bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Les variétés de la performance du genre
Authors: Jackson Shannon
Published: July 2019

Du 12 au 14 décembre 2013 à Paris, Elizabeth Claire, historienne de la danse au Centre de recherches historiques (CNRS), Catherine Deutsch, historienne de la musique à Paris-Sorbonne, et Raphaëlle Doyon, historienne du théâtre à l’Université Paris 8, ont organisé un colloque international intitulé « Genre et création dans l’histoire des arts vivants ». Des chercheuses américaines reconnues pour leurs travaux sur le genre avaient chacune donné une conférence en session plénière : Lynn Garafola pour la danse, Suzanne Cusik pour la musique, et Shannon Jackson pour le théâtre et la performance.
Performer l’intersectionnalité à la fin du xxe siècle : Carmelita Tropicana, une lesbienne cubano-américaine au cœur du Village newyorkais
Authors: Lemoine Xavier
Published: July 2019

Carmelita Tropicana, l’alter ego de l’artiste cubano-américaine Alina Troyano fait irruption sur la scène newyorkaise au début des années 1980 et invente une poétique et une politique intersectionnelle. En recyclant les débats politiques et artistiques des années 1960 et 1970, Troyano crée une esthétique camp latina lesbienne à travers ses performances solo et ses pièces Memorias de la Revolución/Memories of the Revolution (1986/7), Milk of Amnesia (1995) et Chicas 2000 (1998). Elle développe son propre univers parodique grâce à sa persona hybride, pour mieux tourner en ridicule toutes les prétentions identitaires ou esthétiques fausses ou figées. En incarnant le « trouble queer » des lesbiennes de couleur, elle expose la complexité de l’histoire cubano-américaines et les contradictions qui animent la société américaine contemporaine. Sa stratégie intersectionnelle devient un style unique (camp queer) et offre une résistance personnelle, subjective mais aussi collective aux dérives qui enferment les individus et les sociétés dans des imaginaires standardisés et commerciaux.
Trois œuvres dérivées, trois portraits plasticiens avec Denis D’Arcangelo et son double théâtral, Mme Raymonde
Authors: Alexandre Lorraine
Published: July 2019

Personnage créé en 1988 par Denis D’Arcangelo, Philippe Bilheur et Arletty, Mme Raymonde fut d’abord héroïne de théâtre de rue. Elle propose depuis 2001 des tours de chants articulant théâtre, chanson et référence au cinéma. Les séries photographiques en trois parties de Lorraine Alexandre sont ici analysées : La galerie de portraits éclectiques évoque la place des femmes au théâtre et l’ambiguïté de la perception du personnage de Mme Raymonde par le public ; Denis/Raymonde représente la métamorphose du comédien dans la peau de son clown et montre les coulisses d’une création théâtrale et les enjeux qu’elle soulève par l’inversion de genre ; Le portrait affleurant de Mme Raymonde marque le processus de projection identification cher à Morin et les jeux d’intertextualité où les arts se rencontrent et s’associent. Ces photographies performatives, images construites et mises en scène, enrichissent la démarche du personnage de Denis D’Arcangelo, Mme Raymonde, qui devient sujet d’une création plasticienne.
Angélica Liddell sur la scène française : des limites d’une transgression « féminine »
Authors: Caillon Ulysse
Published: July 2019

L’autrice et metteuse en scène espagnole, Angélica Liddell, a acquis une très forte visibilité sur la scène française ces dernières années. À partir de l’étude de trois de ses spectacles, cet article observe d’abord dans quelle mesure la parole y est donnée aux femmes, notamment autour des violences de genre. Il s’intéresse ensuite à la subversion des normes de genre en rapprochant les images des spectacles de Liddell d’une esthétique queer et en s’interrogeant sur le traitement de la sexualité et de la violence. Enfin, il montre, en s’appuyant sur la réception de la presse et sur le discours de l’artiste qui rejette le féminisme, les limites de la transgression des normes de genre dans ces spectacles. Son travail est alors envisagé comme réactivation d’une vision normée du féminin, à travers un discours sur l’amour et la douceur et un réinvestissement ambigu de la figure de l’hystérie.
Des costumiers aux costumières. Processus et conséquences d’une féminisation du secteur professionnel
Authors: Viémont Gaëlle
Published: July 2019

La terminologie de costumier est aujourd’hui vécue par les professionnels comme impropre à définir les différentes fonctions qu’ils exercent, alors même qu’ils demeurent attachés à ce vocable tant il situe leurs activités au sein des arts scéniques. Le problème langagier est si présent que le secteur costumier n’a de cesse de s’interroger sur les dénominations, ce que traduit l’apparition récente du vocable de « concepteur costume » qui, visant à différencier l’artiste des artisans, est aussi la marque d’une quête de valorisation. L’étude de l’origine du terme de « costumier » est indispensable à la compréhension de l’indétermination langagière qui frappe actuellement ce domaine artistique. Retracer la trajectoire de ce vocable conduit à opérer une lecture genrée de l’histoire de la profession, tant il est clair que l’identité sexuée qui la caractérisait s’est inversée au cours du xixe siècle. Elle est passée d’une activité définie comme masculine, à la fin du xviiie siècle, à une activité très majoritairement féminine au cours du xxe siècle. L’association entre les pratiques costumières et couturières a contribué à confondre, dans l’inconscient collectif, deux secteurs aussi corrélatifs que différenciés. Le tribut à payer par les professionnels de la discipline scénique est lourd en ce que leurs compétences sont tout autant essentialisées et minorées que celles des couturières.
Male gaze vs female gaze, théâtre public vs séries télévisées ? Portrait comparé du sexisme et du féminisme au sein de deux types de productions culturelles
Authors: Hamidi-Kim Bérénice
Published: July 2019

En France, depuis une dizaine d’années, la question des inégalités hommes/femmes a surgi sur la scène du théâtre public, et il y a lieu de s’en réjouir. Pour autant, le rôle joué par les représentations des femmes et des hommes véhiculées par les œuvres est encore trop peu exploré. Cet article voudrait apporter sa contribution à la nécessaire réflexion à mener sur les imaginaires sexistes et/ou féministes reconduits ou déjoués dans les textes et des spectacles de théâtre. Pour ce faire, il compare ces représentations à celles existant dans un autre monde artistique, celui des séries télévisées, quitte à montrer que l’émancipation n’est pas forcément là où on l’attendrait, c’est-à-dire du côté d’un art subventionné pour sa mission critique. Cette comparaison passe, sur le plan théorique, par la transposition pour la scène d’une notion venue des études cinématographiques féministes, celle de male/female gaze.
الجسد والغروتيسك في الاحتفالات الشعبية الأمازيغية
Authors: Azarual Fouad
Published: July 2019

The shows and festivities called “popular” are the most special moments for the use of the body in the Amazigh culture. These usages are supported by both basic attitudes and also by world views peculiar to the Amazigh society. During these collective manifestations, we witness the emergence of an ironic and burlesque body. The techniques used are, to a large extent, similar to the art of the grotesque. Just like “popular” carnivals specific to the various human civilizations, the anthropological content as well as the significant depth of theseAmazigh shows are openly directed against the doxa and the moral and religious values of their reciprocal contexts.
Rejouer la ville, rejouer le réel : Grand Magasin ou les enjeux de la prévision
Authors: Magne Élisabeth
Published: July 2019

Trois exemples de pratique théâtrale, plasticienne et vidéographique sont ici étudiés pour leurs qualités de reprise fictionnelle d’un réel dont ils s’écartent très peu au point de brouiller les frontières entre expérience première et rejeu : Prévisions, événements scénarisés par le collectif Grand Magasin, le catalogue de La Déroute produit par Nicolas Simarik et La Bataille d’Orgreave reconstituée et filmée par Jeremy Deller. Regardés sous l’angle de la sociologie d’Ervin Goffman, ces objets produisent tous trois de l’incertitude et du questionnement critique quant aux cadres dans lesquels s’inscrivent nos interactions quotidiennes. Jouer, ici, c’est ouvrir la pensée sur le réel si proche, c’est donner à voir des expériences paradigmatiques qui éclairent le continuum indifférencié, la confusion ordinaire.
Les adaptations scéniques de contes pour le jeune public, un terrain de jeu pour l’imaginaire
Authors: Pépin Jeanne-Lise
Published: July 2019

Depuis la parution de l’ouvrage La Psychanalyse des contes de fées de Bruno Bettelheim en 1976, il semble difficile de voir dans le conte autre chose qu’un récit à analyser, décortiquer, et interpréter. En France, dans le domaine du théâtre jeune public, ce dernier occupe une place considérable et ne cesse de donner lieu à de nouvelles adaptations qui s’expriment à la fois sur scène et dans le milieu de l’édition. La tentation est alors grande d’étudier ce phénomène à l’aune des vertus pédagogiques et didactiques que nous accordons communément au conte et qui tendent à faire de lui un outil précieux pour aider l’enfant dans sa construction psychologique et plus précisément pour le préparer à son entrée dans le monde des adultes. Cependant une autre voie semble possible, celle d’envisager le conte comme un terrain de jeux pour l’imaginaire. En proposant des réécritures et des adaptations scéniques de conte, des dramaturges et des metteurs en scène ne cessent de jouer avec l’horizon d’attente du spectateur/lecteur, ce dernier ayant presque toujours une connaissance partielle ou fragmentaire de l’histoire. Ainsi, un nouvel espace narratif lui est proposé dans lequel se déploient des images ludiques et insolites – images parfois détournées ou réactualisées – et qui finalement contribuent à une forme de réenchantement du conte.
L’entrée en scène d’un premier rôle d’acteur indien : ses apports pour l’analyse anthropologique et esthétique du « jeu »
Authors: Johan Virginie
Published: July 2019

Enfant, tout Cākyār – membre de la caste des maîtres-acteurs de Kūṭiyāṭṭam – doit monter sur la scène de l’un des « temples du jeu » des temples hindous du Kerala. Il y joue un premier rôle d’Acteur. Ce rite d’institution ancien met en abyme la société et l’art des Cākyār. Il nous fait réfléchir sur les relations entre théâtre et société et sur les méthodes d’analyse anthropologique du théâtre, puis sur la nature duelle du « jeu », marquée par un acteur distancié, à la présence ostensible, mais capable de s’identifier profondément à la fiction.
Structural Parameter Optimization Design of Torsion Beam Semi-Independent Suspension Based on Multi-Island Genetic Algorithm
Authors: Zhang Peng , Wang Hong Xin , Zhang Xiao Dong , Cao Chang Yong
Published: July 2019

In order to reduce the variation of suspension parameters during wheel runout, andimprove the handling stability of the whole vehicle, a method for optimal design of Torsional beamsuspension structural parameters based on Multi-island genetic algorithm is proposed. Study on theMacpherson Front suspension of a car, based on the Euler's four-element method of multi-bodydynamics and the spatial analytic geometric transformation formula, the mathematical model ofTorsional beam suspension is derived in this paper, the reliability of the mathematical model isverified by the simulation analysis of the corresponding Adams model. On this basis, the degree ofsuspension performance affected by structure parameters is obtained by Sensitivity analysis. Finally,the optimization of suspension performance is realized by modifying the parameters by usingMulti-island genetic algorithm, which plays an important role in the stability and safety of thewhole vehicle.
Topology Optimization and Analysis of Impact Test Platform Mechanism
Authors: Song Meng Meng , Lin Yang , Xiao Shun Gen , Huang Li Xia , Qiu Chen Hui , Zhu Xiao Li
Published: July 2019

In this paper, the cold launch test platform is taken as the research object, theoptimization model of this test platform is established by using topology optimization method. First,the topology optimization goal of the structure is determined, and then the constraints are carriedout. Finally, optimized and non-optimized areas are identified, and the result is processed. Afteroptimization, the quality of the test platform was reduced by 2.9 tons under the conditions of use.
Mechanism Design of Equivalent Simulation of Cylinder Pressure Load in Reciprocating Compressor Fault System
Authors: Xiao Shun Gen , Song Meng Meng , Sang Xiao Hu , Huang Li Xia , Chen Hong Long , Qiu Tao
Published: July 2019

In this paper, by designing a new type of mechanism, the time-varying cylinder load ofthe reciprocating compressor is simulated. The time-varying cylinder pressure load includes fourprocesses of expansion, suction, compression and exhaust, where the pressure of the expansionprocess is gradually reduced until it is equal to the suction pressure, and the pressures of the suctionand exhaust processes are almost constant. The pressure of the compression process is graduallyincreased until it is equal to the exhaust pressure value. Through the motion simulation of themechanism, four processes of time-varying cylinder pressure load can be realized. This newmechanism will provide new ideas for the time-varying load involved in the simulation of thereciprocating compressor fault test bench.
Design and Modal Analysis of SMPC Deployable Antenna
Authors: Jia Bao Xian , Bian Wen Feng , Peng Ning
Published: July 2019

The SMPC (Shape Memory Polymer Composite) is used for space deployable structuredue to their excellent properties. In this paper, the space deployable antenna was designed, whichincludes the design of the basic configuration, the antenna substrate, the SMPC hinge and its location.The modal of the hinge was studied with finite element software ABAQUS. The hinges with differentthickness were analyzed and compared. The modal of single piece antenna was calculated. Thevibration types and natural frequencies of the single piece antenna in connection are obtained. Theeffects of different hinge structures on the overall mode and the natural frequencies of the hinge werestudied. The influence of hinge location on the natural frequencies of deployable antenna was alsostudied. The mode of four pieces antenna in unfolding was calculated, the main vibration types wereobtained, and the natural frequencies were analyzed and compared with that of the single pieceantenna. In unfolding, the natural frequencies of the four pieces antenna are lower than that of thesingle piece one.
Annotation, error analysis and addenda to Schefferville permafrost data file, vol I, summary and index
Authors: Granberg H B ,   Geo-Physi-Con Co. Ltd., Desrochers D
T , Lewis J E , Wright R K , Houston L
Published: July 2019

The series of 17 further reports outlined completes the collection and collation of permafrost ground temperature information from the Schefferville area. Thermocable data is presented for some 230 sites along with maps and stereophotos showing locations,
geology, geological cross-sections. An extensive index to the entire series and a catalogue of reports and papers are provided. The entire collection is available through the Earth Physics Branch on microfiche.
Le monde
Authors:   GeoAccess Division
Published: July 2019

Contained within the Atlas of Canada's Reference Map Series, 1961 to 2010, is the latest version of a regularly-updated map of the National Atlas of Canada Base Map Series. Each version shows the World at an equatorial scale of 1: 35 000 000. The map is a general
reference sheet focusing on showing the name and status of all sovereign countries and dependencies, and showing major cities. The 2005 version has two new additions: one is showing shaded relief for land areas; the other is showing bathymetric contours and colours for all marine
areas.
Factors predisposing to shoulder injuries in elite swimmers: A literature review.
Authors: Hall J. A. , Milligan J. , Stewart A.
Published: July 2019

No abstract available
Response to guest editorial: SA Journal of Physiotherapy May 1995
Authors: Goodman Muriel
Published: July 2019

No abstract available
Relationship between body mass index and percentage of body fat, estimated by bio-electrical impedance among adult females in a rural community of North India
Authors: Misra P , Singh AK , Archana S , Lohiya A , Kant S
Published: July 2019

Introduction:

Body adiposity measured by percentage of body fat (BF%) is found to be better predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than body mass index (BMI). Limited information exists showing relationship between BMI and BF% in North Indian population.

Objectives:

To study the relationship between BMI and BF% among North Indian adult females across various age strata and level of BMI.

Materials and Methods:

This was a cross-sectional study conducted at Ballabgarh Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (HDSS) among randomly selected females. BMI using standard techniques and BF% using bioelectrical impedance analysis was estimated. Linear regression was performed using general linear model with BF% as dependent variable and BMI as main independent variable.

Results:

Mean (±2 SD) age of participants was 41.3 ± 15.7 years. Mean BMI (±SD) was 23.3 (±4.6) kg/m2, whereas mean fat mass (±2 SD) and BF% (±95% CI) was 19.2 (±7.9) kg and 33.6 (±6.9) %. BMI and BF% were highly correlated among obese (r = 0.77), whereas least correlated (r = 0.32) in underweight females. Across age strata, correlation between BMI and BF% was maximum in 18–35 years age group (r = 0.95), whereas least in females ≥56 years (r = 0.67). Age and BMI together predicted 73% of variability in BF% in hierarchical linear regression model.

Conclusions:

In this population, we have found strong correlation between BMI and BF% particularly at higher level of BMI and in younger females. There is need to conduct more robust prospective longitudinal studies to assess BF%, which is a better predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
Patients with psoriasis have a higher risk of schizophrenia
Authors: Ungprasert P , Wijarnpreecha K , Cheungpasitporn W
Published: July 2019

Background and Objectives:

Patients with psoriasis are known to be at a higher risk of several comorbidities, but little is known about their risk of developing schizophrenia.

Methods:

A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort and case–control studies that reported relative risk, hazard ratio, odds ratio (OR), or standardized incidence ratio comparing risk of schizophrenia in patients with psoriasis versus subjects without psoriasis was conducted. Pooled OR and 95% confidence interval were calculated using random-effect, generic inverse-variance methods of DerSimonian and Laird.

Results:

A total of five studies (one retrospective cohort study and four case–control studies) with more than 6 million participants met the eligibility criteria and were included in this meta-analysis. The pooled OR of schizophrenia in patients with psoriasis versus subjects without psoriasis was 1.41 (95% confidence interval, 1.19–1.66). The statistical heterogeneity was low with an I
2 of 33%.

Conclusion:

This systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrated a significantly increased risk of schizophrenia among patients with psoriasis.
Convergence in a neo-Kaleckian model with endogenous technical progress and autonomous demand growth*
Authors: Nah Won Jun , Lavoie Marc
Published: July 2019

This paper introduces technical progress along the lines of the Kaldor–Verdoorn law within a neo-Kaleckian model of growth and distribution that incorporates the Sraffian supermultiplier mechanism. The key features of the model include the interactive effects of endogenous technical progress, the non-capacity-creating demand component that grows at an exogenous rate and, in its long-run version, a Harrodian adjustment mechanism. It turns out that, whereas the model converges towards the normal rate of capacity utilization, the main tenets of the Keynesian model are still valid in the long run as well as in the short run in the sense that all of the average rates of accumulation, capacity utilization, and technical progress are lower during the traverse after the propensity to save or the share of profits goes up. The conditions under which the productivity regime can be wage-led are examined, and the possible effects of an exogenous technical shift are also discussed.
A Neo-Kaleckian model of skill-biased technological change and income distribution*
Authors: Neto Antonio Soares Martins , Ribeiro Rafael Saulo Marques
Published: July 2019

This article proposes a macrodynamic model that takes into account the joint determination of intra-working-class income distribution and knowledge-intensive technological change. Our model highlights two opposing effects of technological change at play: (i) technological innovation promotes a positive structural change and hence boosts net exports and output growth; (ii) technological change, on the other hand, disproportionately affects unskilled workers, which worsens the intra-working-class income distribution and slows down economic growth. Therefore, our model demonstrates that the net impact of technological change on capital accumulation and output growth is ambiguous and hence is a parametric question. Lastly, we show that income transfer and public investments in higher education may be of paramount importance to alleviating the unwanted effects of a contractionary wave of technological change and so promoting a sustained economic recovery.
Risk-sharing by financial markets in federal systems: a critique of existing empirical assessments
Authors: Dullien Sebastian
Published: July 2019

This paper criticizes the standard methodology used to measure the importance of different channels of risk-sharing in federal states such as the one used in Asdrubali et al.'s (1996) seminal contribution. It argues that the methodology chosen in these papers systematically underestimates the role federal governments play in stabilizing the business cycle in its member states (and overstates the role of financial markets in stabilization) as it (a) ignores the possibility of direct spending by the federal government in a single state stabilizing state GDP, (b) strips out effects of transfers and grants in national recessions, (c) counts smoothing of distributed profits by domestic firms as ‘smoothing by capital markets’ and (d) counts a normal variation of households’ savings to smooth consumption as ‘smoothing by credit markets’.
2018-19 Review of Facilities for Low-Income Countries---Reform Proposals
Authors:   International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, &,   Review Department,   International Monetary Fund. Finance Dept.,   International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.
Published: July 2019

2018-19 Review of Facilities for Low-Income Countries---Reform Proposals: Review Of The Financing Of The Fund’s Concessional Assistance And Debt Relief To Low-Income Member Countries
People’s Republic of China
Authors:   International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.
Published: July 2019

This report provides a summary of the anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) measures in place in the People’s Republic of China (China)1 as at the date of the onsite visit (July 9–27, 2018). It analyzes the level of compliance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) 40 Recommendations and the level of effectiveness of China’s AML/CFT system and provides recommendations on how the system could be strengthened. China has undertaken a number of initiatives since 2002 that have contributed positively to its understanding of ML/TF risk, although some important gaps remain. Its framework for domestic AML/CFT cooperation and coordination is well established.
Switzerland
Authors:   International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Published: July 2019

Financial Sector Assessment Program; Technical Note-Regulation and Supervision of Asset Management Activities
Switzerland
Authors:   International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Published: July 2019

Financial Sector Assessment Program; Technical Note-Stress Testing the Banking Sector
Switzerland
Authors:   International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Published: July 2019

Financial Sector Assessment Program; Technical Note- Financial Safety Net and Crisis Management Arrangements
Seychelles
Authors:   International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Published: July 2019

Selected Issues
The Bahamas
Authors:   International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Published: July 2019

Growth has returned after years of stagnation. The reform-oriented government is tackling structural issues, with notable achievements in the fiscal area. The financial sector is sound and resilient to current stability threats, but credit remains scarce. The offshore sector faces heightened international scrutiny and the government is taking steps to strengthen compliance with AML/CFT and tax transparency standards. Tourism and related foreign investments will support growth in the near-term, while low competitiveness and diversification dampen medium-term prospects. Growth would suffer from a slowdown in the U.S. or higher oil prices, and hurricane vulnerability persists. Reform momentum could stall, undermining fiscal consolidation efforts.
The Bahamas
Authors:   International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Published: July 2019

The Bahamas appears to be resilient to current threats to its financial stability, but action is needed to safeguard against potential weaknesses. There is a large stock of problem assets that needs to be dealt with from a variety of perspectives: systemic risk monitoring, banking supervision, and crisis management. Vulnerabilities to natural disasters and external economic contagion heighten this need.
The banking sector dominates the financial system and has focused on residential mortgages and consumer loans during a long period of economic stagnation. Despite poor growth the sector has remained profitable. However, the small domestic residential property market backing most secured lending is prone to shocks and illiquidity. This has historically led to high and persistent levels of nonperforming loans (NPLs), which significantly increase uncertainty and fragility in the banking system.
The Bahamas
Authors:   International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Published: July 2019

The Bank Supervision Department (BSD) of the Central Bank of the Bahamas (CBoB) has a generally effective supervisory program in place for the size and complexity of the Bahamian banking system. Since the prior FSAP in 2012, clear progress has been made enhancing the framework in a number of areas as well as in the execution of its supervision program. CBoB supervision continues to evolve in a number of positive directions, with most of the areas viewed by assessors as warranting enhancements included in the execution of the program.
Togo
Authors:   International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Published: July 2019

Economic activity has been recovering, driven by robust performance in the export and agricultural sectors. Fiscal consolidation efforts have continued; Togo complied with the WAEMU deficit convergence criteria in 2017 and 2018, two years ahead of the timeline agreed by member states; public debt declined from 81 percent of GDP at end-2016 to 76 percent of GDP at end-2018. Inflation stood at 2 percent in March 2019 (y-o-y). The external position has improved. The privatization process for the first public bank encountered delays.
Togo
Authors:   International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Published: July 2019

Selected Issues
Albania
Authors:   International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Published: July 2019

Growth was strong in 2018, backed by high electricity production. Inflation remains subdued, notwithstanding very accommodative monetary conditions. The fiscal stance in 2018 was somewhat tighter than expected, supporting a further decline in public debt. The medium-term economic outlook is broadly favorable, with growth projected to converge to 4 percent and a further narrowing of the current account deficit.
However, significant risks remain. Growth is vulnerable to a continued or sharper economic slowdown in the main trading partners. The main vulnerabilities remain in the fiscal sector, as public debt is still high, and contingent liabilities are increasing. Albania’s relatively large financing needs also pose risks that could materialize, in particular, in case of tightening external financing conditions.
Zinc deficiency might occur in patients receiving parenteral nutrition
Authors: Gülcü Barış , Taşpınar Ersoy , Öztürk Ersin
Published: July 2019

Zinc is an essential trace element. Many important enzymatic activities are zinc dependent. Therefore, it is not surprising that zinc deficiency is clinically expressed in rapidly growing tissues. The clinical features of zinc deficiency are not specific. The clinical manifestations of zinc deficiency include inadequate growth, hypogonadism, anorexia, alopecia, diarrhea, taste, and smell alterations, impaired wound healing, skin lesions, and diminished immune function. Acquired zinc deficiency is an uncommon entity. Zinc deficiency is defined most frequently in patients who had burns, malabsorption, severe losses from the gastrointestinal tract, and total parenteral nutrition (PN) with inadequate or no zinc in the nutrient mixture. In this case report, we present a 46-year-old female patient with altered mental status due to zinc deficiency, who was operated for ulcerative colitis, and who was fed with PN for a long time that did not contain zinc in the nutrient mixture.
Urban population exposure to NOx emissions from local shipping in three Baltic Sea harbour cities – a generic approach
Authors: Ramacher Martin Otto Paul , Karl Matthias , Bieser Johannes , Jalkanen Jukka-Pekka , Johansson Lasse
Published: July 2019

Abstract. Ship emissions in ports can have a significant impact on
local air quality (AQ), population exposure and therefore human health in
harbour cities. We determined the impact of shipping emissions in harbours
on local AQ and population exposure in the Baltic Sea harbour cities Rostock
(Germany), Riga (Latvia) and the urban agglomeration of Gdańsk–Gdynia
(Poland) for 2012. An urban AQ study was performed using a global-to-local
chemistry transport model chain with the EPISODE-CityChem model for the
urban scale. We simulated NO2, O3 and PM concentrations in 2012
with the aim of determining the impact of local shipping activities on
population exposure in Baltic Sea harbour cities. Based on simulated
concentrations, dynamic population exposure to outdoor NO2
concentrations for all urban domains was calculated. We developed and used a
novel generic approach to model dynamic population activity in different
microenvironments based on publicly available data. The results of the new
approach are hourly microenvironment-specific population grids with a
spatial resolution of 100 m × 100 m. We multiplied
these grids with surface pollutant concentration fields of the same
resolution to calculate total population exposure. We found that the local
shipping impact on NO2 concentrations is significant, contributing
22 %, 11 % and 16 % to the total annually averaged grid mean
concentration for Rostock, Riga and Gdańsk–Gdynia, respectively. For
PM2.5, the contribution of shipping is substantially lower, at
1 %–3 %. When it comes to microenvironment-specific exposure to annual
NO2, the highest exposure to NO2 from all emission sources was
found in the home environment (54 %–59 %). Emissions from shipping have a
high impact on NO2 exposure in the port area (50 %–80 %), while the
influence in home, work and other environments is lower on average
(3 %–14 %) but still has high impacts close to the port areas and downwind
of them. Besides this, the newly developed generic approach allows for
dynamic population-weighted outdoor exposure calculations in European cities
without the necessity of individually measured data or large-scale surveys
on population data.
Near East Desertification: impact of Dead Sea drying on convective rainfall
Authors: Khodayar Samiro , Hoerner Johannes
Published: July 2019

Abstract. The Dead Sea desertification-threatened region is affected by continual lake level decline and occasional, but life-endangering flash-floods. Climate change has aggravated such issues in the past decades. In this study, the impact of the Dead Sea drying on the severe convection generating heavy precipitation in the region is investigated. Perturbation simulations with the high-resolution convection-permitting regional climate model COSMO-CLM and several numerical weather prediction (NWP) runs on an event time scale are performed over the Dead Sea area. A reference simulation covering the 2003 to 2013 period and a twin sensitivity experiment, in which the Dead Sea is dried out and set to bare soil, are compared. NWP simulations focus on heavy precipitation events exhibiting relevant differences between the reference and the sensitivity decadal realization to assess the impact on the underlying convection-related processes. On a decadal scale, the difference between the simulations points out that in future regional climate, under ongoing lake level decline, a decrease in evaporation, higher air temperatures and less precipitation is to expect. Particularly, an increase in the number of dry days and in the intensity of heavy precipitation is foreseen. The drying of the Dead Sea is seen to affect the atmospheric conditions leading to convection in two ways: (a) the local decrease in evaporation reduces moisture availability in the lower boundary layer locally and in the neighbouring, directly affecting atmospheric stability. Weaker updrafts characterize the drier and more stable atmosphere of the simulations where the Dead Sea has been dried out. (b) Thermally driven wind system circulations and resulting divergence/convergence fields are altered preventing in many occasions convection initiation because of the omission of convergence lines.
A practical information-centered technique to remove a priori information from lidar optimal-estimation-method retrievals
Authors: Jalali Ali , Hicks-Jalali Shannon , Sica Robert J. , Haefele Alexander , von Clarmann Thomas
Published: July 2019

Abstract. Lidar retrievals of atmospheric temperature and water vapor mixing ratio profiles using the optimal estimation method (OEM) typically use a retrieval grid with a number of points larger than the number of pieces of independent information obtainable from the measurements. Consequently, retrieved geophysical quantities contain some information from their respective a priori values or profiles, which can affect the results in the higher altitudes of the temperature and water vapor profiles due to decreasing signal-to-noise ratios. The extent of this influence can be estimated using the retrieval's averaging kernels. The removal of formal a priori information from the retrieved profiles in the regions of prevailing a priori effects is desirable, particularly when these greatest heights are of interest for scientific studies. We demonstrate here that removal of a priori information from OEM retrievals is possible by repeating the retrieval on a coarser grid where the retrieval is stable even without the use of formal prior information. The averaging kernels of the
fine-grid OEM retrieval are used to optimize the coarse retrieval grid. We demonstrate the adequacy of this method for the case of a large power-aperture Rayleigh scatter lidar nighttime temperature retrieval and for a Raman scatter lidar water vapor mixing ratio retrieval during both day and night.
On the evaluation of the phase relation between temperature and wind tides based on ground-based measurements and reanalysis data in the middle atmosphere
Authors: Baumgarten Kathrin , Stober Gunter
Published: July 2019

Abstract. The variability in the middle atmosphere is driven by a variety of waves covering different spatial and temporal scales. We diagnose the variability in the thermal tides due to changes in the background wind by an adaptive spectral filter, which takes the intermittency of tides into account. We apply this diagnostic to temperature observations from daylight-capable lidar at midlatitudes (54∘ N, 12∘ E) as well as to reanalysis data of horizontal winds from Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2). These reanalysis data provide additional wind information in the altitude range between 30 and 70 km at the location of the lidar as well as on a global scale. Using the global data gives information on the tidal modes seen at one location. A comparison of the temperature and wind information affirms whether there is a fixed phase relation of the tidal waves in the temperature and the wind data. We found that in general the local tidal signatures are dominated by migrating tidal modes, and the signature is weaker in temperatures than in winds. While the meridional wind tide leads the zonal wind tide by 90∘, the phase relation between the temperature and the wind tide is more complex. At certain altitudes the temperature tide follows the zonal wind tide. This knowledge helps in improving the interpretation of the seasonal variation in tides from different observables, especially when only data from single locations are used. The findings provide additional information about the phase stability of tidal waves, and the results clearly show the importance of a measurement acquisition on a routine basis with high temporal and spatial resolution.
Age stratigraphy in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet inferred from radio-echo sounding horizons
Authors: Winter Anna , Steinhage Daniel , Creyts Timothy T. , Kleiner Thomas , Eisen Olaf
Published: July 2019

Abstract. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains a wealth of information that can be extracted from its internal architecture such as distribution of age, past flow features, and surface and basal properties. Airborne radar surveys can sample this stratigraphic
archive across broad areas. Here, we identify and trace key horizons across several radar surveys to obtain the stratigraphic information.
We transfer the age–depth scales from ice cores to intersecting radar data. We then propagate these age scales across the ice sheet using the high fidelity continuity of the radar horizons.
In Dronning Maud Land, including Dome Fuji, we mapped isochrones with ages of 38 and 74 ka. In the central region of East Antarctica around Dome Concordia, Vostok
and Dome Argus, we use isochrone ages of 38, 48, 90 and 161 ka.
Taking together both regions, we provide isochrone depths traced along a combined profile length of more than 40 000 km and discuss uncertainties of the obtained stratigraphy, as well as factors important to consider for further expansion.
This data set is the most extensive distribution of internal horizons in East Antarctica to date. The isochrone depths presented in this study are available on PANGAEA (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.895528; Winter et al., 2018).
Wildland fire potential outlooks for Portugal using meteorological indices of fire danger
Authors: Nunes Sílvia A. , DaCamara Carlos C. , Turkman Kamil F. , Calado Teresa J. , Trigo Ricardo M. , Turkman Maria A. A.
Published: July 2019

Abstract. Portugal is recurrently affected by large wildfire events that have serious
impacts at the socio-economic and environmental levels and dramatic
consequences associated with the loss of lives and the destruction of the
landscape. Accordingly, seasonal forecasts are required to assist fire
managers, thus contributing to alter the historically based purely reactive
response. In this context, we present and discuss a statistical model to
estimate the probability that the total burned area during summer will
exceed a given threshold. The statistical model uses meteorological
information that rates the accumulation of thermal and vegetation stress.
Outlooks for the 39-year study period (1980–2018) show that, when the
statistical model is applied from 26 May to 30 June, out of
the six severe years, only one year is not anticipated as potentially severe
and, out of the six weak years, only one is not anticipated as potentially
weak. The availability of outlooks of wildfire potential with an
anticipation of up to 1 month before the starting of the fire season, such
as the one proposed here, may serve to provide clear directions for the fire
community when planning prevention and combating fire events.
Multi-coverage Optimal Location Model for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) facilities under various disaster scenarios: A case study of urban fluvial floods in the Minhang District of Shanghai, China
Authors: Yang Yuhan , Yin Jie
Published: July 2019

Abstract. Emergency medical services (EMS) response is extremely critical for pre-hospital lifesaving when disaster events occur. However, disasters increase the difficulty of rescue and add valuable minutes to travel times between dispatch and arrival, thereby increasing the pressure on emergency facilities. Hence, facility location decisions play a crucial role in improving the efficiency of rescue and service capacity. In order to avoid the failure of EMS facilities during disasters and meet the multiple requirements of demand points, we propose a multi-coverage optimal location model for EMS facilities based on the results of disaster impact simulation and prediction. To verify this model, we explicitly simulated the impacts of fluvial flooding events using the FloodMap model. The simulation results suggested that even low-magnitude fluvial flood events resulted in a decrease in the EMS response area. The integration of the model results with a Geographical Information System (GIS) analysis indicated that the optimization of the EMS locations reduced the delay in emergency responses caused by disasters and significantly increased the number of rescued people and the coverage of demand points.
The significance of coastal bathymetry representation for modelling
the tidal response to mean sea level rise in the German Bight
Authors: Rasquin Caroline , Seiffert Rita , Wachler Benno , Winkel Norbert
Published: July 2019

Abstract. Due to climate change an accelerated mean sea level rise is expected. One key question for the development of adaptation measures is how mean sea level rise affects tidal dynamics in shelf seas such as the North Sea. Owing to its flat coastal areas, especially the German Bight (located in the south-east of the North Sea) will be affected. Numerical hydrodynamic models help to understand how mean sea level rise changes tidal dynamics. By definition models cannot represent all processes in overall detail. One limiting factor is the resolution of the model grid. In this study we investigate which role the representation of the coastal bathymetry plays when analysing the response of tidal dynamics to mean sea level rise. Using a shelf model including the whole North Sea and a high-resolution hydrodynamic model of the German Bight we investigate the changes in M2 amplitude due to a mean sea level rise of 0.8 m and 10 m. To the mean sea level rise of 0.8 m the shelf model and the German Bight Model react in different ways. In the shelf model the M2 amplitude generally increases in the region of the German Bight. In contrast, the M2 amplitude in the German Bight Model increases only in some coastal areas and decreases in the northern part of the German Bight. In two case studies we adjust the German Bight Model in order to more closely resemble the shelf model. We find that a different resolution of the bathymetry results in different energy dissipation changes in response to mean sea level rise. Our results show that the resolution of the bathymetry especially in flat intertidal areas plays a crucial role for modelling the impact of mean sea level rise in the order of 1 m. For higher mean sea level rise scenarios (10 m) the resolution of the bathymetry is less important.
Erratum: Ridley, Leticia. "Stage Review of Gem of the Ocean." August Wilson Journal doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/awj.2019.22.
Authors: Downing Michael J.
Published: July 2019

In Ridley, Leticia. "Stage Review of Gem of the Ocean." August Wilson Journal doi:https://doi.org/10.5195.awj.2019.22, author Leticia Ridley’s credentials were updated from master’s candidate to doctoral candidate.
Social Movements for Freedom An Anti-Oppressive Approach to Literacy and Content Area Learning in an Urban Fourth Grade Classroom
Authors: Bryce Nadine
Published: July 2019

In a unit on social movements for freedom, urban fourth grade students examined the activities and lives of activists who worked for social change.  Using an integrative and strategic approach to literacy, children researched, wrote, and presented their ideas to family and community members through visual, textual, digital and artistic expressions. In this autoethnography, I present several stories of my encounters with children, to describe how they synthesized learning, explored the intersection of race, economics and power, identified tensions in approaches to civil rights, and challenged heteronormativity.  Children learned the struggle for justice is complex and ongoing, and that people must work together and persist to bring about social change.
Invisible Rainbow: Notes for Educators and Librarians
Authors: Schraeder E. F.
Published: July 2019

In response to recent ant-LGBTQ initiatives, this short essay highlights six strategies teachers and librarians can use to address LGBTQ visibility in classes and libraries to be more inclusive.
Design Thinking, Collaborative Innovation, and Neoliberal Disappointment: Cruel Optimism in the History and Future of Higher Education
Authors: Catterall Kate , Mickenberg Julia , Reddick Richard
Published: July 2019

The extensive amount of academic labor of minoritized faculty, especially at research institutions, has been well documented in the academic literature. Three tenured associate professors at The University of Texas present the genesis, evolution, and postscript of leading and serving in an initiative to de-silo and encourage collaboration across the university, culminating in a collaboratively taught course. Integrating concepts of teaching in the neoliberal university context, the gendered and raced distribution of academic labor, and slow scholarship, the authors discuss the pedagogically productive process of collective teaching and decision-making, the frustrations inherent when employing radical pedagogy, and institutional shifts that prioritize a customer-service model of teaching, learning, and rapid research productivity. The authors conclude with reflections and recommendations for scholar-researchers similarly placed in institutional contexts where encroachments upon academic freedom and an embrace of business models collide with personal goals of career satisfaction, collective work, and improving pedagogy.
Ghost Dance
Authors: Mullenneaux Lisa
Published: July 2019

My poem draws on two threads of American history in the West, contact of indigenous peoples with European immigrants and the experience of workers at the Nevada Nuclear Bomb Site during the 1950s and '60s. In my mind, the decimation of the native population and confiscation of their land paved the way for bomb-building experiments that poisoned thousands of government workers and residents. Two oral histories, Native American Testimonies and American Ground Zero, informed my understanding of these events.
Cordana meilingensis and C. lushanensis spp. nov. from Jiangxi, China
Authors: Ai Cong-Cong , Ma Jian , Zhang Kai , Castañeda-Ruíz Rafael F. , Zhang Xiu-Guo
Published: July 2019

Two new anamorphic fungi, Cordana meilingensis and C. lushanensis, were collected from dead branches in Jiangxi Province, China. Cordana meilingensis is characterized by its oblong or cylindrical, medially 1-septate, brown, smooth conidia with
a prominent hilum. Cordana lushanensis is distinguished by its ellipsoidal to obovoid, pale brown, aseptate, smooth conidia with a prominent basal scar. They are described, illustrated, and compared with similar taxa.