bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The impact of dust storms on the Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea
Authors: Jish Prakash P. , Stenchikov G. , Kalenderski S. , Osipov S. , Bangalath H.
Published: January 2015

Abstract. Located in the dust belt, the Arabian Peninsula is a major source of atmospheric dust. Frequent dust outbreaks and some 15 to 20 dust storms per year have profound effects on all aspects of human activity and natural processes in this region. To quantify the effect of severe dust events on radiation fluxes and regional climate characteristics, we simulated the storm that occurred from 18 to 20 March 2012 using a regional weather research forecast model fully coupled with the chemistry/aerosol module (WRF–Chem). This storm swept over a remarkably large area affecting the entire Middle East, northeastern Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It was caused by a southward propagating cold front, and the associated winds activated the dust production in river valleys of the lower Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq; the coastal areas in Kuwait, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates; the Rub al Khali, An Nafud, and Ad Dahna deserts; and along the Red Sea coast on the west side of the Arabian Peninsula. Our simulation results compare well with available ground-based and satellite observations. We estimate the total amount of dust generated by the storm to have reached 94 Mt. Approximately 78% of this dust was deposited within the calculation domain. The Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf received 5.3 Mt and the Red Sea 1.2 Mt of dust. Dust particles bring nutrients to marine ecosystems, which is especially important for the oligotrophic Northern Red Sea. However, their contribution to the nutrient balance in the Red Sea remains largely unknown. By scaling the effect of one storm to the number of dust storms observed annually over the Red Sea, we estimate the annual dust deposition to the Red Sea, associated with major dust storms, to be 6 Mt.
Ionospheric assimilation of radio occultation and ground-based GPS data using non-stationary background model error covariance
Authors: Lin C. Y. , Matsuo T. , Liu J. Y. , Lin C. H. , Tsai H. F. , Araujo-Pradere E. A.
Published: January 2015

Abstract. Ionospheric data assimilation is a powerful approach to reconstruct the 3-D distribution of the ionospheric electron density from various types of observations. We present a data assimilation model for the ionosphere, based on the Gauss–Markov Kalman filter with the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) as the background model, to assimilate two different types of slant total electron content (TEC) observations from ground-based GPS and space-based FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC (F3/C) radio occultation. Covariance models for the background model error and observational error play important roles in data assimilation. The objective of this study is to investigate impacts of stationary (location-independent) and non-stationary (location-dependent) classes of the background model error covariance on the quality of assimilation analyses. Location-dependent correlations are modeled using empirical orthogonal functions computed from an ensemble of the IRI outputs, while location-independent correlations are modeled using a Gaussian function. Observing system simulation experiments suggest that assimilation of slant TEC data facilitated by the location-dependent background model error covariance yields considerably higher quality assimilation analyses. Results from assimilation of real ground-based GPS and F3/C radio occultation observations over the continental United States are presented as TEC and electron density profiles. Validation with the Millstone Hill incoherent scatter radar data and comparison with the Abel inversion results are also presented. Our new ionospheric data assimilation model that employs the location-dependent background model error covariance outperforms the earlier assimilation model with the location-independent background model error covariance, and can reconstruct the 3-D ionospheric electron density distribution satisfactorily from both ground- and space-based GPS observations.
Profiling wind and greenhouse gases by infrared-laser occultation: algorithm and results from end-to-end simulations in windy air
Authors: Plach A. , Proschek V. , Kirchengast G.
Published: January 2015

Abstract. The new mission concept of microwave and infrared-laser occultation between low-Earth-orbit satellites (LMIO) is designed to provide accurate and long-term stable profiles of atmospheric thermodynamic variables, greenhouse gases (GHGs), and line-of-sight (l.o.s.) wind speed with focus on the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). While the unique quality of GHG retrievals enabled by LMIO over the UTLS has been recently demonstrated based on end-to-end simulations, the promise of l.o.s. wind retrieval, and of joint GHG and wind retrieval, has not yet been analyzed in any realistic simulation setting so far. Here we describe a newly developed l.o.s. wind retrieval algorithm, which we embedded in an end-to-end simulation framework that also includes the retrieval of thermodynamic variables and GHGs, and analyze the performance of both standalone wind retrieval and joint wind and GHG retrieval. The wind algorithm utilizes LMIO laser signals placed on the inflection points at the wings of the highly symmetric C18OO absorption line near 4767 cm−1 and exploits transmission differences from wind-induced Doppler shift. Based on realistic example cases for a diversity of atmospheric conditions, ranging from tropical to high-latitude winter, we find that the retrieved l.o.s wind profiles are of high quality over the lower stratosphere under all conditions, i.e., unbiased and accurate to within about 2 m s−1 over about 15 to 35 km. The wind accuracy degrades into the upper troposphere due to decreasing signal-to-noise ratio of the wind-induced differential transmission signals. The GHG retrieval in windy air is not vulnerable to wind speed uncertainties up to about 10 m s−1 but is found to benefit in case of higher speeds from the integrated wind retrieval that enables correction of wind-induced Doppler shift of GHG signals. Overall both the l.o.s. wind and GHG retrieval results are strongly encouraging towards further development and implementation of a LMIO mission.
Tóth, Zsófia Eszter: "Kádár leányai. Nők a szocialista időszakban" [Kádár’s Girls. Women During Socialism]
Authors: Glanz Susan
Published: January 2015

Tóth, Zsófia Eszter, Kádár leányai, Nők a szocialista időszakban [Kádár’s Girls, Women During Socialism], Budapest, Nyitott Könyvműhely, 2010. Reviewed by Susan Glanz, St. John‟s University.
Török, Petra, ed.: "Sorsával tetováltan önmaga. Válogatás Lesznai Anna naplójegyzeteiből" [Tattoed With Her Fate: Excerpts from Anna Lesznai’s Diary]
Authors: Huszár Ágnes
Published: January 2015

Török, Petra, ed. Sorsával tetováltan önmaga. Válogatás Lesznai Anna naplójegyzeteiből[Tattoed With Her Fate: Excerpts from Anna Lesznai’s Diary]. Budapest, Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum and Hatvany Lajos Múzeum. 2010. 536 pp., illus. + Appendix. Reviewed by Ágnes Huszár, University of Pécs.
Borgos, Anna: "Portrék a Másikról – Alkotónők és alkotótársak a múlt századelőn" [Portraits of the Other. Women Creative Artists and Creative Partners in the Last Century]
Authors: Séllei Nóra
Published: January 2015

Anna Borgos.2007. „Portrék a Másikról – Alkotónők és alkotótársak a múlt századelőn” [Portraits of the Other. Women Creative Artists and Creative Partners in the Last Century]. Budapest: Noran. Reviewed by Nóra Séllei, University of Debrecen.
Varga, Virág and Zsávolya, Zoltán. eds.: "Nő, tükör, írás: Értelmezések a 20. század első felének női irodalmáról" [Woman, Mirror, Writing: Interpretations of Early 20th Century Women’s Literature]
Authors: MacDonald Ágnes Vashegyi
Published: January 2015

Reviewed by Ágnes Vashegyi MacDonald
Kádár Lynn, Katalin, ed.: " Through an American Lens, Hungary, 1938: Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White"
Authors: Corbett Joyce Berczik
Published: January 2015

Kádár Lynn, Katalin, ed. Through an American Lens, Hungary, 1938: Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White.Trans. Mario Fenyő. Essays by: Károly Szerencsés, Katalin Kádár Lynn, Péter Strausz. East European Monographs. Boulder: Columbia UP, Distributor, 2010.111 pp. ISBN: 978-0-88033-678-9.(Hungarian edition: Szerk.: Kádár Lynn Katalin, Szerencsés Károly esszéivel. Strausz Péter jegyzeteivel. Magyarország 1938: egy amerikai szemével, Margaret Bourke-White fotói. Budapest: L’Harmattan, Budapest, 2008. ISBN: 978-963-236-005-8) Reviewed by Joyce Berczik Corbett, Curatorial Consultant.
Frank, Tibor: "Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945."
Authors: Felkay Andrew
Published: January 2015

Frank, Tibor. Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945. Exile Studies, Vol. 7. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang AG, 2009. 501 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. Illustrations. Reviewed by Andrew Felkay, Kutztown University.
Bán, Zsófia and Turai, Hedvig, eds.: "Exposed Memories: Family Pictures in Private and Collective Memory"
Authors: Lynn Katalin Kádár
Published: January 2015

Zsófia Bán and Hedvig Turai, eds. Exposed Memories: Family Pictures in Private and Collective Memory. AICA: International Association of Art Critics: Hungarian Section: Distributed by Central European University Press, 2010, 193 pp. Reviewed by Katalin Kádár Lynn, Senior Researcher, ELTE.
Gerő, András: "Public Space in Budapest: The History of Kossuth Square"
Authors: Lisiak Agata
Published: January 2015

Gerő, András. Public Space in Budapest: The History of Kossuth Square. Trans. Thomas J. and Helen D. DeKornfeld. CHSP Hungarian Studies Series 21. Boulder: Social Science Monographs, 2009. 375 pp.Reviewed by Agata Lisiak, Independent Scholar, Berlin
Némethy, Judit Kesserű: “Szabadságom lett a börtönöm”: Az argentínai magyar emigráció története 1948-1968
Authors: Ludanyi Andrew
Published: January 2015

Némethy, Judit Kesserű: “Szabadságom lett a börtönöm”: Az argentínai magyar emigráció története 1948-1968 (“My Freedom Became My Prison”: The History of the Hungarian Emigrés in Argentina, 1948-1968). Budapest: A Magyar Nyelv és Kultúra Nemzetközi Társasága, 2003. ISBN 963212 152X, 430 pp. Reviewed by Andrew Ludanyi, Ohio Northern University.
Ábrahám, Barna, ed.: "Magyar-szlovák terminológiai térdések /Maďar-Slovenské terminologické otázky"
Authors: Maxwell Alexander
Published: January 2015

Ábrahám, Barna, ed., Magyar-Szlovák Terminológiai Kérdések / Maďar-Slovenské Terminologické otázky. Piliscsaba: Pons Strigoniensis, 2008. 188 pp. (Hungarian),182 pp. (Slovak). Reviewed by Alexander Maxwell, Victoria University, Wellington.
Rounds, Carol H. and Erika Sólyom. Colloquial Hungarian. The Complete Course for Beginners
Authors: Sherwood Peter
Published: January 2015

Reviewed by Peter Sherwood
Nye, Mary Jo. Michael Polanyi and His Generation; Origins of the Social Construction of Science
Authors: Szapor Judith
Published: January 2015

Reviewed by Judith Szapor
Schwarz, Agatha, Ed. Gender and Modernity in Central Europe : the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and its Legacy
Authors: Varga Zsuzsanna
Published: January 2015

Reviewed by Zsuzsanna Varga
Waterbury, Myra A. Between State and Nation: Diaspora Politics and Kin-State Nationalism in Hungary
Authors: Waters Leslie
Published: January 2015

Reviewed by Leslie Waters
Will Hungarian Private Collectors Turn International? Private Engagement in Contemporary Art in East Central Europe
Authors: Ébli Gábor
Published: January 2015

The recent spectacular surge in private collecting in Hungary – which began around the fall of Communism and abated only with the current financial crisis – can be seen as part of the steady expansion of private involvement in the art scene, with some of these developments pointing beyond local significance. This paper examines the historical roots and the current structural characteristics of this spread by looking at the motifs and the choices of collectors, their co-operation with commercial galleries and public museums, as well as the advantages and side-effects of blossoming art patronage. Based on ten years of research, including close to two-hundred interviews with the actors in the art world in Hungary, I argue that private collecting, which had already strongly benefitted from the cultural thaw of the last decades of the Communist regime in the country, has earned over the past quarter-century high social status, the promise of lucrative investment and the liberty of creative self-expression for buyers of modern and, subsequently, contemporary art. The paper aims briefly to place these multiple factors in an international context; further research into art collecting in Eastern Europe will be needed to yield a more complete comparative regional study.
Ready to Secede to the Ottoman Empire: Habsburg Hungary after the Vasvár Peace Treaty (1664-1674)
Authors: Michels Georg B.
Published: January 2015

In the period following the 1664 Vásvár Peace Treaty, which ended four years of warfare between the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires, large segments of the Hungarian noble elite seriously considered switching their allegiance from Vienna to Istanbul. This essay explores some of the reasons for this dramatic but little studied chapter in Hungarian history. At the center of the analysis are the secret instructions to an emissary who was to negotiate with Grand Vezir Ahmed Köpülü the conditions for Royal Hungary’s secession to the Ottomans. This article examines the historical circumstances under which these instructions originated and argues that the initiative came primarily from Hungarian Protestant nobles who sought the sultan’s protection to guarantee the survival of their religion which had come under threat by a brutal Habsburg-sponsored Counter-Reformation campaign. The evidence presented here sheds light on the emergence of close personal relations between Hungarian Protestant nobles and Ottoman powerbrokers, which was a crucial precondition for the Lutheran magnate Imre Thököly’s success in gaining control over large parts of Habsburg Hungary with Ottoman support during the early 1680s.
Danilo Kiš and the Hungarian Holocaust: The Early Novel Psalm 44
Authors: Cox John K.
Published: January 2015

Danilo Kiš's little known second novel, Psalm 44 (1962) is his first major prose work about the Holocaust. This novel was published for the first time in Hungarian translation in 1966 and English translation in 2012. The novel is quite different from Kiš's later works on the Holocaust, the autobiographical trilogy comprising Early Sorrows, Garden, Ashes, and Hourglass. The first difference is in setting. In Psalm 44, a number of important flashbacks take place in Újvidék/Novi Sad, the region of northern Serbia (then Yugoslavia) under Hungarian occupation after 1941; much of the rest of the book takes place in Auschwitz and associated camps in Poland. The amount of Hungarian material is significant, but the inclusion of so much material from Auschwitz is not found elsewhere in Kiš 's oeuvre. The second difference is in the author's graphic portrayal of gruesome atrocities. For the literary historian, Psalm 44 is an important milestone in the development of Kiš 's thematic and stylistic inventory. For other historians, the novel functions in part as a microhistory of the Újvidék massacres (the "Cold Days") of early 1942. Kiš 's quest to find his own voice to attempt to convey the tragedy of the Holocaust—as important for the entire human family and the very region of Central Europe as it was for his own family—finds a parallel expression in the confusion, exhaustion, and skepticism of the characters in this novel.
Multicultural Societies: Kálmán Mikszáth, Pál Závada and Péter Huncik
Authors: Basa Enikő Molnár
Published: January 2015

Three Hungarian works, one from the 19th century and two contemporary novels, reflect changing attitudes to ethnicity and nationality questions within Hungary, including the area that became part of Czechoslovakia after World War I. Kálmán Mikszáth’s Tót Atyafiak shows a society in which the various nationalities of Upper Hungary live in harmony. Ethnic problems seem not to be present. Pál Závada’s Jadviga Párnája presents a more complex picture: while the protagonists seem free of nationalistic sentiments, they are conscious of their Slovak roots, their customs and language. A majority in the city and community which forms the backdrop to the story, they are a minority in the larger region of the Hungarian Plain. However, different customs and language are not perceived as setting themselves off from other Hungarians. Outside forces and prejudices do intrude since key sections of the story occur during World War I and its aftermath. The third novel, Péter Hunčik’s Határeset examines the fate of the population of Ipolyság, a town in what is now southern Slovakia. This is an area which still has a large Hungarian population; many families nevertheless have a background that includes Slovak and other nationalities. With the border changes of 1920, 1938 and 1945 lives are disrupted. Communism further complicates the tensions and absurdities fueled by outside forces. The works are testimonies to tolerance because the protagonists most affected are open to other ethnicities, other nationalities.
Sociolinguistic and Contact-induced Variation in Hungarian Language Use in Subcarpathia, Ukraine
Authors: Csernicskó István , Fenyvesi Anna
Published: January 2015

In addition to showing regional and social variation, the language use of the minority Hungarians of Subcarpathia, Ukraine, also presents a reflection of the region’s complex linguistic history and its effects from contact with Russian and Ukrainian. On the basis of quantitative empirical findings, this study shows Subcarpathian Hungarians to be a sociolinguistically stratified group of speakers whose Hungarian language use varies in a systematic manner according to sex, age, level of education, and place of residence. The paper also outlines some of the main differences in the language use of Hungarians in Subcarpathia and Hungary which are manifested in statistically significant ways.
Issues of Assimilation, Language and Identity in the Lives of Young Max Nordau and Tivadar Herzl
Authors: Ujvári Hedvig
Published: January 2015

The name of Theodor Herzl (Herzl Tivadar) evokes his Hungarian ties and the major stages of his life and work with relative ease, but doctor, writer and journalist Max Nordau (1849, Pest – 1923, Paris), requires a more delicate approach, having essentially sunk into oblivion despite his prolificacy in literature and his wide-ranging Zionist activities. In the case of Max Nordau, the second personality discussed in this paper, the aim of this paper is not to remedy the lack of information on Nordau, but to draw a comparison and a parallel between the years Nordau and Herzl spent in Pest in terms of assimilation and issues of language and identity. We first highlight events that are relevant to Nordau and Herzl‟s family background, schooling, school transfers and university education, and then discuss in greater detail the linguistic and cultural paradigm shift that began in 1861 and forced Nordau first into a defensive position and then into isolation both socio-culturally and occupationally, but led to well-balanced bilingualism in Herzl‟s case.
Ironic Narrative Agency as a Method of Coping with Trauma in the Diary-Memoir of Margit K., a Female Holocaust Survivor
Authors: Kunt Gergely
Published: January 2015

This paper analyzes the rhetoric of a manuscript written in Budapest immediately after the Holocaust to record the personal experiences of the author, Margit K. I examine the text in terms of the role of writing and narration in processing trauma and how these appear in the narrative. In her memoirs, Margit K. had imbued her personal history of persecution with meanings that facilitated their integration into her life history and her self-definition. She chose to narrate her tragic past using euphemistic, mitigating, or ironic language and constructed her stories to have positive outcomes while attempting to write as little of the pain and tragedy of her persecution as possible. The euphemizing narrative methods used in the memoirs disappear entirely in the diary and the themes discussed in the diary are also different, which shows the advantages of constructing a desired past within the genre of the memoirs in contrast to the more strictly defined genre of diary-writing.
Hungarian Women’s Holocaust Life Writing in the Context of the Nation’s Divided Social Memory, 1944-2014
Authors: Vasvári Louise O.
Published: January 2015

In this paper, in commemoration of the seventieth anniversary year of 1944 in Hungary, I explore selected women’s Holocaust diaries, memoirs, letters, and other less studied documents, such as recipe books, all written during the war, which can provide invaluable resources for understanding the experiences of the victims of war, by personalizing the events and helping to write the obscure into history. At the same time, such documents allow historical voices of the period to provide testimony in the context of the divided social memory of the Holocaust in Hungary today.  I will first discuss several Hungarian diaries and “immediate memoirs” written right after liberation, among others, that of Éva Heyman who began writing her diary in 1944 on her thirteenth birthday and wrote until two days before her deportation to Auschwitz, where she perished. I will then discuss two recently published volumes, the Szakácskönyv a túlélélésért (2013), which contains the collected recipes that five Hungarian women wrote in a concentration camp in Austria, along with an oral history of the life of Hedwig Weiss, who redacted the collection. Finally, I will refer to the postmemory anthology, Lányok és anyák. Elmeséletlen történetek [‘Mothers and Daughters: Untold Stories’] (2013), where thirty five Hungarian women, some themselves child survivors, others daughters of survivors, write Holocaust narratives in which their mothers’ lives become the intersubject in their own autobiographies, underscoring the risks of intergenerational transmission, where traumatic memory can be transmitted (or silenced) to be repeated and reenacted, rather than worked through.
Review Article: The Vanished Ghosts in Two Hungarian Family Memoirs. Farkas, Charles. 2013. Vanished by the Danube: Peace, War, Revolution, and Flight to the West (Introduction by Margaret McMullan). Albany: Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press. 472 pp. Illus; and Barlay, Nick. 2013. Scattered Ghosts: One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution. London and New York: I. B. Tauris. 240 pp. Illus.
Authors: Biro Ruth G.
Published: January 2015

Recent personal documentary works about major historical events of the twentieth century, e.g., World War II, the Holocaust and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, offer their readers a rich and multifaceted narrative, or a history that is also "his story," "her story" and that of entire families, cohorts and communities. Often, these works are accompanied by visual artifacts such as photographs, family tress, maps etc., or supported by concise historical surveys. Thus these memoirs complete the work of historians with the lived experiences of the few that represent many. Such is the case with two 2013 books by Charles Farkas and Nick Barlay depicting their mid-twentieth century Hungarian families, one Christian and one Jewish, through two World Wars and the anti-communist uprising, culminating in their escape to the West and in the two authors looking back upon the Hungarian past of their families.
Gere, Zsolt. 2013. Vörösmarty Mihály Epikus Korszakának Irodalom és Recepciótörténeti Kontextusai (The Writing and Reception Contexts of Mihály Vörösmarty 's Epic Writing) Ph.D Dissertation. Szeged: Szeged University. 275 pp. Illus. (http://doktori.bibl.u-szeged.hu/1781/1/Gere%20Zsolt%20- %20PhD-dolgozat.pdf) [Szebb idők - Vörösmarty epikus korszakának rétegei; Budapest: Argumentum Kiadó, 2013]
Authors: Basa Enikő M.
Published: January 2015

Gere, Zsolt. 2013. Vörösmarty Mihály Epikus Korszakának Irodalom és Recepciótörténeti Kontextusai  (The Writing and Reception Contexts of Mihály Vörösmarty 's Epic Writing)  Ph.D Dissertation. Szeged: Szeged University. 275 pp. Illus. (http://doktori.bibl.u-szeged.hu/1781/1/Gere%20Zsolt%20-%20PhD-dolgozat.pdf) [Szebb idők - Vörösmarty epikus korszakának rétegei; Budapest: Argumentum Kiadó, 2013]. Reviewed by Enikő Molnár Basa
Ferdinandy, György. 2013. Mélyebbre - elbeszélések, jegyzetek (Dig Deeper – Short Stories and Notes). Budapest: Magyar Napló. 296 pp.
Authors: Fenyő Mario
Published: January 2015

Ferdinandy, György. 2013. Mélyebbre -  elbeszélések, jegyzetek (Dig Deeper – Short Stories and Notes). Budapest:  Magyar Napló. 296 pp. Reviewed by Mario Fenyő, Bowie State University, Maryland
Blomqvist, Anders E. B., Constantin Iordachi, Balázs Trencsényi (eds.) 2013. Hungary and Romania Beyond National Narratives - Comparisons and Entanglements in Nationalisms Across the Globe Vol. 10. Bern: Peter Lang. viii, 847 pp.
Authors: Ludányi Andrew
Published: January 2015

Blomqvist, Anders E. B., Constantin Iordachi, Balázs Trencsényi (eds.) 2013. Hungary and Romania Beyond National Narratives - Comparisons and Entanglements in Nationalisms Across the Globe Vol. 10. Bern: Peter Lang. viii, 847 pp.Reviewed by: Andrew Ludanyi, Ohio Northern University
Berglund, Bruce R. and Brian Porter-Szűcs, eds. 2013. Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press. 386 pp.
Authors: Nagy Dorottya
Published: January 2015

Berglund, Bruce R. and Brian Porter-Szűcs, eds. 2013. Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press. 386 pp. Reviewed by Dorottya Nagy, University of South Africa, Helsinki, Finland.
Molnár, Virág. 2013. "Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe"
Authors: Munteán László
Published: January 2015

Molnár, Virág. 2013. Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe. London and New York: Routledge. 209 pp. illus.Reviewed by László Munteán, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Kelemen, János. 2013. The Rationalism of Georg Lukács. Basingstoke: Macmillan, Palgrave Pivot. 144 pp.
Authors: Szilágyi-Gál Mihály
Published: January 2015

Kelemen, János. 2013. The Rationalism of Georg Lukács. Basingstoke: Macmillan, Palgrave Pivot. 144 pp.Reviewed by Mihály Szilágyi-Gál, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Bánó, András. 2013. "Észbontó élet: Kövesdy Pál regényes története. A ’30-as évek megpróbáltatásaitól kezdve az ukrajnai szörnyűségeken át a New York-i galériáig" (A Ravishing Life – the Novelized History of Pál Kövesdy from the 1930s Tribulations)
Authors: Takács Gábor
Published: January 2015

Bánó, András. 2013. Észbontó élet: Kövesdy Pál regényes története. A ’30-as évek megpróbáltatásaitól kezdve az ukrajnai szörnyűségeken át a New York-i galériáig (A Ravishing Life – the Novelized History of Pál Kövesdy from the 1930s Tribulations, through Horrors in The Ukraine, to his New York Art Gallery). Budapest: Scolar Kiadó. 160 pp.Reviewed by Gábor Takács, art historian, Budapest
Hungarian Is No "Idioma Incomparabile": The Hungarian Language Reform in European Comparison
Authors: Laakso Johanna
Published: January 2015

The idea of the uniqueness of the Hungarian language is firmly rooted in Hungarian culture and discourse. Accordingly, the language reform (“nyelvújítás”)—the movement which led to the standardization of Modern Hungarian orthography and grammar and a radical renewal of the lexicon, especially by way of numerous neologisms, in the nineteenth century—is often seen as part of specifically Hungarian cultural history rather than in the framework of European ideologies. This paper briefly presents the most relevant linguistic aspects of the language reform and analyzes its connections to contemporary linguistic culture, the ideologies of late Enlightenment and Romantic Nationalism, and the progress in linguistics.
East and West in Modern Hungarian Politics
Authors: Rac Katalin
Published: January 2015

More than any other politician in current Hungarian politics, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán refers to “east” and “west” in his public addresses as symbols of antithetical political cultures and cultural value systems. Of course, he is by no means the first Hungarian statesman to do so. From the Middle Ages, references to the Asian origins of the nation were mobilized by chroniclers and statesmen to characterize the national character and Hungary’s place in the European Christian political community. During the Enlightenment, the embracing of a perceived cultural hierarchy between west and east entered the Hungarian public discourse, and from the Reform Era the two intellectual streams shaped modern Hungarian identity discourse equally. This paper describes the national identity discourse that emphasizes the Asian origins of the nation through the lens of what I call “self-Orientalism.” Whereas Orbán’s political addresses can be viewed as a continuation of the self-Orientalizing language, the examination of the ways in which he breaks from the tradition of self-Orientalism teaches even more important lessons about the viability of the reference to the east-west dichotomy in the global political arena.
Educating Apostles of the Homeland: Tourism and "Honismeret" in Interwar Hungary
Authors: Behrendt Andrew
Published: January 2015

Promoters of domestic tourism in Hungary between the world wars laid blame for poor business at the feet of many causes. But their loudest and most persistent accusation was that Hungarians did not travel their homeland because they did not properly “know it.” At the same time, geographers, educators, and politicians made the nearly identical claim that Hungarians were lacking in honismeret, or “knowledge of one’s homeland,” and needed to banish their ignorance if they were to truly and adequately love their country. This article explores one confluence of these two streams. Between 1934 and 1942, metropolitan authorities sponsored an ambitious educational program, the School Excursion Trains of the Capital City of Budapest [Budapest Székesfőváros Iskolai Kirándulóvonatai], which aimed to improve the honismeret of high school students by giving them first-hand experience of dozens of Hungarian cities and regions. Through a close analysis of the 31-volume series of guidebooks produced for the benefit of the Excursion Train passengers, this article argues that the fundamental goal of the program was to transform Hungary from an abstract territorial space into a set of concrete places to which students could feel personally attached, and therefore better “know.”
Research Note: Political Geography and the Production of Hungarian “Pocket Atlases,” 1913-1919
Authors: Hajdú Zoltán
Published: January 2015

The Zsebatlasz [‘Pocket Atlas’] series published in Hungary between 1909 and 1919 was a business venture of the Hungarian Geographical Institute [Magyar Földrajzi Intézet]. Intended primarily for the teaching of geography at the secondary school level in Hungary, the main aim was to broaden the worldview and expand the knowledge of secondary school pupils. Before and during World War I, the books were militarised, and promoted Hungarian national points of views. Short articles in each of the volumes provided analyses and reports of the war, focusing in particular on the geographical problems arising from ever-shifting territorial transformations. To aid in the transfer of this political-geographical knowledge, coloured maps were published in a huge number in the volumes. This paper outlines the evolution of this “Pocket Atlas” series, and in so doing provides the basis for critical reflection on the relationship between political power, nationalist propaganda, and the production of geographical knowledge.
Symbolic Geographies and the Politics of Hungarian Identity in the ‘Populist-Urbanist Debate,’ 1925-44
Authors: Esbenshade Richard S.
Published: January 2015

This article examines intellectuals’ debates about national identity in interwar and World War II Hungary to uncover their connection to underlying “symbolic geographies” and “mental maps.” Focusing on the way in which Hungarian identity and history have been informed by, and indeed inserted into, virtual spatial rubrics that rely on the historically developed cultural concepts of “Europe” and “Asia,” and “West” and “East,” the paper looks in particular at the “populist-urbanist debate” that raged between two groups of writers, both opposed to the ruling neo-feudal order. The populists were composed mostly of provincial-born intellectuals who saw the recognition and uplift of the peasant as the key to Hungary’s salvation. The urbanists were cosmopolitan intellectuals, mostly of assimilated Jewish origin, who saw the wholesale adoption of progressive Western rights and norms as the only way forward.
Morphological and molecular evidence for a new species of Psilocybe from southern China
Authors: Li Yang-Kun , Yuan Ye , Liang Jun-Feng
Published: January 2015

Psilocybe cinnamomea sp. nov. is reported from China. It is characterized by its campanulate to plano-convex pileus, ellipsoid spores with a distinctly broad germ pore, clavate basidia, polymorphic cheilocystidia, and clavate to fusiform pleurocystidia with a short unbranched
neck. Phylogenetic relationships among the new species and allied species in the genus were inferred from the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region.
Powdery mildew on Bougainvillea spectabilis in Mexico with a cryptic generic affinity
Authors: Fernández-Pavía Sylvia P. , Rodríguez-Alvarado Gerardo , Gerónimo-Magaña Jesús , Cabrera María Graciela , Gómez-Dorantes Nuria , Braun Uwe
Published: January 2015

An asexual powdery mildew on Bougainvillea spectabilis resembles Ovulariopsis (anamorphic Phyllactinia and Pleochaeta), while its combination of sinuous to coiled conidiophores forming dimorphic conidia singly suggests a Pleochaeta anamorph. However,
this severely contradicts the rDNA ITS molecular data. The Bougainvillea powdery mildew shows the closest genetic similarities (80-83% sequence homologies) with various Leveillula and Phyllactinia species (Phyllactinieae), whereas Pleochaeta species were
not genetically close. These results suggest that the Bougainvillea powdery mildew has an affinity with tribe Phyllactinieae of the Erysiphaceae, but the percentage of genetic similarity is below the scope of generic limits in powdery mildew ITS data. Although a new genus
may be involved, we cannot formally propose it based on a single sequence, an anamorph morphologically indistinguishable from Ovulariopsis, and an unknown teleomorph.
Pseudocercospora styracigena sp. nov. on Styrax and Alniphyllum from China
Authors: Li Bao-Ju , Chai A-Li , Guo Ying-Lan
Published: January 2015

A new species, Pseudocercospora styracigena, is described, illustrated, and discussed. The type specimen is deposited in HMAS.
Molecular phylogeny of placodioid lichen-forming fungi reveal a new genus, Sedelnikovaea
Authors: Kondratyuk S.Y. , Jeong M.-H. , Galanina I.A. , Yakovchenko L.S. , Yatsyna A.P. , Hur J.-S.
Published: January 2015

A molecular phylogeny based on ITS1/ITS2 and mtSSU DNA sequences is presented for lichen-forming fungi in Protoparmeliopsis and its distant relative Sedelnikovaea gen. nov. The positions of the two genera in the phylogenetic tree of the families Lecanoraceae and
Lecideaceae are discussed. The new combination Sedelnikovaea baicalensis (≡ Lecanora baicalensis) is proposed. The unique Sedelnikovaea-type ascus is described and illustrated. Sedelnikovaea baicalensis and Zwackhiomyces zarei are for the first
time recorded from China.
A new species of Coccomyces with dimorphic paraphyses
Authors: Wang Xiao-Yan , Gu Hai-Lin , Li Qing , Wang Lei-Hong , Lin Ying-Ren
Published: January 2015

A new Coccomyces species found on fallen leaves of Millettia dielsiana at Mt Sanqingshan, Jiangxi province, China, is described as Coccomyces alienus. This taxon is distinguished from all other Coccomyces taxa by having two types of paraphyses. The type specimen
is deposited in the Reference Collection of Forest Fungi of Anhui Agricultural University, China (AAUF).
Leptocorticium indicum sp. nov. from India
Authors: Samita  , Sanyal S.K. , Dhingra G.S.
Published: January 2015

A new corticioid species, Leptocorticium indicum, is described on a decaying log of Rhododendron arboreum from Uttarakhand state in India.
Nomenclatural novelties in the Postia caesia complex
Authors: Papp Viktor
Published: January 2015

Within the genus Postia, the P. caesia complex forms a distinctive morphological group. Based on recent molecular data, the current taxonomic status of the P. caesia complex is discussed and the nomenclature of the related taxa is revised as well. New combinations
are: Postia subg. Cyanosporus, Postia africana, Postia amyloidea, Postia caesioflava, and Postia coeruleivirens.
Galerella xalapensis sp. nov. found in an urban green area in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
Authors: Bandala Victor M. , Montoya Leticia
Published: January 2015

While monitoring species diversity of urban green areas in Xalapa city (Veracruz, Mexico), a new species of Galerella was found in an abandoned urban green area. After macro- and microscopic analysis it is proposed as a new species, Galerella xalapensis, characterized
by a faintly plicate-sulcate dry pale grayish brown pileus, white to yellowish glabrous stipe, thick-walled rusty-brown ellipsoid basidiospores, utriform cheilocystidia, and clampless hyphae. The new taxon is described and illustrated, and a comparison with similar species is provided. This
is the first Galerella recorded from Mexico.
Lophium elegans (Ascomycota), a rare European species
Authors: Mathiassen Geir , Granmo Alfred , Rämä Teppo
Published: January 2015

Lophium elegans (Mytilinidiales, Mytilinidiaceae) is recorded for the first time in northern Europe. It was found on Juniperus communis in two locations in Finnmark County, Norway, which represent the northernmost finds for the species. A morphological description
of the species is given and its ecology and distribution discussed.
New and interesting Laboulbeniales from southern and southeastern Asia
Authors: Haelewaters D. , Yaakop S.
Published: January 2015

Two new species of Laboulbenia from the Philippines are described and illustrated: Laboulbenia erotylidarum on an erotylid beetle (Coleoptera, Erotylidae) and Laboulbenia poplitea on Craspedophorus sp. (Coleoptera, Carabidae).
In addition, we present ten new records of Laboulbeniales from several countries in southern and southeastern Asia on coleopteran hosts. These are Blasticomyces lispini from Borneo (Indonesia), Cantharomyces orientalis from the Philippines, Dimeromyces rugosus on
Leiochrodes sp. from Sumatra (Indonesia), Laboulbenia anoplogenii on Clivina sp. from India, L. cafii on Remus corallicola from Singapore, L. satanas from the Philippines, L. timurensis on Clivina inopaca from Papua New Guinea, Monoicomyces
stenusae on Silusa sp. from the Philippines, Ormomyces clivinae on Clivina sp. from India, and Peyritschiella princeps on Philonthus tardus from Lombok (Indonesia).
Lophodermium quadrisporum sp. nov. (Rhytismataceae) on Rhododendron faberi subsp. prattii
Authors: Lu Dan-Dan , Tang Yan-Ping , Wang Lei-Hong , Wang Shi-Juan , Lin Ying-Ren
Published: January 2015

Lophodermium quadrisporum, a new fungus found on fallen leaves of Rhododendron faberi subsp. prattii from Sichuan Province, China, is described, illustrated, and discussed. This taxon is distinguished from its closest relatives by the occurrence of both 4- and 8-spored
asci. The type specimen is deposited in the Reference Collection of Forest Fungi of Anhui Agricultural University, China (AAUF).
Diploschistes xinjiangensis, a new saxicolous lichen from northwest China
Authors: Abbas Abdulla , Guo Shou-Yu , Ababaikeli Gulibahaer , Abdulla Adiljian , Xahidin Huernisa
Published: January 2015

Diploschistes xinjiangensis from Xinjiang in northwest China is described as new to science. The species is characterized by the thick bluish gray thallus, asci with eight large ellipsoid ascospores, and the presence of diploschistesic and lecanoric acids. It grows on rock in
the semiarid region at elevations of ca. 1700 m. ITS rDNA sequence analyses support the taxonomic distinctness of this species.
Employee engagement and its relation to hospital performance in a tertiary care teaching hospital
Authors: Bulkapuram Srinivas Goud , Wundavalli Laxmitej , Avula Kanthi Sagar , K T Reddy
Published: January 2015

Introduction: Employees in modern organizations are expected to be proactive, show initiative, and take responsibility for their own professional development and to be committed to high quality performance standards. Human resource in healthcare is one of the key components which is scarcely available and needs to be utilized in an efficient way. Assessment of employee engagement and identifying the key areas for work place improvement are important to be able to deliver timely and quality care.Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, India, in the year 2012-13, that included all the permanent employees of the institute except class IV employees. The required sample size was calculated as 286. A semi structured socio-demographic proforma was designed. Employee Experience Survey used in the current study is based on Ontario Hospital Association’s Quality Healthcare Workplace Model. Engagement scores were categorized into low, medium and high categories. Correlation analysis was done to identify the association between engagement score and both the outcomes: patient centered work environment (PCWE) and patient safety culture (PSC).Results: The mean employee engagement score in the study hospital was 20.98 (SD = 3.15) which falls in the medium level. 40.6% of employees were in low engagement group, 39.9% were in medium engagement group and 19.5% were in high engagement group. The mean PCWE score was 22.78 (SD = 3.19), and mean PSC was 21.62 (SD = 3.99) and there was a positive and significant association between employee engagement vs. PWCE and employee engagement vs. PSC.Conclusion: The study shows a significant association between employee engagement and the key hospital outcomes, PCWE and PSC. A further analysis of the engagement survey data is required to test the direction of association and to determine the change in their relationships with respect to time. National benchmarks for such outcome measures need to be developed to enable the hospitals nationwide to assess and compare the work environments.
SPATIAL-VARIANT MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERS WITH NONLOCAL-PATCH-DISTANCE-BASED AMOEBA KERNEL FOR IMAGE DENOISING
Authors: Yang Shuo , Li Jian-Xun
Published: January 2015

Filters of the Spatial-Variant amoeba morphology can preserve edges better, but with too much noise being left. For better denoising, this paper presents a new method to generate structuring elements for Spatially-Variant amoeba morphology.  The amoeba kernel in the proposed strategy is divided into two parts: one is the patch distance based amoeba center, and another is the geodesic distance based amoeba boundary, by which the nonlocal patch distance and local geodesic distance are both taken into consideration. Compared to traditional amoeba kernel, the new one has more stable center and its shape can be less influenced by noise in pilot image. What’s more important is that the nonlocal processing approach can induce a couple of adjoint dilation and erosion, and combinations of them can construct adaptive opening, closing, alternating sequential filters, etc. By designing the new amoeba kernel, a family of morphological filters therefore is derived. Finally, this paper presents a series of results on both synthetic and real images along with comparisons with current state-of-the-art techniques, including novel applications to medical image processing and noisy SAR image restoration.
Wall house
Authors: Kundoo Anupama
Published: January 2015

Wall House is situated outside the planned city limits of Auroville, in Auromodele, an area designated for research and experimentation. The architect’s residence, it compactly accommodated everyday needs whilst effortlessly expanding to absorb guests. It attempted to not only redefine the building program for a private-residence; it tested various spatial and technological innovations to inform other projects.

Wall House was the culmination of an ongoing extensive research and experimentation in low-impact building technologies that are environmentally and socio-economically beneficial, bynegotiating the balance between hi-tech and low-tech and incorporating everyday materials through techniques that include the participation of those with lower skills and education with few skilled craftsmen.
Agujerear el mundo: un grand tour dibujado por cabañas, cámaras y trincheras
Authors: Velasco Susana
Published: January 2015

Se presenta una serie de dibujos que vienen a traducir un encuentro experiencial y existencial con tres arquitecturas-paisaje apenas estudiadas. Son lecturas gráficas de tres figuras espaciales y ontológicas. Casos concretos de cabañas, cámaras y trincheras, que analizados desde una perspectiva histórica aportan claves a cuestiones nucleares en nuestro tiempo -como son la autoconstrucción, la auto-organización y la emancipación. Nociones que están siendo claves en el seno de los actuales movimientos sociales y que, sin embargo, no están encontrando una posición en el debate de la sostenibilidad. Se trata de abrir la vía a la reapropiación por parte de los no-expertos y recuperar una dimensión medial para la arquitectura, la posibilidad de funcionar como un medio, como un transmisor capaz de inducir lecturas del mundo.

These are a series of drawings that come to translate an experiential and existential encounter with three architectures-landscape barely studied. They are graphical readouts of three spatial and ontological figures. Specific cases of cabins, cameras and trenches, which are analyzed from an historical perspective to provide key-nuclear issues of our time like the auto-construction, self-organization and emancipation. Being key notions within today’s social movements, however, are not finding a position in the sustainability debate. The article invites to open the way to reappropriation by non-experts and recover a medial dimension for architecture, the ability to function as a medium, as a transmitter capable of inducing views of the world.
ABSORB: A THREE YEAR UPDATE IN ARCTIC SPILL RESPONSE
Authors: Hillman Sharon O. , Shafer Richard V.
Published: January 2015

In 1979 the petroleum industry formed an oil spill response organization called the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Oilspill Response Body (ABSORB). This group's purpose is to help participating oil companies provide an integrated capability to deal with the possibility of a major oil spill in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea.

ABSORB and its member companies have maintained a high priority on increasing the state-of-the-art capabilities for effective response during the solid ice season, as reported in earlier conferences. In addition they have worked to identify and fill the data gaps for all season response capabilities. The ongoing research and development engineering projects have complemented this goal, along with the ongoing efforts of the ABSORB staff and member company technical representatives in the areas of equipment selection, purchase, modification and training. This paper briefly reviews the status of ABSORB today in terms of its organization and staffing, facilities and equipment, contingency planning, research and development (R & D), training programs, and response techniques.11,9