bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Posthumanist Responsibility
Authors: Wood David
Published: September 2019

The issue of responsibility in connection with global climate change is especially challenging. “I didn’t melt that glacier.” And yet, very likely “we” did, even though there is no collective “we” that acted. The more we know about the excessively large typical Western carbon footprint, the more easily we each can feel guilty— bout travel, our lifestyle, our food, and so on. This experience cuts through the lack of a collective agent through some such idea as participation. Fundamental questions about responsibility are pursued, in the face of doubts about the agent-as-subject, from posthumanists, new materialists, Heidegger, Derrida, feminists, deep ecologists, and others. The landscape of such responsibilities as we may suppose we have is sketched out, arguing that we need both traditional accounts of responsibility that can charge CEOs with culpable negligence, as well as a deeper sense of response-ability, involving imagination, and a multi-faceted openness to the Other.
Fixed Capital and the Flow
Authors: Miller Elizabeth Carolyn
Published: September 2019

This essay examines the temporal structure of George Eliot’s novel The Mill on the Floss (1860) from the perspective of energy and ecology, arguing that Eliot’s well-established interest in epochal shift extends to a searching and prescient inquiry into the temporality of energy and energy regime transition. The novel is set at a water-powered mill in the historical moment that saw an unprecedented energy transition in British industry from water power to coal-fired steam power—the moment that saw the birth of what Andreas Malm calls “the fossil economy”—and it distinguishes between the variant temporalities of these two energy regimes. The essay connects The Mill on the Floss’s dual temporality to our present moment of ecological crisis and its demand that we, as critics, shift not so much from an eco-historicism to an eco-presentism, but toward a temporally doubled methodology that inhabits the present and the past dialectically.
Touch—An A Priori Approach
Authors: Jaaware Aniket
Published: September 2019

This chapter provides a diagram of touch. It is possible to posit a theory of genres of touch, based on the discussions in the preceding chapter. The primary categories of genre classification here are the following pairs of concepts: touching oneself/touching others; literal touch/figural touch; and good touch/bad touch. The chapter looks at the relationship between touching and being touched; it locates being touched as one kind of experience of otherness, and touching others as another kind of experience of otherness. Meanwhile, one gets to know literal touch in two ways: through sensation, and through the difference it makes when compared to figural touch. The chapter then determines what constitutes the good touch and the bad touch, touch that generates pain and touch that generates pleasure.
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Authors: Lacoue-Labarthe Philippe
Published: September 2019

In a course presented in 1934–1935, Heidegger lectures on Hölderlin’s poems “Germania” and “The Rhine.” In the course of these lectures, Heidegger inevitably encounters the figure of Rousseau—and dismisses him out of hand as unimportant, despite the profound influence he had on Hölderlin and on the entire philosophical epoch that followed him. This dismissal constitutes a blind-spot that Lacoue-Labarthe makes it his task, in this book, to clearly discern and then to counter, by showing that Rousseau articulates a genuine philosophical thought—a thought of origins—of no less depth and importance than the philosophy that followed in his wake.
The Price of Salt Is the City: Patricia Highsmith and the Queer Frontiers of Neoliberalism
Authors: Tucker-Abramson Myka
Published: September 2019

Price of Salt begins in the tradition of the naturalist lesbian pulp novel before veering sharply into the genre of the Western mid-way through. But it is a Western with a difference. While Highsmith’s characters follow the Western’s arc, in which the neurasthenic urban subject goes West, encounters a danger that cures and strengthens her, and ultimately returns home prepared to do the work of urban (and metonymically national) renewal, Highsmith changes the protagonist from a professional man into a working class, homosexual woman, and she expands the Western’s scope from the urban core to the metropolitan region as a whole. This chapter argues that through the novel’s radical revision of the Western to include two queer characters, The Price of Salt cleaves apart the Lavender Scare from the Red Scare and constructs a Red Scare defense of lesbianism in which lesbianism becomes a tool for subjective, urban, and national renewal—and, in turn, the attainment of sexual rights and freedoms becomes linked with the construction of a thoroughly-capitalist subjectivity organized around individual freedom, private property, and entrepreneurialism.
Transformational Leadership and Innovative Behavior: The Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing in Indonesian Private University
Authors: Suhana Suhana , Udin Udin , Suharnomo Suharnomo , Mas’ud Fuad
Published: September 2019

Scholars have focused on exploration concerning issues affecting innovative behavior (IB). Of previous research finding reviews, transformational leadership (TL) is seen as the most influential factor to promote IB in the organization. TL helps followers to have a unique opportunity to develop learning competence and cooperation in improving IB. Besides, knowledge sharing (KS) is also supposed as the main trigger to build IB. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the mediating role of  KS in the relationship between TL and IB. 210 postgraduate students in Indonesian private university are determined as samples. Multiple regression analysis by using SPSS software is applied to analyze the data. The results show that TL significantly affects KS and IB. KS further mediates the relationship between TL and IB.
The Changing Nature of the Oncology Section of the Orthopaedic In-Training Examination
Authors: Schultz Emily M. , Frisby Justin C. , Miskiel Sandra A. , Patel Deep K. , Mulcahey Mary K. , Kim Tae Won B.
Published: September 2019

Introduction:

The Orthopaedic In-Training Examination (OITE) assesses orthopaedic resident knowledge over 275 multiple-choice questions.Since the first publication examining the contents of the pathology section was published over ten years ago, the pathology content has been renamed (oncology) and revamped. As the overall extent of these alterations is currently unknown, the efficacy of current orthopaedic oncology educational practices for optimal OITE performance should be questioned. To determine how the oncology (pathology) material has changed, we compared the following characteristics from previous examinations (2002 to 2006) to current examinations (2012 to 2016): (1) What are the average number of oncology questions being asked? (2) What are the specific imaging modalities presented for examinee interpretation? (3) Which pathologic diagnoses are commonly examined? (4) What is the pattern of taxonomic question classifications?

Methods:

The 2012 to 2016 OITE study guides were reviewed, and each oncology question was categorized into one of the following: benign or malignant, imaging modality grouping, common pathologic diagnosis, question type, and taxonomic classification. The aforementioned information was extrapolated from the previous pathology publication published in 2010 to create the previous examination cohort (2002 to 2006). The current examination characteristics were then compared with those of the previous examinations.

Results:

The current number of oncology OITE questions significantly decreased from previous years (27.2 versus 21.2; P = 0.015). Current examinations displayed a significant increase in testing the interpretation of diagnostic imaging modalities compared with previous examinations (78.3% versus 55.8%; P < 0.001). The current examinations examined a wide spectrum of pathologic diagnoses, including previously untested pathologies. The number of taxonomy 1 questions on current examinations significantly decreased (36.8% versus 24.5%; P = 0.032), whereas the number of taxonomy 3 questions significantly increased from previous examinations (48.1% versus 32.4%; P = 0.032).

Discussion:

This study demonstrated that the nature of the orthopaedic oncology (pathology) section has changed over the past 10 years. Although the overall number of pathology-related questions decreased, the difficulty level of these questions increased, demanding a higher level of knowledge and critical thinking. A formal orthopaedic oncology rotation may be the best method to educate and improve OITE oncology performance.

Level of Evidence:

Prognostic study, level III
Treatment Interest of Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial (Social Security Organizing Agency) Patients in Balowerti Public Health Center Kediri City
Authors: Siyoto Sandu , Tule Albert Ronald
Published: September 2019

The Social Security Organizing Agency (BPJS) which was established in 2014, implements the National Health Insurance Program (JKN). While JKN positively affects national health and increases the financial flow of private hospitals, there is a significant financial deficit, which can be covered by the involvement of informal private-sector workers, whose loyalty to the hospital is mainly influenced by hospital’s environment, communication with staff, and service quality. Previous studies indicate that in Indonesia loyalty to the public hospitals can have no relationships with service quality, to test this assumption, a sample of 126 subjects was recruited at the Balowerti City Health Center, Kediri City. All participants of the study received premium assistance beneficiaries (PBI) of BPJS insurance, which is fully subsidized by the government. Despite this, the main part of the sample evaluated their perception of the Balowerti City Health Center and the quality of its service as average or poor. Ordinal regression confirmed the existence of the influence of service quality and perception of the hospital on the behavioral intention of patients. Refers to perception of low service quality is the main reason for insufficient involvement if JKN. According to the previous studies, a lack of time for communication with the patient, long time of waiting, and a lack of information of BPJS are main reasons of patient dissatisfaction and low enrollment in JKN.
Hvordan kan vi lære barn å mestre livet?
Authors: Greve Anne
Published: September 2019

Det har kommet inn et nytt begrep i barnehagens styringsdokumenter: livsmestring. Tidligere snakket man om livsglede, i hvert fall i barnehagens rammeplan. Jeg er en av dem som er kritisk til denne endringen – fra glede til mestring. Jeg vil i denne artikkelen stille spørsmålet: Hva innebærer det at livet går fra å være noe vi skal glede oss over, til å bli noe vi skal mestre?Nøkkelord: barnehage, livsmestring, rammeplan
Livsmestring i kirke og skole. Å kunne møte livet i gode og onde dager
Authors: Jordheim Kari
Published: September 2019

Begrepet livsmestring gir en umiddelbar forestilling om at det handler om å mestre livet, å klare seg i både medgang og i motgang, å kunne håndtere det livet gir. Men begrepet brukes i flere sammenhenger, og i faglitteraturen legges det vekt på at mestring består av komplekse og uoversiktlige prosesser.Livsmestring har kommet inn som ett av tre tverrfaglige tema i den nye overordnede delen av skolens læreplanverk. I kirkelig sammenheng er dette ikke lenger et nytt begrep: Det er snart et tiår siden Plan for trosopplæring. Gud gir - vi deler kom, der livsmestring er en uttalt del av formålet. I denne artikkelen vil jeg se på hvordan begrepet brukes direkte i plan for trosopplæring og skolens læreplan og gjøre en sammenlikning. For å forstå begrepet bedre, vil jeg hente fram mestringsteori som gir innspill til hva mestringens vilkår kan være. Jeg vil også trekke inn noen andre relevante begrep som gir innspill til refleksjonen om livsmestring; relasjonskompetanse, livskompetanse og empowerment. Avslutningsvis vil jeg sette fokus på hva det betyr at livsmestring er en sentral del av formålet innenfor både skole og kirke.
Kvinna i den kulturelle bibelen. Ein analyse av nyare norske barne- og ungdomsbiblar
Authors: Aadland Ingunn
Published: September 2019

I denne artikkelen undersøker eg korleis kvinner er representert i den norske kulturelle bibelen med utgangspunkt i gjenforteljingane av Det nye testamentet i barnebiblar utgjevne det siste tiåret. Eit hovudfunn i bibelresepsjonen er at barnebiblar prioriterer forteljingar der menn er hovudpersonar. Vidare finn eg to hovudtendensar i dei forteljingane der kvinner er sentrale: 1) deira rolle er nedprioritert og marginalisert, 2) der kvinner si rolle er framheva, er dei presentert som synderinner. Eg hevdar ikkje at desse fortolkingane er medvitne uttrykk for kvinneforakt. Snarare reflekterer dei ein lojalitet overfor den kulturelle bibelen, det vil seie bibelen slik den vert hugsa og forstått i vår kultur, og like mykje ei manglande erkjenning av rolla kulturen speler i tolkinga av bibelen. Denne resepsjonen av bibelen er ikkje berre reproduksjon og aksept av antikkens ideal, men og uttrykk for verdiar i vår eiga tid.Nøkkelord: Bibel, kulturell bibel, barnebibel, resepsjon, kjønnThis article examines how women are presented in contemporary Norwegian biblical interpretations for children, taking some recent Norwegian children’s bibles reception of the New Testament as examples. One main finding is that children’s bibles often prioritize narratives where men serve as main characters. Moreover, in stories where women play a part, I find two tendencies: 1) their role is either downplayed or marginalized out of the story, 2) when those women’s characters are developed further, they are presented as sinners. I do not suggest that such interpretations are meant to degrade women. Rather, they reflect a loyal attitude towards the cultural bible, the bible as it is commemorated and understood within our culture, and more importantly a lacking awareness of one’s own culture and the role it plays in biblical interpretation. This reception of the bible is not only a reproduction and acceptance of ideals of the Antiquity; but expressions of unfortunate contemporary cultural values. Keywords: Bible, Cultural bible, Childrens’ bibles, Reception, Gender
Introduction
Authors: Smith Christopher J.
Published: September 2019

This chapter defines the scope of the problem, and the central research question: Are there consistent patterns of political intent and impact in diverse public dance movements throughout the social history of the Americas? It surveys the existing literature from the fields of dance studies, anthropology, musicology, and cultural history. It lays out the argument, methodology, and disciplinary sources and explains the criteria for the selection of the specific case studies, linking the diversity of those case studies to the diversity of methodological tools necessary for their analysis and comparison.
Utopian Movements and Moments
Authors: Smith Christopher J.
Published: September 2019

This chapter, conceived as a companion to Chapter 4, expands and extends the historical examination of the ca. 1800 Cumberland Revival and “the jerks,” to find the influence of this revival in later utopian movements, most notably Shakerism, and various forms of syncretic Native American millenarian and apocalyptic belief, notably the Ghost Dance. It suggests a strong thread of bodily ecstasy as a component of Pentecostal and related utopian visions throughout the course of the century. Primary source evidence is primarily drawn from period descriptions and commentary.
Body and Spirit in a Post-1960s World
Authors: Smith Christopher J.
Published: September 2019

This chapter, in contrast to those that emphasize analysis of individual case studies, intentionally employs an omnibus approach, providing relative discussions of four highly disparate public dance cases in North America: 1960s social protest (especially the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention), the Gay Rights movement (especially the Stonewall Uprising in New York in 1969), East Coast hip hop culture in the early 1970s, and the politicized noise-and-dance of 1980s punk rock. It thus emphasizes the wide range of historical and social contexts in which “subaltern dance” may be consistently theorized as realizing political intentions, with case studies that are diversified by era, political identity, racial profile, musical style, and gender orientation. Primary source evidence includes film, video, still photography, audio, and period descriptions.
The Potential Use of Seaweeds and Marine Plants by Native Peoples of Alta and Baja California
Authors: Ainis Amira F. , Erlandson Jon M. , Gill Kristina M. , Graham Michael H. , Vellanoweth René L.
Published: September 2019

Archaeologically, the use of marine kelps and seaweeds is poorly understood, yet California's islands are surrounded by extensive and highly productive kelp forests with nearshore habitats containing more than 100 edible species. Historical accounts from around the Pacific Rim demonstrate considerable use of seaweeds and seagrasses by native people, but there has been little discussion of seaweeds as a potential food source on California's islands. This chapter summarizes the biology, diversity, ecology, and productivity of marine macroalgae and marine angiosperms in the California Bight, supporting the likely consumption of seaweeds in the past. The potential use of plentiful and nutritious seaweeds by California Island peoples has major implications for the perceived marginality of the islands.
Archaeology of Identity and Dissonance
Authors: Kurchin Bernice
Published: September 2019

In situations of displacement, disruption, and difference, humans adapt by actively creating, re-creating, and adjusting their identities using the material world. This book employs the discipline of historical archaeology to study this process as it occurs in new and challenging environments. The case studies furnish varied instances of people wresting control from others who wish to define them and of adaptive transformation by people who find themselves in new and strange worlds. The authors consider multiple aspects of identity, such as race, class, gender, and ethnicity, and look for ways to understand its fluid and intersecting nature. The book seeks to make the study of the past relevant to our globalized, postcolonized, and capitalized world. Questions of identity formation are critical in understanding the world today, in which boundaries are simultaneously breaking down and being built up, and humans are constantly adapting to the ever-changing milieu. This book tackles these questions not only in multiple dimensions of earthly space but also in a panorama of historical time. Moving from the ancient past to the unknowable future and through numerous temporal stops in between, the reader travels from New York to the Great Lakes, Britain to North Africa, and the North Atlantic to the West Indies.
Two Houses Windows on the Identity of Chief Richardville
Authors: Spott Elizabeth Katherine
Published: September 2019

This chapter examines the life of Jean Baptiste de Richardville, the last civil chief of the Miami tribe, as he navigated the pluralistic frontier society of the nineteenth-century Great Lakes region. Richardville drew upon elements of his Métis (mixed French-Miami) ancestry as well as his class to produce and enact various identities. His skilled negotiation of the divergent worlds he inhabited served to secure his role within the Miami tribe, as well as within the dominant white culture. In particular, this chapter looks at identity formation through Richardville’s two houses, an ornate Greek revival building (the Chief Richardville House) that served as his residence and a place for lavish entertainment, and the more modest Richardville/Lafontaine House that he used for the fur trade and treaty negotiations. These buildings, and archival evidence of Richardville’s life, shed light on how he constructed and maintained a fluid social identity to thrive in a potentially contentious and continually evolving setting.
Soldiers on the Wall
Authors: Kurchin Bernice , Bianciardi Judith
Published: September 2019

Historically, literature dealing with the Roman military occupation in Britannia over the first four centuries AD did not address the experiences of individuals or communities. This chapter joins a growing body of scholarship that has turned to theories of identity—incorporating notions of agency, structure, practice, materiality, and the use and transformation of space/landscape—which assert that identity is a very complex and realistic concept with which to understand human interaction as it changes over time. The authors trace the long recursive trajectory of the identities of the original “barbarian” auxiliary soldiers who were permanently stationed in Hadrian’s wall forts along the northern frontier of Britannia, as their practices and interactions with native Britons in the vici transformed and in turn helped to transform the army and wider landscape. No longer the lowest-class soldiers, they became privileged Roman citizens with new identities that drew on Roman, British, and other genealogies.
“No Surrender”
Authors: Sullivan Frances Peace
Published: September 2019

British West Indian migrants spread Garveyism across the circum-Caribbean in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Indeed, the organization was particularly important for those women and men who found themselves on the move. A core tenant and achievement of the United Negro Improvement Association was its portability and reliability. While spreading a powerful message of black racial uplift, Garveyites built an association that afforded members concrete benefits measurable in their day-to-day lives. Garveyism offered a degree of social capital for migrant laborers, as well as communities and networks that eased the impact of their move. This chapter examines the mechanics of this process in Cuba.
“The Second Battle for Africa Has Begun”
Authors: McDuffie Erik S.
Published: September 2019

This chapter examines the underappreciated impact of Garveyism in shaping Liberian politics and life during the 1970s. This work was spearheaded by Rev. Clarence W. Harding Jr., a dynamic Chicago-born African American leader, who relocated to Monrovia in 1966 and headed the local division of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) until his passing in 1978. Through the local division, and through the Marcus Garvey Memorial Institute, a UNIA-affiliated elementary and secondary school, Harding successfully disseminated the principles of Garveyism widely among working-class and indigenous Liberians living in Monrovia and collaborated with the emergent Movement for Justice in Africa. In tracing Harding’s work in Liberia, the chapter also highlights connections between Liberia and the U.S. Midwest—or what the author has fashioned as the “diasporic Midwest.”
“Hidden” in Plain Sight
Authors: Vinson Robert Trent
Published: September 2019

This chapter is an initial attempt to recover the overlooked histories of Garveyite women in Africa. During the 1920s and 1930s, working within the South African Garveyite movement inaugurated by Wellington Buthelezi, African women in the Transkei indigenized global Garveyism to further their objective of African self-determination, particularly in their political, religious and educational lives. Regarded as apolitical tribal “natives” by government officials and as legal minors and social children by both black and white men, Garveyite women adopted transnational “American” identities to assert themselves as political actors, moving freely throughout the country to prophesy “American Negro” deliverance and to organize hundreds of independent churches and independent schools.
Decolonization, Desegregation, and Black Power
Authors: West Michael O.
Published: September 2019

As universal in its reach and aspirations as Garveyism, Black Power came to demand the completion and fulfilment of the visions and promises of decolonization and desegregation. It is hardly accidental that Black Power, for all its global impact, resonated most forcefully in the some of the same areas of the black world where Garveyism was most vibrant, namely the United States, Africa (especially Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana), and the Anglophone Caribbean. Indeed, the two phenomena, Garveyism and Black Power, were often linked organically and personally: a number of groups and individuals with origins in Garveyism would later join Black Power. Writers such as Amy Jacques Garvey and Walter Rodney expanded on Garvey’s work, and Pan-Africanism, the All-African People’s Conference, and Rastafari all owe a debt to Garveyism.
Introduction
Authors: Corrigan Matthew T. , Binder Michael
Published: September 2019

This book is an examination of how the Trump campaign won Floridain 2016. Florida, a perennial battleground state, was a microcosm of hisnational victory. Trump secured suburban and Republican voters thatmany thought would abandon him; white voters overwhelming supportedhim; and even Hispanic voters cast some ballots for the controversial candidate.With Election Day expectations overturned, there is still a sense ofshock at the chaos that has continued from the campaign into Trump’sadministration. While few have been able to successfully predict anythingabout the 2016 presidential election and the ensuing administration, we hopeto provide a thorough explanation of what happened and why.
Listening and Learning
Authors: Mrozowski Stephen A.
Published: September 2019

This chapter outlines some of the benefits of collaborative research. It draws on the experience gained and the lessons learned from close to a decade’s collaboration between the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Nipmuc Nation of Massachusetts. Close collaboration as part of the Hassanamesit Woods Project between Nipmuc archaeologist Dr. D. Rae Gould of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a member of the Hassanamisco Nipmuc, and the author has resulted in numerous ontological shifts. One of the more noteworthy has been a reassessment of the history of the seventeenth-century “Praying Indian” communities of colonial Massachusetts and Connecticut that have always been viewed as having been “established” by English missionary John Eliot. Such a view, long held by historians and archaeologists alike, was challenged as an outgrowth of collaborative dialogue resulting in a reassessment of notions of community and deeper connections to traditional Nipmuc lands. As a result, research examined deeper connections between the seventeenth-century community of Hassanamesit and earlier Nipmuc use of the area. Through a series of analytical studies, it was determined that cultural and spatial continuity could be demonstrated between recent Nipmuc communities and a deeper past.
Listening to Experts
Authors: Foghlú BillyÓ
Published: September 2019

Earth mounds are Late Holocene sites that have received little interpretation in Northern Australia’s archaeological record due to their visible similarity to natural features. This chapter will show how Indigenous traditional knowledge, coupled with new analytical techniques, has expanded the study of these sites in new directions. Indigenous communities’ engagement with their landscape and cultural epistemologies have provided concepts and evidence-based practices that take the interpretation of these sites beyond the biased lens of Western suppositions. The archaeology of listening is paramount in the interpretation of both the past and present meanings of these sites in Indigenous Australian communities.
Listening to History Performed in Pilgrimage
Authors: Walz Jonathan
Published: September 2019

Understanding a community’s things, practices, and words from their situated perspective motivates alternative histories. This chapter examines how an archaeologist’s practice might shift in circumstances where observing and listening to people are necessities. The case study addresses repurposed objects, ritual acts of healing, and the spoken words of healers to remake aspects of the Zigua past in lowland northeastern Tanzania. Knowing the meanings of their expressions – including an annual pilgrimage to gather healing items - creates an intellectual space for Zigua history within a global history. Living among the Zigua helps to understand them and to employ their historical approach and social condition to make an alternative history they render meaningful. As the Zigua case shows, an approach to science that values people first is transformative to African history.
Listening, Hearing, Choosing?
Authors: Horning Audrey
Published: September 2019

Drawing from efforts to engage archaeology as an integral part of peace-building in post-Troubles Northern Ireland, the risks and the rewards of collaborative cross-community practice are addressed. Focus is on the ethical challenges of negotiating the politics of the present while staying true to the evidence of the past. Positioning archaeology as a means of bridging the divisions in post-conflict settings toward the creation of a stable, shared society requires an ability to not only listen, but also to hear and respect the strength of personal and community narratives, even when those narratives may be founded on fundamental misrepresentations of the past.
Man of Destiny
Authors: Young Darius J.
Published: September 2019

This chapter begins with the tragic loss of Church’s wife, Sallie. It also covers the height of Church’s influence as a black political leader as he becomes an advisor for Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. It also shows how critical Church was of the Republican Party, as he constantly warned the leaders of the GOP of the possible defection of black support as a result of their failed promises. Finally, it provides a closer look into the relationship between Church and Boss E.H. Crump on a local level and how Church negotiated opportunities for the black community in exchange for supporting Crump’s Democratic machine politics.
E. M. Forster among the Ruins
Authors: Christie Stuart
Published: September 2019

Stuart Christie argues that E. M. Forster’s conative bodies—constituted by their material alliance with other bodies, in this case his Egyptian lover el’Adl, and the North African natural and built environs which surround them—make possible a new ethics of contact within the British Empire. Mixing material and textual encounters allows Forster to begin to re-make the colonizer-colonized relationship, demonstrating human imbrication in landscapes native and foreign, as well as the way in which bodies function as both barriers and bridges to the readability of othered spaces.
Black Girls and Lady Police
Authors: Hackett Robin
Published: September 2019

In this epilogue, Robin Hackett begins to theorize the future of the affective ecology of the modernist body as a raced body. Hackett’s essay reaches into the realm of twenty-first-century social justice advocacy in the current political climate—a climate in which the supremacy of white bodies and segregation of black bodies are constituted by spaces of access and exclusion—to ask of the modernist body, what’s next? Drawing on a framework of emotions that have been mobilized for critical activism, love, rage, and shame, and reading the spaces of schools and restrooms, care homes and gyms, Hackett questions the logic of how public affects circulate between black and white bodies and suggests instead that a blank affect may produce an ethical response that truly matters despite how it may make us feel.
Dead Matter for an Enlivened Practice
Authors: Gaztambide María C.
Published: September 2019

Chapter 5 considers the exhibition Homenaje a la necrofilia (November 1962) by artist Carlos Contramaestre (1933−96) as an extreme example of how El Techo subverted nationalized aesthetic values associated with petroleum-driven capitalism to create art that reflected the grit of contemporaneity. Through a series of twelve ephemeral assemblages created from disintegrating cattle carcasses, viscera, and blood, Contramaestre confronted death and decomposition with forceful vivid assertions of physical love. The conflation of the Freudian sexual and death drives was a direct affront against the technological utopia projected by hegemonic tendencies such as geometric-abstraction or the restrictive unanimity of (far less popular) strains of folkloric landscapes and genre scenes that circulated in Venezuela at this time.But the strategy also allowed the artist and the collective to challenge an atmosphere of political repression, torture, disappearances, and a corrosive culture of cyclical violence that accompanied a fast-tracked national project of socioeconomic modernization in the country.
Coda
Authors: Gaztambide María C.
Published: September 2019

The Coda retraces the late activities of El Techo de la Ballena membersJorge Camacho, Dámaso Ogaz, Carlos Contramaestre, Daniel Gonzálezand the group’sdisintegration beginning in the second half of the sixties. The group is conceptualized as a metaphorical “roof of the whale” that succumbed to a sea of troubles brought about by the decomposition of fads. The section ends by questioning the group’s legacy in light of the crumbling instability of the late sixties, when it conducted its last gestures.
Investigations at the Robinson Site (40SM4)
Authors: Morse Dan F. , Peres Tanya M.
Published: September 2019

Excavations at the Robinson Shell Mound site took place during the summer of 1963 and recovered more than 22,000 artifacts during what would be the first modern archaeological investigation of a shell-bearing site within the Middle Cumberland River Valley. The results of the excavations were synthesized by Morse for his 1967 PhD dissertation from the University of Michigan. In that work, Morse was one of the first to propose that the inhabitants of Robinson and similar shell-bearing sites were part of a larger regional economy based on white-tailed deer hunting, especially during winter congregations, and used shellfish as secondary resources. This discussion presents the first widelyaccessible summary of findings at the Robinson site and also presents previously unpublished data on zooarchaeology materials.
A New View of the Shell-Bearing Archaic in the Middle Cumberland River Valley
Authors: Peres Tanya M. , Deter-Wolf Aaron
Published: September 2019

While Archaic shell-bearing sites along the coastal margins of the southeastern United States have been the subject of multi-year investigations, interior riverine shell-bearing sites have, with the exception ofCarlstonAnnis on the Green River in Kentucky, garnered only limited study. Nevertheless, the combined data from coastal and interior shell-bearing sites have led to broad regional interpretations of the Shell Mound Archaic and debate between archaeologists about site construction and function. Archaic shell-bearing sites in the southeastern United States vary widely in terms of chronologies, horizontal and vertical structure, the types of cultural features they contain, and molluscan species composition. This has led to a growing realization that Archaic shell-bearing sites cannot—or should not—be lumped into a single pan-regional culture and that the “mound vs. midden” debate presents an interpretive logjam that does not satisfactorily address local and regional variations. The specific chronologies and composition of Archaic shell-bearing sites in the Middle Cumberland River Valley of Middle Tennessee constitute a unique regional phenomenon distinct from other interior riverine sites lumped within the Shell Mound Archaic paradigm.
Atlas of neonatal face images using triangular Meshes
Authors: Orona Pedro A. S. S. , Fabbro Davi  A. D. , Heiderich Tatiany M. , Barros Marina C. M. , Balda Rita C. X. , Guinsburg Ruth , Thomaz Carlos E.
Published: September 2019

Over the last years, neonatal face analysis has allowed the investigation and creation of non-invasive methods that enable classiﬁcation of painful stimulus in newborns. In this context, changes on facial movements and expression have provided relevant scientiﬁc information and clinical signiﬁcance, since they describe the presence of the pain itself perceived by the newborns. In this work, we propose and implement a computational framework that uses triangular meshes, with the goal of generating high resolution spatially normalized atlases potentially useful for automatic neonatal pain assessment.
Generative adversarial networks: a renewal for data augmentation in lung nodule classification
Authors: Anjos Bruno H. L. dos , Jatobá Anthony E. A. , Oliveira Marcelo C.
Published: September 2019

Obtaining medical images is an ethically restrictive process and still difﬁcult to validate, depending on well-trained professional, being a laborious and time-consuming activity. Therefore, the construction of large databases of structured medical images is one of the major challenges of the deep learning applications in the computerized aid to the diagnosis in medical images. GAN presents itself as an adequate solution to supply the small number of pathological exams that compose the most diverse medical images banks. In this work we intend to develop a method using GAN to balance the data set of Computed Tomography images and improve the performance of an arbitrary classiﬁer of pulmonary nodules. For this, two GAN architectures with the capacity to generate synthetic images of nodal cuts were trained and in a second moment, a Convolutional Neural Network was trained in rooms of different data set. The training of the different data sets were evaluated by AUC-ROC.
Automatic Ocular Alignment Evaluation for Strabismus Detection Using Index of Phylogenetic Diversity and Support Vector Machine
Authors: Simões Thayane de O. , Silva Aristófanes C. , Souza Johnatan C. , Almeida João D. S. , Paiva Anselmo C.
Published: September 2019

Strabismus is a pathology that affects the parallelism between two eyes. Estimates show that 1.3% to 3.5% of children aged six months to six years have strabismus around the world. Strabismus can lead to irreversible loss of vision, so early detection and appropriate treatment increase the likelihood of alignment being restored to normal. That said, in this study we proposed an automatic evaluation system to detect strabismus in face images, analyzing the horizontal positioning of the limb center in relation to the center of the corners of the eyes. The proposed method consists of ﬁve steps: (1) acquisition, (2) detection of the eye region, (3) segmentation and reconstruction of the sclera, (4) detection of the limb region and corners of the eyes and (5) identiﬁcation of the presence of strabismus, with this approach we obtain 90.1% sensitivity, 100% speciﬁcity and 91.1% accuracy.
Consumer Responsibility and the Transformation Process of the Electricity Market: Insights From Behavioral Decision ResearchDate submitted: October 27, 2017Revised version accepted after double blind review: November 11, 2018
Authors: Grabicki Fabian , Menges Roland
Published: September 2019

Since the 1990s, consumer research has looked for causes that could explain the absence of switching behavior of electricity consumers in liberalized electricity markets. Recent decision theory findings suggest that this absence of switching behavior is due to the so-called status quo bias. The status quo bias reflects the tendency of individuals to prefer the actual situation disproportionately (Samuelson & Zeckhauser, 1988). Using the insights of this particular bias, an economic experiment was designed to empirically test the influence of the status quo bias. In a choice-based conjoint analysis, subjects were repeatedly offered different variations of electricity contracts. 300 subjects were randomly assigned to either the control or the experimental group in four different treatments. In each of a total 15 decision-making situations, one electricity contract had to be chosen from the five different electricity contracts available. The only variation between the control and the experimental groups was that, in each decision situation of the three different status quo treatments, always one of the five electricity contracts was preselected by default. In accordance with a specific decision-making rule, this was always either the most renewable, the most local or the most expensive electricity contract. The results show significant differences between the control and the experimental group with respect to the part-worth utilities and the relative importance of the attributes. In contrast to the expectations of the model of rational choice, the type of framing of the choice task, whether an electricity contract was preselected by default as a status quo or not, seemed to influence the decision behavior of the subjects. The results are criticized as to whether competition in the liberalized electricity market is a suitable instrument to promote climate and infrastructure projects in the long term by the individual choice of electricity consumers, or whether political measures that are brought about by a collective decision should be preferred.
Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Foodborne Pathogens: Impact on Human Health and Economy
Authors: M. Mancilla-Becerra Lilia , Lías-Macías Teresa , L. Ramírez-Jiménez Cristina , Barba León Jeannette
Published: September 2019

The drug abuse known to occur during growth of animals intended for food production, because of their use as either a prophylactic or therapeutic treatment, promotes the emergence of bacterial drug resistance. It has been reported that at least 25% of the foodborne isolates show drug resistance to one or more classes of antimicrobials (FAO 2018). There are diverse mechanisms that promote drug resistance. It is known that the use of sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics in animals intended for food production promotes mutations of some chromosomal genes such as gyrA-parC and mphA, which are responsible for quinolone and azithromycin resistance, respectively. Also, the horizontal transfer of resistance genes as groups (“cassettes”) or plasmids makes the spread of resistance to different bacterial genera possible, among which there could be pathogens. The World Health Organization considers the emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria as a health problem, since the illnesses caused by them complicate the treatment and increase the morbidity and mortality rates. The complication in the illness treatment caused by a multidrug-resistant pathogen causes economic losses to patients for the payment of long stays in hospitals and also causes economic losses to companies due to the absenteeism of their workers.
Hypocrisy
Authors: Cheng Vincent Shing
Published: September 2019

Although the official propaganda surrounding the drug detainees in China is that of helping, educating, and saving them from their drug habits and the drug dealers who lure them into drug abuse, it is clear, according to Vincent Shing Cheng, that those who have gone through the rehabilitation system lost their trust in the Communist Party’s promise of help and consider it a failure. Based on first-hand information and established ideas in prison research, Hypocrisy gives an ethnographic account of reality and experiences of drug detainees in China and provides a glimpse into a population that is very hard to reach and study. Cheng argues that there is a discrepancy between the propaganda of ‘helping’ and ‘saving’ drug users in detention or rehabilitation centres and the reality of ‘humiliating’ them and making them prime targets of control. Such a discrepancy is possibly threatening rather than enhancing the party-state’s legitimacy. He concludes the book by demonstrating how the gulf between rhetoric and reality can illuminate many other systems, even in much less extreme societies than China.
Inside the World of the Eunuch
Authors: Dale Melissa S.
Published: September 2019

This book tells the story of how Chinese palace eunuchs, a complicated and much-maligned group of people, struggled to insert a degree of agency into their lives. During the Qing dynasty, the imperial court was determined to limit the influence of eunuchs by imposing a management style based upon strict rules, corporal punishment, and collective responsibility. Emasculation and employment placed eunuchs at the center of the empire, yet also subjected them to servile status and marginalization by society. Seeking more control over their lives, eunuchs repeatedly tested the boundaries of subservience to the emperor and the imperial court. This portrait of eunuch society reveals that Qing eunuchs operated within two parallel realms, one revolving around the emperor and the court by day and another among the eunuchs themselves by night where they recreated the social bonds (through drinking, gambling, and opium smoking) denied them by their palace service. Emasculation did not produce the ideal servants; rather, eunuchs proved to be a constant source of anxiety and labor challenges for the Qing imperial court. The history of Qing palace eunuchs is defined by a tension between the role eunuchs were meant to play and the life they intended to live.
Humility
Authors: Bilbro Jeffrey
Published: September 2019

When faced with moral or environmental problems, the industrial culture searches for a set of rules that can guide us through a messy reality. Yet these codes arrogantly foreclose a complex reality and provide a false assurance of propriety; as such, they are ways of keeping the self buffered. Berry, following thinkers such as Ivan Illich and Charles Taylor, turns to the parable of the Good Samaritan for insight into the embodied, humble forms of love that would characterize a truly sustainable community. His essays practice such humility not by being deferential or meek, but by recognizing that the human condition requires us to choose and act from a position of irremediable ignorance. Worse still, we humans generally don’t act on the basis of our most careful, rational thought, but on a more gut level. The occasional, ad hoc nature of his essays evinces his efforts to walk along what he terms a “way of ignorance,” a way of approaching reality in light of our condition as finite persons. In addition, many of Berry’s essays are structured by binaries—boomers versus stickers, the industrial economy versus the Kingdom of God—that work to pry open the codes we use to foreclose reality.
Hope
Authors: Bilbro Jeffrey
Published: September 2019

Climate change discourse trades in complex statistical models that, in general, offer gloomy prognostications of inevitable disaster. The problems appear so complicated that our only hope seems to lie in massive engineering solutions that might alter global weather patterns or extract tons of garbage from our oceans. This discourse of statistics and big data either makes it seem as though individuals cannot do anything to affect the problems and hence leads to pessimism, or it optimistically implies that we don’t need to do anything because technocrats can fix the problems for us. Berry’s essays, however, sharply distinguish between optimism—which is an industrial trait founded on the belief that technological progress will continue to make our lives better—and hope—which is a virtue founded on specific examples of good work and good lives. He offers particular examples of locally adapted good work that can support authentic hope: the artist Harlan Hubbard, the poet William Carlos Williams, the farming communities of the Amish. While individual examples may seem inadequate to the scale of global problems, Michel de Certeau argues that the everyday practices these people and communities model have the power to subvert unjust systems.