bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Use of Limiting Dilution Method for Isolation of Nucleus Pulposus Mesenchymal Stem/Progenitor Cells and Effects of Plating Density on Biological Characteristics and Plasticity
Authors: Lin Linghan , Jia Zhiwei , Zhao Yachao , Wu Yaohong , Zhao Xiyan , Li Yong , Guo Ziming , Chen Jiahai , Cheng Shi , Wang Deli , Ruan Dike
Published: October 2017

Objectives. To evaluate the effects of the limiting dilution method and plating density in rat nucleus pulposus mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells (NPMSCs). Materials and Methods. Nucleus pulposus tissues were isolated from 12-week-old male Sprague-Dawley rats and NPMSCs were isolated using limiting dilution method. Cells were then classified into 3 groups according to plating density. Cell morphologies were observed, and colony-forming units, migration abilities, proliferative capacities, cell cycle percentages, multilineage differentiation capacities, stem cell biomarker expression levels, and immunophenotyping were also examined in each group. Results. Low density group (LD) had higher morphological homogeneity, stronger colony-forming ability, higher cell proliferation capacity, and enhanced cell migration ability relative to the other two groups (p<0.05). Moreover, LD had more cells entering S phase, with fewer cells arrested in G0/G1 phase (p<0.05). While all three density groups showed a multilineage differentiation potential, LD showed a higher degree of observed and semiquantified lineage specific staining (p<0.05). Furthermore, LD displayed higher expression levels of stem cell biomarkers (Nanog, Oct4, and Sox2) and showed higher percentages of CD29+, CD44+, and CD90+ cells (p<0.05) following flow cytometry analysis. Conclusions. Limiting dilution method is suggested when isolating NPMSCs as a means of improving cell activity and plasticity.
DOA Estimation of Noncircular Signals Using Quaternions
Authors: Meng Tianzhen , Wu Minjie , Yuan Naichang
Published: October 2017

The two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation problem for noncircular signals using quaternions is considered in this paper. In the framework of quaternions, we reconstruct the conjugate augmented output vector which reduces the dimension of covariance matrix. Compared with existing methods, the proposed one has two main advantages. Firstly, the estimation accuracy is higher since quaternions have stronger orthogonality. Secondly, the dimension of covariance matrix is reduced by half which decreases the computational complexity. Simulation results are presented verifying the efficacy of the algorithm.
Beauty for Asian American Women in Advertising: Negotiating Exoticization and Americanization to Construct a Bicultural Identity
Authors: Snell Katy , Tsai Wan-Hsiu Sunny
Published: October 2017

Abstract: This study investigates Asian American women's responses to beauty representations in mainstream advertising. Through in-depth interviews, this article explores how Asian American women construct and negotiate a bicultural identity in their interpretations of advertisements' mediations of beauty for Asian women. Study findings revealed the cultural significance of the model minority stereotype in influencing Asian American women's relationships with fashion media. Additionally, participants' narratives on Asian American women's beauty ideals reflected their identity construction process of achieving social assimilation and negotiating ethnic distinctiveness, which illuminates the often-ignored sociopolitical tensions in minority consumers' relationship with advertising representations of in-group members.
Roundtable on New Mediascapes and the Futures of Advertising
Authors: Aronczyk Melissa , Aston Adam , Lafferty Patrick , Maldonado Louis , O'Barr William "Mack" , Serazio Michael , Timke Edward , Wang Jing
Published: October 2017

In the Roundtable on New Mediascapes and the Futures of Advertising, advertising executives and academics grapple with the following questions: How are advertising and media related? How has advertising adapted to changing mediascapes? Participants agreed that media are intricately linked to and propped up by advertising, but advertising's new tactics have often been adaptations that have come about because of new audience behaviors and the changing media themselves. Participants reflected on how recent media technologies can be used to reach various audiences in addition to the limits of such targeted messaging. The discussion links advertising's historic "digital" evolution to various future, unknown possibilities, including the blending of content and advertising and renewed avenues for advertising such as audio-based messages.
Author Meets Critics— Adcreep
Authors: Bartholomew Mark , Piety Tamara R. , Rushkoff Douglas , Timke Edward
Published: October 2017

In this book discussion, author Mark Bartholomew and critics join to discuss Bartholomew's book Adcreep: The Case Against Modern Marketing (Stanford Law Books, 2017). The conversation focuses on the social consequences of advertising creeping into nearly all facets of everyday life, including spaces previously forbidden to advertising, such as national parks and public schools. The talk assesses the book's arguments about the ubiquity of advertising through evolving regulations and laws that have encouraged advertising to expand its reach and power, often unbeknown to members of society. Participants voiced concerns about the rise of corporate free speech, the broad perception that corporations know what is best for consumers, the idea that consumers can effectively navigate their rights on their own, and the acceptance of a culture of self-promotion and commoditized identities. In the end, the participants agreed that advertising's reach into formerly non-commercialized social spaces is problematic and needs serious attention, especially as advertisers' tools of persuasion become more sophisticated. Calls are made for local collective action, increased media and advertising literacy, and more checks and balances on advertising.
Picturing Modernity in Fine Art and Advertising
Authors: Peric Dejana
Published: October 2017

This is the winner of the 2017 Alfred J. Seaman Award for best undergraduate paper on advertising and society. The essay couples art history and advertising to identify and analyze artistic and advertising responses to key changes in society as part of the onset of modernity in the early twentieth century. Selected, specific works of Impressionism addressing industrialization, time, sight and the gaze, social distinction, and mass culture are compared and contrasted with selected, specific advertisements that address the same changes. The essay shows how art and advertising formed a joint response to the dislocations of modernity in the early twentieth century. The essay is accompanied by recorded conversations between the award winner and her research mentor who discuss independent undergraduate research, the writing process, and how to approach the study of advertising and society.
From ‘Blue and White Porcelain’ to ‘Island’s Sunrise’: Young audience perceptions of Chineseness and Taiwaneseness in Taiwan’s popular music
Authors: Lin Chen-Yu , Um Haekyung
Published: October 2017

This article explores how Chineseness and Taiwaneseness are constructed in Taiwan’s popular music and the ways in which young audiences in Taiwan make sense of the music to which they listen in their everyday lives. Focusing on two songs, Jay Chou’s ‘Blue and White Porcelain’ (a China Wind pop song in Mandarin Chinese) and Fire Ex’s ‘Island’s Sunrise’ (an indie rock song sung in Taiwanese Hokkien), an analysis of the lyrics, styles and settings identifies the textual and contextual characteristics that shape and signify their Chineseness and Taiwaneseness. In-depth interviews with their 18–25-year-old audience and several music industry workers were conducted in Taipei to understand how these young audiences reflect on their experiences and identities in relation to these songs. Arguably, popular music can be implicated in the politics of identity through performing and listening. Constant negotiations of Chineseness and Taiwaneseness are taking place in both the creation and the consumption of music, thereby Taiwaineseness and Chineseness can be seen as a continuum rather than a dichotomy as they are not mutually exclusive in their historical contexts, but rather are two sets of ever-changing narratives. The usefulness of ethnographic methods in this study should be noted as the diverse personal experiences and views voiced in the interviews illustrate clearly how the dichotomy between the two is an over-simplification.
All under heaven KANO: The politics of nostalgia and the making of a new Taiwanese identity in Wei Te-sheng’s Taiwan-Japan trilogy
Authors: Green Frederik H.
Published: October 2017

This article explores the highly contested topic of nostalgia for the Japanese colonial period in contemporary Taiwanese popular culture and the ways in which colonial nostalgia participates in contemporary identity politics in Taiwan. By analysing three of Wei Desheng’s recent movies that engage in different ways with aspects of the colonial past, this article illustrates how the creative use of nostalgia helps to challenge certain cultural and political narratives that have hitherto dominated discourses of identity in Taiwan. Focusing in particular on Wei’s baseball period-drama KANO, this study shows that nostalgia in Taiwanese cinema is not a singular trope whereby the bygone colonial era is uncritically eulogized, but a complex cultural practice through which issues such as Taiwan’s position in a globalizing economy, a new emphasis on diversity and multi-culturalism, and finally contemporary politics vis-à-vis mainland China are negotiated. The colonial past, far from being a stable, monolithic historical memory, thus constitutes a constantly shifting discursive space in which questions of national identity can be addressed from a number of angles.
From visual fantasies to bodily trajectories: The insular epistemology of around-the-island journeys in Taiwan cinema
Authors: Jessie Ssu-Fang Liu
Published: October 2017

Through the lens of the around-the-island journey, this study articulates the geopolitical and sensory turns in contemporary Taiwan, inspecting how the new modality of feelings connotes different political declarations and epistemological paradigms from those in the past. From the Qing Empire, through the Japanese colonial period and to the early martial law period, the island of Taiwan was visually discovered and imagined by exterior political regimes. These foreign travellers’ around-the-island journeys ‘virtualized’ the geographical knowledge through visually syndicating the island and the suzerainties’ political centre into a single entity: either prolonging it as the extended territory of imperial Japan or conflating it with the continent of China. However, the current fetish of around-the-island trips arising in the 2000s represents a tendency of bypassing such visual domination and instead demands a traveller’s poignant bodily engagement and sensory explorations to ‘actualize’ the material knowledge of the island. Through comparing around-the-island movies in the martial and post martial law periods, this study examines how insular epistemology is produced and national identity is generated in sensorium cinema.
The Chinese animation blockbuster and Lotus Lantern (1999)
Authors: Chen Shaopeng
Published: October 2017

This article focuses on the Chinese animated film Lotus Lantern (1999), which gains importance in the history of Chinese animation by exploring the possibilities of the domestic animation blockbuster. This article thus provides a view of cinema animation as an important subcategory of Chinese popular culture. The findings of this study can be divided into three parts. First, Lotus Lantern was created under particular historical circumstances; the film undertook two historic missions: one is to resist the pressure from Hollywood competitors and the other is to revitalize Chinese-language animated films. Second, Lotus Lantern inherits and updates the Chinese iconography through the refiguration of classic cartoon figure Sun Wukong, which indicates a more market-oriented and audience-oriented trend in animation creation. Finally, this film borrows Hollywood iconography and techniques for the purpose of replicating Hollywood’s blockbuster practice and creating China’s own animated blockbuster.
Review Article
Authors: Wang Yi-Huei
Published: October 2017

This paper seeks to read literature as ‘form’ to disrupt the history-based perspective in Taiwanese literature. Shawna Yang Ryan’s Green Island (2016) candidly grapples with the Taiwan’s hidden history from the February 28 Incident to the White Terror Period. While Green Island uncovers the unofficial history during Taiwan’s undemocratic years, it is more far-reaching than a mere historical fiction. In fact, Green Island takes a progressive move beyond the legacy of history dominated by nationalists, historians and authoritative discourse. In doing so, Ryan utilizes the fictional device – the unnamed, first-person female narrative ‘I’ to destabilize the patriarchal system of macro-history. By demonstrating a woman’s life experience from her childhood to being a mother, from living in Taiwan to the United States, Green Island shows us how literature works as ‘form’ to negotiate history with individual story, political milieu with personal choices. This paper claims that Green Island dissolves the stable foundation of historical discourse via activating women’s agency through the narrative in post-colonial Taiwan.
Reviews
Authors: Lee Min Joo , Massaccesi Cristina , Taylor-Jones Kate
Published: October 2017

Understanding the Korean Wave

What are the Differences between American and Korean TV Drama Series? TV Drama Production Environment in America and Korea, Konshik Yu (2013) Paju: Hanul Books, 295 pp., ISBN: 9788946055773, softcover, W20000

Hallyu in Southeast Asia: East Asian Hallyu based on Interviews with Locals, Ik Ki Kim and Hyun Jin Im (2014) Gwachun: Zininzin, 166 pp., ISBN: 9788963471761, softcover, W11000

Hallyu and the Transformations of Asian Pop Culture, Wonho Jang, Ik Ki Kim and Jung Eun Song (2014) Seoul: Purungil Books, 276 pp., ISBN: 9788962912630, softcover, W20000

Introduction to Hallyuology, Jang Soon Park (2014) Seoul: Publishing Company Sun, 367 pp., ISBN: 9788963124803, softcover, W20000

The Soul of Anime: Collaborat ive Creat ivity and Japan’s Media Success Story, IAN CONDRY (2013) Durham and London: Duke University Press, 256 pp., ISBN: 9780822353942, p/bk, £19.99

The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness, Joshua Paul Dale, Joyce Goggin, Julia Leyda, Anthony P. McIntyre and Diane Negra (eds) (2016) London and New York: Routledge University Press, 300 pp., ISBN: 1138998761, p/bk, £28.99
Event Review
Authors: Khan Ali
Published: October 2017

Stockholm Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2017 Collections, 29–31 January 2017
Exhibition Review
Authors: Williams Gwyneth I.
Published: October 2017

Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, 18 November 2016–5 February 2017
Book Reviews
Authors: Anders Ellen , Loranger David , Martin Kathi , Yanofsky Anna
Published: October 2017

Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion, Giovanni MAtteucci and STEFANO Marino (eds) (2017) London: Bloomsbury, 208 pp., ISBN: 9781474237482, p/bk, $29.95

Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles: Handicrafting as Fan Art, Brigid Cherry (2016) London: Bloomsbury, 199 pp., ISBN: 9781474215152, p/bk, $85.00

Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting, Anne Hollander and Foreword by Valerie Steele ([2002] 2006) London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 208 pp., ISBN 9781474251648, p/bk, $35.96

The History of Fashion Journalism, Kate Nelson Best (2017) London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 304 pp., ISBN: 9781474279727, p/bk, $19.99
How stout women were left out of high fashion: An early twentieth-century perspective
Authors: Keist Carmen N.
Published: October 2017

Karl Lagerfeld, head designer and creative director of Chanel, made headlines in 2013 when he made comments against fat women on the French television show Le Grand 8 by saying ‘no one wants to see curvy women on the runway’. Excluding plus-size women from high fashion has occurred since the infancy of stoutwear manufacturing (an earlier term used for plus-size) near the start of the twentieth century. It is important to note that stoutwear manufacturers created ready-towear designs for middle-class women, but designers did not make or promote highfashion designs in vast quantities for upper-class women. Stout society women and couture clients were certainly consuming high fashion, but high-fashion advertising, commentary and editorials were not inclusive of stout women. In fact, many high-fashion designers stressed the importance and need to be slender. This article uses primary sources from Vogue, Women’s Wear Daily, Good Housekeeping and Harper’s Bazaar to analyse the commentary during the introduction and emergence of women’s ready-to-wear and the exclusion of high fashion for stout women by designers.
Manufacturer, retailer and consumer misbehaviour in the United States during the Second World War
Authors: Mower Jennifer M. , Pedersen Elaine L.
Published: October 2017

With the entry of the United States into the Second World War clothing manufacturers, retailers and consumers became concerned about the possibility of wartime regulations. Scare buying and hoarding were one response to this worry. In this article we report our analysis of advertisements, articles and editorials in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Women’s Wear Daily, Vogue and other newspapers and periodicals. Wartime regulations related to use of materials and pricing were implemented to support the war effort. There is evidence that regulations were not always followed. Indications of wartime misbehaviours provide a nuanced picture of the United States home front, one that indicates misbehaviours on the part of consumers and some individuals and firms in the apparel and textile industry during the Second World War. The manufacturer and retailer advertisements, often ambiguous, coupled with consumer fear drove wartime consumer clothing purchases.
The shirtwaist: Changing the commerce of fashion
Authors: Parsons Jean L.
Published: October 2017

The introduction of ready-to-wear shirtwaists in the 1890s was a beginning point for significant growth in the women’s apparel industry. The almost universal acceptance of waists by women at all economic levels initially both shaped and was shaped by the organization of the men’s shirt and collar trade. These companies recognized sales potential and, as one of the most organized segments of the industry, had the capabilities to produce in large quantity. However, with seemingly unquenchable demand, competition escalated quickly. It soon became an industry characterized by rapid growth, style competition and style piracy. The incredible profusion of styles at every quality level and price point also altered how retailers marketed ready-towear, and facilitated changes in women’s perceptions of fashion. As they wholeheartedly adopted the shirtwaist in its many variations, it appeared to be a democratic style desired and worn by all women, consumers who understood and demanded access to fashion.
California Way of Life: Promotion of California sportswear, 1930–47
Authors: Farnan Sheryl A.
Published: October 2017

Until Second World War, Paris, to many, held the undisputed title of fashion capital of the world, and had done so for centuries, at least to women of society. American women proved to be no exception. With Nazi Occupation 1940–45, this European influence was cut off and the American fashion industry regrouped, finding a new voice in the absence of Paris fashion direction. To many, New York, with its thriving garment centre and strong union control seemed to be the heir apparent. While the New York market hustled to gain press and recognition for its vigorous but under acknowledged women’s apparel industry, the California industry, with a basis for clean, modern design coming from the neighbouring movie industry, and their rather secluded locale, worked within a different framework from their eastern counterparts. As a result, the close of Paris in 1940 seemed to not impact California the same way it did New York and other garment centres throughout America. Factors such as geographic influence, public works developments, creative innovation, resourceful private and government financing, educational development, organized public relations initiatives, and West Coast population shifts all contributed to help California leverage wartime prosperity to its own advantage. As a result, during this small window of time, the West Coast industry elevated itself to distinction in women’s fashion, particularly in the emerging apparel category of sportswear.
E. Moses and Son – the tailors who pioneered mass-market men’s tailoring?
Authors: Jones Laura A.
Published: October 2017

This article concerns the nineteenth century tailoring firm of E. Moses and Son and explores their significance in laying the foundations for modern mass-market retailing in men’s fashion. E Moses and Son were in operation between 1829 and 1884, and in the 55 years that they were in business, they achieved considerable success by bringing together new technologies and ideas of the time. Through their revolutionary attitude to commerce, E. Moses and Son pioneered a modern and more democratic fashion platform and, despite their virtual absence from fashion history, they hold an important place in the history of fashion and of commercial progress. Against a backdrop of social and economic change, brought about by industrialization and a re-structuring of the traditional English class system, Elias Moses and his son Isaac recognized a growing appetite for the consumption of new, affordable and accessible fashionable clothing. They pioneered a new business model that reduced the cost of fashions that operated on low margins and high-turn-over. This research explores how this was achieved by implementing new methods of production through innovative use of display and promotion, and perhaps most significantly, by devising an aggressive marketing strategy that appealed to a mass market by promoting the idea of classlessness. In their heyday, E. Moses and Son played many important roles: during the 1840s they became the preeminent men’s tailoring business in London, pioneering new methods of production and promotion; during the 1850s they also became fashion connoisseurs, offering guidance on style and fashions of the day. By the 1860s, they began to theorize about the fashion, taking ideas that contemplated fashion philosophically and simplifying and re-branding them for mass consumption. E. Moses and Son may have existed for a relatively short moment in time, however, their methods have had a lasting impact on the development of modern mass-market tailoring.
Pegging and the heterosexualization of anal sex: An analysis of Savage Love advice
Authors: Aguilar Jade
Published: October 2017

This article analyses the Savage Love advice columns that discuss the act of ‘pegging’, a term that US sex advice columnist Dan Savage and his readers coined in 2001 to describe a woman anally penetrating a man with a strap-on dildo. Since the term was coined, the act (and the term) has gained popularity in the United States, appearing regularly in the mass media. Using a queer theoretical approach, this article shows that while straight-identified peggers benefit from the gains that gays/lesbians/queers have made in expanding norms in sexual culture, they simultaneously engage in a form of ideological work to expand the definition of ‘straightness’ in order to maintain their straight identity and the accompanying social privileges.
Violent bodies and victim narratives: On the cinematic activism of Gregg Araki’s The Living End
Authors: Mills Robert
Published: October 2017

This article examines how director Gregg Araki uses violence as a means of political contestation in his queer ‘road movie’ The Living End (1992). Closely analysing the formal and aesthetic construction of the film’s various violent moments by considering them alongside both specific activist practices and works of theory, this discussion outlines the material effects, and subsequently the significance of Araki’s abrasive, often confrontational style. Throughout, this article argues that The Living End’s use of violence operates on a much more complex level than a lot of critical discussions recognize, moving its focus away from the currently dominant practice of attributing significance to ‘homo pomo’ (homosexual postmodern) stylistics and instead considering the contextually specific political realities that prompted such representational excess.
Male intimacy in Marco Berger’s Plan B and Hawaii
Authors: Korn Andrew
Published: October 2017

Argentinian director Marco Berger has made representing love between men, rather than their sex and individual sexual identities, his cinema’s objective. Critics and scholars have noted his original refocusing of bonds between men, which is consonant with contemporary queer Latin/o American film and theory. To elucidate Berger’s relationality, this article outlines the formal and thematic elements in his short film El reloj (The Watch) (2008) and examines their expansion in his features Plan B (2009) and Hawaii (2013). Uniting Berger’s idea of ‘love’ with Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘friendship’, I argue that the features visualize the formation of a unique male intimacy in which men can explore each other’s physicality, share affectionate gestures, express sensitivity, play together, take care of each other and have sex. Their bonds lessen heteronormative aggression and dominance and transform sexuality, as they no longer derive pleasure solely from the sexual act but rather from the range of sensations, emotions and experiences of their multifaceted intimacy.
Abjectly melodramatic: The monstrous body and the queer politics of Tamam mıyız? (Are We OK?)
Authors: Germen Baran
Published: October 2017

This article seeks the queer politics of melodrama in the very abjectness of the form with a reading of Çağan Irmak’s 2013 popular motion picture Tamam mıyız? (Are We OK?). Telling the story of an unlikely friendship between two men, the film thematizes abjection as a social phenomenon with its abject bodies: Temmuz, a bohemian gay sculptor, and İhsan, a suicidal young man with tetra-amelia syndrome. Are We OK? capitalizes on melodrama’s affective potency to render its characters sympathetic through a narrative of victimhood shared by both men. This article demonstrates that the film nonetheless struggles to register these abject bodies in a socially intelligible relationship within the confines of the norm. In a performative act evocative of abjection, the film pushes Temmuz and İhsan to the end of melodrama, where their bodily unison forms an embodied queer subjectivity. The improbability of this body situated in an anti-oedipal temporal impasse between a post-melodramatic future and a pre-abject past exposes the ineptness of the categories of relationality that govern the domain of the social.
Failure reconnaissance: The virtual problem of the It Gets Better Project
Authors: Lipscomb Robert
Published: October 2017

The It Gets Better Project, founded by Dan Savage and Terry Miller and launched in response to a spate of queer teen suicides, purports to offer messages of hope and encouragement to youth struggling with issues related to their sexual identities. Although many critics have already noted the problematic nature of It Gets Better’s platform and messaging, this article critiques the project with a twofold approach in order to highlight alternate and more useful approaches to messaging queer teens. First, works by theorists including Lee Edelman and Michael Warner offer insight into the project’s dangerous propensity for encouraging assimilation and normalization within the larger social apparatuses that fostered a need for the project in the first place. Second, this analysis builds on Judith Halberstam’s work on the legacy of queer failure, in addition to emphasizing Kate Bornstein’s pragmatism, to propose methods of messaging that are materially helpful and instructional to the queer teen, the queer community and potentially the culture as a whole.
Classic Media Review
Authors: Savage Ann M.
Published: October 2017

Imperfectly, recorded and produced by Ani Difranco (1992) Buffalo, NY: Righteous Babe Records
Tv Review
Authors: Ravela Christian
Published: October 2017

Steven Universe, created by Rebecca Sugar (2013–present) USA: Cartoon Network Studios
An Alternative Neo-Kohlbergian Approach in Social Pedagogy
Authors: Halvorsen Terje
Published: October 2017

In many countries social pedagogues apply ART (Aggression Replacement Training), a multimodal programme designed to help juveniles with severe behaviour problems. In this programme Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development makes up an important element. The first part of this article offers a presentation of Kohlberg’s theory and some of the critique made of it. The second part describes how the Kohlbergian tradition is implemented in ART. In the final part of the article a problem with the ART programme is pointed out and an alternative neo-Kohlber-gian approach is described. This method may prove to be a viable approach in the field of social pedagogy and an adequate supplement to the ART programme.
Risking Attachments in Teaching Child and Youth Care in Twenty-First-Century Settler Colonial, Environmental and Biotechnological Worlds
Authors: White Jennifer , Kouri Scott , Pacini-Ketchabaw Veronica
Published: October 2017

As a way to implicate ourselves in the politics of teaching child and youth care, we write as witnesses of the world and, in so doing, we make risky attachments by exploring a politically engaged child and youth care education that does not promote insurance, control or detachment. Rather, in this paper we critically locate child and youth care education within the political and economic realities of today’s world. We grapple with the complexities of educating child and youth care practitioners deeply embedded in neoliberal capitalism and settler colonialism, and explore the conceptual shifts that we are experimenting with in our own teaching practices to engage in human service work that responds with care to individual and family need and suffering by engaging with the very structures that perpetuate harm and violence in our society.
Social Pedagogy: Developing and Maintaining Multi-Disciplinary Relationships in Residential Child Care
Authors: McPheat Graham , Vrouwenfelder Evelyn
Published: October 2017

The task of building and maintaining effective multi-disciplinary relationships is a constant challenge for the residential child care sector in Scotland. The absence of effective multi-disciplinary collaboration has been cited regularly as a contributing factor to instances of poor and problematic practice. Social pedagogy has much to offer in terms of enabling the residential child care sector to address some of these issues and assist with the task of establishing effective multi-disciplinary relationships. This article will explore how this can be achieved in practice, drawing on research based on multi-disciplinary social pedagogy training delivered in Scotland. The evidence demonstrates that social pedagogy can begin to break down the very real barriers that often prevent residential child care practitioners from developing and maintaining multi-disciplinary relationships. It can assist with the task of developing a shared language and understanding; the creation of a clear focus on the developmental needs of children and young people; and a more nuanced approach to dealing with issues of risk. The messages from this article will hold relevance for the professions of residential child care, health and education and be applicable to practitioners throughout Europe and beyond.
As ocupações estudantis e a reinvenção do espaço escolar facilitadas pelas tecnologias interativas
Authors: Queiroz Diego Felipe de Souza , Bortolon Paula Chagas , Rocha Rita de Cássia Machado da
Published: October 2017

A grave crise do sistema educacional brasileiro, que vai do sucateamento dos colégios e das condições de trabalho à redução do que seria educar, há anos suscita movimentos de resistência e luta para a melhoria da educação. Em 2015, uma nova onda de manifestações surgiu, inicialmente em São Paulo, devido ao anúncio de fechamento de mais de 100 escolas públicas estaduais, o que fez o movimento estudantil emergir em âmbito nacional. No estado do Rio de Janeiro, mais de 80 escolas foram ocupadas pelos estudantes. Impulsionado pelas tecnologias interativas, para além da conquista do espaço físico escolar, este movimento é uma forma de oposição ao poder do Estado. Sua grande novidade é a subversão à lógica da escola tradicional, o que permitiu aos estudantes experimentarem a autogestão e vivenciarem uma nova dinâmica de ensino.
Multi combined Adlerian supervision in Counseling
Authors: Gungor Abdi
Published: October 2017

For counselor professional and counselor education, supervision is an important process, in which more experienced professional helps and guides less experienced professional. To provide an effective and beneficial supervision, various therapy, development, or process based approaches and models have been developed. In addition, different eclectic models integrating more than one model have been developed. In this paper, as a supervision model, multi combined Adlerian supervision model is proposed. The model includes Adlerian supervision and its integration with discrimination model (DM; Bernard, 1979). DM is one of the most known counseling supervision model and Adlerian therapy is an important theory to understand human nature in both counseling and supervision settings. Since supervision is one of the important concepts in counseling, the current integrated model important is useful for counselors and counselor educators for their supervision practice. Theoretical tenets of the pieces of the integration first are explained by reviewing the literature. Then, the current model and its process are explained. Limitations and strengths are discussed with implications for counselor supervisors.
Genotoxic, carcinogenic potential of food additives and their other effects on human health
Gıda katkı maddelerinin genotoksik, karsinojenik potansiyeli ve insan sağlığı üzerindeki diğer etkileri
Authors: Şen Selen , Aksoy Hüseyin , Yılmaz Serkan
Published: October 2017

The use of food additives (FAs) in food production has become an indispensable part of food technology primarily in developed countries for the last 30 years. Today, we encounter with chemical or E coded names of FAs in the ingredients written on the packages of many food products; from take-home foods to frozen products and canned goods. Some of these products, which have been increasing in terms of usage and number each passing day, have detected genotoxic and carcinogenic effects with various toxicological test systems. Besides, some of these are emerged to play role in the formation of hyperactivity, allergy, neurodegenerative diseases, obesity, diabetes, reproduction and gastrointestinal system disorders. In this review, it is aimed to give information about food additives which have been determined to have genotoxic and carcinogenic effects and reported to cause other health risks with toxicological studies. Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetSon 30 yıldır gelişmiş ülkeler başta olmak üzere, gıda üretiminde katkı maddelerinin kullanımı gıda teknolojisinin vazgeçilmez bir parçası olmuştur. Günümüzde, hazır gıdalardan, dondurulmuş ürünlere ve konservelere kadar tükettiğimiz birçok gıda maddesinin ambalajlarındaki içindekiler kısmında gıda katkı maddelerinin kimyasal yada E kodlu isimleri ile karşı karşıya gelmekteyiz. Kullanımları ve sayıları her geçen gün artan bu maddelerin bazılarının genotoksik ve karsinojenik etkili olduğu çeşitli toksikolojik test sistemleriyle belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca bazılarının hiperaktivite, alerji, nörodejeneratif hastalıklar, obezite, diyabet, üreme ve gastrointestinal sisteme ilişkin bozuklukların oluşumunda rol oynadığı da ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu derlemede, toksikolojik çalışmalarla genotoksik, karsinojenik etkilere sahip olduğu ve diğer sağlık risklerine yol açtığı belirlenen gıda katkı maddeleri hakkında bilgi verilmesi amaçlanmıştır.
Mycorrhizal dependency and growth response of Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Kunth ex Walp. under saline condition
Authors: Giri Bhoopander
Published: October 2017

In pursuit of salinity-mycorrhiza interaction, a pot experiment was conducted to determine the dependence of Gliricidia sepium on arbuscular mycorrhizal association under salinity stress, which was imposed using different concentrations of sodium chloride solutions. The present study revealed that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus; Rhizophagus fasciculatus significantly increased growth and biomass of G. sepium plants under saline condition. G. sepium showed a high degree of dependence on mycorrhizal symbiosis under saline as compared to non-saline condition. Under non-saline condition (SS0), G. sepium plants exhibited 23.9% dependence on R. fasciculatus, which increased with increase in the levels of salinity. At SS3 level, G. sepium plants showed 46.6% mycorrhizal dependency followed by SS2 and SS1 levels of salinity. However, there was no significant difference between mycorrhizal dependency of G. sepium at SS1 and SS2 levels of salinity. Improved growth of G. sepium under salinity stress revealed R. fasciculatus a promising inoculant for the reclamation of degraded saline soils.
Helly numbers of algebraic subsets of ℝ
d
and an extension of Doignon’s Theorem
Authors: De Loera J. A. , La Haye R. N. , Oliveros D. , Roldán-Pensado E.
Published: October 2017

We study S-convex sets, which are the geometric objects obtained as the intersection of the usual convex sets in ℝ
d
with a proper subset S ⊂ ℝ
d
, and contribute new results about their S-Helly numbers. We extend prior work for S = ℝ
d
, ℤ
d
, and ℤ
d−k
× ℝ
k
, and give some sharp bounds for several new cases: low-dimensional situations, sets that have some algebraic structure, in particular when S is an arbitrary subgroup of ℝ
d
or when S is the difference between a lattice and some of its sublattices. By abstracting the ingredients of Lovász method we obtain colorful versions of many monochromatic Helly-type results, including several colorful versions of our own results.
Central figure-8 cross-cuts make surfaces cylindrical
Authors: Solomon Bruce
Published: October 2017

Let M be a complete connected C
2-surface in ℝ3 in general position, intersecting some plane along a clean figure-8 (a loop with total curvature zero) and such that all compact intersections with planes have central symmetry. We prove that M is a (geometric) cylinder over some central figure-8. On the way, we establish interesting facts about centrally symmetric loops in the plane; for instance, a clean loop with even rotation number 2k can never be central unless it passes through its center exactly twice and k = 0.
Differences in levels of albumin, ALT, AST, γ-GT and creatinine in frail, moderately healthy and healthy elderly individuals
Authors: Edvardsson Maria , Sund-Levander Märtha , Milberg Anna , Wressle Ewa , Marcusson Jan , Grodzinsky Ewa
Published: October 2017

Background:

Reference intervals are widely used as decision tools, providing the physician with information about whether the analyte values indicate ongoing disease process. Reference intervals are generally based on individuals without diagnosed diseases or use of medication, which often excludes elderly. The aim of the study was to assess levels of albumin, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), creatinine and γ-glutamyl transferase (γ-GT) in frail, moderately healthy and healthy elderly indivuduals.

Methods:

Blood samples were collected from individuals >80 years old, nursing home residents, in the Elderly in Linköping Screening Assessment and Nordic Reference Interval Project, a total of 569 individuals. They were divided into three cohorts: frail, moderately healthy and healthy, depending on cognitive and physical function. Albumin, ALT, AST, creatinine and γ-GT were analyzed using routine methods.

Results:

Linear regression predicted factors for 34% of the variance in albumin were activities of daily living (ADL), gender, stroke and cancer. ADLs, gender and weight explained 15% of changes in ALT. For AST levels, ADLs, cancer and analgesics explained 5% of changes. Kidney disease, gender, Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease explained 25% of the variation in creatinine levels and MMSE explained three per cent of γ-GT variation.

Conclusions:

Because a group of people are at the same age, they should not be assessed the same way. To interpret results of laboratory tests in elderly is a complex task, where reference intervals are one part, but far from the only one, to take into consideration.
Laboratory performance of sweat conductivity for the screening of cystic fibrosis
Authors: Greaves Ronda F. , Jolly Lisa , Massie John , Scott Sue , Wiley Veronica C. , Metz Michael P. , Mackay Richard J.
Published: October 2017

Background:

There are several complementary English-language guidelines for the performance of the sweat chloride test. These guidelines also incorporate information for the collection of conductivity samples. However, recommendations for the measurement and reporting of sweat conductivity are less clear than for sweat chloride. The aim of the study was to develop an understanding of the testing and reporting practices of sweat conductivity in Australasian laboratories.

Methods:

A survey specifically directed at conductivity testing was sent to the 12 laboratories registered with the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Quality Assurance Programs.

Results:

Nine (75%) laboratories participated in the survey, seven of whom used Wescor Macroduct® for collecting sweat and the Wescor SWEAT·CHEK™ for conductivity testing, and the remaining two used the Wescor Nanoduct®. There was considerable variation in frequency and staffing for this test. Likewise, criteria about which patients it was inappropriate to test, definitions of adequate collection sweat rate, cutoffs and actions recommended on the basis of the result showed variations between laboratories.

Conclusions:

Variations in sweat conductivity testing and reporting reflect many of the same issues that were revealed in sweat chloride test audits and have the potential to lead to uncertainty about the result and the proper action in response to the result. We recommend that sweat testing guidelines should include clearer statements about the use of sweat conductivity.
Characterization of the Ag43Cu37Zn20 alloy surface after potentiostatic polarization using LDI-TOF mass spectrometry
Authors: Vurdelja Borislava D. , Dimitrijević Stevan P. , Dimitrijević Silvana B. , Kamberović Željko J. , Veličković Suzana R.
Published: October 2017

This work is the first to demonstrate the possibilities of direct analysis of the corrosion film formed on Ag43Cu37Zn20 alloy using laser desorption/ionization (LDI) on a commercial matrix-assisted LDI time of flight mass spectrometry (MS) instrument. In the LDI mass spectra measured from the water solution of the corrosion film, the ion species Zn+, Zn(H2O)+, AgH+, Cu2H+, Cu2O(OH)+, Cu3O(OH)+ (high intensity), and Cu(OH)(H2O)+, ZnCl(OH)(H2O)+, AgCl+, CuCl+ (low intensity) were identified. The LDI mass spectra of the propan-2-ol solution of the corrosion film contains the ions Zn5Cl(OH)3(H2O)11+, Zn5Cl2(OH)8(H2O)6+, and Zn5Cl2(OH)(H2O)14+. Mass spectra were observed at laser energies in the range of 1340–1860 arbitrary units in positive ion mode. Previously, Raman spectra and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis of the same anodic film have shown similar results as LDI MS – that the anodic film contains the mixture of Ag, Cu2O, CuCl, Zn5Cl2(OH)8·H2O, and β-Zn(OH)Cl. LDI MS could be a complementary method for XRD and Raman, as demonstrated in this investigation. The LDI MS method greatly reduces the analysis time and amount of the sample compared to traditional methods. For this reason, the LDI MS method can be a useful tool for the fast qualitative screening of corrosion films.
Sunflower’s Productivity in the Context of Climatic Changes on Republic of Moldova’s Territory
Authors: Nedealcov Maria , Duca Maria , Dencicov Lidia
Published: October 2017

Current climate change represents a serious threats to sustainable development by its accelerated its pace of manifestations and inability to adequately adapt to these changes. Increasing intensity and frequency of climate change’ related risk have conditioned the need to conduct a parallel study on the specifics of regional climate change and weather-climate risks’ manifestation. The results indicate that the financial damage caused by some climatic related risks in recent years can substantially destabilize the country’s economy.
Characterization of residual lignin in cellulose isolated by the diglyme method from three Pinus species by IR spectroscopy and analytical pyrolysis
Authors: Alves Ana , Santos Sara , Simões Rita , Rodrigues José
Published: October 2017

Quantitative determination of cellulose content by means of diglyme [bis(2-methoxyethyl) ether] isolation is useful for rapid screening experiments. However, diglyme isolation from softwoods results in a certain amount of residual lignin in the cellulose. In this paper, the lignin content (L) in diglyme cellulose of three pine species (Pinus halepensis Miller, Pinus sylvestris L. and Pinus pinaster Aiton) was analysed by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and analytical pyrolysis (Py). Py allowed lignin quantification. The influence of wood milling on cellulose yield was also analyzed and it was shown that a particle size between 10 and 60 mesh did not noticeably influence the cellulose yield or L; however, ball-milling to powder did cause a cellulose loss of around 37%. The diglyme method is only reproducible if the experimental parameters are standardized and meticulously followed.
An Efficient Wavelet-Based Collocation Method for Handling Singularly Perturbed Boundary-Value Problems in Fluid Mechanics
Authors: Shah Firdous A. , Abass Rustam
Published: October 2017

In this article, we develop an accurate and efficient wavelet-based collocation method for solving both linear and nonlinear singularly perturbed boundary-value problems that arise in fluid mechanics. The properties of the Haar wavelet expansions together with operational matrix of integration are used to convert the underlying problems into systems of algebraic equations which can be efficiently solved by suitable solvers. The performance of the numerical scheme is assessed and tested on specific test problems and the comparisons are given with other methods existing in the recent literature. The numerical outcomes indicate that the method yields highly accurate results and is computationally more efficient than the existing ones.