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The Church’s Journey through Time
Authors: Liston Gregory John
Published: December 2019

Applying the methodology of Third Article Theology to the doctrine of eschatology enables the development of a nuanced understanding of the church’s journey through time. Just as Spirit Christology has revealed insights into Christ’s humanity and growth, similarly a Spirit eschatology informs an understanding of the church’s transformation and development. Such a Spirit eschatology complements rather than replaces the more common christologically focused eschatologies, painting a picture of the Spirit working through but not being beholden to the church, leading us in cruciform lives that echo Christ’s overarching metanarrative.
The Spirit that Makes Us (Number) One
Authors: Green Chris
Published: December 2019

Charles Parham’s racism is well known, but the relationship between his racism, his ecclesiology, and his doctrine of Spirit baptism and “missionary tongues” is still not fully appreciated. Early in the pentecostal movement, Pentecostals rejected Parham and quickly abandoned his doctrine of xenolalia alone as “the Bible evidence” of Spirit baptism. But Ashon Crawley’s recent work suggests that the logic of Parham’s racist/colonialist doctrine left a lasting mark on (white) pentecostal theology and practice. In the first parts of the article I explore the effects of racism and colonialism on Pentecostalism, and in the final section I respond to that history by proposing, in conversation with William Seymour’s teachings, a doctrine of mission and tongues-speech that purposefully contradicts the “white-settler” logic of Parham’s teachings.
Administrative Contracts in Serbian Law – Specificities of the New Statutory Regime
Authors: Mirić Marija Karanikić , Petrović Tatjana Jevremović
Published: December 2019

The subject of this paper is the special legal regime for administrative contracts under the recently enacted Serbian Law on General Administrative Procedure of 2016. We offer a comprehensive analysis of the new statutory rules, and examine their relationship to the general rules and principles of Serbian contract law. In addition, we identify the main shortcomings of the new regime, especially in the context of the lack of any statutory, scholarly and judicial typology of administrative contracts in Serbia. Furthermore, we highlight the lack of references to the notions of public interest, public purpose or public needs in the statutory definition of administrative contracts. This is cause for concern, since only the need to protect the public interest could justify the new statutory provisions, which significantly improve the contractual position of a public body as a contracting party in relation to the position of a private entity as the other party in administrative contracts. There is as yet no case law pertaining to administrative contracts in Serbia. This is why we turn to practical experience in the Croatian legal system, which is sufficiently similar and historically connected to Serbia via a shared Yugoslav heritage. We also consider German and French legal models, since they traditionally serve as comparative points of reference for Serbian legal scholars, judges and law makers.
On Kierkegaard’s “The Difference between a Genius and an Apostle”
Authors: Hart Patrick
Published: December 2019

In “The Difference Between a Genius and an Apostle,” Kierkegaard deploys the figure of Paul as the archetype of an apostle, who “does not develop in such a way as he gradually becomes what he is [according to potentiality].” This claim would seem at odds with much contemporary Pauline scholarship, which understands Paul’s writings as an ad hoc, developing, quasi-guerrilla sort of theology. While this may be the case, Kierkegaard’s essay is nonetheless deserving of attention, for it highlights an issue that arguably remains a tacit foundation of Pauline studies – namely, the identification and resulting allure of Paul as an inherently authoritative figure in early Christianity.
Conviviality as Diasporic Knowledge
Authors: Heil Tilmann
Published: December 2019

Based on my time with im/mobile West Africans in Senegal and Spain since 2007, I propose conviviality to conceptualise the complexity of my interlocutors’ local and diasporic tactics and views of living with difference. Simple everyday encounters such as greeting and dwelling in urban spaces serve to disentangle their various levels of reflection, habitual expectations and tactical action. They had local to global reference frameworks at their disposal. Not pretending to represent their knowledge, I discuss the inspirations I received from trying to understand what they shared with me non/verbally regarding living with difference. To start from this decentred set of premises challenges established Western/Northern politics of living with difference. Through conviviality, I show a distinct way of engaging multiple and overlapping ways of differentiating and homogenising practices and raise awareness for the importance and feasibility of minimal socialities in diasporic configurations, transnational migrations and the respective local urban contexts.
Natura 2000 and the Regulation of Agricultural Ammonia Emissions
Authors: Anker Helle Tegner , Backes Chris W. , Baaner Lasse , Keessen Andrea M. , Möckel Stefan
Published: December 2019

This article provides a comparative analysis of the regulation of ammonia emissions, primarily from livestock installations, in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. It discusses the challenges of regulating agricultural ammonia emissions in view of the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union (cjeu) on Art. 6(3) of the Habitats Directive. It is argued that the need to ensure certainty concerning the absence of significant effects on Natura 2000 sites is challenged by the uncertainties regarding
both the state of individual habitat types and the potential impact of individual projects. A more integrated or programmatic approach may provide an alternative approach to individual assessments, but it is necessary to ensure that additional loads from new or enlarged livestock installations are permitted in areas with high ammonia loads only where it is certain that a programmatic approach will ensure that there are no harmful effects. This might be an almost impossible task.
“Welcome to Japan!: How U.S. Marine Corps Orientation Materials Erase, Coopt, and Dismiss Local Resistance”
Authors: Gabrielson Carl A.
Published: December 2019

After seventy years, U.S. bases in Japan continue to inspire ambivalence, resentment, resistance, and even fear for many Japanese people. To improve the public image of the U.S. armed forces, base administrators create training materials designed to promote cultural awareness, prevent troops’ crimes, and discourage bad behavior. But how does the organization whose purpose is to violently oppose foreign threats to U.S. interests conceive of cultural understanding and sensitivity? Taking as a case study the materials that U.S. Marine Corps bases in Japan produce to instruct newcomers, this article argues that such materials tend to equip base personnel preemptively with strategies for erasing, coopting, and dismissing local anti-base perspectives. Specifically, these materials depict Japanese people as friendly supporters of the military, as irrational and brainwashed puppets of anti-military political forces, or simply as decorative pieces of the cultural backdrop. It concludes that the cultural education materials the U.S. Marine Corps produces at its bases in Japan not only help marines to feel that they have or deserve the support of the Japanese people in carrying out the U.S. military agenda abroad, but that they also promote a sense of cultural superiority that fosters the very behaviors that cultural training materials are meant to prevent.
The Hidden Proceedings – An Analysis of Accountability of Child Protection Adoption Proceedings in Eight European Jurisdictions
Authors: Burns Kenneth , Križ Katrin , Krutzinna Jenny , Luhamaa Katre , Meysen Thomas , Pösö Tarja , Segado Sagrario , Skivenes Marit , Thoburn June
Published: December 2019

How accountable are decisions about terminating parental rights to ensure an adoption from care? In this paper we examine if the proceedings in eight European jurisdictions are accountable to: a) the private parties, i.e. individuals that are concerned – such as parents, child; b) the general public that authorized the politicians and the government to make legislation; and c) the elected government, i.e. the legislators and the system that have granted the court, court-like or administrative body the authority to make these decisions. Our data material consists of national legislation, organizational guidelines (courts, child protection, or supervisory agencies), statistics and expert knowledge. The conclusions of our analysis are discouraging. There is only limited accountability for one of the most intrusive interventions by a state into the private lives of individuals. There is a lack of information about the proceedings as well as a lack of transparency. We identify systems that, with few exceptions, operate in isolation, with only a few outsiders having access or knowledge about what is going on. We cannot in this study say anything about the decision-making quality in these proceedings, they may be excellent, but the problem is that very few external actors are in a position to examine the quality of the decisions. This missing connection between the wider democratic society and this part of the legal systems in the eight democracies we studied is of huge concern, and we have indications that the situation is equally concerning in other European states.
Technology’s Unrealistic Promise
Authors: Brown Gates M.
Published: December 2019

U.S. Army leaders in the 1950s, such as Generals Matthew Ridgway and Maxwell Taylor, looked to technology to improve the Army’s position under President Dwight Eisenhower’s New Look defense policy. The U.S. Army invested more in its missile program in the later part of the 1950s than all other munitions combined. U.S. Army leaders sought to show that through technical triumphs and organizational changes that the U.S. ground force was still relevant in the atomic age. However, their reliance on technical success did not consider the policy and economic constraints of the New Look defense policy. Technological success alone could not overcome these limits. Military technology exists in a richer political and social context, and U.S. Army leaders’ efforts to rely on technological success to overcome the limits of their context failed to directly address the political and economic realities of the New Look defense policy.
“Living in the Quaysay”: Junction Space in Susan Dayal’s Art
Authors: Pearce Marsha
Published: December 2019

Although a notion of creolization is used as a lens through which dynamic processes of exchange in the Caribbean are explored, Caribbean Creole culture and identity are, more often than not, understood in terms of a mix of expressions derived from Africa and Europe. This framing of Creole culture marginalizes the Asian diaspora in the Caribbean. People of Asian ancestry are positioned at a sensory threshold, a barely perceptible space. This article considers how that space is challenged and reconfigured in art production, with a specific focus on the visual art practice of Trinidadian artist Susan Dayal, who is of Chinese and Indian ancestry. It deploys the Quaysay, or junction space, as an aesthetic metaphor—a notion appropriated from the iconic Trinidadian artist Carlisle Chang (1921–2001), who grew up at a crossroads called the Croisée (written as “Quaysay” by Chang) in the town of San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago.
المفتي والتحديث: التقنيات الطبية الحديثة وأثرها على مرجعية الشريعة
Authors: حافظ فاطمة
Published: December 2019

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يناقش هذا البحث أشكال تعاطي بعض المفتين والمثقفين الإصلاحيين مع سياسات التحديث الطبي، فيدرس موقف بعض مفتي العصر الحديث من الوسائل الطبية الحديثة التي فرضتها الدولة من دون وجود قناعة اجتماعية بها ودون الرجوع إلى علماء الشريعة. يحلل البحث وجهات النظر المختلفة تجاه التحديث الطبي وتحدياته، بالاعتماد على النصوص التي دوّنها بعض المفتين في العصر الحديث وعلى بعض الوثائق التاريخية التي حوتها السجلات القضائية للوقوف على صورة صادقة عن التصورات المعيارية لدى هؤلاء المفتين، مقارنةً بمجريات الواقع وحركة المجتمع. توزع البحث على ثلاثة محاور، بحث أولها مواقف مفتي ذلك العصر من التقنيات الطبية الحديثة كالكورنتينة والتطعيم والتشريح، وعالج ثانيها تأثير إدماج هذه التقنيات في الجهاز القضائي على الأحكام القضائية، وعلى طرق الإثبات التي كانت متَّبَعة من قِبَل المفتي وشكلَ استجابته لذلك، وأثر الجمود على التقليد الفقهي في غياب قيمة العدالة القضائية مما أعاق استمرارية مرجعية الشريعة في الجهاز القانوني للدولة. أما المحور الثالث فتناول اجتهاد الإصلاحيين في هذا المجال والأثر الذي تركه ذلك على فقهاء المؤسسة الدينية الرسمية.
A Global Approach to Local Problems? How to Write a Longer, Deeper, and Wider History of the International Year of Disabled Persons in Kenya
Authors: de Schutter Sam
Published: December 2019

This article argues that writing longer, deeper and wider histories of UN observances can help to push forward the historiography of international organizations, and to overcome global-local dichotomies in writing about international interventions in the Global South. To make this point, it uses one historical case study: the International Year of Disabled Persons (iydp) in 1981 and how it played out in Kenya. The main argument is that this UN observance did not bring about “global” approaches that stood in stark contrast to “local” ways of dealing with disability. Writing a longer history shows how the approaches promoted during the iydp can be traced back to late colonialism; a deeper history shows how this event played out on the ground, rather than on an abstract global level; and a wider history lays bare the broad range of actors involved beyond “the UN.”
Bound to Happen
Authors: Mukharji Aroop , Zeckhauser Richard
Published: December 2019

This paper argues that historical analysis, necessarily written with hindsight, often underestimates the uncertainties of the past. We call this tendency explanation bias. This bias leads individuals—including professional historians—to imply greater certainty in causal analyses than the evidence justifies. Their analyses will treat what is plausible to be probable. We offer a few intuitions about why explanation bias exists, its relation to other well-established psychological biases, what it leads to, and how it might be combatted. Appreciating the depth of uncertainty and ignorance in our world is critical for accurately understanding, interpreting, and drawing from the past to illuminate the present and the near future.
Cohort Fertility Trends and Religion Affiliation in Latin America: a Glimpse Through Time
Authors: Lima Everton E. C. , da Silva José H. C. Monteiro , Skirbekk Vegard
Published: December 2019

We analyze cohort fertility by religion and education in Latin America from periods previous to the general decline in period fertility in 1950s. We reconstruct cohort fertility and parity progression ratios of women born in 1930–1970 in a number of countries in the region, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru. Our main aim is to understand the past developments of cohort fertility in the course of fertility transition in Latin America and to assess the role of religious affiliation, as well as to understand these developments controlling for a number of socioeconomic characteristics. We also seek to grasp if religion becomes more or less important with rising school levels and human capital over time.
Mahayana Buddhism and Deweyan Philosophy
Authors: GARRISON Jim
Published: December 2019

My paper examines some of the many similarities between Mahayana Buddhism and Deweyan philosophy. It builds upon two previously published works. The first is my dialogue with Daisaku Ikeda President of Soka Gakkai International, a UN registered ngo currently active in one hundred ninety-two countries and territories, and the Director Emeritus of the Center for Dewey Studies, Larry Hickman (see Garrison, Hickman, and Ikdea, 2014). My paper will first briefly review some of the many similarities between Buddhism and Deweyan pragmatism. Second, I will also briefly review additional similarities in the published version of my Kneller Lecture to the American Educational Studies Association (see Garrison, 2019). In the present paper, I will introduce some new similarities of interest to educators. Among these are Dewey’s surprisingly Buddhist notions of language and logic as merely useful conventions. Secondly, I examine Dewey’s argument that “causation as ordered sequence is a logical category,” not an ontological category (LW 12: 454). The similarity to the opening chapter of Nagarjuna’s Madhyamaka, or Middle Way, is striking. I will suggest a logical reading has some interesting implications for student-teacher relations.
Ceropegia chuakulii sp. nov. (Asclepiadoideae, Apocynaceae) from eastern Thailand

Authors: KIDYOO MANIT , KIDYOO AROONRAT
Published: December 2019

Ceropegia chuakulii is a new species from eastern Thailand. Illustrations, photographs and comparison of diagnostic characters to the morphologically similar species, C. acicularis Kidyoo are provided. These two species are characterized by erect stems, needle-like leaves, one–flowered sessile inflorescences and spathulate corolla lobes that are connate at tips. Ceropegia chuakulii is, however, clearly distinguished from C. acicularis by its ovoid to globose corolla tube, corolla lobes being as long as corolla tube, deeply bifid interstamial corona lobes with triangular-lanceolate segments. In addition, the analyses of quantitative morphological traits of flowers also strongly supported the distinctiveness of the new species.
Effect of Al alloy back panel on the dynamic penetration and damage characteristics of ceramic composite armors
Authors: Liu Weilan , Chen Zhou , Xu Tengzhou , Hu Junfeng , Li Jiaduo
Published: December 2019

This paper mainly focuses on the investigation of dynamic penetration and damage characteristics of a hybrid ceramic composite armor normally impacted by 12.7 mm armor piercing incendiary projectiles. The hybrid ceramic composite armor was composed of a ceramic cylinder layer, a Ti–6Al–4V
plate, an ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) composite layer, and an Al alloy panel. Three different areal densities of composite laminates with 82, 87, and 92 kg/m2 were tested. 3D finite element model of the ceramic composite armor was generated in ABAQUS, and the
simulation results were employed to study the damage evolution. The effect of alumina ceramic cylinders layer on the ballistic performance and the failure mechanisms of Ti–6Al–4V and UHMWPE after ballistic impact were examined by experimental and simulative results. According to
the numerical and analytical models, an optimal thickness range of Al alloy back panel was found in minimizing areal density of the ceramic composite armor.
Preparation and evaluation of multifunctional Fe3O4/ZnS magnetic fluorescent nanocomposites
Authors: Zhang Xin , Li Yansong , Wei Yuping , Jiao Pengfei , Chen Weijie , Wang Peng
Published: December 2019

A new strategy is proposed for construction of multifunctional nanocomposites which possess unique optics, electricity, and magnetism. The mercaptoethylamine (MEA) was capped on the surface of Mn2+ doped ZnS quantum dots (ZnS:Mn2+ QDs@MEA), and carboxyl group functionalized
Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles (Fe3O4@COOH) were synthesized through a solvo-thermal method in one step. The Fe3O4@COOH was conjugated with ZnS:Mn2+ QDs@MEA to synthesis magnetic and fluorescent Fe3O4/ZnS
nanocomposites (Fe3O4/ZnS NCs) through a facile 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethyl aminopropyl) carbodiimide (EDC) and N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) processes. The morphology and structure of as-prepared Fe3O4/ZnS NCs were characterized by transmission electronic
microscopy (TEM), fluorescence spectrum, and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). Binding experiments were carried out to evaluate the binding performance of Fe3 O4/ZnS NCs. The maximum adsorption capacity of Fe3O4/ZnS NCs for lysozyme was 234.74
mg · g–1. The formed multifunctional nanoparticles integrate the optical and magnetic properties together, which provides a potential application in the field of bioseparation and biodetection.
Effect of oxygen vacancies on the surface morphology and structural properties of WO3– x nanoparticles
Authors: Yang Zhiguang , Zhu Chaosheng , Hou Zhiqiang , Peng Peng
Published: December 2019

WO3 is an essential material for energy storage and catalytical technology, the oxygen vacancies level will play an essential role in its potential application. In this paper, porous tungsten oxide (WO3–x) with various oxygen contents was quickly fabricated
by a microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method. A detailed characterization of structure and morphology features with the plasma handling process was recorded by X-ray diffraction, field-emission scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy, respectively.
The etching mechanism of porous WO3–x under H2 plasma was discussed based on the systemically characterization. These results will help us to design the active sites or structure in the metal oxide materials.
Stimulatory effects of poly-para-dioxanone, poly L-lactic acid, polycaprolactone, and poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)/PLLA in rats
Authors: Li Qing , Zhang Yiling , Li Jingbing , Wang Hao , Lu Hui , Fan Honghao , Zheng Gang
Published: December 2019

Numerous fillers are increasingly used for augmenting volume loss and ameliorating facial wrinkles. Collagen stimulants are the most recent next-generation dermal fillers capable of inducing neocollagenesis. To investigate biophysical characteristics, the safety and efficacy of the
newly developed combination, poly(L-lactide) or polyl-lactic acid (PLLA) and poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA), were compared with those of poly-para-dioxanone (PPDO), poly-l-lactic acid (PLLA), and polycaprolactone (PCL) fillers. PPDO, PLLA, PCL, or PLGA/PLLA was injected into the dorsal
skin of 8-week-old rats. Tissue samples were obtained 0, 2, and 4 weeks post treatment for Sirius Red-staining, polarized light microscopy, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), real-time reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR), and western blotting. The MagBeads Total RNA Extraction Kit
was used to isolate total cell RNA. The PLGA/PLLA filler demonstrated similar neocollagenesis and inflammatory response as other collagen stimulants, and showed better biodegradability than PPDO, PLLA and PCL fillers. Our data suggest that the newly developed collagen-stimulating PLGA/PLLA
filler may be a safe and effective option for correcting volume loss and rejuvenating photoaging skin.
Wind-Forced Variability of the Remote Meridional Overturning Circulation
Authors: Spall Michael A. , Nieves David
Published: December 2019

The mechanisms by which time-dependent wind stress anomalies at midlatitudes can force variability in the meridional overturning circulation at low latitudes are explored. It is shown that winds are effective at forcing remote variability in the overturning circulation when forcing periods are near the midlatitude baroclinic Rossby wave basin-crossing time. Remote overturning is required by an imbalance in the midlatitude mass storage and release resulting from the dependence of the Rossby wave phase speed on latitude. A heuristic theory is developed that predicts the strength and frequency dependence of the remote overturning well when compared to a two-layer numerical model. The theory indicates that the variable overturning strength, relative to the anomalous Ekman transport, depends primarily on the ratio of the meridional spatial scale of the anomalous wind stress curl to its latitude. For strongly forced systems, a mean deep western boundary current can also significantly enhance the overturning variability at all latitudes. For sufficiently large thermocline displacements, the deep western boundary current alternates between interior and near-boundary pathways in response to fluctuations in the wind, leading to large anomalies in the volume of North Atlantic Deep Water stored at midlatitudes and in the downstream deep western boundary current transport.
Non-Gaussian Probability Densities of Convection Initiation and Development Investigated Using a Particle Filter with a Storm-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction Model
Authors: Kawabata Takuya , Ueno Genta
Published: December 2019

Non-Gaussian probability density functions (PDFs) in convection initiation (CI) and development were investigated using a particle filter with a storm-scale numerical prediction model and an adaptive observation error estimator (NHM-RPF). An observing system simulation experiment (OSSE) was conducted with a 90-min assimilation period and 1000 particles at a 2-km grid spacing. Pseudosurface observations of potential temperature (PT), winds, water vapor (QV), and pseudoradar observations of rainwater (QR) in the lower troposphere were created in a nature run that simulated a well-developed cumulonimbus. The results of the OSSE (PF) show a significant improvement in comparison to ensemble simulations without any observations. The Gaussianity of the PDFs for PF in the CI area was evaluated using the Bayesian information criterion to compare goodness-of-fit of Gaussian, two-Gaussian mixture, and histogram models. The PDFs are strongly non-Gaussian when NHM-RPF produces diverse particles over the CI period. The non-Gaussian PDF of the updraft is followed by the upper-bounded PDF of the relative humidity, which produces non-Gaussian PDFs of QV and PT. The PDFs of the cloud water and QR are strongly non-Gaussian throughout the experimental period. We conclude that the non-Gaussianity of the CI originated from the non-Gaussianity of the updraft. In addition, we show that the adaptive observation error estimator significantly contributes to the stability of PF and the robustness to many observations.
Motivations for ritual performance in bribery: Ethnographic case studies of the use of guanxi to gain school places in China
Authors: Ruan Ji
Published: December 2019

According to Goffman, interaction rituals are underpinned by moral norms, and work in a moral fashion. The research discussed here, based on ethnographic case studies of the use of guanxi (Chinese personal connections) to gain school places in two Chinese cities, reveals that ritual performance in bribery guanxi can construct moral performance, implying justice and morality and thereby giving rise to a bribery subculture. Such moral performance, in turn, increases the social capital of the parties involved. The motivations for moral performance in this context differ. In some cases, the parties regard their practice as illegal and/or immoral, and ritual performance is employed to conceal the illegality of the transaction. In others, the practice of bribery is considered to fall within the renqing ethic, and ritual performance is used to mask the instrumental character of the transaction. Motivations for ritual performance also differ according to the closeness of guanxi ties between the briber and the bribed. This article identifies two forms of ritual performance – ‘ ketao ritual’, a form of renqing that attempts to mask instrumentality, and ‘tacit ritual’, which attempts to conceal illegality – and reveals how the individuals’ performance is related to different levels of closeness in guanxi. Although bribery takes place in many societies, the uses of ritual to morally validate bribery in China, especially the combination of ketao and tacit ritual, seems to be a particular cultural phenomenon.
Fellini’s negative art: Petrarch and Ariosto in Il Casanova
Authors: Brenna Francesco
Published: December 2019

This article examines Fellini’s use of Petrarch and Ariosto in Il Casanova. The author argues that they exemplify two different artistic conceptions: Petrarch incarnates an art that is solipsistic, perfect, self-enclosed, intellectual, and all serious; Ariosto an art that is open, collaborative, imperfect, and anti-intellectual, and that allows irony. Casanova, in the scenes when he recites lines from these two poets, subscribes to the Petrarchan type and misinterprets the Ariostean. Fellini, on the contrary, critiques the Petrarchan type by associating it with the de-humanizing intercourse of Casanova with a mechanical doll and by hinting at incest; he then embraces the Ariostean type by ridiculing Casanova’s misinterpretation of Ariosto through an Ariostean kind of irony. I demonstrate that this reflects Fellini’s artistic vision as it emerges from his interviews and other works. I conclude that Fellini makes the film Casanova the pars destruens of his art, and that the character Casanova is Fellini’s artistic negative.
Katie Cannon’s Non-canonical Canon
Authors: Paris Peter J.
Published: December 2019

This essay provides a broad overview of Katie Geneva Canon’s contribution to Christian Social Ethics by introducing womanist thought to theological and ethical studies.
High-temperature effect on the mechanical performance of screwed CFRPI–TC4 alloy joints repaired with metal inserts
Authors: Zhu Yun-Tao , Xiong Jun-Jiang
Published: December 2019

This paper seeks to study high-temperature effect on mechanical performance of screwed single-lap carbon fiber-reinforced polyimide–TC4 titanium alloy joints repaired with metal inserts. Quasi-static tension tests were conducted at room temperature (RT) and 250℃ to determine the joint strength and stiffness of repaired joints with metal inserts. Based on the experimental results, high-temperature effect on joint strength and stiffness and insert repair efficiency were analyzed and discussed. A new analytical model was established to evaluate the effect of high temperature on joint stiffness. It is concluded that (1) joint strength and stiffness for all configurations are lower at 250℃ than that at RT, showing the expected detrimental effect of high temperature on joint strength and stiffness. The reductions in joint strength and stiffness depend on the joint configuration; (2) the repair efficiencies of embedded conical nut for joint strengths of protruding and countersunk head screw joints decrease, but those for joint stiffness increase at 250℃ as against at RT. Unlike the repair efficiencies of embedded conical nut, the repair efficiency of bushing for joint strength is slightly greater, but that for joint stiffness is less at 250℃ than at RT; and (3) the developed analytical model is capable of predicting the displacement of screwed single-lap carbon fiber-reinforced polyimide–TC4 joints at RT and high temperature, and there is good agreement between the experimental data and the predicted curves.
School Sector Mobility in an Urban School Choice Environment
Authors: Ford Michael R.
Published: December 2019

This article uses the frame of school choice theory to understand the externality of school sector switching resulting from choice-based urban education reforms. The results indicate that sector switching is a function of race, poverty, and prior-year test scores. Low-income Black pupils in particular are more likely to leave Milwaukee’s voucher system for a public school. Sector switching has an immediate negative impact on student test scores. The results highlight the commonality and impact of sector switching in a mature urban school choice system and are of interest to scholars studying urban education reform policies.
Estimating the local employment impacts of immigration: A dynamic spatial panel model
Authors: Fingleton Bernard , Olner Daniel , Pryce Gwilym
Published: December 2019

This paper highlights a number of important gaps in the UK evidence base on the employment impacts of immigration, namely: (1) the lack of research on the local impacts of immigration – existing studies only estimate the impact for the country as a whole; (2) the absence of long-term estimates – research has focused on relatively short time spans – there are no estimates of the impact over several decades, for example; (3) the tendency to ignore spatial dependence of employment which can bias the results and distort inference – there are no robust spatial econometric estimates we are aware of. We aim to address these shortcomings by creating a unique data set of linked Census geographies spanning five Censuses since 1971. These yield a large enough sample to estimate the local impacts of immigration using a novel spatial panel model which controls for endogenous selection effects arising from migrants being attracted to high-employment areas. We illustrate our approach with an application to London and find that no migrant group has a statistically significant long-term negative effect on employment. EU migrants, however, are found to have a significant positive impact, which may have important implications for the Brexit debate. Our approach opens up a new avenue of inquiry into subnational variations in the impacts of immigration on employment.
Zero-truncated Binomial Distribution as a Randomization Device
Authors: Zapata Zakry , Sedory Stephen A. , Singh Sarjinder
Published: December 2019

In this article, we consider the use of the zero-truncated binomial distribution as a randomization device while estimating the population proportion of a sensitive characteristic. The resultant new estimator based on the zero-truncated binomial distribution is then compared to its competitors from both the efficiency and the protection point of views. The situations where the proposed new estimator performs better are reported. R codes are also included.
St. Petersburg Port through Disasters: Challenges and Resilience
Authors: Nazarenko Kirill B. , Smirnova Maria A.
Published: December 2019

Port cities are useful sites for thinking about resilience, as their location at the junction of sea, river, and railway routes is of prime importance to traders, governments, and other actors: these cities are rapidly redeveloped after disasters and create extensive measures to withstand such shocks in the future. This article concerns the main challenges facing the St. Petersburg port and city and how they were resolved from its origin in 1703 to date. It first tracks the city’s resilience from the age of sail, when it was a port for trade, through the age of steam, when the port infrastructure completely changed as it was transferred from the historic center of the city to its outskirts. The second part of the article examines how St. Petersburg withstood specific challenges, both natural and man-made: ice, floods, shallowing, fires, and wars.
Mental state verbs used by mother–child dyads in Japanese and English: Implications for the development of Theory of Mind
Authors: Suzuki Takaaki , Nomura Jun
Published: December 2019

Mental state terms are believed to be closely related to the development of Theory of Mind (ToM). This study focuses on mental state verbs (MSVs) and investigates how they are used by Japanese-speaking mother–child dyads compared to their English-speaking counterparts. Analyses of their spontaneous speech from the CHILDES archives show that children’s production of MSVs is greatly influenced by the mothers’ input in both languages and that Japanese MSVs are used less frequently than English MSVs in both the children’s and mothers’ utterances. In addition, the syntactic properties of MSVs show that complements under MSVs tend to be null in Japanese, whereas those in English are more likely to be overtly expressed. This difference observed in the mothers’ input and children’s production can be a contributing factor underlying the developmental delay of ToM in Japanese.
Factors Related to Employment Outcomes for Vocational Rehabilitation Consumers with Visual Impairments: A Systematic Review
Authors: Lund Emily M. , Cmar Jennifer L.
Published: December 2019

Introduction:

The purpose of this article was to conduct a systematic review of peer-reviewed studies on factors related to employment in consumers who are visually impaired using Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA-911) Case Service Report data.

Methods:

We used database, hand, and ancestral search strategies to systematically identify peer-reviewed studies published between 1990 and August 2018 where researchers used RSA-911 data to address the target question. All included articles were coded by two reviewers for study and participant characteristics, quality indicators, and outcomes.

Results:

Nine articles consisting of 14 analyses were included. Twelve analyses concerned employment outcomes; two concerned earnings. Researchers in most studies used large samples of 3,000 or more consumers and used multivariable analyses, most commonly multilevel logistic regression. Factors that consistently predicted lower employment across studies included presence of a secondary disability and legal blindness; higher education level consistently predicted higher employment, as did earnings and self-support at vocational rehabilitation application. Few analyses included state- or agency-level variables or specific vocational rehabilitation services.

Discussion:

These results indicate that certain groups of vocational rehabilitation consumers with visual impairments may be at greater risk of unsuccessful closures; researchers should examine specific strategies that may improve outcomes in these groups. These results also highlight the importance of education in securing employment among people with visual impairments. Researchers should examine state- and agency-level variables that may affect outcomes as well as the effects of specific services on outcomes. Additionally, researchers should analyze factors that may affect employment quality as well as employment outcomes.

Implications for practitioners:

Practitioners who are working with visually impaired people who do not have a postsecondary degree should encourage and assist their clients in obtaining one; practitioners may also wish to provide more targeted support for consumers from potentially high-risk subpopulations.
Goal-Based Categorization: Dynamic Classification in the Display Advertising Industry
Authors: Glaser Vern L. , Krikorian Atkinson Mariam , Fiss Peer C.
Published: December 2019

Goal-based categories have recently emerged as an alternative perspective to the dominant account of prototypical market categories. However, key questions remain regarding the mechanisms that would enable stable market exchanges to form around ad hoc and idiosyncratic goal-based categories. Thus, we sought to answer the following question: How can goal-based categorization enable stable market transactions? Through an inductive study drawing on industry discourse, participant observation, and interview data from the online advertising industry, we describe the category infrastructure that enables buyers and sellers to engage in market exchanges using goal-based categorization. Three mechanisms are integral to goal-based categorization in market exchanges: dimensioning (establishing a possibility space in which valuation can take place through the identification, addition, and/or deletion of product features), scoping (selecting particular features in the possibility space), and bracketing (excluding certain actors from participating in market transactions). Moreover, the fundamental principle of valuation in goal-based categorization is goal-based attribution, which involves iteratively adding and deleting features to accommodate evolving goals. Our findings suggest novel directions for work on goal-based categorization as an important element of valuation in modern markets.
Hepatic Transcriptomic Patterns in the Neonatal Rat After Pentabromodiphenyl Ether Exposure
Authors: Dunnick June K. , Shockley Keith R. , Morgan Daniel L. , Travlos Gregory S. , Gerrish Kevin , Ton Thai-Vu T. , Wilson Ralph , Brar Sukhdev S. , Brix Amy E. , Waidyanatha Suramya , Mutlu Esra , Pandiri Arun Kumar R.
Published: December 2019

Human exposure to pentabromodiphenyl ether (PBDE) mixture (DE-71) and its PBDE-47 congener can occur both in utero and during lactation. Here, we tested the hypothesis that PBDE-induced neonatal hepatic transcriptomic alterations in Wistar Han rat pups can inform on potential toxicity and carcinogenicity after longer term PBDE exposures. Wistar Han rat dams were exposed to either DE-71 or PBDE-47 daily from gestation day (GD 6) through postnatal day 4 (PND 4). Total plasma thyroxine (T4) was decreased in PND 4 pups. In liver, transcripts for CYPs and conjugation enzymes, Nrf2, and ABC transporters were upregulated. In general, the hepatic transcriptomic alterations after exposure to DE-71 or PBDE-47 were similar and provided early indicators of oxidative stress and metabolic alterations, key characteristics of toxicity processes. The transcriptional benchmark dose lower confidence limits of the most sensitive biological processes were lower for PBDE-47 than for the PBDE mixture. Neonatal rat liver transcriptomic data provide early indicators on molecular pathway alterations that may lead to toxicity and/or carcinogenicity if the exposures continue for longer durations. These early toxicogenomic indicators may be used to help prioritize chemicals for a more complete toxicity and cancer risk evaluation.
Effects of student- and school-level music concert attendance on subjective well-being: A longitudinal study of Korean adolescents
Authors: Kwon Seulgi , Choi Boungho , Park Soowon
Published: December 2019

Students’ subjective well-being is not only an important prerequisite for positive development but also a desired outcome of education. Music concert attendance could be a critical factor in enhancing students’ subjective well-being. This study investigates the effect of music concert attendance on subjective well-being through an examination of the different effects of music concert attendance according to students’ initial subjective well-being. Data from 3,633 middle school students in two waves of the Seoul Education Longitudinal Study (seventh grade, eighth grade) were utilized. Hierarchical linear modeling shows that both student- and school-level music concert attendance predicted subsequent subjective well-being after controlling for initial subjective well-being, peer relation, grade point average, and gender. Furthermore, school-level music concert attendance facilitated increases in subjective well-being among students who showed low subjective well-being during the first wave of the study. The results indicated that student- and school-level music concert attendance could improve students’ subjective well-being, especially for students with lower levels of subjective well-being. Educational contexts or policies to encourage both school and student participation in music concerts should be developed and implemented.
Differentiating mild and substantial hepatic fibrosis from healthy controls: a comparison of diffusion kurtosis imaging and conventional diffusion-weighted imaging
Authors: Xie Shuangshuang , Li Qing , Cheng Yue , Zhou Li , Xia Shuang , Li Jia , Shen Wen
Published: December 2019

Background

Early and accurate detection of liver fibrosis are important for clinical treatment.

Purpose

To compare the diagnostic accuracy of liver diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) and conventional diffusion-weighted imaging (cDWI) in differentiating patients with mild and substantial fibrosis from normal individuals.

Material and Methods

Twenty-seven healthy volunteers with no fibrosis (S0) and 45 patients with mild (S1) or substantial (S2) liver fibrosis underwent DWI with multiple b-values. Liver mean apparent diffusion (MD) and mean kurtosis (MK) values derived from DKI and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) derived from cDWI were measured and compared. Their discriminative abilities were analyzed and compared by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis.

Results

Significant differences in MD and ADC values were found between groups ( P < 0.05). MD value was statistically different between S0 and S1 ( P = 0.028) and S0 and S2 ( P = 0.005). ADC value was statistically different between S0 and S2 ( P = 0.012). MK value was similar between groups ( P = 0.646). MD and ADC values significantly correlated with fibrosis stages ( rs = −0.668, −0.341; P < 0.01). MK values had no correlation with fibrosis stages ( rs = 0.180; P = 0.130). The area under ROC curves (AUC) for MD and ADC was 0.937 and 0.707 for characterization of S1–2 and 0.817 and 0.658 for S2, respectively. MD performed better than ADC for characterization of S1–2 and S2 ( P < 0.05).

Conclusion

Differentiating patients with mild or substantial fibrosis from normal individuals is feasible using DKI, which performs better than cDWI.
Prognostic significance of U2AF1 mutations in myelodysplastic syndromes: a meta-analysis
Authors: Li Bixia , Zou Duobing , Yang Shujun , Ouyang Guifang , Mu Qitian
Published: December 2019

Introduction

Although the effects of U2 small nuclear RNA auxiliary factor 1 gene ( U2AF1) mutations on the outcomes of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) have previously been investigated, their prognostic significance remains controversial. We performed a meta-analysis to investigate the impact of U2AF1 mutations on MDS progression.

Methods

Two reviewers independently extracted information such as hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidential intervals (CIs) for overall survival (OS) and leukemia-free survival (LFS) as well as the number of surviving patients each year after diagnosis from the included studies.

Results

Thirteen studies with a total of 3038 patients were included. The summary odds ratio (OR) for U2AF1 mutations with an OS of 5 years was 0.37, the summary HR for U2AF1 mutations in OS was 1.60, and the summary OR for an OS of 5 years in patients with U2AF1S34 and U2AF1Q157 was 3.68. There were no significant differences in leukemia-free survival or hypomethylating therapy response between patients with and without U2AF1 mutations.

Conclusion

U2AF1 mutations were associated with poor survival in MDS patients, and patients with U2AF1Q157 had a worse OS than those with U2AF1S34. Our findings suggest that MDS patients with U2AF1 mutations could benefit more from hypomethylation therapy.
Ultrasound-guided posterior antebrachial cutaneous nerve block utilising the ‘fat-filled flat tunnel’: Description of technique and cutaneous sensory block area
Authors: Corke Philip J
Published: December 2019

The aim of the study was to investigate an ultrasound-guided posterior antebrachial cutaneous nerve block based on visualising the nerve within the fat-filled flat tunnel and describe the area of cutaneous sensory loss. A total of 12 healthy volunteers were included in the study. The posterior antebrachial cutaneous nerve was identified within the fat-filled flat tunnel in the upper arm using high-frequency ultrasound. The nerve was blocked using an in-plane needle guidance technique with 1 ml 2% lidocaine. Sensory loss to pinprick was evaluated 15 minutes after performing the block and the cutaneous sensory block area mapped. Ultrasound visualisation of the posterior antebrachial cutaneous nerve in the fat-filled flat tunnel was possible in all volunteers. The median distance of the posterior antebrachial cutaneous nerve to the lateral epicondyle of the elbow was 67.5 (range 54–105) mm. Loss of sharpness sensation to pinprick extended from the posterior aspect of the distal upper arm and posterior forearm to the wrist. The median cutaneous sensory block area was 103 (range 61–341) cm2. Two volunteers had a sensory block over the anterior forearm of 29 and 10 cm2 respectively. This amounted to 11% and 4.5% of the total cutaneous sensory block area. One volunteer had a sensory block over the dorsum of the hand of 39 cm2 (15% of the total cutaneous sensory block area). The results of this study indicate that the fat-filled flat tunnel can be a useful sono-anatomical landmark in identifying the posterior antebrachial cutaneous nerve and may serve as a target for injection. Although sensory block is predominantly confined to the posterior distal arm and forearm, inter-individual variability in the area and distribution was observed. Sensory block in the anterior forearm and dorsum of the hand can occur. The study was prospectively registered at the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, identifier ACTRN12618000891224.