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SOME DERIVATIONS OF BELL’S INEQUALITY
Authors: Hansen Kaj Børge
Published: August 2017

Eight derivations of Bell’s inequality are given. First a simple and concrete derivation is given drawing on the full strength of the two hypotheses of locality and hidden variables. Two attempts at deriving Bell’s inequality without locality are made. They fail, but give valuable insight into the form which nonlocality must take in quantum physics. Arguments are given against this form of nonlocality. Ontological ideas which allow separation, realism, and locality in quantum mechanics (QM) are indicated. In the following five derivations, a number of variants of the assumption of hidden variables are tried. Among the insights which these derivations give rise to are: (1) Particles cannot be assumed to have spin or polarisation values for as much as one fixed direction. (2) The classical picture of electromagnetic radiation is incompatible with QM. (3) Heisenberg’s idea of potentiality in elementary particles is incompatible with QM. (4) There is a weakest form of hidden variables, called realisability, which is sufficient to yield Bell’s inequality. (5) Quantum states cannot be identified with physical states. The mathematical problem of the integration of quantum states into physical states is nontrivial.
Phytogeography of pteridophytes on limestone areas in Guangdong, China
Authors: WANG FA-GUO , WANG AI-HUA , HE RONG-RONG , YANG DONG-MEI , HE CHUN-MEI , LIU DONG-MING , MOYNIHAN JEREMY , YI QI-FEI , XING FU-WU
Published: August 2017

Guangdong Province, located in southern China, is of great interest in studies of plant geography and conservation in limestone areas because of its rich biodiversity. We: (1) performed a phytogeographical analysis of pteridophytes in the limestone areas in Guangdong, (2) evaluated and determined levels of endemism, and (3) identified affinities with the floras of neighboring limestone areas. We found that some families show a preference for limestone habitats, e.g., Hypodematiaceae, Lygodiaceae, and Adiantaceae, are typical elements among pteridophytes in the limestone regions of Guangdong. In addition, some genera or section, such as Hypodematium, and Polystichum sect. Cyrtogonellum, show an exclusive preference for limestone habitats. The predominant phytogeographical affinities identified were East Asia, Chinese endemic, and Tropical Asia. We concluded that: (1) the limestone fern flora of Guangdong is principally subtropical in nature and represents southern subtropical flora at the margins of the northern tropics, with a strong interaction with the East Asian flora, (2) the limestone fern flora of Guangdong has a phytogeographical affinity with Japan, though the floras of neighboring Guangxi and Hainan Provinces have higher similarity with it.
Leptochilus mengsongensis (Polypodiaceae), a new species of fern from SW China
Authors: ZHAO MING-XU , XIANG JIAN-YING , GEEKIYANAGE NALAKA , SUN HONG-YAN , MYO KHIN MYO , DIAN RIDWAN NURDIANA , TANG FANG-LIN
Published: August 2017

Leptochilus mengsongensis (Polypodiaceae), a new species of fern from Bulong Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, southwestern China, is described and illustrated. The main characters of morphological close relatives Leptochilus pedunculatus and Leptochilus axillaris were compared, results showed that it differs from L. axillaris mainly by its separate oblong-rhomboid acrostichoid patched sori, and densely set roots; meanwhile, it differs from L. pedunculatus mainly in its narrowly lanceolate fertile fronds, thinly leathery lamina and vague zigzag veins, and shorter stipe. Analysis of rbcL gene fragments of L. mengsongensis revealed that 20 of 663 sites differed from L. pedunculatus, thereby providing further evidence for its recognition as a distinct species.
Studies of the genus Anthelephila Hope (Coleoptera: Anthicidae) 14. Twenty-four new species from Asia and new records of A. fossicollis Kejval
Authors: KEJVAL ZBYNĚK
Published: August 2017

In this paper twenty-four species of Anthelephila Hope, 1933 are newly described: A. abnormis sp. nov. (Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam), A. ailani sp. nov. (Laos), A. akela sp. nov. (China, Laos, Thailand), A. alamea sp. nov. (Burma, Laos), A. arcana sp. nov. (Laos), A. ayutthaya sp. nov. (Laos, Thailand), A. banhuaipo sp. nov. (Thailand), A. bannape sp. nov. (Thailand), A. bifida sp. nov. (Thailand), A. bolavensis sp. nov. (Laos), A. davita sp. nov. (Thailand), A. disparilis sp. nov. (Burma, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam), A. falcata sp. nov. (Vietnam), A. fallax sp. nov. (China, Laos, Thailand), A. insolita sp. nov. (Thailand), A. keahi sp. nov. (Laos), A. keilana sp. nov. (Laos), A. kubani sp. nov. (Laos), A. laopako sp. nov. (Laos), A. paucula sp. nov. (Laos, Thailand), A. provecta sp. nov. (Thailand), A. theravada sp. nov. (Burma), A. triplex sp. nov. (Thailand), and A. wanika sp. nov. (Laos). The Anthelephila fossicollis species-group is defined, and other species placed in existing species-groups where previously defined. Anthelephila fossicollis Kejval, 2002 is newly recorded from Sichuan and Tibet.
Review of Neurosystasis Satchell, with two new species from Cuba and a discussion of cerci and surstyli in Psychodinae (Diptera: Psychodidae)
Authors: KVIFTE GUNNAR MIKALSEN , WAGNER RÜDIGER
Published: August 2017

Two new species, Neurosystasis mira Wagner & Kvifte, sp. nov., and Neurosystasis starki Wagner, sp. nov. are described and illustrated based on male specimens from Cuba. The new species are placed in context within the genus through a review of the biology, morphology and diversity of the genus. A revised generic diagnosis is presented to correct earlier diagnoses, and the genus Chuspilepia Omad, Mangudo & Gleiser, 2015 is placed as a subjective synonym of Neurosystasis, syn. nov.. The term hypopod is proposed to refer to the posterior genitalic appendages of Psychodinae, which in the literature have been treated both as surstyli (i.e. from the epandrium, 9th segment), cercopodia (i.e. from the proctiger, 10th segment) or a combination of both. Tentative evidence is presented for the hypopods of Neurosystasis comprising a mesal branch deriving from cerci and a lateral branch deriving from surstyli. A key is presented for identification of males of world Neurosystasis species.
Description of Coladenia simianensis sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from China, with an annotated checklist of the genus Coladenia Moore, 1881
Authors: XUE GUO-XI , LI XIAO-JUAN , LI DING-KAI
Published: August 2017

A new species, Coladenia simianensis sp. nov., is reported from Simian Mountain of Chongqing, China. Judging from the male genitalia, this new species resembles C. tanya Devyatkin, 2002, C. uemurai Huang, 2003 and C. motuoa Huang & Li, 2006, but can be distinguished from them by the following combination of characters: forewing discal spots are narrow and clearly separated; distal and dorsal branches of the valva are very long and strongly curved. A checklist of the species and subspecies of the genus Coladenia is provided, and some questionable distribution records in literature are corrected.
Atmospheric Dynamic and Thermodynamic Processes Driving the Western North Pacific Anomalous Anticyclone during El Niño. Part II: Formation Processes
Authors: Wu Bo , Zhou Tianjun , Li Tim
Published: August 2017

In Part I, the authors showed that northerly anomalies associated with the Rossby wave response to El Niño heating anomalies in the equatorial central Pacific lead to the southward advection of low moist enthalpy air forming the western North Pacific anomalous anticyclone (WNPAC). Why does such a remote forcing not cause the formation of the anomalous anticyclone in El Niño–developing summer? The physical mechanism responsible for the timing of the WNPAC formation is investigated in Part II. Through both an observational analysis and idealized numerical model experiments, the authors find that the onset timing of the WNPAC relies on the following three factors. The first is a sign change (from positive to negative) of the meridional gradient of background low-level specific humidity over the key tropical western North Pacific (WNP) region in November. The second is a sign change (from positive to negative) of the meridional gradient of background relative vorticity, which efficiently reduces the westward stretch of the Rossby wave gyre anomalies west of the equatorial heating through equivalent beta effect. As a result, the northern branch of the twin cyclonic anomalies induced by El Niño heating withdraws eastward, leaving space for the onset of the WNPAC. The third factor is attributed to local sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) forcing. Pacemaker experiments with a coupled global model indicate that cold SSTAs in the tropical WNP play an important role in starting the anomalous anticyclone over the WNP in late fall. In the absence of the local cold SSTA forcing, the formation of the WNPAC would be delayed to El Niño mature winter.
Impact of Primary Tracheoesophageal Puncture on Outcomes after Total Laryngectomy
Authors: Panwar Aru , Militsakh Oleg , Lindau Robert , Coughlin Andrew , Sayles Harlan , Rieke Katherine R. , Lydiatt William , Lydiatt Daniel , Smith Russell
Published: August 2017

Objectives

To identify differences in postoperative wound complications associated with a primary tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP) at the time of laryngectomy versus no TEP.

Study Design

Retrospective review of large national data set.

Setting

Academic and nonacademic health care facilities in United States, contributing de‐identified, risk‐adjusted clinical data to the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.

Subjects and Methods

The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data set for years 2006 to 2012 identified 430 patients who underwent total laryngectomy with or without a primary TEP. Patients who underwent a TEP at the time of laryngectomy (n = 68) were compared with patients who underwent laryngectomy without a TEP (n = 362). Postoperative wound complications and secondary outcomes, including medical complications and length of hospitalization, were compared between the groups.

Results

The incidence of “superficial” and “deep or organ space” surgical site infection, medical complications, return to the operating room, and length of hospitalization were similar between the groups. Patients in the TEP group had a higher overall wound complication rate (relative risk, 2.02; 95% CI = 1.06‐3.84; attributable risk, 8.17%; number needed to harm, 12).

Conclusions

Performance of a primary TEP concurrent to total laryngectomy contributed to a small increase in attributable risk for overall wound complications but did not add substantial risk for “superficial” or “deep or organ space” surgical site infection, medical complications, or increased burden for resource utilization. These data may help inform patient choice and physician recommendations for primary alaryngeal speech rehabilitation.
Capecitabine after Surgical Salvage in Recurrent Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck
Authors: Manohar Poorni M. , Sapir Eli , Bellile Emily , Swiecicki Paul L. , Pearson Alexander T. , Prince Mark E. , Shuman Andrew G. , Bradford Carol R. , Chepeha Douglas B. , Wolf Gregory T. , Eisbruch Avraham , Worden Francis P. , Spector Matthew E.
Published: August 2017

Due to the high incidence of recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck and the toxicity profile of current salvage regimens, there is a need for tolerable and effective treatment options. We performed a retrospective matched case series to report our experience with recurrent high‐risk patients who received capecitabine (CAP) therapy in the adjuvant setting after salvage therapy. The 5‐year recurrence‐free survival rates for the CAP and control cohorts were 54% (95% CI, 0.27%‐0.75%) and 27% (95% CI, 0.09%‐0.50%), respectively. Multivariable Cox modeling showed a significant improvement in recurrence‐free survival in the CAP cohort (hazard ratio, 0.19; 95% CI, 0.04‐0.92; P =. 0392). While this was a respective analysis that could not control for all variables, these exploratory findings offer insights that may inform a prospective study to determine CAP efficacy.
Acute appendicitis
Authors: James Magnus
Published: August 2017

The appendix was discovered in the 1500s, with the first successful appendectomy being performed in 1735. Throughout the history of medicine, diseases of the appendix have managed to cause confusion among doctors and harm to patients. Morbidity and mortality from appendicitis are improving, but still place a large burden on healthcare. Appendicitis is still one of the commonest surgical emergencies and the aim of this article is to review the incidence, presentation and management of acute appendicitis.
Red blood cells in thrombosis
Authors: Byrnes James R. , Wolberg Alisa S.
Published: August 2017

Red blood cells (RBCs) have historically been considered passive bystanders in thrombosis. However, clinical and epidemiological studies have associated quantitative and qualitative abnormalities in RBCs, including altered hematocrit, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, hemolytic anemias, and malaria, with both arterial and venous thrombosis. A growing body of mechanistic studies suggests that RBCs can promote thrombus formation and enhance thrombus stability. These findings suggest that RBCs may contribute to thrombosis pathophysiology and reveal potential strategies for therapeutically targeting RBCs to reduce thrombosis.
Bayesian feature learning for seismic compressive sensing and denoising
Authors: Pilikos Georgios , Faul A. C.
Published: August 2017

Extracting the maximum possible information from the available measurements is a challenging task but is required when sensing seismic signals in inaccessible locations. Compressive sensing (CS) is a framework that allows reconstruction of sparse signals from fewer measurements than conventional sampling rates. In seismic CS, the use of sparse transforms has some success; however, defining fixed basis functions is not trivial given the plethora of possibilities. Furthermore, the assumption that every instance of a seismic signal is sparse in any acquisition domain under the same transformation is limiting. We use beta process factor analysis (BPFA) to learn sparse transforms for seismic signals in the time slice and shot record domains from available data, and we use them as dictionaries for CS and denoising. Algorithms that use predefined basis functions are compared against BPFA, with BPFA obtaining state-of-the-art reconstructions, illustrating the importance of decomposing seismic signals into learned features.
Certificates of Live Birth and Dead Names: On the Subject of Recent Anti-Trans Legislation
Authors: Armstrong Amanda
Published: August 2017

This essay reads the condition of trans life at the moment of our ambiguous social recognition. It treats the 2016 wave of antitrans bathroom bills as an occasion to consider trans people's vexed relations to social recognition and differential vulnerabilities to state and interpersonal violence. The police have long targeted black and Latinx trans people in and around public restrooms; recent antitrans bathroom bills aim to intensify and generalize such policing of trans bodies. The essay opens with a phenomenological inquiry into the moment of such policing, in which an officer presumes to read the gender history of a person they take to be trans. This scene, when unraveled, can help show how social recognition and state violence are coimplicated, at least insofar as these conditions are visited upon trans people of color. Unfortunately, in the debates associated with antitrans bathroom bills, such scenes of policing have been discursively eclipsed by alternative scenes of encounter, which tend to be organized around the imagined perspective of a nontrans woman who comes into contact with a trans person—either a trans woman or a trans man—in the women's bathroom. The essay critically works through and beyond such encounters—both spectral and embodied—in an attempt to open speculatively onto possible revisions of contemporary debates in feminism and onto shifts in the ground of left coalitional politics.
An AMPK-dependent regulatory pathway in tau-mediated toxicity
Authors: Galasso Alessia , Cameron Charles S. , Frenguelli Bruno G. , Moffat Kevin G.
Published: August 2017

Neurodegenerative tauopathies are characterized by accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau aggregates primarily degraded by autophagy.

The 5'AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is expressed in most cells, including neurons. Alongside its metabolic functions, it is also known to be activated in Alzheimer's brains, phosphorylate tau and be a critical autophagy activator. Whether it plays a neurotoxic or neuroprotective role remains unclear. Complexly in tauopathies, while stress conditions can result in AMPK activation enhancing tau-mediated toxicity, AMPK activation is not always concomitant with autophagic induction.

Using a Drosophila in vivo quantitative approach, we have analysed the impact of AMPK and autophagy on tau-mediated toxicity, recapitulating the AMPK-mediated tauopathy condition: increased tau phosphorylation, without corresponding autophagy activation.

We have demonstrated that AMPK, binding to and phosphorylating tau at Ser-262, a site reported to facilitate soluble tau accumulation, affects its degradation. This phosphorylation results in exacerbation of tau toxicity and is ameliorated via rapamycin-induced autophagy stimulation.

Our findings support the development of combinatorial therapies effective at reducing tau toxicity targeting tau phosphorylation and AMPK-independent autophagic induction. The proposed in vivo tool represents an ideal readout to perform preliminary screening for drugs promoting this process.
Regulatory RNPs: a novel class of ribonucleoproteins that potentially contribute to ribosome heterogeneity
Authors: Poole Aaron R. , Vicino Ian , Adachi Hironori , Yu Yi-Tao , Hebert Michael D.
Published: August 2017

Many ribonucleoproteins (RNPs), which are comprised of non-coding RNA and associated proteins, are involved in essential cellular processes such as translation and pre-mRNA splicing. One class of RNP is the small Cajal body-specific RNP (scaRNP), which contributes to the biogenesis of small nuclear RNPs (snRNPs) that are central components of the spliceosome. Three scaRNAs are internally processed, generating stable nucleolus-enriched RNAs of unknown function. Here we provide data that these RNAs become part of RNPs we term regulatory RNPs (regRNPs). Most modifications within rRNA (predominantly pseudouridylation and ribose 2’-O-methylation) are conducted by small nucleolar RNPs (snoRNPs), and we provide evidence that the activity of at least some of these snoRNPs is under the control of regRNPs. Because modifications within rRNA can vary in different physiological or pathological situations, rRNA modifications are thought to be the major source of ribosome heterogeneity. Our identification of regRNPs thus provides a potential mechanism into how ribosome heterogeneity may be accomplished. This work also provides additional functional connections between the Cajal body and the nucleolus.
Inter-Observer Agreement of Whole-Body Computed Tomography in Staging and Response Assessment in Lymphoma: The Lugano Classification
Authors: Razek Ahmed Abdel Khalek Abdel , Shamaa Sameh , Lattif Mahmoud Abdel , Yousef Hanan Hamid
Published: August 2017

Background: to assess inter-observer agreement of whole-body computed tomography (WBCT) in staging and response assessment in lymphoma according to the Lugano classification.

Material/Methods: Retrospective analysis was conducted of 115 consecutive patients with lymphomas (45 females, 70 males; mean age of 46 years). Patients underwent WBCT with a 64 multi-detector CT device for staging and response assessment after a complete course of chemotherapy. Image analysis was performed by 2 reviewers according to the Lugano classification for staging and response assessment.

Results: The overall inter-observer agreement of WBCT in staging of lymphoma was excellent (k=0.90, percent agreement=94.9%). There was an excellent inter-observer agreement for stage I (k=0.93, percent agreement=96.4%), stage II (k=0.90, percent agreement=94.8%), stage III (k=0.89, percent agreement=94.6%) and stage IV (k=0.88, percent agreement=94%). The overall inter-observer agreement in response assessment after a completer course of treatment was excellent (k=0.91, percent agreement=95.8%). There was an excellent inter-observer agreement in progressive disease (k=0.94, percent agreement=97.1%), stable disease (k=0.90, percent agreement=95%), partial response (k=0.96, percent agreement=98.1%) and complete response (k=0.87, Percent agreement=93.3%).

Conclusions: We concluded that WBCT is a reliable and reproducible imaging modality for staging and treatment assessment in lymphoma according to the Lugano classification.
FORECAST OF THE STRUCTURE OF SHELTERBELTS IN THE CENTRAL SIBERIA TAKING INTO ACCOUNT AGRONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANTATIONS
Authors: Вараксин  , Varaksin Gennadiy , Вайс  , Vays Andrey , Шевелев  , Shevelev Sergey , Михайлов  , Mihaylov Pavel , Жалнина  , Zhalnina Svetlana
Published: August 2017

The study of the structure was based on a series of distribution by the steps of the thickness. Measurements were carried out in forest shelter belts of the southern part of Central Siberia. Plots were laid on the territory of the Republic of Khakassia (Ust- Abakan, Bay, Shirinsky, Shushensky districts), Krasnoyarsk territory (Minusinsk district) and the Republic of Tuva (Kyzylskiy district). Approximation of distribution rows by diameter has been implemented by two functions: normal distribution and Weibull distribution. With respect to protective forest belts for most forest stands, structure by diameter is more adequately approximated by normal distribution, indicating the symmetry rows. But at this, function of Weibull is characterized by high correlation of its ratios with parameters of plantations, in particular with average diameter and normalized variability. Based on the study of the structure of the plantings in diameter, the optimal agro-technical indicators for the cultivation of plantations presented a variety of wood species, were revealed. It is recommended to divide rows into two groups, before forecasting the series. The first category reflects the influence of the internal (growth) processes: growth, mortality, movement of trees on the steps. These rows can be predicted taking into account the average diameter of tree stand and theoretical density (square of nutrition of individual tree). The second group of rows was formed under the influence of external factors (supplement, renewal, felling, and forest fires).These rows are forecasted using the average diameter and standard deviation of trees. For the prediction of the structure of the stands of Siberian larch, silver birch, Siberian elm and black poplar, model based on the Weibull function, were obtained.
THE ALGORITHM OF FORMATION OF CRACKS ON THE LOGGING ROADS SURFACE ARRANGED ON THE SLOPE, OVERLAIN BY CLAYEY SOIL AT THE BASE
Authors: Сушков  , Sushkov Sergey , Сергеев  , Sergeev Andrey
Published: August 2017

In the article the algorithm of formation of cracks on the surface of forest roads arranged on the slope, overlain by clayey soil at the base is defined. The possible causes of the moisture transfer from the physical point of view, the movement of soil moisture in the cooling zone, the conditions of formation of cracks are considered. The principle of migration of moisture in freezing soils is formulated as follows: the migration of water into the freezing wet soils is the process of transfer of moisture, constantly arising from any violation of the equilibrium state of the phases of soil and the measurements of the external influences in the presence of temperature gradients, humidity, pressure, surface energy of mineral particles, mobility of the molecules in the water film. The ratio between the rate of migration and rate of cooling determines the number and power of ice layers in soils, freezing with the inflow of water from outside. The more delayed the temperature of ice formation at this level, the more powerful the ice layer arise here, as enough water have time to catch up with for the growth of ice crystals. Water migration in frozen soils is possible only due to the unfrozen water held by adsorption forces by the surface of the mineral particles of soil and ice, it is subjected to the same laws of motion of film water, which are established for soils having a positive temperature, but has its own characteristics due to the additional action of crystallization forces of ice; however, in this case the migration process of water film will be very slow. Transfer of energy and substances in multicomponent environments in the general case is described using the apparatus of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes. When creating temperature gradient in the dispersion medium the main effect occurs – the heat flow and cross effects, including mass flow. The results of the experiments and the numerical calculations made with the assumption that the termination of the water flow to the ice enabled the authors to assert that the frozen fracture of the porous bodies and of frost heaving of soil is the disjoining pressure of thin layers of unfrozen water and their pyro-crystallization flow.
SYNTHESIS OF STRUCTURE OF FOREST MECHANIZED COMPLEX BASED ON A COMPACT MOBILE POWER MODULE
Authors: Мясищев  , Myasishchev D.
Published: August 2017

Currently in the Russian forest sector of the economy do not cease arguing and thinking about strategy and tactics, both for logging industry and the areas of afforestation and reforestation. This is primarily due to significant contradictions between the big less-experienced and timber enterprises of small business. Moreover, these difficulties have their roots in the significant difference in the technical equipment of these manufacturers of wood. The methodology of this study is analytical analysis of long-term developments of AFI (Arkhangelsk Forestry Institute) – ASTU (Arkhangelsk State technical University) – NARFU (Northern (Arctic) Federal University) (Arkhangelsk) in the mechanization of forestry work. For a long time, since the mid 80- ies of the last century, these organizations have carried out comprehensive studies of small forestry equipment – tillers and small tractors, machines and tools with technological plumes. We used all the tools of scientific research: mental heuristic methods; mathematical modeling, optimization techniques and research tests. The work was carried out in close cooperation with machine- building enterprises of the region. The findings should be considered as specific prototyping, experimental and prototypes of forest machines and tools on the chassis of compact mobile module. On the results of many years’ research activities, a patent for an invention has been received, dozens of articles were written, and numerous scientific presentations at research conferences were made. The University has actively replicated and disseminated scientific and technical information on the created objects, engineers and specialists, researchers has been training on this basis.
Anatomy’s a drag: Queer fashion and camp performance in Leigh Bowery’s Birth Scenes
Authors: Galvin Kristen
Published: August 2017

Leigh Bowery is often remembered for his outlandish fashion design, controversial performance art and alternative rock band, Minty. Bowery’s performances in his self-fashioned ‘looks’ were genre- and gender-bending. His costumes were often transformative prosthetics and imagined anatomies that acted as fantastical yet temporary body modification. While Bowery’s incessantly shifting body is addressed, this article focuses on Bowery’s notorious Birth Scenes (1992−94). Manifesting in a variety of iterations, Bowery literally wore another person, who happened to be his wife, as drag for simulated birth onstage. And importantly, the performances occurred at queer venues and events during the ongoing AIDS crisis of the early 1990s. Through visual cultural analysis, this article argues that Bowery manipulated camp tactics of artifice, incongruity, appropriation and humour, to challenge normativity and capitalism, and furthermore; to test cultural assumptions about drag performance, which was then having a distinct cultural moment in the early 1990s. This article explores Bowery’s Birth Scenes to understand how queer fashion and performance combine to explode notions of the body and embedded sociocultural norms of sexuality, gender and consumerism.
Community of difference: The liminal spaces of the Bingodisiac Orchestra
Authors: Snake-Beings Emit
Published: August 2017

The Bingodisiac Orchestra, a nomadic improvised community music project without fixed membership, is explored in this article as a case study examining the ‘open participatory’ aspects of Do-it-Yourself (DiY) sound culture. Established by the researcher in 2002, the ‘orchestra’ is an audio-visual event that attempts to break down barriers between diverse musical forms while also engaging in various strategies to maximize the interaction between audience and performer. In doing so, Stephen Duncombe’s idea of the ‘community of difference’ is employed, whereby the orchestra becomes a practice that embodies a de-centralized approach to both social organization and the organization of sound. Other concepts discussed in this article include the ‘fairground effect’, a strategy of the Bingodisiac Orchestra to de-centralize the production of sound through the use of liminal spaces traditionally ignored in music performance: creating a more participatory space for the performance, which allows different styles of music to be simultaneously and spontaneously incorporated into the performance. In this way, liminal space and the ‘community of difference’ are identified as being a part of the process of creating musical communities that encourage improvised music that is ‘free’ of any particular style: altering the focus of musicians from the need to find a common ground as a basis for their sound improvisations, while also enabling the temporary construction of a community sound experience.
Drum circles and community music: Reconciling the difference
Authors: Laurila Kelly , Willingham Lee
Published: August 2017

This article is a contribution to reconciliation between Indigenous and Settler peoples in Canada through the creation of space for Indigenous voices within the practice of community music. Colonization and policies to assimilate Indigenous peoples have had devastating impacts and have served to undermine their communal way of life and cultural identities. Many urban Indigenous peoples are searching for ways to ‘re-member,’ ‘re-connect,’ and ‘re-claim’ a sense of community and connection to their traditions. This article takes anchor in the stories of urban Indigenous youth and women and what their drum circle means to them.
Musomagic: Artist-led personal development programmes for youth as viewed through a Community Music Therapy lens
Authors: Baker Felicity A , Jeanneret Neryl , Kelaher Margaret
Published: August 2017

Large (80+ participants) artist-led programmes with young people frequently take place in school settings, and the artist has limited background knowledge of those attending. This study examined the components of an artist-led programme to identify the nuanced behaviours of artists and volunteer helpers that support musical engagement, personal and social development, and promote social capital. From an analysis of videos and interviews, we examine the activities and outcomes of artistled programmes as viewed through the lens of Community Music Therapy (CoMT). We found that the programmes were ecological, ethics-driven and participatory, and espoused activism, which are core features of CoMT thinking. We found that within this model, there was importance placed on the youth taking the music outside formal spaces and sharing it with the community in public places such as local cafes, residential care facilities and police stations. The role of the artist-facilitator goes beyond preparing the youth for this experience and extends to preparing the local community – an ecological approach.
Voices from devotional ritual: Practitioners’ unity of purpose to building community in araquio musical tradition
Authors: Ibarra Florante P.
Published: August 2017

This ethnographic-phenomenological study explores the holistic nature of araquio tradition. Araquio, a verse play on the search of the holy cross, is an indigenous folk theatre in the town of Peñaranda, province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines, that has survived for over 100 years. The orihinal (script) utilized the local poetic stylized delivery of verses, conventionalized movements, choreographed sword fights, songs and dances with distinct live musical accompaniment played by the community band. Araquio’s musical tradition suggests a culturally specific metaphor that has overshadowed its diminishing tradition. Constructed in the framework of music as social behaviour, I investigated araquio’s musical tradition as the product of the social behaviour of a specific group of practitioners and how music-making builds a community. Eleven adult practitioners participated in this enquiry. An ethnographic method was employed using participant-observation and an informal semistructured interview script. This oral tradition created a process of social structures and situations stemmed initially from a self-imposed initiative that had become a template to a group or community-building setting. The metaphorical iconicity of the musical tradition, through unspoken meanings such as gender roles and religious beliefs, offered certain unarticulated significance.
Re-voicing: Community choir participation as a medium for identity formation amongst people with learning disabilities
Authors: Hassan Nedim
Published: August 2017

This article examines findings from ethnographic research with the ReVoice choir project in North-West England. ReVoice was a community choir that consisted of members from two charitable organizations and the author of this article. A number of ReVoice’s members were adults with learning disabilities and part of the choir’s remit was to produce music that would feature in a film about hate crime perpetuated against people with disabilities. In the light of debates regarding the politics of identity for people with disabilities, this article illustrates how the formation of the choir, the rehearsal process and the choir performances constituted a distinctive cultural context that afforded people significant opportunities to develop an alternative, empowered sense of self in concert with others.
I am Ìyálóde of Ẹtì still: A Yoruba Duchess of Malfi
Authors: Hopkins Lisa
Published: August 2017

This article examines Débò Olúwatûmínú's Ìyálóde of Ẹtì (An Original Adaptation of The Duchess of Malfi By John Webster), produced by Utopia Theatre in Leeds, Sheffield and Doncaster in autumn 2016. Olúwatûmínú's play takes the story of The Duchess of Malfi and transposes it to nineteenth-century Yorùbáland. This inevitably leads to major changes to names and situations, yet there are some even more striking similarities and continuities. The essay compares Ìyálóde of Ẹtì with Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart ([1958] 1996) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun ([2006] 2014) to argue that the interest in twinning found in both these three texts and The Duchess of Malfi itself is played out in the relationship between adaptation and original: Ìyálóde of Ẹtì may take its inspiration from Webster, but it, like its heroine, is itself, and even if it knows that the precolonial Yorùbáland it shows us is trembling on the edge of extinction, it also shows us that the customs and stories of that land still have vibrancy and force. Ìyálóde of Ẹtì may be Kehinde to The Duchess of Malfi’s Taiwo, but it is a second-born with power, and it is Ìyálóde of Ẹtì still.
Academe and academy: Kenneth Branagh’s Love’s Labour’s Lost
Authors: Wardle Janice
Published: August 2017

This article argues that Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000), although not a commercial or a critical success when released, continues to raise issues pertinent to contemporary adaptation studies. By investigating how Shakespeare’s ‘academe’ is represented through the idiom of a different kind of ‘Academy’, that of the Hollywood musical of the 1930s/1940s, we can uncover tensions created by the opposition of high and low culture, and the intermingling of the cinematic and the theatrical. In this film adaptation of a play, the relationship between the cinematic and theatrical is further complicated through the model of the early Hollywood musical, which itself seeks, through its inbuilt conventions, to maintain a connection with live theatre and its community. Although Branagh’s adaptation may be deemed a failed experiment, it is representative, in its exploitation of the interaction between the cinematic and theatrical, of a continuing, complex conversation between the genres, exemplified by the use of cinematic techniques in the theatre, and the broadcasting of live theatre into cinemas.
This great stage of androids: Westworld, Shakespeare and the world as stage
Authors: Winckler Reto
Published: August 2017

This article sets out to explore how the world-as-stage metaphor and metatheatrical elements are employed in Home Box Office’s (HBO) 2016 television series Westworld and Shakespeare’s plays. In Shakespeare, the world-as-stage metaphor is pervasively used to unsettle the audience’s conceptions of reality and personal identity. Westworld similarly employs the metaphor to question identity and agency. By adapting many of the metatheatrical devices and motifs used by Shakespeare to a science fiction setting and to humanoid androids, Westworld explores new facets of ancient questions on role-play, reality, fiction, freedom and determinism. Whereas in Shakespeare metatheatre is confined to the stage, the world in Westworld has literally become a stage and the audience members have turned into players. Incorporating ideas drawn from cognitive linguistics, the history of theatre, neuropsychology, philosophy of mind, current debates about free will and determinism and early modern protestant theology, this article seeks to demonstrate how in both Westworld and Shakespeare’s plays, theatre and reality ultimately become one because they run against the same final boundary: death.
Reviews
Authors: Jones Liz , Raw Laurence
Published: August 2017

TEACHING ADAPTATIONS, DEBORAH CARTMELL AND IMELDA WHELEHAN (EDS) (2014) London: Palgrave Macmillan (Teaching the New English series), 195 pp., ISBN: 9781137311153, p/bk, £14.99

REMAKES AND REMAKING: CONCEPTS, MEDIA, PRACTICES, RÜDIGER HEINZE AND LUCIA KRÄMER (EDS) (2015) Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 184 pp., ISBN: 9783837628944, p/bk, 29.00
Contested urban heritage: Discourses of meaning and ownership of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, Spain
Authors: Rosa Brian , Jover-Báez Jaime
Published: August 2017

Córdoba, Spain is currently at the centre of a national, and increasingly international, dispute surrounding its most recognizable symbol: the Mosque-Cathedral. Built for Muslim worship beginning in the eighth century, and consecrated as a Catholic church in the thirteenth century, this temple is protected as a World Heritage Site (WHS) and is widely promoted as a symbol of religious coexistence. Contemporary conflicts, arising as Córdoba began promoting an economic development model based on cultural tourism, revolve around the appropriate restoration, ownership, and cultural meaning of the monument. The local chapter of Catholic Church, in an attempt to cement its claims of ownership, has increasingly minimized the building’s Muslim past and used the site for evangelization. Exploring contemporary conflicts surrounding this monument offers a paradigmatic case to examine the political economy and cultural politics of urban heritage and the importance of discourse in shaping political agendas around memory, identity and ownership.
Urban fortunes: Spatializing the community of money in Alex de la Iglesia’s La comunidad
Authors: Compitello Malcolm A.
Published: August 2017

This article reads Alex de la Iglesia’s La comunidad (2000) as an act of resistance to urban transformation in Madrid and its deleterious consequences. Crucial to the arguments advanced in these pages are the idea of community and the importance of place. The former is one of the five formative elements of urban consciousness in David Harvey’s project of explaining the urban process under capital. The film presents an extended, problematic, examination of how a grouping that should bind people together can be skewed by money and capital to do the opposite. These pages also underscore the filmmaker’s deep engagement with urban issues in a way that makes the places in which the members of the community interact help form the arguments in favor of resisting the abuses of the urban process that he weaves into its narrative structure.
Edward Soja’s postmetropolis: A contemporary urban phenomenon as seen in Latin American cinema
Authors: Franco Andrea
Published: August 2017

This article presents a survey of some of the most recent theories in the fields of cinema and the city. A series of Latin American movies have been analysed from the perspective of urban space, with special attention to Edward Soja’s notion of ‘postmetropolis’. Contemporary filmmakers capture cities like Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City as spaces in transition, deeply fragmented and made from layers of previous cityscapes. Finally, I revisit the idea of cinema as a way of life, drawing from Louis Wirth’s essay ‘Urbanism as a way of life’, and of cinematisation of social life by Gilles Lipovetsky and Jean Serroy.
Digital Barcelona: An interdisciplinary urban cultural studies digital project
Authors: Fraser Benjamin , Kresz Camille , Swain Irina
Published: August 2017

Barcelona has long been equated with the discourse of urban modernity. Considered a global city – and even a ‘top-model’ city – the capital of Catalunya invites interested students, scholars and critics to investigate and synthesize various strains of urban discourse. From the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, themes of city planning, parks and green space, architecture and design, health and medicine, science and electricity, class and migration, and spectacular tourism and gentrification have all been on display for travellers. Readers/viewers interested in cultural production can find no shortage of films and prose publications that engage the city’s spatial form. The collaborative ‘Digital Barcelona’ (2017) project brings these discourses together in an Omeka exhibit and allows viewers to interact with them spatially in a Neatline map. This short-form article explores the potential for social sciences and humanities approaches to combine in a site-focused, interdisciplinary approach to urban culture. At the same time, it also documents the potential of digital projects on cities to involve students and faculty in collaborative research.
Introduction: Imagining Ground Zero
Authors: Mohibullah Huma , Lund Martin
Published: August 2017

This article discusses the cultural mediation, memorialization and representation of Ground Zero, New York. It considers the site not only in terms of its materiality, but also as a powerful thought concept and outlines how the space and its reception have been treated in other scholarly literature. It contextualizes this special section, which interrogates the ideologies and practices that shape the area, for not only do these craft dominant images of the space, they also challenge hegemonic representations of it. The article also points to strengths and weaknesses in extant work on Ground Zero and introduces the contributions to this special section, in order to situate them within a larger scholarly framework.
No safe spaces: Notes on the National September 11 Museum
Authors: Frost Laura
Published: August 2017

This article examines how the National September 11 Museum – and particularly its core Historical Exhibition – tells a specific narrative about 9/11 and also signals to viewers how to respond to that narrative. The museum’s design strategies are ‘read’ as an expression of one version of the September 11 narrative reflecting distinctive sensibilities and susceptibilities in post-9/11 American culture. Through a descriptive walk-through informed by the museum design team’s behind-thescenes commentary, the article explores how the museum achieves its effects and their wider implications. At every level, the museum is deeply rooted in contemporary national conversations about security. Far more than a tourist attraction, the museum is also a powerful spatial, physical reflection of the current shape of the September 11 narrative in America as well as post-9/11 America’s deepest anxieties and challenges.
‘Every day is 9/11!’: Re-constructing Ground Zero in three US comics
Authors: Lund Martin
Published: August 2017

This article analyses three comics series: writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Tony Harris’ Ex Machina (August 2004–August 2010); writer Brian Wood and artist Riccardo Burchielli’s DMZ (November 2005–February 2012); and writer Garth Ennis and artist Darick Robertson’s The Boys (October 2006–November 2012). Taking literary critic Laura Frost’s concept of ‘archifictions’ as its starting point, the article discusses how these series frame the September 11 attacks on New York and their aftermath, but its primary concern is with their engagement with the larger social ramifications of 9/11 and with the War on Terror, and with how this engagement is rooted in and centred on Ground Zero. It argues that this rooting allows these comics’ creators to critique post-9/11 US culture and foreign policy, but that it also, ultimately, serves to disarm the critique that each series voices in favour of closure through recourse to recuperative architecture.
Giving visibility to urban change in Rio de Janeiro through digital audio-visual culture: A Brazilian webdocumentary project and its circulation
Authors: Holmes Tori
Published: August 2017

This article discusses the crowdfunded Brazilian webdocumentary project Domínio Público (produced by the audio-visual collective Paêbirú Realizações Cultivadas), which portrays urban transformations in Rio de Janeiro in the run-up to the city’s hosting of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, with a particular focus on the impact in the city’s favelas. It argues that Domínio Público can be understood as a snapshot of a key moment in the recent history of Rio de Janeiro and of Brazil, which intertwines Rio’s urban transformations with digital audio-visual culture, fundamental for the circulation and visibility of these processes in Brazil and abroad, as well as with national political processes and crises which would go on to take unforeseen directions and proportions after the film’s release. The article shows how circulation and visibility were embedded in the project from the outset, and became an intrinsic part of its critical narrative on urban transformations.