bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The correlation between the three-dimensional radiolucency area around the crown of impacted maxillary canines and dentigerous cysts
Authors: Chen Junliang , Lv Dongmei , Li MingXia , Zhao Wei , He Yun
Published: January 2020

This study aimed to reveal the correlation between the radiolucency area around the crown of impacted maxillary canines and dentigerous cysts using cone beam CT (CBCT). CBCT data were obtained from patients with impacted maxillary canines. Three points of five areas (tooth cusp area and buccal, lingual, mesial and distal areas of the crown) were randomly selected, and the distance between the point and the surrounding hard tissue was measured respectively. The mean values were recorded as the radiolucency area. These results were compared with the occurrence of dentigerous cysts during surgery. 58 patients with 76 impacted maxillary canines were included. 14 of the 76 impacted canines were accompanied by cysts (18.42%). With the increase in the thickness of the radiolucency area, the incidence of cysts was significantly increased (p < 0.05). No cysts were found in the compacted canines with 0–1 mm thickness of the radiolucency area. The highest incidence (71.43%) was observed in canines with 3–4 mm thickness of the radiolucency area. This study found that the thickness of the radiolucency area around the crown of the maxillary impacted canine was closely related to the occurrence of dentigerous cysts. CBCT can be used to estimate the occurrence possibility of dentigerous cyst and guide surgical operations.
Stafne’s bone cyst revisited and renamed: the benign mandibular concavity
Authors: Aps Johan K.M. , Koelmeyer Natasha , Yaqub Cina
Published: January 2020

Objective:

Stafne’s bone cyst (SBC) is an asymptomatic, round or oval-shaped, well-defined, uniform radiolucent lesion, usually incidentally observed in the posterior aspects of the mandible. Radiographical appearance may be confusing though. This study aimed to review the literature on SBCs and to map the SBC as shown in their respective papers.

Methods:

A Pubmed® search (1/9/2018 till 31/5/2019), mentioning SBC, was carried out. Included papers had to contain: patient’s age, gender and radiographs.

Results:

In total, 114 papers were found, but only 64 papers were retained, which contained 109 cases (95 males, 14 females). The patients’ ages ranged between 14 and 89 years old (mean age being 52 years). Male patients’ ages (N = 95) ranged from 14 to 89 years (mean age 52.3 years), whereas the females (N = 14) ages ranged between 22 and 68 (mean age 50.2 years). 28 combinations of locations of SBC were recorded. Only three lesions were located at the symphysis, six were bilateral, 55 appeared on the left hand side and 45 on the right hand side of the mandible.The literature mentioned that these cavities could contain salivary gland tissue, muscular tissue, lymphoid tissue, blood vessels, fat tissue or connective tissue.

Discussion/Conclusion:

This study illustrates the wide variation of SBC locations across the mandible and leads us to conclude that the differential diagnosis of every asymptomatic, oval or round, well-defined, uniform radiolucent lesion on two-dimensional radiographs of the mandible should include “a benign mandibular concavity”, formerly known as SBC.
Patterns of functional diversity of macroinvertebrates across three aquatic ecosystem types, NE Mediterranean
Authors: GJONI VOJSAVA , GHINIS STAMATIS , PINNA MAURIZIO , MAZZOTTA LUCA , MARINI GABRIELE , CIOTTI MARIO , ROSATI ILARIA , VIGNES FABIO , ARIMA SERENA , BASSET ALBERTO
Published: January 2020

This study is focused on investigating the variation patterns of macroinvertebrate guilds functional structure, in relation to the taxonomic one, across aquatic ecosystem types along the salinity gradient from freshwater to marine and the resulting implications on guild organization and energy flows. Synoptic samplings have been carried out using the leaf-pack technique at 30 sites of the aquatic ecosystems of the Corfu Island (Greece), including freshwater, lagoon, and marine sites. Here, we analyzed the macroinvertebrate guilds of river, lagoon, and marine ecosystems, as: i. taxonomic composition and population abundance ii. trophic guilds composition and relative abundance; and iii. body size spectra and size patterns. The following variation patterns across the three ecosystem types were observed:  a. trophic guild composition and body size spectra were more conservative than taxonomic composition within and among ecosystem types, where, trophic guild and size spectra composition were more similar between river and lagoon ecosystem types than with marine ones; b. a dominance on resource exploitation of large species over smaller ones was inferred at all sites; and, c. higher body size-specific density of individuals was consistently observed in lagoon than in freshwater and marine ecosystems. Results extend previous findings suggesting a common hierarchical organization of benthic macroinvertebrate guilds in aquatic ecosystems and showing that lagoon ecosystems have higher energy density transferred to benthic macroinvertebrates than both freshwater and marine ecosystem types.
Obituary
Authors: KAPIRIS KOSTAS
Published: January 2020

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Mathematical analysis
Authors: Panteleev Andrey , Savost'yanova Natal'ya , Fedorova Natal'ya
Published: January 2020

The manual contains a brief statement of the course of mathematical analysis. In contrast to existing academic literature textbook starts with a Chapter on "Basic mathematics" that covers arithmetic and algebra, i.e. the essential information needed when solving problems of higher mathematics. Along with theoretical material all the sections are accompanied by a number of examples, including illustrating the geometric and economic meanings of the introduced concepts, methods and algorithms for solving mathematical, engineering and economic challenges. Given tasks for independent solving with answers.
Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation.
For students of higher educational institutions studying the discipline "Mathematical analysis" and "Higher mathematics" and receive education on the directions of science, engineering and technology, Informatics and Economics (bachelor and master). Can be used by individuals engaged in self-education.
Prevention and treatment of obstruction of the esophagus after chemical burns, corrosive liquids
Authors: Belokonev Vladimir , Pushkin Sergey , Nikol'skiy Valeriy , Klimashevich Aleksandr , Ayrapetova Mariya , Abashkin Nikolay
Published: January 2020

Textbook is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of obstruction of the esophagus after chemical burns by corrosive liquids. Presented possible options for the treatment of patients depending on the stage of the disease, prone to recurrence and complications. The main method of treatment of patients with obstruction of the esophagus is probing the efficiency of which depends on the techniques of its implementation. Considered indications for balloon dilatation and stenting of the esophagus. Great attention is paid to the prevention of complications of dilatation of the esophagus and treatment for their development.
Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation.
Designed for students of higher educational institutions, clinical interns, postgraduate students, doctors, surgeons and medical teachers.
Implementation Supplementary Book of Green Consumerism: Improving Students HOTS in Environmental Learning
Authors: Ichsan Ilmi Zajuli , Sigit Diana Vivanti , Miarsyah Mieke , Ali Ahmad , Suwandi Tri , Titin Titin
Published: January 2020

Environmental learning in the 21st century must be contextual and require the ability of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) to solve environmental problems such as green consumerism. The purpose of this study was to implement an Android-based Supplementary Book of Green Consumerism (SBGC) to improve students' HOTS abilities in environmental learning. The method used experiment with a sample of 144 students in 8th grade of Junior High School. Students divided into 72 students in control classes and 72 students in experimental classes. The treatment given was in the form of using SBGC in the experimental classes. The results showed that the students HOTS score increased significantly in the pre-post test in the experimental class or when compared to the control class. Increased in the experimental classes from a score 15.7 (very low) to 32.73 (low). Meanwhile, when compared between the experimental classes with a score 32.73 (low) and control classes with a score 25.25 (very low). This showed that SBGC is easy to understand. SBGC is also interesting so that makes students become active in learning. The conclusion of this study was that SBGC can increased students' HOTS in environmental learning.
Integrating Concepts and Expressions of Inclusion in the K – Curriculum: The Case of the Philippines
Authors: Raguindin Princess Zarla J.
Published: January 2020

Inclusive education as a curricular trend is implemented by countries as an action taken in response to the collective call of the Salamanca Statement. It carries the tenet that all learners should be educated alongside their peers regardless of physical, cognitive, socio-emotional, and economic, language, cultural, and other perceived differences. School children, as peers of children with special needs, are co-implementers of the inclusive agenda. Young children are competent, possess their views and agencies, and have nascent characteristics that promote inclusion. As such, it is essential to explore how knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, and ethics can further be developed and refined for the sake of creating an inclusive community through integrating them in the school curriculum. This paper sought to analyse the articulation of inclusive concepts and expressions in the K-curriculum and strategies utilized by the teachers to reinforce them. Two documents were analysed in this study to address the research questions: (a) prescribed k-curriculum currently used in the Philippines (b) interview transcripts of the key informants. Through content analysis, results of the study revealed that several inclusive concepts and expressions are articulated in the kindergarten curriculum across domains and are reinforced by teachers using varied strategies. Recommendations of the study are discussed.
Variations in Reasoning in Javanese and Bataknese Students’ Argumentative Writing: A Study on the Relation between Ethnicity and Reasoning
Authors: Sibarani Berlin , Pandia Betharia
Published: January 2020

This study was intended to describe the relation between students’ reasoning and their ethnicities. Comparison between the argumentative writings written by Javanese and Bataknese students - two of the ethnics found in Indonesia- was conducted to seek shared and variation of reasoning between the two ethnics. Interpretation on the results of such comparison was made in order to find out the relation between reasoning and ethnicity. To achieve the objective, a descriptive qualitative research design was applied. Twenty students consisting of 10 Javanese and 10 Bataknese were involved in the study. They were assigned to write 20 argumentative writing. Qualitative data analysis was applied to analyze the 20 argumentative writing. The result of the study showed that both Javanese and Bataknese students shared common patterns of arguments in terms of text structure, reasoning, and affective appeal. Meanwhile, difference in cultural value between Bataknese and Javanese students caused minor variation (differences) in text structure of argumentative writing in two aspects namely in developing thesis statement and drawing conclusion. Ethnicity’s relation to variation in argumentative writing is limited to the two aspects: to the writing of thesis statement and drawing conclusion.
Research on photonic crystal fiber based on a surface plasmon resonance sensor with segmented silver-titanium dioxide film
Authors: Fang Hairui , Wei Chenjing , Wang Dong , Yuan Long , Jiao Shengxi , Bao Zhiyu , Yang Hanrui
Published: January 2020

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Photon-number-resolving segmented detectors based on single-photon avalanche-photodiodes
Authors: Nehra Rajveer , Chang Chun-Hung , Yu Qianhuan , Beling Andreas , Pfister Olivier
Published: January 2020

We investigate the feasibility and performance of photon-number-resolved photodetection employing single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs) with low dark counts. While the main idea, to split n photons into m detection modes with a vanishing probability of more than one photon per mode, is not new, we investigate here a important variant of this situation where SPADs are side-coupled to the same waveguide rather than terminally coupled to a propagation tree. This prevents the nonideal SPAD quantum efficiency from contributing to photon loss. We propose a concrete SPAD segmented waveguide detector based on a vertical directional coupler design, and characterize its performance by evaluating the purities of Positive-Operator-Valued Measures (POVMs) in terms of number of SPADs, photon loss, dark counts, and electrical cross-talk.
Interferometric method for determining the losses of spatially multi-mode nonlinear waveguides based on second harmonic generation.
Authors: Santandrea Matteo , Stefszky Michael , Roeland Ganaël , Silberhorn Christine
Published: January 2020

The characterisation of loss in optical waveguides is essential in understanding the performance of these devices and their limitations. Whilst interferometric-based methods generally provide the best results for low-loss waveguides, they are almost exclusively used to provide characterization in cases where the waveguide is spatially single-mode. Here, we introduce a Fabry-Pérot-based scheme to estimate the losses of a nonlinear (birefringent or quasi-phase matched) waveguide at a wavelength where it is multi-mode. The method involves measuring the generated second harmonic power as the pump wavelength is scanned over the phase matching region. Furthermore, it is shown that this method allows one to infer the losses of different second harmonic spatial modes by scanning the pump field over the separated phase matching spectra. By fitting the measured phase matching spectra from different titanium indiffused lithium niobate waveguides to the model presented in this paper, it is shown that one can estimate the second harmonic losses of a single spatial-mode, at wavelengths where the waveguides are spatially multi-mode.
Radial gradient refractive index (GRIN) infrared lens based on spatially resolved crystallization of chalcogenide glass
Authors: Lavanant Enora , Calvez Laurent , Cheviré François , Rozé Mathieu , Hingant Thomas , Proux Raphaël , Guimond Yann , Zhang Xiang-Hua
Published: January 2020

While widely used in the visible, radial gradient refractive index (GRIN) lenses are still elusive in the IR waveband. In this paper we introduce a new method based on spatially resolved crystallization of chalcogenide glass to produce such lenses. Optical and structural properties of 80 GeSe2–20 Ga2Se3 glass ceramic samples are measured. A shift of refractive index is induced by increasing the density of nanocrystals. By placing the sample into a tailored thermal profile, spatially controlled crystallization is achieved. To our knowledge this constitutes the first fabrication of an optically functional radial GRIN in the IR. We also introduce a method to characterize the index profile non-destructively, which is a necessary step for embedding GRIN into commercial systems.
Dear Simona
Authors: Matthis Milan Marković
Published: January 2020

»Dear Simona« is a short article in which the author employs the lyrical format of a letter to the renowned playwright Simona Semenič: on the one hand, in order to describe some potential directions of analyzing her writing, on the other to ponder on their private relationship. The first part of the text deals with the relationship between theatre and society, the second with relationships between genders, and the third with the relationship between intimate and public.
Užitek dela in delo užitka: Intervju z Giulio Palladini
Authors: Kaluža Jernej
Published: January 2020

Povzetek

V intervjuju se Jernej Kaluža pogovarja z raziskovalko in kritično teoretičarko Giullio Palladini, avtorico knjige Prizorišče predigre (The Scene of Foreplay, 2017). Beseda teče o razliki med teorijo in prakso; o užitku v (umetniškem) delu; samoeksploataciji, ekspemplaričnosti specifičnega načina dela v umetnosti; o načinu dela, ki lahko uide logiki vrhunca; o kvaliteti in vrednosti; konkurenčniški logiki in njenemu preseganju ter drugih temah.
The pleasure of work and the work of pleasure: Interview with Giulia Palladini
Authors: Kaluža Jernej
Published: January 2020

Jernej Kaluža interviewed the researcher and critical theoretician Giullia Palladini, author of The Scene of Foreplay, 2017. They talk about the difference between theory and practice; the pleasure of (art)work; self-exploitation, the exemplarity of a specific type of work in the arts; a type of work capable of escaping the logic of climax; quality and value; competition logics and its surpassing; and other topics.
Impulstanz 2019: Nekaj misli
Authors: Brezavšček Pia , Lobnik Alja
Published: January 2020

Povzetek

Urednici pričujoče revije sta v okviru rezidenčnega bivanja na Dunaju obiskali del festivala ImpulsTanz, da bi zmapirali mednarodne trende na področju sodobnega plesa. Ugotovili sta, da je na sodobnoplesni sceni ob povečani produkciji upadel interes za teorijo, kamor se že vrsto let pomembno umešča tudi delo revije Maska. Produkcijo sta razvrstili v tri kategorije: ples velikih imen (tu omenita Iva Dimcheva z delom Selfie Concert, Jonathana Burrowsa z delom Rewriting, komad Wima Vandekeybusa/Ultima Vez Go Figure Out Yourself ter klasiko DD Dorvillier/Human Future Dance Corps: No Change, or »freedom is a psycho-kinetic Skill«), mesto gledalca in hermetizmi aktualnega sodobnega plesa (tu obravnavata delo Anne Juren 42, solo Dani Michel Cutlass Spring in Compass Simone Augherlony, Petre Hrašćanec in Saše Božića) ter novi formalizmi in sodobna repeticija (Tatiana Chizhikova in Roman Kutnov: Time to time in Ellen Furey in Malik Nashad Sharpe: SOFTLAMP.Autonomies,).
Preglej overview
Authors: Simoneti Jaka Smerkolj
Published: January 2020

The text attempts to give a clear outline of the landscape of contemporary Slovenian drama, the two main turning points being the Preglej group and Simona Semenič as a key figure in both Preglej and the future development of Slovenian playwriting. It focuses on production, attempting to give a rundown of playwrights' existing production practices and call attention to some of their major breakthroughs, as well as on reception by pointing out the lack of drama criticism and the lack of publication and distribution of new plays.
Risanje demarkacijske črte
Authors: Pfaller Robert
Published: January 2020

Povzetek

Prispevek je predelava predavanja, ki je nastalo ob uprizoritvi plesne instalacije Na liniji Mateje Bučar in bilo izvedeno v Cankarjevem domu 6. 10. 2017. Avtor piše o Althusserjevi demarkacijski črti med idejami, razglašenimi za resnične in tistimi, razglašenimi za napačne. To poveže s Freudovim pozivom k razločevanju med znanostjo in teoretično ideologijo, ki zase pravi, da je vedno že trdila enako. V tem smislu tudi sovražnik ni preprosto absolutno drugi, ampak prej alter ego.
Zanikanje pod črto resnice
Authors: Salecl Renata
Published: January 2020

Povzetek

Prispevek je predelava predavanja, ki je nastalo ob uprizoritvi plesne instalacije Na liniji Mateje Bučar in bilo izvedeno v Cankarjevem domu 19. 10. 2017. Avtorica razmišlja o zanikanju kot obrambnem mehanizmu psihičnega aparata pred preveč travmatičnimi dejstvi. Tehnološka sedanjost s prilagojenimi individualiziranimi novicami pa poskrbi celo, da nekatere travmatične vsebine sploh ne prodrejo več preko koprene resnice do uporabnika. Na nek način se je interni psihični mehanizem zanikanja pozunanjil skozi internetne kode socialnih omrežij
El/la investigador/a joven como creador/a de saberes y como forma de trabajo
Authors: Ureta García Miriam , Yauri Miranda Jaseff Raziel
Published: January 2020

¿Cómo se produce la relación dinámica entre el campo artístico y el campo laboral en el mundo académico? Si la actividad de construcción de conocimiento es heredera de una tradición ‘artesanal’ de creación ¿Cómo se ve afectada por las condiciones estructurales de producción que atraviesan el mundo académico y el laboral? De cara a respuestas, se exploran diferentes arquitecturas teóricas en torno a las condiciones de la actividad artística y del trabajo a través de una genealogía entre el ‘saber crear’ artístico y el ‘saber trabajar’. Tomando en consideración siete entrevistas a personal predoctoral de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicación (UPV/ EHU) - colectivo que ejemplifica la trayectoria intermediaria entre el quehacer intelectual y el aprendizaje laboral en el medio académico- el estudio arroja luz sobre algunas características de este medio laboral. Al mismo tiempo, estas respuestas exponen -de forma exploratoria- las contradicciones de jóvenes investigadores en la consecución de una carrera académica relacionando el crear/trabajar con el propio ‘saber’.
Epidemiology And Mortality Of Burn Injury In Ciptomangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta: A 5 Year Retrospective Study
Authors: Wardhana Aditya , Winarno Gammaditya Adhibarata
Published: January 2020

Background : Burns is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), burns account for an estimated 180.000 deaths every year. Burn-related mortality rates are exceptionally high in South-East Asia (11.6 deaths per 100 000 population per year) compare with much lower rates of 1.0 deaths per 100.000 people per year in high-income countries. This study aims to investigate the demographic data, etiology, and outcome of the patients treated in burn unit Ciptomangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Method: This is a retrospective cross-sectional study, collecting epidemiologic data from the medical record through Electronic Health Record. A total of 709 patients admitted to burn unit between 2013-2017 were reviewed based on age, sex, total burn surface area (TBSA), burn grade, inhalation injury, etiology, length of stay, outcome, and payment method. Inclusion criteria are patients that were admitted to burn unit of Ciptomangunkusumo Hospital between 2013-2017, while there are no exclusion criteria in this study.
Result : Admission of patients between 2013-2017 has inclined throughout the year, from 97 in 2013 to 166 in 2017. Average patient admission per year, reaching 141,8±26,761. Jakarta, and its suburb Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi, has dominated the proportion of referring hospital with 538(75.9%) The most amount of payment method is NHI (JKN/BPJS) with 534(75.3%) population. A total of 465 were male, and 244 were female, with a ratio of 1.9:1. The highest incidence in terms of age group is 16-35 years old (269, with the average age of patients, is 29±19. The highest incidence of burn injury is caused by a stove gas explosion with 253(35.7%), followed by flame 189(26.7%). There are 63 out of 709 patients with inhalation injury, where the incidence rate is 8.9%. Patients admitted to the Ciptomangunkusumo burn unit has an average length of stay of 15 days hospitalization. The most frequent population of extent, staying >14 days is 21-30% TBSA (88). The mortality rate in the Ciptomangunkusumo burn unit is 25.8% (183), with the highest number of death came from TBSA >40% (136).
Conclusion: A total of 709 patients were admitted to the Ciptomangunkusumo burn unit in Jakarta, Indonesia, over 5 years, with an average of 141 patients per year and an increase of 171% from 2013 to 2017. Most patients were diagnosed with >40% TBSA and 2nd-3rd grade burn injury. An average of 15 days of hospitalization for patients leading up to 25.8% mortality rate, they are with septic shock as the most common condition causing death in the burn unit.
Comentários sobre o estatuto independente de alguns prefixos portugueses
Authors: Bakó Ágnes
Published: January 2020

O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma característica pouco conhecida e atípica dos prefixos portugueses, que é o seu possível estatuto independente na frase. Só consideramos os prefixos que participam hoje na derivação das palavras vernáculas portuguesas. Portanto analisamos os prefixos des-, in-, super-, sobre-, sub-, pré-, pós- e re-, tirando os exemplos derivados com estes prefixos do corpus Cetempúblico. Esta característica atípica dos prefixos está relacionada com a sua função atributiva e substantival, porque neste sentido podem ser considerados elementos com estatuto independente.
TRUSS STRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION BASED ON IMPROVED WOLF PACK ALGORITHM
Authors: Li Yan-cang , Yang Zong-jin , Dang Cheng-hua
Published: January 2020

Aiming at the optimization of truss structure, a wolf pack algorithm based on chaos and improved search strategy was proposed. The mathematical model of truss optimization was constructed, and the classical truss structure was optimized. The results were compared with those of other optimization algorithms. When selecting and updating the initial position of wolves, chaos idea was used to distribute the initial value evenly in the solution space; phase factor was introduced to optimize the formula of wolf detection; information interaction between wolves is increased and the number of runs is reduced. The numerical results show that the improved wolf pack algorithm has the characteristics of fewer parameters, simple programming, easy implementation, fast convergence speed, and can quickly find the optimal solution. It is suitable for the optimization design of the section size of space truss structures.
EVALUATION OF MASONRY GROUTING EFFECTIVENESS USING THERMOGRAPHY AND ULTRASONIC METHODS
Authors: Zigler Radek
Published: January 2020

One of the frequently used methods of stabilization and reinforcement of historic masonry is grouting, especially grouting of cracks and voids in masonry structures. Determination of the properties of the injected structure, both in terms of physico-mechanical properties (with regard to the subsequent compatibility of the grouting mixture) and in terms of its condition and failures (cracks, voids, cavities), is a prerequisite for correct design and realization of reinforcement grouting. Minimization of interventions into the historic structure while performing surveys and the associated use of non-destructive diagnostic methods is one of the requirements for the remediation of listed buildings. Within the experimental research of reinforcement of historic masonry structures, the possibility of using thermography and ultrasound methods was evaluated and conditions and limitations for the use of these non-destructive methods were formulated.
A STUDY ON THE ULTIMATE LOAD BEARING CAPACITY OF CARBON FIBRE REINFORCED POLYMER TENSEGRITY SYSTEM IN A SUSPEN DOME
Authors: Olofin IfeOlorun , Liu Ronggui
Published: January 2020

Structural stability is one of the major factors considered for structural design. The integrity of carbon fiber reinforced polymer as a tensegrity system in a suspen dome is investigated by employing a computational model with a span of 93m. ANSYS software was employed for the investigation. The load-displacement curve of the structure was studied to understand the ultimate load bearing capacity in comparison with steel cable using Newton-Raphson and arc length methods. Parameters such as nodal displacement, stresses on the single reticulated layer and internal forces of the tension members that influence the structures integrity were considered. Results show that despite the antistrophic nature of carbon fiber reinforced polymer it possesses similar characteristics as steel cables.
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF THE SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF THE ASSEMBLED LIGHT STEEL FRAME- LIGHT WALL STRUCTURES
Authors: Wenchao Liu , Zheng Chen , Cheng Wang , Hongying Dong , Ruwei Wang
Published: January 2020

In order to meet the needs of the development of low-rise assembly structure in rural areas, a fabricated light-weight steel frame-composite light wall structure is proposed in this paper. The light-weight steel frames are used to bear the vertical loads. The single-row-reinforced recycled concrete wall-boards are used as lateral members to resist most of the horizontal earthquake loads. The wall-board, EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) insulation modules, and fly ash blocks form the thermally insulated wall. Four fabricated lightweight steel frame-composite light wall structures and one light-weight steel frame (FRA) structure were tested under the low cyclic loads. The influence of wall reinforcement spacing and structural form (be it fly ash block or not) on the seismic performance of this new structure was analysed and the damage process of the specimen was simulated using the ABAQUS® software. The results show that the light steel frames and the single-row-reinforced recycled concrete wall-board can work well together. Furthermore, the structure has two clear seismic lines. Due to the use of EPS insulation modules and fly ash blocks, the structure has good anti-seismic and thermal insulation abilities. Reducing the spacing of bars or compositing fly ash blocks can significantly improve the seismic performance of the structure. The finite element method (FEM) calculations agreed well with the experimental results, which validates the proposed model.
A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GROUTING METHODS, PENETRATION AND SURFACE APPLICATION OF GELS IN INCREASING THE STRENGTH OF HISTORIC MASONRY
Authors: Čejka Tomáš , Karas Jiří , Kubát Jan
Published: January 2020

This article focuses on the verification of the effect of selected grouting agents on historicbrick masonry with different degrees of weathering using different techniques of groutingapplication. The effectiveness of grouting was verified by changes in the masonry strength.Experimental research also verified the effectiveness of the penetration of grouting agents asbonding primers on the surface of selected materials often found in historic buildings.
Yodeling and Meaning in American Music
Authors: Wise Timothy E.
Published: January 2020

Considering yodeling as a musical device in American music, this book investigates in parallel two ways of understanding various meanings associated with yodeling: as the connotative functions of yodeling within specific musical texts and as the ideological implications of its use. It aims to provoke a reflection on the concept of singing and received cultural ideas associated with it. Starting with the premise that music is a discursive practice that is itself inseparable from a critical verbal discourse about music, the book interrogates the relationship between yodeling and predominating musical orthodoxy. Through a critical examination of that relationship, the book explores numerous examples of yodeling in American music, questioning why it achieved prominence and status in some genres and not in others and attempting to account for the relatively low prestige accorded to music featuring yodeling. After defining yodeling and classifying the yodel types found in American vocal styles, the book traces yodeling’s history from early references to the practice in European art music, through its appearance in nineteenth-century Alpine-themed songs of the romantic era, its introduction into American music and the blending of European-style yodeling with African American singing styles, to its prominent role in early country music and in western-themed music. The approach is informed by critical musicology and semiotics, focusing on sound patterns, the development of their semantic associations in various contexts, and the relationship of that music to predominating tastes. A final chapter seeks to explain why yodeling continues to remain at the margins of mainstream tastes.
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo
Authors: Dewulf Jeroen
Published: January 2020

This book presents the history of the nation’s forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African-Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America’s most intriguing black folkloric traditions, Pinkster. Dewulf rejects the traditional interpretation of this celebration of a “slave king” as a form of carnival. Instead, he shows that it is a ritual rooted in mutual aid and slave brotherhood traditions. By placing Pinkster in an Atlantic context, Dewulf identifies striking parallels to royal election rituals in slave communities elsewhere in the Americas, which he relates to the ancient Kingdom of Kongo and the historical impact of Portuguese culture in West-Central Africa. Whereas the importance of African-American fraternities providing mutual aid has long been acknowledged for the post-slavery era, Dewulf’s focus on the social capital of slaves traces concern for mutual aid back to seventeenth-century Manhattan. He suggests a stronger impact of Manhattan’s first slave community on the development of African-American identity in New York and New Jersey than has hitherto been assumed. While the earliest historians working on slave culture in a North American context were mainly interested in an assumed process of assimilation according to European standards, later generations pointed out the need to look for indigenous African continuities. The findings of this book suggest the necessity to complement the latter with an increased focus on the contact Africans had with European?primarily Portuguese?culture before they were shipped as slaves to the Americas.
Connecting Histories
Authors: Thomas Bonnie
Published: January 2020

Connecting Histories: Francophone Caribbean Writers Interrogating Their Past explores the complex interchange between shared and personal pasts and how they impact upon individual lives. Through their historically-informed self-writings, the five Caribbean authors that have been selected for this study–Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Patrick Chamoiseau, Edwidge Danticat and Dany Laferrière–offer compelling insights into confronting, coming to terms with and reconciling with their past, both collective and individual. A central question is the conceptual link between singular and plural, between personal and collective notions of history and the connections that exist between them. The employment of ‘personal narratives’ as the vehicle to carry out this investigation encompasses the tension that is evident in the writers’ reflections, which constantly move between the collective and the personal and is embodied in the idea of ‘their past’–a complex, rhizomatic network that extends beyond the notion of a single, private life. The contrasting yet complementary nature of the book’s title–connecting histories and the personal past-underlines the existence of a shared past of which the five writers are deeply conscious, but also their own past, which overlaps with these historical inheritances. The book’s central focus, then, is trifold: it concerns a collective, and to some extent documented and shared, historical past; a more variable, unique, personal past revealed in the ‘personal narratives’ of the five authors as well as on the connections between these two pasts.
Lalo Alcaraz
Authors: Fernández L'Hoeste Héctor D.
Published: January 2020

The book proposes a critical study of the work by Latino cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz, a key voice in the controversial topic of immigration. It contends that his production is significant for its documentation of the travails of the community and its assessment of the frictions resulting from a radical shift in national demographics: the rise of Latinos as the largest minority ethnicity and the eventual transition of the general population into a mode of plurality rather than majority. In his cartoons and comic strips, readers can recognize how Latinos have been used by opportunist politicians and media personalities seeking personal benefit. It is also possible to visualize how, in many cases, the political system has operated against Latinos in an almost systematic fashion, failing to acknowledge their lengthy historical record and contributions as Americans. The book chronicles the cartoonist’s evolution from a cultural actor willing to criticize injustice for the sake of retribution to one who effectively identifies and denounces the mechanisms behind rampant societal inequity—most crucially, the dynamics and implications of a hidden mainstream norm, supportive of a cultural ideology benefiting an exclusive segment of the population. In the evolution of his production, the search for a more acute representation and dissection of prejudice and exclusion becomes plain. In a sense, Alcaraz’s work is a testament not only to the growing pains of Latinos, but most importantly to those of the entire nation, as it comes to terms with the redefinition of US identity in the twenty-first century.
Comics Art in China
Authors: Lent John A. , Ying Xu
Published: January 2020

In the most comprehensive and authoritative source on this subject, this book covers almost all comics art forms in mainland China, providing the history from the nineteenth century to the present as well as perspectives on both the industry and the art form.
This volume encompasses political, social, and gag cartoons, lianhuanhua (picture books), comic books, humorous drawings, cartoon and humor periodicals, and donghua (animation) while exploring topics ranging from the earliest Western-influenced cartoons and the popular, often salacious, 1930s humor magazines to cartoons as wartime propaganda and comics art in the reform. Coupling a comprehensive review of secondary materials (histories, anthologies, biographies, memoirs, and more) in English and Chinese with the artists' actual works, the result spans more than two centuries of Chinese animation. Structured chronologically, the study begins with precursors in early China and proceeds through the Republican, wartime, Communist, and market economy periods.
Based primarily on interviews the editors conducted with over one hundred cartoonists, animators, and other comics art figures, Comics Art in China sheds light on tumult and triumphs. Lent and Xu describe the evolution of Chinese comics within a global context, probing the often-tense relationship between expression and government, as well as proving that art can be a powerful force for revolution. Enhanced with over one hundred black-and-white and color illustrations, this book stands out as not only the first such survey in English, but perhaps the most complete one in any language.
Your Heritage Will Still Remain
Authors: Goleman Michael J.
Published: January 2020

Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians constructed their social identity in the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and finally ending in the late nineteenth century. The social identity studied in this book focuses primarily on how Mississippians thought of their place within a national context, whether as Americans, Confederates, or both. During the period in question, radical transformations within the state forced Mississippians to embrace, deny, or rethink their standing within the Union. Tracing the evolution of Mississippians’ social identity from 1850 through the end of the decade uncovers why white Mississippians felt the need to create the Lost Cause legend and shaped the way they constructed it. At the same time, black Mississippians tried to etch their place within the Union and as part of American society, yet continually faced white supremacist backlash. Your Heritage Will Still Remain offers insights into the creation of Mississippi’s Lost Cause and black social identity and how those cultural hallmarks continue to impact the state into the twenty-first century.
Music in Disney's Animated Features
Authors: Bohn James , Kurtti Jeff
Published: January 2020

Music in Disney’s Animated Features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Jungle Book investigates how music functions in Disney Animated films. The book identifies several techniques used in a number of Disney animated movies. In addition it also presents a history of music in Disney animated films, as well as biographical information on several of the Studios’ seminal composers. The popularity and critical acclaim of Disney animated features is built as much on music as it is on animation. From Steamboat Willie through Bambi, music is the organizing element of Disney’s animation. Songs that establish character and aid in narrative form the backbone of the Studios’ animated features from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs through The Jungle Book and beyond. In the course of their early animated features the Studios’ composers developed a number of techniques and models that have been used throughout their oeuvre. Instrumental instances of a given film’s songs are used to comment on various character’s thoughts, as well as on the plot and action. Songs featured in Disney films are often transitioned into or out of using rhymed, metered dialog, functioning in much the same way as recitative in opera. The book also explores the use of theme and variation technique, leitmotif, theatrical conventions, and song archetypes.
Riding with Death
Authors: Braziel Jana Evans
Published: January 2020

On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and sculptures wrought from the refuse. Established by artists André Eugène and Jean Hérard Celeur in the late 1990s, the Grand Rue's urban environmental aesthetics radically challenge ideas about consumption, waste, and environmental hazards, as well as consider innovative solutions to these problems in the midst of poverty, insufficient social welfare, and lack of access to arts, education, and basic needs. This book explores the urban environmental aesthetics of the Grand Rue sculptors and the beautifully constructed sculptures they have designed from salvaged parts and materials. The book constructs an urban ecological framework for understanding these sculptures amid environmental degradation and grinding poverty. The book regards the underdeveloped cities of the global South as alternate spaces for challenging the profit-driven machinations of global capitalism. Above all, the book presents Haitian artists who live on the most challenged Caribbean island, yet who thrive as creators reinventing refuse as art and resisting the abjection of their circumstances.
Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children's and Adolescent Literature
Authors: Trites Roberta Seelinger
Published: January 2020

Twenty-First Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature employs methodologies from material feminism to demonstrate how feminist thinking has influenced literature for the young in the last two decades. Material feminism provides people with ways of thinking about the interactions among discourse, embodiment, technology, the environment, cognition, and the ethics of caring. This book thus applies the principles behind material feminism and interrelated manifestations of feminism (such as Critical Race Theory and ecofeminism) to texts written for the young to demonstrate how shifting cultural perceptions of feminism affect what is happening both in publishing for the young and in the academic study of children’s and adolescent literature.
The work begins with a specific focus on how language and the material interact before moving to an examination of race as an intersectionally-lived material phenomenon and a social construction. How embodied individuals interact with the environment is explored through ecofeminism and the dystopic; how people interact with each other involves romance, sexuality, and feminist ethics. In other words, the structure of the book moves from examinations of the individual to examinations of the individual in social groups, the individual and the environment, and the individual within relationships.
Overall, the goal of this work is to interrogate how material feminism can expand our understanding of materiality, maturation, and gender—especially girlhood—as represented in narratives for preadolescents and adolescents.
Carter G. Woodson
Authors: Morris Burnis R.
Published: January 2020

Historian Carter G. Woodson’s employment of the black press and modern public-relations techniques to preserve and popularize black history during the first half of the 20th century is rediscovered and examined in this study. This rarely explored side of Woodson, often called “The Father of Black History,” resurrects the lost image of a leading cultural icon who used his celebrity in multiple roles as an opinion journalist, newsmaker, and CEO/publicist of black history to bring veneration to a subject whose past was clouded by misinformation and contempt. During his era, 1915-1950, Woodson cultivated and won crucial press support for his Black History Movement, while merging his interests and the interests of the black newspapers. His cause became their cause.
World War I and Southern Modernism
Authors: Davis David A.
Published: January 2020

When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic political systems, but the South lagged behind, remaining an impoverished, agriculture region. Despite New South boosterism, the culture of the early twentieth-century South was comparatively artistically arid. Yet, southern writers dominated the literary marketplace by the 1920s and 1930s.
World War I brought southerners into contact with modernity before the South fully modernized. This shortfall created an inherent tension between the region’s existing agricultural social structure and the processes of modernization, leading to distal modernism, a form of writing that combines elements of modernism to depict non-modern social structures. Critics have struggled to formulate explanations for the eruption of modern southern literature, sometimes called the Southern Renaissance.
Pinpointing World War I as the catalyst, this book argues southern modernism was not a self-generating outburst of writing, but a response to the disruptions modernity generated in the region. World War I and Southern Modernism examines dozens of works of literature by writers, including William Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow, and Claude McKay, that depict the South during the war. Topics explored in the book include contact between the North and the South, southerners who served in combat, and the developing southern economy. This book also provides a new lens for this argument, taking a closer look at African Americans in the military and changing gender roles.