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The Gospel of Matthew and the Value of the Liturgical Year
Authors: Tipton Vaughn Crowe
Published: March 2014

The preparation of a worship service is both an art and a science. Moments of inspiration and unexpected intuitions are graces that guide the preacher and liturgist in designing worship that is transformative. The preacher dependent exclusively on artistic impulses, however, can bog down in narrow homiletical ruts or be faced with Saturday night dead ends, not knowing which way to go. Following the liturgical year, with its annual rhythms and carefully selected texts, brings a welcomed and disciplined approach to worship planning. Some worship leaders are not familiar with the liturgical calendar. This lead article begins with a detailed examination of the origin and development of the liturgical calendar. Its roots are anchored in the worship of ancient Israel and the early church. The first Christians' weekly celebration of Easter on the “Lord's day” marks the first stage in the development of the liturgical year. From there, more signature events in the church's story of Jesus began to be incorporated into their annual remembrance. The tradition eventually grew to encompass the whole of Christ's life. Connected to these celebrations were specific biblical texts that stimulated and shaped the community's memory. This single cycle of lectionary texts recently expanded to a three year cycle, built upon each of the three synoptic Gospels. Attentiveness to the liturgical year promotes mature religious education, sustained theological dialogue, and disciplined study of the biblical story. The science and art of worship planning come together in a meaningful synergism through the use of the liturgical calendar.
Psalm 44: O God, Why Do You Hide Your Face?
Authors: deClaissé-Walford Nancy L.
Published: March 2014

The Old Testament, especially the book of Psalms, contains powerful models of prayer for twenty-first-century communities of faith. In our on-going quest to learn how to pray, how to approach the throne of God, we are well-advised to study these models of prayer. But the models have been passed down to us in the form of words—words on a page. How do we understand the words, the movement from one phrase, one sentence, one thought to another. How do the words constitute prayer? A study of the use of words in a text is called rhetorical criticism. In this discipline, we ask the question, how did the writers or speakers use words to get their meaning across, to persuade their listeners, to achieve their ends? This article undertakes a study of the rhetoric of Psalm 44, a heartfelt community lament in which the people cry out to God, proclaiming their innocence and calling God to account for what is happening to them and act in their behalf. The article will conclude that the words of Psalm 44 are a model for how communities of faith can maintain their faithfulness: in situations of suffering people can and must approach God, can and must cry out to God, and can and must expect God to answer and act.
The Contemporary Muslim American Woman
Authors: Taylor Tayyibah
Published: March 2014

Muslim American women are making an impact on Muslim culture and thought while facing challenges from both the broader community and the Muslim community. Living in the richly diverse Muslim American community, they propound varied approaches and solutions to their challenges. They are in a privileged position with an American legacy of critical thinking and freedom and their Islamic legacy of autonomy and spiritual agency.
“Most Beautiful among Women”: Feminist/Womanist Contributions to Reading the Song of Songs
Authors: McCall Robin C.
Published: March 2014

The goal of this essay is to explore some of the primary contributions to the interpretation of Song of Songs made by feminist interpreters. An important goal of feminist biblical criticism is to provide interpretations of biblical texts that allow everyone, regardless of gender, class, or race, to find a place of belonging, both in Scripture and in the world. Feminist interpretation has highlighted and celebrated the prevalence of female characters, voices, and roles in the Song of Songs, as well as the egalitarian nature of the lovers' interaction with each other. It also asks readers of the Song to reconsider their own prejudices against people who look or act differently or who come from a different social class, and invites us to think about the frequent assumption that “nice girls” are not sexual beings. The Song of Songs presents a picture of what it means to have power that differs from the more familiar patriarchal representations of power elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible. Finally, feminist interpretation of the Song of Songs leads us to revisit other biblical texts, such as Genesis 2–3, and read them in new ways.
Gathered and Scattered: Worship That Embodies a Right Relationship with God
Authors: Poti Nancy Rock
Published: March 2014

Clergy and laity as worship planners help the congregation to recognize the church as the gathered and scattered people of God who are called into a right relationship with God and all God's good creation through their intentionality in planning and implementing services of worship that emphasize the dialogical relationship of worship. The collaborative work in receiving and responding to God's gift of worship is central to the life of the congregation. Corporate worship can be informative, formative, and transformative. Paying careful attention to the framework of the corporate worship service's structure enables worshipers to learn what it means to connect the mechanics of the liturgy and the patterns of celebrations of worship with the deeper meaning of Christian worship. Shaping worship so that form and function work together from beginning to end helps the congregation to understand what it is doing during a time of gathering and a time of sending. When attention is given to the time of gathering and the time of sending forth in our corporate worship, worshipers are more aware that God invites them to gather as a community to worship and God sends them forth into the world to continue their worship with their lives. This connection with daily life is essential to what it means to be church.
Mega-Churches: A New Ecclesiology or an Ecclesial Evangelism?
Authors: Warner Laceye
Published: March 2014

Mega-churches, or large membership congregations, have become for many an affirmation of the gospel's relevance today. Mega-churches can be significant places of witness to the reign of God facilitating transformation of individuals and the world. This article explores aspects of the emergence, character, challenges and opportunities related to mega-churches. Mega-churches, while not an ecclesiology per se, are one possible ecclesial construction in response to the gospel. The mega-church can be one way of embodying the gospel, or it can be merely a diversion that satisfies a modern desire for quantitative, objective, and even material responses to a steady, alarming, decline in North American mainline Protestantism. At its best, the mega-church offers significant opportunities for practicing evangelism, specifically an ecclesial evangelism. A faithful understanding of the church, or ecclesiology, will include aspects of an evangelistic practice in response to the invitation of the gospel to participate in the reign of God. The gathered body of Christ, an ecclesiology, at its very heart is evangelistic, encouraging individuals and congregations to live out their baptismal commissions to proclaim the gospel in its words and in its lives
Listening to the Voice of the Storyteller in Mark's Gospel
Authors: Williams Joel F.
Published: March 2014

Mark was a gifted storyteller, and recent scholarly studies on the narrative aspects of Mark's Gospel have the potential to help us listen more carefully to the voice of Mark the storyteller. This article draws on recent research into Mark's narrative in order to set out basic principles for interpreting a narrative like the one found in Mark. The first principle highlights the importance of interpreting Mark as a realistic narrative. The story on the surface level is what Mark's Gospel is about, and interpreters should resist any attempt to shift the meaning of Mark away from the story that it tells about Jesus. The second principle emphasizes the necessity of interpreting individual passages within the context of Mark's narrative as a whole. Since Mark's Gospel presents a unified narrative, each individual episode takes on meaning and significance through its place within the overall story. The third principle points out the need to interpret Mark's Gospel with a focus on Jesus. Since Jesus is the central figure in the story, any interpretation of Mark's narrative should emphasize what it communicates about Jesus and about what it means to follow him. These basic principles make it possible to avoid some of the more common pitfalls in Gospel interpretation: Allegorizing, over-harmonizing, and moralizing.
Current Baptist Initiatives in Arkansas
Authors: Higgins Ray T.
Published: March 2014

Two specific initiatives in Arkansas provide examples of ways black and white Baptists are working together to model healthy relationships and promote community development. These current partnerships emerge out of the efforts of courageous Baptist leaders in Arkansas who spoke up, stood up, and shared in ministry together in the past.
Breaking through the Extra-Thick Stained-Glass Ceiling: African American Baptist Women in Ministry
Authors: Lyons Courtney
Published: March 2014

This article examines the state of African American Baptist women in ministry, historically and currently. Comparing views of women among the nine historically African American denominations, Baptists appear to be the most discriminatory. The author offers a historical overview with explanations of impediments to African American Baptist women's full inclusion in church leadership, Baptist or otherwise, and describes ways African American women have maneuvered around these obstacles to obey their callings. Drawing from available data from Baptist denominations, seminaries, and secondary literature, the article summarizes and assesses the current state of African American Baptist women in ministry with observations to interpret the data. Three “herstories”—histories of women—offer case studies of African American Baptist women in ministry to introduce some of the obstacles that African American Baptist women in ministry in general face in pursuing pastoral ministry. The article ends with suggestions for how affirmers of women in ministry and local churches can better support African American Baptist women in ministry. While there are more opportunities for African American Baptist women than ever before, there is still much farther to go. As Ella Baker used to say, “We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.”
A Wesleyan Critique of the Leviathan of Capitalism
Authors: Napier Nathan
Published: March 2014

For Wesley, the spirit of capitalism is utterly inconsistent with the spirit of Christianity. For Wesley, this is evident in the economic story of the Gospel as displayed in the narrative of Jesus and the early Church. All one's actions should be reflective of the Divine Image of God, bound to love of neighbor. This conviction led Wesley to write some of evangelicalism's most scathing sermons on money, riches and power, and unrelentingly to critique any worldview that sought to victimize the very people to whom the Gospel had been originally proclaimed. Thus, to see the world from a Wesleyan perspective is not to be disillusioned by the narrative of endless consumption and debt; it is to engage the world with sanctified action. Consequently, Wesley comes to some vastly different conclusions than would be embraced by many contemporary Christians, evangelical or otherwise. The world from a Wesleyan perspective is the creation of an economy in which one is endlessly given to others, sharing with others, and defending others until one no longer lives in isolation asserting one's “rights,” but is rather marked by true koinonia wherein the myth of capitalism gives way to the story of the common … bound in sanctified love. This paper tells this story.
Foreign liquidity to real estate market: Ripple effect and housing price dynamics
Authors: Liao Wen-Chi , Zhao Daxuan , Lim Li Ping , Wong Grace Khei Mie
Published: March 2014

Globalisation enables foreign liquidity to access local property markets. This paper depicts a strong connection between foreigners’ property acquisitions and regional housing price movements in Singapore. Testing structure breaks also illustrates a ripple effect of prices from the central city to suburbs. A structural vector autoregression incorporates these two observations. Impulse-response function and forecast-error variance decomposition show that central region’s foreign-liquidity shocks can greatly impact housing price growth in not only the central region but also the non-central region where foreign buyers are inactive. The ripple effect of prices plays an important role. Non-central region’s foreign-liquidity shocks, in contrast, have small effects on both regions. Impacts of foreign-liquidity shocks can reach the public-housing market, where foreigners’ participation is prohibited. The findings are useful to policy makers who consider regulations of foreign home buyers as an instrument to stabilise housing markets.
Constraint-Shattering Practices and Creative Action in Organizations
Authors: Lombardo Sebastiano , Kvålshaugen Ragnhild
Published: March 2014

This study contributes insights on how actors cope with constraints in ill-structured problem-solving situations, and what implications this coping has for creative action. To date, most research on constraint handling has treated constraints, regardless of their nature, origin, or role, as external factors that enable or hinder creativity. In contrast, we consider constraints to be inextricably intertwined with all creative action. We focus our study on one specific practice for constraint handling: namely, shattering. Empirical data were collected for 12 projects in two engineering consulting firms, and four shattering practices were identified: protesting, proposing, betraying, and sabotaging. We discuss their enactment in various parts of the problem space and their implications for the management of creative action in organizations.
Creativity and Constraints: Exploring the Role of Constraints in the Creative Processes of Research and Development Teams
Authors: Rosso Brent D.
Published: March 2014

Research on creativity in organizations has revealed a variety of important paradoxes that seem fundamental to the nature of creativity itself. One such paradox is the tension between freedom and constraint in the creative process. Where some theorists have described the ideal creative process as unstructured, open-ended, and free of external limitations, others have found that creative individuals and teams can benefit from constraints. The purpose of this study is to make sense of this tension in the literature by investigating the ways in which constraints both inhibit and enhance work team creativity. Based on inductive field research with four research and development teams in a multinational corporation known for innovation, this study addresses the research questions: (a) What are the key constraints experienced by R&D teams and what impact do these have on team creativity?, and (b) Under what conditions do constraints inhibit or enhance R&D team creativity? This research uncovered a variety of salient constraints that can be organized into two broad categories: process constraints and product constraints. While process and product constraints were found to have differential impacts on team creativity, this study also revealed that under different circumstances, these constraints affected team creativity differently. Specifically, enduring team dynamics patterns, characterized as enabling dynamics and disabling dynamics, played a vital role in how teams interpreted and responded to constraints, and therefore whether constraints inhibited or enhanced team creativity. Teams experiencing the right kinds of constraints in the right environments, and which saw opportunity in constraints, benefitted creatively from them. The results of this research challenge the assumption that constraints kill creativity, demonstrating instead that for teams able to accept and embrace them, there is freedom in constraint.
Navigating romantic relationships on Facebook
Authors: LeFebvre Leah , Blackburn Kate , Brody Nicholas
Published: March 2014

The present study explores how people use social networking sites to adjust to breakups by studying their postdissolution behaviors. We apply Rollie and Duck’s (2006) relationship dissolution model by examining how collegiate Facebook users ( N = 208) enact behaviors in breakups to extend the model to online environments during and after breakups. Furthermore, we employed a retrospective design utilizing qualitative methods to define categories of behavioral responses to a breakup on Facebook. The analysis revealed online behaviors that overlapped with the dissolution model as well as paralleled previous research into online behaviors. Results are discussed using the relationship dissolution model framework to individuals modifying online relationship statuses, “unfriending” previous partners, and limiting profile access in order to manage relationship termination.
Rising waters: New geoarchaeological evidence of inundation and early agriculture from former settlement sites on the southern Yangtze Delta, China
Authors: Long Tengwen , Qin Jungan , Atahan Pia , Mooney Scott , Taylor David
Published: March 2014

New pollen, phytolith, charcoal and diatom data from 14C AMS-dated sediments from three clusters of former occupation sites on the southern Yangtze Delta – Liangzhu, Majiabang and Chuodun – reveal that hydrological conditions were a key factor influencing early food production on the southern Yangtze Delta. At least two episodes of inundation are recognized, the first occurring at c. 7200–5700 cal. yr BP and a second from c. 4700 cal. yr BP. The first involved increasing salinity of surface waters, likely associated with marine intrusion linked to post-glacial sea-level change (meltwater pulse (MWP) 2). The second appears to have been freshwater in nature and driven at least in part by extreme meteorological events of high levels of precipitation in combination with impeded drainage. These two episodes had profound impacts on Neolithic settlement and farming. Further hydrological changes, presumably linked to changes in sedimentary regime, geomorphology and drainage of the Taihu depression, recorded at the Chuodun site after c. 3000 cal. yr BP, appear to have had a major effect on technologically relatively advanced food production systems. While environmental pressures appear to have played an important role in shaping human activities and settlement on the southern Yangtze Delta, people responded by adopting strategies that included an increased reliance on food production, migration to more clement locations and implementation of new technologies, which possibly included the construction of flood defence works.
Comparing Citizens’ Trust in the Police Across European Countries
Authors: Schaap Dorian , Scheepers Peer
Published: March 2014

International comparative studies on citizens’ trust in the police have become more common. However, they generally tend to ignore the fundamental question of whether comparisons between countries are actually valid. We address this knowledge gap by conducting measurement equivalence tests on trust in the police within the framework of legal and political trust, arguing that a deviant position of trust in the police within this framework in a certain country indicates comparability issues. We analyze data from the European Social Survey in 26 European nations, finding that both trust in the police and trust in other institutions are empirically comparable within most, but not all, of Europe. We also note substantial variation across countries in levels of trust, especially in terms of differences between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. We conclude that future cross-national comparisons of citizens’ trust in institutions, and especially the police, should systematically account for equivalence issues to prevent invalid conclusions and should exercise constraint in including culturally very diverse countries.
Experimental investigation on the time-varying modal parameters of a trapezoidal plate in temperature-varying environments by subspace tracking-based method
Authors: Yu Kaiping , Yang Kai , Bai Yunhe
Published: March 2014

Subspace-based methods for estimation of modal parameters are briefly reviewed in this study and a time-varying modal parameter identification algorithm, based on finite-data-window Projection Approximation Subspace Tracking, is presented to investigate the time-varying modal parameters of a trapezoidal titanium-alloy plate in temperature-varying environments. An experiment conducted on a steel beam with a removable mass is used to confirm the proposed method with a brief discussion on the factors of this method. Two groups of experiments are conducted to reveal the effects of varying temperature and heating speed on the natural frequencies of the plate, and the identified natural frequencies evidently show the effect of thermal stresses caused by temperature gradients in experiment.
Intentions to Participate in Wine Tourism in an Emerging Market: Theorization and Implications
Authors: Ye Ben Haobin , Zhang Hanqin Qiu , Yuan Jingxue (Jessica)
Published: March 2014

With the rapid economic growth that has occurred in recent decades in China, engaging in wine tourism has emerged as a new phenomenon. This study aims to examine factors that may influence Chinese people’s intentions to visit local wineries. We have employed a theoretical model based on the self-determination theory to holistically explore the effects of travel motivation, attitudes toward domestic wine, subjective norm, past experiences, and perceived travel barriers. An online questionnaire was conducted in three tier-one cities, resulting in 500 respondents in the sample. The survey revealed that subjective norm influences visit intentions through the mediating role of travel motivation and so do attitudes toward domestic wine when mediated by the wine-specific travel motivation. Past experiences positively affected visit intentions. A lack of wine knowledge and low confidence in domestic wine inhibited visit intentions. We have discussed practical implications of effective measures to enhance marketing efforts by wine/tourism practitioners in China.
Visualisation of time-varying respiratory system elastance in experimental ARDS animal models
Authors: van Drunen Erwin J , Chiew Yeong Shiong , Pretty Christopher , Shaw Geoffrey M , Lambermont Bernard , Janssen Nathalie , Chase J Geoffrey , Desaive Thomas
Published: March 2014

Background

Patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) risk lung collapse, severely altering the breath-to-breath respiratory mechanics. Model-based estimation of respiratory mechanics characterising patient-specific condition and response to treatment may be used to guide mechanical ventilation (MV). This study presents a model-based approach to monitor time-varying patient-ventilator interaction to guide positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) selection.

Methods

The single compartment lung model was extended to monitor dynamic time-varying respiratory system elastance, E

drs
, within each breathing cycle. Two separate animal models were considered, each consisting of three fully sedated pure pietrain piglets (oleic acid ARDS and lavage ARDS). A staircase recruitment manoeuvre was performed on all six subjects after ARDS was induced. The E

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was mapped across each breathing cycle for each subject.

Results

Six time-varying, breath-specific E

drs
maps were generated, one for each subject. Each E

drs
map shows the subject-specific response to mechanical ventilation (MV), indicating the need for a model-based approach to guide MV. This method of visualisation provides high resolution insight into the time-varying respiratory mechanics to aid clinical decision making. Using the E

drs
maps, minimal time-varying elastance was identified, which can be used to select optimal PEEP.

Conclusions

Real-time continuous monitoring of in-breath mechanics provides further insight into lung physiology. Therefore, there is potential for this new monitoring method to aid clinicians in guiding MV treatment. These are the first such maps generated and they thus show unique results in high resolution. The model is limited to a constant respiratory resistance throughout inspiration which may not be valid in some cases. However, trends match clinical expectation and the results highlight both the subject-specificity of the model, as well as significant inter-subject variability.
The “False Chronicles,” Cardinal Baronio, and Sacred History in Counter-Reformation Spain
Authors: Olds Katrina B.
Published: March 2014

The forged histories known as the “false chronicles” touched upon many controversial matters in early-modern Spain. Less familiar to scholars is that the forger, Jerónimo Román de la Higuera, was also reacting to the Roman reforms spearheaded by Cardinal Cesare Baronio. Higuera’s 1589 letter to Baronio reveals his principal preoccupations, as well as the maneuvers that he would later employ in the false chronicles. These included direct interventions by Higuera on behalf of communities such as Sigüenza, which were attemptinag to protect local historical and hagiographic traditions that they believed were jeopardized by Baronio’s revisions of the Church’s liturgical texts.
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman’s Visit to Wartime Rome
Authors: Fogarty Gerald P.
Published: March 2014

Francis J. Spellman (1889–1967), archbishop of New York and later cardinal, was a friend of Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII), with whom he worked in Rome (1929–33). As auxiliary bishop of Boston (1932–39), he had contacted President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarding possible diplomatic relations between the United States and the Holy See. He had closer relations with Roosevelt after his appointment to New York and as Military Ordinary. His visit to U.S. troops in the European theater in 1943 was extended, at the pope’s request, to include the Vatican. Afterward, he met Winston Churchill and other Allied leaders.
Engaging Underserved Populations in Affordable Care Act-required Needs Assessments
Authors: Lightfoot Alexandra F. , De Marco Molly M. , Dendas Ronald C. , Jackson Melvin R. , Meehan Edward F.
Published: March 2014

This article presents information on an Affordable Care Act-mandated community health needs assessment process, which brought four hospitals and a foundation in Pennsylvania together to imbue the assessment with community contributions. Community health needs assessments that engage underserved communities can be powerful symbols of hospitals’ interest in and commitment to finding solutions.
The Impact of Health Insurance Reform on Insurance Instability
Authors: Freund Karen M. , Isabelle Alexis P. , Hanchate Amresh D. , Kalish Richard L. , Kapoor Alok , Bak Sharon , Mishuris Rebecca G. , Shroff Swati M. , Battaglia Tracy A.
Published: March 2014

We investigated the impact of the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform on insurance coverage and stability among minority and underserved women. We examined 36 months of insurance claims among 1,946 women who had abnormal cancer screening at six community health centers pre-(2004–2005) and post-(2007–2008) insurance reform. We examined frequency of switches in insurance coverage as measures of longitudinal insurance instability. On the date of their abnormal cancer screening test, 36% of subjects were publicly insured and 31% were uninsured. Post-reform, the percent ever uninsured declined from 39% to 29% (p .001) and those consistently uninsured declined from 23% to 16%. To assess if insurance instability changed between the pre- and post-reform periods, we conducted Poisson regression models, adjusted for patient demographics and length of time in care. These revealed no significant differences from the pre- to post-reform period in annual rates of insurance switches, incident rate ratio 0.98 (95%- CI 0.88–1.09). Our analysis is limited by changes in the populations in the pre- and post-reform period and inability to capture care outside of the health system network. Insurance reform increased stability as measured by decreasing uninsured rates without increasing insurance switches.
The Impact of Insurance Coverage during Insurance Reform on Diagnostic Resolution of Cancer Screening Abnormalities
Authors: Kapoor Alok , Battaglia Tracy A. , Isabelle Alexis P. , Hanchate Amresh D. , Kalish Richard L. , Bak Sharon , Mishuris Rebecca G. , Shroff Swati M. , Freund Karen M.
Published: March 2014

We examined the impact of Massachusetts insurance reform on the care of women at six community health centers with abnormal breast and cervical cancer screening to investigate whether stability of insurance coverage was associated with more timely diagnostic resolution. We conducted Cox proportional hazards models to predict time from cancer screening to diagnostic resolution, examining the impact of 1) insurance status at time of screening abnormality, 2) number of insurance switches over a three-year period, and 3) insurance history over a three-year period. We identified 1,165 women with breast and 781 with cervical cancer screening abnormalities. In the breast cohort, Medicaid insurance at baseline, continuous public insurance, and losing insurance predicted delayed resolution. We did not find these effects in the cervical cohort. These data provide evidence that stability of health insurance coverage with insurance reform nationally may improve timely care after abnormal cancer screening in historically underserved women.
DC Healthy Communities Collaborative (DCHCC): A Promising Collaboration to Reduce Health Disparities in the Nation’s Capital
Authors: Merrill Chaya T. , Pollard Ruth F. , Wright Joseph L.
Published: March 2014

Fueled by community benefit requirements in the Affordable Care Act, the DC Healthy Communities Collaborative—a coalition of four Washington, D.C. hospitals and four community health centers—bridged long-standing competitive barriers to work together on community health improvement activities.
Reducing Cancer Disparities through Community Engagement in Policy Development: The Role of Cancer Councils
Authors: Preston Michael A. , Mays Glen P. , Jones Rise’ D. , Smith Sharla A. , Stewart Chara N. , Henry-Tillman Ronda S.
Published: March 2014

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S and a source of large racial and ethnic disparities in population health. Policy development is a powerful but sometimes overlooked public health tool for reducing cancer burden and disparities. Along with other partners in the public health system, community-based organizations such as local cancer councils can play valuable roles in developing policies that are responsive to community needs and in mobilizing resources to support policy adoption and implementation. This paper examines the current and potential roles played by local cancer councils to reduce cancer burden and disparities. Responsive public health systems require vehicles for communities to engage in policy development. Cancer councils provide promising models of engagement. Untapped opportunities exist for enhancing policy development through cancer councils, such as expanding targets of engagement to include private-sector stakeholders and expanding methods of engagement utilizing the Affordable Care Act’s Prevention and Public Health Fund.
The Experiences of Massachusetts Hospitals as Statewide Health Insurance Reform Was Implemented
Authors: Bazzoli Gloria J. , Clement Jan P.
Published: March 2014

Hospitals treat many uninsured patients and shoulder substantial amounts of uncompensated care. Health reform as implemented in Massachusetts, then, would be expected to bode well for hospitals as many people obtain coverage from private and public programs. We examined changes in Massachusetts hospital payer mix, unreimbursed costs of care for the uninsured and those in means-tested public programs, and overall financial condition for the period 2004 to 2010. Despite increases in coverage, unreimbursed costs for the uninsured and those in means-tested government programs did not decrease appreciably for Massachusetts hospitals over the study period. Major safety-net hospitals, which play a substantial role in serving the uninsured and Medicaid, had some initial easing of this burden but their financial situation weakened through 2010. The U.S. economic recession and Massachusetts budget pressures, which in part resulted from reform implementation, likely offset advantages hospitals experienced from reductions in the uninsured. Our analysis suggests that state actions in Massachusetts to change payment programs that the two major safety net hospitals relied on to support indigent care contributed to their financial difficulties.
"Allouma" et "Le Horla": Textes miroirs et colonialisme chez Maupassant
Authors: Robert Yann
Published: March 2014

Les écrits de Maupassant sur l'Afrique ont souvent été considérés comme des textes secondaires, ayant pour principal intérêt de refléter les thèmes philosophiques et psychologiques qui ont fait le succès des œuvres canoniques de Maupassant, notamment de ses contes fantastiques. Or, s'il est traditionnel de lire les nouvelles africaines en regard des contes fantastiques, cet article propose une lecture inverse qui souligne l'influence du colonialisme et la place de l'Afrique dans l'œuvre fantastique de Maupassant. Nous commençons par relever la présence dans les nouvelles africaines d'une conception originale de la structure de domination colonialiste. Nous étudions ensuite son ubiquité, mais sous une forme inversée, dans les contes fantastiques. Enfin, nous formulons une hypothèse concernant ce jeu de miroir, qui explique peut-être en partie le succès retentissant des œuvres fantastiques à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, celles-ci ayant selon nous servi à soulager la conscience d'une société hantée par le colonialisme.
La Querelle des bibliothèques ou la gêne de la critique française face à la littérature en français
Authors: Panaïté Oana
Published: March 2014

L'article examine les raisons explicites et implicites du traitement réservé à la littérature "francophone" dans la critique métropolitaine. À partir de trois travaux d'histoire de la littérature et d'un ouvrage consacré à la langue littéraire, publiés en France depuis 2005, l'article propose de dégager les formes et interroger les raisons d'une gêne épistémologique à l'égard de la littérature en français, car avant de réduire au silence l'objet francophone, force est de l'évoquer, de le décrire même. L'enjeux de cette analyse n'est pas de contester la contribution de ces ouvrages au renouveau critique de l'histoire littéraire, mais de réfléchir aux possibilités d'ouverture épistémologique qui s'y profilent sans se réaliser. De surcroît, l'article propose de situer cette question dans le cadre des débats contemporains sur la littérature-monde et sur la différence entre la littérature invitée et la littérature immigrée, tout en explorant la possibilité d'un espace-frontière qui à la fois sépare et relie la critique française et la critique "francophone".
Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis de Louis-Philippe Dalembert: De Romain Gary à Haïti ou une nouvelle cartographie pour l'idéal républicain français
Authors: Achille Étienne
Published: March 2014

Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis de Louis-Philippe Dalembert est une adaptation de La Vie devant soi d'Émile Ajar dans laquelle un préadolescent d'origine haïtienne nommé Jean remplace Momo, le narrateur d'origine maghrébine du roman d'Ajar. Habitant la rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis dans le dixième arrondissement de Paris, Jean relate son quotidien dans une France diverse mais raciste sous la forme d'un scénario articulé autour de son amitié pour une vieille femme lors de la canicule de l'été 2003. Cet article explore tout d'abord le choix d'intertextualité de Dalembert et l'adaptation des thèmes majeurs du roman d'Ajar au contexte français contemporain. De ce choix intertextuel, fondé en particulier sur l'humanisme qu'Ajar attribue à la figure de l'Autre, découle l'originalité de Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis : l'introduction par l'intermédiaire de la caractérisation de Jean de la "caractéristique distinctive" de la tradition intellectuelle haïtienne dans le débat identitaire français. Dalembert suggère que la pensée universaliste française bénéficierait d'une ouverture transnationale, et qu'inclure la réflexion haïtienne sur la possibilité d'articuler un universalisme hybride transcendant les limitations ethnocentriques du modèle universel français permettrait à l'idéal républicain de se rapprocher de la réalisation de son plein potentiel.
La Mémoire longue du porc-épic (à propos d'un roman d'Alain Mabanckou)
Authors: Marie Annabelle
Published: March 2014

Mémoires de porc-épic , d'Alain Mabanckou, roman publié au Seuil en 2006, dans la foulée du succès que connut Verre cassé , raconte les agissements meurtriers d'un animal au service d'un homme rancunier dont il est le "double" maléfique. A sa sortie, le roman fut unanimement salué comme un hommage rendu à la grande tradition du conte africain—inaugurant un bref retour aux sources de la part d'un auteur plus aisément associé à la "migritude" d'aujourd'hui qu'à l'"oraliture" d'antan. Le récit nous est pourtant donné pour de l'écrit (c'est le sens du mot "mémoires"); et même pour de l'imprimé, puisqu'il est suivi d'une lettre adressée à l'éditeur dans laquelle on apprend que l'auteur de ce manuscrit découvert posthumément ne serait autre que Verre cassé lui-même. La "parole" du porcépic nous arriverait donc au travers d'un triple relais, Mabanckou se cachant derrière l'auteur fictif de son précédent roman, lui-même décédé et représenté par un tiers. Pourquoi ces écrans, ces filtres narratifs, et ce détour par une parole animalière? Que se joue-t-il sous ces dédoublements successifs, si ce n'est peut-être une référence indirecte à un autre que soi comme source de l'écriture—ce que Mabanckou appelle un "autre lui-même": on songe ici aux rapports mimétiques que son œuvre entretient avec Temps de chien , roman de Patrice Nganang (2001)—tout se passant comme si l'écriture ne pouvait se produire que dans des conditions de rivalité.
Entre féerique et fantastique: La Petite Fille et la Bête de S. Corinna Bille
Authors: Rochat Denise
Published: March 2014

Publiée en 1968, cette nouvelle d'une douzaine de pages nous transporte en période de carnaval dans une des vallées les plus sauvages et les plus reculées de Suisse, au moment magique et inquiétant où apparaissent les hommes masqués, revêtus de peaux de bêtes. De par son titre, sa thématique et sa structure antithétique, ce petit texte présente toutefois des similitudes frappantes avec La Belle et la Bête et Le Petit Chaperon Rouge. Ces contes, tissés en filigrane dans le récit, expliquent que la nouvelle oscille constamment entre deux mondes différents: l'un, féerique, est représenté par la protagoniste, une petite fille pour qui "l'enchantement va de soi" (Caillois); l'autre, plus proche du fantastique, est celui d'une auteure qui, sans jamais quitter le terrain de la vraisemblance, remonte à la suite de son héroïne dans le labyrinthe de son propre inconscient afin d'élaborer un récit d'origine lié à son identité d'écrivain.
Le Tiers-espace de la femme africaine: Transnationalisme et nouveauté dans Comment cuisiner son mari à l'africaine? de Calixthe Beyala
Authors: Mielusel Ramona
Published: March 2014

Dans cet article nous montrons le changement de perspective culturelle que la littérature migrante transnationale implique dans la redéfinition des valeurs séculaires françaises. Nous insisterons aussi sur l'idée que les écritures francophones enrichissent la culture française avec de nouveaux éléments ethniques à l'aide de l'analyse de l'œuvre Comment cuisiner son mari à l'africaine? de Calixthe Beyala vue d'une perspective transnationale. Dans une première étape nous allons essayer de situer le genre littéraire représenté par les écrivain(e)s migrant(e)s de la diaspora africaine dans un espace francophone traversé par plusieurs "zones frontalières" ( border zones ) (Rosaldo) d'hétéroglossie des discours culturels. Dû à la complexité de leur statut, ces écritures se trouvent dans un tiers-espace ou les négociations entre les cultures sont possibles. Dans une deuxième étape, nous allons parler de la nouveauté ( newness ) (Bhabha) que les textes d'auteurs comme Beyala apportent dans la culture française et contemporaine.
Regional Variation in German Sign Language: The Role of Schools (Re-)Visited
Authors: Eichmann Hanna , Rosenstock Rachel
Published: March 2014

Regional dialects in many sign languages have traditionally been linked to schools for deaf students. Focusing on three such schools in Saxony (southeast Germany), our study for the first time examines whether this link is also evident in German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS). We compare and contrast sign language data from deaf adults and children who used to attend or are still being educated in these schools, respectively. Our study shows that the effect size between choice of variant and school attended is notably weaker in the child language data than in the adult data. Considering social and policy changes in the educational landscape, our research raises the question of whether schools for deaf students still function as cradles of German Sign Language dialects.
Rethinking Literacy: Broadening Opportunities for Visual Learners
Authors: Kuntze Marlon , Golos Debbie , Enns Charlotte
Published: March 2014

This article outlines a working model that is grounded in visual learning; it is a model for facilitating deaf children's acquisition of literacy. In our view, literacy is more than merely reading. It also encompasses the acquisition of knowledge and the development of cognitive skills that one needs for thinking, comprehending, and communicating. The perspective espoused by the proponents of "multil iteracies" is utilized to fashion a model that explains how deaf children's literacy development may be supported through ASL and various visual modes of learning. The model incorporates components of ASL acquisition, visual engagement, emergent literacy, social mediation of English print, literacy and Deaf culture, and a variety of media. Our goal is to broaden the current dialogue on the literacy development of deaf children by offering a model that is based on a fairly holistic concept of literacy, insights from a wide array of research findings and theoretical constructs, and recognition of the need to capitalize on deaf students' natural tendency to learn via the visual mode.
The Acquisition of Synonyms in American Sign Language (ASL): Toward a Further Understanding of the Components of ASL Vocabulary Knowledge
Authors: Novogrodsky Rama , Fish Sarah , Hoffmeister Robert
Published: March 2014

A receptive, multiple-choice test of ASL synonyms was administered to Deaf children in order to determine both their vocabulary development and the metalinguistic skills necessary for them to identify synonyms. A total of 572 Deaf children who were 4;0-18;0 years of age were tested: 449 Deaf children of hearing parents (DCHP) and 123 Deaf children of Deaf parents (DCDP). The performance of both groups improved with age, with DCDP scoring higher than DCHP from 8-9 years old and up. An error analysis showed a decrease of phonological foil choices with increasing age in both groups. Learners in both groups relied more on semantic knowledge and less on phonological knowledge for this semantic task as they became older, which is the same pattern observed for typically developing hearing children acquiring a spoken language. This indicates that DCHP and DCDP resemble hearing children in the strategies they use to identify synonyms. In addition, DCHP follow the same developmental trajectory as DCDP but are delayed, which is consistent with the less than ideal levels of language input they receive.
An Evening of Equality?: Nationalism and the Centennial Celebration of the Berlin Royal Deaf-Mute Asylum, December 2-4, 1888
Authors: Söderfeldt Ylva
Published: March 2014

In December 1888 the most renowned deaf school in Germany, the Royal Deaf-Mute Asylum in Berlin, celebrated its centennial with a three-day gala. The celebrations included a visit to the grave of the school's founder, Ernst Adolph Eschke, a ceremony at the school, a display of products made by deaf people, a banquet for all of the guests, a special meal just for the schoolchildren and staff, and, finally, tea for a select few at the home of the director, Eduard Walther. The festivities show how nationalism both inhibited and inspired the German deaf movement by forcing it to honor oral educators and schools but at the same time offering deaf people a model for cultural and linguistic community. Furthermore, the alternating modes of communication between the deaf and the hearing worlds demonstrate not only that speech and hearing were connected to power and status but also that spaces for visual communication and the deaf community were nevertheless possible even in the nerve center of oral education.
‘Different people with different views but the same overall goals’: Divisions and unities within the contemporary British DIY punk subcultural movement
Authors: Liptrot Michelle
Published: March 2014

This article will explore the divided yet unified nature of contemporary Do-It-Yourself (DIY) punk in Britain. It identifies the emergence of anarcho-punk in the 1980s as being pivotal in the polarization of punk into two distinct camps: politicized and non-politicized punk. Tensions and complexities between the two camps are made clear when long-standing contradictions concerning race, patriotism, gender and sexuality are considered. The article will also reveal tension within the politicized punk camp. Finally, it will show that despite such tensions, participants from both punk camps are unified by certain values, notably the DIY ethic.
For you, Tommy, the war is never over
Authors: Ogg Alex
Published: March 2014

This article looks at the enduring influence that the ephemera and aesthetics of World War II had on the British punk movement, particularly its impact on impressionable male minds. It maps the popularity of toys, games and magazines during the 1970s and early 1980s and proposes that whilst many punk bands were avowedly anti-war, they retained an awe of the military hardware, scale, personalities and stakes of the conflict. In examining why that might be the case, the author talks to some of those involved in both the production and consumption of cultural materials related to World War II. An attempt is made to navigate the observation that an essential duality was at work. That is, while the overwhelming repudiation and rejection of militarism and conflict in punk was genuine, so too was the impact of the images, residues and vernacular of the war and these became essential formative tools in the creative and intellectual discourse of that generation. The first part of the article will look at the prevalence of World War II-based imagery, the second at how that impacted on the punk movement in terms of lyrics, artwork and attitudes. That phenomenon is examined in relation to British identity, class identity, political identity and male identity, though these have not been structured as separate lines of enquiry due to the extensive degree of overlap.