bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Heart Disease Diagnosis Using Fuzzy Supervised Learning Based on Dynamic Reduced Features
Authors: Moudani Walid , Hussein Mohamad , abdelRazzak Mariam , Mora-Camino Félix
Published: November 2014

The health industry collects huge amounts of health data which, unfortunately, are not mined to discover hidden information. However, there is a lack of effective analytical tools to discover hidden relationships and trends in data. Information technologies can provide alternative approaches to the diagnosis of the heart attach disease. In this study, a proficient methodology for the extraction of significant patterns from the Coronary Heart Disease warehouses for heart attack prediction, which unfortunately continues to be a leading cause of mortality in the whole world, has been presented. For this purpose, we propose to develop an innovative fuzzy classification solution approach based on dynamic reduced sets of potential risk factors using the promising Rough Set theory which is a new mathematical approach to data analysis based on classification of objects. Therefore, we propose to validate the classification using Multi-classifier decision tree to identify the risky heart disease cases. This work is based on a dataset collected from several clinical institutions based on the medical profile of patient. Moreover, the experts' knowledge in this field has been taken into consideration in order to define the disease, its risk factors, to follow up the issue results, and to establish significant knowledge relationships between medical factors related to Coronary Heart Disease. To identify cases of heart attack, experiments of several classification techniques have been performed leading to rank the suitable techniques. The reduction of potential risk factors contributes to enumerate dynamically one or more optimal subsets of the potential risk factors of high interest which implicitly leads to reduce the complexity of the classification problems while maintaining the prediction classification quality. The performance of the proposed model is analyzed and evaluated based on set of benchmark techniques applied in this classification problem.
Combined Cycle for Power Generation and Refrigeration Using Low Temperature Heat Sources
Authors: Chauhan Vijay , Kishan P. Anil , Gedupudi Sateesh
Published: November 2014

A combined refrigeration and power cycle, which uses ammonia-water as the working fluid, is proposed by combining Rankine and vapour absorption cycles with an advantage of varying refrigeration capacity to power output ratio. The study investigates the usage of low temperature heat sources for the cycle operation. Results of parametric analysis are presented, which show the scope for optimization. Results of thermodynamic optimization of the cycle for second law efficiency performed using genetic algorithm for different ambient temperatures are also presented. The cycle shows good potential for obtaining refrigeration and power generation.
Comparison of Computational Electromagnetics for Electrostatic Analysis
Authors: Dhamodaran M. , Dhanasekaran R.
Published: November 2014

This paper presents comparative studies on different numerical methods like method of moments (MOM), Boundary Element Method (BEM), Finite element method (FEM), Finite difference method (FDM), Charge Simulation method (CSM) and Surface charge method. The evaluation of the capacitance of various structures having different geometrical shapes is importance to study the behavior of electrostatic charge analysis. The MOM is based upon the transformation of an integral equation, into a matrix equation by employing expansion of the unknown in terms of known basis functions with unknown coefficients such as charge distribution and hence the capacitance is to be determined. To illustrate the usefulness of this technique, apply these methods to the computation of capacitance of different conducting shapes. This paper reviews the results of computing the capacitance-per-unit length with the other methods. The capacitance of charged conducting plates is reviewed by different methods.
An AC/DC PFC Converter with Active Soft Switching Technique
Authors: Aiswariya S. , Dhanasekaran R.
Published: November 2014

This paper proposes an AC-DC converter with the application of active type soft switching techniques. Boost converter with active snubber is used to achieve power factor correction. Boost converter main switch uses Zero Voltage Transition switching for turn on and Zero Current Transition switching for turn off. The active snubber auxillary switch uses Zero Current Switching for both turn on and turn off. Since all the switches of the proposed circuit are soft switched, overall component stress has been greatly reduced and the output DC voltage is expected to have low ripples. A small amount of auxillary switch current is made to flow to the output side by the help of coupling inductor. The proposed circuit is simulated using MATLAB Simulink. All the related waveforms are shown for the reference. The power factor is measured as 0.99 showing that the input current and input voltage is in phase with each other. The PFC circuit has very less number of components with smaller size and can be controlled easily at a wide line and load range.
Developing a New Theory of Integer-Valued Data Envelopment Analysis for Supplier Selection in the Presence of Stochastic Data
Authors: Azadi Majid , Saen Reza Farzipoor
Published: November 2014

Supplier selection has a strategic importance for every company. Hybrid integer data is one of the models in data envelopment analysis (DEA). In many real world applications, data are often stochastic. A successful approach to address uncertainty in data is to replace deterministic data via random variables, leading to chance-constrained DEA. In this paper, a chance-constrained hybrid integer data envelopment analysis (CCHIDEA) model is developed and also its deterministic equivalent which is a nonlinear program is derived. Furthermore, it is shown that the deterministic equivalent of the CCHIDEA model can be converted into a quadratic program. In addition, sensitivity analysis of the CCHIDEA model is discussed with respect to changes on parameters. Finally, a case study demonstrates the application of the proposed model.
Assessing Effectiveness of Coordination in Food Supply Chain
Authors: Singh Rajesh Kr
Published: November 2014

Agriculture sector plays very crucial role in the economic growth of India. For sustaining its further growth, supply chain of agriculture sector needs to be strengthened. Agriculture sector is facing lot of challenges due to poor infrastructure, unorganised retail market, poor adoption of modern technology and overall inefficient supply chain. There is strong need to develop linkages between farmers and food processors and markets. Lack of coordination is the major problem in food supply chain. It is causing major loss to country as a whole. This study has tried to identify major factors responsible for coordination in the food supply chain. Further, a framework has been developed to quantify the effectiveness of coordination in the supply chain. This has been further illustrated with a case of food supply chain. This framework can be also useful for supply chains from other sectors to quantify its effectiveness and further improve their respective performance.
Experimental and Simulation Aspects Regarding LM6/Sicp Composite Plastic Deformation under Different Frictional Conditions
Authors: Joardar H. , Das N.S. , Sutradhar G. , Singh S
Published: November 2014

The deformation behaviour of solid aluminium alloy (LM6) and silicon carbide metal matrix composite cylinders under axi-symmetric compression over constant aspect ratios using different lubricants were examined. Dry condition and three different lubricants namely MoS2, graphite and white grease were prepared and cold upset forged. In the light of the previous studies, the calculations were made with the assumption that the curvatures of deformed specimens were in the form of a circular arc. The calculated radius of curvature of the bulge was found under different lubricating conditions. The flow curve of composite was determined by compression tests and data were used in simulation analysis. The FEA simulation was carried out using DEFORM software. Results gained by Finite Element Analysis and by experiment show high degree of similarity, so this way of modeling could be used for even more complex technology of plasticity.
Integrating Technology in the Classroom
Authors: Looi Chee-Kit , Chen Wenli , Chen Fang-Hao
Published: November 2014

In this article, we studied the developmental trajectories of three teachers as they integrated GroupScribbles (GS) technology in their classroom lessons over a semester period of about 5 months. Coherency diagrams were used to capture the complex interplay of a teacher's knowledge (K), goals (G) and beliefs (B) in leveraging technology effectively in the classroom. The degree of coherency between the KGB region and the affordances of the technology provided an indication of the teacher's developmental progression through the initiation, implementation and maturation phases of using technology in the classroom. Our findings reveal that a low coherency state at the initial stage not only has a high tendency for single regression to happen but also a double regression, when further triggered by certain factors. Dominant stagnation among the low coherency states throughout the initial and implementation phases increases the difficulty of upward transition to high coherency states. Implications are drawn as to the importance of ensuring high coherency during the initial phase where opportunities for synergy between a teacher's KGBs and the affordances of the technology should be created as early as possible to minimize regression.
Application of an Online Interactive Simulation Tool to Teach Engineering Concepts Using 3D Spatial Structures
Authors: Jones Brett D. , Setareh Mehdi , Polys Nicholas F. , Bacim Felipe
Published: November 2014

Simulations can be powerful learning tools that allow students to explore and understand concepts in ways that are not possible in typical classroom settings. However, research is lacking as to how to use simulations most effectively in different types of learning environments. To address this need, we designed a study to examine the impact of using online interactive simulations on the learning and motivation of 109 undergraduate architecture students from two large public universities. The simulation tool allowed students to create models of spatial structures and analyze the effects of loads on structural member forces and deflections. The authors incorporated the simulations into our instructional design using an inquiry approach because it was consistent with our goals of teaching students concepts and the process of deriving the concepts. They documented that online interactive simulations delivered through inquiry-based instruction can be an effective means to help students learn and apply concepts.
Investigating Electronic Word-of-Mouth Motivations in the Middle East
Authors: Magalhaes Rodrigo , Musallam Basim
Published: November 2014

This paper reports on a study carried out in Kuwait aimed at exploring the motivational factors which drive consumers to mention company names in Twitter. Building on existing models for eWOM motives and using Twitter as the tool for data collection, an electronic questionnaire was launched with the help of a number of opinion leaders. A total of 1,192 valid responses were collected from 5,011 hits. Data were statistically analyzed to extract the strongest factors. Concern for Other Consumers, Extraversion/Positive Self Enhancement, Venting Negative Feelings and Helping the Company are the primary factors. However, the findings are inconclusive when considering the proposition that studies aimed at identifying motivational factors behind eWOM engagement, differences can be expected in results from populations with predominantly collectivist values as opposed to populations with predominantly individualist values. Assuming that in the Kuwaiti cultural context individualist values predominate, it would have been expected to have results which are different from those obtained in studies carried out among populations whose cultural values are predominantly collectivist. However, this was not the case. In some factors the results are very similar, while in others, results are markedly different. This suggests that more research is needed in the cross cultural implications of motivational factors behind eWOM engagement.
Troglohyphantes sarae, nuova specie della Val d’Aosta (Araneae, Linyphiidae)
Authors: Pesarini Carlo
Published: November 2014

Viene qui descritta della Val d’Aosta la nuova specie Troglohyphantes sarae, appartenente al complesso lucifuga e strettamente affine a T. pluto Caporiacco, 1938, dal quale può distinguersi per la diversa forma della lamella significativa del pedipalpo ♂ e per la più marcata strozzatura basale del clavus dell’epigino ♀.
Notes on systematics and taxonomy for the Italian vascular flora. 2.
Authors: Banfi Enrico , Galasso Gabriele , Soldano Adriano
Published: November 2014

The present study forms part of the series of systematic and taxonomic contributions related to plant species of the Italian flora, and also other phanerogams, in light of recent biosystematic works of a molecular-genetic nature. Caloscordum and Nectaroscordum are separated from Allium s.l., Holandrea is included within Dichoropetalum, Ficaria is separated from Ranunculus and Althaea sect. Hirsutae is included within Malva. Confirmation is given for the inclusion of Lavatera within Malva, of Aegilops within Triticum and for the separation of Phelipanche from Orobanche. In addition some observations regarding the genera Cytisus, Hippophaë, Portulaca, Rhaponticum, Senecio and Torilis are presented. Finally new combinations and/or new names are proposed within the genera Caloscordum, Nectaroscordum, Dichoropetalum, Ficaria, Hippophaë, Malva, Portulaca and Rhaponticum.
Rhamphus monzinii, nuova specie del Piemonte (Coleoptera Curculionidae)
Authors: Pesarini Carlo , Diotti Luciano
Published: November 2014

Viene qui descritta di Piemonte la nuova specie Rhamphus monzinii, prossima a R. pulicarius e R. oxyacanthae, e più simile a quest’ultimo, ma distinta comunque da entrambi per la foggia ben diversa dei genitali ♂♂. La nuova specie sembrerebbe legata, al pari di R. pulicarius, a Salicacee e Betulacee.
Calappa praelata Lőrenthey in Lőrenthey & Beurlen, 1929 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Calappidae) from the Middle Miocene of Tresnuraghes (Oristano, Sardegna, Italy)
Authors: Pasini Giovanni , De Angeli Antonio , Garassino Alessandro
Published: November 2014

We report Calappa praelata Lőrenthey in Lőrenthey & Beurlen, 1929 (Calappidae De Haan, 1833), based upon one single carapace, three-dimensionally preserved, from the Middle Miocene of Tresnuraghes (Oristano, Sardegna, Italy). It is the first record of this species in Sardegna and Italian territory, enlarging the knowledge of distribution and its stratigraphic range in the paleo-Mediterranean basin. The species is already known from Middle-Upper Miocene of Hungary, Poland, Austria, Malta, and Spain.
Bathypluma pliocenica n. sp. (Decapoda, Brachyura, Retroplumidae) from the Zanclean (Early Pliocene) of Volterra (Pisa, Toscana, Italy)
Authors: Garassino Alessandro , Pasini Giovanni , Marini Federico
Published: November 2014

We report Bathypluma pliocenica n. sp. (Retroplumidae Gill, 1894), discovered from the Zanclean (Early Pliocene) clays near Volterra (Pisa, Toscana, Central Italy). This discovery is very important because it is the first report of Bathypluma in the worldwide fossil record, enlarging the knowledge on its distribution and antedating the presence of the genus, known only from the Indo-W Pacific area, to the Early Pliocene of the paleo-Mediterranean basin.
L’Orto di Brera alla fine della dominazione asburgica e durante l’età napoleonica
Authors: Banfi Enrico , Visconti Agnese
Published: November 2014

Il saggio illustra, la storia dell’Orto di Brera e della sua funzione come strumento didattico per la cattedra di botanica del Ginnasio, dal 1802 Liceo, di Brera nel periodo compreso tra la fine della dominazione asburgica e l’intero periodo napoleonico. Esso si fonda su una documentazione per la massima parte inedita conservata nelle seguenti istituzioni: Biblioteca Braidense di Milano, Archivio di Stato di Milano, Biblioteca del Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, Archivio di Stato di Pavia, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino; Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Biblioteca dell’Orto botanico dell’Università di Padova, Bibliothèque Centrale du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle di Parigi.
La prima parte del lavoro è dedicata al periodo che va dall’entrata in attività dell’Orto (1777) alla conduzione di Ciro Pollini (1805-1807) e si incentra in particolare sul legame tra la scelta delle piante dell’Orto, per lo più officinali, e l’insegnamento ai medici e ai farmacisti.
Si passa quindi alla ricostruzione del lavoro svolto dal custode Filippo Armano che diede all’Orto una nuova fisionomia, introducendo piante ornamentali, esotiche e rare, e che redasse il primo Catalogo (1812) di cui si presenta una lista degli aggiornamenti nomenclaturali.
Viene infine illustrata la figura del direttore Paolo Sangiorgio che resse l’Orto per tutto il periodo napoleonico, opponendosi alla concezione di Armano e applicandosi con forte impegno alla didattica.
Investigation on 2331 Cases of Pulled Elbow over the Last 10 Years
Authors: Irie Takashi , Sono Takashi , Hayama Yousuke , Matsumoto Taiichi , Matsushita Mutsumi
Published: November 2014

Pulled elbow is a common upper extremity injury in children. We present a retrospective study of 2331 pulled elbow cases examined in our hospital over the last ten years. All pediatric patients with a diagnosis of pulled elbow from January 2002 to December 2011 were retrospectively reviewed according to sex, age, affected arm, recurrence rate, mechanism of injury and treatment outcomes. There is no significant sex difference. The frequency of injury peaked for both boys and girls at 6 months and 2 years of age. The left arm was more affected than the right. The recurrence rate was 14%. In about 50% of cases, the cause of injury was forcible traction to the forearm. Almost all of the splinted patients, caused by severe pain or lack of mobility of the affected limb following reduction, recovered within 2 weeks, but 2 were later diagnosed with a fracture. For infants less than 1 year old, injury can often occur when rolling over. For children 1 year old or older the left arm is more commoly affected, and the frequency of injuries to the left arm increases with age, possibly because the left hand is commonly held by the guardian’s dominant right hand and faster development of muscle strength in the child’s dominant right arm works toward preventing injury to that arm with age.
Virilizing Ovarian Fibrothecoma with Minor Sex Cord Elements in a 13 Year Old Girl: A Rare Case
Authors: Sood Neelam , Nigam Jitendra Singh , Goyal Geetika , Ranjan Reeta
Published: November 2014

Fibrothecoma accounts for 3-4% of all ovarian neoplasms; it is usually hormonally inactive, but can be estrogenic or sometimes androgenic (11%); it is rare under 30 years. In a very few cases, minor sex cord elements (less than 10% of the tumor area) are present; therefore, it is considered as a separate sub-group of stromal tumors. The importance of immunohistochemistry in recognizing this kind of tumor has been fully documented, with variable results on inhibin staining, but specific positivity for calretenin in such cases. We report here the rare case of a 13-year-old child with ovarian fibrothecoma and minor sex cord stromal elements, who showed negativity for inhibin and positivity for calretenin.
Possible interplay between interleukin-15 and interleukin-17 into the pathogenesis of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies
Authors: Notarnicola A. , Lapadula G. , Natuzzi D. , Iannone F.
Published: November 2014

The aim of this study was to assess the serum levels of interleukin (IL)-15 and IL-17 in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) and correlate them with IL-6, IL-10, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), macrophage inflammatory protein-1α (MIP-1α), MIP-1β levels. Possible correlations with disease activity parameters were also evaluated. Sera from 14 polymyositis (PM), 10 dermatomyositis (DM), 7 anti-synthetase syndrome new onset patients and 19 healthy controls (HCs) were analyzed by multiplex immunoassay. Sera from 19 patients were analyzed after 5 months median follow-up. All patients underwent physical examination, the 5-points manual muscle test (MMT), the health assessment questionnaire and serum creatine kinase measurement. All patients received glucocorticoids, and 13 were taking also immunosuppressive therapy. At baseline, serum levels of IL-15, IL-17, MCP-1 and MIP-1β were significantly higher in IIM patients than in HCs. IL-17 serum levels were directly correlated with disease duration (r=0.39, P=0.02), while a significant inverse correlation was detected between IL-17 levels and MMT scores (r=-0.4, P=0.02). The highest IL-15 levels were present in DM patients (P=0.02 vs PM). The most striking finding was the strong correlation between IL-15 and IL-17 levels (r=0.60, P=0.0001), and this correlation was even stronger in DM patients (r=0.82, P=0.006). The strong correlation between IL-15 and IL-17 in IIM patients, and especially in DM, suggests that there may be a interplay between the two cytokines in the pathogenesis of myositis. Further studies of larger patient cohorts and muscle biopsies are needed to confirm these preliminary data.
Safety of rituximab in the routine treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in Italy in patients refractory to anti-TNFa drugs: results from the observational retrospective-prospective RUBINO study
Authors: Bazzichi L. , Biasi D. , Tinazzi E. , Muratore M. , Pellerito R. , Russo R. , Corsaro Santi M. , De Sandre P. , Epis O. , Granata M. , Kroegler B. , Meschini C. , Versace F. , Astolfi C.
Published: November 2014

The paper reports the results from the observational retrospective-prospective RUBINO study conducted in Italy to assess the safety of rituximab in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in routine clinical practice. The percentage of patients who manifested at least one grade 3 or 4 adverse event (AE) assessed by the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 3.0 (CTCAE v.3) during the observation period (primary objective) was evaluated. The percentage of patients manifesting a severe AE (SAE), clinical response to rituximab treatment, clinical remission according to disease activity score for 28 joints (DAS28) criteria, markers of disease and quality of life were also assessed. Fifty-three Italian rheumatology centers took part in the study. Patients with a diagnosis of RA and inadequate response to anti-tumor necrosis factor b (anti-TNFa) drugs were enrolled. Participating patients had previously received at least one cycle of rituximab, and treatment was still ongoing at the time of recruitment. Out of 205 patients enrolled, 60% manifested no form of AE, 14.2% had at least one grade 3 or 4 AE, and 11.2% patients reported an SAE. The overall percentage of patients manifesting AEs (40%) was lower compared to the DANCER (81% and 85%), REFLEX (85%) and RESET (85% and 69%) studies, but higher than that observed in the CERERRA registry (from 10.2% to 13.9%). This difference may be due to the shorter observation period applied in the CERERRA registry (only 12 months) compared to the RUBINO study (up to 3 years). All parameters of RA activity (erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, health assessment questionnaire score, DAS28) improved significantly during the study.
An Evolutionary Concept Analysis of Helicopter Parenting.
Authors: Lee Yong Wha , Kim Ji Hyun , Yim So Youn , Chae Myung Ock , Lee Hye Rim , Oh Jina
Published: November 2014

PURPOSE: Helicopter parenting is an emerging concept as a way of rearing adolescents and adult children. However, helicopter parenting from a nursing perspective has not been elucidated. Therefore, we undertook a concept analysis to understand the attributes, antecedents and consequences of helicopter parenting in the context of nursing.METHODS: Using Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis, we analyzed literature on helicopter parenting to discover critical attributes, antecedents, and consequences of this phenomenon. Data were collected from seven electronic search engines. Twelve studies matching inclusion criteria were reviewed RESULTS: Three core attributes of helicopter parenting were hovering, highly deep involvement, and proxy decision making. The antecedents and consequences were retrieved from three important domains including social, parent, and child aspects. Surrogate terms were black hawk, hummingbird, and hovercraft parenting, and related terms were stealth fighter and Kamikaze parenting.CONCLUSION: Based on the results of this study, helicopter parenting has both positive and negative effects on both children and parents. To enhance the positive effects, measurement tools for helicopter parenting and nursing interventions on parenting need to be developed.
Critical Thinking Disposition, Problem Solving Process, and Simulation-Based Assessment of Clinical Competence of Nursing Students in Pediatric Nursing.
Authors: Kim Sunghee , Nam Hyuna , Kim Miok
Published: November 2014

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the correlation of critical thinking disposition and problem solving process, and the simulation-based assessment of clinical competence based on a survey of college nursing students.METHODS: In this descriptive correlation study, data for 214 nursing students were analyzed using t-test and Pearson correlation coefficients.RESULTS: Critical thinking disposition, problem solving process, and simulation-based assessment of clinical competence averaged 3.76+/-0.46 (out of 5), 3.67+/-0.47 (5), and 1.51+/-0.17 (2), respectively. A significant difference in scores for simulation-based assessment of clinical competence was found between the high-scoring group and low-scoring group in critical thinking disposition. A significant positive correlation was found between critical thinking disposition and nursing assessment, a sub-domain of clinical competence.CONCLUSION: The results suggest that success in simulation-based learning requires critical thinking disposition in the nursing students, and their critical thinking disposition plays a positive role in nursing assessment, which evaluates the patient's status in a complex situation. Simulation-based learning programs help assess the students' levels in their clinical judgement and performance, and identify their strengths and weaknesses so that the instructor can evaluate and improve the current teaching method.
Nursery Teachers' Knowledge, Attitude and Performance Ability in CardioPulmonary Resuscitation.
Authors: Yang Yun Jeong , Kwon In Soo
Published: November 2014

PURPOSE: This study was done to identify the level of knowledge, attitude and performance ability in CardioPulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and provided data for the development of an education program to improve CPR performance ability of nursery teachers.METHODS: The participants were 220 nursery teachers working in daycare centers in A city located in G province. Data were collected during July, 2013.RESULTS: The mean scores were 45.88 of 100 for knowledge, 3.69 of 5 for attitude, 2.65 of 5 for performance ability.There were significant differences in knowledge and performance ability according to education experience. There were positive correlations between knowledge and performance ability, and between attitude and performance ability.Factors affecting CPR performance ability were knowledge (beta=.133), attitude (beta=.327), and education in CPR (beta=.343). These factors explained 29.4% of the variance in CPR performance ability.CONCLUSION: Results indicate that nursery teachers' knowledge, attitude and CPR performance ability were not sufficient enough to perform accurate CPR in an emergency.Therefore, to improve performance ability of nursery teachers to carry out CPR in a cardiac arrest emergency of a child, educational strategies that focus on increasing knowledge and attitude need to be developed.
Concept Analysis of Developmental Care for Preterm Infants: Hybrid Model.
Authors: Kim Jeongsoon , Shin Heesun
Published: November 2014

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to define and clarify the concept of developmental care for preterm infants.METHODS: The hybrid model method was used to identify the main attributes and indicators. In the field work stage, data were collected in Seoul and Cheonan, Korea. The participants were 5 nurses working in the NICU.RESULTS: The concept of developmental care was found to have six attributes and ten indicators in 2 dimensions. For the nursing practice dimension, four attributes were derived.They were being like intrauterine state, individualization, interaction, and integrative care with awareness of development. For the family centeredness dimension, supporting parental attachment and professional alliance were attributes of developmental care.CONCLUSION: Developmental focused care can facilitate the identification of behavioral responses of newborns and provide individualized interventions for fostering growth and development. This concept analysis could provide guidelines for "developmental care" nursing practice and be useful for research in the neonatal field.
Graffiti Beijing
Authors: Cornell Christen
Published: November 2014

I find it difficult to identify the first moments of my encounter with China, the crucial point at which I made, succumbed or arbitrarily happened upon the decision to study this culture and its official, national language of Mandarin. That moment a product of the last, delivered from the one preceding. I can’t get a hold of the one loose end with which this story commenced, the original beginning from which this particular hybridity was formed. There must have been a day when I ticked a box to enrol to study Chinese, a day that I finally decided against other options, but unable now to identify this moment, I can’t help querying just how significant it could have been. My memories of China the idea, or story, extend to the vanishing point of earliest childhood, through celestial stereotypes in storybooks, through the smell of incense in Chinatown, through stories of ‘The Orient ... almost a European invention’, culminating in a myriad of stimuli.
Voicing a (Virtual) Postcolonial Ethnography
Authors: Galliford Mark
Published: November 2014

A review of Frank Gurrmanamana, Les Hiatt and Kim McKenzie with Betty Ngurraban-Gurraba, Betty Meehan and Rhys Jones's People of the Rivermouth: The Joborr Texts of Frank Gurrmanamana (National Museum of Australia and Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2002).The concept of postcolonialism, and an Australian postcolonial literature specifically, is fraught with problems. The least of these is the reality of this country not yet being fully free from its British colonial inheritance, let alone from ongoing internal colonialism. Even so, postcolonialism is still a useful term to define a body of (particularly Indigenous) literature produced over the last thirty years. Keeping the irony in mind, Australia’s virtual postcolonial literature has been gaining increasing prominence, providing fertile ground for the political promise that one day may be realised as a state of actual Australian postcoloniality of sorts. In the meantime, the postcolonial movement desired and reinforced by the literature continues to gather momentum. People of the Rivermouth, a recent addition to the Australian anthropological corpus, initiates what looks like a promising future for postcolonial ethnographies; yet it too has some problems. While the book claims that it is ‘arguably the most comprehensive work ever produced on a single Australian Aboriginal group’, in effect presenting itself as an ethnography of the highest order, the main component of the work—the Joborr texts—are, I believe, somewhat more aligned to what Eric Michaels once described as ‘para-ethnography’: a story that transcends itself into a kind of incidental ethnography.
The Ethics of Embodiment
Authors: Ross Alison
Published: November 2014

A review of Rosalyn Diprose's Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas (SUNY Press, Albany, New York. 2002).
Love at Last Sight: Port Arthur and the Afterlife of Trauma
Authors: Tumarkin Maria
Published: November 2014

We all know so many words by now—genocide, death, slaughter, horror, unthinkable loss, limits of human depravity ... For all their unsettling qualities, their ability to wound and provoke, these words are deeply familiar, part of the language we have come to speak. Yet in the world of material objects and sites marked by violence and loss, there exist things and places, which, as Kyo Maclear once wrote, ‘have irretrievable counterparts in those experiences for which no records whatsoever exist, those losses precluded from thought or direct remembrance’. Broad Arrow cafe was my entry point into the world where the events of 28 April 1996 and their extended aftermath existed in forms radically separate from the words and opinions, from the pained and waning recollections, of the day.
The Crypt, the Haunted House, of Cinema
Authors: Cholodenko Alan
Published: November 2014

As we know, it is a cliché that what we see on the screen is ghosts, phantoms, spectres. What I propose in this essay is that that cliché be taken seriously—do I dare say it, ‘deadly’ seriously—be given rigorous analytic attention for its relevance to the thinking of cinema and its senses, while at the same time acknowledging that even the finest account must come face to face with the ‘fact’ that there is no ghostbuster, not even the analyst/theorist of cinema, not even the Marxist analyst/theorist of cinema, so powerful as to master, defeat and eradicate the spectre of cinema. It is a key premise of this essay that not only is the spectre a privileged subject of film but that it would be the ur figure of cinema, if cinema could have an ur figure, if the spectre could be an ur figure, a figure not only operating at every second at every level in every aspect of every film but also at the level of the cinematic, or rather animatic, apparatus of film, hence at the level of film ‘as such’.
PragueTM
Authors: Harris Julian
Published: November 2014

Vaclav meditates on the history of socialism versus that of facism.
Who's Upsetting Who? Strangeness, Morality, Nostalgia, Pleasure
Authors: Cowlishaw Gillian
Published: November 2014

What is the relationship between negative sentiments towards different kinds of people and the actual difficulties posed by people with different habits and practices living close by one another? Such difficulties are a space of fear and silence because, in this multicultural postmodernworld, we are supposed to celebrate difference in all its manifestations. It is this orthodoxy I want to examine. Let me first note that difficult differences of social practices and preferences are experienced within cultural or racial groups, even within families, as those with teenaged children may be the first to admit. As an anthropologist I begin by taking up a cultural studies practice, turning the analytic eye onto ourselves. Where better to begin than at the dinner party, that quintessential ceremony of white middle-class urban social life, and as good a place as any to glimpse the role played by Aborigines in our tribe’s imagination.
Useless History
Authors: Schlunke Katrina
Published: November 2014

If you think you can know the body of history by simply reading it as a discrete entity, an independent body that can be walked around, wholly mapped, wholly disciplined, then you will never feel its breath. If you are here and the body is there, then you cannot think about the way in which that body continues its own minute motions, has its own momentum. Heart rate slowing, blood vessels pushing, pushing, pushing, against a loss of fluid and those labouring lungs flooded with the hope of final rest. How will these small changes tell their emerging stories? Neither long enough nor lived enough to be generational, these transformations cannot be told as history. They are the folds of the past from which new words emerge.
Queer Call for the Glocal Comparative
Authors: Chu Wei-Cheng Raymond
Published: November 2014

A review of Chris Berry, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue's Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia (Duke University Press, Durham, 2003).
Race, Colonialism and Vegetative Life
Authors: Hughes Rachel
Published: November 2014

A review of Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek and Anand Pandian's (Eds) Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference (Duke University Press, Durham, 2003).
Chedi Gong
Authors: Leggett Andrew
Published: November 2014

Poetry.
Too Black, Too Gay: The Disco Inferno
Authors: Williams Paul
Published: November 2014

A review of Tim Lawrence's Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture (Duke University Press, Durham NC, 2003).
Whose Ethics?
Authors: McKee Alan
Published: November 2014

A review of Catharine Lumby and Elspeth Probyn's (Eds) Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics (Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2003).
What does Cognitariat Mean? Work, Desire and Depression
Authors: Berardi Franco
Published: November 2014

In order to understand the meaning of the notions of cognitive labour and cognitariat, it is necessary to analyse not only the transformations that have taken place in the work process but also what is happening in the psychic and desiring dimension of post-industrial society. What is at stake in the social definition of cognitive labour is the body, sexuality, perishable physicality and the unconscious. Cognitariat is the social corporeality of cognitive labour. But the social existence of cognitive workers cannot be reduced to intelligence: in their existential concreteness, the cognitarians are also body, in other words nerves that stiffen in the constant strain of attention, eyes that get tired staring at a screen. Collective intelligence neither reduces nor resolves the social existence of the bodies that produce this intelligence, the concrete bodies of the male and female cognitarians.
Where is the Law in ‘Unlawful Combatant’?: Resisting the Refrain of the Right-eous
Authors: Gregg Melissa , Fuller Glen
Published: November 2014

The rhythms of war and popular culture intermingle, amplify each other and become expressive. At the leading edge of the US military’s war machine assemblage, as the nation of Iraq is deterritorialised from the despotic signifier ‘Saddam Hussein’, the soldiers’ music consolidates a milieu of the battlefield. It also consolidates a space-time of the here-now with something less horrific. The popular music refrain produces a home away from home. In their patriotism, many of these singer–soldiers see a religious act. When someone is saying ‘God is on our side’ they are no longer talking about the nation-based context for which, whatever the rules of war might be, such rules are relevant. They’re talking about a Holy War. It has different rules. How to hold them to any actual account is the difficulty we seek to explore here.
Theorising the Private Sphere
Authors: Goodall Peter
Published: November 2014

A review of Privacies: Philosophical Evaluations, edited by Beate Rössler (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004).
Passage Work
Authors: Falconer Delia
Published: November 2014

A review of Martin Thomas's The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2003).
The Lure of Independence
Authors: Stockwell Stephen
Published: November 2014

A review of Brian Costar and Jennifer Curtin's Rebels with a Cause: Independents in Australian Politics (University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2004).
Rhythm and the Performative Power of the Index: Lessons from Kathleen Petyarre's Paintings
Authors: Bolt Barbara
Published: November 2014

Is it possible to find an ethical and generative way to speak about the ‘work’ of Indigenous art? Regardless of what prohibitions exist to protect sacred knowledge from the gaze of Western eyes, Indigenous work is circulating; it is being read, misread, interpreted, misinterpreted and otherwise known. How can a non-Indigenous person ‘speak’ about Indigenous art without reducing it to the diagram, collapsing it into Western modes of knowing, or intruding into the domain of restricted cultural information? Given the lessons of the Indigenous cultural practices, I propose that the work of art is performative and not merely representational. Through attention to the operation of rhythm in Kathleen Petyarre’s paintings, I propose to reconfigure contemporary understandings of performativity. In this formulation I will argue that in the dynamic productivity of the performative act, the world intrudes into practice, and in a double movement, practice casts its effects back towards the world. In this way I suggest that just as life gets into images, so imaging also produces reality. This mutual reflection is the work of art.
Hack the System!
Authors: Dieter Michael
Published: November 2014

A review of McKenzie Wark's A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2005).
Driving Cultures: Cars, Young People and Cultural Research
Authors: Redshaw Sarah
Published: November 2014

This article describes the Driving Cultures research, the cultural importance of the car and the psychological approaches central to research in the field of road safety and investigations of the over–representation of young people in crashes. The aim of the article is to outline driving as a cultural practice drawing on the experiences of young people as described in focus groups in order to show how cultural research can contribute to a social concern such as traffic injury and death.
The Mask of Aging: Doing Cultural Research for a ‘Social Problem’
Authors: Luk Kit-Ling
Published: November 2014

Debates about ‘social problems’ routinely raise questions: is the problem widespread?; how many people, and which people, does it affect?; is it getting worse?; what does it cost society?; what will it cost to deal with it? Convincing answers to such questions demand evidence, and that usually means numbers, measurements, statistics.  However,  the same group of statistics can be ‘manipulated’ by different sectors, including activists as well as policy makers. In this article the author explores was the way in which the impact of statistical dominance in social research was relayed by media coverage and also by social activists and policy makers.
Editorial
Authors: Frow John , Schlunke Katrina
Published: November 2014

Editorial by John Frow and Katrina Schlunke.
Masculinity in Crisis: The Uncanny Male Monster
Authors: Allmark Panizza
Published: November 2014

A review of Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2005).
Action and Transnational Cinema
Authors: Smith Richard
Published: November 2014

A review of Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu (eds), Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2005).
The Kingsbury Tales
Authors: Yu Ouyang
Published: November 2014

Several poems by Ouyang Yu: 'The Kingsbury Tales: For Once, They Get It Right'; 'he Kingsbury Tales: Cold Place'; 'The Kingsbury Tales: The Artist's Tale'.
Writing, with, T/error And Calling on the Body of an Artist
Authors: McDonald Lisa
Published: November 2014

This article considers the relationship between art and sciences, particularly through cultural research in science. It offers information on the science of cellular regeneration and its conflict with humanities. The author explores the possibility of science that leads to a passion for creating a new possibility and not towards the sense of power which comes with discovery.
The Micropolitics of Slow Living
Authors: O'Brien Susie
Published: November 2014

A review of Wendy Parkins and Geoffrey Craig, Slow Living (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006).
But Is It History?
Authors: Neumann Klaus
Published: November 2014

Histories: narratives written by historians.Historians: academically trained specialists researching, and writing about, the past.The discipline of history:a set of conventions about the formats in which histories may be presented. Historians, however, do not seem to be prominently represented among those experimenting with new formats, probing the limits of traditional genres or rethinking the relationship between the past and its rendering as history. This may be because historians are comfortable with a particular set of conventions and confident about their usefulness, or because they feel threatened by the idea that the distinction between proper and improper histories is arbitrary. This article argues for a challenge to the historical discipline from within, and for a fruitful dialogue between various groups of specialists competent in making histories out of the past.
Captain Cook Chased a Chook
Authors: Schlunke Katrina
Published: November 2014

How can we write the contemporary 'histories' of Captain Cook when they include such textual and material diversity? When that diversity ranges from children's rhymes to convenience stores as well as journals now claimed as iconic documents of the enlightenment? How might the insights of Bruno Latour into how the 'experimental' is produced in the laboratory be helpful in showing how Cook is produced in a settler culture? How does revealing the 'experimental' (the material and textual ethnography) of history show us new ways of 'doing' history that engages with its textual as well as its material diversity.
The Pitfalls of Picturing Atlantic Slavery: Steven Spielberg’s Amistad vs Guy Deslauriers’s The Middle Passage
Authors: Eckstein Lars
Published: November 2014

The task of remembering the transatlantic slave trade poses a particular challenge to historians and artists alike. Not only does it revolve around an emotionally and ideologically loaded issue, there is also rather little documentary and testimonial evidence to draw upon, particularly so regarding the Africans’ view of the trade. To make things worse, the most important and often quoted source – the second chapter of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative (1789) dealing partly with life in the belly of a slave ship – has recently been uncovered to be probably ‘fictional’ rather than based on personal experience.  On the one hand, the arts are particularly called for in this situation to fill the documentary gaps and silences through acts of experiment and imagination, and they may indeed have a redemptive effect by offering, in Hayden White’s terms, successful ‘emplotments’ of a traumatic past. One the other hand, this redemptive potential simultaneously poses a serious ethical challenge: As Theodor W. Adorno has warned with reference to the Holocaust, it is precisely by making ‘sense’ of human suffering, and by making accessible to the ‘senses’ what is utterly senseless and incomprehensible, that injustice may be done to the victims. In this paper, I will try to illustrate this problematic by looking at two recent films that have attempted to represent the horrors of the middle passage – Steven Spielberg’s canonical Amistad (a terrible failure, in my view), and Guy Deslauriers’ film The Middle Passage [Passage du Milieu]. Based on a script by the Martiniquean novelist and poet Patrick Chamoiseau, the latter example uses an aesthetic approach which may point at a way out of the dilemma outlined above.