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Poetry in the Archive: Reflections of a Former Archivist on the Manuscripts of Twentieth-century Irish Poets in the National Library of Ireland
Authors: Dhuibhne Éilís Ní
Published: January 2014

In this essay, the role of the National Library of Ireland in collecting and preserving the manucripts of twentieth-century Irish poets is considered, together with the Library's acquisition policy and methods of selection, collection, and cataloguing. Does the Library fulfil its stated aim and statutory function, ‘to provide an accurate record of Ireland's output in manuscript, print and other media for present and future users’? Is the Library as active as it should be in acquiring literary manuscripts? Which poets’ papers are acquired and made available to readers? Who gets ‘in’ and who is left ‘out’, and why? Does the Library's manuscript collection accurately represent twentieth-century Irish poetry? What in fact is ‘an accurate record of Ireland's output in manuscript?’ These and other complex issues are discussed in the article, some facts and figures adduced, and some suggestions made. The essay includes a personal memory of the process of acquiring one poetry archive, that of Eithne Strong, and comments by a scholar on the significance of the Dorothy Molloy papers, also held in the Library, for her understanding of the poet's work.
‘travels of memory, imagination and fact’: Kate O'Brien's Archival Notes
Authors: Jamison Anne
Published: January 2014

This essay explores Kate O'Brien's attitude towards autobiographical narrative and her quest for self-articulation. It argues that the repeated abstinence from the writing of her autobiography becomes a dominant trope in much of her late-life writing, much of which currently remains unpublished and/or uncollected. By analysing O'Brien's archival material alongside her published non-fiction prose, significant insights into O'Brien's thinking on the processes of memory, as well as her somewhat pained and contradictory relationship with the self and its expression, are brought to light. O'Brien's Farewell Spain (1937), Teresa of Avila (1951), My Ireland (1962), and Presentation Parlour (1963) all establish a mode of self-articulation through the relationship of the self with place (Spain), and person (her female relations and forebears). As such, this essay argues that these texts form a series of carefully averted auto/biographies and further utilises archive theory to offer a framework through which O'Brien's autobiographical impulse can be understood. Within this theoretical paradigm, O'Brien's quest for self-articulation finally becomes a desire to capture the anticipation of memory, opposed to direct recollection, and to seek out literary forms within which to express those memories.
‘Into the Future Tense’: Stewart Parker's Theatre of ‘Anticipatory Illumination’
Authors: Richards Shaun
Published: January 2014

Stewart Parker described his final play, Pentecost, as one appropriate to his own generation, ‘making its own scruffy way onto the stage of history, and from there to the future tense’. This article argues that it is this concern with entering ‘the future tense’ which allies his work with the writings of the messianic marxist, Ernst Bloch, and his belief in ‘anticipatory illumination’. Read in this way Parker's plays are liberated from the negative reading of them as informed by ‘sentimental piety’ and ‘a species of liberal humanism’ and sees them as creating what Bloch termed ‘concrete utopias’ which ‘imply a real future’. In his John Malone memorial lecture of 1986 Parker asked ‘should plays aim to instruct?’. His answer to this question, which informs all his work, was an uncompromising ‘Yes’. His work, like that of Brecht with whom he shared a belief in theatre as an ‘entertaining’ means of social transformation, merits serious consideration for producing what Stephen Rea termed ‘a vision of a harmonious possibility on the other side of violence’. In Bloch's view ‘A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at’. Parker's drama provided - and provides - just such maps by which the future can not simply be dreamed, but realised.
Performing POZ: Irish Theatre, HIV Stigma, and ‘Post-AIDS’ Identities
Authors: O'Brien Cormac
Published: January 2014

This essay interrogates how the theatre of Queer monologist Neil Watkins challenges HIV-stigma, while simultaneously reconciling his Queerness and HIV-positivity with a sense of Irishness. The development of life-saving drugs for the treatment of HIV means that, in certain parts of the world, including Ireland, people are no longer dying from AIDS, but living with HIV. This has given rise to what cultural commentators call a ‘Post-AIDS’ discourse, whereby a discourse of crisis and death has evolved into one of health and typical life expectancy. In terms of being ‘post-AIDS’, Ireland bifurcates into two paradoxical socio-cultural discourses: that of HIV as a medical event, and that of AIDS as a cultural narrative. And while the discourse surrounding HIV the medical event is progressive and democratic, the cultural narrative of AIDS in Ireland is steeped in stigma, ignorance, and contagion paranoia. This damaging narrative is mirrored and embodied in Irish theatre. Interrogating Irish theatre's contentious relationship with the HIV-positive body reveals persistent themes of absence, hiddenness, illness, and death. Neil Watkins disrupts this dramaturgy of shame by mobilizing HIV-stigma to political effect, disrupting received knowledge and cultural assumptions about the HIV-positive body and its current theatrical placement within an anachronistic discourse of crisis. In earlier monologues such as A Cure for Homosexuality (2005) Watkins blurs the lines between the fictional HIV-positive character and the living performer, engendering a troubling tension for the spectator. With his latest work, The Year of Magical Wanking (2010) Watkins further evolves this space whereby the boundaries between character and performer are completely negated. By journeying through Watkins's ‘magical’ year of quotidian HIV-stigma and sexual shame, the spectator discovers the roots of such shame and stigma are not only embedded in Irish socio-political structures, but also in a limiting and narrow heteronormative sexual imaginary.
Cé Leis Tú? Queering Irish Migrant Literature
Authors: O'Toole Tina
Published: January 2014

Irish lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writers have almost all had personal experience of migration, and register the profound effect of those migrant experiences in their literary writing. Yet, to date, these voices have been silent in dominant accounts of the Irish diaspora. Focusing on queer subjects in migrant literature by women writers, this essay sets out to examine the links between LGBT and diasporic identities, and to explore the ways in which kinship and migrant affinities unsettle the fixities of family and place in the culture. Reading across the diasporic literary space carved out by Kate O'Brien, Emma Donoghue, and Shani Mootoo, the essay shows how their work resists, rejects, and questions the dominant culture, whether ‘at home’ or in the diaspora. Queer kinship, which intentionally appropriates relationships and values from the bio/genetic sphere but introduces elements of choice and agency to these connections, provides a useful framework within which we might read this literature. By the end of the twentieth century, queer kinship networks were in evidence across the Irish diaspora. In Ireland, ensuing transnational exchanges had a profound impact on grassroots social activism and theory. For instance, I argue that feminist theory and literature, often transmitted along axes of queer kinship, was key to the shaping of the women's and LGBT movements in Ireland. While we have yet to see the wide-scale effect of emerging immigrant writers on existing cultural forms in Ireland, it is only a matter of time before LGBT writers from immigrant communities begin to have an impact on the culture. While anticipating such work, we must continue to question how the space of Irish literature, and indeed of the Irish diaspora, has been constituted – and resisted – thus far.
Perverse Wanderings: Joyce, O'Connor, and the Queer Hand
Authors: Goodwin Adrian
Published: January 2014

My essay traces the movement of the male hand in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and, to a lesser degree, Frank O'Connor's treatise on the art of the short story (The Lonely Voice [1963]). I argue that prehensile activity – or what men do to themselves, or to each other, with their hands – can be read as confounding the structures of hetero-masculinity which both texts are in the service of shoring up. In formulating my argument, I ask the following question: How does the prohibition on hand movement counter-intuitively precipitate that same movement?

In Freudian terms, I suggest that the hand in both Joyce and O'Connor reflect adult forms of what Freud called the ‘polymorphously perverse’. My paper accesses Freud through Frank O'Connor's reading of D.H. Lawrence in The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (1963). More specifically, O'Connor's characterisation of touching between men in Lawrence as child-like and ‘mystical’ (as opposed to ‘homosexual’) offers us a way of re-reading such touching in a more ductile and perverse way – outside, that is, the homo/heterosexual binary opposition.

In relation to Freud, I trace how the foreclosure of the polymorphously perverse in post-infancy is also always a foreclosure of homosexuality. Citing post-Freudian theories by Bersani and Butler, I ask if residual, adult forms of the polymorphously perverse can be read as instances of ‘grieving’ externally for that previous homosexual loss. I then turn this question onto Joyce. By assessing Stephen's masturbating, punished, and artistic hand in Joyce's text as instances of the polymorphous perverse, I conclude by arguing that it is in the objectless self-reflexivity of art that Stephen's most productive form of prehensile perversity might be deemed possible.
Quite an Other Thing: Recent Texts in ‘Irish Queer Studies’Books Reviewed: Caroline Magennis and Raymond Mullen (eds). Irish Masculinities: Reflections on Literature and Culture. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011. x+194 pages. £50.00 GBP.Aintzane Legaretta Mentxaka, Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings. North Carolina and London: McFarland and Company Inc, 2011. 290 pages. $45.00 USD.Fintan Walsh (ed), Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland. Cork: Cork UP, 2010. 276 pages. $55.00 USD.Éibhear Walshe, Oscar's Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality and Modern Ireland. Cork: Cork University Press, 2011. xi+149 pages. €39.00 EUR.
Authors: Price Graham
Published: January 2014

This essay shall examine the relationship that exists between Irish studies and queer theory via a consideration of three recently published works, both academic and literary. The texts that shall be reviewed are: Eibhear Walshe's Oscar's Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality and Modern Ireland, Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka's Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings, and the new collection of plays, edited by Fintan Walshe, entitled Queer Notions. The association between Irishness and otherness (a connection explicitly stated by Oscar Wilde) means that the shadow of queerness haunts Ireland and Irish studies. The works being examined in this essay illuminate some of the forms (among many) ‘queer Irish studies’ can take.
‘Carolina Hat’: Vona Groarke's Lament for Art O'Leary
Authors: Harper Margaret Mills
Published: January 2014

Vona Groarke's 2008 version of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill's famous keen for her husband, Chaoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, features a poetic voice overtly inflected by Irish, English, and American diction and usage. Groarke's poem emphasizes its status as a textual event in more than one time frame as well as another spatial setting. The other time is multiple, including the many translations and discussions of the lament from its eighteenth-century composition until now. The place is also multiple: it might be Dublin or Manchester, Boston or London, or Wake Forest, North Carolina, where Groarke spends part of every year. This new poem stresses the mobility of Eileen's passionate lament: in Groarke's hands, it becomes a poem of the particular place that manages also, intriguingly, to highlight transnational cultural and linguistic implications. This version, another chapter in the history of a work that begins in the fluidity of oral composition and is repeatedly reworked in translations, emphasizes domestic space as generative as well as excessive, the site of desire. Groarke's poem locates itself both inside and, crucially, outside, a place to which one comes ‘carrying nothing’ in order to find, in a seeming paradox, nonrestrictive structures.
‘How do you make a teapot be intellectually interesting?’ An Interview with Vona Groarke
Authors: Schwall Hedwig
Published: January 2014

In this interview, Vona Groarke discusses with Hedwig Schwall the nature of her work as a poet, including her landscapes and settings, allusions to art and literature, her formal interests and modes of writing, her favourite poets and writers, and the philosophical implications of writing about a teapot.
Unlikely Heroes: Katharine Tynan's The Story of Bawn, the Irish Famine, and the Sentimental Tradition
Authors: Roos Bonnie
Published: January 2014

In this article, I argue that the effort to write the ‘unwritten’ Famine is not only visible in canonical Irish writers of the Modernist moment, but also in its less canonical writers and genres – particularly, in this essay, the sentimental fiction of Katharine Tynan. This essay functions to recuperate Tynan's fiction from a qualified reputation understood through her friendship with W.B. Yeats, and informed by his assessment of her work. In particular, an extended analysis of Tynan's The Story of Bawn demonstrates the narrative strategies through which Tynan's sentimental romances offered scathing critiques of Ireland's politics, economics, and gender inequities. Through these strategies, Tynan sought not only to entertain, but to educate middle-class women about their world in a method comparable to the satires produced by the Abbey Theatre and anticipating the strategies that would be taken up by the avant-garde Modernists on the Continent.
Sensors Best Paper Award 2014
Authors: Passaro Vittorio , Seitz W. , Melesse Assefa , Star Alexander , Younis Mohamed
Published: January 2014

In 2011, an annual award system was instituted to recognize outstanding Sensors papers that are related to sensing technologies and applications and meet the aims, scope and high standards of this journal [1–3]. This year, nominations were made by the Section Editor-in-Chiefs of Sensors from among all the papers published in 2010 to track citations. Reviews and full research articles were considered separately. [...]
First Molecular Evidence for Puumala Hantavirus in Poland
Authors: Ali Hanan , Drewes Stephan , Sadowska Edyta , Mikowska Magdalena , Groschup Martin , Heckel Gerald , Koteja Pawel , Ulrich Rainer
Published: January 2014

Puumala virus (PUUV) causes mild to moderate cases of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), and is responsible for the majority of hantavirus infections of humans in Fennoscandia, Central and Western Europe. Although there are relatively many PUUV sequences available from different European countries, little is known about the presence of this virus in Poland. During population studies in 2009 a total of 45 bank voles were trapped at three sites in north-eastern Poland, namely islands on Dejguny and Dobskie Lakes and in a forest near Mikołajki. S and M segment-specific RT-PCR assays detected PUUV RNA in three animals from the Mikołajki site. The obtained partial S and M segment sequences demonstrated the highest similarity to the corresponding segments of a PUUV strain from Latvia. Analysis of chest cavity fluid samples by IgG ELISA using a yeast-expressed PUUV nucleocapsid protein resulted in the detection of two seropositive samples, both being also RT-PCR positive. Interestingly, at the trapping site in Mikołajki PUUV-positive bank voles belong to the Carpathian and Eastern genetic lineages within this species. In conclusion, we herein present the first molecular evidence for PUUV in the rodent reservoir from Poland.
Substrate dependent reaction channels of the Wolff–Kishner reduction reaction: A theoretical study
Authors: Yamabe Shinichi , Zeng Guixiang , Guan Wei , Sakaki Shigeyoshi
Published: January 2014

Wolff–Kishner reduction reactions were investigated by DFT calculations for the first time. B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p) SCRF=(PCM, solvent = 1,2-ethanediol) optimizations were carried out. To investigate the role of the base catalyst, the base-free reaction was examined by the use of acetone, hydrazine (H2N–NH2) and (H2O)8. A ready reaction channel of acetone → acetone hydrazine (Me2C=N–NH2) was obtained. The channel involves two likely proton-transfer routes. However, it was found that the base-free reaction was unlikely at the N2 extrusion step from the isopropyl diimine intermediate (Me2C(H)–N=N–H). Two base-catalyzed reactions were investigated by models of the ketone, H2N–NH2 and OH−(H2O)7. Here, ketones are acetone and acetophenone. While routes of the ketone → hydrazone → diimine are similar, those from the diimines are different. From the isopropyl diimine, the N2 extrusion and the C–H bond formation takes place concomitantly. The concomitance leads to the propane product concertedly. From the (1-phenyl)ethyl substituted diimine, a carbanion intermediate is formed. The para carbon of the phenyl ring of the anion is subject to the protonation, which leads to a 3-ethylidene-1,4-cyclohexadiene intermediate. Its [1,5]-hydrogen migration gives the ethylbenzene product. For both ketone substrates, the diimines undergoing E2 reactions were found to be key intermediates.
L'actualité sahélo-saharienne au Mali : une invitation à penser l'espace mobile
Authors: Retaillé Denis , Walther Olivier
Published: January 2014

L’actualité saharienne des années 2012-2013 au Mali a permis de replacer le Sahel dans le vocabulaire d’appel des médias et des commentateurs de l’actualité. La confusion des deux régions géographiques appelle quelques explications qui permettent aussi d’éclairer la manière dont les différents acteurs mobilisés, les États, les indépendantistes touareg, les terroristes islamistes se croisent sur une scène qui est mobile et non dans un théâtre d’opérations dont les décors seraient posés a priori comme en géopolitique. En exposant le résultat de deux enquêtes sur le temps long de l’espace sahélo-saharien et sur le temps court du branchement des réseaux activistes qui s’y déploient, l’article veut proposer l’usage d’un autre espace méthodologique, l’espace mobile, qui convient mieux aux situations contemporaines du mouvement que la référence fixe d’une surface terrestre épurée.
Le tramway entre politique de transport et outil de réhabilitation urbanistique dans quelques pays européens : Allemagne, Espagne, France et Suisse
Authors: Lois González Rubén C. , Pazos Otón Miguel , Wolff Jean-Pierre
Published: January 2014

Même avec les difficultés financières rencontrées actuellement en Europe, la politique de réintroduction du tramway se poursuit dans les villes européennes qui avaient plus ou moins abandonné ce mode de transport collectif. Les différences sont notables entre les objectifs affichés, qui privilégient selon les situations, les politiques de mobilité et/ou les politiques urbanistiques. Cette analyse comparative porte aussi bien sur des pays qui n’ont jamais totalement renoncé au tramway (Allemagne, Suisse), que sur des pays qui l’avaient totalement délaissé (Espagne, France).
La citoyenneté urbaine pour penser les transformations de la ville ?
Authors: Giband David , Siino Corinne
Published: January 2014

La citoyenneté urbaine s’est complexifiée en même temps que l’évolution de la ville. Dans un contexte de mondialisation et d’individuation une crise du politique a déplacé l’engagement pour des droits à la ville vers celui de l’investissement citoyen. En incidence question urbaine et question politique sont souvent assimilées. Nous souhaitons interroger ce rapport renouvelé entre espaces urbains et citoyenneté (s). Il s’agit d’abord de revenir sur l’évolution et la définition de cette notion en sciences sociales et sur la façon dont la géographie urbaine l’a intégrée à l’analyse sur la ville. Pour en porter une illustration, nous interrogerons ensuite la référence à des pratiques et des formes de mobilisation qui construisent une dimension pluriscalaire et des temporalités non linéaires dans l’espace urbain. Enfin, nous nous attacherons au rapport entre mobilités et droit à la ville, source d’innovations politiques mais aussi de segmentations socio-spatiales. À travers des revendications, la participation politique, ou la simple manifestation d’un droit, la citoyenneté participe à la régulation et au développement symbolique et matériel de la ville et de l’urbain actuels.
De la philosophie morale humienne à l'éthique du care : un billet aller-retour
Authors: Bonicco-Donato Céline
Published: January 2014

Si les théoriciennes de l’éthique du care se réclament de la philosophie des sentiments moraux, notamment des analyses de David Hume, cette revendication n’est pas dénuée d’ambiguïté. En effet, elles lui reprochent de résoudre les difficultés immanentes à sa morale non universaliste en sortant d’une logique affective. Or les incontestables ruptures qui s’établissent entre la sympathie humienne et le souci des autres résident moins dans la supposée faiblesse conceptuelle de la première que dans la différence d’orientation des deux analyses. Il devient alors possible de « reconstruire » la morale humienne à l’aune de l’éthique du care pour voir quel secours elle peut lui porter.
« Quand nous serons à mille, nous ferons une croix . » Le contre-espionnage, un nouveau terrain de coopération entre gendarmes et policiers à la fin du XIX e siècle (1870-1914)
Authors: López Laurent
Published: January 2014

Si le travail respectif comme la collaboration des policiers et des gendarmes en matière de police judiciaire et de maintien de l’ordre sont désormais mieux connus, leur coopération dans le contre-espionnage demeure encore largement ignorée. En dépit de représentations mutuelles antagonistes, la lutte contre les menées étrangères montre l’entente entre les forces de l’ordre et révèle l’émergence d’un système national de sécurité intérieure, en partie structuré par cette défiance commune. Le travail des forces de l’ordre met également en lumière la xénophobie traversant alors une société française voyant en chaque étranger, notamment d’Outre-Rhin, un espion possible.
La cartographie de la radiation après Fukushima. Un cas d'individualisme réflexif sur le Web
Authors: Plantin Jean-Christophe
Published: January 2014

Cet encart présente l’activité de cartographie de radiation au lendemain de l’accident nucléaire de la centrale de Fukushima le 11 mars 2011. Le manque d’informations accessibles sur la localisation et le niveau de la radiation nucléaire, mais également la crise de confiance dans les institutions a en effet suscité l’émergence d’un public en ligne pour se procurer des données de radiation et les cartographier.
Cartographie participative pour le développement local et la gestion de l'environnement à Madagascar : empowerment , impérialisme numérique ou illusion participative ?
Authors: Amelot Xavier
Published: January 2014

La cartographie participative, souvent présentée comme un facteur de démocratisation et d’empowerment des sociétés fait également l’objet de critiques en raison des récupérations et instrumentalisations dont elle est parfois victime. Considérant que la cartographie est avant tout un langage de pouvoir, nous questionnons une série d’expériences de cartographie participative à Madagascar. Les exemples malgaches montrent que dans un contexte de forte dépendance technique, financière et politique, le déploiement de ce type d’approche pose avec acuité la question éthique et nécessite une réflexion sur la portée sociale des cartes présentées comme participatives.
Cartographie : vision ou reflet ? Une réflexion autour des « références indigènes »
Authors: Mazurek Hubert
Published: January 2014

En s’appuyant sur des recherches menées dans les Andes sur la perception, par des communautés originaires, de l’espace et du territoire, cet article tente une réflexion autour des représentations nommées. Le problème est d’abord posé en termes de compatibilité entre diverses conceptions et représentations du monde, souvent soumises à des rapports de domination. Les repères dans l’espace, l’orientation, la forme, la nature du lieu et de la représentation des lieux sont ensuite discutés au regard de nos outils cartographiques, pour en construire de nouveaux, moins normés, qui permettraient de faire de la cartographie un véritable outil au service de la géographie.
L'immersion fictionnelle dans le jeu vidéo
Authors: Georges Fanny
Published: January 2014

Les théoriciens du Make-believe ont bien montré ce qu’est l’état mental du lecteur ou du spectateur de cinéma ou de théâtre, entre croyance et incrédulité : il est un «se faire croire». Mais l’interactivité du jeu vidéo modifie la donne du problème. Comment s’y produit l’immersion ? L’article analyse le rôle central joué par la figure de l’avatar, qui favorise la projection de soi dans le monde virtuel. Il étudie les différentes figures de l’immersion, qui reposent à la fois sur la manipulation de l’avatar et sur sa mise en récit.
La chanson populaire comme microcosme moral : les leçons de vie des standards de jazz
Authors: Levinson Jerrold , Chevallier Geneviève , Talon-Hugon C.
Published: January 2014

Aux trois types de qualités morales de la musique distinguées par Kivy (épistémique, comportementale et psychologique), Levinson ajoute ici une autre valeur : celle qui tient à la qualité morale du morceau musical, et ce, qu’un effet psychologique ou comportemental s’ensuive ou non. En s’appuyant à la fois sur des analyses musicales précises et sur l’étude des textes d’une douzaine de standards de jazz, l’auteur montre en quoi consiste cette très particulière qualité morale de la musique.
Photographie en abyme
Authors: Owens Craig , Athanassopoulos Evangelos
Published: January 2014

Cet article, paru initialement en 1978 dans la revue October, traite des rapports singuliers que le médium photographique entretient avec le miroir en proposant d’envisager le second comme le moment proprement réflexif du premier. Partant d’un cliché de Brassaï, l’auteur cherche les instruments de compréhension de la réflexivité photographique dans la mise en abyme littéraire. En se servant d’outils empruntés à la linguistique, l’anthropologie structurale et la déconstruction, il développe une argumentation qui vise à détacher la photographie de sa fonction purement mimétique ou analogique pour la rapprocher de la discursivité du langage.
La mélancolie corporelle
Authors: Vargioni Jacques
Published: January 2014

Cet article contribue à l’étude du concept de mélancolie corporelle comme configuration somato-psychique singulière à l’œuvre dans certains cas d’obésité. À partir d’un exposé théorico-clinique, nous mettons en évidence l’intrication des mouvements transférentiels et des modifications corporelles chez une patiente obèse hyperphage. Ses tentatives de « démélancolisation », c’est-à-dire de détachement du corps maternel incorporé, passèrent par un certain nombre de vicissitudes processuelles. Parmi celles-ci, un épisode boulimique, un épisode de dépersonnalisation ainsi qu’un passage hypomaniaque incarné dans une brève anorexie, affichèrent la grande difficulté de cette patiente d’accepter la passivité indispensable à la perte. Ces aléas mirent aussi au jour la coexistence d’un moi grandiose triomphant masquant une honte primaire mélancolique.
De l'illusion meurtrie à la désillusion meurtrière
Authors: Ravit Magali , Di Rocco Vincent , Bécache Ève , Carka Delphine
Published: January 2014

L’article envisage comment le passage à l’acte convoque l’expérience winnicottienne d’illusion qui se mélancolise lorsque les processus d’organisation de la trace subjective sont restés « inachevés ». Le passage à l’acte violent et destructeur se présente alors comme une reprise d’un processus d’illusion inabouti, qui se répète par retournement, le sujet n’ayant pas d’autre solution que d’échoïser ce qui s’est perdu dans le reflet du miroir primaire. Les points de mortification de la position subjective qui laissent comme trace un sentiment de non sens, d’étrangeté et surtout d’incapacité narcissique, conduiraient à des expériences limites de négociation identitaires où le jeu avec le/la mort devient le seul miroir (et la seule issue) de la création subjective identitaire. C’est à partir de la singularité du champ perceptif visuel, en appui sur le test de Rorschach, que les auteurs proposent d’interroger comment ce champ révèle et réveille les aléas de la construction subjective primaire et l’expérience réflexive qui lui est inhérente.
La singularité de la maternalité éclairée par des scénarios transgénérationnels
Authors: Mathon-Tourné Laurence
Published: January 2014

La maternalité est une expérience psychique unique à chaque fois et pour chaque femme. Un maillage singulier de scénarios transgénérationnels mis en scène avec chacun de ses enfants, en référence à un autre, événement ou personnage de l’histoire de la mère, s’impose à chaque venue au monde d’un enfant. Ce scénario participe de la singularité de la maternalité. Nous développerons cette idée à travers la présentation d’un cas clinique et à partir de travaux antérieurs tels ceux de Serge Lebovici sur le « mandat transgénérationnel », de René Kaës sur le « pacte dénégatif », d’Haydée Faimberg sur le « télescopage des générations », de Yolanda Gampel sur l’« identification radioactive », de Juan Manzano, Francisco Palacio-Espasa et Nathalie Zilkha sur les « scénarios narcissiques de la parentalité », ou bien encore d’Alberto Konicheckis.
Les normes adultes de la population turque au Rorschach
Authors: Tunaboylu-Ikiz Tevfika , Zabci Neslihan , Pirim Dusgor Bengi , Erdem Atak Irem , Kalem Erkan
Published: January 2014

L’objectif de cette recherche, incluant 724 sujets âgés de 20 à 64 ans, répartis selon l’âge, le sexe et la catégorie socio-économique, est de déterminer les données normatives du Rorschach de la population adulte turque. L’article met l’accent sur la méthodologie et les résultats de la recherche. Comparés avec les normes adolescentes turques, les résultats ne montrent pas de différences importantes. Une comparaison partielle est réalisée sur une étude normative récente portant sur une population française, dirigée par de Tychey et coll. Cette comparaison nous indique qu’il n’y a pas de différences importantes entre ces deux populations. Toutefois, quelques différences culturelles pourront être discutées de manière plus approfondies après la publication de l’étude des données normatives du Rorschach dirigée par l’équipe de l’université Paris-Descartes.
Arrêter la méthadone, pour quoi faire ?
Authors: Dugarin Jean , Dupuy Gaël , Nominé Patrice
Published: January 2014

Entre études cliniques trop rares et analyses cliniques subjectives, difficile de se forger des repères quant à la stratégie d’un arrêt de la méthadone. La seule position raisonnable est peut-être de prendre en compte ces deux types d’approche avec circonspection, et de se forger une philosophie de soin lors de la rencontre avec la singularité de chaque patient. Dans une première partie, est évoqué l’ensemble des conclusions auxquelles sont parvenues ces études scientifiques, avant de faire place à des considérations cliniques issues d’une quarantaine d’années de prescription, en tenant compte de la spectaculaire évolution des contextes qui les ont en partie déterminées.
Arrêt des traitements de substitution : point de vue clinique
Authors: Grégoire Muriel
Published: January 2014

La question de l’arrêt des Traitements de Substitution aux Opiacés (TSO) est régulièrement posée lors de la prise en charge des patients sous substitution. Il est important de sortir des positions idéologiques ou dogmatiques nombreuses sur le sujet. Il faut pouvoir travailler en concertation avec les usagers en adaptant la clinique à chacun, en fonction de son vécu et de ses demandes, mais aussi de notre savoir. À partir de notre expérience au centre médical Marmottan, nous verrons quand et comment un traitement de substitution est mis en place, les raisons le plus souvent invoquées par les patients pour arrêter les TSO, la demande du patient, la question des comorbidités et enfin, comment arrêter ce type de traitement.
Le probabilisme académicien dans le scepticisme français de Montaigne à Descartes
Authors: Maia Neto José Raimundo
Published: January 2014

La probabilité académicienne, doctrine formulée par Carnéade, a joué un rôle capital dans l’épistémologie moderne. 1) Le pyrrhonisme dans L’ Apologie de Raymond Sebond de Montaigne est surtout une réaction au probabilisme néo-académicien que se sont appropriés des apologistes huguenots ; 2) Charron et La Mothe le Vayer ne tiennent pas le probable pour la vérité, parce que la probabilité est la limite anthropologique de la connaissance humaine, mais ils reconnaissent la difficulté de maintenir la suspension du jugement face au probable ; 3) ce débat autour du probabilisme académicien est central dans le projet philosophique de Descartes.
Recaptura de Strophosoma (Neliocarus) burdigalense (Escalera, 1928) en la Península Ibérica (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Notas sobre su biología y distribución
Authors: Ugarte San Vicente I. , Salgueira Cerezo F.
Published: January 2014

Hasta la fecha se conocían solo los tres ejemplares sintípicos del endemismo ibérico Strophosoma (Neliocarus) burdigalense (Escalera, 1928), procedentes de Burgos (sin más datos). La especie ha sido reencontrada en la vecina provincia de Soria (Castilla y León), permitiendo concretar que completa su ciclo biológico en Helianthemum hirtum (Cistaceae). Se comentan sus caracteres diferenciales y se aportan datos biométricos, imágenes del adulto y su edeago, del hábitat y de su planta nutricia.
Los mirmeleónidos (hormigas-león) de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares (Insecta, Neuropterida, Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae)
Authors: Monserrat V. J. , Acevedo F.
Published: January 2014

Se revisan las especies de mirmeleónidos u hormigas-león (Insecta, Neuropterida, Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares. Con una muy diversa presencia, frecuencia y abundancia, 26 especies pertenecientes a 15 géneros de esta familia son conocidas en la zona estudiada. De ellas, se incluye una clave de identificación de sus imagos, se recopila toda la información bibliográfica existente referente al área geográfica estudiada, y se recopilan y se anotan los datos conocidos sobre su biología, sus estadios larvarios y su distribución fenológica y altitudinal en la zona estudiada. Para 24 de estas 26 especies, se anotan nuevos datos sobre su distribución y biología en la zona tratada.
La gobernanza de la crisis. Opinión de los ciudadanos de la Unión Europea
Authors: Álvarez Sousa Antonio
Published: January 2014

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar la opinión de los ciudadanos de la Unión Europea sobre quién es el actor más capaz de emprender acciones eficaces contra los efectos de la crisis financiera y económica, y quién es el actor más apropiado para regular y reformar el mercado financiero mundial. Partimos de la teoría de la multipolaridad y de la presentación de los distintos actores que pueden intervenir en la gobernanza de la crisis. Después exponemos diversas teorías que explican la propensión de la población a elegir a uno u otro actor. Seguidamente, analizamos la opinión de los ciudadanos europeos, tomando datos del Eurobarómetro. Aplicamos la técnica de análisis multinivel, incluyendo variables individuales y contextuales.
Survey of Clustering
Authors: Greenlaw Raymond , Kantabutra Sanpawat
Published: January 2014

This article is a survey into clustering applications and algorithms. A number of important well-known clustering methods are discussed. The authors present a brief history of the development of the field of clustering, discuss various types of clustering, and mention some of the current research directions in the field of clustering. More specifically, top-down and bottom-up hierarchical clustering are described. Additionally, K-Means and K-Medians clustering algorithms are also shown. The concept of representative points is introduced and the technique of discovering them is presented. Immense data sets in clustering often necessitate parallel computation. The authors discuss issues involving parallel clustering as well. Clustering deals with a large number of experimental results. The authors provide references to these works throughout the article. A table for comparing various clustering methods is given in the end. The authors give a summary and an extensive list of references, including some of the latest works in the field, to conclude the article.
Third Party Multimedia Streaming Control with Guaranteed Quality of Service in Evolved Packet System
Authors: Pencheva Evelina
Published: January 2014

This paper studies implementation issues of Parlay X “Multimedia Streaming Control” and “Application-driven Quality of Service” web services in the Evolved Packet System (EPS). EPS is defined as evolution of mobile communication networks with broadband radio interface and Internet Protocol (IP) based core. The main signalling protocols in EPS used for multimedia session management and quality of service control are respectively Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Diameter. The functional architecture for third party multimedia streaming control with guaranteed quality of service considers deployment of an application server which exposes web service interfaces toward applications and control protocols toward the network. In a role of mediation functionality, this application server is responsible for the translation between web services interface operations and control protocol messages. In addition, it needs to maintain synchronized state models that reflect both third party application view and protocol view. An approach to automated functional verification of such type of application server providing “Multimedia Streaming Control” and “Application-driven Quality of Service” web service interfaces is suggested. Use cases that illustrate the approach applicability are described.
Estimation of a Priori Decision Threshold for Collocations Extraction
Authors: Fkih Fethi , Omri Mohamed Nazih
Published: January 2014

Choosing the optimal threshold for the collocations extraction remains a manual task performed by experts. Until today, there is no serious work, based on deep studies, which explores possible solutions to automate the learning of the threshold in the statistical terminology field. In this paper, the authors try to spotlight on this problem by exploring, firstly, the evaluation performance techniques used in several scientific areas (such as biomedical and biometric) and applying them, subsequently, on the statistical terminology field. The experimental study gives promoters results. First, it shows the effectiveness of usual techniques (such as ROC and Precision-Recall curves) used to evaluate the performance of binary classification systems. Second, it provides a practical solution for automatic estimation of optimal thresholds for collocation extraction systems.
An Energy-Balanced Cluster-Based Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Authors: Taqieddin Eyad , Mowafi Moad , Awad Fahed , Banimelhem Omar , Maher Hani
Published: January 2014

This paper proposes a novel energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks. It combines the benefits of using the k-means clustering algorithm with the, recently developed, LEACH with virtual forces (LEACH-VF) protocol. In this work, the k-means algorithm is employed to determine k centroids around which the clusters will be formed. After that, the virtual field force method is applied to these clusters to determine the most suitable positions for each node. The main target of such an approach is to improve the energy balance in the network and to extend the network lifetime. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol extends the time before the first node death, minimizes the variance of the average node energy, and reduces the distance that the sensor nodes travel within their respective clusters.
Customer Relationship Management and Interface Redesign
Authors: Ho Kevin K.W. , See-To Eric W.K.
Published: January 2014

This study is focused on the cross-cultural issues in the post-adoption phases of customer relationship management (CRM) for an international electronic marketplace, which operates in more than 30 countries. In particular, the authors focus on how the electronic marketplace modifies its interface redesign for addressing the different tastes of users from different cultural backgrounds. The authors hope this study can address to how cultural and language differences affect the interface redesign of CRM, which is part of the enterprise system, in the multinational and global context through a qualitative study.
Segmentation of Information Systems Users
Authors: Halilovic Semina , Cicic Muris
Published: January 2014

The Expectation-Confirmation Model of Information Systems Continuance (ECM-IS) explains antecedents that influence IS users’ behavior and affect their decision whether to continue or discontinue information system (IS) using. ECM-IS emphasizes differences between initial acceptance and IS continuance. For companies that deal with the design and software development, IS continuance is retaining of existing customers of product and services. This study extends the ECM-IS by accounting for unobserved heterogeneity. The Finite Mixture Partial Least Squares (FIMIX-PLS) methodology is applied for identification of distinctive customer segments. Segmentation of IS users was made on the basis of cognitive beliefs and affect influencing one’s intention to continue using IS and two different segments of users were derived. The first segment comprises 65.6%, and the other one 34.4% users. The ECM-IS explained 51.9% of IS continuance intention and 20.7% of satisfaction for the first segment, while for the second segment the ECM-IS explained 98.1% of IS continuance intention and 91.3% of satisfaction.
Arthropod fauna of rolled alder leaves in Washington State, United States of America (Insecta, Arachnida)
Authors: Miliczky Eugene R. , Horton David R. , LaGasa Eric
Published: January 2014

The eastern foothills of the Cascade Range in Washington State, United States of America are west of the State's major fruit-producing region. Alders (Alnus Hill (Betulaceae)), an important floristic component of riparian communities in the Cascade Range foothills, were surveyed for leafrolling caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) that might serve as alternate hosts for parasitoids of orchard pest leafrollers, particularly the nonnative wasp Colpoclypeus florus (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Tortricid leafrollers were abundant on alder, but reared parasitoids did not include C. florus. Survey results also revealed that rolled leaves were secondarily colonised by a wide variety of predatory and phytophagous arthropods. Rolled leaves were almost 10-fold more likely to be occupied by predatory arthropods than adjacent, roll-free leaves. Phytophagous thrips and mites showed a similar preference for rolled leaves. The most abundant predaceous arthropods in the leafrolls were Anthocoris antevolens White (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae), found in 4.4% of leafrolls, and the spider Clubiona pacifica Banks (Araneae: Clubionidae), found in 8.3% of leafrolls. Both species, and several other predatory insect and spider species found in the rolled leaves, also occur in eastern Washington orchards where they contribute to biological control. Because of its frequent colonisation by beneficial arthropods, alder may prove useful in conservation biological control programs.
MMTV Superantigens Coerce an Unconventional Topology between the TCR and MHC Class II
Authors: Fortin Jean-Simon , Genève Laetitia , Gauthier Catherine , Shoukry Naglaa H. , Azar Georges A. , Younes Souheil , Yassine-Diab Bader , Sékaly Rafick-Pierre , Fremont Daved H. , Thibodeau Jacques
Published: January 2014

Mouse mammary tumor virus superantigens (vSAGs) are notorious for defying structural characterization, and a consensus has yet to be reached regarding their ability to bridge the TCR to MHC class II (MHCII). In this study, we determined the topology of the T cell signaling complex by examining the respective relation of vSAG7 with the MHCII molecule, MHCII-associated peptide, and TCR. We used covalently linked peptide/MHCII complexes to demonstrate that vSAG presentation is tolerant to variation in the protruding side chains of the peptide, but can be sensitive to the nature of the protruding N-terminal extension. An original approach in which vSAG was covalently linked to either MHCII chain confirmed that vSAG binds outside the peptide binding groove. Also, whereas the C-terminal vSAG segment binds to the MHCII α-chain in a conformation-sensitive manner, the membrane-proximal N-terminal domain binds the β-chain. Because both moieties of the mature vSAG remain noncovalently associated after processing, our results suggest that vSAG crosslinks MHCII molecules. Comparing different T cell hybridomas, we identified key residues on the MHCII α-chain that are differentially recognized by the CDR3β when engaged by vSAG. Finally, we show that the highly conserved tyrosine residue found in the vSAg TGXY motif is required for T cell activation. Our results reveal a novel SAG/MHCII/TCR architecture in which vSAGs coerce a near-canonical docking between MHCII and TCR that allows eschewing of traditional CDR3 binding with the associated peptide in favor of MHCII α-chain binding. Our findings highlight the plasticity of the TCR CDRs.
Oral Combined Therapy with Probiotics and Alloantigen Induces B Cell–Dependent Long-Lasting Specific Tolerance
Authors: Mercadante Ana C. T. , Perobelli Suelen M. , Alves Ana P. G. , Gonçalves-Silva Triciana , Mello Wallace , Gomes-Santos Ana C. , Miyoshi Anderson , Faria Ana M. C. , Bonomo Adriana
Published: January 2014

Allogeneic hematopietic stem cell transplantation (aHSCT) is widely used for the treatment of hematologic malignancies. Although aHSCT provides a good response against the malignant cells (graft-versus-leukemia [GVL]), it also leads to the development of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a severe disease with high mortality and morbidity rates. Therapy for GVHD is commonly based on nonspecific immunosupression of the transplanted recipient, resulting in the concomitant inhibition of the GVL effect. In this study, we propose an alternative approach to specifically suppress GVHD while sparing the GVL, based on oral treatment of transplant donors with recipient Ags, associated with the intake of probiotic Lactococcus lactis as tolerogenic adjuvant (combined therapy). We show that treatment of C57BL/6 donor mice with combined therapy before the transplant protects the recipients F1 (C57BL/6 × BAL/c) mice from clinical and pathological manifestations of disease, resulting in 100% survival rate. Importantly, the animals keep the immunological competence maintaining the GVL response as well as the response to third-party Ags. The protection is specific, long lasting and dependent on donor IL-10–sufficient B cells activity, which induces regulatory T cells in the host. These data suggest that combined therapy is a promising strategy for prevention of GVHD with preservation of GVL, opening new possibilities to treat human patients subjected to transplantation.