bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Mediterranean Inshore Wind Resources: Combining MCPs and CFD for Marine Resources Quantification
Authors: Farrugia Robert N. , Sant Tonio
Published: June 2013

This work focuses on projecting wind resources over a marine area that was shortlisted as a possible offshore wind farm site in inshore Maltese territorial waters. Wind measurements conducted over the 24 calendar month period from November 2009 to October 2011 were sourced from an 80 metre wind monitoring mast installed onshore close to the proposed offshore wind farm's location. This study uses a combination of Measure-Correlate-Predict (MCP) techniques in conjunction with commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software. MCP routines were conducted between an inland reference wind measurement station possessing a long-term wind speed and direction time series and the shorter-term 80 metre wind mast's database; with the latter assuming the role of candidate site. A procedure was followed to generate a long-term wind climatology at the candidate site. This climatology was subsequently used to calibrate CFD flow modelling software to generate a wind resources map within a coastal environment of an island archipelago in the central Mediterranean region.
An Investigation of the Four Dimensions of Innovation in Small Scale Firms in Lagos State, Nigeria
Authors: Amiolemen Sunday , Babalola Olutunde , Adegbite Stephen , Ologeh Idowu , Adekola Olapeju , Ojo-Emmanuel Grace
Published: June 2013

The paper examined the dimensions of innovation in small scale manufacturing firms with a view to understanding the interaction and relationship among product innovation, process innovation, organizational innovation, and marketing innovation. It further determines the relationship that exists between sales turnover and the four dimensions of innovation. Forty-six small manufacturing firms were sampled across the 4 major small scale Industrial Estates in Lagos State. The paper observed that these small firms engaged mainly in process innovation. The correlation analysis revealed a significant relationship between marketing and process innovation (r = 0.51; p<0.01) while there is no causality between product and process innovation (r = 0.31; p<0.05); product innovation and organizational innovation (r = 0.22; p<0.05); product innovation and marketing innovation (r = 0.11; p<0.05); and process and organizational innovation (r = 0.27; p<0.05) in these firms. The paper concludes that these firms are solely interested in upgrading and renewal of products, improving new methods of production, supply and distribution. The paper finally submitted that the observed trend is not unconnected with poor R&D initiative between small firms and research institutions, poor technological innovation capability of firms, and poor linkages/collaboration among stakeholder on new product development.
Plan B and the German Catholic Bishops
Authors: Anderson Douglas C , Sullivan Dennis M
Published: June 2013

Germany's Catholic bishops recently ruled that levonorgestrel emergency contraception (EC) was acceptable for prevention of pregnancy in the case of rape. The ruling represents a significant change in Catholic doctrine that has been opposed to most forms of birth control. In their ruling the bishops cited a lack of evidence that levonorgestrel EC acts as an abortifacient. This case serves as a reminder of the need for bioethics to be based on current scientific literature as well as articles of faith and morals.
Character sheaves and characters of unipotent groups over finite fields
Authors: Boyarchenko Mitya
Published: June 2013

Let $G_0$ be a connected unipotent group over a finite field ${\Bbb F}_q$,
and let $G=G_0\otimes_{{\Bbb F}_q}\overline{\Bbb F}_q$, equipped with the
Frobenius endomorphism ${\rm Fr}_q:G\rightarrow G$. For every character
sheaf $M$ on $G$ such that ${\rm Fr}_q^*M\cong M$, we prove that $M$ comes
from an irreducible perverse sheaf $M_0$ on $G_0$ such that $M_0$ is pure
of weight $0$ (as an $\ell$-adic complex) and for each integer $n\geq 1$
the ``trace of Frobenius'' function $t_{M_0\otimes_{\Bbb F}_q}}{\Bbb
F}_{q^n}}$ on $G_0({\Bbb F}_{q^n})$ takes values in ${\Bbb Q}^{ab}$, the
abelian closure of $\Bbb{Q}$. We further show that as $M$ ranges over all
${\rm Fr}_q^*$-invariant character sheaves on $G$, the functions $t_{M_0}$
form a basis for the space of all conjugation-invariant functions
$G_0({\Bbb F}_q)\rightarrow {\Bbb Q}^{ab}$, and are orthonormal with
respect to the standard {\it unnormalized} Hermitian inner product on this
space. The matrix relating this basis to the basis formed by the
irreducible characters is block-diagonal, with blocks corresponding to the
${\rm Fr}_q^*$-invariant $\Bbb{L}$-packets (of characters or,
equivalently, of character sheaves). We also formulate and prove a
suitable generalization of this result to the case where $G_0$ is a
possibly disconnected unipotent group over ${\Bbb F}_q$. (In general,
${\rm Fr}_q^*$-invariant character sheaves on $G$ are related to the
irreducible characters of the groups of ${\Bbb F}_q$-points of all pure
inner forms of $G_0$ over ${\Bbb F}_q$.)
Soficity, amenability, and dynamical entropy
Authors: Kerr David , Li Hanfeng
Published: June 2013

In a previous paper the authors developed an operator-algebraic approach to Lewis
Bowen's sofic measure entropy that yields invariants for actions of countable sofic
groups by homeomorphisms on a compact metrizable space and by measure-preserving
transformations on a standard probability space. We show here that these measure and
topological entropy invariants both coincide with their classical counterparts when
the acting group is amenable.
Constant mean curvature spheres in ${\rm Sol}_3$
Authors: Meeks William H.
Published: June 2013

Based on work of Daniel and Mira, we prove that for each $H>0$, there exists
a unique (up to ambient isometry) immersed constant mean curvature $H$ sphere $S_H$ in
${\rm Sol}_3$, where ${\rm Sol}_3$ is the non-abelian solvable 3-dimensional Lie group equipped with
its usual left-invariant metric that makes it into a model space for one of the eight
Thurston geometries; see Bonahon or Scott for a discussion of
the Thurston geometries that can occur for compact 3-manifolds. Since this proof also
demonstrates that $S_H$ has index one, the results in~Daniel-Mira imply $S_H$ is embedded
and the left-invariant Gauss map of $S_H$ is a diffeomorphism. One key new result that
we prove in order to obtain these results for constant mean curvature spheres is the
existence of height estimates for certain constant mean curvature $H$ graphs in ${\rm Sol}_3$,
which depend only on any fixed positive lower bound for $H$. By the work in~Daniel-Mira,
the existence of the spheres $S_H$ for all $H>0$ implies the existence for all $H\geq 0$
of a complex (holomorphic only when $H=0$) quadratic differential $Q_H$ defined on all
constant mean curvature $H$ surfaces $M$ in ${\rm Sol}_3$ and which, for $H>0$, vanishes on
an open set of $M$ if and only if $M$ is contained in some left translation of $S_H$;
furthermore, when $Q_H$ is not identically zero on $M$, it has isolated zeros on $M$
and negative index at these zeros.
On the tempered $L$-functions conjecture
Authors: Heiermann Volker , Opdam Eric
Published: June 2013

We give a general proof of Shahidi's tempered L -function conjecture, which has
previously been known in all but one case. One of the consequences is the standard
module conjecture for $p$-adic groups, which means that the Langlands quotient of a
standard module is generic if and only if the standard module is irreducible and the
inducing data generic. We have also included the result that every generic tempered
representation of a $p$-adic group is a sub-representation of a representation
parabolically induced from a generic supercuspidal representation with a non-negative
real central character.
Free lamplighter groups and a question of Atiyah
Authors: Lehner Franz , Wagner Stephan
Published: June 2013

We compute the von Neumann dimensions of the kernels of adjacency operators on free lamplighter groups and show that they are irrational, thus providing an elementary constructive answer to a question of Atiyah.
Restricted volumes and divisorial Zariski decompositions
Authors: Matsumura Shin-ichi
Published: June 2013

We give a relation between the existence of a Zariski decomposition and the behavior
of the restricted volume of a big divisor on a smooth (complex) projective variety.
Moreover, we give an analytic description of the restricted volume in the line of
Boucksom's work. It enables us to define the restricted volume of a transcendental
class on a compact K\"ahler manifold in a natural way. The relation can be extended
to a transcendental class.
A Couple of Things Pliny Can't Help With?: Panegyrici Latini XI(3)
Authors: Henderson John
Published: June 2013

Thematic influence of Pliny Panegyricus on the rhetorical armature and organization of the Panegyrici Latini is found plentiful (where verbal echo is lacking). Examination of PanLat XI(3) in its supplementary relations with X(2), and in its function within the collection as a considered unit with an overall thesis, however, brings out the impossibility of modelling dyarchic and tetrarchic political thought squarely on Pliny's post-Ciceronian focus on Trajan as limit-case, but underlines the negotiation through PanLat as an "album," or "generic archive," of shifting figures for imperatorial rule.
Rethinking the Political Role of Pliny's Panegyricus in the Panegyrici Latini
Authors: García Ruiz M. Pilar
Published: June 2013

The purpose of this paper is to offer a preliminary response to the political influence of Pliny's Panegyricus in the Panegyrici Latini , focussing on passages that contain echoes stricto sensu of Pliny on political matters so as to refine understanding of the rhetorical function of Pliny's Panegyricus in the corpus as a whole. The line of argument follows a chronological order: the panegyric orations from the period 289-321 comprise a set in which the influence of Pliny is relatively minor, whereas Pliny's text has a significant bearing on the conceptual and expressive dimensions of the speeches delivered in 362 and 389.
Pacatus the Poet Doing Plinian Prose
Authors: Rees Roger
Published: June 2013

Juxtaposition of Pacatus's speech to Theodosius next to Pliny's Panegyricus in the PanLat collection invites comparison of the two. Intertexts reveal Pacatus's debts to Pliny, but his speech also regularly features stylistic elements which cannot be traced to the Panegyricus ; in particular, the speech has passages which owe more to Pacatus's interests as a poet. The stylistic adventure which Pacatus dares has implications for the history of Latin epideictic oratory and its aesthetic evolution—and for contemporary politics, as in his praise of Theodosius, Pacatus both recalls and surpasses Pliny to Trajan.
Pliny's Panegyricus and the Historia Augusta
Authors: Burgersdijk Diederik
Published: June 2013

In this article, the panegyrical tendencies in the Historia Augusta (especially to be found in the lives of Claudius, Tacitus, Aurelian, and Probus) are compared with the possible model of Pliny's Panegyricus to the emperor Trajan, who is considered the optimus princeps all through Late Antiquity. It is observed that there are many similar strategies used to praise the emperors concerned. At the same time, the panegyrical descriptions in the lives of the HA prepare for a climax outside the scope of this work: the panegyrics addressed to Diocletian, the tetrarchs, and Constantine, such as are encountered in Panegyrici Latini XII. Thus the biographies of the HA , of which several are attributed to Diocletian and others to Constantine, precisely fill the gap between Pliny's Panegyricus and the later ones addressed to the tetrarchs and Constantine. The author of the HA , whose identity and time of writing are still subject to debate, must have had knowledge of Pliny's speech, using it for his own biographical purposes.
Learning from Pliny: Claudian's Advice to the Emperor Honorius
Authors: Ware Catherine
Published: June 2013

Pliny's panegyric to Trajan (100 C.E.) expresses the hope that his words will encourage good emperors and show bad emperors what they should do. The kingship orations of Dio Chyrostom had a similar motivation. Three centuries later, the poet Claudian would summarise key points of Pliny's oration and Dio's discourses and present them in the form of a lesson to the young emperor Honorius from his father Theodosius. Unlike Pliny and Dio, however, Claudian's intention was not to instruct the emperor in rulership but, paradoxically, to encourage him to remain a pupil forever, leaving power in the hands of his regent Stilicho.
Naive Narrators and Double Narratives of Racially Motivated Violence in the Historical Fiction of Christopher Paul Curtis
Authors: Barker Jani L.
Published: June 2013

Christopher Paul Curtis's historical fiction uses naïve character narration to engage readers and create double narratives that present stories about racism and racial violence both truthfully and safely for potential readers of differing levels of readiness to grasp distressing historical realities.
Character Education and the Performance of Citizenship in Glee
Authors: Lesley Naomi
Published: June 2013

The television show Glee exemplifies ongoing conflicts in approaches to character education in America, and raises questions about what kinds of future citizens Americans want in the post-recession era. The students negotiate between the individualist ambition of the American Dream and a more inclusive, supportive ethic of community.
Mastery at Misselthwaite Manor: Taming the Shrews in The Secret Garden
Authors: Dolan Frances E.
Published: June 2013

This essay uncovers the links between The Secret Garden and the venerable shrewtaming tradition. Reading the plot as a double story of shrew-taming, the essay addresses why so many readers who remember the novel fondly also forget its conclusion in order to resist the operations of its plot.
The London Shopscape: Educating the Child Consumer in the Stories of Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Martha Sherwood
Authors: Norcia Megan A.
Published: June 2013

Through narratives of mothers and daughters shopping in London, Wollstonecraft's Original Stories (1788), Edgeworth's "Purple Jar" (1796), and Sherwood's A Drive in a Coach (1818) cautioned against unbridled consumerism. These Enlightenment narratives emphasize training child readers as rational, disciplined subjects pursuing responsible consumerism, salvation, and patronage in Britain's imperial city.
Cultural Authenticity in Susan Fletcher's Shadow Spinner
Authors: Matloob Taraneh
Published: June 2013

Cultural authenticity in children's literature has long been the subject of heated literary, educational and sociopolitical debate. Reviewing opposing perspectives in multicultural children's literature and examining Susan Fletcher's Shadow Spinner , this paper argues the possibility of acquiring the genuine perspective of the other culture and therefore authentically representing it for people who do not belong to that culture.
Chaperoning Words: Meaning-Making in Comics and Picture Books
Authors: Sanders Joe Sutliff
Published: June 2013

Understanding who chaperones the words as they narrow the meaning of images offers a reliable theory for distinguishing between two otherwise fundamentally similar kinds of books: comics and picture books. The resulting distinction helps explain the form, history, and ideological implications of comics and picture books.
Model Patriots: The First Children's Biographies of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin
Authors: Stabell Ivy Linton
Published: June 2013

This essay examines early nineteenth-century children's biographies of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. It argues that these texts imagine child readers as both public and private subjects and therefore restrict discussions of rebellion in these two men's stories in order to encourage child readers' obedience to both parental and political authority structures.
Holiday House, Childhood, and the End(s) of Time
Authors: Hoffman A. Robin
Published: June 2013

This essay argues that Catherine Sinclair's novel Holiday House (1839) registers and protests an early-Victorian educational emphasis upon timekeeping. Sinclair represents a preoccupation with artificially-structured time as unhealthy or dangerous for children, most conspicuously through the character of Frank. She specifically indicts imperialism and expanding industry for producing these effects.
"Mammy, can't you tell us sump'n' to play?": Children's Play as the Locus for Imaginative Imitation and Cultural Exchange in the Plantation Novels of Louise Clarke Pyrnelle
Authors: Kelley Joyce E.
Published: June 2013

This essay examines the importance of children's play on the Southern plantation in Diddie, Dumps, and Tot and Miss Li'l' Tweetty as Louise Clarke Pyrnelle's novels reveal play's complex psychosocial significance. The children's stories, language, and imaginative play both replicate and challenge their plantation world, having the potential to upset adult value systems.
Cicero's Letter to Atticus 2.16: "A Great Controversy"
Authors: Fortenbaugh William W.
Published: June 2013

In Ad Atticum 2.16, Cicero speaks of a great controversy between Theophrastus and Dicaearchus. Consideration of context (literary and political) makes clear that the controversy is the creation of Cicero.
Isocrates and the Dialogue
Authors: Murphy David J.
Published: June 2013

Parallels allow us to connect many passages in Isocrates to dialogues of Hippias, Antisthenes, and Plato. Although Isocrates articulates a conception of fiction, he treats views voiced by characters in dialogues as the authors '. He also uses fictional elements (e.g. in Or. 3, 12, 15) to express his own views. From Isocrates and Plato I formulate the constructs "story register" and "rhetorical register" for the wavelengths of communication that Isocrates locates in fiction. His treatment presupposes that he and his intended readership understood dialogues as assertoric works. It also indicates that Plato's more literary dialogues circulated more widely than is sometimes supposed.
Petronius Satyrica 89
Authors: Putnam Michael C. J.
Published: June 2013

In section 89 of Petronius's Satyrica we find our hero Encolpius gazing at a picture of the fall of Troy, completely rapt ( totum in illa haerere tabula ), according to his companion, the poet Eumolpus. Critics have rightly pointed out the similarity with Aeneas at Aeneid 1. 494-95. What seems not to have been noted is the parallelism with "Horace," in Sat. 1.9.2, strolling along the Via Sacra, pondering frivolities, totus in illis . This paper examines the resulting parallels between Encolpius, Horace, and Aeneas, and explores further examples of the influence of Vergil's epic on Petronius's masterpiece.
Branding Catiline: Metaphorical Enslavement in the First Catilinarian Oration
Authors: Franzen Christina E.
Published: June 2013

In the First Catilinarian oration, Cicero transforms Catiline into a slave by rhetorically and metaphorically "branding" him. While Catiline attempts to present himself as a proper Roman man on the outside, Cicero publicizes Catiline's depravity, slavishness and criminality by branding Catiline's true nature, a nature that he conceals behind his seemingly aristocratic forehead and the closed doors of his private home.
Bad Scorpion: Cacemphaton and Poetics in Martial's Ligurinus-Cycle
Authors: Mulligan Bret
Published: June 2013

A bilingual cacemphaton in Martial 3.44 allows the author to blur the categories of chaste and obscene language, furnishing a moment of ribald humor in a section of book 3 that Martial claims is free from Latin obscenity. The cacemphaton recasts an unusual reference to a scorpion as a more familiar socio-sexual threat: the σκῶρ-πέος of a pedicator . It risks charging the epigram's mundane activities with erotic significance and contributes to a nexus of sexual, culinary, and literary imagery in the short cycle of poems against poetaster Ligurinus (3.44, 45, 50), suggesting why his verses give no pleasure and how they corrupt food and ruin meals.
Tradition vs. Reception as Models for Studying the Great Books
Authors: Broder Michael
Published: June 2013

Great Books core curriculum courses play a role in defining the relationship between past and present for undergraduate students. Two competing approaches to constructing this relationship are described, namely classical tradition and classical reception . The classical tradition model is based on the idea of Greco-Roman influence on Western civilization. The classical reception model is based on a process of reappropriation and redefinition to assert or challenge continuity with a privileged past. Examples including Vergil's Aeneid , Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice , and Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red demonstrate how teachers can implement a classical reception approach in the classical civilization classroom.
Greek Combat Sports and their Transmission to Central and East Asia
Authors: Christopoulos Lucas
Published: June 2013

After the conquests of Alexander the Great and during the reign of his numerous successors, the tradition of combat sports games became institutionalized by the elite of an Hellenized warlike aristocracy in Asia. The heroic cult of the Greeks was perpetuated as far as Central Asia, improving the local traditions by building a gymnasium in every new city of the colonies. The various technical aspects of ancient Greek combat sports were transmitted as well in order to improve effectiveness in close-combat fighting. To trace back these technical features, a detailed description of wrestling, boxing and pankration as developed in ancient Greece are compared together with their East-Asian counterparts.
From Roman Africa to Roman America
Authors: Maritz Jessie A.
Published: June 2013

Roman art personified Rome as a goddess linked to Peace and Liberty. It depicted its province Africa with scorpion, lion and cornucopia, wearing an elephant scalp and subservient to Rome. After the discovery of America, the Four Quarters of the World became an important theme in European art for some three centuries. Europe was always the Queen. Africa kept its Roman attributes; America was shown as a cannibal with bow and arrow, wearing only feathers. Often they were confused. When European settlers in North America began to depict America this image changed, becoming first the 'daughter of England' and later Columbia , looking like a Roman goddess and linked, like Rome, to Peace and Liberty.
Empowering the Self, Creating Worlds: Lesbian and Gay Latina/o College Students' Identity Negotiation in Figured Worlds
Authors: Peña-Talamantes Abráham E.
Published: June 2013

Drawing from Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, and Cain's (1998) identity theory, this study sought to understand how six self-identified lesbian and gay Latina/o college students negotiated their sexual and ethnic identities. Participants identified two equally flawed dimensions, the hometown and college figured worlds, from which they sought an alternative destigmatizing space for identity negotiation. Through the senses of freedom, security, and belonging, the participants became self-empowered to create a third figured world I term an identity buffer —a space governed by their individual expectations and social norms—where their identities could coexist.
Sports and Community on Campus: Constructing a Sports Experience That Matters
Authors: Warner Stacy , Dixon Marlene A.
Published: June 2013

Student affairs personnel are often charged with the task of creating a sense of community on campuses. Sports is among the many activities that historically have been used to meet this need for community among students. Yet, how and when a sense of community is created within a sports context has not been appropriately addressed in literature. Utilizing a community psychology theoretical framework for this study, we employed a qualitative approach to uncover the necessary factors for creating a sense of community within a sports club setting. The results revealed that Common Interest, Leadership Opportunities, Voluntary Activity, and Competition were the most critical components to creating a sense of community. The results advance community building theory and suggest practical application for improving the student experience. The implications for sports managers and student affairs administrators are also discussed.
Impact of College Environments on the Spiritual Development of African American Students
Authors: Weddle-West Karen , Hagan Waldon Joseph , Norwood Kristie M.
Published: June 2013

This study focused on the impact of college environments on the spiritual development of African American students. Using the Armstrong Measure of Spirituality (AMOS) survey administered to 125 African American college students, the study sought to ascertain whether or not there were differences in spirituality as reported by African American students attending a historically Black college and African American students attending a predominantly White institution. Gender differences and differences based on students' classifications were also examined. The results revealed that African Americans attending a predominantly White institution reported higher levels of spirituality than African Americans attending a historically Black college. The results also showed significant differences among the students on 2 of the AMOS subscales—spiritual beliefs and spiritual actions—in relation to gender and grade classification. Specifically, African American males attending the historically Black college scored significantly lower on the spiritual beliefs variable than the entire sample of females and males attending the predominantly White institution. Additionally, African American males in lower divisions scored significantly less on spiritual beliefs than African American males in upper divisions and females. Plausible explanations for these differences include a greater need among African Americans attending predominantly White institutions (a minority status) to seek and rely on spirituality for support and as a coping mechanism, and the fact that spirituality is a developmental construct which may be a reason that helps to explain the differences between African American males in lower and upper divisions.
Early Modern Transitions: From Montaigne to Choisy
Authors: Ferguson Gary
Published: June 2013

Focusing on texts by Montaigne and the abbé de Choisy, this essay explores the kinds and degrees of sexual and gendered transitions early modern individuals might have made or sought to make. These are situated within contemporary socio-cultural transitions, notably the increased standing of women.
Embodying Gender Nonconformity in ‘Girls’: Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy
Authors: Waldron Darren
Published: June 2013

This article examines the representation of gender nonconformity in young girls in Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy (2011). The analysis of the film is set within the contexts of recent evolutions in perceptions of gender nonconformity in children and underpinned by corporeal phenomenology and its application within studies of transgender identities.
Un transgenre grammatical ?: la tension linguistique dans Les Adolescents troglodytes d’Emmanuelle Pagano
Authors: Sauzon Virginie
Published: June 2013

Cet article propose une étude de l’hybridation grammaticale féminin/masculin dans Les Adolescents troglodytes (2007) d’Emmanuelle Pagano. Dans ce récit d’un personnage transidentitaire, la tension linguistique, passant notamment par une écriture du double accord, interroge à de multiples niveaux les représentations binaires et exclusives de sexe et de genre.
“Insurrections en territoire sexuel”: Wendy Delorme’s War Machines
Authors: Fournier Mat
Published: June 2013

Commenting on a quotation by novelist Wendy Delorme (“Women are war machines”), this article explores the disruptive potential of Delorme’s lesbians and FtM fictional characters while also drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the war machine. The pornographic dimension of her narrative and her fluid representation of female masculinities act as powerful devices in opposition to French universalist gender norms.
Ghosting Transgender Historicity in Colette’s The Pure and the Impure
Authors: Amin Kadji
Published: June 2013

This essay reads Colette’s The Pure and the Impure from the perspective of critical transgender historiography. It argues that the text’s effort to redeem certain forms of gender variance by purging them of any association with subculture, fashion, and time symptomatizes an acute anxiety about the historicity of gender transitivity.
« On ne se baigne jamais deux fois dans le même fleuve » : L’ontologie trans- de Laurence, Anyways
Authors: Armbrecht Thomas J. D.
Published: June 2013

Cet essai propose une rencontre entre le film Laurence, Anyways (2012) , par Xavier Dolan, et le concept trans-. La fidélité à son devenir permet à Laurence de reconnaître ce que Deleuze appellerait l’univocité de son être. En montrant les transitions corporelles et affectives de Laurence, Dolan montre la constante chez elle.
De l’androgynie au transgenre : le dandysme ou l’échappée belle
Authors: Foerster Maxime
Published: June 2013

This article articulates dandyism as a deconstruction of sexual difference and as a historical concept paving the way for transgender identity through the female dandy, as illustrated in texts by Baudelaire and Barbey d’Aurevilly.
Pathological Commodification, Contagious Impressions, and Dead Metaphors: Undiagnosing Consumption in The Wings of the Dove
Authors: Spunt Nicola Ivy
Published: June 2013

Wings insists on representing Milly Theale's condition as a matter of cognitive reticence, yet refracts it through a twinned rhetoric of disease and economics, illuminating a coextensivity between pathology and commodification. Effectively, Kate Croy's undiagnosis of the consumptive verdict invites a broader consideration of consumption's mutating tropes, which figure appetitive relations as well as the assimilation of contagious impressions. If Milly does not definitively have consumption, she is nevertheless subjected to it. Her pecuniary ontology predisposes her to being used (up); however, as a figure for dead metaphor, she also exceeds death, and moreover, allegorizes the death of the overdetermined consumptive heroine.
A Production of Daisy Miller : A Comedy
Authors: Wortman William A.
Published: June 2013

This brief note describes the first known production of James's Daisy Miller: A Comedy by the Equity Library Theatre, New York, the week of October 17, 1956. This followed by a year an aborted summer production by the same director originally scheduled by the Robin Hood Theatre, Arden, DE.
Monster Hotels, Elastic Men, and the Bourgeois Age
Authors: Moore Robbie
Published: June 2013

By constructing a sociological portrait of the long-legged man in Henry James's early work, this article focuses on the relationship between Jamesian bodies, habits, and architecture. The longlegged man, drawn to the radically new space of the urban commercial hotel, is a dangerous creature. With his elasticity, he challenges social good form, confounding the margin between self and other; with his intermingled subjectivity, he challenges novelistic form, confounding the margin between major and minor characters. The long-legged man is a case study in the ways in which Jamesian bodies can alternatively reproduce or revolutionise the social order.
Textual Monuments/Crumbling Idols; or, What We Never Knew about Henry James (and Never Thought to Ask)
Authors: Anesko Michael
Published: June 2013

The notoriety of his meticulous revision of his works for the New York Edition (1907-09)—and the presumption of textual accuracy that would seem necessarily to result from it—has contributed powerfully to the aura of mastery that we attribute to Henry James. Closer analysis of the many different textual versions of his work will force us to reexamine and rethink the question of James's editorial infallibility. This essay invites us to consider what we can learn from an author's mistakes.
"An Embroidered Veil of Sound": The Word in the Machine in Henry James's In the Cage
Authors: Hutchison Hazel
Published: June 2013

From 1897 onwards, because of a wrist injury, Henry James dictated most of his fiction to a secretary at a typewriter. One of his first dictated texts was In the Cage (1898), the story of a telegraph girl, whose attempts to communicate are also mechanized by the electrically powered telegraphic 'sounder.' This paper explores the telegraphist's awareness of the highly coded noises, signs and silences around her. It also traces the echoes of the Remington typewriter and James's dictating voice within the text. It argues that James's richly ambiguous late style is best understood as a style based on sound.
Proportional Differences in Emergency Room Adult Patients with PTSD, Mood Disorders, and Anxiety for a Large Ethnically Diverse Geographic Sample
Authors: Onoye Jane , Helm Susana , Koyanagi Chad , Fukuda Michael , Hishinuma Earl , Takeshita Junji , Ona Celia
Published: June 2013

Underserved populations often utilize the emergency room in place of primary care, particularly for short term behavioral health services. This study examined emergency department (ED) utilization rates for rurality, insurance, sex, and ethnicity in a large sample of adult patients in Hawai'i hospitals from 2000-2010 with a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mood disorder, or other anxiety disorder. Findings showed a higher rate of use by rural and suburban residents with a diagnosis of PTSD or other anxiety than by urban residents. Utilization of EDs by African Americans and Other Pacific Islanders with PTSD was proportionally higher than for those with mood disorders or other anxiety disorders. Military ED visits were also proportionally higher for individuals with PTSD than for those with mood or other anxiety disorders. Limited economic resources and increasingly costly mental health disorders such as PTSD highlight the importance of better understanding the needs for behavioral health services for underserved populations.
Can Access to a Medical-Legal Partnership Benefit Patients with Asthma who Live in an Urban Community?
Authors: Pettignano Robert , Bliss Lisa Radtke , Caley Sylvia B. , McLaren Susan
Published: June 2013

Approximately one in 10 children in the U.S. has a diagnosis of asthma. African American and low-income children are more likely to be diagnosed with asthma. They are more likely to suffer the worse outcomes because of low socioeconomic status and environmental exposures. A medical-legal partnership is an interdisciplinary collaboration between a medical entity such as a hospital or clinic and a legal entity such as a lawyer, law school, or legal aid society created to address barriers to health care access and limitations to well-being. Addressing the legal concerns of these patients can improve access to medical services, reduce family stress, and address legal concerns that contribute to poor health. The Health Law Partnership (HeLP) is one such medical-legal partnership that provides a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to health care. During the seven-year study period we found both financial ($501,209) and non-financial benefits attributable to interventions by the attorneys at HeLP.
Folic Acid Awareness vs. Supplementation: A New Tool to Bridge the Gap
Authors: Lamb Michelle , Hogg Lyndsey N.
Published: June 2013

This Report from the Field describes a folic acid awareness event hosted by a College of Pharmacy in conjunction with a local YWCA in observation of National Birth Defects Prevention Month and includes a discussion of the disparity between folic acid awareness and consumption and proposes a new tool to decrease this gap.
Effects of Race and Language on Patient-Centered Cancer Nursing Care and Patient Outcomes
Authors: Radwin Laurel E. , Cabral Howard J. , Woodworth Tiffany Siu
Published: June 2013

Nursing prides itself on the ability to advocate for patients. However, questions are raised in the National Health Care Disparities Reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality about how well nurses communicate with African Americans, Hispanics, and people who speak languages other than English. Our secondary analysis of patient data collected at an urban safety-net hospital oncology unit examined the relationships among race, language, patient-centered nursing care, and patient outcomes. Using path modeling techniques, findings indicate that patient-centered care and associated outcomes for African American/Black and Others differ from those for Whites. For the African American/Black and Others group, individualization played a more significant role in achieving a sense of well-being, optimism, and authentic self-representation. Patients who spoke a language other than English at home had different perceptions of their nurses' responsiveness; nurses' responsiveness in turn affected patients' trust in nurses. Future testing is recommended for relationships between patient-centered nursing care and patient outcomes in underserved populations.
Factors Contributing to Poor Physical Health in Incarcerated Women
Authors: Harner Holly M. , Riley Suzanne
Published: June 2013

Prisons have become the primary health care provider for some of the poorest and sickest women in the United States. By virtue of both biological sex and gender, incarcerated women have health needs different from those of their male counterparts. The purpose of this qualitative investigation was to understand better women's perceptions of how prison has affected their physical health. We conducted this investigation in a maximum-security women's prison in the United States using focus group methodology (12 focus groups, made up of 65 women). Women described several specific prison-based factors that affected their physical health: limited and complicated access to care; nutritional concerns; limited physical activity; and smoking in prison. We discuss these findings in relation to the gender-based health issues facing incarcerated women.
Should I Call an Interpreter?—How do Physicians with Second Language Skills Decide?
Authors: Andres Ellie , Wynia Matthew , Regenstein Marsha , Maul Lauren
Published: June 2013

Very little is known about how and when clinicians use their second language skills in patient care and when they rely on interpreters. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors most relevant to physicians' decision-making process when confronting the question of whether their language skills suffice to communicate effectively with patients in particular encounters. We conducted 25 in-depth, semi-structured telephone interviews with physicians in different practice settings who, while not native speakers, routinely interact with LEP patients using second language skills. Physicians consider a variety of factors in deciding whether to use their own language skills in clinical care, including their own and their patient's language proficiency, costs, convenience, and the clinical risk or complexity of the encounter. This study suggests the need for practical guidance and training for clinicians on the appropriate use of second language skills and interpreters in clinical care.
Perspectives on Community Dental Clinics and Oral Health Inequities in British Columbia
Authors: Wallace Bruce B. , MacEntee Michael I.
Published: June 2013

Background . This study investigates the expansion of community dental clinics to address oral health inequities in the province of British Columbia (BC) from the perspectives of dental professionals and allied service-providers. Methods . Sixty-three people participated in individual and group interviews with dentists (n=4), dental hygienists (n=30), dental clinic staff (n=17), and other health care and social service providers (n=12). Results . We identified two service-models: a volunteer-charitable (VC) model typically operating part-time mostly to relieve pain and a not-for-profit (NFP) model open full-time usually within a community health centre with paid staff providing basic dental services. Conclusions . Community dental clinics are increasing in number to fill a gap in the oral health care of disadvantaged people in BC. Staff in these clinics raised questions indirectly about distributive justice and health care inequity by suggesting that the unmet dental need of vulnerable people requires political attention and that restricted dentistry for underserved communities is socially unacceptable.
Colorectal Cancer Surgery Outcomes for Vulnerable Patients in Safety-net versus Non-safety-net Hospitals
Authors: Whitaker Rebecca G. , Reiter Kristin L. , Weinberger Morris , Stearns Sally C.
Published: June 2013

Extensive research documents disparities in health outcomes for vulnerable populations. Safety-net hospitals—those that serve a greater proportion of vulnerable patients with Medicaid or no insurance—may yield better outcomes for these vulnerable patients because of their expertise with this population. National Inpatient Sample data from 2005-2007 show that predicted rates of complications following colorectal cancer surgery are approximately 20% lower for vulnerable patients in safety-net than in non-safety-net hospitals (0.273 versus 0.340; 95% CI for the difference: -0.11, -0.001). Differences by safety-net status for Medicare and privately-insured patients were smaller and not statistically significant. The lower complication rates are not due to earlier discharge, as vulnerable patients had significantly longer stays at safety-net hospitals (1.79 days; 95% CI 0.13, 3.40). Additional research is needed to determine whether improvement in post-operative outcomes is due to the expertise of safety-net hospitals in caring for patients with Medicaid or no insurance.
Shaping the Jail Inreach Project: Program Evaluation as a Quality Improvement Measure to Inform Programmatic Decision Making and Improve Outcomes
Authors: Brown Carlie A. , Hickey J. Scott , Buck David S.
Published: June 2013

The Jail Inreach Project was initiated in 2007 as a pilot program by Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston, an FQHC serving homeless individuals in Harris County, Texas, as a collaborative effort with the Harris County Sheriff's Office and the Mental Health Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County. It addresses the disproportionate number of homeless individuals with behavioral health diagnoses cycling through the Harris County Jail without provisions for continuity of care. Throughout the years, several evaluations have been conducted to inform programmatic planning and assess the success of the program on affecting patterns of recidivism of mentally ill homeless clients being served. Findings reinforce the importance of linking releasees to services immediately upon release as a measure for breaking the cycle of repeated incarceration and chronic homelessness. This paper illuminates characteristics of a successful intervention by examining three program evaluations conducted at different times in the program's history. It further illustrates how program evaluation has been utilized to help shape the program design and related policies.
The Use of Financial Incentives to Increase Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Purchases in Lower-Income Households: Results of a Pilot Study
Authors: Phipps Etienne J. , Braitman Leonard E. , Stites Shana D. , Wallace Samantha L. , Singletary S. Brook , Hunt Lacy H.
Published: June 2013

Identifying effective strategies to promote healthier eating in underserved populations is a public health priority. In this pilot study, we examined the use of financial incentives to increase fresh fruit and vegetable purchases in low-income households (N=29). Participants received pre-paid coupons to buy fresh produce at the study store during the intervention period. Purchases were compared among the three study phases (baseline, intervention, and follow-up). A financial incentive provided by study coupons increased the average weekly purchase of fresh fruit but was less successful with fresh vegetables. These findings underscore the need for specific targeting of vegetable selection and preparation to exploit this strategy more fully.
Comparing Preventive Visits of Children in Foster Care with other Children in Medicaid
Authors: Landers Glenn , Snyder Angela , Zhou Mei
Published: June 2013

Objective . This study compared preventive medical and dental visits of Georgia children in foster care with other children enrolled in Medicaid to determine if utilization differed. Methods . Two logistic regressions estimated the likelihood of an annual Health Check screening and the likelihood of at least one dental visit. Results . Compared with children in foster care, children in the adoption assistance ([AOR] .37, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.35-0.40), SSI (AOR .37, 95% CI = 0.35-0.38) and low-income (AOR .40, 95% CI = 0.39-0.42) Medicaid categories were less likely to receive an annual Health Check screening. Children in adoption assistance were also less likely to have a dental visit during the study period. Conclusion . Policies require a Health Check visit upon placement into foster care and annual check-ups consistent with pediatric guidelines; we found more Early and Periodic Screening, Detection, and Treatment screenings for foster care children in Georgia than for other children receiving Medicaid.
Barriers and Facilitators of Cervical Cancer Screening among Women of Hmong Origin
Authors: Fang Dao Moua , Baker Dian L.
Published: June 2013

This qualitative study explored the barriers and facilitators of cancer screening among women of Hmong origin. Using a community-based participatory research approach, we conducted focus groups (n=44) with Hmong women who represented four distinct demographic groups among the Hmong community. The participants described sociocultural barriers to screening, which included a lack of accurate knowledge about the causes of cervical cancer, language barriers, stigma, fear, lack of time, and embarrassment. Structural barriers included attitudes and practices of health care providers, lack of insurance, and negative perceptions of services at clinics for the uninsured. Health care providers may require additional training and increased time per visit to provide culturally sensitive care for refugee groups such as the Hmong. Health-related social marketing efforts aimed at improving health literacy may also help to reduce health inequities related to cancer screening among the Hmong.
When Patients Govern: Federal Grant Funding and Uncompensated Care at Federally Qualified Health Centers
Authors: Wright Brad , Ricketts Thomas C.
Published: June 2013

Objective . To determine if the proportion of consumers on federally qualified health center (FQHC) governing boards is associated with their use of federal grant funds to provide uncompensated care. Methods . Using FQHC data from the Uniform Data System, county-level data from the Area Resource File and governing board data from FQHC grant applications, the uncompensated care an FQHC provides relative to the amount of its federal funding is modeled as a function of board and executive committee composition using fixed-effects regression with FQHC and county-level controls. Results . Consumer governance does not predict how much uncompensated care an FQHC provides relative to the size of its federal grant. Rather, the proportion of an FQHC's patient-mix that is uninsured drives uncompensated care provision. Conclusions . Aside from a small executive committee effect, consumer governance does not influence FQHCs' provision of uncompensated care. More work is needed to understand the role of consumer governance.