bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A synopsis of the pin-hole borers of Thailand (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae)
Authors: BEAVER R. A. , LIU L-Y.
Published: May 2013

The present state of knowledge of the pin-hole borers of Thailand is summarised to provide a basis for future studies of the fauna and its economic importance in forestry and timber production. A checklist of the fauna is provided with infor-mation on local and world distribution, host trees, biology and taxonomy. Six faunal elements based on geographical dis-tribution, and the host preferences of species are discussed. Ninety-two species have now been recorded in Thailand, of which forty-three are recorded here for the first time. Three species are endemic to Thailand. The following new combi-nations are given: Dinoplatypus piniperda (Schedl), Treptoplatypus fulgens (Schedl), both transferred from Platypus.
Revision of Apocharips Fergusson (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae) with description of three new species from Colombia
Authors: FERRER-SUAY MAR , PARETAS-MARTÍNEZ JORDI , PUJADE-VILLAR JULI
Published: May 2013

The genus Apocharips is here revised. Three previously described species are considered as valid: Apocharips angelicae Pujade-Villar & Evenhuis, 2002, A. hansoni Menke, 1993, and A. trapezoidea (Hartig, 1841). Apocharips eleaphila (Sil-vestri, 1915) and A. peraperta (Silvestri, 1915) are synonymyzed with A. trapezoidea. Three new species are here de-scribed: Apocharips colombiana Ferrer-Suay & Pujade-Villar n. sp., Apocharips tamanii Paretas-Martínez & Pujade- Villar n. sp. and Apocharips tropicale Ferrer-Suay & Paretas-Martínez n. sp. A key to the six species included in Apocharips is given.
Study of whole genome linkage disequilibrium in Nellore cattle
Authors: Espigolan Rafael , Baldi Fernando , Boligon Arione A , Souza Fabio RP , Gordo Daniel GM , Tonussi Rafael L , Cardoso Diércles F , Oliveira Henrique N , Tonhati Humberto , Sargolzaei Mehdi , Schenkel Flavio S , Carvalheiro Roberto , Ferro Jesus A , Albuquerque Lucia G
Published: May 2013

Background

Knowledge of the linkage disequilibrium (LD) between markers is important to establish the number of markers necessary for association studies and genomic selection. The objective of this study was to evaluate the extent of LD in Nellore cattle using a high density SNP panel and 795 genotyped steers.

Results

After data editing, 446,986 SNPs were used for the estimation of LD, comprising 2508.4 Mb of the genome. The mean distance between adjacent markers was 4.90 ± 2.89 kb. The minor allele frequency (MAF) was less than 0.20 in a considerable proportion of SNPs. The overall mean LD between marker pairs measured by r2and |D'| was 0.17 and 0.52, respectively. The LD (r2) decreased with increasing physical distance between markers from 0.34 (1 kb) to 0.11 (100 kb). In contrast to this clear decrease of LD measured by r2, the changes in |D'| indicated a less pronounced decline of LD. Chromosomes BTA1, BTA27, BTA28 and BTA29 showed lower levels of LD at any distance between markers. Except for these four chromosomes, the level of LD (r2) was higher than 0.20 for markers separated by less than 20 kb. At distances < 3 kb, the level of LD was higher than 0.30. The LD (r2) between markers was higher when the MAF threshold was high (0.15), especially when the distance between markers was short.

Conclusions

The level of LD estimated for markers separated by less than 30 kb indicates that the High Density Bovine SNP BeadChip will likely be a suitable tool for prediction of genomic breeding values in Nellore cattle.
Tissue culture-induced genetic and epigenetic alterations in rice pure-lines, F1 hybrids and polyploids
Authors: Wang Xiaoran , Wu Rui , Lin Xiuyun , Bai Yan , Song Congdi , Yu Xiaoming , Xu Chunming , Zhao Na , Dong Yuzhu , Liu Bao
Published: May 2013

Background

Genetic and epigenetic alterations can be invoked by plant tissue culture, which may result in heritable changes in phenotypes, a phenomenon collectively termed somaclonal variation. Although extensive studies have been conducted on the molecular nature and spectrum of tissue culture-induced genomic alterations, the issue of whether and to what extent distinct plant genotypes, e.g., pure-lines, hybrids and polyploids, may respond differentially to the tissue culture condition remains poorly understood.

Results

We investigated tissue culture-induced genetic and epigenetic alterations in a set of rice genotypes including two pure-lines (different subspecies), a pair of reciprocal F1 hybrids parented by the two pure-lines, and a pair of reciprocal tetraploids resulted from the hybrids. Using two molecular markers, amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP), both genetic and DNA methylation alterations were detected in calli and regenerants from all six genotypes, but genetic alteration is more prominent than epigenetic alteration. While significant genotypic difference was observed in frequencies of both types of alterations, only genetic alteration showed distinctive features among the three types of genomes, with one hybrid (N/9) being exceptionally labile. Surprisingly, difference in genetic alteration frequencies between the pair of reciprocal F1 hybrids is much greater than that between the two pure-line subspecies. Difference also exists in the pair of reciprocal tetraploids, but is to a less extent than that between the hybrids. The steady-state transcript abundance of genes involved in DNA repair and DNA methylation was significantly altered in both calli and regenerants, and some of which were correlated with the genetic and/or epigenetic alterations.

Conclusions

Our results, based on molecular marker analysis of ca. 1,000 genomic loci, document that genetic alteration is the major cause of somaclonal variation in rice, which is concomitant with epigenetic alterations. Perturbed expression by tissue culture of a set of 41 genes encoding for enzymes involved in DNA repair and DNA methylation is associated with both genetic and epigenetic alterations. There exist fundamental differences among distinct genotypes, pure-lines, hybrids and tetraploids, in propensities of generating both genetic and epigenetic alterations under the tissue culture condition. Parent-of-origin has a conspicuous effect on the alteration frequencies.
Reassessing Eugène Bozza: Discoveries in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes Archive
Authors: Kuyper-Rushing Lois
Published: May 2013

French twentieth-century composer Eugène Bozza is known primarily for wind instrument chamber music. The author discovered many works by Bozza that do not fit in this category. Many of these works are out of print or exist only in manuscript. A thematic catalog of the works of Bozza, in progress, will reveal Bozza’s rich musical legacy.
Deep Lane
Authors: Doty Mark
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Even the Gods
Authors: Sealey Nicole
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
About Major Jackson: A Profile by Gregory Pardlo
Authors: Pardlo Gregory
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
The Body Is a Big Sagacity
Authors: Belieu Erin
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
The Rubber Game
Authors: Phillips Sherri
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
The Complex Sentence
Authors: Hoagland Tony
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Praise Poem for American Girls
Authors: Dwyer Jaclyn
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Masticated Light
Authors: May Jamaal
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
The Room in Five Moods of Cannots
Authors: Nao Vi Khi
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Of the Threads That Connect the Stars
Authors: Espada Martín
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Grusamericana (Whooper)
Authors: Sewell Lisa
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
The Birds and the Bees
Authors: McDaniel Jeffrey
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
A Conversation with Gail Mazur
Authors: Ehrich Sarah
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Chromatic Black
Authors: Phillips Carl
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
The Martyr's Motel
Authors: Kasischke Laura
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
The Florida Sandhill Crane
Authors: Gibbs Didi
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Logos
Authors: Smith Tracy K.
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Knowledge
Authors: Browning Stephen
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
The Graves
Authors: Klink Joanna
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Pueblo I, New Mexico
Authors: Balakian Peter
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Meeting a Stranger
Authors: Olds Sharon
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Alan at the Kirschbergs'
Authors: Solomon Anna
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Andorra
Authors: Molnár Szidónia
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Demolition Derby
Authors: Dietz Maggie
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Dancing in Buses
Authors: Zamora Javier
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Ode to Piranha
Authors: Peralta Yaddyra
Published: May 2013

The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Memoria histórica y lucha de clases en el nuevo cine venezolano
Authors: Valladares-Ruiz Patricia
Published: May 2013

This article examines the role of the Venezuelan State as a film producer and its influence in the selection and cinematic treatment of predominant topics in documentaries and feature films financed by Villa del Cine (a State-owned production company). Most of these films pursue the (re)construction of the historical memory by drawing parallels between the Venezuelan War of Independence and the Bolivarian revolution. This study focuses on the aesthetic and ideological agenda of these cultural practices.
The Genre of Treason: Epistolarity in Ricardo Piglia’s Respiración artificial
Authors: Venegas José Luis
Published: May 2013

Ricardo Piglia’s Respiración artificial (1980) combines the suspense of a detective story, the analytical complexity of literary criticism, the thematic focus of a biography, and the narrative structure of epistolary fiction. The genre instability of Piglia’s novel undercuts the order and coherence of the narratives that the Argentina’s military Junta deployed to organize, classify, and control the nation’s social body during the “Process of National Reorganization” between 1976 and 1983. While Piglia’s combination of different types of storytelling is an important form of criticism against the language of the institutions and the state, this article argues that the breakdown of generic boundaries is also a strategy to represent history as it is lived and imagined by those who were severed from the social body during the dictatorship—by the “traitors” to the nation. Specifically, epistolarity—the use of the letter’s formal properties to create meaning—functions in the novel as a device to disrupt the institutional classifications (the genres) that fail to contain the figure of the traitor. It is the form of these letters and not their contents that represents and circulates history as lived by those orphaned by the institutions and turned into traitors by the state. This article proposes that letters break with institutional imperatives not because they carry coded messages that must remain secret, but because they constitute a means of expression that prevents the novel from ever attaining the rigidity that characterizes dictatorial discourse.
Gendered Spaces: Marriage and the Limits of Civilization in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Los pazos de Ulloa
Authors: Venegas Jessica Shade
Published: May 2013

This article explores the symbolic connection between marriage and space in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Los pazos de Ulloa (1886). Although marriage was an effective strategy of social and subjective control in nineteenth-century Spain, it is my contention that this institution also provided the grounds for subversive intervention—for undermining the basic tenets of patriarchal society and the modern nation-state. In particular, this article asserts that the intersection between marriage and social space can be unmoored from the interlocking regulations of domestic and political legislation and recast as a destabilizing force within the society it is supposed to uphold. I interpret marriage as a liminal construct whose meaning fluctuates as it alternates between the “civilized” locus of the city and the “barbaric” countryside. The multilayered nature of marriage in the novel provides the grounds to detach these spaces from their univocal meanings as established by the self-appointed artisans of the modern nation in Spain. The reader is confronted throughout Los pazos de Ulloa with symbolic spaces that underscore the gaps of such regulations, pointing towards the possibility of creating social meaning and individual identities beyond the bounds imposed by male-dominated values and the related constraints associated with liberal political theory.
Originary Debt (1816)
Authors: Steinberg Samuel
Published: May 2013

“Originary Debt (1816)” attempts to begin a negative genealogy of Spanish American letters from the nineteenth century to the present by arguing that from its origins, Spanish American literature imposes duty-debt (deber) as the principle of its order. From the very prologue of what is arguably the first Latin American novel, El periquillo sarniento (Fernández de Lizardi, 1816), literature marks itself as traversed and constituted by the exigencies of economy and thus by a necessary relation to a reading public that through consumption will restitute the original financial expenditure of writing and publication. It is this monetary and moral inscription, as obligation, that organizes Latin American literary history. Fiction is submitted to the demand of money as the figure of its relation to what it hopes to bring forth: the people. Centering on a reading the prologue to Lizardi’s novel, this article suggests that this reading public, the people—as a truth that is both extrinsic and intrinsic to the work—forms the reason or duty of the modern literary enterprise.
Taming the Microworld: DuPont and the Interwar Rise of Fundamental Industrial Research
Authors: Cerveaux Augustin
Published: May 2013

This paper revisits the history of DuPont's fundamental research program during the interwar period. This program epitomized the new relationship between science and industry that unfolded in this period. Historians have largely portrayed this program as the emergence of university-style research in corporate environments, resulting in radical innovations like nylon and the transistor. Although at the corporate level fundamental research was conflated with pure science and radical innovation, a close examination of the colloid chemistry and physics groups, which have not undergone historians' scrutiny, reveals a different picture. A feeling of symbiosis between scientific and industrial or technological rationales was achieved through a deliberate strategy of materials improvement grounded in the exploration of their microscopic components. I call this process the "taming of the microworld."
Rethinking the Economic History of Early Modern India
Authors: Coclanis Peter A.
Published: May 2013

This essay review of Prasannan Parthasarathi's book Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not (Cambridge University Press, 2011) situates the book in the context of ongoing debates in early modern economic history and lays out its contributions to these debates. While the book focuses on early modern India, its argument comports well with the broader interpretation associated with the so-called California School of early modern historians. That is to say, Parthasarathi downplays the economic distinctions between India and the more advanced parts of Europe during the early modern period, and claims that Europe's rise to economic dominance came later and was more contingent than many Eurocentric scholars have led us to believe. In so doing, Parthasarathi sheds much-needed light on the economy on the Indian subcontinent in the period between 1600 and 1850 and helps us to better understand the dynamics of the global economy during this period.
Mr. Taconite: Edward W. Davis and the Promotion of Low-Grade Iron Ore, 1913-1955
Authors: Manuel Jeffrey T.
Published: May 2013

This article describes mining engineer Edward Wilson Davis's decades-long quest to develop an industrial system for mining and milling low-grade magnetic iron ore, also known as taconite, in the mid-twentieth century. Working at the University of Minnesota Mines Experiment Station and with industrialist Daniel Jackling, Davis developed successful taconite milling techniques and launched a commercial venture that revealed significant continuities between copper mining and low-grade iron ore mining. Davis also promoted taconite as a savior for the mining economy of Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range. Davis rhetorically highlighted coming depletion of the Mesabi Iron Range's high-grade or hematite iron ores and he also worked to change state mineral tax laws so they were favorable to taconite. Reserve Mining Company named its large taconite mill the E. W. Davis Works in honor of his technical contributions.
The Atlas and the Air Force: Reassessing the Beginnings of America's First Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Authors: Gainor Christopher
Published: May 2013

In March 1954, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) decided to move ahead with the development of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), a central weapon of the cold war. The advent of thermonuclear weapons with their vastly enhanced firepower and small size caused experts and policymakers in the United States military to proceed with the development of America's first ICBM, the Atlas, at roughly the sam! e time as Soviet leaders began their own ICBM program for the same reason. Historians influenced by the political crisis in the United States caused by the Soviet launch in 1957 of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, criticized the USAF for waiting until 1954 to begin the development of ICBMs. This article questions these criticisms, and argues that American policymakers have usually been strongly biased in favor of nuclear weapons programs rather than against them, in part because of beliefs promulgated in the wake of Sputnik.
How New Technologies Spread: Lessons from Computing Technologies
Authors: Cortada James W.
Published: May 2013

This paper describes how information technology (IT) spread around the world, discussing the research and historiographical challenges for historians looking at this topic. It discusses patterns of adoption, spread of knowledge about IT, expanding modes of use, and implications for study of the diffusion of technologies.
Research Note: Has International Tourism Promoted Economic Growth in China? A Panel Threshold Regression Approach
Authors: Deng Taotao , Ma Mulan , Shao Shuai
Published: May 2013

The authors confirm a non-monotonic relationship between international tourism and economic growth, using China's province-level panel data from 1987 to 2010. Two endogenous cut-off points of the efficiency of international tourism in economic growth are identified. When the degree of tourism specialization is lower than 1.80% or between 1.80% and 2.04%, international tourism has a significant positive impact on economic growth, but the magnitude of the impact is weaker in the latter case. When the degree of tourism specialization exceeds 2.04%, an insignificant negative relationship between tourism and economic growth emerges. This suggests that tourism-led economic growth may not be sustained at high levels of tourism specialization.
Selected Film Essays and Interviews
Authors: Kawin Bruce , Movshovitz Howie
Published: May 2013

This engaging collection of Bruce F. Kawin's most important film essays (1977-2011) is accompanied by his interviews with Lillian Gish (1978) and Howard Hawks (1976). The Hawks interview is particularly concerned with his work with William Faulkner and their friendship. The Gish interview emphasizes her role as a producer in the 1920s. The essays focus on such topics as violence and sexual politics in film, the relations between horror and science fiction, the growth of video and digital cinema and their effects on both film and film scholarship, the politics of film theory, narration in film, and the relations between film and literature. Among the most significant articles reprinted here are 'Me Tarzan, You Junk', 'The Montage Element in Faulkner's Fiction', 'The Mummy's Pool', 'The Whole World Is Watching' and 'Late Show on the Telescreen: Film Studies and the Bottom Line'. The book includes close readings of films from 'La Jetée' to 'The Wizard of Oz'.
Knowledge and Human Liberation
Authors: Giri Ananta Kumar
Published: May 2013

Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in todays world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppressive self. It is a multidimensional struggle and aspiration in which knowledge  self, social and spiritual  can play a transformative role. Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations undertakes such a journey of transformation, and seeks to rethink knowledge vis-à-vis the familiar themes of human interest, critical theory, enlightenment, ethnography, democracy, pluralism, rationality, secularism and cosmopolitanism. The volume also features a Foreword by John Clammer (United Nations University, Tokyo) and an Afterword by Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame).
The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor
Authors: Romanska Magda , Cioffi Kathleen
Published: May 2013

Despite its international influence, Polish theatre remains a mystery to many Westerners. This volume attempts to fill in current gaps in English-language scholarship by offering a historical and critical analysis of two of the most influential works of Polish theatre: Jerzy Grotowski's 'Akropolis' and Tadeusz Kantor's 'Dead Class'. By examining each director's representation of Auschwitz, this study provides a new understanding of how translating national trauma through the prism of performance can alter and deflect the meaning and reception of theatrical works, both inside and outside of their cultural and historical contexts.
Statemaking and Territory in South Asia
Authors: Michael Bernardo A.
Published: May 2013

“Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)” seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories. The volume argues that these disputes arose out of older tribute, taxation and property relationships that left their territories perpetually intermixed and with ill-defined boundaries. It also seeks to describe the long-drawn-out process of territorial reordering undertaken by the British in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that set the stage for the creation of a clearly defined geographical template for the modern state in South Asia.
Synthesis of S‐ and N‐Functionalized Dithiocarbamates from Cyclic Sulfates
Authors: Parada‐Aliste Jose , Megia‐Fernandez Alicia , De la Torre‐Gonzalez Diego , Hernandez‐Mateo Fernando , Santoyo‐Gonzalez Francisco
Published: May 2013

A novel methodology for the synthesis of S‐ and N‐functionalized dithiocarbamates starting from cyclic sulfates, amines and carbon disulfide by using different protocols, including microwave assistance and a multicomponent variant, has been developed. The procedure is highly versatile, simple and efficient.
Alkyne‐Mediated Approach for Total Syntheses of Cladospolides A, B, C and iso‐Cladospolide B
Authors: Reddy Chada Raji , Suman Devatha , Rao Nagavaram Narsimha
Published: May 2013

A general strategy for the stereoselective total syntheses of cladospolides A, B, and C and iso‐cladospolide B has been accomplished. The key steps provide easy access to the target molecules and include an alkyne‐zipper reaction, a Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation/dihydroxylation, and a Yamaguchi macrolactonization. The feasibility of the alkyne‐mediated approach to construct the required carbon framework as well as to create the diol functionality and the olefin geometry is successfully demonstrated.
Beyond the Divinyl Ketone: Innovations in the Generation and Nazarov Cyclization of Pentadienyl Cation Intermediates
Authors: Spencer III William T. , Vaidya Tulaza , Frontier Alison J.
Published: May 2013

The requirement for new strategies for synthesizing five‐membered carbocycles has driven an expansion in study of the Nazarov cyclization. This renewed interest in the reaction has led to the discovery of several interesting new methods for generating the pentadienyl cation intermediates central to the cyclization. Methods reviewed include carbon‐heteroatom ionization, double bond functionalization, nucleophilic addition, or electrocyclic ring opening. Additional variations, such as iso‐ and imino‐Nazarov cyclization, employ unconventional substrates to produce new pentacycles. Here we provide an overview of these unconventional, yet highly useful versions of the Nazarov cyclization.