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F. A. Hayek and the Economic Calculus
Authors: Caldwell Bruce
Published: February 2016

This article offers a revisionist account of certain episodes in the development of F. A. Hayek's thought. It offers a new reading of his 1937 paper, “Economics and Knowledge,” that draws on unpublished lecture notes in which he articulated more fully the distinctions he made in the paper between a “pure logic of choice,” or the economic calculus, and an “empirical element,” which he would later call the competitive market order. Next, the essay shows that Hayek continued to try to develop his ideas about the role of the economic calculus through the 1950s and early 1960s, an effort that has been missed because it never led to any published work. Finally, the article examines Hayek's attempt to articulate a theory of the market process, one that would be at the same level of generality as the economic calculus, in lectures he gave at the University of Virginia. He never developed a full-fledged formal theory, but his failed efforts still bore fruit in leading him to his contributions on spontaneous orders and the (verbal) theory of complex phenomena. This work anticipated contributions by others who were more technically trained.
The coordination of ploidy and cell size differs between cell layers in leaves
Authors: Katagiri Yohei , Hasegawa Junko , Fujikura Ushio , Hoshino Rina , Matsunaga Sachihiro , Tsukaya Hirokazu
Published: February 2016

Growth and developmental processes are occasionally accompanied by multiple DNA replications, known as endoreduplication. Coordination between endoreduplication and cell size regulation often plays a crucial role in proper organogenesis and cell differentiation. Here, we report that the level of correlation between ploidy and cell volume is different in the outer and inner cell layers of leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana using a novel imaging technique. Although there is a well-known, strong correlation between ploidy and cell volume in pavement cells of the epidermis, this correlation was extremely weak in palisade mesophyll cells. The induction of epidermis cell identity based on the expression of ATML1 in mesophylls enhanced the level of correlation between ploidy and cell volume to near that of wild-type epidermal cells, indicating that the correlation between ploidy and cell volume is regulated by cell identity.
Mutations in the murine homologue ofTUBB5cause microcephaly by perturbing cell cycle progression and inducing p53 associated apoptosis
Authors: Breuss Martin , Fritz Tanja , Gstrein Thomas , Chan Kelvin , Ushakova Lyubov , Yu Nuo , Vonberg Frederick W , Werner Barbara , Elling Ulrich , Keays David A
Published: February 2016

Microtubules play a critical role in the generation, migration, and differentiation of nascent neurons in the developing vertebrate brain. Mutations in the constituents of microtubules, the tubulins, are known to cause an array of neurological disorders, including lissencephaly, polymicrogyria, and microcephaly. In this study we explore the genetic and cellular mechanisms that cause TUBB5 associated microcephaly by exploiting two new mouse models: a conditional E401K knockin; and a conditional knockout animal. We report that these mice present with profound microcephaly due to a loss of upper layer neurons that correlates with massive apoptosis and upregulation of p53. This phenotype is associated with a delay in cell cycle progression and ectopic DNA elements in progenitors, which is dependent on the dosage of functional Tubb5. Strikingly, we report ectopic Sox2 positive progenitors and defects in spindle orientation in our knockin mouse line, which are absent in knockout animals. This work sheds light on the functional repertoire of Tubb5, reveals that the E401K mutation acts by a complex mechanism, and demonstrates that the cellular pathology driving TUBB5 associated microcephaly is cell death.
How special is the biochemical function of native proteins?
Authors: Skolnick Jeffrey , Gao Mu , Zhou Hongyi
Published: February 2016

Native proteins perform an amazing variety of biochemical functions, including enzymatic catalysis, and can engage in protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions that are essential for life. A key question is how special are these functional properties of proteins. Are they extremely rare, or are they an intrinsic feature? Comparison to the properties of compact conformations of artificially generated compact protein structures selected for thermodynamic stability but not any type of function, the artificial (ART) protein library, demonstrates that a remarkable number of the properties of native-like proteins are recapitulated. These include the complete set of small molecule ligand-binding pockets and most protein-protein interfaces. ART structures are predicted to be capable of weakly binding metabolites and cover a significant fraction of metabolic pathways, with the most enriched pathways including ancient ones such as glycolysis. Native-like active sites are also found in ART proteins. A small fraction of ART proteins are predicted to have strong protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions. Overall, it appears that biochemical function is an intrinsic feature of proteins which nature has significantly optimized during evolution. These studies raise questions as to the relative roles of specificity and promiscuity in the biochemical function and control of cells that need investigation.
On the Longitudinal Effects of IT Use on Firm-Level Employment
Authors: Atasoy Hilal , Banker Rajiv D. , Pavlou Paul A.
Published: February 2016

The effect of information technology (IT) on employment is a crucial question in today’s economy given the increased digitization of work. To analyze the relationship between IT use and firm-level employment, we examine the longitudinal role of IT use in the firm’s total number of employees. Our data set comes from the emerging economy of Turkey, and it represents firms of different sizes and industries. The data capture the firm’s use of enterprise applications, such as enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management, and the use of Web applications, such as e-banking and e-government. Our empirical specifications exploit both within-firm and between-firm variations to show the positive effect of IT use on firm-level employment, which varies across IT applications over time. Interestingly, we find that the effects of the use of enterprise applications materialize after two years, whereas the effects of the use of Web applications are realized in the current year. We also examine whether the role of IT use in firm-level employment are moderated by firm size, average wage rate, and industry technology intensity. The long-term effects of the use of enterprise applications on firm-level employment are more pronounced in larger firms, with higher average wages, and in high-technology industries. The results are robust to alternative specifications and tests that address causality and endogeneity concerns. Implications for research, practice, and public policy are discussed.
Implementing a peer support programme in a regional mental health service: A personal journey
Authors: Vilic Gabrielle , Lloyd Chris , Tse Samson
Published: February 2016

Peer support is a well-established component of many mental health services that provides a promising employment opportunity and recognises experience with mental illness as an asset rather than a liability. The overall aim of this paper is to discuss the challenges of implementing a peer support programme in a regional mental health service. In particular, the article discusses how the roles and functions of peer support workers have evolved and how challenges to service effectiveness were identified and overcome. The authors also examine the development of a related consumer companion role and consider the similarities and differences of peer support and consumer companion roles. Recommendations are made with respect to issues such as how allied health professionals views this role, what happens when peer support workers become ill and level of training and supervision.
Panthea’s Sisters: Negotiating East-West Polarities through Gender in Xenophon
Authors: Baragwanath Emily
Published: February 2016

This paper examines Xenophon’s destabilizing of gender polarities in his depiction in the Hellenica of Mania of Dardanus, a widow who rules on behalf of the satrap Pharnabazus in the Persian-controlled Troad. One of the historian’s strategies is to shift the attitudes of readers by modeling the response of an authoritative character within the text, and another is to evoke traditional stereotypes associated with Eastern widow rulers, only to upturn them. I argue that Xenophon’s gender destabilization in the Eastern context goes hand in hand with his problematizing of the associated Greek binary conception of East/West.
Rewriting Power: Zenobia, Aurelian, and the Historia Augusta
Authors: Jones Prudence
Published: February 2016

The portrayal of Zenobia of Palmyra in the Historia Augusta must be regarded with suspicion as a faithful representation of historical events. When considered as a narrative, however, this episode becomes a discourse on the correlation of power, gender, and ethnicity. In a new reading of the Life of Aurelian ( HA 22–34), I argue that the construction of the episode’s plot as well as devices such as variable focalization and dramatic irony call attention to the nexus of power, gender, and cultural identity, and ultimately destabilize the assumption that power is Roman and masculine.
Found: Frank Budgen’s Three Views of Finnegans Wake
Authors: Meyers Jesse
Published: February 2016

This illustrated essay examines three oil paintings—never before collectively assembled for the Joyce community—by Frank Budgen, which display his impressions of Finnegans Wake . Budgen was a trained artist as well as the author of the seminal James Joyce and the Making of “Ulysses .” The importance of the works is underscored by the fact that he was widely considered to be one of Joyce’s closest friends, and they depict continuing efforts to encapsulate the thematics of the book. His previously unpublished notes describing two of the works are also shown. I offer detailed reviews of each of the paintings.
Molly, Mr. Stanhope, and Hester: A Genetic Reading of a Love Triangle in Ulysses
Authors: Crispi Luca
Published: February 2016

This essay explores the moments in the creative process when Joyce established certain narrative elements about Molly’s closest (and, as far as readers know, only) female friend in Gibraltar, Hester Stanhope, as well as the narrative consequences of emphasizing Mr. Stanhope’s attraction to the young Molly. From a genetic critical perspective, it studies the gradual, complex, and sometimes elusive ways in which Joyce wove the narratological patterns that serve to construct his characters. Such a mode of analysis reveals the strategies through which specialist textual work directly intersects with other critical readings. The ways in which Joyce developed the Stanhopes are paradigmatic of the construction and function of many of the book’s minor players. He did not create the secondary and tertiary characters for their own sakes but rather to illuminate various aspects of Leopold and Molly Bloom and their love story. In this case, the most basic role the Stanhopes play in Ulysses is as the background of Molly’s reflections about her sexuality as a young woman in Gibraltar in 1886 and in Dublin in 1904.
Informational Justice: A Conceptual Framework for Social Justice in Library and Information Services
Authors: Mathiesen Kay
Published: February 2016

This article presents a conceptual framework of social justice for library and information science (LIS) and services responsive to their core concerns and drawing from the disciplinary literatures in both philosophy and LIS. The framework is introduced in terms of the multifaceted concept of informational justice, defined as the just treatment of persons as seekers, sources, and subjects of information. The article also expands on the central aspect of informational justice, namely iDistributive justice, defined as the equitable distribution of access to information. An iDistributively just system is one that ensures all persons have sufficient access to information, where access is understood as a capability sensitive resource.
Advancing an Indigenous Ecology within LIS Education
Authors: Roy Loriene
Published: February 2016

This article explores whether library and information science (LIS) education can incorporate an ethical learning environment based on indigenous worldview. Such a space is an indigenous ecology where relationships between people can be forged based on traditional knowledges. Connections between the indigenous ecology, information ethics, and social justice theory are drawn as a prelude to considering indigenous worldview. The protocols or behaviors and values within the ecological system are described. Indigenous perspectives on research methods are introduced, providing a background for considering approaches to study within the indigenous ecology. Finally, several case-specific examples are offered that illustrate features of the indigenous ecology. These features are mapped according to the concept of the medicine wheel/circle, acknowledging that various strengths and challenges are associated with the cardinal directions. The indigenous ecology provides a means for respecting diversity while reinterpreting strongly held professional values, such as those related to access to information.
Social Justice Research in Library and Information Sciences: A Case for Discourse Analysis
Authors: Oliphant Tami
Published: February 2016

Scholars have employed a variety of research methodologies and methods to explore, probe, and uncover ways in which social justice is enacted, embodied, supported, or not supported by researchers, educators, and practitioners in library and information science and services (LIS). Discursive psychology as developed by social psychologist Jonathan Potter and critical discourse analysis as developed by Norman Fairclough are introduced as fruitful approaches to investigate the critical intersections of LIS and social justice. The theoretical development of social justice in LIS is discussed. Next, critical discourse analysis and discursive psychology are examined and then analyzed for goodness of fit with Kevin Rioux’s (2010) five underlying assumptions of social justice metatheory: (1) All human beings have an inherent worth and deserve information services that help address those needs; (2) People perceive reality and information in different ways, often within cultural or life role contexts; (3) There are many different types of information and knowledge, and these are societal resources; (4) Theory and research are pursued with the ultimate goal of bringing positive change to service constituencies; (5) The provision of information services is an inherently powerful activity. Drawing on the findings of the goodness of fit of Rioux’s metatheory and examples of discourse analytic studies in LIS, this article offers practical strategies for social justice researchers wanting to use critical discourse analysis or discursive psychology.
Out of Necessity Comes Unbridled Imagination for Survival: Contributive Justice in Spanish Libraries during Economic Crisis
Authors: Merlo-Vega José Antonio , Chu Clara M.
Published: February 2016

The call for this journal issue notes that “social justice in LIS/services involves achieving action-oriented socially relevant outcomes via information-related work.” There is not a more fitting time and place for such action than in Spain, where the current economic crisis left more than 6 million (27 percent of the population) unemployed as of 2013. It is not just communities that are grappling with the pain of the economic downturn; libraries are also suffering from the crisis as a result of budget cuts due to reduced public funding. This article presents the case of Spanish academic and public libraries that have found solutions to keep themselves open, providing services vital to the economic and sociocultural needs of their communities. This case is an example of contributive justice, as evidenced in the actions taken by Spanish libraries and their communities as well as in the manner in which the research data were collected. Eight libraryrelated actions were found: professional, community, social, political, digital, cultural/heritage, economic, and ontological. Despite economic hardships all around, these Spanish examples reveal the impact of libraries as social justice institutions, the role of librarians as agents of change, and the value of contributive and grassroots efforts when governments fail to provide. Moreover, these contributions to social justice illustrate actions appropriate to a contributive justice framework for libraries, as proposed in this article.
Information Literacy in Postsecondary Education in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand
Authors: Folk Amanda L.
Published: February 2016

This comparison seeks to determine if the three documents addressing information literacy skills and competence developed by professional library associations for postsecondary education in four predominantly English-speaking countries—the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand—have similar or varying conceptions of information literacy. In a globalized society, postsecondary institutions not only prepare students to live and work within local, regional, or national contexts but also equip them to function in a global society. If conceptions of information literacy vary between countries, then graduates might not be well prepared to function successfully within this global society.
“Soft Skills”: A Phrase in Search of Meaning
Authors: Matteson Miriam L. , Anderson Lorien , Boyden Cynthia
Published: February 2016

Soft skills are a collection of people management skills, important to many professions and job positions, including academic librarianship. Yet the concept of soft skills lacks definition, scope, instrumentation, and systematic education and training. This literature review explores the definition of soft skills ; contrasts skills with related concepts, such as personality traits, attitudes, beliefs, and values; and compares a set of soft skill typologies. We discuss a number of conceptual issues associated with soft skills and suggest several lines of research to help clarify and strengthen librarians’ understanding of and development of soft skills.
“Blind Representation”: On the Epic Naiveté of the Cinema
Authors: D’Arcy Michael
Published: February 2016

This essay argues that Theodor Adorno’s reflections on the novel form respond to a problem that is focused in his commentaries on the cinema: how to develop forms of aesthetic rationality at a historical moment in which medium-specific aesthetic reflection may be obsolete. Adorno’s commentaries on novelistic and filmic language register this historical situation of art. At the same time, this line of thought serves a crucial underlying interest of Adorno’s aesthetic theory – to maintain art’s thought of uneven development, its vanishing distinction from the technological forms of its social context.
Global Pictures: Formalist Strategies in the Era of New Media
Authors: Lynes Krista Geneviève
Published: February 2016

This essay examines the role played by political and activist media, as well as media infrastructures and platforms, in creating solidarity or continuity between the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, Indignados and the ‘Printemps Erable,’ among others. It critiques the overvaluation of social media in organizing protests and creating solidarity between social movements, demonstrating the renewal of discourses of the “global village” on which such valuations depend. Instead, it examines the role of aesthetics in creating sites of solidarity and affiliation across different local political struggles, taking as its case study a series of performances and a video work by the artist Milica Tomic.
Debt Aesthetics: Medium Specificity and Social Practice in the Work of Cassie Thornton
Authors: Berge Leigh Claire La , Hannah Dehlia
Published: February 2016

This article considers the “debt visualizations” of social practice artist Cassie Thornton. Thorton’s works use a combination of photography, performance art, sculpture, non-fiction narrative, text, and hypertext to explore the cost and consequence of the accumulation of student loans. The essay examines Thornton’s use of both traditional and non-traditional artistic materials and practices in order to articulate how the ‘immaterials’ of debt become an artistic medium; her radical departure from traditional media leads squarely back to the problem of the medium itself in Thornton’s assertion that “debt is [her] medium.” While it is tempting to read such a claim as an embrace of a “post-medium condition,” this essay argues that in our highly leveraged present, the very form of unsecured student debt that Thornton works in and on invites a return to and a reconsideration of the seemingly conservative impulses of aesthetic Modernism and its critique.
Contesting ‘invited spaces’: where a ward committee and a social movement meet
Authors: Roux Anneke le
Published: February 2016

Since the late 1990s the South African state has placed a large emphasis on the restructuring of local government to be more participatory, and the creation of ward committees was one outcome of this process. Simultaneously there has been a rise in social movements which serve to represent the needs of the poor and marginalised who have seemingly been ignored by the state’s neoliberal policies. This paper focuses on a local government ward committee (WC) and a social movement organisation (SMO)–the Thembelihle Crisis Committee (TCC)–within the context of the Thembelihle informal settlement in Johannesburg. The former is an ‘invited participatory space’ which has been created by the state to invite residents to participate. The latter is an ‘invented participatory space’ created from below by the grassroots, through which residents assert their agency as active community members. Many scholars have conceptualised these participatory spaces as separate and distinct. Subsequently, ‘invited spaces’ were labelled as pseudo-democratic, state controlled, and hence there was the suggestion that they should be abandoned, while ‘invented spaces’ were perceived as more accurately reflecting the views and needs of the poor in South Africa. More recently, scholars such as Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Mkwanazi (2015), and Luke Sinwell (2012) have begun to argue that the binary of invited and invented is too simplistic. They have urged that we look more closely at the relationship between these two spaces as opposed to setting them apart. This paper attempts to argue that invented spaces can contest the invited spaces of the state. The concept of contesting ‘invited space’ will be used to reconsider invited spaces by more accurately analysing the interface of the ‘invited’ and the ‘invented’. By analysing how and where the two meet, we begin to see what happens when a powerful SMO inserts itself onto the invited space of a ‘second generation’ ward committee.
Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United Kingdom and attendant cultural myths
Authors: Gladston Paul
Published: February 2016

This editorial reflects on President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping’s visit to the United Kingdom in 2015 and two attendant cultural myths: first, of traditional Chinese culture as essentially harmonious; and second, of Ai Weiwei as an exemplary political dissident.
Dialogue (A)head: Zhang Dali’s construction of public space
Authors: Bakkers Jamila
Published: February 2016

The early 1980s mark the beginning of a still ongoing period during which Beijing has undergone radical structural transformations. These transformations are reflected by the work of numerous artists resident in the city. In this article I analyse four stages in the production of a series of graffiti-style interventions into the urban fabric of Beijing by one such artist, Zhang Dali – Dialogue (1995) and Demolition (1998). The use of public space, place and site form the connecting thread of this analysis. The tracing of this thread is intended to bring us closer to a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which such uses are made in artistic contexts. In a narrower sense I scrutinize to what extent Zhang’s site-specific interventions can be understood to make claims on space. I maintain that Zhang makes claims on space both by mimicking the processes of transformation that Beijing has undergone since the early 1980s, and by projecting to a wider audience the effects that these processes have had on him and others as subjects.
Escaping the room. A postsocialist reading of Wang Bing’s Father and Sons
Authors: Boden Jeanne
Published: February 2016

Wang Bing explores the contradictions and complexities of China’s post-socialist society today and their consequences for the individual. In Father and Sons 王兵 – 父 与子 (2014) he focuses on a father with his two sons in their migrant condition. The promises of socialist utopia with Mao Zedong as the father of the nation, somehow replacing all fathers in China, no longer exist. In today’s reality traditional family structures have disintegrated, the position of the father is hollowed out, and there is no future for the family in post-socialist China. This article explores Wang Bing’s aesthetic language and choices, his tactics and techniques. His masterly manipulation of time and space, of light and dark, his composition of images with frame-into-frame technique, his use of sound and music, his references to pre-Communist and Maoist times, and his apparent non-interference as a film-maker prove extremely effective in pulling the viewer into the lives of the protagonists, turning viewing the film into an almost live experience.
Organic (un)ground in the time of biopower and hyperobjects: Conceptualizing global posthumanism in the art of Xu Bing and Gu Wenda
Authors: Isto Raino
Published: February 2016

This article examines the uses of organic matter in the art of Xu Bing and Gu Wenda. It attempts to outline the common concerns that both link these uses to culturally specific identities (Chinese or otherwise) and go beyond them to construct an image of the nonhuman world as a phenomenon that participates in and is effected by the context of globalization. The analysis presented draws upon recent posthumanist theoretical work in animal studies and object-oriented ontology, specifically Cary Wolfe’s writings on animals and biopolitical frameworks and Timothy Morton’s theories of ecology and hyperobjects. Considering works like Xu Bing’s A Case Study of Transference and Gu Wenda’s united nations series from the viewpoint of posthumanist philosophies offers a more nuanced critical picture of how both artists have attempted to engage the boundaries of culture and human biological identity in the era of economic and environmental globality.
All under heaven: An introduction to maps and mapping in contemporary Chinese art
Authors: Pittwood Linda
Published: February 2016

Both the noun and the verb ‘map’ appear often in artist statements, catalogue entries and other forms of text that accompany contemporary art. However, articles and survey exhibitions that trace the rise of this theme have not yet in any great detail investigated it within the context of Chinese contemporary art. ‘The map’ forms an urgent lens with which to investigate Chinese works because within this theme can be found some of the most resonant discourses in East Asian modern and contemporary art – in particular, identity, environmentalism, translocalism, Debord’s psychogeography and Pratt’s ‘contact zone’. This article will focus on examining the theme in relation to the key words landscape, environmentalism and identity; identifying the period in which landscape and map-work aligned in Chinese art history; and demonstrating how contemporary Chinese artists have utilized the map and mapping to articulate the layers of their experience as Chinese nationals or artists of the Chinese diaspora.
‘New Man’: Liu Ding in conversation with Edward Sanderson (trans. Carol Yinghua Lu)
Authors: Sanderson Edward
Published: February 2016

Liu Ding is an artist living and working in Beijing. Liu’s solo exhibition, titled ‘New Man’, was staged at MOT International gallery in London, United Kingdom from the 10 April to 27 June 2015. The following conversation took place near Liu’s home in Beijing on 12 May 2015. In this conversation Liu describes works included in ‘New Man’, and their significances as a related group of works within the context of the exhibition’s installation. He links aspects of these works to his continuing research (in collaboration with Carol Yinghua Lu) into the introduction and development of Soviet-inflected Socialist Realism in China, the accommodations that artists made with the ideologically driven aesthetic norms related to this, and the aesthetic and ideological legacy of this style for artists in China. At the same time, Liu places the experience and knowledge gained from his research in parallel with his practice as an artist and curator, all of which informs the exhibition ‘New Man’.
Longitudinal Taphonomic Studies of Mammal Carcasses from the Rio Salado Valley, Mendoza, Argentina
Authors: Otaola Clara , Tripaldi Alfonsina
Published: February 2016

Taphonomic studies aid in understanding the transition of organic matter from living contexts (the biosphere) to geological contexts (the lithosphere), and how agents and processes affect skeletal remains in the archaeological record. Archaeological research in the Atuel River valley, Mendoza, Argentina, has been carried out for several years. However, actualistic approaches to examine local and regional taphonomic processes have only been recently developed in this area. Longitudinal studies of disarticulation and dispersion of bones from carcasses are presented here in order to understand how skeletal materials are naturally added to, subtracted from, and mixed within the archaeological record. In this paper we explore variability in the influence of taphonomic processes in different microhabitats of the valley and how these mechanisms impact the potential of mixing during bone deposition in the archaeological record. There are some qualitative differences between carcasses deposited in different landforms, showing that each place has its own taphonomic history, principally influenced by the geomorphic and ecologic processes that operate in different landforms.
Ethnobotany of Breadfruit in Vanuatu: Review and Prospects
Authors: Labouisse Jean-Pierre
Published: February 2016

Breadfruit is a traditional staple crop and an important component of Pacific Island agrosystems. This article reviews documentation related to breadfruit in Vanuatu with a focus on ethnobotanical data recorded from the first contacts with European voyagers and missionaries to the most recent survey conducted on several islands in 2009. Tree management practices, food and non-food uses, conservation techniques, as well as ritual magic intended to increase yields and protect the crop, are described. A database of 539 cultivar names has been compiled. Some lines for future research within the social and biological sciences are proposed.
Das Erbe des Flanierens
Authors: Drohsel Karsten Michael
Published: February 2016

Aufbauend auf eine fundierte Kritik gegenüber Lücken in den gängigen Gedächtnis- und Erinnerungskonzepten und unter Zuhilfenahme von zeitgenössischen Projekten der Erinnerungsarbeit entwickelt Karsten Michael Drohsel eine Sozialfigur zur Methodisierung eines neuen, individuell praktizier- und erlebbaren lokalen Erinnerns. Hierbei helfen Praktiken des aufmerksamen Gehens, die aus der Flanerie entwickelt wurden. Zentrales Moment der Studie ist die Frage nach der Übersetzung und Übergabe von Erinnerungen an Orten, an denen Erinnerungen aufscheinen bzw. sich festmachen lassen. Diese neue Form der Erinnerungstätigkeit bezieht individuelles und kollektives Erinnern in den bislang geführten Gedächtnis- und Erinnerungsdiskurs ein und arbeitet die Potentiale beider Modi heraus, ohne sie zu bedingen.
Von der Umwelt zur Welt
Authors: Block Katharina
Published: February 2016

»Umwelt« ist zu einem inflationär gebrauchten Schlagwort geworden, das auch die wissenschaftliche Debatte anführt, da es Aufklärung und Lösung verspricht. Eine wissenschaftstheoretische Auseinandersetzung mit der Umweltsoziologie, die hierbei wesentlich präsent ist, scheint also geboten. Katharina Block rückt dabei die Frage nach anthropologischen Verkürzungen, die mit dem Umweltbegriff systematisch einhergehen, in den Fokus und schafft im Gegenzug mit dem Weltbegriff der Philosophischen Anthropologie Helmuth Plessners die Möglichkeit, die aufgedeckten Anthropologismen zurückzulassen und neue sozialtheoretische Anschlüsse zu suchen. Die Studie ist damit für alle Disziplinen interessant, die sich mit der hoch aktuellen Thematik menschlicher Umweltverhältnisse beschäftigen.
Antiamerikanismus in Deutschland
Authors: Knappertsbusch Felix
Published: February 2016

Politische Diskurse und sozialwissenschaftliche Debatten ringen gleichermaßen um eine angemessene Unterscheidung von antiamerikanischen Vorurteilen und legitimer Kritik an den USA. Felix Knappertsbusch leistet einen innovativen Beitrag zur Überwindung dieser Definitionsprobleme, indem er antiamerikanische Sprachgebräuche in Deutschland auf deren Funktionen bei der Herstellung diskriminierender gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse befragt. Seine detaillierten Analysen von Interview- und Umfragedaten zeigen, wie Antiamerikanismus bei der Reproduktion nationalistischer Identitätskonstruktionen mit fremdenfeindlicher, rassistischer und antisemitischer Rhetorik zusammenspielt.
Identität als Ereignis
Authors: Röttgers Kurt
Published: February 2016

Der Begriff der Identität, ehemals viel diskutiert, scheint heute an Sprengkraft verloren zu haben. Die Gründe hierfür sind wohl darin zu suchen, dass Medialität mittlerweile an die Stelle von Anthropozentrik und Subjektzentrierung getreten ist. Daher wird hier erstmals ein Identitätsbegriff vorgeschlagen und entwickelt, der nicht mehr der Kontinuitätsvorstellung folgt, sondern den Ereignischarakter von Identität hervorhebt und der daher für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften gleichermaßen anschlussfähig ist.
Multiwalled Carbon nanotube – Strength to polymer composite
Authors: Pravin Jagdale , Khan Aamer. A. , Massimo Rovere , Carlo Rosso , Alberto Tagliaferro
Published: February 2016

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a rather fascinating material, are among the pillars of nanotechnology. CNTs exhibit unique electrical, mechanical, adsorption, and thermal properties with high aspect ratio, exceptional stiffness, excellent strength, and low density, which can be exploited in the manufacturing of revolutionary smart nano composite materials. The demand for lighter and stronger polymer composite material in various applications is increasing every day. Among all the possibilities to research and exploit the exceptional properties of CNTs in polymer composites we focused on the reinforcement of epoxy resin with different types of multiwalled carbon nano tubes (MWCNTs). We studied mechanical properties such as stress, strain, ultimate tensile strength, yield point, modulus and fracture toughness, and Young's modulus by plotting and calculating by means of the off-set method. The mechanical strength of epoxy composite is increased intensely with 1 and 3 wt.% of filler.
Oil Dispersion Formulations: Stability Assessment and Field Trials
Authors: Castelani Priscila , Antunes Marcelo Catani F. , Leal Franci L. S.
Published: February 2016

In the search for new agrochemicals with safe and improved agronomic efficacy in the field, oil dispersion (OD) formulations have been investigated intensively because they are expected to have a better performance on crops than ordinary formulations. This is because the oils and surfactants within the formulation play the role of adjuvants. Therefore, an OD formulation may show a better biological efficacy, making the addition of tank mix adjuvant (regularly used in association with systemic pesticides) optional. The main goal of this work was to develop a new insecticide OD formulation with active ingredients that would be produced as a suspoemulsion (SE), resulting in a better and easier way of formulating a commercial product. These formulations were developed with new surfactants and dispersants and were stabilized using different rheology modifiers, showing appropriate results in stability tests. Rheological assessments were also performed in order to understand system microstructure. The new insecticides' OD formulations also exhibited excellent performance in physical-chemical lab tests and were subjected to field trials with cotton crops at Primavera do Leste, Mato Grosso, Brazil, during the 2012-2013 season. The target insect evaluated in this study was the cotton boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boh. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), which is primarily responsible for damage to Brazilian cotton. The results from using the new OD formulations showed an improved performance when compared to tank mixtures of the same insecticides. Dispersants and rheology modifiers used in this development are promising tools for future OD formulation technology.
Eduardo Coutinho, Savage Linguist of Brazilian Documentary
Authors: Lins Consuelo
Published: February 2016

Filmmaker and scholar in her own right, and collaborator with Eduardo Coutinho on Edificio Master (Master Building, 2002), Consuelo Lins's essay focuses on Coutinho's final, uncompleted film, Últimas Conversas (Last Conversations, 2015), which was posthumously edited and released, and which she reads through his earlier work and through her unique perspective, drawn from her prior working relationship with the filmmaker.
Eduardo Coutinho Filmography
Authors: Brizuela Natalia
Published: February 2016

A comprehensive filmography of the work of Eduardo Coutinho as scenarist, screenwriter, and director.
Permanent challenge for a healthy environment
Authors: Galvão Marli Teresinha Gimeniz
Published: February 2016

For over a century, Florence Nightingale, a precursor of modern nursing, promulgated the importance of the adequate environment for disease prevention, treatment of diseased and their recovery. He highlighted, among others, the importance of clean air and environmental hygiene. Concerning the disease prevention, considered necessary care residences about air, water, sewerage, cleaning and illumination. In current times, the concepts expanded, the wounds arising from lack of water and sanitation, demonstrated care urgently in the wide mode environment, and prevention in the residential areas and peridomicile.
Rodenticide poisoning in a Toxicological Assistance Center
Authors: Martins Beatriz Ferreira , Hungaro Anai Adario , Santos Jéssica Adrielle Teixeira , Meschial William Campo , Correia Laiane Mucio , Oliveira Magda Lúcia Félix de
Published: February 2016

Objective: to characterize rodenticide poisoning sold illegally under the name Chumbinho. Methods: this is a descriptive and cross-sectional study by retrospective analysis of epidemiological forms of Toxicological Occurrence of a Toxicological Assistance Center, from 2006 to 2013. Results: 115 forms were analyzed, with an annual average of 14.4 ± 4.8 cases and 35.6% of the records in the fourth biennial. Most poisonings occurred in males (57.3%), aged between 15 and 49 years (78.3%) and suicide attempted (90.4%). It was found clinical severity of cases because 92.1% intoxicated required hospitalization and occurred four deaths (3.5%). Conclusion: the cases of poisoning by Chumbinho increased gradually over the studied years, in males, in an economically active age, and by intentional poisoning. There is a need for greater sanitary inspection in the region, aiming to reduce supply and improvement of guidance to consumers.
Practices in delivery and birth care from mothers’ perspective
Authors: Apolinário Débora , Rabelo Marcelexandra , Wolff Lillian Daisy Gonçalves , Souza Silvana Regina Rossi Kissula , Leal Giseli Campos Gaioski
Published: February 2016

To highlight the practices of delivery and birth care in a maternity ward from mothers’ perspective. Methods: descriptive cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach carried out in a maternity hospital of usual risk, with 100 regular postpartum mothers. It was used a semi-structured questionnaire as recommended by the World Health Organization. Results: among the practices that should be encouraged from birth care, stands out: women’s privacy; participation of the companion of their choice; the use of non-pharmacological methods for pain relief. Among the practices that should be eliminated: the transfer to the delivery room at the second stage and the lithotomy position. Conclusion: women are still passive in the birth process despite attempts to change the model of care during labor and birth.
Knowledge and meaning of cardiac catheterization from the perspective of cardiac patients
Authors: Castro Yana Thalita Barros de Oliveira , Rolim Isaura Leticia Tavares Palmeira , Silva Andréa Cristina Oliveira , Silva Líscia Divana Carvalho
Published: February 2016

To describe the knowledge and significance of cardiac catheterization from cardiac patients’ perspective. Methods: descriptive and qualitative study of patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. Five categories were identified through content analysis. Results: knowledge of patients on cardiac catheterization proved to be limited; the subject was surrounded by lack of knowledge. Cardiac catheterization means a treatment for unblocking coronary arteries and it is confused with therapeutic purposes. There were reports of symptoms related to heart disease such as fatigue and chest pain and related to the exams such as worry, anxiety, depression, fear and restlessness generated, mainly, by expectations of the unknown. The majority of the respondents proved to be satisfied with the results of the exam, due to the discovery and treatment of heart diseases. Conclusion: cardiac catheterization means treatment and clearance of coronary arteries and it is confused with therapeutic purposes. Feelings such as worry, anxiety, fear and restlessness are described when patients are subjected to examination, generated mainly by expectations of the unknown.
Self-care practice of patients with arterial hypertension in primary health care
Authors: Mendes Cláudia Rayanna Silva , Miranda Maira Di Ciero , Lima Francisca Elisângela Teixeira , Brito Eva Anny Wélly de Souza , Freitas Igor De , Matias Érica Oliveira
Published: February 2016

Objective: to evaluate the practice of self-care performed by patients with systemic arterial hypertension inprimary health care. Methods: this is a descriptive and cross-sectional study, conducted with 92 individualswith arterial hypertension in a primary care unit. The data collection occurred through script and data analyzedusing descriptive statistics (frequency, mean and standard deviation) and through the understanding of theadaption between capacity and self-care demand. Results: it was identified as a practice of self-care: adequatewater intake, salt intake and restricted coffee, satisfactory sleep period, abstinence from smoking and alcoholism,continuing pharmacological treatment and attending medical appointments. As the demands: inadequatefeeding, sedentary lifestyle, had no leisure activities, self-reported stress, and limited knowledge. Conclusion:although patients performed treatment a few years ago, still showed up self-care deficits, highlighting the needfor nurses to advise and sensitize about the importance of self-care practice.
Meanings attributed by nursing staff about permanent education in cardiovascular institution
Authors: Koerich Cintia , Erdmann Alacoque Lorenzini
Published: February 2016

Objective: to understand the meanings attributed by the nursing staff to permanent educational practices in a reference cardiovascular hospital. Methods: this is a qualitative study, which used the Grounded Theory in Data for collecting and analyzing data. The sample consisted of 22 nursing professionals. Results: the study presents two categories that highlight the need for further clarification of the nursing staff about the concept of permanent education in health, as well as reinforce the permanent education of nurses as a management practice which needs to be incorporated into other assignments in daily work. Conclusion: it is admitted the need to work the concepts of permanent education in health even in professional qualification, as well as place greater emphasis on managerial training of nurses, so they acquire the power to take their assignment as a nursing care manager and the nursing staff education contribute to the necessary changes in the health services.
Cognition, functionality and depression indicative among elderly
Authors: Nunes Winnie Andaki , Dias Flavia Aparecida , Nascimento Janaína Santos , Gomes Nayara Cândida , Tavares Darlene Mara dos Santos
Published: February 2016

to describe the socioeconomic characteristics of the elderly according to cognitive status, and, to associate the cognitive decline with functional disability and depression indicative among the elderly. Methods: this is a quantitative, retrospective and observational study with 92 elderly. The used instruments were: Mini Examination of Mental State; Katz Index; Lawton and Brody Scale and Abbreviated Geriatric Depression Scale. Statistical analysis and chi-square test (p<0.05) were used. Results: elderly with a cognitive decline for females were predominant, 80 years and older, widowed and living with children, with one to three years of study, individual income up to a minimum wage. The proportion of elderly with a dependent cognitive decline in basic activities of daily living (p=0.043) and instrumental activities of daily living (p=0.008) was higher than independent. There were no significant differences in the depression indicative (p=0.437). Conclusion: the proportion of dependent elderly was higher in those with cognitive decline.
Postpartum period: the importance of home visits given by the nurse in Primary Health Care
Authors: Medeiros Leticia dos Santos , Costa Ana Carla Marques da
Published: February 2016

to understand the importance given by nurses working in primary health care for the realization of home visits in the puerperal period. Methods: qualitative research held with 38 nurses by applying a semi-structured interview, in which the thematic content analysis technique was used under Bardin’s theoretical light. Results: the majority of interviewees considered the home visit a tool that brings the health unit to the reality experienced by the mother, however, there are still many professionals who omit some precautions when dealing with this population. Conclusion: the home visit is considered essential for contributing to the reduction of morbidity and mortality of the postpartum and newborn, increasing the bond between unit and family, and reducing the risk of postpartum complications, however, the attention turned to these women is still covered with big challenges to achieve a real satisfactory assistance.