bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Green and Sustainable High-Performance Computing through Smartphone Crowd Computing
Authors: Dutta Pramanik Pijush Kanti , Pal Saurabh , Choudhury Prasenjit
Published: May 2019

The introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data applications have garnered a massive amount of digital data. Processing and analysing these data demand vast computing resources, proportionately. The major downside of producing and using computing resources in such volumes is the deterioration of the Earth's environment. The production process of the electronic devices involves hazardous and toxic substances which not only harm human and other living being’s health but also contaminate the water and soil. The production and operations of these computers in largescale also results in massive energy consumption and greenhouse gas generation. Moreover, the low use cycle of these devices produces a huge amount of not-easy-to-decompose e-waste. In this outlook, instead of buying new devices, it is advisable to use the existing resources to their fullest, which will minimize the environmental penalties of production and e-waste. This paper advocates for using smartphones and smartphone crowd computing (SCC) to ease off the use of PCs/laptops and centralized high-performance computers (HPCs) such as data centres and supercomputers. The paper aims to establish SCC as the most feasible computing system solution for sustainable computing. Detailed comparisons, in terms of environmental effects (e.g., energy consumption, greenhouse gas generation, etc.), between SCC and supercomputers and other green computing initiatives such as Grid and Cloud Computing, are presented. The key enablers of SCC are identified and discussed. One of them is today's computationally powerful smartphones. A comprehensive statistical survey of the various commercial CPUs, GPUs, SoCs for smartphones is presented confirming the capability of the SCC as an alternative to HPC. The challenges involved in realizing SCC are also considered. One of the major challenges is handling the issue of limited battery in smartphones. The reasons for battery drain are recognized with probable measures. An exhaustive survey is presented on the present and optimistic future of the continuous improvement and research on different aspects of smartphone battery and other alternative power sources which will allow users to use their smartphones for SCC without worrying about the battery running out.
Research on Auto-Scaling of Web Applications in Cloud: Survey, Trends and Future Directions
Authors: Singh Parminder , Gupta Pooja , Jyoti Kiran , Nayyar Anand
Published: May 2019

Cloud computing emerging environment attracts many applications providers to deploy web applications on cloud data centers. The primary area of attraction is elasticity, which allows to auto-scale the resources on-demand. However, web applications usually have dynamic workload and hard to predict. Cloud service providers and researchers are working to reduce the cost while maintaining the Quality of Service (QoS). One of the key challenges for web application in cloud computing is auto-scaling. The auto-scaling in cloud computing is still in infancy and required detail investigation of taxonomy, approach and types of resources mapped to the current research. In this article, we presented the literature survey for auto-scaling techniques of web applications in cloud computing. This survey supports the research community to find the requirements in auto-scaling techniques. We present a taxonomy of reviewed articles with parameters such as auto-scaling techniques, approach, resources, monitoring tool, experiment, workload, and metric, etc. Based on the analysis, we proposed the new areas of research in this direction.
A estética da desregulação da violência doméstica em Marina Colasanti
Authors: Magno Gomes Carlos
Published: May 2019

Este artigo apresenta um estudo acerca das regulações de gênero que normatizam a violência doméstica pela análise da obra Contos de amor rasgados (1986), de Marina Colasanti. Partimos do conceito de revisão paródica, de Linda Hutcheon, para identificar a caricatura da masculinidade como uma forma de deslocamento das normas de gênero. De acordo com os estudos acadêmicos de Judith Butler, Henrietta Moore, Lia Zanotta Machado e Rita Laura Segato, apresentamos a violência de gênero e o excesso de masculinidade como práticas de controle moral e físico da mulher. Especificamente, investigamos como são representados os valores morais atrelados à questão da honra e à crise identitária das personagens masculinas.
Páginas iniciais
Authors: Revista de estudos interdisciplinares Interseções
Published: May 2019

Páginas iniciais
A Primeira Guerra aos olhos inocentes de Willie, em A Long Long Way
Authors: Abrantes Elisa Lima
Published: May 2019

O romance A Long Long Way (2005), do escritor irlandês Sebastian Barry traz como tema um episódio histórico para o qual a narrativa republicana irlandesa preferiu não dar visibilidade − a entrada da Irlanda na Primeira Guerra Mundial como parte do exército britânico. Este artigo pretende demonstrar que o projeto autoral do escritor, inspirado pelo revisionismo histórico do nacionalismo irlandês, traz visibilidade a outros pontos de vista que não o hegemônico e oficial da república, refletindo a natureza complexa do processo de independência e das afiliações políticas que a precederam. Sugere ainda que a teorização sobre o romance de trauma, conforme desenvolvida por Granofsky (1995) pode ser utilizada para compreender melhor a construção do protagonista no romance de Barry.
A facilidade do apagamento da história: Orra, a rasura da voz feminina e a tragédia na loucura
Authors: Cianconi Vanessa
Published: May 2019

A perversidade do século XIX vai além da simples definição do que é perverso no dicionário, a perversão de então estava no apagamento não somente da voz feminina, mas no apagamento do ato de ocultar os problemas da sociedade a serem discutidos na cena inglesa. Suprimir, esconder, tirar do palco as vozes que tinham o que dizer e eliminar o que poderia ser apresentado ao público a fim de faze-lo pensar. O teatro de Joanna Baillie tentou ser diferente enquanto argumentava que a mulher, isoladamente, não era suscetível ao medo supersticioso. Este artigo questiona o fato da peça Orra: A tragedy perfazer um caminho oposto ao defendido pela dramaturga em sua teoria da tragédia. No ato de enlouquecer ao final da peça, Orra, a mulher independente e forte de Baillie, se transforma na típica mulher fraca do século XIX e o apagamento acaba, por sua vez, sendo duplo, o da memória da dramaturga na história e o da sua personagem feminina.
REFLETINDO SOBRE AS EXPERIÊNCIAS DO CURSO “FORMAÇÃO CONTINUADA DE PROFESSORES DE INGLÊS COMO LÍNGUA ADICIONAL” / Reflections on the experiences of the “In-service education for teachers of English as an additional language” course
Authors: Nascimento Ana Karina De Oliveira , Souza Marlene De Almeida Augusto de , Zacchi Vanderlei José
Published: May 2019

Em 2017, integrantes do grupo de pesquisa Letramentos em inglês: língua, literatura e cultura (Linc) da Universidade Federal de Sergipe realizou um projeto de extensão voltado para professores de inglês da educação básica. Dividido em quatro módulos ao longo do ano, o projeto “Formação continuada de professores de inglês como língua adicional” tinha como objetivo ampliar as oportunidades de ensino e aprendizagem de língua inglesa como prática social. Com base nas ações desenvolvidas ao longo de dois dos módulos ofertados, English through New Literacies e English Language Materials, bem como em apresentações feitas por dois professores de inglês da rede pública em um evento na universidade, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo (re)pensar criticamente as propostas do curso a partir dos relatos das experiências desses dois professores. Para isso, fazemos uso de referenciais teóricos tais como letramentos, multimodalidade, educação linguística crítica, entre outros. Nesse processo, um dos aspectos que chamaram a nossa atenção é o fato de que repensar a formação (continuada) de professores de línguas em uma perspectiva crítica ainda é um grande desafio, já que é preciso (re)pensar constantemente os caminhos e não voltar para o caminho mais conhecido, mais confortável, que aponta a direção certa ou errada, desconsiderando os diferentes contextos em que uma aula de inglês acontece.
‘I make no money. I’m broke’: A study on the organization of work in the contemporary Swedish fashion industry
Authors: Warkander Philip
Published: May 2019

This article is based in an understanding of the cultural and creative industries in general, and of the fashion industry in particular, as marked by a fundamental ambivalence affecting the symbolic value of the commodities produced as well as the organization of labour in the industry. The aim is to understand how work in the contemporary Swedish fashion system is organized and experienced by the people who, through their creative work, help to maintain and reproduce this industry. Using ethnographic fieldwork to gather empirical material, the article explores the experiences of working in a volatile field, as expressed by the informants who hold various types of creative positions, and suggests that for many of those who work creatively, the economic underpinnings of the job are central but not always dominant as driving forces. It concludes that creative work should not only be studied in regards to specific kinds of tasks but also in consideration of how long the practitioner has been active in the creative industries, as well as their overall position in life, along with which forms of capital they have at their disposal, financial or otherwise.
O corpo intermediário. Uma aproximação fenomenológica
Authors: Falcón Luis Álvarez
Published: May 2019

O presente texto procura sintetizar dez grandes teses que dão conta dos múltiplos níveis da experiência sobre o corpo. A origem destas considerações é radicalmente filosófica e as suas consequências afetam tanto o âmbito geral das artes quanto o próprio estatuto da filosofia. A fenomenologia é oprincipal marco teórico de referência. As proposições apresentam‑se como um recurso prático para ampliar a reflexão sobre o pensamento e a extensão sobre o corpo vivido, a espacialidade e a espacialização. A distinção, a separação, a distância, a interioridade, a exterioridade, a experiência do corpo interno (Leib) e do corpo externo (Körper) e os níveis de espacialidade serão algumas das questões críticas expostas. A distinção fenomenológica entre Phantasia e imaginação será a chave para pensar o desdobramento da subjetividade e do corpo depois da redução fenomenológica. Propomos, aqui, pensar o registo de um corpo intermediário ou de uma subjetividade média, que corresponde ao nível das Phantasias perceptivas, e cujos rendimentos são tanto estéticos quanto éticos, desenvolvidos pela filosofia fenomenológica.
Pragmatik Argümanlar ve İnanç
Authors: Tanış Abdülkadir
Published: May 2019

Pragmatik argümanlar sınıfı içerisinde bazıları, belirli inançların edinilmesini teşvik etmek için tasarlanmıştır. İlginç biçimde, pragmatik argümanların bu alt sınıfı, en azından öncelikli olarak, doğruyu-amaçlayan argümanlar değildir. Doğruyu-amaçlayan argüman, bir önermenin doğru olduğunu düşünmek için gerekçelendirme sağladığı farz edilen argümandır. Pragmatik argüman, bir inancın edinimini, sadece bu inanca sahip olmaktan kaynaklanan menfaatler sebebiyle teşvik eden, menfaati-amaçlayan argümandır. Öyleyse, pragmatik argüman, belirli bir inancın oluşumunu ve devamlılığını, esas olarak, bu inanca sahip olmanın ortaya çıkardığı menfaatler sebebiyle teşvik etme çabasında olan bir argüman olarak tanımlanabilir.Bu tercüme, Delaware Üniversitesi Felsefe Profesörü Jeff Jordan'ın “Pragmatic Arguments and Belief” adlı makalenin tercümesidir. Makale, American Philosophical Quarterly,33/4 (1996), dergisinde s. 409-420 yayımlanmıştır.
THE EFFECT OF PRODUCT FASCINATION, SERVICE FASCINATION, AND COMPETITIVE POWER OF TARIFF ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AND IMPACT ON TRANSACTION DECISIONS (Study on Agent BRILink BRI Branch of Pati)
Authors: Kurniawan Rizal Mahdi , Soesanto Harry , Sugiarto Sugiarto
Published: May 2019

Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) innovates to launch BRILink Agent services as a collaborative partner between BRI Bank and its customers. The problem in this research is how to improve customer satisfaction which will influence the decisions of transactions at BRILink BRI Branch of Pati. Data on observed variables were obtained through interviews with questionnaires to 110 BRI Bank customers who transacted at BRILink Branch of Pati and tested using AMOS statistic software. The result of SEM analysis confirm the criteria of Goodness of fit that is Chi-Square is 154.616 with probability equal to 0.277; CMIN/DF (1.066); GFI (0.873); AGFI (0.833); TLI (0.991); CFI (0.992); and RMSEA (0.025). The result of hypothesis testing is: transaction decisions are statistically proven to be affected by customer satisfaction, customer satisfaction is statistically proven to be affected by service attractiveness and tariff competitiveness, while the attractiveness of unpaid products has a significant effect.
On the Ito formula in a Banach Space
Authors: Mamporia B.
Published: May 2019

If (Wt
)
t∈[ 0, 1] is a Wiener process in an arbitrary separable Banach space X, ψ : [0, 1] × X → Y is a continuous function with values in another separable Banach space, and ψ has continuous Frechet derivatives , and , then the Ito formula is obtained for ψ(t, Wt
).

The method is based on the concept of covariance operator and a special construction of the Ito stochastic integral.
On the Rearranged Block-Orthonormal Systems
Authors: Nadibaidze G.
Published: May 2019

A condition is established for the sequence {Nk
} when there exists a rearrangement of functions of the block-orthonormal system {φn
} such that the sequence {log2
n} ({(log log n)2}) is a Weyl multiplier for the convergence (for the summability by the methods (C, α) (α > 0)) almost everywhere of series with respect to the rearranged system {φνn

}.
K-Convexity and Duality for Almost Summing Operators
Authors: Blasco O. , Tarieladze V. , Vidal R.
Published: May 2019

For a fixed sequence f. = (fn
) of independent identically distributed symmetric random variables with , we introduce the notion of Kf.
-convex Banach space and the notions of (fn
)-bounding and (fn
)-converging operators acting between Banach spaces. It is shown that the dual of the space of (fn
)-converging operators between a Hilbert space and a Kf.
-convex Banach space admits a precise description in terms of trace duality. The obtained results recover similar formulations for almost summing and γ-Radonifying operators.
Generalized Derivatives of an Arbitrary Order and the Boundary Properties of Differentiated Poisson Integrals for the Half-Space
Authors: Topuria S.
Published: May 2019

The notions of a generalized differential and a generalized spherical derivative of an arbitrary order are introduced for a function of several variables and Fatou type theorems are proved on the boundary properties of partial derivatives of an arbitrary order of the Poisson integral for the half-space, when the integral density has a generalized differential or a generalized spherical derivative.
On the Convergence and Summability of N-Dimensional Fourier Series with Respect to the Walsh–Paley Systems in the Spaces LP ([0, 1] N ), p ∈ [1, + ∞]
Authors: Goginava U.
Published: May 2019

The convergence and summability of N-dimensional Walsh–Fourier series in the metrics LP
([0, 1]
N
), p ∈ [1, + ∞], are studied by the negative order Césaro method. Getsadze's theorem and a generalization of Moricz' theorem are obtained as special cases.
On Multidimensional SDEs Without Drift and with A Time-Dependent Diffusion Matrix
Authors: Engelbert H. J. , Kurenok V. P.
Published: May 2019

We study multidimensional stochastic equations

where x
o is an arbitrary initial state, W is a d-dimensional Wiener process and is a measurable diffusion coefficient. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of weak solutions. Our main result generalizes some results obtained by A. Rozkosz and L. Słomiński [Stochastics Stochasties Rep. 42: 199–208, 1993] and T. Senf [Stochastics Stochastics Rep. 43: 199–220, 1993] for the existence of weak solutions of one-dimensional stochastic equations and also some results by A. Rozkosz and L. Słomiński [Stochastic Process. Appl. 37: 187–197, 1991], [Stochastic Process. Appl. 68: 285–302, 1997] for multidimensional equations. Finally, we also discuss the homogeneous case.
A Direct Boundary Integral Method for a Mobility Problem
Authors: Kohr Mirela
Published: May 2019

The problem of a Stokes flow in the presence of a solid particle, a rigid wall and a viscous cell is formulated as a system of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind, with the surface force on the boundary of the solid particle and the velocity on the interface as unknowns. The particularity of the problem consists in the fact that the total force and the total torque of the flow on the solid particle are zero. The existence and the uniqueness result of solution is obtained when the boundaries are curves of the class C
2.
The Construction of the Bases of Some Eight Level Cusp Form Spaces
Authors: Tsalugelashvili N. , Vepkhvadze T.
Published: May 2019

The modular properties of generalized theta-functions with characteristics are used to build the bases of the cusp form spaces corresponding to eight level quadratic forms.
A cyclic I10
2− anion in the layered crystal structure of theophyllinium pentaiodide, C7H9I5N4O2
Authors: Reiss Guido J.
Published: May 2019

C7H9I5N4O2, monoclinic, P21/c (no. 14), a = 9.46793(10) Å, b = 11.58276(12) Å, c = 16.41497(18) Å, β = 100.844(1)°, Z = 4, V = 1768.00(3) Å3, Rgt
(F) = 0.0306, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.0728, T = 130(2) K.
Metabolic pattern analysis of 18F-FDG PET as a marker for Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Gu Si-Chun , Ye Qing , Yuan Can-Xing
Published: May 2019

A large number of articles have assessed the diagnostic accuracy of the metabolic pattern analysis of [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) in Parkinson’s disease (PD); however, different studies involved small samples with various controls and methods, leading to discrepant conclusions. This study aims to consolidate the available observational studies and provide a comprehensive evaluation of the clinical utility of 18F-FDG PET for PD. The methods included a systematic literature search and a hierarchical summary receiver operating characteristic approach. Sensitivity analyses according to different pattern analysis methods (statistical parametric mapping versus scaled subprofile modeling/principal component analysis) and control population [healthy controls (HCs) versus atypical parkinsonian disorder (APD) patients] were performed to verify the consistency of the main results. Additional analyses for multiple system atrophy (MSA) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) were conducted. Fifteen studies comprising 1446 subjects (660 PD patients, 499 APD patients, and 287 HCs) were included. The overall diagnostic accuracy of 18F-FDG in differentiating PD from APDs and HCs was quite high, with a pooled sensitivity of 0.88 [95% confidence interval (95% CI), 0.85–0.91] and a pooled specificity of 0.92 (95% CI, 0.89–0.94), with sensitivity analyses indicating statistically consistent results. Additional analyses showed an overall sensitivity and specificity of 0.87 (95% CI, 0.76–0.94) and 0.93 (95% CI, 0.89–0.96) for MSA and 0.91 (95% CI, 0.78–0.95) and 0.96 (95% CI, 0.92–0.98) for PSP. Our study suggests that the metabolic pattern analysis of 18F-FDG PET has high diagnostic accuracy in the differential diagnosis of parkinsonian disorders.
História Pública as memórias da hanseníase no Hospital Colônia Santa Teresa (Santa Catarina/Brasil)
Authors: Borges Viviane , Pistorello Daniela
Published: May 2019

O artigo trata de um trabalho de pesquisa-ação realizado no Hospital Colônia Santa Teresa, antigo leprosário de Santa Catarina (Brasil). Este trabalho propôs inicialmente uma atividade envolvendo pacientes e funcionários da Instituição e alunos da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, e teve como resultado uma exposição idealizada e protagonizada pelos sujeitos sociais que vivem ou viveram no local ou que, de alguma forma, tiveram algum envolvimento com a hanseníase naquele espaço. De forma geral, o processo coletivo de criação da exposição seu deu por meio de Rodas de Conversa, nas quais se buscou apresentar a hanseníase no estado através da exposição Lugar de morar, lugar de cuidar. Apresentaremos os bastidores do processo de criação da referida exposição como um processo de patrimonialização, fundamentado a partir de uma experiência colaborativa.
National Traitors In Chicano Culture and Literature: Malinche and Chicano Homosexuals
Authors: Alvarez Alma Rosa
Published: May 2019

This article examines the literary representation of a treatment of homosexuality in Mexican/Chicano culture. In this study, Alvarez argues that this cultural treatment is rooted in the gender paradigm central to Mexican/Chicano culture: the narrative of La Malinche.
Sports and the Politics of Identity and Memory: The Case of Federal Indian Boarding Schools During the 1930s
Authors: Bloom John
Published: May 2019

The federal government of the United States developed a complex System of boarding schools for Native Americans in the 19(th) century. This effort was generally insensitive and often brutal. In spite of such brutality many students managed to negotiate and create new understandings of traditions and cultural autonomy while in such schools. Now, however, some former students remember their lives as students with mixed emotions. Drawing on oral history interviews and public official documents, the author examines the recreational and athletic life at the boarding schools and finds that students were, nevertheless, able to experience pleasure and pride in creating new ways of expressing their identities as Native Americans.
Editor's Note
Authors: Turner Faythe
Published: May 2019

This issue of Ethnic Studies Review reflects the important critical work being done in the field of ethnic literature, an indication that this literature is getting the attention it deserves.
Middle Passage to Freedom: Black Atlantic Consciousness in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage and S. I. Martin's Incomparable World
Authors: Nowatzki Robert
Published: May 2019

Charles Johnson's novel, Middle Passage, and S.I. Martin's novel, Incomparable World, illustrate through mobile, culturally hybrid protagonists Paul Gilroy's notion of Black Atlantic consciousness, which is based on cultural hybridity and physical mobility across the Atlantic between Europe and Africa, America and the Caribbean. I argue that both novels blur the line between freedom and slavery, between oppressed and oppressor, and disrupt the links between blackness and slavery, between mobility and freedom. In both novels the diasporic Black Atlantic experiences privilege masculinity, since neither novel includes black women who can experience the mobility that the male protagonists do.
Chinatown Black Tigers: Black Masculinity and Chinese Heroism in Frank Chin's Gunga Din Highway
Authors: Anderson Crystal S.
Published: May 2019

Images of ominous villains and asexual heroes in literature and mainstream American culture tend to relegate Asian American men to limited expressions of masculinity. These emasculating images deny Asian American men elements of traditional masculinity, including agency and strength. Many recognize the efforts of Frank Chin, a Chinese American novelist, to confront, expose, and revise such images by relying on a tradition of Chinese heroism. In Gunga Din Highway (1994), however, Chin creates an Asian American masculinity based on elements of both the Chinese heroic tradition and a distinct brand of African American masculinity manifested in the work of Ishmael Reed, an African American novelist and essayist known for his outspoken style. Rather than transforming traditional masculinity to include Asian American manhood, Chin's images of men represent an appropriation of elements from two ethnic sources that Chin uses to underscore those of Asian Americans. While deconstructing the reductive images advocated by the dominant culture, Chin critiques the very black masculinity he adopts. Ultimately he fails to envision modes of masculinity not based on dominance, yet Chin's approach also can be read as the ultimate expression of Asian American individualism.
Ethnic and Racial Definitions as Manifestations of American Public Policy
Authors: Welch Ashton Wesley
Published: May 2019

Official definitions of race and ethnicity in American law reveal a great deal about public policy in an environment of ethnic pluralism. Despite some ambiguity over who is black or Hispanic or an Aleut, relatively few people fall between the wide cracks in the American patchwork of identity classifications. Those cracks, however, tell us a great deal about the ambivalence of the American polity toward ethnicity.
Centering Race and Ethnicity- Related Issues in Social Sciences Curricula
Authors: Sheley Joseph F.
Published: May 2019

A 2002 review of the course requirements and electives of Economics, History, Political Science, and Sociology programs in thirty randomly selected state and private, “doctoral-level” and “masters-level” institutions produced 201 courses relating to the study of race-and ethnic-related issues. Only two courses (History offerings on a single campus) were required for completion of a major. While some departments offered “concentrations” with mandated content, the concentrations themselves were elective. Diversity in America today is a truly important component of social (re)organization and change and, thus, a major source of social friction. Why is it, then, that students, those majoring in the social sciences in particular, are able, by uninformed or informed choice, to complete a degree with but cursory attention to the topic? This essay addresses the reasons for relegation of diversity-related issues to optional status and argues that the situation can and should be reversed.
Law and the Making of Slavery in Colonial Virginia
Authors: Welch Ashton Wesley
Published: May 2019

Some authorities from the antebellum period to the present have located the source of the American law of slavery in continental civil law codes and hence in Roman slave law. They have been unable or unwilling to connect the brutal system of institutionalized racial slavery that emerged in Virginia and elsewhere in the American slave kingdom with what they have perceived as an open, freedom-favoring Anglo-American legal system and have thus sought an explanation of its legal underpinnings in other jurisdictical standards. Both the absence of chattel slavery in English law and the common law's claimed bias in favor of liberty have often been cited as reasons why it is impossible that English law could be the source of such an abomination.
Diversity as an Orientalist Discourse
Authors: Nuñez-Janes Mariela
Published: May 2019

The goal of promoting diversity is deep-rooted in the post-civil rights activities of U.S. educational institutions. Universities across the country attempt to foster diversity by seeking a diverse student body, creating initiatives that promote diversity, institutionalizing committees and administrative positions with the sole purpose of overseeing diversity, and implementing curricular strategies to support academic diversity. The pursuit of diversity is so integral to the survival and attractiveness of college campuses that some universities even lie in order to appear diverse to potential students and public supporters. Such was the case of the University of Wisconsin, Madison whose officials digitally inserted the face of a black student into an image of white football fans in order to portray a diverse picture of the university's student body. Etemonstrating that diversity is valued is a staple of any academically competitive US university.
(In) Visible Fissures and the “Multicultural American: Interrupting Race, Ethnicity, and Imperialism Through TV's Survivor
Authors: Hentges Sarah
Published: May 2019

One of the longest running reality TV shows, with 15 seasons as of 2007, Survivor is an important text for considerations of race and ethnicity, legacies of imperialism, and the idea of the “multicultural” America. Survivor provides an evolving adventure narrative -one that relies upon the legacies of the past, like colonialism and imperialism, as well as the myths of the present and future, like tourism as a means of survival in a globalized economy. As these imperial contexts are adapted Survivor provides moments for (mostly white or white-identified) privileged, “multicultural” first-world Americans to participate in neo-colonial cultural and economic imperialism and cultural tourism - all from the comforts of our living rooms. While participation in American imperialism and televisual cultural tourism are certainly problematic, such participation can also be disruptive of simplistic notions of American culture, economics, politics, and identities and can tell us much about the ways in which ideas about race are “sold” by the show and interrupted and negotiated by its racialized contestants.
To Arrange or Not: Marriage Trends in the South Asian American Community
Authors: Ternikar Farha
Published: May 2019

The idea of the arranged marriage has always seemed “exotic” yet has fascinated the American public. Recent media coverage of arranged marriages is evident in popular periodicals such as the New York Times Online (August 17, 2000) and Newsweek (March 15, 1999). Foner highlights that the arranged marriage is an example of “the continued impact of premigration cultural beliefs and social practices” that South Asian immigrants have transported to the United States (Foner 1997, 964). She offers an interpretive synthesis by showing that “[n]ew immigrant family patterns are shaped by cultural meanings and social practices that immigrants bring with them from their home countries as well as by social, economic, and cultural forces in the United States” (Foner 2005, 157).
Aesthetic and Social Community: Multicultural Poetry and the Anthologizing of Poems
Authors: Tso Yi-Hsuan
Published: May 2019

Scholars from various disciplines have explored the concept of multiculturalism from the perspectives of citizenship, recognition, representation, tokenism, constitutionalism, and other vantage points, with politics and education receiving most of the attention.1 While many efforts have been made to explore these aspects of multiculturalism, its significance in poetry, particularly in poetry's composition and critique, has not been duly taken into account. Multicultural poetry designates a critical abstraction in which poetry is classified by relation to a communal culture, history, or customs. In this definition, multicultural poetry is therefore inclusive of poetry written by ethnic minorities, women, non-mainstream religious practitioners, and members of other communities. To maintain a focus, this article delimits its discussion to poetry's relationship with ethnicity and probes the interplay between aesthetic and ethnicity in three sections–Mainstream Poetry Anthologies: Tastes, Schools, and the Issue of History, Multicultural Poetry Anthologies: Situated Poetry and Group Poetics, and Ethnopoetics as a Choice.
National Fantasies, Exclusion, and the Many Houses on Mango Street
Authors: Perez Lorna L.
Published: May 2019

This article argues that understanding what the house in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street symbolizes is foundational to contextualizing the radical possibilities that Cisneros enacts in her work. Unlike most critics who read “the house” as referencing the title of the text, I argue that the novel is full of houses, notably the house located on Mango Street that narrator Esperanza Cordero longs to escape from, and the house away from Mango Street that she longs to one day have. By reading these two houses through Homi Bhabha's notion of the “unhomely” and Gaston Bachelard's notion of “felicitous space”, we can better understand a critique of the house in light of its resonance with the American Dream on the one hand, and a reconfiguration of that symbolism through a feminist intervention on the other.
Free Your Mind: Contemporary Racial Attitudes and Post Racial Theory
Authors: Bonnette Lakeyta M. , Gershon Sarah M. , Hall Precious D.
Published: May 2019

The inauguration of the United States first Black President has prompted mass discussions of race relations in America. It is often articulated that America is now in a post-racial society. However, the question still remains: does the election of a Black president demonstrate that America is now a “color-blind” society? To answer this question, we rely on data collected by PEW (2007). Our results suggest that white and African Americans differ significantly in the extent to which they express post-racial attitudes. Specifically, we find that whites more commonly express post-racial attitudes, claiming that racism and discrimination are rare, in opposition to African American views. On the other hand, blacks are more likely to believe that discrimination still occurs. We further find that whites' post-racial beliefs are significant determinants of their attitudes towards race-related policies, such as affirmative action.
Exploring the Dynamics of Identity Based Conflict and the Possibility for its Sustainable Management: A Study of the Persistent Ethno-Religious Conflict in Wukari Area of Taraba State, Nigeria
Authors: Momodu Jude A. , Matudi G.I. , Momodu Abiodun L.
Published: May 2019

This article explores the dynamics of identity-based conflict and the possibility for its management. The study in particular focuses on the persistent ethno-religious conflicts in the Wukari Area of Taraba State, Nigeria. The real issues precipitating the persistent ethno-religious conflicts and the costs of the conflicts were clearly brought to the fore. The study proposes a new paradigm for managing social conflicts at the community level through the ‘use of community solutions for community problems’ which will involve the constructive participation of all of the stakeholders in the community. This paper concludes by making a proposal for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) and a power sharing arrangement as strategies that could bring about lasting peace between the Jukun Christians/Traditionalist Jukun and the Jukun Muslims/Hausa Muslims who are the warring parties in the persistent ethno-religious conflicts ravaging Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State, Nigeria.
Cultural Disenfranchisement and the Politics of Stigma
Authors: Mendible Myra
Published: May 2019

This article focuses attention on the pivotal role that stigmatization processes play on both legal and discursive fronts, that is, in justifying restrictive policies affecting ethnic minorities and in framing reactionary discourses in support of such measures. It argues that racial stigmatization is the key component in ongoing efforts to exclude Black and Latino citizens from full cultural citizenship in the United States, setting the groundwork for punitive and exclusionary policies aimed at disenfranchising and undermining their political agency. While legal documents record the rights and privileges accorded citizens within the nation’s physical spaces, the politics of stigma, I contend, maps a moral geography: it sets the contours and limits of communal obligation, disrupting affective bonds and attachments that can spur social change. As an instrument of power, stigmatizing processes today are helping to reinstate the kinds of policies and attitudes that the Voting Rights Act intended to redress, engendering a hostile climate for Blacks and Latinos in the United States and threatening hard-won civil rights and political gains.
Familial GATA6 mutation causing variably expressed diabetes mellitus and cardiac and renal abnormalities
Authors: Du Yang Timothy , Moore Lynette , Poplawski Nicola K , De Sousa Sunita M C
Published: May 2019

A 26-year-old man presented with a combination of permanent neonatal diabetes due to pancreatic aplasia, complex congenital heart disease, central hypogonadism and growth hormone deficiency, structural renal abnormalities with proteinuria, umbilical hernia, neurocognitive impairment and dysmorphic features. His older brother had diabetes mellitus due to pancreatic hypoplasia, complex congenital heart disease, hypospadias and umbilical hernia. Their father had an atrial septal defect, umbilical hernia and diabetes mellitus diagnosed incidentally in adulthood on employment screening. The proband’s paternal grandmother had a congenital heart defect. Genetic testing of the proband revealed a novel heterozygous missense variant (Chr18:g.19761441T>C, c.1330T>C, p.Cys444Arg) in exon 4 of GATA6, which is class 5 (pathogenic) using American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics guidelines and is likely to account for his multisystem disorder. The same variant was detected in his brother and father, but not his paternal grandmother. This novel variant of GATA6 likely occurred de novo in the father with autosomal dominant inheritance in the proband and his brother. The case is exceptional as very few families with monogenic diabetes due to GATA6 mutations have been reported to date and we describe a new link between GATA6 and renal pathology.

Learning points:

Monogenic diabetes should be suspected in patients presenting with syndromic features, multisystem congenital disease, neonatal-onset diabetes and/or a suggestive family history.

Recognition and identification of genetic diabetes may improve patient understanding and empowerment and allow for better tailored management.

Identification of a genetic disorder may have important implications for family planning.
Use of radiotherapy after pituitary surgery for non-functioning pituitary adenomas
Authors: Chanson Philippe , Dormoy Alexandre , Dekkers Olaf M
Published: May 2019

Surgery is the treatment of choice for non-functioning pituitary macroadenomas (NFPAs). In cases of postoperative remnant growth or tumor recurrence, radiotherapy (RT) can be considered. The role of RT in the postoperative management of NFPAs is still debated. The main arguments against routine use of RT are the lack of randomized controlled trials, the use of clinically irrelevant endpoints in most studies on RT, the benign character of the condition, the potential for side effects of RT, and the option to apply RT at a later stage. However, because of its excellent efficacy in inhibiting tumor growth, reducing tumor volume and improving any existing visual defects, and as its side effects seem to be limited compared to the benefits provided, RT keeps a place in the management of NFPAs when a tumor remnant persists, particularly if it is invasive and displays high proliferation markers, if surveillance shows a relevant increase in tumor volume or if the tumor is close to the optic chiasm. The size of the remnant, its vicinity with the optic pathways, and the potential risk to healthy surrounding tissues need to be considered when deciding on an RT procedure.
Postoperative Lymphatic Leakage in Oncosurgical Patients
Authors: Yarema I. V. , Fatuev O. E. , Kozlov N. S. , Tagirova A. G. , Vagabova I. M. , Hasan A. Sh. , Simanin R. A. , Korolyuk G. M. , Safronova V. V.
Published: May 2019

Purpose: to evaluate the influence of postoperative lymphatic leakage volume and duration on homokinesis and incidence of postoperative complications in oncosurgury patients underwent different operative interventions.

Material and methods. The results of treatment of 310 patients subjected to standard elective surgical intervention for a malignant pathology of different organs with regional lymph node dissection were evaluated. The selection criterion was prolonged (more than 7 days) and prominent (over 50 ml a day) lymphatic leakage during the postoperative period. The fluid discharged during the postoperative period was identified as a lymph by cytology. The diagnosis of a malignant pathology was verified in all patients after histological examination and patients were distributed according to established diagnosis.

Results. The duration of lymphatic leakage including the outpatient treatment stage varied from 9 days to 1 year and 2 months depending on the type of surgery. The longest lymphatic leakage occurred in 2 patients after radical mastectomy. During the 1st week of observation in patients with daily lymph losses up to 100 ml, no changes in the blood composition were noted. Prolonged lymphatic leakage (1–2 weeks after operation) in a volume over 100 ml a day resulted in reduced protein content in blood plasma, severe lymphocytopenia, increased platelet count. During the postoperative period, complications were detected in 31 patients; at that, during the 1st week of observation, 27 patients experienced initial lymphatic leakage over 100 ml a day. Analysis of fatal outcomes (7 patients) showed that in all patients the lymphatic leakage exceeded 150 ml a day and lasted 1 to 2 weeks. The longest inpatient time was typical for patients after Wertheim's hysterectomy and cystectomy, whereas the longest outpatient treatment was experienced by patients after radical mastectomy and inguinofemoral lymph node dissection.

Conclusion. In case of lymphatic leakage over 100 ml a day in oncosurgury patients, it was necessary to make up protein losses and after 7 days of persistent lymphatic leakage it became necessary to consider use of active surgical tactics aimed at liquidation of lymph losses.
El principio ético de simetría La teoría moral formal de Francisco Miró Quesada
Authors: Villaran Alonso
Published: May 2019

Como introducción interpretativa a la “segunda etapa” de la teoría moral de F. Miró Quesada (1918), se analizan sus tres últimos trabajos éticos para ver cómo intenta refi-nar la deontología kantiana, superar sus aparentes límites –materialismo encubierto, formalismo vacío y dualismo absurdo–, y repensar la moral como una moneda de dos caras: simetría y no arbitrariedad. Se presta especial atención a la simetría como condición suficiente para la ética.
La contribución de Rudolph Otto a la ética
Authors: Crespo Mariano
Published: May 2019

R. Otto (1869-1937) es conocido por su trabajo en filosofía de la religión. El artículo presenta sus principales contribuciones, centrando la atención en los Aufsätze zur Ethik y en su conexión con Lo santo. Contra la idea de que Otto no puede desarro- llar una ética sin renunciar a posiciones fundamentales de Lo santo, se sostiene una consonancia con sus escritos éticos, según la tesis de que no todo lo que sabemos es una forma de saber (wissen), en el sentido de representación intelectual.
El consuelo como solicitud Una aproximación fenomenológica
Authors: Mena Malet Patricio Andrés
Published: May 2019

El artículo examina el consuelo como una cuestión filosófica en cuanto que con-creción de la solicitud, y muestra los recursos que aporta para comprender al ser humano como sujeto sufriente y respondiente. Se analiza el consuelo en cuanto que fenómeno de acceso a otras dimensiones constitutivas del ser humano, como la afec-tividad, la apelación y el cuidado.
Dworkin, Ronald M. Religión sin dios. Trad. Víctor Altamirano. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2014. 102pp.
Authors: Garzón Vallejo Iván
Published: May 2019

Religión sin dios, obra póstuma de Ronald Dworkin, es una interesante propuesta del filósofo del derecho es-tadounidense sobre las relaciones entre creyentes y ateos. Este corto libro consta de cuatro capítulos: “Ateísmo religio-so”, “El universo”, “Libertad religiosa” y 1Introduje algunos cambios a las citas de la traducción del Fondo de Cultura Económica, para aproximar el texto a la versión publicada en inglés. Agradezco a José Miguel Rueda su ayuda con la traducción.“Muerte e inmortalidad”. Me voy a cen-trar en la discusión acerca del concepto de religión, entendida en el marco de lo que Dworkin llama la independencia ética, es decir, la idea según la cual la religión es solo una convicción como cualquier otra que tienen los individuos.
Documentación de vivencias recreativas de un grupo de mujeres de Los Cuadros mediante Fotovoz
Authors: Salazar Salas Carmen Grace , Juniu Susana
Published: May 2019

Este estudio es parte de un proyecto de investigación que incluye cuatro comunidades en vulnerabilidad. El artículo reporta los resultados de la primera comunidad. Los objetivos de esta investigación cualitativa son identificar, por medio de la técnica de Fotovoz, las actividades recreativas realizadas en la localidad de Los Cuadros de Purral, en Goicoechea, San José, Costa Rica; así como los factores contextuales que favorecían o dificultaban la participación recreativa. Esta técnica consiste en dar voz a las personas mediante fotografías y narrativas para documentar su realidad. La población fue una muestra por conveniencia. Las seis mujeres fotografiaron su comunidad para documentar su entorno y circunstancias recreativas. Las mujeres redactaron un párrafo para explicar lo que cada fotografía representaba. En conjunto, analizaron las fotos, las agruparon en tópicos de su interés y escogieron las que mejor representaban cada uno de ellos. Los resultados mostraron cinco temas y 24 subtemas. Dos de los cinco temas (Apoyo recibido del gobierno y la empresa privada, y Sentido de comunidad/organización comunal) fueron factores que fomentaron la recreación en la comunidad, otros dos temas (Desilusión por factores negativos y Manipulación de la pobreza) fueron factores que la obstaculizaron y el quinto tema se vinculó con las Actividades recreativas realizadas por la comunidad. Las principales conclusiones involucran el empoderamiento de las mujeres al sentirse reconocidas por sus opiniones, la valorización de la recreación, y el reconocimiento de que las instalaciones y la oferta recreativa no son las requeridas para obtener los beneficios que brinda la recreación.
Estratificación vertical de arañas tejedoras (Araneae) en fragmentos de bosque seco tropical del Caribe colombiano
Authors: Quijano Cuervo Luis Guillermo , Rangel Acosta Jorge , Martínez Hernández Neis , Sabogal Gonzalez Alexander
Published: May 2019

Las arañas han logrado colonizar la mayoría de ambientes terrestres, siendo comunes en los bosques. Este grupo se ha reportado desde el suelo hasta el dosel y sus patrones de distribución vertical han demostrado ser variables en distintos ecosistemas. Teniendo en cuenta esta variabilidad, el objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar los cambios en composición y diversidad de arañas tejedoras en un plano vertical en dos fragmentos de bosque seco con diferente calidad estructural de la vegetación. Para ello fueron seleccionados dos sitios: Reserva Campesina La Montaña (RCM) y Corrales de San Luis (CSL). En cada uno, se realizaron cuatro muestreos, dos en la época seca y dos durante las lluvias. Por fragmento se seleccionaron cinco estaciones distanciadas 100 m y en cada una se marcaron tres puntos distanciados 30 m donde fueron muestreados los estratos vegetales: bajo (20 cm - 2 m), medio (5 - 8 m) y alto (≥ 10 m). Para capturar las arañas, se utilizó la técnica agitación de follaje. 521 individuos agrupados en nueve familias y 37 morfoespecies fueron capturados; siendo la RCM el fragmento con la mayor abundancia y riqueza (n = 335; 28 morfos). Por otro lado, el estrato bajo presentó la mayor diversidad del grupo, independientemente de la época y el fragmento. Se observó un patrón de estratificación vertical para la comunidad de arañas tejedoras durante las lluvias en la RCM, el cual se perdió en la seca, mientras que en CSL no fue posible observar este patrón en ninguna de las temporadas. Los resultados indican que las comunidades de arañas presentes en fragmentos de BST pueden estratificarse verticalmente, lo cual depende de la época del año y las condiciones de la vegetación en el área de estudio.