bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Thermal properties of nano-graphite-embedded magnesium chloride hexahydrate phase change composites
Authors: Yadav Apurv , Barman Bidyut , Kardam Abhishek , Narayanan S Shankara , Verma Abhishek , Jain VK
Published: July 2017

Phase change materials can provide large heat storage density with low volume. But their low thermal conductivity limits their heat transfer capabilities. Since carbonaceous nanoparticles have a good thermal conductivity they can be applied as an additive to phase change materials to increase their heat transfer rate. In this study, nano-graphite is used as an additive and the influences of its various concentrations on the thermal conductivity and melting and freezing rate for the nanoparticle-enhanced phase change materials is experimentally investigated. Experimental results indicates a reduction of 22% in melting time and a reduction of 75% in solidification time of 0.5% nano-graphite-embedded phase change material.
A Baseline Study on Pattern of Helmet Use in the State of Rajasthan, India
Authors: Mathur Alok Kumar , Gupta Shivam , Bandhu Ashish
Published: July 2017

Head injuries sustained in the crash are the main cause of death and disability. Such deaths and disabilities can be prevented by consistent and correct wearing of a quality helmet. A baseline study was conducted to understand the pattern of helmet use in all 7 administrative divisional headquarters of state of Rajasthan in 2015. Among 1,17,553 two wheelers observed, almost two-fifth drivers (39.4%) wore helmet correctly, whereas, less than three-fifth (58.7%) did not. Almost equal percentage of male (58.6%) and female (58.9%) did not wear helmet at all. As compared to drivers, two-wheeler passengers were observed lower in using helmet correctly (11.6%). Even though correct helmet use during the crash reduces the severity of head and neck injury, observed helmet use in Rajasthan was low. Two-pronged strategy needs to be used by Government – First, Increased provision for awareness generation among community for helmet use by drivers and passengers through print media, electronic media, folk media, and social media. Second there must be provision of enforcement of the road traffic law by traffic police of Rajasthan. It would be required that the Government organizations, Corporate groups, and NGOs should come together and start helmet use in mission mode.
Mobile Medical Units—Can They Improve the Quality of Health Services in Developing Countries?
Authors: Khanna Achla Behl , Narula Sapna Arora
Published: July 2017

Purpose:

Mobile Medical Units, developed under health strategies of many developing countries, are now emerging as a newer approach on mass scale for improving access to health care services in underserved rural areas. Therefore, it is important to study the role of Mobile Medical Units in improving the quality of health services in developing countries.

Methodology:

An extensive literature search was performed with databases such as MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Biomed Central, Web of Science, Cochrane Library and Worldcat library, using a filter for last 25 years. Google was used to further refine the search. Studies of developed world, emergency role of Mobile Medical Units and unpublished items were excluded from this review.

Findings:

The literature revealed that Mobile Medical Units is still a nascent strategy to deliver health care. The available data regarding effect of Mobile Medical Units on quality of health care are very inconsistent and scanty. Better strategies, not only during the implementation period but also both pre- and post-launch are required for improving effectiveness and sustainability of Mobile Medical Units.

Practical implications:

This review summarizes the body of evidence which can assist the scientists and policymakers while evaluating the effectiveness of mobile medical units in health care delivery.

Research implications:

The present study gives a direction for future research mainly in three areas: assessing the stakeholder satisfaction, studying the constraints and critical success factors while implementing the services of Mobile Medical Units.

Value:

Since it is the first review of its kind, it will not only fill the gap in published literature but also provide a direction to the researchers for taking up in-depth studies in future which could improve the quality of health services in developing countries.
The commercial transformation of world football and the North–South divide: A global value chain analysis
Authors: Brewer Benjamin D
Published: July 2017

This paper takes a world-systemic perspective on global football seen through the lens of the Global North–South political–economic divide that has long motivated development studies. After synthesizing an historical account of the commercial transformation of world football since the mid-1970s, the paper considers the organization and operation of the world football economy using the analytical construct of the “global value chains” perspective. The analysis identifies two distinct football governance structures that broadly correspond to the “producer-driven” and “buyer-driven” governance structures long identified by commodity/value chain scholars, and that imply different flows of resources across world football’s North–South divide. The paper concludes by considering implications of the value chain governance structures for both the value chains and sports studies literatures.
Pharmacist’s Demand for Optimal Primary Care Service Delivery in a Community Pharmacy: The OPTiPharm Study
Authors: Munger Mark A. , Walsh Michael , Godin Jon , Feehan Michael
Published: July 2017

Background: The US population continues to expand providing the need for primary health care services. Community pharmacies integrated with medicine may provide greater access while providing high quality care. Objective: To gauge pharmacists’ demand for primary health care services delivered through community pharmacies. Methods: An online survey was administered to determine community pharmacists’ preferences for varying primary care services that could be offered in the community pharmacy setting. A Discrete Choice Experiment was employed to show pharmacists competing scenarios with varied primary care service offerings in the community pharmacy setting. Attributes evaluated were operation hours, service provider, medical records, service logistics, physical examinations, point-of-care diagnostic testing, preventative care, and drug prescribing. Respondents chose the scenario most likely to induce switching employment from base pharmacy to one providing advanced services. Results: The optimal service delivery model from 291 community pharmacists comprised: inclusion of patient prescriptions and health information into the patient’s medical record; provision of point of care testing and vital sign, including blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate, and blood sugar and cholesterol measurement; and pharmacists prescribing (under physician oversight). Pharmacists were 4 times more likely to switch employment from their current pharmacy to their choice for advanced pharmacy services. Pharmacist demand was highest among those with a PharmD, less experience, working >40 hours per week, and in rural areas. Conclusions: This study provides empirical support for the model of pharmacists playing a greater role in the provision of primary care health services through community pharmacy settings.
Party Animals: Asymmetric Ideological Constraint among Democratic and Republican Party Activists
Authors: Lupton Robert N. , Myers William M. , Thornton Judd R.
Published: July 2017

Existing literature shows that Republicans in the mass public demonstrate greater ideological inconsistency and value conflict than Democrats. That is, despite a commitment to the conservative label and abstract belief in limited government, Republican identifiers’ substantive policy attitudes are nonetheless divided. Conversely, Democrats, despite registering lower levels of ideological thinking, maintain relatively consistent liberal issue attitudes. Based on theories of coalition formation and elite opinion leadership, we argue that these differences should extend to Democratic and Republican Party activists. Examining surveys of convention delegates from the years 2000 and 2004, we show that Democratic activists’ attitudes are more ideologically constrained than are those of Republican activists. The results support our hypothesis and highlight that some of the inconsistent attitudes evident among mass public party identifiers can be traced to the internal divisions of the major party coalitions themselves.
Observer-based tracking controller design for a class of Lipschitz nonlinear systems
Authors: Yadegar Meysam , Afshar Ahmad , Davoodi Mohammadreza
Published: July 2017

In this paper, the observer-based controller design problem for tracking a constant reference input in Lipschitz nonlinear systems is addressed. To this end, at first, a state feedback controller is proposed and sufficient conditions for solvability of the problem are obtained in terms of linear matrix inequality feasibility conditions. Then, it is shown that for the considered Lipschitz nonlinear system, the separation principle holds and the estimation state variables can be used instead of the state variables. Subsequently, an observer for estimating the states of the system and also an observer-based controller is designed. Simulation results on a flexible link are given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed controller.
Community-level electronic prescribing and adverse drug event hospitalizations among older adults
Authors: Bhavsar Grishma P , Probst Janice C , Bennett Kevin J , Hardin James W , Qureshi Zaina
Published: July 2017

This study sought to determine how the proportion of physicians using electronic prescribing in nine US states was associated with the hospitalization rate for adverse drug events among older adult patients. A discharge-level analysis of the relationship between county electronic prescribing and adverse drug event hospitalization rates was conducted. Data from the 2011 State Inpatient Databases, the Office of the National Coordinator Health IT Dashboard, and the Area Health Resource File were obtained for nine US states. The analysis examined the odds that a discharge for older adults would have been adverse drug event associated, versus other causes, using multivariable logistic regression models. After adjusting for patient, provider, health infrastructure, and community factors, the lowest county electronic prescribing rate quartile was associated with significantly greater odds of an adverse drug event hospitalization (odds ratio: 1.10; 95% confidence interval: 1.02–1.19). Early results indicate greater odds of adverse drug event hospitalizations among older adults living in counties with low electronic prescribing rates when compared to those in high electronic prescribing counties.
How an Antipodean Perspective of International Schooling Challenges Third Culture Kid (TCK) Conceptualisation
Authors: Fanning Sean , Burns Edgar
Published: July 2017

This article recounts the story of Jack’s primary and secondary schooling career across several countries and eventual relocation and tertiary education in Victoria, Australia. His narrative is described here as an antipodean educational trajectory. What is meant by antipodean education is contrasted to the long established concept of the third culture kid (TCK). There are overlaps in these concepts. The argument is made, however, that Jack’s travelling and multiple education cultural mix gives him a different sense of himself that is not fully accounted for in the TCK literature. Global movement of people for employment and other reasons such as politics, governmental or service professions, continues today, Taking children with working and mobile parents has long been characterised as creating third culture kids who do not belong to either originating or hosting societies. Today, however, it is less the case that this can be adequately described as travel ‘out from’ and ‘back to’ the geo-political centres. This changing socio-cultural reality means re-examining what kinds of educational opportunities and experiences children are exposed to and the effects of these on young people.
Developing a Cantonese Version of Birmingham Cognitive Screen for Stroke Survivors in Hong Kong
Authors: Kong Anthony Pak-Hin , Chan John , Lau Johnny King-L. , Bickerton Wai-Ling , Weekes Brendan , Humphreys Glyn
Published: July 2017

The Birmingham Cognitive Screen (BCoS) is a neuropsychological battery designed to assess impairment to a variety of cognitive domains including language in patients with brain injuries. Twenty-two stroke participants and 16 gender-, age-, and education-matched controls were recruited in Hong Kong. The stroke participants were administered HK-BCoS as well as standardized batteries of cognitive and language functions validated for the Cantonese-speaking population in Hong Kong, including the Cantonese version of the Western Aphasia Battery, Cantonese Mini-Mental State Examination, and the Hong Kong–Montreal Cognitive Assessment. Results showed that HK-BCoS demonstrated good concurrent validity with all standardized batteries. HK-BCoS could discriminate between cognitive impairments in stroke patients and normal participants. Furthermore, HK-BCoS was found to have excellent intrarater and interrater reliabilities, good test–retest reliability, and fair split-half reliability as judged according to international criteria. In sum, HK-BCoS is a valid and reliable tool for assessing cognitive processing in Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong.
Policy Research Challenges in Comparing Care Models for Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries
Authors: Van Cleave Janet H. , Egleston Brian L. , Brosch Sarah , Wirth Elizabeth , Lawson Molly , Sullivan-Marx Eileen M. , Naylor Mary D.
Published: July 2017

Providing affordable, high-quality care for the 10 million persons who are dual-eligible beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid is an ongoing health-care policy challenge in the United States. However, the workforce and the care provided to dual-eligible beneficiaries are understudied. The purpose of this article is to provide a narrative of the challenges and lessons learned from an exploratory study in the use of clinical and administrative data to compare the workforce of two care models that deliver home- and community-based services to dual-eligible beneficiaries. The research challenges that the study team encountered were as follows: (a) comparing different care models, (b) standardizing data across care models, and (c) comparing patterns of health-care utilization. The methods used to meet these challenges included expert opinion to classify data and summative content analysis to compare and count data. Using descriptive statistics, a summary comparison of the two care models suggested that the coordinated care model workforce provided significantly greater hours of care per recipient than the integrated care model workforce. This likely represented the coordinated care model's focus on providing in-home services for one recipient, whereas the integrated care model focused on providing services in a day center with group activities. The lesson learned from this exploratory study is the need for standardized quality measures across home- and community-based services agencies to determine the workforce that best meets the needs of dual-eligible beneficiaries.
Accountability of school networks
Authors: Ehren Melanie , Perryman Jane
Published: July 2017

Quality education is of major public and private interest and, understandably, considerable effort is paid to the quality of schools and improvement of the level of education in society. Many governments recognize the limitations of centralized policy in motivating school improvement and turn to ‘network governance’ to coordinate school systems. Relying on school-to-school collaboration to coordinate education systems has far-reaching consequences for existing accountability structures, most of which were developed to support hierarchical control of individual school quality. This paper reflects on the accountability of networks of schools and on appropriate arrangements to improve the effectiveness of partnerships; our contribution starts with unpicking the question of ‘who is accountable to whom and for what’ in a network of schools? We discuss some common problems in the accountability of networks and describe frameworks to evaluate network-level outcomes and functioning. Examples from the accountability of Multi-Academy Trusts in England are included to contextualize our contribution.
‘Man I’m all torn up inside’: Analyzing audience responses to Making a Murderer
Authors: Kennedy Liam
Published: July 2017

Despite the preoccupation with media depictions of crime and criminal justice, few studies have employed qualitative methodologies to investigate how audience members engage with, react to, and interpret media content. This analysis of Reddit forums dedicated to the 2015 Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer reveals the wide range of responses to the series and demonstrates the value of looking to user-generated content on social media platforms to understand how we think and feel about crime-related matters. I argue that Reddit users’ reactions to the series are consistent with existing research outlining the complexity of the public’s views regarding criminal justice policy and these responses are intelligible when we consider the broader socio-political context in which the series was released. Particularly important, in my view, are individuals’ affective responses – including empathy, confusion, heartbreak, anger, frustration, fear, and helplessness – and the ways these emotions are linked with beliefs about the efficacy of the criminal justice system and the purposes of punishment. Consequently, this article buttresses recent calls to consider the entire spectrum of human emotions and to investigate the ways these emotions are related to our multifaceted beliefs about crime and criminal justice.
Synecdoche that kills: How Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin constructed different Ukraines for different ends
Authors: Baysha Olga
Published: July 2017

Drawing on Ernesto Laclau’s theory of articulation, this article analyzes Barack Obama’s and Vladimir Putin’s public speeches on the Ukrainian crisis of 2014. The article discusses how the presidents constructed rival discourses by erasing the nuances of complex tensions between the logics of equivalence and difference existing within the Ukrainian discursive space. Acting like imperial administrators from colonial times, Obama and Putin pushed representations of Ukraine based on two ‘impossible wholes’: a unified nation whose sovereignty was threatened from outside (Obama’s discourse) and a consolidated pro-Russian Southeast needing to be defended from Kyiv-based nationalists and extremists (Putin’s articulation).
Pre-surgery evaluations by telephone decrease travel and cost for families of children with cerebral palsy
Authors: Robinson John D , Prochaska John D , Yngve David A
Published: July 2017

Introduction:

Children with cerebral palsy need highly specialized care. This can be very burdensome for families, particularly in large rural states, due to the need for long-distance travel to appointments. In this study, children undergoing the selective percutaneous myofascial lengthening surgery utilized a telephone-based telemedicine evaluation to assess for surgical eligibility. The goal was to avoid a separate preoperative clinic visit weeks before the surgery. If possible, eligibility was determined by telephone, and then, the patient could be scheduled for a clinic visit and possible surgery the next day, saving the family a trip. The purposes of the study were to calculate estimated reductions in miles traveled, in travel expenses, and in carbon emissions and to determine whether the telephone assessment was accurate and effective in determining eligibility for surgery.

Methods:

From 2010 to 2012, 279 patients were retrospectively reviewed, and of those, 161 mailed four-page questionnaire and anteroposterior pelvis X-ray followed by a telephone conference. Geographic information system methods were used to geocode patients by location. Savings in mileage and travel costs were calculated. From 2014 to 2015, 195 patients were additionally studied to determine accuracy and effectiveness.

Results:

The telephone prescreening method saved 106,070 miles in transportation over 3 years, a 38% reduction with US$55,326 in savings. Each family saved an average of 658 (standard deviation = 340) miles of travel and US$343.64 (standard deviation = US$178) in travel expenses. For each increase of 10 miles in distance from the health center, the odds of a patient utilizing telephone screening increased by 10% (odds ratio: 1.101, 95% confidence interval: 1.073–1.129, p < 0.001). After the telephone prescreening, 86% were determined to be likely candidates for the procedure. For 14%, a clinic visit only was scheduled, and they were not scheduled for surgery.

Conclusion:

Families seeking specialized surgical care for their disabled children particularly benefited from this approach.
The Diverse Roots of the ‘Secular’ in East Pakistan (1947–71) and the Crisis of ‘Secularism’ in Contemporary Bangladesh
Authors: Hasan Mubashar
Published: July 2017

This article traces the formation of the secular in Bangladesh during the period of 1947–71. Arguably, this is a period when the idea of a ‘secular Bengali nation’ as opposed to ‘Islamic Pakistani nationalism’ was coined in by the political forces to foster imagination of a Bengali root of East Pakistan. This article argues with multiple evidence that particular project of secular Bengali nationalism in the sense of strict separation of religion and politics as opposed to religious nationalism makes little sense in contemporary Bangladesh as major parties here are found to manipulate religious nationalism in a society where simplistic and unenlightened interpretation of religion plays a significant role. This article argues that the idea of secular nationalism had multiple meanings and roots during 1947–71 and by acknowledging diverse roots of secular nationalism, it is possible to make sense of contemporary Bangladesh that is by all secular indicators turned into an intolerant entity but at the same time it is equally important to note that Bangladesh's intolerance is devoid of enlightened application and teaching of Islam.
Caste, Media and Political Power in Andhra Pradesh: The Case of Eenadu
Authors: Gundimeda Sambaiah
Published: July 2017

The unholy nexus between media houses and politics is a well-known sad reality. Such nexus is further complicated by the involvement of caste. The present essay examines the trajectory of Eenadu, a Telugu daily in Andhra Pradesh, and its political manoeuvrings in favour of the Kamma-dominated Telugu Desam Party. Describing the entry of Eenadu, the essay moves to examine the newspaper’s consistent support of the TDP and its stance against the Congress in AP through the political fortunes for N.T. Ramarao, Chandrababu Naidu and Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
Physician Preferences for Aggressive Treatment at the End of Life and Area-Level Health Care Spending: The Johns Hopkins Precursors Study
Authors: Gallo Joseph J. , Andersen Martin S. , Hwang Seungyoung , Meoni Lucy , Jayadevappa Ravishankar
Published: July 2017

Objective: To determine whether physician preferences for end-of-life care were associated with variation in health care spending. Method: We studied 737 physicians who completed the life-sustaining treatment questionnaire in 1999 and were linked to end-of-life care data for the years 1999 to 2009 from Medicare-eligible beneficiaries from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care (in hospital-related regions [HRRs]). Using latent class analysis to group physician preferences for end-of-life treatment into most, intermediate, and least aggressive categories, we examined how physician preferences were associated with health care spending over a 7-year period. Results: When all HRRs in the nation were arrayed in quartiles by spending, the prevalence of study physicians who preferred aggressive end-of-life care was greater in the highest spending HRRs. The mean area-level intensive care unit charges per patient were estimated to be US$1,595 higher in the last 6 months of life and US$657 higher during the hospitalization in which death occurred for physicians who preferred the most aggressive treatment at the end of life, when compared with average spending. Conclusions: Physician preference for aggressive end-of-life care was correlated with area-level spending in the last 6 months of life. Policy measures intended to minimize geographic variation in health care spending should incorporate physician preferences and style.
Performing inequality: Feminist performative acts as protest gestures
Authors: Marchevska Elena
Published: July 2017

This article will look at three case studies of performative political protest, where female activists are raising awareness of the precarious conditions of their lived experience in economic neo-liberalism. The research is focused on links between Focus E15 Mothers Group in London, the #protestiram movement in Macedonia and #direnkahkaha (resist laughter) in Turkey. I will analyse these protest movements’ performative acts and argue that these acts are strategically used to draw attention to the inequality faced by women.
My Body: A War Zone: Documenting stories of wartime sexual violence in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Nepal
Authors: Simić Olivera
Published: July 2017

A photo exhibition My Body: A War Zone features the portraits and testimonies of women survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nepal, Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The exhibition aims to bring attention to individual stories in an effort to overcome the silence and stigma associated with CRSV. This article will analyse this transnational project that brings four acclaimed photographers from different parts of the globe to reconstruct women’s images and testimonies in public city spaces. The article will focus on the Bosnian and Nepali parts of the photo exhibition, and will draw on fieldwork and interviews with Velma Šarić, the curator and organizer of the Bosnian exhibitions, and NayanTara, an independent photographer and curator based in Kathmandu, Nepal. The article argues that while art cannot replace formal judicial mechanisms or material reparation, grassroots artistic initiatives may offer significant and distinct reparative contributions to transitional justice processes.
Theatre and reconciliation: The Day of an Unlucky Man
Authors: Milatovic-Ovadia Maja
Published: July 2017

The terms Comedy and Reconciliation cannot often be found together. Through the analyses of a theatre project, The Voice – A Day of an Unlucky Man, devised by ethnically segregated youth in Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, this article aims to investigate how comedy can encourage and effectively support a complex process of reconciliation. The framework for this analysis is shaped by comedy studies, theory of reconciliation and applied theatre practice.
How does arts practice engage with narratives of migration from refugees? Lessons from ‘utopia’
Authors: McKay Samuel , Bradley Jessica
Published: July 2017

In this article we draw on data from a co-produced transdisciplinary arts and language practice and research project. In this project, researchers, artists and creative practitioners worked with refugees and people seeking asylum. Together we developed and led arts-based workshops, which aimed to explore what it means to be ‘welcome’, how we ‘welcome’ and how we want to be ‘welcomed’. As researchers we approached the project from different disciplinary spaces: Sam from applied theatre and Jessica from sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography. Through analysis of our co-produced artistic outputs, through ethnographic writing and through our reflections on the processes of collaborating, we consider how arts practices engage with narratives of migration in refugee communities. We take three elements of the project: visual arts products in the form of silk paintings, community voices in the form of vignettes and media documentation in the form of a project film. We suggest how these examples embody the processes and the community developed around the project and the different ways of working across sectors with displaced communities to engage with and enable spaces for voices to be made audible.

We use ‘refugee’ throughout this article to refer to people who have been granted asylum, people who are in the process of granting asylum, and people whose asylum claims have been rejected. We choose not to use the phrase ‘asylum seekers’ due to its often negative connotations in the British press.
Digitizing activist art: Widening the platform for civic engagement
Authors: Ali Roaa
Published: July 2017

Ethnic minority artists are often entrapped in cultural spaces that define their representation as ‘marginal’ and limit their visibility and reach. The challenge facing minority artists – like Muslim, Arab or South-Asian American artists, to name a few – lies in creating spaces that would free their plays from being demarcated as ‘marginal’ or ‘subaltern’, and attract a wider audience to view and engage with their issues and concerns. Ethnic theatre initiatives are actively interacting with the wider community to change such narrative by creating new spaces for the distribution of their art, and imbedding civic engagement in the mosaic of that art. This article investigates a new socially-engaged discourse being developed by companies like Silk Road Rising (SRR) in Chicago, whose artists are disseminating their work to new virtual audiences in digital ‘counterpublics’. In particular, the article focuses on the company’s recent direction to harness the online public sphere in the making and distribution of artistic works to challenge cultural, political and institutional limitations. SRR is benefiting from and harnessing new technologies to: firstly, make its projects visible and accessible to a wider audience; secondly, engage its audiences in a participatory process that would effectively render them as ‘spect-actors’; and thirdly, redefine the artistic output of ethnic artists as polycultural, rather than subaltern or marginal.
‘It’s a resting place, where our spirits go’: Bringing back lost ancestor memories to Western Australia’s Great Southern – Noongar boodja
Authors: Huebner Sharon , Flowers Ezzard
Published: July 2017

This article considers the dynamic relationship between Aboriginal Australia identity, western history and the recuperation of lost ancestral memories. In recent decades many Australian cultural institutions have supported Aboriginal community groups in the revival of Aboriginal languages, songs and stories. The reclamation of heritage from archival collections has helped strengthen Aboriginal claim and control of ancestor histories – especially when significant materials are returned to people of a descendant community and given meaningful social context. Often set in place from these interactions are cultural protocols and ethics formulating future material access, return and usage. Looking more closely at intercultural practices of repatriation, this article relates Aboriginal pathways of ancestral memory restoration (and invention of memory) to living story. In particular, it examines the cultural decision-making of two Australian Aboriginal family groups – Wirlomin Minang (Noongar) families from the Great Southern of Western Australia and Gunai Kurnai (Koorie) families from the Gippsland region of Victoria – who characterize kin reactions to the returned colonial historiography of their shared ancestor Bessy Flowers (c. 1849–95), as well as family grief and shame at her absent memory. The difference between the archival material of photographs and letters that represent Bessy and the ways her Wirlomin Minang and Gunai Kurnai families imagine themselves created context for the mixed-media co-production, No Longer a Wandering Spirit. This article explores how intercultural efforts to strengthen family story might widen circles of knowledge about Aboriginal cultural dislocation, historical exclusion and the ever-present action of resistance and recovery.
‘Disjointed days’: Contemporary art and the human right to housing
Authors: Marquis Vincent
Published: July 2017

The human right to housing has a strange status in law, simultaneously codified in a number of international conventions and severely criticized, misunderstood or misinterpreted. This article considers two artistic views on the value of the human right to housing: Martha Rosler’s ‘If You Lived Here...’ and Casco’s recent projects on housing, gentrification and squatting, including the sitcom Our Autonomous Life? and the Convention on the Use of Space. I argue that examining the particular social contexts and the specific content of the claims made by these artists – notably the importance of housing to privacy, autonomy and freedom – illuminates a promising path forward for the right’s legal interpretation and protection.
Quoting the Prophet online: Communicative functions of hadith quotations in webbased Arabic discourse
Authors: Boutz Jennifer , Brugman Claudia , Lancaster Alia
Published: July 2017

Quoting from sacred texts is a common practice in even secular discussions in Arabic-speaking communities. The current study looks at how a set of quotations are used to support a writer’s position in discussions on public media forums. In particular, the article explores the use of quotations from the hadith, the collected reports of the Prophet Muhammad’s words and actions, in online message boards associated with two Arabic-language news websites. We examine how hadith quotations provide both illocutionary meaning (such as advising or persuading) and interpersonal meaning (identifying the participants as sharing knowledge of these sacred texts, and potentially also identifying the speaker as being observant or highly cultured). We show that for a range of topics, participants use hadith quotations to invoke authority, and that part of the contribution to the rhetorical force of the argument may involve a portion of the text that is not quoted.
The effectiveness of the use of social media in government communication in the UAE
Authors: Darwish Elsayed B.
Published: July 2017

The purpose of this article was to explore the effectiveness of the use of social media by the UAE government. It is a network analysis utilizing mainly quantitative data. A total of 100 UAE government accounts, operated by 25 entities, were examined using web-based analytical tools. General findings indicate that the communication accounts of UAE government entities reveal how they interact with stakeholders via social media. Most perform an active role in terms of publicity, outreach, marketing and transparency. However, the level of maturity in social media usage has generally not blossomed enough to be as effective as they could be in terms of stakeholders’ participation and engagement. Also, there are significant differences between the effectiveness of individual entities in terms of their outreach, transparency and participation. In general, they do not utilize the full range, capacity or features of social media in their communication.
Creating English as a language of global news contraflow: Al Jazeera at the intersection of language, globalization and journalism
Authors: Carpenter John C.
Published: July 2017

This study examined discourse Al Jazeera news executives, reporters and spokespersons produced during news coverage of the launch of Al Jazeera English in 2006. The study argues that Al Jazeera created meaning for English as a language of global news contraflow in its journalistic effort to balance the western dominance of global news in English. By adopting the news format and language that are most prevalent in the global news sphere and shifting the perspective from which news stories were told to the Global South, Al Jazeera English added new layers of meaning to news in English. The textual analysis using grounded theory provides a model that researchers may use in studying the ways news companies in the Global South use language to reach new audiences. The model contains public service, understandings of audience, and characteristics of journalists as units of analysis as they intersect with language.
Is it the same fight? Comparative analysis of CNN and Al Jazeera America’s online coverage of the 2014 Gaza War
Authors: Damanhoury Kareem El , Saleh Faisal
Published: July 2017

Major international conflicts tend to receive intensified media coverage, which is often framed differently when compared across distinct news networks. This study compares the framing of the 2014 Gaza War by two news organizations operating inside the United States at the time, CNN and Al Jazeera America (AJAM). A content analysis of 74 online news articles during the 50-day war was conducted to examine the type and nature of sources, the reporting on the death toll, the length of the articles and the use of multimedia. The study revealed that AJAM cited only Palestinian citizens in its articles and always differentiated between militants and civilians when reporting on the Palestinian death toll, while nearly 15 per cent of CNN articles did not clarify whether it had been a militant or a civilian who had died. AJAM and CNN would reference Haaretz newspaper in some articles, yet CNN would also reference other Israeli news outlets. In the meantime, unlike its sister channels Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and Al Jazeera English (AJE), AJAM seemed to be shifting to American journalistic practices with regard to the use of routine sources and social media in its coverage of the 2014 Gaza War.
‘Let the freak-fly fly’: Somatic approaches to undoing traditional power dynamics in dance-making
Authors: Hamp Amanda
Published: July 2017

Miguel Gutierrez, Stephanie Skura and The Architects serve as case studies of dance artists whose somatically informed performance work and creative practices purposefully redistribute power in their creative and dance-making processes. This article analyses their practices in order to consider how they privilege dancers’ somatic intelligences and grant dancers authority in creative decision-making. Dancers who practice with Gutierrez, Skura and The Architects rehearse distinct modes of creative authority, which I discus in terms of vital participation, radical permission and contemplative self-government. Such practices can create emancipatory effects for the dancers as social subjects, and reverberate in the sociopolitical world.
Body intelligence – individual and social potentiality/emerging thoughts from a festival
Authors: Münker Katja
Published: July 2017

In October 2015, the Somatic Academy Berlin (SAB) hosted the first BODY IQ Festival. The festival was dedicated to the experience, exchange and research of body intelligence from the perspectives of various somatic approaches. Its main focus was the social relevance of somatic practices and of body intelligence. The festival-viewpoint considered that the practice of somatics supports the development of intelligent skills and knowledge based on the experience of the conscious body. It suggests that these human capacities are not only relevant for individual development but also for application within social-cultural contexts. Practitioners, teachers and participants were invited to further explore and research the potential of the relation between body intelligence, somatic methods and social impact. In order to develop a shared understanding of somatic knowledge beyond existing methods it is important to develop common terminology including a definition of ‘body intelligence’. To do so, I begin this reflection with a clarification of the term body intelligence as it is used here. I then provide an overview of the festival format, the workshop contents, and the panel discussion. I finish with a reflective summary on the relevance of the festival and the social potential of somatic research and body intelligence.
Reviews
Authors: Cacalano Vincent , Hildebrandt Antje
Published: July 2017

Performance Review Girls at Work, Katie Duck and Yolande Snaith, Ivy Arts Centre, University of Surrey, Stag Hill, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, 17 February 2016

Book Review Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures, Noyale Colin and Stefanie Sachsenmaier (eds) (2016)
Celebrate and Demonstrate: Radical politics in somatic practices
Authors: Roy Carolyn
Published: July 2017

This article uses Celebrate and Demonstrate, a project proposing a political alliance between dancers with other workers in the form of rallying and marching together as a lens through which to examine the potential for somatic dance practices to participate in radical politics as they are enacted today. It considers the politics immanent in dance, specifically somatically informed dance, with reference to French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy’s ontological foundation, being-with, suggesting that this is both the origin and process of the kind of politics recognized in philosopher Judith Butler’s theory of performative assembly. It goes on to propose that, as the somatically trained dancers touch, listen to and engage the world with a particularly heightened sensitivity and openness to the potential for change, they are particularly well adapted to engage in such radical political manifestations.
‘Recovery’, ‘eating dys-order’ and somatic practice: An auto/ethnographic exploration
Authors: Farrell Bríd O’
Published: July 2017

This article uses an auto/ethnographic lens to juxtapose experiences of ‘eating dysorder’ and ‘recovery’ lived in the contrasting milieu of bio-medical and somatic discourse and practice. Evocative auto/ethnography serves here as an anchor for reflections upon the question of why I experience embodied subjectivity so differently within the somatic field, and why I consider these experiences as critical events in my ‘recovery process’.
A guide to clitoral embodiment
Authors: Bindler Nicole
Published: July 2017

Body-Mind Centering® is a somatic practice that includes the study and embodiment of human embryological development as a foundation for understanding movement and the body. The embryology of the genitalia represents an unexplored frontier in Body-Mind Centering. Unlike its embryological corollary, the penis, the clitoris is absent from most illustrated anatomy texts. Clitoral embodiment remedies the inattention paid to female and non-binary genital development by presenting a framework for embodying multiple potentials for sex and gender expressions through imagery, movement and embryological study, with an emphasis on invagination over penetration. Standing at the intersection of somatics, embryology and gender/sexuality studies, clitoral embodiment uses classroom/studio learning and practice to explore an underlying biological explanation for sex and gender fluidity.
Entangled histories, part 1: Releasing the Archive
Authors: Brown Carol
Published: July 2017

Releasing the Archive probes the potential for a return to the past as a method for revitalizing corporeal expression in the present. In this trans-hemispherical project, we explore the avant-garde dance practice of Gertrud Bodenwieser (b. 1890 Vienna, d. 1959 Sydney) in Vienna prior to her exile to Australia in 1938 through a somatic approach. What is the potential opened by a recovery of the principles and practices of her dance methods and corporeal project? In inhabiting the archives of former Bodenwieser dancers through an inter-corporeal approach, Releasing the Archive explores what they can do in the present. It renders visible the specific somatic and expressive logic of dance methods that emerged in Vienna in the period 1919–38 and were developed in Australia from 1939, when they were ‘outlawed’ in Austria and Germany. At the same time, it invites an ethics of witnessing the past through the stories of the dancers who embodied it.
Entangled histories, part 2: Releasing the de-generate body
Authors: Kampe Thomas
Published: July 2017

This second part of writing on the research project Releasing the Archive, undertaken by Carol Brown and Thomas Kampe in collaboration with dancers of New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC), aims to discuss notions of contemporary somaticinformed re-transmission of the work of Gertrud Bodenwieser (Vienna 1890 – Sydney 1959) as acts of cultural repair. The article unpacks, through historical texts and dancers’ notebooks, how the diasporic work of Gertrud Bodenwieser, influenced by Modernist body-culture pioneer Bess Mensendieck (c. 1866–1957 ), aimed to construct a practice of somatic realism concerned with emancipatory perspectives on twentieth century western personhood. The author discusses proto-somatic and proto-feminist roots of Bodenwieser’s corporeal practices as critical processes, and reveals how Bodenwieser’s discovery-based pedagogies invite and foster dancers’ psycho-physical agency within collaborative modes of creation. The article critiques the application of The Feldenkrais Method as a contemporary somatic modality to support the revitalizing of a re-emerging ecstatic and eccentric highly dynamic bodycoding. It contextualizes Releasing the Archive as a trans-cultural and intergenerational articulation of coming to terms with the complexities of a nearly forgotten European exiled dance legacy.
Identidades, estágio curricular e trabalho docente: Análise discursiva de depoimentos de licenciandas de uma Universidade Federal no Rio Grande do Sul
Authors: De Moura Sandra Regina , Fiss Dóris Maria Luzzardi
Published: July 2017

Este artigo se propôs a analisar as afetações do estágio curricular obrigatório e seus ecos na formação das identidades docentes sob a perspectiva de seis licenciandas do Curso de Pedagogia (FACED/UFRGS). Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa desenvolvida no ano de 2014, que se dispôs a ouvir as vozes de licenciandas em período de estágio curricular obrigatório numa escola da rede pública municipal de ensino localizada na cidade de Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil) por meio da realização de grupo focal. Para abordar a temática sobre a qual o artigo versa – estágio e identidade profissional, foram discutidas concepções desenvolvidas por Maurice Tardif e Danielle Raymond, António Nóvoa, Selma Garrido Pimenta e Maria Socorro Lima. O corpus analítico foi composto por depoimentos das licenciandas trabalhados na perspectiva da análise do discurso segundo Michel Pêcheux, destacando inclusive contribuições oferecidas por Eni Orlandi. A partir da análise das falas produzidas em decorrência do grupo focal, foram evidenciados alguns efeitos de sentido - docência como trabalho colaborativo, “humana docência”, experiência de autonomia e tempo de mudanças - que referem o estágio curricular obrigatório como espaço de aprendizagem e de reflexão sobre a prática, espaço da práxis, da prática refletida, influenciando na constituição das identidades docentes das licenciandas. Soma-se a isso a percepção de que as seis estagiárias referiram reviramentos em seus modos de se pensarem e se fazerem docentes em função de uma experiência que as tocou como acontecimento justamente por implicar na atualização de memórias discursivas do campo da educação que, se consideradas nos espaços e tempos de formação, podem contribuir haja vista possibilitarem o desenho de caminhos outros que reiteram compromissos assumidos com a escolarização e educação, reconhecendo a relevância de se compreender as condições dinâmicas de constituição  da interlocução com o outro como em uma situação de estágio.
Intriguing sets of quadrics in PG(5, q)
Authors: Cossidente Antonio , Pavese Francesco
Published: July 2017

A hemisystem on the Hermitian surface ℋ(3, q
2), q ≥ 7 odd, admitting a subgroup of PΩ-(4, q) of order q
2(q +1) is constructed. Also, a new family of Cameron-Liebler line classes of PG(3, q), q ≥ 5 odd, with parameter (q
2 + 1)/2 is provided.