspects of the culture of printing as it developed in the main cities of the United States in the mid nineteenth century, this article proposes general reflections concerning the impetus given in this field by scientific expeditions. In the specific case of Gilliss’s Naval Astronomical Expedition, this impulse manifests itself in terms of the technological renewal and the prestige of the lithographers taking part in the publication. This contrasts with the subsequent scarce success of Gilliss’s volumes – the books came close to being ignored – both in the United States and in Chile.
The Failed Technology Museum of Catalonia
Authors: Valentines-Álvarez Jaume , Sastre-Juan Jaume
Published: February 2019

In March 1937, the Technology Museum of Catalonia was created by a governmental order, but it never materialized. How come was a national museum of technology perceived as an urgent need in the midst of the Spanish Civil War? This article explores how this failed attempt was rooted in the long-standing political interest of the engineering community in the musealization of technology in Barcelona. On the one hand, it analyses the tradition of technological display aimed at increasing industrial productivity and improving technical education. On the other hand, it studies the techno-nationalist efforts by engineers to construct a respectable technological past for the nation through display. Finally, it explores how these two approaches would have been articulated in the Technology Museum of Catalonia in the context of the key role played by engineering professionals during the Spanish Civil War.
Socrates and Theognis on True Love
Authors: Hejduk Tomáš
Published: February 2019

The study compares Theognis’ and Socrates’ concept of love: there is an ambivalence of love present in both authors in the form of a connection between the pleasing and the unpleasing, that is, on the one hand, devotion to the educatory harshness of the lover, on the other to his skill and cunning. To what extent is the ambivalence in Socrates and Theognis similar or dissimilar? The answer discloses a comparison of ideas about the functioning, the aims, and the meaning of love in the wider context of understanding the life and world of the two authors: such a context exposes the duplicity in Theognis, and the love of negation of unambiguous teaching about the proper life without painful testing. In Socrates, it is exposed to irony, to eternal ignorance and to openness to another and to god’s world.

Next, we contrast Theognis’ limiting of another’s duplicity (devotion and cunning) to a level between a loving and friendly relationship with Socrates’ expansion of the loving struggle into every sphere of life, above all into the relationship of the lover to himself and those close to him. We explain this contrast as a decision between trust in reason and trust in love as the fundamental forces conferring meaning on human life. We show, however, that with Socrates it is not blind love but rather love embracing reason and overlapping divine challenges, while with Theognis it is not pure reason that is involved, but rather reason directed by the socio-political situation.
Fayz Mohammad Kāteb and Gholām Mohammad Ghobār’s Divergent Allegories of an Afghan Rebellion
Authors: Bakhtary Elham
Published: February 2019

Recent scholarship on Afghan historiography has shed light on how Afghan historians, particularly from the early twentieth century onwards, have used events such as the First Anglo-Afghan War for the purpose of national narratives. This article deepens this analysis by paying particular attention to how two prominent Afghan historians, Fayz Mohammad Kāteb and Gholām Mohammad Ghobār, rendered the Afghan rebellion that ended the British occupation in the First Anglo-Afghan War. Although Kāteb and Ghobār agreed on the religious nature of the rebellion, they had opposite interpretations regarding its leadership. This study explores how these opposite interpretations reflect a common underlying attempt to use the First Anglo-Afghan War as an historical allegory. As a court historian, Kāteb’s account is a testimony to his patron dynasty’s ability to protect Afghanistan, while Ghobār’s account reflects the author’s conviction in Afghanistan’s readiness for democracy.
Ritualization as Religious Renewal in 18th-Century Hasidism
Authors: Sagiv Gadi
Published: February 2019

Rituals have always been a characterizing and significant aspect of Hasidism. Although ritual practices are often considered rigid and conservative, Hasidism showed tremendous flexibility in composing, reviving, and disseminating old rituals in novel religious settings. Highly visible, easily deliverable, not requiring intellectual background, and embedded in Jewish tradition, rituals and ceremonies were the perfect means by which to popularize pietism and esoteric knowledge among large audiences, while maintaining the prestige of their performers.
“The Ugly American: Peeling the Onion of an Iconic Cold War Text”
Authors: Immerwahr Daniel
Published: February 2019

The Ugly American, published in 1958, was a literary blockbuster that offered a powerful vision of how the United States should fight communism in Asia. Yet despite the textual simplicity of the novel, it had a complex and layered backstory. Its characters were not wholly fictional but were based on real-life models, whose work in Asia laid the backdrop for the novel’s vignettes. Adding an additional layer of complexity, two of those models lived covert lives—one as a closeted gay man working with the Central Intelligence Agency (cia), another as a cia officer tasked with putting down peasant insurgencies—that belied their public images.
“‘Very Beautiful Heathenism’: The Light of Asia in Gilded Age America”
Authors: Henning Joseph M.
Published: February 2019

British journalist Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia (1879), a book-length, blank-verse poem about the life of Siddhārtha Gautama, triggered an extensive American fascination with Buddhism. Arnold’s sympathetic portrayal of the Buddha enjoyed great popularity in Britain but attracted even more admirers in the United States, where Americans bought dozens of editions. The poem’s popularity, however, also provoked a backlash. While it attracted many Gilded Age Americans, it repelled others who attacked Arnold as a “paganizer.” His success in the United States dismayed Protestant missionaries in East Asia (especially China and Japan) and clergy at home just as they were laboring to spread Christianity abroad. The recognition that “heathenism” was tempting their compatriots came as a shock. The claim that Buddhism offered enlightenment disturbed missionaries and clergy, who attacked it as “a light that does not illumine.” Arnold’s poem triggered a vigorous public discussion of the merits of Buddhism and Christianity. This debate made manifest the spiritual confidence of some Gilded Age Americans and the spiritual uncertainties that beset others regarding the relationships among Buddhism, Christianity, salvation, and civilization.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the “Right to be Protected against Incitement”
Authors: Temperman Jeroen
Published: February 2019

Article 20(2) of the un’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (iccpr) is an odd human rights clause. It provides that “[a]ny advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law.” Accordingly, this provision does not appear to codify a fundamental right but rather a sui generis state obligation. The present article aims at providing a legal taxonomy of this international incitement clause, ultimately also answering the question as to whether, despite its unique formulation as speech prohibition, it contains a justiciable right to protection from incitement.
Law, Religion, and Secular Order
Authors: Calo Zachary R.
Published: February 2019

This article compares the law and religion jurisprudence of the us Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights across three legal areas: religious symbols and religion-state relations, individual religious freedom, and institutional religious freedom or freedom of the church. Particular focus is given to the manner in which this jurisprudence reveals the underlying structure and meaning of the secular. Although there continues to be significant jurisprudential diversity between these two courts and across these legal areas, there is also emerging a shared accounting of religion, secularity, and moral order in the late modern West.
Changing Perceptions of Informal Payments under Privatization of Health Care: The Case of Kazakhstan
Authors: Oka Natsuko
Published: February 2019

Previous studies on informal exchanges in the health care sector in post-socialist states have extensively discussed their complex and diverse nature, in particular the difficulty in distinguishing between gratuities and bribes given to health care providers. In examining this in Kazakhstan, I argue that the ongoing privatization of health care has blurred the boundary between official user fees and informal payments given as a reward for quality care. This has, in turn, sharpened the contrast between informal payments given in the expectation of proper treatment and money extorted by health practitioners. This paper also demonstrates that ordinary people often circumvent formal procedures by using money to obtain services to which they are not officially entitled or to gain access to public medical funding.
A Study into the Prototypicality of Chinese Labile Verbs
Authors: Zhang Liulin
Published: February 2019

Trying to situate Chinese into the typology of labile verbs (verbs that may be used transitively or intransitively), this paper analyzes Chinese labile verbals under the framework of cognitive construction grammar. By exhaustively looking at labile verbals in a small corpus, it is found that as an isolating language in which causative (transitive use) or anticausative (intransitive use) is not morphologically marked, Chinese is particularly rich in labile verbals. After estimating how often several target verbals are used transitively and intransitively, two factors grounded in human cognition are revealed determining verbal lability in Chinese: change of state and spontaneity of the event. Change-of-state events give way to two competing profiling strategies, realized as a transitive construction and an intransitive construction, respectively. The degree and direction (transitive-dominated or intransitive-dominated) of verbal lability are sensitive to the likelihood of spontaneous occurrence of the event.
A Discourse Construction Grammar Approach to Discourse Analysis: Microblog Parody and Instant Messaging
Authors: Yuan Ye
Published: February 2019

On the basis of Goldberg’s (1995) Construction Grammar (CxG) and Östman’s (2005) Construction Discourse perspectives, and by incorporating the theories of genre, register and cohesion from Systemic Functional Grammar, this research attempts to set up a construction grammar framework for discourse analysis, namely the discourse construction grammar (dcg) model. With dcg, we see a discourse first as an overarching abstract discourse construction, which consists of and integrates a number of ever smaller schematic constructions. Moreover, in order to account for the nexion of clauses into sentences and sentences into cross-sentential discourse chunks from a dcg perspective, this paper also resorts to clause conjunct construction and inter-sentential conjunction construction conceptions. Alongside establishing our dcg model, we have analyzed a trendy microblog templatic parody as well as a piece of dialogic instant messaging to exemplify our multi-layered and multi-faceted construction treatment of a piece of discourse.
Over-the-Counter Derivatives Regulation in Hong Kong and Singapore
Authors: Chen Christopher
Published: February 2019

In this article, Dr Christopher Chen examines and compares the regulation of over-the-counter derivatives in Hong Kong and Singapore, the two largest international financial centres in Asia Pacific. Dr Chen analyses current or proposed regulations on trade reporting, centralised clearing and mandatory exchange trading mandates regarding OTC derivatives against the backdrop of reforms of international financial regulatory structure after the global financial crisis. The article also relates the reforms in Asia to development in major Western markets such as the U.S., U.K. or European Union. Apart from technical comparison and dissecting of content of rules from different angles, this article also examines the rationale behind those reforms and policy concerns behind Asian adoption of the regulatory mandates prescribed by G20 as well as potential policy concerns (such as competition and extraterritoriality) in a market that is dominated by Western banks.
Rivers and Oceans
Authors: Beauchamp-Byrd Mora J. , Sobers Shawn
Published: February 2019

This two-part article is a comparative analysis of two late twentieth-century works of art: John T. Scott’s Ocean Song (1990), an abstract, large-scale public art sculpture in New Orleans, Louisiana in the US, and Sold Down the River (1999), a major, self-portrait-centered painting by the Bristol, UK-based artist Tony Forbes. As outlined in both sections, contemporary artists have produced works that ensure a continuing civic dialogue about, and commemoration of, site-specific histories of enslavement. In examining and placing these two works in their social, political and cultural contexts, the article highlights the role that artists may play in offering pictorial counter-narratives that question “official,” often tourist-driven, narratives that tend to romanticize and/or mollify colonial and/or imperial initiatives, including enslavement and other legacies marked by trauma.
Adoption and Assisted Reproduction in Germany
Authors: Lettmaier Saskia
Published: February 2019

In Germany, as elsewhere, couples and individuals suffering from unwanted childlessness have two principal means to overcome it. One, adoption, has existed and been quite heavily regulated for centuries. The other, assisted reproduction, has only recently come into its own and has not yet been comprehensively dealt with by the German legislature.

This monograph provides a survey of adoption and assisted reproduction as alternative (non-coital) ways of establishing parent-child relationships in Germany. Part 1 on adoption sets out the current regulatory framework and discusses a number of recent ‘hot topics,’ including adult and stepparent adoptions.

Unlike for adoption, there is little state regulation for assisted reproduction in Germany. Most of the complex legal issues are dealt with by professional self-regulation and ordinary family-law rules. Part 2 sets out what forms of assisted reproduction are currently permitted; who has access to them; and how parental status is allocated. It also discusses the child’s right to know its genetic origins; the risks to donors; and the implications of ‘reproductive tourism.’
Baselines under the International Law of the Sea
Authors: Lathrop Coalter G. , Roach J. Ashley , Rothwell Donald R.
Published: February 2019

Between 2008–2018 the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Baselines under the International Law of the Sea produced two reports on the normal baseline (2012) and straight and archipelagic baselines (2018). The Sofia Report (2012) is organised around the interpretation of Article 5 of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) concerning the normal baseline. Under the leadership of Committee Chair Judge Dolliver Nelson, the Committee was asked to identify the existing law on the normal baseline and to assess the need for further clarification or development of that law in light of substantial coastal change. The Report applies the rules of treaty interpretation, including an assessment of the ordinary meaning of the terms of the treaty and, because those leave the meaning ambiguous, the preparatory works of the normal baseline provision. The Report then turns to address the application of the existing law to changing coasts and concludes that the law on the normal baseline is inadequate to address problems of substantial territorial loss. The Sydney Report (2018) is organised around a common methodology in assessing Articles 7, 8, 10, 13, 14 and 47 of the LOSC concerning straight baselines, closing lines, and straight archipelagic baselines. Each analysis seeks to provide some background to the drafting of the Article, analysis of the text, assessment of state practice, relevant case law, and a summary of the commentary by publicists. The Report then moves to address certain cross-cutting or global issues that are relevant to a contemporary analysis of straight and archipelagic baselines, before reaching conclusions.
Theology of Religions
Authors: Adams Graham
Published: February 2019

Adams maps and analyses the field of ‘theology of religions’ (ToR) and its various typologies, examining the assumptions in how religion is assessed. The purpose is to identify how contributions to ToR select and deselect material and trajectories, editing according to presuppositions and interests. Adams’ analysis consciously relies on Andrew Shanks’ Hegelian notion of ‘truth-as-openness’ (divine hospitality) as it illuminates three dynamics, or ‘scandals’, within ToR. The first, concerned with how a religion’s particularity or identity is constructed, is subdivided between ‘particularity transcended’ and ‘particularity re-centred’, along the lines of Jenny Daggers’ postcolonial insights. The second concerns the interactions when one religion engages an Other’s strangeness, and the third is concerned with how religions aim to transform socio-political systems which feign or obstruct universality, so to effect ever greater solidarity. The text notes key trends, beyond Christianity and including deepening interdisciplinarity, and potential developments from a critical but constructive standpoint.
Turning up the Volume on Man’s Best Friend: Ethical Issues Associated with Commercial Dog Breeding
Authors: Croney Candace C.
Published: February 2019

As the dog’s popularity as a human companion has grown, demand for purebred dogs has likewise escalated. Commercial breeding of dogs, which currently helps to meet such demands has become a point of social contention. The co-evolution of dogs and humans and the unique, familial relationships people have developed with them suggest that they are owed special consideration of their needs and interests that is independent of their utility to humans. Not surprisingly, opposition to commercial breeding enterprises has increased dramatically in the past decade in the US and abroad, spawning a growing number of legislative initiatives aimed at regulating such operations, which are widely believed to harm dogs. Among the most significant ethical problems embedded in commercial dog breeding are the potential for insults to the human-dog bond, failure to duly consider and meet duties of care to dogs, including dogs’ welfare needs and interests, and insufficient regulation of dog care standards. The shortage of published science on the actual conditions experienced by dogs in commercial breeding kennels complicates understanding of the nature and severity of problems as well as solutions. It is argued that despite the concerns associated with commercial dog breeding, abolishing the practice without identifying an ethically preferable alternative that meets demands could result in even worse consequences for dogs. Given this problem, commercial breeding could be ethically defensible under conditions that vastly reduce or eliminate potential for dog suffering, and with strict regulatory oversight of corresponding standards of care for dogs.
An Open Knowledge System for Navigational Science: Zheng He’s Maritime Expeditions and Sino-Foreign Overseas Exchange
Authors: Yingsheng Liu
Published: February 2019

The first section of this article begins by investigating the term “going down to the Western Oceans” (xia xiyang 下西洋), which was used as early as the time of Zheng He. It also discusses the origin of the concepts of the Eastern and Western Oceans. The second section discusses the influx of overseas geographical knowledge into China before the time of Zheng He, especially over two important periods: first, the coming of Indian geographical knowledge along with Buddhism to China from the Wei-Jin period (220–420 ce), and second, the advent of Islamic geographical knowledge during the Mongol-Yuan period (ca. 1206–1368). The third section discusses the contributions of foreign members in Zheng He’s fleet, especially fanhuozhang 番火長 (foreign pilot). Through an analysis of the records of three military encounters—the suppression of the pirate Chen Zuyi 陳祖義, the attack on Ceylon, and the battle with pirates on a return journey—we find that the term fanhuozhang appears in all three cases, showing that foreign experts were commonly present in all branches or segments of Zheng He’s fleet, and that it must have been their job to navigate in the Indian ocean portion of the journey. Based on these findings, the author suggests that even before the beginning of Ming, Chinese people had developed an understanding of navigation technology and absorbed expertise from other peoples, and that this knowledge formed the technological foundation of Zheng He’s long-distance voyages, evident of the fact that China’s ancient navigational technology was an open knowledge system.
Zheng He’s Seven Voyages into the Namoli Ocean–the Indian Ocean
Authors: Ming Wan
Published: February 2019

In the history of the development of human civilization, the Silk Road has been an important route of traffic and exchange between the East and the West. From Zhang Qian’s 張騫 opening up of the Silk Road across the Western Regions (Xiyue 西域) to Zheng He’s 鄭和 sailing to the Western Oceans (xia xiyang 下西洋) more than 1500 years later, China had a continuous desire to explore beyond its borders. At the time of Zheng He, the term “Western Oceans” (xiyang 西洋) had a specific meaning. As shown by the account of Ma Huan 馬歡, who personally joined Zheng He on the voyages, the people of Ming China considered the “Western Oceans” to be the Namoli Ocean (Namoli yang 那没黎洋), later called the Indian Ocean. Thus, it could be concluded that the Western Oceans where Zheng He’s fleet went meant the Indian Ocean. Even today most scholars still divide the Eastern and Western Oceans at Brunei, with no clear understanding of where the Western Oceans to which Zheng He sailed were actually located. It is therefore important to make clear that the Western Oceans in his time referred to the Indian Ocean, before moving on to investigate the purpose of the voyages and related historical issues. Even more important is to point out that Zheng He’s expeditions in the early fifteenth century reflected that Chinese people took to the seas on a scale larger than ever before and joined the maritime and overland silk routes together. The place where this occurred was the Indian Ocean.
The genus Pelycidion P. Fischer in de Folin & Périer, 1873 (Caenogastropoda: Pickworthiidae: Pelycidiinae) in the northeast Pacific Ocean

Authors: VAFIADIS PLATON , STEPHENS LYNTON D.
Published: February 2019

As part of a memorial volume honouring the late malacologist James H. McLean and covering elements of the molluscan fauna of the northeast Pacific Ocean, we here provide an overview of the species Pelycidion kelseyi (Bartsch, 1911). This is the only known member of the subfamily Pelycidiinae occurring in this area.
A taxonomic review of pterotracheoid gastropod mollusks from California Current waters off the west coast of North America

Authors: SEAPY ROGER R.
Published: February 2019

Taxonomic characterization of pterotracheoid gastropods, morphological characteristics and occurrence in California Current waters are reviewed. Single species of atlantid (Atlanta californiensis) and carinariid (Carinaria japonica) from these waters are described and illustrated.
Foreword

Authors: GEIGER DANIEL L. , GROVES LINDSEY T. , VENDETTI JANN E.
Published: February 2019

The present volume has a history spanning approximately 60 years. It began with James (Jim) Hamilton McLean’s dissertation, commenced in the early 1960’s and completed in 1966. Right from the beginning, Jim wanted to revise the entire gastropod fauna of the northeast Pacific. This initial dissertation proposal was tempered in scope by the experience of his advisor, none other than A. Myra Keen at Stanford University. The finished dissertation on the patelliform archaeogastropods and the abalone and scissurellids was the first component and catalyst for his life-long endeavor to complete a comprehensive faunal treatment that would be colloquially known as The Book.
The families Scissurellidae, Anatomidae, and Sutilizonidae in the northeast Pacific

Authors: GEIGER DANIEL L.
Published: February 2019

The microscopic slit bearing gastropods of the northeastern Pacific are reviewed. Since the global monograph of Geiger (2012), one additional species has been described (Anatoma georgii Geiger, 2017). No significant material of other species has changed distributional records or range limits of the known taxa.
The Family Seguenziidae Verrill, 1884 in the Northeast Pacific, including a comment on excessive numbers of taxonomic data portals

Authors: GEIGER DANIEL L.
Published: February 2019

The family Seguenziidae, including the genus Adeuomphalus, of the northeast Pacific are here revised. Seguenzia megaloconcha Rokop, 1972 is here synonymized under S. cervola Dall, 1919, S. quinni McLean, 1985 is here synonymized under S. gioviae Dall, 1919, S. catalina Dall, 1919 and S. certoma Dall, 1919 are synonymized under S. stephanica Dall, 1908. They represent either growth stages of one another, or are based on insignificant minor sculptural differences. A short commentary on the contraproductive proliferation of taxonomic data portals and the need for a single resource akin to GenBank is given.
Calliostomatidae of the northeast Pacific

Authors: TUSKES PAUL M.
Published: February 2019

Four genera of Calliostomatidae are known from the northeast Pacific, Akoya, Calliostoma, Otukaia, and Xeniostoma. Fifteen holotypes and all species are illustrated and diagnostic information presented. Approximately one third of the species occur most commonly below 100 m, some species have been collected in excess of 1,000 m. Akoya titanium (McLean, 1984) and A. bernardi (McLean, 1984) are recognized as synonyms of A. platinum (Dall, 1890). Confirmed diet of the species, which are known, includes primarily sessile invertebrates and diatoms.
A threatened new species of Oligosarcus and its phylogenetic relationships, with comments on Astyanacinus (Teleostei: Characidae)
Authors: MIRANDE JUAN MARCOS , AGUILERA GASTÓN , DE LAS MERCEDES AZPELICUETA MARÍA
Published: February 2019

Oligosarcus itau n. sp. is described. This species is the sister group of the remaining analyzed species of Oligosarcus and this relationship is supported by seven morphological synapomorphies: 1) well developed temporal fossa, 2) absence of a dorsal expansion on the rhinosphenoid, 3) posteroventrally angled articulation between second and third infraorbitals, 4) presence of ectopterygoid teeth on a row, 5) laterally displaced cartilage on the ectopterygoid, 6) presence of bony lamellae bordering laterosensory canal of suprapreopercle, and 7) presence of two pairs of uroneurals. The new species is diagnosed by the following combination of characters: 1) two distinct premaxillary rows of teeth, 2) tricuspidate and pentacuspidate teeth on dentary and posterior premaxillary row, 3) presence of a row of 3–4 tricuspidate to conical ectopterygoid teeth, 4) possession of v-vi,21–23 anal-fin rays, and 5) presence of 41–42 perforated scales on lateral line. Oligosarcus itau n. sp. was previously considered as an Astyanacinus. Astyanacinus moorii (Boulenger), type species of the genus, is included in the Astyanax clade and Astyanacinus platensis Messner is transferred to Oligosarcus.
Advertisement call of Dendropsophus oliveirai (Anura, Hylidae)
Authors: SANTANA DIEGO JOSÉ , MESQUITA DANIEL OLIVEIRA , GARDA ADRIAN ANTONIO
Published: February 2019

The Dendropsophus decipiens clade is part of the Dendropsophus microcephalus group sensu Faivovich et al. (2005). As far as known, the clade is currently composed of four related species (D. decipiens, D. berthalutzae, D. haddadi, and D. oliveirai) distributed in eastern Brazil, all of which deposit eggs on leaves overhanging water bodies (Faivovich et al. 2005). Dendropsophus oliveirai is a typical species of open areas in the Caatinga and Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil (Bastos and Skuk, 2004; Santana et al. 2008).
Three new species of pennatulacean octocorals with the ability to attach to rocky substrata (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Pennatulacea)
Authors: WILLIAMS GARY C. , ALDERSLADE PHILIP
Published: February 2019

All sea pens have been thought to anchor in soft sediment using a basal, sausage-shaped, muscular peduncle. Based on underwater images and examination of specimens, we report an adaptation of the proximal portion of the peduncle for attachment to solid surfaces. We document four species with this adaptation, three new, Anthoptilum lithophilum sp. nov. (California, 669–700 m), A. gowlettholmesae sp. nov. (Tasmania, 729–1803 m), and Calibelemnon francei sp. nov. (the Bahamas, 1969 m), and one known, A. decipiens Thomson & Henderson, 1906 (Sri Lanka, 925 m). The peduncle of a colony with this adaptation is greatly expanded by an outgrowth of the coenenchyme that forms a sucker-like structure, beneath which a conical mass of tough tissue surrounds the proximal end of the internal axis. We infer this structure affects suction, increasing or decreasing the strength of adhesion to the substratum, and discuss the systematics and functional morphology of this new ecological phenomenon—pennatulaceans fastened to hard substrata. We alter the definition of the genus Anthoptilum to accommodate this morphology, reporting on specimens of the type species, A. grandiflorum; compare the two sea pen families—Anthoptilidae and Scleroptilidae— and the two genera; and present a key to the known rock-inhabiting species.
Revision of Condyloderes (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) including description of Condyloderes shirleyi sp. nov.
Authors: NEUHAUS BIRGER , ZOTTO MATTEO DAL , YAMASAKI HIROSHI , HIGGINS ROBERT P.
Published: February 2019

The description of a new representative of the species-poor genus Condyloderes Higgins, 1969 from the Northeast Pacific (Alaska) is reported. The analyzed specimens of Condyloderes shirleyi sp. nov. showed a significant variation of numerous morphological characters, along with female-specific traits known also from other congeneric species. These findings stimulated the re-investigation of the type material of the six species of Condyloderes described so far, i.e., C. kurilensis Adrianov & Maiorova, 2016, C. megastigma Sørensen, Rho & Kim, 2010b, C. multispinosus (McIntyre, 1962) Higgins, 1969, C. paradoxus Higgins, 1969, C. setoensis Adrianov, Murakami & Shirayama, 2002, and C. storchi Higgins, 2004 in Martorelli & Higgins, 2004. Our study allowed to reveal various morphological novelties and to emend the diagnosis of these species and of the genus Condyloderes. Furthermore, our analysis led to synonymize C. megastigma with C. setoensis. The results of our investigation about the significant variation in C. shirleyi sp. nov. raise a wider question on species identity within Kinorhyncha, underscoring the necessity, if possible, to describe new species from a higher number of specimens and to concentrate on the morphological variation of the going-to-be-described species.
On Transidentitying
Authors: Richards Jack C. , Wilson Owen
Published: February 2019

The concepts of identity and translanguaging have been a focus of considerable theorizing and research in recent years, and have clarified important dimensions of how people interact in both monolingual and multilingual settings (Barkhuizen, 2016; Creese and Blackledge, 2015; Darvin and Norton, 2018; Otheguy et al., 2018). In this article we would like to extend the discussion of these two constructs through the notion of transidentitying. We use this term to refer to how different identities or identity characteristics are often created and negotiated within a single or series of related interactions. Our goal is to explore whether this is a useful new concept and to seek to identify the features of transidentitying. First, we provide a brief overview of current conceptions of identity and translanguaging and then present our understanding of transidentitying, to suggest when, why, and how it takes place, and to describe the role sociocultural and other factors play in initiating or necessitating a change of identity within an interaction. We will also suggest that transidentitying is a common feature of normal social interaction as well as teacher behaviour.
Entrepreneurial orientation and SME international performance: The mediating role of networking capability and experiential learning
Authors: Karami Masoud , Tang Jintong
Published: February 2019

This article extends knowledge of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) by examining EO in the context of international performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We enhance understanding of foreign market entry of SMEs by taking into account the mediating mechanisms (i.e. networking capability and experiential learning) through which firm EO leads to superior performance across borders. A sample of 164 internationalising SMEs in New Zealand supported the direct impact of EO on international performance as well as the mediating role of experiential learning and networking capability in this focal relationship. These findings reveal the importance of EO in internationalisation of SMEs.
Performance Analysis of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting in Pavement: Laboratory Testing and Field Simulation
Authors: Jasim Abbas F. , Wang Hao , Yesner Greg , Safari Ahmad , Szary Pat
Published: February 2019

This study investigated the energy harvesting performance of a piezoelectric module in asphalt pavements through laboratory testing and multi-physics based simulation. The energy harvester module was assembled with layers of Bridge transducers and tested in the laboratory. A decoupled approach was used to study the interaction between the energy harvester and the surrounding pavement. The effects of embedment location, vehicle speed, and temperature on energy harvesting performance were investigated. The analysis findings indicate that the embedment location and vehicle speed affects the resulted power output of the piezoelectric energy harvesting system. The embedment depth of the energy module affects both the magnitude and frequency of stress pulse on top of the energy module induced by tire loading. On the other hand, higher vehicle speed causes greater loading frequency and thus greater power output; the effect of pavement temperature is negligible. The analysis of total power output before reaching fatigue failure of the energy module can be used to determine the optimum embedment location in the asphalt layer. The proposed energy harvesting system provides great potential to generate green energy from waste kinetic energy in roadway pavements. Field study is recommended to verify these findings with long-term performance monitoring of pavement with embedded energy harvesters.
Digital Media as a Context for Dating Abuse: Connecting Adaptive and Maladaptive Coping Strategies to Young Adult Women’s Well-Being
Authors: Weathers Melinda R. , Canzona Mollie R. , Fisher Carla L.
Published: February 2019

As the nature of interpersonal communication has shifted with the widespread use of technology, so have the possibilities for abuse. Like face-to-face abuse, digital abuse can be stressful. Digital dating abuse is an emerging form of dating violence in the United States and is thought to have serious health effects on young people. The types of coping strategies used by victims have important implications for their overall health and well-being. Research suggests that the differing social positions of young women and young men will lead them to handle dating conflicts differently. Here, we assert that young women in digitally abusive relationships function as co-cultural group members in dominant societal structures. As such, co-cultural theory was employed to better understand how young adult women’s coping strategies function both adaptively and maladaptively. Specifically, 10 semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted at a large mid-Atlantic university with young women who were previously in a digitally abusive heterosexual romantic relationship. Thematic analyses revealed three factors that influence the adaptive nature of their coping: time-based efficacy, normalization of abuse, and directness of communication. Overall, the women largely chose to enact maladaptive coping strategies when dealing with digital dating abuse.
Board-level codetermination: A driving force for corporate social responsibility in German companies?
Authors: Scholz Robert , Vitols Sigurt
Published: February 2019

We examine the relationship between board-level codetermination and corporate social responsibility in German companies, engaging with two distinct literatures. Most quantitative studies of codetermination focus on its economic impact, with little attention to other outcomes. Studies of corporate social responsibility rarely consider the role of worker representatives. Our new measure of the strength of codetermination, the Mitbestimmungsindex (MB-ix), shows a positive relationship with ‘substantive’ policies such as the adoption of targets for reducing pollution, but not with ‘symbolic’ policies, such as membership of the UN Global Compact. We therefore shed new light on the role of codetermination and provide a more differentiated view of the spread of what has been termed ‘explicit’ corporate social responsibility in Germany.
Role of discoidin domain receptor 2 (DDR2) and microRNA-182 in survival of women with high-grade serous ovarian cancer
Authors: Ramalho Susana , Andrade Liliana AL De Angelo , Filho Cássio Cardoso , Natal Rodrigo de Andrade , Pavanello Marina , Ferracini Amanda Canato , Sallum Luis Felipe , Sarian Luis Otávio , Derchain Sophie
Published: February 2019

The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between discoidin domain receptor 2 (DDR2) and miR-182 expression with response to platinum-based chemotherapy and survival in women with high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC). We evaluated 78 women with HGSOC stages I-IV, diagnosed between 1996 and 2013, and followed up until 2016. DDR2 expression was assessed using immunohistochemistry on tissue microarray slides. The microRNAs were evaluated by qRT-PCR. DDR2 expression was high in 11 (14.1%) women. PFS was significantly lower in women with FIGO stage I/II – versus III/IV, post-surgery residual disease and high expression of DDR2. Women with postsurgery residual disease, FIGO stage I/II – versus III/IV and DDR2 expression had worse OS, but only post-surgery residual disease remained an independent prognostic factor for worse OS in multivariable analysis. miR-182 expression levels were significantly lower in patients harboring tumors with higher expression of DDR2 (p < 0.001). In this relatively large cohort of women with HSGOC, higher DDR2 expression was associated with lower miR-182 levels and worse PFS, suggesting that these molecules may be associated with mechanisms of HGSOC progression.