bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Adult-onset systemic autoinflammatory disorders: a clinical approach
Authors: Borges T. , Barbosa A. , Silva S.
Published: January 2020

Autoinflammatory disorders (AIDs) are a subgroup of immune-mediated syndromes that result from a primary dysfunction of the innate immune system. AIDs can be either monogenic or polygenic diseases. Unlike organspecific AIDs, systemic AIDs are characterized by fever and/or elevation of acute-phase reactants. This review aims to describe the most common adult-onset systemic AIDs, focusing mostly on polygenic and mixed-pattern diseases which are expected to be more prevalent in adult patients than monogenic AIDs overall. The literature was searched in Medline database. Organ-specific or childhood-onset systemic AIDs were excluded. AIDs were divided in three distinct groups: mixed-pattern, polygenic and adult-onset monogenic AIDs. Most adult-onset AIDs are polygenic but late-onset disease is not rare among monogenic AIDs such as familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). The diagnosis of systemic AIDs in adults is often delayed due to several factors and sometimes it is only established when amyloidosis or other complications are present. Therefore, it probably makes sense to primarily exclude common AIDs in adult patients with fever of unknown origin (and probably different presentations such as polyserositis) since a high prevalence of adult-onset Still’s disease or FMF is usually expected. Colchicine, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, steroids, immunosuppressive agents, interleukin-1 inhibitors and tumor necrosis factor antagonists constitute common therapeutic options for systemic AIDs.
Hepatic necrosis following yttrium-90 radioembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma in a patient with a recent history of external radiotherapy
Authors: Jia Zhongzhi , Wang Weiping
Published: January 2020

Hepatobiliary complications from yttrium-90 (90Y) radioembolization have been described previously but are often clinically inconsequential. This report describes the case of a patient in whom a large area of hepatic necrosis occurred after the patient underwent both stereotactic body radiotherapy and glass-based 90Y radioembolization for the management of hepatocellular carcinoma. This case suggests that 90Y microspheres can cause severe local hepatic injury when administered after external radiotherapy.
Role of various screening techniques in detecting preinvasive lesions of the cervix among symptomatic women and women having unhealthy cervix
Authors: Nayak Prasanta Kumar , Mitra Subarna , Agrawal Sarita , Hussain Nighat , Thakur Pushpawati , Mishra Byasdev
Published: January 2020

Introduction:

Cervical cancer which is preventable, occurs due to humanpapiloma virus infection and results in a preinvasive condition called cervical intraepithelial neoplasm (CIN) before the development of cancer. Majority of the patients with CIN or early stage of cervical cancer present with symptoms such as abnormal vaginal discharge or bleeding, and unhealthy looking cervix. Selectively screening these symptomatic patients, can detect more number of positive cases and also most effective screening technique for these selective patients can be advocated.

Materials and Methods:

All married women between 21 and 65 years attending gynecology outpatient department of a tertiary care health center in Central India and having unhealthy cervix or abnormal vaginal discharge were included. All women were subjected to Pap smear, visual inspection under acetic acid (VIA), visual inspection under Lugol's iodine (VILI) and colposcopy. Biopsy was taken in all cases. Diagnostic value of each screening method was determined in terms of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value.

Results:

Out of 352 patients, around 20% of them were found to have abnormal cytology. The sensitivity and specificity of Pap smear was found to be 34% and 94%. But colposcopy has high sensitivity and low specificity, i.e., 99% and 31%, respectively. On the other hand the sensitivity and specificity of VIA and VILI are comparable i.e., 65% and 45% and 64% and 48% respectively. Pap smear shows high positive predictive value among all, i.e., 85% and colposcopy shows 58% for the same.

Conclusion:

Pap smear carries low sensitivity but high positive predictive value. As compared to Pap smear, VIA and VILI are more sensitive and are of low cost. Colposcopy can be considered as a preferred method of screening due to its extremely high sensitivity.
Mathematics and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres
Authors: Bühlmann Vera
Published: January 2020

This book introduces the reader to Serres’ unique manner of ‘doing philosophy’ that can be traced throughout his entire oeuvre: namely as a novel manner of bearing witness.

It explores how Serres takes note of a range of epistemologically unsettling situations, which he understands as arising from the short-circuit of a proprietary notion of capital with a praxis of science that commits itself to a form of reasoning which privileges the most direct path (simple method) in order to expend minimal efforts while pursuing maximal efficiency. In Serres’ universal economy, value is considered as a function of rarity, not as a stock of resources. This book demonstrates how Michel Serres has developed an architectonics that is coefficient with nature.

Mathematic and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres acquaints the reader with Serres’ monist manner of addressing the universality and the power of knowledge - that is at once also the anonymous and empty faculty of incandescent, inventive thought.

The chapters of the book demarcate, problematize and contextualize some of the epistemologically unsettling situations Serres addresses, whilst also examining the particular manner in which he responds to and converses with these situations.
Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre and Performance
Authors: Darby Jaye T. , Mohler Courtney Elkin , Stanlake Christy
Published: January 2020

This foundational study offers an accessible introduction to Native American and First Nations theatre by drawing on critical Indigenous and dramaturgical frameworks. It is the first major survey book to introduce Native artists, plays, and theatres within their cultural, aesthetic, spiritual, and socio-political contexts. Native American and First Nations theatre weaves the spiritual and aesthetic traditions of Native cultures into diverse, dynamic, contemporary plays that enact Indigenous human rights through the plays’ visionary styles of dramaturgy and performance. The book begins by introducing readers to historical and cultural contexts helpful for reading Native American and First Nations drama, followed by an overview of Indigenous plays and theatre artists from across the century. Finally, it points forward to the ways in which Native American and First Nations theatre artists are continuing to create works that advocate for human rights through transformative Native performance practices.

Addressing the complexities of this dynamic field, this volume offers critical grounding in the historical development of Indigenous theatre in North America, while analysing key Native plays and performance traditions from the mainland United States and Canada. In surveying Native theatre from the late 19th century until today, the authors explore the cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual concerns, as well as the political and revitalization efforts of Indigenous peoples. This book frames the major themes of the genre and identifies how such themes are present in the dramaturgy, rehearsal practices, and performance histories of key Native scripts.
Performing Specimens
Authors: Bouchard Gianna
Published: January 2020

Through an examination of examples from performance, museum displays and popular culture that stage the body as a specimen, this book maps out the relations between these performative acts and medical practices of collecting, storing and showing specimens in a variety of modes and contexts. Moving from an examination of the medical and historical contexts of specimen display in the museum and the anatomy theatre to contemporary performance, the book engages with examples from live art, bio-art, popular culture and theatre that stage the performer’s body as a specimen. It examines the ethical relationships involved in these particular moments of display – both in the staging and in how we look at the specimen body. It is of interest to those working in the fields of theatre, performance and the medical humanities, with a specific focus on the ethics of display and the ethics of spectatorship, emerging at the intersection of performance and medicine.

Among the works and examples considered are 18th-century anatomical waxes from the Museo di Storia Naturale la Specola in Florence, Italy, and their contemporary version in the Bodyworlds exhibition of ‘plastinated’ corpses; organ retention scandals; current legislation, such as the Human Tissue Act 2004; the work of performance company Clod Ensemble (UK) and Stein|Holum Projects (USA), the performer and disability activist, Mat Fraser (UK) and live artist, Martin O’Brien (UK), alongside visual artist Helen Pynor (Australia), besides artists Peggy Shaw (US/UK), ORLAN (France) and Kira O’Reilly (Finland).
The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art
Authors: Ferdman Bertie , Stokic Jovana
Published: January 2020

The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed over the last decade. It understands performance art as an institutional, cultural, and economic phenomenon rather than as a label or object. Following the ever-increasing institutionalization and mainstreaming of performance, the book’s chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding performance art, and explore how this development is reflective of capitalist approaches to art and event production. Embracing what we perceive to be the 'oxymoronic status' of performance art—where it is simultaneously precarious and highly profitable—the essays in this book map the myriad gestures and radical possibilities of this extreme contradiction.

This Companion adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to present performance art’s legacies and its current practices. It brings together specially commissioned essays from leading innovative scholars from a wide range of approaches including art history, visual and performance studies, dance and theatre scholarship in order to provide a comprehensive and multifocal overview of the emerging research trends and methodologies devoted to performance art.
Japan beyond the Kimono
Authors: Hall Jenny
Published: January 2020

In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern life. Japan beyond the Kimono explores these shifts, highlighting developments in the Kyoto fashion industry such as its integration of digital weaving and printing techniques and the influence of social media on fashion distribution systems.

Through case studies of designers, artisans, and retailers, Jenny Hall provides a comprehensive picture of the reasons behind the production and consumption of these rejuvenated fashion goods. She argues that conceptualisations of Japanese tradition include innovation and change, which is vital to understanding how Japanese cultural heritage is both sustained and evolving.

Essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, anthropology, and Japanese studies, Jenny Hall’s sensory ethnography is the first of its kind, describing the lived experiences of people in the Kyoto textiles industry, explaining the renewal of traditional techniques and styles, and placing them both within contexts such as transnational ‘craftscapes’ and fast or slow fashion systems.
Fashion and Class
Authors: Worth Rachel
Published: January 2020

In what ways do changing notions of social class correspond with key developments in the history of fashion? Focusing on examples ranging from 18th-century Britain to aspects of the global fashion industry in the early 21st century, Fashion and Class examines the meaning and evolution of the term ‘class’, from its Marxist origins to modern day interpretations. Did industrialisation, technological change and developments in fashion retailing bring about a degree of ‘class levelling’ or in fact intensify class antagonism? And to what extent does modern mass consumption and cheap labour revive some of the ethical issues faced in 19th-century British textile factories?

Exploring a variety of case studies that examine the changing relationships between fashion and class in different historical contexts, from the French revolutionaries of the 1780-90s through to the changing relationships between couture, designer and high-street fashion in the mid-20th century and onwards, Fashion and Class is essential reading for those wishing to understand the ways in which the fashion system is closely connected with ideas of class.
David Bowie's Diamond Dogs
Authors: Hendler Glenn
Published: January 2020

After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalytic "Hunger City" populated by post-human "mutants." Diamond Dogs includes the great glam anthem "Rebel Rebel" and utterly unique songs that combine lush romantic piano and nearly operatic singing with scratching, grungy guitars, creepy, insidious noises, and dark, pessimistic lyrics that reflect the album's origins in a projected Broadway musical version of Orwell's 1984 and Bowie's formative encounter with William S. Burroughs.

In this book Glenn Hendler shows that each song on Diamond Dogs shifts the ground under you as you listen, not just by changing in musical style, but by being sung by a different "I" who directly addresses a different "you." Diamond Dogs is the product of a performer at the peak of his powers but uncomfortable with the rock star role he had constructed. All of the album's influences looked to Bowie like ways of escaping not just the Ziggy role, but also the constraints of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality. These are just some of the reasons many Bowie fans rate Diamond Dogs his richest and most important album of the 1970s.
Lipsynching
Authors: Snell Merrie
Published: January 2020

What does it mean when a singing voice is detached from an originating body through recording? And how does this affect consumers of recorded song? This book examines the practice of lipsynching to pre-recorded song in both professional and vernacular contexts, covering over a century of diverse artistic practices from early cinema through to the current popularity of self-produced internet lipsynching videos. It examines the ways in which we listen to, respond to, and use recorded music, not only as a commodity to be consumed but as a culturally-sophisticated and complex means of identification, a site of projection, introjection, and habitation, and, through this, a means of personal and collective creativity.
Aerosol data assimilation in the chemical transport model
MOCAGE during the TRAQA/ChArMEx campaign:
Lidar observations
Authors: El Amraoui Laaziz , Sič Bojan , Piacentini Andrea , Marécal Virginie , Attié Jean-Luc , Frebourg Nicolas
Published: January 2020

Abstract. This paper presents the first results about the assimilation of CALIOP (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization) extinction coefficient measurements on-board the CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) satellite in the chemistry transport model MOCAGE (Modèle de Chimie Atmosphérique à Grande Echelle) of Météo-France. This assimilation module is an extension of the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) assimilation system already presented by Sic et al. (2016). We focus on the period of TRAQA (TRAnsport à longue distance et Qualité de l’Air dans le bassin méditerranéen) field campaign that took place during the summer 2012. This period offers the opportunity to have access to a large set of aerosol observations from instrumented aircraft, balloons, satellite and ground-based stations. We evaluate the added value of CALIOP assimilation with respect to the model free run by comparing both fields to independent observations issued from the TRAQA field campaign. In this study we focus on the desert dust outbreak which happened during late June 2012 over the Mediterranean Basin (MB) during TRAQA campaign. The comparison with the AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) AOD measurements shows that the assimilation of CALIOP lidar observations improves the statistics compared to the model free run. The correlation between AERONET and the model (assimilation) is 0.682 (0.753), the bias and the RMSE, due to CALIOP assimilation, are reduced from −0.063 to 0.048 and from 0.183 to 0.148, respectively. Compared to MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) AOD observations, the model free run shows an underestimation of the AOD values whereas the CALIOP assimilation corrects this underestimation and shows a quantitative good improvement in terms of AOD maps over the MB. The correlation between MODIS and the model (assimilation) during the dust outbreak is 0.47 (0.52), whereas the bias is −0.18 (−0.02) and the RMSE is 0.36 (0.30). The comparison of in-situ aircraft and balloon measurements to both modelled and assimilated outputs shows that the CALIOP lidar assimilation highly improves themodel aerosol field. The evaluation with the LOAC (Light Optical Particle Counter) measurements indicates that the aerosol vertical profiles are well simulated by the direct model but with a general underestimation of the aerosol number concentration especially in the altitude range 2–5 km. The CALIOP assimilation improves these results by a factor of 2.5 to 5. Analysis of the vertical distribution of the desert aerosol concentration shows that the aerosol dust transport event is well captured by the model but with an underestimated intensity. The assimilation of CALIOP observations allows the improvement of the geographical representation of the event within the model as well as its intensity by a factor of two in the altitude range 1–5 km.
Mobile-Platform Measurement of Air Pollutant Concentrations in California: Performance Assessment, Statistical Methods for Evaluating Spatial Variations, and Spatial Representativeness
Authors: Solomon Paul A. , Vallano Dena , Lunden Melissa , LaFranchi Brian , Blanchard Charles L. , Shaw Stephanie L.
Published: January 2020

Abstract. Mobile platform measurements provide new opportunities for characterizing spatial variations of air pollution within urban areas, identifying emission sources, and enhancing knowledge of atmospheric processes. The Aclima, Inc. mobile measurement and data acquisition platform was used to equip Google Street View cars with research-grade instruments. On-road measurements of air quality were made between May 2016 and September 2017 at high (i.e., 1-second [s]) temporal and spatial resolution at several California locations: Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the northern San Joaquin Valley (including non-urban roads and the cities of Tracy, Stockton, Manteca, Merced, Modesto, and Turlock). The results demonstrate that the approach is effective for quantifying spatial variations of air pollutant concentrations over measurement periods as short as two weeks. Measurement accuracy and precision are evaluated using results of weekly performance checks and periodic audits conducted through the sampler inlets, which show that research instruments in stationary vehicles are capable of reliably measuring nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone (O3), methane (CH4) black carbon (BC), and particle number (PN) concentration with bias and precision ranging from
Combination of soil water extraction methods quantifies isotopic mixing of waters held at separate tensions in soil
Authors: Bowers William H. , Mercer Jason J. , Pleasants Mark S. , Williams David G.
Published: January 2020

Abstract. Measurements of the isotopic composition of water recovered from soil at different tensions provide a powerful means to identify potential plant water sources and quantify heterogeneity in residence time and connectivity among soil water regions. Yet incomplete understanding of mechanisms affecting isotopic composition of different soil water pools and the interactions between antecedent and new event water hinders interpretation of the isotope composition of extracted soil and plant waters. Here we present an approach for quantifying the time-dependent isotopic mixing of water held at separate tensions in soil. We wetted oven-dried, homogenized sandy loam soil first with isotopically “light” water (𝛿2H = −130 ‰; 𝛿18O = −17.6 ‰) using a sufficient volume to fill only the smallest soil pores, and then with “heavy” water (𝛿2H = −44 ‰; 𝛿18O = −7.8 ‰) to fully saturate the remaining soil regions. Soil water effluents were then sequentially extracted at three tensions (low centrifugation = 0.016 MPa; medium centrifugation = 1.14 MPa; and high cryogenic vacuum distillation at an estimated tension greater than 100 MPa) starting after variable equilibration periods of 0 h, 8 h, 1 d, 3 d and 7 d. We assessed differences in the isotopic composition of extracted effluents over the 7 d equilibration period with a MANOVA and a mixing model describing the time-dependent effects of isotope self-diffusion and exchange. The saturated moisture conditions used in our experiment likely facilitated rapid isotope exchange and equilibration among different pools. Despite this, the isotope composition of waters extracted at medium compared to high tension remained significantly different (MANOVA) for up to 1 day, and that for waters extracted at low compared to high tension remained significantly different for greater than 3 days after soil wetting. Equilibration (assuming no fractionation) predicted from the time-dependent mixing model for water held at high tension occurred after approximately 4.33 days. Our approach will be useful for assessing how soil texture and other physical and chemical properties influence isotope exchange and mixing times for studies aiming to properly characterize and interpret the isotopic composition of extracted soil and plant waters, especially under variably unsaturated conditions.
The HOOPLA toolbox: a HydrOlOgical Prediction LAboratory to explore ensemble rainfall-runoff modeling
Authors: Thiboult Antoine , Seiller Gregory , Poncelet Carine , Anctil François
Published: January 2020

Abstract. This technical report introduces the HydrOlOgical Prediction LAboratory (HOOPLA) developed at Université Lavalfor ensemble lumped hydrological modelling. HOOPLA includes functionalities to perform calibration, simulation, and forecast for multiple hydrological models and various time steps. It includes a range of hydrometeorological tools such as calibration algorithms, data assimilation techniques, potential evapotranspiration formulas and a snow accounting routine. HOOPLA is a flexible framework coded in MATLAB that allows easy integration of user-defined hydrometeorological tools. This report also illustrates HOOPLA's functionalities using a set of 31 Canadian catchments.
Glacial sedimentation, fluxes and erosion rates associated with ice retreat in Petermann Fjord and Nares Strait, north-west Greenland
Authors: Hogan Kelly A. , Jakobsson Martin , Mayer Larry , Reilly Brendan T. , Jennings Anne E. , Stoner Joseph S. , Nielsen Tove , Andresen Katrine J. , Nørmark Egon , Heirman Katrien A. , Kamla Elina , Jerram Kevin , Stranne Christian , Mix Alan
Published: January 2020

Abstract. Petermann Fjord is a deep (>1000 m) fjord
that incises the coastline of north-west Greenland and was carved by an
expanded Petermann Glacier, one of the six largest outlet glaciers draining
the modern Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS). Between 5 and 70 m of unconsolidated
glacigenic material infills in the fjord and adjacent Nares Strait,
deposited as the Petermann and Nares Strait ice streams retreated through
the area after the Last Glacial Maximum. We have investigated the deglacial
deposits using seismic stratigraphic techniques and have correlated our
results with high-resolution bathymetric data and core lithofacies. We
identify six seismo-acoustic facies in more than 3500 line kilometres of sub-bottom
and seismic-reflection profiles throughout the fjord, Hall Basin and Kennedy
Channel. Seismo-acoustic facies relate to bedrock or till surfaces (Facies I),
subglacial deposition (Facies II), deposition from meltwater plumes and icebergs in
quiescent glacimarine conditions (Facies III, IV), deposition at grounded ice margins
during stillstands in retreat (grounding-zone wedges; Facies V) and the
redeposition of material downslope (Facies IV). These sediment units represent the
total volume of glacial sediment delivered to the mapped marine environment
during retreat. We calculate a glacial sediment flux for the former
Petermann ice stream as 1080–1420 m3 a−1 per metre of ice stream
width and an average deglacial erosion rate for the basin of 0.29–0.34 mm a−1. Our deglacial erosion rates are consistent with results from
Antarctic Peninsula fjord systems but are several times lower than values
for other modern GrIS catchments. This difference is attributed to fact that
large volumes of surface water do not access the bed in the Petermann system, and we conclude that glacial erosion is limited to areas overridden by
streaming ice in this large outlet glacier setting. Erosion rates are also
presented for two phases of ice retreat and confirm that there is
significant variation in rates over a glacial–deglacial transition. Our new
glacial sediment fluxes and erosion rates show that the Petermann ice stream
was approximately as efficient as the palaeo-Jakobshavn Isbræ at
eroding, transporting and delivering sediment to its margin during early
deglaciation.
Emergence de l’écocritique dans la littérature africaine : Invisibilité mythique de L’enfant noir de Camara Laye
Authors: Akandji Waidi
Published: January 2020

Nous assistons à une émergence de la littérature et de la critique littéraire africaine dans la discussion de l’écocritique. En effet, l’écocritique essaie de trouver des solutions possibles qui consisteront à corriger la situation écologique contemporaine en analysant les manières dont la nature et l’environnement sont représentés dans la littérature. La combinaison de l’écocritique et des études postcoloniales a donné lieu à de nouvelles pensées critiques où les idées d’identité, de terre, de culture, des rapports de force, d’environnement etc. peuvent être abordés par de nouveaux aperçus. Les recherches littéraires montrent que L’enfant noir (1953) de Camara Laye n’a pas été analysé d’une perspective écocritique. En tant que l’un des premiers textes de la littérature francophone d’Afrique de l’ouest, ce roman peut ouvrir à de nouvelles perspectives pour la discussion de cette discipline en se focalisant la mythologie africaine. Notre étude est une tentative de relecture de ce classique africain.
La predictibilidad en la gestión de riesgos naturales: Un enfoque epistemológico
Authors: Cosano Carbonell Rafael
Published: January 2020

El presente trabajo intenta mostrar las dificultades que entraña el hecho de poder ofrecer una predicción adecuada y exacta para la toma de decisiones en el ámbito de la gestión de riesgos naturales. Desde el punto de vista geográfico, se intenta hacer una descripción del proceso, del medio físico y humano, y las predicciones se quedarán en el ámbito de lo estadístico.El poder entender cuándo, cómo y dónde puede ocurrir un cambio en ambientes dinámicos se constituye en el primer problema que deben acometer los expertos en riesgos y desastres. Los sistemas se mueven, interaccionan entre ellos, aparecen y desaparecen, pero están regidos por leyes naturales y físicas que debemos ser capaces de comprender y de implementar en cualquier trabajo geográfico que requiera de una aproximación real a los procesos de toma de decisiones que eviten en la medida de lo posible las pérdidas de vidas humanas y materiales.
La Educación Artística en el contexto de las competencias clave: del diseño a la evaluación de talleres didácticos en la formación de formadores
Authors: Salido-López Pedro V.
Published: January 2020

De un tiempo a esta parte, la necesidad de fomentar el conocimiento y la valoración de la obra de arte en el aula ha cobrado especial protagonismo en la redacción del marco legal que da cuerpo a las diferentes etapas de la educación formal. En este contexto, las instituciones museísticas se han presentado ante la escuela como espacios para la enseñanza y el aprendizaje del arte, contexto de educación no formal en el que han proliferado actividades que bajo la metodología del taller pretenden acercar a colectivos de diferente clase y condición los procesos creativos y la génesis de las obras expuestas en sus colecciones. Conscientes de las posibilidades que ofrecen estos proyectos de los gabinetes de educación de los museos para la enseñanza del arte, el presente informe recoge los resultados de una experiencia de investigación-acción llevada a cabo con los futuros profesionales de la Educación Primaria para establecer unas directrices que faciliten a aquellos la tarea de diseñar y evaluar propuestas didácticas fundamentadas en el concepto de taller como metodología, en este caso para el área de Educación Artística y en el contexto curricular de las competencias clave.
‘Close as a kiss’: Gyn/Affection in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad
Authors: Rodríguez Salas Gerardo
Published: January 2020

Margaret Atwood’s novella The Penelopiad (2005) seemingly celebrates Penelope’s agency in opposition to Homer’s myth in The Odyssey. However, the twelve murdered maids steal the book to suggest the possibility of what Janice Raymond calls gyn/affection, a female bonding based on the logic of emotion that, in Atwood’s revision, verges on Kristevan abjection, the sinister and the fantastic, and serves a cathartic effect not only in the maids but also in the reader. This essay aims to question the generally accepted empowerment of Atwood’s Penelope and celebrates the murdered maids as the locus of emotion, where marginal aspects of gender and class merge to weave a powerful metaphorical tapestry of popular and traditionally feminized literary genres that, in plunging into and embracing the semiotic realm, ultimately solidify into an eclectic but compact alternative tradition of women’s writing and myth-making.
Feeding and weaning practices among mothers of under-five children in selected primary health care centres in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti, Nigeria
Authors: Akpor Oluwaseyi , Oluwadare Tunrayo , Taiwo Omotola , Aladenika Bukola , Akpor Oghenerobor
Published: January 2020

An appropriate diet is necessary in the growth and health status of children especially in the first two years of life. This study determined the feeding and weaning practices among mothers of children below the age of five years in two selected Primary Healthcare Centres in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study design was descriptive and cross sectional using an interviewer-administered questionnaire, 200 mothers who were purposely selected participated in the study. Statistical Package for Social Sciences was used for data analysis. Findings from the study revealed that the main practice of feeding of infants was breastfeeding, the majority of the mothers started to wean their children at about 6 - 7 months. Also, the major type of weaning practiced by mothers was abrupt weaning, majority of the mothers had good knowledge of feeding and weaning including how beneficial exclusive breastfeeding is, though it is just a few of them that practice exclusive breastfeeding. Therefore, complementary feeding education that will involve the use of various media most especially the primary health facilities is paramount for optimal health of infants. Also teaching should focus on the type of weaning and mothers should be educated on the consequences of abruptly weaning a child.
The Basil Stories and Social Education
Authors: Berman Ronald
Published: January 2020

F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories about Basil Duke Lee have become source material for biographers, who have built up a solid picture of communal life in the Midwest and of educational life in the prep schools of the East. The stories have a good deal more to say about ideas that affected youth culture before the Great War. Basil is put into a number of culturally dramatic situations: how to adjust to the new realities of the twentieth century, which meant recognizing the enormous role now played by institutions. He has to think about things like the “power” that is to be gained on campus, power that has not much to do with intellectual ability. And he has to come to grips with the ways in which such power is obtained. The Basil stories show a series of decisions. They show social life during the 1910s as a matter of activities and events—and also as a system of rules to be profitably obeyed or ruinously disregarded.
“They're coming up!”: Disciplining the Urban Landscape in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “May Day”
Authors: Marinaccio Rocco
Published: January 2020

In “May Day,” F. Scott Fitzgerald represents New York City as a highly contested landscape, marked by the alternating absence and presence of rigid boundaries, and fundamentally segregated by class privilege. Warning against an inadequately disciplined cityscape, Fitzgerald engages central modern-era concerns regarding the identity of the increasingly diversifying city, especially as they were expressed in emerging landscape debates and regulation. Situating “May Day” in this context provides a potent historical grounding for examining the comparative freedoms the story's diverse characters have to traverse the urban landscape, and, more broadly, illuminates how Fitzgerald's developing political and historical understanding both produces his representation of the urban landscape and advocates for the spatial practices (and the embedded social meanings) it expresses.
The Great Gatsbyand the Suppression of War Experience
Authors: Licari T. S.
Published: January 2020

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, he designed within the novel's elegant prose a suppressed meaning, one that has been overlooked in critical discourse since the book's publication in 1925. Initially, The Great Gatsby was believed to be a period piece set in a decadent “Roaring Twenties” that glorified adultery, alcohol, and wealth. From the 1940s on, its themes were defined as more universal and timeless, emphasizing the gap between romance and reality and the illusory nature of the American Dream. Although critics for the past twenty-five years or so have refocused on period concerns, with the exception of the work of James H. Meredith, Keith Gandal, and a handful of others, the military background of the plot has been taken for granted. This article argues that swimming beneath the surface story of Jay Gatsby's pursuit of the golden girl lies a complex pattern of language and imagery that suggests a different central message behind the novel, one that offers a new way of understanding the evasions of narrator Nick Carraway that have long been debated. As this article demonstrates, The Great Gatsby contains multiple layers of commentary, all related to a single world-altering event: The Great War and the suffering of the soldiers who fought it.
Chlorite and Epidote Mineral Chemistry in Porphyry Ore Systems: A Case Study of the Northparkes District, New South Wales, Australia
Authors: Pacey Adam , Wilkinson Jamie J. , Cooke David R.
Published: January 2020

Propylitic alteration, characterized by the occurrence of chlorite and epidote, is typically the most extensive and peripheral alteration facies developed around porphyry ore deposits. However, exploration within this alteration domain is particularly challenging, commonly owing to weak or nonexistent whole-rock geochemical gradients and the fact that similar assemblages can be developed in other geologic settings, particularly during low-grade metamorphism. We document and interpret systematic spatial trends in the chemistry of chlorite and epidote from propylitic alteration around the E48 and E26 porphyry Cu-Au deposits of the Northparkes district, New South Wales, Australia. These trends vary as a function of both distance from hydrothermal centers and alteration paragenesis.

The spatial trends identified in porphyry-related chlorite and epidote at Northparkes include (1) a deposit-proximal increase in Ti, As, Sb, and V in epidote and Ti in chlorite, (2) a deposit-distal increase in Co and Li in chlorite and Ba in epidote, and (3) a pronounced halo around deposits in which Mn and Zn in chlorite, as well as Mn, Zn, Pb, and Mg in epidote, are elevated. Chlorite Al/Si ratios and epidote Al/Fe ratios may show behavior similar to that of Mn-Zn or may simply decrease outward, and V and Ni concentrations in chlorite are lowest in the peak Mn-Zn zone. In comparison to porphyry-related samples, chlorite from the regional metamorphic assemblage in the district contains far higher concentrations of Li, Ca, Ba, Pb, and Cu but much less Ti. Similarly, metamorphic epidote contains higher concentrations of Sr, Pb, As, and Sb but less Bi and Ti.

These chlorite and epidote compositional trends are the net result of fluid-mineral partitioning under variable physicochemical conditions within a porphyry magmatic-hydrothermal system. They are most easily explained by the contribution of spent magmatic-derived ore fluid(s) into the propylitic domain. It is envisaged that such fluids experience progressive cooling and reduction in fs2 during outward infiltration into surrounding country rocks, with their pH controlled by the extent of rock-buffering experienced along the fluid pathway.
MEDIA AND WAR. BETWEEN INFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA
Authors: WOLSKA-ZOGATA Irena
Published: January 2020

The article is of demonstrative nature. It contains the data that come from the examinations of other authors. It is aimed at showing in what way politicians and military personnel can influence the winning of the hearts and minds of the public opinion for their own purposes with legally available assets.In spite of exploiting the press from time immemorial for waging wars, the Vietnam war prompted politicians and the military to develop a cooperation strategy with the media.The second Gulf War was fought in accordance with the principles worked out by the US military from the style of information management during the first Gulf War in 1991. In the process of information management, the majority of specialists were from the field of political public relations rather than civilian spin doctors.
THE BUNDESWEHR – IN SEARCH OF ITS IDENTITY
Authors: POLOŃCZYK Agnieszka
Published: January 2020

The article describes the factors that influenced the identity of the Bundeswehr after its establishment in 1955. The first part of the publication depicts the changes in the international security environment and the armed forces after the Cold War, as well as the forecast of using the military factor and its direction in the future. It is the basis for further reflections about the value of each single military structure and its identity in the 20th and 21st century. The other part of the article covers the concept of organizational culture which influences the organizational identity. The main part of the reflections presents the original model of the factors influencing the organizational culture within the armed forces as a special organization. This model is the basis on which the selected elements of the Bundeswehr organizational culture have been characterized. As a result, the view of the German armed forces identity in the 21st century has been described. According to those reflections, it is possible to answer the questions of the direction of the Bundeswehr identity changes in the years to come.
COMPETENCES AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS OF ACADEMICS
Authors: SIERECKA Anna , PINDOR Katarzyna
Published: January 2020

The article deals with the issues of the professional qualifications of academics resulting from the rules of law. It also presents the general characteristics of the core competencies of academics and their role in the educational process.
ANALYSIS OF PUNCHING PROCESS OF BALLISTIC SHIELD WITH THE USE OF FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
Authors: JAMROZIAK Krzysztof , KOZIOŁEK Sebastian , SMOLNICKI Tadeusz
Published: January 2020

In the article the results description of punching into the composite ballistic shield with the use of sub-machine gun and 9mm Parabellum was presented. On the prepared measurement position using high-speed cameras and laser-vibrometer the process parameters of the ballistic shield and bullet deformation were recorded. An analyzed ballistic shield was a layered composite made from plain aramid fabrics connected with oneself with neoprene matrix. Received results from experimental examinations served for building numerical models with the use of Finite Element Methods. Based on the numerical models the FEM analysis was conducted. The main goal of the simulation was FEM implementation as a validation tool for comparison with the experiment.
SCHEDULING OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS WITH APPLICATION OF METAHEURISTIC ALGORITHMS
Authors: HEJDUCKI Zdzisław , PODOLSKI Michał
Published: January 2020

The paper presents the authors’ research on the application of metaheuristic algorithms in Time Coupling Methods (TCM). The experimental analysis of algorithms: tabu search, genetic search, simulated annealing and B&B algorithm was conducted in the paper. The application of these algorithms, which are currently used to solve job scheduling problems, allows one to obtain better suboptimal solutions than with the currently used B&B algorithm. The main branch of the authors’ research is developing the methodology of construction works scheduling with the application of TCM 17,8,9 1013. The problems of scheduling linear construction works using time-cost optimisation are worked out.
Laser cladding of Co-based metallic
powder at cryogenic conditions
Authors: Lisiecki A. , Ślizak D. , Kukofka A.
Published: January 2020

Purpose: of this paper was demonstration a novel technique of laser cladding by
experimentally composed Co-based metallic powder and forced cooling of the substrate by
liquid nitrogen under cryogenic conditions, at the temperature -190°C, for producing clad
layers with enhanced microstructure characteristic and properties.
Design/methodology/approach: Technological tests of laser cladding were conducted
by means of a high power fibre laser HPFL with maximum output power 3.0 kW, and six-axis
robot. The experimental Co-based powder was composed for providing high abrasive wear
resistance, high resistance for impact load, and also for corrosion resistance at elevated
temperature. The unique and novel technique of forced cooling of the substrate was
provided by immersing the specimens in the liquid nitrogen bath. The three coaxial nozzle
head was designed and custom made to provide precise deposition of the powder delivered
into the laser beam irradiation region. The scope of the study included tests of conventional
laser cladding at free cooling in ambient air in a wide range of processing parameters, and
also trials of laser cladding under cryogenic conditions. The test clad layers produced by
conventional laser cladding and by the novel technique of laser powder deposition under
cryogenic conditions were investigated and compared.
Findings: The obtained results indicate that the novel technique of forced cooling the
substrate by liquid nitrogen bath provides lower penetration depth, as well as low dilution of
the clad, and also provides higher hardness of the clads. Additionally, it is possible shaping
the geometry of the individual bead, providing high reinforcement and low width.
Research limitations/implications: The presented results are based just on preliminary
test of the novel technique of laser cladding under cryogenic conditions. Therefore, further
study and detailed analyse of the influence of the cooling rate on the quality, microstructure,
and properties of the deposited coatings are required.
Practical implications: The study is focused on practical application of the novel
technique for manufacturing of wear resistance coatings characterised with enhanced
performance compared to conventional range of application of the laser cladding.
Originality/value: Novel technique of laser cladding at forced cooling under cryogenic
conditions was demonstrated. The powder used for cladding trials was experimentally
composed (not commercially available). The experimental stand custom made was used
with custom made powder feeding rate, and also with custom made coaxial nozzle head.
Relationship study between the student
learning approach in the occupational
safety and health field and acquired
competencies
Authors: Nanka O. , Lysychenko M. , Kiriyenko M. , Pavlykivskyi V. , Duyunova T. , Senchuk I.
Published: January 2020

Purpose: To search for training methods for specialists in industrial safety, environmental and
occupational safety and health in conditions of insufficient (or absent) laboratory support and
to study the relationship between the student learning approach and acquired competencies.
Design/methodology/approach: To study modern advances in industrial safety,
environmental and occupational safety and health and training methods for specialists a
systematic literature review approach has been used. For publications from 2017, queries
were asked through keywords and safety related topics. To relationship study between
the student learning approach and acquired competencies a student survey on random
sampling has been used. A total of 112 students of the 3rd and 4th year of study at the
university were interviewed.
Findings: The results of the survey showed that the students’ number who simultaneously
successfully answered theoretical questions and completed practical tasks is 33.8% from
the group with theoretical training and 75% from the group that was trained in the workplace.
The relationship between the groups with a visit to the existing enterprise and acquired
competencies was justified by the association coefficient and contingency coefficient that
are 0.7 and 0.4 respectively.
Research limitations/implications: A student’s survey was conducted at only one
university. Questions were asked only according to the curriculum of the course “Labour
Protection”. No survey for other training courses conducted.
Practical implications: The research results are reasonable and can be applied at
universities to improve the educational process of training specialists.
Originality/value: It was proposed that students be trained using existing enterprises
as a laboratory base and by the methods of statistics mathematical processing was
substantiated the proposal feasibility.
Discourses, practices and performances in Sámi museology at Tromsø University Museum
Authors: Ragazzi Rossella , Nerici Giacomo
Published: January 2020

This article focuses on the set up, reception, and social scientific discursive fields that have informed two exhibitions about Sámi culture curated over time by Tromsø University Museum. They were curated in two different periods in the recent history of the Sami (end of 1990s and 2013–15). In our anthropologicallyinformed analysis we take a second look at the way in which researchers and curators have constructed, performed, and narrated certain aspects of Sámi material and immaterial heritage, in times of change and political awareness. The recent exhibitions have contributed to articulate essential issues concerning ethnic identity and cultural belonging in conversation with or critique towards the previous representation of Sámi ethnography at the museum, especially the renown Sámekulturen curated by Ørnulf Vorren. How did these exhibitions handle the representations in which Sámi people would mirror their history, identity and aesthetics? How did they speak on behalf of the Sámi but also in conversation with the Sámi? How were these presentations interpreted over time in a changing museological practice?