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Cultural (Il)literacy: Narratives of Epistolary Resistance and Transnational Citizenship in Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender
Authors: Socolovsky Maya
Published: December 2015

This article explores the ways in which Julia Alvarez’s semi-epistolary young adult novel Return to Sender (2009) demonstrates reading and writing as ideological practices. The novel’s co-protagonist Mari, a Mexican undocumented migrant living in Vermont, is marginalized by her illegal status in the US, and creates, through her letters and diary entries, transformative spaces of writing. The novel illustrates what Alvarez considers the nation’s cultural illiteracy, in which social conditioning criminalizes illegal immigrants and creates an environment of paranoia and fear. The novel addresses this illiteracy by creating a vision of transnational citizenship, primarily through Mari’s epistolary narrative, which documents her family’s experiences and offers certain stylistic features particular to epistolary writing that allow Alvarez to demonstrate the instabilities of migrant life in the US.
Mary Augusta Ward’s “Perfect Economist” and the Logic of Anti-Suffragism
Authors: Coit Emily
Published: December 2015

This article exposes the engagement of Mary Augusta Ward’s Marcella (1894) with the emergent academic discipline of economics, drawing connections between Ward’s influential novel and texts by the economic thinkers John Ruskin, Beatrice Webb, and Alfred Marshall. Marcella , I contend, represents gendered forms of economic knowledge, and this representation expresses the often misunderstood “difference feminism” that informs both Ward’s anti-suffrage stance and her advocacy for women’s education. Bringing together historical scholarship on the professionalization of economics and literary scholarship on nineteenth-century feminisms, this reading of Ward’s novel proposes that economic learning plays an important role in the thinking that shapes the British anti-suffrage movement.
Johannine Poetics in George Herbert’s Devotional Lyrics
Authors: Cefalu Paul
Published: December 2015

This essay argues that the influence of Johannine theology on George Herbert’s poetry has been neglected in Herbert criticism, partly because Herbert’s critics tend to assume that Pauline theology is the proper theological frame for much of Herbert’s religious verse. I argue that several of Herbert’s well-regarded poems conform to a distinctly Johannine poetics that emphasizes the divinity of Christ, realized eschatology, and, in terms of style, a rhetoric of productive misunderstanding and irony.
The Art of Arbitrage: Reimagining Mark Twain, Business Man
Authors: Wonham Henry B.
Published: December 2015

In this essay, I argue that an image of regular returns on invested capital played a profound role in Mark Twain’s imagination, informing not only his conception of financial well-being for himself and his family, but his understanding of literary creativity itself. To observe the operations of unearned income both in Twain’s fiction and as Twain’s fiction is to encounter a different version of Mark Twain, Business Man than the one we knew.
Motive, Intention, Anonymity, and Evelina
Authors: Vareschi Mark
Published: December 2015

Named authorship is one of the central enabling unities of literary study. In the absence of an authorial name, we often inquire of the authorial motives behind anonymous publication as if such motives were knowable or relevant to the interpretation of the text or, indeed, to the history of anonymity or authorship.Taking as a case study the often-noted and analyzed anonymity of Evelina (1778), I demonstrate the difficulty and inutility of imputing motive to Frances Burney because such efforts focus on the singularity of both text and author while ignoring the broader trends in the literary and print marketplace.
The Syllable Structure in the Modern Hebrew Noun and Adjective System
Authors: Cohen-Gross Dalia
Published: December 2015

The field of syllable structure in Modern Hebrew has been largely neglected. The goal of the study whose results are reported in the present article is to shed light on the subject and thus to widen the understanding the morpho-phonemics of Modern Hebrew by analyzing a large representative sample of entries from a Hebrew dictionary and categorizing them by origin, grammatical category, stress position, number of syllables, gender, and number.
Leviticus 24:10–23: An Outsider Perspective
Authors: Holguín Julián Andrés González
Published: December 2015

This paper explores Lev 24:10–23 from the perspective of the outsider. By looking at the story of the so-called blasphemer, I bring up the issues of community boundaries that affect the way he is portrayed. How the narrative describes this person introduces tensions between him and the community. First, I explore the exegetical problems that surround the fight between this man and an Israelite, showing that there is more here than just a wayward or malicious person cursing the deity of the community. Second, I look at the divine speech because one possible interpretation is that the deity, Yhwh, allows for the possibility of the community worshiping other gods. This issue complicates the mainstream interpretation that depicts the mestizo as a “blasphemer.” Since Yhwh accepts worship of other gods, the boundaries between insiders and outsiders are not well defined; in this context, issues of justice are part of the story and the man’s gruesome fate. After considering the biblical text, I will explore a recent case where an outsider pays for the consequences of misspeaking and ends up deported to his homeland. I establish an initial dialogue between the biblical story and that of a Bangladeshi native to see how these stories complement each other. The connection critiques the traditional readings of the Leviticus narrative that do not pay attention to the portrayal of the mestizo in it.
The Pain of Two Homelands: Immigration to Israel in Twenty-First Century Hebrew Prose Fiction
Authors: Shiffman Smadar
Published: December 2015

The article explores the conceptualization of immigration to Israel by two twenty-first century Hebrew novelists. Unlike the prose fiction of previous decades, which deals with immigration in terms of aliyah , whether aspiring to the ideal of the “melting pot” or criticizing it, that of Alona Kimhi, a woman immigrant from the former USSR, and Sami Berdugo, a son of North African immigrants, is best considered in terms of minority literature. Both writers depict characters whose attitude toward integration in the mainstream Israeli culture is deeply and painfully ambivalent and skillfully use Hebrew—broken and idiosyncratic in Berdugo’s case, rich and fluent in Kimhi’s—to subvert the idea of an integral national collective whose common language it is supposed to be.
The Inner Object in Modern Hebrew: Identification, Definition, Structure, and Syntactic Role
Authors: Ilani Noga
Published: December 2015

The article discusses the morphological, semantic, and syntactic (governability and substitutability) parameters according to which the inner object can be defined and characterized in Modern Hebrew. In addition, it describes the various types of accompanying modifiers of inner objects in Modern Hebrew. This description might help in distinguishing between the inner object and other complements in the sentence. Finally, the article addresses the syntactic role of the inner object.
Memory and History in Israeli Post-Apocalyptic Theater
Authors: Caspi Zahava
Published: December 2015

The article discusses two dystopian plays in Hebrew, Joshua Sobol’s The Jerusalem Syndrome (1987) and Shimon Buzaglo’s Black Rain (2007), as well as their performances in Israeli theatre. I will examine the new forms used in these plays—polydrama in Sobol’s case, theater as a testimonial medium in Buzaglo’s—and analyze why apocalyptic drama rooted in the memory of past catastrophes is better suited than other avenues of historical commemoration to serve as a catalyst of imagined introspection that may help avert future dangers by shedding a sober light on the problems of the present.
Favor: A Construction of Affection in Biblical Hebrew
Authors: Vardi Ruti
Published: December 2015

The Biblical Hebrew idiomatic construction [X find favor in Y’s eyes] conveys positive attitude of the deity toward humans as well as of one human toward another. Whereas X is the syntactic subject, in the schematic meaning of the construction, [Y favor X], it is a passive recipient of favor that bears the semantic role of theme; Y is the constituent part with the semantic role of experiencer. A linguistic-cognitive examination of the construction in its biblical contexts reveals hierarchical relations between X and Y based on their sociocultural identities and, in a small number of occurrences, on contextual dependency relation between them. The presence of the construction in these contexts seems to reflect an ancient cultural conception of favor as associated with the deity and humans of high social status. It is assumed that the cognitive mechanism of embodiment underlies this conception as well as the construction’s emergence in the language. The findings of the paper form a basis for further investigation of emotions in Biblical Hebrew and their specific relation to social structures.
Questioning Boundaries of Language and the World: Ambivalence and Disillusionment in the Writings of Shimon Adaf
Authors: Lemberger Dorit
Published: December 2015

The article demonstrates that the writings of Shimon Adaf put into question fundamental conventions concerning the “Mizrahi” literature in Israel by creating a unique poetic language that comprises a unique diversity of genres and language games from different periods of Hebrew as well as from other languages. This diversity generates multivocity whose effects build up an enquiry into the boundaries of language as a key to the meaning of life. Adaf’s poetic devices are examined from a philosophical, linguistic, and cultural perspective that draws upon Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, and Bhabha so as to analyze the act of poetic language in terms of cultural criticism that Adaf offers through ambivalent portrayal of central themes in Israeli culture, with this ambivalence producing the effect of disillusionment.
Overtones of Isaac and Jesus in Modern Hebrew Narrative
Authors: Wineman Aryeh
Published: December 2015

In the context of a basic relationship between the Akedah (binding of Isaac), together with the tradition it generated at different periods, and the account of Jesus’ crucifixion in the Gospels, it is interesting to note certain exemplars of Modern Hebrew prose fiction which, in some way and on some level, reflect both sacrificial narratives. While the primary accent in such works clearly revolves around the binding of Isaac and its interpretation, one also finds in the same texts either explicit mention of, or allusion to elements of the crucifixion accounts. The literary compositions discussed in the present article, by Kabak, Oz, Hazaz, and Appelfeld, span a number of decades and display very different thrusts and emphases. What they share is a literary utilization of the innate power of both sacrificial traditions in ways that have enriched Modern Hebrew writing. In these compositions and in the contexts, in which the authors evoked both traditions, they acquire new life and meaning.
The Semantic Potential of Verbal Conjugations as a Set of Polysemous Senses: The Qatal in Genesis
Authors: Andrason Alexander , van der Merwe Christo H. J.
Published: December 2015

This paper demonstrates that by using the anterior path as a template, it is possible to order and elucidate a dominant portion of the semantic domain of the Biblical Hebrew qatal form (i.e., the perfect, perfective, and past senses) as consecutive developmental stages of the anterior path. It is also argued that the perfect values of the qatal should not be explained as a type of aspect or tense. They belong to an independent category referred to as “taxis.” By employing the definition of prototypicality in terms of frequency, the authors conclude that in the light of statistical analysis, the domain of taxis constitutes the most prototypical part of the semantic potential of the qatal in Genesis (55.7%). The recognition of the category of perfect as an independent stage on the diachronic cline and acknowledgment of its weight in the meaning of the qatal likewise makes it possible to explain a number of the other senses of the qatal .
Forgotten Experiment: Canada’s Resettlement of Palestinian Refugees, 1955-1956
Authors: Raska Jan
Published: December 2015

À l’été 1955, le gouvernement canadien a fait preuve d’audace: il a admis des réfugiés palestiniens déplacés à cause de la guerre arabo-israélienne de 1948. Le gouvernement a approuvé la relocalisation de 100 travailleurs qualifiés et de leurs familles. Les autorités canadiennes croyaient que d’atténuer le problème des réfugiés au Moyen-Orient contribuerait favoriser la stabilité régionale. Le plan de relocalisation est demeuré une question politiquement délicate, car les gouvernements arabes ont protesté contre ce qu’ils percevaient comme un complot sioniste visant à chasser les Palestiniens de leur terre ancestrale. Pour le Canada, l’admission de réfugiés palestiniens en 1956 a constitué une importante « expérience » en ce qui a trait à la sélection future de réfugiés non européens et à leur relocalisation.
The Merchant Triangle in Transition: Managing the Cod Fishery from Eastern Harbor, Cape Breton, in 1891
Authors: Campbell Robert
Published: December 2015

À partir de la fin du XVIII e siècle, la gestion de la pêche à la morue au Cap-Breton a été dominée par la Charles Robin and Company, une entreprise commerciale de Jersey. Dans les dernières décennies du XIX e siècle, un certain nombre de changements se sont produits, tant en ce qui concerne la propriété de l’entreprise qu’en ce qui a trait aux progrès économiques au Cap-Breton. La période se caractérise à la fois par la persistance de traditions établies depuis longtemps et par l’adaptation à de nouveaux défis et à de nouvelles possibilités. Un examen des dossiers de la compagnie produits en 1891 permet de brosser un tableau des répercussions de cette transition sur les activités quotidiennes de la compagnie.
“To Ensure the Continued Life of the Industry”: The Public Relations Campaign of the Ontario Brewers during WWII
Authors: Bellamy Matthew J.
Published: December 2015

Il y a eu au Canada résurgence du mouvement en faveur de la tempérance au moment de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Or pour faire en sorte que la prohibition demeure une chose du passé, les brasseurs de l’Ontario ont entrepris une campagne de relations publiques afin de convaincre les Canadiens qu’il était bénéfique pour l’effort de guerre de brasser de la bière et d’en boire. L’article traite de l’évolution de cette campagne et tente de mieux nous faire saisir la philosophie qui inspire la défense d’une cause. Il soutient que pendant la guerre, les relations publiques sont devenues une forme subtile de lobbying, car les brasseurs ont cherché à améliorer leur image publique de façon à atteindre plusieurs objectifs politiques et économiques.
Le peuple et l’argent du peuple: La première campagne de souscription pour la construction de l’Hôpital Sainte-Justine, 1951
Authors: Baillargeon Denyse
Published: December 2015

This article examines the first fundraising campaign conducted by the Hôpital Sainte-Justine in 1951 to support the construction of its new facility on the chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine in Montreal. These campaigns, which has received little historiographical study to date, reflects a special form of “mixed social economy,” a concept that involves the public and private sectors sharing responsibilities in the area of assistance and care. Analysis of the debates around the organization of Sainte-Justine’s campaign and of its results sheds light on the interactions at the heart of such fundraising organizations and of the constraints they imposed on facilities. In the process, this analysis shows that their success relied as much on the existence of a “well-oiled machine” as on the power relationships developing between the government, hospital management, and the public as well as on the legitimacy of a system that, in the 1950s, was starting to be questioned.
Human Rights and a Person’s Name: Legal Trends and Challenges
Authors: de Varennes Fernand , Kuzborska Elżbieta
Published: December 2015

The absence of a specific right to one’s own name in early international human rights treaties seems perplexing in the twenty-first century until one appreciates the historical and legal contexts which initially made this omission almost unavoidable. The growing importance of human rights in international law, of the obligation to recognize and respect individual identity, as well as the generality of certain human rights standards such as the prohibition of discrimination, the right to private life, and the right to a name, have led to an evolution in the understanding and interpretation of these standards in more recent years. It is now increasingly accepted in international law and state practice that individuals are generally entitled to state recognition and use of their own names—including names in a language which may not be official.
King of Men: ῾Ali ibn Abi Talib in Pamiri Folktales
Authors: Iloliev Abdulmamad
Published: December 2015

Examining the traditional Pamiri stories associated with ʿAli ibn Abi Talib, this article aims to explore a hagiographic image of ʿAli, which is based on myths and legends, and its relationship to the historical sites and objects hitherto preserved in Badakhshan. Using case study material from the Wakhan and Zibak districts, it demonstrates how the legends about ʿAli’s heroic adventures and miracles, especially his encounters with Qahqahah – a local pre-Islamic ruler – and mysterious dragons, have contributed towards the formation of the local collective memory about him as a mythical chivalrous knight, in addition to his religious importance as the first Shiʿa Imam.
Lean Forward and Listen: poetry as a mode of understanding in medicine
Authors: Andrews Angela
Published: December 2015

Many claims have been made over recent years for the use of poetry (and, more broadly, literature) in the curriculum of medical students. Most often, poetry is put forward as having the potential to humanize medicine by promoting, for example, empathy, ethical sensitivity, and an appreciation for diverging interpretations. While these endpoints are all important, this essay uses the experience of a junior doctor undertaking a degree in creative writing to consider how the poetic way of seeing and thinking differs from clinical thinking, and why that might matter. In particular, the author considers the importance in medicine of the capacity to not know , as well as the possibilities for a deeper understanding of patients offered by thinking in terms of poetic voice.
From Diagnosis to Gnosis: writing, knowledge, and repair in breast cancer and BRCA memoirs
Authors: Boesky Amy
Published: December 2015

This essay explores the reparative work of diagnostic retellings in breast cancer and BRCA memoirs (memoirs written by women who learn they carry a mutation predisposing them to develop breast or ovarian cancers). It considers four memoirists (Felicia Knaul, Melanie Norton, Masha Gessen, and Sarah Gabriel) as they illuminate initial moments of “finding out”—learning they have cancer or have tested positive for a BRCA mutation. These memoirists invite readers to appreciate the complexity of cancer as a lived experience. Writing about breast cancer and the risk of its development helps writers and readers alike to understand illness in greater depth, challenging some aspects of care and championing others.
Graduate School Choice: An Examination of Individual and Institutional Effects
Authors: English David , Umbach Paul D.
Published: December 2015

Using the 2000/01 Baccalaureate & Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:00/01), this paper employs multilevel modeling to test a conceptual model of graduate school choice that draws significantly from human capital theory while incorporating the salient concepts of cultural and social capital. The model posits that the graduate school choice process is comprised of three nested phases. First, an individual develops an aspiration for graduate-level education; next, the student submits applications to graduate schools, and thirdly, the student enrolls in a graduate program. Dependent students who obtained high undergraduate grade point averages majored in the humanities, social or behavioral sciences, mathematics, or life and physical sciences, and attended a master’s or doctoral institution were most likely to aspire to, apply for, and enroll in graduate school. This study also found that, when controlling for all other variables in the models, Hispanic students are more likely to aspire to and apply for graduate school, and African-American students are more likely to aspire to, apply for, and enroll in graduate school than white students. A key variable of interest, undergraduate indebtedness, does not affect graduate school choice when accounting for all other variables in the model.
Acordes para una utopía en País de Jauja . El sincretismo cultural como solución en Edgardo Rivera Martínez
Authors: Esain Crisanto Pérez
Published: December 2015

This novel, published in 1993 during the worst years of social upheaval in contemporary Peru (the years of Sendero Luminoso [Shining Path] and the economic crisis caused by hyperinflation), responds to these conflicts that have subsumed reality through the creation of an all-encompassing utopia. Edgardo Rivera Martínez’s text starts off by addressing the utopian quality of Jauja since colonial times, taking into account Fernando Ainsa’s reflections on utopia as a consistent strategy with which to confront contemporary reality alongside Ernst Bloch’s theorizing of the need to convert utopia into a viable project. Rivera Martínez’s novel thus can be read as a possible solution to the alienation of both life and culture of those who confront an historical reality that has traditionally been seen as hostile such as that between the Andean world and the Western tradition. The author relays these ideas through the tale of a summer in the life of Claudio Alaya, an adolescent who spends his days reading the Iliad and Antigone , and interpreting the reality of both Jauja and his own family in light of the conflicts between Agamemnon and Helen of Troy and the rest of the characters of classical mythology, as well as learning how to play the organ and the piano. Of note here is how the author creates a permanent consciousness of the margins of two cultural traditions, and thus one less of overcoming the traditional discord between the Western and the Andean.
Cuba, España y la conexión eslava
Authors: Puñales-Alpízar Damaris
Published: December 2015

This paper analyzes the role, both at symbolic and concrete levels, played by Spain in the relationships between Cuba and the Soviet Union first, and Russia later. This transatlantic triangulation proposed by Antonio Carballo in his novel Adiós, camaradas (2007), has been possible not only because of the economic and political history but especially because of the cultural implications of such relations at different stages. In the displacement in which the plot occurs, from an utopian world to a dystopian one, the main character functions as the metaphor of a world that has ceased to exist, all utopias have disappeared, and the man is left alone to deal with the new realities. What possible readings, then, provides the relationship between the last Soviet cosmonaut, a Cuban author, and a book published in Spain, in regards to the new spaces of literary enunciation and post-Soviet Cuban identity after the end of the socialism in East Europe? The appropriation of the Soviet territory as a fictional setting informs about an ongoing process of change in the definition of the Cuban identity, for which the cultural references have already lost any attachment, and moves through many multiple imaginary with which it has been in contact in the decades after 1959.
Unspacing: The Architecture of Poetry in Shelley’s Alastor and Keats’s The Fall of Hyperion
Authors: Rajan Tilottama
Published: December 2015

Focusing on Alastor and The Fall of Hyperion , this article explores how catastrophic changes such as globalization are imprinted on poetry as a hidden figure, altering the very “space of literature” in the Romantic period. In contrast to William Wordsworth’s Prelude , which keeps city and country separate, nature in Alastor is traversed by ruined cities, disorienting the poem’s internal architecture, and making it difficult to bring the poem into focus generically or emotionally. In Sigmund Freud’s terms, some radical event has bypassed consciousness and gone inside, rendering consciousness superficial and the unconscious inaccessible. John Keats’s poem more consciously thematizes its own architecture to unground the existing conceptuality of poetry, initiating a more modern poetry that points forward to Gerard de Nerval, Arthur Rimbaud, and Charles Baudelaire.
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Other Lyrical Drama and the Inception of Hellas
Authors: Duffy Cian
Published: December 2015

Hellas, a Lyrical Drama (1822), Percy Bysshe Shelley’s response to the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence, remains one of the most neglected of his major works. Even less attention has been paid to Shelley’s series of attempts to write about the Greek cause, which he then abandoned before he began work on Hellas in the autumn of 1821. This essay seeks to redress that neglect. It examines a range of Greek-related fragments composed by Shelley in 1821 and offers not only a fresh contextualization and assessment of the so-called “Prologue” to Hellas , first published by Richard Garnett in 1862, but also a revised understanding of the compositional background to Hellas itself.
Christina Rossetti and Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight
Authors: Forsberg Laura
Published: December 2015

This essay reevaluates Christina Rossetti’s narrative poem “The Prince’s Progress” (1865) as a key text in the history of Victorian medievalism by identifying the medieval poem Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight: An Alliterative Romance-Poem (republished by the Early English Text Society in 1864) as a major source. While Victorian editors presented Sir Gawayne to the public as a heroic celebration of the chivalric knight, Rossetti aligns herself with the morally and symbolically complex vision of the Gawayne poet. In “The Prince’s Progress,” Rossetti reconceptualizes the medievalist quest epic as a narrative of spiritual discernment and a warning against moral thoughtlessness for the Victorian age.
Matter, Consciousness, and the Human in Wessex Poems
Authors: Shires Linda M.
Published: December 2015

Thomas Hardy drew thirty-one illustrations for Wessex Poems (1898). Noting both the human potential for and the limits of anthropocentrism, Hardy uses image and text to situate the human in retreat. He explores metaphor and allegory as rhetorical tropes of connection in poems, while exploiting visual and verbal borderlands between the human and nature, dirt, stone, and glass. This essay aims to advance nineteenth-century illustration studies by examining the capaciousness of visual-verbal fields and contact zones. It focuses on specific thematic and aesthetic boundary crossings within one volume to understand how imagetext relations function by challenging traditional perspectives and reshaping meanings.
“ This is my Lightning” or; Sparks in the Air
Authors: Wolfson Susan J.
Published: December 2015

For the Romantic period, lightning was the spirit of the age. Yet it was so in perils no less than in promise, radiating its charges unpredictably. The first channel in this essay tracks the vagaries of domestic science that play a part in boyhoods in the wake of Benjamin Franklin’s theater of electric experiment. I then turn to the Byronized Shakespearean stage and the Byronic interplays with which Mary Shelley works the lightning bond of Victor Fran-kenstein and his Creature. I conclude with Percy Bysshe Shelley’s devoted idealism in the climate of Byronic theatrics. All these scenes contend with lightning’s contradictory shocks and subtly modal powers of destruction and restoration, its agency for dazzling illumination and murkier critical reflections.
Extracts from “The Living Room: A Memoir”
Authors: Tanselle G. Thomas
Published: December 2015

In the weeks preceding and following my seventy-fifth birthday in January 2009, I wrote a memoir in the form of a tour guide to my living room, with descriptions of the objects it contains and the associations they have for me. I am delighted that the Council of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia has agreed to publish this memoir in due course, along with some of my other autobiographical essays and pieces on book collecting, as a separate volume. I am also pleased that the editor of Studies in Bibliography , who has long shown an interest in biographical studies of bibliographers, wishes to print a few excerpts from the memoir here. I have selected eleven sections out of forty-five—those numbered 1, 5, 7–10, 13, 17, 18, 22, and 36, which are some of the ones most directly related to the world of books and bibliography.
Simone de Beauvoir as a Reader of Women’s Writing: Dialogue and Profession
Authors: Antonioli Kathleen
Published: December 2015

This article explores the role of women’s writing in Le deuxième sexe . Previous scholarly opinion has asserted that Beauvoir is hostile toward women’s writing. In contrast, this article argues that her treatment of women’s writing in the work is in fact generous, and shows a dialogic engagement with women’s writing that creates a shared world between Beauvoir, her readers, and women writers. The article then argues that Beauvoir’s criticisms of women’s writing should be understood in the context of her commitment to women’s professionalization.
ORDENAMENTO DO TERRITÓRIO FACE ÀS DINÂMICAS CLIMÁTICAS: COMPARAÇÕES ENTRE O PROJETO ORLA BRASILEIRO, O ZONEAMENTO ECOLÓGICO-ECONÔMICO COSTEIRO E O PROGRAMA BUYOUT ESTADUNIDENSE
Authors: Lima Silva de Góis Rômulo , Gobis Verges João Vitor , Carvalhal Luna Braúlio José
Published: December 2015

Propõe-se uma discussão sobre a importância do Ordenamento do Território para o ambiente costeiro e sua relação direta com os riscos ocasionados pelas dinâmicas climáticas a partir de uma análise comparativa entre o Plano Buyout dos Estados Unidos e o Projeto Orla brasileiro. Utiliza-se a análise e revisão de levantamento de dados bibliográficos. Atinge-se como principal conclusão que quando uma política pública preventiva não se apresenta mais como promotora de adaptação ao aumento do nível do mar a mesma deve considerar soluções mais coercivas por parte do Estado.
LIBERALISMO, REPUBLICANISMO E DEMOCRACIA NO MARCO DO NOVO CONSTITUCIONALISMO LATINO-AMERICANO
Authors: Duarte Lima de Barros Ana Tereza , Wanderley Gomes Neto José Mario
Published: December 2015

É possível que haja democracia sem que se respeitem as garantias consagradas pela tradição liberal? Alguns países latino-americanos como a Bolívia, a Venezuela e o Equador, chegaram a criar novas constituições com o intuito de aprofundar a democracia e a cidadania. No entanto, esses países têm cada vez mais caminhado para um regime iliberal e essas constituições ajudaram a aumentar os poderes dos presidentes. O fato dessas Cartas preverem a possibilidade de o presidente convocar diretamente a cidadania tornou possível a aprovação da reeleição indefinida na Venezuela, o que desafia o próprio conceito de República. As Cartas neo-constitucionalistas aportaram grande avanço ao reconheceram os direitos dos povos indígenas, porém, os referidos países violam os direitos individuais e as eleições não se dão em condições de igualdade. Ao final, são regimes semidemocráticos, sendo a Venezuela, mais especificamente, uma forma de autoritarismo competitivo.
A MUTAÇÃO CONSTITUCIONAL COMO INSTRUMENTO DO STF PARA ATUAR COMO LEGISLADOR POSITIVO: A necessidade de um controle externo às modificações constitucionais realizadas por meio da interpretação
Authors: De Castro Nogueira Alexandre
Published: December 2015

O presente artigo visa identificar os principais julgados do STF que tenham fundamentação que apresente ou demonstre a aplicação (inoportuna) da mutação constitucional, modificando não o sentido, mas o texto do dispositivo constitucional interpretado, pondo-se na posição de legislador positivo, visando propor uma solução legítima dentro do ordenamento jurídico pátrio.
O PAPEL DA LINGUAGEM NA CONSTRUÇÃO DA INTEGRAÇÃO SOCIAL
Authors: Cássia Picon Leila , Mingotti Maria Carmela , Buzatto Gustavo
Published: December 2015

O presente ensaio apresenta como fio condutor a incessante busca do homem pela concretização de seus direitos, e a Linguagem apresenta um papel fundamental nesta busca. A inabilidade do homem em obter tais direitos se deve igualmente à visão conservadora do Direito. A filosofia da Linguagem demonstra um grande avanço nesta área, uma vez que apresenta a linguagem como sujeito e não como mero objeto, não consentindo que as ciências jurídicas fiquem subordinadas ao velho modo de produção. No entanto, alguns classificam como perigosa essa percepção, portanto afeta o poder, representando a democratização do modo de produção do direito, das relações sociais, econômicas e políticas do país. Para a realização do presente estudo será utilizado o método dedutivo de abordagem, e como técnica, a pesquisa bibliográfica, buscando realizar o desenvolvimento do tema proposto a partir de referencial teórico.
Induction of cell cycle arrest via the p21, p27–cyclin E,A/Cdk2 pathway in SMMC-7721 hepatoma cells by clioquinol
Authors: Huang Zhiwei , Wang Lianqiu , Chen Lifeng , Zhang Yifei , Shi Ping
Published: December 2015

Clioquinol has been shown to have anticancer activity in several carcinoma cells. In this study, we preliminarily examined the effect of clioquinol in human SMMC-7721 hepatoma and QSG-7701 normal hepatic cells. Our results indicated that clioquinol did not significantly affect survival of QSG-7701 cells, whereas it reduced cell viability in a concentration- and time-dependent manner in SMMC-7721 cells. Clioquinol did not trigger autophagy and apoptosis, while it induced cell cycle arrest in the S-phase in SMMC- 7721 cells. Additionally, down-regulation of cyclin D1, A2, E1, Cdk2 and up-regulation of p21, p27 were detected after the treatment with clioquinol. The results demonstrated for the first time that clioquinol suppressed cell cycle progression in the S-phase in SMMC-7721 cells via the p21, p27-cyclin E,A/Cdk2 pathway. This suggests that clioquinol may have a therapeutic potential as an anticancer drug for certain malignances.
On the Bayesian Risk Evaluation of Minimum Guarantees in Variable Annuities
Authors: Yoo Byoung Hark , Ko Bangwon , Kwon Hyuk-Sung
Published: December 2015

Long-term equity return models have a substantial impact on calculating reserves and capital requirements for minimum guarantees in variable annuities (VAs). Under a Bayesian statistical framework, we reinvestigate the standard long-term equity return models (independent lognormal, regime-switching lognormal and stochastic log volatility models) with the Korean equity market data. Our empirical analysis shows that the long-term behaviors of the Korean market are best described by the regime-switching lognormal models, and there can be significant difference in the amount of the reserves and the capital requirements depending on the model selection. The long-term nature of the VA contracts requires that more caution be paid for modeling the mean part of the stochastic log volatility model.
A method for reconstruction of visually evoked potentials from limited amount of sweeps
Authors: Kybartaite-Ziliene Asta , Gelzinis Arvydas , Krisciukaitis Algimantas
Published: December 2015

Visually evoked potentials (VEPs) are signals evoked by a visual stimulus. They consist of brief discrete deflections embedded in background electroencephalographic (EEG) activity, which often has larger amplitude. Background EEG cancelation is a major part of VEPs analysis algorithms often realized by coherent averaging or other methods requiring large minimal amount of registered sweeps. In some cases, especially for pediatric patients, or in poor patient compliance cases, long procedure duration and fatigue might cause impaired attention and non-steady target fixation, affecting the quality of recorded VEPs. The possibility to reconstruct VEPs in every single sweep from limited size ensembles opens new diagnostic possibilities and shortens the registration procedure improving its quality. A proposed method is based on truncated expansion (Karhunen-Loève transform) of VEP signals applying generalized universal basis functions (eigenvectors of covariation matrix) calculated from learning set of sweeps, i.e. an ensemble of collected typical recordings. It realizes the possibility to reconstruct a signal from every single sweep even in limited size ensembles of registered sweeps. Application of adaptively time-shifted basis functions enables optimal reconstruction of the signal with latency shift or jitter.
I Saw it in a Movie: The Effectiveness of Health Regulations on International Travel
Authors: Wells William W.
Published: December 2015

With the ability to travel among nations comes the risk of spreading infections among disparate populations. Travel and the spread of disease has been a topic of health organizations since the nineteenth century. This paper analyzes these health concerns through the lens of nineteenth century cultural concerns over international travel, addresses them with regards to the various international and US federal regulations that have been enacted, and concludes with potential changes demonstrative of modern cultural concerns with international travel.
Die a Hero or Live Long Enough to Become the Villain: Mass Casualty Preparedness in Hospitals and Protecting Doctors from Liability during Mass Casualty Events
Authors: Tseung Ashley
Published: December 2015

Since 9/11, the United States and the international community have emphasized the need to protect people from terrorist attacks. The Boston Bombing that took place on April 15, 2013, showed that even with all of the preventive measures in place, the United States is not immune from terrorist attacks. If there had been a bioterrorist attack in Boston instead of a homemade bomb, the amount of casualties would likely have been a lot higher. Many hospitals lack effective emergency preparedness plans that address bioterrorist attacks. One area that will help prepare nations during a mass casualty incident or public health emergency involves implementing effective mass casualty preparedness plans for hospitals. This paper analyzes mass casualty preparedness in hospitals and demonstrates the need to have legislation in place to protect doctors who treat patients during mass casualty events.
Constructing positivity preserving numerical schemes for the two-factor CIR
model
Authors: Halidias Nikolaos
Published: December 2015

We study the two-factor CIR model and using the main
idea of two of our previous papers, we propose explicit
numerical schemes that preserves positivity and converges strongly
in the mean square sense to the true solution. Our results apply
for the multi-factor and the one-factor cases as well.
Synthesis and functionalization of graphene and application in electrochemical biosensing
Authors: Saini Deepshikha
Published: December 2015

Graphene is a two-dimensional material with amazing characteristics, which grant it the title “wonder material”. It has grabbed appreciable attention due to its exceptional electrical, optical, thermal, and mechanical properties. Because of these interesting properties, graphene has found its way into a wide variety of biosensing applications. It has been used as a transducer in electrochemical biosensors, bio-field-effect transistors, impedance biosensors, electrochemiluminescence, and fluorescence biosensors. Functionalization of graphene has further opened up novel fundamental and applied frontiers. The present article reviews recent works dealing with synthesis, functionalization of graphene, and its applications related to biosensors. Various synthesis strategies, mechanism and process parameters, and types of functionalization are discussed in view of biosensor development. Some potential areas for biosensor-related applications of functionalized graphene are highlighted, including catalytic biosensors and bio affinity biosensors. Wherever applicable, the limitations of the present knowledgebase and possible research directions have also been discussed.
Political Islam, Internet Use and Willingness to Migrate: Evidence from the Arab Barometer
Authors: Falco Chiara , Rotondi Valentina
Published: December 2015

This paper investigates the relationship between political Islam, willingness to migrate and Internet use by exploiting the second (2010–2011) and the third (2012–2014) waves of the Arab Barometer. In an effort to explain individual-level willingness to migrate from the Arab world, it investigates the channel through which the more people support political Islam the less they are willing to migrate. At the same time, it explores the fact that the Internet could potentially act as a vehicle of political Islam. Indeed, our findings indicate that there exists a positive relationship between Internet use and individual-level willingness to migrate, while there exists a negative relationship between political Islam and individual-level willingness to migrate. The findings indicate also that there is no significant effect of Internet use on political Islam.
Optical fiber solutions for laser ablation of tissue and immunostimulating interstitial laser thermotherapy – Product development in the network of developers, industry and users
Authors: Pantaleone Cristina , Dymling Stephan , Axelsson Jakob
Published: December 2015

Clinical Laserthermia Systems AB (CLS) has developed a treatment protocol named immunostimulating interstitial laser thermotherapy (imILTCLS) which is intended to improve current treatment regimens for metastatic cancer diseases. It aims at a controlled local tumor ablation with a subsequent release of tumor specific antigens resulting in a systemic immune activation against the remaining cancer cells. The approach has its origins in the laser-induced interstitial thermotherapy procedure and is based on a proprietary and patented technique to optimize the immunological effect. CLS has gained know-how through long experience both in clinical and pre-clinical studies of the application, laser technology, thermometry, and expertise in regulatory affairs. However, CLS does not have the in-house expertise required for fiber development and production. Therefore the company has actively searched for industrial partners to collaborate with on the design and development of a fiber delivery system tailored to imILTCLS. The aim of this collaboration is to design an application-specific laser fiber that allows the treatment of a wider range of tumors with a single treatment and overcomes the limitations of currently available laser fibers, such as the limited achievable lesion sizes due the maximum power that can be used without carbonizing tissue. The present contribution gives a short overview about the current development steps within the network of developers, industry and users.
Effect of mechanical properties of metal powder-filled hybrid moulded products
Authors: Głogowska Karolina , Sikora Janusz W. , Duleba Branislav
Published: December 2015

The extensive research on polymer composites is motivated by the fact that it can result in obtaining new materials with enhanced properties. This research primarily focuses on investigating basic mechanical properties which determine the use of a particular composite material. This paper presents the results of tests investigating the mechanical properties, i.e. tensile strength, hardness and impact strength, of hybrid injection mouldings produced at constant processing parameters. We used five metal powder fillers: aluminium, zinc, tin, iron and copper powders, with their contents ranging from 2.5 wt% to 15 wt% relative to a polypropylene matrix composite material. The relationships were determined between different contents of the aforementioned metal powder fillers and Young’s modulus, maximum tensile stress, tensile stress at break, strains, Shore hardness and Charpy impact strength. The research also involved investigating mould shrinkage. Relevant conclusions were drawn.
Fracture behavior and deformation mechanisms of polypropylene/ethylene-propylene-diene blends
Authors: Ao Yuhui , Feng Fang , Zhang Huixuan
Published: December 2015

The fracture behavior and deformation mechanism of polypropylene (PP)/ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (EPDM) were studied by scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy analyses. The deformation mechanism was investigated under different conditions. Voids were seen under all the conditions because of matrix shear yielding, indicating that rubber particle cavitation took place during the blend fracture process; moreover, the void size and density increased as the fracture surface was approached. However, the void density and extent of elongation of the rubber particles in the deformation zone decreased with increasing test speed rate. Many voids were positioned in the rubber particles, confirming that matrix shear yielding initiated by rubber particle cavitation was the main deformation mechanism during ductile fracture in the matrix.
Heat distortion temperature and mechanical properties of agricultural wastes-reinforced phenolic composites
Authors: Lai Jau Choy , Hassan Azman , Hasan Mahbub , Ani Farid Nasir , Tanjung Faisal Amri
Published: December 2015

Phenolic composites containing three different types of agricultural waste fillers (i.e. oil palm shell flour, rice husk flour, and coconut shell) have been prepared consecutively using the two-roll milling and hot pressed methods. The resulting granules were compression molded before mechanical testing. Mechanical properties of the agro-fillers/phenolic composites were investigated by means of flexural test, impact test, and heat distortion temperature measurement. Flexural test was conducted following ASTM D790, impact test was carried out according to ASTM D-256, while heat distortion temperature was measured using ASTM D648. The stiffness of the composites is insensitive to the increasing of the filler loading. The incorporation of the three different types of agro-waste fillers into the phenolic matrix produced composites with better heat distortion temperature as compared to that of the neat resin. Overall, coconut shell flour was superior in improving the flexural strength of the composites, while oil palm shell composites exhibited the most apparent improvement in heat distortion temperature.
Product Quality Effects of International Airline Alliances, Antitrust Immunity, and Domestic Mergers
Authors: Gayle Philip G. , Thomas Tyson
Published: December 2015

Much of the literature on airline cooperation focuses on the price effects of cooperation. A key contribution of our paper is to empirically examine the product quality effects of airline cooperation. Two common types of cooperation among airlines involve international alliances and antitrust immunity (ATI), where ATI allows for more extensive cooperation. Additionally, this paper examines the extent to which domestic mergers affect the quality of international air travel products. The results suggest that increases in the membership of a carrier’s alliance or ATI partners and domestic mergers are associated with the carrier’s own products having more travel-convenient routing quality. Therefore, a complete welfare evaluation of airline cooperation and mergers should not ignore product quality effects.