bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Partisipasi Politik Online Generasi Z Pada Pemilihan Presiden Indonesia 2019
Authors: Putri Yolanda Heni , Halim Umar
Published: March 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine online political participation among Generation Z. Many previous studies have reviewed offline and onlie political participation. The offline participation is measured by conventional and non-conventional, while online participation has not been much studied in the form of dimensions. Then online participation in this study will be examined with the level of digital literacy from the concept of Digital Divide. The sample in this study amounted to 92 respondents from the students of the Faculty of Communication, University of Pancasila. Overall, results showed that online political participation in the form of instrumental and informative is mostly utilized by the majority of respondents. While the strategic participation were very few carried out by respondents (7.6% - 17.3%). The results of this study can also be concluded that participation in watching, reading and seeking political information is more done by generation Z compared to participation involving other people such as interacting and influencing people to choose certain candidates.
A Rational Sequencing of Anti-Angiogenic Agents as Second-Line Treatment Choice for mCRC Patients Progressing After a Bevacizumab-Based First Line
Authors: De Dosso Sara
Published: March 2020

A large proportion of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) experience disease progression after first-line treatment with chemotherapy and bevacizumab, an anti-angiogenic agent, as a result of acquired resistance. However, blocking angiogenesis by targeted therapy towards the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway still forms an essential part of the second-line treatment strategy. Although three approved evidence-based choices for angiogenic agents (continuing treatment with bevacizumab, ramucirumab and aflibercept) are currently available in the second line, making the most effective choice is challenging due to the lack of studies directly comparing these agents. Moreover, despite huge investigational efforts, no predictive biomarker for anti-angiogenic cancer therapies could be identified so far.
Response to Osimertinib in a Patient With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Two Uncommon EGFR mutations
Authors: Astaras Christoforos , Bettini Adrienne , Betticher Daniel C.
Published: March 2020

In advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations are one of the most frequent oncogenic drivers. They confer a favorable prognosis and strongly predict sensitivity to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). Over the last decades, several EGFR genetic alterations, common and uncommon mutations, have been described in exons 18−21. Common mutations are exon 19 deletions (most frequently E746-A750) and exon 21 L858R substitution. Uncommon mutations include exon 18 G719X, exon 20 S768l, exon 21 L861Q and many other rare ones.

This report describes the case of a 55-year-old woman with a newly diagnosed metastatic lung adenocarcinoma harboring two rare EGFR mutations and showing sustained response to osimertinib.
Avenues to Precision Oncology
Authors: Meisel Alexander
Published: March 2020

Until recently, the clinical management of cancer heavily relied on anatomical and histopathological criteria, with ad hoc guidelines directing the therapeutic choices in specific indications. In the last years, the development and therapeutic implementation of novel anticancer therapies significantly improved the clinical outcome of cancer patients. Nonetheless, such cutting-edge approaches revealed the limitation of the one-size-fits-all paradigm. The newly discovered molecular targets can be exploited either as bona fide targets for subsequent drug development, or as tools to precision medicine, in the form of prognostic and/or predictive biomarkers. This article provides an overview of some of the most recent advances in precision medicine in oncology, with a focus on novel tissue-agnostic anticancer therapies. The definition and implementation of biomarkers and companion diagnostics in clinical trials and clinical practice are also discussed, as well as the changing landscape in clinical trial design.
Multi-attribute Recognition,the key to Universal Neural Network
Authors: Wei Jinxin
Published: March 2020

To achieve the recognition of multi-attribute of object, I redesign the mnist dataset, change the color, size, location of the number. Meanwhile, I change the label accordingly. The deep neural network I use is the most common convolution neural network. Through test, we can conclude that we can use one neural network to recognize multi-attribute so long as the attribute difference of objects can be represented by functions. The Concrete network (generation network) can generate the output which the input rarely contained from the attributes the network learned. Its generalization ability is good because the network is a continuous function. Through one more test, we can conclude that one neural network can do image recognition, speech recognition, nature language processing and other things so long as the output node and the input node and more parameters add into the network. The network is universal so long as the network can process different inputs. By proof, fully connected network can do what convolution neural network and recurrent neural network do, so fully connected network is the universal network. The phenomenon of synesthesia is the result of multi-input and multi-output. Connection in mind can realize through the universal network and sending the output into input. Connection in mind is the key of creativity, synesthesia is the assistant.
Analisis Landasan Filosofi dalam Buku berjudul Model Blended Learning Berbasis Moodle
Authors: Tuilan Jeane , Zuchdi Darmiyati
Published: March 2020

This study aims to reference the philosophical foundationcontained the book entitled “Model Blended LearningBerbasis Moodle” written by Oktaria, Budiningsi &Risidianto, (2018). This book presents the integration oftechnology that is increasingly develop over time whichunderlines changes in the education system. Blendedlearning is a combination of online-based learning withconventional learning style (face-to-face). This book helpsstudents and lecturers better to recognize and understandingthe benefits of integrating technology in learning. In general,each book is made and constructed with different goals andbenefits form one another, depending on the contentpresented by the author. In line with this research objectivesthat have been stated previously, the method used in thisstudy is content analysis by Barelson in (Zuchdi & Afifah,2019). Data source is the document of this the book. Dataanalysis technique used the content analysis schemeaccording to Kripendorff (2004): (1) Unitizing, (2)Recording, (3) Sampling, (4) Reducing, and (5) Inferring.Based on the results of the research and discussion in thisstudy, it can be stated that the philosophical foundationscontained in the book intitled “Model Blended LearningBerbasis Moodle” are Idealism and Pragmatism.Keywords: Blended Learning, Moodle, Philosophical Foudation
Seasonal clustering in epilepsy
Authors: Ünsal Mirac Aysen , Atmaca Murat Mert , Özbey Yeter
Published: March 2020

Objective:   There are few studies in the literature suggesting that epileptic attacks can cluster especially in winter. We aimed to confirm the most frequent month and season in which our patients with epilepsy visited the emergency room because we had similar observations in our clinical experience.

Material and Methods: Patients admitted to the emergency room due to convulsive epileptic seizures between January 2017 and December 2019 were included in the study. The month of seizures was recorded.

Results: In our study, epileptic seizures clustered significantly in winter.

Conclusion: Although more detailed data should be collected on this subject, we think this is an indirect result of the change in vitamin D metabolism, as suggested in other studies.
Diagnosis of cholesteatoma by the b1000 value DWI MRI according to the signal intensity
Authors: Cuce Ferhat , Genc Hakan , Sarı Oktay , Satar Bulent
Published: March 2020

Objective: The cholesteatoma (CL) can be evaluated visually or numerically on an apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) map, which obtained from at least two different b-valued diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). In this study, we aimed to evaluate the signal intensity (SI) of the lesion both visually and numerically only on the DWI image without ADC. In case of positive results a second  ‘b’ value is not required, so this method could be shorten the duration of the MRI examination.

Material and Methods: Between January 2017 and May 2018, we included patients with chronic otitis media (COM) with a clinical suspicion of primary CL who underwent DWI. Two radiologists and one ear, nose, throat specialist evaluated the radiological images and the pathology results.

Results: The mean SI measurement was significantly higher in the CL group by both observers (observer LR; CL: 107.94 ± 53.36, COM: 37.34 ± 14.70, observer FC; CL: 108.56 ± 50.00, COM: 37.06 ± 15.44; p<0001). ROC analysis showed that a mean SI value of 48.6 was the cut-off value in predicting the diagnosis of CL. The mean SI was significantly higher in the CL group (p<0.001).

Conclusion: We demonstrated a significant difference between CL and COM concerning the diagnosis by visual and numerical signal evaluation only via b1000 valuable images. In false-positive cases, ADC is still confirmatory for high diagnostic accuracy.
Artigo plagiado.
Authors: Figueira Karina
Published: March 2020

O artigo "Implantologia nas deformidades oculopalpebrais em pacientes com câncer."  é na verdade um plágio do artigo original 'CURI, Marcos Martins et al. Extraoral implants in the rehabilitation of craniofacial defects: implant and prosthesis survival rates and peri-implant soft tissue evaluation. Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery, v. 70, n. 7, p. 1551-1557, 2012." disponivel em: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22698291/ .

Os pesquisadores que aparecem como autores neste "trabalho" nada tem a ver com este plágio e foram vitimas da ex editora convidada Dra. Lauane Gentil.

Existe um editorial de retratação onde são dadas maiores explicações, disponiel em:  https://doi.org/10.36557/2674-8169.2020v2n4p06-09 .
Report on the Language Show, London, 9-11 November 2018
Authors: Skowrońska Dorota
Published: March 2020

The Language Show is an annual event for linguists, language teachers, translators, and interpreters held in London. On 9-11 November 2018, the Language Show hosted three days of seminars, talks, presentations, and workshops.
Od męki translacji do piekła logosu. O przekładzie w „Przekładzie” Pabla De Santisa
Authors: Majdzik Papić Katarzyna
Published: March 2020

The article presents how the novel The Translation by Pablo De Santis reffers to the most important concepts of theory and philosophy of translation. Among these concepts the most significant are those which consider the boundaries and mechanisms of interpretation in the act of translation. These ideas are metaphorically expressed by the myth of the fall of the Tower of Babel. The interpretative context for the novel by De Santis is determined by the works of Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva and Hans-Georg Gadamer. An important research problem is also the relationship between the category of translation and the hybrid genre of the crime novel by De Santis.
THE VALUE OF RESTAURANT SERVICE AS A KEY DETERMINANT OF ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
Authors: Balatska Natalia
Published: March 2020

Introduction. Globalization of economic processes, dynamic changes in value priorities, transformations, changes in consumer preferences of Ukrainian society, its high dependence on mental parameters, sacrifice competition in the restaurant business lead to the need to find innovative directions of development, of which are value aspects. The restaurant business performs an important social function – to cause the consumer to feel satisfied with the restaurant service. The value formation of a restaurant service is complicated by the requirements of consumers for its characteristics. Considering this, the effective development of the restaurant business is possible only if the value of the restaurant service is provided to the customers.
Methods. The research is based on a set of rules and procedures that contain a series of methods that use to systematize scientific approaches to the definition of the essence of the concept of “value” and to identify the two main components of the value of the restaurant service – consumer and price, to improve methodological tools to assess the net value of the restaurant service. The following methods were used during the study: systemic, structural and functional, formal and logical, complex integral evaluation.
Results. The article proposes a methodology for assessing the net worth of a restaurant service, which is based on a comprehensive evaluation system, concentrates the parameters of value (restaurant dish, service, staff, atmosphere of the image, brand) and cost parameters (monetary, emotional, time and energy costs), allows to identify the contradictions in the value management of the restaurant service and characterize its uniqueness, which creates an informational basis for a well-founded determination of strategic directions of the enterprise development of restaurant business.
Discussion. The result of the developed methodology of assessing the net worth of the restaurant service are proposals for the development of the restaurant business enterprise, which in their conceptual basis are oriented to ensure the compliance of the restaurant service to the requirements of consumers, which will ultimately contribute to the successful implementation of the strategy of the restaurant business, increase the competitiveness and expansion of the target audience of customers.
Keywords: restaurant business, development, restaurant service, value, cost, comprehensive evaluation, Gap-analysis model of value management.
Geographic information in the age of the INSPIRE Directive: discovery, download and use for geographical research
Authors: Řezník Tomáš
Published: March 2020

This article describes the concept and impacts of dealing with geographic information according to the Directive on INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe: INSPIRE. A brief introduction contains the scope and aims of this infrastructure and is supported by a section on legislative background at both the European and Czech levels. All components of the European infrastructure are analysed sequentially, i.e. starting with metadata, network services, data sharing, monitoring and reporting. The main focus of the article is aimed at the issues of geographic data interoperability and harmonization through application schemas. Unique identifiers, voidable elements, reference systems, temporal representations, quality of geographic data, encoding and visualisation are then subjected to deeper analysis. The concept of INSPIRE is presented in a model case of searching for cross-border geographic data using the INSPIRE geoportal, its preview in a Geographic Information System and its retrieval.
Internacionalização da arte brasileira a partir dos anos 1980 e a construção de Hélio Oiticica e Lygia Clark como referenciais canônicos dessa produção artística
Authors: Labra Daniela
Published: March 2020

No final dos anos 80, exposições coletivas institucionais de arte brasileira contemporânea, na Europa e nos Estados Unidos, impulsionaram a internacionalização e a construção de uma visão crítica estrangeira dessa produção. O reconhecimento da originalidade de Hélio Oiticica e Lygia Clark os tornará, no meio internacional, influências inescapáveis, míticas e quase obrigatórias para os artistas brasileiros contemporâneos em geral.
Leão dentro do Quarto e Pequenos Abismos: sublime, fabulação, memória, arte contemporânea
Authors: Peixoto Irene
Published: March 2020

Os trabalhos abordados neste artigo fazem parte do projeto (Res)pirações Poéticas, que investiga os processos criadores alusivos aos devaneios primeiros, imagens de tempos primordiais que guardam os saberes de nossa vida íntima, ecoando o fundo mais arcaico de nossa memória, tempo em que acreditamos ter sido mais livres.
Performar o eclipse: as ações artísticas de Aurélio Pinotti
Authors: Biasio Bruno
Published: March 2020

Constituída por 93 livros publicados em menos de seis meses, a produção artística de Aurélio Pinotti tem mobilizado alguns textos críticos desde o seu recente aparecimento. Sua interpretação como obra literária, contudo, desconsidera certos elementos fundamentais de seu efeito performativo, que este artigo pretende resgatar por meio da metáfora do eclipse.
Reading Ecophobia: a Manifesto
Authors: Estok Simon C.
Published: March 2020

Key words: ecophobia, speciesism, ecocritical theory, ecocritical ethics, Andrew Battista, Lawrence Buell  To a large extent, ecocriticism has not developed its own body of critical theory, largely so because many prominent ecocritics deliberately shy away from theoretical entanglements. Reading ecophobia is an attempt to theorize ecocriticism and reach a kind of methodological and structural definition of the field. Reading ecophobia consists of uncovering and seeing unassumed connections in our thinking and in our conceptual links that would recognize the interweaving of racism, misogyny, homophobia, speciesism and ecophobia. It would imply acknowledging biases in our analyses of cultural products and their representations of nature. Thus, it becomes a necessary step for the discipline. Palabras clave: ecofobia, especiesismo, teoría ecocrítica, ética ecocrítica, Andrew Battista, Lawrence Buell En gran medida la ecocrítica no ha desarrollado su propio cuerpo de teoría crítica, en parte debido a que muchos ecocríticos destacados rehúyen deliberadamente los enredos teóricos. Una lectura de la ecofobia constituye un intento de teorizar la ecocrítica y alcanzar una especie de definición metodológica y estructural del campo. Esta lectura consiste en revelar y ver conexiones no aparentes en nuestro pensamiento y en nuestros vínculos conceptuales, lo que reconocería la unión inextricable entre racismo, misoginia, homofobia, especiesismo y ecofobia. Esto implicaría reconocer los prejuicios en nuestros análisis de productos culturales y sus representaciones de la naturaleza. Por lo tanto, se convierte en un paso necesario para la disciplina.
Sexual/Environmental Justice and Ecocriticism of the New Century
Authors: Stein Rachel
Published: March 2020

Key words: environmental justice, sexuality, reproductivity, food industry, queer ecology Environmental justice in the 21st century should advance in the exploration, both theoretical and practical, of aspects of identity such as sexuality and reproductivity, which up to the present have been less analyzed than aspects of race, class and gender. The novels of Ruth Ozeki illustrate brilliantly the intersection between justice related to the food industry and sexual justice. Moreover, queer environmental justice has largely benefited from the theoretical framework established by Cate Sandilands for queer ecology. Palabras clave: justicia medioambiental, sexualidad, reproducción, industria alimentaria, ecología queer La justicia medioambiental del siglo XXI debe avanzar hacia la exploración, tanto teórica como práctica, de aspectos de la identidad del individuo tales como la sexualidad y la reproductividad, menos analizadas hasta la fecha desde este punto de vista, que las variables de raza, clase o género. Las novelas de Ruth Ozeki ilustran de manera excelente la intersección entre la justicia relacionada con la industria alimentaria y la justicia sexual. Al mismo tiempo, la justicia medioambiental de carácter queer se ha beneficiado en gran medida de los marcos teóricos establecidos por Cate Sandilands para atender cuestiones de ecología queer.
Explaining the Circumstances
Authors: North Christopher
Published: March 2020

Christopher North with his wife Marisa run the Almassera Vella Arts Centre  in a mountain village near Alicante, Spain (www,oldolivepress.com).He facilitates poetry readings , writing workshops and  7 day residential courses in the Spring and Autumn. His pamphlet collection 'A Mesh of Wires '(Smith Doorstop 1999) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, he had a third place in the National (1995) and recently won the Silver Wyvern at the ‘Poetry on the Lake' Festival in Italy. His first full collection ‘Explaining the Circumstances’ was published by Oversteps Books in February 2010 (www.overstepsbooks.com). The poem he has gracefully allowed us to include in this issue, is the title poem in this collection. A planned bi-lingual joint collection with the poet Terry Gifford ‘The Other Side of Aguilar’  is due for publication later this year.
And God Created Darwin
Authors: Marrero Henríquez José Manuel
Published: March 2020

José Manuel Marrero Henríquez José Manuel Marrero Henríquez is the author of Documentación y lirismo en la narrativa de Ignacio Aldecoa and of a number of articles on genre conventions, ethics and criticism, ecocriticism, and Spanish and Spanish American Literature. He has recently published El paisaje literario, an anthology of landscape representation in Hispanic Literatures. His research interests lie in Francisco González Díaz´s works, the literary representation of landscape, ecocriticism, and the impact of tourism and environmental policies in literary landscapes. In his academic career have played an important role the Universidad de La Laguna, Washington University in St. Louis, Trinity College (Connecticut), and The School of Criticism and Theory. José Manuel Marrero Henríquez is Professor of Literary Theory at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Conversación portátil con Friedrich y Rothko
Authors: Batista Agustín
Published: March 2020

Agustín Batista (1980), licenciado en Bellas Artes por la Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, en 2004. Actualmente vive y trabaja en Madrid. Artista plástico, diseñador gráfico, creador audiovisual y de espacios sonoros. Como pintor ha participado en varias exposiciones colectivas y cuenta con algunas individuales. Para más información: www.agustinbatista.com Augustin Batista graduated in the Arts in 2004 (University de La Laguna, Tenerife). He now lives and works in Madrid, as a visual artist, graphic designer, audio-visual artist and composer. As a painter, he has participated in numerous collective and  individual exhibitions. For more details, see http://www.agustinbatista.com/
Conversación portátil con Friédrich y Pollock
Authors: Batista Agustín
Published: March 2020

Acrílico y collage sobre lienzo, 22 x 27 cm.2002.www.agustinbatista.com Agustín Batista (1980), licenciado en Bellas Artes por la Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, en 2004. Actualmente vive y trabaja en Madrid. Artista plástico, diseñador gráfico, creador audiovisual y de espacios sonoros. Como pintor ha participado en varias exposiciones colectivas y cuenta con algunas individuales. Para más información: www.agustinbatista.com Augustin Batista graduated in the Arts in 2004 (University de La Laguna, Tenerife). He now lives and works in Madrid, as a visual artist, graphic designer, audio-visual artist and composer. As a painter, he has participated in numerous collective and  individual exhibitions. For more details, see http://www.agustinbatista.com/
(Forced) Walks on the Wild Side: Precarious Borders in American Captivity Narratives
Authors: Starre Alexander
Published: March 2020

Most readings of American captivity narratives have so far investigated their intercultural, psychological, and theological significances, while disregarding their ecological aspects. Despite its appropriation into US-American national literature, the captivity genre contains at its root a transcultural plot of an individual's confrontation with the environment and the unsettling forces of wilderness and animality. These personal memoirs indeed hold global value by pointing to our collective embeddedness and embodiedness.This essay surveys two early captivity narratives - the classical one by Mary Rowlandson (1682) and a lesser known text by John Gyles (1736) - alongside contemporary examples of the genre that relate the stories of American captives in Iraq and Colombia.Resumen Muchas lecturas de los relatos de cautiverio americanos hasta ahora han investigado los significados interculturales, psicológicos y teológicos sin prestar mucha atención a sus aspectos ecológicos. A pesar de su inclusión en la literatura nacional estadounidense, es esencial al género del relato de cautiverio una trama transnacional de confrontación entre el individuo y el medio ambiente rodeado de fuerzas inquietantes, de una flora desolada y una fauna feroz. Estas memorias personales tienen, efectivamente, un valor global porque indican nuestra incorporación y encarnación collectivas.Este ensayo explora dos relatos de cautiverio -el clásico de Mary Rowlandson (1682) y un texto menos conocido de John Gyles (1736)- al lado de dos ejemplos contemporáneos del género que cuentan las historias de cautivos estadounidenses en Irak y Colombia.
Poems
Authors: North Christopher
Published: March 2020

Christopher North with his wife Marisa run the Almassera Vella Arts Centre  in a mountain village near Alicante, Spain (www.oldolivepress.com). He facilitates poetry readings , writing workshops and  7 day residential courses in the Spring and Autumn. His pamphlet collection A Mesh of Wires (Smith Doorstop 1999) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, he had a third place in the National (1995) and recently won the Silver Wyvern at the ‘Poetry on the Lake' Festival in Italy. His first full collection Explaining the Circumstances was published by Oversteps Books in February 2010 (www.overstepsbooks.com). A bi-lingual joint collection with the poet Terry Gifford The Other Side of Aguilar is published this year.
Floating leaves
Authors: Darwell John
Published: March 2020

Floating leaves. From series 'Borderland' 1993
Book Review of Ecologia Letteraria by Serenella Iovino
Authors: Carretero Gonzalez Margarita
Published: March 2020

Book Review of Ecologia Letteraria by Serenella Iovino
Book Review of Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape by Beatriz Rivera-Barnes & Jerry Hoeg
Authors: Diego Sánchez Jorge
Published: March 2020

Book Review of Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape by Beatriz Rivera-Barnes & Jerry Hoeg
Book review of Beyond Environmentalism: A Philosophy of Nature by Jeffrey E. Foss
Authors: Pickard Richard William
Published: March 2020

Book review of Beyond Environmentalism. A Philosophy of Nature by Jeffrey E. Foss
Guest Editor Introduction
Authors: Marrero Henríquez José Manuel
Published: March 2020

Literary Landscapes and the National Imaginary
El discurso ambiental en Osamu Tezuka
Authors: Martí Escayol Maria Antonia
Published: March 2020

Frecuentemente se destaca el compromiso hacia la naturaleza presente en las obras del mangaka Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), sin embargo no existe todavía un estudio exhaustivo del concepto de naturaleza en su obra. El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar el contenido ambiental en sus cómics y en sus guiones. Nos centramos en el contenido basado en la realidad coetánea del autor y, en concreto, se analiza el discurso tóxico en la ficción realista y en la ciencia ficción, y el cambio de actitud hacia la guerra y la protección medioambiental. Ecological awareness and environmental themes are often noted in writing on the mangaka Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), but there is still no comprehensive study of the concept of nature in his work. This paper explores environmental content in Tezuka’s work, focusing on his treatment of contemporary reality, and assessing his contribution to toxic discourse in realist fiction and science fiction, and to changing attitudes towards war and environmental protection
Introduction: Marta De Menezes
Authors: Hoving Isabel , De Menezes Marta
Published: March 2020

Introduction to Marta de Menezes' work
In the Beginning there was Word 4
Authors: De Menezes Marta
Published: March 2020

In the Beginning there was Word
Book Review of Thomas Hallock, Ivo Kamps, and Karen L. Raber (eds.). Early Modern Ecostudies (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Authors: Whitney Charles
Published: March 2020

Book Review of Early Modern Ecostudies.Recensión de Early Modern Ecostudies.
Buchbesprechung von Thomas Kirchhoff und Ludwig Trepl, Hg., Vieldeutige Natur: Landschaft, Wildnis und Ökosystem als Kulturgeschichtliche Phänomene (Bielefeld: transcript, 2009)
Authors: Deetjen Claudia
Published: March 2020

Book Review of Vieldeutige Natur: Landschaft, Wildnis und Ökosystem als Kulturgeschichtliche Phänomene. Recensión de Vieldeutige Natur: Landschaft, Wildnis und Ökosystem als Kulturgeschichtliche Phänomene.
Book Review of Carmen Flys Junquera, Irene Sanz Alonso, Montserrat López Mújica and Esther Laso y León (eds.). Cultural Landscapes: Heritage and Conservation (Alcalá: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad, 2010)
Authors: Mezquita María Antonia
Published: March 2020

Book Review of C Cultural Landscapes: Heritage and ConservationRecensión de Cultural Landscapes: Heritage and Conservation
Guest Editor Introduction
Authors: Bellarsi Franca
Published: March 2020

Guest Editor Introduction: "Ecospirit: Religion and the Environment"
Botany as the Path to Awareness, or the Flower as a Grail In Thomas Wharton's Icefields
Authors: Besson Françoise
Published: March 2020

In the novel Icefields by Canadian novelist Thomas Wharton, plants are more than incidental elements. Vegetation appears as a living form of writing in nature that enables men and women to understand life and their relationship to the world. It can also be seen as the Grail that the alpinist sets out to find and that reveals the need to leave plants in place and not destroy the environment for motives of profit. This paper aims to show that the imagination may convey an ecological message and that ecological consciousness may lead to metaphysical awareness.  En la novela Icefields, del autor canadiense Thomas Wharton, el mundo vegetal es algo más  que un elemento accesorio. La vegetación parece ser una forma viva de escritura de la naturaleza que permite a los hombres y a las mujeres entender la vida y su relación con el mundo. Puede también considerarse como un Grial que el alpinista busca y que le revelará la necesidad de dejar que la planta crezca en su medio ambiente sin destruir el mismo con miras mercantiles. Este artículo trata de mostrar que la imaginación puede ser un medio para comunicar un mensaje ecológico y que  una conciencia ecológica puede llevarnos a una conciencia metafísica.
Foreign Language Education and the Environment. Considerations from the Perspective of Translation Studies
Authors: Valero-Garcés Carmen
Published: March 2020

Having been a teacher to foreign language students and as a current trainer to translators, I can see how important it is to make connections between reality and formal education when preparing professionals to enter the job market once (or even before) their training is completed. Assuming, on one hand, that ecology is a dominant science in today’s world with a far-reaching and powerful impact on humanity, and on the other hand, that I have before me in class a generation of future teachers and translators with an environmental consciousness that needs to be raised, it is my purpose in the following pages to give insights into language specialists’ (SLA and translators) training and how it relates to the environment.   Como profesional de la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras y formador de traductores considero imprescindible lograr conectar en clase la realidad y la educación formal a lo largo del proceso de preparación de los futuros  profesionales antes de entrar en el mercado laboral. Teniendo en cuenta, por un lado, que la ecología lleva camino de convertirse en una ciencia dominante en el mundo de hoy con un impacto de largo alcance sobre la humanidad, y,  por otro lado, que delante de mí en clase hay una generación de futuros profesores y traductores cuya conciencia ambiental necesita despertar, en las páginas que siguen mi propósito es tratar de conjugar la formación de especialistas de enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras y traductores con el medio ambiente a través de una serie de actividades de aplicación en el aula. Con este fin, en primer lugar introduciré brevemente algunos puntos que considero importantes para entender la posición  adoptada a la hora de conectar medio ambiente, lengua y traducción; y en segundo lugar trataré de ilustra esa conexión con una serie de ejercicios prácticos cuyo objetivo es despertar el interés o profundizar en la conciencia ecológica de  los futuros traductores y profesores de lenguas extranjeras.
Photograph 1/6, Birch 1
Authors: Young Ali
Published: March 2020

Ali Young's photographs
Poems
Authors: Durham Diana
Published: March 2020

Poems
Guest Editor Introduction
Authors: Dürbeck Gabriele
Published: March 2020

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Material Ecocriticism: Materiality, Agency, and Models of Narrativity
Authors: Iovino Serenella , Oppermann Serpil
Published: March 2020

The proliferation of studies bearing on the intellectual movement known as the "new materialisms" evinces that a material turn is becoming an important paradigm in environmental humanities. Ranging from social and science studies, feminism, to anthropology, geography, environmental philosophies and animal studies, this approach is bringing innovative ways of considering matter and material relations that, coupled with reflections on agency, text, and narrativity, are going to impact ecocriticism in an unprecedented way. In consideration of the relevance of this debate, we would like to draw for Ecozon@'s readers an introductory map of the new paradigm and introduce what can be called "material ecocriticism." We will illustrate what we consider to be its main features, situating them in the conceptual horizons of the new materialisms. From this genealogical sketch, we will examine the re-definitions of concepts like matter, agency, discursivity, and intentionality, with regard to their effects on ecocriticism and in terms of their ethical perspectives.   Resumen   La proliferación de estudios procedentes del movimiento intelectual conocido bajo la rúbrica de "nuevos materialismos" pone de manifiesto que la materia está influyendo en el giro paradigmático de los recientes estudios medioambientales en el ámbito de las Humanidades. Desde los estudios científicos y sociales al feminismo, la antropología, la geografía, pasando por los estudios sobre animales y las filosofías del medio ambiente,  este enfoque incorpora formas innovadoras de aproximarse a la materia y a las relaciones materiales que, acompañadas de reflexiones sobre la agencia o capacidad de acción, el texto y la narración, van a producir un impacto considerable y sin precedentes en la ecocrítica.   En consideración a la relevancia de este debate queremos ofrecer a los lectores de Ecozon@ un mapa introductorio a este nuevo paradigma. En el presente artículo trataremos las que consideramos son las características fundamentales de la ecocrítica de la materia y las situaremos en el horizonte conceptual de los nuevos materialismos. A partir de este esbozo genealógico, examinaremos las redefiniciones de conceptos como materia, agencia en tanto capacidad de acción, discursividad e intencionalidad y las  relacionaremos con sus efectos en la ecocrítica y en la ética.
La utopía banal: La urbanización, la globalización y lo antibucólico en Últimas noticias del paraíso
Authors: Wilson Mac John
Published: March 2020

One of the consequences of globalization in Spain has been the import of the so-called Anglo suburban culture coming from the western world. The development of this culture comes from pastoral roots, in that humans seek to live peacefully with each other as well as with non-humans. Nevertheless, as it has come into contact with capitalism, this pastoral culture has failed because it is commodified like any other consumer product. The Spanish residential communities that have inherited this cultural history in part are known as urbanizaciones. In Clara Sanchez's novel, Últimas noticias del paraíso, these communities reveal themselves as places built to bring together humanity and nature but that, from the perspective of a coming-of-age adolescent, in actuality are centers of artificiality condemned to banality. What this current work proposes is that Últimas noticias del paraíso presents itself as an anti-pastoral and in this way underlines the problems that the globalization of capitalistic culture brings with it by spreading alienation and ambivalence on the part of humanity when confronted with the natural world, even while maintaining a pastoral mask.   Resumen Una de las consecuencias de la globalización en España ha sido la importación de la cultura particularmente angla de los suburbs, procedente del mundo occidental. El desarrollo de esta cultura tiene sus raíces en un deseo por lo bucólico, en el que los humanos buscan vivir en paz entre sí y con lo no humano. Sin embargo, al mezclarse con el capitalismo, esta cultura se ha mercantilizado como cualquier otro producto para el consumo. Las comunidades residenciales en España que en parte reflejan la herencia de esta historia cultural se conocen como urbanizaciones. En la novela de Clara Sánchez, Últimas noticias del paraíso, las urbanizaciones se revelan como lugares hechos para unir lo humano a la naturaleza, pero que, desde la perspectiva de un adolescente en aprendizaje vital, en realidad son centros de artificialidad condenados a lo banal. Lo que este trabajo propone es que Últimas noticias del paraíso se presenta como  anti-bucólica y así subraya los problemas que trae la globalización de la cultura consumista al propagar alienación y ambivalencia a la humanidad frente el mundo natural, a pesar de que lleva el antifaz de lo bucólico.
Four Poems
Authors: Smith JD
Published: March 2020

The four poems on this group touch on environmental issues in ways that reference ecological ethics, with at least indirect consideration of Aldo Leopold's land ethic.
Book Review: Harriet Tarlo, ed., The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2011)
Authors: Hoving Isabel
Published: March 2020

Book Review: The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry
Boook Review: Ashton Nichols, Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Authors: Pickard Richard
Published: March 2020

Book Review: Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism
Afraid of the Dark and the Light: Visceralizing Ecocide in The Road and Hell
Authors: Weik von Mossner Alexa
Published: March 2020

The essay is concerned with the ways in which contemporary science fiction films explore the future subjectivities and societies that may result from radical ecological changes, looking at two pertinent examples from two different national traditions: John Hillcoat’s 2009 film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-win­ning novel The Road (2006), and one of the very few German-Swiss science fiction films with an environmental theme, Tim Fehlbaum’s Hell (2011). It is particularly interested in the relationship between the films’ imagined ecological spaces and the actions of the protagonists of each film on the one hand, and in the relationship between these futuristic diegetic spaces and the contemporary real-life ecological spaces that “play” them on the other hand. Together with the performances of the human actors and the tension and suspense built by the narratives, it argues, the spectacle and insinuated agency of these ecological spaces are centrally responsible for the films’ emotional force and for their ability to engage viewers in stories of global ecocide and human survival.   Resumen               El ensayo analiza cómo las películas de ciencia ficción exploran las sociedades y subjetividades futuras que pueden surgir de cambios ecológicos radicales, atendiendo a dos ejemplos relevantes de dos tradiciones nacionales diferentes: la adaptación cinematográfica de 2009 de la novela de Cormac McCarthy The Road (2006), ganadora del premio Pulitzer, dirigida por John Hillcoat; y una de las muy escasas películas de ciencia ficción germano-suizas de  temática medioambiental, Hell (2011) de Tim Fehlbaum. Se presta especial interés a dos aspectos: por un lado,  la relación entre los espacios ecológicos imaginados en las películas y las acciones de los protagonistas de cada película; y por otro lado,  la relación entre estos espacios diegéticos futuristas y los espacios ecológicos reales que los representan. Junto con la interpretación de los actores humanos y la tensión y el suspense que construyen las narraciones, el espectáculo y la agencia insinuada de estos espacios ecológicos son en gran medida responsables de la fuerza emocional de las películas y de su habilidad  para implicar a la audiencia en historias de ecocidio global y supervivencia humana.
A Turkish Posthumanist Perspective in Science-Fiction: Ecocritical Approaches in Özlem Ada’s Embriyogenesis
Authors: Agin Donmez Basak
Published: March 2020

The world of science-fiction in Turkey is like a closed circuit, only supported by fans and authors, but an outstanding example, Özlem Ada's Embriyogenesis (1997), provides the reader with a unique experience in the two stories titled "Hisse Senetleri" and "Çaya Yetiştirilir," which can be respectively translated as "Share Certificates" and "You Can Be Ready for Tea Party." Both stories are analyzed in this paper with an ecocritical approach to science-fiction as regards how this genre plays a crucial role in broadening the horizons of ecocriticism. The posthumanist perspective of the author offers the reader a chance to interrogate how traditional science-fiction uses apocalyptic and complacent modes to create futuristic images of the world. Ada's stories are exceptional to the Turkish science-fiction genre as they are environmentally oriented.   Resumen               El mundo de la ciencia ficción en Turquía es como un circuito cerrado, sólo apoyado por fans y autores; pero un ejemplo destacado, Embriyogenesis (1997) de Özlem Ada, proporciona al lector una experiencia única en las historias tituladas "Hisse Senetleri" y "Çaya Yetiştirilir", que podrían traducirse como “Compartir certificados” y “Puedes estar listo para la fiesta del té”. En este ensayo se analizan ambas historias desde un enfoque ecocrítico en lo referente a cómo la ciencia ficción tiene un papel crucial a la hora de ampliar los horizontes de la ecocrítica. La perspectiva posthumanista de la autora ofrece al lector la oportunidad de cuestionarse cómo la ciencia ficción tradicional usa el modo apocalíptico para crear imágenes futuristas del mundo. Las historias de Ada son excepcionales en el género de la ciencia ficción turca por su orientación medioambiental.
“I know of places where there are stones that talk to me”: A. M. Pires Cabral’s Arado through the lens of Ecocriticism
Authors: Alves Isabel Maria Fernandes
Published: March 2020

A.M. Pires Cabral (b. 1941) is a Portuguese poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. His first book of poetry Somewhere in the Northeast (1974), condenses the originality of his poetic achievement: the meeting between classic form and rural experience. Stemming from the fact that his poetry is based on a specific place and on an instance of attention to ordinary people and objects is a vision which underlines the involvement of the human destiny with the landscape we inhabit. This paper concentrates on the way A. M. Pires Cabral’s poetry has been an example of attentiveness to and of human conversation with the non-human world. Its uniqueness stems from the relationship to a remote and rural Portuguese region. If isolation defines the place, Pires Cabral’s poetry builds a sense of inclusion and communion between physical place, people, and animals, that is, a sense of belonging. The article analyses A. M. Pires Cabral’s Plow (2009), a book in which his poetic engagement with the natural world promotes new insights into the potential role of poetry, generating a greater environmental awareness and calling for new visions and new responsibility.   Resumen   A. M. Pires Cabral (n. 1941) es un poeta portugués, novelista, ensayista y traductor. Su primer libro de poesía, Algún lugar en el noreste (1974), condensa la originalidad de su logro poético: la unión entre la forma clásica y la experiencia rural. De hecho, su poesía se basa en un lugar específico y en un ejemplo de atención a la gente común y a los objetos como resultado de una visión que pone de relieve la participación del destino humano con el paisaje que habita. Este trabajo se concentra en cómo la poesía de A. M. Pires Cabral ha sido un ejemplo de atención y de conversación humana con el mundo no humano. Su singularidad se debe a la relación con una región portuguesa remota y rural. Pero si el aislamiento define el lugar, la poesía de Pires Cabral construye un sentido de inclusión y de comunión entre el lugar físico, las personas y los animales, es decir, un sentido de pertenencia. El artículo analiza Arado (2009), obra de A. M. Pires Cabral, un libro en el que su compromiso poético con el mundo natural promueve nuevos conocimientos sobre el papel potencial de la poesía, lo que genera una mayor conciencia ambiental, pidiendo nuevas visiones y nuevas responsabilidades.
Turba ardiendo-I
Authors: Albelda-Raga Jose
Published: March 2020

Turba ardiendo-IPeat burning-I
Poems
Authors: Gifford Terry
Published: March 2020

Poems by Terry Gifford
Midsummer Night's Wire Up
Authors: Lord Catherine Mary
Published: March 2020

Short story: "Midsummer Night's Wire Up"
Book Review: Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby, Ecocritical Theory. New European Approaches
Authors: Bracke Astrid
Published: March 2020

Book Review: Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby, Ecocritical Theory.
Melting Ice and the Paradoxes of Zeno: Didactic Impulses and Aesthetic Distanciation in German Climate Change Fiction // Impulsos didácticos y distancia estética en la ficción alemana sobre el cambio climático
Authors: Goodbody Axel Howarth
Published: March 2020

Although global warming has been a topic of American and British popular fiction since the 1980s, its literary representation has only recently become an object of academic enquiry. Perhaps a score of German novels on the subject have also appeared, and critical analysis of these is now called for. Following a general outline of the socio-political, philosophical, and ethical issues which climate change raises, and of the particular aesthetic challenges which writing about global warming poses, Ilija Trojanow’s EisTau (Melting Ice, 2011) serves as a basis for discussion of the tensions between confessional and didactic impulses on the one hand, and recognition of the need for an aesthetic facilitating detachment on the other.  Resumen               Aunque el calentamiento global ha aparecido en la literatura popular americana y británica desde los años 80, su representación literaria no se ha converitdo en objeto de investigación académica hasta recientemente. Quizá una veintena de novelas alemanas sobre el tema también han aparecido, requiriendo así un análisis critico. Siguiendo un resumen general de los asuntos socio-políticos, filosóficos y éticos que el cambio climático ha planteado, y de los desafíos estéticos particulares que surgen al escribir sobre el calentamiento global, la novela EisTau (Melting Ice, 2011) de Ilija Trojanow sirve como base para debatir las tensiones entre los impulsos confesionales y didácticos, por un lado, y sobre el reconocimiento de la necesidad de una estética que facilite el desapego, por otro.
Editorial
Authors: Hoving Isabel
Published: March 2020

A discussion of the creative writing and visual art that can be found in the Creative Writing and Arts section
Ravine // Barranco
Authors: Markwick Michael Maarten
Published: March 2020

Ravine (2013)
Flows and Scars // Flujos y cicatrices
Authors: Markwick Michael Maarten
Published: March 2020

Flows and Scars (2012)
New Growth // Crecimiento nuevo
Authors: Markwick Michael Maarten
Published: March 2020

New Growth (2009)
Poems // Poemas
Authors: Glaser Brian
Published: March 2020

Poems
Poems // Poemas
Authors: Griffiths Matthew
Published: March 2020

Poems by Matthew Griffiths