bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Mediating the Apocalypse: The Potential Semiotic Effects of Translating for Spoken and Sung Performance
Authors: Fitzgerald Dan
Published: November 2015

From the perspective of Peircean semiotics, people who experience a performed discourse—for example, one that is spoken, sung, and gestured—experience that discourse as a more direct, “real,” and affective experience than when they experience that same discourse by reading it. This distinction is so because performed discourse typically engages many more iconic and indexical sign-object semioses than does read discourse. Therefore, Bible translators who translate written biblical discourse for the express purpose of making that discourse accessible through cultural performance are obliged, first, to discover the distinct, genre-specific, iconic, and indexical performance features of their receptor language and second, champion the inclusion of those performance features in their translation. As a case study of this kind of translation, this article describes the manner in which translators of the Baka Bible translation project in Cameroon translated select passages from the book of Revelation for spoken and sung narrative performance.
Sign Language, Performance, and Identity
Authors: Tamez Elsa
Published: November 2015

The article presents an introduction to issues of Deaf identity, especially in relation to performance in Bible translation into sign languages. Deaf people become visible as Deaf at the moment they start to speak their language. The communicative performance of sign language is what gives them their identity as Deaf persons. In an intersemiotic translation, the translator-signer presents three visible layers of identities: one is him- or herself as a Deaf person, the other two are the narrator and the characters represented in the text. To achieve an acceptable translation, the translator must choose the most relevant strategies regarding these identities; otherwise, the translation becomes vulnerable to the criticism of the Deaf community because, in the translation, the first of these identities is visibly attached to the signer’s own personal identity, including his or her physical appearance and ethical behavior.
Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Performing Revelation Calypso Style
Authors: Winedt Marlon
Published: November 2015

This article presents an approach to the book of Revelation from the perspective of translation as embodied performance. The performance is based on a specific hermeneutical framework from the Caribbean perspective of creolité, resulting in the actual performance of two passages (“Babylon has fallen” and “the New Jerusalem comes down”) in Papiamentu, a Creole language of the region. Thus, a modern Caribbean audience is challenged to engage with the text orally in relevant matters of oppression and the forging of a collective identity through the visions of John, the Seer. A brief sociocultural analysis of the book of Revelation and concrete performance criteria result in a basic script for audiovisual presentation. Ultimately, translation itself is a form of performance and performance is a form of translation. The preparation of the text and the actual performance open the door to a more concrete appropriation of the text through orality.
How was your day? Exploring a day in the life of probation workers across Europe using practice diaries
Authors: Rokkan Tore , Phillips Jake , Lulei Martin , Poledna Sorina , Kensey Annie
Published: November 2015

This article presents a reflection upon the preliminary analysis of diary research conducted during the period 2014–2015 in five European countries (England, France, Norway, Romania and Slovakia). The authors gathered and analysed data from a pilot project that used semi-structured diaries to generate data on probation workers’ daily lives with a view to understanding ‘a day in the life’ of probation officers across jurisdictions. The findings open up questions in relation to diary research in probation practice (diary format, follow-up interview, etc.) and we use this article to discuss the relative advantages and benefits of using diary research in this area. We conclude with the argument that diaries as a method of social research hold considerable potential for conducting research in the context of probation but acknowledge that the method we employed requires some development and greater clarification in terms of the aims of the research.
Neo-epitopes emerging in the degenerative hippocampal granules of aged mice can be recognized by natural IgM auto-antibodies
Authors: Manich Gemma , Augé Elisabet , Cabezón Itsaso , Pallàs Mercè , Vilaplana Jordi , Pelegrí Carme
Published: November 2015

Background

Degenerative granular structures appear progressively with age in the hippocampus of most mouse strains. We recently reported that these granules contain a neo-epitope that is recognised by IgM antibodies present as contaminants in many commercial antibodies obtained from mouse ascites and mouse or rabbit serum. We hypothesise that these anti-neo-epitope IgMs are in fact natural auto-antibodies that are generated spontaneously during the foetal stage without previous contact with external antigens and whose repertoire and reactivity pattern have been determined through evolution, being remarkably stable within species and even between species.

Findings

In the present work we found that mice from the ICR-CD1, BALB/C and SAMP8 strains have anti-neo-epitope IgM antibodies in their plasma at all ages tested and even when maintained under specific opportunistic pathogen-free conditions. Moreover, we determined that these anti-neo-epitope IgMs are also present in rabbit, goat and rat serum. We also found that, in each mouse that presented hippocampal granules, the anti-neo-epitope IgMs contained in its plasma recognised the neo-epitopes in its own granules.

Conclusions

This study led to the conclusion that anti-neo-epitope IgMs are widespread natural auto-antibodies contained in the plasma of mice and other species. The presence of these natural auto-antibodies not only explains why they are frequently found as contaminants in commercial antibodies, but also paves the way for a new approach to a treatment and diagnosis of pathological brain processes based on natural IgMs and neo-epitopes.
Metric fixed point theory: a brief retrospective
Authors: Kirk William A
Published: November 2015

These remarks are based on a talk the writer gave at the 11th International Conference in Fixed Point Theory and Applications, held at Galatasaray University in Istanbul, Turkey, July 20-24, 2015. They represent selected thoughts on a career in research, largely devoted to metric fixed point theory, that has spanned over 50 years.
Clinical potential of gene mutations in lung cancer
Authors: Carper Miranda B. , Claudio Pier Paolo
Published: November 2015

Lung cancer is the most common cancer type worldwide and the leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States. The majority of newly diagnosed patients present with late stage metastatic lung cancer that is inoperable and resistant to therapies. High‐throughput genomic technologies have made the identification of genetic mutations that promote lung cancer progression possible. Identification of the mutations that drive lung cancer provided new targets for non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment and led to the development of targeted therapies such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors that can be used to combat the molecular changes that promote cancer progression. Development of targeted therapies is not the only clinical benefit of gene analysis studies. Biomarkers identified from gene analysis can be used for early lung cancer detection, determine patient's prognosis and response to therapy, and monitor disease progression. Biomarkers can be used to identify the NSCLC patient population that would most benefit from treatment (targeted therapies or chemotherapies), providing clinicians tools that can be used to develop a personalized treatment plan. This review explores the clinical potential of NSCLC genetic studies on diagnosing and treating NSCLC.
Adjuvant Chemotherapy Use and Health Care Costs After Introduction of Genomic Testing in Breast Cancer
Authors: Epstein Andrew J. , Wong Yu-Ning , Mitra Nandita , Vachani Anil , Hin Sakhena , Yang Lin , Smith-McLallen Aaron , Armstrong Katrina , Groeneveld Peter W.
Published: November 2015

Purpose

We assessed the associations between the 21-gene recurrence score assay (RS) receipt, subsequent chemotherapy use, and medical expenditures among patients with early-stage breast cancer.

Patients and Methods

Data from the Pennsylvania Cancer Registry were used to assemble a retrospective cohort of women with early-stage breast cancer from 2007 to 2010 who underwent initial surgical treatment. These data were merged with administrative claims from the 12-month periods before and after diagnosis to identify comorbidities, treatments, and expenditures (n = 7,287). Propensity score–weighted regression models were estimated to identify the effects of RS receipt on chemotherapy use and medical spending in the year after diagnosis.

Results

The associations between RS receipt and outcomes varied markedly by patient age. RS use was associated with lower chemotherapy use among women younger than 55 (19.2% lower; 95% CI, 10.6 to 27.9). RS use was associated with higher chemotherapy use among women 75 to 84 years old (5.7% higher; 95% CI, 0.4 to 11.0). RS receipt was associated with lower adjusted 1-year medical spending among women younger than 55 ($15,333 lower; 95% CI, $2,841 to $27,824) and with higher spending among women who were 75 to 84 years old ($3,489 higher; 95% CI, $857 to $6,122).

Conclusion

RS receipt was associated with reduced use of adjuvant chemotherapy and lower health care spending among women with breast cancer who were younger than 55. Conversely, among women 75 and older, RS testing was associated with a modest increase in chemotherapy use and slightly higher spending. From a population perspective, the impact of RS testing on breast cancer treatment and health care costs is much greater in younger women.
Racial Differences in the Use and Outcome of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: Results From the National Cancer Data Base
Authors: Killelea Brigid K. , Yang Vicky Q. , Wang Shi-Yi , Hayse Brandon , Mougalian Sarah , Horowitz Nina R. , Chagpar Anees B. , Pusztai Lajos , Lannin Donald R.
Published: November 2015

Purpose

To explore racial differences in the use and outcome of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer.

Methods

The National Cancer Data Base was queried to identify women with stage 1 to 3 breast cancer diagnosed in 2010 and 2011. Chemotherapy use and rate of pathologic complete response (pCR) was determined for various racial/ethnic groups.

Results

Of 278,815 patients with known race and ethnicity, 127,417 (46%) received chemotherapy, and of 121,446 where the timing of chemotherapy was known, 27,300 (23%) received neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Chemotherapy, and neoadjuvant chemotherapy in particular, was given more frequently to black, Hispanic, and Asian women than to white women (P < 0.001). This difference was largely explained by more advanced stage, higher grade tumors, and a greater proportion of triple-negative and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–positive tumors in these women. Of 17,970 patients with known outcome, 5,944 (33%) had a pCR. No differences in response rate for estrogen receptor (ER)/progesterone receptor (PR)–positive tumors were found, but compared with white women, black but not Hispanic or Asian women had a lower rate of pCR for ER/PR-negative, HER2-positive (43% v 54%, P = 0.001) and triple-negative tumors (37% v 43%, P < 0.001). This difference persisted when adjusted for age, clinical T stage, clinical N stage, histology, grade, comorbidity index, facility type, geographic region, insurance status, and census-derived median income and education for the patient’s zip code (odds ratio, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.77 to 0.93).

Conclusion

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is given more frequently to black, Hispanic, and Asian women than to white women. Black women have a lower likelihood of pCR for triple-negative and HER2-positive breast cancer. Whether this is due to biologic differences in chemosensitivity or to treatment or socioeconomic differences that could not be adjusted for is unknown.
The Unending Korean War
Authors: Hong Christine
Published: November 2015

As an introduction to the special issue of positions: asia critique on the unending Korean War, this opening essay calls critical attention to the war's temporal contours, shifting focus from the question of the Korean War's origins that bedeviled Korean studies throughout the Cold War to the unsettling question of why the Korean War, in our ostensibly post–Cold War moment, is still not over. This introduction highlights how the image-essays, critical analyses, and interview assembled in this issue, in challenging the war's standard 1950–53 periodization, examine the war's persistence in multiple, often overlooked modalities that call for critical and innovative interpretive practice. Against the fog of received historiography on the Korean War, the essays in this collection, by variously questioning the integrity of state-sponsored accounts of the “truth” of the war, call much-needed attention to the Korean War's legacies, its undertheorized afterlives, and its oblique yet telling ongoing manifestations.
The Borderlands of the Korean War and the Fiction of Rolando Hinojosa
Authors: Kim Daniel Y.
Published: November 2015

This essay reads the work of Rolando Hinojosa for the ways in which it invites a consideration of the two wars that the United States fought in the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—the US-Mexico War and the Korean War, respectively—as part of a continuous history of US empire. It examines the array of cross-racial identifications operant in his Korean War trilogy—Korean Love Songs, Rites and Witnesses, and The Useless Servants—which attach variously to Japanese and Korean civilians as well as to North Korean and Chinese soldiers. In so doing, this article shows how Hinojosa's war writings are part of an Orientalism that is deployed in the service of anticolonial and antiracist critique but that also recapitulates aspects of the colonial imaginary. These works also engage in an auto-critique of how certain segments of the Chicana/o population came to be beneficiaries of a liberal Cold War racial dispensation that enabled limited forms of upward mobility for some communities of color.
War as Business in South Korea's Manchurian Action Films
Authors: An Jinsoo
Published: November 2015

This essay examines Cold War political discourse in South Korea's Manchurian action films. It opens by questioning the interpretive parameters of South Korea's cinematic war narratives, which isolate the military conflict of the Korean War (1950–53, in its conventional periodization) as the sole focus of the war experience. This essay, by contrast, expands consideration of the “Korean War” by examining cultural representations of the proto-Korean nation-state during the 1931–45 Pacific War. This shift in focus enables an inquiry into the role of the state in its business practice of war mobilization. In particular, the essay brings close attention to the subject of money, specifically, war funds procurement, as a recurring and governing thematic preoccupation of Manchurian action films as a genre of war film. By exploring the trappings of “money,” as it is configured in such films and relating them to the state's claims of ownership, this essay examines how the genre reflects the capitalist war politics of the South Korean state. It also discerns how the state gains and furnishes its political authority by controlling and managing the business of perpetual war.
Tail loss and narrow surfaces decrease locomotor stability in the arboreal green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis)
Authors: Hsieh S. Tonia
Published: November 2015

Tails play an important role for dynamic stabilization during falling and jumping in lizards. Yet, tail autotomy (the voluntary loss of an appendage) is a common mechanism used for predator evasion among these animals. How tail autotomy impacts locomotor performance and stability remains poorly understood. The goal of this study was to determine how tail loss affects running kinematics and performance in the arboreal green anole lizard, Anolis carolinensis (Voigt, 1832). Lizards were run along four surface widths (9.5 mm, 15.9 mm, 19.0 mm, and flat), before and following 75% tail autotomy. Results indicate that when perturbed with changes in surface breadth and tail condition, surface breadth tends to have greater impacts on locomotor performance than does tail loss. Furthermore, while tail loss does have a destabilizing effect during regular running in these lizards, its function during steady locomotion is minimal. Instead, the tail likely plays a more active role during dynamic maneuvers that require dramatic changes in whole body orientation or center of mass trajectories.
Comparative limb bone loading in the humerus and femur of the tiger salamander Ambystoma tigrinum: testing the ‘mixed-chain’ hypothesis for skeletal safety factors
Authors: Kawano Sandy M. , Economy D. Ross , Kennedy Marian S. , Dean Delphine , Blob Richard W.
Published: November 2015

Locomotion imposes some of the highest loads upon the skeleton, and diverse bone designs have evolved to withstand these demands. Excessive loads can fatally injure organisms; however, bones have a margin of extra protection, called a ‘safety factor’ (SF), to accommodate loads that are higher than normal. The extent to which SFs might vary amongst an animal's limb bones is unclear. If the limbs are likened to a chain composed of bones as ‘links’, then similar SFs might be expected for all limb bones because failure of the system would be determined by the weakest link, and extra protection in other links could waste energetic resources. However, Alexander proposed that a ‘mixed-chain’ of SFs might be found amongst bones if: 1) their energetic costs differ, 2) some elements face variable demands, or 3) SFs are generally high. To test if such conditions contribute to diversity in limb bone SFs, we compared the biomechanical properties and locomotor loading of the humerus and femur in the tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum). Despite high SFs in salamanders and similar sizes of the humerus and femur that would suggest similar energetic costs, the humerus had lower yield stresses, higher mechanical hardness, and larger SFs. SFs were greatest in the anatomical regions where yield stresses were highest in the humerus and lowest in the femur. Such intraspecific variation between and within bones may relate to their different biomechanical functions, providing insight into the emergence of novel locomotor capabilities during the invasion of land by tetrapods
Body ram, not suction, is the primary axis of suction feeding diversity in spiny-rayed fishes
Authors: Longo Sarah J. , McGee Matthew D. , Oufiero Christopher E. , Waltzek Thomas B. , Wainwright Peter C.
Published: November 2015

Suction feeding fishes exhibit diverse prey capture strategies that vary in their relative use of suction and predator approach (ram), which is often referred to as the ram-suction continuum. Previous research has found that ram varies more than suction distances among species, such that ram accounts for most differences in prey capture behaviors. To determine whether these findings hold at broad evolutionary scales, we collected high-speed videos of 40 species of spiny-rayed fishes (Acanthomorpha) feeding on live prey. For each strike, we calculated the contributions of suction, body ram (swimming), and jaw ram (mouth movement relative to the body) to closing the distance between predator and prey. We confirm that the contribution of suction distance is limited even in this phylogenetically and ecologically broad sample of species, with the extreme suction area of prey capture space conspicuously unoccupied. Instead of a continuum from suction to ram, we find that variation in body ram is the major factor underlying the diversity of prey-capture strategies among suction-feeding fishes. Independent measurement of the contribution of jaw ram revealed that it is an important component of diversity among spiny-rayed fishes, with a number of ecomorphologies relying heavily on jaw ram, including pivot feeding in syngnathiforms, extreme jaw protruders, and benthic sit-and-wait ambush predators. A combination of morphological and behavioral innovations have allowed fish to invade the extreme jaw ram area of prey capture space. We caution that while two-species comparisons may support a ram-suction trade-off, these patterns do not speak to broader patterns across spiny-rayed fishes
The effects of hypoxic bradycardia and extracellular HCO3−/CO2 on hypoxic performance in the eel heart
Authors: Joyce William , Simonsen Maj , Gesser Hans , Wang Tobias
Published: November 2015

During hypoxia fishes exhibit a characteristic ‘hypoxic bradycardia’, the functional significance of which remains debated. Here, we investigated the hypothesis that hypoxic bradycardia primarily safeguards cardiac performance. In preparations from the European eel (Anguilla anguilla), a decrease in stimulation frequency from 40 to 15 beats per minute, which replicates hypoxic bradycardia in vivo, vastly improved cardiac performance during hypoxia in vitro. As eels display dramatic shifts in extracellular HCO3−/CO2, we further investigated the effect this has upon hypoxic cardiac performance. Elevations from 10 mM HCO3−/ 1% to 40 mM HCO3−/ 4% CO2 had few effects on performance, however further, but still physiologically relevant, increases to 70 mM HCO3−/ 7% CO2 compromised hypoxia tolerance. We revealed a four-way interaction between HCO3−/CO2, contraction frequency, hypoxia and performance over time, whereby the benefit of hypoxic bradycardia was most prolonged at 10 mM HCO3−/ 1% CO2. Together, our data suggest that hypoxic bradycardia greatly benefits cardiac performance, but its significance may be context-specific.
Life history trade-offs imposed by dragline use in two money spiders
Authors: Bonte D. , Verduyn L. , Braeckman B.P.
Published: November 2015

Trade-offs among life history traits are central to understand the limits of adaptations to stress. In animals, virtually all decisions taken during life are expected to have downstream consequences. To which degree rare, but energy demanding, decisions carry-over to individual performance is rarely studied in arthropods.

We used spiders as a model system to test how single investments in silk use –as for dispersal or predator escape- affect individual performance. Silk produced for safe lines and as threads for ballooning is of the strongest kind and energetically costly, especially when resources are limited. We induced dragline spinning in two species of money spider at similar quantities as under natural conditions and tested trade-offs with lifespan and egg sac production under unlimited prey availability and a dietary restriction treatment.

We demonstrate strong trade-offs between dragline spinning and survival and fecundity. Survival trade-offs were additive to the ones imposed by the dietary treatment, but a reduction in eggs produced after silk use was only prevalent under conditions where food was deprived during the spider's life.

Because draglines are not recycled after their use for dispersal or predator escape, its spinning induces incurs substantial fitness costs in dispersal, especially in environments with prey limitation. Rare but energetically costly decisions related to dispersal or predator escape may thus carry-over to adult performance and explain phenotypic heterogeneity in natural populations.
Case Report: Delayed presentation of penile epidermoid cyst following reconstruction for Peyronie’s disease
Authors: Smith-Harrison Luriel I. , Farhi Jacques , Costabile Raymond A. , Smith Ryan P.
Published: November 2015

Penile masses are a concerning finding for both patient and clinician upon initial presentation. There is a wide differential for penile masses from the benign (fibrous plaques, cysts, ulcerative lesions, benign penile pearly papules, etc.) to more concerning malignant lesions. A proper history and physical is the first step to determining the etiology of the mass and any future clinical interventions. In this paper, we review a case of a 73-year-old male who is found to have an enlarging mass during work-up for possible placement of inflatable penile prosthesis. Fortunately, the mass was determined to be a benign epidermoid cyst presenting thirty years after reconstruction for Peyronie’s disease using dermal penile skin graft. With this unique presentation we review the scant literature on penile mass formation following Peyronie’s repair.
Maternal age and intracytoplasmic sperm injection outcome in infertile couples at Khartoum, Sudan
Authors: Ahmed Mohamed , Shareef Osama , Adam Ishag , Rayis Duria
Published: November 2015

Background

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) was considered as the mainstay of treatment for male infertility. Nowadays, the scope of ICSI has been widened to include other causes of infertility. There are few published data on ICSI in countries with low incomes.

Aims

A cross-sectional study was conducted at Saad AbuAlla and Banoun Centers, Khartoum, Sudan to investigate outcomes of ICSI and to determine the parameters that might predict pregnancy success rate following ICSI.

Methods

The study included 191 infertile couples who underwent 296 ICSI cycles between 1st April 2013 and 31 March 2014.

Results

One hundred and ninety one couples (comprising 296 cycles of ICSI) were enrolled to the study. The mean (SD) number of retrieved oocytes was 9.7 (7.5).  The mean (SD) number of transferred embryos was 2.9 (1.0). Out of these, 50 (26.2%) and 40 (20.9%) had chemical and clinical pregnancy, respectively. Thirty–six couples (18.8%) and five couples (2.6%) had miscarriage and had ectopic pregnancy, respectively. Under logistic regression, younger age (OR = 0.8, 95% CI= 0.81 ─ 0.96, P = 0.004) and endometrial thickness (OR = 1.3, 95% CI= 1.07─1.60, P = 0.009) were the significant predictors for the success of ICSI in inducing pregnancy.

Conclusion                

The rates of successful fertilisation and pregnancy-to-term rates in this setting depend mainly on the maternal age.
Internship Success Training Competitive Specialists
Authors: Пристром  , Pristrom I.
Published: November 2015

In connection with the implementation of priority directions

of economic development, professional educational institutions,

the task of training a qualified employee of the appropriate level

and profile, competitive on the labour market, competent, responsible,

fluent in their profession and oriented in related areas. The

need for revision of the content of disciplines and work programmes,

methods and technologies used for formation of various professional

competencies associated with the development and introduction

of new educational standards in the vocational education

system.

Primary role in the improvement of the educational process is wellorganized,

effective practice – perhaps the most complex form of

organization of educational process, because its implementation is

necessary to combine the interests of educational institutions and

production enterprises, organizations. While on the one hand, it is

necessary to solve educational problems, and on the other hand,

to adapt the learning process to the practical tasks of the base

practices. Continuous communication between the employer and

the educational institution, the study of current production needs

allows flexibility to adjust educational components and to train

specialists in demand on the labour market.
Conservative Educational System in Russian Trends of Education Development
Authors: Моисеева  , Moiseeva Olga
Published: November 2015

This article discusses the current trends in the education of the younger generation. It analyzes the basic tenets of conservative education system. At the same time an attempt is made to understand how actual the ideas of a conservative education system are for the current trends of modern demands of society and the state in the education of socially active society members with a sense of civic responsibility.
How Does Adoption of the Outlet Channel Impact Customers’ Spending in the Retail Stores: Conflict or Synergy?
Authors: Soysal Gonca , Krishnamurthi Lakshman
Published: November 2015

We investigate how adoption of a retailer’s factory outlet channel impacts customers’ spending in the retailer’s traditional retail store channel. In recent years, many retailers have added exclusively sourced factory outlet stores into their channel mix to achieve market expansion and customer segmentation. However, the impact of adoption of this lower-quality, lower-price alternative channel on spending at the retailer’s higher-quality, higher-price retail store channel is not clear. Customers adopting the outlet channel might increase their spending in the retail store channel because of the opportunity to become familiar with the brand at a lower price point or transfer of positive associations formed through patronage of the outlet channel to the store channel. Customers adopting the lower-quality channel might also decrease their spending in the retail store channel because of brand dilution or cannibalization. To investigate this issue, we use a unique individual-level panel data set from a specialty apparel retailer from a period during which the retailer opened many factory outlet stores. This allows us to study how purchase behavior changes after customers adopt the outlet channel while carefully controlling for alternative explanations including customer heterogeneity and selection effects. We find that although customers who adopt the outlet channel spend less with the retailer compared to store-only customers, the difference cannot be attributed to the impact of adoption of the outlet channel. After controlling for heterogeneity and selection effects, we uncover a positive spillover to the retail store channel from adoption of the outlet channel. Customers who adopt the outlet channel not only make incremental purchases at the outlet channel, but also increase their spending in the retail store channel after adoption. The increase in spending is due to more frequent retail store purchases and not to larger per-purchase expenditure.

This paper was accepted by J. Miguel Villas-Boas, marketing.
BAÑOS BAÑOS, J. M., Del Barrio Vega, M. F., Callejas Berdonés, M. T., López Fonseca, A. (eds.) (2014), Philologia, Vniversitas, Vita. Trabajos en honor de Tomás González Rolán. Madrid, Escolar y Mayo Editores S.L., Madrid, 902 p.
Authors: Soares Nair Castro
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_12
CHAPMAN’S HOMER. The Iliad. Edited, with Introduction and Glossary, by Allardyce Nicoll, With a New Preface by Garry Wills. Bollengen Series XLI. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998
Authors: Head Brian Franklin
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_14
CORNELLI, Gabriele, Costa, Gilmário Guerreiro da (Orgs.). Estudos Clássicos. Vol. I: Origens do Pensamento Ocidental. Brasília: UNESCO, Cátedra UNESCO Archai; Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra; São Paulo: Annablume editora, 2013. 164 pp.
Authors: Miranda Margarida
Published: November 2015

CORNELLI, Gabriele, Costa, Gilmário Guerreiro da (Orgs.). Estudos Clássicos. Vol. I: Origens do Pensamento Ocidental. Brasília: UNESCO, Cátedra UNESCO Archai; Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra; São Paulo: Annablume editora, 2013. 164 pp. (Colecção Filosofia e Tradição; 1). ISBN: 978-7652-182-2http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_15
DUBEL, Sandrine, Favreau-Linder, Anne-Marie, Oudot, Estelle, dir.: À l’École d’Homère. La culture des orateurs et des sophistes (Paris, Éditions Rue d’Ulm/Presses de l’École normale supérieure, 2015) 295 p. ISBN 9782-7288-0526-6.
Authors: Rodrigues Nuno S.
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_18
FORD, Philip Bloemendal, Jan and Fantazzi, Charles (eds.), Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin world. [Vol. 1]: Macropaedia, 919 p. [vol. 2] Micropaedia, 920 p. Leiden - Boston : Brill, 2014. ISBN: 9789004265721.
Authors: Miranda Maria Margarida
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_19
Una aproximación coral a la Andrómaca de Eurípides
Authors: Noguera Andrea Navvaro
Published: November 2015

En Andrómaca el coro se encuentra entre dos mujeres víctimas, aunque de diferente modo, de la guerra: Andrómaca y Hermíone. La relación que establece el grupo de mujeres de Ftía con las dos heroínas contribuye a su caracterización y posibilita una plena comprensión de la obra. La centralidad del coro es muy relevante y refuerza la consideración de esta obra como una tragedia coral.
GONZÁLEZ ROLÁN, Tomás, López Fonseca, Antonio, Traducción y elementos paratextuales: Los prólogos a las versions castellanas de textos latinos en el siglo XV. Introducción general. Edición y estudio. Madrid, Escolar y Mayo Editores, 2014, 689 p.
Authors: Soares Nair Nazaré Castro
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_21
LAUDANI, Carmela, a cura: Nazario. Panegirico in onore di Costantino (Bari, Cacucci Editore, 2014) 463 p. ISBN 97888-6611-405-5.
Authors: Rodrigues Nuno S.
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_23
LEÃO, Delfim, Cornelli, Gabriele, Peixoto, Miriam C. (Coord.), Dos Homens e suas Ideias: Estudos sobre as Vidas de Diógenes Laércio, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Classica Digitalia, 2013, 286 p. ISBN 978-989-721-041-9.
Authors: Pinheiro Joaquim
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_24
LESTRINGANT, F., Moreau, P. F., Tarrête, A. (eds.), L’unité du genre humaine. Race et Histoire à la Renaissance. Paris, PUPS, 2014.
Authors: Pereira Belmiro Fernandes
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_25
LÓPEZ FÉREZ, Juan Antonio (ed.), La comedia griega en sus textos, Madrid, Ediciones Clásicas, 2014. 314 pp.
Authors: Santos Alicia Esteban
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_26
LÓPEZ FÉREZ, Juan António, Mitos en las obras conservadas de Eurípides. Guía para la lectura del trágico, Madrid, Ediciones Clásicas, 2014. 251 pp.
Authors: Santos Alicia Esteban
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_27
MARTINS DE JESUS, Carlos A., Baquílides. Odes e fragmentos. Tradução do grego, introdução e comentário, Coimbra-São Paulo, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra e Annablume, 2014, 236 pp. ISBN 978- 989-721-045-7; ISBN Digital 978-989-721-046-4.
Authors: Ferreira Luísa De Nazaré
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_28
MENEGHETTI, Maria Luisa; Segre, Cesare; Tavani, Giuseppe, Cinco Ensaios Circum-Camonianos, (Coord. e trad. de Rita Marnoto), Coimbra, Centro Interuniversitário de Estudos Camonianos, “Estudos Camonianos, 10”, 2012, 118 p. ISBN: 978-989-98092-2-2.
Authors: Pinho Sebastião Tavares de
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_29
NIETO IBAÑEZ, Jesús Mª, Cristianismo y profecías de Apolo. Los oráculos paganos en la patrística griega (siglos II-V). Madrid: Trotta, 2010. 221 pp. ISBN 978-84-9879-153-2. Prólogo de Emilio Suárez de la Torre
Authors: Campos Daroca Javier
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_30
PATSALIDES, Savas, Grammatas, Theodoros, eds.: Struggling with the Classics: About Locality and Globality. Vol. 22 (1), 2014 de Gramma / Gramma. Journal of Theory and Criticism / PERIODIKO QEWRIAS KAI KRITIKHS
Authors: Rodrigues Nuno S.
Published: November 2015

PATSALIDES, Savas, Grammatas, Theodoros, eds.: Struggling with the Classics: About Locality and Globality. Vol. 22 (1), 2014 de Gramma / Gramma. Journal of Theory and Criticism / PERIODIKO QEWRIAS KAI KRITIKHS (Thessaloniki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2014) 177 p. ISBN 1106-1170.http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_31
PINTO, António Guimarães, Apostilas a António Luís. 1.António Luís e João de Barros, 2.António Luís, António Pinheiro e Rodrigo Sánchez, Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas “Alberto Benveniste”, Centro de Línguas e Culturas da Universidade de Aveiro, 2013.
Authors: Urbano Carlota Miranda
Published: November 2015

PINTO, António Guimarães, Apostilas a António Luís. 1.António Luís e João de Barros, 2.António Luís, António Pinheiro e Rodrigo Sánchez, Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas “Alberto Benveniste”, Centro de Línguas e Culturas da Universidade de Aveiro, 2013. ISBN 978-989-96236-4-4; 978-972-789-399-7 292pp.http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_33
SILVA, Maria Aparecida de Oliveira, Plutarco. Da Malícia de Heródoto (Edição Bilingue). Estudo, Tradução e Notas. Universidade de São Paulo, Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 2013, 261 p., ISBN 978-85-314-1366-7.
Authors: Sierra Martín César
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_35
SOUSA, R., Fialho, M. C., Haggag, M., Rodrigues, N. S. (coords.), (2013), Alexandrea ad Aegyptum. The Legacy of Multiculturalism in Antiquity, Porto, 396 pp., ISBN 978-972-36-1336-0 (Edições Afrontamento), ISBN 978-989-8351-25-8
Authors: Gonçalves Carla
Published: November 2015

SOUSA, R., Fialho, M. C., Haggag, M., Rodrigues, N. S. (coords.), (2013), Alexandrea ad Aegyptum. The Legacy of Multiculturalism in Antiquity, Porto, 396 pp., ISBN 978-972-36-1336-0 (Edições Afrontamento), ISBN 978-989-8351-25-8(CITCEM), ISBN 978-989-721-53-2http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_36
Penthesiléa, de Hélia Correia
Authors: Silva Maria de Fátima
Published: November 2015

Em 2002, Hélia Correia fez sair, como edição da Autora, um pequeno volume intitulado Apodera-te de mim, com que quis comemorar o aniversário de Jaime Rocha. Os textos aqui reunidos constituem, na sua maior parte, uma reescrita de grandes mitos gregos, como sejam o de Creta, o da colca Medeia e o de Pentesileia, a Amazona. Se o primeiro destes textos representa uma reflexão sobre a cultura grega, desde a civilização minoica até ao classicismo ateniense, o centro desta antologia é preenchido por dois mitos de temática feminina, tão do gosto da Autora.            Um primeiro contacto visual com o texto denuncia de imediato a preferência pela escrita etimológica do nome da Amazona, Penthesiléa, com o que já se sublinha uma interpretação da figura e se aponta para o seu destino trágico; na verdade, o primeiro elemento deste nome – πένθος, “sofrimento” – concretiza uma leitura teleológica da vida, na linha de um Heródoto ou de um Sófocles, por exemplo.
Encenar peças clássicas na atualidade - o Rei Édipo pela ACE/ Teatro do Bolhão
Authors: Marques Susana Hora
Published: November 2015

A versão sofocliana do mito de Édipo é motivo de múltiplas representações/ adaptações dramáticas na modernidade, porquanto as mensagens que veicula se revelam também significativas no mundo atual, favorecendo um olhar crítico do homem contemporâneo face aos valores de uma sociedade em crise. A ACE/ Teatro do Bolhão levou à cena o texto sofocliano, com sucesso evidente, pelo que se propõe a análise desta produção do teatro antigo por uma companhia coeva.
Travelling in Time to Cape Breton Island in the 1920s: Protest Songs, Murals and Island Identity
Authors: Richard MacKinnon , Lachlan MacKinnon
Published: November 2015

Islands are places that foster a unique sense of place-attachment and community identity among their populations. Scholarship focusing on the distinctive values, attitudes and perspectives of ‘island people’ from around the world reveals the layers of meaning that are attached to island life. Lowenthal writes: ‘Islands are fantasized as antitheses of the all-engrossing gargantuan mainstream-small, quiet, untroubled, remote from the busy, crowded, turbulent everyday scene. In reality, most of them are nothing like that. …’1

1

D. Lowenthal, ‘Islands, Lovers and Others’, The Geographical Review 97 (2007): 203.

Islands, for many people, are ‘imagined places’ in our increasingly globalised world; the perceptions of island culture and reality often differ. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in eastern North America, a locale with a rich history of class struggle surrounding its former coal and steel industries, provides an excellent case study for the ways that local history, collective memory and cultural expression might combine to combat the ‘untroubled fantasy’ that Lowenthal describes.
Regenerating Cultural Identity through Industrial Heritage Tourism: Visitor Attitudes, Entertainment and the Search for Authenticity at Mills, Mines and Museums of Maritime Canada
Authors: Robert Summerby-Murray
Published: November 2015

This essay analyses visitor attitudes to industrial heritage at a variety of former industrial sites, ranging from former coal mines, shipbuilding yards and steampowered mills to a reconstructed waterfront. In addition, a comprehensive industrial museum provided a venue for further critique of the means by which the industrial past contributes to a regeneration of cultural identity in Maritime Canada. The range of former industrial sites reflects the multiple narratives of deindustrialisation affecting the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island for much of the twentieth century while visitor responses to a detailed survey indicate that a focus on industrial heritage is a highly-valued component of respondents’ understanding of the region’s cultural identity. The essay notes, however, that this representation of cultural identity is highly problematic and replete with contradictions, most notably between respondents’ desires for authenticity and the necessarily sanitised landscapes required for cultural tourism. Similarly, designers and managers of industrial heritage may be motivated to construct heritage landscapes which prioritise entertainment and spectacle and down play significant environmental, social and political elements of the former industry. From these examples in Maritime Canada, it is clear that visitors encounter significant complexity in their experience of the industrial past. This complexity provides both opportunity and challenge in the use of the industrial past as a means of cultural regeneration in the region.
Come Hell or High Water: Identity and Resilience in a Mining Town
Authors: Janelle Skeard
Published: November 2015

Mining communities, particularly those entirely dependent on mineral resources, are especially vulnerable to economic downturn due to the nonrenewable nature of the industry and reliance on external market factors. For residents who live in mining towns and have strong ties to the industry, the loss of major employment deals a particularly devastating blow. Research has shown that mining creates a particular sense of identity and community, which persists long after the resource is exhausted. Although much research has been conducted on how communities adapt to and cope with closure, little is known about the role that identity and sense of community play in this process. Around the world, mining developments bring significant prosperity to communities, regions, and countries with several actors depending on the industry for economic stability. Without an understanding of the many ways mining communities adapt to closure, we are unable to use this knowledge to help resource-dependent regions persevere through eras of economic bust and resource-based turbulence.
The prediction power of the learning level of life science course in science and technology course
Authors: Yağcı Esed , Başar Tarık , Aşkın İlkay
Published: November 2015

Besides providing students with the essential life skills, Life Science Course Curriculum should also provide a basis to social sciences, and science and technology courses. In this study, it is intended to reveal the prediction power of the learning level of life science course in science and technology course. According to the result of the study, grades of the third grade life science course are significant in the prediction of student's grades of the fourth grade science and technology course. Students' grades of 57% of fourth grade science and technology course can be explained with third grade life science course's grade. Likewise, student's achievement test scores of third grade life science course are significant in the prediction of student's achievement tests of the fourth grade science and technology course. %47 of fourth grade science and technology course academic achievement scores can be explained with third grade life science course achievement test scores. Also, tetrachoric correlation analysis results show that third grade Life Science Course Curriculum has shown consistency with the attainments of the fourth grade Science and Technology Course Curriculum. In other words, the results of the study present clues that the third grade life science course is helpful to prepare the students to the fourth grade science and technology course
The IOM report on improving diagnosis: new concepts
Authors: Graber Mark L.
Published: November 2015

The IOM report ‘Improving Diagnosis in Health Care’ represents a major advance in summarizing the problem of diagnostic error. Three new concepts in the report will be helpful in future efforts to understand and improve the diagnostic process: a new definition of diagnostic error, a new framework for understanding the diagnostic process, and a new concept of the diagnostic ‘team’. This paper highlights these new concepts and their relevance to improving diagnosis.
A Novel Iteration Model for Electromagnetic Scattering from Rough Surfaces
Authors: Li Chang-Ze , Tong Chuangming , Qi Lihui , Wang Weijie , Wang An
Published: November 2015

An iterative physical optics (IPO) is proposed to solve the extra large scale (e.g. larger than one thousand square lambda) electromagnetic (EM) scattering from randomly rough surfaces in this paper. The forward-backward methodology and its modification with under-relaxation iteration improve convergence and stability of the IPO; the fast far-field approximation (FaFFA) in the matrix-vector product reduces the computational complexity based on the scattering characteristics of rough surface. Through these techniques, this model can solve effectively the extra large scale scattering problem from the randomly rough surfaces.
Distance Relaying with Power Swing Detection based on Voltage and Reactive Power Sensitivity
Authors: J. Patel Ujjaval , Chothani Nilesh G. , Bhatt Praghnesh J.
Published: November 2015

Sudden changes in loading or configuration of an electrical network causes power swing which may result in an unwanted tripping of the distance relay. Hence, it becomes utmost necessary to rapidly and reliably discriminate between actual fault and power swing conditions in order to prevent instability in power network due to mal operation of distance relay. This paper proposes a novel method for the discrimination between fault and power swing based on rate of change of voltage and reactive power measured at relay location. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by simulating series of power swing conditions in PSCAD/EMTDC® software for different disturbances such as change in mechanical power input to synchronous generator, tripping of parallel line due to fault and sudden application of heavy load. It is revealed that the distance relay gives successful tripping in case of different fault conditions and remains inoperative for power swing with the implementation of the proposed algorithm. Moreover, the proposed scheme has ability to distinguish the symmetrical and asymmetrical fault occurrence during power swing condition.