bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Acceleration algorithm for constant-statistics method applied to the nonuniformity correction of infrared sequences
Authors: Jara Chavez A.G. , Torres Vicencio F.O.
Published: April 2015

Non−uniformity noise, it was, it is, and it will probably be one of the most non−desired attached companion of the infrared focal plane array (IRFPA) data. We present a higher order filter where the key advantage is based in its capacity to estimates the detection parameters and thus to compensate it for fixed pattern noise, as an enhancement of Constant Statistics (CS) theory. This paper shows a technique to improve the convergence in accelerated way for CS (AACS: Acceleration Algorithm for Constant Statistics). The effectiveness of this method is demonstrated by using simulated infrared video sequences and several real infrared video sequences obtained using two infrared cameras.
Numerical investigation of an impact of a top gold metallization on output power of a p-up III-N-based blue-violet edge-emitting laser diode
Authors: Kuc M. , Sarzała R.P. , Stańczyk S. , Perlin P.
Published: April 2015

The effect of modifications in epi-side (top) gold metallization on a thermal performance and on power roll-over of blue-vio- let III-N-based p-up edge-emitting ridge-waveguide laser diode (RW EEL) was explored in this paper. The calculations were carried out using a two-dimensional self-consistent electrical-thermal model combined with a simplified optical model tuned to a RW EEL fabricated in the Institute of High Pressure Physics (Unipress). Our results suggest that with proper modifica- tions in the III-N-based RW EEL, excluding modifications in its inner structure, it is possible to considerably improve the thermal performance and, thus, increase the maximal output power.
Investigation of effect of anti-aggregation agent on the performance of nanostructure dye-sensitized solar cells
Authors: Hosseinnezhad M. , Moradian S. , Gharanjig K.
Published: April 2015

Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on indigo dyes exhibit suitable conversion efficiency. These organic dyes have been undergone for aggregation. Electron transfer process is reduced due to an aggregation of molecular dyes. Therefore, anti-aggregation agent is commonly utilized in fabrication of DSSCs. In the present study, two anti-aggregation agents namely as 3α,7α-dihydroxy-5β-cholanic acid (cheno) and 3α,7α,12α-trihydroxy-5β-cholanic acid (cholic acid) were added to indigo dye solution in DSSCs in order to determine the photovoltaic parameters such as short circuit photocurrent, open circuit voltage and conversion efficiency of each individual dye in the absence and presence of anti-aggregation agents. The results show that the conversion efficiencies are improved with reduced aggregation. Spectrophotometric evaluations of the indigo dyes in solution and on a TiO
Review of night vision metrology
Authors: Chrzanowski K.
Published: April 2015

A review of night vision metrology is presented in this paper. A set of reasons that create a rather chaotic metrologic situation on night vision market is presented. It is shown that there has been made a little progress in night vision metrology during last decades in spite of a big progress in night vision technology at the same period of time. It is concluded that such a big discrep- ancy between metrology development level and technology development can be an obstacle in the further development of night vision technology.
Wooden coffins in the Avar-period cemetery in Frohsdorf, Lower Austria
Authors: Scharrer-Liška Gabriele , Cichocki Otto , Wiltschke-Schrotta Karin
Published: April 2015

The Avar period cemetery in Frohsdorf is located in eastern Austria in the area of the former
western periphery of the Avar Khaganate. In a non-literate culture like that of the Avars, it is only possible
to reconstruct everyday culture, including funerary rituals, through archaeological sources. Through
archaeological field seasons from 2001 to 2011, we have been able to document numerous coffins and grave
fixtures made of wood in inhumation graves. Burials in coffins seemed to be common practice. The coffins
are preserved in different states, including wood residues and charred wood residues. In Frohsdorf, in
contrast to many other investigated Avar cemeteries, we subjected these coffins and their wooden remains to
a detailed analysis. Wood species analyses show a preference for a certain type of wood, namely oak. Based
on the preservation status of the wooden remains the authors have developed a hypothesis concerning part
of the funeral ritual at this cemetery.
Extracting Information from Archaeological Texts
Authors: Kintigh Keith W.
Published: April 2015

To address archaeology’s most pressing substantive challenges, researchers must discover, access,
and extract information contained in the reports and articles that codify so much of archaeology’s knowledge.
These efforts will require application of existing and emerging natural language processing technologies
to extensive digital corpora. Automated classification can enable development of metadata needed for the
discovery of relevant documents. Although it is even more technically challenging, automated extraction of
and reasoning with information from texts can provide urgently needed access to contextualized information
within documents. Effective automated translation is needed for scholars to benefit from research published
in other languages.
Digital Technologies and Communication: Prospects and Expectations
Authors: Gabellone Francesco
Published: April 2015

The birth of virtual reality marked a new path forward and also gave a fresh view of reality,
allowing alternative ‘readings’ of cultural heritage. This new way of representation and simulation was
soon associated with the term virtual environment, used to indicate those interactive three-dimensional
models that could be navigated and that simulated a place, building, or synthetic representation scheme in
real time. A virtual environment is like a “microscope for the mind” that allows you to elaborate amplified
projections of the material world, to “look beyond” simple appearances and to make logical connections
between elements grouped together. In recent years, virtual environments have been greeted positively
by the public and scholars, testified by the quantity of thematic conferences on the subject of Virtual
Archaeology. Despite this, there are still many contradictions found in the varying terms and the diverse
aims of the developing disciplines that gravitate around the field of virtual reality such as Cultural Virtual
Environment, Virtual Restoration, Virtual Archaeology, Enhanced Reality, and Mixed Reality. The spread
of new media has upset the traditional systems of communication such as books, television, radio and
even the roles of some cultural stakeholder. With this in mind, the role of virtual heritage also consists in
transmitting information using the language and cognitive metaphors used in video-games, considering
these as cultural paradigms for a form of communication that is freed from the classic rules of elite
culture. It is quite frequent to find projects of digital promotion for monuments that are characterised by
difficulty of access, or for objects that have been taken from their original context. One solution to enhance
the accessibility of those sites is certainly the use of some visual computing technologies which without
presuming to be the ultimate answer to the problems posed, try to offer communications tools that permit
an effective support to the visit.
Bringing Impossible Places to the Public: Three Ideas for Rupestrian Churches in Goreme, Kapadokya Utilizing a Digital Survey, 3D Printing, and Augmented Reality
Authors: Verdiani Giorgio
Published: April 2015

The churches of St. Eustache, the Meryemana and St. Daniel are located in the Göreme area in
Kapadokya, Turkey. Each of the three structures is composed of a main church with a refuge system. Nowadays
these churches have limited access: they cannot be visited by a common tourist. Thus, they are a meaningful
sample of rupestrian architecture, containing important mural paintings and suggestive spaces. Using digital
survey techniques, 3D modelling and 3D printing to produce physical copies from the originals, this research
project tries to find articulate and well working solutions to bring these architectural structures to the public.
Other-initiated repair in Icelandic
Authors: Gisladottir Rosa S.
Published: April 2015

The ability to repair problems with hearing or understanding in conversation is critical for successful communication. This article describes the linguistic practices of other-initiated repair (OIR) in Icelandic through quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of video-recorded conversations. The study draws on the conceptual distinctions developed in the comparative project on repair described in the introduction to this issue. The main aim is to give an overview of the formats for OIR in Icelandic and the type of repair practices engendered by them. The use of repair initiations in social actions not aimed at solving comprehension problems is also briefly discussed. In particular, the interjection
Accessible Human-Robot Interaction for Telepresence Robots: A Case Study
Authors: Tsui Katherine M. , Dalphond James M. , Brooks Daniel J. , Medvedev Mikhail S. , McCann Eric , Allspaw Jordan , Kontak David , Yanco Holly A.
Published: April 2015

The quality of life of people with special needs, such as residents of healthcare facilities, may be improved through operating social telepresence robots that provide the ability to participate in remote activities with friends or family. However, to date, such platforms do not exist for this population.

Methodology: Our research utilized an iterative, bottomup, user-centered approach, drawing upon our assistive robotics experiences. Based on the findings of our formative user studies, we developed an augmented reality user interface for our social telepresence robot. Our user interface focuses primarily on the human-human interaction and communication through video, providing support for semi-autonomous navigation. We conducted a case study (n=4) with our target population in which the robot was used to visit a remote art gallery.

Results: All of the participants were able to operate the robot to explore the gallery, form opinions about the exhibits, and engage in conversation.

Significance: This case study demonstrates that people from our target population can successfully engage in the active role of operating a telepresence robot.
The Interactive Urban Robot: User-centered development and final field trial of a direction requesting robot
Authors: Weiss Astrid , Mirnig Nicole , Bruckenberger Ulrike , Strasser Ewald , Tscheligi Manfred , Kühnlenz (Gonsior) Barbara , Wollherr Dirk , Stanczyk Bartlomiej
Published: April 2015

In this article, we present the user-centered development of the service robot IURO. IURO’s goal is to find the way to a designated place in town without any previous map knowledge, just by retrieving information from asking pedestrians for directions. We present the 3-years development process,which involved a series of studies on its appearance, communication model, feedback modalities, and social navigation mechanisms. Our main contribution lies within the final field trial.With the autonomous IURO platform, we performed a series of six way-finding runs (over 24 hours of run-time in total) in the city center of Munich, Germany. The robot interacted with approximately 100 pedestrians of which 36 interactions included a full route dialogue. A variety of empirical methods was used to explore reactions of primary users (pedestrians who actually interacted with the robot) and secondary users (bystanders who observed others interacting). The gathered data provides insights into usability, user experience, and acceptance of IURO and allowed us deriving recommendations for the development of other socially interactive robots.
Customer Satisfaction, Product Quality and Performance of Companies
Authors: Suchánek Petr , Richter Jiří , Králová Maria
Published: April 2015

This paper presents an analysis of quality, customer satisfaction and business performance in food industry. The main objective of the research is to determine the influence of quality on customer satisfaction and on business performance and competitiveness. In particular, this paper answers the following research question: Does the quality of a product result in a satisfied customer and thereby in a well-performing business? Customer satisfaction is defined as the satisfaction of the customer with a product and the business performance as a capability to generate profit. Therefore, satisfaction was examined by the means of a survey using questionnaires, and the performance was measured by financial data. We managed to find a correlation between the main factors, although partial results were due more factors mostly statistically insignificant.
EU as a Highly Competitive Social Market Economy –Goal, Options, and Reality
Authors: Šmejkal Václav , Šaroch Stanislav
Published: April 2015

In paragraph 3 of its Article 3, the Treaty on European Union (TEU) requires the EU to go after the goal of a highly competitive social market economy for the first time. It is noticeable in the aforementioned Treaty clause that although it deals with the EU internal market, its authors burdened it with a mission that is far more socially-oriented than market-oriented. However, is „a highly competitive social market econo-my“ of today a meaningful goal and does the EU in its present form have the project and powers to achieve such an objective? The paper is a combination of economic and legal -political analysis through which the authors try to answer three main questions: What is the contemporary meaning of the term “social market economy” in the both economic and EU-law academic theory? Can the EU within the powers conferred to it positively fulfill such an objective, or can it just approach it by weakening the still pre-vailing tendency towards liberalization and deregulation brought about by the construc-tion of the EU internal market and by the promotion of its freedoms?
Carl Andresen (1909-1985) – ein protestantischer Kirchenhistoriker in seiner Zeit
Authors: Ritter Adolf Martin
Published: April 2015

The article sketches fundamental lines of the research and the person of Carl Andresen. Born in the north of Schleswig he remained a man between the boarders, between Patristics and Christian Archeology. This was the basis for his intensive work on the subject “Antiquity and Christianity”, as it can be observed already in his book about Celsus. Finally, the theological importance of Church History was stressed by Andresen. This lead him to a high estimation of “Dogmengeschichte”.
„Patristik – heute eine Disziplin mit Zukunft!“ Zum Gedenken an Carl Andresen (1909-1985)
Authors: Gemeinhardt Peter
Published: April 2015

The present paper gives an outline of Carl Andresen’s scholarly biography and then points out some of his lasting achievements for the writing of Church History. Being initially infl uenced by Hans Lietzmann’s concept of the history of early Christianity, Andresen developed a more theologically informed way of analysing historical phenomena (while retaining his interest in sociological, cultural and philosophical approaches to Religion). Church History is structured by certain “types” of Churches, reflecting sociological as well as ecclesiological aspects. While early Christianity inevitably belongs to the religious commonwealth of Late Antiquity, its self-understanding leads to distinguishing it from other religions. Andresen’s work thus provides a theological framework even for current historical analyses of the Ancient Church.
The Education and (Self-)Affirmation of (Recent or Potential) Converts: The Case of Cyprian and the Ad Donatum
Authors: Engberg Jakob
Published: April 2015

Das Setting in Cyprians apologetischem Werk Ad Donatum ist ein Gespräch zwischen ihm und einem Freund, Donatus, das in einem hübschen Garten stattfindet. Im Zusammenhang dieses Gesprächs berichtet Cyprian seinem Freund über seine Hinwendung zum Christentum. Dabei ist zugleich neben Donatus ein größeres Publikum angesprochen, vermutlich Konvertiten in den (je verschiedenen) Stadien ihres Konversionsprozesses. Cyprians Beschreibung diente seiner Selbstvergewisserung über Sinn und Wert von Bekehrung, spornte zugleich aber seinen Gesprächspartner Donatus in dessen Konversionsprozess ebenso an wie andere Leser, die entweder neue oder potentielle Konvertiten waren. Die Bekehrungserzählung reflektiert daher die Bedeutung, die Christen in Karthago um die Mitte des dritten Jahrhunderts der Bekehrung zuschreiben konnten, und die Wertvorstellungen, denen Cyprian während seines Konversionsprozesses begegnete. Damit reiht sich Cyprian unter die Autoren ein, die gewöhnlich als Apologeten bezeichnet werden: Unter den 16 Werken, die gewöhnlich hierzu gezählt werden, beziehen sich 14 auf die Bekehrung des Verfassers. Verteidigung des Christentums, Selbstvergewisserung der zum Christentum Gekommenen und Befürwortung der Hinwendung zum Christentum greifen Hand in Hand.
Ps.-Theophili Alexandrini Sermo de Cruce et Latrone (CPG 2622): Edition of Pierpont Morgan M595 with Parallels and Translation
Authors: Suciu Alin
Published: April 2015

Der vorliegende Beitrag bietet Edition und Übersetzung einer koptischen Homilie zum „Kreuz und dem guten Dieb“ (CPG 2622; clavis coptica 0395), welche Theophilus von Alexandria zugeschrieben wird. Die Edition basiert auf dem Pierpont Morgan Codex M595, ff. 141ro-148ro, einem Pergament-Codex aus dem 9. Jahrhundert, der zum Kloster des Erzengels Michael bei Hamuli in der Fayyum Oase gehörte. Der kritische Apparat belegt die verschiedenen Lesarten der drei anderen verbliebenen Manuskripte dieser Predigt. In der Einleitung findet sich eine Beschreibung der Manuskripte sowie ein Kommentar, der die Predigt über das „Kreuz und den guten Dieb“ von Pseudo- Theophilus ins Verhältnis zur patristischen exegetischen Tradition setzt. Auf literarische Verbindungen zwischen der langen Hymne auf das Kreuz im hier editierten Text und vergleichbarem Stoff im pseudo-Chrysostsomischen Werk In venerabilem crucem sermo (CPG 4525) wird hingewiesen.
Christianisierungen im Römischen Reich: Überlegungen zum Begriff und zur Phasenbildung
Authors: Leppin Hartmut
Published: April 2015

Although the word Christianisation is used frequently in Late Antique studies, definitions are rare. This article proposes a very broad definition: Christianisation denotes historical developments, which lead to a hegemony of Christian discourses or practices in certain spaces, areas, or sections of society. Christian discourses and practices refer to narrations about Christ as a key figure and later on foundational texts which contain them. These developments are not necessarily contemporaneous in various sections of society and they are not linear. Based on this definition, which is not teleological and not normative, a model of stages of Christianisations is put up for discussion: In the beginning, there were particulate Christianisations, affecting only certain groups or areas. It was a special case, when emperors turned to Christianity, deeply changing the political and normative order. Yet, at first, we can observe neutralisation in various social spaces, as for example in political communication; even discourses about forbearance were articulated in imperial panegyric. This stage, however, was short and led to a totalisation of Christianity during the sixth century, when Christian discourses and practices asserted themselves nearly everywhere, preserving, on the other hand, an impressive polyphony within Christianity.
The Election of Primian of Carthage: The Beginning of the End of Donatist Christianity?
Authors: Gaumer Matthew Alan
Published: April 2015

Die bisher wichtigste christliche Gruppe in Nordafrika, die Donatisten, verschwanden nach intensiven Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Römischen Reich und der mit ihm verbündeten katholischen Kirche zu Beginn des fünften Jahrhunderts in ihrer bisherigen festen Organisationsform. Dieser Artikel fragt nach den Gründen hierfür und setzt dabei bei der umstrittenen Wahl Primians zum Bischof von Karthago im Jahr 392 ein. Der historische Kontext der Bischofswahl Primians und der folgenden Kontroverse, die die donatistische Gruppe spaltete, ist bereits erforscht. Insbesondere das Maximianische Schisma zeitigte in diesem Konflikt enorme Probleme, die Primian zunächst durch den Einsatz von Gewalt durch das Römische Reich zurückdrängen konnte. Die Auswirkungen des Schismas traten dann in den anti-donatistischen Werken Augustins von Hippo in den 390er- und 400er-Jahren offensichtlich zu Tage, der daraus drei beißend polemische Argumente ableitete: (1) Donatisten widersprächen ihrer Überzeugung von der Notwendigkeit der Wiedertaufe, indem sie Maximianer die Reintegration ohne Buße oder Widertaufe ermöglichten, (2) sie konterkarierten ihre Betonung der notwendigen Trennung der Kirche von der Welt, indem sie zur Unterdrückung der Maximianer mit dem Römischen Reich koalierten, und (3) Primian habe ausgerechnet die Handlungen wiederholt, die die Donatisten als Ursache ihrer Trennung von den Katholiken ansahen. Augustin verwendete nicht nur literarisch diese Argumente gegen seine Gegner, sondern plädierte (nach 405) auch dafür, dass das Römische Reich die donatistische Kirche auflöst, und zwar auf der Grundlage des Vorwurfs der Häresie und der entsprechenden theodosianischen anti-häretischen Gesetze. Diese Strategie wurde im Jahr 411 auf einem Konzil in Karthago dadurch zur Vollendung gebracht, dass die Auflösung der donatistischen Kirche und die Zusammenführung beider Kirchenstrukturen angeordnet wurden. Zusammenfassend kann die Handlungsweise Primians als oftmals unüberlegt bewertet werden, doch würde es zu weit gehen, ihn allein für das Verschwinden der Donatisten verantwortlich zu machen.
Aufsätze / Essays. Des Kaisers Inszenierung Mythologie und neronische Christenverfolgung
Authors: Schmitt Tassilo
Published: April 2015

The article proposes a new explanation for a note in 1 Clem that „Christian women had to suffer by playing Dirces and Danaids“: It’s nothing but a variation of the „selected punishments“ which characterize Nero’s persecution of Christians. Using myths which were popular at Rome in his times, the histrionic punishments were expressions of the Emperors rôle as a philanthropic artist. In each case Nero also used the arts to make political statements more pointedly.
Warum wirken Wunder? Die Sprache der Ärzte im Traum
Authors: Zeppezauer Dorothea
Published: April 2015

Why are miracles successful? The language of physicians in dreams. This article shows from four different angles and with several examples how miracle stories are composed. It discusses which kind of motifs and functions are used by the authors. In particular it illustrates how the language used by the healer appearing in the patient’s dream is comparable to pagan medical terminology.
Zur Biographie des Bischofs Fortunatian von Aquileia
Authors: Dorfbauer Lukas J.
Published: April 2015

Fortunatianus, who was bishop of Aquileia in the middle of the 4th century, has not received much scholarly attention. His commentary on the Gospels, which was written under Constantius II (337-361) and used by later writers such as Jerome, was thought to be lost, apart from three short excerpts which were discovered only in the 20th century. However, a (nearly) complete copy of Fortunatianus’ allegedly lost commentary on the Gospels was found in 2012. The present article takes this discovery as an occasion to collect and discuss all the extant sources which are relevant for reconstructing the biography and career of bishop Fortunatianus of Aquileia. Furthermore, it discusses Fortunatianus’ theological positions in the dogmatic controversies of the 4th century on the basis of the full text of his Gospel commentary for the first time (which makes it possible to reject earlier conjectures about his supposed inclinations to “Arianism”). Finally, this article addresses in an appendix the reliability of Jerome as witness to Fortunatianus’ life and work.
Edition: “Jesus says: ‘There Is Nothing Buried That Will Not Be Raised’.” A Late-Antique Shroud with Gospel of Thomas Logion 5 in Context
Authors: Luijendijk AnneMarie
Published: April 2015

In diesem Artikel zeige ich, dass ein kleines Leichentuch mit den Wörtern “Jesus sagt: Nichts ist begraben, was nicht auferweckt wird” zeigt, dass das Thomasevangelium im 5. oder 6. Jahrhundert noch in Oxyrhynchos benutzt wurde. Dieses Leichentuch trägt auch wesentlich zum Verständnis ägyptisch-christlicher Begräbnisbräuche und des Glaubens an die Auferstehung bei.
ADDICTATION MACHINES
Authors: Godley James
Published: April 2015

Entry into the crypt William Burroughs shared with his mother opened and shut around a failed re-enactment of William Tell’s shot through the prop placed upon a loved one’s head. The accidental killing of his wife Joan completed the installation of the addictation machine that spun melancholia as manic dissemination. An early encryptment to which was added the audio portion of abuse deposited an undeliverable message in WB. Wil- liam could never tell, although his corpus bears the in- scription of this impossibility as another form of pos- sibility. James Godley is currently a doctoral candidate in Eng- lish at SUNY Buffalo, where he studies psychoanalysis, Continental philosophy, and nineteenth-century litera- ture and poetry (British and American). His work on the concept of mourning and “the dead” in Freudian and Lacanian approaches to psychoanalytic thought and in Gothic literature has also spawned an essay on zombie porn. Since entering the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in 2007, Valentin Hennig has studied in the classes of Sil- via Bächli, Claudio Moser, and Corinne Wasmuht. In 2010 he spent a semester at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. His work has been shown in group exhibi- tions in Freiburg and Karlsruhe.
ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLER AND THE POETICS OF INCORPORATION
Authors: Gold Leigh
Published: April 2015

n Else Lasker-Schüler’s poetry and prose, we nd the desire or wish to be devoured by the love object while consuming the object in turn. In this analysis the merger or turn of phrase is tied to the subject’s own constitutive incorporation of a dead loved one. Now living objects must be loved to death or undeath. It was her mother’s death that guided Lasker-Schüler to live and love on as haunted subject to repeat and rehearse the love object’s loss or departure via fantasies of incorporation. Leigh Gold is currently working as a translator. She trained in German philology at Williams College and New York University. Her contribution refers to her re- cently defended NYU dissertation titled: “Ich sterbe am Leben”: Else Lasker-Schüler and the Work of Mourn- ing. Rodrigo Hernandez trained at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda, Mexico City before entering the Academy of Fine Arts Karl- sruhe, class of Silvia Bächli in 2010. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Alberta, Berlin, Hamburg, Mexico City, Stockholm, and Zürich, among other cities.
EX-CORPORATION: ON MALE BIRTH FANTASIES
Authors: Kanz Christine
Published: April 2015

Between 1890 and 1933, male birth fantasies became awidespread phenomenon in European culture. One ofthe key examples of male birth fantasies is Filippo TommasoMarinetti’s “African” novel Mafarka the Futurist.The novel’s protagonist, Mafarka, gives birth to a childby his will power and by drawing on diverse formationsof knowledge, from alchemy to theories of evolution. Inaddition to the consideration given the psycho-historical,cultural, and scientific contexts of male birth fantasiesin the avant-garde, the contribution reflects on siblingencryptment within the relationship to the motheras one more aspect of a span of genealogy one mightterm “Maternal Modernity.”Christine Kanz is Professor of German Literature atGhent University in Belgium. Her contribution refersto her 2009 book Maternale Moderne. Männliche Gebärphantasienzwischen Kultur und Wissenschaft, 1890-1933. In addition she edited several collections andauthored another book on Ingeborg Bachmann, andnumerous articles and reviews in the area of interdisciplinarystudies.Before entering the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe,class of Daniel Roth, in 2008, Adam Cmiel trained invarious media in Bad Dürkheim, Hamburg, Mannheim,and Trier. He has participated in nine exhibitions sincethe onset of his studies in Karlsruhe.
After Imagining/ Après l'imaginer: Imaginations
Authors: Editors Managing
Published: April 2015

We welcome you to Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies / Revue d’études interculturelles de l’image, an open-access online peer-reviewed journal born out of research and developments in cross-cultural and intersecting epistemological fields that have at their root a determined focus on the role and power of the image in contemporary culture and in cultural communications.Nous vous souhaitons la bienvenue à Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies / Revue d’études interculturelles de l’image, un journal en ligne à accès libre dont les contributions sont préalablement soumises à un comité de révision par les pairs. Cette publication est le fruit d’un vif intérêt pour la recherche et la pratique au croisement de multiples champs épistémologiques et interculturels autour du rôle et de la puissance de l’image dans la société et les média contemporains.
Publish and Anguish: Reconsidering the Never-Ending Crisis of the Humanities
Authors: Cobb Russell
Published: April 2015

Publish and Anguish: Reconsidering the Never Ending Crisis of the HumanitiesRussell CobbThis article reviews three books (Michael Bérubé. The Left at War. New York: New York University Press, 2009; Stanley Fish. Save the World on Your Own Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008; Louis Menand, The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Reaction in the American University. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010) in the larger context of the decline in funding and enrollment numbers in humanities departments. The article explores various responses to the crisis in the humanities in North America and ultimately agrees with Menand that reforms must be taken to make the humanities more relevant to fields outside the academy. The author disagrees with Fish that it is advisable or even possible to separate academic work from politics and also disagrees with Menand that the radical Left, or "Manichean" Left, represents a substantial problem in mainstream academic culture.  Publier et s’angoisser: Reconsidérations sur la crise éternelle des sciences humaines                     Russell Cobb Cet article examine trois ouvrages récents (The Left at War par Michael Bérubé, New York: New York University Press, 2009; Save the World on Your Own Time, par Stanley Fish, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008; The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Reaction in the American University par Louis Menand, New York: W.W. Norton, 2010) dans la perspective du déclin du financement et des inscriptions au sein des départements de sciences humaines. L’auteur y passe en revue un certain nombre de positions adoptées jusqu’ici face à cette crise du point de vue nord-américain, pour finalement se ranger aux arguments de Menand selon lesquels une réforme est nécessaire en vue de rendre les sciences humaines plus compatibles avec des domaines extérieurs au monde académique. L’article s’oppose toutefois à Menand sur la prétendue nature problématique d’une intelligentsia radicale de gauche dans les universités, et prend le contrepied des propos de Fish quant au besoin de séparer la recherche fondamentale de la sphère politique.
MOTHERHOOD AND THE MEDIA UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: THE BACKLASH AGAINST FEMINISM AND THE MOMMY WARS
Authors: Akass Kim
Published: April 2015

Despite the passing of sexual discrimination legislation, the difficulty of combining work and motherhood repeatedly hits the headlines.  This paper looks at the American media phenomenon known as the ‘mommy wars’ and asks if British mothers can expect to face the same issues and attitudes as their American sisters.
A SURREAL LANDSCAPE OF DEVASTATION: AN ANALYSIS OF LEE MILLER’S GRIM GLORY PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE LONDON BLITZ
Authors: Hilditch Lynn
Published: April 2015

As surrealist war documents, Lee Miller’s war photographs of the London Blitz, published in Ernestine Carter’s Grim Glory: Pictures of Britain Under Fire (1941), effectively demonstrate what Susan Sontag referred to as “a beauty in ruins”. Miller’s Blitz photographs may be deemed aesthetically significant by considering her Surrealist background and by analyzing her images within the context of André Breton’s theory of “convulsive beauty”. Therefore, this essay aims to demonstrate how Miller’s photographs not only depict the chaos and destruction of Britain during the Blitz, they also expose Surrealism’s love of strange, evocative or humorous juxtapositions in the form of artistic visual representations of a temporary surreal landscape filled with fallen statues and broken typewriters.
HARD-BOILED TABLOID: HAPPILY LOW-BROW
Authors: Churchill Barbra
Published: April 2015

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IN SEARCH OF AUTHENTICITY: TIME AND SPACE IN RUSSIAN HORROR FILM
Authors: Isakava Volha
Published: April 2015

The paper looks into recent Russian horror films, exploring how the genre conventions associated with Hollywood are transformed and upheld in Russian cinema. The paper argues that the use of space, particularly urban venues, in horror films establishes a sense of authenticity and marks otherwise derivative generic productions as uniquely Russian. The films examined are Night and Day Watch duology (2004, 2006), Trackman (2007) and Dead Daughters (2007); all are set in contemporary Moscow.
THE NEW TOPOGRAPHICS, DARK ECOLOGY, AND THE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE OF NATIONS: CONSIDERING AGENCY IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF EDWARD BURTYNSKY AND MITCH EPSTEIN FROM A POST-ANARCHIST PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Truscello Michael
Published: April 2015

Edward Burtynsky’s aesthetic and the New Topographic aesthetic from which it derives, I argue, should not be seen as apolitical but rather as traces of an empire in ruins and a sociality to come; that is, by employing a post-anarchist analysis, I demonstrate how Burtynsky’s photographs in his recent collection Oil, and Mitch Epstein’s images from American Power, produce an aesthetic of what Yves Abrioux calls “intensive landscaping,” or “landscaping as style, as the promise of a social spacing yet to come” (264). What Burtynsky and Epstein accomplish in their photographs related to energy in particular is “to invent relations, rather than assert ideological or cultural control” (ibid.); the place of energy extraction and transport becomes not a self-contained striation of ecological degradation, but a “place of passage,” to use Deleuze and Guattari’s terminology, a depiction of wildness and civilization in contact, assembled and reformulating the landscape into something other. The aesthetic under consideration has much in common with Timothy Morton’s “dark ecology” and Stephanie LeManager’s “feeling ecological,” theories that attempt to understand the affective connections between the infrastructure of oil capitalism and ecology (“Petro-Melancholia” 27).
PRELUDE TO THE ENERGY ERA IN FILM STUDIES
Authors: Banita Georgiana
Published: April 2015

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TIDE OF EXTINCTION
Authors: Kaposy Tim
Published: April 2015

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UNCONVENTIONAL OIL AND THE GIFT OF THE UNDULATING PEAK
Authors: Stoekl Allan
Published: April 2015

In the first part of this essay, I consider why the discussion over the likelihood of imminent “peak oil” has faded from public view in the last few years. I suggest that, due to the decline in demand (due to the recession) and the development of “unconventional” natural gas and oil sources, the “cost” of fuels has passed from the obvious rise in price to that of another dimension: the rise of hidden, “external” costs—a recession triggered by too-high prices, pollution, climate change, and so on. I argue, moreover, that this externalized cost forever defies precise measurement. This is clear, for example, in the case of the “unconventional” production of gas in the “tar sands” region of Alberta. How can one measure the cost of drifting underground plumes of arsenic that may not show up for hundreds of years? All of this makes a precise calculation of “sustainability” just about impossible, while at the same time not absolving us—all of those living in the current fossil-fuel civilization—from attempting to calculate it. In the final part of the essay, I suggest that our subjectivity—as consumers, as free agents—is itself an after-effect of the agency of oil: we as subjects are interpellated by oil. Thus one response to the unknowability of externalities—tied to the impossibility of the “closed economy” of sustainability calculation—may be a different model of agency, in which calculation is replaced, or supplemented, by the act of gift-giving. Most important, perhaps, would be the giving of the gift of oil “addiction” not to any recipient (or agent), but to a necessarily repeated forgetting.
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE? ENDURING HEGEMONY DESPITE IDEOLOGICAL CHALLENGE
Authors: Lassiter Tracy
Published: April 2015

Hegemonic discourse often portrays as “normal” or desirable the use of fossil fuels, despite the devastation brought through accessing those fuels. Currently, some of the worst examples of this devastation result from the petroleum industry. However, efforts to challenge its practices–and its hegemonic power–in fact reinforce other forms of hegemonic power. This article examines some of those instances. This article analyzes filmmaker Joe Berlinger’s 2009 documentary Crude.Crudefeatures the lawsuit filed by 30,000 Ecuadorian people against Chevron. Ironically, Crude shows how Western upper-class privilege is invoked to solve the Ecuadorians’ problems. We can infer their resistance to one hegemonic power–i.e., a multinational petroleum corporation–is only possible through using other hegemonic power like white, male, upper-class privilege. This article draws upon Gayatri Spivak’s canonical text “Can the Subaltern Speak” and Louis Althusser’s concept of ideological apparatuses to support this claim.
Interview
Authors: Ury Tanya , Desmarais Claude
Published: April 2015

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Skype Dialogue
Authors: Ury Tanya , Desmarais Claude
Published: April 2015

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RELATIONSHIPS OF OWNERSHIP: ART AND THEFT IN BOB DYLAN’S 1960S TRILOGY
Authors: Rodgers Michael
Published: April 2015

Bob Dylan’s corpus is one continually engaged with appropriation and pilfering. This paper will look, predominantly, at three songs from his 1960s’ trilogy – ‘She Belongs To Me’ from Bringing It All Back Home (1965), ‘Visions of Johanna’ from Blonde on Blonde(1966), and ‘Desolation Row’ from Highway 61 Revisited (1965) – arguing that, in these songs, Dylan problematizes the interrelationship between art, theft, and ownership. I argue that, similar to the urban artist Banksy, Dylan challenges, toys with, and appropriates cultural images in order to continually question the concept of proprietorship whilst rescuing cultural images from esoterica and attempting to put them back into the public domain.
IN POSSESSION OF A STOLEN WEAPON: FROM JOHN GAY’S MACHEATH TO RUBÉN BLADES’ PEDRO NAVAJA
Authors: Viselli Antonio
Published: April 2015

This article analyses the cult salsa song “Pedro Navaja” by Panamanian artist Rubén Blades and the relevance of narrating such a genre peculiar to dancing, an analysis in accordance with adaptation theory outlined by Linda Hutcheon, and a Brechtian semiotic methodology which combinesGestus with theories of the sign. “Pedro Navaja” is arguably a re-writing of “Mack the Knife” – or Die Moritat von Mackie Messer – one which contains, as a sort of mise-en-abyme, elements not only of Kurt Weill’s song, but of both John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera and Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera. This study focuses on the fertile adaptation history of the highwayman Macheath since Gay’s work, on close-readings of “Pedro Navaja” – a narrativized cerebral salsa song – and on the ethics of adapting a character, story or genre. Finally, when the character Pedro Navaja is adapted from Blades’ song by a cineaste and playwright, Blades, furious with what others have done with ‘his’ character, decides to resuscitate his eponymous hero killed off at the end of the original song in order to regain the authority of his creation. From theoretical questions including how to read an adaptation or what constitutes an adaptation, this article focuses on the diachronic recurrences of a specific character-type, on the significance of juxtaposing particular historical junctures and on the violence of adaptation and authorship.
Critical role of IL-23 signaling in prostatic cancer
Authors: Alhasani Salam , Yousif Nasser ,   Dubai hospital,   Colorado University
Published: April 2015

Interleukin 23 (IL-23) belongs to interleukin 6 super-family [1]. IL-12/23 p40 is the common subunit for them, which is covalently linked to either a p19 subunit to form IL-23 or a p35 subunit to form IL-12 [2]. Both cytokines are mainly expressed by activating dendrite cells or macrophages under the stimulation of pathogens. IL-23 was also reported to be secreted by tumor associated macrophages in tumor microenvironment [3]. Interestingly, IL-23 spur different immune pathways [4]. IL-12 induces IFN-γ-producing Th1 cell development and enhances cytotoxic, anti-microbial and anti-tumor responses; whereas IL-23 expands Th17 cells, which is mainly involved in the pathology of autoimmunity and chronic inflammatory disease [5].
Ghrelin reduces myocardial injury following global ischemia and reperfusion via suppression of myocardial inflammatory response
Authors: Austin Everett , Yousif Nasser , Ao Lihua , Cleveland Joseph , Fullerton David , Meng Xianzhong ,   Colorado University
Published: April 2015

Ghrelin is a small endogenous peptide principally produced and secreted by the gastric mucosa, with a major role in appetite and metabolism regulation. We hypothesized that anti-inflammatory therapy, as produced by exogenous administration of ghrelin, would decrease the myocardial inflammatory response to global hypothermia I/R, thereby affording myocardial protection. Heterotopic cervical heart transplantation that allows to subject donor hearts to global hypothermic ischemia and blood reperfusion, which very closely stimulates I/R conditions associated with cardiac surgical operations. Ghrelin administration prior to blood reperfusion significantly decreased serum concentrations of cTn-I versus animals subjected I/R alone, with a significantly attenuated VCAM-1 expression in I/R animals pre-treated with ghrelin. The tissue concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-6, IL-1β, and MCP-1) were ameliorated by the administration of ghrelin prior to reperfusion versus the concentrations observed in animals subjected to I/R alone. Significantly fewer monocytes in the tissue sections of I/R+ghrelin animals versus those subjected to I/R alone. Exogenous ghrelin administration prior to reperfusion of an ischemic heart resulted in a significant reduction in myocardial injury as measured by cTn-I. The reduced myocardial injury was accompanied by an attenuated tissue expression of several pro-inflammatory mediators, including VCAM-1, IL-6, IL-1β, and MCP-1.
Data-Driven Analytics for Production Impact Assessment during Unplanned Facility System Events
Authors: Popa Andrei S. , Leon Hugo , Medel Juan , Nquyen Tuan , Cassidy Steve , Tubbs Dallas
Published: April 2015

A data-driven approach to successfully analyze and evaluate the production fluid impact during facility system “divert” events is presented. The workflow effectively identifies opportunities for prompt event mitigation and system optimization. The methodology used included data streaming, advance computations (i.e., low pass filtering, co-variance, moving averages, standard deviation) on high frequency data (i.e., 5 seconds), visualization, data mining, and rules extraction. Additionally pattern recognition and analytics were employed for detection and computation of event duration, maximum and average pressure during event, respectively corresponding maximum, and average impacted production. Custom tools were developed to allow visualization and computation of the massive amounts of data available (44 streams @ 5 seconds measurement frequency) for the selected events over the past few years. The model was applied to the newest events and found to significantly outperform previous manual approaches, not only by driving intelligent business decisions as opposed to quick short term reactions, but also by curtailing production loss and returning the system to normal operation conditions.

The study identifies areas of improvement and opportunities to mitigate production impact during “divert” events. Main recommendations include procedures to: reduce event duration, maintain pressure at a level where production is not impacted, monitor casing pressure at well level across the field, and alternatives to divert the back pressure in the mature areas of the field.

The paper demonstrates that applied data driven analytics led to learnings and observations that drove business impact in management of facility systems during “divert” events. Due to its practical simplicity and efficiency, the technology and workflows are now considered for use in surveillance and monitoring of other facility systems in the San Joaquin Valley fields and beyond.
Modeling Fugitive Gas Annular Migration Conditions in Unconventional Wells Under Lifetime Stresses
Authors: Wilson Douglas , Eustes A. W. , Fleckenstein W. W.
Published: April 2015

The newest shale extraction technologies are being rapidly deployed in North America and enthusiastically considered internationally. These innovative methods employ marked changes from conventional development mechanisms, notably in wellbore completion and reservoir stimulation. Though early results provide a powerful argument for the continued development of these resources, long-term outcomes may introduce more uncertainty, especially considering the as-yet unobservable lifetime risks to wellbore integrity. The viability of downhole production mechanics and assurance of the environment are strong functions of geomechanic stresses, which themselves are dynamic during stimulation and production. Knowledge of the downhole mechanics of these new development strategies suffers from the absence of long-term field observations.

Finite element analysis (FE analysis) provides a powerful and oft-employed approach to model long-term effects of dynamic forces on mechanical systems. The ANSYS model presented analyzes stresses on horizontally drilled, massively stimulated well completions, with a goal of modeling structural behavior of the downhole mechanics and its effects on potential unwanted migration of reservoir fluids.

The static structural geometries of the wellbore (casing, cement, and near-wellbore rock) are modeled at specific, critical times during the life of the well, (e.g., after stimulation, after MIT). The results suggest some general design parameters to help mitigate the risk of downhole fluid segregation failures, The analysis guides the development of a fluid migration model, being developed at CU-Boulder, designed to evaluate annular migration risk of modern, onshore wells.

A highly deviated well presents a wellbore stress environment that differs from its vertical analog. Pressured casing in anisotropic stress environments allows increased shear and tension on the cement-casing bond during construction and completion. In addition, the cement-casing cohesive bond is a significant factor in the prevention of a microannulus during normal well construction and completion.

The absence of any interfacial cohesion increases the risk of a microannulus in both a differentially stressed and differentially constrained cement sheath. Our goal is to contribute to the understanding of completion integrity at critical times during the life of the well, and to guide development of industry best management practices.