bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Crosshole GPR full-waveform inversion of waveguides acting as preferential flow paths within aquifer systems
Authors: Klotzsche Anja , van der Kruk Jan , Meles Giovanni , Vereecken Harry
Published: June 2012

High-contrast layers caused by porosity or clay content changes can have a dominant effect on hydraulic processes within an aquifer. These layers can act as low-velocity waveguides for GPR waves. We used a field example from a hydrological test site in Switzerland to show that full-waveform inversion of crosshole GPR signals could image a subwavelength thickness low-velocity waveguiding layer. We exploited the full information content of the data, whereas ray-based inversion techniques are not able to image such thin waveguide layers because they only exploit the first-arrival times and first-cycle amplitudes. This low-velocity waveguide layer is caused by an increase in porosity and indicates a preferential flow path within the aquifer. The waveguide trapping causes anomalously high amplitudes and elongated wavetrains to be observed for a transmitter within the waveguide and receivers straddling the waveguide depth range. The excellent fit of amplitudes and phase between the measured and modeled data confirms its presence. This new method enables detailed aquifer characterization to accurately predict transport and flow and can be applied to a wide range of geologic, hydrological, and engineering investigations.
Depression and schizophrenia
Authors: Castle David , Bosanac Peter
Published: July 2012

Depressive symptoms commonly occur in schizophrenia and have a significant impact on the distress and burden of the illness. Yet they are often overlooked, inadequately characterised by current classification systems and not consistently integrated into treatment. We discuss nosology, practical and clinical implications of symptom differentiation, and the role of causal and confounding factors, including iatrogenic, as targets for therapeutic intervention. The evidence base of psychosocial and psychotropic management is reviewed, with recommendations for the treatment of established syndromal depression in people with schizophrenia.
Addicted to ‘addiction’?: Commentary on… Shopping Addiction and Internet Sex Addiction
Authors: Smith Iain D.
Published: July 2012

The expansion of the concept of addiction to include non-chemical dependency, and the proposed reclassification of substance-related disorders in DSM-5 under ‘substance use and addictive disorders' are developments that require cautious appraisal.
Demand management and test request rationalization
Authors: Smellie W S A
Published: June 2012

Demand for laboratory testing is increasing disproportionately to medical activity, and the tests involved are becoming increasingly complex. When this phenomenon is seen in parallel with declining teaching of laboratory medicine in the medical curriculum, a need emerges to manage demand to avoid unnecessary expenditure and improve the use of laboratory services: ‘the right test in the right patient at the right time.’ Various methods have been tried to manage demand, with success depending on the medical context, type of health service and preintervention situation. Because many factors contribute to demand, and the different settings in which these exist, it is not realistic to meta-analyse the studies and we are limited to trying to identify trends in results in particular situations. The studies suggest that education combined with facilitating interventions, such as feedback, prompts and changes to laboratory request forms are the most successful. From the perspective of a whole health service, it is important that results are not exaggerated by assessing benefits in terms of total rather than marginal cost. It would be desirable, although difficult, to include the impact on downstream clinical activity caused or avoided by the interventions. Advances in information and web technology may make the elusive goal of achieving substantial demand control more achievable.
Hypergonadotrophic hypogonadism due to testicular adrenal rest tumours presenting with hypogonadotrophic hypergonadism
Authors: Ashby Helen L , Gama Rouvick M , Sur Hariom , Inglis John , Ford Clare , Gama Rousseau
Published: June 2012

Primary testicular failure is characterized by low serum testosterone with appropriately high serum gonadotrophins, that is hypergonadotrophic hypogonadism. We report on a 27-year-old man with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) and infertility due to testicular adrenal rest rumours (TART) resulting in primary testicular failure but presenting with azoospermia, elevated serum testosterone and very low serum gonadotrophins. Hypergonadotrophic hypogonadism was unmasked by increasing glucocorticoid dosage. It is important to recognise the limitations of follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinising hormone and testosterone in assessing testicular function in men with CAH. Abnormal semen analysis may be the best indicator of testicular dysfunction in men with CAH.
Identifying and understanding the concerns of business: A systematic approach to the development of the Australian WorkHealth Program - Arthritis
Authors: Reavley Nicola , Livingston Jenni , Buchbinder Rachelle , Osborne Richard
Published: June 2012

Objective:

The aim of the Australian WorkHealth Program - Arthritis was to develop and test an education program designed to minimise risk of arthritis and prevent or reduce absenteeism and presenteeism. The objective of the current study was to use a wide-ranging, multifaceted and interactive approach to engage with stakeholders in order to inform the content and delivery of the intervention.

Methods:

Methods used to inform program design included a concept mapping workshop, interviews, surveys, a steering committee and an industry advisory group. Engaging with a wide range of stakeholders in multiple ways early in program development allowed for the comparison and verification of data to obtain a better overall picture of the needs of participants. It also offered the opportunity to share ‘ownership’ of the program with stakeholders by generating a program that was tailored to their ethos and needs.

Results:

The stakeholder engagement process was instrumental in building commitment to the program and establishing an overarching model of action. Interview and survey data indicated that awareness of arthritis was low and musculoskeletal disorders more generally were of greater concern. It was agreed that programs should be relevant, evidence-based, involve senior management education, incorporate a business case, and involve tailored implementation and marketing strategies. The qualitative preparatory phase as well as all the engagement work was key to informing program design.

Conclusions:

The approach taken in this study has the potential to inform a wide range of workplace interventions. Engaging with a wide range of stakeholders in multiple ways from program inception allowed for the comparison and verification of information to permit the generation of a model of intervention that had the highest possible chance of success. It offered the opportunity to not only define program content and implementation processes, but to build genuine ‘ownership’ of the program.
Are nurse and pharmacist independent prescribers making clinically appropriate prescribing decisions? An analysis of consultations
Authors: Latter Sue , Smith Alesha , Blenkinsopp Alison , Nicholls Peter , Little Paul , Chapman Stephen
Published: June 2012

Objectives:

Legislation and health policy enabling nurses and pharmacists to prescribe a comprehensive range of medicines has been in place in the UK since 2006. Our objective was to evaluate the clinical appropriateness of prescribing by these professionals.

Methods:

A modified version of the Medication Appropriateness Index (MAI) was used by 10 medical, seven pharmacist and three nurse independent raters to evaluate a sample of 100 audio-recorded consultations in which a medicine was prescribed by a nurse or pharmacist. Raters were current prescribers with recognized experience in prescribing. Consultations were recorded in nine clinical practice settings in England.

Results:

Raters’ analysis indicated that, in the majority of instances, nurses and pharmacists were prescribing clinically appropriately on all of the ten MAI criteria (indication, effectiveness, dosage, directions, practicality, drug-drug interaction, drug-disease interaction, duplication, duration, cost). Highest mean ‘inappropriate’ ratings were given for correct directions (nurses 12%; pharmacists 11%) and the cost of the drug prescribed (nurses 16% pharmacists 22%). Analysis of raters’ qualitative comments identified two main themes: positive views on the overall safety and effectiveness of prescribing episodes; and potential for improvement in nurses’ and pharmacists’ history-taking, assessment and diagnosis skills.

Cnclusions:

Nurses and pharmacists are generally making clinically appropriate prescribing decisions. Decisions about the cost of drugs prescribed and assessment and diagnostic skills are areas for quality improvement.
Prostate cancer screening practices in the Republic of Ireland: The determinants of uptake
Authors: Burns Richéal , Walsh Brendan , Sharp Linda , O'neill Ciaran
Published: June 2012

Objectives:

The objectives of this paper are to analyse the determinants of prostate cancer screening uptake in the Republic of Ireland and to compare the role of non-need factors in uptake of screening among those in and outside the age range recommended as cost-effective for screening according to the European Randomised Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC).

Methods:

The investigation combined a logistic regression analysis of uptake, with an estimation of income-related concentration indices and decomposition of the indices using data collected as part of the Survey of Lifestyle and Nutrition (SLAN) 2007. Comparisons were made across groups differentiated by age in terms of the expected value of the prostate cancer screening.

Results:

Uptake of prostate screening in men 40 years and over in the preceding 12 months was approximately 24%. Uptake was higher among those in age groups that are perceived to receive most benefit from a Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test based on the findings of the ERSPC trial. Screening is highest in those with highest socioeconomic status and educational attainment, and who also hold private insurance cover. The largest socioeconomic inequality is observed for men over 70 years of age (0.2298). The smallest inequality was observed for those aged 55-69 (0.1573). Decomposition of the concentration indices shows that possession of private insurance is the largest determinant of inequality among those aged 55-69 (36%) and remains a significant determinant for those aged 40-54 (26%) and those aged 70 and over (17%).

Conclusions:

There are high levels of prostate cancer screening uptake and significant income-related inequality in uptake in the Republic of Ireland. Given that the merits of prostate cancer screening overall and across different age groups are the subject of debate, the high levels of screening and income-related inequalities in uptake warrant closer attention and identification of potential policy responses.
Advance of mining technology for coals under buildings in China
Authors: Sun Yuzhuang , Duan Piaopiao , Li Xinwang , Wang Jinxi , Deng Xiaoli
Published: July 2012

In China there are large amounts of coal located underneath buildings. In this article the severity of the problem is studied, and the characteristics of the mining technology used for the extraction of coals under buildings are described. Based on the comprehensive analyses of the abundant literature, separated bed grouting, backfill mining, Partial Mining and homonic mining technology, are the main mining technologies that exist for extraction of these coals. At the same time, the necessary measures for protecting the buildings are also considered. In particular, the authors have analysed the development of these mining technologies and concluded that the waste filling will be the focus of development, and that the main developing technologies of the filling mining method should be further perfecting the separated bed filling, strip mining and strenthening the anti-deformation of building.
State Health Care Financing Strategies for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Authors: Bachman Sara S , Comeau Margaret , Tobias Carol , Allen Deborah , Epstein Susan , Jantz Kathryn , Honberg Lynda
Published: June 2012

We provide the first descriptive summary of selected programs developed to help expand the scope of coverage, mitigate family financial hardship, and provide health and support services that children with intellectual and developmental disabilities need to maximize their functional status and quality of life. State financing initiatives were identified through interviews with family advocacy, Title V, and Medicaid organizational representatives. Results showed that states use myriad strategies to pay for care and maximize supports, including benefits counseling, consumer- and family-directed care, flexible funding, mandated benefits, Medicaid buy-in programs, and Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 funding. Although health reform may reduce variation among states, its impact on families of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities is not yet clear. As health reform is implemented, state strategies to ameliorate financial hardship among families of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities show promise for immediate use. However, further analysis and evaluation are required to understand their impact on family and child well-being.
State Insurance Parity Legislation for Autism Services and Family Financial Burden
Authors: Parish Susan , Thomas Kathleen , Rose Roderick , Kilany Mona , McConville Robert
Published: June 2012

We examined the association between states' legislative mandates that private insurance cover autism services and the health care–related financial burden reported by families of children with autism. Child and family data were drawn from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (N  =  2,082 children with autism). State policy characteristics were taken from public sources. The 3 outcomes were whether a family had any out-of-pocket health care expenditures during the past year for their child with autism, the expenditure amount, and expenditures as a proportion of family income. We modeled the association between states' autism service mandates and families' financial burden, adjusting for child-, family-, and state-level characteristics. Overall, 78% of families with a child with autism reported having any health care expenditures for their child for the prior 12 months. Among these families, 54% reported expenditures of more than $500, with 34% spending more than 3% of their income. Families living in states that enacted legislation mandating coverage of autism services were 28% less likely to report spending more than $500 for their children's health care costs, net of child and family characteristics. Families living in states that enacted parity legislation mandating coverage of autism services were 29% less likely to report spending more than $500 for their children's health care costs, net of child and family characteristics. This study offers preliminary evidence in support of advocates' arguments that requiring private insurers to cover autism services will reduce families' financial burdens associated with their children's health care expenses.
Trauma in People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Reactions of Parents and Caregivers to Research Participation
Authors: Scotti Joseph R , Stevens Sarah B , Jacoby Vanessa M , Bracken Magdalene R , Freed Rachel , Schmidt Elizabeth
Published: June 2012

Generally, studies have revealed that only a minority of people are bothered by participation in research on traumatic stress. Severity of traumatic events and subsequent responses are typically unrelated to negative reactions. We included 386 family members and caregivers (respondents) of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (focus people). Focus people (ages 4–82) had a wide range of physical and intellectual disabilities, medical and behavioral problems, and exposure to potentially traumatic events. The measures of impact of research participation (based on J. I. Ruzek & D. F. Zatzick's [2000] Reactions to Research Participation Questionnaire [RRPQ]; S. Folkman and R. S. Lazarus's [1986, 1988] Emotional Responses to Participation Scale) showed good psychometric properties. Response to participation was highly skewed toward good understanding of informed consent, valuing participation, and minimal negative reactions. Number of traumatic events was related, positively, to only one RRPQ subscale: Valuing Participation. Implications for research and clinical work are discussed.
Implementation of Job Development Practices
Authors: Migliore Alberto , Butterworth John , Nord Derek , Cox Monica , Gelb Amy
Published: June 2012

We investigated the extent to which employment consultants implemented job development practices recommended in the literature when assisting job seekers with intellectual or developmental disabilities. We contacted 83 employment consultants from 25 employment programs in Minnesota and Connecticut. Fifty-nine participants were eligible and completed surveys. We found inconsistencies between the employment consultants' practices and the job development literature in areas such as involvement of family members and acquaintances, observation of job seekers in work and nonwork environments, analyses of employers' needs, development of customized jobs, and assistance with work incentives planning. We recommend a system-wide effort for supporting employment consultants in implementing promising job development practices. This effort needs to involve funding agencies, employment programs, accreditation agencies, training programs, and researchers.
Effectiveness of a Caregiver Education Program on Providing Oral Care to Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Authors: Fickert Nancy A , Ross Diana
Published: June 2012

Caregivers who work in community living arrangements or intermediate care facilities are responsible for the oral hygiene of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Oral hygiene training programs do not exist in many organizations, despite concerns about the oral care of this population. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a caregiver educational program. This study used a quasi-experimental one-group pretest/posttest design with repeated measures to describe the outcomes of an educational program. Program participants demonstrated oral hygiene skills on each other while being scored by a trained observer, after which they completed an oral hygiene compliance survey. After three months, a follow-up included the same posttest, demonstration of oral hygiene skills, and repeat of the compliance survey. Paired-sample t-tests of oral hygiene knowledge showed a statistically significant improvement from pretest to posttest and from pretest to three-month posttest. Oral hygiene skills and compliance improved. Results demonstrate evidence that caregiver education improves knowledge, skill, and compliance in oral hygiene. Further studies are required to demonstrate the value of providing oral hygiene education and training for caregivers of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Adaptation and Validation of the Spanish Version of the Leisure Assessment Inventory
Authors: Badia Marta , Orgaz-Baz M. Begoña , Verdugo Miguel-Angel , Martínez-Aguirre M. Magdalena , Longo-Araújo-de-Melo Egmar , Ullán-de-la-Fuente Ana M
Published: June 2012

Participation—defined as engagement in life situations, including leisure and recreational activities—is associated with the improvement of people with disabilities' quality of life. Several specific instruments assess leisure, but none of them has been adapted to the Spanish context. The goal of this study is to adapt and validate the Spanish version of the Leisure Assessment Inventory (LAI; B. A. Hawkins, P. Ardovino, N. B. Rogers, A. Foose, & N. Olsen, 2002). The adaptation of the original version of the LAI was carried out through translation and backward translation, and the validity of the instrument was analyzed. Descriptive analyses (means and standard deviations) were conducted for each LAI index. Construct validity was assessed through Pearson's product-moment correlation among the diverse LAI indexes, and convergent-discriminant validity through the correlation of the diverse indexes and the measures of quality of life. Results show that the LAI indexes are valid measures of the attributes of leisure behavior (participation, preference, interest, and barriers). This study provides a valid instrument to assess the participation profile of adults with disabilities in leisure activities.
“Sometimes I Feel Overwhelmed”: Educational Needs of Family Physicians Caring for People with Intellectual Disability
Authors: Wilkinson Joanne , Dreyfus Deborah , Cerreto Mary , Bokhour Barbara
Published: June 2012

Primary care physicians who care for adults with intellectual disability often lack experience with the population, and patients with intellectual disability express dissatisfaction with their care. Establishing a secure primary care relationship is particularly important for adults with intellectual disability, who experience health disparities and may rely on their physician to direct/coordinate their care. The authors conducted semistructured interviews with 22 family physicians with the goal of identifying educational needs of family physicians who care for people with intellectual disability. Interviews were transcribed and coded using tools from grounded theory. Several themes related to educational needs were identified. Physician participants identified themes of “operating without a map,” discomfort with patients with intellectual disability, and a need for more exposure to/experience with people with intellectual disability as important content areas. The authors also identified physician frustration and lack of confidence, compounded by anxiety related to difficult behaviors and a lack of context or frame of reference for patients with intellectual disability. Primary care physicians request some modification of their educational experience to better equip them to care for patients with intellectual disability. Their request for experiential, not theoretical, learning fits well under the umbrella of cultural competence (a required competency in U.S. medical education).
Masculinity Theory in Applied Research with Men and Boys with Intellectual Disability
Authors: Wilson Nathan John , Shuttleworth Russell , Stancliffe Roger , Parmenter Trevor
Published: June 2012

Researchers in intellectual disability have had limited theoretical engagement with mainstream theories of masculinity. In this article, the authors consider what mainstream theories of masculinity may offer to applied research on, and hence to therapeutic interventions with, men and boys with intellectual disability. An example from one research project that explored male sexual health illustrates how using masculinity theory provided greater insight into gendered data. Finally, we discuss the following five topics to illustrate how researchers might use theories of masculinity: (a) fathering, (b) male physical expression, (c) sexual expression, (d) men's health, and (e) underweight and obesity. Theories of masculinity offer an additional framework to analyze and conceptualize gendered data; we challenge researchers to engage with this body of work.
Neurodiversity: Autism Pride Among Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Authors: Cascio M. Ariel
Published: June 2012

The neurodiversity movement takes an identity politics approach to autism spectrum disorders, proposing autism spectrum disorders as a positive “neuro-variation” to be approached only with interventions that assist individuals without changing them. This article explicates the concept of neurodiversity and places it within the context of autism spectrum disorders advocacy and treatments. It draws from fieldwork conducted in a midwestern urban center, from June through October 2008, with support groups for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders. Neurodiverse sentiments were identified within these groups, despite the pursuance of treatments to which some neurodiversity advocates might object. Therefore, although neurodiversity has influenced parents of children with autism spectrum disorders in this sample, its role as a medical advocacy group has not been fully realized. This article attempts to place neurodiversity in better conversation with advocates and medical professionals.
'Take the Most Tender Part of the Kangaroo': Locating archival and other food studies resources in Australian public collections
Authors: Franks Rachel , Brien Donna Lee
Published: June 2012

This article indicates the wide range of material that can be useful to those taking a popular culture approach to food studies, as well as the types and variety of major and notable Australian institutions that can be relatively easily accessed in order to undertake this research.
This is achieved through the provision of an overview of the holdings of a wide variety of Australian institutions that relate to the study of food and beverages, including their production, preparation and consumption. This article acknowledges the range of traditional materials that have,
for many years, supported scholarly research in the field of food studies such as cookery books and historical materials. In addition, this article outlines some of the more unusual items that are both relevant and important to researchers including film and photographic materials, manuscripts,
ephemera and everyday objects.
REVIEWS
Authors: McKee Alison , Everett Holly , Williamson Rosemary , Brien Donna Lee , Risson Dr Toni
Published: June 2012

THE ARISTOLOGIST: AN ANTIPODEAN JOURNAL OF FOOD HISTORY, DUNCAN GALLETLY (ED.) (2011) Wellington, NZ: Kowhiti House, 160 pp., ISBN: 9780473202187, p/bk, NZ$40.00

LOCALE: THE AUSTRALASIAN-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF REGIONAL FOOD STUDIES, SUSIE KHAMIS (ED.) (2011) Regional Food Research
Network Australasia, Southern Cross University, Lismore, pp. 157, ISSN: 2200-5005, online, free-access, http://www.localejournal.org

VORACIOUS: THE BEST NEW AUSTRALIAN FOOD WRITING, PAUL MCNALLY (ED.) (2011) Prahran, Vic: Hardie Grant Books, 191 pp., ISBN: 9781742701202, p/bk, AUS$29.95

NEW
ZEALAND FOODWRITING: BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS

JANE HUNTER: GROWING A LEGACY, TESSA ANDE RSON (2008) Auckland, NZ: Harper Collins, 320 pp., ISBN 9781869506483, h/bk, NZ$40.00

NEW ZEALAND FOOD AND COOKERY, DAVID BURTON (2009) Auckland: David Bateman, 320 pp., ISBN 9781869537289,
h/bk, NZ$60.00

THE PAVLOVA STORY: A SLICE OF NEW ZEALAND'S CULINARY HISTORY, HELEN LEACH (2008) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 192 pp., ISBN 9781877372575, p/bk, NZ$40.00

FROM KAI TO KIWI KITCHEN: NEW ZEALAND CULINARY TRADITION AND COOKBOOK S, HELEN LEACH (ED.) (2010)
Dunedin: Otago University Press, 219 pp., ISBN 9781877372759, p/bk, NZ$45.00

THE TWELVE CAKE OF CHRISTMAS: AN EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY WITH RECIPES, HELEN LEACH, MARY BROWNE AND RAELENE INGLIS (2011) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 192 pp., ISBN 9781877578199, h/bk, NZ$40.00

GREEN
URBAN LIVING: SIMPLE STEPS TO GROWING FOOD, KEEPING CHICKENS, WORM FARMING, BEEKEEPING AND MUCH MORE IN NEW ZEALAND, JANET LUKE (2011) Auckland: New Holland, 176 pp., ISBN 9781869663223, p/bk, NZ$45.00

MASTERING THE ART OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN NEW ZEALAND, CAROLANN MURRAY (2010) Auckland:
New Holland, 224 pp., ISBN 9781869662912, p/bk, NZ$39.00

A HOME COMPANION: MY YEAR OF LIVING LIKE MY GRANDMOTHER, WENDYL NISSEN (2010) Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 302 pp., ISBN 9781877505058, p/bk, NZ$26.99

Dining Out: A History of the Restaurant in New Zealand, Perrin
Rowland (2010) Auckland: Auckland University Press, 280 pp., ISBN 9781869404642, h/bk, NZ$59.99

CHANCERS AND VISIONARIES: A HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND WINE, KEITH STEWART (2010) Auckland: Godwit/Random House New Zealand, 447 pp., ISBN 9781869620709, p/bk, NZ$49.99

KIWI KITCHEN
WITH RICHARD TILL (TVNZ/GOOGLEBOX PRODUCTIONS LTD), RICHARD TILL (2008) Auckland: Renaissance Publishing, 144 pp., ISBN 9780958263566, p/bk, NZ$34.99

EVERY TEA TOWEL TELLS A STORY: RICHARD TILL'S SPECIAL COLLECTION, RICHARD TILL (2010) Auckland: Renaissance Publishing, 112 pp., ISBN
9780986452109, p/bk, NZ$24.99

FIRST CATCH YOUR WEKA: A STORY OF NEW ZEALAND COOKING, DAVID VEART (2008) Rpt. 2009, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 330 pp., ISBN 97818699404109, p/bk, NZ$49.99

INSIDE STORIES: A HISTORY OF THE NEW ZEALAND HOUSEWIFE 1890–1975, FRANCES
WALSH (2011) Auckland: Godwit, Random House, 320 pp., ISBN 9781869621650, p/bk, NZ$49.99

FOOD AND CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION, LORNA PIATTI-FARNELL (2011) New York: Routledge, 191 pp., ISBN: 9780415884228, h/bk, AUS$80.00, ISBN: 9780203805077, E-book
Australia's American coffee culture
Authors: Adams Jill
Published: June 2012

When US coffee chain Starbucks announced it would close 61 of its 84 Australian stores, some Australian coffee drinkers were smug: Starbucks, it seemed, had failed to understand the Australian market. The President of Starbucks Asia Pacific John Culver admitted: 'I think what we've
seen is that Australia has a very sophisticated coffee culture'. Australia does have a sophisticated coffee culture and the collective belief is that its origins are European. This article argues that Australia had a coffee culture of sorts prior to WWII but that it was American serviceman
stationed in Australia, followed closely by the introduction of Nestlé instant coffee in 1948, that kick-started Australia's shift from tea to coffee drinking. It also argues that Australia's contemporary coffee market is very similar to America's, with recent trends in America's specialty
coffee industry closely watched and followed by Australian 'third wave' coffee roasters and consumers.
Dolly Varden: Sweet inspiration
Authors: Cedro Carmel
Published: June 2012

This article discusses the history and evolution of the Dolly Varden cake. It traces the transformation of Dolly Varden from a Charles Dickens' character to the inspiration behind a range of popular culture tributes and dedications, and the iconic children's cake that she is associated
with today. It also explores the changes in processes, ingredients and baking of the cake in Australia, and concludes with referencing a modern interpretation of the Dolly Varden image. Using the Dolly Varden cake, it draws other inferences about contemporary ideas of the feminine, as well
as cake decorating as a new form of art through which cultural issues may be investigated.
Having our cake and eating it too: A reading of royal wedding cakes
Authors: Wessell Adele
Published: June 2012

There is no more basic commodity than food, but the expanding scholarly attention it has received also highlights its complexity. This article focuses on a food close to many people's hearts: the wedding cake. In particular, it discusses the style, form and consumption of royal wedding
cakes to explore what this reveals about Australian identity. The cultural inscriptions and influences of royal wedding cakes reflect the intersection between food and national identity; however, this is a multifarious relationship between nation, race, gender, class and sexuality that is
neither static nor certain. Despite changes in Australia's relationship with Britain after the Second World War, the monarchy remains a living and popular institution. The popular imagining of empire and royalty persists, as evidenced in the popularity of royal weddings and the influence of
royal wedding cakes. This influence is not, however, one way: a distinctive new style of wedding cake developed in Australia has changed that of Britain. Deconstructing the wedding cake in this way provides scope for challenging the narratives of both the potency and decline of empire in terms
of Australia.
Eating it too: 'The icing on the (birthday) cake'
Authors: Risson Toni
Published: June 2012

Icing is not essential to the enjoyment of cakes, but it is part of the pleasure cakes offer and, especially when it comes to celebratory cakes, that pleasure can be more aesthetic than gustatory. The phrase 'the icing on the cake' refers to the finishing touch, the superfluous and
even the frivolous: it connotes the ephemeral, the trivial and the feminine. In the case of the celebratory cake, however, it is all about the icing. The history of confectionery is mostly identified with the devaluation of sugar and its shift from the masculine/public sphere to the feminine/private
sphere, but wedding cakes and children's birthday cakes descend from the elaborate sugar sculptures that were festive emblems of rank on the banquet tables of medieval courts. This article examines The Australian Women's Weekly (AWW) Children's Birthday Cake Book, which uses common confectionery
as cake decoration. Sugar was once a magical substance in an ordinary world and, by endowing cakes with an appeal similar to that of toys, these AWW cakes excite visual pleasure and create childhood memories through artistry and spectacle. As confectionery historian Laura Mason explains, 'Sugar
is fantasy land'.
A taste of conflict: Food, history and popular culture in Katherine Mansfield's fiction
Authors: Piatti-Farnell Lorna
Published: June 2012

This article considers the function of food and consumption in Katherine Mansfield's fiction. Using food as the ideal medium to dissect issues of gender, national identity and class, Mansfield unveils how eating functions as an agent of modernity. Against the backdrop of World War One
– and the subsequent evolution into the 1920s – Mansfield reveals how history and popular culture merge in the idiom of food. Her fiction proves eating to be an activity of 'conflict', whether it be conceptually saturated with political militancy or marked by social divergence
and disarming solitude. While Mansfield's New Zealand stories offer an optimistic perspective on gastronomy and life sanguinity, her European fiction offers a bleaker view of eating as an activity that emphasizes the pain of post-war separation, solitude and social neglect. By paying close
attention to the gastro-political debates in the fiction, this analysis aims to show how food habits act as a crucial concept within Mansfield's negotiations of a particularly alienating moment in history.
Negotiating change: Celebrity pie cart narratives
Authors: Neill Lindsay , Bell Claudia
Published: June 2012

This article presents the pie cart as a life marker within three celebrity narratives. While Americanized fast food chains currently dominate the Australasian take-away market, pie carts (and especially those operating in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s) provide an entrance into the collective
memory, evoking a nostalgia redolent of Bruce Mason's Golden Weather (1962), a time past that, in retrospect, seemed simpler and less complex than contemporary life. The narratives of Ray Columbus, Georgina Beyer and Johnny Cooper are important because, and as Graeme Turner suggests, celebrities
mediate the momentary and the permanent by constructing communities of thought from which others find reassurance and identity. Like pie carts themselves, our celebrity narratives offer a performative recapitulation of 1950s, 1960s and 1970s experience by engaging the symbolic realms of nostalgia
and memory.
Putting the tea in Australia: The Bushells brand 1998–2006
Authors: Khamis Susie
Published: June 2012

After the national election win of the Liberal National Coalition in March 1996, Australia experienced more than ten years of contentious public debate. Discussions about Australia's history and future raged with an intensity that both highlighted and problematized the very notion of
national identity. During this period, the television commercials for tea brand Bushells paralleled changes in Australia's political culture. In various ways, events of epochal significance, both in Australia and abroad, surfaced in the brand's promotions. These campaigns not only showed the
increasing difficulty of picturing Australianness; they also showed that, no matter how fragmented Australian culture became, there remained a lingering bias to certain images, ideals and values. As the Australian electorate became more insular, parochial and conservative, Bushells followed
suit. This article considers how Bushells drew symbolic markers from popular culture – the worlds of celebrity, sport, cinema and so on – in a bid to remain relevant, endearing and likeable. It therefore shows that, for a commodity as basic as tea, much can be gleaned about the
contemporary political mood through the vernacular rhetoric of television advertising.
Colourful screens: Water imaginaries in documentaries from China and Taiwan
Authors: Lok Tam Yee
Published: June 2012

The colours that appear in documentary films from China and Taiwan construct 'water imaginaries' with specific eco-critical connotations. Colourful screens are not only an instrument to show different aesthetics but they are also a device for interrogating the ecological relationship
between humanity and water/nature. By giving a brief historical account of documentaries from mainland China and Taiwan concerning water networks, rivers and the sea, this article illustrates how the 'green screen' relates to the socialist ecology, how the 'colourless screen' isolates water
from rivers to help imagine a national water network, how the 'blue screen' of the undersea world engenders a specific form of ecosophy, and finally how the 'black screen' of the transnational sea imaginary proposes and oscillates between inter-nationality and ecological post-nationality.
From My Fancy High Heels to Useless clothing: 'Interconnectedness' and eco-critical issues in transnational documentaries
Authors: Chu Kiu-wai
Published: June 2012

Recent transnational documentaries are more and more committed to issues of global environmental justice and revealing exploitative profit-driven production practices as they suggest that cinematic transnationalism enables us to see the global connectedness of the ecosystem more readily.
Such filmic representations of a beyond-the-local culture facilitate to make sense of the global network of products and flow of messages as they make us aware of the physical and symbolic linkages between these seemingly disconnected worlds. From the food we eat and the news we read, the
jeans and shoes we wear, to the films, music and performances we enjoy, our living habits and daily routines today are unimaginable without global networks of information and exchange, regardless of which part of the world one is situated in.

By comparing Jia Zhangke's Wuyong/Useless (2007)
and Ho Chao-ti's Wo Ai Gaogenxie/My Fancy High Heels (MFHH) (2010), this article explores how transnationality in these documentaries, on one hand, facilitates the expression of eco-critical and environmentalist messages concerning nature and the environment, as well as the relationships between
human and all other beings on the planet; and on the other, reveals the challenges and contradictions film-makers and artists faced in the productions in attempts to reflect their ecological and environmental concerns, challenges and contradictions that are brought about by the unstoppable
forces of excessive global consumerism.
The politics of viewing ecocinema in China: Reflections on audience studies and transnational ecocinema
Authors: Kääpä Pietari
Published: June 2012

Media and communications scholars frequently publish work on audience interpretations of ecological media. These range from the ways the media frames ecological issues to the socio-political role the media plays in influencing popular opinion on environmental issues. Film criticism
is not that much different from other media analyses in its focus on ideological bias and the hypothetical impact of the texts. Considering the emphasis ecocinema scholars place on the socio-political role of cinema, it is surprising that audiences are still a largely neglected focus of study
in the field. This article investigates some potential avenues academic studies of audiences of ecocinema may take. We focus on the ways audiences use ecocinema to generate diverse meanings as we switch from spectator studies to studies of audiences, where we not only explore the ways audience
perspectives correlate or challenge the hypothetical perspectives suggested by media critics/academics, but also focus on the plurality of reading positions and the challenges they provide for making sense of the uses of ecocinema. The challenge to homogenized or theorized reading publics
is made more explicit once we take into account the major role cultural specificity plays in audience responses. It is here that transnational considerations help us diversify the range of analysis and offer new perspectives on the socio-political implications of ecocinema. To these ends,
I focus on the ways individuals from China (Chinese university students and graduates in the white-collar industries, both groups who identify themselves as part of China's new emerging middle class) encounter and negotiate the transnational dimensions of ecocinema both with domestically produced
films and imported productions.
REVIEW
Authors: Kääpä Pietari
Published: June 2012

CHINESE ECOCINEMA IN THE AGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGE, SHELDON H. LU AND JIAYAN MI (EDS) (2009) Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press/Seattle: University of Washington Press, pp. xiii + 370, £20.95. paperback. ISBN: 9622090869
China has a natural environment, too!: Consumerist and ideological eco-imaginaries in the cinema of Feng Xiaogang
Authors: Neri Corrado
Published: June 2012

Feng Xiaogang, the 'Chinese Spielberg', produces huge blockbusters and hilarious comedies directed at a broad audience. Although his work does not strictly deal with environmental issues, it provides us with a privileged perspective through which to analyse the discourses around the
theme of nature. Feng Xiaogang's works are not explicitly environmental, they do address the contradictions and differing anxieties linked to China's economic and environmental development. For example, A World Without Thieves (Feng Xiaogang, 2004) employs the natural image of Tibetan mountains
as a symbol of search for oneself and introspection, while it symbolically links Tibet to China, setting aside the political troubles that regularly hit the region. Likewise the stunning landscapes in If You are the One 1&2 (Feng Xiaogang, 2008 and 2010) remind us of the importance of
nature, rural surroundings, and the absence of human intervention within the changing of seasons, hinting at the same time at the dangers of losing such natural richness. Simultaneously these built-up, symbolic images refer to dreams of capitalist possession where nature turns into nothing
but a marketing tool, a status symbol, a showcase of wealth and vanity parade. As forms of symbolic power imposed on the collective imagination and symptoms of the ever-growing need to be aware of the fragility of nature and the dangers of uncontrolled development, these films bring into play
several contradictory discourses that cannot be ignored in the future development of China and Chinese cinema. Like every great producer of popular cinema, Feng Xiaogang produces narratives governed by the public and consumerist doxa, from which potentially subversive apprehensions emerge.
Exhibiting the Frontier: American Borders as Museological Projects
Authors: Rodney Lee
Published: June 2012

In the twenty-first century, international borders are being rethought and remade after the concept of a 'borderless world' of the 1990s lost its promise. This article looks at some of the ways in which borders have recently been re-conceptualized and framed through case studies of
two museological projects: the Border Patrol Museum in El Paso, Texas and the Mauermuseum/Haus am Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. As abstract, conceptual phenomena, geographical borders pose a representational quandary that is addressed not only through state strategies of demarcation and surveillance,
but also through soft power and the strategies of architectural and museological display that bolster popular support for, and lend meaning to, the abstraction of a line.
Archival Remembering Exhibitions
Authors: Greenberg Reesa
Published: June 2012

This article examines the variant of remembering exhibitions that adopts a documentary approach rather than attempting to replicate, riff on, or reprise the remembered exhibition. Case studies focus on examples that remember more than one exhibition. Discussions of Stationen der Moderne,
Telling Histories, Parallel Chronologies, L'Attico and Recollections present the interplay between their celebratory functions and political import in relation to institutional, geographic and temporal considerations. In addition, the archival remembering exhibition is positioned in relation
to the archive as it appears in recent contemporary art exhibition practices.
Curatorial Acts
Authors: Bal Mieke
Published: June 2012

In a self-critical inquiry into my own recent work of co-curating and the experience of seeing my video work being curated by others, this article examines acts of framing as performative acts that seek to transform visitors' preconceptions. This affective effect is pursued by means
of immersion, where the balance between documentary and fiction, as well as that between guidance and self-determination, are key instruments. The analysis of the relationship between artist, writer, curator and museum staff on the one hand, and visitors on the other, clarifies to what extent
curatorial acts are collective and dialectic. These issues will be broached in connection to the exhibition Landscapes of Madness in the Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum in Turku, Finland.
Politics, Potentials and Construction in Process
Authors: Szupinska Joanna
Published: June 2012

Konstrukcja w Procesie/Construction in Process featured work by 54 international artists in an abandoned nineteenth-century textile factory in Łódź, Poland in 1981. It was a curious, multi-layered exhibition that brought together unresolved politics, a curatorial
method of 'sorting out' or 'arranging for', and a bohemian approach to life and art that looked back to the European avant-gardes of the 1930s. This article aims to reveal that, via the organizers' collaboration with Solidarity, the exhibition not only rejected the political bodies in power,
but strove to articulate a proposal for an altogether new socio-political reality.
The Artist as Curator: Edgar Degas' Maison-Musée
Authors: Crisci-Richardson Roberta
Published: June 2012

Scholars agree that Edgar Degas considered establishing a museum or donating his art collection to the French nation, but ultimately abandoned the idea. This article argues that while Degas never intended to found an official museum, his three-storey quarters that he arranged at 37
rue Victor-Massé functioned as an independent 'artist's house' or maison-musée typical of this modernist genre of display. Included were the artist's studio, his dwelling quarters and private museum, all curated by the artist himself. Like the autonomous group exhibitions of
1874–1886, of which Degas had been a main organizer, his domestic displays mark an important example of exhibition space in the context of modern French artists' resistance to state-run exhibition policy and art institutions.