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A history of water and ice: a field guide to permafrost and environmental change in the Yellowknife area, Northwest Territories
Authors: Wolfe S A , Kokelj S V
Published: November 2019

Permafrost is a fundamental component of northern landscapes and is inextricably linked to climate. The changing state of permafrost due to global warming has heightened its environmental and societal relevance. Permafrost refers to soils and rock that remains
below 0°C, or commonly considered mp;lt;"frozenmp;gt;", year-over-year, and it affects most of the terrain in the northern half of Canada. For thousands of years, permafrost has affected the landscape around Yellowknife. The occurrence and characteristics of permafrost in this region intimately
relate to the history of glacial ice sheets and glacial lakes, which have had a dominant influence on the evolution of this landscape. Knowledge of the connections between permafrost conditions, climate, and geological history highlights why northern landscapes are now amongst the most dynamic on
earth.
The purpose of this guidebook is to describe the influence of permafrost on landscape of the Yellowknife region, and to illustrate how our geological legacy has shaped the land that we live on today. It is increasingly evident that permafrost, which provides a foundation for northern ecosystems and
communities, is not permanent. In many areas, permafrost is thawing in response to natural environmental disturbances, due to human activity through the development of infrastructure, and by climate warming. Understanding how these changes impact the environment and infrastructure are critical to
the resilience of northern society.
This guidebook provides an overview of the environmental and permafrost conditions in the Yellowknife area. Part I describes the characteristics of permafrost and its influence on the environment and on northerners. Part II describes the landscape around Yellowknife, highlighting the legacy of
Glacial Lake McConnell and its imprint on the present day geography and permafrost conditions of the Great Slave Lowland region. Part III presents a tour of Yellowknife and the surrounding region, describing field stops that illustrate landscape history, local permafrost conditions, and the
consequences of permafrost thaw.
The wife as stranger in the family
Authors: Nortjé-Meyer Susara J.
Published: November 2019

The phenomenon of the stranger reveals that spatial relations are, on the one hand, only the condition and, on the other hand, the symbol of human relations. This article discusses the specific form of interaction of the wife (woman) as a stranger in the context of the biblical family. The wife as a stranger is discussed here not in the sense often touched upon in the past, as a wanderer who comes today and goes tomorrow, but rather as a person who comes today and stays tomorrow. She is, so to speak, the potential wanderer: although she has not moved on, she has also not overcome the freedom of coming and going. She is fixed within a particular spatial group, or within a group whose boundaries are similar to spatial boundaries, but her position in this group is determined by the fact that she never belonged to it from the beginning. The unity of nearness and remoteness involved in every human relation is organised, in the phenomenon of the stranger, in a way which may be most briefly formulated by saying that in her relationships, distance means that she, who is close by, is also far away, and her strangeness means that she, who is far away, is also actually near. I examined the implications of knowing and identifying the wife as a stranger for feminist theory and its interpretation.
The Catholic Church in need of de-clericalisation and moral doctrinal agency: Towards an ethically accountable hierarchical leadership
Authors: Slater Jennifer
Published: November 2019

Under normal circumstances the church would function as an agent of change and transformation, but this article focuses on the church herself that needs radical change if she is to remain relevant in mission and ministry in this current era. Clericalism and the centralisation of hierarchical control can be identified as the root causes of institutional pathology and weakening collegiality. To address clericalism may require the adjustment of seminary training, as in the current system seminarians are nurtured in a sense of separateness, promoting male-ego and feed gender exclusivity and doctrinal self-righteousness. While the seminary was once an instrument of reform in the Catholic Church, established to counter problems such as clerical concubinage and illiteracy, but now it is no longer suitable as it has become the forum that breeds other problems. Priority attention should be paid to purge the church of rampant clericalism, discriminatory scapegoating of gay persons, marginalisation of free thinkers, exclusion of women priests, the perceived moral laxity of family life issues and reception of communion by divorced Catholics without the benefits of annulment. Discrediting the personal authority of the pope is hardly an enlightened option. What ought to be transformed is the centralisation of control and allowing increased localised dominion whereby crises such as sexual abuse scandals could be addressed and solved more speedily and liberally, and limit the need to go to the top for solutions. To wait for centralised, hierarchal structures to deal with urgent issues is not desirable, as speedy accountability is needed to address issues that hurt the church in its entirety.
Nippo-Kanaks in Post-War New Caledonia: Race, Law, Politics and Identity
Authors: Ireland Benjamin Hiramatsu
Published: November 2019

This article interrogates both the legal and social identities of Japanese-Melanesians (or ‘Nippo-Kanaks’) residing in the Free French territory of New Caledonia at the beginning of the twentieth century to the years following the Second World War. The first part of the article details how, fearing an imminent Japanese attack on New Caledonia after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the French Empire began the process of deporting nearly all Japanese emigrants residing throughout New Caledonia to Australian internment camps on 8 December 1941. French officials in New Caledonia sequestered all property belonging to the Japanese émigré community, and later sold it to the French public. Nippo-Kanaks, who were children at the time of the incarceration and deportation of their Japanese fathers, maintained a problematized legal identity as Japanese nationals residing in Pacific French territory. Although the French Empire granted French citizenship to mixed race Kanaks in 1946, French authorities in New Caledonia specifically denied French citizenship to Nippo-Kanaks, who then had to petition for French naturalization. The second part of this article interrogates the social identity of Nippo-Kanaks viewed from the perspective of Jeannette Yokoyama, a second-generation Nippo-Kanak whose Japanese father was deported to Australia. Yokoyama’s father was forcibly repatriated to Japan after the Second World War, but by writing letters he maintained communication with his family in New Caledonia. The letters that Jeannette received from her father allowed her to forge personal memories of her absent father that shaped her social, mixed race identity as a Nippo-Kanak. For Yokoyama’s father, the letters served as a means to enculturate Jeannette as a Japanese daughter from afar. Jeannette’s memories of her beloved father, coupled with the embrace of her Japanese heritage, represent a symbolic resistance to French administrators’ efforts to erase the presence of the Japanese community in New Caledonia.
‘National’ and ‘Official’ Languages Across the Independent Asia-Pacific
Authors: Ward Rowena
Published: November 2019

Between November 2018 and 2020, residents of New Caledonia will have three opportunities to vote on whether to become an independent state. Residents of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville will vote on the same issue in June 2019. Should the residents of either territory vote for independence, the issue of whether a language shall be designated the national and / or official language for the new state will arise. If the decision is to designate a language for the new state, the choice of which language will also surface. This chapter considers the language choices made by a number of countries across the linguistically diverse Asia Pacific region post-independence and in so doing, provides some models for the language configurations which may eventuate should either territory become independent. The linguistic configurations discussed here are divided into Category 1 - countries where a national and / or official language are legally specified or have de jure legal status. - and Category 2 – countries where no language is legally named but at least one language may be de facto national or official. Examples of Category 1 countries include Indonesia where Bahasa Indonesia is the only de jure national and official language and Vanuatu where Bislama is the de jure national language and is also a de jure co-official language with both English and French, the languages of the former colonial powers. Examples of Category 2 countries discussed here include Papua New Guinea where Tok Pisin is named as one of the possible languages needed for an applicant to become a Papua New Guinean citizen but does not have de jure national language status and the Solomon Islands where Pijin is the de facto national language and English is the de facto official language.

 Whilst the results of either the Bougainville and New Caledonian referenda are not clear, the different configurations already in place serve as a pointer to what may eventuate should the residents of either territory vote for independence.
Memories of Struggles: Translocal Lives in Okinawan Anti-Base Activism
Authors: Takahashi Shinnosuke
Published: November 2019

One of the key characteristics of recent Japanese grassroots civic activism is the number of individual citizens who began to go out on the streets to participate in public demonstrations. In many places around Japan, people who used to be seen as ‘apolitical,’ such as youth, office workers (so-called salary-men and salary-women) and other individuals, now join and lead public demonstrations that address a range of pressing social issues and problems, including nuclear energy, workplace harassment and constitutional change. Today the ‘progressiveness’ of activism is born from, and reinforced by, participants’ own everyday concerns. By associating larger social injustices with personalized forms of concern, today’s progressive movements enable what perhaps used to be overlooked as private issues to become inspiration for collective actions. Therefore, these civic movements encompass a mixture of different personal and social narratives, symbols, styles and objectives; they are not homogenous about ‘who we are’ and ‘what we want.’ By highlighting two case studies that shed light on the Okinawan decolonization movement, I argue that the translocal participation of different social actors in creating a particular sense of ‘locality,’ or place-based identity, is essential in understanding the complexity of collective representation. The Okinawan decolonization movement, primarily represented in the form of the Okinawan anti-US base struggle, is particularly important because it demonstrates how place-based identity maintains rootedness and boundedness of locality while maintaining inclusivity to extra-locality. Okinawa’s case can be an important contribution to the field that enables us to extend our geo-social imagination over the new forms of contentious politics and collectivity in today’s world.
Food Security and Asset Creation in Solomon Islands: Gender and the Political Economy of Agricultural Production for Honiara Central Market
Authors: Georgeou Nichole , Hawksley Charles , Monks James , Ki’i Melina
Published: November 2019

This article presents data from a 2017 survey of vendors selling fresh produce at the Honiara Central Market (HCM) over a twelve week period from July-September. It aims to understand the economic contribution of vendors to their communities, and in particular of producer-vendors. Detailed geospatial mapping of the origin of produce sold at HCM illustrates the scope of production for market. Data shows that 70 percent of all produce comes from villages on Guadalcanal to the east of Honiara, with intensive production for market also to the West of Honiara, from Central Province (Savo, Nggelas), and important market trade from parts of Malaita, and New Georgia. There is very limited engagement with HCM from Choiseul and Temotu, and none from Makira and Renbel. The data also indicates that the majority of producer-vendors at the HCM are women, and that the average sale of fresh produce on Fridays generates amounts of income higher than the minimum daily wage. We examine these findings using a lens of food security with a focus on asset creation. We show the economic benefit of market selling for women tends to involve lower value crops of leafy greens, nuts, fruits and root vegetables, while men are more dominant in the lucrative cash crops such as melon.
Simón
Authors: Dwyer Angelique K.
Published: November 2019

This creative non-fiction piece written in Spanglish is called "Simón.” The overarching themes of this story are death, spirituality, animals and pets in a non-conventional American family raised in Mexico. The narrative voice in this piece provides a unique perspective broadening dialogue(s) on Mexican American identity.
Through the Lens of Color: An Interview with Gareth Doherty, Author of Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State
Authors: Doherty Gareth , Tirpak Mark
Published: November 2019

This interview by Mark Tirpak with Gareth Doherty of Harvard University Graduate School of Design, focuses on his Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State (University of California Press, 2017). With Paradoxes of Green (2017) and via the interview, Doherty recounts some of the findings of his ethnographic fieldwork in the Kingdom of Bahrain and describes tensions arising from differing conceptions of what ‘green’ means or signifies within this growing and predominantly arid region. An argument that Doherty makes in Paradoxes of Green (2017) is that color and form are interlinked, and that color deserves deeper consideration by policy-makers and other formal shapers of cities. The interview draws from Paradoxes of Green (2017) to discuss some of Doherty’s findings as well as his latest work on the intersections between landscape architecture and anthropology.
Investigating processes that control the vertical distribution of aerosol in five subtropical marine stratocumulus regions – A sensitivity study using the climate model NorESM1-M
Authors: Frey Lena , Bender Frida A.-M. , Svensson Gunilla
Published: November 2019

Abstract. The vertical distribution of aerosols plays an important role in determining the effective radiative forcing from aerosol–radiation and aerosol–cloud interactions. Here, a number of processes controlling the vertical distribution of aerosol in five subtropical marine stratocumulus regions in the climate model NorESM1-M are investigated, with a focus on the total aerosol extinction. A comparison with satellite lidar data (CALIOP, Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization) shows that the model underestimates aerosol extinction throughout the troposphere, especially elevated aerosol layers in the two regions where they are seen in observations. It is found that the shape of the vertical aerosol distribution is largely determined by the aerosol emissions and removal processes in the model, primarily through the injection height, emitted particle size, and wet scavenging. In addition, the representation of vertical transport related to shallow convection and entrainment are found to be important, whereas alterations in aerosol optical properties and cloud microphysics parameterizations have smaller effects on the vertical aerosol extinction distribution. However, none of the alterations made are sufficient for reproducing the observed vertical distribution of aerosol extinction, neither in magnitude nor in shape. Interpolating the vertical levels of CALIOP to the corresponding model levels, leads to a better agreement in the boundary layer and highlights the importance of the vertical resolution.
Evaluating climate emulation: fundamental impulse testing of simple climate models
Authors: Schwarber Adria K. , Smith Steven J. , Hartin Corinne A. , Vega-Westhoff Benjamin Aaron , Sriver Ryan
Published: November 2019

Abstract. Simple climate models (SCMs) are numerical representations of the Earth's gas cycles and climate system. SCMs are easy to use and computationally inexpensive, making them an ideal tool in both scientific and decision-making contexts (e.g., complex climate model emulation, parameter estimation experiments, climate metric calculations, and probabilistic analyses). Despite their prolific use, the fundamental responses of SCMs are often not directly characterized. In this study, we use fundamental impulse tests of three chemical species (CO2, CH4, and black carbon – BC) to understand the fundamental gas cycle and climate system responses of several comprehensive (Hector v2.0, MAGICC 5.3, MAGICC 6.0) and idealized (FAIR v1.0, AR5-IR) SCMs. We find that while idealized SCMs are widely used, they fail to capture the magnitude and timescales of global mean climate responses under emissions perturbations, which can produce biased temperature results. Comprehensive SCMs, which have physically based nonlinear forcing and carbon cycle representations, show improved responses compared to idealized SCMs. Even the comprehensive SCMs, however, fail to capture the response timescales to BC emission perturbations seen recently in two general circulation models. Some comprehensive SCMs also generally respond faster than more complex models to a 4×CO2 concentration perturbation, although this was not evident for lower perturbation levels. These results suggest where improvements should be made to SCMs. Further, we demonstrate here a set of fundamental tests that we recommend as a standard evaluation suite for any SCM. Fundamental impulse tests allow users to understand differences in model responses and the impact of model selection on results.
Paramagpy: Software for Fitting Magnetic Susceptibility Tensors
Using Paramagnetic Effects Measured in NMR Spectra
Authors: Orton Henry William , Huber Thomas , Otting Gottfried
Published: November 2019

Abstract. Paramagnetic metal ions with fast relaxing electrons generate pseudocontact shifts (PCS), residual dipolar couplings (RDC), paramagnetic relaxation enhancements (PRE) and cross-correlated relaxation (CCR) in the NMR spectra of the molecules they bind to. These effects offer long-range structural information in molecules equipped with binding sites for such metal ions. Here we present the new open-source software Paramagpy, which has been written in Python 3 with a graphic user interface. Paramagpy combines the functionalities of different currently available programs to support the fitting of magnetic susceptibility tensors using PCS, RDC, PRE and CCR data and molecular coordinates in Protein Data Bank (PDB) format, including a convenient graphical user interface. Paramagpy uses efficient fitting algorithms to avoid local minima and supports corrections to back-calculated PCS and PRE data arising from cross-correlation effects with chemical shift tensors. The source code is available from https://github.com/henryorton/paramagpy.
Rockfall modelling in forested areas: the role of digital terrain model spatial resolution
Authors: Žabota Barbara , Mikoš Matjaž , Kobal Milan
Published: November 2019

Abstract. This article examines how digital terrain model (DTM) spatial resolution influences rockfall modelling using a probabilistic process-based model, RockyFor3D, while taking into account the effect of forest on rockfall propagation and runout area. A rockfall site in the Trenta valley, NW Slovenia, was chosen as a case study. The analysis included DTM spatial resolutions of 1 m, 2 m, 5 m, 10 m, 12.5 m and 25 m, based on lidar data. The highest spatial resolution (1 m) was used to calibrate the surface roughness coefficients of the model while also taking into account the effect of forest since it shapes the rockfall propagation and runout area. The results of the calibration runs were evaluated using goodness-of-fit indices, and the best set of parameters were further used for modelling rockfalls with and without the effect of forest for all spatial resolutions. Accuracy statistics were used to validate the modelled rockfall propagation and runout area for each spatial resolution, with/without the effect of forest. Finally, modelling outputs, such as the mean of the maximum and maximum kinetic energy, the number of block passes and forest parameters in the rockfall propagation area, were compared.
Recent glacier and lake changes in High Mountain Asia and their relation to precipitation changes
Authors: Treichler Désirée , Kääb Andreas , Salzmann Nadine , Xu Chong-Yu
Published: November 2019

Abstract. We present an updated, spatially resolved estimate of 2003–2008 glacier surface elevation changes for the entire region of High Mountain Asia (HMA) from ICESat laser altimetry data. The results reveal a diverse pattern that is caused by spatially greatly varying glacier sensitivity, in particular to precipitation availability and changes. We introduce a spatially resolved zonation where ICESat samples are grouped into units of similar glacier behaviour, glacier type and topographic settings. In several regions, our new zonation reveals local differences and anomalies that have not been described previously. Glaciers in the Eastern Pamirs, Kunlun Shan and central TP were thickening by 0.1–0.7 m a−1, and the thickening anomaly has a crisp boundary in the Eastern Pamirs that continues just north of the central Karakoram. Glaciers in the south and east of the TP were thinning, with increasing rates towards southeast. We attribute the glacier thickening signal to a stepwise increase in precipitation around ∼1997–2000 on the Tibetan Plateau (TP). The precipitation change is reflected by growth of endorheic lakes in particular in the northern and eastern TP. We estimate lake volume changes through a combination of repeat lake extents from Landsat data and shoreline elevations from ICESat and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) digital elevation model (DEM) for over 1300 lakes. The rise in water volume contained in the lakes corresponds to 4–25 mm a−1, when distributed over entire catchments, for the areas where we see glacier thickening. The precipitation increase is also visible in sparse in situ measurements and MERRA-2 climate reanalysis data but less visible in ERA-Interim reanalysis data. Taking into account evaporation loss, the difference between average annual precipitation during the 1990s and 2000s suggested by these datasets is 34–100 mm a−1, depending on region, which can fully explain both lake growth and glacier thickening (Kunlun Shan) or glacier geometry changes such as thinning tongues while upper glacier areas were thickening or stable (eastern TP). The precipitation increase reflected in these glacier changes possibly extended to the northern slopes of the Tarim Basin, where glaciers were nearly in balance in 2003–2008. Along the entire Himalaya, glaciers on the first orographic ridge, which are exposed to abundant precipitation, were thinning less than glaciers in the dryer climate of the inner ranges. Thinning rates in the Tien Shan vary spatially but are rather stronger than in other parts of HMA.
El “Paréntesis mexicano” en Japón al inicio de los Treintas
Authors: Uscanga Prieto Alejandro Carlos
Published: November 2019

A los 130 años del establecimiento de relaciones diplomáticas entre México y Japón, merece la pena analizar las pocas crónicas que mexicanos hicieron de ese país asiático en las primeras décadas del siglo XX. La información sobre Japón obtenida de primera mano por mexicanos era escasa, entre ellas sobresale la del ingeniero Jenaro Montiel Olvera y el del entonces estudiante universitario Antonio Lomelí Garduño. Cada uno, desde su perspectiva, relata con detalle sus experiencias en Japón, donde pudieron observar directamente su rápido proceso de modernización y su transformación como una potencia militar, a través de sus escritos pudieron ofrecer  sus  testimonios en México sobre el país del sol naciente.
La invasión japonesa de Manchuria vista por la prensa española (1931-1934)
Authors: De Moya Martínez Manuel
Published: November 2019

La invasión japonesa de Manchuria, en septiembre de 1931, tuvo un amplio eco en la prensa mundial. Lo que originalmente fue un conflicto local pronto se convirtió en una crisis internacional. En España, donde acababa de proclamarse la Segunda República, también se siguieron con atención los sucesos de Asia. Durante los siguientes años la prensa española mantuvo una cobertura regular de este conflicto, en un proceso que acabaría polarizando la imagen de Japón en España en torno a los partidarios y los detractores del país nipón.
International Law and its Influence on Diplomacy in the Late Nineteenth Century Japan
Authors: Ōkubo Takeharu
Published: November 2019

In 1853 United States warships led by Commodore Matthew Perry (1794-1858) came to Japan to negotiate a commercial treaty. This event had suddenly thrust late-nineteenth-century Japan into a web of relations with the Western nations, and as a result, European international law was a topic of particularly urgent concern including some normative philosophical questions: What is Civilization? What are the rules in international relations? What are the differences with the existing order in East Asia?
Does Conscience Have to be Free? A Multiple Crossroads of Religious, Political, and Diplomatic Arguments: 1868-1874
Authors: Matsuda Kōichirō
Published: November 2019

This article will focus on the conundrum of building the political legitimacy while institutionalizing religious freedom which the newly established goisshin 御一新 government confronted. Liberation of "evil sects", which not only meant Christianity but also other religious sects such as fujufuse-ha of Nichiren school, was an issue which the Meiji state wanted to dodge. Western states demanded the lifting of the ban on Christianity but Japanese political leaders were vigilant against the idea. Reluctantly the Meiji state lifted the ban on Christianity in 1873 but they had started the institutionalization of Shinto as the state religion in advance. The government officials viewed that Christian faith and churches in Western countries were devised to prevent public mind from dissolution. They strived to establish an alternative version of religious authority in Japan instead of introducing the principle of conscientious freedom. However, on the other hand, a new generation of intellectuals raised the protection of the individual right of religious freedom as an urgent issue.

I will analyze the diplomatic negotiations between the Western countries and the Meiji government officials, reports on the Western religious and educational systems in the Iwakura Mission records, voices of Buddhist and Shinto groups, and publications by leading intellectuals such as Nakamura Masao and Katō Hiroyuki so as to build a picture of how the concept of conscientious liberty was treated in such entangled contexts.
A Cointegration Analysis of Economic Growth and CO_2 Emissions: A Case Study of Malaysia.
Authors: Osiobe Ejiro U.
Published: November 2019

The paper aims to establish a long-run and the Granger causal relationship between economic growth,  emissions, international trade, energy consumption, and population density in Malaysia. The study will use annual data from 1970 to 2014. A unique cointegrating relationship between our variables  was identified. The study employed the Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag  model to examine the Environmental Kuznets Curve . Our empirical results analysis showed a long-run relationship between per capita  emissions  and our explanatory variables . To investigate the Granger causal relationship between , the Vector Error Correction Model  was employed and our results, associated the absence of Granger causality between  emissions and economic growth  in the short-run while revealing a uni-directional Granger causality movement  from economic growth to  emissions in the long-run. Hence, an increase in  will lead to a rise in  emissions in Malaysia.
Depression, Anxiety and Substance Use Among Undergraduate Students at North-West University, South Africa
Authors: Malebana Christabel M. , Oduaran Choja A. , Akanni Abimbola A.
Published: November 2019

Globally, there is an upsurge in the use of substance. The rate of prevalence in South Africa in recent times is worrisome, particularly among the youth population. This paper investigate the association between depression, anxiety, stress and substance use among youths at North-West University, Mafikeng campus. Data were collected from a convenient sample of 336 (female=62.8%) undergraduate students from the North-West university, Mafikeng campus. Results from the Pearson Product Moment Correlation analyses revealed that depression and anxiety positively correlated with substance use. That is, increased level of substance use may be linked to heightened level of depression, anxiety and substance use among undergraduates. The study revealed that depression and anxiety were responsible for the upsurge in substance use among the youth population. Thus, accessibility to existing psychosocial facilities on campus and other designated centres can provide help to students with depression and anxiety problems and consequently reduce substance use.
Extra beschermd of extra beschadigd?
Authors: Goeman M. , Schuitemaker S.
Published: November 2019

Extra beschermd of extra beschadigd?

Aan de hand van drie zaken afkomstig van de Kinderrechtenhelpdesk van Defence for Children illustreren de auteurs verschillende problemen waar kinderen met een handicap in asielzoekerscentra tegenaan lopen. Het artikel bevat een samenvatting van het onderzoek van Defence for Children, ‘Extra beschermd of extra beschadigd? Onderzoek naar de leefomstandigheden van kinderen met een handicap in asielzoekerscentra in Nederland’. Besproken wordt daarbij een recent vernietigend rapport van de Kinderombudsman over medische zorg die aan een doof meisje werd geweigerd omdat zij geen verblijfsvergunning had. De auteurs betogen dat de wetgever, immigratieautoriteiten en opvanginstanties aan zet zijn om ervoor te zorgen dat de rechten van kinderen met een handicap gerespecteerd worden. Dat moet gelden zowel in de verblijfsprocedure als in de opvangprocedures en bij de toegang tot medische zorg.
Vereniging van Eigenaars moet plaatsing scootmobiel in gemeenschappelijke ruimte toestaan
Authors: Houtzager D.C.
Published: November 2019

Vereniging van Eigenaars moet plaatsing scootmobiel in gemeenschappelijke ruimte toestaan

Een scootmobiel mag in een gemeenschappelijke ruimte worden geplaatst, bepaalt Hof Amsterdam (ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2019:767). Een VvE, die zich beriep op de splitsingsakte, gaf geen toestemming voor plaatsing in de containerruimte. De betrokkene vocht het verbod aan en kreeg in appel gelijk van het hof. De weigering was in strijd met de redelijkheid en de billijkheid, die bij de toepassing van een splitsingsakte toegepast moest worden. In het commentaar wordt ingegaan op de rechtsgrond die het hof toepast. In plaats van de toegepaste algemene civielrechtelijke regels zou in dit geval ook de Wet gelijke behandeling op grond van handicap of chronische ziekte (WGBH/CZ) kunnen worden gebruikt. In deze lex specialis wordt bij de plicht tot het verrichten van een doeltreffende aanpassing (art. 2 jo. art. 6 WGBH/CZ) een rijk toetsingskader geboden.
How dialogues facilitate high school students’ responses to poetry
Authors: Cavalli Daniela
Published: November 2019

Drawing from a case study on students’ responses to poetry in a Catalan public high school, this article shows how dialogues facilitate students’ aesthetic experiences. The study sheds light on how one on one, and small group conversations that occurred in interview situations -in connection with classroom activity- mediated these responses. As a way to understand dialogical mediation and the affordances of poems in student-reader activity, the analysis connects a sociocultural understanding of literary reading to readers’ response theory and its empirical study. Results show that in joint meaning-making activity students (a) live through emotional experiences and (b) respond to distinctive poetic devices, which, in turn, create opportunities (c) for their poetic literacy, and (d) ideological becoming (Bakhtin, 1981).
The GOLD Summit on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in low- and middle-income countries
Authors: Halpin D. M. G. , Celli B. R. , Criner G. J. , Frith P. , López Varela M. V. , Salvi S. , Vogelmeier C. F. , Chen R. , Mortimer K. , Montes de Oca M. , Aisanov Z. , Obaseki D. , Decker R. , Agusti A.
Published: November 2019

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the top three causes of death worldwide, but governments and non-governmental organisations have not given its prevention and treatment the priority it requires. This is particularly true in low- and middle-income countries, where
most of the people suffering from this disease live. The United Nations (UN) has targeted a reduction of premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by a third by 2030; however, a coordinated UN/World Health Organization (WHO) strategy to address the burden of COPD (one of the most
important NCDs) is still lacking. To explore the extent of the problem and inform the development of policies to improve the situation, the Board of Directors of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) held a 1-day Summit. The key themes that emerged were the need
to ensure accurate data on prevalence, raise awareness of the disease among the public, healthcare professionals and governments, including the fact that COPD aetiology goes beyond smoking (and other inhaled pollutants) and includes poor lung development in early life, and ensure that spirometry
and both pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies are available and affordable. Here, we present the actions that must be taken to address the impact of COPD. We believe that the WHO is particularly well-positioned to co-ordinate an attack on COPD, and GOLD will do all it can to help
and rally support.
Poly(vinyl alcohol)/chitosan hydrogels with electrochemically synthesized silver nanoparticles for wound dressing applications
Authors: Nešović Katarina , Janković Ana , Radetić Tamara , Perić-Grujić Aleksandra , Vukašinović-Sekulić Maja , Kojić Vesna , Rhee Kyong Yop , Mišković-Stanković Vesna
Published: November 2019

Polymer-based hydrogel materials are excellent candidates for new-generation wound dressings with improved properties, such as high sorption ability, good mechanical properties and low adhesiveness. Cross-linked hydrogel matrices also serve as excellent carriers for controlled release of antibacterial agents, such as silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), which are preferred over conventional antibiotics due to low propensity to induce bac­terial resistance. In this work, we aim to produce novel silver/poly(vinyl alco­hol)/chitosan (Ag/PVA/CHI) hydrogels for wound dressing applications. The electro­chemi­cal AgNPs syn­thesis provided facile and green method for the reduction of Ag+ ions inside the hydrogel matrices, without the need to use toxic chemical reducing agents. The forma­tion of AgNPs was confirmed using UV-visible spectroscopy, scanning and transmis­sion electron microscopy. Release kinetics was investigated in modified phosphate buffer solution at 37 °C to mimic physiological conditions. Release profiles indicated “burst release” behavior, which is beneficial for wound dressing applications. The antibacterial activity was evaluated against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli strains using disc-diffusion test, and non-toxicity of hydrogels was proved by dye-exclusion test. The obtained results confirmed strong potential of Ag/PVA/CHI hydrogels for biomedical applications.
Endoscopic necrosectomy under fluoroscopic guidance during transmural drainage of walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WOPN)
Authors: Jagielski Mateusz , Smoczyński Marian , Adrych Krystian
Published: November 2019

Abstract:
Introduction: The endoscopic treatment of walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WOPN) as well as other minimally invasive methods have been evolving since last years. The aim of this study is evaluation of efficiency and safety of endoscopic necrosectomy under fluoroscopy done during the transmural drainage in patients with symptomatic WOPN. Material and methods: The retrospective analysis 114 consecutive patients with symptomatic WOPN were treated endoscopically in our medical center between 2011 and 2016. Results: Endoscopic necrosectomy was performed under fluoroscopic guidance during transmural drainage in 24/114 (21,05%) patients.The mean amount of endoscopic procedures in each patient was 8,88 (3-27). The active drainage was continued averagely for 40,1 (11-96) days. The avarage number of necrosectomy procedures during continued drainage was 6,54 (1-24) per patient. Additional percutaneous drainage was applied in just two patients. The complications of endotherapy were present in 9/24 (37,5%) patients. The therapeutic success was reached in 23/24 (95,83%) patients. The mean time of observation was 35 [18-78] months. The recurrence of pancreatic fluid collection was stated in 4 patients during the observation time. The mean time between the end of endotherapy and recurrence of fluid collection was 19 [16-22] months. In three patients recurrent fluid collections were treated endoscopically and in one patient were treated surgically. Long-term success of endoscopic treatment of WOPN was reached in 22/24 (91,67%) patients. Conclusions: Endoscopic necrosectomy under fluoroscopic guidance during transmural drainage is successful and safe method of minimally invasive treatment in selected patients with walled-off pancreatic necrosis.
Konfliktfall Agilisierung: klassische Führung am Ende
Authors: Czeslik Markus
Published: November 2019

Agile Organisationen wollen sich unter anderem dadurch auszeichnen, dass sie Hierarchien verflachen, Silos aufbrechen und stattdessen Kooperation in eigenverantwortlichen Netzwerken fördern. Das Ziel: eine flexiblere Reaktion auf veränderte Marktbedingungen und Kundenbedürfnisse. Im Zuge der Agilisierung werden dementsprechend immer häufiger ganze Führungsebenen ins Abseits gestellt. In den Unternehmen macht sich deshalb große Verunsicherung breit. Doch der Wandel hin zu mehr Selbstorganisation gelingt - wenn überhaupt - nur stufenweise und im regelmäßigen Dialog zwischen der Führungskraft und ihrem Team.
Optimal Management of Elective Joint Replacement Surgery in Patients with Hemophilia
Authors: Badulescu Oana-Viola , Bararu Bojan Iris , Vladeanu Maria , Badescu Codruta , Bojan Andrei , Dan Sirbu Paul , Ciocoiu Manuela
Published: November 2019

Hemophilia is a genetic or acquired disease that leads to spontaneous and recurrent bleedings, which affect the joints and muscles, thus determining chronic damage to the cartilage which will lead to joint disease and hemophilic arthropathy. Even though hemophilic patients were initially thought to have a low incidence of atherothrombotic complications, it is now clear that atherothrombotic events occur. The administration of plasmatic factor VIII has better clinical results in type A hemophilic patients than the transfusion with plasma. We analyzed five patients with hemophilia type A, aged between 35 and 62 years. Two of them had a severe form of hemophilia with factor VIII less than 1%, while the other three had a moderate form with factor VIII ranging between 1 and 5%. The five patients underwent total knee repair interventions and received substitution treatment with clotting factors but also prophylactic anticoagulant treatment. The postsurgical evolution of these patients was favorable, with similar hemostatic profile as the non-hemophilic patients. Moroctocog alfa is an efficient substitutive treatment that manages to normalize the hemostatic profile of patients. Therefore, it is recommended to provide prophylactic antithrombotic therapy after the orthopedic interventions.
Can Fiction be Philosophy?
Authors: Holland Margaret G.
Published: November 2019

This paper examines the relation between philosophy and literature through an analysis of claims made by Martha Nussbaum regarding the contribution novels can make to moral philosophy. Perhaps her most controversial assertion is that some novels are themselves works of moral philosophy. I contrast Nussbaum’s view with that of Iris Murdoch. I discuss three claims which are fundamental to Nussbaum’s position: the relation between writing style and content; philosophy’s inadequacy in preparing agents for moral life because of its reliance on rules; and the usefulness of the moral work engaged in by readers of novels. The evaluation of these claims requires a discussion of the nature of philosophy. I find that Murdoch and Nussbaum agree on the ability of literature to contribute to moral understanding, but disagree on the issue of what philosophy is. Therefore, they disagree on the question of whether certain works of fiction are also works of philosophy. I argue that the task Nussbaum assigns philosophy is too broad. Through the use of critical and reflective methods, philosophy should examine and sort moral claims. Literary, philosophical and religious texts contribute to moral eduction; keeping them separate helps us appreciate their distinct contributions, as well as respect their distinct aims and methods. Therefore, I conclude that Nussbaum’s inclusion of certain novels in philosophy cannot be sustained.
Knowledge as Lucidity: “Summer in Algiers”
Authors: Lawry Edward G.
Published: November 2019

This early essay by Albert Camus presents an eloquent picture of his understanding of what it means to know. But in order for us to assimilate it, we must recognize that Camus is not celebrating a hedonic naturalism, nor engaging in an existential anti-intellectualism. Rather, his articulation of lucidity and the exemplification of it in the artistry of the essay itself presents us with a challenging concept of knowledge. I attempt to explicate this concept with the help of two images, one from the musical Hair and one from the movie The Pawnbroker, thus seeking to reinforce Camus' reliance upon image as the equivalent of idea.
America the Philosophical
Authors: Romano Carlin
Published: November 2019

Although convention dictates that America is an unphilosophical sort of country, fonder of Super Bowls than supervenience, the development of philosophy away from Socratic strategies that presume eternal right answers to the classical philosophical problems suggests a second look is in order. This is particularly true if one accepts many of the notions currently in the air about "post-modern" or "post-analytic" philosophy — that its roots lie in classical rhetoric and pragmatism, or that its notion of truth holds the latter to be what issues from the most wide-open sort of informed deliberation possible. In that case, it begins to seem as if America is to philosophy as Italy is to art, or Norway to skiing: a perfectly designed environment for the practice. This, at least, is the provocation intended by this paper.
Nishida Kitarô’s Studies of the Good and the Debate Concerning Universal Truth in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Authors: Adams Robert W.
Published: November 2019

When Nishida Kitarô wrote Studies of the Good, he was a high school teacher in Kanazawa far from Tokyo, the center of Japanese scholarship. While he was praised for his intellectual effort, there was no substantive agreement about the content of his ideas. Critics disagreed with the way he conceived of reality and of truth as contained in reality. Taken together, I believe that the responses to Nishida's early work give us a window on the state of Japanese philosophy in the early twentieth century. In what follows, I give evidence for the existence of such a debate about the nature of truth and reality. After a sketch of Nishida's position (in which scientific truth is made subordinate to an all-encompassing divine truth), I outline the positions of two other contemporary thinkers: Katô Hiroyuki and Takahashi Satomi. With respect to Nishida, they offer markedly different takes on the question of universal truth: Katô favors an antireligious, scientific positivism while Takahashi accepts an existentialist notion of radical human finitude, in which human access to any certainty is denied. I conclude that one is confronted with a lively debate by Japanese philosophers inside Japan about the definition of truth and consequently about the nature of reality.
Impermanence and Death in Sino-Japanese Philosophical Context
Authors: Milcinski Maja
Published: November 2019

This paper discusses the notions of impermanence and death as treated in the Chinese and Japanese philosophical traditions, particularly in connection with the Buddhist concept of emptiness and void and the original Daoist answers to the problem. Methodological problems are mentioned and two ways of approaching the theme are proposed: the logically discursive and the meditative mystical one, with the two symbols of each, Uroboros and the open circle. The switch of consciousness is suggested as an essential condition for liberation of the Ego and its illusions. Rational logic as well as the sophisticated meditative ways of selflessness and detachment are suggested when treating the Chinese and Japanese philosophical notions, and examples of the discussed topics from the texts given. The instructive seventh chapter of the classical Daoist work, Lie Zi, is analyzed in detail and put into contrast with the answers given to that problem in the Greco-Judeo-Christian tradition.
Averting Arguments: Nagarjuna’s Verse 29
Authors: Wertz S. K.
Published: November 2019

I examine Nagarjuna’s averting an opponent’s argument (Verse 29 of Averting the Arguments), Paul Sagal’s general interpretation of Nagarjuna and especially Sagal’s conception of "averting" an argument. Following Matilal, a distinction is drawn between locutionary negation and illocationary negation in order to avoid errant interpretations of verse 29 ("If I would make any proposition whatever, then by that I would have a logical error. But I do not make a proposition; therefore, I am not in error.") The argument is treated as representing an ampliative or inductive inference rather than a deductive one. As Nagarjuna says in verse 30: "That [denial] of mine [in verse 29] is a non-apprehension of non-things" and non-apprehension is the averting of arguments or "the relinquishing of all views." "Not making a proposition P" would be not speaking P or silence with regard to P (where P is some opposing view) and, as Sagal argues, not meaning a global linguistic silence (where P stands for any proposition whatsoever). Such an interpretation would lead to attributing wholesale irrationalism to Nagarjuna-something I wish to avoid.