bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Understanding risk: psychosis and genomics research in Singapore
Authors: Ahmad Ayesha , Lysaght Tamra , Jianjun Liu , Subramaniam Mythily , Say Beng Tan , Capps Benjamin
Published: May 2017

This is an exploratory paper of the ethical implications for genomic research and mental illness with specific reference to Singapore. Singapore has a unique context due to its social and political systems, and although it is a relatively small country, its population is religiously and culturally diverse. The issues that we identify here, therefore, will offer new perspectives and will also shed light on the existing literature on psychiatric genomics in society. We contextualise issues such as risk and stigma in the identification and diagnosis of psychosis in the way they relate to Singaporean society, and use a current study (LYRIKS) as a case example.

Genomic research has the potential to change significantly he practice of clinical medicine if, as expected, fast and inexpensive sequencing becomes a reality. It will likely also change how society thinks and acts in respect to multi-factorial diseases, conditions, traits, and syndromes that have a genetic component. Genomic research already raises a number of ethical concerns relating to the privacy of individuals, including the disclosure of research results and incidental findings, surreptitious tests, third party access to data, and the re-emergence of genetic determinism. These issues are potentially exacerbated when genomics - the study of whole genomes to understand complex illness and behavioural traits - is applied to psychiatric research, because of the stigma that is often attached to mental illness. In this paper, we discuss some of the issues that have arisen in the context of a study in Singapore that is currently investigating the genomics and biomarkers of psychosis. We argue that although a genomic study rarely creates data that is directly useful to the participant, it can have incidental benefits to the individual who is identified during the study as being at high risk of developing psychosis and its related states. Understanding these potential benefits requires us to examine the implications that this type of research may have on public understandings of genomic data and risk.
Little Black Boxes: Noncardiac Implantable Electronic Medical Devices and Their Anesthetic and Surgical Implications
Authors: Srejic Una , Larson Paul , Bickler Philip E.
Published: May 2017

Implanted electronic medical devices. or stimulators such as pacemakers and nerve stimulators have grown enormously in diversity and complexity over recent decades. The function and potential interaction of these devices with the perioperative environment is of increasing concern for anesthesiologists and surgeons. Because of the innate electromagnetic environment of the hospital (operating room, gastrointestinal procedure suite, and imaging suite), implanted device malfunction, reprogramming, or destruction may occur and cause physical harm (including nerve injury, blindness, deafness, burn, stroke, paralysis, or coma) to the patient. It is critical for the anesthesiologist and surgeon to be aware of the function and interaction of implanted devices, both with other implanted devices and procedures (such as magnetic resonance imaging and cardioversion) in the hospital environment. Because of these interactions, it is imperative that proper device function is assessed when the surgical procedure is complete. This review article will discuss these important issues for 12 different types of “little black boxes,” or noncardiac implantable electronic medical devices.
Pseudo Prune Belly Syndrome: Diagnosis Revealed by Imaging – A Case Report and Brief Review
Authors: Grover Hemal , Sethi Sanjay , Garg Jatin , Ahluwalia Amrit Pal
Published: May 2017

Background: Prune Belly Syndrome (PBS) is a rare entity, usually found in male neonates. It comprises complex urinary tract anomalies, bilateral undescended testis and absence of anterior abdominal wall muscles. Patients with unilateral abdominal wall deficiency, unilateral undescended testis and female neonates with abdominal wall laxity are classified as Pseudo Prune Belly syndrome (PPBS). Reports on PPBS do not highlight the radiological and imaging characteristics of this syndrome and the current literature on the role of newer imaging modalities, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), remains relatively sparse. We describe a new case of PPBS and emphasize the role of imaging, especially ultrasound and MRI in the process of diagnosis and briefly review the subject.

Case Report: A male infant of four months of age was referred for evaluation of left-sided cryptorchidism. Clinical examination revealed laxity of the left abdominal wall. Ultrasound examination of the abdomen, pelvis and scrotum was performed together with routine laboratory tests. Ultrasound examination was followed by intravenous urography, voiding cysto-urethrography and MRI of the abdomen. On ultrasound, the left testis was located in the inguinal canal, the right kidney was slightly enlarged and the left kidney could not be localized. Ultrasound appearances suggested chronic obstruction in the urinary bladder. Intravenous urography, voiding cysto-urethrography and MRI confirmed the ultrasound diagnosis and also revealed a left dysplastic kidney with a dilated, tortuous ureter. Clinical and imaging features were consistent with pseudo prune belly syndrome (PPBS).

Conclusions: We report a new occurrence of PPBS, a rare entity. The imaging approach for a comprehensive evaluation of the renal system in PPBS, especially with MRI, is emphasized.
Liver transplantation: post-transplant management
Authors: Halliday Neil , Westbrook Rachel H
Published: May 2017

Medical care for patients following liver transplantation is complex and requires a holistic approach to management. Patients and clinicians are faced with multiple challenges: immunosuppressive regimens must be optimized to avoid and treat graft rejection, the risk and atypical features of sepsis in the immunocompromised patient must be recognized, steps are required to reduce the recurrence of liver disease and the long-term increased risks of malignancy, renal failure and metabolic complications need managing. Despite the benefits of liver transplantation there are additional concerns regarding the impact upon quality of life. This review will focus upon the care of patients following liver transplantation. As these patients will present to a broad range of clinicians, an understanding of the common drugs used post-transplantation and general approach to management of these patients will be of benefit to the general clinical audience.
WHO IS A RESEARCHER? / QU’EST-CE QU’UN CHERCHEUR?
Authors: Pandey Arjun
Published: May 2017

Because of the broad nature of scientific research, the definition of a researcher is open-ended. A scientific researcher is considered to be anyone who attempts to improve our understanding of science often by building upon research done by others.Dû à la nature très vaste de la recherche scientifique, la définition d’un chercheur est très ouverte. Un chercheur scientifique est souvent considéré comme un être qui tente d’améliorer notre comprehension de la science en construisant de la nouvelle recherche dont les fondamentaux ont été découverts par d’autres.
The Deep Roots of the Rocky Mountains: Geophysical Studies of Western Canada
Authors: Currie Claire A.
Published: May 2017

The Rocky Mountains in western Canada have some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, with rugged terrain and snow-covered peaks. The Rockies are part of the North American Cordillera, a ~4000 km mountain belt that runs along the western side of North America (Figure 1). This mountain belt formed over the last 200 million years, as rocks were added to the western side of North America during the convergence of tectonic plates.
Effectiveness and toxicity of oil spill reagents on Artemia Salina
Authors: Sharma Neel
Published: May 2017

Purpose: To determine the safety and effectiveness of three potential reagents which could be used to manage a simulated oil spill (SOS). Methods: The effectiveness of three agents used manage a simulated oil spill was evaluated: liquid soap, human hair, and Enviro-Bond 403 polymer. To evaluate safety, 1 hour-Artemia survival was evaluated; serial dilutions were employed to construct LC50 curves for a normal environment (control 1), for a SOS (control 2) and for a SOS managed with each of the 3 agents. Results: Hair and oil were effective absorbents as only 12% and 20% of the oil remained at 1 hour, repsectively; soap was ineffective with 62% of oil remaining unbound. Over a 1-hour period there was a 63% reduction in survival in Artemia exposed to an untreated SOS, when compared to natural conditions (p=0.001). Oil exposure exhibited a classic dose response curve as more Artemia died as its concentration increased; its LC50 was 17.5%. Hair and polymer were well tolerated by Artemia – neither reached their LC50 and approximately 80% of Artemia were alive at the end of one hour.  Soap, with or without oil, was toxic to Artemia and its LC50 was 7%. These results were statistically significant between the three groups (ANOVA; p-value = <0.001).  Conclusion: Hair and polymer we both effective and well tolerated by Artemia in a simulated oil spill.  Objet: Pour déterminer la sécurité et l’efficacité de trois réactifs qui pourraient se servir à nettoyer une marée noire artificielle. Méthodes: L’efficacité de trois agents en nettoyant une marée noire artificielle a été évaluée: celle du savon liquide, de cheveux humains, et du polymère Enviro-Bond 403. Pour voir si ces agents sont sûrs, la survie de l’Artemia a été observée pendant une heure, et les dilutions en série ont été faites pour construire des courbes CL50 représentant un environnement normal (1er groupe témoin), une marée noire (2e groupe témoin), et une marée noire nettoyée avec chacun des trois agents. Résultats: Les cheveux et le polymère ont été des bons absorbants car seulement 12% et 20% du pétrole y restait après une heure, respectivement. Par contre, le savon a été inefficace car encore 62% du pétrole y restait. Pendant la première heure, la survie de l’Artemia dans une marée noire non traitée a été réduite par 63%, comparé aux conditions naturelles (p=0.001). L’exposition au pétrole a produit une courbe dose-réponse conventionnelle car plus d’Artemia sont morts quand la concentration du pétrole a été augmentée; son CL50 a été 17.5%. L’Artemia a supporté les cheveux et le polymère puisqu’aucun agent a atteint son CL50, et environ 80% de l’Artemia ont survécu après une heure. Le savon, n’importe s’il y avait du pétrole, a été toxique à l’Artemia et son CL50 a été 7%. Ces résultats ont été importants statistiquement parmi ces trois groupes (ANOVA; valeur p =<0.001). Conclusion: Les cheveux et le polymère ont été tous les deux des agents efficaces que l’Artemia a supporté dans un environnement de marée noire artificielle.
Modernismo: ética x estética
Authors: Lemos Maria Tereza Carneiro
Published: May 2017

A partir da avaliação do movimento modernista feita por Mario de Andrade e Oswald de Andrade nas conferências “Movimento modernista” e “O caminho percorrido”, na década de 40, busco uma compreensão da questão ética que, segundo os autores, estava ausente na proposta modernista tornando o movimento “gravemente precário”. O desinteresse pelos problemas sociais e políticos de sua geração gerou um “conformismo legítimo”, nas palavras de Mario de Andrade, e acabou por criar, nos seus discursos, um confronto entre o valor estético e ético na arte.
PRODUÇÃO DE TEXTO NA ESCOLA: UMA PRÁTICA DIALÓGICA
Authors: Dos Santos Janete Silva
Published: May 2017

O presente texto é um resgate de uma experiência bem sucedida no ensino de produção de texto para uma clientela de ensino fundamental (5ª a 7ª séries), durante nossa atuação naquele nível. Todavia, aproveitamos a ocasião para discutir alguns pontos da aparente mudança de foco quanto ao ensino de produção de texto na escola hoje. Julgamos válido apresentar o que ficou de positivo desse trabalho, bem como refletir se estamos mudando efetivamente de atitude no tocante a essa atividade, à luz da teoria de Bakhtin (entre outros), o qual vê a linguagem como uma prática dialógica.
The evolution of Cochrane evidence summaries in health communication and participation: seeking and responding to stakeholder feedback
Authors: Synnot Anneliese J , Lowe Dianne , Merner Bronwen , Hill Sophie J
Published: May 2017

Knowledge translation resources that summarise and disseminate systematic review findings can support evidence into policy and practice. Since 2007, we have produced Evidence Bulletins; brief, web-based summaries of Cochrane Reviews published by Cochrane Consumers and Communication. Evidence Bulletins are designed for health decision makers employed by or in representational roles within policy and practice settings, that is, policy makers, health professionals and consumer and carer representatives. In this paper, we describe the evolution of our Evidence Bulletins, including revisions made to ensure they reflect the latest research-based guidance on evidence summaries, the results of a subsequent evaluation, and how we incorporated the evaluation findings by making further revisions to the Evidence Bulletin development process and format. The main initial revision to the Evidence Bulletins was the addition of a new section, in which we explicitly considered the relevance of the evidence to the healthcare context in Victoria, Australia. To evaluate the Bulletins, we conducted structured feedback sessions at five Australian health services involving 14 staff and eight consumer representatives. Participants were invited to share their perceptions about the usefulness of the Bulletins and how they might use them for decision making. Although the Evidence Bulletin format, and the new Relevance section were broadly endorsed by both stakeholder groups, a number of suggestions for improvement were identified. As preferences varied somewhat between the two groups; specifically identifying the intended audience for each Bulletin and seeking the input of the nominated stakeholder group in the development may improve usefulness.
Travels in the life of the canned Norwegian sprat
Authors: Crocker Piers
Published: May 2017

This article takes the theme of travel and applies it to various aspects of the production, marketing and distribution of canned Norwegian sprats, popularly known as sardines. It will be seen that the industry was international in scope, both in terms of the countries it affected and those by which it was itself affected. At times a single individual is involved, at other times – as at international exhibitions – hundreds of thousands. The article considers intercontinental travel over thousands of kilometres, as well as travel of a few dozen kilometres within a country. It covers the era mostly before air travel and certainly before mobile phones, Google Translate and the European Union. Travel by sea was often less than comfortable and took several days, if not weeks. There were fortunes to be won and more often lost, but the Norwegian canned sprat industry put the country on the world map and laid the foundations for its present prosperity.
Overseas study tours and cultural intelligence: Can travel coupled with cross-cultural design thinking workshops improve cultural intelligence in Arts and Design students?
Authors: Scharoun Lisa , Montana-Hoyos Carlos Alberto
Published: May 2017

Travel affords us many things, such as time for reflection, leisure, work and exploration. It can also be key in helping us to understand others, to adjust and adapt to new scenarios and stressors. In this sense, travel can be a means to increase one’s intelligence. This study looks at the metric of cultural intelligence (CQ) – an individual’s ability to function in various cultural contexts – and how travel can increase this. A major dimension of CQ is cultural metacognition, a term that describes the ability of an individual to be culturally aware and adaptable in multicultural situations. Travel to a culture significantly different from one’s own can strengthen cultural metacognition, especially during longer periods of work or study; however, this is also possible during short-term overseas experiences. The importance of high CQ is essential in an increasingly globalized world, and CQ capabilities form a major component of the ‘soft skills’ that employers desire in university graduates. Our study reviews the possibilities for increasing CQ in short-term overseas study through intensive design-thinking workshops with a focus on students of creative arts and design. Previous studies on CQ tended to focus on Management and Business studies. Strong CQ skills are seen as an asset in these fields; however, they are particularly relevant in the arts where career paths do not always have a strictly defined skill set and often rely on graduates to be adaptable and flexible to many varied work situations. This article sets out the process that we utilized in facilitating a series of cross-cultural workshops for Australian design students in Singapore, in partnership with overseas students from Hong Kong and Singapore. Employing case studies, quantitative and qualitative surveys, observation and analysis, our study attempts to show how intensive multidisciplinary and cross-cultural designthinking workshops in short-term study tours for university students can influence the CQ skills of students in creative arts and design disciplines.
Barbeque road warriors
Authors: Hinrichs Craig L.
Published: May 2017

This article reviews the general process of competitive barbeque contests in the United States and the requisite road trips those participants make in order to attend these events. It is written from the vantage point of the author, a Master Certified Barbeque Judge, who in 2017 will have participated in over 100 organized barbeque contests sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS), which is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Further details on competitive barbeque contests and the current KCBS rules and regulations are available on the kcbs.us website.
‘Hey amigo! Do you want to go on a trip? Do you want mushrooms?’
Authors: Montalvo Luis Zapata
Published: May 2017

The Mazatec people from the northern highlands of the Mexican State of Oaxaca are known for the syncretism of their religion, which combines pre-Hispanic culture and Catholic religion introduced with Spanish colonization in the sixteenth century. Nowadays, Mazatec religious practices are characterized by ritual ceremonies revolving around the religious spirit of the people and their cosmology. They are known for using mushrooms and other hallucinogenic plants to connect them with the world of their gods. The sacredness of these mushrooms is such a large and complex topic that no attempt at scientific explanation seems to solve all of the magical mysteries of the Mazatec universe. However, my introduction to it began in 2011 when I was carrying out fieldwork among the Mazatec people as part of my Ph.D. studies in architecture. This article is a direct account of an experience I had that seems to go beyond rational parameters; to a place where the spiritual and magical predominate; to a world in which healers and shamans eat sacred mushrooms in order to perform ceremonial rituals to heal people.
‘Little old “crumby” places we just drove up to and looked around’: Travel memorabilia and the perception of urban fabric
Authors: Nichols David , Lancaster Marcus
Published: May 2017

Australians have notoriously and frequently travelled internationally for entertainment, in pursuit of knowledge and experience. This article examines a trip undertaken by two engineers for Ansett Airlines, based in Melbourne, to the United States in the mid-1950s. Using as its basis a photo album compiled by one of the men, this article examines the mid-20th century Australian experience of American modernism, concentrating on transport and tourism facilities both mundane and magnificent.
Stopping at the dusty oasis
Authors: Kranc Stanley C.
Published: May 2017

Although the theme of the open road has dominated the cultural consciousness for generations, such travel and adventure are always interspersed by way-stops: stations along the way where one can pause − where things can happen within the limited environment of the place itself. This article explores the relationship between the road and these stops along the way, specifically in the context of a loose collection of several films, all involving a similar way-stop setting, a sort of arid nowhere. These films share a commonality that appears to derive from Foucault’s notion of ‘heterotopia’ − in that each way-stop constitutes an ‘other’ place. A productive search for antecedents and archetypes reinforces the heterotopic image projected. Further comparisons reveal the same sense of ambiguity and transience for fictional and real life sources as that found in the films examined.
Enthusiast books and academic books: On ludoliteracy and the transference of its skills through the medium of print
Authors: Navarro-Remesal Victor
Published: May 2017

Books about video games have become common in the Catalan and Spanish ambits. In this text, I present a first approach at them, distinguishing non-scholar enthusiast books and academic books, through the texts in their back covers, flaps and websites, and compare the main ideas in both types. It is my view that books are being used for negotiating their role of video games in culture, and the tensions between fans and scholars are made visible in them. My hypothesis, which could be tested in a further research, is that enthusiast books are celebrations of love for fans seeking cultural legitimacy, whereas academic books are attempts to make sense of games as culture and as in culture. I defend that the medium of print is a very valuable means not only to gather critical data on video games culture and the perspectives of fans, but also to transfer ludoliteracy skills to society.
Mobile devices in higher education: A pending issue in multidimensional media literacy
Authors: Figueras-Maz Mònica , Masanet Maria-Jose , Ferrés Joan
Published: May 2017

Prensky’s concept of the ‘digital native’ received many criticisms, fundamentally as it was considered too optimistic, but also determinist and reductionist: knowing the age of a person does not determine the digital practices they may perform, nor their behaviour. In our previous research young people obtained very low scores in all media literacy dimensions except technology, demonstrating the need for comprehensive media literacy and contradicting the myth of digital native. It was shown that they had technical and production skills but were lacking in others of equal importance such as aesthetics. Young people do not conceive their lives on and offline separately; for them everything is a continuation of personal, social or academic life. Therefore, why not introduce into higher education the technologies with which they spend most time, that is, mobile devices? Tablets and mobile devices are their personal interaction and social connection spaces. Including them in classrooms may therefore be useful in removing the barriers that separate the personal from the collective, the rational and the emotional, learning and entertainment, the classroom and everyday life outside it. As mobile devices are considered cultural tools that are transforming sociocultural practices and structures in all spheres of life university must naturally form part of this consideration. Including mobile devices in higher education could be innovative and efficient if full advantage is taken of the optimum features of new technologies and new communication practices: creativity and participation, teamwork, continuous learning and open and online collaboration, multimedia and multimodal communication, interaction and the search for implication and motivation. The aim of our R&D&I project ‘media competences of citizens in emerging digital media in university environments’ (2016−18), is to compare how mobile devices (tablets, smartphones, etc.) are used by young people outside the academic arena as opposed to how they are used inside university, with a view to detecting innovative teaching/learning practices that may then be advocated and disseminated within higher education.
Ensuring the quality of language standardization: The training of advertising announcers in Catalan
Authors: Casals I Martorell Daniel
Published: May 2017

The aim of this article is to describe a training programme intended to ensure the quality of standard Catalan in broadcast advertising. Initiated in 2007, the programme offered working or aspiring broadcasters training in the linguistic and oral performance skills necessary to carry out their job in fully proficient standard Catalan. Promotion, organization and instruction of the programme was shared between a local university and a public media corporation, and in the three years that it was offered a total of 83 students were certified by the programme. It served to significantly increase the pool of broadcasters with full professional proficiency in standard Catalan and laid the foundations for the development of a professional sector characterized by its use of high-quality specialized and standardized language. It can thus be seen as forming part of the extension of language knowledge and use phase in the process of standardizing a minority language.
Reviews
Authors: Gómez-Puertas Lorena , Farré Jordi , Sendra Anna , Daries Natalia
Published: May 2017

MOTHERHOOD IN THE MEDIA. INFANTICIDE, JOURNALISM AND THE DIGITAL AGE, BARBARA BARNETT (2016) New York: Routledge, Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies, 84, 224 pp., ISBN: 9781138889170, h/bk, ₤90.00, e/bk, ₤24.49

THE MEDIA SYNDROME, DAVID L. ALTHEIDE (2016) New York and London: Routledge, 233 pp., ISBN: 9781629581477, h/bk, ₤90.00, p/bk, ₤22.99

SOCIAL MEDIA IN MEDICINE, MARGARET S. CHISOLM (ED.) (2016) London and New York: Routledge, 96 pp., ISBN: 9781138665385, h/bk, ₤90.00

LA COMUNICACIÓN DE LOS DESTINOS TURÍSTICOS Y SUS MARCAS A TRAVÉS DE LOS MEDIOS SOCIALES, ASSUMPCIÓ HUERTAS (ED.) (2016) Tarragona: Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 93 pp., ISBN: 978-84-608-8771-3, ebk, free of charge
Time-efficient and time-consuming practices among journalists in communicating with the sources
Authors: Ivask Signe , All Heleri , Janson Kairi
Published: May 2017

The aim of this study was to observe how journalists manage their time and what are the most time-consuming practices. Empirical data were gathered by using a non-participant observation in a national daily newsroom and two participant observations in a national daily and in a local newspaper newsroom in Estonia. There were two focus group meetings with journalists with less than five years of experience in May 2016 and in September 2016. Results show that journalists with less than five years of experience had trouble with managing their time; for example, they mainly contacted the source via e-mail, which led to stress-induced situations and the usage of questionable sources. Journalists with more than five years of experience had established routines and managed to divide time between different topics simultaneously. They were reluctant to use e-mails and relied mainly on traditional methods: calling or meeting the source.
Institutional pain communication via Twitter by Spanish and US pain societies: Analysis of levels of use and engagement
Authors: Sendra Anna , Farré Jordi
Published: May 2017

Pain is a complex issue, and often patients feel isolated. Social media are arising as instruments where users find support and spaces to express their pain. This study analyses how two pain institutions – the Spanish Pain Society (SED) and the American Pain Society (APS) – are creating messages and communicating them through Twitter, by examining their profile content and procedures. A comparative analysis was applied to 2474 tweets corresponding to the period running from the inception of the profiles (APS July 2010, SED March 2013) to February 2016. Both profiles manage aspects like targeted audiences and referential content quite well, whereas frequency and engagement with users would need to be improved. Although the two institutions are already using this social media tool, we suggest that both organizations would benefit from developing a social media strategy. Nevertheless, further research is needed in order to understand deeply how pain is communicated via Twitter.
Catalonia TV’s La Marató as a symbol of Catalan identity: The intangible value of a CSR action as perceived by all its stakeholders
Authors: Orozco-Toro Jaime Alberto , Ferré-Pavia Carme
Published: May 2017

This article seeks to investigate the way in which Catalonia Television’s (TV3) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has helped the company cultivate an image associated with Catalan identity by way of a charity initiative: a telethon known as La Marató (‘The marathon’). In the empirical stage there were 463 interviews with seven stakeholder groups. This stage is important as it is a window into the perceptions of all the groups involved in the company. The most significant results show how La Marató is considered to be a symbol of Catalan identity and how some intangible values (the company’s social capital) impacted the organization’s reputation. In terms of theory, the article proposes that identity should be considered an important intangible asset.
‘Something I’ve been meaning to tell you’: Epistolary ‘writing back’ in Alice Munro’s stories
Authors: Schuh Rebekka
Published: May 2017

Even though the narrative art of Alice Munro’s short stories has been widely studied, the use of letters as a recurring narrative element has so far been neglected. Letters are, however, central in Munro’s work as more than twenty of epistolary short stories in her oeuvre show. The letters in these stories fulfil a variety of functions. They become ‘third space[s]’ for the realization of romantic games or a means of therapy enabling the immediate reliving of an experience. This article focuses on the function of ‘writing back to the centre’ as it is displayed in two of Munro’s short stories: ‘Material’, collected in Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974), and ‘A Wilderness Station’, collected in Open Secrets (1994). An analysis of the letters in these stories from the ‘writing back’ lens shows that Munro’s understanding of ‘writing back’ differs significantly from the postcolonialist origin of the concept and is predominantly linked to a feminist dimension.
The good waiter’s guide in search of morsels of magic: Turning ethnography into fiction
Authors: Plasatis Alexandros
Published: May 2017

This article is a version of the theoretical part of my Ph.D. thesis in creative writing, which accompanied a text entitled The Musty Currant-Breads: A Novel in Stories. The stories take place in Greece, in an all-night café by the harbour, where Egyptian immigrants who work as fishermen spend their spare time. Pavlo, waiter in the café, has an uneasy relationship with other locals, and he enters the marginalized world of these fishermen. I employed ethnographic techniques to gather material that I later used for the stories while working as a waiter, and I researched the lives of Egyptian fishermen by undertaking participant observation and autoethnography. In this article I show how a creative writer could use anthropological techniques and how ethnography could be turned into fiction.
Rebooting the lyrical short story: Experimenting with viewpoint
Authors: Stewart Michael
Published: May 2017

This article examines the writings of short story theorists, Michael O’Toole, Monika Fludernik, Uri Margolin, Bruce Morrissette and John Gerlach, and analyses their findings through comparison with a number of experiments with viewpoint in my recently published short fiction collection Mr Jolly (2016). These experiments include utilizing second-person in order to understand its ability to exploit narrative indeterminacy, as well as other experiments with point of view in order to explore how various narrative modes can enhance dramatic engagement. Finally, the link between viewpoint and other narrative effects is demonstrated through the inclusion of a short story example from the collection.
Reviews
Authors: Ue Tom , Fenlon Carol , Fenlon Carol
Published: May 2017

The Contemporary Canadian Short Story in English: Continuity and Change, Maria Löschnigg (2014)

Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 381pp.,

ISBN: 9783868215267, p/bk, €42,50

 

Jellyfish, Janice Galloway (2015)

Glasgow: Freight Books, 169 pp.

ISBN: 9781908754950, Hardback, £12.99

 

I Am Because You Are, Pippa Goldschmidt and Tania Hershman (eds) (2015)

Glasgow: Freight Books, 209 pp.,

ISBN: 9781910449264, Paperback, £8.99
Translation and the poetics of the orphan: Abdelkébir Khatibi, discourse and difference
Authors: Reeck Matt
Published: May 2017

Three works from the 1970s from the oeuvre of Moroccan writer, sociologist and theorist Abdelkébir Khatibi announce a poetics of the orphan that renounces the western metaphysics of parousia and its conservative ontology of the self that limits the potential for personal development and self-understanding. Applying the poetics of the orphan to translation, this article argues that it helps identify the ways by which the same metaphysics dominates traditional conversations about translation through, chiefly, the standard of fidelity. It traces the semiotic understanding that Khatibi brings to the poetics of the orphan, and it elucidates the ways that Khatibi’s poetics of the orphan relies on semiotic concepts from the work of Michel Foucault and Julia Kristeva. Khatibi’s poetics of the orphan offers to translation theory a critical wedge to place against the force of fidelity’s – and parousia’s – at times overwhelmingly seductive imperative to authenticate origins as conceptual wholes.
‘Can you see me? All of me?’ Performing the child soldier in Congo My Body
Authors: Messay Marda
Published: May 2017

This article examines Congo My Body, an autobiographical performance performed in 2011 at the festival Hautes Tensions de La Villette in Paris, France, by former Congolese child soldiers Serge Amisi and Jean René Yaoundé Mulamba, and choreographer Djodjo Kazadi. In this work, the three performers recreate Amisi and Mulamba’s experiences as child soldiers in Joseph Kabila’s army from 1997 to 2001. After establishing the stereotypical and oftentimes narrow western representations of child soldiers as a starting point, this article identifies how the performers use the performance space to bridge the perceived otherness of the child soldier and position the audience as witnesses. Through the use of their own bodies and puppets, the performers not only recreate the child soldiers’ indoctrination into violence and its traumatic and devastating effects but also blur the line between victim and aggressor. This article argues that with Congo my Body, the performers attempt to make the spectators aware of their own perception of child soldiers and encourage the audience to reflect on the child soldiers’ fate beyond the performance.
Josephine Baker: Artist and dissident
Authors: Armianu Irina
Published: May 2017

Josephine Baker’s debut in Paris coincides with a key moment of great change in public opinion in defining French culture and French national identity. After World War II, Parisians were still under the charm of magical colonial exoticism. The French showed a great interest in Josephine Baker because of her futuristic style hybridized with African, American and French influences. This article considers colour (defining French modernism as a plurality of race), colonial modernity (French and American immigration arts), exoticism, and feminism (a new policy within the civil rights movement) within the French political and historical context. The article focuses on multiple identities, fragmented between political engagement and postmodern aesthetics. Dedicated to changing the world of dancing, Josephine’s exotic image stands today as a universal symbol of resistance to national, cultural and colonial realities.
De la fabrique du réel (apocalyptique) dans la bande dessinée Beyrouth Bye Bye... de Barrack Rima
Authors: Calargé Carla , Gueydan-Turek Alexandra
Published: May 2017

This article examines the Lebanese bande dessinée, Beyrouth bye bye... (2015) by Barrack Rima, through the lens of anticipation narrative. Set in a dystopic place where ninja turtles cross path with crocodiles, censors and refugees, and in which the proliferation of trash threatens to drown all citizens, the characters are gradually expelled from the story and from the Lebanese capital, whose future the reader is invited to (re)consider. Rima’s sequential work, this article contends, reflects on the future of the Lebanese society and space. It also reflects on the modalities of representation and transmission of the reality it depicts. As such it is a work ‘engagé’ that tries to untangle the components of an apocalyptic future. The work becomes the receptacle of collective memory and history. While increasing awareness, it calls for a mobilization of civil society and works as an agent of socio-political action.
Ethics of resistance and fictional minds in Léonora Miano’s L’intérieur de la nuit and La saison de l’ombre
Authors: Touré Paul N.
Published: May 2017

Léonora Miano is one of the most influential francophone writers. If her early novels set in Africa gave her a status of global fame, Miano’s Afropean literature has also received more visibility in the academic world because her writing displays a genuine cultural hybridity and cordiality. This article explores the ethical motivation of forgetting and remembering in the history of Africans’ experiences of suffering and death. It specifically highlights the relationship between the concepts of resistance, morality and freedom as engines of social change in L’intérieur de la nuit in 2005 and La saison de l’ombre in 2013. Besides her Afropean themes, the ethical function and emotional content of Miano’s artistic forms on Africa are not simply a fertile ground for testing useful answers of African contemporary social and political challenges, but also a lieu de memoire.
La littérature postcoloniale francophone: Engagement ou résistance?
Authors: Laroussi Farid
Published: May 2017

The concept of commitment is not a new one. It still it begs the question of its application across the literary landscape. Perhaps within the postcolonial context ambiguity may arise as a new challenge, especially in areas of culture and ideologies. Would not the idea of resistance be a better fit when it comes to postcolonial literature? How about the possibility of a wilful disengagement? It is usually francophone authors who take a stand, with theory questions as well as issues of literary production or exile. However, the issue of resistance holds its own dialectics, around the power of representation and national imaginaries.
How to serve British Asian communities? The dilemmas facing the BBC
Authors: Aujla-Sidhu Gurvinder
Published: May 2017

This article examines the BBC Asian Network digital radio station, which is tasked specifically to serve the ‘hard to reach’ British Asian diaspora. The station was established as a national digital service in 2002, expanded in 2006 and saved from closure in 2011. In 2016 the BBC’s Royal Charter included diversity as a key public goal, which requires the BBC to better reflect minority ethnic communities in the United Kingdom on-screen and behind the cameras. The BBC Asian Network needs to increase listener figures. However, interviews with staff working on the BBC Asian Network highlight how top down policies conflict with the needs of British Asian audiences. Specifically, this article argues that that long-standing core public service values that emphasize news and current affairs programmes and minority language promotion conflict with the BBC Asian Network’s goal to attract young audiences.
Book Reviews
Authors: Jedrzejewski Stanislaw , Kirkpatrick Bill
Published: May 2017

Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio 1919–1970, Stephen Lovell (2015) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 256 pp., ISBN: 9780198725268, h/bk, £35.00

John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life, Danielle Shapiro (2016) Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 296 pp., ISBN: 9780816693412, p/bk, $35.00
Public service hit radio? Playlists and product differentiation in the competition for listeners
Authors: Hellman Heikki , Vilkko Arto
Published: May 2017

Since the 1960s, public service broadcasters have attempted to meet the demand for music by young listeners. As commercial radio offerings have expanded, and as public broadcasters are monitored more closely than before, the question arises as to what degree and in which ways public service radio should differ from commercially formatted stations. This article analyses the differentiation strategies applied in music programming by major radio stations in targeting youth and young adults in Finland. Employing a multi-measure approach in the analysis of the content, the results confirm that YleX, a popular music station of the public broadcaster YLE, differs significantly from its major commercial rivals Energy and The Voice. The article argues that even a radio station focusing on the latest hits can fulfil a public service mission.
‘Songs You Need to Hear’: Public radio partnerships and the mobility of national music
Authors: Fauteux Brian
Published: May 2017

Public radio broadcasters are mandated to act as vehicles for supporting and promoting national culture, including music. Despite a predominately national focus, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has partnered with public broadcasters from other nations in a song-sharing initiative called ‘Songs You Need to Hear’. The initiative includes a monthly blog post with embedded audio and brief descriptions of the music by radio hosts from CBC (Canada), BBC (UK), NPR (US), ABC (Australia), and RTÉ (Ireland). This article explores the ways in which a mobile, transnational song-sharing project emerged between 2000 and 2015 and what it reveals about the pressures and new models developed in this period of digital transmission. ‘Songs You Need To Hear’ represents the current state of public media in which the need to digitize, globalize, and universalize, combined with unreliable funding models, has resulted in the treatment of music on the radio as inexpensive and highly accessible content that straddles the line between the global brand extension of public media institutions and ideas about the fundamental role of public media in their support of national culture.
‘There’s a star man waiting in the sky’: How does public radio approach under-the-radar musicians in the United Kingdom and Spain?
Authors: Costa Gálvez Lola
Published: May 2017

The present article aims to address one specific issue concerning public service media: how does public radio approach under-the-radar musicians? Throughout its history public radio has continued to discover and support upcoming musicians, who, by definition, have few promotional opportunities due to their position on the periphery of the music industry. This research is developed by comparing various public radio initiatives regarding under-the-radar musicians in the United Kingdom and Spain at national and regional level. Within the framework of comparative media systems, it provides case studies of BBC Introducing (BBC Radio, United Kingdom), Sona9 (CCMA, iCat.cat, Catalonia, Spain), Maketa Lehiaketa (EITB, Gaztea Irratia, Basque Country, Spain) and Proyecto Demo (RTVE, Radio 3, Spain). This subject is approached by using a mixed methodology of content analysis and interviews. The findings elucidate how these initiatives are based upon a strong public service commitment, through the combination of public service media and live venues, with particular relevance to young local music scenes and the national music industry. It is concluded that providing support to under-the-radar musicians could be a valuable lifeline for public service broadcasting in seemingly permanent crisis.
Do ‘we’ really matter? An analysis of user motivations for online interaction with public service radio
Authors: Vanhaeght Anne-Sofie , Donders Karen
Published: May 2017

In public service media (‘PSM’) literature and policy documents, many assumptions are being made about the increasingly active relationship users have with the media that they ‘consume’. Moreover, in recent years public broadcasters have adopted a more consumerist logic, often conceptualizing users as consumers and not as citizens. This study aims to bring in a user-centred approach in PSM theory and empirical research. More specifically, we study the motivations and thresholds for people to actually interact with online PSM content, asking questions such as: ‘What drives users to share or comment upon PSM content online?’ and ‘How do these motivations and thresholds relate to their role as citizen?’. To answer these questions, we focus on innovative public service radio formats more specifically, a field that is largely understudied. In the theoretical part, we differentiate between personal, social and altruistic motivations to interact with PSM content. For the empirical part, we conduct ten focus groups with radio listeners between the age of 15 and 34. In conclusion, we argue that media users are very often aware of their different roles as both consumer and citizen and that the latter is especially manifested in their motivations to share public service radio content.
Anti-platelet aggregation effects of extracts from Arbutus unedo leaves
Authors: El Haouari Mohammed , Mekhfi Hassane
Published: May 2017

It is well known that platelet hyperactivity is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, stroke and myocardial infarction. This study aimed to examine the effects of extracts enriched in flavonoids obtained from Arbutus unedo leaves on platelet aggregation. Rat platelets were prepared and incubated in vitro with different doses of the tested extracts, and aggregation was trigged by physiological agonists. Platelet treatment with increasing concentrations (0.1 - 1 mg/ml) of diethyl ether extract (genins = free flavonoids) or ethyl acetate extract (hetrosidic flavonoids) inhibited platelet aggregation evoked by thrombin in a concentration-dependant manner. The IC50 values were 0.22 ± 0.03 and 0.36 ± 0.05 mg/ml for genins and heterosidic flavonoids respectively. Treatment with Arbutus unedo extracts also significantly reduced the initial rate of platelet aggregation. At 1 mg/ml, the rate inhibition was 97.8 ± 0.74 and 90.8 ± 1.55 % for genins and heterosidic flavonoids respectively. In addition, flavonoids significantly inhibited platelet aggregation induced by ADP, collagen or epinephrine. We conclude that Arbutus unedo extracts show antiaggregant effects due mainly to flavonoids. These results may partly explain the traditional use of Arbutus unedo leaves for the treatment of cardiovascular disorders such as hypertension.
Crystal structure of methyl 2,7,7-trimethyl-4-(4-nitrophenyl)-5-oxo-1,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-quinoline-3-carboxylate, C20H22N2O5
Authors: Meng Jing , Zhou Hai-Yu , Sui Feng
Published: May 2017

C20H22N2O5, tetragonal, P4̅21c (no. 114), a = 16.624(6) Å, c = 14.385(6) Å, V = 3975(3) Å3, Z = 8, R
gt(F) = 0.0647, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.2119, T = 296(2) K.
Crystal structure of bis(1,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)propane-κ
2
P,P′)silver(I) trifluorosulfonate–methanol (1:0.5), [Ag(C27H26P2)]SO3CF3⋅0.5CH3OH
Authors: Yu Xiao , Li Yue-Xue , Lin Sen , Cui Yang-Zhe , Jin Qiong-Hua
Published: May 2017

C55.50H54AgF3O3.50P4S, triclinic, P1̅ (no. 2), a = 11.7859(10) Å, b = 12.8900(11) Å, c = 18.8971(17) Å, α = 109.742(2)°, β = 92.891(1)°, γ = 100.998(1)°, V = 2631.9(4) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt(F) = 0.0405, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1129, T = 298(2) K.
Crystal structure of 1,3-dimethyl-2-phenyl-1H-perimidin-3-ium iodide, C19H17IN2
Authors: Yuan Lin , Li Zhong-Yan , Yuan Xian-You , Zhang Min , Liu Fang
Published: May 2017

C19H17IN2, monoclinic, C2/c, a = 18.701(4) Å, b = 7.9230(16) Å, c = 24.069(6) Å, β = 111.168(2)°, V = 3325.6(13) Å3, Z = 8, R
gt(F) = 0.0201, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.0462, T = 296(2) K.