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An in-Depth Look at Congressional Committee Jurisdictions Surrounding Health Issues
Authors: Hardin John W.
Published: June 2016

Congress plays an important role in shaping U.S. health care policy, and within Congress, committees play the lead policy-making role. To determine the range and extent of committee involvement on health issues, I examine nine health issue categories over a fifteen-year period (1979–1993) to discover how both “legislative” and “nonlegislative” committee jurisdictions differ across three dimensions: congressional chambers, committees within those chambers, and specific health issue categories. Then, to capture differences across a fourth dimension, time, I also calculate annual measures of jurisdiction “concentration” for legislative and nonlegislative jurisdictions. Together, the jurisdiction differences across the four dimensions provide a comprehensive view of congressional committee jurisdiction arrangements surrounding health issues. I find that the differences in jurisdiction across each dimension follow general patterns resulting from institution-specific factors (e.g., rules, norms) and from issue-specific factors (e.g., salience, complexity). Recognizing these dimensions and their respective patterns helps us understand the power that committees exercise over health issues.
Nitric oxide mediates stretch-induced Ca2+ oscillation in smooth muscle
Authors: Zheng Ji , Zhai Kui , Chen Yingxiao , Zhang Xu , Miao Lin , Wei Bin , Ji Guangju
Published: June 2016

The stretching of smooth muscle tissue modulates contraction through augmentation of Ca2+ transients, but the mechanism underlying stretch-induced Ca2+ transients is still unknown. We found that mechanical stretching and maintenance of mouse urinary bladder smooth muscle strips and single myocytes at 30% and 18% beyond the initial length, respectively, resulted in Ca2+ oscillations. Experiments indicated that mechanical stretching remarkably increased the production of nitric oxide (NO) as well as the amplitude and duration of muscle contraction. Stretch-induced Ca2+ oscillations and contractility increases were completely abolished by the NO inhibitor L-NAME or eNOS (also known as NOS3) gene inactivation. Moreover, exposure of eNOS-knockout myocytes to exogenous NO donor induced Ca2+ oscillations. The stretch-induced Ca2+ oscillations were greatly inhibited by the selective inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) inhibitor xestospongin C and partially inhibited by ryanodine. Moreover, the stretch-induced Ca2+ oscillations were also suppressed by the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor LY294002, but not by the soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) inhibitor ODQ. These results suggest that stretching myocyte and maintenance at a certain length results in Ca2+ oscillations that are NO dependent , and sGC and cGMP independent, and results from the activation of PI3K in smooth muscle.
Ultrafast Dynamics in Aromatic Cation Based Ionic Liquids: A Femtosecond Raman-Induced Kerr Effect Spectroscopic Study
Authors: Shirota Hideaki , Kakinuma Shohei , Takahashi Kotaro , Tago Akito , Jeong Hocheon , Fujisawa Tomotsumi
Published: June 2016

We studied the ultrafast dynamics of 40 aromatic cation based ionic liquids (ILs) by means of femtosecond Raman-induced Kerr effect spectroscopy. The low-frequency Kerr spectra (ca. 0.3–700 cm−1) of the ILs were obtained from the Kerr transients by Fourier-transform deconvolution analysis. The low-frequency Kerr spectra in the frequency range less than 200 cm−1 coming mainly from the intermolecular vibrations for the ILs were discussed in terms of (i) anion dependence, (ii) imidazolium cations vs. pyridinium cations, (iii) alkyl group dependence, and (iv) effect of methylation in aromatic cations. Several liquid properties, such as density, viscosity, electrical conductivity, and surface tension, of the present sample ILs at 293 K were also estimated in this study. We clarified that the aromatic cation based ILs show a different relation of the first moment of the low-frequency spectral band to the bulk liquid parameter, which is the square root of surface tension divided by liquid density, from aprotic molecular liquids. The slope of the first moment to the bulk parameter for the aromatic cation based ILs is gentler than that for aprotic molecular liquids.
An end to end workflow for differential gene expression using Affymetrix microarrays
Authors: Klaus Bernd
Published: June 2016

In this article, we walk through an end–to–end Affymetrix microarray differential expression workflow using Bioconductor packages. This workflow is directly applicable to current “Gene” type arrays, e.g. the HuGene or MoGene arrays but can easily adapted to similar platforms. The data re–analyzed is a typical clinical microarray data set that compares inflammed and non–inflammed colon tissue in two disease subtypes. We will start from the raw data CEL files, show how to import them into a Bioconductor ExpressionSet, perform quality control and normalization and finally differential gene expression (DE) analysis, followed by some enrichment analysis. As experimental designs can be complex, a self contained introduction to linear models is also part of the workflow.
The identity and application of Coletia madida and notes on the typification of Mayacaceae
Authors: Pellegrini Marco Octávio de O. , de Carvalho Maria Luiza S.
Published: June 2016

A great deal of doubt surrounds the name Coletia madida concerning its identity, application and relation to Mayaca sellowiana. In order to better understand this issue we analyzed Vellozo's original description and plate, as well as the original description for M. sellowiana. We conclude that C. madida is a synonym of M. fluviatilis and that M. sellowiana is the older name for the species with one‐flowered inflorescences and anthers that are dehiscent through an apical tube. Also, we designate a lectotype and an epitype for C. madida and comment on the typification of M. fluviatilis (the type of the family).
Bentham and Hooker's Genera Plantarum and priority relating to the publication of the names of four African genera
Authors: Turner I.M.
Published: June 2016

Priority concerning publication of the generic names Allanblackia (Clusiaceae), Alsodeiopsis (Icacinaceae), Campylostemon (Celastraceae) and Scaphopetalum (Malvaceae: Byttnerioideae) is investigated. Volume 1 part 3 of Bentham and Hooker's Genera Plantarum was probably published before 19 September 1867, but, in the absence of concrete evidence for effective publication on or before 5 September 1867, priority is considered to lie with papers by Masters and Oliver published in the Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany. The correct full citation of the names is given.
A tool for the analysis of chromosomes: KaryoType
Authors: Altınordu Fahim , Peruzzi Lorenzo , Yu Yan , He Xingjin
Published: June 2016

The software KaryoType, an improved and completely renewed version of the previously existing NucType, was developed for plant chromosomes. The primary function of the software is to allow efficient chromosome measurements and karyotype analysis from microphotographs. Karyotype characterization usually includes chromosome number, size, arm ratio, centromeric index, relative lengths and karyotype formula. Moreover, KaryoType is also capable of measuring karyotype asymmetry indices such as CVCL, CVCI and MCA, and can recognize chromosome homologues based on chromosome length and arm ratio automatically or manually. This program runs on Windows 7 and above and Mac OS X and is freely available at the website of the University of Sichuan (http://mnh.scu.edu.cn/soft/blog/karyotype/).
Training of specialists in the travel industry for effective cross-cultural interaction
Authors: Баграмянц Нонна , Bagramyants Nonna , Ивлева Марина , Ivleva Marina
Published: June 2016

The article is devoted to questions of improvement of professional competencies in the sphere of tourism industry. The authors aimed to identify the most problematic areas of optimal interpersonal interaction in the training of future specialists in the sphere of services and to identify possible solutions of found problems. Special attention is paid to social-psychological aspects of training future professionals in this area. This article proposes an integrated approach to working with students (future travel businesspersons) and describes a specific model of intercultural competence, the structural components which serve the purpose of training, contents of training (theoretical and practical aspects) as well as methodological solutions to ensure maximum efficiency of the proposed model. The authors insist on the observance of the harmony in the allocation of attention to information and thematic and practical areas of the formation of intercultural linguistic competence. The first of them contributes to the formation of the main landmarks in communication with native speakers for organized intercultural understanding of the world. The second area of work is directed on creation of effective and appropriate verbal behavior of speakers and it involves the practical application of acquired knowledge in various situations of business communication. Personal experience with students-bachelors, studying the direction of tourism and service, allows us to give recommendations regarding the optimal methodological decisions in the process of formation of intercultural competence. As an example, there is a role-playing game as a way to achieve this level of intercultural communication in which cultural mismatch can be overcome through the intersection of cognitive, affective, and behavioral levels of communication.
Antioxidant and toxicity properties of anthocyanin extracted from red flower of four tropical shrubs
Authors: KUSPRADINI HARLINDA , ROSIARTO ANINDYA MARSABELLA , PUTRI AGMI SINTA , KUSUMA IRAWAN WIJAYA
Published: June 2016

Abstract. Kuspradini H, Rosiarto AM, Putri AS, Kusuma IW. 2016. Antioxidant and toxicity properties of anthocyanin extracted from red flower of four tropical shrubs. Nusantara Bioscience 8: 135-140. Some of flowers are colored by anthocyanins and make their own shade profile. Anthocyanins are natural colorants which have gained a growing interest due to their extensive range of colors and beneficial health effects. Anthocyanin content, antioxidant and toxicity activity of four red flowers (Bougainvillea glabra, Jatropha integerrima, Melastoma malabathricum, and Mussaenda philippica) has been evaluated in this study by pH-differential, DPPH and Brine Shrimp Lethality method, respectively. In this present work, 1% HCl-ethanol and ethanol solvent were used for the extraction. The extractive yield was varied in different extraction system, 5.80 to 13.30% in 1% HCl-ethanol and 6.29 to 8.81% in ethanol solvent. The IC50 of antioxidant from different extraction systems were also varied, whereas the acidified ethanol extracts showed the highest scavenging activity than the ethanol extracts, 11.67 to 46.38 ppm and 79.08 to 133.35 ppm, respectively. The free radical scavenging action of 1% HCl-ethanol extracts of flower is in the order as J. integerrima > M. malabathricum > M. philippica > B. glabra while in the ethanol extracts are in the order as M. malabathricum > J. integerrima > B. glabra >M. philippica. In the group of 1% HCl-ethanol extracts, Jatropha integerrima Jacq was the richest in anthocyanin content (15.83 mg CGE/100 g DW) and showed the strongest antioxidant activity (11.67 ppm) and not toxic. Therefore, these can be regarded as a potential pigment source for food and natural product applications.
Short Communication: Qualitative determination of secondary metabolic compounds and macro-nutrients some botanical pesticide plants of East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Authors: RADEN INCE , SUYADI SUYADI , THAMRIN THAMRIN
Published: June 2016

Abstract. Raden I, Suyadi, Thamrin. 2016. Qualitative determination of secondary metabolic compounds and macro-nutrients some botanical pesticide plants of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Nusantara Bioscience 8: 141-144. The existence of natural alternative inputs for crop husbandry was considered as important resource of good agricultural practices to attend an environmentally friendly agricultural management. There are numerous potential plants for botanical pesticide used native in East Kalimantan, and those plants have been used by farmer to pest control, but they didn't know secondary metabolic compound and macronutrient in the plants. Pest control and soil fertility management were two main problems of agricultural development in East Kalimantan. This study aims to determine various secondary metabolic compounds and macronutrients content of six botanical pesticide plants, i.e. marigold (Tagetes erecta L.), neem tree (Azadirachta indica L.), sweet flag (Acorus calamus L.), brotowali (Tinospora crispa L.), soursop (Annona muricata L.), and golden trumpet vine (Allamanda cathartica L.). Some laboratory analysis were implemented in the study, variables used to determine secondary metabolic compounds were flavonoids; steroids; alkaloid; tannins; triterpenoids; and saponins, while, variables used to determine macronutrients were Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Magnesium, and Calcium. Results showed that all of six botanical pesticides evaluated in this study were containing potential secondary metabolic compounds (SMC), soursop leaves containing three kinds of SMC (flavonoids, steroid, and tannin), whereas golden trumpet vine leaves only containing one kind of SMC (tannin), and the other four botanical pesticides (marigold, neem tree, sweet flag, and brotowali) containing two kinds of SMC (flavonoids and tannin). Furthermore, based on macronutrients content analysis, marigold contains macronutrient higher than other plants as liquid fertilizer source followed by neem tree, soursop, and sweet flag.
Children's Rights, State Criminality and Settler Colonialism: Violence and Child Arrest in Occupied East Jerusalem
Authors: Kovner Bella , Shalhoub-Kevorkian Nadera
Published: June 2016

Over the past few years, Palestinian children in Occupied East Jerusalem (OEJ) have faced high rates of arrest. The article examines violence against children during arrest by juxtaposing state official documents recording debates and analyses of children's rights with published reports by human rights and civil society organizations. The article suggests that arrested children in OEJ suffer from three intersecting discriminatory regimes: structural discrimination that targets them as criminals based on their ethnicity; a lack of assistance as they fall under the responsibility of neither the Palestinian nor the Israeli socio-legal systems; and limited access to welfare, justice, and educational opportunities. The article concludes by suggesting that Palestinian children face severe structural violence that amounts to state-hate criminality.
Assessing Nonviolence in the Palestinian Rights Struggle
Authors: Mason Victoria , Falk Richard
Published: June 2016

“If only there was a Palestinian Gandhi” has been a common refrain in recent years. Yet in reality, Palestinians have a long history of relying on nonviolence. However, this nonviolence has received no constructive response from either Israel or the international community. The failure to acknowledge and welcome the Palestinian nonviolent movement serves to prolong the conflict and its negative effects, and lays bare the refusal of the international community to address the rights abuses at the heart of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. This article narrates Palestinian use of both violence and nonviolence in their struggle to achieve national self-determination and other basic rights, and assesses the potential of nonviolent action to enable a just resolution of their situation.
Bertha Capen Reynolds and the progressive tradition in social work (1885–1978): from professional maverick to forgotten woman
Authors: Freedberg Sharon
Published: June 2016

Bertha Capen Reynolds (1885–1978), nationally known social work author, political activist and educator, was known for her commitment to social justice and the struggles of poor and working people. This article examines the life and work of Reynolds within the context of significant historical developments in her times: the post-First World War mental hygiene movement; the Great Depression; the social work rank and file movement; and the beginning of social action movements in the 1960s.
The Literati, the Eunuch, and a Memorial: The Nelson-Atkins's Red Cliff Handscroll Revisited
Authors: Xue Lei
Published: June 2016

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's Illustration to the Second Prose Poem on the Red Cliff, attributed to Qiao Zhongchang, has been long celebrated as a major achievement of early Chinese literati painting. Nevertheless, the lifelike portraiture of Su Shi and the depiction of an actual site, as well as the contemporary colophons, all point to a memorial function for the scroll. The early provenance of this handscroll indicates that Liang Shicheng, the eunuch at Emperor Huizong's court, was the one who commissioned it. The painting bears witness to the appropriation of the Li Gonglin style in the late Northern Song court.
King Jeongjo's Patronage of Kim Hong-do
Authors: Kim Kumja Paik
Published: June 2016

The eighteenth-century Korean painter Kim Hong-do 金弘道 (1745–ca. 1806) still dazzles today's viewers with his paintings of genre scenes and Daoist immortals, just as he astonished his contemporaries with his talent and versatility. Although he had numerous patrons, none had as much impact on his art as King Jeongjo 正祖 (r. 1776–1800). By examining written records and Kim's extant paintings, this paper explores and assesses the significance of King Jeongjo's patronage in unlocking the opportunities that enabled Kim Hong-do to reach his full potential as the most versatile painter in Korea.
The Thousand-armed Mañjuśrī at Dunhuang and Paired Images in Buddhist Visual Culture
Authors: Wang Michelle C.
Published: June 2016

The Thousand-armed Mañjuśrī is an enigmatic form of the bodhisattva that appeared primarily in the Mogao cave shrines in northwestern China. There, the deity was nearly always paired with the Thousand-armed Avalokiteśvara on opposite walls or on opposite sides of a doorway. Curiously, this pairing is absent from any of the Buddhist sutras associated with the two. This article argues that texts were a starting point rather than an end point for the establishment of the Thousand-armed Mañjuśrī's iconographic characteristics, and that the pairing of the two deities is crucial for understanding the gaps between the deity's textual description and its visual representation.
Centralité des marges
Authors: Satia Priya
Published: June 2016

L’auteure soutient dans cet article que l’impact culturel de la Première Guerre mondiale en Grande-Bretagne ne peut être compris que si l’on donne aux campagnes du Moyen- Orient la place centrale qui est la leur. Il montre qu’un des effets généralement attribués au front de l’Ouest – une totale perte de foi dans la technique et dans l’héroïsme individuel – a été compensé, à bien des égards, par les leçons tirées de la guerre en Palestine et en Mésopotamie, où cette même foi a connu chez les Britanniques un formidable regain. Si l’on prend en compte cet héritage culturel, on comprend mieux pourquoi ce peuple est resté engagé dans la guerre et a continué de croire dans le développement industriel et la guerre impérialiste une fois le conflit mondial terminé. L’aura héroïque de Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence d’Arabie) et l’image du développement des infrastructures entrepris par l’armée britannique en Mésopotamie ont en effet donné un nouvel essor à la foi dans la technique et dans l’empire, tandis que le front de l’Ouest en révélait un visage autrement plus terrible. Le texte s’ouvre sur l’étude des tactiques militaires originales que les Britanniques, influencés par une vision singulière d’une « Arabie » largement imaginaire, ont adoptées à un degré sans précédent dans la région : la ruse, la guerre irrégulière et la force aérienne. L’auteur montre ensuite comment le gouvernement, à mesure que les succès se multipliaient, s’est efforcé de capitaliser sur la propagande entourant ces « théâtres secondaires » de guerre. Il s’agissait notamment de mettre en avant l’idée que l’empire trouverait une rédemption dans la restauration de l’antique « berceau de la civilisation », entretenant ainsi des notions d’un idéalisme achevé, quand, sur le front de l’Ouest, un nouveau type de cynisme faisait rage.
Avocat sous Staline
Authors: Cadiot Juliette
Published: June 2016

Fondé sur une recherche dans les archives russes et ukrainiennes, cet article étudie la profession d’avocat en URSS à la fin de la période stalinienne (1945-1953). Les différentes dimensions du métier – trajectoires sociales et pratiques quotidiennes – sont abordées à propos d’une période qui vit le nombre d’affaires traitées par les tribunaux considérablement augmenter et le discours sur la réhabilitation d’une « légalité socialiste » se renforcer. Si leur influence demeura faible et peu fondée sur le maniement du droit, les avocats soviétiques développèrent des compétences économiques et relationnelles leur permettant à la fois de préserver leur autonomie et de participer pleinement aux dynamiques sociales propres à la société soviétique telle qu’elle se dessine au sortir de la guerre. Malgré leur faiblesse et les purges dont ils firent l’objet, les avocats surent aussi s’informer des affaires et certains jouèrent un rôle d’intermédiaire entre l’appareil répressif et les notables soviétiques, notamment en participant au système d’échanges de pots-de-vin et de relations clientélistes. Leur action est exemplaire de la manière dont les Soviétiques se sont accommodés de la dictature stalinienne, en tentant de faire évoluer les règles et de constituer des poches de protection, d’entraide et d’échanges situées au coeur de l’État et du parti.
Géographies de la mobilisation et territoires de la belligérance durant la Premiére Guerre mondiale
Authors: Compagnon Olivier , Purseigle Pierre
Published: June 2016

Prenant acte du fait que l’histoire globale de la Première Guerre mondiale n’en est encore qu’à ses balbutiements, cet article propose de « déseuropéaniser » l’historiographie du conflit en dépassant la dialectique des « centres » et des « périphéries » et en combinant les échelles spatiales de l’analyse. D’une part, il s’agit de déplacer le regard depuis les théâtres européens de la guerre vers des espaces communément considérés comme marginaux, mais dont l’éloignement de l’épicentre des combats n’empêcha pourtant pas qu’ils soient parcourus de tensions directement liées au conflit et qu’ils connaissent des mutations majeures entre 1914 et 1918. D’autre part, il convient également de placer la focale sur des objets de recherche tels que l’environnement, les ressources naturelles ou les diasporas, qui se prêtent particulièrement bien à des approches émancipées des cadres nationaux de la réflexion et permettent de restituer l’impact global de la Grande Guerre. De cette double démarche émergent ainsi les bases d’une nouvelle géographie des mobilisations et de la belligérance entre 1914 et 1918, susceptible de rendre compte du caractère authentiquement mondial que revêtit la Première Guerre mondiale et de la diversité des expériences vécues du conflit.
Aux marges écologiques de la belligérance
Authors: Keller Tait
Published: June 2016

Cet article est une première exploration de l’histoire environnementale de la Première Guerre mondiale et suggère de nouvelles approches susceptibles de modifier notre compréhension du conflit. Bien que les terres agricoles ravagées, les arbres calcinés et les bourbiers soient des images iconiques de la Première Guerre mondiale, les chercheurs ont souvent eu tendance à négliger la place et le rôle de la nature dans le conflit. Pourtant, ce n’est qu’en prenant en compte l’environnement que nous pouvons pleinement comprendre le traumatisme de la guerre et appréhender la façon dont ce conflit, en particulier, a façonné de manière durable les dimensions les plus élémentaires de l’existence humaine. Les armées de la Première Guerre mondiale étaient des entités à la fois sociales et biologiques qui dépendaient d’une « écologie militaire » de l’extraction, de la production et de l’approvisionnement en vivres et en énergie. Pour nourrir les soldats et faire fonctionner les machines, les États belligérants réquisitionnèrent de la nourriture et du carburant dans l’ensemble de la biosphère, contribuant ainsi à étendre la portée écologique de la guerre bien au-delà du front de l’Ouest. L’étude des différentes façons dont la guerre a transformé la périphérie (modification de l’écologie des maladies en Afrique coloniale, extraction de l’étain en Asie du Sud-Est et production alimentaire en Amérique latine) permet de montrer que les frontières de la belligérance étaient très étendues. Ces trois régions illustrent également les différentes façons dont la préparation et la conduite du conflit ont modifié les sociétés et le milieu naturel. Se pencher sur Première Guerre mondiale en adoptant une perspective environnementale permet de mettre en lumière sa dimension planétaire. La « catastrophe fondatrice » du XXe siècle, pour reprendre l’expression de George Kennan, a accéléré des changements environnementaux amorcés au siècle précédent et fait apparaître certaines tendances – production militaro-industrielle, persécutions et exploitation de l’environnement – qui définiront le XXesiècle.
Thunder without rain: Fascist masculinity in AMC’s The Walking Dead
Authors: Gencarella Stephen Olbrys
Published: June 2016

In this article, I offer a critique of the five seasons of the television series The Walking Dead (TWD) broadcast to date (2010–2015). As the popularity of this show continues to rise, many viewers have demonstrated a willingness to praise TWD without carefully examining its narrative commitments to violence or to attack media critics who point out negative elements at work. My critique contends that the series is decidedly fascistic in nature, and celebratory of fascist masculinity as the key to surviving an apocalyptic situation. I analyse the show through a comparison with the literature of the Freikorps as detailed by Klaus Theweleit’s study of fascism, Male Fantasies ([1977] 1987, [1978] 1989). I examine in detail the prevalence of the ‘soldier male’ in TWD, the limited roles for women, and the representation of the ghoulish undead, drawing upon Theweleit and related scholarship on fascist aesthetics.
Reviews
Authors: Bissette Stephen R. , Roche David , Sharrett Christopher , McDonald Riley
Published: June 2016

Larry Cohen: The Radical Allegories of an Independent Filmmaker, Tony Williams (2014) Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc., 369 pp., ISBN: 9780786479696, p/bk, $45

The Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead, Tony Williams ([2003] 2015) 2nd ed., New York and Chichester, UK: Columbia University Press, 309 pp., ISBN: 978023117551, p/bk, £20.50

Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970S and 2000S: Why Don't They Do it Like They Used To?, David Roche (2014) Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 344 pp., ISBN 978-1496802545, p/bk, $30.00

The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror, Justin Everett and Jeffrey H. Shanks (eds) (2015) London: Rowman & Littlefield, 245 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4422-5621-7, h/bk, $80.00
How monsters are made: ‘No remorse, no pity’ in Shelley, Dickens and Priestley’s Mister Creecher
Authors: Buckley Chloe Alexandra Germaine
Published: June 2016

Chris Priestley’s 2011 novel, Mister Creecher, promises to show ‘the making of a monster ...’ Set in 1818, the novel is a metafictional rewriting of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), imagining the monster’s journey as he tracks his creator to Scotland. In this version, the monster is aided by London pickpocket, Billy, whose provenance, the early novels of Charles Dickens, suggests further intertexts for this contemporary novel. It is Billy, rather than the eponymous ‘Creecher’, who is the novel’s protagonist: a sentimentalized, suffering Dickensian child, whose narrative is reconfigured through encounters with Shelley’s gothic novel and a range of other intertexts. Through Billy, Mister Creecher (2011) re-imagines Dickens’ children and the Dickensian bildungsroman, reconfiguring the positions of villain and innocent. Neo-Victorian texts have been characterized by a doubled relationship to their intertexts, a relationship that is parasitic on the one hand, revisiting the traumas of a past reconstructed as barbaric, and redemptive on the other hand, since these reconstructions are usually aimed at a revisionist critique. In the case of Mister Creecher (2011) the parasitic relationship of contemporary metafiction to past gothic and Victorian works is a part of the novel’s active intertextual fabric. This is a novel that explores how intertextuality itself functions as a corrupting parasite, problematizing and infecting any future encounter with back-grounded works. The introduction of Shelley’s creation into Dickens’ landscape is a wilfully contradictory gesture. On one hand, the doubling of Billy with Shelley’s monster provides a reverse bildungsroman, an account of villainy as social rather than simply essential or sensational, with reference to notions of family and childhood relevant in the contemporary moment. On the other hand, the monster’s invasion of Dickensian London is an aggressive act of gothic contagion or colonization, one akin to that imagined by Frankenstein himself in his fear that he has loosed ‘a race of devils … upon the earth, who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror’.
Complicit bodies: Excessive sensibilities and haunted space
Authors: Bussing Ilse M.
Published: June 2016

Studies like Alan Holgate’s Aesthetics of Built Form (1992) and Juhani Pallasma’s The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (2005) indicate the extent to which the role of the senses has recently caught the attention of architectural critics. Likewise, Gothic studies have always acknowledged the central role of senses and sensations in literature and other mediums; from the study of the eighteenth-century concern with the Sublime, to interest in the techniques of fear in cinema, scholars have consistently addressed the significance of senses, sensations and the body in Gothic works. This article suggests that a Victorian aesthetic concept – Einfühlung or empathy – can be employed as a philosophical and aesthetic notion in order to understand haunted space and its effects in nineteenth-century Gothic fiction. Originating in the German aesthetic tradition, this nineteenth-century concept was enthusiastically adopted by British aesthetes, most notably Vernon Lee. Empathy may be defined as the identification of a person with an external object by reacting intellectually and physically to it and ascribing to this object feelings or attitudes present in oneself. This article insists that this phenomenon sheds light on the intimate relationship that is established between characters in Gothic fiction and the haunted space that they traverse. The discussion pursues two main objectives: first, to outline the main premises of the notion present in aesthetic treatises of the time (focusing on the nineteenth-century German tradition); and second, to illustrate the presence and significance of this notion in Gothic fiction, specifically in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ (1839) and Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Empty House’ (1906). Gothic studies have often focused on concepts or philosophical techniques such as terror or horror, in order to understand how fear is both generated and experienced in Gothic works. This article suggests that the aesthetic notion of Einfühlung might also be used as an interpretive technique in order to understand the sensations experimented by characters (and ultimately readers) that encounter and intimately experience haunted space.
Sifting science: Stratification and The Exorcist
Authors: Cade Octavia J.
Published: June 2016

The presentation of science in both the book (1971) and the film (1973, rereleased 2000) The Exorcist is complex. Critical to its understanding is the archaeological prologue, which introduces the theme of the scientific method as it applies to archaeology – although it is later mirrored by psychiatry – and the related imagery of sifting and stratification. This theme and these images recur during both text and film, before being inverted by the senselessness of Regan’s possession.
Insidious forms: Deleuze, the bodily diagram and the haunted house film
Authors: Musante Dewey
Published: June 2016

James Wan’s Insidious (2010) at first seems like a run-of-the mill haunted house film. There are ghosts, demons, clichéd jump scares and a terrorized middle-class family. Wan’s seemingly traditional foray into the haunted house genre, however, breaks new ground in its formulation of affect, perception and constructions of the sensuous body in horror film studies. In Insidious it is not the house that suffers from demonic presence and roaming human spirits, but the body itself. Not just a body, but all bodies; those alive and dead, moving and still, believing and nonbelieving and, most notably, those in the film and those viewing it. Through a close analysis of Wan’s film vis-à-vis an examination of Giles Deleuze’s notion of the ‘logic of sensation’ in the paintings of Francis Bacon, I suggest that Insidious presents us with what I call a ‘Bodily Diagram’. In this new theory of formal cinematic horror analysis, I argue that the body and sensation (both that of the viewer and those in the film) can be seen as a ‘structure’ or ‘logic’ that presents a new type of phenomenological and affective theoretical analysis grounded in the very form (or body) of the film itself.
Translating Maori fiction and the writing of Witi Ihimaera into Italian
Authors: Napoli Valentina
Published: June 2016

This article is dedicated to the contemporary Italian scholarly reception and translations of Witi Ihimaera’s fiction. It considers the ways in which Ihimaera’s work has been translated, published and reviewed in Italy from the 1970s to the present. The article addresses the impact of Ihimaera’s fiction in Italy, from the early and highly influential translations by Marinella Rocca Longo, to the 2003 Italian translation of The Whale Rider by Chiara Brovelli, appearing as La balena e la bambina (The Whale and the Young Girl). The discussion focuses on the issues raised by the Italian translations of Ihimaera’s short story ‘A Game of Cards’ and of The Whale Rider. A comparative analysis of four different Italian translations of Ihimaera’s short story reveals a number of strategies whose purpose was to make Maori words more accessible to a European audience. In the case of Ihimaera’s novel The Whale Rider, the Italian translation clearly resulted in a shift in genre, with the novel transformed into a children’s book. Moreover, an analysis of Brovelli’s misinterpretation of some Maori terms, replaced by target language equivalents, raises issues regarding the responsibilities of the translators of postcolonial texts, not only as agents of language transfer, but also as cultural interpreters.
Pua and daffodils: Weaving the ula in postcolonial Oceania
Authors: Figiel Sia
Published: June 2016

Samoan is my mother tongue. It is the language of my thoughts. My intellect. My heart. My imagination. Before my high school English teacher Sr Vitolio Mo’a, a Catholic nun and respected Samoan academic, introduced me to Wordsworth and his ‘host of golden daffodils’ in an English countryside, far, far away from the warm waves of mama Moana (the ocean), I was singing, dancing, weaving, sewing; shells, pua, leaves, poems, stories, songs; connecting one to another and another to form a long ula (a necklace of flowers and leaves) under the old pulu tree where I was born and raised in the village of Matautu tai, Western Samoa, the centre of the Universe as I knew it. In this article, I will discuss in depth how my initial introduction to an English flower not only challenged me and my perception of the world but how it radically changed the way I imagined the world, as a Samoan woman and as a writer.
The eye of Persepolis’ tiger: How melancholy and nostalgia resonate through Satrapi’s animated film
Authors: Kosmidou Eleftheria Rania , Corbin Kate
Published: June 2016

Will Eisner coined the term sequential art to refer to comic strips/books and graphic novels, while arguing that this distinct discipline not only has much in common with film-making but it is in fact a forerunner to film-making. Sequential art is a powerful form of popular culture. However, the scholarly community has generally ignored this popular form of art. This article discusses the animated film Persepolis (Paronnaud and Satrapi, 2007) and explores the ways in which animation is used. We analyse this film in terms of the cultural memory discourse and suggest that this film not only creates a melancholic cultural memory of the past it negotiates, but also, paradoxically, it generates a nostalgic one. As we shall argue, the film’s inherent melancholy and nostalgia allegorically communicate a quest for identity in our present-day societies.
Review
Authors: Sporton Gregory
Published: June 2016

Dark Circus, Stereoptik, London International Mime Festival, The Barbican, January 2016
»Das Mädchen aus der Fremde«: Hannah Arendt und die Dichtung
Authors: Bertheau Anne
Published: June 2016

»Gedichtetes Wort, ist Stätte nicht Hort« - Hannah Arendt ist berühmt als Historikerin, bekannt als politische Theoretikerin und als Philosophin. In den letzten Jahren hat auch das wissenschaftliche Interesse an Arendts Verhältnis zur Kunst zugenommen. Hymnisch schrieb sie über die Dauerhaftigkeit von Dichtung, über Sprache als Metapher und als Kommunikation, über den kreativen Prozess, bei dem sich der Dichter auf den Pfad der Zeitlosigkeit begibt. Gleichzeitig verfasste Hannah Arendt selbst Gedichte (Piper-Verlag, 2015). Anne Bertheau analysiert zum ersten Mal systematisch Arendts Verhältnis zur Dichung: ihre Rezeption verschiedener Lyriker, ihre theoretische Reflexion zur Dichtung und die Produktion ihrer eigenen Lyrik.
Migrationsbedingt behindert?
Authors: Amirpur Donja
Published: June 2016

Warum werden Familien an der Schnittstelle von Migration und Behinderung durch die Behindertenhilfe kaum erreicht? Fachliteratur und Wissenschaft scheinen sich einig zu sein: Sie sprechen von einer »kulturellen Fremdheit« der Familien, die den Zugang zum Hilfesystem behindere. Ähnlich ist die Meinung in den Diensten und Einrichtungen der Behindertenhilfe. Eine andere kulturspezifische Deutung von Behinderung, ein anderer Umgang mit dem behinderten Kind - das entspreche nicht der Vorstellung der Behindertenhilfe. Stimmen diese Annahmen? Die Studie von Donja Amirpur kommt zu anderen Ergebnissen. Sie illustriert die komplexen Lebenslagen der Familien. Entlang von biographischen Interviews und mit Hilfe einer intersektionalen Mehrebenenanalyse stellt sie die Barrieren im Hilfesystem dar und treibt die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der hegemonialen Praxis auf Strukturebene voran.
Ethik des Essens
Authors: Lemke Harald
Published: June 2016

Wie ernähren wir uns verantwortungsvoll? Ernährungsethik zählt zu den neuesten Entwicklungen der praktischen Philosophie. Angesichts der globalen Ernährungskrise stellt sie sich den unausweichlichen Fragen: Wie kann sich die Menschheit ernähren? Wie »gut« sollten wir essen, so dass alle in den Genuss guten Essens kommen? Wie lässt sich eine Gastroethik begründen? Weit mehr als von Kapitalismuskritik oder der Ausweitung der internationalen Protestbewegungen geht die Ernährungswende von unserem Denken aus - von einem gastrosophischen Umdenken. Harald Lemke macht deutlich: Es ist höchste Zeit, die dafür notwendigen Grundlagen zu schaffen und mit einer radikalen Selbstkritik der westlichen Philosophie des Essens zu beginnen. Neuausgabe - mit einem ausführlichen Vorwort zur Frage: »Was isst der Mensch?«
Aplicabilidade do gerenciamento da mudança de engenharia na tropicalização de um equipamento industrial
Authors: Barbalho Sanderson César Macêdo , Silva Sérgio Luiz da , Dias Marcos Antônio , Custódio Janiele Eduarda S. C.
Published: June 2016

O gerenciamento da mudança de engenharia (ECM) é uma prática comum em empresas globalizadas, mas que carece de relatos da sua disseminação em setores mais tradicionais. O presente artigo descreve o desafio encontrado na “tropicalização” de uma tela de centrífuga utilizada na fabricação do açúcar, e os aprendizados daí decorrentes para a mudança de um projeto norte-americano e sua adaptação à realidade brasileira. O método utilizado é o da pesquisa-ação e a abordagem qualitativa. O trabalho contribui ao demonstrar uma aplicação em que o ECM foi adaptado se alinhando ao modelo de negócio da empresa. Os formulários previstos no ECM não burocratizaram o processo, mas passaram servir para formalizar as vendas, engenharia e manufatura do produto. Os resultados conseguidos com o ECM na tropicalização do produto fez com que a técnica passasse a ser utilizada em todas as linhas de produto da empresa no Brasil. Dado que a importação de tecnologias é comum na indústria brasileira, sugere-se que sistemáticas similares aqui apresentada possam ser utilizadas para tropicalizar tecnologias que aumentem sua competitividade.
Wisdom applied: The secret sauce that has allowed me already to have achieved immortality
Authors: Sternberg Robert
Published: June 2016

His name was Dennis. I don’t remember what he looked like, except that he was older and bigger than I was. I was 3 years old and of just average size. I was walking in back of our house on Tuxedo Parkway in Newark, New Jersey. All of a sudden, Dennis came rushing at me with a clothespin in his hand. I didn’t know what his intentions were, but they didn’t look good. [Download the PDF to read more...] Select Quotes:Always follow your passions, even if others are not supporting you in doing so. Following your passions will lead to your doing your best work.Always treat all colleagues with respect, no matter how much you may question them or their work. Apply the Golden Rule of treating others the way you would want them to treat you.Plan ahead but not too far ahead because a good research career does not simply build on your early research, but rather builds as well on the inadequacies of that early research.
Studi Kerentanan Air Tanah Terhadap Kontaminan Menggunakan Metode Drastic di Kota Pekalongan
Authors: Putranto Thomas Triadi , Widiarso Dian Agus , Yuslihanu Fatir
Published: June 2016

Kota Pekalongan berada di Pulau Jawa bagian Utara. Jumlah penduduk kota pekalongan setiap tahunnya mengalami peningkatan. Tahun 2008 jumlah penduduk Kota Pekalongan sebanyak 271.990 jiwa kemudian menjadi 290.347 di Tahun 2012.. Untuk memenuhi kebutuhan air, peduduk Kota Pekalongan menggunakan sumur gali yang menyadap air dari akuifer bebas atau akuifer dangkal. Air tanah bebas sangat rentan terhadap pencemaran akibat pengaruh letaknya yang dangkal dan aktivitas manusia. Oleh sebab itu diperlukan suatu kajian mengenai kerentanan air tanah terhadap kontaminan. Analisis dilakukan denganmenggunakan metode DRASTIC. Metode ini merupakan metode pombobotan berdasarkan beberapa parameter, yaitu: kedalaman muka air tanah (D), jumlah area recharge (R), litologi akuifer (A), jenis media tanah (S), topografi (T), jenis media zona tak jenuh air (I), dan konduktivitas hidrolika (C). Berdasarkan hasil analisis DRASTIC, terdapat tiga tingkat kerentanan yaitu: daerah tingkat kerentanan sedang dengan nilai DRASTIC Indeks (DI) 101-140, daerah tingkat kerentanan tinggi dengan nilai DI 141-180, dan daerah tingkat kerentanan sangat tinggi dengan nilai DI >180.[An Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability of Contaminant Using DRASTIC Method in Pekalongan City] Pekalongan city which located on the north of Java Island is growing fast, in particular in the population growth. In 2008, total population in Pekalongan city was 271.990 inhabitants increased then up to 290.347 inhabitants in 2012. To fill the water necessary, people in Pekalongan city are using dug wells which are abstracted groundwater from the unconfined aquifer or shallow aquifer. Shallow groundwater can be vulnerabe which are influenced by surface and human activities. Thus, it requires an assessment of the groundwater vulnerability and risk of contaminant. It was analyzed by DRASTIC method. The DRASTIC method is applied by using weighted of some parameters, i.e.: groundwater Depth (D), amount of Recharge (R), Aquifer type (A), Soil type (S), topography (T), Impact of unsatuated zone (I), and hydraulic Conductivity (C). DRASTIC Index (DI) results in three vulnerability levels which are medium with DI 101-140, high with DI around 141-180 and above 180 for high vulnerable of contaminant.
Modifikasi Pati Sukun (Artocarpus Altilis) dengan Teknik Oksidasi Menggunakan Hidrogen Peroksida Tanpa Katalis
Authors: Budiyati Catarina Sri , Kumoro Andri Cahyo , Ratnawati Ratnawati , Retnowati Diah Susetyo
Published: June 2016

Salah satu sumber bahan pangan lokal yang belum banyak dimanfaatkan adalah buah sukun (Artocarpus Artilis) yang cukup banyak terdapat di Indonesia. Akan tetapi, pemanfaatan buah sukun terkendala pada kurangnya daya simpan buah segar. Oleh karena itu, perlu dilakukan upaya untuk meningkatkan pemanfaatan buah sukun dengan mengolahnya menjadi produk yang lebih luwes dengan daya simpan yang lebih baik, yaitu menjadi pati sukun. Sifat-sifat pati sukun perlu diperbaiki agar dapat digunakan sebagai pengganti tepung terigu. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk memodifikasi pati sukun dengan cara oksidasi menggunakan larutan hidrogen peroksida. Dalam penelitian ini dikaji pengaruh konsistensi luluhan, konsentrasi hidrogen peroksida, waktu, dan suhu terhadap karakteristik fisikokimia pati sukun teroksidasi yang dihasilkan dan ditentukan kondisi optimalnya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa semua variable yang dikaji tersebut mempengaruhi reaksi oksidasi pati sukun. Oksidasi pada konsistensi luluhan 20%, konsentrasi hidrogen peroksida 2% dan suhu 50°C mampu menghasilkan nilai swelling power dan water solubility yang terbaik. Reaksi oksidasi tidak mengubah struktur dan morfologi pati sukun termodifikasi secara signifikan.   [Title: Modification of Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) starch through non-catalytic hydrogen peroxide oxidation] One of local source of food that has not been intensively explored is breadfruit (Artocarpus Artilis). However, the utilization of breadfruit is limited by the poor storage properties of the fresh fruit. Therefore, efforts should be made to improve the utilization of breadfruit to process it into more flexible products with better storability, suach as breadfruit starch. Breadfruit starch properties need to be improved so that it can be used to substitute wheat flour. The aim of this study was to modify the breadfruit starch by oxidation using hydrogen peroxide solution. This work studied examined the influence of consistency of starch slurry, hydrogen peroxide concentration, time, and temperature on the physicochemical properties of the oxidized breadfruit starch. The optimal conditions were also determined. The results showed that all of these variables affected the oxidation of starch breadfruit. The oxidation on starch slurry with consistency 20%, the concentration of hydrogen peroxide of 2%, and temperature of 50°C produced modified starch with best swelling power and water solubility. The oxidation did not significantly change the structure and morphology of the modified starch.