bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Hermés: expressões da marca e rituais de consumo
Authors: Gonsales Flavia Igliori , Kawano Diogo , Santos Janiene
Published: May 2016

O presente artigo apresenta a análise das expressividades da marca de luxo Hermès, a partir de método semiótico baseado na Teoria Geral dos Signos, de Charles Peirce e no modelo de transferência de significados no mundo culturalmente constituído para os bens de consumo, proposto por McCracken (2003). Verificou-se que os signos da marca são condizentes às estratégias da Hermès, cujo consumo gera efeitos de sentidos que fortalecem os vínculos com seus públicos.
As crizanças e as marcas: que relação possível? Um olhar a partir das mascotes
Authors: Côrte-Real Ana , Lencastre Paulo De
Published: May 2016

O presente texto tem o objetivo de apresentar as reflexões acerca das relações entre as crianças e as marcas mediadas pelas mascotes. Para tanto foram integrados os conhecimentos teóricos acerca das temáticas em questão por meio de Macklin (1996), Ji (2002), Corte Real (2007), Lencastre (1997), Perez (2011), John (1999) entre outros e dos resultados a partir da realização de grupos focais com crianças realizados na cidade do Porto em Portugal, com o objetivo de investigar três semânticas específicas: abstrato vs. figurativo, redondo vs. anguloso e simétrico vs. assimétrico. A síntese dos resultados indica que as crianças mais velhas preferem e reconhecem melhor os estímulos figurativos e, as mais novas preferem e reconhecem mais favoravelmente abstratos. Na categoria semântica redondo vs. anguloso, verifica-se que as crianças do sexo feminino reagem mais favoravelmente aos estímulos redondos e as do sexo masculino aos estímulos angulosos. Ao nível da categoria simétrico vs. assimétrico as crianças do sexo feminino preferem os estímulos simétricos e, estes são mais facilmente reconhecidos pelas crianças mais velhas; as crianças do sexo masculino preferem os estímulos assimétricos e estes são mais facilmente reconhecidos pelos novos.
Uma década de consumo de telefonia celular refletida na publicidade de uma marca
Authors: Sato Silvio Koiti
Published: May 2016

ResumoNeste artigo, refletimos sobre o rápido desenvolvimento da telefonia móvel no Brasil na última década. Ao analisar a publicidade do setor neste período, identificamos como as alterações no cenário competitivo e nos serviços oferecido são refletidos na comunicação das marcas. O roteiro analítico teve como base a Teoria Geral dos Signos de Charles Sanders Peirce e possibilitou identificar diferenças situacionais e evoluções no potencial de significados criados pela publicidade.
Da propaganda à “publicidade” política: a ideia de consumo e descarte na campanha eleitoral de Haddad
Authors: Pasqualini Diógenes José
Published: May 2016

O presente texto tem por objetivo observar semelhanças entre os slogans de posicionamento das campanhas do candidato a prefeito de São Paulo Fernando Haddad (PT), em 2012, e os da Ford, na promoção da marca em 2006 e lançamento do novo Fiesta em 2007, e a análise do consumo observada pelo filósofo francês Gilles Lipovetsky (1996, 2005, 2007). O que se busca analisar aqui é a identificação da propaganda política com os discursos publicitários no desencadeamento do efeito cíclico entre desejo, consumo e posterior “descarte” do político.
Comunicação de mercado em um ambiente pós-moderno: A imaterialidade em cena
Authors: Malta Renata Barreto , Galindo Daniel Dos Santos
Published: May 2016

O presente artigo é constituído por duas etapas complementares, a teórica e a empírica, essenciais para que o seguinte objetivo proposto seja devidamente cumprido: confirmar uma mudança da práxis publicitária na qual elementos materiais e funcionais passam a ser minimizados e elementos imateriais e intangíveis evidenciados. O aprofundamento teórico-conceitual alicerçado nos Estudos Culturais e em autores que discorrem sobre a pós-modernidade e suas relações de consumo é ponto de partida desta pesquisa.
A review of the genus Batepenaeopsis, with the description of a new species, B. moresbyensis sp. nov. (Decapoda, Penaeidae)
Authors: Shinomiya S. , Shinomiya S. , Sakai K.
Published: May 2016

The genusParapenaeopsisAlcock, 1901 was divided into eight genera by grouping the species included, based on generic features, underAlcockpenaeopsis,Arafurapenaeopsis,Batepenaeopsis,Ganjampenaeopsis,Holthuispenaeopsis,Kishinouyepenaeopsis,Mierspenaeopsis,Parapenaeopsis(then sensu nov.) (Sakai & Shinomiya, 2011a, b). The genusBatepenaeopsisSakai & Shinomiya, 2011 is currently known to include two species,B. tenella(Spence Bate, 1888) andB. venusta(De Man, 1907). However, in the present paperP. acclivirostrisAlcock, 1905 from the Persian Gulf near Kuwait, and a new species,B. moresbyensissp. nov. from the Central Province, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, are presented as new members of the genusBatepenaeopsisSakai & Shinomiya, 2011.
Studies in Mespilus, Crataegus, and ×Crataemespilus (Rosaceae), II. The academic and folk taxonomy of the medlar, Mespilus germanica, and hawthorns, Crataegus (Rosaceae)
Authors: PHIPPS JAMES B.
Published: May 2016

This paper examines the relationship between Mespilus (medlar) and Crataegus (hawthorn) in both academic and folk taxonomy. Academic taxonomy since Linnaeus has mostly kept Mespilus and Crataegus distinct but not always for correct or adequate reasons. On the other hand, the study of folk-names, explored across 22 European and Near-Eastern modern languages, finds medlar always different from hawthorn, which, from such a large sample, underlines the cultural distinctness of medlar, and supports its taxonomic distinctness. Looking at the earliest recorded usage of the two generic names, in ancient Greece, the Greek names as found in Theophrastus have debatable applications, though this may be due to a corrupt text. The findings of the present paper thus lend support to those in a companion paper by the author clarifying the morphological distinction between the Mespilus and Crataegus, and arguing for the retention of a monotypic Mespilus, which distinction receives support from recent cladistic work.
Two new species of Kallichroma (Bionectriaceae, Hypocreales) from Saudi Arabian mangroves
Authors: ABDEL-WAHAB MOHAMED A. , BAHKALI ALI H. , JONES E. B. GARETH , ELGORBAN ABDALLAH M. , ABDEL-AZIZ FATEN A. , HODHOD MOHAMED S. , AL-HEBSHI MOHAMED O.
Published: May 2016

During an ongoing study of marine fungi in Saudi Arabia, two undescribed Kallichroma species were recorded from decayed intertidal wood of Avicennia marina from two mangrove stands along the Red Sea coast and the Arabian Gulf coast in Saudi Arabia. Kallichroma asperum sp. nov. is characterized by rough ascospores cell walls surrounded by a granular sheath. Kallichroma ellipsoideum sp. nov. is characterized by its small sized hyaline ascomata, asci and ascospores. Both new species have 3 or 8-spored asci and perithecoid or confluent ascomata with large, globose papillae. Phylogenetic analyses of the combined SSU and LSU rDNA sequences placed the two new species in the family Bionectriaceae.
Twelve new species of Triplocania Roesler (Psocodea: 'Psocoptera': Ptiloneuridae), from South America
Authors: SILVA NETO ALBERTO MOREIRA DA , ALDRETE ALFONSO N. GARCÍA , RAFAEL JOSÉ ALBERTINO
Published: May 2016

Twelve species of Triplocania, seven based on male and female specimens and five based on male specimens, are here described and illustrated; nine species are Brazilian, three are Ecuadorian, and one of the latter is shared with Peru. Comments on sexes known and distribution of the species are included.
A review of the genus Trachylepis (Sauria: Scincidae) from the Gulf of Guinea, with descriptions of two new species in the Trachylepis maculilabris (Gray, 1845) species complex
Authors: CERÍACO LUIS M. P. , MARQUES MARIANA P. , BAUER AARON M.
Published: May 2016

The scincid genus Trachylepis is represented in the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea by four species, Trachylepis maculilabris, T. affinis, T. adamastor and T. ozorii. Here we describe two new species, Trachylepis thomensis sp. nov., endemic to São Tomé Island and Rolas Islet, and Trachylepis principensis sp. nov., endemic to Príncipe Island. Phylogenetic analysis using the mitochondrial gene 16S shows that both new species are genetically divergent and reciprocally monophyletic, and confirms evidence for the uniqueness of these lineages presented in previous studies. Morphological data (scalation and morphometry) identify consistent phenotypic differences between these two island species. We were also able to confirm that the T. affinis population of Príncipe Island is conspecific with the African mainland population and most probably the result of recent introductions. These findings raise the number of known Trachylepis species in the Gulf of Guinea islands group to five, four of which are endemic, although the phylogenetic and phylogeographic relationships of T. adamastor and T. ozorii remain unknown and require further investigation.
Three new Asiatic species of Hyadaphis (Hemiptera, Aphididae)
Authors: NAFRÍA JUAN M. NIETO , HIDALGO NICOLAS PÉREZ , BROWN PAUL A.
Published: May 2016

Three new species of Hyadaphis Kirkaldy, 1904 (Hemiptera, Aphididae, Macrosiphini) are established: Hyadaphis levantina sp. n. from specimens caught on Lonicera nummulariifolia from Lebanon and Israel, and Hyadaphis anethi sp. n. plus Hyadaphis parva sp. n. from specimens respectively caught on Anethum sp. and Andrachne (?) cordifolia from Pakistan. Apterous viviparous females of all three species, alate viviparae of the first two and males of H. anethi are described. Known and new species of Hyadaphis are grouped for two relevant characters: (1) size and shape of siphunculi, and (2) host plant and life cycle; and the discriminant features of apterous viviparous females of the new species are compared with the already described species of the same group and a key for the Hyadaphis species is provided.
A new extinct species of Snipe (Aves: Scolopacidae: Gallinago) from the West Indies
Authors: STEADMAN DAVID W. , TAKANO OONA M.
Published: May 2016

We describe an extinct species of snipe (Gallinago kakuki, new species) from late Quaternary fossils in the Bahamian Archipelago (Abaco, New Providence, Little Exuma, Long, and Middle Caicos islands). The new species is known as well from fossils on Cuba, and Cayman Brac in the Cayman Islands. This rather large species of snipe was volant, although because of its relatively short carpometacarpus, the primary flight feathers probably were short. The only other species of Gallinago from the West Indies is the extant, migratory G. delicata, which breeds only in North America. Gallinago kakuki shares more osteological characters with two Eurasian species (G. media, G. hardwickii) than with either of the New World species we examined (G. delicata, G. paraguaiae). A possible inter-hemispherical relationship has been proposed as well for the two extinct, late Quaternary species of woodcocks from the West Indies (Scolopax anthonyi of Puerto Rico, S. brachycarpa of Hispaniola).
The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 10. A remarkable new white species of Chionodes Hübner (Gelechiidae)
Authors: METZLER ERIC H. , LANDRY JEAN-FRANÇOIS
Published: May 2016

The U.S. National Park Service initiated a 10-year study, in late 2006, of the Lepidoptera at White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico. Chionodes bustosorum sp. n., described here, was discovered in 2010, during the third year of the study. The male imago and male genitalia are illustrated, and its DNA barcode is compared to that of seven other species of Chionodes from western North America.
Can the name Mugil cephalus (Pisces: Mugilidae) be used for the species occurring in the north western Atlantic?
Authors: PACHECO-ALMANZAR ELOÍSA , SIMONS JAMES , ESPINOSA-PÉREZ HÉCTOR , CHIAPPA-CARRARA XAVIER , IBÁÑEZ ANA L.
Published: May 2016

Menezes et al. (2010) show that Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 is different from Mugil liza Valenciennes 1836, the latter being the mullet found along the Atlantic coast of South America. They also suggest that individuals identified as M. cephalus from the northwest Atlantic could represent a population of M. liza in this region, since they doubt the presence of M. cephalus in waters colder than the ones of the West Indies. In order to clarify the presence of M. cephalus in the northwest Atlantic, this study compares meristic and morphometric measurements of M. cephalus and M. liza from the Gulf of Mexico with those obtained by Menezes et al. (2010) for M. liza from South America and for M. cephalus in the Mediterranean Sea. Results show that there are differences in both morphometric and meristic data between the two species. The morphometric measure that differentiates these species is the distance from the snout to the dorsal fin, which is positioned backwards in M. liza compared with M. cephalus. The body width is consistently greater in M. cephalus than M. liza. The meristic character that discriminates between both species is the number of scales in the longitudinal series that, in M. cephalus, ranges from 38 to 43 while in M. liza between 32 to 39. The information presented in this work confirms the presence of M. cephalus in the Gulf of Mexico and the sympatric presence of M. liza is established, even if its abundance is quite low.
An overlooked sibling of the fruit-piercing moth Eudocima phalonia (Linnaeus, 1763) from Africa (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Calpinae)
Authors: BROU JR. V. A. , ZILLI A.
Published: May 2016

In recent years, we have been investigating the tropical calpine genus Eudocima Billberg, 1920 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Calpinae) with the intent of producing a generic revision. There are a number of undescribed species and here we describe as new a closely related species to the widespread and economically important fruit-piercer Eudocima phalonia (Linnaeus, 1763) (= fullonia Clerck, 1764), with which it has long been confused. Study material came from the private collection of Vernon Antoine Brou collection (VAB) and the Natural History Museum, London (NHM).
Friction measurement in a hip wear simulator
Authors: Saikko Vesa
Published: May 2016

A torque measurement system was added to a widely used hip wear simulator, the biaxial rocking motion device. With the rotary transducer, the frictional torque about the drive axis of the biaxial rocking motion mechanism was measured. The principle of measuring the torque about the vertical axis above the prosthetic joint, used earlier in commercial biaxial rocking motion simulators, was shown to sense only a minor part of the total frictional torque. With the present method, the total frictional torque of the prosthetic hip was measured. This was shown to consist of the torques about the vertical axis above the joint and about the leaning axis. Femoral heads made from different materials were run against conventional and crosslinked polyethylene acetabular cups in serum lubrication. Regarding the femoral head material and the type of polyethylene, there were no categorical differences in frictional torque with the exception of zirconia heads, with which the lowest values were obtained. Diamond-like carbon coating of the CoCr femoral head did not reduce friction. The friction factor was found to always decrease with increasing load. High wear could increase the frictional torque by 75%. With the present system, friction can be continuously recorded during long wear tests, so the effect of wear on friction with different prosthetic hips can be evaluated.
Influence of hip joint simulator design and mechanics on the wear and creep of metal-on-polyethylene bearings
Authors: Ali Murat , Al-Hajjar Mazen , Partridge Susan , Williams Sophie , Fisher John , Jennings Louise M
Published: May 2016

Hip joint simulators are used extensively for preclinical testing of hip replacements. The variation in simulator design and test conditions used worldwide can affect the tribological performance of polyethylene. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of simulator mechanics and design on the wear and creep of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene. In the first part of this study, an electromechanical simulator and pneumatic simulator were used to compare the wear and creep of metal-on-polyethylene components under the same standard gait conditions. In the second part of the study, the same electromechanical hip joint simulator was used to investigate the influence of kinematics on wear. Higher wear rates and penetration depths were observed from the electromechanical simulator compared with the pneumatic simulator. When adduction/abduction was introduced to the gait cycle, there was no significant difference in wear with that obtained under the gait cycle condition without adduction/abduction. This study confirmed the influence of hip simulator design and loading conditions on the wear of polyethylene, and therefore direct comparisons of absolute wear rates between different hip joint simulators should be avoided. This study also confirmed that the resulting wear path was the governing factor in obtaining clinically relevant wear rates, and this can be achieved with either two axes or three axes of rotations. However, three axes of rotation (with the inclusion of adduction/abduction) more closely replicate clinical conditions and should therefore be the design approach for newly developed hip joint simulators used for preclinical testing.
Incorporating corrosion measurement in hip wear simulators: An added complication or a necessity?
Authors: Neville Anne , Hesketh James , Beadling Andrew R , Bryant Michael G , Dowson Duncan
Published: May 2016

Corrosion is not routinely considered in the assessment of the degradation or the lifetime of total hip replacement bearing surfaces. Biomechanical simulations are becoming ever more complex and are taking into account motion cycles that represent activities beyond a simple walking gait at 1 Hz, marking a departure from the standard ISO BS 14242. However, the degradation is still very often referred to as wear, even though the material loss occurs due to a combination of tribological and corrosion processes and their interactions. This article evaluates how, by incorporating real-time corrosion measurements in total hip replacement simulations, pre-clinical evaluations and research studies can both yield much more information and accelerate the process towards improved implants.
Simultaneous measurement of friction and wear in hip simulators
Authors: Haider Hani , Weisenburger Joel N , Garvin Kevin L
Published: May 2016

We propose and have evaluated a method to measure hip friction during wear testing on a popular multi-station hip simulator. A 6-degree-of-freedom load cell underneath the specimen sensed forces and torques during implant wear testing of simulated walking. This included internal–external and adduction–abduction rotations which are often neglected during friction testing on pendulum-type machines. Robust mathematical analysis and data processing provided friction estimates in three simultaneous orthogonal rotations, over extended multi-million cycle wear tests. We tested various bearing couples including metal-on-plastic, ceramic-on-plastic, and metal-on-metal material couples. In one test series, new and intentionally scratched CoCrMo 40-mm-diameter femoral heads were tested against conventional ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene, highly cross-linked, and highly cross-linked with vitamin E versions. The scratching significantly increased friction and doubled the wear of all groups. Before scratching, friction levels for the aforementioned plastic groups were 0.056 ± 0.0060, 0.062 ± 0.0080, and 0.070 ± 0.0045, respectively, but after scratching increased to 0.088 ± 0.018, 0.076 ± 0.0066, and 0.082 ± 0.0049, respectively, all statistically significant increases (p = 0.00059, 0.00005, 0.0115, respectively). In another test series of 44-mm femoral head diameter hips, metal-on-plastic hips with conventional ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene showed the lowest friction at 0.045 ± 0.0085, followed by highly cross-linked with 0.046 ± 0.0035 (not significantly different). In a ceramic-on-plastic design with conventional ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene, higher friction 0.079 ± 0.0070 was measured likely due to that ceramic surface being rougher than usual. Metal-on-metal hips were compared without and with a TiN coating, resulting in 0.049 ± 0.014 and 0.097 ± 0.020 friction factors, respectively (statistically significant, p < 0.001), and the coating wore away on all coated hips eventually. Higher friction mostly correlated with higher wear or damage to femoral heads or implant coatings, except for the highly cross-linked wear resistant ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene which had slightly higher friction, confirming the same finding in other independent studies. This type of friction measurements can help screen for clamping and elevated wear of metal-on-metal and resurfacing total hip replacements, surgical malpositioning, and abraded and otherwise damaged surfaces.
Perceptions of Task Interdependence and Functional Leadership in Schools
Authors: Barnett Kerry , McCormick John
Published: May 2016

The context of the research was senior leadership teams in schools in Australia. The study investigated relationships between task interdependence, psychological collectivism, self-efficacy for teamwork, and team member perceptions of leadership functions. A cross-sectional and correlational research design was employed. Fifty-seven senior leadership teams composed of principals and senior teachers within two Catholic education systems in New South Wales, Australia, participated in the study. Data were collected from an online survey completed by senior leadership team members and analyzed using multilevel data analysis strategies. The findings suggest the extent of functional leadership was positively related to perceived task interdependence.
The Women’s Olympics? A Gender Analysis of NBC’s Coverage of the 2012 London Summer Games
Authors: Coche Roxane , Tuggle C. A.
Published: May 2016

This study examines NBC’s U.S. prime-time broadcast coverage of the 2012 summer Olympic games for gender equality and compares that coverage to previous years. Olympic coverage is particularly important to female athletes because many receive little media attention beyond Olympic competition. The study found that, for the first time since 1996, NBC gave more airtime to women’s sports than to men’s sports. However, most of that coverage devoted to women’s events was confined to “socially acceptable” sports.
Understanding people with human activities and social interactions for human-centered computing
Authors: Choi Sangil
Published: May 2016

An ultimate goal of human-centered computing is making human beings the center of computing technologies. To make people a core component of the technology, first of all, we need to understand people and society in which people live. In this paper, we propose two important factors in order to understand people and their social interactions. Proposed human activity recognition and neighbor discovery schemes help us comprehend human activities and their social behaviors. In addition, combination of these two mechanisms provide us with an opportunity for better understanding of people in the near future. Finally, it might be worth analyzing correlation between human activities and social interactions for the group of people using our proposed schemes.
The future of East Asia: concept, method and perspective – EU as mirror
Authors: Han Shuifa
Published: May 2016

Background

The solidarity of East Asia, or its possible integration, and even the establishment of a union in the future, could not place hope on just spontaneous generation and development of the situation, but should rely on the self-consciousness and autonomous efforts of the people and politicians in East Asian countries. EU and other various organizations within the East Asia region, not only provide rich experience, but also offer a variety of possible ways and means for the solidarity of the East Asian countries.

Methods

Under the principles of human rights and rule of law, as well as on the basis of equality and consultation, the significance of East Asian integration consists in facing the history, historical ties and cultural heritage fully and independently, in addition to the assumption of the present and future needs, as well as the responsibilities and obligations which have to be taken in joint effort.

Results and discussion

East Asian Community, if it is possible, would become one of the main civilization circles of the world, and constitute the core of the modern world system together with the EU, the US and possibly other systems or communities of countries, meanwhile forming a civilization region with special characteristics of culture. Therefore, it bears responsibility for creative development of multi-civilization for human.

Conclusions

Viewing from the cooperation, transition and prospects of East Asia, the political and ideological differences between the East Asian countries and obstacles caused by them are easy to have change, while the social behaviors and ideational structures infiltrating in people’s daily lifestyles and attitudes plays a decisive role. Therefore under the premise of reaching the consensus to the maximum extent, maintaining the particularity of societies and cultures of different countries is the key point for future development of East Asia.
Evaluation of Total Solids of Curry Soup Containing Coconut Milk by near Infrared Spectroscopy
Authors: Sirisomboon Panmanas , Nawayon Jutharat
Published: May 2016

The aim of this research was to perform a feasibility study of the potential of near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to evaluate the total solids content of instant curry soups containing coconut milk; these included green curry, red curry, massaman curry and panang curry. The soup samples were collected from mixing tanks, water adjusting tanks, ultra-high temperature process line and laminated cartons. Adjusted samples were made from the same recipe as in the processing line but with the total solids increased by 30%, 60% and 90%, and reduced by 30%, 60% and 90% total solids from normal levels. Each sample was scanned with a Fourier transform NIR spectrometer. A prediction model for total solids was established using NIR spectral data in conjunction with reference data using partial least squares regression, which was validated using leave-one-out validation and test set validation. The test set validation showed better prediction performance as proved by using an unknown sample set. The test set validation model was developed using multiplicative scatter correction of spectra for the 6102–5446.3 cm−1 and 4605.4–4242.9 cm−1 regions, and provided a coefficient of determination for prediction ( r2), root mean square error of prediction ( RMSEP), bias and ratio of standard error of prediction to the standard deviation ( RPD) of 0.92, 0.95%, −0.20% and 3.71, respectively. It was shown that NIR spectroscopy could be applied in an instant curry soup production line for process control and quality assurance.
Face-work in teacher-in-role: Acting at the interface between artistry and pedagogy
Authors: Viirret Tuija Leena
Published: May 2016

The teacher-in-role (TIR) strategy is used in process drama to strengthen the dramatic experience and promote learning among the participants. In this study, one TIR construct is examined through the lens of Erving Goffman’s concept of facework in order to deepen the understanding of the subtle and vulnerable processes of interaction in process drama. TIR is considered to be an interactive construct in which both artistry and pedagogy are embodied. Face-work is applied in the fictive context of process drama to uncover the interactional potential for learning and creating drama. In addition, the teacher’s reflections on his or her actions as they relate to face-work in process drama are explored. The data of this case study are analysed using applied conversation analysis (CA) and thematic narrative analysis. According to the findings, face-work seems to provide an explicit frame for understanding the interactional procedures and moves in the artistic-pedagogic construct of TIR.
Apocalypse Baal
Authors: Irmer Thomas
Published: May 2016

Due to it being a subject of a judicial copyright dispute, Frank Castorf’s staging of Brecht’s Baal raises the question about what needs to be protected: copyright or theatre practice. Castorf’s stagings are known for their text montages and various shifts in space and time, which is what he did again in his latest performance, where he combined Brecht’s Baal with Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, concentrating a number of female figures into one and moving the action to theVietnam War. After the premiere, Brecht’s heiress, Barbara Brecht-Schall, procured an injunctionprohibiting the piece. This was her last public act: she died a few months later.
To be and not to be... at once: Daniel Špinar, Czech director extraordinaire, enters the European stage
Authors: Stefanova Kalina
Published: May 2016

A review of a very unusual and highly topical Hamlet, as seen at the Pilsen Theatre Festival, and directed by Daniel Špinar, the young director of the National Theatre in Prague. In the year of the 50th anniversary of Jan Kott’s influential book Shakespeare Our Contemporary, it’s remarkable to see how this Hamlet reflects the way Kott read the play and the main character – as a character who is not defined by the situation imposed on him, at any rate not beyond doubt, and who “accepts it but at the same time revolts against it” – and then how he goes even a step further.
New forms of censorship lurking in unexpected corners of society: Interview with Dries Verhoeven
Authors: Brodar Urška
Published: May 2016

Dutch performance artist Dries Verhoeven triggered a big controversy with his latest project Wanna Play? Love in Times of Grindr, produced by the independent theatre production house Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) in Berlin. He set out to question the topics of intimacy and of the private and the public on the Internet via mobile applications designed for meet-ups and was faced with an outraged gay community, which stood up in defense of privacy and managed to pressure the producers to cancel the project after just a few days. In the light of current events and the “censorship” coming from unexpected corners of society, we sat down to discuss important topics in Verhoeven’s work.
Gibanica 2015: A joint critical diary
Authors: Bröckerhoff Heike , Marouda Marialena
Published: May 2016

“Gibanica 2015: A Joint Critical Diary” is an experimental and subjective documentation of the Slovenian dance platform written in co-authorship. We describe and informally analyze the performances that were presented at the festival, but alsoother experiences and encounters. The diary collects thoughts, conversations, (mild) disagreements, coffee breaks and walks around Ljubljana.
Embedding Graduate Attributes into the Undergraduate Curriculum: Reflection and Actions
Authors: Smith Susan
Published: May 2016

Gibbs’ (1988) reflective cycle is used as a framework to explore the institutional experience of embedding new graduate attributes (GAs) as part of a major refocus of all the undergraduate courses at Leeds Beckett University. One of the key components of this curricular refocus was the initial conceptualisation and embedding of three new graduate attributes. The University’s three GAs are i)        having a global outlook ii)       being enterprising and iii)      being digitally literate. This paper focuses on the seven main interventions which were used to embed and foster their delivery in the refocused curriculum. The GAs run through each level of every UG course and prepare students for work and life through a variety of embedded intracurricular module-based, credit-bearing activities. This reflective paper concentrates on the intra-module core curricular activity manifested by the GAs embedded in course and module learning outcomes and not students’ extracurricular activity even though this can be regarded as strengthening skills for life and the workplace (Bowden, Hart, King, Trigwell, & Watts, 2000). A combination of personal and colleagues’ reflections, evidence from surveys and analysis of actions are highlighted using Gibbs’ (1988) cycle as a framework to explore the process in a systematic way and assist in the illustration and analysis of some of our key interventions. This reflective account considers our successes (resources and building the digital literacy GA) and some of the surprising benefits (communities of practice) of this initiative. The paper also uses Hounsell’s (2011) and Barrie’s (2006) frameworks to deconstruct the curriculum change experience and offers structured reflection on some of the lessons learnt from the challenges, e.g. tight timescales, staff ownership and constructive alignment (Biggs, 1996). Key future actions are noted; specifically the engagement of staff and students to address application/tailoring to disciplines and their specific course design issues.
Modernising a Classic: Updating Leeds Beckett University’s Taxonomy of Assessment Domains to Support Institutional Curricular Change
Authors: Smith Susan , Sellers Rebecca
Published: May 2016

Leeds Beckett University is embarking on a new cycle of Periodic Review after our wholesale curriculum review in 2012. Reviewing our current academic activity in relation to our curricular practice showed that work still needed to be done in several key areas. For example, improving the writing of levelled intended learning outcomes (ILOs), integrating our graduate attributes (GAs) – Enterprise, Having a Global Outlook and Digital Literacy – more fully into course and module outcomes and ensuring staff understand the nature and scope of the different assessment domains which enhance opportunities for full student learning from our programmes. To address these issues, a short life working group (SLWG) focused on modernising our existing taxonomy of assessment domains (Link 1) which had been well-used by our staff for at least 20 years. This paper focuses on i) consideration of the benefits of the existing taxonomy ii) the broader context and reasons for modifying our existing taxonomy of assessment domains, iii) the approach, process and activity of the SLWG, iv) planned future work streams to build on our work in progress.
Toward an Anthropology of Landmines: Rogue Infrastructure and Military Waste in the Korean DMZ
Authors: Kim Eleana J.
Published: May 2016

Drawing on research in the borderlands of South Korea near the Korean Demilitarized Zone, this essay analyzes the heterogeneous life of landmines in postconflict militarized ecologies. Humanitarian narratives typically frame mines as deadly remnants of war, which aligns with postcolonial critiques viewing them as traces of imperial power and ongoing violence. Given that landmines and other unexploded ordnance can remain live for up to a hundred years, I suggest that mines and minefields become infrastructural when their distributed agency is redistributed over time, bringing into view nonhuman agencies and affordances that might otherwise go undetected in humanitarian or postcolonial critiques. I offer the framework of rogue infrastructure to capture the volatile materiality of mines and their multiple natural, cultural, technical, and political entanglements with the humans who exist alongside them.
Excavating Legal Landscapes: Juridical Archaeology and the Politics of Bureaucratic Materiality in Bogotá, Colombia
Authors: Pérez Federico
Published: May 2016

In Bogotá, urban planners employ the notion of juridical archaeology to describe the difficulties associated with the implementation of the city’s profuse and contradictory building regulations. They evoke a stratified and recalcitrant topography of decrees whose unpredictable effects are tied to the juxtapositions and gaps between sedimented legal artifacts. In practice, however, juridical archaeology holds great strategic value to bureaucratic operators, as it enables them to configure frameworks for urban development in a field of regulatory contingency. By representing the city’s legal system as an opaque and intricately layered terrain, bureaucrats and lawyers deflect accountability, arguing that incoherence is to blame. Furthermore, they occlude their interpretative agency by claiming that they do not shape the meaning of the law, but merely excavate it from the city’s legal depths. I argue that juridical archaeology expands understandings of state reification, showing that bureaucratic disorder itself can be reified as a concrete amalgamation of incompatible parts and pieces. Furthermore, I qualify scholarly claims about the agency of bureaucratic artifacts through a more interactive approach to materiality that highlights the crucial roles of social meaning and practice. From this perspective, I focus on the ways in which actors materialize legal infrastructures in their everyday performances of bureaucratic expertise and authority.
Incidental Activism: Graffiti and Political Possibility in Athens, Greece
Authors: Alexandrakis Othon
Published: May 2016

Based on field research in Athens, Greece, this essay considers graffiti as a mode of political response to the material and symbolic violences of neoliberal governmentality. In 2010, the Greek state declared sovereign debt crisis and began to implement an aggressive austerity program in exchange for economic aid from a troika of international lenders. This resulted in the dismantling of public services, tax increases, salary and pension reductions, layoffs, and, generally, the impoverishment of the middle and lower classes. In this work I consider a crew of three young graffiti writers, both before and during the years of the crisis, as they came to realize a fear of becoming integrated into an economized social mainstream and responded by creating street art intended to bolster critical reasoning among Athenians. I argue that fear of abjection and the experience of being at the social margins served as a stimulus of critical agency, and that the crew’s intervention can be considered indirect activism: a mode of resistance whose critical agents attempt to bring about their ambitions and visions by activating other groups to undertake resistance of their own. I show how my interlocutors made political possibility by creating art that lessened the capacity of neoliberal governmentality to manufacture consent, thereby contributing to a thriving ecology of resistance action in Athens.
Last Chance Incorporated
Authors: Pine Jason
Published: May 2016

Allegories are alluring because they promise to light up inchoate objects, trace unimagined connections, and resolve ambiguities and paradoxes of human—and more-than-human and abiotic—life. At the same time, allegories reveal their own failure to cohere, disintegrating in the excessive polysemia of their heterogeneous fragments. Meth cooking similarly throws into relief the unstable composition of a life. Meth cooking is an aporia: it leads the way out of workaday failures while lapsing back into them.
Description of two new species of Ochtodes (Rhodophyta: Gigartinales) from Caribbean Mexico on the basis of morphological and molecular evidence
Authors: Mateo-Cid Luz Elena , Mendoza-González A. Catalina , Sentíes Abel , Díaz-Larrea Jhoana , García-López Deisy Y. , Martinez-Daranas Beatriz
Published: May 2016

The species diversity of the red algal genus Ochtodes from Caribbean Mexico is reconsidered after a new collection in this region. A combined analysis of plastid rbcL sequences together with detailed morphological studies has confirmed the presence of two undescribed species in addition to Ochtodes secundiramea. Ochtodes akumalensis sp. nov. has abundant spiny branches, especially on the main axis, and robust cystocarps densely aggregate at the branch tips. In contrast, Ochtodes maguachaveziae sp. nov. lacks spiny branches and gland cells, and bears scattered cystocarps near the branch apices. Both species develop cruciately to obliquely divided zonate tetrasporangia. The molecular analysis showed that O. maguachaveziae and O. akumalensis represent separate taxonomic entities with a 1.8% sequence divergence between them. The description of two new species of Ochtodes from Caribbean Mexico suggest that our knowledge of the regional diversity of this genus is still incomplete.
An exploration of high school students’ perspectives on critical thinking and creativity in the Health Management and Social Care subject
Authors: Chan Zenobia C.Y.
Published: May 2016

This study explored students’ perspectives on the abilities acquired through a subject called Health Management and Social Care (HMSC), which was launched under Hong Kong’s new senior secondary curriculum. The first public examination for the subject was conducted in 2012. A qualitative design was adopted in the present study, with focus group interviews carried out with 123 students recruited from seven schools. Two major themes were identified via content analysis: (i) critical thinking and creativity in HMSC; and (ii) applications of critical thinking and creativity in HMSC with two subthemes (a) health/social care promotions on campus and (b) social services in communities. Both the implications and limitations of the study for health-related subjects were discussed.
MARKET POWER IN POWER MARKETS: THE CASE OF FRENCH WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKET
Authors: MERITET SOPHIE , PHAM THAO
Published: May 2016

The French wholesale market is set to expand in the next few years under European pressures and national decisions. In this paper, we investigate the performance of the French wholesale power market to examine whether or not the equilibrium outcomes are competitive. After a literature review on the different existing models, an extension of the Bresnahan - Lau (1982) method in panel data framework is employed with hourly dataset during 2009-2012 on the French wholesale market. The model-based results suggest that though market power is found statistically significant in several peak-load hours, it stays at very low level. On average, no market power is exercised over the examined period. These results correspond with the extremely regulated wholesale power market in France. It is of high interest given the future evolution of the French wholesale market which will be among the biggest in Europe in 2016 after the end of regulated tariffs for all firms.
Swaddling and the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Meta-analysis
Authors: Pease Anna S. , Fleming Peter J. , Hauck Fern R. , Moon Rachel Y. , Horne Rosemary S.C. , L’Hoir Monique P. , Ponsonby Anne-Louise , Blair Peter S.
Published: May 2016

CONTEXT:

Swaddling is a traditional practice of wrapping infants to promote calming and sleep. Although the benefits and risks of swaddling in general have been studied, the practice in relation to sudden infant death syndrome remains unclear.

OBJECTIVE:

The goal of this study was to conduct an individual-level meta-analysis of sudden infant death syndrome risk for infants swaddled for sleep.

DATA SOURCES:

Additional data on sleeping position and age were provided by authors of included studies.

STUDY SELECTION:

Observational studies that measured swaddling for the last or reference sleep were included.

DATA EXTRACTION:

Of 283 articles screened, 4 studies met the inclusion criteria.

RESULTS:

There was significant heterogeneity among studies (I2 = 65.5%; P = .03), and a random effects model was therefore used for analysis. The overall age-adjusted pooled odds ratio (OR) for swaddling in all 4 studies was 1.58 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.97–2.58). Removing the most recent study conducted in the United Kingdom reduced the heterogeneity (I2 = 28.2%; P = .25) and provided a pooled OR (using a fixed effects model) of 1.38 (95% CI, 1.05–1.80). Swaddling risk varied according to position placed for sleep; the risk was highest for prone sleeping (OR, 12.99 [95% CI, 4.14–40.77]), followed by side sleeping (OR, 3.16 [95% CI, 2.08–4.81]) and supine sleeping (OR, 1.93 [95% CI, 1.27–2.93]). Limited evidence suggested swaddling risk increased with infant age and was associated with a twofold risk for infants aged >6 months.

LIMITATIONS:

Heterogeneity among the few studies available, imprecise definitions of swaddling, and difficulties controlling for further known risks make interpretation difficult.

CONCLUSIONS:

Current advice to avoid front or side positions for sleep especially applies to infants who are swaddled. Consideration should be given to an age after which swaddling should be discouraged.
Facebook Role Play Addiction – A Comorbidity with Multiple Compulsive–Impulsive Spectrum Disorders
Authors: Nathan Deeepa , Shukla Lekhansh , Kandasamy Arun , Benegal Vivek
Published: May 2016

Background

Problematic Internet use (PIU) is an emerging entity with varied contents. Behavioral addictions have high comorbidity of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obsessive–compulsive spectrum disorders. Social networking site (SNS) addiction and role playing game (RPG) addiction are traditionally studied as separate entities. We present a case with excessive Internet use, with a particular focus on phenomenology and psychiatric comorbidities.

Case presentation

Fifteen-year-old girl with childhood onset attention deficit disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder, adolescent onset trichotillomania, and disturbed family environment presented with excessive Facebook use. Main online activity was creating profiles in names of mainstream fictional characters and assuming their identity (background, linguistic attributes, etc.). This was a group activity with significant socialization in the virtual world. Craving, salience, withdrawal, mood modification, and conflict were clearly elucidated and significant social and occupational dysfunction was evident.

Discussion

This case highlights various vulnerability and sociofamilial factors contributing to behavioral addiction. It also highlights the presence of untreated comorbidities in such cases. The difference from contemporary RPGs and uniqueness of role playing on SNS is discussed. SNS role playing as a separate genre of PIU and its potential to reach epidemic proportions are discussed.

Conclusions

Individuals with temperamental vulnerability are likely to develop behavioral addictions. Identification and management of comorbid conditions are important. The content of PIU continues to evolve and needs further study.