bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Resection of Sentinel Lymph Nodes by an Extraperitoneal Minilaparoscopic Approach Using Indocyanine Green for Uterine Malignancies
Authors: Ferreira Hélder , Nogueira-Silva Cristina , Miranda Alice , Correia-Pinto Jorge
Published: December 2015

Background. The sentinel lymph node (SLN) concept might minimize surgical aggressiveness in cervical and endometrial malignancies. The aim of the study was to test the feasibility and reliability of minilaparoscopic extraperitoneal SLN excision after indocyanine green (ICG) cervical injection using a high-definition near infrared (NIR) imaging system in an in vivo porcine model. The same procedure was performed using conventional laparoscopic instruments and both outcomes were compared. Methods. Twenty-four animals were equally and randomly divided into a minilaparoscopic group (group A) and a 5-mm conventional laparoscopic group (group B). A high-definition NIR imaging system and a 30° ICG endoscope were used. First, ICG (0.5 mL) was injected in the paracervical region. The SLN coloring time was recorded. An extraperitoneal approach to the SLN was executed with the same CO2 retropneumoperitoneum pressures (10 mm Hg). In both groups, the times for SLN localization and excision, as well as complications, were registered. Finally, a laparotomy was then done to evaluate whether any stained SLN still remained. The same surgical team performed all experiments. Results. SLNs were identified and extraperitoneally excised in all animals without major complications. The SLN localization varied between animals from external iliac to preaortic regions. The surgical times were shorter with minilaparoscopy (39.3 ± 13 minutes) than with conventional 5-mm instruments (51.3 ± 14.17 minutes; P = .042). In group B, one stained SLN remained and was only detected by laparotomy. Conclusions. We confirmed the feasibility and reliability of extraperitoneal minilaparoscopic approach for identification, dissection, and excision of SLN using an NIR imaging system and ICG.
Endovascular treatment of distal middle cerebral artery aneurysms: Report of eight cases and literature review
Authors: Lv Nan , Zhou Yu , Yang Pengfei , Li Qiang , Zhao Rui , Fang Yibin , Xu Yi , Hong Bo , Zhao Wenyuan , Liu Jianmin , Huang Qinghai
Published: December 2015

Background

Endovascular treatment is an alternative choice for the treatment of distal middle cerebral artery (dMCA) aneurysm, in addition to open surgery; but is still seldom considered. We performed this retrospective study to evaluate the outcome of dMCA in patients.

Methods

During a period of 10 years, we were able to identify seven patients with a total of eight dMCA aneurysms that were treated endovascularly. They were five men and two women, with a mean age of 36.1 years. All of the aneurysms, including five infectious and three dissecting ones, were treated for the aneurysm and its parent artery’s occlusion, using coils and/or glue.

Results

The clinical follow-up (9–96 m, mean 36.8 m) showed that they all improved over baseline; except for one patient in whom a mild right hemiparesis remained, after the hematoma evacuation. Angiographic follow-up (7–24 m; mean: 14.6 m) showed that all of them were stable and without the need for recanalization.

Conclusions

Our data indicated that endovascular treatment is a safe and effective alternative for the treatment of dMCA aneurysms, and should be considered when treating these aneurysms.
Observer-based stabilization of one-sided Lipschitz systems with application to flexible link manipulator
Authors: Wu Rui , Zhang Wei , Song Fang , Wu Zhiyang , Guo Wei
Published: December 2015

This article is concerned with the observer-based output feedback stabilization problem for a class of nonlinear systems that satisfies the one-sided Lipschitz and the quadratically inner-bounded conditions. The system model under consideration encompasses the classical Lipschitz nonlinear system as a special case. For such a system, we design the output feedback controller via constructing a full-order Luenberger-type state observer. Sufficient conditions that guarantee the existence of observer-based output feedback are established in the form of linear matrix inequalities, which are readily solved by the available numerical software. Moreover, the proposed observer-based output feedback designs are applied to a flexible link manipulator system. Finally, simulation study on the manipulator system is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed control design.
Comparison of clinical outcome with radiological findings after trapeziectomy with ligament reconstruction and tendon interposition
Authors: Reissner L. , Marks M. , Schindele S. , Herren D. B.
Published: December 2015

The aim of our study was to investigate if pre- and postoperative radiographic thumb carpometacarpal position is correlated with clinical and subjective outcomes. Radiographs of 105 patients undergoing trapeziectomy with ligament reconstruction and tendon interposition were analysed before, as well as 1 year after, surgery for dorsal subluxation and proximal migration of the thumb metacarpal bone. Furthermore, key pinch strength was measured and patients completed the Michigan Hand Outcomes Questionnaire. Baseline dorsal subluxation and scaphometacarpal distances significantly decreased from 8.2 mm and 11.0 mm to 5.2 mm and 5.1 mm at 1 year, respectively. There was no correlation between the amount of subluxation or proximal migration and the Michigan Hand Outcomes Questionnaire score or key pinch strength. These results suggest that postoperative position of the metacarpal base of the thumb does not affect clinical or subjective outcomes after trapeziectomy with ligament reconstruction and tendon reposition of the thumb carpometacarpal joint.

Level of evidence: Level 3
Crystal Structure of 4-Methylbenzenecarbothioic Acid and Computational Investigations of Benzenecarbochalcogenoic Acids (C6H5COEH and C6H5CEOH, E = S, Se, Te)
Authors: Kato Shinzi , Niyomura Osamu , Ebihara Masahiro , Guo Jing-Dong , Nagase Shigeru
Published: December 2015

The X-ray structure analysis of arenecarbochalcogenoic acids (ArCOEH and ArCEOH, E = S, Se, Te) is successful for 4-MeC6H4COSH for the first time, which reveals that the syn-conformer forms a planar cyclic dimer with two S–H···O=C hydrogen bonds in the solid state. Density functional theory calculations are performed for benzenecarbochalcogenoic acids (C6H5COEH and C6H5CEOH), the tetrahydrofuran (THF)-solvated acids, and the cyclic dimers of the acids. It is suggested that arenechalcogenol acids (ArCOEH) form cyclic dimers in the solid state, although Della Védova and co-workers reported that catemeric hydrogen-bonding chains are observed for the crystal structures of selenoacetic acid (MeCOSeH). Calculations demonstrate that arenecarbochalcogenoic acids exist predominantly as chalcogenoxo tautomers (ArCEOH) in polar solvents such as THF especially at low temperatures, unlike the solid-state cases, which are consistent with several experimental results.
Assessing an adherent silicone foam dressing: a clinical evaluation across five NHS trusts
Authors: Stephen-Haynes Jackie , Callaghan Rosie , Bethell Elaine , Linthwaite Adele , Bullough Lindsey , Armstrong Jayne
Published: December 2015

The wound contact layer of UrgoTul Absorb Border (Urgo Medical) foam dressing contains a Technology Lipido Colloid (TLC) Healing Matrix, which includes hydrocolloid and lipophilic substances designed to stimulate fibroblast proliferation and thus promote granulation tissue formation. A multicentre, noncomparative, clinical evaluation of UrgoTul Absorb Border investigated whether use of the dressing promoted granulation tissue formation and the management of wound exudate. Other parameters evaluated included: pain-free dressing changes, protection and improvement of surrounding tissue, ease of application, conformability, ability to remain in place, wear time, effect on peri-wound skin, durability, ease of removal, and patient comfort. There were 43 patients recruited into the evaluation. Results show that 8 wounds (19%) achieved full epithelialisation and 34 (81%) improved. All participating clinicians rated the dressing's overall performance, including its ability to manage exudate, as excellent, very good, or good.
Defeating dry skin: treatments, topical ingredients and the role of nutrition
Authors: Zanna Nikki
Published: December 2015

Skin condition is influenced by a combination of surface, texture, colour and physiological properties, such as hydration, sebum content and acidity. The presence of an adequate amount of water in the stratum corneum, or hydration, is important for soft, smooth-looking skin. Sebum, which is secreted by the sebaceous glands, together with other epidermal lipids, helps to maintain hydration of the skin by providing a protective lipid layer on the skin's surface, which reduces fluid loss through the epidermis. These skin characteristics are known to be affected by intrinsic and environmental factors, including ageing, exposure to sunlight, chemicals and mechanical damage. This paper looks at the physiological processes that affect hydration and the factors which can alter the skin's moisture levels. It will also discuss the causes of non-medical skin dryness and explore several treatment options for rehydration.
Mindfulness interventions for improving body image: a worthwhile pursuit?
Authors: Atkinson Melissa
Published: December 2015

Body image concerns are associated with a range of negative consequences for health and wellbeing, including eating disorders. Interventions that successfully improve body image and related factors are therefore important. Melissa Atkinson puts forward mindfulness as a psychological approach for treating those with body image concerns, as it can be conceptualised as a skill for managing negative experiences
Managing depression in primary care
Authors: Hardy Sheila
Published: December 2015

Depression is commonly seen in primary care, and the majority of people with depression who seek treatment will receive it in primary care. Sheila Hardy describes how nurses can identify and help those with depression
Composition and Genesis of the Nickel-Chrome-Bearing Nontronite and Montmorillonite in Lateritized Ultramafic Rocks in the Muratdği Region (Uşak, Western Anatolia), Turkey
Authors: Kadır Selahattın , Aydoğan M. Selman , Elıtok Ömer , Helvaci Cahıt
Published: December 2015

Widespread lateritized ultramafic rocks in the southern part of the Muratdağı region of Turkey constitute a significant source of Ni-Cr-bearing ore with economic potential. However, no mineralogical or geochemical characterizations of these important materials have been performed previously. The aim of the present study was to describe the mineralogy, geochemistry, and genesis of Ni-Cr-bearing smectite in garnierite and ferruginous saprolite associated with the lateritized ophiolite-related ultramafic rocks. The lateritic zones are well developed over serpentinized harzburgitic mantle peridotites. The lateritized units and related bedrocks were examined using polarized-light microscopy, X-ray diffraction, scanning and transmission electron microscopies, and chemical and isotopic methods. The garnierite-containing saprolites are enriched in smectite, Fe-(oxyhydr)oxide phases, and opal-CT. Micromorphological images revealed that flaky smectite and, locally, Fe-rich particles, alunite, gypsum, gibbsite, and sulfur crystals developed along the fractures and dissolution voids. The development of saprolite demonstrates chemical weathering. The presence of silicified and Fe-(oxyhydr)oxide phases associated with gypsum, alunite, and local native sulfur in vertical and/or subvertical fractures and fault infillings are indicative of hydrothermal processes along the extensional, tectonically related fault systems. Chemical weathering and hydrothermal processes, which probably started during the Oligocene and Miocene, led to the formation of nontronite, Fe-bearing montmorillonite, and local Fe-rich kaolinite. Nickel and Cr are concentrated significantly in the saprolite zone and are positively correlated with Fe2O3 content, which is controlled by the formation of nontronite, montmorillonite, and Fe-(oxyhydr)oxide phases. Nickel-Cr-bearing nontronite and montmorillonite precipitated from alkaline water as a result of the increasing (Fe2O3+Al2O3+Cr2O5+Ni+Co)/(MgO+SiO2) ratio under the control of both chemical weathering and hydrothermal processes. The Fe and Mg (associated with Ni and Cr) required for the formation of smectite were supplied by solutions from both chemical weathering and hydrothermal alteration of Ni-Cr-bearing olivine and pyroxene in the harzburgitic bedrock; the Al was supplied by schists, granite, and volcanic units.
Directional maximal operators and lacunarity in higher dimensions
Authors: Parcet Javier , Rogers Keith M.
Published: December 2015

We introduce a notion of lacunarity in higher dimensions for which we can
bound the associated directional maximal operators in $L^p({\Bbb R}^n)$,
with $p>1$. In particular, we are able to treat the classes previously
considered by Nagel-Stein-Wainger, Sj\"ogren-Sj\"olin and Carbery. Closely
related to this, we find a characterization of the sets of directions
which give rise to bounded maximal operators. The bounds enable
Lebesgue-type differentiation of integrals in $L_{{\rm loc}}^p({\Bbb
R}^n)$, replacing balls by tubes which point in these directions.
Local-global principles for torsors over arithmetic curves
Authors: Harbater David , Hartmann Julia , Krashen Daniel
Published: December 2015

We consider local-global principles for torsors under linear algebraic groups, over function fields of curves over complete discretely valued fields. The obstruction to such a principle is a version of the Tate-Shafarevich group; and for groups with rational components, we compute it explicitly and show that it is finite. This yields necessary and sufficient conditions for local-global principles to hold. Our results rely on first obtaining a Mayer-Vietoris sequence for Galois cohomology and then showing that torsors can be patched. We also give new applications to quadratic forms and central simple algebras.
Homotopy groups of Chow varieties
Authors: Hu Wenchuan
Published: December 2015

We show that a conjecture by Lawson holds, that is, the inclusion from the
Chow variety $C_{p,d}({\Bbb P}^n)$ of all effective algebraic $p$-cycles
of degree $d$ in $n$-dimensional projective space ${\Bbb P}^n$ to the
space ${\mathcal C}_{p}({\Bbb P}^n)$ of effective algebraic $p$-cycles in
${\Bbb P}^n$ is $2d$-connected. As a result, the homotopy and homology
groups of $C_{p,d}({\Bbb P}^n)$ are calculated up to $2d$. We also obtain
the homotopy groups up to a certain level for the space of algebraic
cycles with a fixed degree.
The local Langlands correspondence for GSp 4 over local function fields
Authors: Ganapathy Radhika
Published: December 2015

We prove the local Langlands correspondence for ${\rm GSp}_4(F)$, where $F$ is a non-archimedean local field
of positive characteristic with residue characteristic $>2$.
Secret Police Files, Tangled Life Narratives: The 1.5 Generation of Communist Surveillance
Authors: Luca Ioana
Published: December 2015

The opening of the archives in the former Eastern European bloc has led to heated political debates in the ex-communist countries, lustration, and the reassessment of the Cold War experience, both east and west. This essay focuses on the significance of accessing the secret police files in life writing produced by the 1.5 generation of communist surveillance. I read Carmen Bugan’s Burying the Typewriter and Kati Marton’s Enemies of the People to consider what happens to communist life narratives of an oppressive state apparatus when taken up by children of communist dissidents, how transnational identities and life stories emerging from post-Cold War Eastern Europe impact the genre, and what the implications of this new autobiographical form are for life writing from and about Eastern Europe within the post-communist and global contexts. By mapping the range of relationships between such autobiographical writing and the secret police files it incorporates, I show the numerous changes life narratives undergo in the aftermath of communism in Eastern Europe, illustrate the ever increasing complexity of life writing in global contexts, and point to new routes of memory with regard to communist oppression.
The Afterlife of the Text: Launching “Life in Occupied Palestine”
Authors: Franklin Cynthia G.
Published: December 2015

This essay describes how, through launching the Biography issue “Life in Occupied Palestine” in Palestine and elsewhere, contributors’ stories took on a life and generated stories of their own—ones that, while continuing to document the impact of Israeli occupation and settler colonialism, point towards possibilities for decolonial dialogue, friendship, community, and political organizing.
Measuring Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: The Initial Development of an Assessment Instrument
Authors: Arora Prerna G. , Krumholz Lauren S. , Guerra Terry , Leff Stephen S.
Published: December 2015

Background: Although the partnership between academic researchers and community members is paramount to community-based research efforts, a limited number of measures exist to evaluate this construct. Of those in existence, no assessment measures include a comprehensive coverage of the many dimensions of partnerships. In addition, these measures were not designed through an extensive community-based participatory research (CBPR) model, in which the strengths of traditional assessment techniques were integrated with input from stakeholders. Objectives: The purpose of this article was to describe the creation of a measure to evaluate key dimensions of partnerships forged between researchers and community members using a CBPR approach to measurement development. Methods: The iterative process of developing this measure consisted of integrating valuable feedback from community partners and researchers, via multiple rounds of item sorting and qualitative interviewing. Results: The resultant measure, titled Partnership Assessment In community-based Research (PAIR), consists of 32 items, and comprises 5 dimensions: communication, collaboration, partnership values, benefits, and evaluation. The innovative process of using CBPR in the development of measures, the benefits of this approach, and the lessons learned are highlighted. Conclusions: PAIR was developed out of a need identified jointly by community members and researchers, and is intended to characterize the range of relationships between researchers and community members engaging in community-based research and programming.
ASHA: Using Participatory Methods to Develop an Asset-building Mental Health Intervention for Bangladeshi Immigrant Women
Authors: Karasz Alison , Raghavan Sumithra , Patel Viraj , Zaman Moumita , Akhter Laila , Kabita Mahbhooba
Published: December 2015

Background. Common mental disorder (CMD) is highly prevalent among low-income immigrant women, yet few receive effective treatment. This underutilization is partly owing to a lack of conceptual synchrony between biopsychiatric theories underlying conventional mental treatments and explanatory models in community settings. The Action to Improve Self-esteem and Health through Asset building (ASHA) program is a depression intervention designed by and for South Asian women immigrants. ASHA helps women to build psychological, social, and financial assets. Objectives. This paper describes the development and a preliminary pilot evaluation of the ASHA intervention. Methods. Researchers, clinicians, activists, and women from the Bronx Bangladeshi community collaboratively designed a depression intervention that would synchronize with local concepts of distress. In addition to providing mental health treatment, ASHA addresses social isolation and financial dependence. ASHA was evaluated in a pilot study described in this paper. Participants were assigned to intervention or delayed intervention (control) groups. Data collection at baseline and time 2 (6 months) included the Patient Health Questionnaire–9 (PHQ–9) and an indigenous measure of psychological and somatic distress. Results. Eighty percent of intervention participants completed the 6-month program. After treatment, mean PHQ–9 scores in the intervention group decreased from 9.90 to 4.26 ( p < .001). Participants saved an average of $10 per week. To date, participants have applied their skills and savings toward such activities as starting small businesses and enrolling in community college. Conclusions. ASHA was effective in improving depression and increasing financial independence. Using a culturally synchronous approach to psychological treatment may be effective in ameliorating distress in immigrant populations.
A Pilot Investigation to Enhance Behavioral Health Referral for Perinatal, Low-Income Women With Mood Disorders
Authors: Boyd Rhonda C. , Mogul Marjie , O’Hara Michael W.
Published: December 2015

Background: Perinatal, low-income, ethnic minority women with mood disorders underutilize behavioral health treatment. A community–academic partnership was used to address behavioral health initiation among this population. Objectives: We sought to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of a behavioral health referral intervention with low-income, ethnic minority perinatal women diagnosed with mood disorders. Methods: An open trial pilot study was conducted with 38 perinatal women. The behavioral health referral intervention consisted of two sessions of manualized referral strategies to enhance access to care. The main outcome was attendance at a behavioral health appointment. Results: Approximately 55% of the perinatal women attended a behavioral health appointment within 2 months (i.e., initiated treatment). Intervention participation rates and ratings were high. Depression scores decreased from baseline to after the intervention. Conclusions: The findings demonstrated favorable outcomes compared with other referral interventions. The behavioral health referral intervention shows promise for implementation in community settings.
“Captivity is Consciousness”: Consciousness and its Revisions in Dickinson’s Poetry
Authors: Finan E. Thomas
Published: December 2015

By the middle of the nineteenth century, “consciousness” had arisen as a key term for English-language typifications and descriptions of the self. “Consciousness” plays a major role in the philosophical works of John Locke and Thomas Cogswell Upham, but it also influenced broader Anglo-American literary and cultural discourse; Noah Webster, for instance, finds that consciousness makes a person to be a self. One of the major philosophical and literary themes involved in the rise of “consciousness” is a concern with the way in which consciousness could imprison through its mediating and unifying capabilities. “Consciousness” appears in twenty-three of Emily Dickinson’s poems, and analyzing these poems provides a way of examining how she responds to this narrative of conscious captivity. While some Romantics feared that conscious mediation could imprison the self, Dickinson finds that it can provide the prospect of liberty; the walls of consciousness afford barriers behind which the self can withdraw. That act of supposed liberation, however, can provide its own confinement. Her poems of consciousness demonstrate a tension between liberty and captivity because, for her, the self-reference that allows for a sense of (captivating) conscious coherence also allows for a disruption of this coherence. Dickinson connects the stakes of consciousness to a variety of topics, including embodiment, love, moral responsibility, and death. By focusing on the tensions of the lived experience of consciousness, she complicates the work of her philosophical predecessors.
“Not I but the wind that blows through me”: Robert Creeley’s Emily Dickinson
Authors: Creasy Jonathan
Published: December 2015

Robert Creeley wrote constantly of his influences and affinities, yet one of the most important and apparent precursors to his work is curiously left out. Emily Dickinson’s influence is clear in Creeley’s vast body of poetry, ranging from her characteristically concise poems and jagged syntax to her insistent investigation of poetic personae. Yet Creeley published very little on her work directly. Many poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have made use of Dickinson’s poetic instigations, and Creeley is prominent among them. This essay looks at Creeley’s single, long-form consideration of Dickinson’s work in a three-part lecture series delivered in 1985. By considering these lectures, and by looking at Creeley’s life and later poetry, this essay makes clear the substantial impact Dickinson had on her fellow New England poet.
Maya (Image) in Indigenous Riau World-view: A Forgotten Concept of Malayan Animist Thought and Ritual Practice
Authors: Porath Nathan
Published: December 2015

The early literature on Malay animism and magic includes a passing reference to a concept called maya . This reference is hardly noticeable in the literature, and when Kirk Endicott wrote his Malay Magic , he omitted the word altogether. In this article the author uses ethnographic material from the Malayan-speaking Orang Sakai of Riau to examine the concept of maya (image) as it relates to a ‘lifeless soul’ inherent in material objects, giving physical objects vitality of form, appearance and use.
Functional Studies on Viable Circulating Tumor Cells
Authors: Pantel Klaus , Alix-Panabières Catherine
Published: December 2015

BACKGROUND

Research on circulating tumor cells (CTCs) as new biomarkers has received great attention over the past decade. In particular, the capture and analysis of CTCs as “liquid biopsies” provides the possibility to avoid invasive tissue biopsies, with obvious implications in cancer diagnostics.

CONTENT

The focus of this review is to describe and discuss how functional studies on viable CTCs can enlarge the spectrum of applications of liquid biopsies, with emphasis on breast, prostate, colon, and lung cancer as the major tumor entities in industrialized countries. The low number of CTCs in the peripheral blood of most cancer patients makes challenging the in vitro culture of CTCs. Epithelial tumor cells are difficult to culture, even when starting with millions of tumor cells. Recently, several groups have achieved important advances in the in vitro and in vivo expansion of CTCs from cancer patients at very advanced stages with higher amounts of CTCs. Here, we present current technologies to enrich and detect viable human CTCs, including positive and negative enrichment strategies that are based on antigen expression and physical properties of CTCs. We also discuss published data about functional studies on CTCs that use in vitro and in vivo models.

Functional analyses on CTCs offer the possibility to identify the biological properties of metastatic cells, including the identification of metastasis-initiating cells. Moreover, CTC-derived cell lines and xenografts might reveal new therapeutic targets and can be used for drug screening.
Documenting migrant labour in Moscow’s Teatr.doc
Authors: Aizman Ania
Published: December 2015

In Russia, documentary theatre can be seen as a challenge to a bureaucratic logic that was famously summarized in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita: “If there are no papers, there is no person.” Teatr.doc, the first documentary theatre to open in Moscow, has recorded a “human document” for undocumented immigrants by staging plays about the lives of ethnic minorities in Moscow. Recently threatened with the loss of its 12-year-old basement space, Teatr.doc must be studied as an institution that created space for public discussion despite increasing state supervision of culture. This paper describes Teatr.doc’s efforts to document the everyday lives of undocumented labourers living amidst ethnic stensions in Moscow.
Historically speaking: The workings of the past in a performance by Olof Olsson
Authors: Sørensen Trine Friis
Published: December 2015

This article sets out to untangle the workings of the past in a performance by Danish-Swedish-Dutch artist Olof Olsson. Leaving behind the official documents of the Danmarks Radio (DR) Archive, Olsson explores the byroads of radio history through a miscellaneous assortment of nugatory documents and objects. The article proceeds as a close reading of aspects of Olsson’s performance using three figures described by Walter Benjamin – the collector, the storyteller and the historian – as points of reference. By tracing out the contours of these figures in Olsson’s performance, I am able to elucidate the subversive potentiality of his digressive narrative.
Documentary = arbitrary: A few practical-theoretical impulses
Authors: Dobovšek Zala
Published: December 2015

The 2014 Mladi levi international festival directed its overall programme scheme towards documentary and participatory performances, and it also offered a workshop on documentary theatre. The formats of documentary and participatory theatre (with all their variants) don’t just trace the artistic maturity of a certain environment in itself but are always also indices showing the broader picture of the social (political, cultural, etc.) and thereby mental situation of a certain space and time. This contribution combines theory and practice; it considers documentary theatre in various theoretical frameworks, compares its various staging approaches (personal memory, collective memory, simulations, reconstructions) and offers a brief insight into the creation and the procedures of this genre.
Waste management: Self interview on the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive
Authors: Vevar Rok
Published: December 2015

The contribution takes the form of a self-interview to tackle the analysis of the historicization of contemporary performing arts on the illustrative example of the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive, founded by the author, a “precarious cultural worker”, as his personal cultural-activist project. The contribution offers basic information on the scale of the material, its systematization and the archive’s operating principle, which for now runs with no promise of adequate public infrastructure. The self-interview auto-reflexively unfolds the complex issue of the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive, which stems from a wider issue of historicizing elusive, procedural and performative contemporary performing arts; at the same time, the self-interview begins to tackle deeper reasons for the lack of institutional background, which discourages the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive from hoping to ever have any stable and continuous function. Most of all, the self-interview on the Temporary Slovenian Dance Archive opens up a question that exceeds contemporary performing arts, namely, in what way can the “impossible history” of non-territorial and transnational character be historicized at all.
Performed by ecologies: How Homo sapiens could subvert present-day futures
Authors: Kershaw Baz
Published: December 2015

There is little doubt that humankind faces an environmental crisis in which the dinosaurs’ extinction will look like a children’s tea party staged by drunken clowns. But still the vast majority – at least in so-called developed countries – behave as if that prospect is a chimera. Globally such denial is now ecologically systemic, and so I call that behaviour ‘performance compulsion’. This conundrum is explored below through an elementary conceit. While humans assume that they possess agencies unique among the species, we are fundamentally performed by Earth’s ecologies. Hence, the only hope of averting our extinction is to perform more responsively and ethically with those ecologies.
Reviews
Authors: Ames Margaret , Bottoms Stephen , Franks Aaron , Magnat Virginie , Weigler Will
Published: December 2015

Disability, Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers, Bree Hadley (2014) New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 224 pp., ISBN: 9781137396075

Enacting Nature: Ecocritical Perspectives On Indigenous Performance, Birgit Däwes and Marc Maufort (eds) (2014) Brussels: Peter Lang (2014), 262 pp. ISBN-10: 2875741462; ISBN-13: 978-2875741462

Playing for Time: Making Art as if the World Mattered, Lucy Neal (ed.) (2015) Oberon Books, London, 466 pp., ISBN: 9781783191864, p/bk, 16.99 GBP

Performing Indigeneity: Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences, Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny (eds) (2014) Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 431 pages ISBN 978-0-8032-5686-6 (paperback), $36 USD

Salmon is Everything: Community-based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed, Theresa May, Suzanne Burcell, Kathleen Mccovey and Jean O’Hara (2014) Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 188 pp., ISBN: 9780870717468, p/bk, $19.95
Hope is a Wooded Time: An eco-performance of biodiversity in discarded geographic and social space
Authors: Haedicke susan , Harper Sarah
Published: December 2015

Friches Théâtre Urbain’s Hope is a Wooded Time is an ongoing community-based eco-art project outside Paris that draws inspiration from its site’s evocative heritage as part of les Murs à Pêches, ‘living walls’ for espaliered fruit trees in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, and its contemporary reality as a wooded wasteland. The project encourages ethical encounters between ecological processes of biodiversity and human interventions by its neighbours, ethnically and culturally diverse populations of Sinti and Romany gypsies, Russian and North African immigrants and native French.
Locating an Indigenous ethos in ecological performance
Authors: Woynarski Lisa
Published: December 2015

Stories are powerful forms of representation and cultural imagery in many Indigenous cultures, and performance is a site where these stories are shared, revealed and enacted, making it a powerful site of cultural imagery for Indigenous ecological knowledges and cosmologies. I argue that an Indigenous ecological ethos is a necessary addition to thinking about performance and ecology, one that resists patronizing and simplistic stereotypes of the ‘eco-Indian’ and acknowledges diverse, complex and evolving epistemologies. Drawing on Huggan and Tiffin’s postcolonialism ecocriticism, as well as May and Kuppers experience as non-Indigenous scholars and practitioners, this article considers the role postcolonial ecology might play in the field of performance and ecology and how non-indigenous scholars and theatremakers might engage with it. I suggest strategies for locating an Indigenous ecological ethos, through Däwes, Nolan, Howe and Halba and their critical reflections on Indigenous performances specifically attuned to ecological concerns. I draw on plays and performances that highlight the inseparability of land, identity and morethan- human (Salmon is Everything, NK603: Action for Performer & e-Maiz, Woman for Walking); work that is non-linear and recognizes the simultaneity of past, present and future (Burning Vision, Chasing Honey); and work that takes up ecological justice issues (Sila). These aspects suggest ways of locating an Indigenous ecological ethos and developing a more multivocal and inclusive field of performance and ecology.
Performing from Heidegger’s Turning
Authors: Grant Stuart
Published: December 2015

This article aims to do two things. (1) Describe aspects of the performance methodology and philosophy of the site-specific ecological performance group, the Environmental Performance Authority (EPA), in a series of performances entitled Coastal Scales, developed in conjunction with the Hobsons Bay Council in Melbourne, Australia. (2) Make an argument for the efficacy of the EPA’s work, through concepts from Heidegger’s later writings, with particular reference to the ‘turning’, and the occurrence of truth as the strife between earth and world, as developed in Contributions to Philosophy (1999, 2012) and ‘The origin of the work of art’ (1977a).
How to Duet with a Saguaro
Authors: Eisele Kimi
Published: December 2015

How to Duet with a Saguaro was a contemplative performance project exploring relationships with the iconic Sonoran Desert cactus, Carnegiea gigantea. Through a series of ‘somatic’ experiments, including one that involved standing with the cactus for an hour, the artist uncovers new meanings of both ‘duet’ and ‘performance’.
Colonial architectures, urban planning and the representation of Portuguese imperial history
Authors: Domingos Nuno
Published: December 2015

This article proposes a critical analysis of recent interpretations made to the history of architecture and urban planning in the Portuguese colonial context in the twentieth century, particularly in the former African territories. More generally, it intends to explore how the internal history produced by specific fields of activity, such as architecture or urbanism, can reinforce the logic of a national and nationalized history. This effect is due partly to the fact that the legitimacy of these fields is largely dependent on the national identification in the context of activities that are internationalized. I will argue that the specific field of activity, while creating this internal discourse, can directly or indirectly produce representations of the nation, its history and its people on a larger scale, penetrating popular culture and influencing a shared common sense. In the case in question, the internal discourse on architectural and urbanistic works, on authors and styles, eventually reinforces an idealized and idyllic image of Portuguese colonialism.
From culture in Portugal to Portuguese culture: Marxism, globalization and nationalism in António José Saraiva
Authors: Neves José
Published: December 2015

By examining the career of a Portuguese essayist and historian, this article seeks to examine the relations between culture, nationalism and globalization during the second half of the twentieth century. The article follows the career of António José Saraiva from the 1940s to the 1990s, describing his transformation from expressing a universalist and progressive idea of culture to a nationalist and romantic one, and relating it to the transformations of communist internationalism and to the developments of capitalism and globalization. Considering the ruptures, but also the continuities within Saraiva’s thought, it is argued that his commitment to the problem of alienation plays a key role in this transformation While contributing to the history of one of the most read Portuguese intellectuals of the twentieth century, this article stresses the need for historians and social scientists to move beyond – at least partially – some binary oppositions that often command our approach to culture: namely the conflict between culture and economy on the one hand, and the national and the global, on the other.
Altzairu-zuntzez indarturiko hormigoia: Eraikuntza lanak erraztuko dituen etorkizun oparoko materiala
Authors: Orbe Aimar
Published: December 2015

Altzairu-zuntzez indarturiko hormigoia, AZIH (ingelesez SFRC), arrunki ezagutzen dugun hormigoi armatuaren anaia txiki eta ezezaguntzat har genezake. Hala ere, bere ibilbidea anaia zaharrenaren eskutik egin du teknologia hauen garapenean zehar, eta orain etorkizun oparoa aurreikusten zaio. Aldi berean, azken bolada honetan garatzen dabiltzan hainbat azterketa teknika ez-suntsikorrek, kalitate kontrol erraz eta zehatza egitea ahalbidetzen dute. Hori baita AZIHak duen desabantailetako bat, hau da, behin hormigoia gogortuta, ez da hain erraza zuntzek hormigoi matrizearen baitan hartzen duten orientazioa ikusten. Hala ere, materialak merkatuan harrera ona izan dezan, ezinbestekoa da laborategiko maila gainditu eta eskala errealeko egitura-osagaien ikerketa bultzatzea.
Ezagutzan Oinarritutako Giza Jardueren Eredu Dinamiko eta Pertsonalizatuak Ikasten
Authors: Azkune Gorka , Almeida Aitor , López-de-Ipiña Diego , Chen Liming
Published: December 2015

Gizakietara egokitutako teknologiak garatzeko, ezinbestekoa da makinek giza jarduerak antzemateko gaitasuna izatea, sentsoreak eta konputazio-gailuak erabiliz. Horretarako, antzeman nahi diren jarduera horien eredu konputazionalak sortu behar dira. Gaur egun, jarduera-ereduak sortzeko garaian, bi joera nagusi aurki daitezke: datuetan oinarritutako ereduak eta ezagutzan oinarritutakoak. Biek ere abantaila eta desabantailak dituzte. Lan honen helburua da bi joerak elkartzea eredu dinamiko eta pertsonalizatuak lortzeko, ezagutzan oinarritutako eredu orokor batzuetatik hasita. Modu horretan, pertsona bakoitzaren bilakaerara egokitutako modelatze-prozesuak lor daitezke.
The World Indigenous Research Alliance (WIRA): Mediating and mobilizing Indigenous Peoples’ educational knowledge and aspirations
Authors: Whitinui Paul , McIvor Onowa , Robertson Boni , Morcom Lindsay , Cashman Kimo , Arbon Veronica
Published: December 2015

There is an Indigenous resurgence in education occurring globally. For more than a century Euro-western approaches have controlled the provision and quality of education to, and for Indigenous peoples.  The World Indigenous Research Alliance (WIRA) established in 2012, is a grass-roots movement of Indigenous scholars passionate about making a difference for Indigenous peoples and their education. WIRA is a service-oriented endeavor designed by Indigenous scholars working in mainstream institutions to support each other and to provide culturally safe spaces to share ideas. This paper highlights how WIRA came to be, and outlines the nature and scope of these shared endeavours. Strategically, WIRA operates under the mandate of the World Indigenous Nations Higher Educational Consortium (WINHEC) who regularly report to the General Assembly of the United Nations Indigenous Peoples Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) pertaining to Indigenous Peoples and their education (United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 2007). Indeed, this collaboration provides the opportunity to share best practices across respective countries, and to co-design interdisciplinary, dynamic and innovative educational research.  Since the inception of WIRA, a number of research priorities have emerged alongside potential funding models we believe can assist our shared work moving forward.  The launching of WIRA is timely, and sure to accelerate the goals envisaged by WINHEC, and Indigenous peoples aspirations in education more generally.
Effect of hydrothermal treatment temperature on the properties of sewage sludge derived solid fuel
Authors: Yan Mi , Prabowo Bayu , Fang Zhumin , Chen Wei , Jiang Zhiqiang , Hu Yanjun
Published: December 2015

High moisture content along with poor dewaterability are the main challenges for sewage sludge treatment and utilization. In this study, the effect of hydrothermal treatment at various temperature (120-200 ˚C) on the properties of sewage sludge derived solid fuel was investigated in the terms of mechanical dewatering character, drying character, calorific value and heavy metal distribution. Hydrothermal treatment (HT) followed by dewatering process significantly reduced moisture content and improved calorific value of sewage sludge with the optimum condition obtained at 140˚C. No significant alteration of drying characteristic was produced by HT. Heavy metal enrichment in solid particle was found after HT that highlighted the importance of further study regarding heavy metal behavior during combustion. However, it also implied the potential application of HT on sewage sludge for heavy metal removal from wastewater.
Predictive Factors Associated with Solar Energy Development in Laikipia District Central Kenya
Authors: Wambuguh Oscar
Published: December 2015

The abundance of sunlight and the availability affordable solar technologies in many areas far from grid-based electricity has sparked the development of renewable energy technologies (RETs) which tap solar radiation energy to provide electricity. A study on solar photovoltaics (SPVs) use and utilization took place in the Wiyumiririe Location of Kenya. A purposive randomized convenience sample of 246 households was selected and landowner interviews conducted guided by a questionnaire, followed by field surveys and observations. Although solar energy contributed less than a quarter of total household energy needs, residents specifically associated it with specific developmental initiatives. Correlation and logistic regression model analyses showed that solar power development was closely associated (and thus can be predicted) from five main independent variables. The findings of the study allowed the development of a probabilistic model general enough to be applicable elsewhere in the development of alternative energy resources particularly those based on solar input.
MURCIÉLAGOS (MAMMALIA: CHIROPTERA) ASOCIADOS CON UNA CUEVA EN EL PARQUE NACIONAL YURUBÍ, SIERRA DE AROA, ESTADO YARACUY, VENEZUELA
Authors: García Franger J. , Araujo-Reyes Dayana , Vásquez-Parra Oriana , Brito Hendrix , Machado Marjorie
Published: December 2015

Las cuevas constituyen un recurso importante para murciélagos en los bosques ya que ofrecen protección y condiciones climáticas que favorecen a la reproducción, especialmente para aquellas especies con hábitos cavernícolas. Durante 12 meses (2013-2014), se llevó a cabo un estudio sobre uso de una cueva por parte de murciélagos en el Parque Nacional Yurubí-Sierra de Aroa, Estado Yaracuy, Venezuela. Se colocó una trampa de arpa una vez por mes y estuvo activa antes de que los murciélagos emergieran del refugio. Después de tomar datos sobre abundancia, los individuos fueron marcados y liberados en el sitio. Se registraron seis especies pertenecientes a las familias Mormoopidae y Phyllostomidae. Pteronotus parnellii, Anoura geoffroyi y Carollia perspicillata fueron capturados todos los meses y en los tres se observó indicios reproductivos. P. parnellii y A. geoffroyi fueron los más abundantes con una mayor presencia para el primero. Por otro lado, Phyllostomus hastatus, Lonchorhina aurita y Desmodus rotundus usaron el refugio temporalmente, sin evidenciar alguna condición reproductiva. Se observaron cambios en el tamaño de las colonias y composición de especies, evidencia de que el refugio es usado permanentemente por algunas especies durante la reproducción y de forma temporal por otras, que aparentemente se estarían favoreciendo sólo del resguardo que ofrece.