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Deconstructing Deconstruction: Zhuang Zi as Butterfly, Nietzsche as Gadfly
Authors: Wawrytko Sandra A.
Published: July 2012

Deconstruction and destruction tend to be viewed as a continuum, on the assumption that to deconstruct is to destroy. Deconstruction certainly seems intent on the death of definitive meaning, absolute truth, theoretical flights, and universal values. Versions of the deconstructive task have been addressed and applied by philosophers throughout history and across cultures. By examining such approaches we may learn whether deconstruction must bring destruction in its wake, or whether another outcome might be possible. To test this hypothesis the philosophy of Zhuang Zi is compared with that of Friedrich Nietzsche. Their unique approaches to the deconstructive task point to a deeper issue of contrasting cultural assumptions and grounding principles, allowing a better understanding of what lies at the heart of the philosophical divide between ''East'' and ''West.'' Each embraces a strategy of fruitful opposition: gadfly Nietzsche approaches his predecessors with wariness and righteous wrath; butterfly Zhuang Zi co-opts Kong Zi, and confounds Hui Zi. The distinction between opponent and competitor parallels that between wu-wei effortlessness and wei aggression. Despite an intuitive grasp of the child's 'yes' to life, wu-wei , Nietzsche remains mired in a defective wei strategy, while Zhuang Zi's Daoist deconstruction takes the form of wu-wei philosophical play.
Ode to Silence
Authors: Sexton Megan
Published: July 2012

This 40th anniversary issue edited by best-selling novelist Alice Hoffman
(The Dovekeepers, Practical Magic) features new work from Ursula K. Le
Guin, Marge Piercy, Jennifer Haigh, Ann Hood, and Wally Lamb; an interview
with Elizabeth Bishop from the archives; and a story from Ploughshares '
first Emerging Fiction Writer's Award winner Thomas Lee.
The night has a long hairy pelt, and: The romantic getaway, and: Baggage
Authors: Piercy Marge
Published: July 2012

This 40th anniversary issue edited by best-selling novelist Alice Hoffman
(The Dovekeepers, Practical Magic) features new work from Ursula K. Le
Guin, Marge Piercy, Jennifer Haigh, Ann Hood, and Wally Lamb; an interview
with Elizabeth Bishop from the archives; and a story from Ploughshares '
first Emerging Fiction Writer's Award winner Thomas Lee.
I Like to Live with Hermits
Authors: Samaras Nicholas
Published: July 2012

This 40th anniversary issue edited by best-selling novelist Alice Hoffman
(The Dovekeepers, Practical Magic) features new work from Ursula K. Le
Guin, Marge Piercy, Jennifer Haigh, Ann Hood, and Wally Lamb; an interview
with Elizabeth Bishop from the archives; and a story from Ploughshares '
first Emerging Fiction Writer's Award winner Thomas Lee.
The Deer
Authors: Franco James
Published: July 2012

This 40th anniversary issue edited by best-selling novelist Alice Hoffman
(The Dovekeepers, Practical Magic) features new work from Ursula K. Le
Guin, Marge Piercy, Jennifer Haigh, Ann Hood, and Wally Lamb; an interview
with Elizabeth Bishop from the archives; and a story from Ploughshares '
first Emerging Fiction Writer's Award winner Thomas Lee.
Antidote with Placebo
Authors: Militello Jennifer
Published: July 2012

This 40th anniversary issue edited by best-selling novelist Alice Hoffman
(The Dovekeepers, Practical Magic) features new work from Ursula K. Le
Guin, Marge Piercy, Jennifer Haigh, Ann Hood, and Wally Lamb; an interview
with Elizabeth Bishop from the archives; and a story from Ploughshares '
first Emerging Fiction Writer's Award winner Thomas Lee.
The Mystery of Sex and the Mystery of Time: An Integration of Some Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives
Authors: Bass Alan
Published: July 2012

Freudian theory historicizes sexuality, makes it temporal in a new way. Is there a relation between the rethinking of time in Heidegger and the temporality of sexuality? Jean Laplanche asks a similar question, and attempts to answer it. The paper takes up Laplanche's question, and provides a different answer, by focusing on the work of contemporary analysts who have extended the theory of sexuality into the realm of the transitional, and on related conceptions from Derrida and Deleuze. A stricter integration of Freud and Heidegger on sexuality and time is proposed via a reading of Freud's obscure notion of primary, intermediate organizations of the drives.
“I Would Have Rather Paid for a Class I Wanted to Take”: Utilitarian Approaches at a Community College
Authors: Cox Rebecca D.
Published: July 2012

This article examines community-college students’ goals within the dominant framing of higher education, in which education serves primarily as preparation for the new economy. Specifically, it explores students’ motives for acquiring college credentials and how they apply the principles of utility and efficiency to their pursuit of those credentials. This examination of students’ strategies illuminates their assumptions about what is worth learning and how one learns and, in turn, how their hopes of “learning something” can lead to disappointment. Ultimately, this analysis illustrates the consequences of students’ highly instrumental goals for their participation in college and in college coursework.
Undocumented College Students, Taxation, and Financial Aid: A Technical Note
Authors: Olivas Michael A.
Published: July 2012

A surprising amount of litigation and legislation has erupted over undocumented college students. Victims at the federal level are the DREAM Act and immigration reform. Financial aid raises technical issues for undocumented college applicants and for the citizen children of undocumented parents. Generally, the undocumented are ineligible for federal financial aid and nearly always for state aid. Even citizen college applicants face technical and administrative problems in negotiating the complex financial aid application process. The undocumented are trapped by imprecise definitions and applications of immigration categories among financial aid regulation, statutory immigration terms, and Internal Revenue Code provisions.
Feminists at Work: Collaborative Relationships Among Women Faculty
Authors: Sagaria Mary Ann Danowitz , Dickens Cynthia Sullivan
Published: July 2012

This article describes an interpretive study of 26 feminist women
faculty who collaborate with another woman or women in research
and/or scholarly writing. The findings indicate that collaboration is a
salient practice among feminist scholars. Collaborative practices
reflect distinctive pedagogical, instrumental, professional, and
intimate patterns that are philosophically congruent with feminism.
Enhancing Campus Climates for Racial/Ethnic Diversity: Educational Policy and Practice
Authors: Hurtado Sylvia , Milem Jeffrey F. , Clayton-Pedersen Alma R. , Allen Walter R.
Published: July 2012

Abstract:
This paper summarizes findings from classic and contemporary research on campus racial climate according to a four-dimensional model: (a) an institution’s historical legacy of inclusion or exclusion of various racial/ethnic groups, (b) its structural diversity, or the numerical representation of various racial/ethnic groups, (c) the psychological climate of perceptions and attitudes between and among groups, and (d) the behavioral climate, of campus intergroup relations. For each dimension, the paper recommends ways to enhance educational policy.
Does Higher Education Research Need Revisions?
Authors: Keller George
Published: July 2012

Quantitative studies, especially small-scale statistical probes, have
become the dominant and preferred mode of inquiry in higher
education research. But criticisms of this methodological monism
are mounting. The article examines the presuppositions of the
prevailing mode and describes the several strands of criticism,
noting how education and social research have changed in the past
four decades. The article also contains suggestions for improving
research in the field of higher education.
High Minority Enrollment, High School Lunch-Rates: Predisposition to College
Authors: Hamrick Florence A. (Florence Aileen) , Stage Frances K
Published: July 2012

Changes in K-12 school demographics foreshadow continued
change for postsecondary institutions that recruit students from
increasingly diverse backgrounds. This research tested the
adequacy of a general model in predicting college predisposition
among students of diverse ethnicities at schools characterized by
high minority enrollments and high proportions of participation in
subsidized school lunch programs. Results suggest that models
using broadly aggregated student data may overlook important
distinctions in college predisposition related to ethnicity, gender,
and school experience.
Restructuring U.S. Higher Education: Analyzing Models for Academic Program Review and Discontinuation
Authors: Michael Steve O
Published: July 2012

The importance of program review and discontinuation in a
dynamic, growth-oriented higher education system like that in the
United States cannot be overemphasized. This paper provides
models helpful to the policy makers and scholars who are
interested in program discontinuation. The paper also provides
levels of policy decisions for program discontinuation and examines
models that may be found appropriate and effective at each level.
The paper concludes with a set of program-discontinuation related
recommendations.
The National Research Council Graduate Program Ratings: What Are They Measuring?
Authors: Becker William E , Dundar Halil , Toutkoushian Robert Kevin
Published: July 2012

Peer assessment ratings of graduate programs have been both
highly cited and criticized as measures of program quality. This
study analyzes factors that affect peer assessments of faculty
quality and program effectiveness from the 1993 survey by the
National Research Council. We found that the determinants for
faculty quality and program effectiveness are very similar. Further,
programs in private institutions and/or in institutions with more
highly rated programs have higher ratings. Although program
reputations evolve slowly, programmatic changes can influence
them.
Institutional Context and the Development of Critical Thinking: A Research Note
Authors: Hagedorn Linda Serra , Pascarella Ernest T , Edison Marcia , Braxton John M , Nora Amaury , Terenzini Patrick T
Published: July 2012

This study sought to determine if the average level of student
critical thinking at a college (i.e., the institutional context)
influenced individual students' critical thinking skills. Analyses were
based on data from 23 highly diverse two- and four-year institutions
participating in the National Study of Student Learning with controls
for 15 potentially confounding influences. The findings were
modestly positive for students completing their first year but
insignificant by the end of the third year.
Pay and Performance in the University: An Examination of Faculty Salaries
Authors: Hearn James C
Published: July 2012

With more attention on productivity in higher
education has come a need for improved
conceptualizations and policies relating to faculty
salaries. Focusing on research universities, this
essay examines historical patterns in salaries, recent
evidence on salaries, the tenuous connections
between salaries and performance, and some
thoughts on the role of salaries in effective academic
reward systems. The essay's goal is to help leaders
craft salary policies that improve productivity in their
institutions.
Instructional Reform at Research Universities: Studying Faculty Motivation
Authors: Demery James , Brawner Catherine E , Serow Robert C.
Published: July 2012

Concerns about the quality of undergraduate teaching
have focused new attention on the motives underlying
faculty role performance at research universities. This
article reports findings from a case study of faculty
participation in one instructional reform coalition.
Results indicate three distinct motivational patterns,
corresponding roughly to variations in individuals'
faculty status. The implications of these findings are
considered in light of recent calls for the restructuring
of universities' faculty rewards systems.
The End(s) of Academic Labor
Authors: Bloland Harland G
Published: July 2012

Two books by higher education professors analyze changes in academic work as globalization, the imperatives of the market, and external group pressures modify the role of the professoriate. A third book, by a journalist, provides a context for assessing t
he first two. This review essay argues that research marketization and prioritizing teaching above research show that control over work is shifting from the professoriate to external groups. The conclusion discusses strategies for retaining professorial a
utonomy.
Policy Environments and System Design: Understanding State Governance Structures
Authors: Bracco Kathy Reeves , Richardson Richard C , Callan Patrick M , Finney Joni E
Published: July 2012

This article is based on a national comparative study of state higher education governance structures. The study sought to improve understanding of how differences in the state governance structures affect system performance. This article develops a new f
ramework for examining such structures and its implications for state policy. The study suggests that statewide governance is best understood as the result of the interaction between the framework's two dimensions: policy environment and system design.
The Effects of Tuition and State Financial Aid on Public College Enrollment
Authors: Heller Donald E
Published: July 2012

This study expands earlier research on student demand theory by examining the relationship between tuition prices, state grants, and public college enrollment in the 50 states from 1976 to 1994. It emphasizes differences in enrollment behavior among Asian
American, Black, Hispanic, and White students, as well as among college
sectors; from its results, the author establishes policy recommendations
for states to improve equality of access to public higher education in
this country.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Student Descriptions of the Doctoral Attrition Process
Authors: Golde Chris M
Published: July 2012

Little is known about the process of doctoral student attrition. Relying on theories of socialization and integration, this paper examines the cases of three students who left their doctoral programs. Their experiences show that academic integration pla
ys a greater role in attrition than social integration. Furthermore, the academic integration process can be ruptured, particularly when a student-advisor relationship ends. The paper also questions the idea that degree completion equals success and tha
t attrition equals failure.
Teaching-Related Stress: The Emotional Management of Faculty
Authors: Gates Gordon S
Published: July 2012

The work of faculty is stressful, yet most stress studies focus on faculty's research rather than teaching. This study examined the experience of nine tenured professors in search of answers to these questions: What classroom interactions do faculty find stressful? Why do faculty find these activities stressful? How do faculty explain, perform, and organize classroom practices to cope with these stresses?
The Role of Shared Governance in Institutional Hard Decisions: Enabler or Antagonist?
Authors: Eckel Peter D
Published: July 2012

The discussion on institutional governance and change is muddled by those interested in carving out a strong role for faculty (AAUP) or for administrators and trustees (AGB). This study explores empirically the ability of shared governance systems to make institutional hard decisions--in this instance, to discontinue academic programs. The four cases suggest that shared governance can be productive in making difficult decisions. The paper also offers suggestions for effective campus governance.
Who's Doing It Right? Strategic Activity in Public Research Universities
Authors: Rhoades Gary
Published: July 2012

In asking "Who's doing it right?", this essay explores three myths about public research universities: that no change occurs without managerial initiative, that managers focus fragmented academic units and loyalties, and that they rationalize budgeting and planning. Based on department head interviews at four universities, Rhoades challenges these myths, suggests alternative premises and guides for managerial action, and offers principles for strategically focusing universities.
Tools for a Time and Place: Phased Leadership Strategies to Institutionalize a Diversity Agenda
Authors: Kezar Adrianna J
Published: July 2012

This study examines college presidents who have successfully institutionalized diversity measures on their campuses, focusing on their strategies. The study focus was: Do campuses at different stages of institutionalization in their diversity agendas use different strategies? If so, why? And how do different strategies help move the campus toward institutionalizing a diversity agenda? It identifies institutions at three different levels of institutionalization and describes their distinctive strategies for each phase. The article argues that college presidents need to acknowledge the importance of understanding the institutional phase before implementing any activities or plans.
Decadent Heroines or Modernist Lovers: Natalie Clifford Barney's Unpublished Feminine Lovers or the Third Woman
Authors: Ray Chelsea
Published: July 2012

American émigrée Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) was a prolific writer and a key figure in the Parisian literary scene at the turn of the century. One of her most compelling works, Amants féminins ou la troisième (Feminine Lovers or the Third Woman, 1926), has received almost no scholarly attention due to its unpublished status. Based on a tumultuous three-way love affair between Barney, Mimi Franchetti, and Liane de Pougy, the novel is an important autobiographical document that demonstrates a kind of continuity between decadence and modernism.

Just as Barney's pensées can be seen as an explicit response to Blaise Pascal's Pensées—by virtue of their form and content—we see certain resonances between Barney's Feminine Lovers or the Third Woman and the depiction of erotic domination and gender ambiguity in Baudelaire's "Condemned Women: Delphine and Hippolyta" in The Flowers of Evil. In her feminist response to Baudelaire, Barney draws on his depiction of gender ambiguity that, at least on the surface, demonizes a woman's sexual desire (especially the desire for another woman) and uses it for another purpose: to reaffirm the erotic in lesbian relationships and to illustrate the emotional complexities of such relationships. In this experimental modern novel, Barney draws on decadent discourse to create a new language of desire, one that more fully represents her own vision of the gender dynamics within a lesbian relationship.
The Moral Intuition of Ruskin's "Storm-Cloud"
Authors: Day Brian J
Published: July 2012

Whereas the editors of The Norton Anthology of English Literature argue that John Ruskin's 1884 lecture "The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century" presents an environmental argument, this paper argues that the work is fundamentally ecological and moral: ecological in its emphasis on the interrelatedness of the divine, natural, and human economies; moral in its emphasis on how the external pollution that environs Ruskin's audience reflects an internal pollution at the heart of Victorian society, and in its argument that nature polluted by human economic activities signifies humankind's alienation from both God and nature.
Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century
Authors: Heringman Noah
Published: July 2012

An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the nineteenth century and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of the works received by SEL for consideration follow.
Compulsory Education
Authors: Hodge Jon
Published: July 2012

This essay details how the narrator of Charlotte Bront�'s Villette, Lucy Snowe, crafts her narrative by relying on the structure of obsession's pathology while not falling victim to its symptoms. In this way, Lucy not only finds her authorial voice, but also offers an alternative treatment for obsession, one in which the obsessed person need not renounce the compulsion to obsess (which may be impossible), but instead encourages her to express that obsession in a more culturally and personally productive fashion.
"Sympathy" in Jane Eyre
Authors: Kees Lara Freeburg
Published: July 2012

In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront� dramatizes an eighteenth-century understanding of sympathy as Jane and Rochester struggle to unite. This paper considers two important results of empiricism that inform this struggle. The first is the abolitionists' use of the language of sympathy, which complicates our understanding of how Bront� uses race and class. The second is the moral-philosophical void left by empiricism and, according to Alasdair MacIntyre, left unresolved by Enlightenment moral philosophy. By the novel's conclusion, sympathy fails to erase the borders of race and class and to replace orthodox religious faith. Jane Eyre illustrates the Enlightenment's failure on the individual level, and Jane creates a wholly personal moral and religious system.
Domestic Mobility in Persuasion and Sanditon
Authors: Sodeman Melissa
Published: July 2012

This essay situates Jane Austen's last works among contemporary debates surrounding travel and domesticity. Persuasion and Sanditon remove their heroines from their homes in order to place them within domestic structures that are mapped onto public spaces (the assembly hall, the street, or the village). In doing so, Austen redefines home as an open and porous place linked to and constituted by local, national, and even global concerns. These novels ask us to reevaluate Austen's relation to traditional domesticity as well as raise questions about the usefulness of "domestic fiction" as a critical and generic category.
Average Tropical Cyclone Intensity Along the Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and North Florida Coasts
Authors: Bettinger Pete , Merry Krista , Hepinstall Jeff
Published: July 2012

An analysis of the paths of tropical storms and hurricanes affecting the Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and north Florida coasts was conducted to determine both the average intensity of storms up to 250 km inland and 200 km out to sea, and changes in storm intensity as the storms move inland. The analysis was conducted using a geographic information system in conjunction with knowledge and information gathered from other work. Our analysis shows that there are areas of the Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and north Florida coasts that experience storms of greater intensity, on average, than other nearby areas. Specifically, storms of a given intensity up to 200 km out in the Atlantic Ocean will have similar intensities after landfall and up to 100 km inland. On average, however, storms arising from the Gulf of Mexico dissipate in intensity more quickly, with many Category 3 or higher storms dropping one class within 50 km of the Gulf coast as they make landfall.
Mapping Academic Achievement and Public School Choice Under the No Child Left Behind Legislation
Authors: Zhang Haifeng (Charlie) , Cowen David J.
Published: July 2012

The geography of educational outcomes and school choice remains an under-researched area. This article investigates factors associated with the spatial aspects of academic achievement gap and explores the geographical inequalities of public school choice in South Carolina in the context of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. It is found that public schools with large minority enrollments and concentrated poverty are more likely to be labeled as "in need of improvement" regardless of urban, suburban, or rural locality. Independent samples t-test and multiple regression results show that academic achievement is sensitive to poverty, teacher turnover rate, and neighborhood socioeconomic status. In addition, we found that rural failing schools are in a disadvantaged position in terms of public school choice required by the NCLB legislation. Findings from the current research inform education policymakers the importance of addressing the spatial aspects of educational phenomena.
Fifty-One Years of Shoreline Change at Little Lagoon, Alabama
Authors: Gibson Glen , Campbell James , Kennedy Lisa
Published: July 2012

In Alabama the term "coastal shoreline" applies to the Gulf shoreline and the shorelines of estuaries, bays, and sounds connected to the Gulf of Mexico and subject to its tides. However, Alabama shoreline studies have yet to include Little Lagoon, which has been connected to the Gulf of Mexico for most of the last 200 years according to historical charts. This study presents an analysis of shoreline change on Little Lagoon based on aerial photographs dating from 1955 to 2006. All images were georeferenced, projected, and digitized in a Geographic Information System to create sliver polygons that represented areas of change. The net change in lagoon size between 1955 and 2006 was relatively small (-0.4 percent), but significant changes occurred when evaluated on a larger scale. The greatest changes to Little Lagoon were found on its southern shoreline near tidal inlets, human development, and hurricane over-wash fans.
"It's all about me. Deal with it."
Authors: Holland Peter
Published: July 2012

"It's all about me. Deal with it." - a self-confident rhetoric that forms part of the Happy Bunny Range. Holland interrogates this, and discusses the multiplicity of the self, ultimately asking: Who am I? He firstly examines the newspaper theatre reviewer as a potential 'I' before turning to theatre bloggers who partake in a hypertextual network of online criticism. For him, he notes that the authority of his "I" changes depending on his role, for example, after giving a talk, which precedes a production as part of the Globe's "Setting the Scene" series, or bringing students to a production, which also modifies his "I". Also present at the performance, is his editorial "I". By grappling with the many "I"s that were present at that performance, Holland identifies the construction of 'I' as transient and fluid. However, his final note in response to Shakespeare Globe's 2006 production of Coriolanus is one of anger, and Holland presents one of the most important "I"s - the one that connects (or not) to the production on an emotional level.
Hearing with Eyes: Watching Shakespeare
Authors: Gilbert Miriam
Published: July 2012

This article recounts the author's (an RSC 'regular') experiences of watching three foreign-language productions of Shakespeare plays, staged as part of the RSC's 'Complete Works' year in 2006: Twelfth Night (performed in Russian by Cheek By Jowl); the multi-lingual Midsummer Night's Dream , performed by actors each of whom used his/her own native Indian language and sometimes English; and the production in Japanese by the Ninagawa Company of Titus Andronicus . Focusing on the last of these, the article considers the ways in which viewing the production in a foreign language accentuated the experience of watching the performance, drawing attention to the new and revealing sensation of hearing a familiar play made unfamiliar. The power of the unfamiliar language to simultaneously distance and draw in the spectator (or perhaps draw them in because they are distanced), even when they have seen the play many times over, the article suggests, becomes central to refocusing the audience's attention on the visual (the production's overwhelming patterns of gesture and movement and costume), forcing them to 'hear with their eyes.' By emphasising the amount of 'work' these productions require on the part of their audience, the article ultimately seeks to demonstrate the extent to which productions such as these seem to awaken their spectators, forcing them to attend with extra concentration, and making them active watchers: that, in the case of these productions, at least, watching Shakespeare becomes a way of watching ourselves.
Patents and Power: European Patent-System Integration in the Context of Globalization
Authors: Kranakis Eda
Published: July 2012

Patent system system integration has altered the balance between the interests of patent holders and society. Two turning points in this process are examined: the 1883 Paris Convention, and the1978 launch of the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the European Patent Convention. The article shows how these treaties evolved and how further integration occurred after their implementation, following unforeseen/unintended paths stemming partly from technological change. Overall, global patent system integration has increased the territorial reach of patents, curtailed national restrictions on their use, enhanced rights of patent applicants/holders, and broadened patentability definitions. Corporations, the dominant patent holders, are the principal beneficiaries of these changes. Patents have become powerful, sometimes hegemonic tools for corporations to control technology, people, and markets on a global scale. A case study shows how Monsanto used its European patents on GM soybeans to make Argentina change its patent laws, to the perceived detriment of Argentine farmers.
Ideology in Movement and a Movement in Ideology: The Deutsche Tanzfestspiele 1934 (9-16 December, Berlin)
Authors: Buch David Joseph , Worthen Hana
Published: July 2012

This essay analyzes the Berlin Deutsche Tanzfestspiele 1934, focusing on the discrepancy between the values embodied in National Socialist discourse and those represented on the stage. Reconstructing the festival and examining archival sources and reception, the essay places the Tanzfestspiele in its historical dis / continuity. By considering the Tanzfestspiele program's enforced conformity to the canon of "new German dance," the essay highlights the festival's negotiations between established and emerging dance paradigms as well as with the emotive rhetoric of the Third Reich.
"Victim. Perpetrator. Bystander": Melancholic Witnessing of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis
Authors: Tycer Alicia
Published: July 2012

This essay argues that critical emphasis on the autobiographical connections in Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis threatens to oversimplify the play’s wider significance. The essay re-addresses the play, utilizing Freud’s essay “Mourning and Melancholia,” to propose that 4.48’s minimalist form and initial productions encourage melancholic identifications. In conjunction with melancholia, this essay explores recent trauma theory, including the audience’s potential positionings as witnesses. The essay concludes by exposing 4.48’s political critiques, thereby broadening the ramifications of the piece.
"Defying Gravity": Queer Conventions in the Musical Wicked
Authors: Wolf Stacy Ellen
Published: July 2012

The musical Wicked, which opened on Broadway in 2003 and is the top-grossing musical of the twenty-first century, features certain elements of a contemporary megamusical, including spectacular visual effects, musical themes that thread through the score, and global capitalist marketing, distribution, and production practices. But, as I demonstrate in this essay, Wicked’s narrative and musical structure relies on the building blocks of the “integrated” musical developed and conventionalized during the 1940s and 1950s by Rodgers and Hammerstein and their peers. By starring two women as its principal characters, and by employing mid-twentieth-century musicals’ conventions of speech, music, lyrics, and dance, this prequel to The Wizard of Oz tells a queer and feminist romance. This essay explores recent scholarship on musical theatre to consider how Wicked navigates the politics of race, how it represents a remarkably appealing girl protagonist, and how it interpellates its audience through old conventions to tell a new and progressive story.
‘Letters ... in the thick of affairs’: The place of fiction in Africa South , 1957–61
Authors: Daymond M J
Published: July 2012

What could fiction and cultural debate bring to readers of the magazine Africa South ? In the late 1950s this magazine published political, economic, legal and other analyses of social life in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as polemics and journalism by writers variously but militantly opposed to the apartheid government’s policies in South Africa. The purpose of its editor, Ronald Segal, was to foster a broad front of opposition to racism at home and to connect with international intellectual movements opposing colonialism and racism. This article argues from Bakhtin’s observations about the radical instability of the sign in fiction, that fiction requires a different kind of reading from factual report. It demonstrates how the short stories in Africa South could enjoin on readers a conscious responsibility for sense-making and interpretation. This awareness created a questioning relation to text and thence to external realities that was in itself fundamentally oppositional and hospitable to the subject of socio-political change, for which the magazine as a whole argued. The writers considered here include both the famous and the forgotten: Ezekiel Mphahlele, Alan Paton, Tony O’Dowd and Noel Frieslich. Attention is on the semiotics of reading rather than on the contents of the short stories discussed. Because expectations of fiction change with the times, my question is necessarily an historical one. The article goes on to compare the climate of the 1950s with that of the more revolutionary 1980s, and with the present. For the present era Njabulo S Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela stands as a possibly representative text.
The role of groundwater characteristics in catchment recovery from nitrate pollution
Authors: Dunn S. M. , Darling W. G. , Birkel C. , Bacon J. R.
Published: July 2012

The effectiveness of measures to mitigate nitrate concentrations in surface and groundwater depends not only on their suitability for reducing nitrate leaching, but also on characteristics of groundwater transport that may cause a lag in achieving recovery. The recovery of a catchment within a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone in the east of Scotland has been assessed using a combined monitoring and modelling approach. Understanding of the dominant hydrological processes was developed through a programme of monitoring of surface and groundwater bodies. Age dating of groundwater samples, using dissolved atmospheric trace gases (CFCs and SF6) underpinned the conceptualisation of groundwater transport and a lumped dispersion model was applied to the data to estimate mean solute transit times. High spatial variability in the groundwater dating made it difficult to estimate catchment means, but the range was estimated to lie between 15 and 60 years. A catchment hydrology and nitrate model was used to explore the effect of simple changes in land management on reducing nitrate concentrations, as well as associated time scales of recovery. The study has helped improve understanding of the role of groundwater in catchment recovery and given an indication of the scale of agricultural changes required to achieve different levels of pollution mitigation.
Multi-year droughts in Europe: analysis of development and causes
Authors: Parry Simon , Hannaford Jamie , Lloyd-Hughes Ben , Prudhomme Christel
Published: July 2012

Whilst hydrological systems can show resilience to short-term streamflow deficiencies during within-year droughts, prolonged deficits during multi-year droughts are a significant threat to water resources security in Europe. This study uses a threshold-based objective classification of regional hydrological drought to qualitatively examine the characteristics, spatio-temporal evolution and synoptic climatic drivers of multi-year drought events in 1962–64, 1975–76 and 1995–97, on a European scale but with particular focus on the UK. Whilst all three events are multi-year, pan-European phenomena, their development and causes can be contrasted. The critical factor in explaining the unprecedented severity of the 1975–76 event is the consecutive occurrence of winter and summer drought. In contrast, 1962–64 was a succession of dry winters, mitigated by quiescent summers, whilst 1995–97 lacked spatial coherence and was interrupted by wet interludes. Synoptic climatic conditions vary within and between multi-year droughts, suggesting that regional factors modulate the climate signal in streamflow drought occurrence. Despite being underpinned by qualitatively similar climatic conditions and commonalities in evolution and characteristics, each of the three droughts has a unique spatio-temporal signature. An improved understanding of the spatio-temporal evolution and characteristics of multi-year droughts has much to contribute to monitoring and forecasting capability, and to improved mitigation strategies.
The Sustainability Solutions Agenda
Authors: Sarewitz Daniel , Clapp Richard , Crumbley Cathy , Kriebel David , Tickner Joel
Published: July 2012

Progress toward a more sustainable society is usually described in a “knowledge-first” framework, where science characterizes a problem in terms of its causes and mechanisms as a basis for subsequent action. Here we present a different approach—A Sustainability Solutions Agenda (SSA)—which seeks from the outset to identify the possible pathways to solutions. SSA focuses on uncovering paths to sustainability by improving current technological practice, and applying existing knowledge to identify and evaluate technological alternatives. SSA allows people and organizations to transition toward greater sustainability without sacrificing essential technological functions, and therefore does not threaten the interests that depend on those functions. Whereas knowledge-first approaches view scientific information as sufficient to convince people to take the right actions, even if those actions are perceived as against their immediate interests, SSA allows values to evolve toward greater attention to sustainability as a result of the positive experience of solving a problem.
The Serbian functional food market: Does regulation make a difference?
Authors: Stojanovic Zaklina , Dragutinovic-Mitrovic Radmila
Published: July 2012

This paper focuses on empirical analysis of the Serbian functional food
market and its comparison with those in other Western Balkan countries (WBC).
The purpose is to examine whether the existence of regulation, as an
institutional precondition, makes a difference on the operating of the
functional food market. This market is a new, fast developing segment, based
on health claims made for food. Consumers in Serbia cannot verify health
claims either before or after the purchase/consumption, since the property
rights on information are extremely weak. Additionally, with successful
innovation the free-rider problem usually occurs. Thus, strong institutional
support is necessary to ensure regular market functioning. In order to
identify the effects of regulation and some other factors with crucial
influence on the differences between Serbian and other WBC functional food
markets, pooled cross sectional analysis is conducted. The fixed-group
effects model is estimated based on data of product categories observed
across WBC. Differences in the current level of WBC market development could
be explained by the existence of legal regulation, competition, and other
factors. All results implicate the necessity of regulatory supervision as
well as closer cooperation between government, the private sector, consumer
groups, academics, and the research community in further functional food
market development in Serbia.
Ternary interdiffusion coefficients in α2-phase Ti3Al/Nb system
Authors: Wang W. , Yuan B. , Zhou C.
Published: July 2012

The ?2 single phase interdiffusion in Ti3Al-Nb ternary system was studied at
temperatures of 1323, 1373 and 1423 K. The interdiffusion coefficients were
calculated by the method of Dayananda. The average ternary interdiffusion
coeffcients were determined in the mid of the diffusion zone, and the trace
diffusion coefficients can be estimitaed in the limit cX?0. The obtained
main interdiffusion coeffcients is little smaller than privious reported and
the diffusion activation energy of Nb calculated by the trace diffusion
coefficients is 299.29 kJmol-1 accoding to the Arrhenius equation. These
results can provide a theoretical basis for the mechanisms of Nb improving
the oxidation resistance of Ti3Al.
Parallel Serbian versions of blot test: An empirical examination
Authors: Stepanovic-Ilic Ivana , Baucal Aleksandar , Bond Trevor
Published: July 2012

Logical Operations Test (BLOT) was developed for assessing the transition to
formal operational thinking. BLOT is a 35 item multiple-choice test which
examines all of the operations which comprise the logico-mathematical
structure of formal operations in Piaget?s theory. The test was translated
into Serbian and used in previously reported research. This work deals with
two additional parallel versions of the Serbian BLOT. For each original BLOT
item two more parallel items have been constructed by changing the item
content and leaving the logical structure of the item the same. Sample
consisted of 517 primary and secondary school students. Rasch analysis
confirmed that the vast majority of items maintained invariance across at
least two test versions: for 19 original items both parallel items maintained
their invariance, for 14 items one of the parallel items had similar
parameters and only 2 items did not remain invariant in the parallel tests.
Homogeneous stellar model having chemical composition: X = 0.628 and Z = 0.047
Authors: Tatomir E.
Published: July 2012

Presented is a model with the mass equal to one solar mass, the abundance of the hydrogen X = 0.628, the abundance of the helium Y = 0.325 and the abundance of the metals Z = 0.047. This model corresponds to the young stars belonging to the Population I.
Kinematics of a sample of visual double stars
Authors: Olevic D. , Cvetkovic Z. , Dacic M.
Published: July 2012

The Hipparcos-Input Catalogue also contains about 8000 already known visual double stars. In the framework of this-project campaign, in addition to other parameters, were also determined the parallaxes ?, as well as the polar coordinates ? and ? for double stars. On the basis of a comparison of these data to those obtained earlier from the ground based measurements (WDS Catalogue) statistical examinations of a double-star sample (1' ? ? ? 14') are performed. It is shown that an exceptionally good agreement exists of the statistical distribution ??/?t of the sample as function of ?(AU) and the curve ? = C(?)/?2 representing the II Kepler law.
A first and 11 recalculated orbits of double stars
Authors: Olevic D. , Jovanovic P.
Published: July 2012

We present the first orbit for the pair CHARA 130 as well as recalculated orbits for the following double stars: ADS 161, ADS 207, ADS 293, ADS 1393 ADS 2531, ADS 5707, ADS 6126, ADS 6532, ADS 6623, ADS 11247 and ADS 16914. Also, the comparison of obtained dynamical with the Hipparcos parallaxes is made.
Stark broadening parameter tables for Ne II and Ne III spectral lines
Authors: Dimitrijevic M.S.
Published: July 2012

Using a semiclassical approach, we have calculated electron-, proton-, He II-, Mg II-, Si II- and Fe II-impact line widths and shifts for 10 Ne II and 6 Ne III multiplets as a function of temperature and perturber density. For Ne II temperatures are: 5,000 K; 10,000 K; 20,000 K; 30,000 K; 50,000 K and 100,000 K and perturber densities from 1015 cm-3 up to 1020 cm-3. For Ne III temperatures are: 20,000 K; 50,000 K; 100,000 K; 200,000 K; 300,000 K and 500,000 K and perturber densities from 1017 cm-3 up to 1021 cm-3. Perturbers selected here, are the main perturbers in solar and stellar atmospheres.
CCD astrometric observations of minor planets at the Belgrade observatory during 1999 (II)
Authors: Protitch-Benishek V. , Benishek Vl.
Published: July 2012

76 precise astrometric positions of six observed minor planets (two NEO among them) are calculated. The SBIG ST-8 camera attached to Askania astrograph of Belgrade Observatory was used in the observations.
Changes in erythrocyte membrane permeability induced by verapamil, chlorpromazine, and their combinations with amphotericin B
Authors: Knopik-Skrocka Agnieszka , Bielawski Józef , Chowański Szymon , Walkowiak Paulina
Published: July 2012

Changes in erythrocyte membrane permeability induced by verapamil, chlorpromazine, and their combinations with amphotericin B

Hemolysis induced by 2 amphipathic agents, verapamil and chlorpromazine, was investigated in various incubation conditions. Changes in absorbance of erythrocyte suspension were monitored by absorption spectrophotometry at a wavelength of 590 nm. The hemolysis induced by verapamil or chlorpromazine is of the permeability type. The resistance of erythrocytes to verapamil is much higher than their resistance to chlorpromazine. No evident difference is found between human and pig erythrocytes in their resistance to verapamil. Only a small decrease in the rate of hemolysis induced by verapamil is observed in isotonic CaCl2, MgCl2 or K2SO4 solutions, compared to 160 mM KCl (the standard incubation medium). The changes in hemolytic activity of chlorpromazine in the presence of the divalent cations and anions are less evident. No decrease in hemolytic activity of chlorpromazine and verapamil is observed in the sucrose medium. The hemolytic activity of both the agents increases when they act in combination with polyene antibiotic amphotericin B. The results indicate a strong synergy between amphotericin B and verapamil or chlorpromazine. By contrast, a combined effect of verapamil and chlorpromazine on erythrocytes leads to a decrease in their hemolytic activity. This indicates antagonism between verapamil and chlorpromazine.
Comments on Flow characteristics of axial high speed impellers (Chem. Process Eng., 2010, 31, 661)
Authors: Joshi Jyeshtharaj
Published: July 2012

Comments on Flow characteristics of axial high speed impellers (Chem. Process Eng., 2010, 31, 661)
Replay to Comments on Flow characteristics of axial high speed impellers (Chem. Process Eng., 2010, 31, 661)
Authors: Fořt Ivan
Published: July 2012

Replay to Comments on Flow characteristics of axial high speed impellers (Chem. Process Eng., 2010, 31, 661)
Reconstruction of the Main Cylinder of Carding Machine-Optimization of Dimensions with the Use of the Finite Element Method
Authors: Danielczyk Piotr , Stadnicki Jacek
Published: July 2012

Reconstruction of the Main Cylinder of Carding Machine-Optimization of Dimensions with the Use of the Finite Element Method

The following paper presents the solution to the problem of searching the best shape - structural form of the bottoms and optimal dimensions of the main cylinder of the carding machine with consideration to the criterion of minimal deflection amplitude. The ANSYS package of the Finite Element Method has been used for the analysis. Polak-Ribery conjugate gradient method has been applied for searching the optimal solution, basing on the parametric model of the cylinder written with the use ofAnsys Parametric Design Language.As a result of the performed analyses, reduction of maximum deflection value at approximately 80% has been obtained. Optimal cylinder dimensions enable application of a new textile technology - microfibre carding and improvement in the quality of traditional carding technology of woollen and wool-like fibres.