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Digital Entrepreneurship in a Traditional Production Firm
Authors: Hannibal Martin , Rasmussen Erik S.
Published: November 2014

Through a longitudinal case study this paper explores the repercussions from introducing a mobile commerce platform as just another instrument in the marketing toolbox in a traditional sales-oriented firm. Findings suggest that the implementation of the M-platform in addition to its intended purpose spawns a digital business model that allows the company to change its relations to distributors, retailers and customers enabling access to direct communication with end-users. However, the emerging new business model has the potential to change the organization entirely. This paper argues that although the emerging business model was indeed a success seen from a sales-, marketing-, innovative-, and relational perspective, it was perceived as a disaster from an organizational perspective. Consequently, top management abandoned the new platform. The paper highlights the importance of not underestimating resistance in an organization when implementing a new marketing instrument such as M-commerce platforms.
Google Earth as a Reflection of Cultural Changes and Socio-Spatial Processes in the Digital Age
Authors: Meishar-Tal Hagit
Published: November 2014

The paper describes the change undergoing in maps and map-making, in the move from modern printed maps to digital, online maps, emphasizing the changing status of the cartographer and the changing nature of information represented on the maps. Taking Google Earth as its main example, the paper demonstrates the cultural changes embedded in this environment in terms of three main spatial themes: the global culture, the culture of openness and collaboration, and the virtualization of the cultural products and practices. It contributes to the understanding of the broader context of the changes in the modes of production and knowledge politics in the digital age.
Personality Profiles of Software Engineers and Their Software Quality Preferences
Authors: Raza Arif , Capretz Luiz Fernando , Ul-Mustafa Zaka
Published: November 2014

Studies related to human aspects in software engineering (SE) have been performed from different perspectives. These perspectives include the study of human factors in different phases of software life cycle, effect of team performance in software development, how can a personality trait suit a particular task, and about some other miscellaneous issues. This research work aims to establish personality profiles of Pakistani software engineers using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) instrument. This survey has collected personality profiles of 110 software engineers. Moreover, their preferences of software quality attributes have also been collected. Analysis of the study shows that the most prominent personality type is a combination of introversion, sensing, thinking and judging. Investigative results indicate that most of the software engineers consider usability and functionality as the most important software quality attributes.
Predicting Drilling Forces and Delamination in GFRP Laminates using Fuzzy Logic
Authors: Dhawan Vikas , Singh Sehijpal , Singh Inderdeep
Published: November 2014

Drilling of fiber reinforced plastics is necessary in order to assemble complex/intricate composite products. Drilling induced damage leads to high percentage of part rejection and reduced product efficiency and life. The thrust force and torque have been found to be the important factors influencing damage. In the present research endeavor, an attempt has been made to develop a fuzzy rule based model for predicting thrust force, torque and drilling induced delamination during drilling of glass fiber reinforced epoxy plastics (GFREP). The work piece material, drill geometry, drill diameter, feed and cutting speed have been considered as the five input parameters. Four types of solid carbide drills namely 8 facet, 4 facet, parabolic and jodrill of 4 mm and 8 mm size were used to make holes in UD-GFREP and { (0/90) /0]s GFREP laminates at three different levels of speed and feed. The results of the predictive model have been found to be in good agreement with experimental values.
Multi-Objective Optimization of Abrasive Waterjet Machining Process Parameters Using Particle Swarm Technique
Authors: Murugabalaji V. , Kanthababu M. , Jegaraj J. , Saikumar S.
Published: November 2014

Multi-objective optimization is carried out for the first time to optimize abrasive water jet machining (AWJM) process parameters for graphite. Experiments are carried out by Response Surface Methodology (RSM) using Box-Behnken method. The input process parameters considered are pressure (P), traverse rate (TR) and mesh size (MS). Results are analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and response surface considering individually output parameters such as depth of cut (DOC) and surface roughness (Ra). ANOVA and response surface analyses indicated that similar combinations of AWJM process parameters such as high pressure (176 MPa), medium mesh size (# 100) and low traverse rate (1000 mm/min) resulted in higher depth of cut as well as lower Ra. Therefore, in order to verify the above combinations and to improve productivity, multi-objective optimization is carried out using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to achieve higher depth of cut and low Ra together. From the PSO analysis, it is observed that pressure of 154 MPa, traverse rate of 1877 mm/min and mesh size of # 100 result in high depth of cut and low Ra together. The result obtained from the PSO is compared with that of ANOVA. The outcome of this study will be useful to the manufacturing engineers for selecting appropriate input AWJM process parameters for machining graphite, which has various applications such as aerospace, defence, etc.
Visual Tracking Using Multimodal Particle Filter
Authors: Tung Tony , Matsuyama Takashi
Published: November 2014

Visual tracking of humans or objects in motion is a challenging problem when observed data undergo appearance changes (e.g., due to illumination variations, occlusion, cluttered background, etc.). Moreover, tracking systems are usually initialized with predefined target templates, or trained beforehand using known datasets. Hence, they are not always efficient to detect and track objects whose appearance changes over time. In this paper, we propose a multimodal framework based on particle filtering for visual tracking of objects under challenging conditions (e.g., tracking various human body parts from multiple views). Particularly, the authors integrate various cues such as color, motion and depth in a global formulation. The Earth Mover distance is used to compare color models in a global fashion, and constraints on motion flow features prevent common drifting effects due to error propagation. In addition, the model features an online mechanism that adaptively updates a subspace of multimodal templates to cope with appearance changes. Furthermore, the proposed model is integrated in a practical detection and tracking process, and multiple instances can run in real-time. Experimental results are obtained on challenging real-world videos with poorly textured models and arbitrary non-linear motions.
Meta-Modeling Based Secure Software Development Processes
Authors: Essafi Mehrez , Ben Ghezala Henda
Published: November 2014

This work suggests a multilevel support to software developers, who often lack knowledge and skills on how to proceed to develop secure software. In fact, developing software with such quality is a hard and complex task that involves many additional security-dedicated activities which are usually omitted in traditional software development lifecycles or integrated but not efficiently and appropriately deployed in some others. To federate all these software security-assurance activities in a structured way and provide the required guidelines for choosing and using them in a flexible development process, authors used meta-modeling techniques and dynamic process execution that consider developer's affinities and product's states. The proposed approach formalizes existing secure software development processes, allows integration of new ones, prevents ad-hoc executions and is supported by a tool to facilitate its deployment. A case study is given here to exemplify the proposed approach application and to illustrate some of its advantages.
Distance Learning for Students with Special Needs through 3D Virtual Learning
Authors: Laffey James M. , Stichter Janine , Galyen Krista
Published: November 2014

iSocial is a 3D Virtual Learning Environment (3D VLE) to develop social competency for students who have been identified with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders. The motivation for developing a 3D VLE is to improve access to special needs curriculum for students who live in rural or small school districts. The paper first describes a number of innovative features developed to translate a targeted curriculum and to undertake teaching and learning to meet special needs in a 3D Virtual Environment. Secondly the paper describes results from a field test of iSocial at 3 sites with 11 students. The results show promise for improvements in social competence, but also challenges for distance learning delivery of 3D VLE.
Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games and Interaction
Authors: Anderson Bodi
Published: November 2014

This current study examines the need for operational definitions of the concept of interaction in distance education studies. It is proposed that a discourse analysis of linguistic features conversation noted as being representative of interaction can be used to operationalize interaction in synchronous CMC. This study goes on compare two different registers: an internet chat register, and a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game register to explore the theoretical claim that such virtual world environments have higher levels of interaction. Overall findings exhibit that MMORPGs have higher amount of linguistic features characteristic of interaction. Evidence points to MMORPGs being more interactive and also supportive of collaborative interaction.
Teaching Science with Web-Based Inquiry Projects
Authors: Webb Aubree M. , Knight Stephanie L. , Ben Wu X. , Schielack Jane F.
Published: November 2014

The purpose of this research is to explore a new computer-based interactive learning approach to assess the impact on student learning and attitudes toward science in a large university ecology classroom. A comparison was done with an established program to measure the relative impact of the new approach. The first inquiry project, BearCam, gives learners the freedom to navigate bear images and videos online to complete a scientific report. The new program, Virtual Ecological Inquiry (VEI), is based in the Second-Life platform and allows students to create an avatar and explore the Wolong Nature Reserve, collecting plant and environmental data in virtual form. Both inquiry projects show potential to engage learners and promote the acquisition of investigative practices and processes within inquiry. Inquiry assessment methods and changes to the VEI program are shared.
Game-Changer
Authors: Levitt Roberta , Piro Joseph
Published: November 2014

Technology integration and Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-based education have enhanced the teaching and learning process by introducing a range of web-based instructional resources for classroom practitioners to deepen and extend instruction. One of the most durable of these resources has been the WebQuest. Introduced around the mid-1990s, it involves an inquiry-centered activity in which some or all of the information learners interact with comes from digital artifacts located on the Internet. WebQuests still retain much of their popularity and educational relevance and have shown remarkable staying power. Because of this, recontextualizing the WebQuest and situating it within the modern-day trend of the “gamification” of instructional design is examined, together with how the WebQuest can promote solid academic gain by placing students inside a learning space patterned after a multi-user virtual environment. This structure includes emphasis on teamwork and socially responsible problem-solving, intense task immersion, task game flow and scalability, and reward cycles. The authors also discuss how including an upgraded WebQuest informed by Common Core Grade-Specific Learning Standards in pre-service education curriculum can advance multiple facets of teacher education with candidates who are acquiring, learning, applying, and integrating pedagogical, technological, and content-area skills. Further, the authors offer suggestions for new directions in the use of web-based resources in 21st century education enterprise.
A New Architecture of Mobile Payment System through Social Media Network
Authors: Singh Basudeo , K.S. Jasmine
Published: November 2014

The financial services industry is changing rapidly as a result of advances in information technology, telecommunications and the Internet. Technological innovations and increasing customer demand have led to the emergence of new services and new organizational forms for financial services firms. The gait of innovation in the Social media, the payment system is staggering. The biggest social media sites are Facebook, massive and used by almost everyone, Twitter, the micro-blogging, and LinkedIn, the online professional networking site. By using the social media connections as a method to exchange the funds, we can integrate our use of mobile wallets, PayPal, etc. to our social media sites. Believing on daily deal platforms, none of the current daily deal platforms can compete with the granularity and relevance with which banks could target a deal to a specific subscriber, having access to their extensive spending history and preferences. A feedback loop extending from the Bank to the merchants enabling the creation of accurate list of customers who consistently spend in specific retail categories can help merchants in delivering targeted offers to attract new customers.
Descrizione di un nuovo sottogenere, una nuova specie ed una nuova sottospecie di Barynotus Germar, 1817 e note sulla sistematica del genere (Coleoptera Curculionidae)
Authors: Pesarini Carlo , Pedroni Guido
Published: November 2014

Nel presente lavoro viene rivista la sistematica del genere Barynotus, con descrizione del nuovo sottogenere Margaritius (specie tipo B. fairmairei Tournier, 1876), della nuova specie B. monguzzii, diffusa nelle Prealpi centrali dalle Orobie ai Monti Lessini, affine a B. mainardii Solari, 1943 ma distinto da questo per la diversa conformazione del rostro e dei genitali ♂♂, e della nuova sottospecie B. mainardii alpicola, delle Prealpi Bellunesi. Vengono poi fornite chiavi per la determinazione dei gruppi di specie del genere e per quella delle specie del gruppo di B. unipunctatus.
Notes and Communications
Authors: V.V. A.A.
Published: November 2014

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Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum in a Newborn with Turner Mosaicism
Authors: Pereira Ester , Polo Monica Rebollo , López Jordi Muchart , Quijano Thais Agut , García-Alix Alfredo , Fons Carmen
Published: November 2014

The agenesis of the corpus callosum results from a failure in the development of the largest fiber bundle that connects cerebral hemispheres. Patient’s outcome is influenced by etiology and associated central nervous system malformations. We describe a child with Turner syndrome (TS) mosaicism, with particular phenotype features and a complete agenesis of the corpus callosum. To our knowledge, this is the second case report of TS mosaicism associated with complete agenesis of the corpus callosum. Anatomical brain magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging were useful to confirm the complete absence of the corpus callosum, evaluate associated central nervous system malformations, visualize abnormal white matter tracts (Probst bundles) and assess the remaining commissures.
A New Way to Measure Mid-Upper-Arm Circumference in African Villages
Authors: Pollach Gregor , Bradley Eleanore , Cole Abigail , Jung Kai
Published: November 2014

In 2011 we published a study on how to detect the threshold for malnutrition in children, simply using their own hands and without any technical tool. The fight against malnutrition can only be reached when its measurements involve every single child, almost continuously, in the affected villages. In this paper we try to show that, thanks to our method, it is possible to use mid-upper-arm-circumference as a measurement for malnutrition in children, discriminating between severe and moderate malnutrition and providing the basis for the decision on whether to admit a child to a nutritional rehabilitation unit or not. We trained 63 participants in four groups (Group 1: doctors and clinical officers; Group 2: nurses and students; as Group 3 we defined the 20 best participants and Group 4 consisted of 10 more intensely trained participants) to measure the circumference of 9 different artificial arms (between 9 and 13 cm) using their own fingers and hands. The training was short and consisted of an introduction of 5 min, a first training phase of 10-15 min, a test, the critical discussion of the results, a second training phase of 5 min and a final test. We found that 95.3% of participants in the general group and 97.9% in the intensely trained group have identified the severely malnourished child; 87.3% in the general group and 91.9% in the intensely trained group have additionally identified the moderately malnourished child. Both groups haven’t admitted the well nourished child to a therapeutic feeding program retaining their resources. The third group reached without any additional training the results in the above categories. A subsequent discussion with the participants on the influence of procurement, maintenance and pricing of our tool, found our method much less vulnerable than others. We conclude that this method should be considered as a future training in the villages to detect the trend towards malnutrition early enough.
Bilateral ptosis as a presenting feature of primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (pachydermoperiostosis): a case report
Authors: El Aoud S. , Frikha F. , Snoussi M. , Ben Salah R. , Bahloul Z.
Published: November 2014

Pachydermoperiostosis is a rare hereditary disorder, which affects both bones and skin. It is characterized by a combination of dermatologic changes (pachydermia or thickening of the skin) and rheumatologic manifestations (periostosis and finger clubbing). Eyelid ptosis which is caused by thickened eyelids (blepharoptosis) is a less common symptom. We report the case of a patient with a complete form of pachydermoperiostosis with bilateral ptosis as presenting feature.
Radiologists and rheumatologists on performing and reporting shoulder ultrasound: from disagreement to consensus
Authors: Filippou G. , Adinolfi A. , Delle Sedie A. , Filippucci E. , Iagnocco A. , Porta F. , Sconfienza L. M. , Tormenta S. , Di Sabatino V. , Picerno V. , Frediani B.
Published: November 2014

Shoulder pain is a common condition in the rheumatologist’s practice, yet there are no guidelines on how to report shoulder ultrasound (US) examinations. The aim of this study was to compare scanning and reporting techniques performed by radiologists and rheumatologists and identify any discrepancies between the two. The participants in this study were five rheumatologists and two radiologists specialized in musculoskeletal US. The study was divided in 2 phases. In the first phase, each participant performed an US of 3 patients and reported the findings without knowing the patient diagnosis and the findings reported by the other operators. Other three investigators reported the US technique of each operator. Reports and images were subsequently compared to identify any discrepancies and reach consensus on a common approach. In the second phase, a US scan was performed on a fourth patient in a plenary session to assess feasibility and efficacy of the common approach The US scanning technique was similar for all operators. The differences in reporting emerged in the description of the rotator cuff disease. Radiologists provided a detailed description of lesions (measurements along 2 axis and scoring of lesions), whereas rheumatologists described carefully the inflammatory changes. The experts concluded that lesions should be measured along 2 axes and the grade of degeneration and the age of the lesion should be reported. Another difference emerged in the description of the irregularities of the bone surface. The experts concluded that the term erosion should be used only when an inflammatory joint disease is suspected. This study led to the clarification of some inconsistencies in US reporting, and represented an interesting collaborative experience between radiologists and rheumatologists.
Predictive factors for partial remission according to the Ankylosing Spondylitis Assessment Study working group in patients with ankylosing spondylitis treated with anti-TNFα drugs
Authors: Perrotta F.M. , Addimanda O. , Ramonda R. , D’Angelo S. , Lubrano E. , Marchesoni A. , Olivieri I. , Punzi L. , Salvarani C. , Spadaro A.
Published: November 2014

The objective of this study was to evaluate the predictive factors for achieving partial remission (PR) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) treated with anti-TNFα. We longitudinally enrolled in a multi-center study 214 AS patients, classified according to New York criteria, treated with anti-TNFα drugs adalimumab (ADA), etanercept (ETA) and infliximab (INF) with at least 12 months of follow up. PR was reached when the score was <20 mm (on a visual analogue scale of 0-100 mm) in each of the following 4 domains: 1) patient global assessment (in the last week); 2) pain (spinal pain); 3) function [measured by the bath ankylosing spondylitis functional index (BASFI)]; 4) inflammation [mean of intensity and duration of morning stiffness, from the bath ankylosing spondylitis disease activity index (BASDAI)]. Two hundred fourteen AS patients (M/F=160/54; median age/range=43.2/19-78 years; median disease duration/ range=96/36-189 months) were treated with ADA (15.8%), ETA (28.9%) and INF (55.1%). At 12 and 24 months, high serum level of C reactive protein (CRP) (≥2 vs ≤0.8 mg/dL) were associated with higher rate of PR in AS patients treated with anti-TNFα drugs. At 24 months, PR was associated with shorter disease duration (≤36 vs ≥189 months) and higher erythrosedimentation rate (ESR) values (≥45 vs ≤17 mm/h). In male patients lower bath ankylosing spondylitis metrology index (BASMI) (≤2 vs ≥6) and absence of psoriasis were associated with higher PR rate only at 12 months. Other parameters assessed before treatment, such as BASDAI, BASFI, peripheral arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and uveitis were not associated with PR. Our long-term longitudinal study in a setting of clinical practice showed that inflammatory parameters (i.e. CRP, ESR) and disease duration represent the most important predictive variables to achieve PR with an anti-TNFα treatment.
Health Literacy of Elementary School Students.
Authors: Ahn Eun Jung , Kwon In Soo
Published: November 2014

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify health literacy levels of elementary school students.METHODS: Participants were 331 fifth and sixth graders in nine elementary schools located in Gyeongsangnam-do.Instruments were 42 health-related words derived from fifth-grade textbook 'Health in Daily Life' for linguistic health literacy, modified Korean Health Literacy Assessment Tool (KHLAT) for numeracy section of functional health literacy, items from a snack box and newspaper article for reading comprehension section of functional health literacy.Data were collected from July 15 to August 15, 2013.RESULTS: The mean score for linguistic health literacy was 24.02+/-7.16 of 42 (57.2% were correct answers). The mean score for functional health literacy was 9.27+/-2.30 of 12 (77.3% were correct answers). There were significant differences in health literacy by grade and academic performance.CONCLUSION: This study results show that both linguistic and functional health literacy among elementary school students were not high enough to use health-related information and make appropriate health-related decisions. Therefore, it is important to develop strategies aimed at increasing health literacy levels, especially focused on underperforming students. It is also necessary that studies be done on the factors affecting the health literacy of elementary-school students.
Copper occurrences in lower carboniferous sedimentary rocks of the maritime provinces
Authors: Binney W P
Published: November 2014

The occurrence of trace amounts of copper mineralization at the contact of the basal Windsor limestone and an underlying clastic unit,commonly the Horton Group, was reported as early as 1884. During the summers of 1973 and 1974 the author visited many of the
Lower Carboniferous outcrops in the Maritime Provinces in an effort to outline the lateral and vertical distribution of base-metal sulphides about the Windsor-Horton, or equivalent, contact. This open file is the basic documentation arising from the field work. It provides the location, access, and
a short description of all Lower Carboniferous outcrops visited by the author. Although the outcrops contain only minor amounts of base-metals zones of chalcocite, chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, and iron and manganese oxides could be delineated.
The use of human resources literature regarding the relationship between affect and student academic performance
Authors: Callaghan Chris W. , Papageorgiou Elmarie
Published: November 2014

Orientation: In human resources literature affect, or affectivity, has been identified as contributing, either negatively or positively, to different forms of performance in a range of different contexts.Research purpose: The aim of the study was to empirically test theory that predicts that affect can influence performance; in this case the academic performance of students in the South African higher education context.Motivation for the study: Human resources job performance theory seems to offer important insights when extended into other contexts of individual performance. The specific potential influence of affect on student performance is unclear in this context.Research design, approach and method: A non-probability comprehensive sample of all students registered for first-year accountancy (n = 719) was used. Confirmatory factor analysis, exploratory factor analysis and bivariate tests of association were used to empirically test theory predicting relationships between affect and student academic performance.Main findings: In general the findings support the predications derived from affect theory, that negative affect is negatively associated with student performance and that positive affect is positively associated with student performance. Yet, the results suggest that affect might not, in this context, reflect the two-dimensional theoretical structure. In particular, negative affectivity might better be considered as a three-dimensioned construct.Practical/managerial implications: These results suggest that proactive measures may need to be taken by higher education institutions to support first-year students affectively. Student advisors or counsellors should be appointed, with a specific focus on providing support for student anxiety and other contextual frustrations to which individuals with higher levels of negative affect might be particularly vulnerable.Contribution: These findings provide new insights into the importance of extending human resource theory into different contexts. Knowledge of the specific potential constraints posed by affect to student performance is provided.
Hinduism and the 1960s
Authors: Oliver Paul
Published: November 2014

The West has drawn upon Hinduism on a wide scale, from hatha yoga and meditation techniques, to popular culture in music and fashion, yet the contribution of Hinduism to the counter-culture of the 1960s has not been analysed in full.

Hinduism and the 1960s looks at the youth culture of the 1960s and early 1970s, and the way in which it was influenced by Hinduism and Indian culture. It examines the origins of the 1960s counter-culture in the Beat movement of the 1950s, and their interest in Eastern religion, notably Zen. When the Beatles visited India to study transcendental meditation, there was a rapid expansion in interest in Hinduism. Young people were already heading east on the so-called 'Hippie Trail', looking for spiritual enlightenment and an escape from the material lifestyle of the West. Paul Oliver examines the lifestyle which they adopted, from living in ashrams to experimenting with drugs, sexual liberation, ayurvedic medicine and yoga.

This engaging book analyses the interaction between Hinduism and the West, and the way in which each affected the other. It demonstrates the ways in which contemporary Western society has learned from the ancient religion of Hinduism, and incorporated such teachings as yoga, meditation and a natural holistic lifestyle, into daily life. Each chapter contains a summary and further reading guidance, and a glossary is included at the end of the book, making this ideal reading for courses on Hinduism, Indian religions, and religion and popular culture.
Editorial
Authors: Healy Chris , Muecke Stephen
Published: November 2014

Two impressive essays that explore the energetic cultural presence of gender open Action, our first issue for 2004. In ‘Burst into Action’ Stephen Chan explores how the ‘woman warrior’ in Hong Kong action cinema organises aspects of everyday Hong Kong sensibility in the shifting terrain of the global popular. Then, in ‘Men who Surf’, Clifton Evers takes us to some of the moments when male bodies are formed in relation to the violent beauty of waves and surfing cultures. In both cases, the (formerly iconic) objects that emerge in these studies—the cinema and the beach—become radically different spaces that take us in unexpected directions. These essays are followed by Isabel McIntosh’s engaging study of cultural sovereignty in the disappearance of the Urewera Mural and Raya Massie’s wild ride with the hypercreature.
Burst Into Action: The Changing Spectacle of Glamour Heroines in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
Authors: Chan Stephen C. K.
Published: November 2014

My question for now is: in what ways have the new currents of transnationality affected existing forms of cultural sensibility in the ‘post-colony’? Realised as a system of representation of the global popular, recent articulations of popular experience tend to be absorbed into generic cross-cultural media representations shared on the glocal level of operation by cultural producers, consumers and practitioners across geographical borders. In this paper, I shall focus on the changing spectacle of ‘the local’ through its cinematic action (along with its alternative heroine mediation), in light of such a transnational articulation as the emerging dominant. My purpose is to examine how local action has been re-imagined and can be re-aligned in relation to the specifically historical, national and postcolonial mode of imagination under the contemporary glocal context of the Hong Kong ‘Special Administrative Region’ (HKSAR), as this particular post-colony is officially renamed.
Men Who Surf
Authors: Evers Clifton
Published: November 2014

As a surfer, I experience and participate with countless rituals, myths, legends, laws, body modifications, feelings and ideas. Riding a wave is more than an act. To ‘become-surfer’ is to undergo a complex lived experience of surging relations. My analysis of surfing in this article shows how male bodies surf with tidal flows of relations. That is, how they reckon with varying, confusing, and moving experiences. I want to provide a mapping of male surfing bodies whereby fibreglass meshes with flesh, wax, fear, excitement, economics, sweat, politics, erotica and representations. I map masculinity fuelled by feelings of moving, relational and paddling bodies.
Quartet: On the Theme of to Portray is to Betray
Authors: Magee Paul
Published: November 2014

Art does not deceive its readers with an illusion of reality, as the common-sense notion has it, but rather pretends to deceive them. For the communicative power of the work of art lies precisely in the fact that we recognise its artificiality, its status as a work within a given genre, following certain conventions, set in a particular frame. What the work really points to, beyond the page, is the existence and actions of a creative consciousness, as that consciousness works through a given set of symbols to express itself. For reading is all about experiencing another’s mind. In the lack. Which makes it a matter of desire. My purpose in the following is to use literature to crack open the everyday, to write about neurosis and psychosis, how they write their way into the real world around us, the dinner table, this novel, a Greek tragedy, I mean Oedipus complex.
Post-socialist Queer
Authors: Dobrovic Zvonimir
Published: November 2014

At times it seems as if the globalised world exists not as the glorious summit of human history but as a multiple universe of parallel realities. While globalisation is marketed as if it has shrunk the world, I often wonder if it is critical thinking that has shrunk and conformed to the new set boundaries, while the world remains as vast as ever.
Skirt, Cap and Gown: How Fair are Universities to Young Women in Postgraduate Study?
Authors: Brabazon Tara
Published: November 2014

If democratisation in the tertiary sector is to be taken seriously, then we must carefully survey how previously disadvantaged groups are incorporated into higher education. In response to the words of my ex-postgraduate, I sent emailed questions to my six female doctoral students. Their testimony was then labelled ‘A’ through to ‘F’ to connote the seniority of their candidature. I then pleated their answers against DEST surveys of the Australian academy and theoretical/historical approaches to the university’s purpose. Via this approach, the attitudes of my students wedge the page, providing an intervention in the calm facade of DEST documents stressing science, training and vocationalism. We do not hear—let alone read—the experi- ences of postgraduates in sufficient depth. When presented in this way, different approaches to the postgraduate journey are revealed that are distinct from the imperatives of completion rates, supervisory training and professional competencies.
Editorial
Authors: Healy Chris , Muecke Stephen
Published: November 2014

Editorial by Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke.
A Songline for Minoru
Authors: Birch Tony
Published: November 2014

Poetry.
Notes on a Genre to Come: Screenwriting and the 'Thesis-film'
Authors: Maras Steven
Published: November 2014

This piece draws together two areas: screenwriting and film or video works (to be jointly referred to as ‘films’) that explicitly try to undertake a conceptual practice. Conceptual practice is to be understood here not within the exclusive framework of conceptual or abstract art, but of acts and interventions in theory of the kind that crossover between the academy and the broader culture. Interventions of this kind have (especially in the form of the essay film, and films by humanities academics) been a part of Australian screen culture since at least the 1980s. While these interventions may not appear to be central to much cultural studies work, I want to suggest that cultural studies is intertwined with them in at least three ways.
Does Size Matter? Dominant Discourses about Penises in Western Culture
Authors: McKee Alan
Published: November 2014

The fact that a large penis is important for giving women sexual pleasure is a dominant discourse—even though it must never be spoken—in Western cultures. And this is an interesting fact, for many reasons. It is interesting for making us think about how discourses work, and how we may know them to be dominant. It suggests that a discourse that is almost never spoken publicly may still be a dominant one. It suggests that there is at least one dominant discourse in Western culture that is in the hands of women, and that can be extremely powerful against men when used correctly. And it suggests—to me, at least—that in cultural studies we should pay more attention to the discursive resources in the cultures that surround us, and the ways in which they might be used, rather than insistently looking only to academic writing for ways to progress particular political ends.
Introduction
Authors: Rose Deborah , Read Peter
Published: November 2014

We have been talking together about concepts of place for many years, and both jointly and separately we have come up against many horrific facts of damage, trauma, loss and irretrievable devastation. Debbie encountered this first and foremost in her work with Aboriginal Australians: What happens when sacred sites are destroyed? What are the effects of being dispossessed and having one’s own existence denied? What are the consequences of extinction when the extinct ones are kin—members of the one totemic family? Debbie’s engagements with ecological loss pressed her to consider extinctions and then to think of life itself in the context of desecration. Pete encountered these facts in his wide-ranging work with loss of place: What is the impact of destroyed homes and lost country? How do people engage with deliberate erasure of the sacred in recent war zones, with the vandalised cemeteries in Havana, or with a church in New South Wales where a black mass was conducted?
'Desecration' in a Place of Refuge
Authors: Glazebrook Diana
Published: November 2014

In this paper I explore two related questions: how does a particular site come to be perceived as sacred, and what is the impact of the destruction of something sacred when it occurs in a place of ‘refuge’? This study is situated on the island of New Guinea, in the experiences of West Papuan people from the Indonesian Province of Papua (formerly Irian Jaya), living as refugees across the international border in Papua New Guinea. The inquiry is grounded in two instances involving a refugee population in a place of refuge. The first instance involves the burning of a church built by a refugee congregation, and the second involves the large-scale occupation by a refugee population of another people’s land. A doubling effect is intended here. Forced migration can simultaneously render refugees vulnerable to the violence of others, and in the process of resettlement, refugees may have no real choice but to engage in actions that violate the land of others.
The Telling Room
Authors: Holland-Batt Sarah
Published: November 2014

Poetry.
Making Culture Bloom
Authors: McCalman Iain
Published: November 2014

On 16 June 1904, exactly one hundred years before the establishment of CHASS, an Irish Jew of Hungarian extraction called Leopold Bloom set off on a twenty-four hour perambulation around the streets and bars of Dublin. This fictional incident is the basis of James Joyce’s Ulysses, the greatest novel of modern times. It has also given rise to Bloomsday, a kind of Irish literary holy day celebrated in cities all around the world. It was a specially appropriate moment for us to celebrate the birth of our new peak body, because Bloomsday provides a perfect parable for why the Australian public and government should cherish our sector.
Uncovering Nudity
Authors: Luckman Susan
Published: November 2014

A review of Ruth Barcan's Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy (Berg, Oxford, 2004).
History('s) Re-turns
Authors: Wills Sara
Published: November 2014

A review of Klaus Neumann's Refuge Australia: Australia's Humanitarian Record (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2004).
The Man of Feeling
Authors: Gelder Ken
Published: November 2014

A review of Peter Read's Haunted Earth (University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2003).
Rethinking the Change: Italian Feminism Between Crisis and Critique of Politics
Authors: Dominijanni Ida
Published: November 2014

I think of the kinds of questions that I’ve heard female researchers and students ask of Italian feminism in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland. I think of a certain ease of dialogue between men and feminists that is less suspicious than what we’re used to in Italy. There is an openness to the other and to otherness, which might derive from Australia being a multicultural society. The relativisation of Europe, and even more so of Italy, happens spontaneously when looked at from Australia with Asia in between. All this adds up to an ‘Australian Effect’ that has profoundly changed me and that in turn changes my way of talking about the ‘Italian Effect’. I am therefore writing from within a relationship to this context that already marks me, questions me and dislocates me, and my intention is to yield not so much a thought as a practice of thought, born and bred in close proximity to a political practice.
Q’s General Intellect
Authors: Ovan Sabrina
Published: November 2014

I would claim that the main feature of the general intellect, in all its forms, is its indeterminacy. Neither defining individuality nor a specific group, the general intellect represents a sort of passage between the singular and the multitude. Until now, the discussion of the concept of the general intellect has been the prerogative of economists, sociologists, philosophers and historians. I intend to demonstrate how this notion has also influenced the literary field, and, in particular, how the general intellect is an active element in the narration of Q, the novel written in 1999 by the writers’ collective ‘Luther Blissett Project’.
Deep Democracy, Horizontal Exchange and the Praxis of Poop
Authors: Podlashuc Leopold Nicolai
Published: November 2014

Entries from a research-activist’s diary, observing some examples of thinking globally and shitting locally.
Autofrictions: The Fictopoet, the Critic and the Teacher
Authors: Hecq Dominique
Published: November 2014

This paper investigates the literal, metaphorical and ideological implications of ‘hybrid’ texts/genres for criticism in general, and for the workshopping of creative work in particular. The question underlying this investigation concerns the place of poetic discourse in fictocriticism. This is consonant with my understanding of genre as ‘index and mark’ representing ‘the site of the nonsubstitutable positioning of the I and the you and of their modalities of expression’ and of poetic discourse as ‘an unsettling process … of identity of meaning and speaking subject’.
Repressed Histories
Authors: Cornell Christen
Published: November 2014

A review of Andrew McGahan's The White Earth (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2004).
Reassessing Bodies
Authors: Watkins Megan
Published: November 2014

A review of Chris Shilling's The Body in Culture, Technology and Society (Sage Publications, London, 2005).
Petyarre and Moffat: 'Looking from the Sky'
Authors: Secomb Linnell
Published: November 2014

Moffatt’s Up in the Sky series draws attention to the relation between sky and earth, through the content and camera angles of the images. Similarly, Kathleen Petyarre’s Central Desert acrylic dot painting evokes this relation representing country and Dreaming from a celestial perspective—as she says ‘looking from the sky’. Yet here any association between these artists seems to end with the urban artist refusing to engage Aboriginal tradition and the desert artist focused on Dreaming, country and heritage. However, a further connection between these disparate works may also be discerned as each, in differing ways, transforms our conventional perceptions of space and time. Reading these images in relation to Walter Benjamin’s concepts of the auratic and of messianic time, I suggest that each restructures dimension and duration putting in question the (post)modern calibrations of our space/time experience. This paper stages an engagement between these artists’ works and Benjamin’s concepts exploring the variations and modifications of the spatial and the temporal that hybrid cross-cultural exchanges require and facilitate.
What If the Angel of History Were a Dog?
Authors: Rose Deborah
Published: November 2014

My title question comes from Walter Benjamin’s ninth thesis on the philosophy of history. The answer I explore is that she is howling. I engage with some of the implications of the howling of living beings in a time of death. My concern is with death, and I must distinguish between two contexts of death. The first is the fact of death that inheres in life. Life, with the exception of some bacteria, involves death both for individuals and, it now seems, in much longer time frames, for most species. Death, as a corollary to life, happens to all of us complex creatures. In this context of death I will be working with the idea that living things are bound into ecological communities of life and death, and further that these communities are fields of matter within which life is making and unmaking itself in time and place. The second context I discuss differs from the first in being a uniquely human invention: the context that we now call man-made mass death. I am concerned with the desire for destruction that is perhaps best termed the will-to-destruction.
Parrot Interpreter: Representation, Extinction and the Electronic Information Environment
Authors: Carter Paul
Published: November 2014

Humans, it seems, can’t get enough of parrots. Ethnography, folklore, psychology, and, of course, imaginative literature all offer copious evidence of our fantasy of living with, communicating with and even being parrots. The natural history of parrots and the cultural history of parrots present something of a conundrum: on the one hand, a massive destructiveness (illegal bird and feather trade, environment destruction, scientific collections); on the other, an often erotically inflected sympathetic identification leading to the production of new forms. It’s strange to realise that Europe is infested with a shadow population of captive and inbred budgerigars, whose numbers far exceed those remaining in the wild and who can never return to their origins. If, as our privileged other, our uncanny mimic and double, the parrot still fails to survive, what does this tell us about our economy of desire? It seems that to know is to consume and destroy; and that the apparent contrast between the operations of the rainforest loggers and bird-trappers and the sentimental representations and transformations parrot suffers in human society is overdrawn. How is this contradiction to be explained?
Waste Matter: Potatoes, Thing-Power and Biosociality
Authors: Hawkins Gay , Potter Emily
Published: November 2014

The problem with not seeing waste as matter is that cultural frames, from moralism to green ideology, reduce it to an effect of human action and manipulation. If waste is ‘socially constructed’, if it is merely a product of human action and classification then its easy to imagine a future where new ecological practices render it redundant. It’s also easy to use waste to reveal the logic or illogic of a culture, to diagnose the social through the textualisation of garbage. But in the demand to show how waste is just an effect of cultural practices—from environmental ethics to consumer capitalism—the active connections between humans and wasted material in which both are produced are hard to see. The action seems to flow all one way. Waste is reduced to a product of historically variable human practices. It becomes a slave to the vagaries of desire, and its ‘material recalcitrance’, to use Jane Bennett’s term, is denied.Yet surely what worries us most about waste is its material recalcitrance, its lingering presence, its capacity to suddenly capture our attention and unsettle us with its biological or thing-power.
Elixir
Authors: Laurence Janet
Published: November 2014

Elixir is a site-specific permanent artwork that forms part of the ‘necklace’ of art, architectural and landscape projects that are transforming a mountainous traditional rice-farming community in Echigo Tsumari, Nigata Prefecture, Japan. These works form an exploration of reflected and veiled environments in the physical world. They allow one to engage with a way of looking within the world rather than at the world.