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New Age Spirituality and the Integrity of Christian Education and Youth Ministry
Authors: Wright Andrew
Published: May 2015

THE AGENDA OF Christian education and youth ministry has been dominated in recent years by a concern to relate the Gospel across cultural boundaries. Such a relational hermeneutic needs to be supplemented with a hermeneutic of resistance in situations in which the culture of those to whom the Gospel message is addressed is incompatible with the integrity of Christian faith. Contemporary dance culture is identified as just such a context. Its post-modern and new-age credentials may be traced back via romanticism to traditions of esoteric gnosticism fundamentally opposed to the Christian understanding of reality. This is especially the case in its rejection of meta-narrative, reliance on the immediacy of experiential sensibility, and failure to achieve an adequate anthropology of being-in-relationship. However, the possibility of a Christian hermeneutic of resistance is undermined by a failure of the church to holdfast to an adequate Christian stance in these areas.
Citizenship Education and Religious Literacy
Authors: Hookway Susanna
Published: May 2015

CONSENSUS IS INADEQUATE as a basis for values in the framework for Citizenship Education in Secondary Schools in England. In contrast, Religious Education has a distinctive contribution to make through giving students an informed vision based on religious literacy. This is discussed with reference to ‘capital letter words’ which are invested with meaning by coherent world-views. RE gives pupils points of reference beyond consensus, enabling them to understand both their own and other world-views, equipping and motivating them to live as effective citizens. The Warwick Project and the Stapleford Project are evaluated as examples of this contribution.
Finding the Gods in Public School: A Christian Deconstruction of Character Education
Authors: Glanzer Perry L.
Published: May 2015

MORAL EDUCATION IN American public schools is inextricably intertwined with and influenced by various religious and secular narratives. Character education is a prime example. Although it attempts to find some shared virtues within a pluralistic society, a historical overview and a Christian deconstruction of the movement reveals the illusionary nature of this agreement. In reality, character education often smuggles particular narratives into public schools that are antagonistic to other religious or secular narratives. Recognition of this fact should lead educators to make serious adjustments in moral education within public schooling and in the structure of public schooling.
Pedagogy and the Christian Law of Love
Authors: Gregory Marshall
Published: May 2015

LOVE IS FOUNDATIONAL for all teachers, who need a version of love that evades sentimentality and yet respects its recipients, that challenges students and yet mediates toughness with charity. The law of love expressed in the Judeo-Christian tradition helps teachers critique empty forms of love at the same time that it helps them employ productive forms of love in the classroom. We can choose love only if we humble ourselves sufficiently to look through, rather than at, the tricky lens of pride and passion and see love residing out there, beyond ego. The proper love between teachers and students, the love that Jesus commands us to most fundamentally, is neither eros nor philia but agape, which underwrites all other loves. This love offers three distinct advantages to teacherly practice: it enables us to distance ourselves from the entanglements of personality; it offers us a way of understanding the kinds of challenges we extend to our students; and it gives us a way of positioning our teaching in relation to other professional goals and activities. Teachers who rely on the energy of pedagogical passion sometimes mistakenly think that because agape operates on principle rather than on personality, it must be either cold or uninterested in individual students. However, agapic teaching can indeed be passionate, but its passions derives from a vision of the ends of good teaching and an understanding of human nature – of both teacher and student – because it stems from religious convictions that can be matched with specific Christian doctrines.
A Catholic Perspective on Education
Authors: McLaughlin Terence H.
Published: May 2015

THIS ARTICLE SEEKS to identify some distinctive features of both the complex, multi-faceted and rich Catholic tradition of faith and life and Catholic perspectives on education. Among the many features of Catholic tradition identified, the notions of balance and balanced judgement are given particular attention. Distinctive features of Catholic perspectives on education cannot be read directly and straightforwardly off from the features of Catholic faith and life without reference to its actualization in particular societal contexts. In spite of this, it is possible to make tentative points of a more abstract and general nature For example, Catholic perspectives (i) embody a view about the meaning of human persons and human life, (ii) aspire to holistic influence and (iii) aim at specific religious and moral formation. Broad general points like these require balanced judgements on the part of professional teachers in order to avoid a danger which can be described as temptations of commonality and which arises in relation to the task of interpreting what Catholic education should be taken to mean and imply in a particular context.
Special Education as Reconciliation
Authors: Anderson David W.
Published: May 2015

This paper presents special education as a ministry of reconciliation designed to promote community and to recognize wholeness in the presence of disability. It is offered as part of an ongoing discussion of the need for an inclusive world view founded on Christian principles. Including the excluded –reaching out to those ignored or pushed away by society – was a characteristic of Jesus' ministry and must be a hallmark of Christian educators and churches. The hope is that the ideas expressed herein will foster collaborative efforts between general and special educators which lead to the creation of positive, caring classroom communities that value and promote unity and equality while also celebrating diversity. Christian teacher training programs must encourage and model an inclusive worldview in which individuals with disabilities are also recognized as God's image-bearers, and where there is acknowledgment of the abilities and gifts they bring to the classroom community.
The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Educational Thought and Practice of Charlotte Mason
Authors: Kaufmann Stephen
Published: May 2015

CHARLOTTE MASON WAS a late Victorian writer and educator whose work is currently enjoying renewed interest among Christian and home schools in several countries. She wrote at a time when many of the claims of faith were being challenged by the claims of science. She resolved these sometimes competing claims by appealing to the work of the Holy Spirit as the author of both faith and science. Furthermore, she based her innovative pedagogical views on the belief that children were spiritual beings capable of both intellectual and spiritual communication with the Holy Spirit.
A Search for Intellectual, Relational and Spiritual Integrity: Secondary Mathematics from a Christian Perspective
Authors: Gormas Jan
Published: May 2015

THE AUTHOR POSITIONS mathematics as a socially constructed discipline created and maintained through collaborative consensus. The focus on decontextualized symbolic manipulation has transformed the richness of contextualized mathematics from a tool to model aspects of creation to a scheme of logical algorithms that often hold no ultimate meaning for secondary teachers or students. The result is bondage to textbook explanations, exalting acquiescence and indifference. A Christian worldview points to liberation and new life, using mathematics to collaboratively uncover our perceptions, build new understandings, while investigating and exposing the structural beauty and purposes of God's creation and the directional misuses that have distorted our understandings and uses of mathematics.
Reconciliation, Constructivism, and Ecological Sustainability: A Review Essay
Authors: Van Brummelen Harro
Published: May 2015

THIS ARTICLE REVIEWS and explores the links between Chet Bowers' recent book on constructivist theories of learning and the paper by Gormas, Koole, and Vryhof on learning for reconciliation published in this journal (Spring 2006). The reviewer holds that Bowers' critique of constructivism has merit, but that his emphasis on eco-justice leaves gaps in both the foundations and practices of education. While the Biblical concept of reconciliation is more encompassing, the reviewer questions whether it can be the sole chief purpose of education and suggests that Christian educators need to develop a defensible comprehensive pedagogical framework.
Discovering a Theology for the Christian Teacher Today
Authors: Watkins Clare
Published: May 2015

THIS PAPER AIMS to offer a ‘liveable’ theology for the Christian teacher; that is, it seeks to articulate a theology of teaching in contemporary contexts which can serve the spiritual and faith development of Christian teachers in their vocation. A first section gives some brief account of ‘teaching’ in the Christian theological tradition, highlighting certain distinctive features of Christian teaching. In order better to read this tradition in our present contexts, a second section discusses the particular questions facing teaching in late modernity. In the light of what has gone before, a final part to the paper seeks to suggest ways forward for the development of a living theology for the Christian teacher. Here the theologies of baptism and lay vocation, of grace and of evangelization are drawn to the reader's attention as significant theological themes for Christian teaching today.
Vocational Exploration through Service: The Effect of Service-Learning on Student Understanding of God's Calling
Authors: Feenstra Jennifer S.
Published: May 2015

COLLEGE IS A TIME of exploration for students. College students who are Christian may also engage in exploration of God's call on their lives, a discernment of their vocation. One pedagogical technique that can help us help students explore vocation is service-learning. To better understand their vocation, students need to understand themselves andfit that with what the world needs (Buechner, 1992). Research on service-learning suggests that both identity and knowledge of the world are expanded through service-learning experiences.
In Search of Holy Transcripts: Approaches to Researching Religious Schools
Authors: Hastie David
Published: May 2015

I RAISE THE problem that religious effects on the education practices of Australian religious schooling have not been measured, despite many claims and the critical size of the sector. The paper seeks to suggest factors to be considered in shaping methodologies for researching this area. Identifying four ways that religious schooling has been perceived and studied, the paper suggests one of them as a way forward into research: the religious purpose/effect model. Nine distinct purposes are then identified and argued to be in dynamic tension with a further three factors: religion/culture interface ideologies, theology, and unattested non-religious ideologies. Research theory is then briefly explored, along with units of inquiry, problems with the use of secular language to describe religious activity, and the need for more explicit researcher-disclosure.
Knowing as Wisdom in Blomberg and Comenius
Authors: Smith David
Published: May 2015

Doug Blomberg's recent discussions of the biblical wisdom literature present wisdom as multidimensional, timed, relational, focused on connections, open-ended, trustful and playful. This paper surveys the use made of the idea of wisdom in the educational writings of John Amos Comenius. It is suggested that while there are inevitable differences in terms of philosophical framework, there are significant similarities between Comenius’ emphases and those evident in Blomberg's work.
Can Scholarship and Christian Conviction Mix? A New Look at the Integration of Knowledge
Authors: Wolterstorff Nicholas
Published: May 2015

THE PAST QUARTER century has witnessed two revolutions which have shattered the once regnant self-image of the academy. The first revolution has been that classical foundationalism has been found wanting and the actual practice of science has proved not to fit the self-image of ‘the logic of true science'. The second, and more important, revolution has been the repudiation of the self-image of learning as generically human. Learning in general, and science in particular, should be seen as a long-enduring social practice within which fundamental alterations are presently taking place. Those who engage in particularist perspectival learning must always face in two directions, engaging both in reflection with the members of their own communities and also in conversation with those who represent other perspectives. The Christian scholar is entitled to engage in the practice of learning as a Christian. This assumes an entanglement model of the relationship between Christianity and learning, wherein Christian control beliefs ought to function positively and negatively in the weighing of theories. Sometimes the revisions required to bring our faith and our learning into satisfactory equilibrium should go in the direction of revising something in what learning offers us, sometimes in the direction of revising something in our complex of Christian conviction. This does not mean abandoning our conviction that there is a Word of God from outside our existence, but rather recognising that it comes to us as fallen creatures.
The Relationship between Christian Commitment and Motivation to Study Religion at A-level: A Preliminary Investigation
Authors: Francis Leslie J , Fearn Michael , Astley Jeff , Wilcox Carolyn
Published: May 2015

A SAMPLE OF 304 A-level religious studies students completed the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity together with an index of motivations to study religion. The findings suggest that at A-level there is more interest in the religious studies approach than in the approach of theology. However, the students who are considering studying religion at degree level are much more likely to be motivated by faith-based considerations.
Descriptive Epidemiology of Musculoskeletal Injuries and Concussions in the National Football League, 2012-2014
Authors: Lawrence David W. , Hutchison Michael G. , Comper Paul
Published: May 2015

Background:

The risk of all-cause injury and concussion associated with football is significant. The National Football League (NFL) has implemented changes to increase player safety warranting investigation into the incidence and patterns of injury.

Purpose:

To document the incidence and patterns of all-cause injury and concussions in the NFL.

Study Design:

Descriptive epidemiology study.

Methods:

Injury data were collected prospectively from official NFL injury reports over 2 regular seasons from 2012 to 2014, with identification of injury incidence rates and patterns. Concussion rate ratios were calculated using previously reported NFL rates.

Results:

A total of 4284 injuries were identified, including 301 concussions. The all-cause injury rate was 395.8 per 1000 athletes at risk (AAR) and concussion incidence was 27.8 per 1000 AAR. Only 2.3% of team games were injury free. Wide receivers, tight ends, and defensive backs had the highest incidence of injury and concussion. Concussion incidence was 1.61-fold higher in 2012 to 2014 compared with 2002 to 2007. The knee was injured most frequently, followed by the ankle, hamstring, shoulder, and head.

Conclusion:

The incidence of all-cause injury and concussion in the NFL is significant. Concussion injury rates are higher than previous reports, potentially reflecting an improvement in recognition and awareness. Injury prevention efforts should continue to reduce the prevalence of injury associated with football.
‘Plenitude of the Singular: Draupadi in Literature and Life’
Authors: Verma Benu
Published: May 2015

‘Draupadi's disrobing’ as a motif in the Sanskrit Mahabharata has been dealt with in a subjunctive mood of storytelling by Vyasa. This enables the appropriation of the episode by many literary authors who have deployed the figure of Draupadi through the popular theme of her disrobing, to express the socio-political concerns of their times. Through the many ‘sideshadows’ of Draupadi, thus constructed in the literary space in varied genres, she has traversed the realms of the divine, the mortal and the mythic. Through her differential treatment suiting the contexts of her authors, she has been able to go beyond her mythic and literary renderings and evoke a political agency of the mortal woman via her reclamation of her body. Analysed in this article through the genres of novel, short story and a poem are Draupadi's literary interpretations in the colonial and post-colonial times. Through an understanding of Jung's archetypal feminine, Draupadi has been depicted as a mould which has been filled in and redecorated as per her times and contexts for the literature.
Selective aggregation of PAMAM dendrimer nanocarriers and PAMAM/ZnPc nanodrugs on human atheromatous carotid tissues: a photodynamic therapy for atherosclerosis
Authors: Spyropoulos-Antonakakis Nikolaos , Sarantopoulou Evangelia , Trohopoulos Panagiotis N , Stefi Aikaterina L , Kollia Zoe , Gavriil Vassilios E , Bourkoula Athanasia , Petrou Panagiota S , Kakabakos Sotirios , Semashko Vadim V , Nizamutdinov Alexey S , Cefalas Alkiviadis-Constantinos
Published: May 2015

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) involves the action of photons on photosensitive molecules, where atomic oxygen or OH− molecular species are locally released on pathogenic human cells, which are mainly carcinogenic, thus causing cell necrosis. The efficacy of PDT depends on the local nanothermodynamic conditions near the cell/nanodrug system that control both the level of intracellular translocation of nanoparticles in the pathogenic cell and their agglomeration on the cell membrane. Dendrimers are considered one of the most effective and promising drug carriers because of their relatively low toxicity and negligible activation of complementary reactions. Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrite delivery of PDT agents has been investigated in the last few years for tumour selectivity, retention, pharmacokinetics and water solubility. Nevertheless, their use as drug carriers of photosensitizing molecules in PDT for cardiovascular disease, targeting the selective necrosis of macrophage cells responsible for atheromatous plaque growth, has never been investigated. Furthermore, the level of aggregation, translocation and nanodrug delivery efficacy of PAMAM dendrimers or PAMAM/zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) conjugates on human atheromatous tissue and endothelial cells is still unknown.

In this work, the aggregation of PAMAM zero generation dendrimers (G0) acting as drug delivery carriers, as well as conjugated G0 PAMAM dendrimers with a ZnPc photosensitizer, to symptomatic and asymptomatic human carotid tissues was investigated by using atomic force microscopy (AFM). For the evaluation of the texture characteristics of the AFM images, statistical surface morphological and fractal analytical methodologies and Minkowski functionals were used. All statistical quantities showed that the deposition of nanodrug carriers on healthy tissue has an inverse impact when comparing to the deposition on atheromatous tissue with different aggregation features between G0 and G0/ZnPc nanoparticles and with considerably larger G0/ZnPc aggregations on the atheromatous plaque. The results highlight the importance of using PAMAM dendrimer carriers as a novel and promising PDT platform for atherosclerosis therapies.
Precursor cells from Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) visceral fat holds the plasticity to differentiate into the osteogenic lineage
Authors: Ytteborg Elisabeth , Todorcevic Marijana , Krasnov Aleksei , Takle Harald , Kristiansen Inger Øien , Ruyter Bente
Published: May 2015

In order to study the potential plasticity of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) precursor cells (aSPCs) from the adipogenic mesenchyme cell lineage to differentiate to the osteogenic lineage, aSPCs were isolated and cultivated under either osteogenic or adipogenic promoting conditions. The results strengthen the hypothesis that aSPCs most likely are predestined to the adipogenic lineage, but they also hold the flexibility to turn into other lineages given the right stimuli. This assumption is supported by the fact that the transcription factor pparγ , important for regulation of adiopogenesis, was silent in aSPCs grown in osteogenic media, while runx2, important for osteogenic differentiation, was not expressed in aSPCs cultivated in adipogenic media. After 2 weeks in osteogenic promoting conditions the cells started to deposit extracellular matrix and after 4 weeks, the cells started mineralizing secreted matrix. Microarray analyses revealed large-scale transcriptome responses to osteogenic medium after 2 days, changes remained stable at day 15 and decreased by magnitude at day 30. Induction was observed in many genes involved in osteogenic differentiation, growth factors, regulators of development, transporters and production of extracellular matrix. Transcriptome profile in differentiating adipocytes was markedly different from differentiating osteoblasts with far fewer genes changing activity. The number of regulated genes slowly increased at the mature stage, when adipocytes increased in size and accumulated lipids. This is the first report on in vitro differentiation of aSPCs from Atlantic salmon to mineralizing osteogenic cells. This cell model system provides a new valuable tool for studying osteoblastogenesis in fish.
Behavioral and mechanical determinants of collective subsurface nest excavation
Authors: Monaenkova Daria , Gravish Nick , Rodriguez Greggory , Kutner Rachel , Goodisman Michael A. D. , Goldman Daniel I.
Published: May 2015

Collective construction of topologically complex structures is one of the triumphs of social behavior. For example, many ant species construct underground nests composed of networks of tunnels and chambers. Excavation by these ‘superorganisms’ depends on the biomechanics of substrate manipulation, the interaction of individuals, and media stability and cohesiveness. To discover principles of robust social excavation, we used X-ray computed tomography to monitor the growth in three dimensions of nests built by groups of fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) in laboratory substrates composed of silica particles, manipulating two substrate properties: particle size and gravimetric moisture content. Ants were capable of nest construction in all substrates tested other than completely dry or fully saturated; for a given particle size, nest volume was relatively insensitive to moisture content. Tunnels were deepest at intermediate moisture content and the maximum tunnel depth correlated with measured yield force on small rod-shaped intruders (a proxy for cohesive strength). This implies that increased cohesive strength allowed creation of tunnels that were resistant to perturbation but did not decrease individual excavation ability. Ants used two distinct behaviors to create pellets composed of wetted particles, depending on substrate composition. However, despite the ability to create larger stable pellets in more cohesive substrates, pellet sizes were similar across all conditions. We posit that this pellet size balances the individual's load-carrying ability with the need to carry this pellet through confined crowded tunnels. We conclude that effective excavation of similarly shaped nests can occur in a diversity of substrates through sophisticated digging behaviors by individuals which accommodate both differing substrate properties and the need to work within the collective.
Interruption to cutaneous gas exchange is not a likely mechanism of WNS-associated death in bats
Authors: Carey Charleve S. , Boyles Justin G.
Published: May 2015

Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) is the causative fungal agent of white-nose syndrome (WNS), an emerging fungal-borne epizootic. WNS is responsible for a catastrophic decline of hibernating bats in North America, yet we have limited understanding of the physiological interactions between pathogen and host. Pd severely damages wings and tail membranes, by causing dryness that leads to whole sections crumbling off. Four possible mechanisms have been proposed by which infection could lead to dehydration; in this study, we tested one: Pd infection could cause disruption to passive gas-exchange pathways across the wing membranes, thereby causing a compensatory increase in water-intensive pulmonary respiration. We hypothesized total evaporative water loss would be greater when passive gas exchange was inhibited. We found bats did not lose more water when passive pathways were blocked. This study provides evidence against the proposed proximal mechanism that disruption to passive gas exchange causes dehydration and death to WNS-infected bats.
No response to linear polarization cues in operant conditioning experiments with zebra finches
Authors: Melgar Julian , Lind Olle , Muheim Rachel
Published: May 2015

Many animals can use the polarization of light in various behavioural contexts. Birds are well known to use information from the skylight polarization pattern for orientation and compass calibration. Still, there are few controlled studies of polarization vision in birds, and the majority of them have not been successful in convincingly demonstrating polarization vision. We used a two-alternative forced choice conditioning approach to assess linear polarization vision in male zebra finches in the “visible” spectral range (wavelengths>400 nm). The birds were trained to discriminate colour, brightness, and polarization stimuli presented on either one of two LCD-screens. All birds were able to discriminate the colour and brightness stimuli, but they were unable to discriminate the polarization stimuli. Our results suggest that in the behavioural context studied here, zebra finches are not able to discriminate polarized light stimuli.
The true identity of Serapias nitida, a species of Buchtienia (Orchidaceae) from Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Authors: de Fraga Claudio N. , Meneguzzo Thiago E.C. , Saddi Eduardo M.
Published: May 2015

Serapias nitida is a name whose taxonomic identity has been considered to be in doubt. Here we show that S. nitida can be linked to a species of the genus Buchtienia. We propose the new combination Buchtienia nitida and put a recently described species into synonymy.
“Sky islands” in the eastern U.S.A.? — Strong phylogenetic structure in the Heuchera parviflora group (Saxifragaceae)
Authors: Folk Ryan A. , Freudenstein John V.
Published: May 2015

Lineage delimitation using multiple sources of data has received renewed emphasis owing to the new possibilities offered by multi–locus datasets and model–based analyses. Species complexes displaying interrupted sky island–like distributions may be especially under–assessed by current taxonomies, warranting reexamination with new data and methodologies. We present a molecular and morphological study of the discontinuously distributed Heuchera parviflora complex (Saxifragaceae), with the aim of identifying genetic lineages that correlate with geography and morphology and may be worthy of taxonomic recognition in this contentious group. Concatenated analyses of the molecular data suggest four genetic lineages that are allopatric or (in one case) parapatric and correlate with major physiographic provinces. These lineages also correlate with morphological differentiation in the group and suggest taxonomically useful morphological characters. Independent, confirmatory coalescent approaches strongly support the four lineages identified by concatenation. However, morphological differentiation, though involving multiple characters, is relatively weak between two of the identified lineages. For this reason, in contrast with most coalescent studies we advocate the use of both specific and varietal rank, recognizing in total three species, one with two varieties.
Integrative taxonomy of Lepidolejeunea (Jungermanniopsida: Porellales): Ocelli allow the recognition of two neglected species
Authors: Heinrichs Jochen , Feldberg Kathrin , Bechteler Julia , Scheben Armin , Czumaj Aleksandra , Pócs Tamás , Schneider Harald , Schäfer-Verwimp Alfons
Published: May 2015

Lepidolejeunea is a largely epiphytic, pantropical genus of leafy liverworts. While the phylogenetic position of Lepidolejeunea has been the subject of recent molecular investigations, the relationships within this genus have been little studied. We employed sequences of two chloroplast regions (trnL–trnF, rbcL) and the nuclear ribosomal ITS region from 32 accessions of Lepidolejeunea to reconstruct its phylogeny. Two accessions of Rectolejeunea were used as outgroup. Maximum parsimony and likelihood analyses indicate that the diversity of Lepidolejeunea is underestimated by current morphological classification, and that Lepidolejeunea involuta consists of two independent entities, Lepidolejeunea involuta s.str. and Lepidolejeunea cuspidata comb. nov. Despite being treated as synonymous in earlier studies, both species nest in different main clades of Lepidolejeunea. Lepidolejeunea involuta belongs to L. subg. Kingiolejeunea which includes species with ocelli of the same size as the surrounding leaf cells. Lepidolejeunea cuspidata instead belongs to the recircumscribed L. subg. Perilejeunea which includes species having ocelli of at least partly smaller size than the surrounding leaf cells. Lepidolejeunea auriculata is introduced as a new species based on molecular and morphological evidence. Our results highlight the need for integrative taxonomic studies to clarify the status of many binomials within Lejeuneaceae. They also suggest that as integrative approaches are applied across liverworts estimates of global diversity will be revised upwards.
How Point-of-Sale Marketing Mix Impacts National-Brand Purchase Shares
Authors: Hwang Minha , Thomadsen Raphael
Published: May 2015

Purchase shares of major national brands in consumer packaged-goods industries vary substantially across stores, both between geographic markets and across stores within markets. We measure the relationship between the variation in national-brand purchase shares and five store-specific marketing mix factors: prices, assortment shares, features, displays, and promotion intensity. We do this by first demonstrating the extent to which purchase shares of the top two national brands across six different categories vary across markets, accounts (defined as chain–market interactions) and stores: market-level variation accounts for approximately 30% of the weekly purchase share variation across stores, whereas account-level and store-level variation explain an additional 13% and 5% of the variation, respectively. We then measure the extent to which assortment, pricing, feature, display, and promotion activities affect the purchase shares of the top national brands. We find that price and assortment share are the two most important point-of-sale factors in determining a brand’s purchase share. We also examine how the proximity to a brand’s city of origin, the assortment share of a store’s private label, the extent of retail competition, and the demographics of the store’s neighborhood affect the purchase share’s sensitivity to the point-of-sale marketing mix, revealing several subtle effects. Finally, we measure the extent to which the variation in top national-brand purchase shares is explained by these five factors. We find that, on average, approximately 56% of the variation in national-brand purchase shares can be attributed to these five factors. These results demonstrate the potential importance of trade marketing on a brand’s purchase shares.

This paper was accepted by J. Miguel Villas-Boas, marketing.
Hearing the voice of the person with dementia
Authors: Nazarko Linda
Published: May 2015

Every person relies on their ability to communication. The ability to communicate enables a person to let others know who they are, what their values are and to express their needs and aspirations. Dementia affects the ability to communicate and this inability to communicate can lead to a loss of identity and can affect a person's quality of life ( Shadden, 2005 ).

Hearing the voice of the person with dementia enriches the person's life and enables caregivers to provide the best possible quality of care.
Common problems with ‘the gap’
Authors: Sobel Daniel
Published: May 2015

What are the most common ‘narrowing the gap’ problems in secondary schools and what are some of the solutions that prove effective? Daniel Sobel takes a look
Flora da Bahia: Lacistemataceae
Authors: Marinho Lucas Cardoso , Amorim André Márcio
Published: May 2015

A floristic survey of the Lacistemataceae in Bahia, Brazil, is presented as a contribution to the study of the flora in the state. Three species of the genus Lacistema are recognized: L. grandifolium, L. lucidum and L. robustum. Lacistema grandifolium has its distribution in southern Bahia confirmed and L. lucidum is reported for the first time to Northeast Brazil, based on specimens from the Chapada Diamantina. Descriptions, illustrations, distribution maps and general notes on the taxa are provided.
Flora of Bahia: Haloragaceae
Authors: Aona-Pinheiro Lidyanne Yuriko Saleme , Costa Grênivel Mota da
Published: May 2015

A floristic survey of the Haloragaceae in Bahia, Brazil, is presented as a contribution to the study of the flora in the state. Two species, Laurembergia tetrandra and Myriophyllum aquaticum, are recognized. Descriptions, illustrations, and general notes on the taxa are presented.
Die Ordnung der Sinne
Authors: Treutler Michael
Published: May 2015

Wirtschaftliche Vorgänge verknüpfen sich in heutigen Gesellschaften immer enger mit medialen Prozessen. »Die Ordnung der Sinne« geht diesen Verbindungen nach, indem die zentrale Figur ökonomischen Denkens, der »homo oeconomicus«, mit der Technologie, Struktur und Wahrnehmung seines medialen Handlungsumfeldes konfrontiert wird. Ausgehend von den anthropologischen Medientheorien Marshall McLuhans werden Überschneidungen ökonomischen und medientheoretischen Wissens dargestellt. Die vielfältigen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Medien und ökonomischem Handeln werden systematisiert und somit die Grenzen der Disziplin der »Medienökonomie« neu vermessen.
Das chinesische Fernsehpublikum
Authors: Kramer Stefan
Published: May 2015

Seit den 1990er Jahren ist das Fernsehen in der Volksrepublik China mit seinen 1,3 Milliarden Nutzern unangefochten das wichtigste Medium der Kommunikation von Wissen und Bedeutung. Als importierte Kulturtechnik mit transnational gültigen Anordnungsstrukturen hat es die Bedingungen der Welt- und Selbstwahrnehmung chinesischer Medienteilnehmer neu definiert. Dabei ist es allerdings nicht - wie häufig angenommen - zu einem Verlust nationaler und lokaler Identität gekommen. Vielmehr hat sich das Fernsehdispositiv auf vielfältige Weise mit den vormodernen Anordnungen von Kultur in China verknüpft und einen neuen, dynamischen Raum des Eigenen begründet. Anknüpfend an seine Publikation »Vom Eigenen und Fremden« analysiert der Autor in diskurshistorischen Untersuchungen und empirischen Fallstudien den entscheidenden Teilnehmer an jedem medialen Prozess der Bildung von Wissen und Bedeutung in China: das chinesische Fernsehpublikum.
Chiasmen
Authors: Pechriggl Alice
Published: May 2015

»Chiasmen« ist ein Buch zu Platon, Sappho und Aristoteles. Das Chiasma, die diagonale Überkreuzung zweier Gegensatzpaare, hat sich als der methodologisch beste Schlüssel für deren Bearbeitung erwiesen - ein Schlüssel, der vor allem am Leib-Seele-Problem sowie an der Geschlechterfrage im Kontext der antiken Polis erprobt wurde. Dieser Schlüssel hebelt die alteingesessenen Dogmen umso besser aus, als er in den antiken Werken selbst zu finden ist. Das Chiasma legt ebenso die surreale Komik Platons inmitten seiner einfallsreichen Begriffssystematik frei, wie es die genial poetischen Philosopheme Sapphos zu erschließen hilft.
Postkoloniale Traditionen
Authors: Münster Daniel
Published: May 2015

»Postkoloniale Traditionen« verbindet die Ansätze der postkolonialen Theorie und der Subaltern Studies mit einer modernen Ethnografie des ländlichen Südindiens. Dabei wird ein südindisches Dorf als ein Ort der Realisierung einer alternativen nicht-westlichen Moderne beschrieben. Zwei Merkmale der indischen Moderne werden herausgearbeitet: ihre Postkolonialität - das allgegenwärtige Erbe des Kolonialismus - und ihre Traditionalität - ihre Verhandlung in nicht-westlichen Idiomen. Die postkoloniale Moderne wird in dieser Dorfmonografie auf mikro- und infrapolitische Prozesse bezogen und somit einer ethnografischen Repräsentation zugänglich gemacht.
Kontingenz in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft
Authors: Holzinger Markus
Published: May 2015

Bereits Aristoteles erklärte das Zufällige als das, was weder unmöglich noch notwendig ist und aus diesem Grund auch anders sein kann. Auf der anderen Seite gewinnen der Begriff der Kontingenz und die Einübung des »Möglichkeitssinns« (Robert Musil) ihre Konturen primär im Alltag der Moderne. Und erst heute erkennen wir in aller Radikalität, dass sämtliche Ordnungsformationen disponibel und durch den Zwang zur Dezision geprägt sind: Immer mehr Problemkomplexe müssen als Folgen von Entscheidungen gedeutet werden. Gleichzeitig führt das Verschwinden substantieller Fundamente auch zu neuen Ungewissheiten. Anhand wichtiger Dimensionen und sozialer Phänomene fasst diese Studie die Bandbreite des Kontingenzdiskurses zusammen und diskutiert maßgebliche Autoren. So entsteht ein materialreiches, breites Panorama unserer gegenwärtigen Gesellschaft, das uns zudem ein lehrreiches Erlebnis ermöglicht: die Begegnung mit uns selbst.
Theorien der Populärkultur
Authors: Hecken Thomas
Published: May 2015

In den zeitgenössischen Theorien zur populären Kultur rücken Bestseller und Unterhaltungsprogramme ebenso ins Blickfeld wie Mehrheitsentscheidung und öffentliche Meinung, Massen ebenso wie Subkulturen. In diesem Band werden Konzepte zu Produkten, Trägern, Rezeptionsweisen und Strukturen der populären Kultur erstmals im Zusammenhang vorgestellt und kritisch beleuchtet - Theorien und Überlegungen von Tocqueville, Schmitt, Adorno über Dewey, Benjamin, Bachtin, Barthes, Sontag, Eco bis hin zu Lazarsfeld, Parsons, Hall, Fiske, Bourdieu, Foucault, Habermas und anderen mehr.
Anthropologie kultureller Vielfalt
Authors: Wulf Christoph
Published: May 2015

Im Prozess der Globalisierung stoßen zwei Dynamiken aufeinander. Die eine zielt auf die Nivellierung kultureller Unterschiede, die andere betont die Notwendigkeit der Vielfalt kultureller, sozialer und ökonomischer Entwicklungen in den verschiedenen Regionen der Welt. Im Umgang mit diesen Dynamiken liegt eine der großen Herausforderungen unseres Jahrhunderts. Um dieser gerecht zu werden, gilt es, die Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen zwischen den Kulturen intensiver historisch-anthropologischer Forschung und Reflexion zu unterziehen; darauf aufbauend muss Bildung mehr denn je als interkulturelle Aufgabe begriffen werden.
Der hybride Raum
Authors: Feuser Florian
Published: May 2015

Individuelle Schicksale, subjektive Wahrnehmungen und Interaktionen aus dem bikulturell geprägten Berufsalltag befragter Chinesen und Deutscher verdichten sich in dieser qualitativen Feldstudie zu einem unmittelbaren Einblick in die Problematik interkultureller Zusammenarbeit. Damit wird eine Lücke in der Forschung rund um die deutsch-chinesische Zusammenarbeit geschlossen. Dem wissenschaftlichen Experten wie auch dem Berufspraktiker erschließen sich so die Erfahrungen, Wahrnehmungen und Argumentationsweisen derjenigen, die eigentlich immer im Fokus interkultureller Forschung stehen sollten: der Beteiligten.
Gewalt und Anmut
Authors: van Marwyck Mareen
Published: May 2015

In der Literatur und Ästhetik um 1800 ist »Anmut« nicht nur Bewegungsschönheit und Ausdruck weiblicher Sittlichkeit. Sie ist, so zeigt diese Studie, zugleich eine Form der Ästhetisierung und Heroisierung weiblicher Gewalt. Als alternativer Topos zum männlich codierten Erhabenen etabliert sich in Texten wie Schillers »Jungfrau von Orleans« und Kleists »Penthesilea« eine Ästhetik graziöser Kampftänze, die bis zum zeitgenössischen Actionfilm die Inszenierung weiblichen Heldentums prägt. Die anmutige Gewaltästhetik stellt nicht nur eine prekäre Verschränkung bürgerlicher Weiblichkeit mit militärischem Handeln dar, sondern unterläuft zugleich die »doppelte Ästhetik« eines harmonischen Schönen und eines gewaltsamen Erhabenen. Die Aufhebung dieser Dualität steht jedoch nur scheinbar im Widerspruch zu den Theorien des 18. Jahrhunderts - sie ist vielmehr in den Anmutskonzeptionen selbst angelegt und wird zudem durch die Ästhetik der europäischen Fechtkunst vorbereitet. Mit einem diskursanalytischen Verfahren erforscht Mareen van Marwyck die gewaltästhetisierenden und -heroisierenden Mechanismen der Anmut und eröffnet damit eine neue Perspektive auf die Inszenierung weiblichen Heldentums und das Verhältnis von Gewalt und Ästhetik im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert.
Anschauungssache Religion
Authors: Claußen Susanne
Published: May 2015

Religionen zu präsentieren, stellt Museen vor besondere Herausforderungen. Wie vereint man dabei wissenschaftliche Ansprüche, gesellschaftliche Verantwortung und den Respekt vor den Gläubigen? Wie kann man Kultgegenstände angemessen ausstellen? Stellt ihre Musealisierung eine Profanierung oder auch eine Resakralisierung dar? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet Susanne Claußen konkret anhand mehrerer Ausstellungsanalysen. Überlegungen zu Religionsmuseen, zum Aura-Begriff, zum Reliquiencharakter der Museumsdinge u.a. runden das Buch ab. Es kombiniert museologische, religionswissenschaftliche sowie semiotische Ansätze und ist für Fach- und Museumswissenschaftler_innen ebenso wie für Museumsbesucher_innen lesenswert.
Freundschaft, Intersubjektivität und Erfahrung
Authors: Krinninger Dominik
Published: May 2015

Freundschaften entwickeln sich aus einer spezifischen Beziehungspraxis, deren bildungstheoretische Analyse bislang vernachlässigt worden ist. Dieses Buch widmet sich der empirischen und theoretischen Untersuchung von Gesprächen männlicher Freundespaare und zeigt, dass das freundschaftliche Gespräch als Ort der (Re-)Konstruktion von Erfahrungen, die sich nicht in eine präzise Trennung von Sozialität und Subjekt fügen, zu fassen ist. Intersubjektive Bildung vollzieht sich als gemeinsame Tätigkeit der Freunde. Die Bildung des Freundschafts-Subjekts stellt vermeintliche Dichotomien (z.B. Bildung - Habitus) in Frage und eröffnet wichtige Perspektiven für eine sozial fundierte Theorie der Bildung.
Examining the effect of artificial wall climbing as a leisure time activity on children's problem-solving skills
Authors: Özen Güçlü
Published: May 2015

The main purpose of this study is to determine the effect of experiential learning education on problem solving skills of primary education students.  Artificial wall climbing is considered as not only a game but also as a learning tool that can help children discover themselves, recognize their limits and their peers, make them actively involved, and lead them to experience. In this research, experimental model with pretest-posttest control group design was used. During this time, the experimental group joined exercise throughout six weeks twice a week and control group did not participate in any activities, continuing their usual life. For collecting data "Problem Solving Inventory for Children" was used. In the analysis of the research data, t-test was used to compare the pre-test, post-test results of the two groups. According to the results of statistical analysis, there were significant differences in pre-test and post-test scores regarding confidence, self-control, avoidance subscales and total scores. As a result of this research, it is argued that the applied artificial wall climbing program has a positive influence on the problem solving skills of students.
Selecting The Best Treatment Option For A Dog With Cushing’S Syndrome
Authors: Sara GALAC
Published: May 2015

Spontaneous hypercortisolism or Cushing's syndrome is a common endocrinopathy in dogs. Pituitary-dependent and adrenal-dependent hypercortisolism each require specific treatment and diagnostic imaging is very helpful in choosing the treatment that is appropriate. The aims and expectations of the treatment need to be established beforehand and discussed with the owner to avoid unexpected disappointments. The clinical signs of pituitary-dependent hypercortisolism caused by a pituitary microadenoma can be managed with the adrenocorticostatic drug trilostane, but the drug will not affect the pituitary tumor. Hypophysectomy is therefore preferred in those dogs that have an enlarged pituitary but are in good clinical condition and have a long life-expectancy. Inoperable pituitary tumors can be treated by radiotherapy. The best treatment in dogs with cortisol-secreting adrenocortical tumors is adrenalectomy. If surgery is not possible, because of vascular invasion or metastatic spread, mitotane is recommended. Treatment with trilostane can be considered but is only palliative: it does not affect the adrenocortical tumor.
Blood Gases, Acid-Base Status And Plasma Lactate Concentrations In Calves With Respiratory Diseases
Authors: Helena ŠOLTÉSOVÁ , Oskar NAGY , Csilla TÓTHOVÁ , Iveta PAULÍKOVÁ , Herbert SEIDEL
Published: May 2015

The purpose of this study was to evaluate in calves the effects of respiratory diseases of various severities on blood gases, acid-base balance and plasma lactate concentration. We included in the study 128 calves with clinical signs of various severities and outcomes of respiratory disorders. The age of the calves ranged from 1 to 12 months. According to the clinical findings, course of the disease and time of blood collection, the sick calves were divided into three groups: RD 1 (n=34) – calves with moderate clinical signs; RD 2 (n=73) – calves with severe respiratory symptoms and RD 3 (n=21) – calves with severe respiratory symptoms and died within 48 hours after blood sampling. Into the study we also included one group of 28 clinically healthy calves. In the arterial blood we evaluated: blood pH, partial pressure of carbon dioxide – pCO2, partial pressure of oxygen – pO2, concentration of actual bicarbonate – HCO3
−, base excess – BE, and saturation of hemoglobin by oxygen – O2-sat. The concentration of lactate was determined in the blood plasma. Significant effects of health status and severity of respiratory diseases were recorded in all the evaluated variables. Marked hypoxemia and hypercapnia were found in calves with severe respiratory disorders and in animals that died within 48 hours after blood collection. In most calves, the acid-base changes were characterized as compensated respiratory acidosis. The highest mean lactate values were recorded in calves that died within 48 hours after blood sampling. The presented results suggest the usefulness of the analysis of blood gases and acid-base status in the evaluation and prognosis of various degrees and severity of respiratory diseases in calves, and in monitoring the patient response to treatment. Although plasma lactate analysis is less consistent with the severity of respiratory diseases, it might be helpful in the indication of an untreatable stage of the disease and upcoming death.
XPS Analysis of AISI 304L Stainless Steel Surface after Electropolishing
Authors: Rokosz K. , Hryniewicz T. , Simon F. , Rzadkiewicz S.
Published: May 2015

In the paper, the passive surface layers of AISI 304L after standard (EP50) and very-high-current density electropolishing (EP1000) in a mixture of orthophosphoric and sulfuric acids in a 1:4 ratio, are presented. The main finding of the presented studies is enrichment of the steel surface film in chromium: total chromium to total iron ratio was equal to 6.6 after EP50 and to 2.8 after EP1000; on the other hand, chromium compounds to iron compounds ratio was equal to 10.1 after EP50, and 3.9 after EP1000.