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La nuit américaine dans Noir de Robert Coover
Authors: Amfreville Marc
Published: February 2017

Robert Coover’s yet unpublished (in its original English version at least) latest novel Noir forces its reader by addressing him/her directly to acknowledge and deconstruct various clichés of the City. Drawing from recognizable romances and tales of detection (early English, American and Victorian Gothic), but also from classic writers such as Hawthorne and Conrad, not to mention Chandler and the film adaptation of The Big Sleep, Coover takes us into an urban nightmare in its horizontal labyrinthine dimension and its vertical and spectral depths. Under the highly erotic and conventionally threatening figure of a Black widow, who owes much to Baudelaire’s death ringing passer-by, and by resorting extensively to the poetics of erasure, veiling and claustration, this highly metatextual novel captures in its spider’s web the simulacrum of all detective fiction by pitting it against the anticipated shadow presence of the most ambitious critique (Benjamin, Derrida, Baudrillard).
"There’d always be something left" : (im)matérialité de la ville dans Hughie de Eugene O’Neill
Authors: Sanchez Aurélie
Published: February 2017

Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie exemplifies the dramatist’s concern with the theme of absence. In this late one-act play, New York remains at first invisible and the stage constitutes an empty space. The city is characterized by emptiness and anonymity. The scenery of the play only emphasizes the vacuity of the two characters’ existence. Yet the city eventually asserts itself on stage through the long, elegiac monologue of Erie Smith, a gambler mourning for a deceased night clerk. His vivid depiction of Broadway evokes a long-lost urban lifestyle. New York is also brought to life thanks to a series of echoes and sounds that reverberate on stage and draw the characters’ attention on the off-stage. Language and specifically rumours appear as both destroying forces and life-giving sources of illusion.
Tours de Babel et lettres de feu : motifs bibliques dans le Berlin de Vladimir Nabokov
Authors: Manolescu-Oancea Monica
Published: February 2017

When examining the critical responses to Vladimir Nabokov’s representations of Berlin in his Russian fiction, it is quite surprising to notice that two antithetical positions have been formulated, one which stresses the absence of Berlin as a city in Nabokov’s texts, and a more recent position emphasizing, on the contrary, the substantial presence of the city in terms of references, landmarks and recognizable sites. This article adopts a different stance, focusing on two Old Testament motifs that appear in Nabokov’s last Russian novel (The Gift) and in his autobiography, namely the Tower of Babel and the letters of fire from the book of Daniel. Starting from these motifs involving shop signs, letters and light, I attempt to connect the urban scene of exile with the issue of bilingualism, and to show in what ways Nabokov’s use of these two biblical topoi points to a vision of literary creation as transgression. The problem of Berlin’s existence or non-existence in Nabokov’s work is therefore shifted from the domain of mimetic representation onto a different plane, where the signs of Berlin are closely examined and decoded, thus giving access to a possible understanding of the writer’s change of language and of his larger aesthetic project.
The Colossus of New York, de Colson Whitehead, petite topographie poétique
Authors: Bauer Sylvie
Published: February 2017

The Colossus of New York, by Colson Whitehead, refuses categorization: neither a novel nor a documentary text, it provides the reader with a poetic experience of New York, opening windows onto a myriad fragments of lives in a somewhat enchanted place, both extremely familiar and made uncanny through language. The well-known, mythical places of the city and its clichés are re-worked by the collisions of words and sounds which transform both city and text into chimeras, thus raising the question of meaning. In the end, if meaning does escape the grips of the reader, it nonetheless prompts an attempt at recapturing a supposedly blissful past through the workings of memory and the rehabilitation of cliché as the trace of the lost event.
Replacing the "Urban Sublime": The City in Contemporary American Fiction
Authors: Ickstadt Heinz
Published: February 2017

La ville a indéniablement perdu l’attrait mythologique qu’elle avait pour les écrivains modernistes. Pourtant, elle n’a pas totalement disparu de la fiction américaine récente. Elle pourrait être considérée, de manière concrète, comme l’environnement où s’inscrit l’expérience d’un quartier spécifique ou comme un lieu de transaction transculturelle (en particulier dans les romans récents consacrés aux communautés ethniques) mais aussi, de manière abstraite, comme le signe visible de forces invisibles qui simultanément transcendent et absorbent la ville dans des romans où semble se perpétuer la tradition moderniste du sublime urbain. Cet article s’intéresse à plusieurs romans contemporains où la ville est à la fois représentée comme localement concrète et globalement abstraite—comme un espace d’expérience sensuelle mais aussi comme un référent sémiotique où se rencontrent des forces nouvelles et désincarnées. De même que Dos Passes explorait les "merveilles" du sublime urbain dans Manhattan Transfer, ces romans—Lookout Cartridge de Joseph McElroy et Cosmopolis de Don DeLillo—entretiennent et transforment à la fois la tradition moderniste en révélant les possibilités et les limites d’une nouvelle réalité virtuelle.
Milan, London and Paris: Cities as Interfaces in Elizabeth Bowen’s To the North
Authors: Magot Céline
Published: February 2017

Cet article s’attache à montrer que l’influence du cinéma sur l’écriture d’Elizabeth Bowen ne se limite pas aux romans tardifs, mais peut être relevée dès les années trente, en particulier en ce qui concerne l’écriture de la ville dans To the North (1933). Ce roman est imprégné d’une vision cinématographique, véritable filtre esthétique qui vient transformer la perception que les personnages ont des paysages urbains. La ville n’est plus un espace à parcourir mais une surface plane couverte de jeux de projections, d’images cadrées en mouvement ou d’incrustations. Entre ouverture et fermeture, la ville-écran devient une interface, une fenêtre tout en supprimant toute profondeur. L’écriture qui naît de cette hybridité esthétique mène à l’émergence de personnages-spectateurs qui, bien que percevant la ville avec acuité, lui demeurent cependant toujours extérieurs.
L’identité francophone, la francophonie et la canadianité multiculturelle contemporaine : vers un renouvellement des formes de solitude ?
Authors: Yannic Aurélien
Published: February 2017

In the second half of the XXth century, the identity and the collective representation that the Canadian Federation had of itself as a social and national community was completely reshaped. First the period of the French Canada had to be repudiated. Then it was the whole Eurocentric construction, grounded on the theory of the two founding people, which was dismissed. Eventually Canada asserted its collective identity in the 1980s as a multicultural American society.In this context, one may wonder what the place and influence of French speaking Canadians can be today, confronted as they are with the increasingly organised claims of Québec and the overwhelming pressure of an American-ness modelled on the example given by the USA.We propose to confront in the following pages the various ways in which this question spells itself: Will Francophonie be displaced by the larger concept of Canadian-ness spawned by multicultural politics, or is it compatible with it? And is it possible to hold with Paul Martin that Canada is the first post-modern state in history?
Le pluralisme politique de l’Ouest canadien
Authors: Cartigny Florence
Published: February 2017

Regionalism has played a tremendous part in defining Canadian identity in a federation still divided along regional lines. Since the 1870s, Western Canada has often felt left aside from the politically powerful provinces of Ontario and Quebec: this federal lack of interest goes hand in hand with unfair representative power both in the Senate and in the House of Commons.As a result, this politically and economically divergent region has created several political parties. For example, the CCF originated in Western Canada in the 1930s with strong socialist leanings. During the Great Depression, William Aberhart founded the Social Credit which had a long-term influence in Alberta. As for the Reform Party, whose only leader was Preston Manning, it remained a federal party whose original aim was to promote Western issues in Ottawa. Finally, separatist parties came into being with the involvement of Douglas Christie at the head of the Western Block Party.Undoubtedly, Westerners have shown how dynamic involved they could be to see their diversity represented provincially and federally. And yet, political heterogeneity is not always reflected: indeed, it seems that Western Canada is heading from a two-party system to a one-party system where political organizations have different labels or names rather than deep ideological divergences
Deviant Literary Works Towards Greater Cultural Coherence: the Case of Oceanian Writer Epeli Hau’ofa
Authors: Gillet Nelly
Published: February 2017

En marge d’une littérature postcoloniale du Pacifique qui tente de redéfinir une identité malmenée par des décennies de préjugés, positifs tout autant que négatifs, Epeli Hau’ofa fait entendre une voix dissidente, résolument moderne, qui se tourne vers l’avenir de son peuple. Dans ses ouvrages littéraires, comme dans son engagement pour encourager la création artistique au Centre des Arts et de la Culture à Fidji, Hau’ofa prône le retour à une authenticité culturelle océanienne qui s’appuie sur un humour fondamentalement rabelaisien. Hau’ofa se ré-approprie le discours colonial en le pervertissant et en lui faisant servir la cause d’une plus grande cohérence culturelle au sein de l’Océan Pacifique.
A "Bloody" (Irritating) Four Star Masterpiece and the "Construction of an Empire" The Proposition and Other Australian Stories
Authors: Kwast-Greff Chantal
Published: February 2017

Il sera question ici de La Proposition, film sorti sur les écrans australiens fin 2005 et réalisé par Nick Cave, qui se targue de narrer l’Histoire Vraie de la colonisation première de l’Australie, telle qu’elle n’avait jamais été racontée auparavant. La problématique centrale du procédé cinématographique mis en œuvre est posée par l’utilisation à outrance de l’image-stéréotype et de l’icône visuelle aussi bien que sonore qui permettent de jouer avec l’émotion du spectateur : l’histoire—vraie, montée ou démontée—est vue par le petit bout de la lorgnette et se propose comme la Vérité de l’histoire de la construction de l’Empire en Australie
"The Truth lies in Black and White." The Language of Truth and the Search for Coloured Identity in Zoe Wicomb’s David’s Story
Authors: Mc Cann Fiona
Published: February 2017

Cet article analyse la manière dont Zoe Wicomb explore les procédés de construction identitaire et les notions d’inaccessibilité et de multiplicité de la vérité. Ancré dans l’Afrique du Sud peu après la chute de l’apartheid, ce roman reflète les difficultés intrinsèques à un pays en pleine mutation et soulève des questions importantes quant à la (re)construction de l’identité. Par le biais de jeux narratifs et langagiers, Wicomb problématise la notion de vérité et, créant au sein de ce roman des relations intertextuelles avec des textes sud-africains et internationaux, interroge la notion de l’hybridité, proposant ainsi une vision anti-essentialiste de la "Nouvelle" Afrique du Sud
Leveller Women Petitioners and the Rhetoric of Power in the English Revolution (1640-1660)
Authors: Gheeraert-Graffeuille Claire
Published: February 2017

Cette étude met en évidence l’influence paradoxale de quelques femmes proches du mouvement niveleur sur la vie politique anglaise au milieu du XVIIe siècle. Elle repose sur une étude rhétorique des pétitions qu’elles ont envoyées au Parlement en 1649, en 1651 et en 1653, afin d’exiger la libération de leurs maris emprisonnés. Ce corpus montre leur parfaite connaissance de leurs droits en tant que citoyennes, leur utilisation stratégique d’une rhétorique de la compassion afin de faire plier les autorités, ainsi que leur réappropriation de la rhétorique politique et juridique des Niveleurs. Ces pétitions féminines invitent à nuancer l’idée que les femmes sont exclues des affaires politiques et incapables de mener une action collective. Bien que leur action sur la scène publique fût limitée—toutes leurs tentatives de faire pression sur le Parlement se soldèrent par un échec—leur prise de parole en leur nom propre invite à regarder autrement le statut de mineure que leur réservait par ailleurs la société patriarcale.
Femmes réfugiées dans les centres de rétention administrative en Grande-Bretagne
Authors: Puzzo Catherine
Published: February 2017

Women refugees constitute a particularly vulnerable population who, for different reasons, are often detained in immigration removal centres in the UK. Their precarious legal status is worsened by very difficult communication with administrative and political authorities. In the specific context of their detention the voice of these women needs to be listened to and it is the aim of this paper to look at the role and performance of various agencies and associations that talk about and/or talk in the name of these women. The position of institutional bodies such as Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons and the Women’s National Commission is successively examined to determine the extent of their contribution to bringing these women’s voices to policymakers and ministers. This paper also examines the significant role of associations in charge of defending and promoting women refugees’ rights. In particular it seeks to assess whether the lobbying role of these cause groups has had an impact upon the definition of substantive policy issues regarding women refugees and upon the identification of significant shortcomings across the sector.
Sud de Chantal Akerman ou une histoire de territoire et de terre : le Sud comme espace de mémoire
Authors: Liénard Marie
Published: February 2017

The article examines Chantal Akerman's work Sud (South) filmed in 1999. The Belgian filmmaker had always been fascinated by the Southern part of the United States. Her film retraces her journey through time and space, and explores what she calls her "obsession" with History and memory. "Sud," she writes, "takes up the questions and the quest for meaning beyond the nonsense of barbarism and death." The film focuses on the lynching of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, which is used as the departure point of the search for her own history of suffering and mourning. The paper analyses how Akerman’s Sud transforms the American place into a space of memory by inscribing it into a European history beyond the myth created by the Southern imagination.
Transgression de l’espace et espace de la transgression dans The Human Stain de Philip Roth
Authors: Mayné Gilles
Published: February 2017

Coleman Silk’s most striking—geographical, social and cultural—transgression comes from his decision to depart from New Jersey’s low-middle-class (black) districts to settle down in the cosy, right-thinking and compartmentalized (white) environment of a Massachusetts university. But the hero only succeeds this social and cultural ascent by knowingly and, at one point, methodically rejecting his black origins. Obviously, Coleman was meant to transgress. However his betrayal catches up to him: in the middle of the political correctness of the late 1990s, this scholar, who teaches Latin and Greek, sees his entire universe turn upside down after he clumsily calls two repeatedly-absent black students spooks. He is then disavowed and banned from the university community. Reading The Human Stain, one is forced to question what is generally considered as being evil and to become aware of the extreme difficulty and yet unavoidable necessity to transgress the space of the supposed common good which locks the notions up within themselves to freeze conscious thinking and behavior.
The End of the African American Political Space? The Court, Redistricting and Black Interests in Contemporary America
Authors: Veroni Lisa
Published: February 2017

Afin de transcender les espaces politiques identitaires et satisfaire les principes de démocratie, il semble nécessaire que la simple représentation numérique des Afro-Américains au Congrès se transforme en représentation substantielle. Or, alors qu’ils gagnent dans les circonscriptions à population majoritairement noire, les Afro-Américains perdent celles dont la population noire n’excède pas les 40 %. A l’intérieur du Parti démocrate, le Congressional Black Caucus demeure certes l’organisation la plus à même à représenter les intérêts afro-américains, mais ses performances législatives sont mitigées. De plus, l’hétérogénéité économique au sein de la communauté et la résurgence d’un courant conservateur dans les années 80 et 90 laisse supposer que la notion même d’intérêts spécifiquement afro-américains devienne de plus en plus difficile à cerner. Quel impact le redécoupage électoral en fonction de l’appartenance ethnique a-t-il aujourd’hui sur la composition de la Chambre des représentants ?
Espace urbain et gentrification aux États-Unis, évolution des interprétations
Authors: Gervais-Linon Laurence
Published: February 2017

Since the 1980’s, North American urban space has changed radically. Industrial neighborhoods that turned into slums then ghettos with the changing of the American economy and the post Second World War urban sprawl are today encountering "revitalization," "urban renewal" and "gentrification."These different phenomena have been studied through the concept of Frontier—converting urban decay and violence into new chic—and the process of capital mobility, itself attracting new social classes from a new economy based in the inner city (Neil Smith). Other studies show that post-industrial urban space is very similar to pre-industrial urban space, such as that of the Renaissance cities. (Kotkin) But Gentrification could be much more than this, a part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late 20th and early 21st century.This paper focuses on the various theories linked to the radical reapropriation of many central and inner cities in North America in the past three decades.
Impact of biogenic very short-lived bromine on the Antarctic ozone hole during the 21st century
Authors: Fernandez Rafael P. , Kinnison Douglas E. , Lamarque Jean-Francois , Tilmes Simone , Saiz-Lopez Alfonso
Published: February 2017

Abstract. Active bromine released from the photochemical decomposition of biogenic very short-lived bromocarbons (VSLBr) enhances stratospheric ozone depletion. Based on a dual set of 1960–2100 coupled chemistry–climate simulations (i.e. with and without VSLBr), we show that the maximum Antarctic ozone hole depletion increases by up to 14 % when natural VSLBr are considered, which is in better agreement with ozone observations. The impact of the additional 5 pptv VSLBr on Antarctic ozone is most evident in the periphery of the ozone hole, producing an expansion of the ozone hole area of ∼ 5 million km2, which is equivalent in magnitude to the recently estimated Antarctic ozone healing due to the implementation of the Montreal Protocol. We find that the inclusion of VSLBr in CAM-Chem (Community Atmosphere Model with Chemistry, version 4.0) does not introduce a significant delay of the modelled ozone return date to 1980 October levels, but instead affects the depth and duration of the simulated ozone hole. Our analysis further shows that total bromine-catalysed ozone destruction in the lower stratosphere surpasses that of chlorine by the year 2070 and indicates that natural VSLBr chemistry would dominate Antarctic ozone seasonality before the end of the 21st century. This work suggests a large influence of biogenic bromine on the future Antarctic ozone layer.
Dust deposition and ambient PM10 concentration in northwest China: spatial and temporal variability
Authors: Zhang Xiao-Xiao , Sharratt Brenton , Chen Xi , Wang Zi-Fa , Liu Lian-You , Guo Yu-Hong , Li Jie , Chen Huan-Sheng , Yang Wen-Yi
Published: February 2017

Abstract. Eolian dust transport and deposition are important geophysical processes which influence global bio-geochemical cycles. Currently, reliable deposition data are scarce in central and east Asia. Located at the boundary of central and east Asia, Xinjiang Province of northwestern China has long played a strategic role in cultural and economic trade between Asia and Europe. In this paper, we investigated the spatial distribution and temporal variation in dust deposition and ambient PM10 (particulate matter in aerodynamic diameter  ≤  10 µm) concentration from 2000 to 2013 in Xinjiang Province. This variation was assessed using environmental monitoring records from 14 stations in the province. Over the 14 years, annual average dust deposition across stations in the province ranged from 255.7 to 421.4 t km−2. Annual dust deposition was greater in southern Xinjiang (663.6 t km−2) than northern (147.8 t km−2) and eastern Xinjiang (194.9 t km−2). Annual average PM10 concentration across stations in the province varied from 100 to 196 µg m−3 and was 70, 115 and 239 µg m−3 in northern, eastern and southern Xinjiang, respectively. The highest annual dust deposition (1394.1 t km−2) and ambient PM10 concentration (352 µg m−3) were observed in Hotan, which is located in southern Xinjiang and at the southern boundary of the Taklamakan Desert. Dust deposition was more intense during the spring and summer than other seasons. PM10 was the main air pollutant that significantly influenced regional air quality. Annual average dust deposition increased logarithmically with ambient PM10 concentration (R2 ≥  0.81). While the annual average dust storm frequency remained unchanged from 2000 to 2013, there was a positive relationship between dust storm days and dust deposition and PM10 concentration across stations. This study suggests that sand storms are a major factor affecting the temporal variability and spatial distribution of dust deposition in northwest China.
An analysis of the September 2015 severe dust event in the Eastern Mediterranean
Authors: Gasch Philipp , Rieger Daniel , Walter Carolin , Khain Pavel , Levi Yoav , Vogel Bernhard
Published: February 2017

Abstract. In September 2015 one of the severest and unusual dust events on record occurred in the Eastern Mediterranean. Surprisingly, state-of-the-art dust transport models were unable to forecast the event. This study details the reasons for the failure of the models to forecast the dust storm and presents simulations of the event at convection permitting resolution with the modelling system ICON-ART. The results allow for an in-depth analysis of the influence of the synoptic situation, the complex interaction of multiple driving atmospheric systems and the mineral dust radiative effect on the dust event. A comparison of the results with observations reveals the quality of the simulation results with respect to structure and timing of the dust transport. The forecast of the dust event is improved decisively. The event is enabled by the unusually early occurrence of an active Red Sea trough situation with an easterly axis over Mesopotamia. The connected sustained organized meso-scale convection produces multiple cold-pool outflows responsible for intense dust emissions. Complexity is added by the interaction with an intense heat low, the land inward penetrating Eastern Mediterranean sea-breeze and the widespread occurrence of super-critical flow conditions and subsequent hydraulic jumps in the vicinity of the Dead Sea Rift Valley. The newly implemented mineral dust radiation interaction leads to systematically more intense and faster propagating cold-pool outflows in the runs including the mineral dust radiation interaction.
Continuous wavelet transform and Euler deconvolution method and their application to magnetic field data of Jharia coalfield, India
Authors: Singh Arvind , Singh Upendra Kumar
Published: February 2017

Abstract. This paper deals with the application of continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and Euler deconvolution methods to estimate the source depth using magnetic anomalies. These methods are utilized mainly to focus on the fundamental issue of mapping the major coal seam and locating tectonic lineaments. The main aim of the study is to locate and characterize the source of the magnetic field by transferring the data into an auxiliary space by CWT. The method has been tested on several synthetic source anomalies and finally applied to magnetic field data from Jharia coalfield, India. Using magnetic field data, the mean depth of causative sources points out the different lithospheric depth over the study region. Also, it is inferred that there are two faults, namely the northern boundary fault and the southern boundary fault, which have an orientation in the northeastern and southeastern direction respectively. Moreover, the central part of the region is more faulted and folded than the other parts and has sediment thickness of about 2.4 km. The methods give mean depth of the causative sources without any a priori information, which can be used as an initial model in any inversion algorithm.
Derivation Process of Vision That Bind the Overall Business Performance
Authors: Khiew Kim-Fatt , Chen Ming-Chih , Shia Ben-Chang
Published: February 2017

This paper tried to unbundle three important factors related to vision: (1) what is the true definition of vision, (2) how to develop an implementable vision and (3) how to relate the vision to the overall strategy. The study performed series of comprehensive literature reviews from 40 published manuscripts while using an explanatory approach to explain the stated research question. From these steps, this study found that vision is not only a dream, but more to achievable dreams. Organizational vision must become a true direction for the overall strategy; therefore, it must be equipped with the ability to introduce several quantitative indicators. This study succeeded in explaining how the derivation process should be done. Our proposed model consisting of major steps introduce vision in a more practical basic way, thus providing guidance for a company that wants to be fruitful from their vision. Lastly, the study also provides a guidance related to how vision can be adopted into individual daily performance. By having this mechanism, we believe that vision will no longer mere a dream, but more to a dream that can be achieved.
A Capsular-based Vascularized Distal Radius Graft in Treatment of Proximal Pole Scaphoid Pseudoarthrosis. Case Study
Authors: Sroga Wojciech , Giner Rosa Ana Perez
Published: February 2017

We present a possible option for surgical treatment of proximal pole scaphoid pseudarthrosis. We used a vascularized distal radius bone graft that was pedicled on the dorsal capsule of the wrist joint. The publication consists of a case study, conclusions, indications and contraindications for the surgery.
Les effets d’un programme d’entrainement lecture-musique sur le développement du vocabulaire et de la morphosyntaxe d’élèves francophones de 2e année
Authors: Lessard Andrée , Bolduc Jonathan
Published: February 2017

Le but de la présente étude était d’évaluer les effets de deux programmes (lecture seulement et lecture-musique) sur le développement du vocabulaire et des habiletés morphosyntaxiques d’élèves de 2e année. Un design quasi expérimental avec prétest et post-test a été employé. Les sujets (n = 94) ont été divisés en trois groupes : lecture seulement (n = 44), lecture-musique (n = 34) et contrôle (n = 16). Les programmes expérimentaux ont pris place pendant quatre mois à raison de trois périodes par cycle de 10 jours. Même si aucune différence significative n’a pu être observée entre les groupes au prétest ou au post-test, il semblerait que le programme lecture-musique a eu un effet favorable sur le vocabulaire réceptif. Des pistes d’explications sont fournies dans la discussion.
Online “iDentity” Formation and the High School Theatre Trip
Authors: Richardson John M.
Published: February 2017

Over the years that I have taken secondary school students to the theatre, the the digital revolution has moved through schools, classrooms, and even theatres, calling into question my goal of contributing positively to students’ identity formation through exposure to live plays. Responding to calls to examine the ways in which young people’s online and offline lives are interwoven, a one-year qualitative case study of student theatregoers suggests that online settings feature prominently in students’ identity formation and that non-digital school experiences such as the theatre trip are often experienced in light of students’ digital lives. Traditional events such as a trip to the theatre are influenced by and combined with online experiences to contribute to a new “iDentity” formation.
Experiencing Leadership Like a Coach
Authors: Matthews Nancy
Published: February 2017

This note is a reflection on experiences as an educational leader, as well as provides a perspective on educational leadership, based on professional reading. It offers the metaphor of the coach, initiating a case for using a coaching philosophy as a model for a sustained form of leadership. It invites the reader to consider that with a game plan and a coaching mindset, a school can reach its full potential.
On Keeping Public Visual Fieldnotes As Reflexive Ethnographic Practice
Authors: Burkholder Casey
Published: February 2017

These “Notes from the Field” describe one doctoral student’s public visual fieldnotes practice during her data collection for her dissertation. In the creation of a public digital space for participants and the public to engage with the fieldnotes through online comments and in-person conversations, this shifts the practice of keeping the researcher’s initial thoughts private and separate from the research participants. In an attempt to address a critique of her own Master’s work, and the potentially exclusionary practice of private fieldnotes writing in participatory research, the piece raises questions about positionality and ethical concerns in relation to a digital archive of public visual fieldnotes as reflexive ethnographic practice.
De légendes pédagogiques à légendes psychologiques : analyse des critiques de N. Baillargeon et didactique des mathématiques
Authors: Barallobres Gustavo
Published: February 2017

Dans le texte Légendes pédagogiques. L’autodéfense intellectuelle en éducation, Normand Baillargeon effectue une critique aux fondements des propositions pédagogiques qui circulent dans les institutions scolaires et propose une méthode d’identification de ce qu’il appelle des « Légendes Pédagogiques ». Cet article analyse les arguments de l’auteur à la lumière de sa propre méthode et des résultats de recherches provenant de la didactique des mathématiques.
NiCoP Nanoarray: A Superior Pseudocapacitor Electrode with High Areal Capacitance
Authors: Kong Menglai , Wang Zao , Wang Weiyi , Ma Min , Liu Danni , Hao Shuai , Kong Rongmei , Du Gu , Asiri Abdullah M. , Yao Yadong , Sun Xuping
Published: February 2017

High‐performance supercapacitors require the design and development of electrode materials with high conductivity and a large electrolyte‐accessible surface area. Here, the use of a conductive NiCoP nanoarray on nickel foam (NiCoP/NF) as a superior pseudocapacitor electrode is demonstrated. This 3D electrode exhibits high areal capacitances of 9.2 and 5.97 F cm−2 at current densities of 2 and 50 mA cm−2, respectively, with good rate capability and cycling stability. The asymmetric supercapacitor (ASC) device assembled using NiCoP/NF as positive electrode and active carbon as negative electrode delivers a high energy density of 1.16 mWh cm−2 at a power density of 1.6 mW cm−2 with 72 % retention of its initial specific capacitance after 2000 cycles at 50 mA cm−2. The practical use is further demonstrated with two such ASC devices in series to light six LED indicators and also to drive an alkaline water electro‐ lyzer using NiCoP/NF as both cathode and anode for hydrogen production.
“Breathing” Motion of a Modulable Molecular Cavity
Authors: Zhang Dawei , Cochrane James Robert , Di Pietro Sebastiano , Guy Laure , Gornitzka Heinz , Dutasta Jean‐Pierre , Martinez Alexandre
Published: February 2017

A class of hemicryptophane cages that adopt imploded conformations in solution and in the solid state has been described and studied by NMR spectroscopy and X‐ray crystallography. It is reported that the degree of collapse of the molecular cavity can be controlled by changing the stereochemistry of the chiral elements of the hemicryptophanes, leading to a modulation of their physical and chemical properties. Upon the binding of an oxidovanadium unit, the collapsed molecular cavity can inflate to give an expanded conformation. Removal of the vanadium core by an ancillary complexing ligand restores the initial folded structure. Thus, coordination/de‐coordination of the metal ion controls the dynamic motions of the cage, leading to a reversible nanomechanical process. This controlled motion between a collapsed and expanded cavity can be seen as that of a breathable molecular cage.
A 1.9‐GHz silicon‐on‐insulator CMOS stacked‐FET power amplifier with uniformly distributed voltage stresses
Authors: Im Donggu , Kwon Kuduck , Lee In‐Young
Published: February 2017

A 1.9‐GHz single‐stage differential stacked‐FET power amplifier with uniformly distributed voltage stresses was implemented using 0.32‐μm 2.8‐V thick‐oxide MOSFETs in a 0.18‐μm silicon‐on‐insulator CMOS process. The input cross‐coupled stacked‐FET topology was proposed to evenly distribute the voltage stresses among the stacked transistors, alleviating the breakdown and reliability issues of the stacked‐FET power amplifier in sub‐micrometer CMOS technology. With a 4‐V supply voltage, the proposed power amplifier with an integrated output coupled‐resonator balun showed a small‐signal gain of 17 dB, a saturated output power of 26.1 dBm, and a maximum power‐added efficiency of 41.5% at the operating frequency. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The analgesic and anti‐inflammatory effects of Salvinorin A analogue β‐tetrahydropyran Salvinorin B in mice
Authors: Paton K.F. , Kumar N. , Crowley R.S. , Harper J.L. , Prisinzano T.E. , Kivell B.M.
Published: February 2017

Background

Drugs activating the mu opioid receptor are routinely used to treat severe acute and chronic pain. Unfortunately, side effects including nausea, constipation, respiratory depression, addiction and tolerance can limit clinical utility. In contrast, kappa opioid receptor (KOPr) agonists, such as Salvinorin A (SalA), have analgesic properties with little potential for abuse.

Methods

We evaluated SalA and the novel analogue β‐tetrahydropyran Salvinorin B (β‐THP SalB) for the ability to modulate pain and inflammation in vivo. The hot water tail‐withdrawal assay, intradermal formalin‐induced inflammatory pain and paclitaxel‐induced neuropathic pain models were used to evaluate analgesic properties in mice. Tissue infiltration of inflammatory cells was measured by histology and flow cytometry.

Results

β‐tetrahydropyran Salvinorin B produced a longer duration of action in the tail‐withdrawal assay compared to the parent compound SalA, and, like SalA and U50,488, β‐THP SalB is a full agonist at the KOPr. In the formalin‐induced inflammatory pain model, β‐THP SalB and SalA significantly reduced pain score, paw oedema and limited the infiltration of neutrophils into the inflamed tissue. β‐THP SalB and SalA supressed both mechanical and cold allodynia in the paclitaxel‐induced neuropathic pain model, in a dose‐dependent manner.

Conclusions

Structural modification of SalA at the C‐2 position alters its analgesic potency and efficacy in vivo. Substitution with a tetrahydropyran group at C‐2 produced potent analgesic and anti‐inflammatory effects, including a reduction in paclitaxel‐induced neuropathic pain. This study highlights the potential for KOPr agonists as analgesics with anti‐inflammatory action and little risk of abuse.

Significance

Salvinorin A and the novel analogue β‐THP Salvinorin B show analgesic effects in the tail‐withdrawal and formalin assays. They reduce oedema and decrease neutrophil infiltration into inflamed tissue, and suppress mechanical and cold allodynia in paclitaxel‐induced neuropathic pain.
Combination of rituximab and nonpegylated liposomal doxorubicin (R‐NPLD) as front‐line therapy for aggressive non‐Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in patients 80 years of age or older: a single‐center retrospective study
Authors: Ricciuti Giuseppina , Finolezzi Erica , Luciani Stefania , Ranucci Elena , Federico Massimo , Di Nicola Marta , Zecca Isaia Antonio Luca , Angrilli Francesco
Published: February 2017

The incidence of non‐Hodgkin lymphoma in patients 80 years of age or older is 50 times higher than in 20‐ to 24‐year‐olds. Very elderly patients are often not treated with standard immunochemotherapy because of poor performance status, comorbidities, and toxicity concerns. We retrospectively analyzed data for 29 patients diagnosed with diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma or grade 3B follicular lymphoma and treated with rituximab in combination with nonpegylated liposomal doxorubicin between January 2010 and August 2015. The median age was 84 years. The overall 3‐year survival, cause‐specific survival, and progression‐free survival rates were 46%, 55%, and 44%, respectively. Among prognostic factors, only the achievement of complete remission strongly correlated with overall survival, cause‐specific survival, and progression‐free survival rates. Treatment caused very mild toxicity, without treatment‐related hospitalization or toxic deaths.
Our top 10 herbicide‐resistant weed management practices
Authors: Beckie Hugh J , Harker K Neil
Published: February 2017

Although proactive or reactive herbicide‐resistant weed management (HRWM) practices have been recommended to growers in different agroecoregions globally, there is a need to identify and prioritise those having the most impact in mitigating or managing herbicide selection pressure in the northern Great Plains of North America. Our perspective on this issue is based on collaborative research, extension activities and dialogue with growers or farming experience (cereal, oilseed and pulse crop production) during the past 30 years. We list our top 10 HRWM practices, concluding with the number 1 practice which is the foundation of the other nine practices: crop diversity. Although our top 10 HRWM practices have broad applicability across agroecoregions, their ranking may vary widely. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry
A generalised wavelet packet‐based anonymisation approach for ECG security application
Authors: Mahmoud Seedahmed S.
Published: February 2017

An electrocardiogram (ECG) signal contains cardiovascular information, which is private in nature. Therefore, during the distribution and storage of an ECG in a public repository, it is necessary to anonymise the ECG data. An eavesdropper could record an unsecured ECG and use it as recognition data to gain access via an ECG biometric system. Anonymised ECG data also hide cardiovascular details of a patient upholding Health Information Protection and Privacy Act (1996) regulations. In this paper, a generalised wavelet packet‐based ECG anonymisation framework is proposed. The proposed method uses wavelet packet transform and reversible function and/or operation to conceal fiducial and non‐fiducial features from normal and abnormal ECG signals. At the receiver end, only authorised personnel possessing a secret key and know the reversible function will be able to reconstruct the original ECG from the anonymised ECG. Performance analysis using cross correlation, power spectral density and percentage residual difference methods show that the proposed anonymisation algorithm conceals fiducial and non‐fiducial features in normal and abnormal ECG signals. Moreover, the reconstructed ECG is highly correlated with the original ECG, which achieves a lossless reconstruction of the ECG data and proves the robustness of the proposed method. It is found from the performance analysis results that the proposed anonymisation scheme provides high‐security protection to ECG data and patient privacy. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Bayesian hierarchical modeling of longitudinal glaucomatous visual fields using a two‐stage approach
Authors: Bryan Susan R. , Eilers Paul H.C. , Rosmalen Joost van , Rizopoulos Dimitris , Vermeer Koenraad A. , Lemij Hans G. , Lesaffre Emmanuel M.E.H.
Published: February 2017

The Bayesian approach has become increasingly popular because it allows to fit quite complex models to data via Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling. However, it is also recognized nowadays that Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling can become computationally prohibitive when applied to a large data set. We encountered serious computational difficulties when fitting an hierarchical model to longitudinal glaucoma data of patients who participate in an ongoing Dutch study. To overcome this problem, we applied and extended a recently proposed two‐stage approach to model these data. Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness in the world. In order to detect deterioration at an early stage, a model for predicting visual fields (VFs) in time is needed. Hence, the true underlying VF progression can be determined, and treatment strategies can then be optimized to prevent further VF loss. Because we were unable to fit these data with the classical one‐stage approach upon which the current popular Bayesian software is based, we made use of the two‐stage Bayesian approach. The considered hierarchical longitudinal model involves estimating a large number of random effects and deals with censoring and high measurement variability. In addition, we extended the approach with tools for model evaluation. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Ethical considerations for sleep intervention in organizational psychology research
Authors: Barber Larissa K.
Published: February 2017

Over the past several years, interest into the role of sleep in the workplace has grown. The theoretical shift from research questions examining sleep as an outcome to placing sleep as the independent variable has increased experimental approaches to manipulating sleep in organizational studies. This is an exciting trend that is likely to continue in the organizational sciences. However, sleep experimentation can also pose special challenges for organizational researchers unaccustomed to sleep science. In this commentary, I discuss five ethical considerations of conducting negative sleep interventions in organizational psychology research. I also provide recommendations for organizational researchers—or even other researchers in disciplines outside of sleep science—who wish to implement sleep interventions in their studies.
Modifying the Sleep Treatment Education Program for Students to include technology use (STEPS‐TECH): Intervention effects on objective and subjective sleep outcomes
Authors: Barber Larissa K. , Cucalon Maria S.
Published: February 2017

University students often have sleep issues that arise from poor sleep hygiene practices and technology use patterns. Yet, technology‐related behaviors are often neglected in sleep hygiene education. This study examined whether the Sleep Treatment Education Program for Students—modified to include information regarding managing technology use (STEPS‐TECH)—helps improve both subjective and objective sleep outcomes among university students. Results of an experimental study among 78 university students showed improvements in objective indicators of sleep quantity (total sleep time) and sleep quality (less awakenings) during the subsequent week for students in the STEPS‐TECH intervention group compared to a control group. Exploratory analyses indicated that effects were driven by improvements in weekend days immediately following the intervention. There were also no intervention effects on subjective sleep quality or quantity outcomes. In terms of self‐reported behavioral responses to educational content in the intervention, there were no group differences in sleep hygiene practices or technology use before bedtime. However, the intervention group reported less technology use during sleep periods than the control group. These preliminary findings suggest that STEPS‐TECH may be a useful educational tool to help improve objective sleep and reduce technology use during sleep periods among university students.
Elevated total plasma-adiponectin is stable over time in young women with bulimia nervosa
Authors: Syk M. , Ramklint M. , Fredriksson R. , Ekselius L. , Cunningham J.L.
Published: February 2017

Background

Bulimia nervosa (BN) is characterized by dysregulated eating behaviour and present data suggest adipokines may regulate food intake. We investigated a possible association between BN and adipokine levels and hypothesized that plasma (P)-adiponectin would be elevated and P-leptin and P-leptin-adiponectin-ratio would be reduced in women with BN.

Methods

The study was designed as a cross-sectional study with a longitudinal arm for patients with BN. Plasma-adiponectin and leptin was measured in 148 female patients seeking psychiatric ambulatory care and 45 female controls. Fifteen patients were diagnosed with BN and the remaining with other affective and anxiety disorders. P-adiponectin and P-leptin levels were compared between patients with BN, patients without BN and controls. At follow-up 1–2 years later, adipokines were reassessed in patients with BN and the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire was used to assess symptom severity.

Results

P-adiponectin was elevated in patients with BN at baseline and at follow-up when compared to patients without BN and controls (P < 0.004 and < 0.008 respectively). The difference remained significant after controlling for body mass index. P-adiponectin was correlated to symptom severity at follow-up in patients with BN without morbid obesity (ρ = 0.72, P < 0.04). P-leptin-adiponectin-ratio was significantly lower in patients with BN compared to controls (P < 0.04) and P-leptin non-significantly lower.

Conclusions

Findings indicate a stable elevation of P-adiponectin in women with BN. P-adiponectin at follow-up correlates to eating disorder symptom severity in patients without morbid obesity, indicating that P-adiponectin should be further investigated as a possible potential prognostic biomarker for BN.
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Women’s Labour Migration and Sex Trafficking in the Early Twentieth Century
Authors: Laite Julia
Published: February 2017

This article explores the discursive and practical entanglements of women’s work and sex trafficking, in Britain and internationally, in the early twentieth century. It examines discussions about trafficking and women’s work during a period that was instrumental in codifying modern, international conceptions of ‘trafficking’ and argues that porous and faulty borders were drawn between sex work, women’s licit work, and their sexual exploitation and their exploitation as workers. These borders were at their thinnest in discussions about two very important sectors of female-dominated migrant labour: domestic and care work, and work in the entertainment industry. The anti-trafficking movement, the international labour movement, and the makers of national laws and policies, attempted to separate sexual labour from other forms of labour. In doing so, they wilfully ignored or suppressed moments when they obviously intersected, and downplayed the role of other exploited and badly-paid licit work that sustained the global economy. But these attempts were rarely successful: despite the careful navigations of international and British officials, work continued to find its way back into discussions of sex trafficking, and sex trafficking remained entangled with the realities of women’s work.