bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Neuroradiologic Pearls for Neuro-oncology
Authors: Klein Joshua P. , Dietrich Jorg
Published: December 2017

Purpose of Review: This article reviews key principles in the identification of tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) using standard and advanced imaging modalities. This article highlights the pitfalls and pearls of the imaging evaluation of patients with cancer at time of diagnosis and during cancer therapy and discusses the challenges of the imaging evaluation of treatment-related toxicities.

Recent Findings: Treatment of CNS tumors with surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation alters the imaging appearance of the tumor and can be associated with a variety of treatment-related toxicities. The clinician must be familiar with how to assess response to treatment and how to differentiate tumor progression from treatment-related effects.

Summary: Management and follow-up of neuro-oncology patients is optimized by a comprehensive radiologic approach to CNS tumors and recognition of the challenges in the assessment of response to treatments.
Pediatric Brain Tumors
Authors: Dang Mai , Phillips Peter C.
Published: December 2017

Purpose of Review:This article describes the most common pediatric brain tumors and highlights recent developments in their diagnosis and treatment strategies.

Recent Findings:We are in the midst of a molecular era for pediatric brain tumors. Genetic and epigenetic profiling of tumors has impacted their diagnosis, allowing for the subgrouping of heterogeneous tumor groups and leading to the complete renaming of some tumor types. These advances are reflected in the new 2016 World Health Organization classification. For example, primitive neuroectodermal tumors have been completely eliminated and replaced by subgroups defined by the absence or presence of specific chromosomal amplification. Medulloblastomas, diffuse astrocytomas, and ependymomas now have specific subtypes that are based on defining molecular features. More recent epigenetic-based subgrouping of atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors have not yet made it into the official classification system, but will surely have an impact on how these tumors are regarded in future preclinical and clinical trials.

Summary:Genetic and epigenetic data are changing how pediatric brain tumors are diagnosed, are leading to new guidelines for how treatment outcome analyses can be organized, and are offering molecular targets that can be used for the development of novel therapies.
Epidemiology, Treatment, and Complications of Central Nervous System Metastases
Authors: Pruitt Amy A.
Published: December 2017

Purpose of Review: Neurologic problems resulting from systemic cancer metastases to brain parenchyma, dura, spinal cord, and leptomeninges are among the most common types of consultations addressed by neurologists. With patients surviving longer from systemic cancer, along with the rapidly evolving therapeutic options, the treatment of these devastating complications has become both more effective and more complicated. This article reviews current patterns of metastatic disease and the increasingly nuanced landscape of evolving therapies, their complications, and their impact on quality of survival.

Recent Findings: Targeted therapies with tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors and cytotoxic therapies directed at disease-specific chemosensitivity patterns have dramatically improved the prognosis of non–small cell lung cancer, melanoma, and breast cancer, but have led to some novel complications and altered recurrence patterns. Clinical trials suggest the superiority of hippocampal-avoidance radiation fields and the use of stereotactic radiosurgery over whole-brain radiation therapy to minimize long-term cognitive consequences of radiation therapy. Emerging data document tolerable safety when brain radiation is combined with immunotherapy. Chemotherapy can be a first-line treatment for some inoperable brain metastases, eliminating or deferring whole-brain radiation therapy. Stereotactic body radiation therapy is a new technique of radiation used for spinal and epidural metastases that spares spinal cord tissue while ablating tumors.

Summary: Metastases to the nervous system remain devastating, but their prognosis and therapies are more heterogeneous than previously appreciated. Neurologists now can offer more personalized prognostic information based on new stratification criteria, can predict drug complications relevant to the nervous system, and can provide critical partnership in the multidisciplinary effort to balance effective longer-term disease control with treatment-related adverse consequences.
The clinical value of secretin-enhanced MRCP in the functional and morphological assessment of pancreatic diseases
Authors: Chamokova Bella , Bastati Nina , Poetter-Lang Sarah , Bican Yesim , Hodge Jacqueline C , Schindl Martin , Matos Celso , Ba-Ssalamah Ahmed
Published: December 2017

Secretin-enhanced magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (S-MRCP) provides a non-invasive way, with which, to evaluate pancreatic duct (PD) anatomy and exocrine pancreatic function. S-MRCP can be added to the routine pancreas MR examination in equivocal cases. Moreover, it can detect subtle PD involvement, allowing diagnosis of early, rather than end-stage, pancreatic diseases. Although S-MRCP is a valuable non-invasive diagnostic method, it is only performed in a few centres due to relative high cost. Furthermore, less familiarity with its indications, the examination technique, and image interpretation also contribute to its limited use. Thus, the purpose of this article is to explain secretin’s mechanism of action, the examination technique, the clinically relevant indications, the advantages, and limitations. Finally, we will focus on image analysis and its role in achieving an early and accurate diagnosis of specific pancreatic and PD diseases.
Αποσχιστικός εθνικισμός και διεθνής κοινωνία: Το σκηνικό χθες και σήμερα
Authors: Ηρακλείδης Αλέξης
Published: December 2017

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Richard Falk: Η ουμανιστική-κανονιστική παράδοση στην υπηρεσία της διεθνούς τάξης
Authors: Κιούκιας Δημήτρης
Published: December 2017

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Συλλογικές διεκδικήσεις και διοικητικές μεταρρυθμίσεις: Όψεις της ελληνικής διοικητικής κουλτούρας
Authors: Μακρυδημήτρης Αντώνης
Published: December 2017

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ΕΥΘΥΜΙΟΣ ΠΑΠΑΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΗΣ - ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΣ ΠΑΡΑΔΕΛΛΗΣ (ε- πιμ.), Ανθρωπολογία και Παρελθόν: Συμβολές στην Κοινωνική Ιστορία της Νεότερης Ελλάδας, Αθήνα, Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια, Σειρά «Ανθρωπολογία», 1993, σ. 396
Authors: Καυταντζόγλου Ρωξάνη
Published: December 2017

Δεν διατίθεται περίληψη / no abstract available
ΔΙΟΝΥΣΗ Γ. ΔΡΟΣΟΥ, Αγορά καί κράτος στον Adam Smith. Κριτική στην αναδρομική θεμελίωσπ του νεο-φιλελευθερισμον, εκδ. Ίδρυμα Σάκη Καράγιωργα-Επιστημονική Βιβλιοθήκη, Αθήνα 1994
Authors: Μαραβέγιας Ναπολέων
Published: December 2017

Δεν διατίθεται περίληψη / no abstract available
Ορθόδοξος Χριστιανισμός και Εθνικισμός: Δύο πτυχές της σύγχρονης ελληνικής πολιτικής κουλτούρας
Authors: Λίποβατς Θάνος
Published: December 2017

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Τα δικαιώματα του ανθρώπου στην Αφρική. Η 11η και 12η Σύνοδος της Αφρικανικής Επιτροπής Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων και Δικαιωμάτων των Δαών και ο ρόλος των ΜΚ Ο
Authors: Θεοδωρόπουλος Χρήστος
Published: December 2017

Δεν διατίθεται περίληψη / no abstract available
Περί λαϊκισμού. Μια σύνδεση με αφορμή την ελληνική βιβλιογραφία
Authors: Λυριντζής Χρήστος , Σπυρδαλάκης Μιχάλης
Published: December 2017

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Κράτος και διοίκηση στη σύγχρονη Ελλάδα. Επιστημονική συνάντηση της 10-11 Δεκεμβρίου 1991
Authors: Σπανού Καλλιόπη
Published: December 2017

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A lentiviral system for efficient knockdown of proteins in neuronal cultures
Authors: Ritter Brigitte , Ferguson Shawn M. , De Camilli Pietro , McPherson Peter S.
Published: December 2017

We have devised a protocol for highly efficient and specific knockdown of proteins in neuronal cultures. Small hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) are embedded into a microRNA (miRNA) context by oligo annealing to create shRNAmiRs, which are expressed from within the 3’-UTR of a reporter protein. This reporter protein/synthetic miRNA cassette is transferred to a targeting vector and lentivirus is produced in HEK-293-T cells following co-transfection of the targeting vector with three additional vectors encoding essential lentiviral proteins. Mature virus is harvested by collecting culture medium from transfected HEK-293-T cells, the virus is purified by centrifugation, and virus titers are determined prior to addition to neuronal cultures. Near 100% transduction efficiency of cultured hippocampal neurons is routinely observed and allows for the population-wide inhibition of target protein expression and the simultaneous knockdown of multiple proteins with little or no toxicity. The lentivirus generated can be used for protein knockdown in multiple neuronal culture models and at a variety of developmental stages. The steps from shRNAmiR design to ready-to-use virus stocks can be completed in as little as two weeks.
MIST: A multi-resolution parcellation of functional brain networks
Authors: Urchs Sebastian , Armoza Jonathan , Benhajali Yassine , St-Aubin Jolène , Orban Pierre , Bellec Pierre
Published: December 2017

Functional brain connectomics investigates functional connectivity between distinct brain parcels. There is an increasing interest to investigate connectivity across several levels of spatial resolution, from networks down to localized areas. Here we present the Multiresolution Intrinsic Segmentation Template (MIST), a multi-resolution parcellation of the cortical, subcortical and cerebellar gray matter. We provide annotated functional parcellations at nine resolutions from 7 to 444 functional parcels. The MIST parcellations compare well with prior work  in terms of homogeneity and generalizability. We found that parcels at higher resolutions largely fell within the boundaries of larger parcels at lower resolutions. This allowed us to provide an overlap based pseudo-hierarchical decomposition tree that relates parcels across resolutions in a meaningful way. We provide an interactive web interface to explore the MIST parcellations and also made it accessible in the neuroimaging library nilearn. We believe that the MIST parcellation will facilitate future investigations of the multiresolution basis of brain function.
ЭНТРОПИЙНОСТЬ ГЛАВНЫХ ГЕРОЕВ РОМАНОВ «МЫ» Е. ЗАМЯТИНА И «ЧЕЛОВЕК-НЕВИДИМКА» Г. УЭЛЛСА
Authors: Dolzhenko Svetlana Gennadyevna , Korban Pavel Aleksandrovich
Published: December 2017

Цель. В представленной работе исследуется достаточно распространенная в литературе идея стремления к хаосу, именуемая энтропийностью, на материале научно-фантастических романов «Мы» Евгения Замятина и «Человек-невидимка» Г. Уэллса. Целью исследования является отражение лингвостилистических особенностей передачи идей энтропийности и текстостилистических связей произведений научной фантастики.Методом исследования был избран компаративный анализ. Основу описания энтропийности составили как литературоведческие труды Е. Замятина, так и работы ученых естественнонаучного цикла.Результаты. Была выявлена специфика вопроса стремления к хаотичности в научно-фантастическом тексте, анализ которой проводился по формуле канадского астрофизика Х. Ривза. Были подробно рассмотрены способы трансляции идей энтропийности через метафорическую образность; выделены прочие приемы декорации фантастического текста. Изучение лингвостилистической стороны явления энтропийности и его отражения в художественном тексте проводилось в непрерывной связи с материалами романов и подчеркивалось примерами из них.Область применения результатов. Результаты исследования могут быть применены при комплексном анализе научно-фантастических произведений.
ФРАНЦУЗСКИЙ РЕЛИГИОЗНЫЙ ДИСКУРС И ЕГО РОЛЬ В СОВРЕМЕННОМ ОБЩЕСТВЕ
Authors: Gishkaeva Luisa Nakhidovna , Sorokina Liudmila Sergeevna
Published: December 2017

Цель. Статья посвящена особенностям функционирования современного религиозного франкоязычного дискурса и сфере его влияния. Предметом анализа являются структура религиозного дискурса, его основные компоненты и средства гармонизации, приемы, применяемые для того, чтобы оказать определенное влияние на аудиторию.Метод или методология проведения работы. В данном исследовании применяется когнитивно-прагматический подход к дискурс-анализу. Анализ и описание языкового материала осуществляется на основании общенаучных методов наблюдения, сопоставления и обобщения языковых фактов (сравнение, анализ, систематизация, дифференциация, классификация).Результаты. В результате работы были выявлены различные стратегии религиозного дискурса: молитвенная, исповедальная, призывающая, утверждающая, разъясняющая и обрядовая. Составляющими религиозного дискурса выступают эмоциональность, диалогичность и модальность. В рамках религиозного дискурса функционируют различные приемы и методы, которые зависят от цели дискурса и от его жанра. К методам воздействия можно отнести конкретизацию и категоризацию.Религиозная лексика представляет собой один из важнейших компонентов религиозного дискурса. Лексемы, имеющие греческую и латинскую этимологию, являются основными средствами гармонизации франкоязычного религиозного дискурса.Область применения результатов. Теоретическая значимость работы определяется ее вкладом в изучение манипулятивных стратегий. Практическая ценность результатов исследования состоит в возможности их использования в курсе лекций по прагматике, религиоведению, языкознанию, конфликтологии, журналистики, а также при создании пособий для подготовки специалистов филологического профиля.
ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЕ ПРАКТИКИ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИИ ЖЕНСКОГО ОБРАЗА В СОВЕТСКОМ ОБЩЕСТВЕ
Authors: Vinichenko Irina Vladimirovna
Published: December 2017

Цель. Статья посвящена актуальному в условиях современной реальности вопросу статуса российской женщины и её стереотипного образа. Предметом анализа выступают практики формирования идеального женского образа, бытовавшие в советском пространстве.Метод или методология проведения работы. В основу исследования положено представление о норме красоты в определённом обществе. Автор характеризует эстетический идеал через категорию «образ», рассматривая индивидуальный и идеологический уровень его формирования. Для раскрытия системы связей применялись историко-сравнительный метод, анализ и синтез материала.Результаты. Автором показаны исторические практики по трансформации женского образа в советском обществе, взаимосвязь новых образов с этапами развития страны. Конструируемые женские образы визуализировали идеологию и использовались как средство пропаганды. Отмечено, что важной составляющей образа являлась мода. При этом, идеологически одобренный образ оценивался обществом и мог подвергаться корректировке.Область применения результатов. Результаты исследования могут быть использованы педагогическими и научно-педагогическими работниками, государственными служащими в сфере социально-политического проектирования ценностно-нормативной базы российского общества.
ВНЕШНЯЯ ПОЛИТИКА БОЛЬШЕВИКОВ НАКАНУНЕ ПАРИЖСКОЙ МИРНОЙ КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ 1919 г.
Authors: Emelyanova Elena Nikolaevna
Published: December 2017

Цель. Рассматривается внешнеполитическая деятельность большевистского руководства накануне открытия Парижской мирной конференции. Анализируются стратегия и тактика РКП(б) осенью – зимой 1918–1919 гг., попытка наладить отношения с враждебно настроенными к РСФСР великими державами, стремление Советской России занять свое место в создающейся новой Версальской системе. Разбираются способы достижения этой цели.Методологической основой работы являются принципы объективности, историзма, критического подхода к использованным источникам и всестороннего анализа поставленной проблемы.Результаты. Доказывается, что международная обстановка, рост революционного движения в Европе в 1918–1919 гг., объединение всех левых сил вокруг советского государства заставили лидеров Англии и США послать своего представителя для переговоров с большевиками. С другой стороны, большевистское руководство стремилось договориться с мировыми державами о признании советского правительства даже путем временного отказа от интернациональных задач, осуществление которых было передано созданному в марте 1919 г. Коммунистическому Интернационалу. Сохранение Советского государства большевики ставили выше идеи «мировой революции».Область применения результатов. Результаты работы могут быть использованы для дальнейших исследований в области истории и политологии, а также в ходе преподавания этих дисциплин в вузе.
ОТКРЫТОЕ ПЛЮРАЛИСТИЧЕСКОЕ ОБЩЕСТВО КАК АЛЬТЕРНАТИВА МУЛЬТИКУЛЬТУРАЛИЗМУ
Authors: Alekseev Dmitry Vladislavovich
Published: December 2017

Статья посвящена актуальной в современных условиях глобализации проблеме интеграции культурных и этнических меньшинств в европейское общество. Кризис политики мультикультурализма, отмечавшийся ведущими европейскими политиками и социологами еще с 2011 г., вызывает потребность в теоретическом осмыслении причин явления, равно как и поднимает вопрос об адекватности даваемых ранее оценок мультикультурализма.Цель – проанализировать происхождение и ключевые положения плюрализма и мультикультурализма на основе работ современных западных политологов и философов, в частности, Джованни Сартори – итальянского и американского политолога и философа, одного из крупнейших критиков мультикультурализма.Метод и методология проведения работы. Автор использует сравнительно-исторический и проблемно-хронологический методы.Результаты. В ходе проведенного исследования раскрываются причины провала политики мультикультурализма, вызывающей расчленение общества на закрытые группы и ставящие под угрозу национальную идентичность. В качестве альтернативы выдвигается идея построения открытого плюралистического общества, основанного на согласованности и сбалансированности разногласий и различий, но не подразумевающего ассимиляции.Область применения результатов. Материалы данного исследования могут быть использованы при разработке методов решения политических проблем, в частности сохранения идентичности национального государства, вызванных ростом потока нелегальной иммиграции в Европе, а также в дальнейшей научно-исследовательской работе, связанной с изучением современных тенденций глобализации и интеграции.
ОТРАЖЕНИЕ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЙ САМОИДЕНТИФИКАЦИИ В РЕЧЕВОМ ПОВЕДЕНИИ ИНДИВИДУАЛЬНОЙ ЯЗЫКОВОЙ ЛИЧНОСТИ – ЖИТЕЛЯ СИБИРСКОЙ ПРОВИНЦИИ
Authors: Slavkina Inga Anatol’evna , Shmul’skaya Larisa Stepanovna , Mamaeva Svetlana Victorovna , Vekkesser Mariya Victorovna
Published: December 2017

Предметом исследования явились способы отражения и лингвистического выражения региональной самоидентификации в речевом поведении отдельной языковой личности.Материалом исследования послужили записи текстов интервью с жительницей сибирской провинции; текстов бесед с бывшими односельчанами; протоколы наблюдения за речевым поведением информанта.Цель. Выявить маркеры региональной самоидентификации в речевом поведении индивидуальной языковой личности.Методы исследования: описательный метод и метод контекстуального анализа.Результаты. Региональная идентичность определяется как форма коллективной идентичности, при которой ее носитель оказывается способным к пространственно-временной идентификации, ценностному, эмоциональному, регулятивному соотнесению с внешним миром. При анализе текстов бесед, интервьюирования выявлены определённые черты, отражающие региональную «самость».
Paradoxes, problems and potentialities of online work platforms
Authors: Nancy Ettlinger
Published: December 2017

Drawing from a critical synthesis of interdisciplinary literatures, this article presents the organisational landscape of online work platforms as embedding problems posed to ‘the crowd’ while holding clues for paths of resistance. Organisational mechanisms that underpin online work platforms paradoxically both deterritorialise and territorialise online work and encompass new processes of disintermediation and intermediation, producing unprecedented savings for firms while imposing precarity on crowdworkers. Online work platforms nonetheless have become a tool of ‘development’ in underdeveloped countries for ‘bottom-of-pyramid’ (BOP) populations, a situation I critically examine regarding unique organisational features. Despite principles of online work platforms that would seem to foster the deterritorialisation of work, close scrutiny reveals spatially differentiated labour markets, which matter because the implications for change and the affordances of the new digital infrastructure differ across contexts.
Sharing time: new forms of reciprocity in the digital economy
Authors: Davide Arcidiacono  , Antonello Podda
Published: December 2017

The current debate about the sharing economy has rediscovered the importance of reciprocity as a model of exchange. Time banks, traditionally tools for enhancing an underutilised workforce, are developing at the same time as forms of mutualism and reciprocity within defined communities (residents of a neighbourhood or organisational population of a company), and now have a new opportunity for scaling up through the enabling power of new digital technologies. This article analyses the case of a digital time bank using social network analysis in order to investigate whether the sharing economy can be considered a practice of ‘re-socializing economic exchange’.
Street-level practice and the co-production of third sector-led employability services
Authors: Lindsay Colin , Pearson Sarah , Batty Elaine , Cullen Anne Marie , Eadson Will
Published: December 2017

Policymakers have promised a personalised approach to improving the employability of disadvantaged groups. The evidence suggests that contracted-out activation programmes in the UK and some other welfare states have instead sometimes delivered a standardised ‘work-first’ model. An alternative approach is exemplified in local employability services targeting lone parents in Scotland, led by third sector–public sector partnerships. Our research on these services suggests a link between programme governance (defined by flexible funding and collaborative partnership working) and effective street-level practice (where caseworkers and users co-produce services to empower parents). The article concludes by identifying lessons for the coproduction of future employability services.
Unbiased Approach to Counteract Upward Drift in Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-β 1–42 Analysis Results
Authors: Tijms Betty M , Willemse Eline A J , Zwan Marissa D , Mulder Sandra D , Visser Pieter Jelle , van Berckel Bart N M , van der Flier Wiesje M , Scheltens Philip , Teunissen Charlotte E
Published: December 2017

BACKGROUND

Low cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid-β 1–42 (Aβ 1–42) concentrations indicate amyloid plaque accumulation in the brain, a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer disease (AD). Innotest assay values of Aβ 1–42 have gradually increased over the past 2 decades, which might lead to misclassification of AD when a single cutpoint for abnormality is used. We propose an unbiased approach to statistically correct for drift.

METHODS

We determined year-specific cutpoints with Gaussian mixture modeling, based on the cross-section of bimodal distributions of Aβ 1–42 concentrations in 4397 memory clinic patients. This allowed us to realign year-specific cutpoints as an unbiased method to remove drift from the data. Sensitivity and specificity to detect AD dementia were compared between corrected and uncorrected values.

RESULTS

Aβ 1–42 values increased 22 pg/mL annually, and this could not be explained by changes in cohort composition. Our approach removed time dependencies [β (SE) = 0.07 (0.59); P = 0.91]. Statistically correcting for drift improved the sensitivity to detect AD dementia to 0.90 (95% CI, 0.89–0.92) from at least 0.66 (95% CI, 0.64–0.69) based on uncorrected data. Specificity became lower (0.69; 95% CI, 0.67–0.70) vs at most 0.80 (95% CI, 0.79–0.82) for uncorrected data.

CONCLUSIONS

This approach may also be useful to standardize Aβ 1–42 CSF concentrations across different centers and/or platforms, and to optimize use of CSF biomarker data collected over a long period.
Unscrambling the narrative chronology of Hong Sangsoo’s Hill of Freedom
Authors: Deutelbaum Marshall
Published: December 2017

Jayuui Eondeok (Hill of Freedom) (2014), Hong Sangsoo’s complex puzzle film with a purpose, presents a typically Hongian story in a scrambled order. In foregrounding the challenge of rearranging its fifteen jumbled scenes into their proper chronological order, the film invites viewers to reflect self-consciously on the general process of reading with a narrative schema in mind as they solve the puzzle: forming inferences and suppositions about the order of scenes and looking for clear-cut indications of causal and temporal connections between them. Further complicating the challenge of constructing hypotheses about the correct order of the scenes is the fact that one scene is missing. Where it fits into the story’s chronology, and whether its absence hampers establishing the proper order, adds to the viewer’s puzzlement. While viewers experience Hill of Freedom in an order that scrambles past, present and future, the correct chronology can be established by following the changing deictic centre, which enables viewers to make inferences about the correct order of the events that Mori describes.
Media literacy as a pathway to religious literacy in pluralistic democracies: Designing a critical media education pedagogy for primary school children in India
Authors: Vinod Bhatia Kiran , Pathak-Shelat Manisha
Published: December 2017

In the Indian political milieu, religious literacy and media education operate within the field of simultaneities, as religion is routinely performed through representations on media platforms. In order to create alternate narratives promoting ideas of co-existence while resisting the influence of exclusionary religious socialization, young students would benefit from using media as a site of both appropriation and resistance. In this article, we argue that audiences are both active and passive, and the dialectics of (in)action makes it possible to understand how the role of media education can be conceptualized in the age of religious pluralism in the Indian democracy. We propose critical media literacy as an intervention to question the exclusionary religious–political socialization of school children by introducing them to a set of alternate narratives encompassing different lived realities.
‘A giant gutter in outer space’: Investigating pessimism as rhetorical action in True Detective
Authors: Zager Brian
Published: December 2017

Perhaps too quickly dismissed as simply ‘downbeat’ conversational partners, pessimists often face the rhetorical burden of negotiating social contexts dismissive of such an outlook. As the discipline of communication studies aims to investigate different perspectives that are made manifest in the marketplace of ideas, it is noteworthy that heretofore little has been said about the pessimist-as-interlocutor. This article establishes a view of pessimism as rhetorical action by investigating the link between such a philosophical world-view and its embodiment as performative utterance. With this end in mind, it engages with the HBO series True Detective (2014) as an illustrative popular culture media example by which to consider some nuances of this interpersonal phenomenon.
Blood and race – The black male vampire as action hero in the Blade trilogy
Authors: Koh Noel , Gwynne Joel
Published: December 2017

This article examines the representation of the black male vampire as an action hero in the Blade trilogy. Specifically, this article builds on Yvonne Tasker’s scholarship on racial discourse in the action cinema, where her reading of Predator 2 (1990) leads her to contend that ‘blackness is repositioned in terms of the monstrous within the film’s symbolic hierarchy’. Extending this argument to a relatively less analysed but commercially successful text, we suggest that even when cinematically presented as an action hero in the Blade trilogy, male vampiric blackness is inevitably conceived as aberrant, gesturing towards the failure of cinematic containment strategies. These complex and contradictory articulations ‘queer’ Blade from within, producing a peculiar cinematic vampiric masculinity and masculine identity that renders Blade as both an action hero and a villain. To this end, this article considers the spectacle of the black male vampiric body in action and inaction, and how other characters in the trilogy (re)define Blade’s vampiric masculinity. Consequently, this article examines how and why other forms of (white) masculinities threaten the survival of the protagonist and concludes by making the claim that the Blade trilogy has opened up a cinematic space for understanding the complex narrative strategies involved in the negotiation and articulation of marginal identities within a cultural system of hegemonic practices.
The dress of thought: Form and style in contemporary art writing
Authors: Thompson Susannah
Published: December 2017

‘The dress of thought’ is a consideration of recent developments in the style and form of art writing, looking specifically at narrative and experimental modes of writing that operate as ‘criticism in the expanded field’. This article seeks to define, map and navigate paraliterary forms of art writing, countering frequent assertions that such writing is uncritical or apolitical. In arguing for style and form as essential critical vehicles through which judgement, reference and evaluation can be inferred, I contend that these approaches represent a subversive reappraisal of the role and function of critics and criticism.
Fractured consciousness
Authors: Seers Lindsay , Penwill M. Anthony
Published: December 2017

One cognitive function that seems to keep the mind very busy is the task of narration. Our brains are extremely skilled at finding plausible narratives in any given situation, no matter how seemingly disjointed or chaotic, creating cohesion from the fragments of consciousness and reason. The mind will wrap itself around a set of disparate events and find causal relationships where probably none exist. It will verify an already established world-view, interpreting events in such a way as to reaffirm prejudices and justifications. The stories we tell ourselves and others and how they are reinforced and gain power through technologies is a fascination that underpins my work as an artist. My works are saturated in both storytelling and narrative. This article considers the relationship between synthetic intelligence and narrative, looking at how my work as an artist has been influenced by the findings and propositions, particularly in relation to consciousness, of neuroscientists including Chris Frith, Paul Fletcher and Anil Seth.
What a thirst it was: Longing, excess and the genre-bending essay
Authors: Reeder Elizabeth
Published: December 2017

Rachel Blau DuPlessis writes that the essay is restless, always a little too hungry, a little too thirsty (2006). Implicit in this statement is the fact that a good essay is full of desire and creates this response in readers too – building a thirst for more knowledge, for more emotion, for stimuli, satisfaction. Here the essay is unquenchable, undefinable and unsummarizable. This experimental essay talks about the practice and application of writing experimental essays and their capacity to be genre-bending, form-curious texts. Considering specific texts that explore artistic practice and/or, in their hybridity, bring image and text together in essential ways, the hybrid essay will emerge as a way of making, seeing, reading, interpreting and acquiring knowledge. By discussing intentional ambiguity, the unfamiliar familiar, knowledge in context, and the role of language and structure in the creation of presence, silence and absence in texts, this essay draws attention to the complications (and possibilities) of essays and their forms. The best essays create subtle, lively interactions between and within subjects, forms and languages that can howl and shape-shift in the final essay itself. These genre-bending essays can deepen and complicate the knowledge we make for ourselves – as we experience reverberations of meaning in the multiple readings each specific open text encourages. Included here is the writing and thinking of Anne Carson, Gertrude Stein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Lyn Hejinian and others.
Dear Susannah (April 2017)
Authors: Tatham Joanne
Published: December 2017

I propose that the conventions of academia may subject the various practices and practitioners of contemporary art to a set of behaviours that privileges certain modes of knowledge and the discovery and presentation of that knowledge over others. This text aims to perform this position through its form, as a means in and of itself to assert the agency of creative practice as a set of processes, and outcomes that are not in any way lacking in rigour, or needing to be brought into line, or licked into shape. The writing you read has been assembled slowly, in pieces, both knowingly and unknowingly, drawing on an array of writing approaches, channeling a spectrum of literary and creative forms, from within and across and around fiction, art writing and other modes of experimental writing. This text is not an academic article, although it was written as a willing acceptance of an invitation to be included in this journal; as with much contemporary art practice, it performs through and in relation to the place that it is encountered within and I expect this to be the case here. This is part one of a two-part article in the form of a letter.
Dislocated composition: Overview, transcript and selected articles with reference to The Necropolitan Line
Authors: Palmer Katrina
Published: December 2017

The following work makes reference to The Necropolitan Line, an exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (December 2015–February 2016). The Exhibition Composition and Overview is drawn from the various forms of information that were originally provided for the gallery employees. This information is interspersed with physical descriptions of the exhibited items. Implicitly about unsettled bodies, the text makes no attempt to resolve the resultant combination of positions: it situates itself in the present tense while it locates the exhibition in the past; it refers to the artist in the third person and exploits multiple sources without asserting an overall voice. The first part of the work provides the context for the storytelling, which is the body of the work, here dislocated to the two appendices. These contain the transcript for a live reading and a reformulated selection of newspaper articles from the exhibition.
Threshold: Non-ordinary states of accommodation
Authors: Ascott Justin
Published: December 2017

This article and associated short film, entitled Threshold, explores the phenomenon of house as a Cartesian construct of rational cultural detachment, set in binary opposition to the indigenous understanding of nature as connected and sacred. Threshold focuses on the liminal in-between zones of a house – its doors and windows – which both separate and join the inside/outside domains – without belonging to either of them. The film explores the liminal act of crossing this ontological threshold – representing it cinematically as a vibrational, ocular/aural wavering between two ‘worlds’. The intention is to destabilize this duality on an emotional level – in order to interrogate its validity. This strategy references anthropological theory, which asserts that the liminal act stimulates the limbic system containing ancestral, instinctual deposits. The function of the limbic system (part of the triune brain model) accords with Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious – which views the house as an archetypal symbol, central to the meaning of dreams – in representing the psyche of the dreamer. Threshold attempts to invoke this and other archaic symbols as the camera journeys through its interior spaces, discovering its material culture artefacts, which reflect the psychic state of its inhabitants. The paper explores the indigenous belief that there is a mystical (unitive, transformative) relationship existing between space and acoustics that can only be fully appreciated through an emotional experience with it. The adoption of an arts interventionist approach, can, the article will argue, provide an important contribution towards our expanded understanding of Space and Place as an embodied, emotional-cognitive act.
Capricious creatures: Animal behaviour as a model for robotic art
Authors: Pullen Treva Michelle
Published: December 2017

The lure of animal instinct appears to be an important consideration for the development of intelligent (or simulated intelligent) robotic creatures. Studying the behaviours and playful engagements of animals (like humans) provides robotic artists with a plethora of engagements from which to draw and mimic in their development of whimsical-behaving robot bodies. Animals, as the human other, present us with a counterpoint from which we can study robots as lively entities.
Consciousness, synchronicity and art – implications in creative thinking and direction of the art in relation to the concept of universe and reality in quantum mechanics
Authors: Lopreiato Paola
Published: December 2017

The concept of simultaneity and contemporaneity is fundamental to and the core of my artistic practice but it also fits perfectly with the theme of my research. Creating multimedia art and installations with the help of new media is one way to best express the concept of non-separation, as evidenced by language itself. In Italian the word confusione, from the Latin term cunfusionem (mixing, blending), and in English confusion, is often used as a synonym for noise. In English, commotion is a synonym for blare, and it has been derived from the Latin word cum movere, which means moving together. Contemporary art and installation are both staticity and change intermingled in a single place and time. The study of crowd, and the emotion that emerges from the deep immersive experiencing of art, is also strongly linked to another concept developed by Bergson: intuition. By ‘intuition’, Bergson meant an elementary, indivisible experience of sympathy, through which a person is moved into the inner being of an object and can comprehend what is unique and indefinable in it. I hypothesize the presence and expression of emotion in the collective experience of installation art, and both my creative efforts and theoretical research are aimed at facilitating the audience’s understanding or intuition of this emotion in an immersive multisensory environment. Using a range of both technological and classical tools and means of expression in my work, but more generally, artists create a product that can mediate and unfold the complexity of the phenomenological event by rendering it in a new form accessible to all.
A systematic review approach of mobile technology adoption in higher education
Authors: Arokiasamy Anantha Raj
Published: December 2017

Many educators agree that mobile technology has great potential not only to improve our educational practices but also to change traditional learning platforms and classroom learning environments. There are also many advantages to integrating mobile technology into the 21st century classrooms to support teaching and learning. Mobile technology tools such as iPads, iPad mini, mobile applications, tablets, palm devices, e-readers and smartphones are becoming real-world tools that should be integrated into modern instructional practices to support digital learners and to promote meaningful learning. Educators are harnessing mobile devices within and beyond the classroom due to the flexibility, portability, affordability and popularity of those devices. This study explores the effectiveness of mobile technology adoption within 21st century classrooms processes and outcomes.
Contributos da teoria da vinculação para a prática clínica desenvolvimental
Authors: Tereno Susana , Matos Inês
Published: December 2017

As variações da qualidade da vinculação representam condições de iniciação que, em contexto de interação entre factores biológicos e ambientais, desempenham um papel dinâmico no funcionamento bio-psico-social do indivíduo. Este artigo apresenta uma revisão de literatura da teoria e investigação da vinculação na infância e pretende contribuir para uma perspectiva desenvolvimental no exercício da pratica clinica. A investigação na vinculação tem-nos esclarecido, sobre os efeitos nas crianças de experiências precoces associadas: a) a rotinas de cuidados fora de casa (e.g., infantários); b) separações (e.g., hospitalizações); c) perturbações significativas de prestação de cuidados (e.g., adopção e famílias de acolhimento); d) às características das crianças com necessidades especiais. Nesta perspectiva desenvolvimental, a questão das perturbações das relações de vinculação,  assim como as especificidades deste tipo de relação em crianças com determinadas patologias é discutida. São apresentadas orientações clinicas para os clínicos uma vez que os aspectos relacionais são centrais para o desenvolvimento das crianças e consequentemente para a intervenção.
Aspetos psicofisiológicos da interação mãe/pai-bebé
Authors: Pereira Sara , Costa Raquel , Tojal Catarina , Tendais Iva
Published: December 2017

Apesar de se conhecer a importância da qualidade dos comportamentos na interação mãe-bebé e pai-bebé, pouco se conhece sobre os aspetos fisiológicos que lhes estão subjacentes. Objectivo: descrever a resposta fisiológica de mães e pais durante a interação com os filhos. Para o efeito registou-se a frequência cardíaca, a arritmia sinusal respiratória e a condutância da pele de 24 mães e 13 pais durante a interacção com o bebé de acordo com o protocolo Face-to-Face Still-Face (FFSF). Resultados: Verifica-se um aumento da frequência cardíaca durante o episódio face-a-face, uma diminuição no episódio still-face e novo aumento no episódio de recuperação. Verifica-se uma diminuição da arritmia sinusal respiratória durante o episódio face-a-face, um aumento no episódio still-face e nova diminuição no episódio de recuperação. No que diz respeito à condutância da pele, as respostas de mães e pais seguem padrões diferentes: nas mulheres verifica-se um aumento durante o episódio face-a-face, uma diminuição no episódio still-face e novo aumento no episódio de recuperação enquanto que nos homens verifica-se aumento consecutivo da condutância da pele ao longo do procedimento FFSF. Conclusão: Este estudo contribui para a compreensão das respostas fisiológicas de mães e pais durante a interação com os seus bebés.
«Ser ou Não Ouvida»: Perceções de Crianças Expostas à Violência Doméstica
Authors: Azevedo Vera , Sani Ana Isabel
Published: December 2017

Este estudo qualitativo, de caráter exploratório e descritivo, foi realizado junto de crianças vítimas de violência doméstica e teve como objetivo geral compreender como aquelas percecionam o facto de serem ou não ouvidas no âmbito dos processos em que estão envolvidas. A amostra intencional foi composta por dez crianças portuguesas, com idades entre os sete e os 17 anos, de ambos os sexos, que se encontravam acolhidas com as suas mães em casa de abrigo para vítimas de violência doméstica há pelo menos um mês. Os dados foram recolhidos através da técnica de entrevista, sendo sido criado um guião semiestruturado, previamente testado. Da análise do conteúdo das respostas salienta-se a emergência de duas categorias, ‘auscultação da criança pelos adultos’ e ‘participação em tribunal’, com base nas quais se discute a importância da escuta da opinião da criança, ajudando na compreensão de como esta pensa e sente determinadas questões e como pode contribuir para a resolução de certos problemas. A maioria das crianças deseja poder expressar perante o magistrado algumas das suas necessidades, sendo uma delas a garantia de segurança, através do afastamento do agressor. Discute-se com base nestes resultados qualitativos a relevância da participação da criança em decisões da justiça.
Father’s involvement and parenting styles in Portuguese families. The role of education and working hours
Authors: Monteiro Lígia , Fernandes Marília , Torres Nuno , Santos Carolina
Published: December 2017

Early studies on fathers focused mainly on his presence in or absence from children’s lives, and the amount of time they spent with them. More recently, several authors have stated the importance of understanding the quality of father involvement to comprehend fully its impact on child development. However, studies have also reported that socio-demographic variables, namely, father educational levels and employment status affect parenting and children outcomes. The aims of this study were to analyze a sample of 465 Portuguese two-parent families with pre-school age children, looking for associations between father involvement in care/socialization activities and paternal parenting styles while testing for the moderating effect of father educational levels and working hours. Fathers reported on their own parenting styles and mothers described the father’s involvement. Fathers’ working hours moderated the relation between his authoritative parenting style and involvement in teaching/discipline and play activities. In addition, fathers’ education moderated the relation between his authoritative style and involvement in direct care and teaching/discipline. Given the different roles that fathers can assume in their children’s lives, it is important to understand the mechanisms of paternal participation, and identify the factors which explain the differences in effective care so that we can promote higher positive involvement.
The determinents of accruals based earnings management :case of listed Moroccan companies
Authors: Hoummani Sanae , Radi Said
Published: December 2017

This article aims to identify the determinants of accruals based earning's management in Moroccan listed companies. On one hand, it examines the relation between discretionary accruals as the measure of earning's management and what literature documents as incentives to this practice, in particular, politico-contractual motivations, the avoidance of losses and earnings decreases and growth opportunities. On the other hand, it investigates whether corporate governance mechanisms may constrain management's opportunistic behaviors. The empirical results provide evidence that managers manipulate earnings in the presence of losses and, that growing firms is more likely to engage in earning's management. In terms of constraining factors, our findings indicate a negative relation between discretionary accruals and both institutional and concentrated ownership. Thus, we suggest that these shareholders play an effective role on monitoring managers.
Estimation of overpressures from porosity based method : a theoretical approach applied to the central/coastal swamp depo-belts of the Niger delta basin
Authors: Mkpese Ubon
Published: December 2017

The Depth-dependent compaction theory that variations in certain geophysical properties with depth; bulk density, formation resistivity together with sonic velocity being a reflection of the pressure regime is the basis for pore pressure prognosis study. Pore pressure prediction (PPP), when done accurately can be used to avert disaster and helps in safe drilling. A porosity-based model has been applied to predict overpressured zones in an onshore environment of the Niger delta basin. Zones with hard overpressures greater than a magnitude of 0.7 psi/ft are generally within 10000ft and below. Top of overpressures for studied wells ranges between 7000ft and 10000ft. Porosities in shale are of typical values ranging between 0.05 to 0.46. A robust concordance between PPP and MPP profiles for each of the wells validates the results here and confirms suitability of model to the studied area.