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Ecocriticism, Cultural Ecology, and Literary Studies
Authors: Zapf Hubert
Published: March 2020

Key words: German ecocriticism, cultural ecology, Peter Finke, Gregory Bateson, cultural ecosystem, cultural self-renewal, Turkish ecocriticism, discursive representation Ecocriticism is gaining increasing international recognition as a field of research that opens up new perspectives reaffirming the relevance and responsibility of the humanities, in an age of pressing social and political problems seemingly incapable of purely technological and economic solutions. Many of its most significant practitioners in Germany subscribe to the theory of Cultural Ecology. Drawing on the ideas of Gregory Bateson, Peter Finke and others, Cultural Ecology presents a new framework for understanding the particular contribution of literature and art to our general social knowledge, including knowledge about our relationship with the natural environment.  Palabras clave: ecocrítica alemana, ecología cultural, Peter Finke, Gregory Bateson, ecosistema cultural, renacimiento cultural, ecocrítica turca, representación discursiva La ecocrítica está obteniendo cada vez más reconocimiento internacional como un campo de investigación que establece nuevas perspectivas que reafirman la relevancia y la responsabilidad de las humanidades en una era de problemas políticos y sociales urgentes que, aparentemente, no encuentran solución puramente tecnológica ni económica. Muchos de sus profesionales más importantes en Alemania se adhieren a la teoría de la Ecología Cultural. Valiéndose de las ideas de Gregory Bateson, Peter Finke y otros, se ha desarrollado un nuevo marco para entender la contribución particular de la literatura y del arte a nuestro conocimiento social general, incluyendo el conocimiento sobre nuestra relación con el entorno natural.
On the Absence of Nature: Writing on Nature and Ecocriticism in the Netherlands
Authors: Hoving Isabel
Published: March 2020

Key words: Dutch literature, absence of nature, Dutch ecocriticism, Frederik van Eeden, Ton Lemaire, dwelling, tourism, sublime, materiality, multicultural landscape. The traditional Dutch self-understanding is one of a nation of sober, pragmatic city-dwellers, indifferent towards Romantic nature. Their very landscapes have been seen to reflect an absence of ‘nature’. Yet a body of writing worthy of study can be found, in literature, theory and journalistic writing on Dutch landscapes, plants and animals. Pastoralism has dominated historically – promoting a bleak sense that nature has virtually been destroyed in the Netherlands. Recent interventions have included efforts to reinscribe cultural and historical meaning into the landscape, a renewed interest in life’s materiality, and the evocation of nature by immigrant writers as an indomitable site of vitality. Palabras clave: literatura holandesa, ausencia de naturaleza, ecocritica holandesa, Frederik van Eeden, Ton Lemaire, hogar, turismo, sublime, materialidad, paisaje multicultural. La imagen tradicional que los holeadandeses tienen de sí mismos es la de una nación de urbanitas sobrios y pragmáticos, indiferentes hacia la naturaleza romántica. Se ha visto en sus propios paisajes un reflejo de la ausencia de “naturaleza”. Pero puede encontrarse un conjunto de obras que merecen ser estudiadas, obras literarias, teóricas y periodísticas sobre paisajes holeadandeses, así como sobre plantas y animales. Lo pastoral ha dominado históricamente,  promoviendo un sentido sombrío de que en los Países Bajos la naturaleza ha sido virtualmente destruida. Intervenciones recientes han incluido esfuerzos por volver a inscribir significado cultural e histórico al paisaje, un interés renovado en la materialidad de la vida, y cómo los escritores inmigrantes evocan la naturaleza como lugar indómito de vitalidad.
Fragmento del libro inédito Historias del señor W.
Authors: Riechmann Jorge
Published: March 2020

Jorge Fernandez Riechmann  Jorge Riechmann (1962) es profesor Titular de Filosofía Moral en la UAM y uno de los poetas más respetado por su compromiso con el movimiento ecologista. Es miembro del Consejo de Greenpeace España y está afiliado a Ecologistas en Acción. Compagina su labor como investigador y creador con el activismo ecologista. Riechmann, a lo largo de los años, ha ido construyendo una filosofía ecosocialista, resumida en los volúmenes: Un mundo vulnerable, Todos los animales somos hermanos y Gente que no quiere viajar a Marte. Su poesía más ecologista ha sido recogida en el libro: Con los ojos abiertos. Ecopoemas 1985-2006 (Tenerife, 2007). También destacan: Resistencia de materiales (Barcelona, 2006), Un zumbido cercano (Madrid, 2003), Conversaciones entre alquimistas (Barcelona, 2007) y Rengo Wrongo (Barcelona 2008).  Jorge Riechmann is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Madrid and one of the most well known and respected poets committed to environmental movements. He is a member of the Greenpeace Board of Spain and member of the Spanish association “Ecologists in Action”. He combines his research and creative writing with ecological activism. Over the years, Reichmann has built an ecosocialist philosophy which can be found in his books, Un mundo vulnerable (A Vulnerable World), Todos los animales somos hermanos (All Animals are Brothers) and Gente que no quiere viajar a Marte ( People Don’t Want to Travel to Mars). Most of his ecological poetry can be found in the book Con los ojos abiertos. Ecopoemas 1985-2006  (Eyes Open. Ecopoems 1985-2006) (Tenerife, 2007). Also worth note are his books: Resistencia de materiales  (Material Resistance) (Barcelona, 2006), Un zumbido cercano (A Near Buzzing) (Madrid, 2003), Conversaciones entre alquimistas (Conversations between Alchemists) (Barcelona, 2007) and Rengo Wrongo (Barcelona 2008).
Garbage Out: Space, Place, and Neo-imperial Anti-development in Gioconda Belli’s Waslala
Authors: DeVries Scott
Published: March 2020

Gioconda Belli’s Waslala criticizes the concept of “anti-developmental neo-imperialism”: the novel’s fictional Central American nation's development is cancelled by a form of neo-imperial conservation that forces the preservation of rainforest to supply breathable air to oxygen-starved nations that will cut off electrical power for non-compliance. The theoretical approach engages with the idea of a global expansion of the sense of place, but I argue that the novel rejects this notion when it comes down to an “anti-developmental neo-imperialist” political ecology of forced conservationism that is as guilty of environmental injustice as the ecological practices it seeks to prevent.ResumenWaslala de Gioconda Belli critica el concepto de “neo-imperialismo anti-evolutivo”: el desarrollo de la nación ficticia centroamericana de la novela se ve cancelada por  un tipo de conservación neo-imperial que obliga a conservar la selva tropical para proporcionar aire respirable a las naciones hambrientas de oxígeno que cortarán la energía eléctrica si no hay conformidad. El enfoque teórico se relaciona con la idea de una expansión global del sentido del lugar, pero yo alego que la novela rechaza esta noción cuando es cuestión de es una ecología política “neo-imperialista anti-evolutiva” de conservacionismo forzado, que es tan culpable de la injusticia medioambiental como las prácticas ecológicas que busca prevenir.
Book Review of The Balance of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth by John Kricher
Authors: Payne Tonia L.
Published: March 2020

Book Review of The Balance of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth by John Kricher
Three Poems
Authors: Brink Dean Anthony
Published: March 2020

This contribution contains three poems. Two -- "Bay Landscape" and "Waste" -- are about pollution, cancer, art and loss of one's mother. The third, "To You Who Have Been Invaded by America," is an antiwar poem. Esta contribución contiene tres poemas. Dos de ellos "Bay Landscape" y "Waste" - tratan de la polución, el cáncer, el arte y la pérdida de la madre. El tercero, "To You Who Have Been Invaded by America," es un poema antibélico.
Tree of Knowledge 1, 2 and 3
Authors: De Menezes Marta
Published: March 2020

Tree of Knowledge
Jeremy Rifkin e la rivalutazione del percorso storico umano, verso l’era della coscienza biosferica. Recensione di The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis (New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2009)
Authors: Andreozzi Matteo
Published: March 2020

Book review of Jeremy Rifkin's The Emphatic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in CrisisRecensión de The Emphatic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, de Jeremy Rifkin.
The Vatican and Ecospirituality: Tensions, Promises and Possibilities for Fostering an Emerging Green Catholic Spirituality
Authors: Hrynkow Christopher , O'Hara Dennis Patrick
Published: March 2020

Since John Paul II’s 1990 World Day of Peace Message on the ecological crisis, green themes have been a recurring feature of the Vatican’s public teachings. Working with a selection of Catholic Social Teaching documents, this article explores the Vatican’s reactions to and accommodations of ecospirituality.  A critical lens informed by ecotheological ethics is employed to analyse the Vatican’s specific brand of ecospirituality, particularly as it relates to its condemnation of biocentrism, while also acknowledging official efforts to green the Roman Catholic Church’s doctrine and faith-based practices. With the advantage of the critical distance that a North American perspective provides, this article suggests ways that the Vatican can foster a more integral and substantively peaceful greening of Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic spirituality by drawing on resources from within Catholic intellectual tradition, as well as other expressions of ecospirituality, ecotheology, and Catholic Social Teaching documents from local bishops’ conferences in Europe and the Americas.   A partir del mensaje de  Juan Pablo II en el Día Mundial de la Paz de en 1990 sobre la crisis ecológica, han sido frecuentes los esfuerzos de divulgación  del Vaticano con respecto a temas relacionados al medio ambiente.  Basándose en una selección de documentos de la doctrina Social Católica a estos temas, este artículo explora las reacciones del Vaticano sobre argumentos  relacionados a la ecoespiritualidad. A través de un lente crítico basado en la ética ecoteológica asimismo que explorando una versión particular de ecoespiritualidad particularmente referida a la condenación del biocentrismo, se pondrá de manifiesto los esfuerzos oficiales de reverdecer la política de la Iglesia Apostólica Romana y  las prácticas de la fe que a este tema se refieren. Tomando como punto de partida la prerrogativa de una distancia crítica desde una enfoque Norteamericano, esta ponencia sugiere maneras en las que el Vaticano puede fomentar un reverdecimiento mas integral y pacífico de las doctrina Social Católica y de la Espiritualidad Católica recurriendo a fuentes dentro de la tradición intelectual Católica asimismo que basándose en otras expresiones de ecoespiritualidad, ecoteología y documentos de Educación Social Católica de conferencias de obispos en Europa y la Américas.
Poems
Authors: Flint Rose
Published: March 2020

Poems
Poems
Authors: Moore Helen L.
Published: March 2020

Four poems
Kultivierung der Katastrophe. Untergangsszenarien und Selbstbehauptung in den Literaturen der Schweiz
Authors: Utz Peter
Published: March 2020

“Catastrophe” is a term of that culture which is threatened by it; the modern understanding of catastrophe dialectically marks the boundary between nature and culture where the term originates. This can be exemplarily shown in the cultural coding of Swiss topography: threatening scenarios have been incorporated into Switzerland’s idyllic image repertoire since the 18th century, and they further developed into a “catastrophe culture” of its own. One looks up at the Alps from all directions not only because they are the symbol of identity, but also because they represent a collective threat and thus a challenge for solidary self-assertion. Thus, catastrophes support the construction of modern, national identity. Swiss literature contributes to the specific cultivation of catastrophe with various disaster scenarios. However, it also develops counter scenarios, which reflexively question the integrative effect of the catastrophe: It hears the discord in the unity choir and it reflects Switzerland’s alleged bystander role during global catastrophes. Moreover, it opens localness, when it ideologizes itself as “homeland,” to universality by releasing the transgressive energy with which the catastrophe attempts to destroy all political, topographical, medial, and aesthetic boundaries. Resumen La "catástrofe" es un concepto de aquella cultura a la que amenaza; el concepto moderno de catástrofe marca dialécticamente la frontera entre naturaleza y cultura en la que se origina. Esto se muestra de manera ejemplar en la codificación cultural de la topografía suiza: desde el siglo dieciocho se han ido incorporando en el repertorio idílico de imágenes de Suiza escenarios de amenaza que han ido evolucionando hacia una verdadera "cultura de la catástrofe". Los Alpes pueden observarse desde todos los ángulos ya que no sólo son el símbolo de identidad, sino que además representan una amenaza colectiva y, así, un desafío para la autoafirmación solidaria. De este modo, las catástrofes tienen un efecto en la formación de una identidad nacional y moderna. La literatura de Suiza contribuye con variados escenarios del ocaso a este cultivo específico de la catástrofe. No obstante, desarrolla también contraescenarios reales que ponen en duda de manera reflexiva el efecto integrativo de la catástrofe: Oye los tonos disonantes en un coro uniforme y le devuelve a Suiza su presunto papel de espectador en las catástrofes mundiales. Finalmente, abre lo local, cuando se ideologiza como "patria", a lo universal, liberando esa energía transgresiva con la que la catástrofe derrumba toda frontera política, topográfica, medial y estética.
Poem
Authors: Petrucci Mario
Published: March 2020

Orders of Magnitude
Poem
Authors: Thomas-Glass Dan
Published: March 2020

This poem takes the hours of high and low tide on the Mayan Peninsula during a two-week stretch as its line lengths (# of words corresponding to the 24 hour clock). Through the lens of the sea, it tries to track the affective experience of labor from Mexico to Dubai in the bodies of my family members who were making that roundtrip in 2009.
Review Essay: Steps to a Material Ecocriticism. The Recent Literature about the “New Materialisms” and its Impact on Ecocritical Theory
Authors: Iovino Serenella
Published: March 2020

This bibliographic essay illustrates the proliferation of studies about the "new materialisms" and examines the potential influx of this conceptual trend on ecocriticism. In the discussion, in particular, I provide a comparative analysis of four books: Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman, Eds. Material Feminisms (Bloomington: Indiana U P, 2008), Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Bloomington: Indiana U P, 2010), Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Durham and London: Duke U P, 2010), David Abram, Becoming Animal (New York: Vintage Books, 2010).
Book Review: Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture, and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Authors: McGill Christopher
Published: March 2020

Book Review: Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture, and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English
A Blueprint for Destruction: Eco-activism in Doctor Who during the 1970s
Authors: Jorgensen Dolly
Published: March 2020

This article analyzes the television science-fiction show Doctor Who as a cultural forum within the context of British eco-activism of the 1970s. It examines four serials which aired during the 1970s during the first wave of eco-activism in the UK: "The Green Death" (1973), "The Invasion of the Dinosaurs" (1974), "The Seeds of Doom" (1976), and "Nightmare of Eden" (1979). Two environmentalist concerns-pollution and species conservation-put forward by the early British eco-activist movement as underscored in texts such as The Blueprint for Survival from 1972 are evident in these serials. While affirming the validity of some elements of environmentalist concerns, each serial also proposes that the ends do not always justify the means. The Doctor, although a supporter of eco-activism, rejects seemingly utopian approaches to reset the Earth's ecosystems. Rather than presenting viewers with a guide to sustainability, these Doctor Who serials offer dystopian visions of future realities steeped in ecological transgressions – these are the blueprints for destruction.   Resumen               En este artículo se analiza la serie de ciencia ficción Doctor Who como foro cultural en el contexto del eco-activismo británico de la década de 1970. Se examinan las cuatro series que se emitieron en los años 1970 durante la primera ola del eco-activismo en el Reino Unido: " The Green Death" (1973), "The Invasion of the Dinosaurs" (1974), "The Seeds of Doom" (1976) y "Nightmare of Eden" (1979). Dos preocupaciones medioambientales, la contaminación y la conservación de especies, propuestas en los principios del movimiento eco-activista británico y destacadas en textos como The Blueprint for Survival (1972), son evidentes en estas series. Mientras que se afirma la validez de algunos elementos de las preocupaciones medioambientales, cada serie también propone que el fin no siempre justifica los medios. El Doctor, aunque partidario del eco-activismo, rechaza los planteamientos aparentemente utópicos para restablecer los ecosistemas de la Tierra. En lugar de presentar a los espectadores una guía para la sostenibilidad, estas series de Doctor Who ofrecen visiones distópicas de realidades futuras llenas de transgresiones ecológicas – estas son las directrices de la destrucción.
Decrecimiento o barbarie: ecocrítica y capitalismo global en la novela futurista española reciente
Authors: Prádanos Luis I
Published: March 2020

This essay analyzes three futuristic Spanish novels published in 2011 from an ecocritical perspective. The three works are critical dystopias and depict future scenarios in which the current social and ecological crisis has arrived to unsustainable extremes. These futures would be the result of continuing with the logic of constant economic growth in the context of a limited biosphere. Thus, this essay reveals, deploying degrowth theory, how these novels imply a criticism to the unsustainable global capitalism and an invitation to the reader to question its legitimacy.    Resumen        El presente ensayo analiza desde una perspectiva ecocrítica tres novelas de anticipación publicadas en España en el año 2011. Las tres obras son distopías críticas y representan escenarios futuros en los que la crisis ecológica y social actual ha llegado a extremos insostenibles. Dichos futuros serían el resultado de continuar con la lógica del crecimiento económico constante en el marco de una biosfera limitada. Así, el ensayo pone de manifiesto, desde un marco teórico decrecentista, el modo en que las tres novelas suponen una crítica a la insostenibilidad del capitalismo global e invitan al lector a cuestionar su legitimidad.
Interview with Richard Kerridge
Authors: Pérez Ramos María Isabel
Published: March 2020

Interview with Richard Kerridge about ASLE-UKI conducted in the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, during the 5th EASLCE biennial conference.
Book Review: Greg Garrard (ed.), Teaching Ecocriticism
Authors: Bartosch Roman
Published: March 2020

Book Review: Greg Garrard (ed.), Teaching Ecocriticism
Book Review: Lyn Thomas, ed.,Religion, Consumerism and Sustainability
Authors: Corrigan Paul T.
Published: March 2020

Book Review: Lyn Thomas, ed.,Religion, Consumerism and Sustainability
Editorial 4.1
Authors: Goodbody Axel Howarth , Flys Junquera Carmen
Published: March 2020

Editorial 4.1
Blackened Earth // Tierra oscurecida
Authors: Markwick Michael Maarten
Published: March 2020

Blackened Earth (2010)
The Limits of Violence: People and Property in Edward Abbey’s "Monkeywrenching" Novels // Los límites de la violencia: La gente y la propiedad en las novelas "Monkeywrenching" de Edward Abbey
Authors: Sumner David Thomas
Published: March 2020

This paper explores Edward Abbey’s fiction asking what kind ethical imperative his monkeywrenching novels offer.  While advocating the destruction of property in defense of wilderness, The Monkey Wrench Gang draws a clear ethical distinction between the destruction of property in defense of wilderness and the harming of people. Yet the sequel, Hayduke Lives!, blurs this ethical line when a security guard is killed during the novel’s final eco-sabotage scene.  After exploring several possible textual explanations for this apparent change and then interviewing several of Abbey’s close friends regarding this issue, the author concludes that the shift does not represent a change in Abbey’s worldview, but rather a change in fictional circumstance.   Resumen               Este trabajo explora la ficción de Abbey cuestionando qué clase de imperativo ético ofrecen sus novelas "monkeywrenching" (de sabotaje). Mientras aboga por la destrucción de la propiedad en defensa de la naturaleza, The Monkey Wrench Gang también traza una distinción ética clara entre la destrucción de la propiedad en defensa de la naturaleza y el daño a la gente. Pero la secuela, Hayduke Lives!, desdibuja esta línea cuando un guardia muere durante la escena final de eco-sabotaje de la novela. Tras explorar las diversas explicaciones textuales posibles para este cambio aparente, y después de entrevistar a varios amigos de Abbey en relación a este asunto, el autor concluye que la variación no representa un cambiola visión del mundo de Abbey, sino más bien un cambio en las circunstancias de la ficción.
“This series will take you to the last wildernesses” – Planet Earth and the Question of the Animal // "Esta serie os llevará a las últimas tierras salvajes" - Planeta Tierra y la cuestión del animal
Authors: Wieme Marie-Theres
Published: March 2020

Although generally marketed as disinterested and scientific sources of information, blue chip nature documentaries actively participate in both the maintenance and subversion of the nature-culture dichotomy. Using the award-winning BBC mega series Planet Earth (2006) as its example, the following article illustrates how non-human animals are presented as other to humans, but also argues that the degree and mechanisms used vary depending on the familiarity of both the species and habitat in question. In keeping with current ecofeminist theories, particular attention is also paid to scenes where the hierarchy reveals traces of its own production, which are revealed by a close reading of some sequences from three different episodes of the series. These traces allow a perceptive audience to question the othering of the non-human. One particularly potent problematisation of these narratives occurs whenever the series appeals to the audience’s emotional engagement, since such an emotional appeal also weakens the documentary’s overt claim to disinterested objectivity. Thus, on a metalevel, the article also furthers research into how documentaries can function as emotional machines.   Resumen   Aunque los documentales punteros sobre la naturaleza generalmente se anuncian como fuentes de información científica imparcial, también participan activamente en el mantenimiento y la subversión de la dicotomía entre la naturaleza y la cultura. Usando como ejemplo la premiada mega serie de la BBC Planet Earth (2006), este artículo ilustra como los animales no-humanos se presentan como el otro, pero también sostiene que el grado y los mecanismos que se usan varían dependiendo de la familiaridad de ambas especies y el hábitat correspondiente. Con arreglo a las teorías ecofeministas actuales, se presta especial atención a las escenas en que la jerarquía revela los signos de su propia producción, que se revelan con un análisis escrupuloso de algunas secuencias de tres episodios diferentes de la serie. Estos signos permiten a una audiencia atenta cuestionar la otredad  del no-humano. Una problematización especialmente potente de estas narrativas tiene lugar cuando la serie apela al compromiso emocional, ya que esto también debilita la pretensión de objetividad desinteresada. Por ello, en un metanivel, el artículo promueve la investigación sobre cómo los documentales pueden funcionar como máquinas emocionales.
Book Review of Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism // Reseña de Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism
Authors: Pak Chris
Published: March 2020

Review of Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism
Book Review of Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics // Reseña de Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics
Authors: Huggan Graham
Published: March 2020

Book review of Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics. Resumen      Reseña de Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics.
Phy[art]um // Phy[art]um // Phy[arte]um
Authors: Queffurus Ophélie
Published: March 2020

Creative art.
En terre-ventre. Une approche organique de la métropolisation.
Authors: Legrand Marine
Published: March 2020

Prenant la forme d’une navigation en dérive au travers de la métropole parisienne, ce texte propose un essai à propos des linéaments qui se tissent entre le ventre humain et la terre, en contexte urbain. Il s’intéresse à la circulation, au sein de ce territoire, de certaines des matières qui le façonnent : des transports en commun dans les sous-sols, à l’excavation des sols et des roches, en passant par l’assimilation des nutriments au sein des corps des citadins. La terre est ici considérée du sol sous nos pieds à la planète elle-même, comme entité multiple, qui à la fois dévore, avale, et se voit digérée par la métropole qui s’étend en surface. Dans le même temps et comme en miroir, cette proposition revient également à explorer ce que le ventre humain, lieu et milieu, cache et passe sous silence, et ce qu’il recèle aussi, en puissance. Les personnages convoqués, tour à tour contenus et contenants, déplacent ainsi la lecture d’une échelle à l’autre, de la plus petite cellule du corps d’un organisme singulier jusqu’à la substance de la région entière. Cette proposition fait partie d'une série d'expérimentations textuelles qui s'appuient sur une approche poétique pour aborder la complexité des phénomènes écologiques et des imaginaires qui leur sont associés. En laissant une place au chaos, l’objectif est de les présenter tels qu’ils traversent les contrées humaines, intimes, en glissant d’une dimension à l’autre, du grand au petit, du symbolique au matériel, du scientifique au sensible. Tourné vers les fonctions alimentaires et digestives, cet essai vise à explorer le dialogue qui s’installe entre la terre et le ventre humain de façon à nous permettre de puiser dans les racines de la figure de la Terre Mère pour la réactualiser sans en revenir à une féminité essentialisée. In fine il s'agit de pouvoir aborder les questions environnementales contemporaines via une approche renouvelée du corps considéré comme une matrice relationnelle.
Quantifying the benefits of using decision models with response time and accuracy data
Authors: Stafford Tom , Pirrone Angelo , Croucher Mike , Krystalli Anna
Published: March 2020

Response time and accuracy are fundamental measures of behavioral science, but discerning participants’ underlying abilities can be masked by speed–accuracy trade-offs (SATOs). SATOs are often inadequately addressed in experiment analyses which focus on a single variable or which involve a suboptimal analytic correction. Models of decision-making, such as the drift diffusion model (DDM), provide a principled account of the decision-making process, allowing the recovery of SATO-unconfounded decision parameters from observed behavioral variables. For plausible parameters of a typical between-groups experiment, we simulate experimental data, for both real and null group differences in participants’ ability to discriminate stimuli (represented by differences in the drift rate parameter of the DDM used to generate the simulated data), for both systematic and null SATOs. We then use the DDM to fit the generated data. This allows the direct comparison of the specificity and sensitivity for testing of group differences of different measures (accuracy, reaction time, and the drift rate from the model fitting). Our purpose here is not to make a theoretical innovation in decision modeling, but to use established decision models to demonstrate and quantify the benefits of decision modeling for experimentalists. We show, in terms of reduction of required sample size, how decision modeling can allow dramatically more efficient data collection for set statistical power; we confirm and depict the non-linear speed–accuracy relation; and we show how accuracy can be a more sensitive measure than response time given decision parameters which reasonably reflect a typical experiment.
Improving the robustness of infant lexical processing speed measures
Authors: Egger Julia , Rowland Caroline F. , Bergmann Christina
Published: March 2020

Visual reaction times to target pictures after naming events are an informative measurement in language acquisition research, because gaze shifts measured in looking-while-listening paradigms are an indicator of infants’ lexical speed of processing. This measure is very useful, as it can be applied from a young age onwards and has been linked to later language development. However, to obtain valid reaction times, the infant is required to switch the fixation of their eyes from a distractor to a target object. This means that usually at least half the trials have to be discarded—those where the participant is already fixating the target at the onset of the target word—so that no reaction time can be measured. With few trials, reliability suffers, which is especially problematic when studying individual differences. In order to solve this problem, we developed a gaze-triggered looking-while-listening paradigm. The trials do not differ from the original paradigm apart from the fact that the target object is chosen depending on the infant’s eye fixation before naming. The object the infant is looking at becomes the distractor and the other object is used as the target, requiring a fixation switch, and thus providing a reaction time. We tested our paradigm with forty-three 18-month-old infants, comparing the results to those from the original paradigm. The Gaze-triggered paradigm yielded more valid reaction time trials, as anticipated. The results of a ranked correlation between the conditions confirmed that the manipulated paradigm measures the same concept as the original paradigm.
Luminescent gold nanoclusters for bioimaging applications
Authors: Nonappa
Published: March 2020

Luminescent nanomaterials have emerged as attractive candidates for sensing, catalysis and bioimaging applications in recent years. For practical use in bioimaging, nanomaterials with high photoluminescence, quantum yield, photostability and large Stokes shifts are needed. While offering high photoluminescence and quantum yield, semiconductor quantum dots suffer from toxicity and are susceptible to oxidation. In this context, atomically precise gold nanoclusters protected by thiol monolayers have emerged as a new class of luminescent nanomaterials. Low toxicity, bioavailability, photostability as well as tunable size, composition, and optoelectronic properties make them suitable for bioimaging and biosensing applications. In this review, an overview of the sensing of pathogens, and of in vitro and in vivo bioimaging using luminescent gold nanoclusters along with the limitations with selected examples are discussed.
Generation of address sequences with a given switching activity
Authors: Yarmolik V. N. , Shevchenko N. A.
Published: March 2020

The relevance of testing modern computing systems and, first of all, their storage devices is shown. The studies are based on the use of a universal method for generating the address sequences with desired      properties for multiple March tests of random access memory devices.  The modification of economical method of Antonov and Saleev is used as mathematical model to form Sobol sequences. For this model a structural diagram of its hardware implementation is presented, where the storage device for storing direction numbers is used as the basis. The set of multitudes makes up the generating matrix. It is noted that the form of the generating matrix determines the basic properties of the generated sequences. Mathematical expressions are obtained that make it possible to estimate the limiting values of switching activity, both of the sequence itself and of its individual bits. A technique is proposed for the synthesis of generators of address sequences with a given switching activity both of its individual bits and of the sequence as a whole. Examples of the application of the proposed methods are considered. The applicability of the presented results to the synthesis of test sequence generators with a given switching activity for the purpose of testing storage devices and the formation of controlled random test sequences is substantiated. The results of the practical implementation of address sequence generators are presented and their main characteristics are evaluated.
Servicios públicos: satisfacción y percepción del bienestar. / Public services: satisfaction and welfare perception.
Authors: Saunders Shirley , Garbino Patricia Alejandra , Conci Esteban Fermín , Cuadrado Adriano
Published: March 2020

El propósito de este trabajo es encontrar respuestas a la problemática de insatisfacción de los habitantes de la ciudad de Córdoba con los servicios públicos prestados por el Municipio. El objetivo es elaborar un modelo para la medición y evaluación de la satisfacción y la calidad percibida por la población.

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The purpose of this work is to find answers to the problem of dissatisfaction of the citizens of the city of Cordoba with the public services provided by the Municipality. The aim is to develop a model for measuring and evaluating customer satisfaction and the quality perceived by the population.
Estimación de la demanda de transporte por parte de los estudiantes de la ciudad de Córdoba. / Public transport estimate demand for estudents of Córdoba city.
Authors: Pompilio Sartori Juan José , Oviedo Jorge Mauricio , Müller Eric Roger
Published: March 2020

Este estudio presenta estimaciones de modelos de elección discreta basados en una muestra de estudiantes a partir de una prueba piloto. Se presentan los resultados correspondientes a los viajes al lugar de estudio por parte de estudiantes universitarios, algunos de los cuales además de estudiar, trabajan. Se ha estimado un modelo logit multinomial de elección de modo de transporte para viajar al lugar de estudio, en el que se han combinado datos de preferencias reveladas y declaradas. El estudio presenta, además, pronósticos de la cuota de mercado del uso de los diferentes modos de transporte, la valoración subjetiva de los ahorros de tiempo de viaje, tiempo de espera y cuadras caminadas en origen y destino al utilizar autobús, como así también las elasticidades de demanda de la elección de modo de transporte y los cambios en el excedente del consumidor ante la aplicación de políticas asociadas a cambios en algunas variables de nivel de servicio de los diferentes modos de transporte.

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The study presents discrete choice models estimated with a sample of students from a pilot survey. It presents estimation results derived from study journeys of university students, some of which are also workers. It has been estimated a multinomial logit model for the decision of making trips to study places, combining revealed and stated preference data. The paper presents market share forecasts for transport modes considered, the subjective valuation of travel time savings, waiting time savings and savings of walked blocks in origin and destination using bus services. Also, it has been estimated the elasticities of demand from the mode choice model and consumer surplus changes derived from the application of policies associated to changes in level of Service variables transport services.
Preferencias de alumnos de licenciatura para escoger un socio emprendedor. ¿Brecha entre instituciones de educación superior privadas y públicas? Un estudio en el sureste de México. /
Authors: Barroso Tanoira Francisco Gerardo
Published: March 2020

Debido al incremento de las iniciativas para el fomento del emprendimiento, existe la posibilidad de que los alumnos de las instituciones privadas y públicas estén trabajando como si estuvieran en mundos separados. Por lo tanto, en este estudio se pretende verificar si existe una brecha entre las preferencias de los alumnos de licenciatura para escoger un socio emprendedor. Los resultados indican que los alumnos de las privadas prefieren asociarse con personas de su círculo social o familia, mientras que los de las públicas se orientan más hacia el profesionalismo, inclusive por encima de amigos o de su familia. Desde estos resultados, se está abriendo una brecha entre ambos tipos de instituciones, por lo que es necesario que los alumnos se encuentren y trabajen juntos a través de estrategias como la participación en eventos de investigación, proyectos conjuntos y programas de vinculación entre instituciones.

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Because of the increase in initiatives for fostering entrepreneurship, there is the possibility that students from private and public institutions are working as if they were in separate worlds. Because of this, the objective of this study is to verify if there is a gap between the preferences of undergraduate students for selecting an entrepreneurship partner. Results indicate that students from private institutions prefer associations with people from their social circle or family, while those from public ones are more oriented to professionalism, even more than to friends or their families. From these results, there is an opening gap between both kinds of institutions, for which it is necessary that students meet and work together through strategies such as participation in research events, joint projects and programs among institutions.
Psychoemotional state and cognitive function in patients with cerebrovascular pathology depending on level of stress risk
Authors: Yavorska T. P.
Published: March 2020

Background. Somatic disease often causes psycho-emotional distress, reflecting the intensity of mental distress and the state of psychological adaptation person to a stressful situation.

Objective – to study the characteristics of the psychoemotional state and cognitive functioning in patients with cerebrovascular pathology at different stages of development in relation to the level of stress risk.

Materials and methods. At Kharkiv Regional Clinical Hospital – Emergency and Emergency Medicine Center during 2016-2018, observed 383 patients with cerebrovascular pathology on different stage of diseases and 47 healthy persons. In research we used Symptomatic questionnaire by Alexanrovich, “Lifestyle Analysis” test and MOCA.

Results. The high level of stress risk in patients with cerebrovascular pathology combined with an increasing of psychoemotional distress and a change in the structure of psychopathological symptoms. In patients with cerebrovascular pathology found growth psychopathological manifestations along the axis of stress risk and the axis period of the disease, which determines the health centered lifestyle and somatic disease as important factors of mental distress. Increased stress is combined with a cognitive impairment. The growth clinical manifestations of cerebrovascular disease and especially the state after a stroke accompanied with a cognitive impairment as a result of brain injury.

Conclusions. Investigation of the psycho-emotional and cognitive function state in connection with level of stress risk is important for the development of a complex psychological help for patients with cerebrovascular pathology based on a health-centered approach.
Design Methodology for Reducing RIN Level in DFB Lasers
Authors: Hisham Hisham
Published: March 2020

The relative intensity noise (RIN) characteristics in distributed feedback (DFB) lasers are analyzed theoretically by proposing a new methodology. In addition to temperature variation (T), the effect of other model parameters such as injection current (Iinj), active layer volume (V), spontaneous emission (βsp) and gain compression (ε) factors on RIN characteristics is investigated. The numerical simulations shows, the peak RIN level can be reduced to around –150 dB/Hz, while relaxation oscillation frequency (ROF) is shifted towards 5.6 GHz. In addition, the RIN level is increased with temperature by the rate of 0.2 dB/ºC and ROF is reduced by the rate of 0.018 GHz/ºC. Results show, the low RIN level can be obtained by selecting model parameters reasonably.
Identification and Control of Impressed Current Cathodic Protection System
Authors: Sada Bassim , Ali Ramzy , Ali Khearia
Published: March 2020

In this paper the identification and control for the impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) system are present. Firstly, an identification model using an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems (ANFIS) was implemented. The identification model consists of four inputs which are the aeration flow rates, the temperature, conductivity, and protection current, and one output that represented by the structure-to-electrolyte potential. The used data taken from an experimental CP system model, type impressed current submerged sample pipe carbon steel. Secondly, two control techniques are used. The first control technique use a conventional Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller, while the second is the fuzzy controller. The PID controller can be applied to control ICCP system and quite easy to implement. But, it required very fine tuning of its parameters based on the desired value. Furthermore, it needed time response more than fuzzy controller to track reference voltage. So the fuzzy controller has a faster and better response.
An algorithm for Path planning with polygon obstacles avoidance based on the virtual circle tangents
Authors: Ibrahim Zahraa , Rashid Abdulmuttalib , Marhoon Ali
Published: March 2020

In this paper, a new algorithm called the virtual circle tangents is introduced for mobile robot navigation in an environment with polygonal shape obstacles. The algorithm relies on representing the polygonal shape obstacles by virtual circles, and then all the possible trajectories from source to target is constructed by computing the visible tangents between the robot and the virtual circle obstacles. A new method for searching the shortest path from source to target is suggested. Two states of the simulation are suggested, the first one is the off-line state and the other is the on-line state. The introduced method is compared with two other algorithms to study its performance.
Design and Implementation of Neuro-Fuzzy Controller Using FPGA for Sun Tracking System
Authors: Aldair Ammar , Obed Adel , Halihal Ali
Published: March 2020

Nowadays, renewable energy is being used increasingly because of the global warming and destruction of the environment. Therefore, the studies are concentrating on gain of maximum power from this energy such as the solar energy. A sun tracker is device which rotates a photovoltaic (PV) panel to the sun to get the maximum power. Disturbances which are originated by passing the clouds are one of great challenges in design of the controller in addition to the losses power due to energy consumption in the motors and lifetime limitation of the sun tracker. In this paper, the neuro-fuzzy controller has been designed and implemented using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) board for dual axis sun tracker based on optical sensors to orient the PV panel by two linear actuators. The experimental results reveal that proposed controller is more robust than fuzzy logic controller and proportional-integral (PI) controller since it has been trained offline using Matlab tool box to overcome those disturbances. The proposed controller can track the sun trajectory effectively, where the experimental results reveal that dual axis sun tracker power can collect 50.6% more daily power than fixed angle panel. Whilst one axis sun tracker power can collect 39.4 % more daily power than fixed angle panel. Hence, dual axis sun tracker can collect 8 % more daily power than one axis sun tracker.
Novel Optimization Algorithm Inspired by Camel Traveling Behavior
Authors: Ibrahim Mohammed , Ali Ramzy
Published: March 2020

This article presents a novel optimization algorithm inspired by camel traveling behavior that called Camel algorithm (CA). Camel is one of the extraordinary animals with many distinguish characters that allow it to withstand the severer desert environment. The Camel algorithm used to find the optimal solution for several different benchmark test functions. The results of CA and the results of GA and PSO algorithms are experimentally compared. The results indicate that the promising search ability of camel algorithm is useful, produce good results and outperform the others for different test functions.
Prevalence and Perceived benefits of energy drink Consumption in medical students
Authors: Babar Nabeela Fazal , Amin Alia , Asif Raima
Published: March 2020

Background: To assess the energy drink consumption patterns and perceived risks and benefits among medical students. The present study was carried out on 332 medical students from Foundation University Medical College. All the students enrolled in foundation university medical college were invited to participate. 332 students, who gave their consent were enrolled in the study. Data was collected by distributing a preformed structured questionnaire among medical students present in their classes. Data was entered and analyzed on SPSS version 17.
Results: Out of 332 students 307 (92.5%) said that they were familiar with energy drinks whereas 212 (63.9%) admitted to consuming energy drinks. sting and the red bull came out to be the most popular brands. 78 (36.7%) students said mental awareness to be the main motivator for energy drink consumption. The majority (94.3%) of the study population were aware of the untoward effects of energy drinks experienced. The most common of them was insomnia, students (49.05%) experienced it. 91 (42.92%) of the students said that their parents don’t object to their taking of these drinks.
Conclusion: Although the consumption of energy drinks was common among medical students, the knowledge of ingredients and health risks of energy drinks among them was unsatisfactory.
Keywords: Energy drink, Medical students, Caffeine, Frequency of consumption.