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Canada's Leading Poet Stephan G. Stephansson (1853–1927)
Authors: Kirkconnell Watson
Published: March 2013

Canada is lacking in those literary shrines which an older civilization scatters so lavishly across its countryside. Ayr, Ecclefechan and Abbotsford, Grasmere, Stratford, Stoke Poges, and unnumbered other Old-VVorld villages and towns, are honoured for their ghosts of literary association, an intangible accumulation of the fruitful centuries. When, in an era yet to come, a similar place-worship arises in Canada, a strong claim to recognition will be made by the little Albertan hamlet of Markerville, near which, for almost forty years, lived Stephan G. Stephansson, one of the greatest of all Icelandic poets, and, as an adopted Canadian, an author with an eminent place in our own literary annals.
Changing Quebec
Authors: Barbeau Marius
Published: March 2013

Quebec has individuality; it strikes a note of colour all its own in the North American panorama. Unusual features in the landscape arrest the visitor's attention as soon as he enters the lower St. Lawrence Valley—old houses of stone or square beams, massive and whitewashed, with heavy chimneys and hipped or bell-cast roofs; Roman churches with belfries and pointed spires; wayside shrines, bake-ovens, ox-carts; and jovial habitants, sometimes dressed in homespun, and speaking French. Quebec City, with its crooked, narrow streets within Vauban-like fortifications, resembles a Norman town. Provincial France here still survives; and in spite of its modern growth, the city still looks attractively old-fashioned.
Science and culture
Authors: Synge
Published: March 2013

There is a monkey-like curiosity in a man of science which does not elevate him in the opinion of his cultured fellows. I have before me in two volumes the Works of an ancestor of mine who died in 1805: to pick a few titles, we find “De Sectionibus Conicis,” “An Attempt to prove the Existence of the Supreme unoriginated Being,” “On the Power of fixed Alkaline Salts to preserve the Flesh of Animals from Putrefaction,” “Of Gravity, or the Attraction of Gravitation.” In one who was a Professor of Natural Philosophy, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Bishop, the range is not too varied—for the eighteenth century.
the Tragic Fallacy, So-Called
Authors: Stoll Elmer Edgar
Published: March 2013

Modern serious drama is mean and depressing, declared Mr. Krutch a few years ago, in a depressing though high-minded essay; and there was and still is some reason for his judgment. Ibsen, by his genius, rises above his contemporaries, but in comparison with his peers or betters before him he presents uninspiring situations and unsympathetic souls within them. These have not the sweetness or the greatness of poetry. Male and female alike, they are not, as the Shakespearean and Hellenic figures are, blessed with an imagination that comprehends the world about them or their own experience; nor are they richly dowered with virtue or its dramatic equivalent, largeness of life. His leading male characters like Mr. Krutch, I do not call them heroes—have something of the coward, the flincher or deserter in them, witness Bernick, Borkman, Peer Gynt, and Solness, and at the same time, of the trampling, devouring egoist; or they are meddling, floundering idealists, such as Allmers and Gregers Werle; hypocrites, such as Helmer in The Doll's House; sentimentalists, such as young Ekdal in The Wild Duck; or victims of degeneracy or disease, such as Oswald in Ghosts.
Symbolism and Poetry
Authors: Cazamian Louis
Published: March 2013

The subject, which is wide, and no doubt ambitious, will be here adumbrated both in its general bearing, and in its special application to English literature. It is involved in so many difficulties, mostly verbal, that a few preliminary remarks, however trite, may not be amiss.
Religion
Authors: Steigman Emero
Published: March 2013

Reviews of books on religion published in Canada in 1980.
Poetry
Authors: Djwa Sandra
Published: March 2013

Reviews of poetry published in Canada in 1980.
Translations
Authors: O'Connor John
Published: March 2013

Reviews of literary translations published in Canada in 1981.
Les Etudes Sociales
Authors: Jalbert Lizette
Published: March 2013

Reviews of books on French-Canadian social studies published in Canada in 1981.
Humanities
Authors: Savan David
Published: March 2013

Reviews of books on the humanities published in Canada in 1982.
Mr. Peggotty's Dream Comes True': Fathers and Husbands; Wives and Daughters
Authors: Crick Brian
Published: March 2013

It is probably no longer necessary to defend David Copperfield from Orwell's charge that Dickens's art is characteristically 'all fragments, all details—rotten architecture, but wonderful gargoyles.' Q.D. Leavis and John Lucas, to name but two champions of the book's masterful construction, have traced the structural and thematic coherence to be found in the complex patterning of marital and parent-child relations. My concern in this paper is to explore a radical disturbance in Dickens's attempt to integrate these two sets of human relations.
Sex and the Goddess in the Poetry of David Jones
Authors: Dilworth Thomas
Published: March 2013

The poetry of David Jones comprehends most of Western history. But directly or by historical analogy, Jones focuses especially on the postindustrial world and on modern warfare, where he searches for metaphysical value. He is basically a religious poet. And among religious poets he is especially important because he gives new expression to a central metaphor of Western religion, which is that the soul is female to God. Because of its inherent awkwardness for males, the image of the female soul has troubled the religious consciousness of the West. How can a man love God as a woman loves a man? The difficulty, which is aggravated by the masculinity of Christ and the symbolic feminity of the Church, may partly explain why, among Christians, more women than men practise their faith. It certainly accounts for the uneasiness of males, even Christian males, with John of the Cross, whose poetry David Jones once told me he 'could never get into.' The sexual connotation of Jones's remark is doubtless unintended but may nevertheless be significant, for only with some difficulty can males sustain the imaginative sex-change required to identify with the female soul and the female Church in love with a masculine God. To obviate the difficulty, many modern writers deemphasize the sexual image, or avoid it altogether. But the image will not go away. It remains central to Western religious tradition. And since David Jones's subject is Western culture, especially in its religious dimensions, the sexual image is, as it must be, the central metaphor of his work. In his work, David Jones attempts to solve the hermeneutical problem that the sexual metaphor raises by altering the psychology of the metaphor in a way that makes it more accessible to the male imagination. He does this by withdrawing the focus of attention from God to the female lover of God, with whom the female reader can still identify, and to whom the male reader can respond without imaginatively straining his sexual identity.
Poesie
Authors: Yergeau Robert
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian poetry published in Canada in 1986.
Drama
Authors: Wasserman Jerry
Published: March 2013

Reviews of drama published in Canada in 1986.
Translations
Authors: Godard Barbara
Published: March 2013

Reviews of literary translations published in Canada in 1986.
Fiction
Authors: Maconald Gabrielle
Published: March 2013

Reviews of fiction published in Canada in 1988.
Poesie
Authors: Yergeau Robert
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian poetry published in Canada in 1988.
Translations
Authors: Simon Sherry
Published: March 2013

Reviews of literary translations published in Canada in 1989.
Review
Authors: Henderson Greig
Published: March 2013

Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction, reviewed by Greig Henderson
Echo and Narcissism
Authors: Marks Herbert
Published: March 2013

The fable of Echo and Narcissus, read as a parable of repetition and source, is a fable of poetry—inadequate, but as complete as any we have. Our tendency in thinking about Ovid's tale is to oppose the episodes, to take them as linked but contrasting studies. Yet the two figures are expressly bound together, and they seem not only to complement, but to define one another. Narcissus, admiring himself in the pool, repeats the emotional fixation of Echo. In reflecting (on) himself, he unknowingly echoes her; even as Echo would be compelled to repeat not the words of her beloved so much as her own fantasmatic construction of those words. What happens when Echo looks at herself in the pool? Are there echoes of echo? allusive chains whose tenor or lemma is precisely some vision of what the act of allusive thinking must imply? What else can there be?
Kinos: The Fourth Proof
Authors: Dixon Michael
Published: March 2013

The exordium, according to no less an authority on rhetoric than Cicero, aims to seduce; it should render the orator's audience good-willed, advertent, and open to suggestion (benivolem, attentum, docilum). Shall we then dance? Leonard Bernstein once characterized the waltz as 'intellectual' because its tempo is grounded in the number three and so represents a theoretical construct superimposed on the binary tempi evolved by natural mimesis from felt rhythms of the heart; as a dance, notes Marshall McLuhan, the waltz was considered salacious when introduced into Viennese circles. Is this conjunction of triadic theory and moral dubiousness merely gratuitous? Another induced serendipity from postmodernism? Or had Vienna, on the brink of Darwin and the very front portal of Freud, experienced symbolically in the waltz a historically prophetic moment, recognizing 'unconsciously' as it were, Faustian riot festering beneath the stately gavotte of Enlightenment intellectualism?
Radical Ingratitude: Mass-Man and the Humanities
Authors: Adamowski
Published: March 2013

On most campuses one can find the humanities by following the unmistakable keening of their self-lament—complaints about shabby facilities, relatively low salaries, the high prestige of the sciences, inadequate research support, and the indifference to such complaints shown by university administrators, governments, and the public at large (Rosovsky, 222–3). If all this were not bad enough, these disciplines are also subject to public crises of vocational legitimacy arising from the feeling of many undergraduates that they represent poor vocational choices. In modern universities, nothing is more likely to cause chronic, low-level depression for disciplines than poor employment prospects for their students.
Fiction
Authors: Craig  , Van Herk Aritha
Published: March 2013

Reviews of fiction published in Canada in 1993.
Theatre
Authors: O'neill-Karch Mariel
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian books on theatre published in 1993.
Babel after the Fall: The Place of Writing in English
Authors: Hubert Henry
Published: March 2013

To paraphrase John Donne, no university is an island to itself—and no university department either. Welcome or not, change is being forced on Canadian universities as a whole and on university departments, with the direction of that change determined more by interests external to the universities and to university departments than debate in curriculum committees often acknowledges. Notwithstanding academic freedom, the interests of departments, and even the teaching and research interests of faculty, issues of curriculum have increasingly become the concerns of government and marketplace rather than the concerns of the professoriate alone. Owing to their centrality in higher education, English studies have closer ties to these various interests than do many other university programs. Heather Murray quite correctly describes English as 'a synecdoche for the humanities and even higher education more generally' (Murray, 'Delivering,' 18).
Puck's Green England and the Professor of English: Post-Colonial Fantasies at the University of British Columbia
Authors: Fee Margery
Published: March 2013

As everyone who has worked in university departments knows, the terse documents listing courses and publications cover an almost-forgotten underlay of gossip, rumour, and recollection filtered through friendship, rivalry, enmity, ego, and who knows what else. If even autobiography is a fictive shaping of a lived life, how can I capture anything of Garnett Gladwin Sedgewick (1882–1949), even though I work in the department he founded in 1918 at the University of British Columbia? Thus the title. The post-colonial fantasies I speak of there are three, primarily: mine; those of the students, colleagues, and successors who wrote about him; and his. In other words, although I have tried to learn as much of the facts of his life as I can, I am more interested in the sites where the comparison of various texts reveals fantasies about him, about Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, about English professors, about English literature, and about England.
Romans et Nouvelles
Authors: Saint-Martin Lori
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian fiction published in Canada in 1994.
Poetry
Authors: Tregebov Rhea
Published: March 2013

Reviews of poetry published in Canada in 1994.
The University' Is Theory: Universities Are Facts
Authors: Morton Desmond
Published: March 2013

The University of Toronto Quarterly conference on Bill Readings's The University in Ruins was a tribute to a fine colleague, tragically cut off in his prime. Bill Readings died before I came to Montreal, but his reputation lives on in the very strong and creative department he graced at the Université de Montréal. Those of us who live or work on the other side of Mont-Royal were as diminished by his loss as his colleagues and students. Immortality in intellectual life is to have your ideas and your arguments survive your death. As a result, the conference was not a funeral but a celebration of how a fine mind illuminates all about it.
>Runes of Marx and The University in Ruins
Authors: Findlay
Published: March 2013

In this essay I will respond both personally and runically, generally and in detail, to a few of the main claims and some of the specific analysis contained in the late Bill Readings's book, The University in Ruins. It is a work I greatly admire for its ambition, acumen, and abundance of salutary provocation. It is designed to challenge everyone, including those on the political Left like myself who are often seen as clinging pathetically, incoherently, sentimentally, or hypocritically to the hope that Western Marxism can realize at least some of its grand objectives through the aging if not antiquated instrument of class struggle—a struggle partly fuelled and directed by a cadre of organic intellectuals, many of whom will do significant portions of their work from `within' universities but in the interests of a collective revolutionary subject.
Roman
Authors: Marcotte Hélène
Published: March 2013

Reviews of books on religion published in Canada in 1996.
Revues scientifiques
Authors: Roy Max
Published: March 2013

Reviews of scientific material published in Canada in 1996.
Poetry
Authors: Boughn Michael
Published: March 2013

Reviews of poetry published in Canada in 1996.
A Fan's Apostasy
Authors: Koestenbaum Wayne
Published: March 2013

I have a tiny uvula: that's why I can't sing.
Théâtre
Authors: O'Neill-Karch Mariel
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian books on theatre published in 1997.
Revues scientifiques
Authors: Roy Max
Published: March 2013

Reviews of scientific material published in Canada in 1997.
La nouvelle ou la vie
Authors: Croft Esther
Published: March 2013

On a maintes fois constaté, déjà, l'engouement que semble susciter depuis plusieurs années le choix de la nouvelle comme pratique d'écriture privilégiée. On a aussi abondamment questionné le sens que pouvait prendre cet engouement, tant sur la plan sociologique que psychologique ou littéraire. Je ne prétends donc pas rajouter de réflexions vraiment nouvelles aux nombreuses analyses que d'autres ont élaborées bien avant moi sur le sujet. J'aimerais, tout simplement, tenter de cerner un peu plus la signification de mon propre intérêt pour ce genre précis et dégager, peut-être, quelle dimension de la réalité cette forme d'écriture me permet d'explorer et d'exprimer.
Devant un miroir
Authors: Pellerin Gilles
Published: March 2013

J'ai commencé assez abruptement à écrire des nouvelles. J'avais certes commis çà et là des textes narratifs courts (dont aucun n'a été soumis pour publication), mais j'ai su dès le moment où j'ai impétueusement jeté les premières lignes – sans cesse recommencées – de ce qui allait devenir le point a d'une suite dodécagonale consacrée aux autobus, j'ai su que je m'engageais dans un recueil. J'étais alors étudiant au deuxième cycle à l'Université Laval, le journal du matin avait annoncé pour le lendemain une grève des employés du transport en commun – le lien de cause à effet est d'une simplicité navrante : je comblais symboliquement ce qui manquerait dans la réalité. La suspension du service fut longue, assez du moins pour que j'achève un recueil, Les sporadiques aventures de Guillaume Untel. Elle n'explique pas tout : j'étais aussi mu par le désir de tirer une nouvelle d'une toile de Gustave Moreau, peintre à qui je consacrerais mon mémoire de maîtrise, de manière à éprouver de l'intérieur, et avant de les lire, ce à quoi les Huysmans, Lorrain, Robbe-Grillet, que j'allais étudier, s'étaient adonnés.
Scant Articulations of Time
Authors: van Herk Aritha
Published: March 2013

The short story is a genre both trapped by intensity and freed by brevity. At its best, it can enact a scintilla of momentary dazzlement, a brilliant flash articulated with swift and graceful hesitation. That is perhaps all that can be asked of the short story, and yet, how difficult to achieve that eloquent, elegant shape, a short story that seizes its reader with the glittering authority of a novel, the reduced beauty of a poem. The moveable feast that banquets short stories written in Canada belies description, falls into a wonderful, vast bath of difference, of articulated regionalisms, of strange euphonies and stranger etchings. Short stories can truly call themselves the heartbeat of Canadian literature, in so far as they collapse the erratic, the elemental, and the reluctant into a version of multiplicitous and wildly contaminatory fiction.
Poésie
Authors: Chamberland Roger
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian poetry published in Canada in 1998.
Canadian Poetry—Past and Present
Authors: Pratt
Published: March 2013

This article is essentially a record of the difficulty and embarrassment in selecting a title which would not presuppose too much or too little for the subject. In order to avoid duplication, an index of the specific field was consulted. which was found to contain such ominous captions as “Some Animadversions on Canadian Poetry;” “The Plight of the Poetic Craft in This Country;” “Pegasus in Need of the Spur;” “The Drift of Canadian Verse;” and other titles which prejudged the issue by innuendo in word and phrase. They savoured somewhat of the attitude of a critic who, his mind a blank on the subject, but at least technically complying with the needs of a curriculum, commenced his series of ten lectures with the announcement—“Canadian literature: it doesn't exist.”
The Dialectical Humanism of Thomas Mann
Authors: Clark
Published: March 2013

The situation in which Thomas Mann finds himself to-day is almost unbelievably symbolical of his whole career, temperment, and achievement. The man who was proclaimed in his youth the poet of decadence and who confessed his own “sympathy with disease and death,” has in the evening of his life become an activist and is prophesying on public platforms “the coming triumph of democracy;” the author of the Reflections of a Non-Political Man, for whom his embattled Fatherland appeared as the champion of a personal, spiritual culture against the hostile, socialized civilization of the Entente, is now attributing the enslavement of his people to their fatal indifference to political questions; the one-time creator of the Buddenbrooks, the family which declined in proportion as it became intellectualized and ceased “to think with its blood” (in Hitlerian phrase), is now disengaging from the Biblical block of marble a Joseph who represents a synthesis of spirit and nature.
Shakespeare's Jew
Authors: Stoll Elmer Edgar
Published: March 2013

Shylock again? But I shall endeavour to forget what I have written about him, and others have written about him, and be for the time the simple auditor and spectator whom Shakespeare sought to interest and move. I cannot turn into a London citizen at the Globe or the Curtain; but I can rely upon my eyes and ears and everyday wits, as he did and Shakespeare expected him to do, instead of examining my own consciousness or bowing to that of my predecessors.
Primitive Monotheism and the Religion of Moses
Authors: Meek Theophile
Published: March 2013

So many students at present are being led astray by the widely publicized claims of primitive monotheism that it has become a veritable menace to clear thinking and a challenge to real scholarship. When its advocates assert that their methodology is absolutely objective and scientific, reaching results that are completely authoritative and final, although contradicting all previous results, it behooves us to take notice of the theory; and when a writer like Marston berates critical scholarship in the words, “It is surely time that distinguished scholars gave up the habit of representing exploded theories as historical facts,” it is surely time to turn the tables on him.
Puritanism and Poetry: Samuel Gott
Authors: Patrick J. Max
Published: March 2013

Ideas, like nations, pass through a formative, “heroic,” period before their historic realization. Minor writers furnish this formative material. Avoiding the convolutions and backeddies of the main currents of thought, they frequently dig out swift and uncomplicated channels. Their effect on contemporary thinkers is slight; their importance is not realized until later times. Their opinions are rude and unfinished forecasts of ideas, which, in later historical period, become quick and fertile. Such and yet more than such a writer was Samuel Gott. For while he was separate and anticipatory in some of his theories, he nevertheless moved in the main stream of Puritanism. Puritanism, which is generally judged in terms of its antipathies, is in his works revealed in its positive side. His outlook is that of a broad and cultured Protestant. His views are urbane, judicious, and frequently novel. In his remarks on poetry he is revealed both as a typical Puritan and as a thinker of considerable originality. The second half of this article is devoted to an examination of these remarks. The first half is an attempt to assemble from original sources the few extant details of his life and works; it also gives a brief and general picture of his character and outlook.
Reviews
Authors: Brady  , Walker Eric , Barker Ernest , Humphrey John
Published: March 2013

Robert Laird Borden, Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs, reviewed by A. Brady

G. M. Wrong, The Canadians: The Story of a People, reviewed by Eric A. Walker

A. S. P. Woodhouse, ed., Puritanism and Liberty: Being the Army Debates (1647–9) from Clarke Manuscripts, with supplementary documents, reviewed by Ernest Barker

H. F. Angus, ed., Canada and Her Great Nieghbor,reviewed by John P. Humphrey

Lionel M. Gelber, The Rise of Anglo-American Friendship, reviewed by John P. Humphrey
Melville's Metaphysics of Evil
Authors: Waters
Published: March 2013

For a youth “given to unseasonable meditativeness” a whaling ship, we are told, is admirably qualified to start “the problem of the universe revolving” in his mind. The problem undoubtedly obsessed Melville. In a letter to Hawthorne of June 29, 1851, Melville refers to the “ontological heroics” in which he was wont to indulge with his Lenox neighbour.
The War: The First Four Months
Authors: Stacey
Published: March 2013

As these lines are written, the fourth month of the new World War has just come to an end. The situation has become, in some respects, clearer than it was at the end of September; yet to a generation which thinks of war in terms of 1914-18 it is still bewildering enough. If anyone had doubts about the reality of the conflict, they have been removed. The war is only too genuine; but it is a war of a type which lies outside our immediate experience, the basic conditions under which it is to be fought are only gradually becoming apparent, and nothing could be more foolish than to attempt to predict its future course. The fact that, except in Poland and Finland—weak countries whom powerful aggressors felt safe in assailing with full force—there has been little loss of life by comparison with the initial holocaust of 1914, is so far a fundamental distinction; but this relatively happy situation may not endure.
Pierre Esprit Radisson and the Race of the Coureurs de Bois
Authors: Child Philip
Published: March 2013

By the turn of the seventeenth century into the eighteenth, the primeval wilderness, many moccasins remote from the St Lawrence, had become the scene of man's latest challenge to the unknown. The uttermost stretches of sky, water, and tangled evergreen which, hitherto, had known of men only the stealthy gliding past of the red man in his bark canoe were to see the white skin of the coureur de bois and the black robe of the Jesuit missionary.
The State and Economic Life in Fascist Italy
Authors: Morgan Lorne
Published: March 2013

Fascism results from economic crisis, a decline in parliamentarianism, and the threat of communism. In its origins it is a petit-bourgeois movement with a muddled programme, composed of a mixture of quasi-radical reforms and ultra-nationalism. The inconsistencies of this cunous medley of contradictions, frequently referred to as National Socialism, are overlooked or forgotten in the worship of a blindly followed leader whose word is the final dictum on all matters. Fascism comes to political power by finally gaining the support, at first surreptitious, of large-scale capital interests, which see in it a potent weapon for the defence of the status quo. To begin with, it amply justifies the hopes and expectations of this group whose backing made its ascent to power possible. In so doing, however, it abandons the progressive planks of its earlier platform and ruthlessly suppresses the elements which advocated them. So much for its origins and early development.
The War: The Desperate Grapple
Authors: Stacey
Published: March 2013

To relate within the space of a few pages the tremendous events of the past three months is an unpleasant as well as a singularly difficult task; for the foundations of the western world have suddenly been shaken. The complacent confidence of the western democracies is a thing of the past. Paris has fallen. An offensive campaign, exceeding that of 1870-71 in speed and force, has reduced continental France to the status of a base of operations against France's erstwhile ally. Britain's forces have been driven from the Continent, and as these lines are written she is preparing to defend the British Isles—now the last citadel of freedom in Europe—against the savage onslaught of the totalitarians. Even the United States has been somewhat alarmed by the reflection that since March of 1938 the armies of Adolf Hitler have marched as conquerors into nine European capitals.
Holland's Empire
Authors: Cowie Donald
Published: March 2013

The German invasion of Holland has helped the Allies in at least one respect. It has brought the great Dutch Empire of the East Indies into their orbit with all the wealth of warlike materials in which this vast territory abounds. As corollaries to this recruitment, it is now possible finally to close an important leak in the blockade of the enemy, and the manner of reaction to the new situation among other Pacific powers has usefully stabilized local relationships. These events are worth explaining, and understanding, for there is considerable ignorance about the East Indies and their place in the tangled skein of Pacific politics.
Forecasting Energy CO2 Emissions Using a Quantum Harmony Search Algorithm-Based DMSFE Combination Model
Authors: Chang Hong , Sun Wei , Gu Xingsheng
Published: March 2013

he accurate forecasting of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel energy consumption is a key requirement for making energy policy and environmental strategy. In this paper, a novel quantum harmony search (QHS) algorithm-based discounted mean square forecast error (DMSFE) combination model is proposed. In the DMSFE combination forecasting model, almost all investigations assign the discounting factor (β) arbitrarily since β varies between 0 and 1 and adopt one value for all individual models and forecasting periods. The original method doesn’t consider the influences of the individual model and the forecasting period. This work contributes by changing β from one value to a matrix taking the different model and the forecasting period into consideration and presenting a way of searching for the optimal β values by using the QHS algorithm through optimizing the mean absolute percent error (MAPE) objective function. The QHS algorithm-based optimization DMSFE combination forecasting model is established and tested by forecasting CO2 emission of the World top‒5 CO2 emitters. The evaluation indexes such as MAPE, root mean squared error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) are employed to test the performance of the presented approach. The empirical analyses confirm the validity of the presented method and the forecasting accuracy can be increased in a certain degree.
Exosomes as Intercellular Signaling Organelles Involved in Health and Disease: Basic Science and Clinical Applications
Authors: Corrado Chiara , Raimondo Stefania , Chiesi Antonio , Ciccia Francesco , De Leo Giacomo , Alessandro Riccardo
Published: March 2013

Cell to cell communication is essential for the coordination and proper organization of different cell types in multicellular systems. Cells exchange information through a multitude of mechanisms such as secreted growth factors and chemokines, small molecules (peptides, ions, bioactive lipids and nucleotides), cell-cell contact and the secretion of extracellular matrix components. Over the last few years, however, a considerable amount of experimental evidence has demonstrated the occurrence of a sophisticated method of cell communication based on the release of specialized membranous nano-sized vesicles termed exosomes. Exosome biogenesis involves the endosomal compartment, the multivesicular bodies (MVB), which contain internal vesicles packed with an extraordinary set of molecules including enzymes, cytokines, nucleic acids and different bioactive compounds. In response to stimuli, MVB fuse with the plasma membrane and vesicles are released in the extracellular space where they can interact with neighboring cells and directly induce a signaling pathway or affect the cellular phenotype through the transfer of new receptors or even genetic material. This review will focus on exosomes as intercellular signaling organelles involved in a number of physiological as well as pathological processes and their potential use in clinical diagnostics and therapeutics.
Characterization and Stability of Tanshinone IIA Solid Dispersions with Hydroxyapatite
Authors: Wang Xiaopan , Li Li , Huo Wei , Hou Lulu , Zhao Zhiying , Li Weiguang
Published: March 2013

Solid dispersions of tanshinone IIA (TanIIA) using hydroxyapatite (HAp) as the dispersing carrier (TanIIA-HAp SDs) were prepared by the solvent evaporation method. The formed solid dispersions were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), differential scanning calorimetry analysis (DSC), X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) and Fourier transforms infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The in vitro dissolution rate and the stability of TanIIA-HAp SDs were also evaluated. DSC and XRPD showed that TanIIA was changed from a crystalline to an amorphous form. FTIR suggested the presence of interactions between TanIIA and HAp in solid dispersions. The result of an in vitro dissolution study showed that the dissolution rate of TanIIA-HAp SDs was nearly 7.11-folds faster than free TanIIA. Data from stability studies for over one year of TanIIA-HAp SDs performed under room temperature revealed no significant differences in drug content and dissolution behavior. All these results indicated that HAp may be a promising carrier for improving the oral absorption of TanIIA.
Dye Sensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy
Authors: Ormond Alexandra , Freeman Harold
Published: March 2013

Photofrin® was first approved in the 1990s as a sensitizer for use in treating cancer via photodynamic therapy (PDT). Since then a wide variety of dye sensitizers have been developed and a few have been approved for PDT treatment of skin and organ cancers and skin diseases such as acne vulgaris. Porphyrinoid derivatives and precursors have been the most successful in producing requisite singlet oxygen, with Photofrin® still remaining the most efficient sensitizer (quantum yield = 0.89) and having broad food and drug administration (FDA) approval for treatment of multiple cancer types. Other porphyrinoid compounds that have received approval from US FDA and regulatory authorities in other countries include benzoporphyrin derivative monoacid ring A (BPD-MA), meta-tetra(hydroxyphenyl)chlorin (m-THPC), N-aspartyl chlorin e6 (NPe6), and precursors to endogenous protoporphyrin IX (PpIX): 1,5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), methyl aminolevulinate (MAL), hexaminolevulinate (HAL). Although no non-porphyrin sensitizer has been approved for PDT applications, a small number of anthraquinone, phenothiazine, xanthene, cyanine, and curcuminoid sensitizers are under consideration and some are being evaluated in clinical trials. This review focuses on the nature of PDT, dye sensitizers that have been approved for use in PDT, and compounds that have entered or completed clinical trials as PDT sensitizers.
Efficient synthesis of β’-amino-α,β-unsaturated ketones
Authors: Abrunhosa-Thomas Isabelle , Plas Aurélie , Kandepedu Nishanth , Chalard Pierre , Troin Yves
Published: March 2013

A general and simple procedure to access chiral β'-amino-α,β-enones, in seven steps, from an α,β unsaturated ester has been described. The use of a Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction as a key step for generating the β'-amino-α,β-enones, permits access to a range of substrates under mild conditions and in moderate to high yield.
Panorama des jeux vidéo
Authors: Berthier Bruno , Parisot Lucie
Published: March 2013

Dans cet article, les auteurs proposent tout d’abord de parcourir l’histoire des jeux vidéo, en faisant ressortir certains faits censés marquer leur évolution dans l’histoire numérique. Puis ils s’intéressent à des genres plus précisément en lien avec la dimension clinique, notamment par la présentation de quatre jeux, représentant chacun un style particulier, tant par leur mode de fonctionnement que par le type de joueurs qu’ils rassemblent : Counter Strike, World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Dofus.
Les prises en charge de groupe dans l'addiction aux jeux vidéo
Authors: Rocher Bruno , Caillon Julie , Bonnet Stéphane , Lagadec Marthylle , Leboucher Juliette , Vénisse Jean-Luc , Bronnec Marie
Published: March 2013

Les problématiques en lien avec l’usage des jeux vidéo soulèvent des débats centrés sur le sens social, psychologique ou médical à donner à ces nouvelles addictions. Cependant, la réalité de situations parfois très sévères de retrait, d’impasses développementales ou de comorbidités nécessite de réfléchir aux soins étoffés à mettre en place. En nous appuyant sur notre expérience, nous avons mis en place des prises en charge diversifiées de groupes en parallèle d’accueils individuels de consultations. À nos yeux ces propositions de soins sont tout à fait pertinentes dans ces situations où les problématiques de lien à l’autre sont malmenées. La dimension familiale étant souvent au centre de ces nouvelles addictions, il est intéressant que des démarches de soins spécifiques pour les parents soient réfléchies. C’est en s’appuyant sur ces soins diversifiés sur la longueur que les impasses pourront être levées.
Stable, Dependable Fixation of Short-stem Femoral Implants at 5 Years
Authors: Patel Ronak M. , Lo Winifred M. , Cayo Max A. , Dolan Mark M. , Stulberg S. David
Published: March 2013

Conventional uncemented femoral implants provide dependable long-term fixation in patients with a wide range of clinical function. However, challenges with proximal-distal femoral mismatch, preservation of bone stock, and minimally invasive approaches have led to exploration into various other implant designs. Short-stem designs focusing on a stable metaphyseal fit have emerged to address these challenges in total hip arthroplasty (THA). The purpose of this study was to present the 5-year clinical and radiographic results of a computed tomography–based, custom-made, metaphyseal-engaging short-stem femoral implant.

Sixty-one patients with an average age of 61 years (range, 22–75 years) and average body mass index of 28.9 kg/m
2
(range, 20.3–44.1 kg/m
2
) at follow-up underwent 69 THAs with the metaphyseal-engaging short stem. Clinical performance was evaluated using the Harris Hip Score and Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index score, and radiographs were reviewed for stability and bony ingrowth. Harris Hip Score averaged 55 (range, 20–90) preoperatively and 96 (range, 55–100) postoperatively. Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index score averaged 51 (range, 13–80) preoperatively and 3 (range, 0–35) postoperatively. No cases of subsidence were observed, and no revision surgeries were performed. Bone remodeling was typified by endosteal condensation and cortical hypertrophy in Gruen zones 2, 3, 5, and 6. At 5-year follow-up, the uncemented, metaphyseal-engaging short stem was stable and exhibited proximal bone remodeling closer to the metaphysis than conventional stems. Short-stem, metaphyseal-engaging femoral implants can meet the goals of a successful THA.
Comparing Conventional Physical Therapy Rehabilitation With Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation After TKA
Authors: Levine Michael , McElroy Karen , Stakich Valerie , Cicco Jodie
Published: March 2013

Rehabilitation following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a costly, cumbersome, and often painful process. Physical therapy contributes to the successful outcome of TKA but can be expensive. Alternative methods of obtaining good functional results that help minimize costs are desirable. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) is a potential option. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation has been shown to increase quadriceps muscle strength and activation following TKA. Functional scores also improve following TKA when NMES is added to conventional therapy protocols vs therapy alone. The authors hypothesized that rehabilitation managed by a physical therapist would not result in a functional advantage for patients undergoing TKA when compared with NMES and an unsupervised at-home range of motion exercise program and that patient satisfaction would not differ between the 2 groups. Seventy patients were randomized into a postoperative protocol of conventional physical therapy with a licensed therapist, including range of motion exercises and strengthening exercises, or into a program of NMES and range of motion exercises performed at home without therapist supervision. Noninferiority of the NMES program was obtained 6 weeks postoperatively (Knee Society pain/function scores, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index, flexion). Noninferiority was shown 6 months postoperatively for all parameters. The results suggest that rehabilitation managed by a physical therapist results in no functional advantage or difference in patient satisfaction when compared with NMES and an unsupervised at-home range of motion program. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation and unsupervised at-home range of motion exercises may provide an option for reducing the cost of the postoperative TKA recovery process without compromising quadriceps strength or patient satisfaction.
Accuracy of Abduction-External Rotation MRA Versus Standard MRA in the Diagnosis of Intra-articular Shoulder Pathology
Authors: Modi Chetan S. , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Marks Avi , Saithna Adnan , Smith Christopher D. , Rai Santosh B. , Drew Stephen J.
Published: March 2013

The goal of this study was to compare the accuracy of abduction-external rotation magnetic resonance arthrography (ABERMRA) with standard MRA in the diagnosis of intra-articular shoulder pathology.

One hundred three consecutive patients undergoing preoperative direct MRA and subsequent arthroscopic examination were included in the study. Seventy-eight patients underwent standard MRA and 25 underwent ABERMRA. Specialist-trained musculoskeletal radiologists reported all scans, and attending shoulder surgeons performed all arthroscopies. Arthroscopic assessment revealed 11 partial-thickness rotator cuff tears, 3 full-thickness tears, 64 labral lesions (48 soft tissue and 16 significant bony), and 17 superior labrum anterior-posterior (SLAP) tears. The sensitivity/specificity for standard MRA was 0.56/0.99 for partial-thickness rotator cuff tears, 1.00/1.00 for full-thickness rotator cuff tears, 0.75/0.91 for soft tissue labral tears, 0.58/1.00 for significant bony glenoid lesions, and 0.50/0.91 for SLAP tears. Abduction-external rotation magnetic resonance arthrography increased the sensitivity/specificity to 1.00/0.85 for soft tissue labral tears, 0.75/1.00 for significant bony glenoid lesions, and 1.00/1.00 for SLAP tears, although it missed 2 of 2 partial-thickness rotator cuff tears.

This study suggests that standard MRA is a valuable investigation tool for instability, SLAP tears, and rotator cuff tears, although limitations exist. Additional ABERMRA sequences appear to improve the diagnostic accuracy of soft tissue anterior and posterior labral tears, SLAP tears, and significant bony glenoid lesions and should be routinely requested by shoulder surgeons when ordering MRAs to obtain the maximum benefit from this invasive investigation.
Plásticos armados o con carga mineral en Construcción y Obras Públicas
Authors: Vie G.
Published: March 2013

En este artículo se hace un análisis de los plásticos armados más utilizados en la Construcción y Obras Públicas, que son aquellos en los que el material de refuerzo es la fibra de vidrio. El elemento principal es una resina sintética, sólida o líquida, termoplástica o termoendurecida.
Entre los usos de estos productos destacan: las placas translúcidas de vidrio-poliéster para paneles solares; la resina aminoplasta armada de vidrio para el sostenimiento de hastiales y bóvedas en las excavaciones subterráneas; el cloruro de polivinilo plastificado con incrustaciones de áridos duros para firmes antideslizantes; el revestimiento «gel-coat> para protección contra el frío de los hormigones; los paneles de poliestireno y poliuretano, tipo «sandwich», utilizados en la industria del frío; etcétera.
Además de los plásticos armados se estudia el vidrio de recuperación obtenido, en gran parte, de los residuos urbanos aprovechables.
Edificio de «La Caixa», Madrid, España
Authors: Bosch Aymerich José M.
Published: March 2013

Este edificio de ocho plantas, destinado a «La Caixa», ocupa una manzana en el céntrico Paseo de la Castellana de Madrid.
Las plantas Inferiores presentan chaflanes en sus cuatro esquinas, los cuales van desapareciendo progresivamente ganando así el edificio en originalidad. Todas las plantas, de las cuales las inferiores están destinadas al servicio de «La Caixa», se desarrollan en torno a un núcleo central.
La cimentación se realizó a base de pilotes de hormigón armado. Para la estructura se emplearan pilares metálicos y el sistema de forjado a base de una losa continua armada. Se adoptó para las fachadas la solución de un muro cortina de aluminio, con remates en forma de U que cortan la superficie acristalada.
Hospital Geriátrico Ellesmere, Gran Bretaña
Authors: Stow Derek
Published: March 2013

Este centro se concibió para que sirviera como prototipo de hospital geriátrico, de acuerdo con el programa confeccionado por las autoridades sanitarias del suroeste del Támesis; por ello su diseño debía hacerle capaz de ser reutilizado en distintos complejos hospitalarios.
Consta de un pabellón con ambulatorio equipado con distintos servicios clínicos, terapéuticos y de tipo social dirigidos a la tercera edad.
Con el fin de posibilitar la realización del prototipo en parcelas sometidas a distintos condicionantes —en este caso, la unidad se construyó en los terrenos de un importante centro médico—, los locales auxiliares y de servicio fueron objeto de un diseño independiente facilitando, por tanto, su distinta implantación respecto al núcleo central, de acuerdo con las diferentes circunstancias.
Centro de Conferencias, Hotel y Mezquita Riyadh - Arabia Saudita
Authors: Dannatt Trevor
Published: March 2013

El conjunto, diseñado y construido para el Ministerio de Finanzas del Reino de Arabia Saudita, está situado en una parcela de 78.000 m2, próxima a la intersección de carreteras que cruzan el desierto arábigo y que conectan directamente la parcela con el área de edificios públicos de la ciudad y con el aeropuerto.
El complejo sitúa en la mitad sudoeste el Centro de Conferencias, de 23.230 m2 de edificabilidad, y el Hotel, de 14.860 m2 de superficie construida, en la otra mitad; cada uno de ellos con accesos independientes, al igual que la Mezquita emplazada en un extremo de la parcela. Junto a ésta se han construido viviendas unifamiliares de tres plantas, así como jardines, aparcamientos, carreteras de servicio y locales auxiliares.
Modulares Espaciales Valencia – España
Authors: DB GO.
Published: March 2013

El proyecto que nos ocupa, resultado de largos años de investigación, es un intento de conseguir nuevas formas orgánicas, más adaptadas al hombre, con un deseo de que la Naturaleza presida la Arquitectura integrándose en ella.
Por otro lado trata de incorporar nuevos materiales que, además de crear las formas citadas, sean más económicos permitiendo industrializar los módulos.
La combinación de estos módulos constituye el abecedario elemental, dando lugar a varias formas de expresión conjunta para responder a las diferentes necesidades de convivencia.
Estudio sobre encofrados de madera modernos
Authors: De la Peña Aznar Juan M.
Published: March 2013

El autor continúa el desarrollo del tema sobre «Encofrados de madera modernos», resumiendo el estudio comparativo —ya hecho en la Parte III de este Estudio— de las diferentes vigas de madera encolada existentes en el mercado dando, además, las cargas y tensiones admisibles para maderas coníferas y la propuesta de Reglamentación de la Sección de Maderas del Instituto Forestal de Investigaciones y Experiencias de España.
En la parte V del Estudio del autor, publicada en este articulo, se aborda el importante tema de las colas empleadas para las uniones de madera, algo realmente vital para la obtención de vigas de madera en celosía simplemente encoladas.
Estudio sobre encofrados de madera modernos
Authors: De la Peña Aznar Juan M.
Published: March 2013

El autor continúa el desarrollo del tema sobre «Encofrados de madera modernos», resumiendo el estudio comparativo —ya hecho en la Parte III de este Estudio— de las diferentes vigas de madera encolada existentes en el mercado dando, además, las cargas y tensiones admisibles para maderas coníferas y la propuesta de Reglamentación de la Sección de Maderas del Instituto Forestal de Investigaciones y Experiencias de España.
En la parte V del Estudio del autor, publicada en este artículo, se aborda el importante tema de las colas empleadas para las uniones de madera, algo realmente vital para la obtención de vigas de madera en celosía simplemente encoladas.