bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Memory‐Based Deception Detection: Extending the Cognitive Signature of Lying From Instructed to Self‐Initiated Cheating
Authors: Geven Linda M. , Ben‐Shakhar Gershon , Kindt Merel , Verschuere Bruno
Published: June 2018

From a cognitive perspective, lying can be regarded as a complex cognitive process requiring the interplay of several executive functions. Meta‐analytic research on 114 studies encompassing 3,307 participants (Suchotzki, Verschuere, Van Bockstaele, Ben‐Shakhar, & Crombez, 2017) suggests that computerized paradigms can reliably assess the cognitive burden of lying, with large reaction time differences between lying and truth telling. These studies, however, lack a key ingredient of real‐life deception, namely self‐initiated behavior. Research participants have typically been instructed to commit a mock crime and conceal critical information, whereas in real life, people freely choose whether or not to engage in antisocial behavior. In this study, participants (n = 433) engaged in a trivia quiz and were provided with a monetary incentive for high accuracy performance. Participants were randomly allocated to either a condition where they were instructed to cheat on the quiz (mimicking the typical laboratory set‐up) or to a condition in which they were provided with the opportunity to cheat, yet without explicit instructions to do so. Assessments of their response times in a subsequent Concealed Information Test (CIT) revealed that both instructed cheaters (n = 107) and self‐initiated cheaters (n = 142) showed the expected RT‐slowing for concealed information. The data indicate that the cognitive signature of lying is not restricted to explicitly instructed cheating, but it can also be observed for self‐initiated cheating. These findings are highly encouraging from an ecological validity perspective.
Analysis of relationships between 25-hydroxyvitamin D, parathyroid hormone and cathelicidin with inflammation and cardiovascular risk in subjects with paediatric systemic lupus erythematosus: an Atherosclerosis Prevention in Paediatric Lupus Erythematosus (APPLE) study
Authors: Gupta Varsha , Tangpricha Vin , Yow Eric , McComsey Grace A , Schanberg Laura , Robinson Angela Byun
Published: June 2018

Objectives

Previous studies demonstrated associations between reduced serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD), inflammation and disease activity in paediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (pSLE). The goal of this study was to assess parathyroid hormone (PTH) in its relationship to vitamin D and inflammation, as well as to better understand the role of human cathelicidin (LL-37) in pSLE.

Methods

Frozen serum samples collected at baseline of the Atherosclerosis Prevention in Paediatric Lupus Erythematosus (APPLE) study were assayed to determine 25OHD, PTH and LL-37 levels. Pearson’s correlations and Χ2tests were used to evaluate the relationships between 25OHD, PTH, LL-37, inflammation, disease activity and infection using baseline values collected as part of the APPLE study.

Results

201/221 APPLE participants had serum available for analysis. Serum 25OHD was inversely associated with serum PTH, but not LL-37. Serum PTH was not associated with high sensitivity C-reactive protein, carotid intima media thickness or high-density lipoprotein (HDL) or low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, but was negatively associated with lipoprotein(a) levels. Despite no association with serum 25OHD, LL-37 was negatively associated with total cholesterol, HDL and LDL cholesterol and positively associated with age. There was no significant difference in mean LL-37 levels in participants with reported infection as an adverse event during the 3-year APPLE study.

Conclusions

Despite links to vitamin D levels in other studies, LL-37 levels were not associated with baseline serum 25OHD concentrations in paediatric patients with pSLE. Despite the lack of correlation with 25OHD, LL-37 levels in this study were associated with cholesterol levels. Some subjects with pSLE have significantly elevated levels of LL-37 of unknown significance. These exploratory results addressing the role of LL-37 levels in pSLE appear worthy of future study.
Prevalence and Long‐Term Survival After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Women and Men With Heart Failure and Preserved Versus Reduced Ejection Fraction
Authors: Sun Louise Y. , Tu Jack V. , Bader Eddeen Anan , Liu Peter P.
Published: June 2018

Background

Heart failure (
HF
) with reduced ejection fraction (
rEF
) is a widely regarded prognosticator after coronary artery bypass grafting.
HF
with preserved ejection fraction (
pEF
) accounts for up to half of all
HF
cases and is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality in hospitalized cohorts. However,
HF
p
EF
outcomes have not been elucidated in cardiac surgical patients. We investigated the prevalence and outcomes of
HF
p
EF
and
HF
r
EF
in women and men following coronary artery bypass grafting.

Methods and Results

We conducted a retrospective cohort study in Ontario, Canada, between October 1, 2008, and March 31, 2015, using Cardiac Care Network and Canadian Institute of Health Information data.
HF
is captured through a validated population‐based database of all Ontarians with physician‐diagnosed
HF
. We defined
pEF
as ejection fraction ≥50% and
rEF
as ejection fraction <50%. The primary outcome was all‐cause mortality. Analyses were stratified by sex. Mortality rates were calculated using Kaplan–Meier method. The relative hazard of death was assessed using multivariable Cox proportional hazard models. Of 40 083 patients (20.6% women), 55.5% had
pEF
without
HF
, 25.7% had
rEF
without
HF
, 6.9% had
HF
p
EF
, and 12.0% had
HF
r
EF
. Age‐standardized
HF
p
EF
mortality rates at 4±2 years of follow‐up were similar in women and men.
HF
r
EF
standardized
HF
p
EF
mortality rates were higher in women than men.

Conclusions

We found a higher prevalence and poorer prognosis of
HF
p
EF
in women. A history of
HF
was a more important prognosticator than ejection fraction. Preoperative screening and extended postoperative follow‐up should be focused on women and men with
HF
rather than on
rEF
alone.
Developing a Video Intervention to Prevent Unplanned Pregnancies and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Older Adolescents
Authors: Plant Aaron , Montoya Jorge A. , Snow Emerald G. , Coyle Karin , Rietmeijer Cornelis
Published: June 2018

Older adolescent African American and Latina females have disproportionately high rates of unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This article describes the development of a new video intervention for this population, modeled on Safe in the City (SITC), an evidence-based STI prevention video. Plan A was created from 2015 to 2016, using a systematic process similar to SITC. This included forming a project team with reproductive health experts, hiring a video production company and screenwriter, conducting a clinic staff survey (n = 8), and soliciting priority population input using three focus groups (n = 41) followed by a review panel (n = 9). The expert input, clinic staff survey, focus groups, and review panel informed the content and format of Plan A. The 23-minute video includes three interconnected stories with relatable characters and two animated sequences. Topics covered include condoms, long-acting reversible contraception, emergency contraception, STI prevention and testing, and patient–provider communication. SITC provided a model to create a new entertainment–education intervention for a different audience and to address pregnancy prevention as well as STIs. Sustained priority population involvement, input from stakeholders, and a highly iterative process were vital to developing Plan A, which is currently being evaluated in a randomized controlled trial.
A Comparison of Different Intensities of Patient Navigation After Abnormal Mammography
Authors: Glassgow Anne Elizabeth , Molina Yamile , Kim Sage , Campbell Richard T. , Darnell Julie , Calhoun Elizabeth A.
Published: June 2018

Background. Patient navigation is a practice strategy to address barriers to timely diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of varying intensities of patient navigation and timely diagnostic resolution after abnormal mammography. Method. This is a secondary analysis of a subset of women with an abnormal screening or diagnostic mammogram who participated in the “patient navigation in medically underserved areas” 5-year randomized trial. We compared timely diagnostic resolution in women assigned to different intensities of patient navigation including, full navigation intervention, no contact with navigators, or limited contact with navigators. Results. The sample included 1,725 women with abnormal mammogram results. Women who interacted with patient navigators had significantly fewer days to diagnostic resolution after abnormal mammography compared with women who did not interact with patient navigators. Discussion. Results from our study suggest that even limited contact with navigators encourages women to seek more timely diagnostic resolution after an abnormal mammogram, which may offer a low-cost practice strategy to improve timely diagnosis for disadvantaged and underserved women.
Jews, Zionism and the Left in Brazil: Echoes of a Relationship
Authors: Gherman Michel
Published: June 2018

During considerable part of the twentieth century, the contacts between left-wing groups and the Jews in Brazil were relatively positive and amicable. In certain way, it could be found a kind of a symbiosis between sectors of the Jewish community and some groups of the Brazilian left. At present times, in contrast, any description of the interaction between Jewish organizations (especially Zionist ones) and Brazilian left-wing groups inevitably mentions political tensions and mutual accusations. In the last years suspicion, conflict, and a lack of dialogue have characterized the relations between a segments of the Brazilian Jewish population and some left-wing groups. This article intends to discuss and analyze the changes and processes through which the Brazilian Jews and some Left-wing Brazilian groups have passed.
Multiple solutions of double phase variational problems with variable exponent
Authors: Shi Xiayang , Rădulescu Vicenţiu D. , Repovš Dušan D. , Zhang Qihu
Published: June 2018

This paper deals with the existence of multiple solutions for the quasilinear equation

-div⁡𝐀⁢(x,∇⁡u)+|u|α⁢(x)-2⁢u=f⁢(x,u) in ℝN,{-\operatorname{div}\mathbf{A}(x,\nabla u)+|u|^{\alpha(x)-2}u=f(x,u)\quad\text% {in ${\mathbb{R}^{N}}$,}}

which involves a general variable exponent elliptic operator𝐀{\mathbf{A}}in divergence form. The problem corresponds to double phase anisotropic phenomena, in the sense that the differential operator has various types of behavior like|ξ|q⁢(x)-2⁢ξ{|\xi|^{q(x)-2}\xi}for small|ξ|{|\xi|}and like|ξ|p⁢(x)-2⁢ξ{|\xi|^{p(x)-2}\xi}for large|ξ|{|\xi|}, where1<α⁢(⋅)≤p⁢(⋅)<q⁢(⋅)<N{1<\alpha(\,\cdot\,)\leq p(\,\cdot\,)<q(\,\cdot\,)<N}. Our aim is to approach variationally the problem by using the tools of critical points theory in generalized Orlicz–Sobolev spaces with variable exponent. Our results extend the previous works [A. Azzollini, P. d’Avenia and A. Pomponio, Quasilinear elliptic equations inℝN\mathbb{R}^{N}via variational methods and Orlicz–Sobolev embeddings, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 49 2014, 1–2, 197–213] and [N. Chorfi and V. D. Rădulescu, Standing wave solutions of a quasilinear degenerate Schrödinger equation with unbounded potential, Electron. J. Qual. Theory Differ. Equ. 2016 2016, Paper No. 37] from cases where the exponentspandqare constant, to the case wherep⁢(⋅){p(\,\cdot\,)}andq⁢(⋅){q(\,\cdot\,)}are functions. We also substantially weaken some of the hypotheses in these papers and we overcome the lack of compactness by using the weighting method.
Challenges for Vietnam in the Globalization Era
Authors: Nguyen Dong Phong , Ho Viet Tien , Vo Xuan Vinh
Published: June 2018

Emerging and developing countries around the world are playing an increasingly important role in the global economy. They move up in the global value chain very quickly. However, these countries constantly facing a plethora of challenges covering a wide range of issues. This paper addresses some key challenges confronting Vietnam economy which potentially deteriorate its economic growth prospects. These include economic slowdown, credit booming, the rise of protectionism around the world, and risk from greater opening of the domestic markets. Addressing these challenges are important for Vietnam to maintain its comparative advantage and foundation for economic growth.
SnO2/PANI nanocomposite electrodes for supercapacitors and lithium ion batteries
Authors: Channu Venkata S. Reddy , Rambabu B. , Kumari Kusum , Kalluru Rajmohan R. , Holze Rudolf
Published: June 2018

Tin oxide (SnO2) nanostructures and SnO2/Polyaniline (PANI) nanocomposites to be used as electrode materials for a lithium ion battery were synthesized using a solution-route technique with chelating agents followed by calcination at 300∘C for 4 h. Structural and morphological properties were studied with powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron and transmission electron microscopy. Particles of 25-10 nm size are observed in the microscope images. TGA results showed that the PANI-modified SnO2 nanoparticles exhibit higher thermal stability than the SnO2 nanoparticles. Electrochemical properties of SnO2 and SnO2/PANI electrodes were examined in a lithium ion battery and a supercapacitor. The electrode of SnO2/PANI shows higher specific capacity. The cell with SnO2/PANI exhibits a specific capacity of 1450 mAh/g at C/10. Supercapacitor results indicate that the PANI-modified SnO2 composite had a higher current with apparent cathodic and anodic peaks.
Pathological manifestations of Farber disease in a new mouse model
Authors: Beckmann Nadine , Kadow Stephanie , Schumacher Fabian , Göthert Joachim R. , Kesper Stefanie , Draeger Annette , Schulz-Schaeffer Walter J. , Wang Jiang , Becker Jan U. , Kramer Melanie , Kühn Claudine , Kleuser Burkhard , Becker Katrin Anne , Gulbins Erich , Carpinteiro Alexander
Published: June 2018

Farber disease (FD) is a rare lysosomal storage disorder resulting from acid ceramidase deficiency and subsequent ceramide accumulation. No treatments are clinically available and affected patients have a severely shortened lifespan. Due to the low incidence, the pathogenesis of FD is still poorly understood. Here, we report a novel acid ceramidase mutant mouse model that enables the study of pathogenic mechanisms of FD and ceramide accumulation. Asah1tmEx1
mice were generated by deletion of the acid ceramidase signal peptide sequence. The effects on lysosomal targeting and activity of the enzyme were assessed. Ceramide and sphingomyelin levels were quantified by liquid chromatography tandem-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and disease manifestations in several organ systems were analyzed by histology and biochemistry. We show that deletion of the signal peptide sequence disrupts lysosomal targeting and enzyme activity, resulting in ceramide and sphingomyelin accumulation. The affected mice fail to thrive and die early. Histiocytic infiltrations were observed in many tissues, as well as lung inflammation, liver fibrosis, muscular disease manifestations and mild kidney injury. Our new mouse model mirrors human FD and thus offers further insights into the pathogenesis of this disease. In the future, it may also facilitate the development of urgently needed therapies.
The Insight and the Legacy of the Theory of Share Tenancy
Authors: Allen Douglas W. , Lueck Dean
Published: June 2018

The Theory of Share Tenancy by Steven Cheung, first published as a PhD thesis 50 years ago, was an important watershed study on the economics of contracts. It contained the first formal demonstration of the Coase Theorem, linked the concepts of property rights and transaction costs, laid early foundations for the future economics of contracts, and can even lay claim to originating the idea of a risk/incentive tradeoff in contract design. This essay examines Cheung's key contributions in Share Tenancy, and considers reasons for its somewhat limited legacy outside of China.
Structural studies on copper and nitrogen doped nanosized anatase
Authors: Martinelli Alberto , Alberti Stefano , Caratto Valentina , Lova Paola , Locardi Federico , Pampararo Giovanni , Villa Silvia , Ferretti Maurizio
Published: June 2018

Pure TiO2, N- and Cu-doped and double-doped (Cu, N) samples were synthesized via sol–gel route in order to investigate the local and average structure of the crystalline TiO2synthesized under different pH conditions. Samples are mainly constituted of anatase phase, even though low but significant amounts of secondary brookite grew in most samples. A detailed structural characterization was performed by means of synchrotron X-ray elastic scattering experiments; structural data of the different samples were obtained by means of the Rietveld refinement, whereas insights about their local structure were gained by means of the pair distribution analysis.
Transient Absorption Studies on Nanostructured Materials and Composites: Towards the Development of New Photocatalytic Systems
Authors: Haisch Christoph , Nunes Barbara N. , Schneider Jenny , Bahnemann Detlef , Patrocinio Antonio Otavio T.
Published: June 2018

Being part of the development of environmentally clean and safe sustainable technologies photocatalysis is attracting increasing attention. During the last decade, great attention has been paid to the synthesis of different photocatalysts possessing high photocatalytic activity, whereas fundamental studies concerning the underlying photocatalytic processes have rarely been executed. The knowledge of these processes is, however, of utmost importance for the understanding of the reaction mechanism and thus for a better design of photocatalytic systems. The transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) is one widely used method to study such fundamental processes. The present review paper focuses on the application of TAS in the UV-Vis-IR regions to investigate the charge carrier dynamics in ultrafast and nano-to-millisecond time regime. Hereby, the photo induced processes occurring in different materials will be discussed. Moreover, further attention is also paid to nanocomposite-based systems, in which different materials are used concomitantly to promote more efficient photocatalytic processes.
The influence of probiotic fodder additives on the morphofunctional state of duodenum pigs
Authors: Kotsyumbas G.I. , Lemishevskyi V.M. , Kostyniuk A.K.
Published: June 2018

The article is dedicated to the study of the effect of a class of microorganisms and substances of microbial and other origin that are used in feeding pigs to achieve maximum growth in animal mass, as well as therapeutic purposes. Study of the effect of biologically active additives on the state of the pig's digestive system. The article considers the rational nutrition that increase the productivity and reproductive capacity of animals, and also prevent the emergence of profound disturbances of all metabolic processes which leads to a decrease in resistance to productivity, a clinically pronounced disease of adult animals and young animals. The authors pay attention to the morphometric parameters, ultrastructure and content of nucleic acids in the wall of the duodenum of pigs by forage feeding with the addition of probiotic fodder additive «Probion-forte» in dose of 1 g/kg of fodder. Research were conducted on 28 day pigs, breed «Large White». It was formed two groups of piglets per 30 heads; piglets were fed with standard mixed fodders; piglets from the first group were received standard mixed fodder with the addition of  probiotic fodder additive «Probion-forte» in dose 1 g/kg of fodder for 42 days. After the slaughter of  piglets, pieces of duodenum for histological, histochemical and ultrastructural studies were selected. Statistical significance of differences was determined by Student's t test , assuming 5% estimate error. It was shown that feeding with forage within 42 days from the addition of probiotic fodder additive «Probion-forte» at a dose of 1 g/kg, villus height is increase, crypt depth and a number of plasma cells in the lamina propria of mucosa of the duodenum, which helps the digestive process and increase the area of nutrient absorption in the intestines. The number of plasma cells are increased in the lamina propria of mucosa and testify immunomodulatory effect of fodder additives. Ultra structural alteration of microvilli and changes in the nuclei of duodenal enterocytes of piglets of the first group indicates a more pronounced acfunctional activity of enterocytes and thereby increases the activity of parietal digestion in the intestine. As a conclusion, the task by definition performed of the effective dose of probiotic in feed for pig it can be considered completed and we can state the probiotics can be incorporated, as a alternative to antibiotics and increase the weight gain of animals and also to increase the level of immune resistance of the organism.
Die Bedeutung des verses 523 in der Antigone des Sophokles Ουτοι συνεχθειν, αλλα συμφιλειν εφυν Ein neuer deutungsversuch
Authors: Petrović Ivana
Published: June 2018

This paper suggests a new interpretation for verse 523 in Sophocles' Antigone. The prefix συν- in the verbs συνέχθειν and συμφιλεῖν has generally been translated as meaning "with" or "together". The author attempts to prove that the meaning of the prefix in this verse is the completion of an action and suggests the following translation: "I was not born to hate completely, but to love fully." This translation fits nicely into the contexts of Antigone's dialogue with Creon, as well as into the context of the entire drama as a whole.

The second part of the paper cites various passages in which the prefix συν- is used for indicating the completion of an action; the examples include a passage from Sophocles' Ajax that is strikingly similar to verse 523 οf Antigone.
π or Π? A note on the chronology of Eusebius's Martyrs of Palestine
Authors: Farkas Zoltán
Published: June 2018

Accepting the dates in the short version of Eusebius of Caesarea's De martyribus Palestinae as correct and assuming that in defining the holidays and the days of the week the author followed the Christian calendar of Caesarea - which was not identical with the Roman one - it seems likely that the martyr Apphianus was executed not on a simple Friday (MP rec. brev. 4, 15: ἡμέρᾳ παρασκευῆς), but on Good Friday (ἡμέρᾳ Παρασκευῆς).
[Mosch.] 3.88 und Pindars Geburtsort
Authors: Gaertner Jan Felix
Published: June 2018

[Mosch.] 3.88 does not refer to the Boeotian forests but to the Boeotian town Hylai as Pindar's birthplace. The tradition that Pindar was born in Kynoskephalai seems to have originated later and may go back to Plutarch.
Pilate's Tiberiéum: A new approach
Authors: Grüll Tibor
Published: June 2018

The exact meaning of Tiberiéum in the first line of Pontius Pilate's inscription has been studied since 1961. Epigraphists have generally explained it as "a building dedicated to Tiberius", although in view of the -iéum ending it could also be interpreted as "a festival dedicated to Tiberius". Imperial games called Tiberion and Tibereon are also known from other sources. If Tiberiérum is identified with games or festivals held in honour of Tiberius, the first word of the inscription can perhaps be the one - munus - proposed by Labbé. The occasion for holding these imperial games was most likely the fall of Seianus (October 18,31) that became an official holiday throughout the Imperium.
Aristotle's Poetics: A topical approach
Authors: Hajdu Péter
Published: June 2018

Character, meaning a full personality, seems to be naturally connected to action in modern thought. In contrast, Aristotle dissociates these concepts inasmuch that he accepts the possibility of action without character, as well as texts representing character without action. Action and character can nonetheless be linked through the concept of proairesis, a concept that is also useful for clarifying the possibility of a tragedy without character, in spite of the fundamental connection between action and character. At the end of the paper the modern concept of ordeal is also discussed since this concept appears to be a useful general approach and one also related to Aristotle's concept of proairesis.
The structure of Prometheus Bound
Authors: Karsai György
Published: June 2018

In the Aeschylean Prometheus Bound the problem of the stage action is one of the most important ones. Prometheus' obligatory total passivity from the very beginning requires a closer examination of the drama's structure. Instead of concrete physical movements there are ideological questions put forward: what is the meaning of opposition-revolution against the absolute power? What can be our relation like with the opposite positions (Prometheus + Zeus)? Examining these questions the reader gets knowledge of each characters' answers to the main conflict: how to define our place in a given + divine or human + order? In this respect the role of the Prometheus Bound' Chorus is surprising, even exceptional in the history of Greek tragedy.
Choice as a category of human activity
Authors: Steiner Erich
Published: June 2018

Choice has been built into Systemic Functional Linguistics from its beginning. It has a specialized technical meaning in SFL not to be equated with its sense in philosophical and sociological discourses. However, many of these other senses of choice form cultural contexts for the SFL-term, and some of these contexts will be addressed in an exploration of their significance for acts of evaluation as a necessary prerequisite for human agency. We shall start by discussing unproblematized notions of the freedom of choice of the autonomous individual as represented in a popular essay by David Foster-Wallace (2012). These notions will be criticized in the spirit of the critique of the notion of Subject by Foucault (1966), and of sociological work by Bourdieu (1979) on habitus in modern societies, both of which call the notion of the autonomous individual very much into question. We shall then turn to attempts to defend the notion of the Subject and of choice by locating its roots in key elements of Greek philosophy and their further development in both Christian and post-enlightenment materialist and Marxist reasoning (Habermas 2008). For systemic linguistics, the notions of choice and of the value-systems upon which choice needs to be based (Halliday 2001) are crucial for motivating the concepts of activity and social agency, so essential for an integrated sociolinguistic theory (Hasan 2009).
The Noun, Grammar and Context
Authors: Fontaine Lise
Published: June 2018

Perhaps the earliest linguistic resource we have as babies learning to mean is the noun in categorizing the objects around us. The conventional association between the noun and the entity it denotes becomes exploited in use and the speaker learns that through grammar he or she can use nominal expressions to refer. This is one of our most powerful resources. The referring nominal group has the greatest potential for complexity and can serve as a measure of a text’s ‘nominality’ and its density, including its role as an index of register. In Halliday’s 1966 paper Grammar, Society and the Noun, he sought to consider “certain questions of language from the outside” (p. 50). In this paper, I will also look at certain questions of language but instead from the inside. These two alternative views can be thought of as inter-organism orientation and intra-organism orientation (Halliday, Lamb & Regan, 1988). This paper seeks to answer questions such as what is ‘nominality’? Where and how does it fit in the grammar? What relationship does it have, if any, to context? Taking an intra-organism approach, I will consider these questions by examining certain referring expressions in context. Clark and Wilkes-Gibbs (1986) demonstrated how the process of referring is collaborative; however as they point out, “social factors govern the collaborative mode” (p, 37). This paper will explore these social factors by looking at certain referring expressions in an uncollaborative context, that of a reprisal hearing. The results show that a speech partner uses different strategies following a rejected referring expression depending on the type of exchange.
Comicbooks as cultural archeology
Authors: Veloso Francisco
Published: June 2018

The aim of this article is to discuss how comicbooks, as complex multimodal artifacts, discursively interpret and evaluate events during World War II. More specifically, I examine how women are represented in an archive of 69 Captain America stories published by Marvel Comics between March 1941 and March 1943, drawing on theoretical developments within the area of social semiotics (Halliday, 1978; Hodge and Kress, 1988). An important argument within social semiotics and multimodal studies is that texts are a combination of semiotic resources that are used for production and consumption of meanings, in specific contexts (Hodge and Kress, 1988). As a consequence, by examining these semiotic resources one can develop a better understanding of social meanings that circulate in society and how these meanings are structurally organized. By examining forms of discourse for social analysis we may identify ways of addressing particular issues at the level of representation.
Timor-Leste: Multilingual Education for All?
Authors: Taylor-Leech Kerry
Published: June 2018

This article presents a review of medium-of-instruction policy in Timor-Leste a er ten years of independence. The review is set against the provisions for language in the country’s National Constitution and the human development discourses of the Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is informed by a range of literature dealing with language policy and the medium of instruction in linguistically diverse and developing contexts. The article provides an overview of the language situation and the development challenges facing education planners, followed by a critical examination of medium-of-instruction policy over the period 2000-2012. This critique is followed by an explanatory discussion of the mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) policy for Timor-Leste and a consideration of some concerns about MTB-MLE. The article closes with an assessment of the potential of this policy to promote linguistic diversity in Timor-Leste and help deliver on the EFA and MDGs for 2015.
Musical Nationalism for the 21st Century: From Andrade’s Archive to A Barca’s Repertoire
Authors: Brune Krista
Published: June 2018

This paper compares the first album of the São Paulo based group A Barca to Mário de Andrade’s musical nationalism in the early 20th century, which inspired the contemporary group. Rather than precisely replicating the original sources, A Barca creates a hybrid cultural form that blurs the constructed distinctions between popular and erudite, traditional and modern. By analyzing A Barca’s project, this paper addresses ongoing regional dynamics within Brazilian culture and the problematic constructs of “authenticity” and “popular”.
Between Backyard Swamps and the Cosmos: Place, Space, and the Intersubjective Mesh in the Poetry of Manoel de Barros
Authors: McNee Malcolm K.
Published: June 2018

This essay proposes a reading of the poetry of Manoel de Barros oriented by deconstructive turns in contemporary ecocritical theory and debates on the meanings of eco-poetry as a critical designation. I consider the tension between place-based referentiality and abstract spaciousness in Barros’ work as well as the resonance between its microcosmic scenes of abjection, decay and trans guration and ecocritic Timothy Morton’s notion of the intersubjective mesh as the fundamental basis of ecological thinking. While an aura of conservation politics and place-making referentiality can certainly be intuited in Barros’ poetic figurations of Pantanal landscapes, flora, and fauna, I argue that the force of meaning of his ambient poetics is most substantially to be found in their sustained imagining of intersubjectivity and its unsettling ontological and ethical effects.
Independence, Democracy and Institutional Choices
Authors: Graça Feijó Rui
Published: June 2018

This paper proposes to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the independence of Timor-Leste by focusing on two controversies that marked the period before its proclamation and whose consequences extend into the present. The first one deals with the “road map to Independence” and comprises the debate on the best process to elaborate a Constitution. It is intertwined with the problem of the extent to which Timorese ought to participate in the critical decisions of the transitional period, conducted under the aegis of the United Nations. The second impinges on the choice of its system of government and its impact on the consolidation of democracy. This section discusses the relevant literature on semi- presidentialism to frame a comparative perspective to events in Timor-Leste and shows the historical evolution of the process of constitutional design and the debates it involved. Finally, this essay proposes to look at those critical choices as a function of the history of Timor-Leste since 1975 and the political balance of forces rather than derived from theoretical principles.
A Lie for a Lie: MPLA Media Control in Ondjaki’s Luandan Novels
Authors: Hussar James
Published: June 2018

This essay analyzes the strategies used by Angolan author Ondjaki (Ndalu de Almeida, 1977- ) to critique the control of Angolan media by the nation’s ruling party, the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), in four novels: Bom Dia Camaradas (2001), Quantas Madrugadas Tem a Noite (2004), AvóDezanove e o Segredo do Soviético (2008), and Os Transparentes (2012). In the first three novels, Ondjaki draws on narrative techniques associated with oral storytelling and magical realism to create unreliable, exaggerated accounts, which he uses to discredit similarly hyperbolic “official histories” propagated by Angolan news outlets. In his latest novel, however, Ondjaki tackles collusion between the MPLA and the Angolan press more directly, detailing a process by which corrupt government officials and their media lackeys generate news releases in the interests of the Angolan elite and at the expense of the public.
Portuguese Pronouns and Other Forms of Address, from the Past into the Future— Structural, Semantic and Pragmatic Reflections
Authors: Cook Manuela
Published: June 2018

This paper examines the Portuguese second-person system and forms of address as they stand today, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It considers both their roots and significant stages of evolution and how both are shaping the current situation. It also cogitates about possible further changes. These reflections will use the N-V-T framework of analysis (Cook, “Uma Teoria”), deemed to be better suited than the V/T duality (Brown and Gilman).
A maior personagem do barroco português: o herói da Vida de D. Frei Bertolameu dos Mártires, de Frei Luís de Sousa
Authors: Figueiredo João R.
Published: June 2018

A amplitude estilística do barroco literário português abarca quer a pirotecnia verbal do Padre António Vieira quer a prosa despojada de Frei Luís de Sousa. Além de recensear o modo como a crítica foi acomodando uma tal heterogeneidade, este ensaio descreve a austeridade estilística de Frei Luís de Sousa na sua adequação às personagens biografadas (nomeadamente o Arcebispo de Braga, D. Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires) e às doutrinas políticas que emergiram na historiogra a portuguesa da época filipina.
Revisiting Baroque Poetics in Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinação: The Hermeneutics of Worldview
Authors: Fouto Catarina
Published: June 2018

This paper explores the Baroque poetics of Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinação. Drawing from Roland Greene’s Five Words, it argues that the shift in worldview that occurred between the late sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century played a crucial role in the development of Baroque poetics, style and commonplaces, and, crucially, that these should be seen as powerful hermeneutic tools. Whilst addressing the critical debate surrounding certain features of the Peregrinação, this paper focuses on questions of generic hybridity, encoded polyphony, and spectacle from a multidisciplinary approach. Through a close reading of certain episodes of the Peregrinação, this paper highlights the discursive power of this text in problematizing and disrupting stable views of the world and the moral and cultural superiority of the Portuguese and their imperial aspirations.
The Terrible Embrace of the Incipient Baroque: Textually Enacting the Union of Crowns
Authors: Slater John
Published: June 2018

Portugal and Spain were ruled by a single monarchy from 1580 to 1640; the images of encircling and embracing that accompanied Castilian celebrations of the Union of Crowns indicate that new language accompanied the new political reality. This new language became the idiom of an incipient baroque, a regime of representation that rendered perceptible the particular aspirations of a universal monarchy. Through successive Castilian translations and adaptations, seminal Portuguese works crisscrossed the Hapsburg empire, enclosing the globe in a textual embrace. Textual enclosure became one of the means by which the Hapsburg empire was enacted.
Da capital para o interior: a jornada de uma mulher dentro das margens do Império Colonial Português
Authors: Sousa Sandra
Published: June 2018

Nos anos 40 e 50 do século XX, no contexto do Estado Novo em Portugal, a Agência Geral do Ultramar continua a promover o Concurso de Literatura Colonial com o objectivo de, por meio da literatura, despertar o espírito dos portugueses em relação às colónias africanas. Em 1951, o júri atribui “por unanimidade o segundo prémio da 1a categoria” do XXV Concurso de Literatura Colonial a Márcia Ramos Ivens Ferraz com a obra Sòzinha no Mato. Este artigo tem como objectivo, na senda dos estudos que se têm debruçado sobre a escrita feminina portuguesa no sentido de a problematizar e tirá-la do esquecimento, trazer a público uma obra e autora também elas esquecidas, contribuindo, assim, para um mais vasto (re)conhecimento da escrita feminina, mais especificamente, colonial, em Portugal durante a década de cinquenta. Propõe-se, através da obra de Márcia Ferraz, problematizar relações de género e raça no Moçambique colonial.
Exiled in Modernity: City Change, Nostalgia, and Mário Pederneiras in Kosmos
Authors: Moody Sarah
Published: June 2018

This article studies the work of Mário Pederneiras published in Kosmos (1904-9), especially the prose chronicles of a writer principally remembered today as a Symbolist poet. The archival rescue and analysis add nuance to critical discourse surrounding the urban reforms of Rio de Janeiro and the widespread triumphalism that Pederneiras critiqued. His aesthetically subtle and carefully structured chronicles point to city change as a painful reshaping of individual and community identity that lingers in memory. Gender in particular emerges as a system in radical ux due to mayor Pereira Passos’s remodeling of urban space.
Meira Monteiro, Pedro and Michael Stone. Cangoma Calling: Spirits and Rhythms of Freedom in Brazilian Jongo Slavery Songs
Authors: Bocskay Stephen A.
Published: June 2018

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Monteiro, George. As Paixões de Pessoa
Authors: Sepúlveda Pedro
Published: June 2018

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As órfãs d’el-Rei: Racialized Sex and the Politicization of Life in Manuel da Nóbrega’s Letters from Brazil
Authors: Rosenthal Olímpia
Published: June 2018

Between 1551 and 1608/1609, five groups of Portuguese female orphans were sent to Brazil as part the Crown’s efforts to populate the colony. The first group arrived in response to Father Manuel da Nóbrega’s initial petition and, as this practice developed into policy, his views were decisive in the conceptualization of this project. Through an analysis of Nóbrega’s letters, this essay traces the central presuppositions on which this colonial project was based, and theorizes its implications. It highlights the institutional mechanisms that made possible and helped shape this global traffic in women and argues that this specific case evinces an early and stark politicization of life.
Phytofables: Tales of the Amazon
Authors: Vieira Patrícia
Published: June 2018

The Amazon has been the repository of myriad stories created as a means to make sense of the proliferation of life in the forest. In this article, I trace some of the narratives—which I call phytofables—that explorers, scientists, activists and governments have superimposed upon the region, from the green hell/earthly Paradise dichotomy to more recent discourses of economic progress and protectionism. In the final section of the article, I turn to literary texts that have attempted to listen to and interpret the voice of the forest, in particular Alberto Rangel’s Inferno Verde and José Maria Ferreira de Castro’s A Selva.
The Impact of Russell Hamilton at the University of Minnesota
Authors: Isaacman Allen
Published: June 2018

As a faculty member at the University of Minnesota for the past forty-three years and a Regents Professor the past fifteen, I would like to briefly discuss Russell Hamilton’s important contribution to the intellectual and cultural life of the University. I shall focus on three aspects that I consider extremely important.
Russell Hamilton’s Voices from an Empire: A Pioneering Study
Authors: Brookshaw David
Published: June 2018

The study of African literature in Portuguese was a largely vacant field in universities in the USA and the UK in the 1960s, in contrast to the emerging study of Anglophone and Francophone African literatures, which were well under way as both Britain and France completed their processes of decolonization. In the 1960s, Gerald Moser had raised awareness of individual writers such as the neo-realist novelist Castro Soromenho, and Clive Willis had translated the ethnographic tales of Óscar Ribas; however, Russell Hamilton was the first to write a comprehensive, cohesive, and balanced study of the field in Voices from an Empire: A History of Afro-Portuguese Literature.
Russell Hamilton: A Pioneering Scholar of the Cultures and Literatures of Portuguese-Speaking Africa
Authors: Fonseca Maria Nazareth Soares
Published: June 2018

At several moments of my academic life, especially as a faculty member at PUC Minas (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil), where I have taught African literatures in Portuguese since 1995, I experienced the great pleasure of interacting with Russell Hamilton. Before meeting him, I had read some of his works, particularly the two volumes of Literatura Africana—Literatura Necessária, published in the 1980s. These volumes were very important, since they offered me a scholarly basis for teaching a number of courses in the graduate program in Literatures at PUC Minas while also providing a useful, although selective, view of the several African Literatures written in Portuguese.
A Incompletude do Processo de Disciplinarização das Literaturas Africanas
Authors: Kandjimbo Luís
Published: June 2018

In the present essay, I propose a meta-theoretical and interdisciplinary articulation of themes and problems that point to the need for African literary comparativism. In particular, I examine the controversies that have emerged in the theories and criticism devoted to African literatures in light of the debates that likewise took place in African philosophy. The key concept with which I operate is disciplinarization; this is due to its potential for explaining the incomplete nature of the process that might lead to the integration of African Literary Studies or African Literatures in the current disciplinary system.
Comunitarismo Literário-Cultural e a Globalização: Os Países de Língua Portuguesa
Authors: Abdala Júnior Benjamin
Published: June 2018

In the present essay, I examine politico-cultural issues related to the process of globalization and the current moment of crisis and neo-liberal ideology. I explore possible solutions to the crisis that lead to the affirmation of more democratic regulatory tendencies, but that also have in mind the alteration of paradigms designed to preserve hegemonic formulations.
Sá-Carneiro, Mario de. Em ouro e alma: A correspondência com Fernando Pessoa. Ed. Ricardo Vasconcelos and Jerónimo Pizarro. Lisboa: Tinta da China, 2015. Print.
Authors: Beleza Fernando
Published: June 2018

Nenhuma outra amizade contribuiu para definir o legado de uma geração literária em Portugal como a de Mário de Sá-Carneiro e Fernando Pessoa. A recentemente publicada edição crítica das cartas de Sá-Carneiro a Pessoa, da responsabilidade de Ricardo Vasconcelos e Jerónimo Pizarro, vem aproximar de forma notável o leitor contemporâneo da amizade e do diálogo artístico intenso que, através da correspondência entre a capital portuguesa e Paris, onde Sá-Carneiro passou longas temporadas entre 1913 e 1916, marcou as vidas e obras de ambos.
Owen, Hilary, and Anna M. Klobucka, eds. Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Print.
Authors: Sanchez Kathryn M.
Published: June 2018

This carefully edited volume brings together a collection of original essays that through diverse approaches to a broad scope of materials explores cultural and literary representations of the Portuguese expansion and former empire, and postcolonialism in the Portuguese-speaking world. The volume functions as a whole because of the carefully constructed interconnections of gender, race, politics, class and imperialism, among other themes, that are woven throughout the studies, and that are enriched by varying positionalities that include different Portuguese-speaking geographic regions and theoretical points of reference.
A gente não mergulha no mundo do outro impunemente: uma conversa com Eliane Brum
Authors: Gavioli Nicola
Published: June 2018

O trabalho jornalístico de Eliane Brum é considerado hoje—por periodistas,acadêmicos e por um vasto público leitor—uma referência para acompanhar odebate sobre direitos humanos no Brasil. Ao longo dos últimos trinta anos, Brumtem publicado um corpus coerente e instigante de reportagens, colunas e crônicasem jornais (Zero Hora, El País, The Guardian) e revistas (Revista Época) degrande difusão e prestígio.
Posthumanism, Animism, and Sérgio Medeiros's Pluriverse Poetics
Authors: McNee Malcolm
Published: June 2018

The works of Sérgio Medeiros are populated by a multitude of beings of diverse and often shifting orders and species. Drawing upon intersecting conceptual orientations of animal and multispecies studies, posthumanism, and ecocriticism, I survey a range of interspecies encounters and worldings in Medeiros’s writing, especially his collection of poems, O choro da aranha, etc. (2013). As Medeiros pointedly draws inspiration from diverse aesthetic and philosophical traditions—from Amerindian cosmogonies and verbal arts to Japanese Zen poetry and various strains of modernist avantgardism—I trace here as a unifying feature his engagement with animist imaginings and a post- or anti-anthropocentric unsettling of human/non-human binaries and boundaries.
Bishop-Sánchez, Kathryn. Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom. Vanderbilt UP, 2016.
Authors: Santos Alessandra
Published: June 2018

In this volume, Kathryn Bishop-Sánchez has accomplished the challenging but rewarding task of analyzing one of the twentieth century’s most popular culture icons. This is a real feat, given Carmen Miranda’s place in the popular imaginary. Bishop-Sánchez tackles this task brilliantly through the lens of Miranda as a cultural sign, providing a rigorous study of how the latter has served as a constructed and embodied media icon.