bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
O significado musical de tonus em Isidoro de Sevilha
Authors: Cerqueira Luís M.G.
Published: January 2019

The definition of tonus given by Isidor's Etym., 3, 20 is here analysed consedering the sources of Isidors, namely Cassiodor, and the historical limitations of Isidor in understanding the toni. No longer knowing the ancient toni of the Antiquity and not yet the gregorian modes, his musical definition is wrongly taken from Grammar, and corresponds to the tonic accent of words.
Les dioramas de l’Australian War Memorial (Canberra). Réécrire le récit national à l’heure du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale
Authors: Crenn Gaëlle
Published: January 2019

L’Australian War Memorial (AWM) de Canberra présente dans sa galerie de la Première Guerre mondiale, rouverte après une profonde rénovation en 2014, une dizaine de dioramas mettant en scène des champs de bataille dans lesquels les Forces impériales australiennes furent engagées au cours du conflit. Selon un guide souvenir du Mémorial, « les visiteurs sont attirés vers eux comme par magie, et les souvenirs que l’on en garde durent souvent la vie entière ». Comment comprendre cette « magie » exercée par les dioramas sur leurs visiteurs ? Quelles sont dans un tel contexte les fonctions qu’on souhaite leur voir remplir ? En observant la place et l’opérativité attribuées aux dioramas de la galerie de la Première guerre mondiale, avant et après la rénovation de 2014, nous mettons en valeur la façon dont ces dispositifs muséographiques sont révélateurs des enjeux mémoriels de la société australienne à l’heure du centenaire, et contribuent jusqu’aujourd’hui à réarticuler les liens des visiteurs à leur histoire.
Microcosme et immersion : Les teatrini de Gaetano Giulio Zumbo
Authors: Ehrhart Liliane
Published: January 2019

Les impressions des visiteurs devant trois mises en scène baroques de Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, La Peste, Le Triomphe du temps et Le Sépulcre, aujourd’hui exposées à la Specola, sont généralement prêtées à leur sujet – des scènes de dissolution – ou au matériau utilisé pour les réaliser – la cire, une matière souvent décrite comme inquiétante. Si ces deux éléments jouent effectivement un rôle majeur dans la réception de l’œuvre, d’autres agents qui constituent les œuvres, à savoir les cabinets qui présentent chaque scène et la taille réduite des représentations, participent tout autant aux effets générés. Or, ceux-ci sont souvent négligés par les études de ces œuvres singulières. Prenant pour prémisses le fait que les dispositifs baroques tiennent du diorama, cet article étudie leurs stratégies d’immersion en se focalisant sur les cabinets et la taille réduite, deux phénomènes de frontière importants puisqu’ils conditionnent la manière dont le spectateur va appréhender ces œuvres.
Évocation et abstraction : Une approche alternative au réalisme des dioramas
Authors: Triquet Éric
Published: January 2019

Les dioramas sont habituellement associés à une muséographie analogique, fondée sur un principe de similitude. Si ces dispositifs visent à instituer un rapport de transparence avec le réel, d’autres présentations naturalistes vont faire le choix d’une mise en scène abstraite et symbolique. C’est le cas de la galerie « Montagne vivante » du Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Grenoble. À partir de cet exemple, notre article se propose de mettre au jour le fonctionnement sémiotique d’une telle approche muséographique. Il tente de répondre aux trois questions suivantes : cette approche se positionne-t-elle en rupture par rapport aux dioramas ou propose-t-elle seulement un accès différent au réel ? Si oui, quelle forme de rapport au réel introduit-elle ? Et dans quelle mesure détermine-t-elle de nouvelles modalités de réception du côté du visiteur ? Ce dernier point nous conduit à envisager en conclusion une forme particulière de littéracie, la « littéracie muséale ».
Direct and residual contact toxicity of insecticides to Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)
Authors: Gradish A.E. , Fraser H. , Scott-Dupree C.D.
Published: January 2019

Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) is a serious invasive pest of many agricultural and horticultural crops in Canada and the United States of America. To mitigate economic loss for growers, effective management options for H. halys are needed. We evaluated the efficacy of 12 insecticides (Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo-Crivelli) Vuillemin (Cordycipitaceae), boric acid, chlorpyrifos, clothianidin, flupryadifurone, λ-cyhalothrin, malathion, novaluron, sulfoxaflor, thiamethoxam, thiamethoxam + λ-cyhalothrin, and thiamethoxam + novaluron) currently used or with potential for H. halys management by determining their direct and residual contact toxicity to H. halys nymphs. Each insecticide was tested at its Canadian label rate and half and twice that rate. With the exception of chlorpyrifos, nymph mortality was low (< 40%) following direct or residual contact exposure to all insecticides and rates. All surviving nymphs were severely affected (i.e., knocked down) by direct and residual contact exposure to neonicotinoids, while approximately 66% of nymphs were severely affected following exposure to sulfloxaflor residues at label and twice label rate. However, few nymphs were severely affected by all other insecticides and rates. Overall, our results suggest that H. halys is not susceptible to many insecticides at current label rates for Canada. More research is needed to identify efficacious insecticides for H. halys.
Emergency Action Planning in Secondary School Athletics: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Current Adoption of Best Practice Standards
Authors: Scarneo Samantha E. , DiStefano Lindsay J. , Stearns Rebecca L. , Register-Mihalik Johna K. , Denegar Craig R. , Casa Douglas J.
Published: January 2019

Context

Emergency action plans (EAPs) are policies that improve response times and ensure access to emergency equipment for the management of patients with acute injuries and medical conditions, yet the extent to which EAP standards are adopted and implemented is unknown.

Objective

To describe the extent of EAP adoption and implementation in secondary school (SS) athletics with athletic trainer (AT) services in the United States.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Web-based questionnaire.

Patients or Other Participants

A national sample of ATs (n = 9642) was invited to participate in a Web-based questionnaire.

Main Outcome Measure(s)

Twelve components of EAP minimum best practices were derived from the “National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) Position Statement: Emergency Planning in Athletics.” Emergency action plan components were analyzed using descriptive statistics with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) around proportions. Contingency tables (2 × 2) were used to calculate odds ratios (with 95% CIs) to assess adoption of the components (dichotomized as yes or no), employment factors (eg, full time versus part time, employed by clinic/district), and access to emergency equipment.

Results

The response rate for the questionnaire was 13.2% (n = 1273). A majority of ATs (89.1%) reported having an EAP; however, only 9.9% described implementing all 12 components cited in the NATA position statement. Athletic trainers stated that they created the EAP in 62.8% (95% CI = 60.1%, 65.4%) of schools with an EAP. Athletic trainers employed full time were at greater odds of adopting 9 or more components of the EAP compared with ATs employed part time (odds ratio = 2.42 [95% CI = 1.66, 3.53]). A total of 85.7% of ATs noted access to an automated external defibrillator.

Conclusions

Although a majority of SSs had EAPs, the EAPs were often incomplete and lacked the necessary components for full compliance with the NATA position statement. These findings demonstrate the need for efforts to promote the adoption and implementation of comprehensive EAPs in SS athletics.
A historical overview of the study of the theology of religions
Authors: Beyers Jaco
Published: January 2019

No abstract available
Dietary patterns, nutrition, and risk of breast cancer: a case-control study in the west of Iran
Authors: Marzbani Behjat , Nazari Javad , Najafi Farid , Marzbani Behnaz , Shahabadi Sara , Amini Mahin , Moradinazar Mehdi , Pasdar Yahya , Shakiba Ebrahim , Amini Saeed
Published: January 2019

OBJECTIVES: Unhealthy dietary patterns are the most important changeable risk factors for breast cancer. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between dietary patterns and the risk of breast cancer among under-50 year women in the west of Iran.METHODS: All women under 50 years old with pathologically confirmed breast cancer between 2013 and 2015 who were referred to oncology clinics in the west of Iran, and 408 under-50 women referred to other outpatient clinics who were without breast or other cancers at the time of the study and 2 years later were selected as the control group. The data were collected using the middle-aged periodical care form of the Iranian Ministry of Health and analyzed using univariate and multivariate logistic regression in Stata.RESULTS: The most powerful risk factor for breast cancer was fried foods; the odds ratio of consuming fried foods more than once a month for breast cancer was 4.5 (95% confidence interval, 2.1 to 9.4). A dose-response model indicated that increasing vegetable and fruit consumption up to 90 servings per month decreased the odds of breast cancer, but consuming more than 90 servings per month increased the risk.CONCLUSIONS: Inadequate consumption of vegetables and consumption of soft drinks, industrially produced juices, fried foods, and sweets were identified as risk factors for breast cancer. In response to these findings, it is necessary to raise awareness and to provide education about healthy diets and the need to change unhealthy dietary patterns.
Свободные алгебры автоморфных форм Гильберта
Authors: Stuken Ekaterina Sergeevna
Published: January 2019

Пусть $d>0$ - свободное от квадратов целое число и $L_d$ - соответствующая решетка Гильберта. Пусть $\Gamma$ - порожденная отражениями подгруппа конечного индекса группы $O^+(L_d)$, содержащая $-\operatorname{id}$, а $A(\Gamma)$ - алгебра $\Gamma$-автоморфных форм. В работе доказывается следующая теорема: если алгебра $A(\Gamma)$ свободна, то $d \in \{2,3,5,6,13,21\}$.
Двумерные периодические операторы Шредингера, интегрируемые на «собственном» уровне энергии
Authors: Il'ina Anna Vasil'evna , Krichever Igor Moiseevich , Nekrasov Nikita Alexandrovich
Published: January 2019

В первой части настоящей работы доказано, что ферми-кривая двумерного периодического оператора Шрeдингера с положительным потенциалом, точки которой параметризуют блоховские решения уравнения Шрeдингера на нулевом уровне энергии, является гладкой $M$-кривой. Кроме того, полюсы блоховских решений расположены по одному на каждом из неподвижных овалов некоторой антиголоморфной инволюции. При деформации потенциала топологический тип устойчив до тех пор, пока при каком-то значении параметра деформации для соответствующего потенциала нулевой уровень энергии не становится собственным в пространстве (анти)периодических функций. Вторая часть работы посвящена построению таких потенциалов с помощью обобщения конструкции Новикова-Веселова.
Power Quality Requirements for Plug-In Electric Vehicle Chargers
Authors:   Hybrid - EV Committee
Published: January 2019

The intent of this document is to develop a recommended practice for PEV chargers, whether on-board or off-board the vehicle, that will enable equipment manufacturers, vehicle manufacturers, electric utilities, and others to make reasonable design decisions regarding power quality. The three main purposes are as follows:

1

To identify those parameters of PEV battery charger that must be controlled in order to preserve the quality of the AC service.

2

To identify those characteristics of the AC service that may significantly impact the performance of the charger.

3

To identify values for power quality, susceptibility, and power control parameters which are based on current U.S. and international standards. These values should be technically feasible and cost effective to implement into PEV battery chargers.

SAE J2894/2 will describe the test methods for the parameters/requirements in this document.
Radical Friend
Authors: Hewitt Nancy A.
Published: January 2019

A pillar of radical activism in nineteenth-century America, Amy Kirby Post (1802–89) participated in a wide range of movements and labored tirelessly to orchestrate ties between issues, causes, and activists. A conductor on the Underground Railroad, co-organizer of the 1848 Rochester Woman’s Rights Convention, and a key figure in progressive Quaker, antislavery, feminist, and spiritualist communities, Post sustained movements locally, regionally, and nationally over many decades. But more than simply telling the story of her role as a local leader or a bridge between local and national arenas of activism, Nancy A. Hewitt argues that Post’s radical vision offers a critical perspective on current conceptualizations of social activism in the nineteenth century. While some individual radicals in this period have received contemporary attention—most notably William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Lucretia Mott (all of whom were friends of Post)—the existence of an extensive network of radical activists bound together across eight decades by ties of family, friendship, and faith has been largely ignored. In this in-depth biography of Post, Hewitt demonstrates a vibrant radical tradition of social justice that sought to transform the nation.
Defiant Indigeneity
Authors: Teves Stephanie Nohelani
Published: January 2019

"Aloha" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For Kānaka Maoli people, the concept of "aloha" is a representation and articulation of their identity, despite its misappropriation and commandeering by non-Native audiences in the form of things like the "hula girl" of popular culture. Considering the way aloha is embodied, performed, and interpreted in Native Hawaiian literature, music, plays, dance, drag performance, and even ghost tours from the twentieth century to the present, Stephanie Nohelani Teves shows that misunderstanding of the concept by non-Native audiences has not prevented the Kānaka Maoli from using it to create and empower community and articulate its distinct Indigenous meaning. While Native Hawaiian artists, activists, scholars, and other performers have labored to educate diverse publics about the complexity of Indigenous Hawaiian identity, ongoing acts of violence against Indigenous communities have undermined these efforts. In this multidisciplinary work, Teves argues that Indigenous peoples must continue to embrace the performance of their identities in the face of this violence in order to challenge settler-colonialism and its efforts to contain and commodify Hawaiian Indigeneity.
Multiple technical observations of the atmospheric boundary layer structure of a red warning haze episode in Beijing
Authors: Shi Yu , Hu Fei , Fan Guangqiang , Zhang Zhe
Published: January 2019

Abstract. The study and control of air pollution need to detect the structure of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) in order to understand the mechanism of interaction between atmospheric boundary layer and air pollution. However, when extreme pollution occurs, the detection of atmospheric boundary layer structure is very scarce. Beijing, the capital of China, has experienced a severe haze pollution in December 2016. The city issued its first red air pollution warning of this year (the highest PM2.5 concentration was later monitored to exceed 450 μg m−3). In this paper, the vertical profiles of wind, temperature, humidity and extinction coefficient (reflecting aerosol concentration), as well as ABL heights and turbulence quantities under heavy haze pollution are analyzed, with collected data from Lidar, wind profile radar (WPR), radiosonde, 325-meter meteorological tower (equipped with 7-layer supersonic anemometer and 15-layer low frequency wind, temperature and humidity sensors) and some other ground observations. ABL heights obtained by three different methods based on Lidar extinction coefficient data (Hc) are compared with the heights calculated from radiosonde temperature data (Hθ) and from WPR wind speed data (Hu). The results show that increase of water vapor has greatly promoted the hygroscopic growth of aerosols, the corresponding extinction coefficients also increased significantly. The PBL heights Hθ and Hu of heavy haze pollution day were generally lower than those of clean day, but Hc increased. Turbulent activities were great inhibited during haze pollution, time changes of both friction velocity (u*) and turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) have obvious inverse correlation with that of PM2.5. The results of this paper could provide some reference for the parameterization of the boundary layer height and turbulent diffusion process in the numerical model of severe air pollution.
Building bridges between experts and the public: a comparison of two-way communication formats for flooding and air pollution risk
Authors: Loroño-Leturiondo Maria , O'Hare Paul , Cook Simon J. , Hoon Stephen R. , Illingworth Sam
Published: January 2019

Abstract. Urban centres worldwide are adversely affected by flooding and air pollution.
Better-prepared citizens are crucial to limiting the impacts of these
hazards, and both lay knowledge and personal experiences are important in
complementing and challenging expert opinion. For the first time, this study
offers a critical comparison of how different two-way communication formats
have been used worldwide between experts and the public in relation to
flooding and air pollution risk. Through a systematic review, we analyse
social media, educational programmes, serious games, citizen science, and
forums in terms of their effectiveness in respect of dealing with incidents,
raising awareness, and promoting knowledge exchange in the context of
flooding and air pollution risk. We find that there is neither a
one-size-fits-all nor superior format of communication. No single format is
effective in fulfilling all three communication purposes. All five formats
analysed appear to be successful under different circumstances and are never
suitable for all segments of the population. Communication between experts and
the public is difficult and full of tensions; information alone is not
enough. Our study shows different ways of incorporating strategies to build
trust between experts and the public and make communication more fun and
accessible, breaking down hierarchies and creating safe spaces for
co-creation where everyone feels empowered to participate and everyone benefits.
A wireless monitoring system for a high-power borehole–ground electromagnetic transmitter
Authors: Cheng Shuangshuang , Deng Ming , Wang Meng , Jin Sheng , Zhang Qisheng , Chen Kai
Published: January 2019

Abstract. Visual interfaces and wireless monitoring have played
significant roles in the application of electromagnetic transmitters.
Therefore, we have designed a wireless monitoring system that is based on the
Visual Studio 2015 Windows form application by using C# language and
multi-threading technology. The system can effectively implement many
functions, including time monitoring via a real-time clock, switching of the
transmitting frequency, changing of transmission mode, and the storage and
verification of the transmitter condition information. These things allow the
wireless monitoring system to support condition monitoring and operation
control of the transmitter. The
results of several field tests confirm that the proposed wireless monitoring
system provides a user-friendly interface and convenient and stable
operation. The system is able to satisfy the wireless monitoring and
multifunctional demands for transmitters implemented in land electromagnetic
exploration and act as a reference for scientific researchers pursuing
instrument development and electromagnetic prospecting.
The 18O ecohydrology of a grassland ecosystem – predictions and observations
Authors: Hirl Regina T. , Schnyder Hans , Ostler Ulrike , Schäufele Rudi , Schleip Inga , Vetter Sylvia H. , Auerswald Karl , Baca Cabrera Juan C. , Wingate Lisa , Barbour Margaret M. , Ogée Jérôme
Published: January 2019

Abstract. The oxygen isotope composition (δ18O) of leaf water δ18O>sub>leaf) is an important determinant of environmental and physiological information found in biological archives, but the system-scale understanding of the propagation of the δ18O of rain through soil and xylem water to δ18Oleaf has not been verified for grassland. Here we report a unique and comprehensive dataset of biweekly δ18O observations in soil, stem and leaf waters made over seven growing seasons in a temperate, drought-prone, mixed-species grassland. Using an 18O-enabled soil–plant–atmosphere transfer model, we evaluated our ability to predict the dynamics of δ18O in soil water, the depth of water uptake, and the effects of soil and atmospheric moisture on 18O-enrichment of leaf water (Δ18Oleaf) in this ecosystem. The model accurately predicted the δ18O dynamics of the different ecosystem water pools. Water uptake occurred from shallow soil depths throughout dry and wet periods in all years, presumably because of the high grazing pressure. Δ18Oleaf responded to both soil and atmospheric moisture and was best described when leaf water was separated into two non-mixing water pools. The close agreement between model predictions and observations is remarkable (and promising) as model parameters describing the relevant physical features or functional relationships of soil and vegetation were held constant with one single value for the entire mixed-species ecosystem.
Automatic measurement and characterization of the dynamic properties of tethered membrane wings
Authors: Hummel Jan , Göhlich Dietmar , Schmehl Roland
Published: January 2019

Abstract. We have developed a tow test setup for the reproducible measurement of the
dynamic properties of different types of tethered membrane wings. The test
procedure is based on repeatable automated maneuvers with the entire kite
system under realistic conditions. By measuring line forces and line angles,
we determine the aerodynamic coefficients and lift-to-drag ratio as functions
of the length ratio between power and steering lines. This nondimensional
parameter characterizes the angle of attack of the wing and is varied
automatically by the control unit on the towed test bench. During each towing
run, several test cycles are executed such that mean values can be determined
and errors can be minimized. We can conclude from this study that an
objective measurement of specific dynamic properties of highly flexible
membrane wings is feasible. The presented tow test method is suitable for
quantitatively assessing and comparing different wing designs. The method
represents an essential milestone for the development and characterization of
tethered membrane wings as well as for the validation and improvement of
simulation models. On the basis of this work, more complex maneuvers and a
full degree of automation can be implemented in subsequent work. It can also
be used for aerodynamic parameter identification.
What the PCC tells us about “abstract” agreement, head movement, and locality
Authors: Preminger Omer
Published: January 2019

Based on the cross- and intra-linguistic distribution of Person Case Constraint (PCC) effects, this paper shows that there can be no agreement in ϕ-features (PERSON, NUMBER, GENDER/NOUN-CLASS) which systematically lacks a morpho-phonological footprint. That is, there is no such thing as “abstract” ϕ-agreement, null across the entire paradigm. Applying the same diagnostic to instances of clitic doubling, we see that these do involve syntactic agreement. This cannot be because clitic doubling is agreement; it behaves like movement (and unlike agreement) in a variety of respects. Nor can this be because clitic doubling, qua movement, is contingent on prior agreement—since the claim that all movement depends on prior agreement is demonstrably false. Clitic doubling requires prior agreement because it is an instance of non-local head movement, and movement of X0 to Y0 always requires a prior syntactic relationship between Y0 and XP. In local head movement (the kind that is already permitted under the Head Movement Constraint), this requirement is trivially satisfied by (c-)selection. But in non-local cases, agreement must fill this role.
From Paper to Pixel
Authors: Zieger Susan
Published: January 2019

The introduction lays out the book’s terms, critical concerns, method, and historical and theoretical contexts. Explaining how printed ephemera transformed the texture of everyday middle- and working-class life throughout the nineteenth century, peaking in the 1860s and 1890s, it then shows how affect, itself an ephemeral human condition, registered the new social relations that mass media reorganized. The introduction explains the book’s engagement with theorists of media and mass media such as Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Marx Horkheimer, and Friedrich Kittler; and theorists of affect and mass culture such as Eve Sedgwick, Lauren Berlant, and Kathleen Stewart. It describes the cultural evidence the book assembles, such as temperance medals, cigarette cards, ink blot games, and novels; and describes each chapter.
Tobacco Papers, Holmes’s Pipe, Cigarette Cards, and Information Addiction
Authors: Zieger Susan
Published: January 2019

Chapter two investigates an overlooked archive of tobacco ephemera, the smoke-room booklets, cigarette cards, and periodicals meant to be consumed by men while smoking. Tobacco-related poems, pictures, and print forms produced a self-referential discourse that compared smoking to consuming print, through puns on “leaves,” “volumes,” and “puffs” of speech preserved in paper. Through the medium of smoke, mass print self-consciously began to mediate fantasy, mental relaxation, and reverie. The most famous nineteenth-century literary smoker, Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, figures this addictive dependency on print in his iconic pipe. His media “addiction” – really a reliance on obscure information – reflects readers’ desire for encyclopedic knowledge. Such desires for cultural mastery drove the popularity of cigarette cards, which featured trivia, and became a staple of working- and middle-class life from their invention in the 1890s. Reframing Holmes as the first “information addict,” the chapter tells the back story of our current intensified appetite for information in a knowledge economy governed by mass media.
Unknown Publics
Authors: Zieger Susan
Published: January 2019

The conclusion reviews the five central components through which the book has posited connections between nineteenth- and twenty-first century habits of media consumption. It shows how “addiction” still serves as a descriptive metaphor for the consumption of information, now networked and constantly refreshing itself; how the fantasy of infinite mental retention still governs fantasies of mastering information overload; how playback has only continued to conflate memory with information storage, resulting in programmable subjects and information as a super-commodity; how digital media reproduction and circulation ironically still creates the aura of mass live events; and finally, how the media consumer’s dilemma of establishing authenticity has only become more aggravated in an era of self-branding on social media.
The Traveler’s Spirit
Authors: Vecoli Rudolph J. , Durante Francesco
Published: January 2019

This chapter discusses Celso Cesare Moreno's early life to determine how he developed wanderlust and grandiose ambitions, and what factors could have sparked his penchant for exoticism and risk. Celso was born on March 5, 1831, in Dogliani, Italy, to Carlo Giuseppe Moreni and Antonia Vivalda. After providing a background on his family and the environment in which he grew up, this chapter considers Moreno's education. At the age of seventeen, Moreno enlisted in the Savoyard army and was severely wounded at Goito in June 1848. It was the beginning of his military career. Because Moreno proudly bore the title Capitano Marittimo, or sea captain, all his life, he must have attended the Scuola di Nautica di Genova. He also went to the Royal Naval Academy in Genoa, graduating with the rank of lieutenant. The chapter also speculates on the influence of a contemporary, Nino Bixio, on Moreno's career.
Celso’s Vendetta
Authors: Vecoli Rudolph J. , Durante Francesco
Published: January 2019

This chapter examines how Celso Cesare Moreno plotted his revenge after the debacle in Hawaii and describes his role in the education of three Hawaiian students: Robert William Wilcox, Robert Napu'uako Boyd, and James Kaneholo Booth. Moreno left Honolulu for San Francisco onboard the steamer Zealandia. He wanted James M. Comly, whom he believed was primarily responsible for his downfall, removed as the U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Hawaii. He enrolled Wilcox, Boyd, and Booth in three different military schools—Royal Academy of Civil and Military Engineers in Turin, Royal Naval Academy in Livorno, and Nunziatella Military Academy in Naples, respectively. The chapter also discusses Moreno's travel across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe with King David Kalākaua and his dignitaries, which included William Nevins Armstrong, now Royal Commissioner of Immigration. Finally, it reflects on the death of Booth due to cholera.
Electoral Intermezzo
Authors: Vecoli Rudolph J. , Durante Francesco
Published: January 2019

This chapter examines Celso Cesare Moreno's involvement in Italian electoral politics, focusing on his failed bid to win a seat in Parliament. It first considers the role played by journalist and writer Giovanni Faldella in jumpstarting Moreno's political career before discussing how Moreno attempted to impose himself on the political scene of the “New Italy.” It then analyzes Moreno's defeat during the election of October 29, 1882 and his decision to launch his own newspaper thereafter, the O Ficcanaso: Giornale locale da cianze e da rie, to publicize his political platform in preparation for the supplementary election to be held on January 7, 1883. Despite his efforts to bolster himself with propaganda using O Ficcanaso, Moreno lost once again in the 1883 election. As a member of Parliament, Moreno's primary agenda would have been to rescue Italy from the alliance with the British “shopkeepers”.
The Destiny of Hawaii
Authors: Vecoli Rudolph J. , Durante Francesco
Published: January 2019

This chapter examines the role played by Celso Cesare Moreno in Hawaiian politics and its destiny as a U.S. territory. It discusses the political changes in Hawaii during Moreno's time there, beginning with his 1887 publication of a pamphlet, which included a letter to King David Kalākaua asking for reimbursement of the expenses that Moreno incurred for the maintenance of the three Hawaiian students: Robert William Wilcox, Robert Napu'uako Boyd, and James Kaneholo Booth. In the letter, Moreno also attacked Walter Murray Gibson, whom he said was not qualified to be prime minister of Hawaii. The chapter also considers Moreno's views about the Reciprocity Treaty and the Hawaiian question; Hawaii's Bayonet Constitution; Wilcox's emergence as a revolutionary; the rise of Kalākaua's sister Lili'uokalani as his successor to the throne; and the annexation of Hawaii as a U.S. territory in 1898.
Our Country
Authors: Brodrecht Grant R.
Published: January 2019

Our Country explores northern evangelical thought and sentiment in relation to the concept of Union during the Civil War era. The book complements our understanding of northern motivation during the Civil War and contributes to a fuller understanding of the eventual “failure” of Reconstruction to provide a secure basis for African Americans’ equal inclusion in American society. In short, the book contends that mainstream northern evangelicals consistently subordinated concern for racial justice to an overarching understanding of the Union as a specifically Christian nation that existed in a covenantal relationship to God under their proprietary care. The book joins recent scholarship that gives primacy to the Union, while it challenges interpretations that understand northern evangelicals primarily in terms of abolitionist millennialism. Mainstream evangelicals did not enter Reconstruction with the primary aim of achieving racial justice. Rather, they entered Reconstruction expecting to see the emergence of a speedily restored, prosperous, and culturally homogeneous Union, a Union strengthened by God through the defeat of secession and the removal of slavery as secession’s cause. That restored Union was to be one in which evangelical religious and political assumptions would be even more culturally dominant than they had been during the antebellum years. Focused on much else besides racial justice, northern evangelicals acted as a brake on the abolitionist vision for a racially equitable and inclusive American Union throughout the entire Civil War era.
Portrait
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2019

This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. This book is written from the perspective that the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an individual, but it can also express the dynamics by means of which its subject advances and withdraws. The book consists of two extended essays written a decade apart but in close conversation, in which the author considers the range of aspirations articulated by the portrait. Heavily illustrated, it includes a newly written preface bringing the two essays together and a substantial Introduction, which places the author's work within the range of thinking of aesthetics and the subject, from religion, to aesthetics, to psychoanalysis. Though undergirded by a powerful grasp of the philosophical and psychoanalytic tradition that has rendered our sense of the subject so problematic, this book is at heart an unpretentious reading of three dozen portraits, from ancient drinking mugs to recent experimental or parodic pieces in which the artistic representation of a sitter is made from their blood, germ cultures, or DNA. The contemporary world of ubiquitous photos, the book argues, in no way makes the portrait a thing of the past. On the contrary, the forms of appearing that mark the portrait continue to challenge how we see the bodies and representations that dominate our world.
Recall
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2019

Images of images, shadows drawn from a past “dream of shadows,” paintings; with them, we cross shadows and dreams—the shadow in which death gathers its forces, the dream in which life is condensed—so as to return to the magically addressed starting point: a look that is neither a question nor an answer but silence and a pause, a mute witness to what was....
Theophany
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2019

In its weaving of Judeo-Greek themes, Christianity introduced a revolution into the mimesis of the human face and from there into mimesis in general. If man is made in the image of God, on the one hand, and if, on the other hand, God becomes man—that is, if God makes himself into his own image but within the mortal condition defined through its sin—then the image of man can oscillate between divine value and the value of human fallenness....
Coda I
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2019

Whether we designate the stakes of the portrait as the un-representable of the face, as the dis- or trans-figuration of the figure, or else as the indeterminate slippage of a face barely glimpsed, these diverse modes remain linked to each other by that which makes the portrait into the “absolute of the image.”...
Mysterious Moves of Revolution: Specters of Black Power, Futures of Postcoloniality
Authors: Chari Sharad
Published: January 2019

This chapter begins with C.L.R. James’ quip on considering the passage of his ideas to South Africa, that “revolution moves in mysterious ways its wonders to perform.” From a reading of James’ Black Jacobins the paper shifts to a diagnosis of four dialectical moments in anti-apartheid Durban, South Africa. The ‘moment of the disqualified’ exemplifies best what James (citing Hegel) calls “the seriousness, the suffering, the patience and the labour of the negative.” Emerging from this detour through the rough and tumble of revolutionary Durban, through the making and unmaking of coalitional Black politics, the paper connects the critique of the essential Black political subject with the work of reimagining revolution against racial capitalism. The key argument is that a postcolonial politics to come must circuit through the insights of the Black radical tradition, while stretching the spectre of Black Power into new, and newly creolized futures.
Reading Du Bois’s Revelation: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism
Authors: Wilder Gary
Published: January 2019

This essay analyzes W.E.B. Du Bois’s Depression-era program for black self-management through economic cooperatives. I suggest that this plan started from his belief that racial emancipation would never be possible under capitalist arrangements and socialism could never be realized as long as a color bar existed. I demonstrate how Du Bois hoped through this experiment in black mutualism to enact and contribute to the creation of a multi-racial democratic and socialist society that would promote dis-alienated forms of life in and beyond America. I argue that Du Bois’s radical humanism and non-liberal universalism has become illegible to critical and postcolonial theory today, just when it may speak directly to current intellectual dilemmas and political imperatives – primarily by displacing the false opposition between abstract universality and concrete particularity.
The Postcolonial Avant-Garde and the Claim to Futurity: Edwar al-Kharrat’s Ethics of Tentative Innovation
Authors: Spanos Adam
Published: January 2019

This chapter delinks the avant-garde from the contingent cultural expressions of imperialism prevalent at the time of its emergence in Europe and speculates on the possibility of an avant-garde not aggrandized by foreign domination. Like his Surrealist counterparts in the West, Egyptian writer Edwar al-Kharrat aimed to produce total social change by means of obscure rather than didactic references. He did so not to shock his compatriots out of bourgeois complacency, however, but to stimulate them to more autonomous thinking about the history of their subjection to neocolonial and dictatorial forms of authority. Al-Kharrat arranged a literary mosaic comprising scenes of transhistorical suffering without causal narrative, leaving readers to produce a representation of historical time adequate to understanding them. Al-Kharrat’s work suggests the terms of an avant-garde relying on humility rather than egoism for its effect, and mobilizing anachronism rather than
Beginning with Literature
Authors: Kamuf Peggy
Published: January 2019

This chapter takes up Derrida’s proposition in The Death Penalty, Volume I, that by definition the death penalty must be visible to an eye witness and the state “must see die the condemned one.” The essay further contends that when such witness is borne it is, paradoxically, struck by the seal of a secrecy that it shares with literature or the poetic. The consequences of this contradiction between visibility and secrecy are worked out through readings of Victor Hugo, Albert Camus, Jean Genet, and Maurice Blanchot, which serve as test sites for literature’s witness for—against?—the death penalty.
A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution
Authors: Rottenberg Elizabeth
Published: January 2019

This chapter will explore a phantasm that lies at the heart of both Derrida's and Foucault's analyses of the death penalty. While Derrida’s theoretical questions are and remain very different from those of Foucault—for Derrida the death penalty will be the example par excellence of sovereign power, whereas it becomes but another example of power-knowledge in a specific regime of punishment for Foucault—both thinkers end up, curiously, pointing to a similar phantasm that underwrites the death penalty, namely the phantasm of the mastery of time. In the end, this chapter hopes to show that unlike other questions on which Derrida and Foucault remain divided (e.g., the question of the "medical gaze" or the despectacularization of punishment), the question of the death penalty brings their thinking together in new and surprising ways.
Gregory of Nyssa: Reading Animality and Desire
Authors: Meyer Eric Daryl
Published: January 2019

Chapter 2 takes up Gregory of Nyssa’s homiletic Commentary on the Song of Songs with special attention to Gregory’s exegetical strategies for dealing with extensive animal imagery in the context of erotic poetry. Gregory’s interpretation utilizes the strangeness of the animal imagery to cover the naked indiscretion of the Song’s sexual content for his listeners; attention to animal metaphors allows Gregory to produce contemplative wisdom from an erotic text. Simultaneously, however, Gregory disparages a straightforwardly sexual reading of the Song as a capitulation to base and beastly desires. In the end, Gregory’s reading is structured around a dynamic tension as it is desire rather than rationality that ultimately draws a human being into endless pursuit of union with God. Although this holy desire is a function of the animal portion of human life, Gregory can never acknowledge it as such without undermining his fundamental commitment to anthropological exceptionalism.
The Transcendence of Trauma: Prospects for the Continental Philosophy of Religion
Authors: Rubenstein Mary-Jane
Published: January 2019

This paper will serve as a response to the manuscripts in the volume with special attention to the consequences and prospects that its insights hold for the future of the continental philosophy of religion. Its specifics are to be determined.
The Hedge Fund of Reality
Authors: Narkunas J. Paul
Published: January 2019

The chapter elaborates how the Object Oriented Ontology’s universe of things works too closely with financial capitalism, as both generate a posthuman reality. The OOO seems too preoccupied with the industrial capital of modernity and its production of stuff (objects and services) to mark its postanthropocentric ontology to consider how financial capitalism, now accounting for over 33% of the profits in the economy despite 7% of the real economy and 4% of the jobs, operates ontologically not through physical objects but through leveraging debt and hoarding value. Indeed, the immaterial objects that the OOO celebrate may include derivatives and hedge funds (themselves often pools of immaterial value). The shift from industrial capitalism’s organization around the production of objects and capture of labor to financial capital’s debt and leveraging marks what I call a movement from the logic of the object and capture of labor to the logic of the derivative and hedging of debt/value. I discuss how the reification of life works in both these contexts, and show how reification is a necessary term for thinking humans rendered into a field of assets and shares of value.
Between Words, Numbers, and Things
Authors: Narkunas J. Paul
Published: January 2019

This chapter further outlines the concept of speculative fictions with Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. Atwood depicts a post-apocalyptic and posthuman future, where the speculative promise of financial capital and biotechnology has destroyed the world as we know it. Atwood diagnoses the human as a bioengineered product, the effect of the synergy of science, evangelical positivism, utilitarianism, and messianic faith in human innovation and market-based solutions in the creation of transgenic beings. The chapter describes Atwood as a writer of speculative fictions in her “ustopian” world modeling that challenges speculative capital’s instrumentalization of life as risk management. Atwood opposes life becoming rendered into an algorithmic game, a complex calculation that generates automated reasoning. Atwood demonstrates the importance of critiques of anthropocentrism and speciesism; however, she shows how they seemingly lack a concept of power except as anthropocentrism. If the concept of nonhistorical, fixed essences is challenged by what molecular biologists call morphogenesis and philosopher’s ontogenesis, recent advances in tissue engineering, stem cell research, and biotechnology rethink life as a non-anthropocentric process. Thinking humans ontologically as dynamically networked life and process—in short as ahuman—may frustrate life’s instrumentalization by the biotechs within free market capital.
Reification of the Human
Authors: Narkunas J. Paul
Published: January 2019

Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never Let Me Go follows a group of genetic clones who are created as wards of the British health service because they serve a utilitarian function: They are manufactured for the purpose of having their vital organs harvested until their death. The world he envisions of a grouping of humans reproduced to be a living warehouse of organs while certainly dreadful is nowhere near as horrific as when organ transplantation and global uneven development intersect in our neoliberal present. Ishiguro shows how humans who view their humanity instrumentally expedite a world that is ready to slice them into shares, monetizing all the parts along the way. Through Ishiguro’s text, I diagnose the reification of the body as an aggregation of fungible body parts. Human reification challenges bioethicists and cultural critics alike to reflect on how human dignity and bodily integrity no longer serve as barriers for marking the species-limit due to new advances in biotechnology.
Digital Documentation Platforms in Prehospital Care- Do They Support the Nursing Care
Authors: Pahlin Torbjörn , Mattsson Janet
Published: January 2019

This study examines and describe the ambulance nurse's experience of nursing documentation in single responder and the transfer of the documentation to other care levels.  A qualitative design was used with focus group interviews as data collection method to enhance knowledge of the everyday experience of nursing documentation. The ambulance service in Sweden is a profession in transition that evolved from being a transport organization to provide advanced medical care and nursing. However, all patients do not need advanced medical treatment and the Single responder is an alternative resource to the ambulance that is used when no life-threatening conditions exists. However, the nurse faces a number of challenges when documenting nursing care interventions related to technological development and the mismatch between the care offered and people's demands and needs. Even though nursing care documentation is key to enhance and develop patient safety within a young field as ambulance service. There is a lack of a coherent documentation system and two themes emerged through content analyzes which conveyed how nursing care becomes invisible and how nursing care interventions are communicated through a hidden language. There are serious shortcomings in the transfer of nursing documentation to other care levels as well as deficiencies in the nursing documentation. Which jeopardizes the quality of care and patient safety as well as a systematic development of nursing care in this field.