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Unorthodox Pianism and Its Unexpected Consequences: A Performance Guide to Leo Ornstein's Seventeen Waltzes
Authors:   , Kharitonov Arsentiy
Published: February 2025

Leo Ornstein's most significant piano oeuvre, the Seventeen Waltzes, stand out as a unique example of a pianism as a foundation for the composer's musical thoughts. The purpose of this document is to provide musical and technical suggestions based on Ornstein's pianistic patterns, which will help pianists understand the composer's complex writing and form a coherent interpretation. The guide covers the main avant-garde musical devices used by Ornstein such as tone clusters, polymeter, and polyrhythm. A comparison process within the collection will help performers to address Ornstein's unmarked waltzes by underlining the composer's similar ideas and traits.
Nonlinear Light Generation from Optical Cavities and Antennae
Authors:   , Butler Sween J.
Published: February 2025

Semiconductor based micro- and nano-structures grown in a systematic and controlled way using selective area growth are emerging as a promising route toward devices for integrated optical circuitry in optoelectronics and photonics field. This dissertation focuses on the experimental investigation of the nonlinear optical effects in selectively grown gallium nitride micro-pyramids that act as optical cavities, zinc oxide submicron rods and indium gallium nitride multiple quantum well core shell submicron tubes on the apex of GaN micro pyramids that act as optical antennae. Localized spatial excitation of these low dimensional semiconductor structures was optimized for nonlinear optical light (NLO) generation due to second harmonic generation (SHG) and multi-photon luminescence (MPL). The evolution of both processes are mapped along the symmetric axis of the individual structures for multiple fundamental input frequencies of light. Effects such as cavity formation of generated light, electron-hole plasma generation and coherent emission are observed. The efficiency and tunability of the frequency conversion that can be achieved in the individual structures of various geometries are estimated. By controlling the local excitation cross-section within the structures along with modulation of optical excitation intensity, the nonlinear optical process generated in these structures can be manipulated to generate coherent light in the UV-Blue region via SHG process or green emission via MPL process. The results show that these unique structures hold the potential to convert red input pulsed light into blue output pulsed light which is highly directional.
Practicing Relevance: The Origins, Practices, and Future of Applied Philosophy
Authors:   , Barr Kelli Ray
Published: February 2025

This dissertation takes up the question of the social function of philosophy. Popular accounts of the nature and value of philosophy reinforce long-standing perceptions that philosophy is useless or irrelevant to pressing societal problems. Yet, the increasingly neoliberal political-economic environment of higher education places a premium on mechanisms that link public funding for research to demonstrations of return on investment in the form of benefitting broader society. This institutional situation presents a philosophical problem warranting professional attention. This project offers a diagnosis of the problem and develops a way forward from it. Drawing from Foucauldian archaeological methods, my analysis focuses on the interplay of institutional structures and intellectual practices. Since the early 20th century, departments of philosophy on college and university campuses have been the center of gravity for professional philosophy in the US. Establishing this institutional ‘home' for philosophers drove the adoption of disciplinary practices, norms, and standards for inquiry. But the metaphilosophical assumptions underpinning disciplinarity have become problematic, I argue: they are poor guides for navigating the situation of higher education in the 21st century. Several movements within the profession of philosophy during the 1960s and 70s sought to reverse philosophers' general retreat from public affairs. Applied philosophy, environmental philosophy, and bioethics each offer a case study in attempts to address the problem of societal relevance. However, surveys of the journal literature in each field uncovered few reflections on whether or not individual projects, or the field as a whole, had any impact on the societal problems to which those philosophers turned their attention. This suggests a need for further thinking about implementation – how to institutionalize alternative practices of philosophy that do demonstrate societal relevance. By way of conclusion, I offer some of the necessary groundwork toward a philosophy of implementation, in the form of discussing significant questions and challenges confronting philosophers who aim for societal relevance both in principle and in practice.
Personalized Online Learning Labs and Face-to-Face Teaching in First-Year College English Courses
Authors:   , Sizemore Mary L.
Published: February 2025

The purpose of this two-phase, explanatory mixed methods study was to understand the benefits of teaching grammar from three different learning methods: face-to-face, online personalized learning lab and a blended learning method. The study obtained quantitative results from a pre and post-tests, a general survey and writing assignment rubrics from three English 1301 classes and then follow-up interviews with focus groups from each class to explore those results in more depth. In the first phase, quantitative research questions addressed the relationship of grammar teaching methods and grammar acquisition with students at a two-year technical and academic college. In the second phase, used focus groups to perform qualitative interviews to better explore the quantitative results.
Bodies of Evidence: A Qualitative Analysis of the Lived Experiences of Female Central American and Mexican Asylum Seekers in Dallas
Authors:   , Kober Ryan K.
Published: February 2025

This work addresses the experiences of female asylum seekers from Central and Mexico currently living in Dallas, TX. The main purpose is to analyze how these women engage in the gendered processes of both migrating to and accessing legal resources and protection within the United States. As the women move through male-dominated spaces in their home country, the borderlands, and the asylum court they must challenge the patriarchal institutions that attempt to silence their narratives and criminalize their bodies. Their physical wounds become evidence in the courtroom, while outside of the courtroom their movements are monitored and tracked through multiple mechanisms of state control: ankle monitors, detention centers, ICE check-ins. They face intersectional discrimination as they are targeted as both women and immigrants. However, these female asylum seekers are not victims. They constantly display agency as they represent themselves in court, find solace in their faith, and form community with each other.
The West Point Band's Wind Commissioning Project in Celebration of the Bicentennial of the United States Military Academy
Authors:   , Morse Matthew C.
Published: February 2025

The United States Military Academy Band, also known as the West Point Band is the oldest active band in the United States Army and the oldest unit at the United States Military Academy, and is considered to be one of the finest military musical organizations in the world. The band has also been instrumental in facilitating the creation of new works for wind band.As the commissioning of new music has been essential to the expansion of the wind band's repertoire, several major commissioning projects were undertaken in the mid-twentieth century by various organizations, including the West Point Band, the Goldman Band in conjunction with the League of Composers and later the American Bandmasters Association, Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, the American Wind Symphony, and the College Band Directors National Association. These commissioning projects and many others have contributed hosts of new quality works to the repertoire of the wind band. The West Point Band's 1952 commissioning project celebrating the Sesquicentennial of the United States Military Academy was among the first of these mid-twentieth century commissioning projects to seek out prominent composers of the day and have them write works for wind band. The project contributed several seminal pieces to the wind band's repertoire, including Morton Gould's Symphony for Band: West Point. In 1996, as tribute to both the Academy and to the earlier commissioning project, the West Point Band sought to celebrate the Academy's 2002 bicentennial in a similar fashion by commissioning well-known composers to contribute substantial wind works. These pieces would be premiered and recorded by the West Point Band over a number of years, including a gala Bicentennial Celebration concert at Carnegie Hall in March 2002. The purpose of this study is to create a consolidated written record of the wind music composed for the West Point Band as part of the band's Bicentennial Wind Commissioning Project, and to describe the process and circumstances by which this music was created and premiered. The continuing development of a quality original repertoire is important to the wind band community as a whole, and commissioning composers to write wind band music is the primary means by which new music is acquired. By any account, the twenty-six works produced through the West Point Band's Bicentennial Commissioning Project constitute a significant contribution to this repertoire. As this project and many of these pieces are not well known, it is the author's intent to bring increased attention to this commissioning project and to this music.
Becoming Successful in Education: Beating the Odds, Despite a Background Entrenched in Poverty
Authors:   , Thompson Pauline Andrea
Published: February 2025

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of three relationships on academic achievement in mathematics in students of poverty. The three factors that were examined included: teacher-student relationships, parent-student relationships and peer- student relationships. The driving question for the research was as follows: Do external factors such as teacher-student relationships, parent-student relationships and peer-student relationships lead to academic success for students of poverty? The study employed a non-experimental, quantitative approach and utilized longitudinal data from a national database High School Longitudinal Study (HSLS) used a sample of 944 public and private high schools across the USA. A total 0f 28,240 were represented in the survey. Of these 28,240 students, 2641 were used in this study as identified by parental income below the poverty threshold. The outcome of the study indicated that there was little or no correlation between the three relationships and mathematics achievement (academic success). Correlations between the dependent variable (math achievement) and the independent variables even though some were statistically significant their weights had no concrete significance. The study recommends that several initiatives can be instated in schools to support and enhance academic achievement in students of poverty.
Understanding Antecedents and Outcomes of Co-Creation in Service Innovation Setting
Authors:   , Rokonuzzaman Md
Published: February 2025

This dissertation uses service-dominant logic to understand customer value creation in service innovation context. Although co-creation became an interesting phenomenon among marketing scholars, the underlying mechanisms of co-creation process are still vague. To fill the gaps in the literature, we draw from S-D logic to understand antecedents and outcome of co-creation to service innovation context. The results of this study show that most of the hypotheses are supported, thus finding support for the overall model of value co-creation.
Structure Evolution and Nano-Mechanical Behavior of Bulk Metallic Glasses and Multi-Principal Element Alloys
Authors:   , Mridha Sanghita
Published: February 2025

Bulk metallic glasses and multi-principal element alloys represent relatively new classes of multi-component engineering materials designed for satisfying multiple functionalities simultaneously. Correlating the microstructure with mechanical behavior (at the microstructural length-scales) in these materials is key to understanding their performance. In this study, the structure evolution and nano-mechanical behavior of these two classes of materials was investigated with the objective of fundamental scientific understanding of their properties. The structure evolution, high temperature nano-mechanical behavior, and creep of two Zr-based alloys was studied: Zr41.2Ti13.8Cu12.5Ni10.0Be22 (Vitreloy1) and Zr52.5Ti5Cu17.9Ni14.6All0 (Vitreloy105). Devitrification was found to proceed via the formation of a metastable icosahedral phase with five-fold symmetry. The deformation mechanism changes from inhomogeneous or serrated flow to homogenous flow near 0.9Tg, where Tg is the glass transition temperature. The creep activation energy for Vitreloy1 and Vitreloy105 were 144 kJ/mol and 125 kJ/mol, respectively in the range of room temperature to 0.75Tg. The apparent activation energy increased drastically to 192 kJ/mol for Vitreloy1 and 215 kJ/mol for Vitreloy105 in the range of 0.9Tg to Tg, indicating a change in creep mechanism. Structure evolution in catalytic amorphous alloys, Pt57.5Cu14.7Ni5.3P22.5 and Pd43Cu27Ni10P20, was studied using 3D atom probe tomography and elemental segregation between different phases and the interface characteristics were identified. The structure evolution of three multi-principal element alloys were investigated namely CoCrNi, CoCrFeMnNi, and Al0.1CoCrFeNi. All three alloys formed a single-phase FCC structure in as-cast, cold worked and recrystallized state. No secondary phases precipitated after prolonged heat treatment or mechanical working. The multi-principal element alloys showed less strain gradient plasticity compared to pure metals like Ni during nano-indentation. This was attributed to the highly distorted lattice which resulted in lesser density of geometrically necessary dislocations (GNDs). Dislocation nucleation was studied by low load indentation along with the evaluation of activation volume and activation energy. This was done using a statistical approach of analyzing the "pop-in" load marking incipient plasticity. The strain rate sensitivity of nanocrystalline Al0.1CoCrFeNi alloy was determined by in situ compression of nano-pillars in a Pico-indenter. The nanocrystalline alloy demonstrated a yield strength of ~ 2.4 GPa, ten times greater than its coarse grained counterpart. The nanocrystalline alloy exhibited high strain rate sensitivity index of 0.043 and activation volume of 5b3 suggesting grain boundary dislocation nucleation.
Catastrophe in Permanence: Benjamin's Natural History of Environmental Crisis
Authors:   , Bower Matthew S.
Published: February 2025

Walter Benjamin warned in 1940 of a certain inconspicuous threat to political thinking, not least of all to materialism, that takes progress as an historical norm. Implicit in this conception is what he describes as an empty continuum of time along which the prevailing tradition chronicles its own mythic development and drains everyday life of genuine historical experience. The myth of progressive history advances insidiously today in consumeristic and technocratic attempts at reconciling cultural imagery with organic nature. In this dissertation, I pursue the contradictions of such images as they crystallize around the natural history of twenty-first century commodity society, where promises of ecological remediation, sustainable urban development, and climate change mitigation have yet to introduce a true crisis of historical experience to the ongoing environmental crisis of capitalism. A more radical way of seeing the cultural representation of nature would, I argue, penetrate its mythic determination by market forces and bear witness to the natural-historical ruins and traces that constitute, in Benjamin's terms, a single "catastrophe" where others perceive historical continuity. I argue that Benjamin's critique of progress is instructive to interpreting those utopian dreams, ablaze in consumer life and technological fantasy, that recent decades of growing environmental concern have channeled into the recovery of an experience of the natural world. His dialectics of nature and alienated history confront the wish-image of organic abundance with the transience of its appropriated expression in the commodity-form. Drawing together this confrontation with a varied literature on collective memory, nature, and the city, I suggest that our poverty of experience is more than simply a technical, economic, or even ecological problem, but rather follows from the commodification of history itself. The goal of this work is to reflect upon the potentiality of communal politics that subsist not in rushing headlong into a progressive future but, as Benjamin urges, in reaching for the emergency brake on the runaway train of progress.
Reconstructing Identity with Urban Community Agriculture: How Refugees Confront Displacement, Food Insecurity, and Othering through Community Farming
Authors:   , Griffin Marinda
Published: February 2025

Ethnic and religious conflict, and the deepening of capitalism have led to global diaspora at unprecedented levels. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that as of 2015, 1 in every 122 persons worldwide were either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum. The U.S. currently admits the largest number of refugees worldwide. However, policies fail to reflect the multitude of elements that constitute successful resettlement. Moreover, many refugees come from farming backgrounds and are forced to migrate to a landless urban environment, where their skill sets may not be utilized and farm land is not available. I argue that existing resettlement processes are embedded in logics and practices that alienate humans from nature and from each other through competition, isolation, and placeless environments. Through an exploration in concepts of urban agriculture, place-making, identity, and otherness, and illuminating the experiences of resettled refugees involved in a community gardening project in Fort Worth, Texas, show how the urban refugee garden provides the individual a space to narrate an identity, and to resist industrial agriculture and labor outside their industry. Exploring best practices in resettlement should be a priority to governments, politicians, and communities involved in the process and highlight the reasons to advocate these types of resettlement alternatives.
The Struggling Dance: The Latino Journalist Experience Covering Hispanic and Latino Communities in Dallas
Authors:   , Limón Elvia
Published: February 2025

This qualitative study addresses how the Dallas Morning News and Al Día reporters and editors determine what type of news related to the Dallas Latino and Hispanic communities gets covered. It also looks into how and why each newspaper tackles the coverage of these communities. Through a systematic analysis of 8 in-depth interviews and a 6-month ethnography, the findings of this study suggest that Latino and Hispanic journalists in Dallas feel the Latino and Hispanic communities are regarded as the "other." This study suggests the newsroom's hegemony and its news production routines influence the way Latino and Hispanic communities are covered in Dallas, and the way Latino and Hispanic reporters and editors who primarily cover these communities are treated. Though the newsrooms have made an effort to diversity its staff, reporters and editors claim they still have a long way to go before the staff accurately represents the large Hispanic and Latino population in the city.
Third World Decolonization: The Pan Africanist Movement in the Age of Nasserism
Authors:   , Pendegraft Gregory
Published: February 2025

In the mid-twentieth century Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser, along with President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana rose to international prominence as leaders and visionaries who were able to achieve political independence in their respective home countries while attempting to shape a destiny for Africa that did not involve Western imperialism. For Nasser's part, he first secured independence for Egypt, then turned his attention to the Middle East, but soon became as active in the politics of Sub Saharan Africa, also known as black Africa, as he was in the Arab world. This thesis explores Nasser's forays into Sub Saharan Africa during the period of decolonization on the continent and how his aspirations for Africa were equally a part of his political agenda that came to be known as Nasserism. Considering Nasser was the leader of the Third bloc, Egypt's fate was tied to Africa just as much as it was to the Middle East. Beyond the aspects of Nasser's involvement in Africa, this work also explores the active role Africans played in their quest for independence from European colonizers. Many African leaders during this time were as prominent and as shrewd as Nasser and were committed to establishing an anti-imperialist continent while developing modern African states based on the principles of Pan Africanism. While this occurred, new countries began to enter Africa and it became up to the African heads of state to determine how much involvement they wanted from these outsiders and at what cost. As these many dynamics played out in Africa, Pan Africanism was simultaneously occurring in the United States that linked black America's fate with Africa in movements that emphasized black nationalism and Third World political ideology.
Sources Say … He May Have Been Depressed and Angry: A Case Study and Content Analysis of Mental Illness Sources Used in Newspaper Coverage of Mass Shootings in 2015
Authors:   , Fellows Jacqueline
Published: February 2025

The increase of mass shootings in the U.S. has amplified news reporting on mental illness as a possible factor in the shootings despite no evidence linking the two issues. Sources used to explain mental illness in stories that explore the motivations of mass shooters affect audience perception. Through a qualitative content analysis of local newspaper coverage of five U.S. mass shootings in 2015, journalists linked mental illness as a possible motive through sources who were not qualified to treat or diagnose mental illness. Journalists also ignored professional guidance from the Associated Press on mental illness reporting in the context of mass shootings. Additionally, journalists assumed the audience was knowledgeable of mental illness in general terms and specific diagnoses. These findings indicate coverage of mass shootings includes inaccurate information about shooters' motives, and it also continues to frame mental illness as dangerous.
Inscrutable House
Authors:   , McRae Nick
Published: February 2025

A collection of poetry.
Uneven deskilling: recasting the smile curve in a transnational software firm
Authors: Chauhan Bhumika
Published: February 2025

By grounding Global Value Chains/Global Production Networks studies in Labour Process Theory, this article shows how firms structure work in globalised teams to reproduce North-South inequalities, preventing the Global South from truly ‘catching up’. Following a within-case comparison design, the article compares the work of software engineers within the same firm in the US and India. Through 70 in-depth interviews, it demonstrates that as the firm offshores software work, it also unevenly deskills workers. While ‘execution’ tasks are offshored, ‘conception’ tasks remain onshore. In the process, workers are segmented even as they are combined in a single labour process. It further shows that the interaction of labour-process constraints with the historically-determined location of the software-services market in the Global North shapes the distribution of tasks and reproduces the core-periphery unevenness in this sector.
Applying creative research methods to develop understanding of empathy in social work: a relational practice gallery and relational practice poems
Authors: Lynch Amy
Published: February 2025

The growing application of creative methods as a humanistic craft in social work research reflects an appreciation of their methodological value. Creative methods can enhance democratisation and inclusion within the academic research process, yet challenges limit their potential. Although applied to develop understanding of social work practice more broadly, creative methods have not yet been included in research focused on empathy. This article aims to contribute to the flourishing of creative methods by outlining a visual and a poetic method applied to develop understanding of meanings and experiences of empathy by focusing on social workers’ perspectives. Situated within the English child protection system (2021–23), the constructionist research design was constrained by COVID-19. The article describes the visual method (relational practice gallery) and the poetic method (relational practice poems) and includes example representations. The application of creative methods enabled social workers’ previously relatively unheard voices to be included in new understandings of empathy and illuminated the nuances of their ascribed meanings and intricate, emotional and situated relational empathic practice experiences. Limitations and methodological considerations are discussed. The article contributes to building research capacity among researchers exploring relational social work practice, for whom creative methods might be novel or daunting, and to the flourishing of creative research methods more broadly.
Performative Casting: Bridgerton from Regency Romance to Social Media
Authors: Arjomand Minou
Published: February 2025

Abstract: On January 6, 2021 Vikings, Roman gladiators, and American Revolutionary soldiers invaded the US Capitol Building. Meanwhile, Bridgerton , a Regency romance with a multiracial cast, became the most-watched Netflix series of all time. The series also inspired extensive user-generated social media content: on TikTok alone, #Bridgerton has 13.5 billion views as of this writing, more than an average of one and a half views per person on Earth. How can we understand this costume drama and its digital and live reenactments in relation to the white nationalist cosplay of January 6? Taking up both the colloquial and academic senses of the term performative, this article uses Bridgerton's popular and critical reception to consider what it means to perform history in a time of social media.
Kinesthetic Spectrality in A Piece of Monologue
Authors: Garner Stanton B.
Published: February 2025

Abstract: While scholars have written about movement and non-movement in Samuel Beckett's theatre, relatively little attention has been paid to the kinesthetic, or subjective, dimension of these phenomena. Acknowledging this dimension enables a deeper understanding of the spectator's kinesthetic involvement in Beckett's movement theatre. By aligning its analysis with the insights of neuroscience, linguistics, and cognitive literary studies, this article explores language's contribution as a kinesthetic medium to Beckett's perceptually nuanced dramaturgy. The interaction between language and physical movement manifests itself with increasing complexity in Beckett's late plays. As A Piece of Monologue demonstrates, the more limited actual movement becomes in these plays, the more intricately it manipulates the spectator's kinesthetic investment in what they see and hear onstage. Understanding this dynamic reveals a movement dramaturgy at the boundary of perception, embodiment, and motility—a spectral poetics of imminent and recalled movement, where what we see is animated by what we don't.
Obviate me (not): Obviation effects in Serbian main and complement clauses
Authors: Kaufmann Magdalena , Todorović Neda , Jovović Ivana
Published: February 2025

abstract: In Serbian, complements of directive and desiderative predicates can be finite clauses headed by da. da-clauses also serve as matrix clauses conveying directives or expressing wishes. Unlike subjunctive complements in Romance, Slovenian, or Hungarian, embedded da-clauses do not show obviation effects, i.e., they allow for coreference between matrix and embedded subject. However, overt embedded pronominal subjects are banned in this case. We argue that this ban is a reflex of obviative modality in a particular complement type and disambiguation towards this type by an overt subject. The obviative construction also underlies the directive or desiderative matrix da-clauses, where obviation surfaces as a restriction on what conversational participants the subject can refer to.
How to Reconcile a Multidominant Theory of Movement with Late Merge? A View from Polish
Authors: Citko Barbara
Published: February 2025

abstract: This paper presents a way to reconcile so-called Principle C antireconstruction effects with a Multidominant Theory of Movement. One of the most popular accounts of this phenomenon involves Late Merge (typically assumed to be possible with adjuncts but not arguments) and has been used as an argument against Multidominant theories of movement, and in favor of the Copy Theory of Movement (Larson 2016, Witkoś 2021). The paper provides a multidominant account of Principle C effects that does not rely on the argument/adjunct distinction, given the fact that the contrast between adjuncts and argument clauses is absent in Polish (Witkoś 2000, 2004), and has been questioned for English as well.
Word order in heritage Russian under different dominant languages
Authors: Ionin Tania , Goldshtein Maria , Luchkina Tatiana
Published: February 2025

abstract: This paper reports on an experimental study that examines the relationship between word order and information structure in the Russian of adult English-dominant and Hebrew-dominant heritage speakers of Russian. The objectives of the study were: (a) To examine whether the relationship between word order and information structure is acquirable by heritage speakers; and (b) To examine whether there is transfer from the dominant language in this domain. The results of an acceptability judgment task show that heritage speakers performed quite similarly to monolinguals; there was improvement with proficiency, but no evidence of transfer from the dominant language. The mapping between word order and information structure is found to be quite robust in heritage language acquisition.
Noun complement clauses with a demonstrative determiner in Russian
Authors: Knyazev Mikhail
Published: February 2025

abstract: A lesser-known type of noun complement clause construction in Russian is discussed, in which N + čto -clause is preceded by the distal demonstrative tot . The construction involves a non-anaphoric non-deictic use of tot , which depends on the presence of a declarative (or relative) CP. Special distributional properties of the construction are discussed, such as its compatibility with non-attitude nouns like 'advantage'. A compositional analysis is proposed based on the idea that demonstratives uniformly take two arguments. It is argued that the properties of the construction are captured in a structure proposed in Hankamer & Mikkelsen 2021, with D taking CP as a complement and subsequent raising of D to a little d around the NP.
The interaction between theme vowels and secondary imperfectives in Slovenian: The curious case of ava and eva
Authors: Simonović Marko , Mišmaš Petra
Published: February 2025

abstract: Our analysis targets two Slovenian secondary imperfectivizers characterized by comparable frequency and surface form, eva and ava . We consider arguments in favour of various morphological segmentations in an attempt to establish their structure. Both are argued to end in the theme vowel a , which also contains the hiatus-repairing floating segment v . In eva , the theme vowel va is preceded by the surviving morpheme e from the original perfective verb. In the case of ava , the theme vowel va is combined with the morpheme av , which also occurs in various different environments. We further argue that the surviving morpheme e from eva is not a theme vowel, but rather a derivational affix – just like av .
Colloquial emphatic negation in Russian and morphology of negative concord
Authors: Erschler David
Published: February 2025

abstract: Alongside the standard negation, colloquial Russian has grammaticalized an alternative negation marker, xuj 'dick' and its euphemisms, that has negative force but does not license ni -phrases in its scope. Adopting the overall approach of Zeijlstra (2004) to negation and negative concord, I explore the properties of this construction to provide novel evidence that both semantic licensing and morphological concord are implicated in forming ni-negative indefinites in Slavic. Specifically, I interpret the inability of the negator xuj to license ni -negative indefinites as evidence that ni -negative indefinites undergo morphological concord with Neg0, which is spelled out as the standard negator ne .
Remnant licensing and structural economy in VP ellipsis: Evidence from Czech
Authors: Kučerová Ivona , Szczegielniak Adam
Published: February 2025

abstract: Remnant licensing in verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) occurs via remnant movement out of the ellipsis site or base generation outside it. The paper examines a counterexample from two types of Czech auxiliaries: higher ones in T that must be deleted in spite of being generated outside the ellipsis site, and lower ones in v /Asp that can become remnants. We assume spell-out domains determine ellipsis size (Rouveret 2012, Bošković 2014), and remnant licensing is a function of the structural position of the functional material w.r.t the phase head licensing VPE (Aelbrecht & Harwood 2015). However, we propose a new structural economy condition that blocks syntactic merger of higher syntactic CP/TP structure when a v P phase corresponds to a proposition, which is conditional on v having a tense feature with anchoring properties. In such cases, higher functional material is banned from being a remnant because it is not built in syntax, and v P alone must enter a mutual entailment relationship with an ellipsis anaphor.
“As freshe as any rose newe”: Imperfection, Fetishization, and the Symbolic Significance of Hector in Lydgate’s Troy Book
Authors: Heor Wooree
Published: February 2025

Abstract: The Troy Book , by John Lydgate, examines the complex array of moral values and political mores attached to the figure of Hector. Although being the epitome of idealized chivalry and the purported forefather of English monarchs, Hector in the Troy Book often displays traits inconsistent with this impeccable image. Lydgate intermixes adulation of Hector with stark descriptions of the prince’s personal flaws, placing particular emphasis on his volatile anger, imprudence, and covetousness. The concept of Hector as an imperfect object of desire is most clearly demonstrated when his preserved corpse is displayed within his tomb as an organic monument. The beautiful, dead Hector, juxtaposed with the beautiful, alive Polyxena in mourning, underlines the objectification and fetishization of the Trojan past in medieval historiography. Lydgate, although often accused of the triumphalist valorization of the Lancastrian regime in his works, displays a nuanced understanding of Trojan history through narrative ambiguity in Hector’s portrayal and through edifying moralization directed toward his royal patron. Although Lydgate’s attempt to construct consistent political advice out of Trojan history is arguably a frustrated one, he uncovers intrinsic anxieties within the political discourse of late medieval England by imagining Hector’s Troy as a Lancastrian space.
To Look or Not To Look: Reading User Behavior in the Spatial Atmosphere of the City Skyline of Izmir
Authors: Hiçsönmezler İlke , Kunduracı Arzu Cılasun , Yılmaz Ahenk
Published: February 2025

Abstract: This study focuses on the effects of spatial qualities of the viewing location on the behavior of citizens towards the observation of the skylines. The majority of the existing literature on skyline studies revolves around the discussions of the aesthetic qualities of the skyline per se, and ignores the observation space. Nevertheless, the differences in citizens' behavior towards viewing the skyline stem not only from their diverse personal characteristics and daily emotional states, but also from the spatial qualities of the viewing space. This study addresses this gap in the literature with its concentration on the qualities of the urban spaces from which the city skyline is viewed. The objective of this study, therefore, is to fill this gap by discussing the ultimate behavioral decisions of experiencers in viewing the Izmir skyline from the perspective of the spatial characteristics of the Karşıyaka coastline as an observation location. In doing so, the study first focuses on the atmosphere theories where the reciprocal relationship between the qualities of experienced space and its experiencers become dominant. Through observations in the Karşıyaka coastline, the reciprocal relationship leads to the definition of the spatial factors as layers of analysis, which are based on the transformation of the spatial layers of the experienced space and the behavioral decisions of the experiencers. Then, to better comprehend their relationships, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is utilized to analyze the observational data. The study by merging the spatial atmosphere and contemplative neuroaesthetic theories provides a new framework for the upcoming skyline-based studies. Moreover, the outcomes of the analysis demonstrate that the contrast between day and night city skyline viewing in the Karşıyaka coastline emerges as a point of reference for lighting, proving to be the most impactful factor among all layers.
Climate Metonyms and the Anti-Politics of Climate Change
Authors: Williams Casey A.
Published: February 2025

Abstract: This article explores the rhetorical function of climate metonyms: representations of particular people, places, things, and events enlisted to stand in for climate change and related concepts: climate crisis, climate catastrophe, climate emergency. Looking specifically at the figure of the "disappearing coastline" as it appears in visual representations of Bangladesh, the article considers the climate metonym as an answer to the problem of "climate realism," or the challenge of giving form to climatic shifts occurring at spatio-temporal scales exceeding human sensory capacities. Drawing on Kenneth Burke's account of metonymy as a forensic trope—meaning a rhetorical figure that, like a fingerprint, testifies to the existence of a phenomenon that eludes direct representation—the article suggests that climate metonyms promise to turn climate change's meteorological abstractions into concrete images of disaster and, in doing so, to dispel doubt about the reality of climate change. Insofar as climate metonyms are treated as forensic technologies, they can contribute to an "anti-politics of climate change," however. When figures like the disappearing coastline are treated as representatives of climate change defined narrowly—as greenhouse gas emissions, radiative forcing, and its catastrophic climate effects—rather than as representations of complex causal processes which include but cannot be reduced to these phenomena, the other contexts in which such figures may be understood fall out of the frame, narrowing the space of climate politics.
Our Androgynes, Ourselves: Trans Allegory in Coleridge’s Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character
Authors: Nyiri Jessy
Published: February 2025

Abstract: What about sex is chosen, and why are trans people made to pose the question? This article reads Coleridgean androgyny as an instance of “trans allegory”: the use of trans figures to exemplify how sex and gender work. It demonstrates the centrality of the will to Coleridge’s ethics of sexual differentiation and to figurations of the historical trans categories—androgyne, transvestite, transsexual—that literary critics have used to interpret androgyny ever since. Considering trans people have long served as intertexts for studying androgyny, cis Romanticists can hardly shy away from transness now that we are joining the conversation.
Feeling Snaky: Fantasms and the Object of Desire in Keats’s 1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes
Authors: Fay Elizabeth A.
Published: February 2025

Abstract: “Lamia” is arguably the key to Keats’s treatment of female desire in the 1820 volume. Reading Lamia as a transspecies transwoman allows for an interpretation of her monstrosity as Keats’s treatment of women’s jouissance, a phenomenon that is both anxiety-producing for men, and a resistant epistemology for women. She is monstrous only in Apollonius’s gaze; to all others her trans skin is entirely beautiful, her passing successful, her monstering self-authorizing.
The Closing of the Japanese Frontier: Settler Technocracy and Postwar Japanese Infrastructure
Authors: Maeda Takuya
Published: February 2025

Abstract: For a cadre of influential figures in politics, business, urban planning, and architecture, the Japanese surrender in August 1945 marked the "closing of the Japanese frontier." With overseas expansion no longer an option due to the loss of the colonies and global decolonization, political and business elites turned to investments in industrial technology and the intensification of land use. Techno-utopian discourses about the potential of postwar science and technology replaced settler colonial discourses about terra nullius as the engine of economic growth and as a leveling force in Japanese society. Through critical reappraisals of major development projects in postwar Japan, this article develops the concept of "settler technocracy" to capture how settler colonial epistemologies and technocratic governance were in dynamic interrelationship in postwar Japan.
A Five-Year Epidemiological Analysis of Mandible Fractures in Bali
Authors: Kawilarang Bertha , Sanjaya I Gusti Putu Hendra , Hamid Agus Roy Rusly Hariantana
Published: February 2025

Introduction: This study aims to assess the prevalence, sociodemographic factors, and patterns of mandible fractures at Prof. dr. I.G.N.G. Ngoerah General Hospital, recognizing that more than half of all maxillofacial injuries are due to mandible fractures, attributable to the mandible's prominent structure.Methods: This retrospective study was held in Prof. dr. I.G.N.G. Ngoerah General Hospital. Data were collected from January 2018 to December 2023. A total of 289 samples were included in this study. Age, gender, anatomical location of the fractures and unilateral/bilateral involvement were reported. Results: During the period spanning January 2018 to December 2023, a comprehensive analysis of 289 mandible fracture cases was conducted. Notably, the highest incidence was observed in 2022, comprising 72 cases. Predominantly affecting males (72.7%) within the age bracket of 21-30 years (40.1%), these fractures were primarily attributed to road traffic accidents (64.4%), often associated with alcohol influence (43.9%). Remarkably, non-helmet usage was prevalent among the majority of patients (69.9%), particularly motorcycle drivers (53.3%). The parasymphysis region emerged as the most frequently affected area (38.1%), with unilateral involvement prevailing in the majority of cases (61.6%). Additionally, associated injuries were noted in 88.5% of cases, with management predominantly comprising open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) complemented by maxillomandibular fixation (MMF) in 66.8% of cases.Conclusions: The findings of this study reveal a progressive rise in the annual incidence of mandible fractures. Consequently, there is a pressing need to heighten awareness among healthcare practitioners when managing patients presenting with maxillofacial traumas.
Issues and Challenges in Implementing Braden Scale to Assess Pressure Injury Risk: A Participatory Action Research in South-Eastern Indonesia
Authors: Buntoro Ika Febianti , Datusanantyo Robertus Arian , Koamesah Sangguana M. J. , Wijaya R. Pasifikus Christa , Handoyo Nicholas Edwin
Published: February 2025

Background: Pressure injury (PI) is chronic wound over bony prominence that should be managed to avoid morbidity and increased costs. Braden scale (BS) has been used worldwide for almost forty years as PI's standard risk assessment tool. This study aimed to identify issues among nurses regarding the implementation of the PI risk assessment tool in a referral hospital in rural Indonesia.Methods: We performed two cycles of participatory action research (PAR) to initiate the BS implementation and to establish follow-ups accordingly in inpatient units. The PAR ensured the active roles of the 12 nurses and midwives who initially implemented the tool. The transcribed focused-group discussion (FGD) recordings were analysed following six steps of thematic analysis.Results: There were three main themes emerged. The themes were the nurses' understanding of the need for PI risk assessment, the increasing workload when implementing PI risk assessment, and the importance of the primary nurse role. The themes reflects the need for nurse practitioners to further implement the tool by seeking confirmation from the primary nurse's group. The ease and trialability of the BS enhanced the nurses' compliance with the new tool. The nurse manager and leader needed to concentrate on perceived innovation attributes to implement the PI risk assessment tool further.Conclusion: The PAR cycles have recruited early adopters and suggested implementing BS to assess PI risk. The role of hospital managers and leaders in ensuring continuity of implementation is crucial.
O português é realmente difícil?
Authors: Bizzocchi Aldo Luiz , Simões Pedro Rezende
Published: February 2025

O presente artigo apresenta a primeira etapa do projeto de pesquisa Gramática comparada de línguas europeias: análise contrastiva da norma-padrão dos principais idiomas europeus ocidentais (românicos e germânicos), cujos objetivos são: 1) comparar os principais tópicos das gramáticas normativas de diversas línguas de difusão internacional, incluindo o português, em termos de número de regras gramaticais e maior ou menor complexidade dessas regras; e 2) responder, com base no estudo comparativo realizado, à pergunta corrente no senso comum “o português é realmente uma língua difícil?”, em face de comentários frequentes tanto de falantes/escreventes do português quanto de estrangeiros de que a gramática de nossa língua é muito complexa, o que tem suscitado mesmo, por parte de alguns linguistas, propostas de simplificação da norma-padrão do português com base em usos do português brasileiro contemporâneo oral culto. Nesta primeira etapa do projeto, analisam-se contrastivamente quatro tópicos gramaticais, a saber, colocação pronominal, infinitivo pessoal, futuro do subjuntivo e numerais cardinais e ordinais, em seis línguas, sendo quatro românicas (português, espanhol, francês e italiano) e duas germânicas (inglês e alemão), a partir de consulta a gramáticas normativas de renome das línguas em estudo e sistematização das regras gramaticais e suas exceções. Conclui-se que a colocação pronominal em português padrão é muito mais complexa que a das demais línguas, apresentando ao menos 12 regras diferentes, contra apenas uma ou duas das outras cinco línguas; que o infinitivo pessoal só ocorre em português e, nos verbos regulares, confunde-se com o tempo futuro do modo subjuntivo, o qual também só subsiste atualmente em português; diferente das outras línguas românicas que não apresentam essa característica e que a formação de numerais ordinais se dá majoritariamente por mera sufixação a partir dos cardinais correspondentes em todas as línguas analisadas, com exceção do português e do espanhol, que recorrem a empréstimos dos numerais ordinais latinos.