bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A cross-sectional study for the impact of coping strategies on mental health disorders among psychiatric nurses
Authors: Tsaras Konstantinos , Daglas Aristides , Mitsi Dimitroula , Papathanasiou Ioanna V. , Tzavella Foteini , Zyga Sofia , Fradelos Evangelos C.
Published: September 2018

Several studies report that psychiatric nursing is a highly stressful occupation. The ways that nurses use in order to deal with stressful situations have a serious effect on their psychological mood and their health status. The purpose of this study was to investigate the coping strategies in predicting of depression and anxiety among mental health nurses working in public psychiatric hospitals. A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in Athens, Greece from April to May 2017. A questionnaire consisting of the socio-demographic and work-related characteristics, the Patient Health Questionnaire-2, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-2, and the 38-items Ways of Coping Questionnaire - Greek version, was completed by a total of 110 mental health nurses. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed using the logistic regression model. Coping strategies focused on the problem (positive re-evaluation, positive approach, problem solving, and seeking social support) were the most commonly used by the mental health nurses. Strategies focused on emotion (prayer/daydream, prayer, avoidance/escape, resignation, and denial) were positively associated with depression and anxiety outcomes. Also, the coping skills of problem solving (Adjusted Odds Ratio, AOR=0.402), and seeking social support (AOR=3.719) were significant predictors only for elevated anxiety symptoms. The results from the study demonstrated the importance of coping behaviours in mental health problems of psychiatric nurses.
Epilogue
Authors: Zogry Kenneth Joel
Published: September 2018

A brief epilogue discusses the Daily Tar Heel’s move off campus, issues over recent decades including the athletic/sports scandal, and ponders the future of print journalism and the student newspaper in the digital age.
Joven Cuba inside the Colossus
Authors: Latner Teishan A.
Published: September 2018

Chapter Four explores the origins of the Antonio Maceo Brigade, an organization composed of Cuban American students and intellectuals who broke with the anticommunism of their parent’s generation to seek reconciliation with the Cuban government, the reunification of the Cuban diaspora, and the normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations. Shaped by experiences in the Civil Rights and anti–Vietnam War movements, these émigré youth rejected the anti-Castro rhetoric of Cuban exile communities, provoking a campaign of intimidation and terrorism by rightwing Cuban American hardliners. Members of the Brigade traveled to Cuba to reunite with family, learn about the Cuban Revolution’s social achievements, and perform volunteer labor. In the brief warming of diplomatic relations encouraged by the Jimmy Carter administration, visits to Cuba by progressive Cuban Americans helped catalyze a shift in the Cuban government’s relations with the Cuban diaspora, initiating an unprecedented space for Cuban American leftwing politics.
Assata Is Welcome Here
Authors: Latner Teishan A.
Published: September 2018

Chapter Five examines Cuba’s provision of formal political asylum to political dissidents from the United States. Focusing on black radical activists such as Robert F. Williams, Eldridge Cleaver, Assata Shakur, Nehanda Abiodun, William Lee Brent, Charlie Hill, and Huey Newton, and organizations such as the Black Panther Party and the Republic of New Afrika, the chapter explores the role that political exile and asylum has played within the larger relationship between the Cuban Revolution and the African American freedom struggle, and the impact of this engagement upon U.S.-Cuba relations amid the Cold War and the War on Terror. While some U.S. black activists looked to the Cuban Revolution as a hemispheric beacon of hope, Cuba in turn looked to U.S. black activists as allies in its geopolitical struggle with Washington, viewing the African American freedom struggle as its best hope for a radical ally in its northern neighbor.
Epilogue
Authors: Latner Teishan A.
Published: September 2018

The Epilogue concludes the book by examining the long arc of Cuba’s place with the American radical imagination, from the 1960s to the present day. It argues that while the achievements of the island’s revolution have been incomplete, imperfect, and often contradictory, particularly with regard to question of individual liberty, race, and sexuality, Cuba’s significant social achievements nevertheless make it an enduring and critically important episode within the history of efforts to remake the world according to socialist principles of equality, one whose history remains relevant today. By summarizing the Cuban Revolution’s triumphs and shortcomings, together with the responses of U.S. social justice activists, the section provides a foundation from which to speculate upon the possible future of Cuba’s relationship to U.S. social justice movements and the American Left.
Bearing Witness in Great Britain
Authors: Dilbeck D. H.
Published: September 2018

This chapter describes Douglass’s extended speaking tour of Great Britain following the publication of his first autobiography. It shows how Douglass’s time abroad helped solidify the core convictions of his prophetic Christian faith. Attention is paid to two particular religious controversies related to slavery embroiling Great Britain at the time—one concerning the Free Church of Scotland, the other concerning the Evangelical Alliance.
Subjects of Selfhood
Authors: Welch Kimberly M.
Published: September 2018

This chapter examines 128 cases of enslaved people suing for their freedom (lawsuits that recognized or altered the personal status of an individual held in a state of slavery). Enslaved people in the Natchez district exploited narrow escape hatches within the legal system in order to orchestrate a change in personal status and claim freedom for themselves and their families—often successfully—despite legal restrictions to manumission that increased over time. If they could prove that defendants illegally held them as slaves, they won their lawsuits more often than not. Enslaved litigants sued for their freedom on a number of grounds, from the enforcement of promises of freedom made in their late masters' wills to accusations of kidnapping to safeguarding self-purchase contracts. They employed their knowledge of the law and legal processes and harnessed their considerable community networks—both local and distant—in order to gain their liberty. Enslaved litigants used every available opening in the law when pressing for freedom and transformed abstract privileges and obligations into social and legal realities. By claiming their rights to themselves and their labor, moreover, enslaved people induced the Mississippi and Louisiana courts to act against the economic interests of a slaveholders' republic.
For Family and Property
Authors: Welch Kimberly M.
Published: September 2018

When using the courts to protect their family, people of color relied on and deployed a well-used model for litigation and claims-making—a model set by fellow black litigants. This model included several tactics for appealing to the bar: they exploited the language of property and law, rhetoric that was recognizable to their audiences and thus usable and effective. They found ways to make others accountable to them: with their stories and reputations and through their networks. They bound people in relationships of obligation to them—bonds that sometimes upended the southern racial hierarchy. They used property ownership and its associated presumptions about independence and reliability to make their claims and to legitimize and safeguard their families. In so doing, they served as their own advocates, registered their voices in an official, public forum, and laid claim to civic inclusion. This chapter examines how well the model worked. It follows the formation of one family from Iberville Parish, the Belly family, and their efforts to form a family before the law and through property ownership.
A Drain on Taxpayers
Authors: Walsh Camille
Published: September 2018

Chapter Four looks at the NAACP's strategies in fighting for desegregated graduate school education leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The organization's legal strategy changed to center on integrated schools in the mid-1930s, but the early cases indicate the ongoing struggle to obtain equality from schools and the legal system through the legal articulation of taxpayer identity. In examining the cases that the organization brought from the 1930s to the 1950s, such as Murray v. Maryland and Missouri ex rel. Gaines, this chapter traces how the organization's legal strategy often centered on taxpayer status and taxpayer rights. Finally, this chapter looks at the way in which the Brown decision was rooted in legal theories which ignored or discounted economic and funding disparities.
The White Man’s Tax Dollar
Authors: Walsh Camille
Published: September 2018

Chapter Five examines how the responses to Brown in defense of segregation were consistently framed in terms of "taxpayer" citizenship and the rights of whites to unequal and better funded schooling. In addition, this chapter identifies the tax-centric debate in Virginia in the era of massive resistance, and the private school/state action questions raised in the wake of Brown v. Board, including its impact on tax exempt institutions like Girard College in Philadelphia. This chapter builds on and combines the recently expanded historiography of the white backlash to the "long civil rights movement" by tracing the continuous assertion by segregationists of a legal identity as "taxpaying citizens." This rights claim drew deeply on the debate over whether taxation and education should facilitate equity or facilitate privilege and the use of the claim to "taxpayer" identity by segregationists anticipated the justification for racially unequal schools in decades to come.
Dual-parameter regularization method in three-dimensional ionospheric reconstruction
Authors: Wang Sicheng , Huang Sixun , Fang Hanxian
Published: September 2018

Abstract. Ionospheric tomography based on the total electron content (TEC) data along the ray path from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) satellites to ground receivers is a typical ill-posed inverse problem. The regularization method is an effective method to solve this problem, which incorporates prior constraints to approximate the real ionospheric variations. When two or more prior constraints are used, the corresponding multiple regularization parameters are introduced in the cost functional. Assuming that the ionospheric spatial variations can be separable in the horizontal and vertical directions, different prior constraints are used in each direction, and the dual-parameter regularization algorithm is established to reconstruct the three-dimensional ionospheric electron density in the present paper. To make the reconstruction results comprehensively reflect the observation information and background (prior) information, it is crucial to determine the optimal regularization parameters. The linear model function method is used to choose these regularization parameters. Both an ideal test and a real test show that this regularization algorithm can effectively improve the background model output.
Verification of the mixed layer depth in the OceanMAPS operational forecast model for Austral autumn
Authors: Boettger Daniel , Robertson Robin , Brassington Gary B.
Published: September 2018

Abstract. The ocean mixed layer depth is an important parameter
describing the exchange of fluxes between the atmosphere and ocean. In ocean
modelling a key factor in the accurate representation of the mixed layer is
the parameterization of vertical mixing. An ideal opportunity to investigate
the impact of different mixing schemes was provided when the Australian
Bureau of Meteorology upgraded its operational ocean forecasting model,
OceanMAPS to version 3.0. In terms of the mixed layer, the main difference
between the old and new model versions was a change of vertical mixing
scheme from that of Chen et al. (1994) to the General Ocean Turbulence Model. The model estimates of the mixed layer depth were compared with those
derived from Argo observations. Both versions of the model exhibited a deep
bias in tropical latitudes and a shallow bias in the Southern Ocean,
consistent with previous studies. The bias, however, was greatly reduced in
version 3.0, and variance between model runs decreased. Additionally, model
skill against climatology also improved significantly. Further analysis
discounted changes to model resolution outside of the Australian region
having a significant impact on these results, leaving the change in vertical
mixing scheme as the main factor in the assessed improvements to mixed layer
depth representation.
Stochastic perturbations for parametrisation tendencies in a convection-permitting ensemble
Authors: Wastl Clemens , Wang Yong , Atencia Aitor , Wittman Christoph
Published: September 2018

Abstract. A modification of the widely used SPPT (Stochastically Perturbed Parametrisation Tendencies) scheme is proposed and tested in a Convection-permitting – Limited Area Ensemble Forecasting system (C-LAEF) developed at ZAMG (Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik). The tendencies from four physical parametrisation schemes are perturbed: radiation, shallow convection, turbulence and microphysics. Whereas in SPPT the total model tendencies are perturbed, in the present approach (pSPPT hereinafter) the partial tendencies of the physics parametrisation schemes are sequentially perturbed. Thus, in pSPPT an interaction between the uncertainties of the different physics parametrisation schemes is sustained and a more physically consistent relationship between the processes is kept. Two configurations of pSPPT are evaluated over two months (one of summer and another of winter). Both schemes increase the stability of the model and lead to statistically significant improvements in the probabilistic performance compared to the original SPPT. An evaluation of selected test cases shows that the positive effect of stochastic physics is much more pronounced on days with high convective activity. Small discrepancies in the humidity analysis can be dedicated to the use of a very simple supersaturation adjustment. This and other adjustments are discussed to provide some suggestions for future investigations.
Préparer la Retraite: New Age-Inscriptions in West African Middle Classes
Authors: Alber Erdmute
Published: September 2018

New ways of imagining, planning and living old age are actually emerging in the republic of Benin, West Africa. This process could be understood as the dissemination of an idea of retirement from the sector of formal labor and the corresponding social security system to a general notion of a good life in the late life course.  It is preceded by emerging age-inscriptions which are contouring the new up to a point that it is settled and becoming a norm or a dominant pattern. It is also linked to the emergence of new a African middle class. It is going hand in hand with the emergence of other changes in the imaginaries of the life- course, for instance new ways of living and imagining youth. Additionally, it goes along with an accelerating process of social differentiation, since living old age as retirement is, for the moment, only possible for people who are more or less doing well and able to gain the necessary resources of self-maintenance during a time after work.  Thus, retirement has become, beyond the sphere of formal work, a generalized notion of new pathways of old age. However, up to now, the desire to live old age as retirement is still an emerging age- inscription and has not become the dominant norm.
Age-Inscriptions and Social Change
Authors: Coe Cati , Alber Erdmute
Published: September 2018

This special issue introduces the concept of age-inscription. It accounts for the ways that transitions, expectations and markers around age and life-course stages are modified in interplay with social change. This new concept is necessary, we argue, because age-inscriptions correspond to more indeterminate and transitional levels of changes in aging trajectories and life stages than the concept of norms. Inscriptions lie between rules, laws, and norms on the one hand, and individual feelings, emotions, and actions on the other. They are at least slightly shared between individuals, and, thus, somewhat more standardized than individual behavior, but not as standardized and shared as norms. This introduction lays out the reasons why ageinscriptions happen, as well as the primary ways by which they are formed and generated. We conclude by arguing that contemporary age-inscriptions are fashioned in relation to a longer life course encountered by a new generation, an increasing temporalization and institutionalization of the life course, and high levels of mobility and migration.
Retiring Home? House Construction, Age Inscriptions, and the Building of Belonging among Mexican Migrants and their Families in Chicago and Rural Mexico
Authors: Pauli Julia , Bedorf Franziska
Published: September 2018

The vacant retirement house has become a central feature of many areas of the Global South. Over the years,  migrants’ savings are invested in the building of conspicuous houses for retirement in their areas of origin. But  despite these substantial efforts, a number of migrants postpone their return or do not return at all. Their houses  remain empty, their purposes shifting as their owners reach old age. This stretching of time does not only affect  the migrants’ livelihoods and ideas of home. Furthermore, kin-scripts as conceptualized by Stack and Burton  (1993) are being reconfigured substantially. This goes hand-in-hand with the reframing of culturally prescribed  responsibilities, meanings, and social roles attached to certain stages of the migrants’ lives. Based on long-term  and multi-local ethnographic fieldwork in rural Mexico and urban Chicago since the 1990s, we analyze how  remittance houses are tied and untied with their owners’ life courses in the later stages of life. Furthermore, we  examine how kin groups on both sides of the border deal with the new challenges this entails.
Book Review: Older Tourist Behavior and Marketing Tools
Authors: Boroch Robert
Published: September 2018

A book review of VigoloVania. OlderTurist Behaviour and Marketing Tools.
Book Review: The Art of Life and Death: Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice
Authors: Loewenthal John
Published: September 2018

A book review of The Art of Life and Death: Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice
A aquisição da leitura por alunos da EJA/ensino médio em contextos populares
Authors: Paulo da Conceição Alves João , Lorena Rodrigues de Carvalho Carla , Pereira da Silva Márcia
Published: September 2018

A presente pesquisa busca abordar formas de aquisição da leitura em espaços periféricos como estratégia para a formação humana na educação de jovens e adultos (EJA). Este trabalho tem como objetivo geral analisar formas de aquisição da leitura na realidade de alunos da EJA/Ensino Médio na cidade de Macapá/Ap. Utilizaremos as abordagens qualitativa e quantitativa, além de gráficos, com a aplicação de questionários para 23 alunos. Concluímos que a maioria dos alunos não reconhece os espaços de leitura como biblioteca comunitária, tampouco a prática da leitura como instrumento de formação educacional/humana, divorciando a aquisição da leitura da ressignificação da realidade das pessoas e da comunidade.
Social Factors Contributing to the Development of Allostatic Load in Older Adults: A Correlational- Predictive Study
Authors: Morales-Jinez Alejandro , Gallegos Cabriales Esther , D'Alonzo Karen , Ugarte-Esquivel Alicia , López-Rincón Francisco , Salazar-González Bertha Cecilia
Published: September 2018

Objetivo: determinar si factores sociales como las condiciones de vivienda, la satisfacción con la casa, las características del vecindario, el apoyo social, las relaciones familiares y la asistencia a la iglesia contribuyen al desarrollo de la carga alostática en los adultos mayores. Materiales y método: se realizó un estudio correlacional y predictivo de corte transversal. Los instrumentos utilizados fueron una hoja de datos sociodemográficos, el instrumento de relaciones familiares percibidas, el cuestionario de Apoyo Social y la Escala de Movilidad Activa en el Entorno Comunitario, versión corta. Los biomarcadores de carga alostática utilizados fueron: presión arterial sistólica y diastólica, índice de masa corporal, circunferencia de la cintura, relación cintura-cadera, colesterol total, lipoproteína de alta densidad, hemoglobina glicosilada, fibrinógeno y proteína C-Reactiva. La muestra se calculó para para el contraste de la hipótesis de no relación (R2 = 0), en un modelo de regresión lineal múltiple con 11 covariables, con un nivel de significancia del .05 y una potencia del 90 % (.90), cuando el coeficinete de determinación poblacional (R2) es .15, tamaño de muestra que resultó en 131 adultos mayores. El análisis estadístico incluyó medidas descriptivas y modelos lineales generalizados. Resultados: los participantes tenían un riesgo medio o alto de carga alostática. El análisis del modelo de regresión lineal multivariante mostró que las mejores condiciones de vivienda, la satisfacción con la propia casa, la presencia de calles sin salida y la asistencia a la iglesia reducen la carga alostática y que el tráfico peligroso aumenta la carga alostática. Conclusiones: existen varios factores sociales que contribuyen al desarrollo de la carga alostática en adultos mayores. Es necesario crear estrategias de cuidado de enfermería hacia el entorno social para disminuir la carga alostática en el adulto mayor.
Monumental Chaucer: Print Culture, Conflict, and Canonical Resilience
Authors: Ascari Maurizio
Published: September 2018

The early modern literary canonization of Chaucer and the erection of a monument to the poet in Westminster Abbey in 1556 are symptoms of the incipient development of a national English literary canon, whose defining element is the vernacular. Contextualizing Chaucer's memoralization against the backdrop of two related phenomena—the development of print culture and post-Reformation religious conflicts—this article aims to shed new light on the complex relation between monumentalization in stone and in print, delving into the ambivalent ideological implications of Chaucer's early modern reception. As a result of this critical itinerary, Chaucer will ultimately be discused as an emblem of canonical resilience at a time when the past had become a contested territory.
A semântica argumentativa como base para análise de redações de vestibular
Authors: Dall' Cortivo-Lebler Cristiane , Paschoal Cristiano Sandim
Published: September 2018

Este artigo visa a analisar a abordagem e o desenvolvimento do tema em redações produzidas por vestibulandos de uma universidade do Rio Grande do Sul. Fundamentou-se, para a devida análise, na Teoria da Argumentação na Língua, desenvolvida pelo semanticista Oswald Ducrot e seus colaboradores, cujo pensamento principal que a norteia é de que a linguagem é essencialmente argumentativa. Concluiu-se, a partir da análise de um corpus de 40 redações, que o uso de conectores linguísticos é primordial para um bom desempenho textual e que é premente a necessidade de uma melhor aproximação entre teoria linguística e ensino para que se possibilite a alunos e futuros vestibulandos construírem sentido no texto a partir do linguístico, bem como maior entendimento de todos os aspectos que circundam o universo textual.
Introduction
Authors: Morreale Laura K. , Paul Nicholas L.
Published: September 2018

This collection brings together historians of language, literature, crusader society, and material culture to offer a completely new consideration of the francophone world of the eastern Mediterranean that is decidedly interdisciplinary in its approach. The editors layout the five thematic strands of the book: hybridity and innovation, translation and transportation, practicalities, negotiating identity, and Italy’s silent role. The editors also note that a digital addendum will be available.
Ernoul, Eracles, and the Collapse of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Authors: Edbury Peter
Published: September 2018

The memory of the events leading up to the decisive battle of Hittin (July 4, 1187), where the combined armies of the kingdom of Jerusalem were defeated by Saladin, remained of central importance for the inhabitants of the Latin East in the 1250s. The stories told by survivors of Hittin, mediated through the sympathetic early memories of their families and supporters, led to a further revision of the Old French narrative tradition we know as the Continuations of the twelfth-century chronicle of William of Tyre.
Revisiting The Bonfire of the Vanities
Authors: De Boever Arne
Published: September 2018

Following other critics of the so-called “finance fiction” or “fi-fi” genre, the chapter begins by observing that finance doesn’t play a major role in Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities: It is limited to the pages about a gold-backed bond and the neoliberalization of black power, an issue that Wolfe had already addressed in his earlier “Radical Chic.” Instead, the chapter identifies “psychosis” as a major theme in this contemporary finance fiction. While many critics have focused on racism in the novel, and in some cases on what they perceive to be the racism of the novel (which, in its avowedly all-inclusive representation of New York City privileges the upper-class white perspective), its revisionist reading lays bare what I consider to be the novel’s central drama: how both its white, upper-class protagonist Sherman McCoy and its black, lower-class protagonist Henry Lamb are caught up in psychotic situations created by money, politics, and the media—situations over which they have no control. The chapter ultimately turns to Cristina Alger’s The Darlings as an example of how this is borne out in post-2008 financial fiction.
The Financial Universe (After Meillassoux)
Authors: De Boever Arne
Published: September 2018

Chapter Four draws from the work of financial journalists Scott Patterson, Michael Lewis (a former “big swinging dick” at Salomon Brothers), and scholar Frank Pasquale to think the reality of today’s economy, which is frequently characterized as a “universe”, with phenomena analogous to black holes or also the Big Bang. Not directly observable, such phenomena are known only through the study of their effects; we know those phenomena are real because their effects are real. Our knowledge of market crashes today operates in the same way, thus giving new meaning to the phrase coined by Michael Lewis and popularized by Tom Wolfe in his description of the fabled bondsman Sherman McCoy: “master of the universe” (emphasis added). The chapter brings this thought of the financial universe in dialogue with the philosophical work of Quentin Meillassoux, who proposed a speculative realism to think the kind of reality that scientists can access when they think, for example, the Big Bang.
The Workhorse of the Watchdogs
Authors: Knobel Beth
Published: September 2018

This chapter presents the results of a content analysis of four metropolitan dailies. These medium-sized dailies, the workhorses of the watchdogs in this study, give concrete evidence that accountability reporting is not only alive and well, but also that it continues to be valued by its audience. The four members of this sample group of papers—the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), Minneapolis Star Tribune (StarTrib or Strib), The Denver Post, and the Albany Times Union (ATU)—have over time evolved considerably in terms of content, and their paths illustrate the challenges that metropolitan newspapers face today in trying to keep the watchdog tradition alive. The stories behind their contrasting trajectories provide telling contrasts between the larger and smaller newspapers in this diverse group and suggest larger lessons for how mid-sized newspapers can grapple with issues tied to producing meaningful accountability journalism.
Meister Eckhart’s Kenotic Lexicon and the Critique of Finitude
Authors: Dubilet Alex
Published: September 2018

This chapter argues for the centrality of the lexicon of self-emptying to Meister Eckhart’s sermons. Unlike more traditional Christian theologians like Augustine of Hippo or Bernard of Clairvaux, Eckhart elaborates self-emptying not as a moment that opens up the soul for an experience of a transcendent God or a beatific vision of the celestial after-life, but as a movement that collapses the very conceptual schema of external relations between creature and creator. In challenging the perspective of creature finitude, Eckhart radically mutates the tradition of negative theology, divorcing it from its imbrication with hierarchy and transcendence. Eckhart’s kenotic vocabulary acts as the theoretical pivot that frees his listeners from the subjugating effects of interpellative transcendence in order to reveal a dispossessed and ungrounded life “without a why.”
Conclusion
Authors: Dubilet Alex
Published: September 2018

The conclusion reprises one of the key theoretical claims of the book, namely that the subject and its interrelations with transcendence (whatever specific form that transcendence might take) should be seen as comprising a single, complex mechanism of subjection. It suggests as well that the reconstruction of a conceptual grammar linking self-emptying with an immanence of life without a why suggests transforming the ways we organize texts and should be seen as an initial step in the formation of a different kind of theoretical archive. This counter-archive entails deactivating the war between philosophy and theology, between secular and religious discourses, in order to affirm the primacy of elements that undermine the subjecting forces of transcendence, elements such as self-emptying and dispossession, impersonal joy and namelessness, the inoperative and the useless. Building such a counter-archive involves moving beyond the triad of thinkers that serves as the hermeneutic focus of this book and, perhaps, beyond the terrains of mystical theology and philosophy toward other domains of textual production.
Un/Limited Ecologies
Authors: Kirby Vicki
Published: September 2018

It seems fair to say that Jacques Derrida’s critical legacy has waned with the restyling of the humanities as science friendly. The term posthumanism, for example, accommodates broad themes in ecology, animal studies, evolution and climate change—even the nature of Life itself. This turn toward physical reality attests to a growing interest in science and its methodologies, as we see in popular accounts of affect theory, new materialism, and object-oriented ontology. Indeed, it is often argued that the waning of the linguistic turn and its apparent hermeticism has enabled this recent fascination with the materiality of bodies and things. However, is Derrida’s “no outside of text” about closure, or its im/possibility? And if the limit segregates nothing at all, if the limit is itself no-thing, then is grammatology an open ecology that already includes what it is defined against, including what is yet to come?
Extinguishing Ability: How We Became Postextinction Persons
Authors: Colebrook Claire
Published: September 2018

What is the relationship between extinction and disability? As “we” face a future of resource-depletion, eco-system collapse, and runaway global warming, it might seem more urgent than ever to develop new forms of rationality and technology to allow us to survive. The conception of survival, or living-on, is at the heart of Derrida’s deconstruction, as is an inherently promissory account of time and experience. In the spirit of deconstruction, this chapter looks at the ways in which ability, capacity, and radically future promising are intertwined with an inflated and unsustainable mode of existence. Just as extinction threats pose necessary questions to the present regarding what life or lives will survive into the future, so the legacy of philosophy’s past and conditions pose questions as to the forms of life that have been granted a prima facie right to survival.
Power of Gentleness
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

Gentleness is an enigma. Taken up in a double movement of welcoming and giving, it appears on the threshold of passages signed off by birth and death. Because it has its degrees of intensity, because it is a symbolic force, and because it has a transformative ability over things and beings, it is a power. The simplicity of gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become an extraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such, become central to both ethics and politics. Gentleness is a force of secret life-giving transformation linked to what the ancients called potentiality.
Justice and Forgiveness
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

For philosophers, gentleness merges with civilization. The difficulty for the Ancient Greeks is to achieve gentleness without sacrificing values of courage, resolve, and an aptitude for war necessary within any political community. Fairness conveys that mixture of equity and gentleness. Derrida explains “for-give-ness.” Gentleness contains a double gift for both giver and receiver. Christian saints are figures of force and gentleness.
Clandestine Gentleness
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

No event in this world is foreign to gentleness because gentleness bears the responsibility of language. Surveillance has become routine. Hate is not sufficient for survival. In eroticism what belongs to ritual, to litany is paradoxically clandestine.
Childhood
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

Gentleness has in common with childhood an ability to permeate the past without leaving more of an imprint than most lived events. We would not survive childhood without gentleness. Gentleness comes with the possibility of life.
Secular Lyric
Authors: Michael John
Published: September 2018

Secular Lyrics interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson adapt ancient and renaissance conventions of lyric expression to the developing conditions of their modern context, especially to the heterogeneity of beliefs and believers in a secular society and to the altered or emergent role that literature assumes in a secular age. These poets, in idiosyncratic but related ways, register the pressures of the modern crowd—which Benjamin rightly identified as nineteenth-century poetry’s essential topic—within their poems, where the mass appears as potential readers, as resistant skeptics, as a heterogeneous crowd of contending beliefs and contentious believers. For these poets, the processes of signification rather than the communication of truths become central to their poetry, which in turn becomes an important origin of the modern poetry that in Europe and the United States follows. Each invokes the normative practices that have long characterized Western poetry only to disrupt the audience’s conventional expectations and enliven the reader’s sense of language’s material density and the limits and potentials of modern life.
Geistigkeit: A Problematic Concept
Authors: Whitebook Joel
Published: September 2018

This paper interrogates the concept of Geistigkeit, which tends to occupy an honorific position in the psychoanalytic canon. Indeed, some authors have viewed it as the ur-value of Freud’s entire project. While the author does not deny important achievements that were entailed by the “Advance in Geistigkeit,” he also examines its negative aspects that have often been ignored, especially those pertaining to its patriarchal and misogynist biases.
Creating the Jews: Mosaic Discourse in Freud and Hosea
Authors: Hendel Ronald
Published: September 2018

This chapter presents a critique and alternative to Freud’s history of Moses, which relies on a monograph by the biblical scholar Ernst Sellin. A close examination of Sellin’s argument exposes its flaws, but also poses the possibility of a different response to Freud’s questions. Rather than seek to uncover a secret (or latent) history of Moses in the prophetic books, their plain (or manifest) sense provides ample evidence for the fashioning of monotheism and Jewish subjectivity by the prophets’ “Mosaic discourse.” To reformulate Freud, not Moses but Mosaic discourse created the Jews.
Play with Words——Palindrome: a Method to Make English Vocabulary-learning Interesting
Authors: Yu Peng
Published: September 2018

It is commonly believed that one of the unpopular English courses is vocabulary course, because the content is boring, the classroom atmosphere is dull and the students’ enthusiasm is low. Moreover some people think that English vocabulary course is unnecessary and it should only be learned by students themselves. Worse still, some teachers just give up the teaching of vocabulary for they think vocabulary lesson is to recite words and that is the students’ business. But in fact, it is not right, for teacher’s guidance in students’ learning is crucial, and the teaching of vocabulary is important for students’ language competence. English vocabulary learning belongs to the category of basic knowledge, and the basic knowledge of students is a necessary condition and foundation for practical use of English, no matter for oral English competence or English writing and reading ability. It is the responsibility of teachers to think such a question why students have little enthusiasm and weak interest in vocabulary course, and why the classroom atmosphere is dull instead of active and interactive. It is the task of teachers to design a vocabulary course with interesting content and interactive parts to make the lesson vivid and to improve the students’ enthusiasm and interest. Actually, in English vocabulary there are many interesting and meaningful phenomena, such as Spoonerisms, Tongue Twister Fun, oxymoron, Malapropisms, Palindrome, Redundancies, Ambiguities, "Net Lingua" – The Language of the Internet, Etymology: Word Origins, and Pangrams Section, etc., which leave a “space” for language-leaners to find out secret and surprise, and to actively explore and discover something different instead of negatively reciting words. They make the boring vocabulary lesson changed into the interesting and interactive practical course, which is one of the sources of interest for students.The author in this paper intends to give a brief introduction to one of these interesting linguistic phenomena, Palindrome, including definition, origin and function etc., for teachers to use for reference to make their course more vivid and effective.
Hydrogeochemical Characterization of Dug Well Water and Its Suitability for Domestic Water Supply in the Village of Passakongo, Dedougou municipality, Burkina Faso
Authors: Sako Aboubakar , Sawadogo Saga , Yoni Moise , Nimi Mamadou , Zongo Ousseni , Bamba Ousmane
Published: September 2018

Hydrogeochemical characterization and suitability study of dug well water for domestic purpose were carried out in a semi-arid rural village in Burkina Faso. Thirty water samples were collected from 15 wells in dry and wet seasons, 2017. Electrical conductivity (EC) and total dissolved solids as well as major ions of all samples were within the World Health Organization (WHO) permissible limits for drinking water. In contrast, nine wells had pH beyond the WHO limit during the dry season and one well had very high NO3- concentration in the wet season. Most wells were seriously polluted with total Cr (CrT) in both seasons (11 and 14 wells in dry and wet seasons, respectively). Although Pb was not detected in the wells during the dry season, six wells showed Pb concentrations exceeding the WHO guideline limit for drinking water in the wet season. Graphic interpretation, including the Piper diagram, major ion ratios and Na/Cl versus EC, were used to characterize the hydrochemistry and water – rock interaction within the wells. The dominant hydrochemical facies of the wells was Ca-HCO3 during the dry season, reflecting the influence of silicate weathering. Following loadings of agricultural and domestic effluent, the hydrochemical facies shifted to more mixed type during the wet season. All samples had negative chloro-alkaline indices, suggesting retention of Ca2+ and Mg2+ by the aquifer materials and release of Na+ and K+ into the groundwater. In addition to silicate weathering, the hydrochemistry and water quality of the majority of the wells were partially controlled by the evaporation process and longer water–rock interaction in the dry season. In contrast, recharge and dilution effects appeared to alter the natural hydrochemistry of the wells in the wet season. Geochemical characterization has clearly shown that seasonal changes do affect the dug well water quality. The study also demonstrated that, in terms of CrT and Pb, water from the majority of the wells was not suitable for drinking. A special attention should be therefore paid to groundwater quality protection in the
Purchasing of Thematic Kid Fashion at the Belt and Road Market
Authors: Peng Xinguo , Xu Zhen , Luan Xiaoyang , Liu Zichan , Huo Da
Published: September 2018

Through a closer economic relationship, “The Belt and Road” has brought about remarkable growth in both international trade and cross boarder investment among the alongside countries. Still, obstacles exist for foreign companies to expand their business with China due to the imperfect understanding of the Chinese market. If foreign firms have a better knowledge of the market in China, it will definitely enhance the chance to be successful in doing business with China. This study specifies in the thematic kid fashion market. Sales information of 150 thematic kid fashion products is included to define the elements that influence the sales and feedback of thematic kid fashion. The elements and information are disposed using Factor Analysis so as to recognize the relevant elements and divide them into different factors. Feasible generalized least square (FGLS) method is adopted to measure the impact of each element on the sales of different brands of thematic kid fashion. Based on the result of the model, specific suggestions are proposed for foreign thematic kid fashion companies and retailers to meet the need of Chinese customers better and thus attain a larger market share in China’s market.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Banks’ Financial Performance
Authors: Gangi Francesco , Mustilli Mario , Varrone Nicola , Daniele Lucia Michela
Published: September 2018

This study analyzes whether and how corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects the financial performance of the European banking industry. According to agency theory, CSR engagement should be negatively related to financial performance. By contrast, from the stakeholder perspective and according to the resource-based view, CSR should positively impact banks’ financial performance. Over a period of six years (2009-2015) following the explosion of the sub-prime crisis, the econometric estimates of the current study confirm a positive effect of CSR engagement on banks’ financial performance. Net interest income and profitability increase with the increase in social performance. At the same time, CSR is negatively related to non-performing loans. Therefore, in contrast to the trade-off model, our results support a win-win vision of the relationship between the social and financial performance of banks.
POLISH CENTRAL MUSEUM REPOSITORY
FOR GDAŃSK VOIVODESHIP. PART 1. GENESIS
Authors: Kamińska Lidia Małgorzata
Published: September 2018

The article – following previous ones of similar
topic published in “Museology” – is the 1st part of a broader
elaboration pertaining to relocations of cultural goods after
World War II, in particular to functioning of repositories
where those goods were assembled. They were established
and operated by Polish administration on the territories
liberated consecutively by the moving front. This time the
repositories in Gdańsk Pomerania region are discussed. First
part presents issues related to a geopolitical situation of
Gdańsk Voivodeship, especially the city of Gdańsk. Historical
background is given to the so-called recovery campaign
conducted by Polish administration. The process of getting
organised by Polish authorities is also described, as well
as the way it affected the achievement of their objectives:
organisation of social life, rescue of artworks – despite the
shortage of means – by penetrating areas outside the city
in search for hidden goods, establishment of repositories,
depositories etc. for items of cultural heritage saved from
the fire, left behind the moving front and the Red Army, and
for those taken out of towns by the German monuments’
protection service. Sites of Gdańsk Voivodeship where the
monuments were deposited by German administration are
listed in the article. Collections of movable goods assembled
in those caches survived military actions and – if not
plundered by local people or Soviet Army commanders –
were being saved and secured in repositories organised by
delegates of the Ministry of Culture and Art. The way in which
the Polish repositories were established and operating, as
well as the fortunes of historic artefacts collected in them will
be further described in the following 2nd part of the article.
MODERNISATION AND AVANT-GARDE
IN CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPE (1918–1939)
Authors: Szczerski Andrzej
Published: September 2018

The establishment of new independent
states in Central and Eastern Europe after 1918 not only
brought changes in European geopolitical reality, but
also initiated many cultural processes, stimulated by
the need for modernisation of the region. They aimed at
strengthening the identity of individual states based on their
civilizational advancement. It was possible thanks to political
independence, which many central European nations gained
for the first time in their history. Their expected growth
was not only to confirm their right of existence, but also of
being among the leading states in Europe. Within the Old
Continent the central and eastern part of Europe turned
out to be a domain of modernisation par excellence. Here
its progression, on the one hand, was most awaited, on the
other – raised the greatest controversy. Arts and artists had
their particular role in this process; it was their mission to
spread the new ideas, calling for a change of the status quo.
Instead of simply adopting the already existing patterns of
modernity they tried, however, to work out their original
concepts of reforms, based on an attempt to reconcile
modernity with traditional values, which were found worth
preserving within individual cultures. These processes were
supported by representatives of both the avant-garde
and the more moderate modernisation, which resulted in
peaceful coexistence of radical programmes and endeavours
to find conservative definitions of modernism. “New Europe”
in the years 1918–1939 was in favour of modernity, pursuing
consistently civilizational advancement, with the good use
of tools brought about by the new political reality and, first
and foremost, the national independence gained by many
states in the aftermath of World War I.