bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Maestros de la manipulación: Titiriteros de la memoria histórica en No de Pablo Larraín y La niña de tus ojos de Fernando Trueba
Authors: Hodge Polly J.
Published: September 2015

Se exploran dos obras cinematográficas, No de Pablo Larraín y La niña de tus ojos de Fernando Trueba, en función de sus raíces literarias y el concepto de la memoria histórica. Las obras basadas en eventos históricos intensos y violentos tienen la capacidad de retratar la dialéctica entre la memoria y la amnesia histórica. De esta manera se estimula el impulso por desenmascarar los sistemas de poder y dialogar con la sociedad actual. En el proceso, se descubren soluciones alternativas a la violencia para tratar los problemas políticos.
Television as Textbook: Cuéntame cómo pasó in the Spanish (Literature) Classroom
Authors: Bartlett Linda , Manyé Lourdes
Published: September 2015

The long-running Spanish television program Cuéntame cómo pasó represents not only a wildly successful series for Radio Televisión Española, but also an excellent example of the project of historical memory. Premiering in 2001 (but set, in the first season, in 1968), the story of the multigenerational Alcántara family forms a microhistory which reflects the larger sociohistorical context of the end of the Franco era and the transition to democracy. This program, its authentic rendering of recent history, and its connection to the polemics of historical memory in contemporary Spain prompted us to create an upper-level hybrid (cultural studies/literature) course using this series as the primary text. This article elaborates the challenges we encountered in creating a course based on the series and our solution to those problems. In addition, we explain our pedagogical approach to using the program as text, including examples of visual interpretative strategies we explored with students. Finally, we reflect on the student experience in this course, the outcomes they reported and that we observed, making the case that use of the visual text created a distinctive and effective learning experience.
From Sanhattan to Nashvegas : The Aesthetics of Detachment in Alberto Fuguet’s Filmmaking
Authors: Barraza Vania
Published: September 2015

This current study focuses on the effects of neoliberalism on the Chilean sociopolitical period of postdictatorship (1990–2010) by studying a new generation of filmmakers in the work of Alberto Fuguet. In the trilogy of Se arrienda (2005), Velódromo (2010), and Música campesina (2011), Fuguet reviews the flâneur figure exploring the aesthetic of detachment and disaffection in the contemporary urban space, a topic that has become critical in Chile’s postdictatorship. As they cross urban spaces, these characters oscillate between estrangement and detachment from a local identity, a past time and/or origin. They are flâneurs embodying a division between time and space, incarnating a melancholic view towards the past, present, and future. Distant from their community, these individuals are unable to participate in any collective project. This feature of Fuget’s filmmaking arguably reflects a Chilean sociopolitical trend of the postdictatorship period, whereby filmmaking has adopted a repression of memory and history that mimics the tension between resistance and adhesion to the neoliberal model. I propose that this sort of political detachment is the result of what I call the politics of detachment of the Chilean postdictatorship as depicted in Fuguet’s understudied cinematography.
Lope on YouTube: Film Analysis and Amateur Video Production in a Comedia Course
Authors: Patterson Charles
Published: September 2015

Teachers of early modern theater often recognize that it is difficult for today’s generation of students to approach old dramatic works as actual plays instead of written texts. Two methods for dealing with this difficulty have emerged in recent decades. On the one hand, some teachers have increasingly emphasized the value of performance activities in the classroom as a way to not only bring the works to life for students, but also as an interpretive methodology. This strategy has the advantage of requiring an active approach to learning, but has the disadvantage of obligating students to participate in a genre with which they are generally unfamiliar. On the other hand, some teachers have come to recognize the importance of viewing and analyzing film versions of early modern works with their students. This strategy has the advantage of connecting the works to a medium that students regularly consume, but has the disadvantage of being a fairly passive engagement with the plays. This article argues that the way to achieve the best of both approaches is to assign an amateur video project, and reports on the outcomes of a course in which such a project was used.
Uniting Hispanic Film Studies with Civic Engagement: A Chance for Personal Transformation
Authors: Larson Kajsa C.
Published: September 2015

This current study presents a unique approach to the examination of Hispanic film through the incorporation of a civic engagement project, the Mayerson Student Philanthropy Project (MSPP), into the curriculum. Students examined and assessed important global issues, and how they are portrayed in films from several Spanish-speaking countries, while simultaneously investigating nonprofits that address these same needs in the local community. At the end, through a class vote, students chose two nonprofits and awarded each with a $1,000 grant. The inclusion of the MSPP in the Hispanic film course offered students a shared experience and a chance to engage in a discussion of how fiction film can reflect, if not improve, their understanding of real world challenges. Qualitative survey results from students enrolled in the class reveal that combining film with community engagement not only improved their understanding of Hispanic cinema, but also empowered them to be more civic-minded and engaged as advocates of international social concerns in the area in which they live.
Hacia una poética de la imagen: A la deriva de Heitor Dhalia
Authors: Nogueira Fatima
Published: September 2015

Este estudio analiza una novedosa aproximación a la diferencia sexual y el ingreso al mundo adulto en A la deriva (Brasil 2009). Partiendo de algunos aspectos socioculturales que tienen que ver con la diferencia sexual y el paso de la adolescencia a la edad adulta, demuestro cómo Dhalia rompe con los clichés de un drama familiar al operar con una poética de la imagen en la cual las escenas acuáticas así como la liberación de energías femeninas—iniciadas a partir de las actitudes y movimientos corporales de la joven protagonista que se remontan a otros cuerpos—desempeñan un papel preponderante.
Tango feroz : Teaching a History of Politics and Economics of Argentina through Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll
Authors: Romero Eva Karene
Published: September 2015

This article directly resulted from the teacher/researcher experience, describing new analyses resulting from subtitling a film for curriculum incorporation: Tango feroz, la leyenda de Tanguito (1993). Set in Argentina in the sixties and loosely based on the life of José Alberto Iglesias Correa, also known as Tanguito, this film portrays an early exponent of rock nacional argentino . This article contrasts how this film has become known as a film that promotes women’s liberation, transgression of traditional race and class boundaries, and criticism of authoritarian neoliberal regimes, yet an analysis of the film’s dialogue and aesthetics reveals a double-register pregnant with ambiguity, in particular regarding the role of neoliberalism in Argentina’s national economy.
Cinematographic and Political Transitions in La redada and La frontera
Authors: Franco Bridget V.
Published: September 2015

This paper reveals and analyzes the cinematographic, political, and aesthetic transitions intersecting two Southern Cone films that premiered concurrently in 1991: the award-winning Chilean movie La frontera by Ricardo Larraín and the forgotten Argentine independent production La redada directed by Rolando Pardo. Despite bridging similar historical circumstances and tackling sensitive issues that rose to the forefront during the transition to democracy, La frontera ’s and La redada ’s editing techniques, treatment of characters, mise-en-scènes, and conclusions reveal divergent aesthetics that affected the films’ reception at the time of their release and that deserve a close critical analysis. Not only can these artistic differences be interpreted in relation to the political moment of transition of the late 1980s and early 1990s in Argentina and Chile, but they also resonate with current discussions about inequality and discrimination in postauthoritarian society and the actual state of democracy in the Southern Cone.
“¡Pobre pierna que sólo sirve para andar!” Female (Dis)empowerments, (Dis)ability, and Space in Literary and Filmic Tristana
Authors: Muñoz-Muriana Sara
Published: September 2015

This current study explores the function of physical space as a metaphor for freedom and sexual expression in Benito Pérez Galdós’s novel Tristana (1892) and Luis Buñuel’s loose filmic adaptation (1970). The female walk, a foundational activity in the formative process of the subject, will serve Tristana as a path towards emancipation and freedom, and as an access to dangerous physical and social spaces. Tristana embodies a deviation from the “women belong in the home” cultural logic that existed in the late-nineteenth century and still prevailed in the first half of the twentieth century. The amputation marks a decisive turning point in the development of Tristana’s journey. However, as I show, the powerful relation between the female and her dwelling space pre- and post-amputation, along with the role of disability, establish significant differences—explained to a certain extent by the historical conditions—between the literary and filmic enunciations: while for Galdós, deviance and restraint go together and disablement serves to incapacitate the able-bodied female and wed her to a life of domesticity, Buñuel enables the disability to provide an empowering physical and social environment and challenge the traditional order.
Yes, No, or Maybe?: Transitions in Chilean Society in Pablo Larraín’s No
Authors: Howe Alexis
Published: September 2015

Pablo Larraín’s film No (2012) has been widely viewed and reviewed both at home in Chile and internationally. Some reviewers have focused on the film’s representation of the triumph of hope and optimism over tyranny. Others have criticized the film’s historical inaccuracy, citing a list of details that the film either got wrong or left out. Neither of these groups, however, has touched on the core argument at the heart of Larraín’s film. The present article examines No , and proposes that the film presents a satirical representation of the transition in Chile. While on the surface the film appears to celebrate the political transition from dictatorship to democracy that began with the 1988 referendum, a closer analysis reveals how No actually emphasizes the success of another transition: the economic transition that had been carried out brutally by the military regime, a transition that was not undone by the referendum. Positioning the adman as the hero whose victory in the referendum is due to a strategic marketing of democracy as if it were a soft drink, No highlights one of the many triumphs of Pinochet who, despite being removed from office, had already succeeded in transforming Chile into a consumer-based capitalist society.
Enhancement and Obsolescence: Avoiding an “Enhanced Rat Race”
Authors: Sparrow Robert
Published: September 2015

A claim about continuing technological progress plays an essential, if unacknowledged, role in the philosophical literature on “human enhancement.” I argue that—should it eventuate—continuous improvement in enhancement technologies may prove more bane than benefit. A rapid increase in the power of available enhancements would mean that each cohort of enhanced individuals will find itself in danger of being outcompeted by the next in competition for important social goods—a situation I characterize as an “enhanced rat race.” Rather than risk the chance of being rendered technologically and socially obsolete by the time one is in one’s early 20s, it may be rational to prefer that a wide range of enhancements that would generate positional disadvantages that outweigh their absolute advantages be prohibited altogether. The danger of an enhanced rat race therefore constitutes a novel argument in favor of abandoning the pursuit of certain sorts of enhancements.
Challenging the Sanctity of Donorism: Patient Tissue Providers as Payment-Worthy Contributors
Authors: Johnson Rebecca A. , Wendler David
Published: September 2015

Many research projects rely on human biological materials and some of these projects generate revenue. Recently, it has been argued that investigators have a moral claim to share in the revenue generated by these projects, whereas persons who provide the biological material have no such claim (Truog, Kesselheim, and Joffe 2012). In this paper, we critically analyze this view and offer a positive proposal for why tissue providers have a moral claim to benefit. Focusing on payment as a form of benefit, we argue that research is a joint project and propose a contribution principle for paying participants in those joint projects. We distinguish between contributions that shape a project’s revenue generating properties, grounding a claim to payment, and contributions that fail to ground such a claim. We conclude, contrary to existing arguments and practices, that some tissue providers have a moral claim to payment beyond compensation for risk and burden. This conclusion suggests that investigators, institutions, and sponsors should reconsider the fairness of their current practices.
Does space structure spatial language?: A comparison of spatial expression across sign languages
Authors: Perniss Pamela , Zwitserlood Inge , Özyürek Aslı
Published: September 2015

The spatial affordances of the visual modality give rise to a high degree of similarity between sign languages in the spatial domain. This stands in contrast to the vast structural and semantic diversity in linguistic encoding of space found in spoken languages. However, the possibility and nature of linguistic diversity in spatial encoding in sign languages has not been rigorously investigated by systematic crosslinguistic comparison. Here, we compare locative expression in two unrelated sign languages, Turkish Sign Language ( Türk İşaret Dili , TİD) and German Sign Language ( Deutsche Gebärdensprache , DGS), focusing on the expression of figure-ground (e.g. cup on table) and figure-figure (e.g. cup next to cup) relationships in a discourse context. In addition to similarities, we report qualitative and quantitative differences between the sign languages in the formal devices used (i.e. unimanual vs. bimanual; simultaneous vs. sequential) and in the degree of iconicity of the spatial devices. Our results suggest that sign languages may display more diversity in the spatial domain than has been previously assumed, and in a way more comparable with the diversity found in spoken languages. The study contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of how space gets encoded in language.
Direct and indirect affix borrowing
Authors: Seifart Frank
Published: September 2015

A widespread assumption in the language contact literature is that affixes are never borrowed directly, but only indirectly, that is, as part of complex loanwords. From such complex loanwords, affixes may eventually spread to native stems, creating hybrid formations, in a process of language-internal analogical extension. Direct borrowing is the extraction of an affix based on knowledge of the donor language, without the mediation of complex loanwords within the recipient language. This article suggests that direct borrowing can also be the only or primary process leading to productive loan affixes. Criteria are provided to assess instances of direct and indirect borrowing on the basis of the distribution of borrowed affixes across complex loanwords and hybrid formations. These are applied to corpora of various languages. A scale of directness of affix borrowing is proposed, based on the extent to which speakers of the recipient language rely (i) on their knowledge of the donor language (direct borrowing) and (ii) on complex loanwords within their native language (indirect borrowing).
Semantic variation and the grammar of property concepts
Authors: Francez Itamar , Koontz-Garboden Andrew
Published: September 2015

This article discusses the effects of variation in the meaning of property concept (PC) lexemes (Dixon 1982) on the form of predicative and comparative constructions. We demonstrate the existence of two kinds of PC lexeme, which differ systematically in how they participate in constructions expressing the truth conditions of PC predication. The first kind of lexeme is used in canonical predicative constructions, the other in predicative constructions that invoke possessive morphology or syntax. The differences between the two classes are observable both within a single language and crosslinguistically. The article argues that the morphosyntactic differences in the behavior of the two lexeme types are predictable from their lexical semantics. Specifically, we argue that some PC lexemes denote mass substances (in a technical sense) and therefore require possessive semantics to achieve the relevant truth conditions. A semantic theory for substance-denoting lexemes is developed, and a compositional analysis of the relevant constructions is presented for Ulwa, an endangered Misumalpan language of Nicaragua. We argue that assuming semantic variation is necessary, since the observed generalizations cannot be captured by extending existing semantic analyses of gradable adjectives to all PC lexemes.
Dorcas legacies, Dorcas futures: Textile legacies and the formation of identities in ‘habitus’ spaces
Authors: Sinclair Rose
Published: September 2015

Feminist legacies of the handmade are visible through the rhetoric of the material archive. For a textile practitioner this might traditionally have been through the creation of the sampler, a physical display created to demonstrate the technical skill or creative prowess of the maker. The voices of hidden textile practices might also be revealed by oral stories and narratives, which lie dormant in newspaper listings and archives. Other textile legacies are embedded within the modes of transmission of knowledge contained within spaces or other ‘habitus’ that traditionally sit outside the boundaries of more traditional institutional spaces of textile learning. Textiles as objects hold meaning, are related to different aspects of memory and knowledge, and generate significance by and for different social, gendered and cultural groups globally. This article explores how Dorcas Clubs – a charitable organization of philanthropic women formed at the beginning of the nineteenth century – did this through the migratory experience of women, whether through notions of class boundary, physical space or travel. It is argued that Dorcas Societies, through their transformation,
Women’s collaboration for the enhancement of craft culture in contemporary Turkey
Authors: Atalay Duygu
Published: September 2015

The contemporary fashion system that has been shaped by the global economy provides fast consumables that are the products of a monocultural vision of design. In this system, cultural references, historical and ecological considerations and the notion of quality are ignored. The structure of fast fashion not only perpetuates an identity of women that is homogeneous and deprived of a sense of belonging, but it also creates this identity. Moreover, mechanization and mass production have led to the extinction of a great variety of traditional crafts because the adaptation of pattern, ornament or weaving techniques, indigenous to a particular culture, necessitates simplification for industrial production. In this way they are not only simplified technically, but their cultural meanings are also trivialized. As a result these crafts are no longer passed down to future generations. Disengagement from craft practices causes a cultural misidentification of both consumers and artisans. Placing emphasis on craft culture can prevent the devaluation of these cultural products, especially in economically emerging countries such as Turkey, where a lack of industrialization can become advantageous for the advancement of craft through the integration of local knowledge and labour. This article emphasizes the necessity of institutions, organizations and individuals in the preservation of craft and the handmade. In this regard the Aegean town of Ödemis¸ has been selected as a case study. In 2011, seven women entrepreneurs established Ödemis¸ Women’s Cooperative and built an atelier to support womens’ engagement with crafting. The textiles of Ödemis¸ are the products of a multicultural history. Hellenic, Roman, Byzantine, Selcuk, Ottoman and Turkish transitions have intensely affected the production methods of textiles in the region and have created a unique identity. Colouring methods are as old as the Byzantine Empire, and for more than 1000 years silk weaving and crochet have remained the major source of living for the women of Ödemis¸. This article will reveal the relationship between cultural identity and craft, emphasize the impact of women’s craft practice in this context and assess the importance of the atelier as a collaborative workspace.
Imagining and imaging future fashion
Authors: Smitheram Miranda
Published: September 2015

This project takes the researcher’s established fashion and textile design practice into a new space of the virtual and digital as a context for creative enquiry. Through discussion on two speculative experiments that use motion capture technology, this enquiry considers the transformational potential of a digital materiality as an environment in which to re-imagine and re-image the surfaces of future fashion. Specifically, it asks what influence the virtual/digital environment will have in shaping the aesthetics of the experiments. These acts of transformation, through morphing surfaces and shape-shifting material forms, question contemporary norms of using, consuming, engaging with and understanding fashion and textiles. Enfolded in this creative research is the recognition of how these shifts from matter to metaphor, from object to ephemeral, from dress to transformable interface could ignite alternatives to the current fashion manufacture and consumption process.
The Knitting & Crochet Guild Collection: A handmade legacy?
Authors: Thomas Angharad
Published: September 2015

This position paper describes the Collection of the Knitting & Crochet Guild (KCG), a UK-based membership organization, and the ways in which engagement and interaction are undertaken within it. The Collection is conceptualized as a repository of the handmade, and therefore of interest and relevance to craft practitioners. First, an outline of the Collection’s history is given including the ways in which items have entered the Collection and shaped its composition. Second, the article describes the ways in which diverse audiences, including KCG members and students, engage with the Collection, both physically and digitally, drawing upon the quality of these interactions taken from visitor feedback and selected student experiences. Third, the status of the Collection as an embodiment of the skill, time and labour of the makers is discussed and the future potential for further interactions from contemporary students and makers.
A review of Lesotho’s digital migration challenges: Policy lessons from global and regional experiences
Authors: Thamae Leboli Zachia
Published: September 2015

This article presents an analysis of Lesotho’s apparent challenges in its quest to migrate from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB) from 2006 to 2015. The move towards DTTB had given the state-owned Lesotho National Broadcasting Services a glimmer of hope to strengthen its position in the local market and thwart competition from South African broadcasters. However, the country lacked a policy direction or a clear road map to gain resources for DTTB development and subsequently failed to meet the international analogue switchoff deadline of 17 June 2015. Given the high level of foreign television service penetration in Lesotho, I argue that the government’s weak and sluggish intervention spells tragedy for the national broadcaster in the digital era, unless corrective policy measures based on comparative lessons from early adopters, with a rapid and coordinated implementation strategy as proposed in this article, are vigorously pursued.
Serious Complication of Percutaneous Angioplasty with Stent Implantation in so Called "Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency" in Multiple Sclerosis Patient
Authors: Doležal Ondřej , Horáková D. , Gdovinová Z. , Szilasiová J.
Published: September 2015

We report female patient, age 51, with clinically definitive multiple sclerosis (CDMS) since 1998, who underwent two PTA procedures with stent implantation for CCSVI in 2010. Expanded disability status scale (EDSS) worsened since the procedure from 4.5 to 6. Total number of three stents was implanted (two of them in the right internal jugular vein). In six month time, in 2011, patient was referred for independent examination by computer tomography (CT) phlebography for right-sided neck pain. Dislocation of stents on the right side and thrombosis of left sided stent was found. Conservative approach was used so far. Our short report is showing possible complications of PTA and stenting in jugular veins in so called CCSVI and bringing information about neurological state (EDSS) worsening in a subject. Continuation of stent migration in the future is probable, possibly resulting in pulmonary embolism with fatal risk for the patient. We strongly ask for restriction of PTA procedure in so called CCSVI, which concept was not proven to be relevant to MS.
Does Prenatal Methamphetamine Exposure Induce Cross-sensitization to Cocaine and Morphine in Adult Male Rats?
Authors: Šlamberová Romana , Yamamotová A. , Pometlová M. , Schutová B. , Hrubá L. , Nohejlová-Deykun K. , Nová E. , Macúchová E.
Published: September 2015

The aim of the present study was to examine the cross-sensitization induced by prenatal methamphetamine (MA) exposure to challenge dose of cocaine or morphine. Rat mothers received a daily injection of MA (5 mg/kg) or saline throughout the gestation period. Adult male offspring (prenatally MA- or saline-exposed) were divided to groups with challenge doses of saline (1 ml/kg), cocaine (5 mg/kg) or morphine (5 mg/kg). Behavior in unknown environment was examined in Laboras, nociception in Plantar test, and active drug-seeking behavior in conditioned place preference (CPP). Our data demonstrate that cocaine increased the exploratory activity in Laboras test in prenatally saline-exposed, but decreased it in prenatally MA-exposed rats. An analgesic effect of cocaine was demonstrated only by the tail withdrawal and it was independent of the prenatal drug exposure. CPP test showed that prenatal MA exposure induced rather tolerance than sensitization to cocaine. In contrast to cocaine effects, morphine decreased rearing activity in both, prenatally MA-exposed and saline-exposed rats, and locomotion only in prenatally MA-exposed rats in the Laboras. In the Plantar test, the results demonstrated that morphine had an analgesic effect in prenatally saline-exposed rats but this effect was suppressed in prenatally MA-exposed rats. In the CPP test morphine induced drug-seeking behavior, which however was not affected by prenatal drug exposure. Thus, our data demonstrate that there is a cross-effect between prenatal MA exposure and the challenge dose of other drug in adulthood, however drug-seeking behavior is not increased by prenatal MA exposure as we expected.
Anxiogenic Effect of Low-dose Methamphetamine in the Test of Elevated Plus-maze
Authors: Pometlová Marie , Nohejlová-Deykun K. , Šlamberová R.
Published: September 2015

Methamphetamines (MA) are psychostimulant drugs that are known to change individuals’ behavior. Psychostimulants could either evoke positive emotions (e.g. joy and happiness) or attenuate negative emotional states (e.g. anxiety and depression) in humans. In animal experiments, the test of elevated plus-maze (EPM) is widely used. This test is appropriate for evaluation of anxiolytic and anxiogenic drug effects, or for examination of specific subtypes of anxiety disorders. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of acute single dose of MA (1 mg/kg) on the behavior of laboratory rat in the EPM. The detailed ethologic analysis of behavior was performed using a modified protocol based on the study of Fernández Espejo (1997). Our results demonstrated that MA affects rat’s behavior in the EPM in the majority of analyzed categories. The present protocol allowed us to determine positive anxiogenic effect of MA.
Pharmacogenetics in Clinical Practice
Authors: Bakhouche Hana , Slanař O.
Published: September 2015

Pharmacogenetics is a discipline that investigates how genetic variation relates to the drug efficacy and safety. The goal of pharmacogenetics is a personalized treatment, where according to genotype we would be able to prescribe the most effective drug at the most appropriate dose for an individual patient. The aim of this review is to summarize pharmacogenetics as a specialization with its own background, research, methods, including barriers and promises for the future.
Our Experience with Carotid Body Paragangliomas
Authors: Erdogan Banu Atalay , Bora F. , Altin G. , Paksoy M.
Published: September 2015

Carotid body paragangliomas (CBP) are rare neoplasms arising from the small chemoreceptor organ in the adventitia of the common carotid bifurcation. The aim of this study is to present the diagnostic process, performed treatment and obtained results in patients with carotid body paragangliomas of the Department of Otolaryngology of Istanbul Education and Research Hospital between March 1997 and November 2008. Retrospective analysis was carried out, based on the medical documentation of 5 patients with carotid body paragangliomas (3 women and 2 men), age range 44 to 68 years with a mean of 59.6 years. Four of the patients were diagnosed and treated with Shamblin type II tumor, one of the patients with type I. Physical examination, radiological evaluation, method of the treatment and post-treatment complications were studied. The most common and single symptom was nonspecific neck mass. Preoperative diagnostic evaluation consisted of a color duplex ultrasonography, computerized tomography with contrast enhancement, magnetic resonance imaging and digital subtraction angiography. In all patients with Shamblin type I and II, blunt dissection of the tumor was conducted smoothly in the subadventitial plane. Postoperative vagus nerve and hypoglossal nerve deficit were reported in one case. Carotid body paraganglioma excision has higher risk of cranial nerve paresis and carotid artery injury, so it requires careful handling and good surgical skills to ensure complete removal.
Mild solution of fractional order differential
equations with not instantaneous impulses
Authors: Li Pei-Luan , Xu Chang-Jin
Published: September 2015

In this paper, we investigate the boundary value problems of fractional order differential equations with
not instantaneous impulse. By some fixed-point theorems, the existence results of mild solution are established. At
last, one example is also given to illustrate the results.
Mg2+–Fe2+ order in an orthopyroxene, Mg0,93Fe1.07Si2O6
Authors: Ghose Subrata
Published: September 2015

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Die Struktur eines intermediären Orthopyroxene (Mg0.93MFe1,07Si2O4) mit den Zellkonstanten a = 18,310, b = 8,927 und c = 5,226 Å und der Raumgruppe Pbca aus einem granulitischen Gestein wird mit der Methode der kleinsten Quadrate verfeinert unter Verwendung dreidimensionaler Intensitätsdaten. Der R-Wert für 1028 gemessene Reflexe beträgt 0,118. Die durchschnittliche Standardabweichung für die Μ-O- bzw. Si-O-Bindungslängen ist 0,014 Å.

Mg2+ und Fe2+ sind fast vollständig geordnet; das gefundene Ordnungsschema stimmt mit dem von GHOSE (1962) vermuteten überein. Die MI-Lage entspricht derjenigen von Mg im Diopsid (CaMgSi2O6) und ist von 85% Mg2+ und 15% Fe2+ besetzt; die M¡-Lage, die der Ca-Lage im Diopsid entspricht, ist von 90% Fe2+ und 10% Mg2+ besetzt. Die Bindungsabstände M2-O2 (2,07 Å) und M2-O2 (2,07 Å) sind in signifikanter Weise kürzer als die Summe der Pauling-Atomradien (2,16 Å), und diese Bindungen haben merklich kovalenten Charakter.

Die zwei krietallographisch verschiedenen Silikatketten haben etwas verschiedene Konfigurationen, bedingt durch geringe Rotationen der Si1- und Si2-Tetraeder um die Richtungen Si1-O1 und Si2-O4. Die mittlere Si-O-Bindungelänge beträgt 1,63 Å. Die „non-bridging" Si-O-Bindungen sind in signifikanter Weise kürzer als die „bridging" Si-O-Bindungen.
Über die Epitaxie von Vitamin B12 auf Quarz
Authors: Seifert H. , Borchardt-Ott W.
Published: September 2015

The crystallographical expectation of different behaviour of crystals with asymmetric molecules against the optical antipodes of quartz was not exactly proved up to date. The weak asymmetry of the potential field of the crystal surfaces was probably the cause. We awaited a distinct effect from a substance consisting of large complex molecules like vitamin B12.

The epitaxial effect is extremely selective. The orientation of the vitamin crystals was splendidly positive upon the polished L-quartz surfaces activated by etching with HF, never upon R quartz. There were found and described 18 laws of orientation of the vitamin crystals upon the faces (101̄0), (1̄1̄20), (112̄0), (101̄1), (011̄1), (0001). The laws could be formulated as one-dimensional structure analogies.

The structural interpretation of the molecular kinetics, i.e. adsorption, formation of H bridges between both active groups and seed formation gave a new outlook upon the existence of small molecular matrices of very different size at the surfaces for this catalytic process which leads to the macroscopic appearance of the overranging one-dimensional analogies. The proof of a total mismatch of every matrix system with respect to the vitamin upon the R quartz is especially interesting.
Kurze Originalmitteilungen
Authors: Poppe H. , Hoppe W.
Published: September 2015

Diphenantridylmethane crystallizes in the monoclinic space-group Pc with a = 9.43 Å, b = 15.10 Å, c = 6.53 Å, β = 100°30'. Due to the special position of the two molecules in the pseudo space group P21/c, it was possible to solve the structure with the method of diffuse scattering without measuring any intensities. The structure has been confirmed and refined (in projections) by the usual x-ray methods.
The crystal structure of rathite-I
Authors: Marumo F. , Nowacki W.
Published: September 2015

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Die Kristallstruktur von Rathit-I wurde mittels dreidimensionaler Intensitätsdaten bestimmt. Vier Formeleinheiten (Pb,Tl)3As4(As,Ag)S10 sind in der Einheitszelle der Symmetrie Ρ 21/a mit a = 25,16 Å, 6 = 7,94 Å, c = 8,47 Å, β = 100° 28' enthalten. Die wahre Symmetrie von Rathit-I ist möglicherweise triklin. Die Lösung lieferten die Ähnlichkeit der Struktur mit derjenigen von Rathit-III und spezielle Verhältnisse der Röntgendiagramme.

Von drei unabhängigen Pb(Tl)-Atomen sind zwei von neun S-Atomen umgeben, das andere von sieben. Die As-Atome weisen trigonal-pyramidale Koordination durch die S-Atome auf. Von einem As-Atom wird angenommen, daß es statistisch von zwei verschiedenen trigonal -pyramidalen S-Koordinationen umgeben wird. Ein anderes As-Atom ist teilweise durch Ag ersetzt.

Die Struktur besteht aus zweierlei Schichten parallel zu (100). Die erste Art hat die Zusammensetzung (Pb,Tl)S3 und besteht aus den Koordinationspolyedern um die Pb(Tl)-Atome mit Neuner-Koordination. Die zweite Art ist aus Pb(Tl)-, As(Ag)- und S-Atomen zusammengesetzt, welche ein deformiertes PbS-Gitter bilden. Trigonale As-S3-Pyramiden sind zu Ketten endlicher Länge vereinigt.
Two new taxane-glycosides from the needles of Taxus canadensis
Authors: Li Nan , Wang Jin , Yan Hui-Min , Zhang Man-li , Shi Qing-Wen , Sauriol Françoise , Kiyota Hiromasa , Dong Mei
Published: September 2015

Two minor taxane glycosides were isolated for the first time from the needles of Taxus canadensis. Their structures were characterized as 2α,5α-diacetoxy-10β-(6′-O-acetyl-β-d-glucopyranosyl)oxy-14β-[(2′R,3′S)-3′-hydroxy-2′-methylbutanoyl]oxytaxa-4(20),11-diene (1) and 2α,14β-diacetoxy-10β-(β-d-glucopyranosyl)oxytaxa-4(20),11-dien-5β-ol (2) on the basis of 1D and 2D NMR data analysis and confirmed by high-resolution fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry.
Rayos cósmicos
Authors: Medina José
Published: September 2015

Estos dos años asistieron a otra historia, tan rocambolesca como la anteriormente descrita, relacionada con la recuperación universitaria de Alcalá de Henares. De entrada, hemos de decir que los elementos que habían determinado la búsqueda de nuevos emplazamientos universitarios en Madrid hacía cuatro años persistían ahora e incluso se habían agravado, a pesar de la entrada en funcionamiento en 1971 de las nuevas instalaciones de la Universidad Autónoma. La masificación estudiantil se había agudizado y en la capital de España había ya 60.000 estudiantes universitarios (la mitad de los de España, aunque Madrid sólo tuviera aproximadamente el 10 por 100 de la población nacional). Por otra parte, las autoridades de la recién denominada "Complutense de Madrid", tal vez por este hecho, incrementaban su tendencia a buscar en Alcalá el "sello histórico" que les faltaba y, en cualquier caso, la idea de Alcalá había recorrido ciertos círculos de opinión gracias al gran debate de los años precedentes.
El uso correcto del correo electrónico
Authors: Gutiérrez Muñoz Julio
Published: September 2015

Siguiendo con nuestra idea de dar a nuestros lectores una serie de pautas que les permitan navegar adecuadamente por Internet y usar correctamente el correo electrónico, hemos recopilado un conjunto de normas de utilización del correo electrónico en general, que si bien no son obligatorias, salvo en algunas listas de distribución muy particulares, si son de gran utilidad porque nos permiten evitar malos entendidos.
Cuatro preguntas con respuesta y un apólogo
Authors: Martínez Pons José Antonio
Published: September 2015

De las dos actividades que per se debe desarrollar el profesor universitario, en general la menos apreciada es la docencia, preterida siempre o casi siempre por la investigación. Sin embargo esta actividad, a mi pobre saber, es la que da razón de ser a la Universidad. Hasta el título más apreciado "Doctor" viene de "doceo", enseñar, y el último barbarismo que nos ha llegado de allende los mares, el monstruoso "master", en el fondo no es sino la corrupción anglosajona del latino "magister". (Uno sigue preguntándose por qué este complejo de inferioridad de los mediterráneos frente a los bárbaros germánicos, británicos y yanquis, a fin de cuentas cuando aquí se sentaban las bases de la ciencia y la filosofía, allí andaban por la Selva Negra persiguiendo jabalíes y no creo que su mente, la del bárbaro medio, haya evolucionado demasiado, salvo cambiar jabalíes por pieles rojas, judíos o hinchas del equipo contrario).
Copérnico y Salamanca
Authors: Fernández Blázquez Benjamín
Published: September 2015

Para destacar los eventos y protagonistas de este milenio que se extingue, lejos de la urgencia que determinan estas fulgurantes fechas, que tal vez implican ausencia de ponderación o carencia de alguna variable relevante, es de subrayar que hace poco más de tres años, el laureado diario: Washinton Post, haciendo un análisis desde el año mil, resaltó unos cuantos personajes en diferentes ramas, y eligió como científico más sobresaliente a Copérnico, precediendo a Einstein y Galileo.
Guinea
Authors: EEUU Departamento de Estado
Published: September 2015

Tras la visita del rector Manuel Gala a Guinea Ecuatorial, y su encuentro con el presidente Obiang, se han difundido informaciones confusas sobre la situación en aquel país. En la última sesión del Claustro universitario de la UAH, se introdujo un punto, con el fin de que Gala explicara el porqué de su entrevista con el dictador, pero en la práctica la intervención del rector y algunos de sus colaboradores fueron un ataque, con acusaciones de racismo incluidas, a los ponentes del punto.
Juegos olímpicos modernos vs antiguos
Authors: Hernández Blázquez Benjamín
Published: September 2015

Los Juegos Olímpicos Modernos que tuvieron como célula generatriz La Sorbona francesa, nacieron con espíritu romántico y versallesco, hoy conforman el acontecimiento humano que despierta mayor interés en el planeta. En poco más de un siglo se han separado de ese ideal neofundacional catalizado por los medios de comunicación y convergiendo en el profesionalismo y nacionalismo exacerbado en parangón de los Antiguos, lo que generó su abolición por el emperador hispano Teodosio.
Introducción a la optoelectrónica (III)
Authors: Pérez París Arturo
Published: September 2015

Para esta tercera parte del artículo dejaremos de ser tan físicos para ser más ingenieros, sin menoscabo de una u otra posición. En los procesos industriales se usan muchas veces elementos sensibles a la luz con el fin de controlar diversos sistemas automáticos. Dichos elementos, como ya se dijo, se basan en los principios físicos de fotoemisión y fotoconducción. Por ser los más "normalitos" nos centraremos en los fotosemiconductores
El síndrome del acoso institucional
Authors: González de Rivera y Revuelta José Luis
Published: September 2015

Un reciente término, el de acoso grupal o mobbing, está empezando a generar, en la práctica clínica, un síndrome de características muy definidas. Los candidatos o individuos de riesgo presentan cuadros clínicos que, de no ser abordados a tiempo, pueden derivar en complicaciones severas.
Aplicaciones electronicas del automovil 2
Authors: Pérez París Arturo
Published: September 2015

Conviene, antes de comenzar con la descripción de sistemas electrónicos de encendido de motores de explosión, repasar el principio de funcionamiento de un sistema convencional de encendido y analizar cuáles son los problemas que este tipo de mecanismos presenta, para posteriormente explicar las soluciones que aportan los sistemas electrónicos.
Formación universitaria y construcción social
Authors: Ponce Núñez José Miguel
Published: September 2015

Parece muy oportuno en los momentos actuales, plantearse la relación entre la Universidad y la construcción social, pues de esta manera se puede poner de manifiesto que la Universidad se quiera o no, tiene una función social, que influye y transforma su entorno, es decir, es un auténtico factor de transformación social, y que por lo tanto, según sea el fin que se proponga, está ayudando a construir una sociedad con unas determinadas características, que puede ser mejor o peor que la que tenemos.
La construcción de la mujer moderna en la sociedad de consumo española
Authors: Santamarina Cristina
Published: September 2015

La película Carne Trémula, del director español Pedro Almodóvar, comienza con la imagen de una mujer a punto de dar a luz en un autobús que circula por las calles desiertas de un Madrid frío, tanto en lo literal como en lo metafórico. La escena sucede el 31 de diciembre de 1969 y se acaba de decretar el estado de excepción. Estamos en los finales de la década de los sesenta, la misma que comenzó con el desarrollismo económico exactamente diez años antes, y que ha transcurrido con fuertes e importantes cambios en las pautas de formas de ser y de hacer, en lo público y en lo privado para el conjunto de los españoles.
Las torres de Hanoi
Authors: Pérez París Arturo , Gutiérrez Muñoz Julio
Published: September 2015

Nos proponemos publicar una serie de artículos encaminados a presentar, tanto a los iniciados como a los neófitos, el método numérico de resolución de ecuaciones diferenciales denominado Diferencias Finitas. Para ello, hemos creído conveniente comenzar con un sencillo ejemplo, antes de profundizar en el tema.
Implementación semiprofesional de circuitos impresos III
Authors: Pérez París Arturo
Published: September 2015

La implementación semiprofesional de circuitos impresos permite la construcción de sus propios equipos y aplicaciones electrónicas. Por ello, este artículo va destinado principalmente a los estudiantes de ingenierías y bachilleratos técnicos. En él podrás seguir, paso a paso, la elaboración de estos circuitos con figuras explicativas en imágenes que reflejan con claridad la explicación dada por el texto, en la que además encontrarás variados consejos. La génesis de este artículo es parte del proyecto final de carrera de su autor, "Control digital de una montura ecuatorial para microcámaras".
Ecuaciones Diferenciales y Diferencias Finitas
Authors: Pérez París Arturo , Gutiérrez Muñoz Julio
Published: September 2015

En los tres artículos anteriores publicados hemos realizado una exposición sencilla de las propiedades generales de las ecuaciones en diferencias, así como de los métodos más simples empleados en su resolución. En este caso abordaremos el paralelismo entre la resolución de ecuaciones diferenciales y ecuaciones en diferencias. Se hará a partir del estudio de un caso particular muy simple de ecuación diferencial ordinaria de primer orden, no homogénea, con coeficientes constante. El método utilizado es el de las diferencias finitas.
Breve presentación de los semiconductores
Authors: Pérez París Arturo
Published: September 2015

Hace un tiempo se pensaba que la tecnología basada en semiconductores era de procedencia extraterrestre y que empezó a desarrollarse a partir de los sucesos de Roswell. A lo largo de este artículo se pretende explicar la procedencia, principios y procesos de fabricación de los transistores, base de los circuitos integrados, o chips. Sus características han permitido que se desarrollen con gran rapidez los componentes en estado sólido o semiconductores, frente a las válvulas de vacío que les precedieron.
Reflexiones sobre la Universidad actual desde la Biblia
Authors: Rodenas Ciller Elvira
Published: September 2015

¿Qué idea de Universidad queremos? Es la principal pregunta que intentamos responder con el estudio llevado a cabo en este texto. ¿Por qué no se puede hablar de la Biblia en la Universidad en el momento actual? El principal problema que nos encontramos es que en la época en la que se escribió la Biblia no existía Universidad, tal y como entendemos el término hoy en día, por lo que no podemos encontrar nada sobre ella. Otro problema con el que nos tenemos que enfrentar en la formación global del alumno es que no sabemos cómo hacer un experto de hombre. Aquí aparece el concepto de sabiduría, y ahí sí podemos recurrir a la Biblia para buscar ideas que puedan servirnos para nuestra Universidad actual.
De nombres, fórmulas y pronunciaciones
Authors: Martínez Pons José Antonio
Published: September 2015

Cada vez es más corriente encontrar incorrecciones y arcaísmos en la nomenclatura en prestigiosas revistas de diferente ámbitos. La cultura ha buscado siempre la máxima expansión y comunicación. Es por ello que en cada época existe una lengua que facilita el intercambio.
El futuro de la Universidad española y de la Ley que la regula
Authors: Delgado García José María
Published: September 2015

La Universidad presente y pasada descontenta a muchos y contenta en exclusiva a los beneficiarios directos, o a los redactores del momento. La principal novedad de la LOU fue la pérdida de la denominada autonomía universitaria. En este artículo se trata dicho tema, aparte de otros apartados de la nueva Ley, los órganos de gestión, el Consejo Social, los planes de estudio o la investigación en la Universidad española.