bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The damping effect of cement as a potential mitigation factor of squeaking in ceramic-on-ceramic total hip arthroplasty
Authors: Burgo F. J. , Mengelle D. E. , Ozols A. , Fernandez C. , Autorino C. M.
Published: November 2016

Objectives

Studies reporting specifically on squeaking in total hip arthroplasty have focused on cementless, and not on hybrid, fixation. We hypothesised that the cement mantle of the femur might have a damping effect on the sound transmitted through the metal stem. The objective of this study was to test the effect of cement on sound propagation along different stem designs and under different fixation conditions.

Methods

An in vitro model for sound detection, composed of a mechanical suspension structure and a sound-registering electronic assembly, was designed. A pulse of sound in the audible range was propagated along bare stems and stems implanted in cadaveric bone femurs with and without cement. Two stems of different alloy and geometry were compared.

Results

The magnitudes of the maximum amplitudes of the bare stem were in the range of 10.8 V to 11.8 V, whereas the amplitudes for the same stems with a cement mantle in a cadaveric bone decreased to 0.3 V to 0.7 V, implying a pulse-attenuation efficiency of greater than 97%. The same magnitude is close to 40% when the comparison is made against stems implanted in cadaveric bone femurs without cement.

Conclusion

The in vitro model presented here has shown that the cement had a remarkable effect on sound attenuation and a strong energy absorption in cement mantle and bone. The visco-elastic properties of cement can contribute to the dissipation of vibro-acoustic energy, thus preventing hip prostheses from squeaking. This could explain, at least in part, the lack of reports of squeaking when hybrid fixation is used. Cite this article: F. J. Burgo, D. E. Mengelle, A. Ozols, C. Fernandez, C. M. Autorino. The damping effect of cement as a potential mitigation factor of squeaking in ceramic-on-ceramic total hip arthroplasty. Bone Joint Res 2016;5:531–537. DOI: 10.1302/2046-3758.511.BJR-2016-0058.R1.
New approaches to Spanish anarchism
Authors: Evans Danny , Yeoman James Michael
Published: November 2016

This article introduces the themes of this special edition, presenting the case that the history of Spanish anarchism needs to be situated within a broader, international history of the left. This view helps to disrupt the image of anarchism as ‘exceptional’, without losing sight of its specific manifestation in Spain. It proceeds to outline the five articles that make up the remainder of the edition.
Reviews
Authors: Amestoy Susana Domingo , Pinheiro Teresa , Rhodes Elizabeth
Published: November 2016

ENCRUCIJADAS GLOBALES: REDEFINIR ESPAÑA EN EL SIGLO XXI, JOSE COLMEIRO (ED.) (2015) Madrid: Iberoamericana; Frankfurt: Vervuert, 365 pp., Col. (La Casa de La Riqueza. Estudios de la Cultura de España, 31), ISBN: 9788484898795 (Iberoamericana), ISBN: 9783954874187 (Vervuert), p/bk, €24.00

SPANISH-ISRAELI RELATIONS, 1956–1992: GHOSTS OF THE PAST AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST, GUY SETTON (2016) Brighton and Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 270 pp., ISBN: 9781845197568, h/bk, £65.00/$74.95

PODER Y ESCRITURA FEMENINA EN TIEMPOS DEL CONDE-DUQUE DE OLIVARES (1621–1643). EL DESAFÍO RELIGIOSO DE TERESA VALLE, LAURA S. MUÑOZ PÉREZ (2015) London: Tamesis, 244 pp., ISBN 9781855662872, h/bk, $99
Remapping the worldview of fashion
Authors: Rabine Leslie W.
Published: November 2016

This ethnographic study of streetwear designers in Dakar, Senegal explores the way that five artist/designers create images of maps and relate them to concepts of ‘identity’ far different from those in western fashion discourse. The designers recode these and other concepts into a Wolof signifying system. They connect ‘identity’ and ‘tradition’ to Wolof cultural values like ‘thiossane’ and ‘askan,’ words which do not translate directly into European languages. With such words and images, the streetwear designers invite us to question basic concepts in western fashion studies, to doubt if we can apply these universally. In this article, the term fashion map has two intertwined meanings. First, it refers to the standard schema of ‘world fashion cities’. Second, artistic map images are also fashion statements. As the Dakar designers create map images that express their cultural concerns, they also redraw this standard world fashion map.
Fashion criticism unravelled: A sociological critique of criticism in fashion media
Authors: Titton Monica
Published: November 2016

The starting point for this article is the observation that in fashion there is no established form of criticism comparable to the art system or the literary system. The intent of this article is to provide a critical sociological analysis of the relationship between the fashion industry and fashion media and to trace the limits imposed on fashion criticism by this mutual structural-economic-dependency. The article examines the socio-economic and cultural ties between the fashion industry and fashion media since the nineteenth century to the present and investigates the consequences of these ties for the development and limits of criticism in fashion journalism. The article discusses the emergence of a discourse of normative constraint in digital media and argues that the advent of digital fashion media led to an intensification of the economic limitations to fashion criticism. By analysing the conditions and limitations of criticism in the realm of fashion journalism, the article brings the literature on fashion media into conversation with critical theory and the sociology of critique.
The issue of identity: From urban tribes to political consumerism to sharing fashion
Authors: Bovone Laura
Published: November 2016

Identity is acquiring a new importance in fashion studies that goes beyond the sphere of personal consumption. The aestheticizing climate of postmodernity has justified consumer activity in the name of a flexible identity, while clothing has been confirmed as an aesthetic resource for self-presentation. Some young consumers – the so-called urban tribes – have made their mask a flag, creating peculiar ways of dressing during leisure time. For particular cultural minorities, a true political antagonism is at stake and the flag stands for a declaration of an open will to emancipate from the dominant culture.

Increasing consumers’ awareness of fashion-sustainability problems and their expectations towards the production system have led to the necessity of considering together the different actors in the fashion chain. In fact, the reflexive identities of late modernity are concerned dialectically with the construction of a social imaginary that does not exclusively pertain to consumers or producers; nor does it concern the mere aesthetic enrichment of the image, but rather the complex arena where meanings are built. In this same frame, a very recent variation of responsible fashion aims at reducing the distance between production and consumption in view of a sharing of practices, technologies and products. The ethical dimension of fashion widens to include values that transcend individual self-presentation to encompass images of collective identities and convivial communities.
Book Reviews
Authors: Leshkowich Ann Marie , Cole Shaun , Luvaas Brent , Lynge-Jorlén Ane
Published: November 2016

MUSLIM FASHION: CONTEMPORARY STYLE CULTURES, REINA LEWIS (2015, FIRST EDITION) Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 400 pp., ISBN: 9780822359142, Hardback, US $99.95; ISBN: 9780822359340, Paperback, US $28.95

ARRESTING DRESS: CROSS-DRESSING, LAW, AND FASCINATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY SAN FRANCISCO, CLARE SEARS (2015, FIRST EDITION) Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 202 pp., ISBN: 9780822357544, Hardback, US $79.95, ISBN: 9780822357582, Paperback, US $22.95

ASIANS WEAR CLOTHES ON THE INTERNET: RACE, GENDER AND THE WORK OF PERSONAL STYLE BLOGGING, MINH-HA T. PHAM (2015, FIRST EDITION) Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 272 pp., ISBN: 9780822360155, Hardback, US $89.95, ISBN: 9780822360308, Paperback, US $24.95

THIS YEAR’S MODEL: FASHION, MEDIA, AND THE MAKING OF GLAMOUR, ELIZABETH WISSINGER (2015, FIRST EDITION) New York and London: New York University Press, 352 pp., ISBN: 9781479864775, Paperback, US $28.00
The Resonance 107.3 FM radio art collection: Towards an archive methodology of radio as resonance
Authors: Nielsen Katrine Pram , Kreutzfeldt Jacob
Published: November 2016

This article investigates the collection of Resonance 107.3 FM, which has recently become digitally accessible for research at the British Library Sound Archive. Documenting the full extent of a 28-day event by the London Musicians Collective (LMC) in 1998, the collection offers unique insight into early British community radio and practises of radio art. Based on research in the British Library Sound Archive, as well as on interviews with archivists and broadcasters, the article presents the collection and discusses its significance as an experiment in the aesthetic, social and political implications of radiophonic mediation. Building on Anna Friz’s idea of radio as resonance, the study develops an approach to the archive not as a collection of programme objects but as sonic articulations of past resonant situations. This introduces a method in archival work open to the resonances of these situations found in metadata as well as in memories and texts. Applying this method of recalling, describing and reflecting to three examples of live experimentation from the Resonance 107.3 FM collection, this article illustrates that archives of minor media and practises in community and art radio are valuable resources for reimagining contemporary and future media practices.
Talk vs chat-based radio: A case for distinction
Authors: Ames Kate
Published: November 2016

This article considers the differences between talk radio and chat-based radio as specific genres of radio programming in an attempt to address the very broad use of the term ‘talk/talkback’ radio in radio research. Chat-based programming is a term devised by Tolson in relation to television, but this article argues that the definition as applied to television is relevant to radio, particularly in a contemporary media environment where media boundaries are increasingly blurred. It examines the key concepts that define ‘chat-based’ programming as they apply to radio, which are an orientation to personal topics, the use of humour, and potential for transgression. The format is increasingly popular, particularly on commercial radio. This article investigates three key questions: (1) Is there a difference between chat-based and talk radio programming?; (2) Why does genre matter in radio studies?; and (3) What are the implications for defining an alternative genre of talk? It argues that talk radio and chat-based radio are distinct formats, but that chat-based programming can and does incorporate issue-based ‘segments’ to engage listeners. In arguing for the distinction, this article lays some foundations and raises questions for consideration in future analyses of radio talk.
New guide to Mexico: Teaching about Mexican art in the 1930s and 1940s
Authors: Garber Elizabeth
Published: November 2016

Social, economic and political reforms following the Revolution of 1910 in Mexico made the first part of the twentieth century a period when Europeans, North Americans and other people paid particular attention to Mexican Art. Coverage of Mexico in The School Arts Magazine from the 1930s and 1940s centred on folk craft and rural and Indigenous populations. This stemmed in part from the postrevolutionary concept of Mexicanidad, the movement to develop a national identity based on the Indigenous roots of the country rather than its colonial past, but is also argued to have derived from the idea of Mexico in the US imagination in which the country is associated with quaintness, backwardness and the exotic and romantic.
Memories of art education in West Germany before and after 1945: My mother’s experience
Authors: Jagtiani Jesse
Published: November 2016

The art education movement in Germany before 1933 exerted a crucial influence on various areas of school education within the framework of progressive education. Drawing and painting were geared to the forms of experience typical of the stages of childhood development. Moreover, the emphasis on the fine arts became a principle of education in general. However, the Nazis’ education policy abused art education just as it abused many other fields by subordinating these to the fundamentals of National Socialist ideology. Consequently, the educational policy of the 1920s was revived and refined under the term art education in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1945. The revival of this form of art education was a challenging experience for the researcher’s mother, Ursula Jagtiani, who was born in 1937 during the period of National Socialism. Employing oral history as a method, guided by Jagtiani’s memories, this article draws connections between Jagtiani’s childhood experience of art education as a female student, the practice of her art education instructor Otto Holz, and the historical proceedings in West Germany before and after 1945.
Irène Senécal and Moniques Richard as agents of change in art education in francophone Quebec (1940–2015): From drawing to multimodality
Authors: Lemerise Suzanne , Richard Moniques
Published: November 2016

This article focuses on the roles of two agents of change, Irène Senécal and Moniques Richard, in francophone Quebec between 1940 and 2015. During these decades, modernist and postmodernist art education replaced traditional drawing education. Our goal is to examine how these leaders succeeded in bringing changes to the school milieu and to the internal dynamics of the disciplinary field of art education. Through case studies, we raise a number of points about these agents, concerning their backgrounds, their located educational actions, their theoretical affiliations, their network of influence, and the cultural and social context of the period. We use the concept of the agent of change as an innovative and distributed leadership, and the metaphor of turbulence to situate the innovations in relation to important changes in Quebec’s school programmes and to better understand the turmoil that characterizes these changes. Senécal took part in the child-centred paradigm shift in the 1950s and introduced a modernist approach based on the principles of design in the 1960s while Richard contributed to an in-depth questioning of the limits of modernism in the 1990s, which led to an understanding of youth culture in the 2000s and a multimodal approach in the 2010s. Their paths lead in different ways to changes in the schools through rich networks of collaboration, creating turbulences between paces of stability and innovation.
Ziegfeld and Marantz: Advocating for culturally inclusive art education
Authors: Manifold Marjorie Cohee
Published: November 2016

Edwin Ziegfeld’s (1905–1987) beliefs – that culturally inclusive art education fosters tolerance, appreciation, and mutual respect among diverse peoples – were influenced by his experiences prior to and during WWII. Circumstances during the war situated Ziegfeld in the unique position of working with international art educators to bring about and serve as first president of InSEA (International Society of Education through Art). Members of InSEA educate youth to respect their own cultural experiences, while appreciating the diverse cultural expressions of Others throughout the world. Kenneth Marantz (1927–2015) shared Ziegfeld’s vision. Yet, his concern that imposing the arts and art educational practices of a powerful mainstream society on less empowered groups within the United States marginalized the personhood and unique aesthetic contributions of people from less visible groups led him to found and serve as first president of the USSEA (United States Society for Education through Art). The ideals of these educators and societies have implications for art education today.
Ingreso y aportes de músicos locales a la temprana radiodifusión sanjuanina
Authors: Musri Fátima G.
Published: November 2016

En el contexto de la entrada de la industria cul-tural en Argentina, la radiodifusión ejerció una gradual y poderosa acción sobre las prácticas musicales. En esta ocasión propongo revisar la incidencia que la radio produjo en solistas y gru-pos de músicos de San Juan, desde la aparición de las primeras experiencias privadas alrededor de 1924 y hasta el 15 de enero de 1944, día del fatídico terremoto que derrumbó la ciudad capital e interrumpió su normalidad cotidiana.
La Orquesta Típica “Florida”
Authors: Pitich Mauricio A.
Published: November 2016

Este artículo explora la trayectoria de la Orques- ta Típica “Florida”. Esta se inicia a mediados de  la década de 1940 (ca.1946–1948), toma el  nombre del lugar en el que actúa regularmente  (bar “Florida”). Mantiene un desempeño inin- terrumpido durante veintiséis años hasta su  desintegración en 1974. Interpreta e imita a la  Orquesta Típica de Juan D'Arienzo.
Interrelaciones entre música y literatura: Bach · Cortázar · Zimmerman
Authors: Geromet Lautaro Díaz
Published: November 2016

El presente trabajo intenta establecer de qué  manera se vinculan una serie de obras litera- rias y obras musicales. Las obras que decidi- mos inscribir en esta sucesión obra musical–li- teraria–musical son: la  Ofrenda Musical (1747)  de Johann Sebastian Bach 1, el cuento «Clone»2 (1980) de Julio Cortázar3  y la ópera de cámara  Clone (2007) de Antonio Zimmerman4 . Intentaremos entonces, reconstruir las fuentes  musicales y literarias que a lo largo de aproxi- madamente doscientos sesenta años fueron  transformándose en insumos para la creación  de otras obras.
Las Matemáticas en Metástasis de Xenakis
Authors: Martinez Edgardo
Published: November 2016

La integración en Xenakis, en gran medida, es  consecuencia de ideas que surgen de un so- lo espíritu y no de varios.  Xenakis maneja los  lenguajes y técnicas tanto de la música co- mo de la arquitectura y por su formación pro- fesional, también los de las matemáticas. Esta  singularidad le permite conocer, desde dentro,  una serie de principios y procedimientos que  pueden considerarse comunes. Así se produ- cen, traslaciones de un campo al otro y vice- versa. METÁSTASIS, es un ejemplo de ello. Las  dos secciones exteriores de la obra, son uno  de los primeros ejemplos históricos de com- posición con masas sonoras. Están resuel- tos, no a través de los procesos de la corrien- te compositiva contemporánea a la obra, sino  a través de recursos tomados de la geometría  completamente ajenos a la teoría musical. La  sección central, por el contrario tiene puestos  un pié en cada columna. Por un lado es una  extensión de las teorías multiseriales, apren- didas de Messiaen, pero trabajadas con con- ceptos de permutación y combinatoria traídos  desde las matemáticas. El presente trabajo in- vestiga en detalle estos recursos.
La revancha de Chunga y Pa’ Bailar
Authors: Greco María Emilia
Published: November 2016

¿Qué es un remix musical? Si lo definimos si- guiendo a E. Navas (2010, p. 159) como «la reinterpretación de una canción preexistente donde el “aura” del original es dominante» ¿qué diferencia existe entre un remix, una ver- sión y un cover? ¿De qué manera un remix puede interpelar a un oyente que no recono- ce al «original» del cual deriva? Estos son algu- nos de los interrogantes que motivan este tra- bajo. Se propone considerar al estilo musica como una variante determinante en el análisis de un remix. Sin embargo, la propuesta impli- ca una definición de estilo, categoría muy de- batida en el campo de los estudios musicales y musicológicos pero también desde los apor- tes de la semiótica y los estudios de cognición Se revisan entonces algunas propuestas teóri- cas para su estudio. La reflexión teórica sobre el remix y el estilo musical, se combinan con el análisis de dos casos particulares del tango electrónico: «Chunga’s Revenge» grabado po primera vez en el año 1970 por Frank Zappa versionado en el 2001 por Gotan Project y re- mixado por Axel Krygier en el 2010; y el single «Pa’ bailar» (2007) del grupo Bajofondo y sus cinco composiciones, entre las que se inclu- yen versiones y remixes.
Determination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Textiles by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
Authors: Li Xueyang , Yang Yongchao , Yang Xue , Li Jing , Li Shufen , Tang Shaokun
Published: November 2016

A sensitive and fast method using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis was developed for simultaneous determination of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in functional textile samples. The method under optimized conditions exhibited good linearity with linear correlation coefficients between 0.9930 and 0.9999, with maximum recoveries within 74.0∼99.0%, and with relative standard deviation (RSD) of 0.89 to 4.94%. Quantitation and detection limits ranged from 1.3 to 12.2 üg/L and 0.4 to 3.8 üg/L, respectively. These values were less than the limits of two relative standards (Oeko-Tex Standard 100 and ZEK 01.2-08). When applied to coated denim fabric and waterproof tarpaulins, results showed that PAH concentrations in waterproof tarpaulins were greater than the limits of the two relative standards.
Hydrogen Peroxide/UV Irradiation as a Bleaching Process for Soybean Fabric
Authors: Perincek Seher , Duran Kerim
Published: November 2016

The bleaching of greige soybean knitted fabric using ultraviolet (UV) irradiation on hydrogen peroxide impregnated samples was studied. The effect of many variables on the samples’ whiteness, lightness, wettability, hydrophilic properties, cystine content, surface examination, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) properties was investigated. The UV/H2O2 bleaching process was optimized using a Box-Behnken experimental design and three optimal recipes were achieved. A novel bleaching process for greige soybean knitted fabric, which consists of sample impregnation in various peroxide baths, followed by UV irradiation, was developed. The improvement in whiteness of greige soybean samples, not easily bleached by conventional bleaching processes, was obtained within minutes, improving processing time and providing energy savings.
Improvement of Ecofriendly and Antibacterial Behaviors on Blended Knit Fabrics
Authors: Alay Emel , Duran Kerim , Körlü Ayşegül
Published: November 2016

Yarns (30/1 Ne) consisting of four different fibers were produced in different blends and knitted into single jersey fabrics. Antibacterial properties, water retention capacity, hydrophilicity, whiteness, and yellowness values of these fabrics were tested. Chitosan or lyocell fibers were added in mixtures, increasing the antibacterial activity, hydrophilicity, and water retention capacity of the resulting fabrics. Whiteness values of knitted fabrics produced from poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and lyocell fibers were quite high. Water retention capacity and hydrophilicity of these fabrics were better when compared to fabrics that included greige cotton fibers.
Marginal dietary zinc deprivation augments sepsis‐induced alterations in skeletal muscle TNF‐α but not protein synthesis
Authors: Crowell Kristen T. , Kelleher Shannon L. , Soybel David I. , Lang Charles H.
Published: November 2016

Severe zinc deficiency is associated with an increased systemic inflammatory response and mortality after sepsis. However, the impact of mild zinc deficiency, which is more common in populations with chronic illnesses and sepsis, is unknown. In this study, we hypothesized that marginal dietary Zn deprivation (ZM) would amplify tissue inflammation and exacerbate the sepsis‐induced decrease in muscle protein synthesis. Adult male C57BL/6 mice were fed a zinc‐adequate (ZA) or ZM diet (30 or 10 mg Zn/kg, respectively) over 4 weeks, peritonitis was induced by cecal ligation and puncture (CLP), and mice were examined at either 24 h (acute) or 5 days (chronic) post‐CLP. Acute sepsis decreased the in vivo rate of skeletal muscle protein synthesis and the phosphorylation of the mTOR substrate 4E‐BP1. Acutely, sepsis increased TNF‐α and IL‐6 mRNA in muscle, and the increase in TNF‐α was significantly greater in ZM mice. However, muscle protein synthesis and 4E‐BP1 phosphorylation returned to baseline 5 days post‐CLP in both ZA and ZM mice. Protein degradation via markers of the ubiquitin proteasome pathway was increased in acute sepsis, yet only MuRF1 mRNA was increased in chronic sepsis and ZM amplified this elevation. Our data suggest that mild zinc deficiency increases TNF‐α in muscle acutely after sepsis but does not significantly modulate the rate of muscle protein synthesis.
The weighted reverse poincaré type inequality for the difference of two parabolic subsolutions
Authors: Saleem Muhammad Shoaib , Shashiashvili Kakha , Shashiashvili Malkhaz
Published: November 2016

A new type weighted reverse Poincaré inequality is established for a difference of two continuous weak parabolic subsolutions of a linear second order uniformly parabolic partial differential equation with constant coefficients in the cylindrical domain.

This inequality asserts that if two continuous weak parabolic subsolutions are close in the uniform norm, then their gradients are close in the weighted L
2 norm.
On Catharsis, Conflict and the Coherence of Nietzsche’s Agonism
Authors: Pearson James
Published: November 2016

On the one hand, in CV 3 (Der griechische Staat) Nietzsche affirms physically destructive conflict as a means to cathartically discharging an immutably destructive drive underlying human nature; on the other hand, in CV 5 (Homer’s Wettkampf) and MA (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches), he criticises such conflict and promotes its transformation into productive, agonistic modes of contest. I first argue that, in a manner hitherto unappreciated, the possibility of transformation presupposed by CV 5 and MA, and indeed by agonistic readings of Nietzsche in general, is contradicted by the ontology of destructive conflict presented in CV 3. I continue by arguing that the problematic conception of destructive conflict found in CV 3 is based on the influence of Schopenhauer’s metaphysics, which Nietzsche wholeheartedly rejects by MA. However, I conclude that in the 1880s, when Nietzsche turns to the discharge theory of Robert Mayer, we find an ontology of destructive conflict that is fully compatible with his agonistic project.
Naturalizing Perspectives. On the Epistemology of Nietzsche’s Experimental Naturalizations
Authors: Heit Helmut
Published: November 2016

This paper argues that Nietzsche indeed pursues a philosophical project of naturalization. But that neither implies the uncritical adoption of naturalistic doctrines nor that he employs ontological or methodological naturalism in a strict sense of the word. To this end I not only dwell upon the extensive terminological difficulties for any non-empty definition of ‘naturalism’ but also on Nietzsche’s well justified reservations against clear defined doctrines. His naturalizing philosophical experiments cannot be understood without an appreciation of his critical epistemic attitude towards the sciences. A contextual reading of the naturalizing and the critical epistemological aphorisms in the first book of Beyond Good and Evil rather reveals that Nietzsche experimentally adopts naturalizing perspectives for abductive reasons without ascribing a privileged position to the natural sciences above philosophy. Nietzsche’s project of naturalization is perspectival.
Der Dialog als philosophische Form bei Nietzsche
Authors: Zittel Claus
Published: November 2016

Unter den verschiedenen Formen der philosophischen Schrift­stellerei Nietzsches finden sich überraschend viele Dialoge, deren Form und Funk­tion bislang kaum untersucht wurden. Der Beitrag gibt einen ersten Überblick über Nietzsches Einsatz von Dialogen, analysiert ihre formalen Strukturen und zeigt einige ihrer philosophischen Implikationen auf. Viele Dialoge erweisen sich hierbei als erstaunlich modern, insofern sie traditionelle Erwartungen unterlaufen und gerade nicht darauf angelegt sind, Gesprächspartner zu überzeugen oder zu überreden. Auf dieser Basis werden auch Ansätze zu einer Philosophie des Gesprächs bei Nietzsche skizziert.
Nietzsches musikalisches Schreiben. Zum V. Buch der Fröhlichen Wissenschaft
Authors: Bloch Peter André
Published: November 2016

Anhand des V. Buchs der Fröhlichen Wissenschaft wird auf der Grundlage von Nietzsches literarischen und musikalisch-kompositorischen Kennt­nissen und Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten seinen Auseinandersetzungen mit den christ­lich geprägten Traditionen des Denkens seiner Zeit nachgegangen. Sie führen ihn kritisch über den engen Horizont geltender philosophischer Perspektiven und Wahr­nehmungsmöglichkeiten hinaus. In seiner metaphorischen Schreibweise greift er immer wieder auf biblische und kirchenmusikalische Ausdrucksmittel zurück und konfrontiert sie mit naturwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen einerseits, dionysischen Vorstellungen andererseits, stets in unbedingter Forderung nach der Freiheit wissen­schaftlicher und künstlerischer Arbeit.
Nietzsches Philosophie der Körperteile
Authors: Hennig Matthias
Published: November 2016

Nietzsches Postulat, den Menschen aus seiner leiblichen Beschaf­fenheit heraus zu verstehen, radikalisiert die sensualistische (Condillac) bzw. mate­rialistische (Feuerbach) Prämisse, dass der Körper die Matrix des Denkens bzw. des Seins bilde. Nietzsche ist weniger an einer allgemein systematisierenden Anthropolo­gie der Sinne als an einer konkreten Philosophie der jeweils einzeln und für sich agie­renden Körperteile gelegen; Zunge, Füße, Hände, Nase, Magen oder Ohr fungieren bei ihm als unabhängig operierende, selbstregulative und autopoietische Systeme, die anderen Körpersystemen wie dem Bewusstsein oft gar nicht transparent sind. Die notorische Eigenbewegtheit der wie Tentakel tastenden Sinnesorgane ist weder alo­gisch noch profosemantisch, vielmehr selbst schon semantisch; Körperteile wie Füße, Nase oder Zunge bilden ,Denkorgane‘, die in der ihnen eigenen Sphäre viel mehr Erfahrung vorweisen können als der Wille und das Bewusstsein, die sie vermeint­lich zu steuern meinen; mithin sind sie auch viel elaborierter und ausdifferenzierter in ihrem Tun. Die Empfindungs- und Einbildungskraft der einzelnen Körperteile, die über ein je eigenes Universum gebieten, ist trainierbar; Ziel von Nietzsches Philoso­phie ist es, dieses Körperwissen stetig zu verfeinern (Raffinement) und lebendig als ein Lebendiges zu bilden.
Nietzsche’s Naturalism Clarified?
Authors: Schacht Richard
Published: November 2016

“Nietzsche and naturalism” has rightly become a topic of great interest and considerable debate in recent years. Christian Emden, a German intellectual historian at Rice University (USA) and author of two previous books on aspects of Nietzsche’s thought, has made a useful contribution to consideration of this topic in his Nietzsche’s Naturalism (henceforth “NN”), by drawing attention to and exploring the intellectual context indicated in his subtitle: Philosophy and the Life Sciences in the Nineteenth Century. This is the context in which Nietzsche was operating as his “naturalizing” thinking was developing; and an awareness of it may well be helpful to the understanding of some of his positions and claims. But how completely is Nietzsche’s thinking embedded in that context? Emden’s accounts of “Nietzsche’s naturalism” as a philosophical position, and of its relation to the various strands within that context he identifies, are both problematic in important respects.
Das Gewissen des Tänzers. Seele, Leben, Weisheit, Wahrheit, Ewigkeit, Liebe und Tod in und um Zarathustras anderes Tanzlied
Authors: Skowron Michael
Published: November 2016

In Auseinandersetzung mit den beiden zuletzt zu Das andere Tanzlied in den Nietzsche-Studien erschienenen Beiträgen von Werner Stegmaier (2013) und Gabriel Zamosc (2015) entwickelt der Beitrag eine alternative Lesart, die den weiteren Kontext, in dem das Lied am Ende des dritten Teils von Also sprach Zara­thustra steht und zirkulär wieder an den Anfang des Werkes zurückführt, zum Aus­gangspunkt nimmt, um die drei Abschnitte desselben noch einmal neu zu interpretie­ren, zum einen in Beziehung auf Das Tanzlied des zweiten Teils, zum anderen auf das Gewissen als das unter der Perspektive des Lebens gesehene paradoxe Wissen, das dennoch niemand weiß und Zarathustra sowohl an sein Versprechen erinnert, eines freien und selbstbestimmten Todes „zur rechten Zeit“ zu sterben, als auch an seine Erfahrung der ewigen Wiederkunft, auf die im dritten Abschnitt des anderen Tanzlie­des angespielt wird, bevor sie im anschließenden Ja- und Amen-Lied ausdrücklich zur Sprache kommt. Neben dem weiblich personifizierten Seelen-Leben spielen auch die ebenso personifizierten Begriffe der Weisheit, Wahrheit und Ewigkeit, die nicht ohne Spannungen zueinander stehen, aber von Zarathustra nichtsdestoweniger geliebt werden, eine Rolle, wobei sowohl die Weisheit als auch das „Leier-Lied“ der Tiere Zarathustras in einem neuen Licht erscheinen. Die im abschließenden Ja- und Amen- Lied angesprochene Ewigkeit als das einzige „Weib“, mit dem er im „Ring der Wieder­kunft“ hochzeitlich vereint sein und von dem er Kinder möchte, schließt einen Kreis, dessen Mitte überall ist und sowohl an den Anfang des Werkes mit seiner Lehre vom Übermenschen als den .Kindern der Ewigkeit*, denen Zarathustras Sehnsucht gilt, zurückführt, als auch auf das Ende des Werkes im vierten Teil von Za vorausweist. Ich schließe mit einer Antwort auf die Frage, wer Nietzsches Zarathustra sei.
Trailing Nietzsche: Gershom Scholem and the Sabbatean Dialectics
Authors: Ohana David
Published: November 2016

Gershom Scholem, the most predominant scholar of Jewish Mysticism in our times, is highly known for his contribution to the field of Jewish history. But his intellectual origins lay in his adolescence, and in his heretical-philosophical criticism of the Judeo-Christian morality and the ideology of the German bourgeoisie. These early impressions and thoughts appeared in one of his first Hebrew articles, “Redemption Through Sin”, published in Palestine in 1937. Scholem’s discussion analyzed the “nihilistic revolution” of the Sabbataeans and Frankists in the seventeenth and eighteenth century in Europe, whose main feature was the rejection of the normative ethics of rabbinic Judaism. The hidden core of the young Scholem, his revolutionary thought, was followed by an early encounter with the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. The dream of young Scholem, as revealed by his diary, to write “Zarathustra for the Jews”, eventually came into being in an original adaptation. His great book Sabbatai Sevi (1957), can be read as a Nietzschean re-reading of “Redemption Through Sin”. The biography of Sabbatai Sevi as a Jewish Zarathustra may provide refreshing insights into the development of Scholem’s thought and an opportunity to challenge him through an analogical perspective.
Ionizing radiation: a versatile tool for nanostructuring of polymers
Authors: Güven Olgun
Published: November 2016

Very high energies of particulate (accelerated electrons, swift heavy ions) or electromagnetic wave (γ-, X-rays) radiation can be used to initiate free radical based reactions in solids, liquids or gases. Because of non-selectivity of absorption of X-rays, γ rays and accelerated electrons in matter free radicals are generated homogeneously in the bulk material. These free radicals on the polymers or monomers are used extensively in the synthesis and modification of polymeric materials. The unique properties of ionizing radiation make it a very useful tool in the top-down and bottom-up synthesis of nanomaterials. In this article the utilization of ionizing radiation in the form of swift heavy ions, accelerated electrons, X- and γ rays will be described for development of advanced materials by radiation-induced grafting in nanoscale, synthesis of polymeric nanoparticles, radiation-assisted synthesis of nanogels and nanocomposites. The properties difficult to be attained by other techniques will be described by giving examples for the cases of ion track-etched membranes, fuel cell membranes, sensors, detectors, cell culture media, polymer thin films embedded with metal nanoparticles, polymer/clay nanocomposites with a prospect for the future outlook.
Poetry as a Form of Knowledge
Authors: Martin Christian
Published: November 2016

Is poetry a topic for philosophical reflection? This paper seeks to argue that it is by exhibiting poetry as a form of knowledge. What the claim that poetry is a form of knowledge amounts to is that something can be knowledge in virtue of being poetical and poetical in virtue of being the (kind of) knowledge it is. Various kinds of skeptical doubt about this claim are considered. It is argued that such doubts are based on distorting pictures of poetry. Two strategies to justify the claim that poetry is a form of knowledge shall be explored. The first strategy is a broadly Wittgensteinian one, relying on grammatical reminders. The second strategy is a broadly Hegelian one, exhibiting poetry as a form of knowledge by showing that the concepts of two other forms of knowledge – practical and second-person knowledge – due to internal incoherences, point beyond themselves towards the concept of poetry.
A time-of-flight revising approach to improve the image quality of Lamb wave tomography for the detection of defects in composite panels
Authors: Chen Liang , Xiao Qiang , Liang Wei , Hong Jingxian , Zou Xingjiang
Published: November 2016

Lamb wave tomography can be used to evaluate structural integrity. The time-of-flight (TOF) data are usually recorded as input to the reconstruction algorithm. For composite materials, TOF estimation is complicated due to their anisotropy. To reduce the effects of anisotropy on image reconstruction, the TOF data of flawed plates are revised according to baseline data obtained from an unflawed plate. Tomographic images are reconstructed using the original and revised TOF data, respectively. Results show that images reconstructed using the revised TOF data have better visual quality and that TOF data revision can substantially reduce the artifacts resulting from anisotropy in defect detection of composite materials.
Interfacing with Neural Activity via Femtosecond Laser Stimulation of Drug-Encapsulating Liposomal Nanostructures
Authors: Nakano Takashi , Mackay Sean M. , Wui Tan Eng , Dani Keshav M. , Wickens Jeff
Published: November 2016

External control over rapid and precise release of chemicals in the brain potentially provides a powerful interface with neural activity. Optical manipulation techniques, such as optogenetics and caged compounds, enable remote control of neural activity and behavior with fine spatiotemporal resolution. However, these methods are limited to chemicals that are naturally present in the brain or chemically suitable for caging. Here, we demonstrate the ability to interface with neural functioning via a wide range of neurochemicals released by stimulating loaded liposomal nanostructures with femtosecond lasers. Using a commercial two-photon microscope, we released inhibitory or excitatory neurochemicals to evoke subthreshold and suprathreshold changes in membrane potential in a live mouse brain slice. The responses were repeatable and could be controlled by adjusting laser stimulation characteristics. We also demonstrate the release of a wider range of chemicals—which previously were impossible to release by optogenetics or uncaging—including synthetic analogs of naturally occurring neurochemicals. In particular, we demonstrate the release of a synthetic receptor-specific agonist that exerts physiological effects on long-term synaptic plasticity. Further, we show that the loaded liposomal nanostructures remain functional for weeks in a live mouse. In conclusion, we demonstrate new techniques capable of interfacing with live neurons, and extendable toin vivoapplications.
Fellow Travelers and Traveling Fellows
Authors: Barany Michael J.
Published: November 2016

The geographic reach and international integration of modern mathematics expanded dramatically in the wake of the Second World War. I examine the political and logistical achievement of intercontinental mathematics in this period by following the travels of José Luis Massera of Uruguay, Leopoldo Nachbin of Brazil, and Laurent Schwartz of France. The interlocking efforts of mathematicians and bureaucrats in universities, governments, philanthropies, and new postwar formations like the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to build mathematical institutions in Latin America operated with partial information, competing prerogatives, and costly exchanges of materials and personnel, each of which reflected the shifting economic and political constraints of the global Cold War. Drawing primarily on fellowship files and institutional archives, I situate these undertakings in the mechanics and ideals of twentieth-century scientific colonialism, development, and modernization. I explain how the seemingly nontechnical bases for such exchanges related to the specific mathematics being taught and researched by accounting for the particular success of Schwartz’s theory of distributions in Latin America, which owed both to circumstantial coincidences and to a mixture of several of the theory’s superficial, technical, and conceptual features. My analysis stresses the complex, ambivalent, but nonetheless consequential personal and institutional negotiations underwriting midcentury intercontinental mathematics while pointing to the importance of such phenomena for explaining the form and effects of the period’s broader array of global scientific exchanges.
Aplicação do Valor de Base da Frequência Fundamental Via Estatística MVKD em Comparação Forense de Locutor
Authors: Silva Ronaldo Rodrigues da , Costa João Paulo Carvalho Lustosa da , Miranda Ricardo Kehrle , Galdo Giovanni Del
Published: November 2016

Comparação forense de locutor (CFL) é um exame de determinação de fonte no qual são comparadas amostras de fala de origem conhecida, provenientes de um suspeito, com amostras de fala presentes em um ou mais áudios questionados, cuja autoria se deseja determinar, produzindo uma prova pericial que pode reforçar ou se contrapor à hipótese de que o suspeito é o autor da fala questionada. Em levantamento realizado em 2011 por pesquisadores da Universidade de York entre peritos de treze países, incluindo o Brasil, a metodologia mais usada nos exames de CFL se baseava em análises perceptuais e acústicas. Entre as medidas acústicas, a Frequência Fundamental (F0) era utilizada por quase 70 % dos entrevistados. F0 possui características importantes para a área forense, como a robustez em áudios de baixa qualidade e, em medidas de longo termo, a independência do conteúdo das falas. Conforme estudos recentes, a medida estatística valor de base de F0 é menos afetado pelo estilo e conteúdo da fala, pelo canal utilizado na gravação e exige menor quantidade de áudio para obter uma medida estável, comparada às medidas de F0 comumente utilizadas, entre elas, a média aritmética e o desvio padrão. Neste trabalho é analisado o poder discriminante do valor de base de F0 aplicado ao Corpus Forense do Português Brasileiro (CFPB), obtendo-se uma Taxa de Erro Igual, do inglês Equal Error Rate (EER) 5,9 % melhor que o segundo parâmetro mais discriminativo, a média aritmética. A combinação do valor de base de F0 a outras medidas de longo termo de F0 por meio da estatística de densidade do núcleo de multivariáveis, do inglês Multivariate Kernel-Density (MVKD), resultou, em todas as simulações, em ganho de poder discriminativo, sendo a combinação entre as medidas do valor de base com a mediana de F0 aquela que obteve o melhor resultado, com uma EER de 13 %, superando valores relatados em pesquisas recentes. Os resultados obtidos demonstram que o valor de base de F0 é o melhor parâmetro a ser utilizado em análises de F0.
KORUPCIJOS KRIMINALIZACIJA: FILOSOFINIAI IR TEISINIAI ASPEKTAI
Authors: Čepas Algimantas , Dobryninas Aleksandras
Published: November 2016

Straipsnyje aptariami filosofiniai, istoriniai ir socialiniai korupcijos aspektai. Autoriai tiria, kaip korupciją suvokia skirtingos baudžiamojo teisingumo paradigmos – klasikinė, pozityvistinė ir konstrukcionistinė, kuriose korupcija atitinkamai interpretuojama kaip yda ir nuodėmė, blogas elgesys arba konfliktas tarp viešojo ir privataus intereso. Straipsnyje pateikiama analizė leidžia formuluoti išvadą, kad korupcijos kriminalizacija turi savo teisinę logiką ir yra priklausoma nuo konkretaus socialinio bei kultūrinio konteksto, todėl negali būti laikoma universaliu viešųjų ir privačių interesų konfliktų sprendimo įrankiu.
ONTOLOGINIS KALBOS MATMUO H. G. GADAMERIO HERMENEUTIKOJE
Authors: Laurukhin Andrei
Published: November 2016

Ontologinis kalbos matmuo H. G. Gadamerio hermeneutikoje Santrauka. Straipsnyje analizuojama kalbos, supratimo ir būties santykio problema Hanso Georgo Gadamerio hermeneutikoje. Tyrimas sutelktas į Gadamerio ambivalentišką tezę, kad „būtis, kuri gali būti suprasta, yra kalba“. Autorius atskleidžia fundamentaliai ontologinį Gadamerio hermeneutinės kalbos analizės kontekstą bei kritiškai permąsto šios tezės interpretaciją, kurią pateikia žymus tyrinėtojas Jeanas Grondinas.
POKALBIS SU KANTU TĘSIASI
Authors: Noreikaitė Aistė
Published: November 2016

Jūratė Baranova. XX amžiaus moralės filosofija: pokalbis su Kantu.Vilnius: Lietuvos edukologijos universiteto leidykla, 2015. 418 p.ISBN 978-609-471-025-4
Eva en el Paraíso: La construcción y representación del cuerpo femenino en la playa como espacio turístico en Costa Rica
Authors: Barboza Núñez Esteban
Published: November 2016

El artículo analiza la representación del cuerpo femenino como destino turístico, en la promoción de las playas en Costa Rica. Se hace un esbozo del estatus de la figura femenina en el imaginario androcéntrico occidental, desde sus raíces judeocristianas y de pensamiento clásico, hasta el advenimiento de la modernidad. Se reseñan postulados acerca del estatus del cuerpo femenino y la forma en que se construye en las representaciones gráficas; se parte de que la manera en que el cuerpo femenino es representado en la publicidad, enfocada a atraer turistas a la playa, le genera una doble otredad. La primera como mujer, cuyo físico es controlado por un imaginario androcéntrico que lo usa cual Eva-sirena, que tienta y atrae al posible visitante.  La segunda como elemento que recrea una fantasía de exploración colonial de una playa prístina y “virginal”, y que la aleja de la modernidad racional cartesiana, en la cual la mente se impone a un cuerpo que debe ser controlado y domesticado por la razón.
Pico e’ lapa: Filosofía de una ironía trágica. Una relectura aristotélica
Authors: Solano Fallas Andrés
Published: November 2016

En este artículo se realiza una relectura aristotélica sobre cuatro temas que, enmarcados en el concepto de ironía, aparecen en la novela costarricense Los Hijos del Diablo. Pico e’ Lapa, el último de Minor Herrera-Valenciano. Se define qué es ironía de acuerdo con Aristóteles y posteriormente se analizan los temas seleccionados como ejemplos de esta figura, estos son: la decisión de un padre, perder el miedo, sobre las amistades peligrosas y la ley del silencio (justicia). Cada uno responde a asuntos propiamente de la Ética a Nicómaco (la decisión, el miedo, la amistad, la justicia); en lugar de tratarlos individualmente, se les engloba como ejemplos irónicos de la vida de Pico e’ Lapa.
Detrás del trono (Un viaje filosófico por el pecado, el delito y la culpa)
Authors: Gurdián Fernández Alicia
Published: November 2016

Alicia Gurdián comenta la obra de Ana Lucía Fonseca Jiménez Detrás del trono (Un viaje filosófico por el pecado, el delito y la culpa).
Pocas palabras sobre Cuentos de pocas palabras
Authors: Herrera Ávila Tatiana
Published: November 2016

Cuentos de pocas palabras, título más que elocuente del nuevo libro de Cavallini, posee la estructura narrativa del microcuento y se inserta en la corriente de inclusividad y de apoyo a las personas con discapacidad.