bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
High-coverage sequencing and annotated assembly of the genome of the Australian dragon lizard Pogona vitticeps
Authors: Georges Arthur , Li Qiye , Lian Jinmin , O'Meally Denis , Deakin Janine , Wang Zongji , Zhang Pei , Fujita Matthew , Patel Hardip R. , Holleley Clare E. , Zhou Yang , Zhang Xiuwen , Matsubara Kazumi , Waters Paul , Graves Jennifer A. Marshall , Sarre Stephen D. , Zhang Guojie
Published: September 2015

Background

The lizards of the family Agamidae are one of the most prominent elements of the Australian reptile fauna. Here, we present a genomic resource built on the basis of a wild-caught male ZZ central bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps.

Findings

The genomic sequence for P. vitticeps, generated on the Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform, comprised 317 Gbp (179X raw read depth) from 13 insert libraries ranging from 250 bp to 40 kbp. After filtering for low-quality and duplicated reads, 146 Gbp of data (83X) was available for assembly. Exceptionally high levels of heterozygosity (0.85 % of single nucleotide polymorphisms plus sequence insertions or deletions) complicated assembly; nevertheless, 96.4 % of reads mapped back to the assembled scaffolds, indicating that the assembly included most of the sequenced genome. Length of the assembly was 1.8 Gbp in 545,310 scaffolds (69,852 longer than 300 bp), the longest being 14.68 Mbp. N50 was 2.29 Mbp. Genes were annotated on the basis of de novo prediction, similarity to the green anole Anolis carolinensis, Gallus gallus and Homo sapiens proteins, and P. vitticeps transcriptome sequence assemblies, to yield 19,406 protein-coding genes in the assembly, 63 % of which had intact open reading frames. Our assembly captured 99 % (246 of 248) of core CEGMA genes, with 93 % (231) being complete.

Conclusions

The quality of the P. vitticeps assembly is comparable or superior to that of other published squamate genomes, and the annotated P. vitticeps genome can be accessed through a genome browser available at https://genomics.canberra.edu.au
Differences between suicide and non-suicidal self-harm behaviours: a literary review.
Authors: Halicka Joanna
Published: September 2015

According to the current information of WHO, suicide is one of the 20 most common causes of death in the whole population. Suicides constitute one of the most common causes of death amongst teenagers. Apart from suicide, another significant, however much less known phenomenon is the non-suicidal self-injury. Despite the fact that we know much less about self-harm than about suicide, the results of research during the last years indicate that self-harm occurs more frequently in the population of adolescents – suicides constitute 10% in the population of teenagers, and 7-14% of adolesncets report to have performed a self-harm act at least once in their live. The last transnational research shows that the frequency of self-destructive behaviours in adolescents is at the level of 24% of the whole population, which might indicate an intensification of this phenomenon. In some cases self-injury takes place with a clear intention of committing suicide, or a self-destructive act, which often precedes a suicidal attempt long before the final decision to carry it out. Nevertheless, In the majority of cases self-injury is not performed with the intention of death. Therefore a question might be posed: do self-harm acts constitute a separate category of behaviours, or do they inevitably lead to a suicidal death? When answering this question, we ought to take a closer look at both phenomena to have a better knowledge about their etiology, risk factors, and to understand when they co-occur, and when they belong to different categories of self-aggressive behaviours.
Value systems and centrality of religiosity as predictors of non-religious and religious coping with stress in early adulthood.
Authors: Krok Dariusz
Published: September 2015

Aim of the study

The aim of the current study is to investigate whether values and the centrality of religiosity could be good predictors of non-religious and religious coping styles in early adulthood. Although previous research suggests that values and religious dimensions might be related to coping styles, their precise character remains unexplained.

Subject or material and methods

Research participants included 209 people (111 women and 98 men), randomly recruited in southern parts of Poland. Their ages ranged from 20 to 40 years, with a mean age of 28.4 years (SD = 6.44). All participants filled in the four questionnaires: The Scheler Values Scale, The Centrality of Religiosity Scale, The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations, and The Brief RCOPE Scale.

Results

Aesthetic, truth, and moral values were positively associated with task-oriented coping, while hedonic and vital values were positively linked to emotion-oriented and avoidance-oriented styles. As regards religious coping styles, vital, aesthetic, truth, and moral values were positively connected to positive coping. Negative coping was positively related to hedonic values, but negatively linked to sacred values. The centrality of religiosity dimensions were positively related to emotion-oriented coping, avoidance-oriented coping, social diversion, and positive religious coping.

Discussion

Values and the centrality of religiosity dimensions turned out to be predictors for coping styles. The meanings made on a basis of important values and religious beliefs help individuals better understand the situation and find means of overcoming its negative consequences.

Conclusions

Values and religiousness serve as a meaning system that enables individuals to interpret difficult events and effectively cope with distress caused by these events.
PSDRS, BDI, MoCA and MMSE as screening tools for the evaluation of mood and cognitive functions in patients at the early stage of cerebral stroke.
Authors: Przewoźnik Dorota , Rajtar-Zembaty Anna , Bober-Płonka Bogusława , Starowicz-Filip Anna , Nowak Ryszard , Przewłocki Ryszard
Published: September 2015

Introduction

Aim of the study: The evaluation of the usefulness of the PSDRS in detecting affective disorders. Examination of the correlation of depressed mood states with cognitive disorders in patients at an early stage of cerebral stroke. Attempt at a comparison of the effectiveness of detecting depressive and cognitive disorders with the application of selected clinical scales.

Material and Methods

The examination included 43 patients within the first week after cerebral stroke. It was carried out with the application of two screening scales: Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and two scales for the evaluation of the degree of depressiveness: Post-stroke Depression Scale (PSDRS) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).

Results

A significant, negative correlation of the results of the PSDRS and MoCA scales was shown. Depressed moods in patients after cerebral stroke in a significant way statistically correlated with the disorders in the selected cognitive skills: visual and spatial functions, memory, attention functions and abstracting ability.

Conclusions

The PSDRS and MoCA scales proved to be more effective tools of the evaluation of depressive and cognitive disorders in patients at an early stage after cerebral stroke, than it was observed in the case of conventionally applied MMSE and BDI scales. The examination results additionally prove a significant dependence between mood and the efficiency of cognitive functions in this group of patients. With the weakening of cognitive functioning, also the patients’ mood became depressed.
Apologia pro vita mea: an intellectual odyssey. Part two
Authors: Chessick Richard
Published: September 2015

The second part of my memoir deals with the evolution, over three decades of the turbulent last half of the 20th century, of two major aspects of my study of the human mind, psychodynamic psychotherapy (psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy) and the treatment of the so-called borderline patient. I outline here the development of principles of psychodynamic therapy as I attempted to move from the research laboratory out into the field of human endeavor, which led me to a series of publications on the subject. At the same time psychodynamic psychotherapy shifted from being the central endeavor of psychiatrists to a very secondary occupation now mainly practiced by non-physicians. The same is true for the psychodynamic psychotherapy of the borderline patient that I had to learn how to do the hard way in order to survive and provide for my family, and that remains a very controversial subject even today.
Short Communication: Microfungal diversity on leaves of Eusideroxylon zwageri, a threatened plant species in Sarawak, Northern Borneo
Authors: ADEBOLA A LATEEF , SEPIAH MUID , BOLHASSAN MOHAMAD H , ZAMIR MANSOR WAN
Published: September 2015

Adebola AL, Sepiah M, Bolhassan MH, Wan Zamir M. 2015. Microfungal diversity on leaves of Eusideroxylon zwageri, athreatened plant species in Sarawak, Northern Borneo. Biodiversitas 16: 264-268. A survey of the microfungal communities on greenleaves and leaf litters of an endangered plant species, Eusideroxylon zwageri Teijsm. & Binn. (belian) was carried out for the first time.A total of 200 leaf segments were plated on both water agar and malt extract agar. 74 fungal species were identified from both leaf typeswith more fungal taxa found on the green leaves, with a Shannon diversity index of 3.85 compared to that on litters, 2.63 and thesimilarity between the microfungal communities on both leaf types was low with a Bray-Curtis similarity index of 0.366. The mostdominant species on both leaf types includes Aphanocladium areanarum, Trichoderma koningii, Nectria sp., Chalara pteridina,Hyphomycetes sp.3, hyaline Mycelia sterilia, Circinotrichum sp., Phoma sp., Acremonium macroclavatum, Chaetopsina sp., Physarumsp., Beltrania rhombica and Colletotrichum acutatum.
Leguminicolous fungi associated with some seeds of Sudanese legumes
Authors: ABDULWEHAB SOHAIR A. , EL-NAGERABI SAIFELDIN A. F. , ELSHAFIE ABDULQADIR E.
Published: September 2015

Abdulwehab SA, El-Nagerabi SAF, Elshafie AE. 2015. Leguminicolous fungi associated with some seeds of Sudaneselegumes. Biodiversitas 16: 269-280. The mycoflora associated with seeds evidently deteriorate seed viability, germination, emergenceand plant growth performance leading to apparent losses in production and productivity. In the present investigation, seedborne fungi ofsix legumes were screened. Twenty six species of fungi from 14 genera were isolated from this seeds. Of these isolates, 6 species arenew reports to the mycoflora of Sudan, whereas some species are new records to the mycoflora of these legumes. These include 6species for Cajanus cajan, Cicer arietinum (10 species), Dolichos lablab (7 species), Medicago sativa (8 species), Phaseolus vulgaris(10 species), and Vigna unguiculata (11 species). The seeds are obviously contaminated with saprophytic and pathogenic fungi (17-64%) which evidently inhibited seed germination (41-86%), and seedling emergence (29-81%). The Alternaria, Aspergillus andFusarium (4 species each) were the most prevalent fungi followed by Curvularia, Drechslera (3 species), Fusariella, Ulocladium (2species) and one species for the remaining genera (Aureobasidium, Acremonium, Memnoniella, and Rhizopus). Hence, there is a highneed for establishment of standard seed testing methods with strong legislations in order to meet the international quarantine regulations.The use of certified seeds by the farmers is recommended.
The Buried Tradition of Programmatic Titulature among Republican Historians: Polybius’ Πραγματεία, Asellio’s Res Gestae , and Sisenna’s Redefinition of Historiae
Authors: Krebs Christopher B.
Published: September 2015

In entitling his historical work res gestae (not historiae ), Sempronius Asellio advertises his adaptation of the Polybian model, which is more comprehensive than has been acknowledged. Asellio thus joins a group of innovative Roman historians who employed programmatic and contrastive titulature to mark their novel historiographical approaches. Among them stands L. Cornelius Sisenna, whose Historiae are limited to contemporary history; their title is redefined accordingly. Doubts about the existence of original titulature among republican historians in general seem unfounded.
Who Named Me?: Identity and Status in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus
Authors: Dugdale Eric
Published: September 2015

This article considers the social implications of the uncertainty surrounding Oedipus’ identity in Oedipus Tyrannus . It argues that questions of legitimacy, citizenship, and social status are raised at critical points in the play, and teases out the implications of details whose significance has not been recognized. It interprets Oedipus’ famous speech at 1076–85, in which he declares himself a “child of Tychē ,” as a response to the news that he is a foundling; Oedipus acknowledges the stigma attached to those without a proven pedigree at the same time as he seeks to neutralize its effect on public perception.
Oscula iungit nec moderata satis nec sic a virgine danda : Ovid’s Callisto Episode, Female Homoeroticism, and the Study of Ancient Sexuality
Authors: Oliver Jen H.
Published: September 2015

This article examines a neglected ancient source for desire between women that nonetheless has a rich reception history in the context of female homoeroticism: the Callisto episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses . The article argues that the relationship between Diana and her hunting companion Callisto can be read as homoerotic and that, unlike many ancient accounts of female-female eroticism, neither character is represented as a tribas (a gender-deviant “woman” with a masculinized body, who seeks to penetrate other women). The Callisto episode is therefore an invaluable piece of evidence for ancient discourses on sexuality exceeding the bounds of the active/passive model.
Innovative Invective: Strength and Weakness in Horace’s Epodes and Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
Authors: Dozier Curtis
Published: September 2015

Building on scholarship on Horace’s attribution of weakness to himself in the Epodes , this article finds a parallel for that practice, and for modern scholars’ analyses of it, in Quintilian’s theory of invective, which allows that mollitia , infirmitas , and lack of nervi may be advantageous for the orator. This comparison allows us to recognize Horace as a rhetorical innovator who, in response to the political upheaval of the civil wars, transforms not only poetic but also oratorical traditions of invective. It also deepens our understanding of the function of poetic models in Quintilian’s treatise.
Surprise and Suspense in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
Authors: Bednarowski K. Paul
Published: September 2015

Whereas Euripides’ proclivity for manipulating audience expectations has been well-documented, with the exception of his use of silent characters, Aeschylus’ has not received the same attention. In this article, I focus on the portrayal of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Agamemnon and argue that Aeschylus uses his characters to play with tradition, to manipulate expectations, to generate suspense through deliberate ambiguity, and to orchestrate shocking revelations. I pay particular attention to how Aeschylus achieves these effects and attempt to demonstrate in Agamemnon a more sophisticated approach to character-drawing than has previously been recognized in Aeschylus.
Horace Odes 2.7 and the Literary Tradition of Rhipsaspia
Authors: Smith Joshua M.
Published: September 2015

It is commonly stated that, in his claim to have left his shield behind at Philippi (the so-called act of rhipsaspia ), Horace has important Greek predecessors: Archilochus, Alcaeus, and Anacreon. The scanty evidence, however, does not justify the generalizations frequently made about shield abandonment as a literary tradition, and blanket assumptions limit our understanding of the texts involved. I here present the evidence for poetic rhipsaspia and explore the problems associated with its normal treatment in modern scholarship. I conclude with an appraisal of Horace’s use of this image in the context of Odes 2.7.
“No Walk in the Park”: US Empire and the Racialization of Civilian Military Labor in Guam, 1944–1962
Authors: Flores Alfred Peredo
Published: September 2015

Drawing from studies on empire, labor, and race, this essay examines the recruitment, work, and social experiences of civilian military laborers in post– World War II Guam. This essay argues that the postwar militarization of the island resulted in the racialization of Chamorro, Filipino, and white American workers. The result of this process was the creation of a Filipino labor class that became synonymous with military employment. Since the US military and its contractors perceived Filipinos as being amenable to labor discipline, they hired Filipinos in larger numbers than Chamorros and white Americans. This essay relies on military memos, government correspondences, Philippine newspapers, labor organization correspondences, and oral history interviews from archives in Guam, Maryland, Northern California, the Republic of the Philippines, and Washington, DC.
Militarization and Resistance from Guåhan: Protecting and Defending Pågat
Authors: Na‘puti Tiara R. , Bevacqua Michael Lujan
Published: September 2015

This project centers Guåhan (Guam) as a critical site of rhetorical struggle over identity, indigeneity, and Americanness. Using Chamoru (Chamorro) cultural frameworks of inafa’ maolek (to make things good for each other), we illuminate how local responses and activism challenge US colonization and militarization. Efforts to “protect and defend” Pågat, a sacred site on the northeastern coast of Guåhan, focus on ancestral land, language and cultural revitalization, and self-determination. They rely primarily on actions that both depend on and reinforce communicative channels directed against the US nation-state. We argue that activism must first be rooted in our sacred spaces to give us strength for contending with American influence and critiquing militarization. Yet it is articulated through rhetoric that demonstrates complex and contradictory identities positioned as simultaneously part of the United States and exterior to it. Understanding these struggles from Guåhan offers an important launching point for efforts connecting ongoing transoceanic dialogues and resistance.
Aloha State Apparatuses
Authors: Teves Stephanie Nohelani
Published: September 2015

The spirit of aloha is pervasive in Hawai’i, and it is mobilized to sell everything from hula skirts to fantasies of diversity to plumbing services. Loosely defined as love, aloha is frequently used as a greeting and measurement of Hawaiianness. This article tracks the consequences the articulation of aloha has for Native Hawaiian subjectivity. Weaving together Marxist, postcolonial, and performance theory, I provide a historical and theoretical framing of aloha’s ideological significance for the state of Hawai’i and for Native Hawaiians. It is through what I term “aloha state apparatuses” that Native Hawaiian attachments to aloha are performed and sustained even if these performances reentrench colonialism and Native dispossession. Still, aloha functions as a grounding for Hawaiian indigeneity in a manner that cannot be simply reduced to being “colonized.” This article discusses how Native Hawaiians negotiate their relationship with aloha, in order to outline a theory of Hawaiian performativity.
Mo‘okū‘auhau versus Colonial Entitlement in English Translations of the Kumulipo
Authors: McDougall Brandy Nālani
Published: September 2015

In 1895 Queen Lili’uokalani was put on trial, sentenced, and imprisoned in ‘Iolani Palace for misprision of treason after an armed royalist attempt to reinstate the Hawaiian Kingdom. During her imprisonment, she began her translation of the Kumulipo, her mo’okū’auhau (genealogy), which traces her descent from over eight hundred generations and recounts the universe’s beginnings. Despite this history, Lili’uokalani’s translation is largely invisible, and the American folklorist Martha Warren Beckwith’s translation, published in 1951, is often thought to be the only one. Exactly how this has come to pass, I assert, is directly related to how “colonial entitlement” continues to pervade academic forums. Comparing these translations of the Kumulipo, this essay examines the opposition between colonial entitlement and mo’okū’auhau. I “ho’okū’auhau,” or genealogize, as a methodology to contextualize both translations before comparing them ideologically, politically, and aesthetically. I conclude with how the Kumulipo challenges American Empire, using Jamaica Osorio’s 2009 performance of “Kumulipo” at the White House.
Embodied Cosmogony: Genealogy and the Racial Production of the State in Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl’s “Ho‘oulu Lāhui”
Authors: Warren Joyce Pualani
Published: September 2015

This essay interrogates multiple representations of lāhui to index the shifting relationships between the individual and the nation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Hawai’i, as prescribed by both Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) epistemology and US political frameworks, to suggest how a return to indigenous conceptions of the Kanaka Maoli body may liberate notions of identity and belonging from the American imposition of blood quantum. Kanaka Maoli knowledge systems elucidate the sacredness of the human body, and I use the playwright and novelist Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl’s short story “Ho’oulu Lāhui” to argue that the racialized logics of blood quantum are, in effect, a metaphorical desecration. Ultimately, I argue that in privileging indigenous epistemologies of the body, which are dependent on its genealogical and kinship connections to community, we can open up discussions of inclusion and belonging that are based on the body but freed of US constructions of blood logic that have permeated, and at times divided, Hawaiian society.
Marshallese Cultural Diplomacy in Arkansas
Authors: Schwartz Jessica A.
Published: September 2015

The Republic of the Marshall Islands established a consulate in Springdale, Arkansas, in 2009, where about 10 percent of the Marshallese global population resides. Consul-General Carmen Chong-Gum has advanced her notion of “cultural diplomacy,” or outreach efforts to the resident communities through Marshallese cultural productions. In this essay, I detail the role of expressive culture in two recent instances of Marshallese cultural diplomacy in northwest Arkansas to share how the diasporic community has created a unique politics of representation in Middle America. Outlining historical contingencies that animate contemporary cultural exchanges between Marshallese and Americans, I extend and expand Chong-Gum’s definition of cultural diplomacy to show its roots in US Cold War cultural diplomatic efforts in the Pacific often discounted from historical records and its importance within the Marshallese community to invest in their place of residence by welcoming others into their culture while maintaining a palpable sense of distance.
Diversions of Furniture and Signature Styles: Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald
Authors: Mitchell Lee Clark
Published: September 2015

This essay explores how the major noir writers—Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald—latched onto the strategy of keeping readers engaged by diverting our attention from preposterous plots: through mundane descriptions of furniture; through slang speech and bizarre figurative expressions; even through unrevealing descriptions of physiognomies. Each of these authors realized that true reader fascination comes not in uncovering toxic secrets or laying obscure motives bare but in prose that diverts and delays, crossing the border out of plot into a certain style, which, this essay argues, is the true reason for the allure of noir mysteries.
Desire, Forgetting, and the Future: Walt Whitman’s Civil War
Authors: Parsons Amy
Published: September 2015

How might issues of desire, trauma, and memory have been understood before the cultural primacy of psychoanalytic discourse? This essay argues that Walt Whitman’s war writing in Specimen Days and Drum- Taps offers an alternative landscape for the psyche, one quite distinct from the psychoanalytic emphasis on interiority, privacy, and the priority of the past over the present. In these texts, Whitman’s solution to the devastation of the war is grounded in idiosyncratic notions of desire and forgetting, which are characterized by the immediacy of physical contact and an externalized collectivity that knits bodies together. This vision of psychic life is distinct from early twentieth-century Freudian treatments of sexuality, trauma, and repression; it also presents an alternative way to think about the work of the death drive in contemporary psychoanalytic queer theory.
Hawthorne: Mortmain
Authors: Breitwieser Mitchell
Published: September 2015

The author of this essay makes two points in order to argue that Hawthorne’s fiction includes elements of what could be called a pre-Freudian psychoanalysis. First, leaving aside psychological themes that others have discovered in Hawthorne’s writing, he attends to Hawthorne’s interest in the expressive manner of psychological process, arguing that the exposition of such works as The Scarlet Letter anticipates the way that some psychoanalysts think about symbolization as a tool for bringing inchoate psychic material into provisional intelligibility. Second, he contends that for Hawthorne the elusive whatever toward which that symbolization works its way ultimately proves insoluble, enlisting on this point several psychoanalytic thinkers who propose a chastened outcome for analysis: a roughed-out, pragmatic itinerary for an ongoing encounter with an intractable nonknowledge.
Reframing “official memory”: Don DeLillo’s Libra and the House Select Committee on Assassinations
Authors: Willman Skip
Published: September 2015

Critics have examined DeLillo’s appropriation of The Warren Commission Report in Libra , but the novel responds to more than this fundamental document of the assassination archive. Libra should also be situated within the investigations into the activities of the CIA in the 1970s. These investigations conducted by the Rockefeller Commission, the Church Committee, and the Pike Committee provide the historical background crucial for comprehending DeLillo’s fictional intervention into the lingering JFK assassination controversy. These investigations also spawned the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1976, whose work leaves “the blank spaces in the known record” (457) that Libra attempts to fill, primarily Lee Harvey Oswald’s connections to American intelligence and the secret war against Castro. In doing so, Libra provides a summary of the very real efforts of the CIA to overthrow Castro, from the joint CIA-Mafia assassination plots and the Bay of Pigs invasion to Operation Mongoose.
A Feminist Translates
Authors: Boyle Catherine
Published: September 2015

The study of three Golden Age plays with an all-female group of undergraduate students led to class discussions about contemporary everyday violence against women. Those discussions prompted these reflections of the role of teaching and translating as performative and potentially transformative acts. In this respect, the university classroom is studied as the site for understanding how the subject matter of Spanish Golden Age plays lives and how we become its translators. Based on present-day stories of female and feminist experience, the essay explores questions of intellectual and ideological subjectivity in translation and the ways in which a feminist being-in-the-work might operate as the site from which the target text is approached and to which it might be drawn. Working with the consciousness of the mobilising of subject position with a historical context, the essay then explores the writing, in the past and present, of the female subject in La vengadora de las mujeres by Lope de Vega and Los empeños de una casa by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Finea’s “desván famoso”: Approaches to Translating the Untranslatable
Authors: Patterson Charles
Published: September 2015

The attic in Finea’s house serves an important dramatic function in the climax of Lope’s La dama boba , but Finea and Clara’s extended discussion of it earlier in Act 3 seems enigmatic. This article interprets their conversation in the context of the seventeenth-century performance space, arguing that there are at least five different ways that Lope meant for his audience to understand the word “desván,” including as a reference to the seating arrangements in a corral de comedias . Such site-specific wordplay is inevitably lost in translation, so this study evaluates several translators’ approaches to rendering this scene into English. It finds that early versions either eliminate most of the scene or translate it so literally that it no longer makes sense. More recent translators, however, have adopted a more creative approach that allows for new forms of site-specific wordplay that work outside of a corral . Based on these findings, the article argues that in some cases a creative translation can breathe new life into a play whose cultural references make it partially inaccessible in its original language.
Sister Act: Reflection, Refraction, and Performance in the Translation of La dama boba
Authors: Johnston David
Published: September 2015

Hermeneutics is a key tool of translation in the sense of creating a text that promotes a conversation, at the very least at the level of language, between two different points in time and space. But the degree and quality of hermeneutic engagement that translators bring to the source text are, in turn, necessarily reflected in the various stances that they adopt a priori in relation to the works they are about to translate. By drawing on key theorists of the relationship between text and self, specifically Ricoeur and Gadamer, this article sketches out two key positions that explain the production of different types of translated text. Through analysis of how Finea and Nise are presented in two different translations, the article seeks to draw some conclusions about whether translation is a norm-governed activity or one that is contingent upon the translator’s perception of the potential for reconfigured relationships, or refractions, between the source text and its new audiences.
A New Approach to Translatability: The Visibility of Lope de Vega’s La dama boba for Contemporary English-Speaking Audiences
Authors: Verçosa Fernanda
Published: September 2015

This article seeks to re-assess the validity of the concept of “translatability” by challenging its long-held association with cultural commensurability, a notion that is rooted in ideas of equivalence and faithfulness, and considering it instead in terms of textual visibility, a concept that refers to the density of cultural interests instantiated by the work in question. This density conditions, in turn, the pragmatism with which the translator approaches the text in order to render it visible to the new audience. In order to demonstrate this, the article analyses two translations of Lope de Vega’s La dama boba into English from the perspective of the contingency in which this pragmatism is encased. One of the central conclusions of the article is that, in order to make a play visible, the translator, in much the same way as an actor, must be prepared to improvise.
(Un)Faithful Renditions: Gender Dynamics in an Adaptation of Don Gil de las calzas verdes
Authors: Galoppe Raúl A. , Dalton David
Published: September 2015

Recent stage versions of Tirso de Molina’s Don Gil de las calzas verdes have departed from traditional cape-and-sword approaches and experimented with psychological traits and gender ambiguities. Interestingly, these departures from canonical staging seem to occur more frequently among productions in English, as if translations served the liberating purpose of releasing tensions between texts and their original contexts, hence facilitating the process of adaptation. This article examines the process of adaptation for an upcoming New York production of Don Gil , written by Dave Dalton and subject of an ASTR Targeted Research Areas Grant. The new version, tentatively entitled Love’s a Bitch , approaches the material in terms of story and playability, as a paraphrase of the original, with the intention to foreground common human traits such as desire, jealousy, and deception in ways understandable and palatable for a contemporary general public unaware of early-modern Spanish conventions. Challenging monolithic views of authorship, text, and period accuracy, Love uses same-sex desire as an imperative way of “translating” social anxieties from early-modern times to the present.
Translating and Adapting the Classics: Staging La dama boba in English
Authors: Larson Catherine
Published: September 2015

The experience of seeing Lope’s La dama boba performed in Bath, UK, as part of the Ustinov Studio’s Spanish Golden Age Season informs this examination of the translation and adaptation of the classics, both in print and for the stage. Translation with performance in mind takes into account the future interpretive contributions of numerous theater practitioners; audience response, including that of theater critics, has transformed critical discussion. Moreover, dramatic changes in the related fields of translation and adaptation studies have reoriented theoretical approaches to the ways in which we consider the goals and processes of preparing a classical text for the stage, especially with respect to the once central question of fidelity to the source text. This study focuses attention on six translations/adaptations of Lope’s comedy, including the translators’ interpretive notes and commentary regarding their guiding philosophies. Willis Knapp Jones ( The Stupid Lady ), Max Oppenheimer ( The Lady Simpleton ), William Oliver ( Lady Nitwit ), John Farndon ( Mad for Love ), Edward Friedman ( Wit’s End) , and David Johnston ( A Lady of Little Sense ) offer a variety of responses to the act of translation, thereby illuminating the key issues involved in taking early modern plays to English-speaking audiences.
The Theory and Practice of Language in Scalabrinian Parishes for Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1887–1933
Authors: Brown Mary Elizabeth
Published: September 2015

In 1887 Bishop Giovanni Battista Scalabrini founded the Missionaries of Saint Charles (popularly called the Scalabrinians) to minister to Italian migrants in transit and in their new homes. He sent his first missionaries to the United States with a particular plan of pastoral action: to help Italian Catholics maintain their faith using their traditional language and culture while also integrating themselves, at least economically and politically, into societies with other languages and cultures. Between their arrival in 1888 and 1933, when the best record-keeper of this early immigrant experience died, the Scalabrinians served Italian communities from New England across New York State and south to Monongah, West Virginia. In the field, the missionaries helped the first generation of Italian Americans to plant their particular practice of the faith in the United States, developing a plan of pastoral care for the immigrants’ rapidly assimilating children, one that involved more frequent use of English and of American customs, leading to the question of whether assimilationist attempts fundamentally changed their mission.
Babel or Pentecost?: Language-Related Issues in Catholic Involvement in the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions
Authors: Parra-Pirela Carlos Hugo
Published: September 2015

Many Christians interpreted the World’s Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in 1893, as “the defiance of the dispersion of the descendants of Noah at Babel” or as a “second Pentecost.” However, some Christians looked at mingling with people of other faith traditions with great concern and disapproval. The active and decisive involvement of members of the Catholic Church in the meeting reflected that tension. Various language-related issues relate to Catholic involvement in the parliament: the communicative power of actions beyond the power of words; Catholic efforts to articulate a pro-Catholic discourse in response to anti-Catholic, nativist narratives; the power of translation to interpret and influence dialogue between faith and culture and among religious traditions; and contested names by which some participating religious bodies were historically known. Based on consultation of the Propaganda Fide and Vatican archives, this article constitutes an attempt to shed light on the opportunity the World’s Parliament of Religions provided the Catholic Church to articulate and debate its approach to interfaith dialogue.
“Shun not the struggle”: The Language and Culture of Deaf Catholics in the U.S., 1949–1977
Authors: Portolano Marlana
Published: September 2015

Culturally Deaf Catholics in the U.S. have defined themselves not by their disability but by their shared history, language, and traditions. This article narrates the history of Deaf Catholics from the founding of the International Catholic Deaf Association (ICDA) in 1949 to the ordination of the first culturally Deaf priest in North America in 1977. Deaf Catholics have long struggled for inclusion in parish life. Beginning in the 1950s, the work of hearing priests and pastoral ministers resulted in improved availability of religious education and sacraments in sign language. In the 1960s and 1970s the institution of vernacular Masses after Vatican II, the acceptance of American Sign Language (ASL) as a language, and the increase of preaching in ASL provided for an expansion of ministry by the Deaf, for the Deaf. Consequently, Deaf Catholics themselves laid the groundwork for the first Deaf religious vocations. The growth of a core group of Deaf Catholic leaders, including clergy and laity, spurred the creation of several national organizations whoich sought to coordinate gatherings, including retreats in ASL, to further include this marginalized group in the life of the Church.
Community Partner Perspectives on Benefits, Challenges, Facilitating Factors, and Lessons Learned from Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships in Detroit
Authors: Caldwell Wilma Brakefield , Reyes Angela G. , Rowe Zachary , Weinert Julia , Israel Barbara A.
Published: September 2015

Background : There is an extensive body of literature on community-based participatory research (CBPR) and the role of community–academic partnerships, much of which has involved community partners in the conceptualization and preparation of publications. However, there has been a relative dearth of solely community voices addressing these topics, given the other roles and responsibilities which community members and leaders of community-based organizations (CBOs) have. Purpose : The purpose of this article is to share the perspectives of three long-time (>20 years) community partners involved in the Detroit Community–Academic Urban Research Center and its affiliated partnerships. Conclusion : In this article, we community partners provide our assessment of the benefits and challenges in using a CBPR approach at the personal, organizational, and community levels; the factors that facilitate effective partnerships; and our lessons learned through engagement in CBPR. We also present specific recommendations from a community perspective to researchers and institutions interested in conducting CBPR.
Integrating Perinatal Depression Screening Into WIC at a Federally Qualified Health Center
Authors: Perry Deborah F. , Le Huynh-Nhu , Villamil Carolina A. , Yengo Joan , Boateng Akua O.
Published: September 2015

The Problem : Perinatal depression (PD) is a prevalent condition among low-income women, yet screening during pregnancy and in the first year postpartum is not routine practice in the United States. Purpose: A team of academic and community partners share experiences with integrating depression screening into a Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC) that is co-located at an urban Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Key Points : Academic and community partners shared an interest in integrating depression screening into WIC; however, there were implementation challenges. The partners identified strategies to mitigate barriers to screening in the WIC program. As a result, more than 1,000 pregnant and postpartum women were screened for depression and referred for additional services. Conclusion : Successful integration of the Patient Health Questionnaire, a 2-question validated depression screener in this co-located WIC program, demonstrates the feasibility of this approach for other communities.
Environmental Street Audits and Black Carbon Measurements in Vietnamese Immigrant Communities
Authors: Quach Thu , Garcia Erika , Von Behren Julie , Tran Jacqueline , Tran Tina Duyen , Fu Lisa , Gomez Scarlett , Luu Vinh , Ahlfenger Thanh , Reynolds Peggy
Published: September 2015

Background : The Vietnamese population has grown significantly in California and has clustered in geographic areas with potential disproportionate exposures to environmental stressors. No studies to date have focused on environmental exposures in this immigrant population. Objective : To characterize neighborhood-level environmental hazards in Vietnamese communities in California to inform environmental health research. Methods : We engaged Vietnamese community members in the Alameda, Marin, Orange, and Santa Clara regions to conduct community audits in neighborhoods where they lived and worked. Audits included surveys of observational neighborhood characteristics, Photovoice documentary and real-time personal black carbon (BC) aerosol monitors. Results : Traffic-related air pollution, litter, smoking, and neighborhood safety were identified as major environmental concerns. Audits in Alameda County reported a higher percentage of metal bars on windows and litter relative to other counties. Orange County had the highest percentage of audit segments with idling trucks (20.8%) and tobacco ads (8.3%), as well as average 5-minute truck count (9.8). The mean BC concentration across all four regions was 1.8 μg/m 3 , and ranged from 1.7 μg/m 3 in Santa Clara County to 2.0 μg/m 3 in Orange County. When analyzed at smaller geographic units (neighborhoods), there was more variation across the regions, with Alameda County having the highest neighborhood concentration (7.7 μg/m 3 ). Conclusions : Our results showed higher mean BC concentrations at the regional and neighborhood levels compared with the statewide concentration (0.737 μg/m 3 ). Community members collected quantitative and qualitative data including real-time BC data. The audit process helped to initiate dialogue about environmental health issues in the Vietnamese communities.
Community-Based Participatory Research to Adapt Health Measures for Use by People With Developmental Disabilities
Authors: Nicolaidis Christina , Raymaker Dora , Katz Marsha , Oschwald Mary , Goe Rebecca , Leotti Sandra , Grantham Leah , Plourde Eddie , Salomon Janice , Hughes Rosemary B. , Powers Laurie E.
Published: September 2015

Background : People with developmental disabilities (DD) are often not included as participants in research owing to a variety of ethical and practical challenges. One major challenge is that traditional measurement instruments may not be accessible to people with DD. Participatory research approaches promise to increase the participation of marginalized communities in research, but few partnerships have successfully used such approaches to conduct quantitative studies people with DD. Objective : To use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to create an accessible, computer-assisted survey about violence and health in people with DD, and to psychometrically test adapted health instruments. Methods : Our academic–community partnership, composed of academic researchers, people with DD, and supporters, collaboratively selected and modified data collection instruments, conducted cognitive interviews and pilot tests, and then administered the full survey to 350 people with DD. Results : Although team members sometimes had opposing accommodation needs and adaptation recommendations, academic and community partners were able to work together successfully to adapt instruments to be accessible to participants with a wide range of DD. Results suggest the adapted health instruments had strong content validity and all but one had good to excellent internal consistency reliability (alpha, 0.81–0.94). The majority of participants (75%) responded that all or most of the questions were easy to understand. Conclusions : Researchers should consider using participatory approaches to adapting instruments so people with DD can be validly included in research.
Training Community Opinion Leaders to Raise Awareness and Promote Early Intervention for Depressed Latino Adolescents
Authors: Ford-Paz Rebecca E. , Kuebbeler Andrea , Contreras Richard , Garduño Marco , Sánchez Bernadette
Published: September 2015

Background : Although evidence-based depression prevention programs are available, Latino adolescents continue to underutilize and delay mental health intervention, resulting in increased rates of depression and suicide. Objectives : To describe a community–academic collaboration, program development and training of opinion leaders, preliminary findings, and lessons learned in conducting community-based participatory research (CBPR). Methods : A pilot study examined the feasibility, acceptability and perceived impact on community opinion leaders ( n = 5) of a depression literacy and outreach training tailored to a low-income, urban, Latino population. Results : Results demonstrate feasibility, acceptability, and desirable changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among trained opinion leaders. Challenges related to research agenda, terminology, competency evaluation of participants, and referrals to treatment are presented, along with attempted solutions. Conclusions : Depression literacy and outreach training of key members of social networks for Latino adolescents shows promise as a culturally relevant and effective approach to depression/suicide prevention for Latino adolescents.
Qualitative Research and Community-Based Participatory Research: Considerations for Effective Dissemination in the Peer-Reviewed Literature
Authors: Grieb Suzanne Dolwick , Eder Milton “Mickey” , Smith Katherine C. , Calhoun Karen , Tandon Darius
Published: September 2015

Background : Qualitative research is appearing with increasing frequency in the public health and medical literature. Qualitative research in combination with a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach can be powerful. However little guidance is available on how to present qualitative research within a CBPR framework for peer-review publications. Objectives : This article provides a brief overview of how qualitative research can advance CBPR partnerships and outlines practical guidelines for writing for publication about qualitative research within a CBPR framework to (1) guide partners with little experience publishing in peer-reviewed journals and/or (2) facilitate effective preparation of manuscripts grounded in qualitative research for peer-reviewed journals. We provide information regarding the specific benefits of qualitative inquiry in CBPR, tips for organizing the manuscript, questions to consider in preparing the manuscript, common mistakes in the presentation of qualitative research, and examples of peer-reviewed manuscripts presenting qualitative research conducted within a CBPR framework. Conclusions : Qualitative research approaches have tremendous potential to integrate community and researcher perspectives to inform community health research findings. Effective dissemination of CBPR informed qualitative research findings is crucial to advancing health disparities research.