bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A challenging case of neuropsychiatric systematic lupus erythematosus with recurrent antiphospholipid- related stroke: A case report and literature review
Authors: Shih Yu-Cheng , Ou Yang-Hau , Chang Shu-Wei , Lin Chih-Ming
Published: September 2019

Neuropsychiatic systematic lupus erythematosus (NPSLE) is a form of SLE involves the inflammation and/or thrombotic event in the nervous system. Patients with NPSLE are likely to have a positive antiphospholipid antibody (aPL), therefore are at higher risk of recurrent ischemic stroke. The management of NPSLE with aPLrelated stroke is rather different from the traditional ischemic stroke. One must treat it with anticoagulation and immunosuppressive therapy. The present case is a 47-yearold Taiwanese female with NPSLE and positive aPL, presented with a recurrent MCA ischemic stroke. Initial laboratory results showed significantly elevated levels of anti-ANA, anti-dsDNA, anti-cardiolipin, and decreased complement levels. Due to multiple contraindications for tPA, she was treated with antiplatelet, anticoagulation, steroid pulse therapy, and plasmapheresis during the hospitalization. Despite treatments, her stroke progressed to multi-focal lesions, involving the ACA, MCA, and basal ganglion. On follow up of her brain CT scan showed tissue edema and suspicious for subfalcine herniation. Responding to this clinical deterioration, we stopped warfarin and started mannitol. Eventually, her condition improved and was transferred to the rehabilitation program. Currently, there is no unified guideline regarding the secondary prevention of ischemic stroke in NPSLE with aPL patients. Additionally, previously reported use of steroid pulse therapy and plasmapheresis can potentially harm the patient. Clinicians must be cautious when treating such patient.
Seksuele aantrekking tot hetzelfde geslacht, gender non-conformiteit en psychische klachten
Authors: van Beusekom Gabriël , Bos Henny , Overbeek Geertjan , Sandfort Theo
Published: September 2019

Same-sex sexual attraction and gender non-conformity: The influence of parent acceptance

The current study assessed, separately for boys and girls, the moderating effects of mother/father acceptance in the relationship of same-sex attraction (SSA) and gender nonconformity with psychological distress and social anxiety. Data were collected from 1,121 secondary school students (539 boys and 582 girls; Mage = 16.6) by means of a paper–pencil questionnaire. Multiple regression analyses showed that for boys, father acceptance moderated the associations of gender nonconformity with psychological distress (including depressive symptoms) and social anxiety. For boys with high levels of father acceptance, GNC was not significantly associated with psychological distress and social anxiety, when compared with boys with low and mean levels of father acceptance. Mother acceptance did moderate the association between SSA and social anxiety for girls. For girls with mean and high levels of mother acceptance, SSA was not associated with social anxiety, when compared with girls who reported low levels of acceptance by their mothers.
Indigenous Cosmolectics
Authors: Chacón Gloria Elizabeth
Published: September 2019

Latin America's Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters. Gloria E. Chacón considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who turn to Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work to challenge the tyranny of monolingualism and cultural homogeneity. Chacón argues that these Maya and Zapotec authors reconstruct an Indigenous literary tradition rooted in an Indigenous cosmolectics, a philosophy originally grounded in pre-Columbian sacred conceptions of the cosmos, time, and place, and now expressed in creative writings. More specifically, she attends to Maya and Zapotec literary and cultural forms by theorizing kab'awil as an Indigenous philosophy. Tackling the political and literary implications of this work, Chacón argues that Indigenous writers' use of familiar genres alongside Indigenous language, use of oral traditions, and new representations of selfhood and nation all create space for expressions of cultural and political autonomy. Chacón recognizes that Indigenous writers draw from universal literary strategies but nevertheless argues that this literature is a vital center for reflecting on Indigenous ways of knowing and is a key artistic expression of decolonization.
Contemporary Maya Women’s Theater
Authors: Chacón Gloria Elizabeth
Published: September 2019

The 4th Chapter focuses on FOMMA and Ajchowen, two foundational Maya women’s theater troupes in Mexico and Guatemala, and their productions. It argues their plays re-envision women’s roles as critical to the future of indigenous peoples. The discussion concludes that both theater collectives underscore a need for political autonomy.
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Authors: Johnson E. Patrick
Published: September 2019

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History reveals how identity is made through race, gender, sexuality, class, and region. In particular, it centers the life stories of more than seventy Black, queer women from the U.S. South. With their lives and experiences as the focus, E. Patrick Johnson recasts a singular narrative of the South and illustrates the plurality of Black queer women’s identities. He also puts the complexity of Black female sexuality on display, drawing out multiple themes—childhood and adolescence; mother-daughter relationships; gender performances; religion and spirituality; sexual desires; dating and intimacy; and creative and political work. The interdisciplinary work blends oral history and performance ethnography methods to emphasize the rich tapestry of these women’s lives and give texture to their narratives.
The book is divided into two parts. Part one, “G.R.I.T.S.: Stories of Growing Up Black, Female, and Queer,” is comprised of seven chapters and organized thematically, pulling out portions of women’s narratives that speak to each subject. Part two, “My Soul Looks Back and Wonders: Stories of Perseverance and Hope,” is comprised of six chapters, each of which delves into an individual woman’s narrative. Taken together, the sections reflect Johnson’s careful attention to the tension between history and biography; the structural and the interpersonal; the collective and the individual.
New Hope Church, Pickett’s Mill, and Dallas
Authors: Hess Earl J.
Published: September 2019

When Sherman crossed the Etowah River on May 23 the character of the Atlanta campaign changed. He had used long and high ridges north of the river to conduct flanking movements. Now he entered a piedmont zone of generally level land choked by thick forests which offered many defensive advantages to Johnston. Union progress slowed as the Federals groped along ill-mapped roads while engaged in a wide flanking movement. Johnston effectively stymied their efforts by careful placement of his units to block Union advances. For the first time in the campaign, both sides dug deep and extensive fieldwork systems to hold their positions. One sees the onset of intense skirmishing, sniping, and close range artillery fire. Constant firing from static positions caused a great deal of damage to the environment. Soldier life in the trenches became more stressful and uncomfortable as the campaign bogged down in the wilds of Georgia. This two week phase of the campaign was punctuated by battles at New Hope Church on May 25, Pickett’s Mill on May 27, and Dallas on May 28, until Sherman moved to his left and regained contact with his railroad by the end of the first week in June.
June 27
Authors: Hess Earl J.
Published: September 2019

In the largest Federal tactical offensive of the campaign, Sherman launched frontal attacks at three locations along Johnston’s Kennesaw Mountain Line on the morning of June 27. Fifteenth Corps troops hit the area near Pigeon Hill and made no progress. Fourth Corps troops attacked north of Cheatham’s Hill with less to show for it. Fourteenth Corps troops attacked Cheatham’s Hill and failed to break through but lodged very close to the Confederate earthworks, protected by a slight rise of ground that allowed them to dig in and stay. After losing 3,000 men out of 15,000 engaged, the attacks demonstrated the utility of well-made earthworks planted on key ground. Sherman did not repeat the mistake for the rest of the campaign.
Beyond Feathered War Bonnets
Authors: Tone-Pah-Hote Jenny
Published: September 2019

Despite the messages of power and progress that museums, exhibitions, and even Wild West shows created and encouraged, Kiowa and other Native people negotiated and transformed them, making cultural and political spaces and opportunities. Creating these spaces for cultural expression was also work, and Kiowa people engaged in cultural production as labor and as a means to maintain cultural life during the assimilation era. The spaces that Kiowa and other Native people created at the turn of the century would later be taken up by subsequent Kiowa cultural producers.
Circulating Silver
Authors: Tone-Pah-Hote Jenny
Published: September 2019

Silversmiths made objects that were beautiful and that could render important symbols of the Native American Church. They communicated ideas and images that served as public representations of this religion as Native people exchanged these objects. The emergence and spread of Peyotism from the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache reservation began to generate new Kiowa and American Indian identities. The jewellery and emerging identities parallel one another. Kiowas and others communicated these changes through painting, photography, clothing, and through jewellery itself.
Badagry
Authors: Lovejoy Henry B.
Published: September 2019

This chapter examines Prieto’s childhood and upbringing in Africa to confront the primitive stereotypes about pre-colonial African societies. Since there is no documentation surrounding Prieto as a child in West Africa, pinpointing the origins of an enslaved African taken to the Americas is challenging. As a result, the focus turns to establishing the significance of Yoruba kinship groups, oral traditions and religious training in Sango. Prieto’s West African childhood influenced Prieto’s leadership in Cuba. The chapter also discusses the likelihood of Prieto’s enslavement surrounding the expansion of the kingdom of Oyo and the destruction of the slave trading port, Badagry.
La Habana
Authors: Lovejoy Henry B.
Published: September 2019

This chapter examines how Prieto’s involuntary residency in Havana helped propel him to lead. After his arrival to Cuba, he would have joined one of two Lucumí cabildos de nación, enlist in the military, marry his wife, Maria Francisca Camejo, and gain literacy.
Introduction
Authors: Lowery Malinda Maynor
Published: September 2019

Today, the Lumbees are the largest tribe of American Indians east of the Mississippi. They are the descendants of dozens of tribes in that territory, as well as of free European and enslaved African settlers who lived in what became their core homeland: the low-lying swamplands along the border between North and South Carolina where Lumbee history has unfolded since before the formation of the U.S. Lumbees have insisted on both their kinship with the United States and the value of their difference from other Americans. In addition, being Lumbee has historically been more complicated than identifying with a racial group. This is because tribes are not static societies; they are composed of dynamic networks of kinship and place. Knowledge of kinship—the relationships between different families—and place—the stories told about families in certain locations—is critical to Lumbee identity. The federal government’s refusal to accord the Lumbees federal recognition provides important triggers for Lumbee demands to have their story heard. Sovereignty, however, exists whether a tribe has federal recognition or not, so long as that tribe exercises its right to make and remake its own community and nation through the stories its members tell.
Disposed to Fight to Their Death
Authors: Lowery Malinda Maynor
Published: September 2019

When the American Revolution came to Lumbee communities, Lumbees fought for their own independence in their homes within the pines and lowlands. Indians in the Settlement—a place of twelve or fifteen square miles where Lumbee founding families lived—had their own distinct community and struggled to maintain possession of it. Two fundamental issues in the American Revolution affected Indians and Highland Scots who had settled in Indian territory: who would own the land they lived on and who would govern it. In 1775, every family had to decide whether to side with the Patriots (Whig) or Loyalists (Tory). Drowning Creek Indians remained divided on which side better served their interests. Some Lumbees acted not as allies of the British or Patriots but on their own behalf. By 1800, the Lumbees’ Settlement was known by outsiders as Scuffletown. Scuffletown residents fervently cooperated with one another, especially in church and family matters, while fiercely competing with one another to make a living and assert a political voice. Protestant Christianity and church organizations expanded rapidly through rural America, and in Scuffletown, Methodists actively recruited Indian and free black believers. As a result, Christianity became a crucial aspect of Lumbee life.
In Defiance of All Laws
Authors: Lowery Malinda Maynor
Published: September 2019

As the new U.S. nation emerged, its government began restricting the rights of free people of color to ensure white supremacy and protect slavery. The North Carolina government took away Indians’ and free blacks’ rights to vote, and their political, legal, and economic power. Since Lumbees owned their land individually, the government couldn’t seize their lands directly. But Lumbees experienced other insidious methods of land loss. Lumbees did not all choose the same side during the Civil War. Some opposed the Confederacy to regain freedoms they had lost, while others focused on a strategy that would allow them to maintain the freedoms they had. During the Civil War, a group of Indian men from the Lowry and Oxendine families, along with some outsiders, camped out in swamps to avoid conscription into the Confederate army. After the war, as racial violence flared in the community, the group, eventually headed by Henry Berry Lowry, began to fight against white supremacy via raids and revenge killings. The Lowry Gang was hailed as folk heroes by some and dangerous outlaws by others. The Lowry War, as the conflict became known, showed Lumbees’ willingness to fight against a racial hierarchy.
The Justice to Which We Are Entitled
Authors: Lowery Malinda Maynor
Published: September 2019

As the lines between “white” and “colored” hardened in North Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indians participated in segregation and the institutionalization of race in an attempt to ensure two things: that whites would recognize their “Indianness” and that Indians would retain control of their own institutions. The creation of Indian schools became a main part of the fight for recognition. Indians recognized the game of race and addressed it by consistently trying to move it to an arena where they had power. Picking and choosing tribal names and pursuing federal and state recognition of those names became one way of dealing with this problem. Throughout the twentieth century, the name of the Robeson County Indians changed from “Croatan” to “Cherokee Indians of Robeson County” to “Siouan Indians of the Lumbee River”. The name changes frequently led to conflict within and outside the community. Supporters of Cherokee or Siouan names pursued different paths to recognition. Robeson County Indians had to navigate standards of authenticity set forth by the federal government, such as blood-quantum provisions. Even after some Indians were finally granted official recognition, they were often still denied their full benefits from the government.
The Drinking Water
Authors: Averbeck Robin Marie
Published: September 2019

Chapter 1 analyses the postwar body of political thought known as pluralism. It explores the work of key contributors to this body of thought such as David Riesman, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Daniel Bell, organizing the chapter by the different themes or memes they participated in and articulated. Chapter 1 presents the argument that pluralism deeply shaped postwar liberalism and infused it with the conviction that American political institutions were the best in the world and truly open to all who wanted to participate. However, pluralists also feared the poor, who they associated with ignorance and authoritarianism.
Building the Blame
Authors: Averbeck Robin Marie
Published: September 2019

Chapter 4 explores the fate of the idea of a culture of poverty, tracing how it went from an idea articulated mostly by liberals for ostensibly liberal reasons to being a popular idea on the neoconservative right. It particularly explores how Daniel Patrick Moynihan contributed to this conservative version of the culture of poverty by his refusal to recognize the problems with the Moynihan Report and his engagement with neoconservative outlets and authors. Critiques of the culture of poverty articulated by leftists and civil rights activists are also explored, contrasting their emphases to that of Moynihan and other liberals and neoconservatives. The work of Edward Banfield is presented as the culmination of an idea which, while it originally tried to justify helping the black poor, ultimately ended up assisting a reactionary turn against them. The chapter argues, however, that this potential was built into the culture of poverty idea as articulated by liberalism, embedded as it was in racial capitalism. As it concludes, racial liberalism is liberal racism.
Jim Crow Capital
Authors: Murphy Mary-Elizabeth B.
Published: September 2019

Jim Crow Capital tells the story of how black women in Washington, D.C. transformed civil rights politics between 1920 and 1945. Even though no resident of the nation’s capital could cast a ballot, women nonetheless proclaimed their first-class citizenship rights by working to influence congressional legislation, lobby politicians, shape policy, and secure freedom and justice for all African Americans, both in Washington, D.C. and across the country. During the course of their political campaigns, African American women’s relationship to federal and local politics underwent a fundamental transformation. During the 1920s, black women seized on their location in the nation’s capital to intervene in federal matters, thereby working to improve conditions for disenfranchised African Americans who lacked a political voice on a national level. But by the early 1930s, black women turned their attention to focus more fully on local politics in Washington, D.C. by waging campaigns for economic justice, voting rights, and an end to racial segregation and interracial police brutality, making their freedom struggle an example for the nation. Black women in Washington, D.C. crafted a broad vision of citizenship by waging comprehensive and interconnected campaigns for legal equality, economic citizenship, public commemoration, and safety from violence. Women’s political activism in Washington, D.C. influenced the post-war black freedom struggle and still resonates today.
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn
Authors: Wall Cheryl A.
Published: September 2019

Although they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker have done their most influential work in the essay form. The Souls of Black Folk, The Fire Next Time, and In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens are landmarks in African American literary history. Many other writers, such as Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and Richard Wright, are acclaimed essayists but achieved greater fame for their work in other genres; their essay work is often overlooked or studied only in the contexts of their better-known works. Here Cheryl A. Wall offers the first sustained study of the African American essay as a distinct literary genre.
Beginning with the sermons, orations, and writing of nineteenth-century men and women like Frederick Douglass who laid the foundation for the African American essay, Wall examines the genre's evolution through the Harlem Renaissance. She then turns her attention to four writers she regards as among the most influential essayists of the twentieth century: Baldwin, Ellison, June Jordan, and Alice Walker. She closes the book with a discussion of the status of the essay in the twenty-first century as it shifts its medium from print to digital in the hands of writers like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brittney Cooper. Wall's beautifully written and insightful book is nothing less than a redefinition of how we understand the genres of African American literature.
The Coming of the Coal Industry
Authors: Brown Karida L.
Published: September 2019

This chapter provides historical context for the book and anchors the text in place. Drawing on archival data collected form Kentucky and Alabama-based archives and oral history data collected from African Americans in the sample population, Brown describes the conditions under which the coal mining industry emerged in eastern Kentucky at the turn of the twentieth century. She also describes the economic and social conditions of black life in post-Reconstruction Alabama. Through this historical analysis, Brown reveals the antecedents of the mass migration of African Americans from the Alabama black belt into the coalfields of eastern Kentucky. Moving beyond the individual level push-pull framework of mass migration analysis, this chapter focuses on the role of corporations and fin de siècle northern industrialists in initiating calculated mass migration streams to meet their demand for labor.
The Great Migration Escape
Authors: Brown Karida L.
Published: September 2019

This chapter provides an account of the first wave of African American migration into the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky. It addresses the implementation of Black Codes, also known as Jim Crow laws, the convict leasing system, and how psychological and physical terror in the form of public lynchings helped maintain the social order of white supremacy. Brown attends to the role of the labor agent as a grey-market actor in facilitating the onset of the first wave of the African American Great Migration. Drawing on the oral history and archival data, the chapter distils a profile of the legendary figure, Limehouse, the white labor agent hired by United States Steel Corporation to sneak and transport black men and their families out of Alabama to Harlan County, Kentucky to work in the coalmines. The chapter also focuses on the psychosocial dimensions of this silent mass migration, specifically the spiritual strivings, the hopes, dreams, and disappointments that accompanied the Great Migration.
Children, and Black Children
Authors: Brown Karida L.
Published: September 2019

This chapter analyzes the emergence of the racial self among this migrant group of “Black Appalachians.” How does a child come to learn that they are a black child? What are the institutions and practices that inform and reinforce one’s understanding of his or her own racialization? What are the ways in which this generation of African Americans affirmed and valued their own lives within the dehumanizing context of Jim Crow? Drawing on the oral history testimony of Brown’s research participants, this chapter offers a phenomenological analysis of the ways in which African American children of that generation experienced, perceived, and made sense of racism, prejudice, and segregation. The chapter argues that while the racial landscape was much different from that of their parents who grew up in post-Reconstruction era Alabama, the structure of feeling that articulates the ‘us and them’ along racial lines is the same.
Gone Home
Authors: Brown Karida L.
Published: September 2019

Between 1940 and 1970, Harlan County, Kentucky lost seventy percent of its black population due to industrial decline. Accompanying the estimated five million other African Americans who were migrating out of the Deep South, this generation of coal kids migrated to urban cities in Northern, Midwestern, and Western regions of the U.S. This chapter analyzes the ways in which the adults in Harlan County prepared their youth to adopt to a migratory mindset, one in which children understood leaving home after high school was inevitable. Central to this analysis is their decision-making process that factored in gender, institutions, jobs, war, politics, and higher education when choosing destinations and forming the mechanisms that undergirded this massive out-migration. The chapter also focuses on the forming of the post-migration diaspora, particularly the emergence of this group’s diasporic consciousness. Though they were uprooted from home at a young age, thousands of African Americans still consider these post-industrial Appalachian communities “home.” Using the Eastern Kentucky Social Club reunion and the Memorial Day weekend pilgrimage as examples, this chapter offers an in-depth treatment of black place-making, collective memory, and archive.
November 1966
Authors: Obrecht Jas
Published: September 2019

On November 2, 1966, the Experience record Jimi’s newly composed “Stone Free” during a single session at De Lane Lea Studios. Chas Chandler arranges a record deal with Track Records and Jimi begins work on his ambitious “Third Stone from the Sun,” inspired by his love of science fiction. Chandler, Jimi’s father James “Al” Hendrix, and best friend Billy Cox describe his extraordinary all-day, every-day dedication to the guitar. Kathy Etchingham details their home life together and forays around London. During a tour of Germany, Jimi accidentally smashes a guitar and discovers “demolition feedback.” The Experience’s London afternoon showcase at the Bag O’Nails is attended by Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, members of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, and leading British music journalists, whose write-ups contribute to Jimi’s rapid ascent to fame. Meanwhile, his unprecedented guitarmanship and sexually-suggestive stage moves frighten The Who’s Pete Townshend and other leading British guitar icons.
April 1967
Authors: Obrecht Jas
Published: September 2019

During the month-long, much ballyhooed Walker Brothers U.K. tour, the Experience travel by bus and play theatres on a mismatched bill with the Quotations, the Californians, Cat Stevens, and Engelbert Humperdinck. Between shows, they shuttle back to London to record “Highway Chile,” “May This Be Love,” “Love or Confusion,” “Are You Experienced?,” and other enduring Hendrix originals. In the process, Jimi and engineers Eddie Kramer and Roger Mayer pioneer new sounds on record. By the time the band plays Liverpool, the Experience are greeted with pandemonium reminiscent of Beatlemania. In interviews, Jimi reveals that stagehands and theatre managers, declaring the band “obscene and vulgar,” are intentionally sabotaging their performances. Based on the band’s appearance, some hotels refuse to honour their reservations. Chas Chandler bucks tradition by rushing to release “The Wind Cries Mary” as “Purple Haze” is still climbing the charts.
June 1967
Authors: Obrecht Jas
Published: September 2019

With his debut album rapidly ascending the British record charts, Jimi gives a series of revealing interviews in advance of the Experience’s much-anticipated final U.K. show at the Saville Theatre. During this performance, the band stuns Paul McCartney by opening with a cover of the Beatles’ just-released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. After a series of photoshoots, the Experience flies to New York City in advance of their performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival. Jimi revisits the New York City haunts he’d left behind just nine month earlier. Upon their arrival in Monterey, California, Jimi hand-paints the Stratocaster he’ll use to climax their set. The weekend-long Monterey festival presents a wide array of rock talent and climaxes with the sets by The Who and Jimi Hendrix. Jimi stuns the audience, most of whom have never heard of him, with his charismatic personality and unprecedented approach to performing. He ends the Experience’s set by burning his guitar amid a roaring cacophony of feedback. As Joel Selvin sagely noted, Jimi Hendrix “walked onstage a nobody and walked off a major star, ready to rewrite the language of the guitar.”
The Great Fire and Procession for Carlos III
Authors: Berry Jason
Published: September 2019

After decades as a French outback, New Orleans was reborn in the 1770s as a transhipment point for the American Revolution. Lt. Gen. Bernardo de Gálvez became acting governor in 1777. Gálvez recruited black soldiers and Native Americans to fight against the British in a successful campaign. Black militia leaders were awarded medals for their service and promoted, and New Orleanians of color began playing in a military band.
The Cabildo functioned as both town council and judiciary, where members fought for political control. Conflicts arose between philanthropist Andres Almonaster y Roxas, provincial vicar Cirilo Sieni de Barcelona, acting governor Esteban Miró, and Spanish missionary priest (and commissioner of the Inquisition) Antonio de Sedella, ending with Sedella being exiled back to Spain.
The Good Friday fire of 1788 destroyed much of the city, killing one and displacing thousands. Illness spread in the aftermath. The Spanish rebuilding efforts, led by Miró, preserved the layout of the original French city.
Carlos III died in Madrid in 1788. Cabildo members in New Orleans planned a lavish state funeral that included the first account of musicians parading to honor the dead in New Orleans, a tradition that would eventually grow.
City of Migrants
Authors: Berry Jason
Published: September 2019

The French Revolution in 1789 affected all of France’s colonies. As slave revolts broke out on Saint-Domingue, New Orleans became a sanctuary from the Caribbean island war. In New Orleans, Creole descendants of the Bienville era had to negotiate between their French identity and their loyalty to the king of Spain. The new governor, Francois Louis Héctor, baron de Carondelet, expanded military operations and cracked down on potential slave revolts.
The Catholic Church in New Orleans had its own upheavals. Antonio de Sedella returned to New Orleans in 1795 and Cirilo of Barcelona was later sent back to Spain.
The Black community in New Orleans had a rich religious and ceremonial culture, especially slaves from the Catholic, African nation of Kongo. Music and dancing crossed racial divides.
After coming to power in 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte bargained with Carlos IV for the return of Louisiana, sealing the deal in a secret treaty in 1801. Napoleon invaded Saint-Dominigue, hoping to return the island to slavery, while negotiations between the U.S. and France for New Orleans were underway. Napoleon ultimately lost Saint-Domingue, which became the Republic of Haiti. The Louisiana purchase was signed on April 30, 1803, giving New Orleans to the U.S.
Target simulation for UHF RFID DoA estimation systems
Authors: Eschlwech Philipp , Biebl Erwin
Published: September 2019

Abstract. In this work a new method for the evaluation of UHF RFID Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation systems is developed and demonstrated.
Instead of simulating the system performance or manually measuring it in realistic or ideal environments, a method for the evaluation of DoA systems using received signals produced by a target simulator is proposed.
The simulator generates the signals for each channel of the DoA estimator by attenuating and phase shifting the signals of an UHF RFID chip to replicate the signal propagation conditions for a chosen tag distance and arrival angle.
This combines the advantages of the simulative approach and real world evaluation: it is fast, reproducible and doesn't require special measurement environments. To facilitate this method, plane and spherical wave signal models for the simulation of RFID targets are derived, multichannel phase-shifting and attenuation hardware for the simulation of such signals is presented and a demonstrative evaluation of a RFID DoA estimation system is performed, replicating evaluation scenarios in non reflective and multipath environments.
Inkjet printing of metal nanoparticles for green UHF RFID tags
Authors: Cruz Bruna , Albrecht Andreas , Eschlwech Philipp , Biebl Erwin
Published: September 2019

Abstract. UHF RFID tags are nowadays widely and successfully
implemented in many distinct applications, but unfortunately the traditional
production process and incorrect disposal of such devices have a negative
impact on the environment. In this work silver and gold nanoparticle inks
were printed by a consumer inkjet printer on eco-friendly substrates like
paper and PET in order to make the manufacturing process less harmful to the
ecosystem. A dipole antenna with matching loop was designed for the RFID
chip EM4325 from EM Microelectronics, which has an integrated temperature
sensor, at the frequency of 866 MHz. Based on this design, simulations of
the greener tags are presented and compared as a proof of concept, without
optimizing the designs at first for the different materials. The printings
with silver (unlike the gold) were conductive with self-sintering. IPL
sintering was conducted to reduce the sheet resistance from the silver ink
and to turn the gold ink conductive. First S11 parameter and read distance
measurements are shown as well as the simulations with the optimized antenna
designs.
10-bit tracking ADC with a multi-bit quantizer, variable step size and segmented current-steering DAC
Authors: Bramburger Stefan , Killat Dirk
Published: September 2019

Abstract. This paper presents a 10-bit tracking ADC using a multi-bit quantiser and a segmented current-steering DAC. The quantiser allows a dynamical adjustment of the step size dependent on the input signal waveform. This mitigates the limited slew rate of delta encoded ADCs. Energy consumption induced by 1 LSB ripple is removed by the quantiser. The segmented current-steering DAC allows simple control, good monotonicity and improved transient response when compared to previous design as well as potential power reduction.
Measurement uncertainty caused by distance errors during in situ tests of wind turbines
Authors: Reschka Cornelia , Koj Sebastian , Fisahn Sven , Garbe Heyno
Published: September 2019

Abstract. During the assessment of the electromagnetic emissions of wind turbines
(WTs), the aspects of measurement uncertainty must be taken into account.
Therefore, this work focuses on the measurement uncertainty which arises
through distance errors of the measuring positions around a WT. The measurement distance given by the corresponding standard is 30 m with
respect to the WT tower. However, this determined distance will always
differ e.g. due to unevenness of the surrounding ground, leading to
measurement uncertainties. These uncertainties can be estimated with the
knowledge of the electromagnetic field distribution. It is assumed in
standard measurements, that the electromagnetic field present is a pure
transversal electromagnetic field (far field). Simulations of a simplified
WT model with a hub height of 100 m shows that this assumption is not
effective for the whole frequency range from 150 kHz to 1 GHz. For
frequencies below 3 MHz the field distribution is monotonically decreasing
with the distance from the WT since it behaves like an electrical small
radiator. Whereas for frequencies above 3 MHz, where the investigated model
forms an electrical large radiator, the field distribution becomes more
complex and the measurement uncertainty of the field strength at the
observation point increases. Therefore, this work focuses on investigations
where the near field becomes a far field. Based on the simulation results, a
method for minimizing the uncertainty contribution caused by distance errors
is presented. Therefore, advanced measurement uncertainty during in situ
test of WTs can be reduced.
Results from the national intercomparison for rise time and bandwidth measurements within the German Calibration Service (Deutscher Kalibrierdienst – DKD)
Authors: Baaske Kai , Kleine-Ostmann Thomas , Schrader Thorsten
Published: September 2019

Abstract. An intercomparison in the framework of the German Calibration Service (Deutscher
Kalibrierdienst – DKD) was carried out. Two different travelling standards
were used to measure the 10 % to 90 % rise time of a pulse generator and
the 10 % to 90 % rise time, −3 dB bandwidth and attenuation at 500 MHz
of an oscilloscope. Fourteen participants performed the measurements from
September 2015 until May 2016.
High-Frequency Modeling of Coplanar Waveguides Including Surface Roughness
Authors: Gold Gerald , Lomakin Konstantin , Helmreich Klaus , Arz Uwe
Published: September 2019

Abstract. An existing analytical transmission line model to describe propagation
properties of coplanar waveguides including dispersion and radiation effects
was extended to take into account surface roughness of conductor traces. The
influence of parasitics is successively included in the simulation and
compared to measurements. The device under test (DUT) was fabricated on an
Al2O3 wafer. A metal and ceramic chuck was utilized during
measurements up to 120 GHz. The extended model is then capable of precisely
predicting propagation properties in a wide frequency range and can now be
used for calibration purposes like the development of uncertainty budgets.
Towards a Spectral Method of Moments using Computer Aided Design
Authors: Kurz Stefan , Schöps Sebastian , Wolf Felix
Published: September 2019

Abstract. We present first numerical examples of how the framework of
isogeometric boundary element methods, in the context of
electromagnetism also known as method of moments, can be used
to achieve higher accuracies by elevation of the degree of
basis functions. Our numerical examples demonstrate the
computation of the electric field in the exterior domain.
Evaluation of the content of pigments and total sugars in ground sweet paprika
Authors: Rehuš Marián , Valší­ková Magdaléna
Published: September 2019

The aim of this research was to evaluate and compare the content of pigments and total sugars in raw materials of both the domestic as well as foreign origin that are used in the production of sweet ground pepper. The tests included two samples exported from abroad, specifically from Serbia and China and the following domestic varietes of Capsicum annum L.: Kolora, Žitava, Dvorská (varieties that form the base of the final product called Paprika Žitava/Žitavská paprika and a mix of a number of domestic varieties called Slovenský polotovar. The tests were conducted in 2015 and 2016. The highest content of pigments in both years was contained in Dvorská and Kolora – 6.81 and 6.11 g.kg⁻¹. The largest amount of total sugars was recorded within Žitava in 2015 (20.5%) and in 2016 Slovenský polotovar with 24.5%. Both the exported as well as domestic products fulfilled the parameters of quality required in the production of sweet pepper.
Impact of Family Ownership on Organizational Performance With the Moderating Role of Active Versus Passive Control: A Case of Pakistan’s Private Sector
Authors: Malik Muhammad Shaukat , Tayyab Mian Muhammad
Published: September 2019

Most of the businesses operations in the world are governed typically by a family or a government and in some other situations, sole person regulates the operations of several firms beneath a single umbrella. The main purpose of the study is to examine the association between ownership structure of the business and its performance. The sample of the study is based on 100 companies listed in KSA (Karachi stock Exchange). The data was gathered from secondary sources of financial reports of firm and the time period is based on 9 years from 2005 to 2013. Financial performance of the firm is calculated through the accounting based methods like as several ratios of Return on asset, Net Profit Margin, Return on Equity, Financial Leverage, Tobin’s Q and Earning per share. Several statistical tools (e,g Correlation, reliability, regression analysis and t-test) are used to measure the results on SPSS. Active and passive controls are used as moderator in the study. According to the result it is concluded that all hypothesis are accepted. Similarly, a significant difference is existed in firm performance under active and passive control. This study is very helpful for the investors and the business owners of family owned firms.
Understanding Between High Potentials and High Performers
Authors: Mahadi Nomahaza , Thangaraj Simon Raj A L , Baskaran Shathees , Mahadi Nomahaza
Published: September 2019

Talent Management is a comprehensive topic that is gaining attention among the organizations and it is one of the utmost vital encounters faced by the organizations worldwide. It is also important to have skilful managers that equipped with knowledge that will navigate the talent. Looking into a raw potential, this conceptual paper evaluates if identifying talent itself is the foremost important step in the overall process of talent management. When the relationship between these two components is evaluated and established, it gives a better understanding how identifying the best available talent is just as important, if not more compared to developing a less talented individual to take up the role of a leader within that particular organization.
Teacher Selection: School Principal Hiring Practices, Level of Training, and Confidence
Authors: Kimbrel Laurie A.
Published: September 2019

Student success is dependent on teacher quality; therefore, principals must hire the most effective teachers in order to ensure continuous school improvement. This study investigated teacher hiring processes to determine the extent to which principals use research-based practices that are most likely to identify high-quality teachers. This study also sought information about the type of personnel selection training principals receive and confidence of the principal in their ability to hire high-quality teachers. Data were gathered using a survey e-mailed to principals in ten states in the southern and western regions of the United States. Analysis indicated that principals favor traditional interviews as the primary teacher selection instrument and are unlikely to utilize predictive screening tools or research-based structured interviews. In most cases, principals do not make final hiring decisions based on measurable data or research-based qualities known to be predictive of high teacher performance. Most principals reported minimal teacher selection training through one-time workshops and graduate courses and yet possess a high degree of confidence in their skill to hire the best teachers.
MALFORMACIÓN DE ARNOLD-CHIARI
Authors: Gómez Vilma Alejandra , Reyes Mario , Álvarez Allan
Published: September 2019

El término general “Malformación de Arnold-Chiari” (MAC) se refiere a un desplazamiento caudal de las amígdalas cerebelosas a través del foramen magno, sin embargo, es un desorden heterogéneo con distintos grados patológicos asociados a un amplio espectro de signos y síntomas.
Introduction: The Bodhisattva Path and the Christ Path
Authors: Heim S. Mark
Published: September 2019

This book is an experiment with the conviction that there is a comparative dimension in confessional theology. This chapter briefly reviews the case for using sources from other religions in the work of Christian theology. It then describes the particular aim of this text to reflect on the reconciling work of Christ in light of Buddhist teaching. Another section reviews the history of Buddhist-Christian engagement, with special focus on the geographical area of the Silk Road in Central Asia and on the case of Manichaeanism as a tradition overlapping with both Buddhism and Christianity. It also reviews the author’s previously published constructive proposal in theology of religions, as the framework for this work. A final section outlines the plan of the book.
Herding the Cats of Deep Time
Authors: Wood David
Published: September 2019

This chapter aligns scientific and pre-philosophical angles on history with various reflective and methodological considerations. The past, a philosophical puzzle at the best of times, presents itself to us in many ways and at many different scales. If we abandon ideas of providence or progress for more naturalism we are left with numerous often incommensurable stories. And our inescapable performative interest we have in such accounts impacts our understanding of the present age and our arguably dark future. We draw here on phenomenological, hermeneutic, and deconstructive critique to articulate a provisional temporal phronesis by which to address the challenges of Deep Time. This brings to the fore such notions as irreversibility, fatal delay, structural inertia, uneven development, tipping points, time unimaginable, multiple strands, and aporetic time. Every age raises deep philosophical questions in its own way. War, freedom, justice, sexual difference have all had their day, but today the spectacle of anthropogenic climate change presses philosophy to the limit. Agency, responsibility, time, history, nature, earth, life, science, even truth—are not only live issues, they are becoming perspicuously mortal concerns. How to deal with the passions aroused by our situation, which both drive and block an adequate response to it?
Who Do We Think We Are?
Authors: Wood David
Published: September 2019

The last decades have witnessed a gathering scepticism about traditional humanism. The very idea of man often serves as ideological cover for domination by race, gender, culture, or species. “Man” is a loaded term, caught up in various legitimation narratives. Yet we are a distinct species: homo sapiens. While acknowledging the varying impacts of different farming methods, urban life, indigenous lifestyles, hunting practices, and so on, we humans are responsible for a sharp rise in the extinction of other species on the planet. The animal man has a biological reality beyond color and creed. What, then, can be said about the distinctive features of human beings as a species? How far can we get in giving such an account without introducing normative considerations, covertly blowing our own trumpet? In fact geological consciousness adds to the list of “wounds to the human psyche” by displacing our sense of human sovereignty in the course of developing a new species-consciousness. Anthropogenic climate change can legitimately be blamed on corporations, industrialization, the West, and so on. But it is as a species that we need to address it.
Cosmic Passions
Authors: Wood David
Published: September 2019

Should imminent climate change provoke angst or despair? Hume tells us that “Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions.” But which passions? A geophenomenology would begin by acknowledging the constitutive power of cosmic passions such as wonder, curiosity, and delight. Kant’s account of the sublime opens up a range of experiences with an intrinsic reflexive resonance. Stirred in with Heidegger’s connection between angst and freedom, it offers grounds for a certain hope. Heidegger’s sense that to be truly at home in the world we must experience something of the uncanny (Unheimlich) is wedded to the idea that our manner of dwelling can be transformed by adopting new narratives that free us from false desires.