bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
In vitro probiotic potential of Enterococcus species isolated from tungrymbai, a fermented soybean product of Meghalaya, India
Authors: Malakar B. , Das A.J. , Deka S.C.
Published: April 2016

Lactic acid bacteria were isolated from tungrymbai, a traditional fermented soybean product of Meghalaya, India and assessed for their probiotic properties. Survival under simulated gastric conditions was tested and five acid tolerant strains were selected. By using 16S rDNA sequencing, these isolates were confirmed to be Enterococcus species. The strains exhibited good survivability in high concentrations of bile salts. The strains were susceptible to antibiotics and they were also found to inhibit growth of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. The strains were gelatinase negative and non-haemolytic. The strains also assimilated cholesterol up to a certain level. The study confirmed that all identified five strains have in vitro probiotic properties.
Intuitive actions
Authors: Kürti Emese
Published: April 2016

Dr. László Végh (born in 1931), composer and radiologist played a decisively influential role in forming of the underground art scene of the Sixties. He presented (from 1958) the first local examples of concrete and electronic music compositions for the living representatives of Hungarian modernism and for the new generation of the neo-avant-garde in the quasidemocratic communities of private spaces. Due to this mediating cultural activity, his non-conformist personality and appearance, impressive network across the generations, Dr. Végh offered a new model of alternative living and the continuity of modernism behind the iron curtain. His soirées and proto-actions — for which I would introduce the term ‘intuitive actions’ – were performed with young artists of the subculture, and led to deconstruction of traditional art forms through pieces of avant-garde and experimental music, while opened up the way for happening and fluxus.
In the pursuit of freedom: Art and animals under socialism
Authors: Fowkes Maja , Fowkes Reuben
Published: April 2016

The experience of socialism and its legacies in Eastern Europe created a specific context for artists’ engagement with animals and their approach to the natural world. The blueprint for building the socialist utopia had spared little concern for the environmental consequences of breakneck industrialisation, with rivers rerouted, landscapes devastated and nature viewed purely as a material resource. The welfare and interests of animals were far down the list of priorities in a system which valorised the proletariat and demanded sacrifices for the glorification of the socialist state. The cruel fate of the world’s first space traveller, Laika the dog, who was sent on a one-way mission into orbit in 1957, was symbolic of official attitudes towards animals under socialism, as well as providing a focus for feelings of empathy from human subjects that felt equally oppressed.

It was in the 1960s that live animals first entered artistic practice through happenings and performances, which occurred in parallel with the neo-avant-garde exodus from studios and galleries to enter public space and natural environments and was part of the utopian drive to abolish the distinction between art and life. However, it was only after the changes brought by the countercultural orientation of 1968, with the emergence of the women’s liberation movement, a new concern for human rights and the rise of ecological thinking that neo-avant-garde artists began to conceptually address the position of the animal. Birds turned out to be particularly appropriate living metaphors to convey the suppressed desire for freedom, as well as offering a way to explore the ethical and environmental dimensions of relations between the human and the animal.

This paper explores changing attitudes and approaches to animals in East European art of the neo-avant-garde during the Long Sixties through an examination of key works by István Harasztÿ from Hungary, Slovak artist Peter Bartoš and Petr Štembera from the Czech Republic, while considering the impact of new thinking about the natural environment across the porous ideological borders of the Cold War. Engagements with the animal were most frequently conceived in metaphorical terms as a means to talk about the human condition which, due to the specific social, historical and political circumstances of the Eastern Bloc, was particularly true of artists living under socialism.
Life is art, art is life: Czech action 1964−1969
Authors: Morganová Pavlína
Published: April 2016

The death of Stalin in 1953, followed by the denunciation of the cult of personality at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, led to a certain thaw in the Soviet zones of influence. However, this was a very slow, complex process, well illustrated by the fate of the Stalin monument in Prague. After its demolition in 1962, Czech culture entered the period of the ‘Long Sixties,’ which was actually quite short. Russian tanks entering Prague August 21st, 1968 brought this exciting and promising process to its end.

This text focuses on the development of Czech Happenings and Performance Art, during this short period, questioning the political and sociological situation in which this art developed. Czech artists, both male and female, such as Milan Knížák, Eugen Brikcius, Jan Steklík and Zorka Ságlová, explored the possibilities of newly shifted boundaries between art and life.
Radically personal: The Art of Adriena Šimotová and Maria Pinińska-Bereś
Authors: Jakubowska Agata
Published: April 2016

One of the important aspects of the art from the 1960s is the gradual emergence of art by women artists that dealt with the feminine experience. As Martina Pachmanová observed, the development of gender perspective in women’s art (she talked about Czech artists but I think we can extend it to refer to other artists from Eastern Europe) has less to do with their conscious political emancipation than it does with their growing reservations toward the dominancy of the canon of modernism. It is especially true in relation to artists born around 1930 and educated shortly after the war. To them and their colleagues these were modernist tendencies that were a medium of freedom. Yet, there are a number of women artists from this generation — such as Adriena Šimotová (born 1926) or Maria Pinińska-Bereś (1931–1999) — for whom modernist frameworks turned out to be too narrow when confronted with their experience. Qualities (both formal and thematic) that are described as ‘feminine’ became a constant element of their artistic language in the 1970s and were recognized as such already by their contemporaries. What I concentrated on in this text is, however, the earlier phase of their artistic development.

In 1965 Adriena Šimotová started to create works in which everyday life was the main subject and a diary-like form dominated. This change corresponded with a turn of many artists toward the new figuration, as a result of dissatisfaction with gradual aestheticisation of informel. What made her art special was a degree of intimacy. Šimotová’s works offered a direct insight into the artist’s private world. She presented its views from the perspective that indicated being inside, experiencing not observing.

In Maria Pinińska-Bereś’s sculptures created around the mid-1960s, references to a female body and sexuality that is being controlled and enslaved started to appear. The artist’s later statements made an autobiographical dimension of these works clear. She pointed out to the necessity of confrontation with the results of her upbringing in the ultra-Catholic family as to its source. In the second half of the 1960s the artists created also works – such as Covers for My Lover (1967) – that had more intimate, erotic character. Development of this thematic was accompanied by formal experiments, e.g. introduction of such materials as linen or burlap, appearance of her handwriting and increased usage of pink. Her sculptures corresponded with a critique of autonomous works of art that could be observed in her artistic milieu, yet, similarly to Šimotová, she differed from her colleagues in her interest in gendered experience of the body and intimate relationships. Their voice — expressed from the margins, as this was where women artists functioned — was radically personal in comparison with that formulated by their colleagues.
From the coffee grinder to Sputnik1
Authors: András Edit
Published: April 2016

The essay examines the popular Hungarian weekly women’s magazine Nők Lapja through the Sixties socialist consumption and the culture of objects and the discourse concerning the image of the socialist woman, not from the perspective of economics or the history of consumption, but from the point of view of cultural history. It focuses on the change of strategy during the Cold War, which from the side of the West signified the use of soft power, while in the East it implied the modification of socialist modernization, in so far as emphasis was shifted from aggressive armament and the conquest of space to everyday prosperity and consumption. The narrower segment under examination is the project in the Sixties that addressed the modernization of the kitchen and the woman of the house, a project which extended to the manufacturing of household appliances aimed at facilitating domestic chores faced by women who also had full time jobs, the introduction of a network of self-service businesses, the expansion of the use of canned food, as well as hygiene, environmental culture and the cultivation of taste. According to the imagery and the texts found in publications of the time, posters and women’s magazines, it was not socialist modernism and the official policy of emancipation that confronted the inherited mentality of the masses as a hindering factor, although this is what contemporary official discourse attempted to imply. This mode of discourse, the style in which the modernization of the household and the housewife and the expansion of consumption was communicated through pictures, advertisements and objects conserved old patriarchal topoi in opposition to the official political discourse of emancipation.
The non-contemporaneity of György Lukács
Authors: Miller Tyrus
Published: April 2016

This paper traces the complex relations of György Lukács to visual art and aesthetics, from his early writings through his engagement with artistic politics in the post-World War II ‘people’s democracy’ transitional period and during the Stalinist dictatorship. In one sense, Lukács seems obsolete for contemporary art and aesthetics, as a philosopher and critic with an out-of-fashion aesthetic theory, justifying a canon of works opposed even to the mainstream of the 20th century modernism, and deployed in the service of a cultural politics of Soviet and Eastern Bloc socialism now seen as historically superseded and discredited. In another sense, Lukács’s non-contemporaneity may been seen through the dispersed reception of his work, particularly across the Cold War East–West divide, in which different moments of Lukács’s oeuvre were picked up and developed in divergent ways. Given these multiple contexts of reception, the author and thinker ‘György Lukács’ could never be wholly contemporary with himself, but always signified a variable complex of his current writing as well as the afterlife of earlier phases of his work. Lastly, there is an additional sense of ‘non-contemporaneity’ that is associated especially with Lukács’s one-time friend and ally Ernst Bloch, for whom being non-identical with one’s time implied a reserve of potentiality not yet realized, but latent within the inheritance of culture. With reference to László Lakner’s works based on Lukács’s books, I conclude with the possibility that the ‘non-contemporaneity’ of Lukács may yet have something to offer contemporary art and aesthetics.
Consonants of Karl Marx left versus left in the Hungarian neo-avant-garde: The case of László Lakner
Authors: Fehér Dávid
Published: April 2016

The paper investigates one of the most complex cases of visualizing leftist ideology from a critical, but nevertheless definitely leftist point of view within the Eastern Bloc — the case of László Lakner. Whatever way Lakner’s art can be related to several neo-avant-garde artistic strategies that ironically appropriate leftist symbols, in Lakner’s work, signs and symbols of communist ideology seem to be more than mere appropriated elements of a criticized visual and ideological system. Lakner was consistently looking for a system-critical, but leftist standpoint from the middle of the 1960s until his emigration in 1974. In this paper some examples of Lakner’s activity from this period are presented and the paper explores how he evoked documents and central figures of leftist movements, and how he used the iconography of socialist painting in a very peculiar way. The question whether some of his artistic strategies could be related to Marxist philosophy is also considered. The title of the paper refers to a conceptual drawing of the same title by Lakner that can be seen and read as an ambiguous tribute to Karl Marx.
Silent star: Cold war sci-fi movies from the Soviet bloc
Authors: Welbel Stanisław
Published: April 2016

The essay examines selected science fiction movies from the Cold War era from Poland, Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic. The movies chosen for this analysis could serve as perfect examples of artistic discourse, in which certain phenomena could be observed that are of great significance for art in historical research. It is possible to see the influences of current questions and political events in visual pop culture that could be applied to high art. One can also trace how the visual culture was inspired by and complementary to Cold War politics; the Space Race in this particular case. The coincidence of the fascination about deep space and the future that is essential for Sci-Fi movies, with the obsession with future technologies and the space race during the Cold War, results in movies that are both typical for their genre but also could be seen as manifestations of the then current interests, fears and political agenda.
Future in the present: Representation of ‘modernity’ in the visual culture of the sixties
Authors: Jerovetz György
Published: April 2016

This essay analyses the circular structure of Hotel Budapest designed by György Szrogh from the point of view of how the contemporaneous notion of modernity or ‘up-to-dateness’ appear in the evolution of modern architecture in a socialist country. How far this architectural construction satisfied the expectations of what that decade considered ‘modern,’ and how functionalism worked, how the ambiguity of architectural design and functionalism appear in their contemporary reception.
The Pentecostal Church in Burundi and Political Development during the 1960s
Authors: Oskarsson Gunilla Nyberg
Published: April 2016

In 1962 Burundi got its independence as a constitutional monarchy. This article discusses the political role of the Burundian Pentecostals during the 1960s, when most of the Pentecostals in Burundi went from having a positive view of being engaged in political matters, and active in local and governmental elections, to being politically quiescent. Burundian Pentecostals, with a certain formation or a certain position in society, were very politically active when their country approached independence and during the first years post-independence. They were eager to get leading positions in society, positions up to then held by Catholic chiefs and sub-chiefs. Most of these politically active Pentecostals were Hutu. The growing conflict between Hutu and the Tutsi groups in power during the 1960s was the main reason why most of the Pentecostals left the political area and became more or less politically quiescent. The development in the country influenced strongly the development within the Pentecostal Church. There was then only one Pentecostal denomination, founded by missionaries from Sweden and Congo. The thrust of this article is to discuss the political role and the political opinions of the Burundian Pentecostals and the Swedish missionaries in the 1960s. It also aims at describing an increase of ethnic conflicts within the Pentecostal church.
Pentecost for Others
Authors: Christensen Nikolaj
Published: April 2016

The life and writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer have been a great inspiration to many Christians, not least in the ecumenical movement. His works could also be a resource for dialogue between traditional Western Protestant churches and the growing global Pentecostal and Charismatic movement. Walter Hollenweger’s many uses of Bonhoeffer in reflections on the social impact of Pentecostalism provide a starting point to define five theses concerning the charismatic, socio-political, contextual, distinctive and ecumenical qualities of Pentecostalism. Protestant and Pentecostal churches have much to learn from one another, and it is to the detriment of human development that the dialogue between these two traditions has largely been neglected. Hollenweger’s work shows that Bonhoeffer’s theology would be a great place to begin a both critical and sympathetic discussion – and a closer look at Bonhoeffer’s works might reveal more than we find in Hollenweger.
Charismatic Appropriations of Edward W. Fasholé-Luke's Theologia Africana
Authors: Bangura Joseph Bosco
Published: April 2016

Although scholarly literature about the theologies of newer Pentecostal and Charismatic movements (CMs) in Africa is growing, few attempts have been made to apply specific models proposed by the giants of African theology to the church contexts of Charismatic Movements. Mindful of the risk of oversimplification, the specific experiences of CMs in Sierra Leone makes this statement much more justifiable. In this article, I attempt to draw a connection between Professor Edward W. FasholéLuke’s Theologia Africana and the church context of CMs in Sierra Leone. Using Fasholé-Luke’s Theologia Africana, I argue that the CMs’ desire is to promote a theology whose shape, content and feature was not indexed upon imported theologies, but one that is solidly engraved in the hearts and minds of Africans. If this theology was to serve its intended purpose, which is to make the new convert both Christian as well as genuinely and authentically African, then it must be developed by Africans themselves. The article notes that this is exactly what transpired in Sierra Leone after the accession of CMs.
Infraestrutura na Amazônia: as lições dos planos plurianuais
Authors: Fearnside Philip Martin , Laurance William Frederick
Published: April 2016

O sistema de avaliação de impacto ambiental no Brasil ainda não é capaz de lidar com o desafio apresentado pelos planos plurianuais, que têm sido a forma de organizar as prioridades do governo desde 1996. Espera-se que esse desafio resulte no fortalecimento do sistema. Problemas genéricos com o processo de licenciamento incluem: a formação de lobby a favor da construção, antes de serem tomadas as decisões sobre a prudência dos projetos; o "efeito arrasto" de terceiros, devido à atividade econômica estimulada pela infraestrutura, que escapa do sistema de avaliação de impacto ambiental; uma forte tendência para empresas de consultoria produzirem relatórios favoráveis, como resultado de tentações embutidas no sistema; uma ênfase burocrática na existência de passos, tais como a submissão de relatórios e a realização de audiências públicas, sem considerar o conteúdo do que é dito; e a inabilidade do sistema de avaliação de impactos de considerar a cadeia de eventos que são deslanchados quando um determinado projeto é empreendido. O exemplo dos planos plurianuais, desde o Brasil em Ação (1996-1999) até o atual PAC-2 (Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento-2, 2012-2015), deixa clara a necessidade de se repensar a maneira como grandes programas de desenvolvimento são decididos e promovidos, assim como a necessidade de se reconsiderar a prudência de vários projetos que os compõem.
Ambientalização e politização do consumo nas práticas de compra de orgânicos
Authors: Castañeda Marcelo
Published: April 2016

O objetivo é refletir sobre processos de ambientalização e politização do consumo e do cotidiano, enfatizando o multifacetado campo da alimentação. O artigo se volta para os diferentes usos das práticas de compra de alimentos orgânicos, entendendo os consumidores como atores sociais. A problemática central encontra-se nas seguintes questões: as práticas de compra de alimentos orgânicos são percebidas como forma de ação política? De que forma os consumidores lidam com os discursos e cobranças de responsabilidades pela crise ambiental? Com uma etnografia das práticas de compra de alimentos orgânicos e entrevistas em profundidade, o artigo identifica um aumento da autonomia política individual no encontro das esferas pública e privada no campo do consumo. A compra de orgânicos é percebida como um repertório de ação política romântico-individualista, sendo que essas práticas alimentam pontes com a cidadania, abrindo possibilidades para novos engajamentos coletivos.
Effects of sintering temperature on mechanical properties of Ti/Al2O3 composites
Authors: Shi Guo-pu , Wang Zhi , Wu Chao , Wang Cheng-guo
Published: April 2016

Titanium/aluminum oxide (Ti/Al2O3) composites were fabricated by a vacuum hot-pressing sintering technique at the sintering temperature in the range of 1420–1480°C. The dependence of the sintering temperature on the mechanical properties of the composites was discussed. The results showed that the mechanical properties, the microstructure and the phase constitution of the composites exhibited dependence on the sintering temperature. When the sintering temperature is 1450°C, the composites, with 3 vol% cerium (IV) oxide (CeO2), showed the best mechanical property. The relative density, Vickers hardness, flexural strength and fracture toughness of the composites were 98·7%, 16·4 GPa, 487·2 MPa and 6·88 MPa m1/2 respectively. When the sintering temperature was 1480°C, the mechanical property of the composite decreased significantly, which was mainly attributed to the abnormal grain growth due to the over sintering phenomenon.
Desempenho de porcas lactantes em função da ordem de parto
Authors: Garcia Amélia Maria Lima , Kiefer Charles , Souza Karina Márcia Ribeiro de , Rocha Gabriel Cipriano , Silva Camilla Mendonça , Alencar Stephan Alexander da Silva , Rodrigues Gabriela Puhl
Published: April 2016

Realizou-se o trabalho com o objetivo de avaliar a influência da ordem de parto sobre o desempenho produtivo de porcas lactantes. Foram utilizadas 200 porcas lactantes, distribuídas em delineamento experimental inteiramente casualizado com quatro tratamentos: 1ª e 2ª; 3ª a 5ª; 6ª e 7ª; e 8ª a 11ª ordem de parto, com 40, 81, 32 e 47 repetições, respectivamente. A ordem de parto não influenciou (P>0,05) o número de leitões desmamados, peso dos leitões e leitegada ao desmame, ganho de peso dos leitões e leitegada e mortalidade. Verificou-se maior (P<0,05) ocorrência total e percentual de diarreias em leitões de porcas de terceira a quinta ordem de parto. O pior escore fecal foi verificado em leitões de porcas de primeira e segunda ordem de parto. A ordem de parto também influenciou (P<0,05) o percentual de incidência média diária de diarreia nos leitões, com maior incidência em leitões de porcas de primeira e segunda ordem de parto. Concluiu-se que a ordem de parto das porcas não influencia o desempenho produtivo das porcas lactantes, ainda que leitões oriundos de porcas de primeira e segunda ordem de parto apresentem maior incidência diária de diarreia e maior grau de severidade das diarreias.
BIOMARCADORES FECAIS ÚTEIS NAS DOENÇAS INFLAMATÓRIAS INTESTINAIS: REVISÃO SISTEMÁTICA
Authors: Fernandes da Silva Ana Paula , Ribeiro de Melo Júnior Mario
Published: April 2016

Introdução: A mucosa intestinal inflamada contém um grande número de neutrófilos e proteínas fecais derivadas dessas células, como a alfa-1-antitripsina, calprotectina, lactoferrina, elastase de polimorfonucleares, lisozima, entre outras moléculas, que são marcadas e estudadas como indicadores de inflamação do trato gastrointestinal. Objetivo: Mostrar as evidências científicas relacionadas aos biomarcadores inflamatórios fecais utilizados na prática médica, para avaliação da atividade doença e diagnóstico das doenças inflamatórias intestinais. Material e Métodos: Foram avaliados artigos das bases de dados BVS, SciELO, PubMed e Science Direct. Os descritores utilizados nesta revisão foram “inflammatory bowel disease” AND (“biological markers” OR “fecal biomarkers”). Foram considerados manuscritos publicados entre 2011 e junho de 2015, disponíveis na íntegra e publicados em língua inglesa. Resultados: Inicialmente foram identificados 184 artigos. A primeira seleção resultou em 44 artigos. A leitura e análise completas dos artigos resultaram em uma amostra final de 11 manuscritos. Verificou-se que a calprotectina esteve presente em todos os artigos revisados. Apenas um manuscrito avaliou o perfil de atividade da lactoferrina e nenhum artigo foi identificado que contemplasse os marcadores alfa-1-antitripsina e elastase de polimorfonucleares nas DII. Conclusão: Os achados deste estudo apresentaram a relação significativa dos biomarcadores fecais com o diagnóstico das doenças inflamatórias intestinais e o papel fundamental da calprotectina no estudo, diagnóstico e avaliação de recorrência pós-operatória.
PERCEPÇÃO DE GESTANTES SOBRE A ATUAÇÃO DA ENFERMEIRA NA ASSISTÊNCIA PRÉ-NATAL: ESTUDO ANALÍTICO
Authors: Moreira Michelle Araújo , Carvalho Lorena Lima , Ribeiro Polliana Santos
Published: April 2016

Introdução: O pré-natal constitui um programa para o acompanhamento seguro da gestação com participação da enfermeira. A enfermeira atua como cuidadora direta, possibilitando a vivência segura da gestação pela mulher, família e parceria, por meio dos serviços públicos e privados de atenção à saúde. Objetivos: Identificar, descrever e analisar a percepção das gestantes sobre a atuação da enfermeira na assistência pré-natal. Casuística e Métodos: Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo e descritivo desenvolvido com gestantes em uma Unidade Básica de Saúde, localizada no município de Ilhéus-Bahia. A coleta de dados ocorreu por meio de uma entrevista semiestruturada aplicada na própria UBS, no horário em que a gestante estivesse disponível. Resultados: Detectou-se a educação em saúde como elemento fundamental no cuidado multidimensional da enfermeira com valorização do seu papel social na assistência pré-natal e uma infraestrutura deficitária como empecilho para sua atuação humanizada. Conclusão: Concluiu-se que tal percepção é extremamente valorativa, com dificuldades que comprometem a integralidade do cuidado, a exemplo da insuficiência nos equipamentos, insumos e materiais instrucionais.
AVALIAÇÃO DOS NÍVEIS SÉRICOS DE PROTEÍNAS EM PACIENTES COM ÚLCERAS POR PRESSÃO
Authors: Queiroz Vanessa Beatriz Borges , Squizatto Regina Helena , Oliveira Niara Carla de , Matta Pietro Ramazzini Antunes , Poletti Nadia Antonia Aparecida
Published: April 2016

Introdução: As alterações nos níveis de proteínas séricas no organismo em pacientes com lesões crônicas ou agudas prejudicam a patogênese e atrasam o processo de cicatrização. Objetivos: Avaliar a interferência dos níveis séricos de proteína total, albumina e proteína C reativa em pacientes com úlceras por pressão. Casuística e Métodos: Estudo descritivo transversal realizado em um ambulatório de cuidados com feridas. Incluíram-se pacientes atendidos neste serviço, entre agosto de 2013 a agosto de 2014, que apresentassem úlcera por pressão e idade superior a 18 anos. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de um instrumento de avaliação de feridas e análise dos resultados de exames laboratoriais. Resultados: Os resultados comprovaram maior incidência de lesões na região sacral (76,5%) e nos estágios III e IV (72,4%). Os resultados laboratoriais mostraram que 72,4% apresentaram baixos níveis séricos de proteínas totais, 52,3% de albumina abaixo do esperado e 96,15% de níveis de proteína C reativa acima da normalidade. Conclusão: Os níveis proteicos avaliados, estatisticamente, não se relacionaram com a cronicidade das úlceras por pressão.
Putting Anthropological Skills to Use in Engagement with Grassroots Community Organizations1
Authors: Sieber Tim
Published: April 2016

Academic anthropologists have many valuable skills to offer community-based non-profit organizations. Conceptualizing and tracing the embeddedness of the organization in its community, constituency, or client base, especially in situations of change, is essential in understanding and reformulating organizational mission, designing new programming, developing leadership and governance, building coalitions and alliances, measuring organizational effectiveness and achievements, and being able to articulate a compelling rationale in grant-writing and other funding appeals for organizational support. This account draws from an auto-ethnographic case study of the author's involvement in a Boston-based workers' center that supports Brazilian immigrants.
Public Archaeology: About the Present and as a Present
Authors: Stroulia Anna
Published: April 2016

The recent turn of public archaeology towards dialogue and collaboration between archaeologists and local, indigenous, or descendant communities is certainly welcome. Yet, for the most part, the focus is still on archaeological concerns. It is time to move further, pay attention to the things that matter to these communities today, and give back more than archaeological information. This article presents attempts to go precisely in such a direction in relation to the village of Kilada, a fishing community located close to the prehistoric site of Franchthi Cave in Greece.
Responsive Metaevaluation: Using Participatory Method to Improve Program Evaluations
Authors: Sturges Keith M.
Published: April 2016

Program evaluation is intended to help program funders, staff, and recipients know whether a program is executed as planned and whether it reaches its desired impacts. Metaevaluations, which are systematic evaluations of program evaluations, provide an independent check on those evaluations and are especially helpful when evaluations are conducted internally. In this article, I describe my experiences as a metaevaluator for a large-scale technical assistance program. Combining conventional metaevaluation with participatory research, I worked with program leadership, evaluators, and staff to assess the evaluation and identify opportunities to enhance it (and, thereby, the program). While the primary aim of the metaevaluation was to help the evaluation team produce credible and relevant findings, the process also addressed adversarial relationships between groups with varying levels of power. This article illustrates how anthropology's concepts, frameworks, and methods continue to enrich program evaluation.
Bodies, Camera, Screen: Eiko & Koma’s Immersive Media Dances
Authors: Candelario Rosemary
Published: April 2016

Eiko & Koma are New York-based Japanese American dance artists known for their subtle, focused, and finely controlled movement vocabulary through which they alter the perception of time and space. For over forty years they have created works for the proscenium stage, outdoor sites, galleries, and the camera that address elemental issues of life, survival, death, and rebirth. Their close and unsparing attention to nature, mourning, and human relationships to other humans and the world around them has won them prestigious awards including Guggenheim, MacArthur, and United States Artist Fellowships, Bessies, and Doris Duke Performing Arts Awards.
Review and Discussion of The Co(te)lette Film
Authors: Guy Priscilla
Published: April 2016

In 2010, English director Mike Figgis presented The Co(te)lette Film, a cinematographic adaptation of eponymous live performance by Dutch choreographer Ann Van den Broek, Co(te)lette (2007). At the beginning of the film, the camera shows three women on all fours at the centre of a large podium. From the very first shots, the viewer is given exquisite high definitions images and close ups of these gorgeous women and their more intimate body parts as they move frenetically and breath heavily. The synopsis of the film states: “There is no confrontation, nor rivalry. No story-telling, no solution and no ending. [The three women] grapple with the meaning and physical translation of beauty and perishability, rawness and fragility. The dancers are slaves of their own desires while trying to get in control of them.”
Still, Moving: Reflecting on All This Can Happen
Authors: Norman Kyra
Published: April 2016

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Global Corporeality: Collaborative Choreography in Digital Space
Authors: Garibaldi Jos , Zmolek Paul
Published: April 2016

While in residence Spring 2014 in Riga, Latvia we directed Global Corporeality: Collaborative Choreography in Digital Space, an international intermedial collaborative choreographic project between dance students of the Latvian Academy of Culture (LKA) and Idaho State University (ISU). This provided an opportunity to explore the collaborative possibilities of establishing a virtual community on the internet, where Latvian and American students could work together in composition by interacting online in real time in physical and virtual space. What resulted was a choreographic process and culminating event that existed in time and space in three simultaneous, interconnected performances—each containing elements of the other two. The web-streamed video performances captured the projected performances of live dancers on two different continents, creating an unending, self-referential performance loop. Each of the three simultaneous performance locations were different: in Riga, Latvian dancers performed with a live switched video projection of Latvian/US dancers; in Pocatello, Idaho, the US dancers performed with a projected video of the event; and the live switched video of the two cross-continental performances was available for public consumption on the internet. This article poses the initial concerns that formed the project, presents the process (providing links to YouTube recordings of each session), outlines some of our difficulties and discoveries, and explores some theoretical implications that emerged from Global Corporeality.
Crowd-Sourced Filmmaking: Despair is Your Friend
Authors: Rose Mitchell
Published: April 2016

If the pilot of a 767 died, could you land the plane while the control tower talked you through it over the radio? I've always been fascinated (obsessed) by the idea of getting people to do complicated things, remotely, via instructions. And that's what I wanted to undertake when I made my new crowd-sourced film, Globe Trot.I got 54 filmmakers in 23 countries (representing all seven continents including Antarctica) to each contribute two seconds of precise footage that I edited together. 15 months of work, resulting in a 3-minute film. A second impetus for this project was experimentation I've been doing the last few years in what we could call "Hyper-Matchcutting"—films where every adjacent edit is perfectly aligned in position and continuity.
Review: The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli
Authors: Blades Hetty
Published: April 2016

Dance on screen is by no means a new phenomenon, however the analytic consideration of popular dance on screen is a relatively new addition to dance studies. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli, takes Sherril Dodds' seminal work Dance on Screen from 2001 as a point of departure, in order to "establish a body of contemporary readings about dance in a popular screen context."
In the Forest Between Us
Authors: Cash Lucy
Published: April 2016

My practice is driven by a need to begin with the familiar in order to find the edges of the unfamiliar: the savage and ridiculous, wayward and preposterous that make up the place where something—however small—has not already been captured and classified and tamed. The brink that is both exhilarating and uncomfortable.Coming from a background in collaborative performance making, I like to find this boundary through dialogue, through exchange.
Lung Function Status of Workers Exposed to Welding Fume: A Preliminary Study
Authors: Mulyana Mulyana , Adi Nuri Purwito Purwito , Kurniawidjaja Meily L , Wijaya Andi , Yusuf Irawan
Published: April 2016

BACKGROUND: Exposure to welding fume in the workplace was associated with lung function disorders and occupational asthma. In this study, we determined lung function parameters in men workers exposed to welding fumes from heavy equipment manufacturer. This study is a preliminary study of biomonitoring program in worker exposed to welding fume as our main study. METHODS: A study with case-control design, random study, was conducted among welder (59 subjects) and non-welder (34 subjects) with more than one year experience in the same job task in a heavy equipment manufacturer. All subjects completed physical examination, informed consent, questionnaire and lung function status. Lung function status was measured by spirometer with vital capacity (VC), forced vital capacity (FCV), forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) and ratio of FEV1/FVC as test parameters. Linear regression model was developed to identify the risk factor of lung function parameter status using age, working period and smoking status as variables. RESULTS: This study showed that there were significant lower VC, FVC and FEV1 in welder than non-welder, but not difference in ratio of FEV1/FVC. However, there was no significant difference among welder from foundry and fabrication plan. By multivariate analysis, working period was found as a risk factor for lower parameters in lung function among welder. CONCLUSION: Lung function parameters status were significantly lower in welder than non-welder, and working period was the most important indicator for lung function status evaluation among welder. KEYWORDS: vital capacity, VC, forced vital capacity, FCV, forced expiratory volume in one second, FEV1, lung function, ratio of FEV1/FVC, working period
Cysteamine and b-mercaptoethanol supplementation improves the in vitro embryo development in buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis)
Authors: Singh Vijay , Misra A. K. , Kumar Suresh , Barman Champak
Published: April 2016

The objective of the present experiment was to investigate the effect of cysteamine and b-mercaptoethanol supplementation on in -vitro maturation, cleavage of oocytes and development of embryo in buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). Oocytes were aspirated from abattoir ovarian follicles of 3-10 mm diameter followed by maturation in the media in vitro containing cysteamine/b-mercaptoethanol (treatment) and without antioxidant (control). Matured oocytes were co-incubated with sperm (approx.1×106/ml) of Murrah bull in mSOF medium using heparin (10 μg/ml). After 22 h of oocyte-sperm incubation, fertilized oocytes were stripped of cumulus cells and cultured in mSOF medium for 8 days to study embryo development. The oocyte maturation rate improved significantly (P<0.05) following addition of 50 or 100 μM of cysteamine and 10, 50 and 100 μM of b- mercaptoethanol (ME), respectively as compared to control. The cleavage rate was found to be significantly (P<0.05) higher at 50 and 100 μM of cysteamine and at all concentrations of b-mercaptoethanol as compared to control and development of embryos to morula stage was significantly (P<0.05) improved with 50 μM cysteamine/ b-mercaptoethanol.
Effect of sire breed on the productivity of Kazakh mutton-semifine-wool sheep
Authors: Shauyenov Saukymbek , Islamov Yessenbay , Narbayev Serik , Ibrayev Dulat
Published: April 2016

In recent years, the world demand for a low fat and high protein content lean meat had increased to meet the needs of the organism in proteins. This article presents the results of an expedient scientific-research analysis on establishing the influence of Poll Dorset and Texel breed on the particular growth variability, development of both meat and wool productivity of Kazakh mutton-semifine-wool breed of sheep. Results of the study were obtained under the same grazing conditions of 110 head of purebred and 110 crossbreed Texel and Poll-Dorset sheep of second generation. It was found that peers of the experimental group exceeded their peers in the control group on the dynamics of growth in body weight (P£0.05), i.e. crossing helped to improve the performance of daily gain (P£0.05). In terms of slaughter indicators, such as the slaughter and carcass weight, crossbreed male lambs also surpassed purebred male lambs (P£0.05). Herein, it was found that crossbreed lambs of Texel breed observe the superiority in terms of meat output (fat free) in relation to purebred male lambs (P£0.01). The study of longissimus muscle chemical composition showed that crossbreed male lambs of Texel breed in protein content in this very muscle are superior to purebred peers (P£0.05). A study of wool characteristics of experimental sheep showed that at the age of 12 months the high wool clip was observed in male lambs of Texel second generation (P£0.05). The high yield of washed wool was also observed in Texel male lambs (P£0.05) as compared to purebred peers.
Characterization of Exon 3 of PROP1 gene and Screening of H173R polymorphism in Karan Fries bulls
Authors: Vineeth M. R. , Gupta I. D. , Verma Archana , Magotra Ankit , Kumar Rakesh , Verma Nishant , Kumari Santosh
Published: April 2016

Present study was done in thirty Karan Fries bulls to characterize the Exon 3 of PROP1 gene and to screen for the H173R polymorphism as well as other variations including reported and novel SNPs in the targeted region. The exon 3 was characterized by sequencing the amplicons obtained after PCR amplification using custom designed primers. The BLAST analysis of the obtained sequence yielded 100% and 99% homology with sequences of Bos taurus and bison respectively. The multiple alignment of the target region sequence with Bos taurus reference sequence revealed that the bulls under the study were free of H173R mutations. No variations were observed thus giving the targeted region a highly conserved one.
Evaluation of biopesticides against gram pod borer Helicoverpa armigera (HUB.) on pigeonpea
Authors: Pandey Sagar Anand , Das S. B.
Published: April 2016

A field experiment on evaluation of biopesticides against gram pod borer (Helicoverpa armigera Hub.) on pigeon pea was carried out during kharif season of 2012-13. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with three replications. Gram pod borer is a major pest of pigeon pea in India. For the management of this pest seven biopesticides were tested along with control. Among the biopesticides, Beauveria bassiana @ 1 liter / ha (1x1012 spores/ml) was found to be most effective biopesticide as it recorded lowest larval population (6.68 larvae / 5plants). The highest larval population was recorded in control (12.61 larvae /5 plants). The least effective treatment was Paecilomyces fumosoreseus (9.31 larvae /5 plants). Similar trend was observed in the grain yield as 1667.55 kg/ha, 709.41kg/ha and 1025.21kg/ha , respectively.
Genetic diversity of selected accessions for seed protein among pigeonpea minicore collection
Authors: Jaggal L.G. , Patil* B.R. , Naik P.M. , Priya K.
Published: April 2016

Protein is an important part of our diet and legumes viz., pigeonpea, chickpea, groundnut, cowpea, blackgram, greengram, etc are very rich source of protein. Among them, pigeonpea consists of about 20 to 22% of seed protein. Minicore collection set is consisted of approximately 10 % of core collection and 1% of entire collection with lot of diversity present in it. Nitrogen content of pigeonpea minicore collection set was estimated using Micro-Kjeldhal method and was ranged from 9.82 to 21.45 %. Based on per cent seed protein, twelve accessions of high and twelve accessions of low seed protein were selected for molecular characterization using 23 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. The PowerMarker result depicted that, among twenty three amplified markers, twenty markers generated polymorphism with mean polymorphic information content (PIC), major allele frequency (MAF) and genetic diversity of 0.479, 0.589 and 0.525 respectively. Based on molecular characterization, the dendrogram was constructed using DARwin 5.0 software distinguished the selected accessions of both high and low seed protein separately into different clusters showing diversity The results illustrate the potential of marker systems to distinguish the content of seed protein in pulses crop at genus level. Use of these markers also offers an efficient system for the assessment of genetic diversity within minicore set of pigeonpea.
Effect of drip fertigation on nutrient uptake and seed yield of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] under westeren agroclimatic zones of tamil nadu
Authors: Loganathan Vimalendran , Latha K. R.
Published: April 2016

Field experiments were conducted at Agricultural College and Research Institute, Coimbatore during August to February of 2011-12 and 2012-13 to study the effect of drip irrigation, fertigation levels and frequencies on seed yield and nutrient uptake of pigeonpea. Three fertilizer levels (75 %, 100 % and 125 % recommended dose fertilizer (RDF) through water soluble fertilizer and conventional fertilizers), three irrigation levels (50 % computed water requirement of crop (WRc), 75 % WRc and 100 % WRc) and surface irrigation (IW/CPE ratio 0.6 with 100 per cent RDF through conventional fertilizer) were included as treatments in this study. Application of 100 per cent of RDF (WSF) once in 7 days along with 100 % WRc (T9) recorded significantly higher uptake of total nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. The lowest plant nutrient uptake was recorded by surface irrigation with application of 100 % RDF (T14) applied as basal. The results revealed that application of nutrients through fertigation once in seven days with 125 % RDF (WSF) + irrigation 100 % WRc recorded higher total nutrient uptake (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) than surface irrigation with conventional fertilizer.
Integrating Academic Journal Review Assignments Into A Graduate Business Leadership Course
Authors: Schultz Jennifer L. , Agrimonti Lisa M. , Higbee Jeanne L.
Published: April 2016

Graduate course assignments that are pragmatic, challenging, scaffold prior learning, and support academic career aspirations can be difficult to create and even more problematic to assess for even the most experienced faculty.  This paper presents a class assignment that incorporated a real-world journal reviewing assignment into an elective doctoral leadership seminar.  This manuscript presents an overview of the assignment, journal editor perceptions of the experience, and recommendations for best practices.
A Paradox Within The Time Value Of Money: A Critical Thinking Exercise For Finance Students
Authors: Delaney Charles J. , Rich Steven P. , Rose John T.
Published: April 2016

This study presents a paradox within the time value of money (TVM), namely, that the interest-principal sequence embedded in the payment stream of an amortized loan is exactly the opposite of the interest-principal sequence implicit in the present value of a matching annuity.  We examine this inverse sequence, both mathematically and intuitively, and argue that it provides an excellent exercise for finance students to explore, both to enhance their critical thinking skills as well as to strengthen their understanding of TVM concepts.  Additionally, such an exercise will involve them actively in the learning process, as mandated by AACSB International’s Eligibility Procedures and Standards for Business Accreditation.