bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Framework for Supporting In-Service Teachers to Use Domain-Specific Technologies for Instruction
Authors: Yarnall Louise , Fusco Judith
Published: October 2016

Domain-specific technologies, which are used for analysis, representation, and production in real-world contexts, differ from basic technologies, such as word processing software and Internet search tools. They cannot be used effectively without adequate command of fundamental domain-specific content knowledge. They can be used to deepen students' understanding of content, but these technologies bring distinct classroom-integration challenges. This chapter presents a framework for supporting in-service teachers to integrate these technologies. The research team derived this framework from data collected during an extended TPACK-style (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) workshop that engaged 13 life science community college instructors in integrating bioinformatics technologies into courses. This chapter presents a case study about the challenges community college teachers faced in implementing these tools—and the strategies they used to address them. Challenges included activity translation, problem definition, implementation, and assessment.
Intercultural Dialogue Framework for Transnational Teaching and Learning
Authors: Wang Ting
Published: October 2016

This chapter attempts to contribute to the understandings of the internationalization of higher education and the broadening of internationalization paradigms through an exploration of an intercultural dialogue (ICD) framework for transnational teaching and learning. The author highlights a shift from a traditional cross-cultural perspective which emphasizes stereotyped differences between cultures to an intercultural dialogue perspective which acknowledges dynamic interactions between hybrid cultural forces. It examines challenges for transnational higher education and discusses the underpinning theories and five key components of the ICD framework: understanding of learners and contexts, culturally sensitive pedagogy, contextualized curriculum, context-specific assessment, and supportive learning environment. The author's lived experience with transnational education is introduced as a case study against which the ICD framework for transnational teaching and learning is applied. The implications for transnational higher education and curricular and pedagogical issues are also discussed.
Principal Preparation
Authors: Beycioglu Kadir , Wildy Helen
Published: October 2016

This chapter reports quantitative and qualitative survey data from Turkey as part of a larger International Study of Principal Preparation (ISPP) that examines the utility of principal preparation programs for novice principals in 13 contexts to find out what lessons can be learnt from each context. Conducted in 2010, this study sought responses from 123 principals in their first three years of appointment to identify the challenges they faced and the extent to which they perceived they were adequately prepared to face these challenges. The findings indicated that, although the participants perceived early years of principalship as challenging work, they felt that they were ready for these challenges, despite the emphasis on theory over practice in their preparation programs. Interestingly, principals who reported having greater than 10 years as assistant principals felt less adequately prepared than did their colleagues who had spent fewer than 10 years as assistant principals.
Lesson Study as an Effective Performance-Based Measure of Teacher Effectiveness
Authors: Ryan Mark Patrick
Published: October 2016

The Japanese Lesson Study Model (JLSM) became a focus of much research after the publication of the Third International Math and Science Study (TIMSS). The JLSM has various possible manifestations, but most forms of the model include three key elements – collaborative planning of one or more lessons that will be taught by all participants, delivery of the lesson with fellow teacher observers in the room or with videotaping, and collaborative analysis by participants of students work and the lesson delivery. This study presents quantitative and qualitative data from approximately 400 teachers who participated in a form of lesson study. The history and research basis of lesson study is presented, followed by the researcher's adaptation of the model for use in the university classroom and professional development courses, followed by an analysis of the impacts of the model on teacher participants.
Culturally Responsive Educational Leadership in Cross-Cultural International Contexts
Authors: Santamaría Lorri J.
Published: October 2016

This chapter provides a model for thinking about educational leadership responsive to dynamic multicultural and global societies. Leadership conditions and behaviours associated with the author's experiences in five cross-cultural international research projects across 6 countries (United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, and Canada) are presented as a comparative case-study. A definition for culturally responsive educational leadership is proposed with examples of circumstances under which this type of leadership might occur. This contribution is framed by empirical findings and characteristics identified in previous research. Current findings suggest leadership in cross-cultural international contexts is culturally responsive when grounded in (1) the kaupapa or ethos of participating cultures; (2) shared and distributed power; (3) the collective being more highly regarded than the individual; (4) collective knowledge generation based on strengths individual members bring to ‘the table;' (5) reciprocity; and (6) a prevailing spirit of pro-activism.
Do Jamaican Principals' Leadership Styles Correlate to Violence in School?
Authors: Miller-Vaz Jerome
Published: October 2016

The increase of violence among young people in the high school environment has become a concern among parents and educators alike. A study was designed to address whether there is a relationship between the leadership styles of principals and violence in secondary schools in rural Jamaica. Based on a correlational design survey of 414 teachers from 61 schools in five parishes, seven leadership styles were correlated with the amount of violence at each school. The result showed that there was a statistically significant positive correlation (r = 0.88) at the p < .05 level was observed in autocratic leadership in the Parish of St. Ann. A moderate significant correlation was recorded in St. Catherine in democratic leadership (r = -52) at the level of p < 0.01.
Teachers' Experiences Implementing the Continuous Assessment Component of the Secondary Entrance Assessment at a Primary School Facing Challenging Circumstances
Authors: Laptiste-Francis Nadia , Carrington-Blaides Elna
Published: October 2016

There is a lack of research within the Trinidad and Tobago context about teaching practices within schools facing challenging circumstances. Furthermore, proponents of the current assessment reform have not considered whether the CAC initiative may compound the challenges teachers in these contexts experience. This study utilized a qualitative case study design that aimed at exploring teachers' experiences implementing the CAC under the difficult conditions they confront at their school. The findings revealed seven major themes: slow teacher buy-in; inadequate front end training: dysfunctional support systems; parental apathy; contextual barriers and ad hoc implementation. These findings suggest that teachers did not buy into the CAC because of deficiencies in training, parental support, and external support systems.
Teachers' Knowledge about Asthma and Asthma Management in Inclusive Classrooms in Trinidad and Tobago
Authors: Carrington-Blaides Elna , Ransome Myrna
Published: October 2016

Although most students who suffer from asthma and asthmatic conditions are enrolled in the regular education setting at all levels of the education system in Trinidad and Tobago; there is no formal training at any level of the teacher education/training system which addresses the need for teachers to acquire knowledge about asthma and asthma management. Both international prevalence figures and informal local estimates suggest the presence of students with asthma in every single classroom. This study investigated the knowledge about asthma and asthma management of primary school teachers in Trinidad and Tobago. The main question was – What do primary school teachers in Trinidad and Tobago know about asthma and asthma management? A random selection of 96 teachers from varied backgrounds participated in a two-part survey about their asthma knowledge and asthma management knowledge. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics and inferential analysis which indicated that while teachers had basic knowledge in some areas of asthma and asthma management, they lacked substantial knowledge about asthma and the management of asthma. Tests of between-subjects effect for age and years of teaching experience and asthma knowledge indicated no difference for various groups. A difference emerged when between-subject effects were analysed for sex, family history and asthma management knowledge.
Opening the GATE to Improving College Students' Human and Psychological Capital through Higher Education Funding
Authors: Bissessar Charmaine
Published: October 2016

Higher education has a positive effect on students' and society's human and psychological capital. However, higher education funding is an issue for both students and Government. Qualitative study, using interviews, presents the views of 81 students at a technical vocational tertiary educational institution in Trinidad on the Government Assistance for Tertiary Education. Demographic information indicates that 47 students belonged to nuclear families, 62 students completed the Caribbean Secondary Schools Examination Council (CSEC), and 31 were first generation tertiary level students. Most participants indicated that their mothers were employed in the service industry and most participants indicated “none” for their fathers' occupations. Findings from the data, after coding, were: 1) improvement of human capital- relief from financial burdens, national service, continuation of GATE; 2) betterment of psychological capital- hope/self-improvement, career, and optimism. Recommendations made are for a more expansive study with students currently in the program as well as those who have benefitted from GATE.
Behavioral Intention of Using Social Networking Site
Authors: Chuang Shu-Hui , Lin Shinyi , Chang Tin-Chang , Kaewmeesri Rattikorn
Published: October 2016

Although major contributions are being made by Social Networking Sites (SNS) in communications and e-commerce, very little attention has been given to its implementation. This study contributes to technology and human interaction domain by (1) extending the technology acceptance model (TAM), personality trait and telepresence in developing a comparative mode based on the behavioral intention, (2) testing the model with Partial Least Square (PLS) using Facebook user's data; and (3) comparing result across a developed (Taiwan) and an emerging (Thailand) economy. Results indicate TAM was to fit to test the behavioral intention model in these two economies. The findings support for the telepresence, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use, attitude and behavioral intention; however, the effect levels are different in these two countries (Taiwan vs. Thailand). In addition, only extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism of the big-five personality have been discussed.
Integrated Medical Curriculum: Advantages and Disadvantages
Authors: Quintero Gustavo A. , Vergel John , Arredondo Martha , Ariza María-Cristina , Gómez Paula , Pinzon-Barrios Ana-Maria
Published: October 2016

Most curricula for medical education have been integrated horizontally and vertically–-vertically between basic and clinical sciences. The Flexnerian curriculum has disappeared to permit integration between basic sciences and clinical sciences, which are taught throughout the curriculum. We have proposed a different form of integration where the horizontal axis represents the defined learning outcomes and the vertical axis represents the teaching of the sciences throughout the courses. We believe that a mere integration of basic and clinical sciences is not enough because it is necessary to emphasize the importance of humanism as well as health population sciences in medicine. It is necessary to integrate basic and clinical sciences, humanism, and health population in the vertical axis, not only in the early years but also throughout the curriculum, presupposing the use of active teaching methods based on problems or cases in small groups.
Model Theory: groups, geometry, and combinatorics
Authors: Tent Katrin , Wagner Frank Olaf , Ziegler Martin
Published: October 2016

This conference was about recent interactions of model theory with combinatorics, geometric group theory and the theory of valued fields, and the underlying pure model-theoretic developments. Its aim was to report on recent results in the area, and to foster communication between the different communities.
Asymptotic Geometric Analysis
Authors: Artstein-Avidan Shiri , König Hermann , Koldobsky Alexander
Published: October 2016

The workshop was dedicated to new developments in Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, the study of high-dimensional geometric objects by analytic and probabilistic means, and its interplay with other fields such as functional analysis, convex geometry, probability and graph theory. A central aspect concerned volume inequalities for sections and projections of high-dimensional convex sets.
Mini-Workshop: Mathematical Foundations of Isogeometric Analysis
Authors: Hughes Thomas J.R. , Jüttler Bert , Kunoth Angela , Simeon Bernd
Published: October 2016

Isogeometric Analysis (IgA) is a new paradigm which is designed to merge two so far disjoint disciplines, namely, numerical simulations for partial differential equations (PDEs) and applied geometry. Initiated by the pioneering 2005 paper of one of us organizers (Hughes), this new concept bridges the gap between classical finite element methods and computer aided design concepts.

Traditional approaches are based on modeling complex geometries by computer aided design tools which then need to be converted to a computational mesh to allow for simulations of PDEs. This process has for decades presented a severe bottleneck in performing efficient simulations. For example, for complex fluid dynamics applications, the modeling of the surface and the mesh generation may take several weeks while the PDE simulations require only a few hours.

On the other hand, simulation methods which exactly represent geometric shapes in terms of the basis functions employed for the numerical simulations bridge the gap and allow from the beginning to eliminate geometry errors. This is accomplished by leaving traditional finite element approaches behind and employing instead more general basis functions such as B-Splines and Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) for the PDE simulations as well. The combined concept of Isogeometric Analysis (IgA) allows for improved convergence and smoothness properties of the PDE solutions and dramatically faster overall simulations.

In the last few years, this new paradigm has revolutionized the engineering communities and triggered an enormous amount of simulations and publications mainly in this field. However, there are several profound theoretical issues which have not been well understood and which are currently investigated by researchers in Numerical Analysis, Approximation Theory and Applied Geometry.
Chikungunya Virus Infection and Diabetes Mellitus: A Double Negative Impact
Authors: Jean-Baptiste Eddy , von Oettingen Julia , Larco Philippe , Raphaël Frédérica , Larco Nancy Charles , Cauvin Marie Marcelle , Charles René
Published: October 2016

The impact of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection on diabetic patients (DPs) has not been described. We aimed to compare clinical features of CHIKV infection in DPs and nondiabetic patients (NDPs), and to evaluate its effects on glycemic control among DPs. We recorded clinical information and, in DPs, glycemic control. Forty-six DPs and 53 NDPs aged ≥ 20 years living in Haiti, with acute CHIKV infection, were studied. Diabetes duration was 7.1 ± 6.1 years. The most common acute CHIKV clinical manifestations were arthralgia (100.0% DPs and 98.1% NDPs, P = 1.000) and fever (86.9% DPs and 90.5% NDPs, P = 0.750). In DPs as compared with NDPs, arthralgia was more intense (mean pain score of 6.0/10 ± 2.2 versus 5.1/10 ± 2.0, P = 0.04) and took longer to improve (8.2 ± 3.0 versus 3.5 ± 2.5 days, P < 0.0001). Severe arthralgia was more prevalent (58.7% versus 20.8%, P = 0.0002), as was myalgia (80.4% versus 50.9%, P = 0.003), and fever lasted longer (5.1 ± 1.8 versus 3.7 ± 1.7 days, P = 0.0002). Among DPs, median fasting capillary glucose before versus after disease onset was 132.5 and 167.5 mg/dL (P < 0.001), corresponding to a median increase of 26.8% (interquartile range: 14.4–50.1%). Antidiabetic medication was titrated up in 41.3%. In summary, among DPs, CHIKV infection has a significant negative impact on glycemic control and, compared with NDPs, results in greater morbidity. Close clinical and glycemic observation is recommended in DPs with CHIKV infection.
A Meta-Analysis of Serological Response Associated with Yellow Fever Vaccination
Authors: Jean Kévin , Donnelly Christl A. , Ferguson Neil M. , Garske Tini
Published: October 2016

Despite previous evidence of high level of efficacy, no synthetic metric of yellow fever (YF) vaccine efficacy is currently available. Based on the studies identified in a recent systematic review, we conducted a random-effects meta-analysis of the serological response associated with YF vaccination. Eleven studies conducted between 1965 and 2011 representing 4,868 individual observations were included in the meta-analysis. The pooled estimate of serological response was 97.5% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 82.9–99.7%). There was evidence of between-study heterogeneity (I2 = 89.1%), but this heterogeneity did not appear to be related to study size, study design, or seroconversion measurement or definition. Pooled estimates were significantly higher (P < 0.0001) among studies conducted in nonendemic settings (98.9%, 95% CI = 98.2–99.4%) than among those conducted in endemic settings (94.2%, 95% CI = 83.8–98.1%). These results provide background information against which to evaluate the efficacy of fractional doses of YF vaccine that may be used in outbreak situations.
Vertical profiles of aerosol and black carbon in the Arctic: a seasonal
phenomenology along 2 years (2011–2012) of field campaigns
Authors: Ferrero Luca , Cappelletti David , Busetto Maurizio , Mazzola Mauro , Lupi Angelo , Lanconelli Christian , Becagli Silvia , Traversi Rita , Caiazzo Laura , Giardi Fabio , Moroni Beatrice , Crocchianti Stefano , Fierz Martin , Močnik Griša , Sangiorgi Giorgia , Perrone Maria G. , Maturilli Marion , Vitale Vito , Udisti Roberto , Bolzacchini Ezio
Published: October 2016

Abstract. We present results from a systematic study of vertical profiles of aerosol number size distribution and black carbon (BC) concentrations conducted in the Arctic, over Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard). The campaign lasted 2 years (2011–2012) and resulted in 200 vertical profiles measured by means of a tethered balloon (up to 1200 m a.g.l.) during the spring and summer seasons. In addition, chemical analysis of filter samples, aerosol size distribution and a full set of meteorological parameters were determined at ground. The collected experimental data allowed a classification of the vertical profiles into different typologies, which allowed us to describe the seasonal phenomenology of vertical aerosol properties in the Arctic. During spring, four main types of profiles were found and their behavior was related to the main aerosol and atmospheric dynamics occurring at the measuring site. Background conditions generated homogenous profiles. Transport events caused an increase of aerosol concentration with altitude. High Arctic haze pollution trapped below thermal inversions promoted a decrease of aerosol concentration with altitude. Finally, ground-based plumes of locally formed secondary aerosol determined profiles with decreasing aerosol concentration located at different altitude as a function of size. During the summer season, the impact from shipping caused aerosol and BC pollution plumes to be constrained close to the ground, indicating that increasing shipping emissions in the Arctic could bring anthropogenic aerosol and BC in the Arctic summer, affecting the climate.
Photochemical organonitrate formation in wet aerosols
Authors: Lim Yong Bin , Kim Hwajin , Kim Jin Young , Turpin Barbara J.
Published: October 2016

Abstract. Water is the most abundant component of atmospheric fine aerosol. However, despite rapid progress, multiphase chemistry involving wet aerosols is still poorly understood. In this work, we report results from smog chamber photooxidation of glyoxal- and OH-containing ammonium sulfate or sulfuric acid particles in the presence of NOx and O3 at high and low relative humidity. Particles were analyzed using ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled to quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-Q-TOF-MS). During the 3 h irradiation, OH oxidation products of glyoxal that are also produced in dilute aqueous solutions (e.g., oxalic acids and tartaric acids) were formed in both ammonium sulfate (AS) aerosols and sulfuric acid (SA) aerosols. However, the major products were organonitrogens (CHNO), organosulfates (CHOS), and organonitrogen sulfates (CHNOS). These were also the dominant products formed in the dark chamber, indicating non-radical formation. In the humid chamber (> 70 % relative humidity, RH), two main products for both AS and SA aerosols were organonitrates, which appeared at m ∕ z− 147 and 226. They were formed in the aqueous phase via non-radical reactions of glyoxal and nitric acid, and their formation was enhanced by photochemistry because of the photochemical formation of nitric acid via reactions of peroxy radicals, NOx and OH during the irradiation.
Terpenoid, acetone and aldehyde emissions from Norway spruce
Authors: Hakola Hannele , Tarvainen Virpi , Praplan Arnaud P. , Jaars Kerneels , Hemmilä Marja , Kulmala Markku , Bäck Jaana , Hellén Heidi
Published: October 2016

Abstract. We present spring and summer volatile organic compound (VOC) emission rate measurements from Norway spruce (Picea abies L. Karst) growing in a boreal forest in southern Finland. The measurements were conducted using in situ gas-chromatograph with 1 to 2-hour time resolution. The measurements cover altogether 14 weeks in years 2011, 2014 and 2015. Monoterpene (MT) and sesquiterpene (SQT) emission rates were measured all the time, but isoprene only in 2014 and 2015 and acetone and C4-C10 aldehydes only in 2015. The emission rates of all the compounds were low in spring, but MT, acetone and C4-C10 aldehydes emission rates increased as summer proceeded, reaching maximum emission rates in July. Late summer means were 29, 17 and 33 ng g(dw)−1 h−1 for MTs, acetone and aldehydes respectively. SQT emission rates increased during the summer and highest emissions were measured late summer (late summer mean 84 ng g(dw)−1 h−1) concomitant with highest linalool emissions. The between-tree variability of emission pattern was studied by measuring seven different trees during the same afternoon using adsorbent tubes. Especially the contributions of limonene, terpinolene and camphene were found to vary between trees, whereas proportions of α- and β-pinene were more stable. SQT emissions contributed more than 90 % of the ozone reactivity most of the time, and about 70 % of OH reactivity during late summer. The contribution of aldehydes was comparable to the OH reactivity of MT during late summer, 10 %–30 % most of the time.
Volatility of mixed atmospheric Humic-like Substances and ammonium sulfate particles
Authors: Nie Wei , Hong Juan , Häme Silja A. K. , Ding Aijun , Li Yugen , Yan Chao , Hao Liqing , Mikkilä Jyri , Zheng Longfei , Xie Yuning , Zhu Caijun , Xu Zheng , Chi Xuguang , Huang Xin , Zhou Yang , Lin Peng , Virtanen Annele , Worsnop Douglas R. , Kulmala Markku , Ehn Mikael , Yu Jian Zhen , Kerminen Veli-Matti , Petäjä Tuukka
Published: October 2016

Abstract. The volatility of organic aerosols remains poorly understood due to the complexity of speciation and multi-phase processes. In this study, we extracted HUmic-LIke Substances (HULIS) from four atmospheric aerosol samples collected at the SORPES station in Nanjing, eastern China, and investigated the volatility behavior of particles at different sizes using a Volatility Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer (VTDMA). In spite of the large differences in particle mass concentrations, the extracted HULIS from the four samples all revealed very high oxidation states (O : C > 0.95), indicating secondary formation as the major source of HULIS in Yangtze River Delta (YRD). An overall low volatility was identified for the HULIS samples, with the volume fraction remaining (VFR) higher than 55 % for all the re-generated HULIS particles at the temperature of 280 °C. A kinetic mass transfer model was applied to the thermodenuder (TD) data to interpret the observed evaporation pattern of HULIS, and to derive the mass fractions of semi-volatile (SVOC), low-volatility (LVOC) and extremely low-volatility components (ELVOC). The results showed that LVOC and ELVOC dominated (more than 80 %) the total volume of HULIS. Atomizing processes led to a size dependent evaporation of regenerated HULIS particles, and resulted in more ELVOCs in smaller particles. In order to understand the role of interaction between inorganic salts and atmospheric organic mixtures in the volatility of an organic aerosol, the evaporation of mixed samples of ammonium sulfate (AS) and HULIS was measured. The results showed a significant but nonlinear influence of ammonium sulfate on the volatility of HULIS. The estimated fraction of ELVOCs in the organic part of largest particles (145 nm) increased from 26 % in pure HULIS samples to 93 % in 1 : 3 (mass ratio of HULIS : AS) mixed samples, to 45 % in 2 : 2 mixed samples, and to 70 % in 3 : 1 mixed samples, suggesting that the interaction tends to decrease the volatility of atmospheric organic molecular once condensing on ammonium sulfate containing aerosols. Our results demonstrate that HULIS are important low volatile, or even extremely low volatile, compounds in the organic aerosol phase. As important formation pathways of atmospheric HULIS, multi-phase processes, including oxidation, oligomerization, polymerization and interaction with inorganic salts, are indicated to be important sources of low volatile and extremely low volatility species of organic aerosols.
Cloud information content analysis of multi-angular measurements in the oxygen A-band: application to 3MI and MSPI
Authors: Merlin Guillaume , Riedi Jérôme , Labonnote Laurent C. , Cornet Céline , Davis Anthony B. , Dubuisson Phillipe , Desmons Marine , Ferlay Nicolas , Parol Frédéric
Published: October 2016

Abstract. Information content analyses on cloud top altitude (CTOP) and geometrical thickness (CGT) from multi-angular A-band measurements in the case of monolayer homogeneous clouds are conducted. In the framework of future multi-angular radiometer development, we compared the potential performances of the 3MI (Multi-viewing, Multi-channel and Multi-polarization Imaging) instrument developed by EUMETSAT, which is an extension of POLDER/PARASOL instrument and MSPI (Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager) developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Quantitative information content estimates were realized for thin, moderately opaque and opaque clouds for different surface albedo and viewing geometry configurations. Analyses show that retrieval of CTOP is possible with a high accuracy in most of the cases investigated. Retrieval of CGT is also possible for optically thick clouds above a black surface, at least when CGT > 1–2 km and for thin clouds for CGT > 2–3 km. However, for intermediate optical thicknesses (COT ≃ 4), we show that the retrieval of CGT is not simultaneously possible with CTOP. A comparison between 3MI and MSPI shows a higher information content for MSPI's measurements, traceable to a thinner filter inside the oxygen A-band, yielding higher signal-to-noise ratio for absorption estimation. Cases of cloud scenes above bright surfaces are more complex but it is shown that the retrieval of CTOP remains possible in almost all situations while the information content on CGT appears to be insufficient in many cases, particularly for COT < 4 and CGT < 2–3 km.
Nitrite consumption and associated isotope changes during a river flood event
Authors: Jacob Juliane , Sanders Tina , Dähnke Kirstin
Published: October 2016

Abstract. In oceans, estuaries, and rivers, nitrification is an important nitrate source, and stable isotopes of nitrate are often used to investigate recycling processes (e.g. remineralisation, nitrification) in the water column. Nitrification is a two-step process, where ammonia is oxidised via nitrite to nitrate. Nitrite usually does not accumulate in natural environments, which makes it difficult to study the single isotope effect of ammonia oxidation or nitrite oxidation in natural systems. However, during an exceptional flood in the Elbe River in June 2013, we found a unique co-occurrence of ammonium, nitrite, and nitrate in the water column, returning towards normal summer conditions within 1 week. Over the course of the flood, we analysed the evolution of δ15N–NH4+ and δ15N–NO2− in the Elbe River. In concert with changes in suspended particulate matter (SPM) and δ15N SPM, as well as nitrate concentration, δ15N–NO3− and δ18O–NO3−, we calculated apparent isotope effects during net nitrite and nitrate consumption. During the flood event, > 97 % of total reactive nitrogen was nitrate, which was leached from the catchment area and appeared to be subject to assimilation. Ammonium and nitrite concentrations increased to 3.4 and 4.4 µmol L−1, respectively, likely due to remineralisation, nitrification, and denitrification in the water column. δ15N–NH4+ values increased up to 12 ‰, and δ15N–NO2− ranged from −8.0 to −14.2 ‰. Based on this, we calculated an apparent isotope effect 15ε of −10.0 ± 0.1 ‰ during net nitrite consumption, as well as an isotope effect 15ε of −4.0 ± 0.1 ‰ and 18ε of −5.3 ± 0.1 ‰ during net nitrate consumption. On the basis of the observed nitrite isotope changes, we evaluated different nitrite uptake processes in a simple box model. We found that a regime of combined riparian denitrification and 22 to 36 % nitrification fits best with measured data for the nitrite concentration decrease and isotope increase.
Patterns of land-cover transitions from satellite imagery of the Brazilian Amazon
Authors: Müller-Hansen Finn , Cardoso Manoel F. , Dalla-Nora Eloi L. , Donges Jonathan F. , Heitzig Jobst , Kurths Jürgen , Thonicke Kirsten
Published: October 2016

Abstract. Changes in land-use systems in tropical regions, including deforestation, are a key challenge for global sustainability because of their huge impacts on green-house gas emissions, local climate and biodiversity. However, the dynamics of land-use and land-cover change in regions of frontier expansion such as the Brazilian Amazon is not yet well understood because of the complex interplay of ecological and socio-economic drivers. In this paper, we combine Markov chain analysis and complex network methods to identify regimes of land-cover dynamics from land-cover maps (TerraClass) derived from high-resolution (30 m) satellite imagery. We estimate regional transition probabilities between different land-cover types and use clustering analysis and community detection algorithms on similarity networks to explore patterns of dominant land-cover transitions. We find that land-cover transition probabilities in the Brazilian Amazon are heterogeneous in space and adjacent subregions tend to be assigned to the same clusters. When focusing on transitions from single land-cover types, we uncover patterns that reflect major regional differences in land-cover dynamics. Our method is able to summarize regional patterns and thus complements studies performed at the local scale.
Roters, Katharina. 2014. Hungarian Cubes: Subversive Ornaments in Socialism. Zürich: Park Books. 171 pp. illus.
Authors: Munteán László
Published: October 2016

Roters, Katharina. 2014. Hungarian Cubes: Subversive Ornaments in Socialism. Zürich: Park Books. 171 pp. illus.
Székelymagyar nemzeti- és kulturálisidentitás-stratégiák a trianoni határokon túl (Székely-Hungarian National and Cultural Identity Strategies beyond the Trianon Borders)
Authors: Dani Erzsébet
Published: October 2016

In twenty-first century Europe the issue of majority/minority conflicts, national identity, and different forms of intercultural communication have become more and more foregrounded. Hungarian identity is a complex problematic in itself because Hungary suffered a serious historical trauma as a result of the 1921 Trianon treaties, in which Székely-Hungarians present an interesting case. This ethnic group had always had an identity of its own in Transylvania. However, the post-Trianon situation differs in that while formerly the Székelys defined themselves and claimed self-determination within (Hungarian) culture, they now found themselves in a multicultural world, in which no permissive multiculturality was allowed in the sense we conceive multiculturalism today. They were trapped in an antagonistic intercultural situation, where the borders were redrawn around them so that without leaving their homeland they nevertheless became beyond-the-borders citizens, which has led them to the need to apply various identitymanagement strategies. Post-Trianon Székely literature documents this very struggle of intercultural communication and identity-management strategies. Paradoxically, Transylvanian literature owes its existence as an autonomous entity to Trianon. It is by examining literary texts by Áron Tamási, Rózsa Ignácz, and György Bözödi that I am going to set up a typology of identity-management as reflected in the literature under discussion, a typology which this literature would not yield through traditional critical methods, and one which could be helpful in dealing not only with Székely literature in particular, but with contemporary European intercultural communicative crises in general.
Kind-Kovács, Friederike. 2014. Written Here, Published There - How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain. Budapest: Central European University Press. 520 pp.
Authors: Haraszti Miklós
Published: October 2016

Kind-Kovács, Friederike. 2014. Written Here, Published There - How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain. Budapest: Central European University Press. 520 pp.
Review Article: “Documenting Immigrants, Boarding Houses and Ethnographers” Burdosház Amerikából – Balogh Balázs néprajzkutató nyomában ('A Boarding House from America - in the Footsteps of Ethnographer Balázs Balogh'). Directed by Dezső Zsigmond, produced by Dunatáj Alapítvány, Camera: Arthur Bálint, 2015, 50:39 minutes.
Authors: Kürti László
Published: October 2016

This review article offers a critique of Boarding House, a Hungarian ethnographically-based documentary film about a formerly Hungarian mining-settlement in Vintondale, Pennsylvania. In the film two researchers from Hungary introduce this settlement via interviews, old photographs and stories about a general store that in addition functioned as a boarding house for miners. Also featured in the film is the acquisition process of some thousand items of this store by the Open Air Museum of Szentendre, Hungary, in order to replicate the boarding house in the museum and thus illustrate some aspects of Hungarian-American immigrant life in this United States coal-region during the 1920s and 1930s.
Dani, Erzsébet. Identitásgyarmatosítás Erdélyben: Identitásdrámák és interkulturális stratégiák a Trianon utáni székelymagyar irodalomban ('Identity Colonization in Transylvania: The Presence of Identity Narratives and Intercultural Strategies in the Literature of the Székely Magyars After Trianon'). Csíkszereda: Pro-Print Publishers, 2016. 287 pp.
Authors: Ludanyi Andrew
Published: October 2016

Dani, Erzsébet. Identitásgyarmatosítás Erdélyben: Identitásdrámák és interkulturális stratégiák a Trianon utáni székelymagyar irodalomban ('Identity Colonization in Transylvania: The Presence of Identity Narratives and Intercultural Strategies in the Literature of the Székely Magyars After Trianon'). Csíkszereda: Pro-Print Publishers, 2016. 287 pp.
Hooker, Lynn M. 2013. Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to Bartók. New York: Oxford University Press. 320 pp.
Authors: Sipos János
Published: October 2016

Hooker, Lynn M. 2013. Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to Bartók. New York: Oxford University Press. 320 pp.
Péterfy, Gergely. 2014. Kitömött Barbár: regény [Stuffed Barbarian: a Novel]. Budapest: Kalligram. 448 pp.
Authors: Basa Enikő M.
Published: October 2016

Péterfy, Gergely. 2014. Kitömött Barbár: regény [Stuffed Barbarian: a Novel]. Budapest: Kalligram. 448 pp.
Simon, Attila. 2013. The Hungarians of Slovakia in 1938. New York: Columbia University Press, East European Monographs. 353 pp.
Authors: Waters Leslie M.
Published: October 2016

Simon, Attila. 2013. The Hungarians of Slovakia in 1938. New York: Columbia University Press, East European Monographs. 353 pp.
Selected English-Language Bibliography of Interest for Hungarian Cultural Studies: 2015-2016
Authors: Varga Zsuzsanna
Published: October 2016

As the above title indicates, because of the publication schedule of Hungarian Cultural Studies this bibliography straddles 2015-2016, covering the period since the publication in Fall of 2015 of last year’s bibliography in this journal. Each year’s bibliography may also be supplemented by earlier items, which were retrieved only recently. Although this bibliography series can only concentrate on English-language items, occasional items of particular interest in other languages may be included. For a more extensive bibliography of Hungarian Studies from about 2000 to 2010, for which this is a continuing update, see Louise O. Vasvári, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, and Carlo Salzani. “Bibliography for Work in Hungarian Studies as Comparative Central European Studies.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Library) (2011): http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/hungarianstudiesbibliography.
Hajdu, Tibor and Ferenc Pollmann. 2014. A régi Magyarország utolsó háborúja 1914–1918 (‘The Last War of Old Hungary 1914–1918’). Budapest: Osiris. 415 pp. With maps and photographs.
Authors: Pastor Peter
Published: October 2016

Hajdu, Tibor and Ferenc Pollmann. 2014: A régi Magyarország utolsó háborúja 1914–1918 (‘The Last War of Old Hungary 1914–1918’). Budapest: Osiris. 415 pp. With maps and photographs.
Scholten, Jaap. 2016. Comrade Baron - A Journey through the Vanishing World of Transylvanian Aristocracy. Saint Helena, CA: Helena History Press. 404 pp.
Authors: Petrescu Corina L.
Published: October 2016

Scholten, Jaap. 2016. Comrade Baron - A Journey through the Vanishing World of Transylvanian Aristocracy. Saint Helena, CA: Helena History Press. 404 pp.
Taylor, Jeff. 2014. In Search of the Budapest Secession: The Artist Proletariat and Modernism’s Rise in the Hungarian Art Market, 1800–1914. Saint Helena, CA: Helena History Press; distributed by Central European University Press, Budapest. 260 pp.; Szívós, Erika. 2011. Social History of Fine Arts in Hungary, 1867–1918. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs. 349 pp.
Authors: Fenyves Katalin
Published: October 2016

Taylor, Jeff. 2014. In Search of the Budapest Secession: The Artist Proletariat and Modernism’s Rise in the Hungarian Art Market, 1800–1914. Saint Helena, CA: Helena History Press; distributed by Central European University Press, Budapest. 260 pp.; Szívós, Erika. 2011. Social History of Fine Arts in Hungary, 1867–1918. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs. 349 pp.
The Collaborative Illustrated Diaries of Two Preadolescent Boys During the 1956 Revolution.
Authors: Kunt Gergely
Published: October 2016

In this paper, Gergely Kunt analyzes the collaborative diary writing of two preadolescent boys from the period of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, during which they decided to act as reporters and writers to create their own chronicles of the events transpiring between October 1956 and March 1957. Twelve-year-old Gyula Csics and thirteen-year-old János Kovács were close friends and neighbors in a tenement house in Budapest, which resulted in their collaborate project of writing and illustrating their own diaries in an attempt to record the events of the Hungarian Revolution. During this collaborative project, they would read and copy each other’s diaries, which primarily focused on public events, rather than the preadolescents’ private lives. In addition to their handwritten entries, the two boys illustrated their diaries with drawings that depicted street fights or damaged buildings, as well as newspaper clippings and pamphlets, which they had collected during and after the Revolution.
Following the Life Stories of Participants in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Authors: Valuch Tibor
Published: October 2016

To date, analyses of the 1956 Revolution have devoted little attention to examining the events pertaining to this period from the aspect of social history. In this study Valuch explores the life stories of those who participated in these events from six decades ago in an attempt to introduce the most important characteristics determining various life phases from before and after the revolution. Based upon life interviews conducted during the 1990s with former 1956 participants living mainly in the city of Debrecen and its surrounding Hajdú-Bihar County, Valuch’s examination outlines those experiences determining their socialization, including family background, political attitudes predating the revolution and political activity conducted during 1956. His focus will then turn to the issue of how these individuals experienced the period of retribution following the revolution as well as attempts by the Kádár regime to marginalize participants in the 1956 Revolution. What general effect did collaboration with the revolutionary movement have on life during the Kádár regime and the political attitudes held by these individuals? In the final section, factors characterizing life stories from the 1956 period will be analyzed.
Szöllősy, Éva. 2015. A férfiak és a nők képe modern értelmező szótárainkban ('The Image of Men and Women in Modern Hungarian Dictionaries'). Budapest: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE) Kiadó. 201 pp.
Authors: Sándor Klára
Published: October 2016

Szöllősy, Éva. 2015. A férfiak és a nők képe modern értelmező szótárainkban ('The Image of Men and Women in Modern Hungarian Dictionaries'). Budapest: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE) Kiadó. 201 pp.
The Outsider Within: Béla Tarr and Hungarian National Cinema
Authors: Tőke Lilla
Published: October 2016

Béla Tarr is probably the most paradoxical figure in contemporary Hungarian cinema. His artistic trajectory shows a movement from documentary style realism (Family Nest, 1979) towards more modernist cinematic practices (Satan’s Tango, 1994, Werckmeister Harmonies, 2000, and The Man from London, 2007). A major celebrity in the global film culture that prides itself in being transnational, international, and in crossing linguistic and ethnic boundaries, Tarr has consistently found himself on the fringes of the Hungarian cultural and political establishment. In this study Tőke considers Tarr’s films and public persona as catalysts in the debates about what constitutes “Hungarian cinema” in a globalizing world from the 1970s until today.
The Yellow Star and Everyday Life under Exceptional Circumstances: Diaries of 1944-1945 Budapest
Authors: Vasvári Louise O.
Published: October 2016

In this article, a follow-up of her 2014 contribution in this journal on Hungarian women’s Holocaust diaries, Vasvári discusses six war diaries from 1944-45, which until recently lay forgotten in archives or in private hands. Two of the diaries are by Jewish victims, Anna, Mrs. Sándor Devényi (referred to in the article by her pseudonym, Margit Stellar, Mrs. József Krauss) and Jenő Lévai, who describe their persecution, while the others are by one cleric, Pius István Zimándi, and by three gentile women of various backgrounds, Dr. Mária Mádi, Klára Szebény, and Mrs. Miklós Horthy. Mádi, who kept the longest diary among all five diarists, from 1941 to 1945, consistently condemned the political situation in Hungary, before and after the Nazi occupation, while Zimándi did not. Szebény wrote only about the period after December 1944, when she and her children were trapped in Buda during the siege of Budapest, and Mrs. Horthy avoided all comment about what happened in Hungary before her family was taken prisoner by the Nazis in November 1944 and subsequently kept under house arrest in Germany.
Hungarian Martyrs, Refugees, and the Politics of Anticommunism in Salazar’s Portugal, 1956–1957
Authors: Jobbitt Steven
Published: October 2016

This article summarizes the findings of Jobbitt’s early research into the experiences of Hungarian migrants in Portugal after World War II, and the way in which the Hungarian Revolution and its suppression in 1956 was politicized by Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar’s Estado Novo [‘New State’]. Recognizing the propagandistic value of the 1956 Revolution and the refugee crisis that it created, the Salazar government celebrated Hungary’s freedom fighters as martyrs while simultaneously painting an idealized and simplistic picture of an honorable Christian nation locked in a fundamentally moral struggle against the civilizational threat posed by Soviet barbarism and communist terror. However, in attempting to align its own political and ideological message with the actions of Hungary’s revolutionaries and the suffering of its refugees, the Salazar regime ran the very real risk of highlighting the numerous contradictions, shortcomings, and injustices that defined the Estado Novo. Ultimately the Salazar regime’s propagandistic support of the Revolution betrayed the hypocrisy of an authoritarian, clerico-fascist state, one that was not only unwilling to accept Hungarian refugees on a long-term basis, but also guilty of suppressing its own people and its non-European colonial subjects.
Kányádi, Sándor. 2013. In Contemporary Tense (trans. Paul Sohar). Arad, Romania: Irodalmi Jelen Könyvek. Published in the United States by Iniquity Press. 342 pages.
Authors: Hargitai Peter
Published: October 2016

Kányádi, Sándor. 2013. In Contemporary Tense (trans. Paul Sohar). Arad, Romania: Irodalmi Jelen Könyvek. Published in the United States by Iniquity Press. 342 pages.
Valuch, Tibor. 2013. Magyar hétköznapok. Fejezetek a mindennapi élet történetéből a második világháborútól az ezredfordulóig ('Hungarian Everydays – Chapters of Everyday Life from World War II to the Turn of the Century'). Budapest: Napvilág Kiadó. 347 pp.; Valuch, Tibor. 2015. A jelenkori magyar társadalom ('Contemporary Hungarian Society'). Budapest: Osiris. 296 pp.
Authors: Bezsenyi Tamás
Published: October 2016

Valuch, Tibor. 2013. Magyar hétköznapok. Fejezetek a mindennapi élet történetéből a második világháborútól az ezredfordulóig ('Hungarian Everydays – Chapters of Everyday Life from World War II to the Turn of the Century'). Budapest: Napvilág Kiadó. 347 pp.; Valuch, Tibor. 2015. A jelenkori magyar társadalom ('Contemporary Hungarian Society'). Budapest: Osiris. 296 pp.