bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Limb lengthening in children with Russell–Silver syndrome: A comparison to other etiologies
Authors: Goldman V. , McCoy T. H. , Harbison M. D. , Fragomen A. T. , Rozbruch S. R.
Published: January 2013

Introduction/background

Russell–Silver syndrome (RSS) is the combination of intrauterine growth retardation, difficulty feeding, and postnatal growth retardation. Leg length discrepancy (LLD) is one of four major diagnostic criteria of RSS and is present in most cases. We aimed to ascertain whether pediatric RSS patients will adequately consolidate bony regenerate following leg lengthening.

Materials and methods

We retrospectively reviewed pediatric RSS patients who underwent limb lengthening and compared them to a similar group of patients with LLD resulting from tumor, trauma, or congenital etiology. The primary outcome measurement was the bone healing index (BHI).

Results

The RSS group included seven lengthened segments in five patients; the comparison group included 21 segments in 19 patients. The groups had similar lengthening amounts (3.3 vs. 3.9 cm, p = 0.507). The RSS group healed significantly faster (lower BHI) than the control group (BHI 29 vs. 43 days/cm, p = 0.028). Secondary analysis showed no difference between RSS and trauma patients in terms of the BHI (29 vs. 31); however, the BHI of the RSS group was significantly lower than both of the other congenital etiologies (29 vs. 41, p = 0.032) and tumor patients (29 vs. 66, p = 0.019). The RSS patients had fewer and less significant complications than the controls.

Discussion

The limb lengthening regenerate healing of RSS patients is faster than the healing of patients with other congenital etiologies and tumor patients, and is as fast as the regenerate healing of patients with posttraumatic LLD. Although all RSS patients were treated with human growth hormone (hGH), we are unable to isolate the hGH contribution to the regenerate bone healing. We conclude that RSS patients can have safe limb lengthening.
Glioma pathogenesis‐related protein 1 induces prostate cancer cell death through Hsc70‐mediated suppression of AURKA and TPX2
Authors: Li Likun , Yang Guang , Ren Chengzhen , Tanimoto Ryuta , Hirayama Takahiro , Wang Jianxiang , Hawke David , Kim Soo Mi , Lee Ju-Seog , Goltsov Alexei A. , Park Sanghee , Ittmann Michael M. , Troncoso Patricia , Thompson Timothy C.
Published: December 2012

In this study we report that expression of glioma pathogenesis‐related protein 1 (GLIPR1) regulated numerous apoptotic, cell cycle, and spindle/centrosome assembly‐related genes, including AURKA and TPX2, and induced apoptosis and/or mitotic catastrophe (MC) in prostate cancer (PCa) cells, including p53‐mutated/deleted, androgen‐insensitive metastatic PCa cells. Mechanistically, GLIPR1 interacts with heat shock cognate protein 70 (Hsc70); this interaction is associated with SP1 and c‐Myb destabilization and suppression of SP1‐ and c‐Myb‐mediated AURKA and TPX2 transcription. Inhibition of AURKA and TPX2 using siRNA mimicked enforced GLIPR1 expression in the induction of apoptosis and MC. Recombinant GLIPR1‐ΔTM protein inhibited AURKA and TPX2 expression, induced apoptosis and MC, and suppressed orthotopic xenograft tumor growth. Our results define a novel GLIPR1‐regulated signaling pathway that controls apoptosis and/or mitotic catastrophe in PCa cells and establishes the potential of this pathway for targeted therapies.
Chinese Economic Dominance in Southeast Asia: ALongue DureePerspective
Authors: Hui Kian Kwee
Published: January 2013

As the industrialization process in Western European countries took off in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they largely turned to Asia and Africa for raw materials and other resources, as well as for markets of their manufactures. Various entrepreneurial diasporas, including the Indians, Lebanese and Chinese, were at the forefront to exploit these burgeoning economic possibilities, particularly in gathering local mineral and agricultural commodities and marketing European goods in the Afro-Asian regions. The Chinese activities in Southeast Asia stood out: they not only presided over the commercial realm but also organized mining production and cash crop agriculture in ways largely autonomous of the colonial regimes and Western entrepreneurs. How can we explain the dominance of the Chinese migrants and sojourners in the Southeast Asian economy from the 1850s to the 1930s? This paper repudiates the existing literature, which largely credits their economic presence to conscious immigration policies of the colonial authorities, and instead highlights the effects of a confluence of developments in the early modern period (ca. 1450–1800), including the sidelining of South Asians, West Asians, and regional trading communities in favor of the Chinese. A particular focus is the roles played by symbolic capital and mechanisms of advanced credit and spiral marketing, and how these gave the Chinese a comparative advantage over other trading groups.
Molecular characterization of an actin depolymerizing factor fromCryptocaryon irritans
Authors: HUANG XIAOHONG , XU YANG , GUO GUOWEI , LIN QIANQIAN , YE ZHONGFENG , YUAN LIPING , SUN ZHIYU , NI WEI
Published: January 2013

Actin depolymerizing factors regulate actin dynamics involved in cellular processes such as morphogenesis, motility, development and infection. Here, a novel actin depolymerizing factor gene (CiADF2) was cloned from the cDNA library ofCryptocaryon irritans, a parasitic ciliate causing cryptocaryonosis. The full-length cDNA ofCiADF2was 531 bp. Its open reading frame (ORF) was 417 bp, encoding a polypeptide of 138 aa with typical features of the ADF/cofilin family. Reverse transcription-PCR suggested thatCiADF2is expressed in all stages of the life cycle. After site-directed mutagenesis of a non-universal genetic code, the ORF was subcloned inEscherichia coli. The bacteria were induced with the addition of isopropylthio-β-D-galactoside to express a fusion protein of recombinant CiADF2(rCiADF2) with glutathioneStransferase. Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blot confirmed the predicted molecular mass of rCiADF2of 16·2 kDa. A mouse antibody against rCiADF2recognized native CiADF2, and rCiADF2reacted with mouse antisera againstC. irritanstrophonts. CiADF2was abundant in the plasma around cytostomes, suggesting that CiADF2is involved in ciliate movement. Moreover, rCiADF2showed F-actin binding and depolymerizing activity. This study will help to clarify the pathogenic biology of the parasite and develop effective control measures for cryptocaryonosis.
The Earlier Wittgenstein on the Notion of Religious Attitude
Authors: Tejedor Chon
Published: January 2013

I defend a new interpretation of Wittgenstein's notion of religious (or ethical) attitude in theTractatus, one that rejects three key views from the secondary literature: firstly, the view that, for Wittgenstein, the willing subject is a transcendental condition for the religious attitude; secondly, the view that the religious attitude is an emotive response to the world or something closely modelled on this notion of emotive response; and thirdly, the view that, although the religious and ethical pseudo-propositions of theTractatusare nonsensical, they nevertheless succeed in expressing the religious attitude endorsed by Wittgenstein. In connection to the first, I argue that the notion of willing subject as transcendental condition is abandoned by Wittgenstein in theNotebooksand is no longer a feature of his position in theTractatus. In connection to the second, I argue that the religious attitude is dispositional rather than emotive for Wittgenstein: it is a disposition to use signs in a way that demonstrates one's conceptual clarity. Finally, in connection to the third, I argue that the religious or ethical attitude is strongly ineffable in that it cannot be described, expressed or conveyed by language at all.
Philistinism and the Preservation of Nature
Authors: James Simon P.
Published: January 2013

It is clear that natural entities can be preserved – they can be preserved because they can be harmed or destroyed, or in various other ways adversely affected. I argue that in light of the rise of scientism and other forms of philistinism, the political, religious, mythic, personal and historical meanings that people find in those entities can also be preserved. Against those who impugn disciplines such as fine arts, philosophy and sociology, I contend that this sort of preservation requires the efforts of those whose work exemplifies the core values of the arts, the humanities and the qualitative social sciences.
Underdeveloped embryos and kinds of dormancy in seeds of two gymnosperms: Podocarpus costalis and Nageia nagi (Podocarpaceae)
Authors: Chen Shun-Ying , Baskin Carol C. , Baskin Jerry M. , Chien Ching-Te
Published: January 2013

Although it has been speculated that seeds of the gymnosperm family Podocarpaceae have an underdeveloped embryo, no detailed studies have been done to definitively answer this question. Our purpose was to determine if embryos in seeds of two species of Podocarpaceae, Podocarpus costalis and Nageia nagi, from Taiwan are underdeveloped and to examine the kind of dormancy the seeds have. Embryos in fresh seeds of P. costalis were 4.6 ± 0.5 mm long, and they increased in length by about 54% before radicle emergence (germination), demonstrating that the embryo is underdeveloped at seed maturity. Seeds germinated to >90% at 30/20, 25/15 and 25°C in light in ≤ 4 weeks, without any cold stratification pretreatment. Thus, seeds of P. costalis have morphological dormancy (MD). Embryos in fresh seeds of N. nagi were 7.4 ± 0.8 mm long and they increased in length by about 39% before radicle emergence (germination) occurred, indicating that the embryo is underdeveloped at seed maturity. Seeds germinated to < 25% at 30/20 and 25°C in light in 4 weeks but to >90% at the same temperatures in 12 weeks. Thus, most seeds of N. nagi have morphophysiological dormancy (MPD). Although underdeveloped embryos are considered to be a primitive condition in seed plants, they also occur in the most advanced orders. The occurrence of underdeveloped embryos in Podocarpaceae documents that they are not restricted to a basal clade in gymnosperms.
How To Be a Peer Reviewer: A Guide for Recent and Soon-to-be PhDs
Authors: Miller Beth , Pevehouse Jon , Rogowski Ron , Tingley Dustin , Wilson Rick
Published: January 2013

Peer review is central to political science. In this article we collect the ideas of journal editors in political science and several recent PhDs, who met as a panel at the 2011 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting to discuss the principles of the review process. This includes why reviewing is important to the development of one's own scholarship but also offers some nuts and bolts on reviewing.
Rookie Mistakes: Preemptive Comments on Graduate Student Empirical Research Manuscripts
Authors: Zigerell L. J
Published: January 2013

Political science graduate students need to develop strong skills in drafting empirical research manuscripts. Yet, many graduate student manuscripts contain similar shortcomings, which require student peers, faculty advisors, and journal referees to produce the same comments for multiple manuscripts. This article lists common comments on empirical research manuscripts, as a reference to help students revise their manuscripts before presentation to others for review, so that reviewers can focus on the more substantive elements of a manuscript, thus producing better manuscripts that are more likely to be published and thus contribute to knowledge about political phenomena.
Hippies, Feminists, and Neocons: Using The Big Lebowski to Find the Political in the Nonpolitical
Authors: Leckrone J. Wesley
Published: January 2013

Films used for political science instruction are typically political or historical and are selected to examine concepts developed by the filmmaker within the context of a curriculum. This approach may not be appropriate for introductory American government classes given students' weak foundation of political knowledge and lack of interest in politics. This article examines an alternative model of film use employing the seemingly nonpolitical filmThe Big Lebowski. Viewed early in the semester, the film highlights the ubiquitous presence of politics in society and government's relevance to everyday life. Clip montages of the movie characters were used to enhance discussion of the First Amendment, voter identification, social capital, and foreign policy throughout the semester.
What Justice Theory and Climate- Change Politics Can Learn from Each Other
Authors: Vanderheiden Steve
Published: January 2013

Scholars of justice theory often refuse to apply their principles to concrete social or political issues; instead, they develop those principles in abstraction from contemporary value conflicts or policy debates, preferring to remain silent on how justice might inform controversial political decisions. Rawls, for example, casts questions concerning the application of his “justice as fairness” conception across national, generational, and species boundaries as among the several “problems of extension” for which his theory may or may not be equipped, noting that “the idea of political justice does not cover everything, nor should we expect it to” (1993, 20–21). Even where he applies his justice theory to problems of international relations in hisThe Law of Peoples, Rawls describes its application as merely “an extension of a liberal conception of justice for a domestic regime to a Society of Peoples” (1999, 9), as though constructing and applying justice principles are entirely discrete steps, with its application to concrete social or political issues a unidirectional project of wielding static principles as practical tools, offering nothing of importance to a normative theory's development.
CLOSENESS COUNTS IN HORSE SHOES, DANCING, AND FORECASTING
Authors: Campbell James E.
Published: January 2013

On September 10, 2012, immediately following the close of the Democratic Party's national nominating convention and 57 days before Election Day on November 6, my Convention Bump and Economy Model predicted that Barack Obama was likely to receive 51.3% of the national two-party popular vote. The Convention Bump and Economy Model consists of Gallup's preconvention preference poll, the net convention bump in the polls, and an adjusted second quarter GDP growth rate. The forecast pegged the certainty of an Obama plurality at 67%. No sure thing, but more likely than not. The traditional Trial-Heat and Economy Model predicted Obama's vote at 52.0%. The Convention Bump and Economy Model's prediction was the preferred forecast in 2012 because of the lateness of the parties' nominating conventions. Democrats did not even begin their convention until after Labor Day.
POSTMORTEM: INCUMBENCY, NATIONAL CONDITIONS, AND US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Authors: Holbrook Thomas M.
Published: January 2013

The Incumbency and National Conditions (presidential approval and aggregated personal finances) Model predicted President Obama would garner 47.9% of the two-party vote, whereas he ended up with 51.8% (based on available information on December 3, 2012). The error in this forecast (3.9 points) is somewhat higher than the average out-of-sample error from 1952 to 2008 (2.4 points). Although the forecast was off the mark, the addition of the 2012 result to the data set does little to change the slope estimates, and the overall fit of the model is only slightly worse (table 1).
FORECASTING THE 2012 ELECTION WITH STATE-LEVEL ECONOMIC INDICATORS: A POSTMORTEM
Authors: Berry Michael J. , Bickers Kenneth N.
Published: January 2013

Our State-Level Economic Model incorrectly forecast the outcome of the presidential election. The model's projections were based on the two-party vote in the prior election, the status of the incumbent party in the election/reelection cycle, national and state unemployment rates, and changes in real per capita personal income levels for state residents. Even before the Republican nomination process began, President Obama's success in the 2008 campaign coupled with the electoral advantage typically enjoyed by first-term incumbents bode well for his reelection chances. However, by the arrival of the fall campaign, unemployment remained high and income growth was stagnant, meaning that the president faced significant economic headwinds. Our estimates indicated that Governor Romney would carry most of the battleground states. We were wrong. President Obama carried all but one of them.
Hoarding Behaviour in an Italian Non-Clinical Sample
Authors: Bulli Francesco , Melli Gabriele , Carraresi Claudia , Stopani Eleonora , Pertusa Alberto , Frost Randy O.
Published: January 2013

Background:Hoarding is associated with significant impairment. Although traditionally considered as a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), some authors have proposed that pathological hoarding could be considered as a stand alone condition. The prevalence of pathological hoarding behaviour has been shown to be high in some countries, but little is known about the prevalence and correlates of hoarding in the non-clinical population in Italy.Method:We studied the prevalence of self-reported hoarding behaviour using the Italian version of the Saving Inventory-Revised, as well as the association between hoarding and various clinical correlates, including obsessive-compulsive symptoms, compulsive buying, anxiety, and depression.Results:The prevalence of pathological hoarding behaviour in two studies was between 3.7 and 6.0%. No differences were found between hoarding and non-hoarding participants with regard to gender, age, marital status, level of education, and employment status. Significant correlations were found between compulsive hoarding and obsessive-compulsive symptoms and also between hoarding and a measure of compulsive buying, even after controlling for anxiety and depressive symptoms.Conclusions:These results indicate that pathological hoarding may also be prevalent in Italy and highlight the need for further epidemiological studies using validated instruments to assess hoarding disorder.
Molecular characterization of oil palmElaeis guineensisJacq. materials from Cameroon
Authors: Arias Diana , Montoya Carmenza , Romero Hernán
Published: January 2013

The narrow genetic base of existing commercial oil palm cultivars has prompted oil palm breeders to give increased importance to augmenting these genetic resources because the sustainable development of the crop depends largely on the availability of genetic diversity and its use. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to conduct a molecular characterization of anex situcollection of oil palmElaeis guineensisJacq. populations from the Republic of Cameroon using microsatellite molecular markers. Overall, 31 simple sequence repeats were polymorphic, with a total of 223 alleles, 78.4% of which were found at low frequency. The total genetic diversity was relatively high (HT= 0.673). The genetic differentiation between geographical regions was low (GST= 0.023,P= 0.001), and between families it was high (GST= 0.166,P= 0.001), showing greater variation between families than among geographical regions. The molecular data indicate that genetic diversity among the genotypes evaluated is mainly distributed within regions, suggesting that there is no isolation by geographical distance and that all the sampled individuals form a single diverse population. Therefore, it was concluded that a relatively low number of accessions (120 in the analysed case) that includes at least one representative of each family would allow us to efficiently collect almost the entire genetic diversity of Cameroon within the collection studied. This will allow for the efficient use of genetic resources and a reduction in morpho-agronomic characterization costs.
Modems and Other Folk: The National Dance Congress and Festival of 1936
Authors: Dils Ann
Published: January 2013

The May 1936 National Dance Congress and Festival, held at the 92nd Street Y, was organized by more than twenty representatives from various parts of the dance community and attracted fourteen hundred people, with two hundred performing in evening concerts. I explore the political concerns that underpinned the congress and investigate the programming as it reveals a sense of the period's modernism and within an understanding of contemporary immigration and ideas about diversity.
Virtual or Real: Symbols of Migration from the Fouta Djallon
Authors: Lamp Frederick John
Published: January 2013

The Baga of Guinea have developed masked performances that celebrate the movements of the ancestors from the highlands to the coast. The performance serves to legitimize the establishment of society in its current form and to reinforce the sense of place by reliving the process by which that place has become an identity. This paper is an attempt to analyze the complexity of the Baga choreographies of migration, concentrating on two costumed characters.
Martha Hill: Supporting the Creative Work of José Limón
Authors: McPherson Elizabeth
Published: January 2013

Founding director of the dance programs at New York University, Bennington College, and Juilliard, as well as the summer dance festivals the Bennington School of the Dance and Connecticut College School of the Dance/American Dance Festival, Martha Hill was a visionary for dance and dance education. One of the teachers and choreographers to whom Hill gave her loyal support was José Limón, providing him with means and opportunities to voice his unique vision.
Moving with the Times: The Wellington New Dance Group
Authors: Schultz Marianne
Published: January 2013

This paper explores the founding of the New Dance Group in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1945. The New Dance Group introduced radical ideas about dance, art, music, politics, and physical education to New Zealand. This paper examines the influence that American and European dance and physical education had on New Zealand's physical and artistic expression and places the introduction of modern dance within the social and cultural landscape of immediate the post—World War II period in New Zealand.
Limón's Choreography on the Shelf
Authors: Venable Lucy
Published: January 2013

This paper answers the following questions: What works of José Limón have been recorded? Where are they housed? How did they get there? What kinds of information do they contain for the dance researcher? How can they be accessed?
Dance Education and Technology: Working at the Intersection of Conflicting Paradigms
Authors: Bendix Susan , Piver Harper , James Jodi , Tsukayama Jennifer
Published: January 2013

This paper explores the unique terrain that unfolded when a sophisticated, high-tech system called SMALLab (Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Laboratory) was placed in an urban, inner-city elementary school to facilitate the instruction of a dance composition curriculum. Additionally, this paper seeks to understand what it means to work at an intersection of male and female paradigms and how, from this perspective, to think about the bridge between technology and humanity. The project explored the system's efficacy and potential for educational and creative enhancement. SMALLab is a fifteen-square-foot interactive space that allows students to generate changes in sonic and visual media through gesture and full-body movement.
Saturday Night at Noyes Rhythm Camp
Authors: Brooker Meg
Published: January 2013

In 1919 Florence Fleming Noyes founded an annual summer camp in Cobalt, Connecticut, creating a space for a community of women to explore a danced somatic practice influenced by the Delsarte tradition, Charles Wesley Emerson's theory of creativity, and the popular notion of rhythmic expression. Among the camp traditions that have been preserved for nearly ninety years is “Saturday Night,” an evening of impromptu, vaudeville-style performance in an all-female, nonpublic context. This paper explores the function of Saturday Night as a community-building practice both historically and within the contemporary context of Noyes summer camp culture.
Performing and Choreographing Gender in Eiko & Koma's Cambodian Stories
Authors: Candelario Rosemary
Published: January 2013

Eiko & Koma's 2006 piece Cambodian Stories: An Offering of Painting and Dance offers an opportunity to analyze the ways gender, the nation, and the global are choreographed and represented on an American stage. Gender is thoroughly implicated in each of the main themes raised by the piece: history (both personal and geo-political), Asian identity, and the relationship between visual art and the performing body. In what ways does this intercultural, intergenerational, and multidisciplinary work complicate our understanding of gender and the nation in the age of globalization? How can a performance such as Cambodian Stories be viewed as a site of (non-Western) feminist knowledge production? Might the movements of Eiko & Koma alongside nine young Cambodian painters be evidence of an agency not visible through the gaze of Western feminist theory?
Of the Absence of Dance: Feminisms and Pragmatisms in the Writing of Dance Theory
Authors: Spain Kent De
Published: January 2013

In many ways “Dance Studies” has in recent years become synonymous with a kind of theoretical writing that is heavy on poststructuralist philosophy but often curiously disconnected from the intentions and everyday practices of dancers and choreographers. In this presentation I intend to examine this issue by investigating and analyzing the essays that make up the book Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory (edited by Andre Lepecki), through the lens of a course I am teaching that steeps second-year M.F.A. dance students in the world of dance theory. What is the role of “dance” in these essays? Is there a clear demarcation between feminine and masculine approaches to the theorized space of dance writing? In what ways does dance theory perform its own authority? How can the values of practitioners inform the scholarship of theorists? If there is a voice of dance theory, to whom is it speaking, and on whose behalf?
Dancing Americanness: Jane Addams's Hull House as a Site for Dance Education
Authors: Herzogenrath Jessica Ray
Published: January 2013

This paper explores the role and influence of dance education in Jane Addams's Hull House from its opening in 1889 through roughly 1900. I contend that the ideology of middle- and upper-class women of the Progressive Era, asserted through channels like Hull House, privileged particular forms of dance over others. In effect, they denied the validity of American vernacular dance as a legitimate movement vocabulary. To illuminate these Progressive postures, I investigate the trajectory of American dance education in relation to Jane Addams's attitudes toward diversity, the role of art, and the value of dance at Hull House. I draw from women's, race, and cultural studies for this project and employ historiographie analysis. By contextualizing the elements above, I suggest that as a site of socialization and education Hull House assisted in maintaining the separation of “acceptable” and “unacceptable” dance in the United States.
Toward Defining Contemporary Indian Dance: A Global Form
Authors: Katrak Ketu H.
Published: January 2013

This essay explores innovations in contemporary Indian dance based in classical Indian dance, martial arts and Western dance vocabularies. Who is making change and how does change work? I delineate the parameters of contemporary Indian dance as a genre (since the 1980s) and distinguish it from Bollywood style “free” dance. I analyze the creative choreography of one prominent contemporary Indian dancer, Chennai (India) based Anita Ratnam. Ratnam's signature style, evoking the “feminine transcendental,” is rooted in Indian aesthetic along with a pan-Asian scope. Ratnam's over twenty-year dance career of solo, group, and collaborative work, along with pioneering artist, Astad Deboo, serve as role models for second-generation contemporary Indian dancers such as Los Angeles–based Post-Natyam Collective's movement explorations, among other dancers based in the diaspora.
Decoding the Modern Practice of Bharatanatyam
Authors: Keshaviah Aparna
Published: January 2013

As the classical Indian dance form Bharatanatyam globalizes, it suffers under the gravitas of “unbroken tradition.” To numerically characterize tradition in contemporary India, surveys were administered to 212 practitioners on execution, values, knowledge, and pedagogy. Statistical analysis revealed extensive diversity, lack of a consistent core, and fundamental drivers of variation.
Online Learning in Dance Education
Authors: Nielsen Erica , King Natalie
Published: January 2013

Traditionally, dance learning has involved two modes of delivery: visual and verbal instruction. A teacher explains and corrects, demonstrates, and gives tactile feedback to teach students about ideas through movement. She may find it difficult to contextualize concepts through verbal explanation alone and could spend hours searching for appropriate supplements. Even then, students unfamiliar with dance vocabulary and uncomfortable with abstract movement could run into frustration through this limited approach. Education requires a variety of stimuli, and dance education in particular can benefit greatly from the advantages of online learning tools. This presentation will show you how dance educators can easily incorporate twentyfirst-century technologies into their classrooms, thereby enhancing students' comprehension of theories such as feminism.
A Physical Experience While Watching Dance
Authors: Wildschut Liesbeth
Published: January 2013

Cognitive neuroscience is an area that helps us to enlarge our knowledge of how movement is perceived and how we can understand the process of kinesthetic empathy. In this article I will analyze the connections between the visual input while watching a dance performance, the motor memory, the awareness of movement sensation, and emotional experiences. Experiments done on monkeys by Rizzolatti et al. gave insight in the working of the brain while watching dance. He discovered activity of neurons, which he called mirror neurons. Many experiments followed by neuroscientists and psychologists like Keysers, Bekkering, and Calvo–Merino. In this article I will use research results from neuroscience, as well as results from my own empirical studies. Those results give us more insight in the mechanisms active in the process of kinesthetic empathy, which can be helpful for choreographers interested in involvement strategies on a movement level.
Creating Contemporary Ritual: The Choreography of Lin Lee-Chen and Anna Halprin
Authors: Yong Sheenru
Published: January 2013

A study and comparison of works by two creators of ritual performance—Anna Halprin and Lin Lee-Chen—provide insight into Richard Schechner's efficacy-entertainment continuum as well as how ritual manifests in contemporary performance. Through a close reading of the structure and performance quality of Lin'sMiroirs de Vie (Jiao)and Halprin'sCircle the Earth “Dancing with Life on the Line,”I look at both artist's efforts and results in creating ritual performance and illustrate what I believe to be their distinctive features. Contextualization of the work and the artists' intentions shed light on the possibility or scope of change effected by their creations. While Lin's highly stylized large-scale dance-dramas in many senses cannot be compared to Halprin's nature-oriented participatory community rituals, commonalities in these two works show a strong emphasis on bodily experience, indicating embodiment as fundamental in creating transformative performance.
Between Resistance and Restraint: The Corporeal Practice of Ballet in a University Classroom
Authors: Zahra Rim
Published: January 2013

This essay uses ballet as an example of how dance can be rooted in a discourse of difference that women must learn to overcome. Contributing to the growing research on ballet produced by Jennifer Fisher (and others), this article explores the practice of ballet from the perspective of three female students enrolled in a university-level intermediate ballet class. Based on ethnographic material that was brought together by observing the body practices in the ballet classroom and interviewing the students about their experience with ballet, I explore the intersection between ballet and the lives of the female participants. In describing how the students understand their bodies in relation to the rigid structures of ballet, I show that it is precisely those structures that imbue the students with a sense of agency and self-expression. I also reveal that by conforming to the structures of ballet, the students are achieving higher levels of thinking that allow them to negotiate their everyday lived experiences.
Eclipsed on Centre Stage: The (Dis)Abled Body
Authors: Samuel Gerard M.
Published: January 2013

In working with children with special educational needs both in South Africa and in Denmark, I continue to reflect upon who should dance and how to train dancers who are differently abled. The label of “other” dancer profoundly challenges the notion of “ideal dancing bodies” as “cultures collide.” This paper sets out to engage with the notions of “disability arts” by suggesting some working definitions for this loaded term and provides an examination within the South African context of the multiculturalism of the disabled community, which could be seen as a cultural grouping in and of itself.
Provisioning Western Cape Schools in South Africa with Effective Dance Educators: Posing the Challenges
Authors: Friedman Sharon
Published: January 2013

This paper problematises the training of dance teachers in post-apartheid South Africa. The provisioning of the state primary and secondary schools that offer dance studies as part of the Learning Area, Arts and Culture, with effective teachers is crucial to the delivery of satisfactory dance education in South Africa, where the Revised National Curriculum Statement is specifically intended to meet the diverse demands of the post-apartheid arts environment. The paper proposes that the training of dance educators is further complicated due to the tensions created by the gaps between post-apartheid education philosophy and the realities of teaching, particularly in state schools in the Western Cape.
Assessment in Ballet Studies at the Undergraduate Level in the United Kingdom
Authors: Groves Michelle
Published: January 2013

This paper considers the extent to which assessment of ballet technique within higher education can be congruent with the expectations of professional practice while at the same time acknowledging self-actualisation and regulation through experiences of assessment. Assuming that the study of any discipline within higher education should prepare individuals for employment within a professional stream, this paper questions how expectations of ballet technique within higher education align with expectations of the dance profession. Further, the paper examines how objective measures that underline accountability and transparency in assessment practices align with aesthetic variables such as interpretation, presentation, and artistic sensibility.
Teaching Research and Writing to Dance Artists and Educators
Authors: Dils Ann H. , Stinson Susan W. , Risner Doug
Published: January 2013

The authors describe a model for teaching research and writing to graduate students in dance that they have been implementing and refining for the past five years. The model entwines scholarship, teaching, and artistry. Dils and Stinson reflect on two issues that arise from their teaching: embodiment as it relates to dance research and to online learning and maintaining high expectations for critical and reflective thinking in light of the developmental levels of students. Risner's survey on graduate dance programs in the United States is referred to within the presentation, including a brief excerpt from qualitative responses.
Pre-Professional Ballet Training: Toward Making It Fit for Human Consumption
Authors: Birk Karena
Published: January 2013

Professional ballet is often problematized, as is the training that leads up to it. Even when ballet's training model is not being held up as an example of outright abuse, its “old school” methods are generally considered authoritarian, outdated, and oppressive. However, pre-professional training is not always so dire, and more importantly, it does not have to be. The dance profession and training are changing: to reflect and strengthen emerging “new school” methods, teachers reworking the traditional model should be more active in sharing and asserting their ideas, and there should be greater interaction between academia and the studio.
“Even the dinner ladies are teaching dance!” Pedagogic Explorations of South Asian Dance in Britain
Authors: David Ann R. , Devi Nilima
Published: January 2013

This lecture-demonstration examines some of the tensions and contradictions found in the teaching of South Asian dance in Britain through using a demonstration by Leicester Kathak dancer Nilima Devi and evidence gleaned from Ann David's ethnographic research amongst dance students and teachers in Hindu communities in Leicester. It considers how issues of tradition and change within an arena seen as “cultural heritage” are incorporated into pedagogic practice. It questions different perceptions of dance by teenage students and their teachers, as well as articulating some of the problematic areas in the teaching of classical and popular dance forms, such as Kathak, Bharatanatyam, and Bollywood.
Biography and Autobiography: Teaching Strategies for Dance History in a Mediatized World
Authors: Miller Ray
Published: January 2013

Teaching dance history to the undergraduate “Millennial Student” is challenging on many levels. Due to the proliferation of mediated technologies, critics Sven Birkerts and Martin Bérubé are concerned that they are loosing the ability to read deeply and to think critically not so much because of the strong visual appeal of these technologies and communication media but because they encourage a voyeuristic view of human interactions that leaves little room for the privacy of the individual. The personal becomes public. There is no room left for the reflective self, the soul. This paper will explore pedagogical strategies centered on biography and autobiography that are intended to shift the student from being passive recipients of dance history to becoming imaginatively engaged in the creation of dance history.
School Curricula in Germany: Dancing on the Edge
Authors: Bronner Eva
Published: January 2013

In the German federal states of North-Rhine-Westfalia (NRW) and Baden-Württemberg dance isn't a school subject. However, there is dance within physical education—with big differences: In NRW physical education is committed to the purpose of holistic education. Dance is an essential part thereof and obligatory for girls and boys at all class levels and in all types of schools. In Baden-Württemberg dance diminishes within physical education the higher the class and educational level of the student. Unfortunately it has degenerated into a semisport without artistic or pedagogical depth. As an elective matter it can be chosen—or not.
A Creative Ethos: Teaching and Learning at the Cloud Gate Dance School in Taiwan
Authors: Mead David
Published: January 2013

Theory suggests that prescription should be detrimental to creativity. The Cloud Gate Dance School has highly structured and detailed curricula and pedagogical practices where the meeting of specific course and individual lesson objectives are regarded as essential. Yet, personal creativity in activities is stressed by the school's leaders and teachers, both for teachers and students. This paper considers the construction of creativity in the specific context and how it is underpinned by the school's ethos. It is based on observations of studio practice, discussions with teachers and other staff, and analysis of printed curricula documentation.
Collaborative Inquiry into the Culture of Dance Teaching
Authors: Löytönen Teija
Published: January 2013

Last year I started a research project with the aim of pursuing collaboration among dance teachers. Through collaborative inquiry, the study aims to bring forth some core but unarticulated undercurrents within dance teaching, thus enhancing self-understanding within the rapidly changing circumstances of dance education. In this paper, I will first introduce some notions on the culture of dance teaching and then discuss collaboration in relation to reflective practice as well as to research practice. The main emphasis, however, is to explore the possibilities and challenges in collaborative inquiry as experienced by the participants.
On Becoming a Teacher: Dance, Pedagogy, and the Debate over Dance Teacher Quality
Authors: Warburton Edward C.
Published: January 2013

One of the most critical issues in education is teacher quality. In dance there is long-standing debate concerning which teaching skills tend to be weakest and thus comprise the most exigent threats to dance teacher quality. The requisite skills of teaching expertise have been broadly categorized as content knowledge (that is, expertise in the subject being taught) and pedagogical knowledge (that is, expertise in teaching techniques). Which of these sets of capacities (or lack thereof) more frequently cause dance teachers' work to be ineffective? Data from a series of original research studies, employing a range of methods, are considered.
Keynote Panel
Authors: Bartlett Ken , DeFrantz Thomas F. , Ross Janice , Huxley Michael
Published: January 2013

The following is a lightly edited version of the notes that the panelists and chair used. The spoken presentations and ensuing discussions differed by virtue of their liveness and performativity. Nonetheless, it was thought important to place these discussions on record in a form that, it is hoped, will remind those who attended and be of interest to those who did not.
Mechanism of Rab1b deactivation by the Legionella pneumophila GAP LepB
Authors: Mihai Gazdag Emerich , Streller Alexandra , Haneburger Ina , Hilbi Hubert , Vetter Ingrid R , Goody Roger S , Itzen Aymelt
Published: January 2013

Legionella pneumophila is an intracellularly surviving pathogen that releases about 270 different proteins into the host cell during infection. A set of secreted proteins takes control of the vesicular trafficking regulator Rab1. Legionella LepB inactivates Rab1 by acting as a GTPase‐activating protein (GAP). We present the crystal structure of the Rab1b:LepB complex together with a thorough biochemical analysis and show that the GAP domain of LepB consists of an unusual fold. LepB acts by an atypical RabGAP mechanism that is reminiscent of classical GAPs and therefore sets the protein apart from mammalian TBC‐like GAPs. Surprisingly, LepB can function as a GAP for Rab3, Rab8, Rab13 and Rab35, too, suggesting that it has a broader cellular role than previously thought.
Adverse Drug Reactions in Humans – Data from Veterinary Pharmacovigilance Schemes
Authors: Woodward K. N.
Published: January 2013

Adverse drug reaction reporting schemes, or pharmacovigilance schemes as they are frequently known, are useful in monitoring patient safety for both human and veterinary drugs. Virtually all veterinary pharmacovigilance schemes require the reporting of adverse reactions in humans exposed to veterinary medicinal products. This chapter examines the functioning and output of two of these schemes, one in a European Union member state, the United Kingdom, and the other in the United States.
Correlation between the variation in observed melting temperatures and structural motifs of the global minima of gallium clusters: An ab initio study
Authors: Susan Anju , Kibey Aniruddha , Kaware Vaibhav , Joshi Kavita
Published: January 2013

We have investigated the correlation between the variation in the melting temperature and the growth pattern of small positively charged gallium clusters. Significant shift in the melting temperatures was observed for a change of only few atoms in the size of the cluster. Clusters with size between 31−42 atoms melt between 500–600 K whereas those with 46−48 atoms melt around 800 K. Density functional theory based first principles simulations have been carried out on \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}${\rm Ga}^{+}_{n}$\end{document} Ga n+ clusters with n = 31, …, 48. At least 150 geometry optimizations have been performed towards the search for the global minima for each size resulting in about 3000 geometry optimizations. For gallium clusters in this size range, the emergence of spherical structures as the ground state leads to higher melting temperature. The well-separated core and surface shells in these clusters delay isomerization, which results in the enhanced stability of these clusters at elevated temperatures. The observed variation in the melting temperature of these clusters therefore has a structural origin.
Uncertainties of coherent states for a generalized supersymmetric annihilation operator
Authors: Kornbluth Mordechai , Zypman Fredy
Published: January 2013

This study presents supersymmetric coherent states that are eigenstates of a general four-parameter family of annihilation operators. The elements of this family are defined as operators in Fock space that transform a subspace of a definite number of particles into a subspace with one particle removed. The emphasis is on classifying parameter space in various regions according to the uncertainty bounds of the corresponding coherent states. Specifically, the uncertainty in position-momentum is analyzed, with specific focus on characterizing regions of minimum uncertainty states, regions where the uncertainties are bounded from above, and where they grow unbound.
Spin-polarization reversal at the interface between benzene and Fe(100)
Authors: Goumri-Said Souraya , Benali Kanoun Mohammed , Manchon Aurélien , Schwingenschlögl Udo
Published: January 2013

The spin-polarization at the interface between Fe(100) and a benzene is investigated theoretically using density functional theory for two positions of the organic molecule: planar and perpendicular with respect to the substrate. The electronic and magnetic properties as well as the spin-polarization close to the Fermi level strongly depend on the benzene position on the iron surface. An inversion of the spin-polarization is induced by p-d hybridization and charge transfer from the iron to the carbon sites in both configurations.