bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Hibridaciones entre educación y cultura. El caso del Programa en Artes Visuales de IntersECCions
Authors: Herraiz-García Fernando , De Riba-Mayoral Silvia
Published: December 2023

Dentro del contexto de cambio global y radical de la escuela actual, el artículo presenta un estudio de caso en el que se investiga una experiencia innovadora que fusiona el trabajo cultural y el educativo. Es el caso del Programa en Artes Visuales de IntersECCions impulsado por el Ayuntamiento del Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona). Las nociones que se usan para explorar la experiencia son: la creatividad como acción colectiva (Latour, 2008) y emancipadora que permite reformular programas educativos (Graham, 2020); y el concepto de imaginación que conecta entidades extrañas y distantes (Garcés, 2020). Partiendo de un estudio de caso, se usa un enfoque etnográfico y el uso de entrevistas semi-estructuradas con las agentes implicadas en el programa. A partir de ello se analizan y cuestionan las miradas que se cruzan, las trayectorias de formación que se dan, y las acciones que devienen allí donde las artes entran en lo pedagógico de manera transdisciplinar. Del estudio se desprende el desafío de encontrar espacios imaginativos en los que instituciones educativas y culturales se enreden en acciones colectivas y transformadoras creando entidades nuevas (Barad, 2007; Latour, 2008) menos desiguales y más liberadoras.
Miradas al Arte y al Diseño Gráfico para estudiantes
Authors: Balsalobre Juana María
Published: December 2023

Convocar un concurso, nuevo, sobre Arte y Diseño, en el año 2004, supuso un reto como directora del Departamento de Arte y Comunicación Visual Eusebio Sempere del IAC Juan Gil Albert (2003-2019). Desde el primer momento, conté con la confianza de Joaquín Santo entonces director de dicha institución. La idea de vincular el Arte y el Diseño se sumaba de una parte, a sus particularidades, acepciones y expresiones, y de otra a la finalidad de una convocatoria abierta, dirigida a invitar a participar a estudiantes de Artes, Bellas Artes, Diseño, Publicidad, Arquitectura y de otras disciplinas académicas impartidas en las Escuelas y Universidades de la Comunidad Valenciana. Iniciada por y para impulsar la creatividad de esos jóvenes y, en cada edición, como se indicaba en las bases se les planteaban dos propuestas. En la primera convocatoria, en el año 2005, los temas fueron Agua/Fuego y el formato determinado era el de cartel. Además de la obra en su identidad individual, se trataba de potenciar la participación en una original exposición colectiva con la entrega de los premios y los accésits. A dichos encuentros se sumaban unas jornadas organizadas con la participación de expertos en el tema y fundadas en experiencias de diferentes e importantes profesionales. Fueron siete ediciones, de 2005 a 2012, con unos excelentes resultados relacionados con la creatividad, el encuentro y la implicación tanto de estudiantes como de docentes.
Higrotermālie procesi porainos materiālos
Authors:   , Freimanis Ritvars
Published: December 2023

Promocijas darba mērķis ir novērtēt iespējas izveidot pozitīvas energobilances kvartālu kultūrvēsturiskā pilsētvidē, izmantojot mitruma drošu ēku siltināšanu no iekšpuses. Darba mērķa pamatojums: ir jārod risinājums dilemmai starp kultūrvēsturiskā mantojuma saglabāšanu un energoefektivitātes paaugstināšanu vēsturiskajās ēkās. Viens no šīs dilemmas risinājumiem ir siltināšana no iekšpuses, vienlaikus paaugstinot ēkas energoefektivitāti. Tomēr šāds risinājums veicina izmaiņas ēkas higtrotermālajos procesos, kas var veicināt nevēlamas sekas – radīt pelējumu, izraisīt ķieģeļu drupšanu u. c.
The problems of cultural genesis in the Southern Urals in the Early Middle Ages in the works of N. A. Mazhitov in the second half of the 1950s - mid-1960s.
Authors: Akhatov Al'bert Tagirovich
Published: December 2023

The article is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of the famous Soviet and Russian archaeologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Bashkir State University Niyaz Abdulkhakovich Mazhitov. The object of the research is the works of the scientist published in the second half of the 1950s - the first half of the 1960s. The subject of the research is the theoretical developments of N.A. Mazhitov on the problems of cultural genesis in the Southern Urals in the Early Middle Ages, considered through the prism of his archaeological research and ethnocultural constructions. It is shown that despite the so-called "non-theoretical" period established in the studied period of time in archaeology and the absence of methodological works on cultural genesis in general, N. A. Mazhitov's publications showed a historical and cultural approach to studying the history of the Southern Urals in the I millennium AD. The methodological basis of the study is the analysis of the main publications of Niyaz Abdulkhakovich written in the initial period of the scientist's research activity related to the study of mainly the monuments of the 1st millennium AD. Bakhmutin, as well as the Pianobor and Turbasli archaeological cultures. An analytical review of N.A. Mazhitov's works devoted to the study of the ethnic history of the Southern Urals in the Early Middle Ages, conducted for the first time, allows us to conclude that his research was based, among other things, on the theoretical positions of cultural studies both in the study of the development of individual archaeological cultures of the Southern Urals in the I millennium AD, and in the study of ethnogenetic processes occurring in the region in general. Considering the ethnic history of the Bashkiria population in the designated period of time, Niyaz Abdulkhakovich largely appealed to the ethnocultural processes taking place in the region associated with changes in spiritual and material culture. Based on his work, the main factors that influenced their transformation can be called migration, socio-economic factor, intercultural interaction, traditions and innovations.
The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall
Authors: Garrett Andrew
Published: December 2023

A critical examination of the complex legacies of early Californian anthropology and linguistics for twenty-first-century communities.

In January 2021, at a time when many institutions were reevaluating fraught histories, the University of California removed anthropologist and linguist Alfred Kroeber's name from a building on its Berkeley campus. Critics accused Kroeber of racist and dehumanizing practices that harmed Indigenous people; university leaders repudiated his values. In The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall, Andrew Garrett examines Kroeber's work in the early twentieth century and his legacy today, asking how a vigorous opponent of racism and advocate for Indigenous rights in his own era became a symbol of his university's failed relationships with Native communities. Garrett argues that Kroeber's most important work has been overlooked: his collaborations with Indigenous people throughout California to record their languages and stories.

The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall offers new perspectives on the early practice of anthropology and linguistics and on its significance today and in the future. Kroeber's documentation was broader and more collaborative and multifaceted than is usually recognized. As a result, the records Indigenous people created while working with him are relevant throughout California as communities revive languages, names, songs, and stories. Garrett asks readers to consider these legacies, arguing that the University of California chose to reject critical self-examination when it unnamed Kroeber Hall.
Spatial chromatin accessibility sequencing resolves high-order spatial interactions of epigenomic markers
Authors: Xie Yeming , Ruan Fengying , Li Yaning , Luo Meng , Zhang Chen , Chen Zhichao , Xie Zhe , Weng Zhe , Chen Weitian , Chen Wenfang , Fang Yitong , Sun Yuxin , Guo Mei , Wang Juan , Xu Shouping , Wang Hongqi , Tang Chong
Published: December 2023

As the genome is organized into a three-dimensional structure in intracellular space, epigenomic information also has a complex spatial arrangement. However, most epigenetic studies describe locations of methylation marks, chromatin accessibility regions, and histone modifications in the horizontal dimension. Proper spatial epigenomic information has rarely been obtained. In this study, we designed spatial chromatin accessibility sequencing (SCA-seq) to resolve the genome conformation by capturing the epigenetic information in single-molecular resolution while simultaneously resolving the genome conformation. Using SCA-seq, we are able to examine the spatial interaction of chromatin accessibility (e.g. enhancer-promoter contacts), CpG island methylation, and spatial insulating functions of the CCCTC-binding factor. We demonstrate that SCA-seq paves the way to explore the mechanism of epigenetic interactions and extends our knowledge in 3D packaging of DNA in the nucleus.
Biobank-wide association scan identifies risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease and endophenotypes
Authors: Yan Donghui , Hu Bowen , Darst Burcu F , Mukherjee Shubhabrata , Kunkle Brian W , Deming Yuetiva , Dumitrescu Logan , Wang Yunling , Naj Adam , Kuzma Amanda , Zhao Yi , Kang Hyunseung , Johnson Sterling C , Carlos Cruchaga , Hohman Timothy J , Crane Paul K , Engelman Corinne D ,   Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC), Lu Qiongshi
Published: December 2023

Rich data from large biobanks, coupled with increasingly accessible association statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), provide great opportunities to dissect the complex relationships among human traits and diseases. We introduce BADGERS, a powerful method to perform polygenic score-based biobank-wide association scans. Compared to traditional approaches, BADGERS uses GWAS summary statistics as input and does not require multiple traits to be measured in the same cohort. We applied BADGERS to two independent datasets for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD; n=61,212). Among 1738 traits in the UK biobank, we identified 48 significant associations for AD. Family history, high cholesterol, and numerous traits related to intelligence and education showed strong and independent associations with AD. Furthermore, we identified 41 significant associations for a variety of AD endophenotypes. While family history and high cholesterol were strongly associated with AD subgroups and pathologies, only intelligence and education-related traits predicted pre-clinical cognitive phenotypes. These results provide novel insights into the distinct biological processes underlying various risk factors for AD.
Biobank-wide association scan identifies risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease and endophenotypes
Authors: Yan Donghui , Hu Bowen , Darst Burcu F. , Mukherjee Shubhabrata , Kunkle Brian W. , Deming Yuetiva , Dumitrescu Logan , Wang Yunling , Naj Adam , Kuzma Amanda , Zhao Yi , Kang Hyunseung , Johnson Sterling C. , Cruchaga Carlos , Hohman Timothy J. , Crane Paul K. , Engelman Corinne D. ,   Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC), Lu Qiongshi
Published: December 2023

Rich data from large biobanks, coupled with increasingly accessible association statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), provide great opportunities to dissect the complex relationships among human traits and diseases. We introduce BADGERS, a powerful method to perform polygenic score-based biobank-wide association scans. Compared to traditional approaches, BADGERS uses GWAS summary statistics as input and does not require multiple traits to be measured in the same cohort. We applied BADGERS to two independent datasets for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD; N=61,212). Among 1,738 traits in the UK biobank, we identified 48 significant associations for AD. Family history, high cholesterol, and numerous traits related to intelligence and education showed strong and independent associations with AD. Further, we identified 41 significant associations for a variety of AD endophenotypes. While family history and high cholesterol were strongly associated with AD subgroups and pathologies, only intelligence and education-related traits predicted pre-clinical cognitive phenotypes. These results provide novel insights into the distinct biological processes underlying various risk factors for AD.
Balance of Activity during a Critical Period Tunes a Developing Network
Authors: Hunter Iain , Coulson Bramwell , Pettini Tom , Davies Jacob J. , Parkin Jill , Landgraf Matthias , Baines Richard A.
Published: December 2023

Developing neural circuits are influenced by activity and are especially sensitive to changes in activity during critical periods (CPs) of development. Changes occurring during a CP often become ‘locked-in’ so that they affect the mature network. Indeed, several neurodevelopmental disorders have been linked to excessive activity during such periods. It is, therefore, important to identify those aspects of neural circuit development that are influenced by neural activity during a CP. In this study, we take advantage of the genetic tractability of
Drosophila
to show that activity perturbation during an embryonic CP permanently alters properties of the locomotor circuit. Specific changes we identify include increased synchronicity of motoneuron activity, and greater strengthening of excitatory over inhibitory synaptic drive to motoneurons. These changes are sufficient to reduce network robustness, evidenced by increased sensitivity to induced seizure. We also show that we can rescue these changes when increased activity is mitigated by inhibition provided by mechanosensory neurons. Similarly, we demonstrate a dose-dependent relationship between inhibition experienced during the CP, and the extent to which it is possible to rescue the hyperexcitable phenotype characteristic of the

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mutation. This suggests that developing circuits must be exposed to a properly balanced sum of excitation and inhibition during the CP to achieve normal mature network function. Our results, therefore, provide novel insight into how activity during a CP shapes specific elements of a circuit, and how activity during this period is integrated to tune neural circuits to the environment in which they will likely function.
Phosphorylation bar-coding of free fatty acid receptor 2 is generated in a tissue-specific manner
Authors: Barki Natasja , Jenkins Laura , Marsango Sara , Dedeo Domonkos , Bolognini Daniele , Dwomoh Louis , Abdelmalik Aisha M , Nilsen Margaret , Stoffels Manon , Nagel Falko , Schulz Stefan , Tobin Andrew B , Milligan Graeme
Published: December 2023

Free fatty acid receptor 2 (FFAR2) is activated by short-chain fatty acids and expressed widely, including in white adipocytes and various immune and enteroendocrine cells. Using both wild-type human FFAR2 and a designer receptor exclusively activated by designer drug (DREADD) variant we explored the activation and phosphorylation profile of the receptor, both in heterologous cell lines and in tissues from transgenic knock-in mouse lines expressing either human FFAR2 or the FFAR2-DREADD. FFAR2 phospho-site-specific antisera targeting either pSer296/pSer297 or pThr306/pThr310 provided sensitive biomarkers of both constitutive and agonist-mediated phosphorylation as well as an effective means to visualise agonist-activated receptors in situ. In white adipose tissue, phosphorylation of residues Ser296/Ser297 was enhanced upon agonist activation whilst Thr306/Thr310 did not become phosphorylated. By contrast, in immune cells from Peyer’s patches Thr306/Thr310 become phosphorylated in a strictly agonist-dependent fashion whilst in enteroendocrine cells of the colon both Ser296/Ser297 and Thr306/Thr310 were poorly phosphorylated. The concept of phosphorylation bar-coding has centred to date on the potential for different agonists to promote distinct receptor phosphorylation patterns. Here, we demonstrate that this occurs for the same agonist-receptor pairing in different patho-physiologically relevant target tissues. This may underpin why a single G protein-coupled receptor can generate different functional outcomes in a tissue-specific manner.
Sensorimotor mechanisms selective to numerosity: evidence from individual differences
Authors: Anobile Giovanni , Petrizzo Irene , Paiardini Daisy , Burr David C. , Cicchini Guido Marco
Published: December 2023

We have previously shown that after few seconds of adaptation by finger-tapping, the perceived numerosity of spatial arrays and temporal sequences of visual objects displayed near the tapping region is increased or decreased, implying the existence of a
sensorimotor numerosity system
(Anobile et al., 2016). To date, this mechanism has been evidenced only by adaptation. Here we extend our finding by leveraging on a well-established covariance technique, used to unveil and characterize “channels” for basic visual features such as colour, motion, contrast, and spatial frequency. Participants were required to press rapidly a key a specific number of times, without counting. We then correlated the precision of reproduction for various target number presses between participants. The results showed high positive correlations for nearby target numbers, scaling down with numerical distance, implying tuning selectivity. Factor analysis identified two factors, one for low and the other for higher numbers. Principal component analysis revealed two bell-shaped covariance channels, peaking at different numerical values. Two control experiments ruled out the role of non-numerical strategies based on tapping frequency and response duration. These results reinforce our previous reports based on adaptation, and further suggest the existence of at least two sensorimotor number channels responsible for translating symbolic numbers into action sequences.
Multi-day Neuron Tracking in High Density Electrophysiology Recordings using EMD
Authors: Yuan Augustine(Xiaoran) , Colonell Jennifer , Lebedeva Anna , Okun Michael , Charles Adam , Harris Timothy
Published: December 2023

Accurate tracking of the same neurons across multiple days is crucial for studying changes in neuronal activity during learning and adaptation. Advances in high density extracellular electrophysiology recording probes, such as Neuropixels, provide a promising avenue to accomplish this goal. Identifying the same neurons in multiple recordings is, however, complicated by non-rigid movement of the tissue relative to the recording sites (drift) and loss of signal from some neurons. Here we propose a neuron tracking method that can identify the same cells independent of firing statistics, which a reused by most existing methods. Our method is based on between-day non-rigid alignment of spike sorted clusters. We verified the same cell identify using measured visual receptive fields. This method succeeds on datasets separated from one to 47 days, with an 84% average recovery rate.
Feature selection based on neighborhood rough sets and Gini index
Authors: Zhang Yuchao , Nie Bin , Du Jianqiang , Chen Jiandong , Du Yuwen , Jin Haike , Zheng Xuepeng , Chen Xingxin , Miao Zhen
Published: December 2023

Neighborhood rough set is considered an essential approach for dealing with incomplete data and inexact knowledge representation, and it has been widely applied in feature selection. The Gini index is an indicator used to evaluate the impurity of a dataset and is also commonly employed to measure the importance of features in feature selection. This article proposes a novel feature selection methodology based on these two concepts. In this methodology, we present the neighborhood Gini index and the neighborhood class Gini index and then extensively discuss their properties and relationships with attributes. Subsequently, two forward greedy feature selection algorithms are developed using these two metrics as a foundation. Finally, to comprehensively evaluate the performance of the algorithm proposed in this article, comparative experiments were conducted on 16 UCI datasets from various domains, including industry, food, medicine, and pharmacology, against four classical neighborhood rough set-based feature selection algorithms. The experimental results indicate that the proposed algorithm improves the average classification accuracy on the 16 datasets by over 6%, with improvements exceeding 10% in five. Furthermore, statistical tests reveal no significant differences between the proposed algorithm and the four classical neighborhood rough set-based feature selection algorithms. However, the proposed algorithm demonstrates high stability, eliminating most redundant or irrelevant features effectively while enhancing classification accuracy. In summary, the algorithm proposed in this article outperforms classical neighborhood rough set-based feature selection algorithms.
Comprehensive evaluation for the sustainable development of fresh agricultural products logistics enterprises based on combination empowerment-TOPSIS method
Authors: Sun Dechao , Hu Xuefang , Liu Bangquan
Published: December 2023

To solve the problems of environmental pollution and resource waste caused by the rapid development of cold chain logistics of fresh agricultural products and improve the competitiveness of logistics enterprises in the market, a performance evaluation method of cold chain logistics enterprises based on the combined empowerment-TOPSIS was proposed. Firstly, from the five dimensions of cold supply chain capacity, service quality, economic efficiency, informatization degree and development ability, a comprehensive evaluation system of logistics enterprises’ sustainable development is constructed, which consists of 16 indicators, such as storage and preservation capacity, distribution accuracy, and equipment input rate. Then, G1 method and entropy weight method are used to calculate the subjective and objective weights of the evaluation indicators, and the combined weights are calculated with the objective of minimizing the deviation of the subjective and objective weighted attributes. Finally, the TOPSIS method is used to calculate the comprehensive evaluation indicators. The results show that the established performance evaluation model can effectively evaluate the performance of fresh agricultural products logistics enterprises and provide theoretical basis for enterprise logistics management.
A novel network security situation assessment model based on multiple strategies whale optimization algorithm and bidirectional GRU
Authors: Zhang Shengcai , Fu Qiming , An Dezhi , He Zhenxiang , Liu Zhenyu
Published: December 2023

The rapid development of the internet has brought about a comprehensive transformation in human life. However, the challenges of cybersecurity are becoming increasingly severe, necessitating the implementation of effective security mechanisms. Cybersecurity situational awareness can effectively assess the network status, facilitating the formulation of better cybersecurity defense strategies. However, due to the low accuracy of existing situational assessment methods, situational assessment remains a challenge. In this study, a new situational assessment method, MSWOA-BiGRU, combining optimization algorithms and temporal neural networks, was proposed. Firstly, a scientific indicator system proposed in this research is used to calculate the values of each indicator. Then, the Analytic Hierarchy Process is used to derive the actual situation values, which serve as labels. Taking into account the temporal nature of network traffic, the BiGRU model is utilized for cybersecurity situational assessment. After integrating time-related features and network traffic characteristics, the situational assessment value is obtained. During the evaluation process, a whale optimization algorithm (MSWOA) improved with a mix of strategies proposed in this study was employed to optimize the model. The performance of the proposed MSWOA-BiGRU model was evaluated on publicly available real network security datasets. Experimental results indicate that compared to traditional optimization algorithms, the optimization performance of MSWOA has seen significant enhancement. Furthermore, MSWOA-BiGRU demonstrates superior performance in cybersecurity situational assessment compared to existing evaluation methods.
NOS3 and CTH gene mutations as new molecular markers for detection of lung adenocarcinoma
Authors: Abdullah Ramadhan Iman , Rahman Sulaiman Luqman , Salihi Abbas
Published: December 2023

Gene mutations can contribute to lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) development, metastasis, and therapy. This study aims to identify mutations in the endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS or NOS3) and cystathionine γ-lyase (CSE or CTH) genes that are connected to LUAD symptoms. Two gene polymorphisms were identified using Sanger sequencing in 31 LUAD patients’ formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation and programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression were examined in 110 LUAD patients using real-time polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry. Mutations in the selected genes were retrieved from the gnomAD database for all cancer types and the Mutagene and COSMIC databases for LUAD patients. The GeneMANIA prediction server was used to predict the interaction between the studied genes. Poorly and moderately differentiated tumours predominated, with pT3 N2 Mx being the most prevalent stage. Polymorphism data showed 189 NOS3 gene mutations and 34 CTH gene mutations. In 110 LUAD patients, 14 (12.73%) were PD-L1 positive and expressed 50% or more protein. Eight (7.27%) samples included EGFR mutations, including two deletions and two point mutations in exon 19, four point mutations in exon 21. In gnomAD, 4012 NOS3 mutations and 1214 CTH mutations are present. In the Mutagene and COSMIC databases, the NOS3 gene had 295 and 93 mutations, whereas the CTH gene had 61 and 36. According to the GeneMANIA prediction server, 10 genes are related to NOS3, eight with CTH, 15 with EGFR, and 5 with PD-L1. This study is the first to identify several previously unknown mutations in LUAD patients’ NOS3 and CTH genes, with potential therapeutic implications.
The vegetation of Holocene coastal dunes of the Cape south coast, South Africa
Authors: Cowling Richard M. , Cawthra Hayley , Privett Sean , Grobler B. Adriaan
Published: December 2023

The vegetation of calcareous coastal dunes of Holocene age along the south coast of South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region is poorly described. This vegetation comprises a mosaic of communities associated with two biomes, Fynbos and Subtropical Thicket. Previously, expert knowledge rather than quantitative floristic analysis has been used to identify and delimit vegetation units. In many areas, mapped units conflate vegetation on Holocene sand with that on unconsolidated sediments of late Pleistocene age, despite pronounced species turnover across this edaphic boundary. Despite dominance by Cape lineages and fynbos vegetation, dune vegetation in the eastern part of the region has been included in the Subtropical Thicket Biome rather than the Fynbos Biome. The high levels of local plant endemism associated with this dune vegetation and the small and fragmented configuration of these habitats, makes it an urgent conservation priority especially when placed in the context of rising sea levels, increasing development pressures and numerous other threats. Here we provide a quantitative analysis of 253 plots of the 620 km2 of Holocene dune vegetation of the study area using phytosociological and multivariate methods. We identified six fynbos and two thicket communities based on the occurrences of 500 species. Following a long tradition in Cape vegetation typology, we used the Strandveld (beach vegetation) concept as our first-order vegetation entity and identified six units based on the fynbos floras. These were, from east to west, Southeastern Strandveld, St Francis Strandveld, Goukamma Strandveld, Southwestern Strandveld and Grootbos Strandveld. Each unit was differentiated by a suite of differential species, most being Holocene dune endemics. The two thicket communities—Mesic and Xeric Dune Thicket—showed limited variation across the study area and were subsumed into the Strandveld units. We discussed our findings in terms of vegetation–sediment relationships, emphasizing the need for a greater geographical coverage of sediment ages to facilitate a better understanding of deposition history on vegetation composition. We also discussed the role of soil moisture and fire regime on structuring the relative abundance of fynbos and thicket across the Holocene dune landscape. Finally, we address the conservation implications of our study, arguing that all remaining Holocene dune habitat should be afforded the highest conservation priority in regional land-use planning processes.
Performative Translations, Intimate Dialogues and Political Transformations: Contemporary Experiments on Translating the Classics
Authors: Pujol Duran Jèssica
Published: December 2023

In this article I bring together three different textual practices that set up intimate dialogues with the works of variously canonical authors (Dante, Petrarch and César Vallejo). William Rowe and Helen Dimos present a new bilingual version of Vallejo’s Trilce with glosses, Tim Atkins answers Il Canzionere with 366 “sonnets” that not only enter into a dialogue with Petrarch but also with previous translations of his work, and Caroline Bergvall performs an experimental engagement with translations of Dante’s Divine Comedy. These exercises in translation challenge notions of fidelity and break phantasmagorical hierarchies built by the canon. Instead of fidelity, there is intimacy in their dialogues, since they each open up particular, personal approaches to the oeuvre, its author, its translators, its history, and the audience or reader. I argue that these works understand translation as an intimate performative and political action, and their reading provokes a reconfiguration of both the source text and its previous translations.
Theatricality and Race in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Raquel Carrió and Flora Lauten’s Otra tempestad
Authors: Cornejo Griffin María José
Published: December 2023

Otra tempestad was performed at La Habana’s Teatro Buendía in 1997, with dramaturgy by Raquel Carrió and Flora Lauten.2 This play marked a new direction in Latin American rewritings of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. This tradition began with Ruben Darío, Paul Groussac and José Enrique Rodó, who discussed the image of Caliban in relation to the United States and its intervention in Latin America. The climax of these rewritings came with authors such as George Lamming, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Kamau Brathwaite and Roberto Fernández Retamar. Their readings and understanding of the play vindicate the image of Caliban and emphasize the processes of colonization in the context of the Cuban Revolution, the Négritude Movement, and the decolonization of the Caribbean. Continuing with this tradition, Carrió and Lauten composed their play focusing on the processes of globalization and the new millennium (Flaherty 102), transferring their focus to the experimentation with new ways of understanding theatricality and Cuban identity through dialogue, establishing a counterpoint with The Tempest. Carrió herself has stated that rewriting the plot of the Shakespearean play became more complex by the end of the century (“Otra” 159). This results in a temporal and thematical distance with Césaire’s rewriting and the Caribbean tradition of the 50s and 60s because, for Carrió, it is not enough to negate the language of the colonizer but researching the process of cultural formation through cultural contact is also needed (“Otra” 159). The main gesture that the dramaturges offer comes from the title itself. By entitling it Otra tempestad (Another Tempest), Carrió/Lauten include the play in relation to Césaire’s play Une Tempête (A Tempest). […] By María José Cornejo
Making Music Mean – An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Composing Music that Reads Poetry and Narrative
Authors: Katz Montiel Marco
Published: December 2023

Music provides new readings of literature. Although readers expect writers to employ words while commenting on music, the first section of this report, called “Theory,” demonstrates how the musical text brings out new understandings from what readers can now refer to as a wordful text. A history of this undertaking brings together Ancient Greek philosophy, centuries of semiotics, and twentieth-century Caribbean thoughts on filin, with autobiographical references that show how these all synthesize into a highly personal form of Cultural Studies newly reconsid-ered as Creation-Research. “Practice,” the second section, begins with a musical epigraph and then provides references to musical scores by Franz Schubert, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, and the au-thor. Contrasting with the preceding part, this creates more hearing than reading by including direct links to sonic examples of the music discussed, turning readers into listeners who can begin to read with their ears and hear with their eyes.
“Never Trust the Artist, Trust the Tale”: D.H. Lawrence’s “A Modern Lover” as an Aesthetic Autobiography
Authors: Rojel Gallardo Camila
Published: December 2023

The British writer D. H. Lawrence developed a particular manner of intertwining his life experience with the tools that fiction offered him, embodied in Modernism. In his short story ―A Modern Lover‖, this writer was able to unravel what the theorist Suzanne Nalbantian characterizes as the ―aesthetic autobiography‖, consisting precisely in the systematic transformation of raw biographical material into fictionalized scenes that build up a literary work. ―A Modern Lover‖, the ―aesthetic autobiography‖ in which Lawrence hid the autobiographical treasures of his intense youth with his close friend Jessie Chambers, works at different levels. The central autobiographical elements represent the deep workings of fiction at the level of characters, especially the protagonist, Cyril Mersham. The peripheral autobiographical elements represent a subjective, personal view on time and space, and how the same affects the narrative stream and the characters involved in the story. An analysis of the short story in question allows us to regard D. H. Lawrence among the modernist writers– Virginia Woolf and James Joyce–that changed the classical notions of autobiography and fiction, as well as opening new fields for literary criticism to expand.
Prelinguistic and Linguistic Dimensions in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Authors: Gutiérrez Camila
Published: December 2023

The present paper analyzes the building of identity and consciousness of the wretch in Mary Shelley‟s Frankenstein. First, it provides an analysis of the prelinguistic stage the wretch goes through in light of Ernst Cassirer‟s theory on animal reactions and human responses. Here, the concept of “symbol” plays a central role, since it is what triggers the wretch‟s emotional development. Secondly, the paper presents a series of Jaques Lacan‟s concepts on the symbolic such as symbolic order, Mirror Stage and the Other, in order to illustrate how the wretch attempts to become more human as its linguistic competence improves. Through the analysis of the process of language acquisition, the wretch‟s emotional development will is traced in order to see how his initial sympathetic kindness turns into disappointment and brutal desire for revenge
The Kink’s English Episode III: Rushdie and I
Authors: Villarroel Leonardo
Published: December 2023

Salman Rushdie came into my life, as into those of many others, that fatidic February 14th, 1989. He may have actually done so a couple of days later, but hey, that is also my birthday, so I like to entertain the poetry of that possibility. I was eight years old and I used to devotedly watch the nightly news, as in those days journalism, albeit under a totalitarian regime, had not degraded to the lows of today’s standards. The news kept talking about Rushdie and the death threats against him; they said he had written a book called The Satanic Verses. To my eight year-old mind there was nothing more fascinating and attractive that a book title with the word Satanic on it, and so this news item imprinted itself in my memory. Who knew, perhaps some day, maybe one day I would be able to read these so-called verses and maybe I would knew what it was that Satan had to say.
Line Through The Night
Authors: Villagra Sebastián
Published: December 2023

I was in the garden, the cellphone screen shining in my right hand. I read the message; I read it again, read it many times. It said the neighborhood church had collapsed and I should go and see it. Inside my house father insisted with the phones and mother had started to fill bottles with water. I went to the kitchen and told her I was going out and wasn’t coming back till the next day, and she said I was cruel, something she had been saying since many years ago, and I left.
“Through Cut Glass”, “One Is Not An Alien Number”, “Not Far, Yet Wide”, “Grateful Among The Living”, “Tales From An Iron Climate”
Authors: Aylsworth Peggy
Published: December 2023

She had poured her few regrets into a bowl of thin-skinned pears. The bowl, cut glass, required the chandelier. Night burns its own dead wood. Her eyes.
Henri Christophe: a Haitian Macbeth
Authors: León Rosario
Published: December 2023

The dramatic play Henri Christophe: A Chronicle in Seven Scenes (1949) by Saint Lucian playwright Derek Walcott sets the scene during the rule of Henri Christophe, one of the great leaders of the Haitian Revolution, in Northern Haiti, from his ascent to power, through his controverted excesses, until his downfall. The article analyses this drama from two points of view, on the one hand, discussing and controverting the nature of the play as a historical drama, and on the other hand analysing it from an intertextual perspective, starting from the allusions to various Shakespeare’s works, especially the one alluded in the title. The article puts forward the idea that the work of Walcott does not conform with the model of historical drama, since it makes almost no reference to the macro historical context, and it fails to mention the historical forces driving the conflict. Instead, he focuses on the character development of the hero, modelled after Macbeth, where the opposing forces are internal and arise from the passions of the character.
(Un)even Cultural Productions: (Re)theorising Silences in the Kenyan Political Life writing
Authors: Mutie Stephen , Rutere Albert
Published: December 2023

This article examines how the Kenyan political self-writing (re)enacts silences while claiming to memorise the country’s past. The paper interrogates the self-writings as cultural productions ridden with interested (re)theorisings. The question to be answered in this article regards whether the Kenyan political self-writings, in the quest for nationhood in Kenya, silence particular strands of histories and other equally essential themes in the Kenyan political memory. To answer this question, the discussion was located within the post-colonial theory, with particular emphasis on the strand that articulates resistance as a form of strategic calculation and interrogates the interest that inhabits the production of specific knowledges. The article examined the political autobiography chosen here as located from a place of privilege, often silencing particular themes while amplifying others. The biographical method was used to analyse Not Yet Uhuru by Jaramogi Odinga and The Flame of Freedom by Raila Odinga. Revealing the dangers of a single story in autobiographical works, the article argues that Kenyan political self-writing is imbued with rhetorical performances determined by the need to tell a compelling story. Hiding behind the romantic concept of speaking truth to power and using grandeur themes like nationhood and subalternity as survival tropes, the leaders examined here deliberately and conveniently elbow out other themes that do not serve their interests. Uhuru and Freedom are, therefore, public performances of deference and loyalty so crucial in power relations, especially in maintaining dynastic life and constructing a flattering self-image of their writers. In the final analysis, Uhuru and Freedom become cultural constructions, remembering the past with a slant.
Av. Independencia: Literatura, música e ideas de Chile disidente de Rubí Carreño (2013)
Authors: Mandiola Tomás
Published: December 2023

No deja de ser relevante que Av. Independencia (2013) de Rubí Carreño motivara a Diamela Eltit a relevar la crítica como una “experiencia poética” (226). En el ámbito de la investigación literaria –la muchas veces mal llamada crítica académica– resulta poco usual encontrarse con proyectos escriturales, como el que Carreño ha desarrollado, que extremen la potencia poética y política de la letra. Hablo de una escritura que no se limita a vehiculizar un saber especializado, sino que reflexiona sobre sí misma, que se funde y confunde gozosamente con la multiplicidad de estéticas con las que se involucra, en las que indaga, para ensayar horizontes de libertad.
“¡Odio las poesías!”: Autoritarismo, poesía y auralidad en el Chile post-1973
Authors: Cárcamo-Huechante Luis E.
Published: December 2023

En una entrevista de la Revista Mundo, hecha al General Augusto Pinochet hacia 1980, se le pregunta y luego responde lo que sigue: “–¿Quiere que le diga una cosa? ¡Odio las poesías! Ni leerlas, ni escucharlas, ni escribirlas, ni nada”.Podríamos preguntarnos, ¿qué le suscita este “odio” hacia “las poesías” a un dictador como Pinochet, en un país como Chile, que se había imaginado a lo largo del siglo veinte como “país de poetas”? ¿Cómo se podría interpretar el tono exclamativo, tajante y taxativo de las palabras de Pinochet? En principio, el ímpetu del “odio” movilizaría la violenta consumación del Golpe de Estado en Chile el 11 de septiembre de 1973 y que se amplifica ideológicamente en la Doctrina de Seguridad Nacional y su tesis del “enemigo interno”–el cáncer marxista, el comunismo, “los políticos” y símiles figuraciones–. Este relato ideológico e histórico coadyuvará a sostener y sustentar el continuismo autoritario y contra-insurgente del régimen cívico-militar encabezado por el General Augusto Pinochet.
estado de la crítica literaria durante la dictadura: la irrupción del feminismo como práctica de lucha antihegemónica
Authors: Espinosa Patricia
Published: December 2023

No recuerdo bien dónde me topé con una de las definiciones literarias más cursis de todos los tiempos, el ensayo es el “centauro de los géneros”. Más allá de lo afectado del concepto, lo que nos importa aquí es cómo esa mirada remarca la excluyente supremacía de los varones. Lo central en este caso es constatar que todas las escrituras relacionadas con la verdad o con la exploración de los caminos para llegar a la verdad, e incluso los géneros de opinión, han estado bajo la hegemonía masculina. Las mujeres ensayistas, de tal modo, ocupan un sitio sino invisible, menor. El problema es que esto no es solo un asunto que importe por la apropiación histórica de un género, sino que lo verdaderamente crucial es la conformación de una escena donde la voz legitimada es la que se ajuste al modelo impuesto históricamente por lo varones, es decir, una serie de modos y protocolos que se consideran ‘adecuados’ o ‘pertinentes’.
Voces Críticas. 50 años de intervención escritural
Authors: Pistacchio Romina
Published: December 2023

Las investigaciones que han dedicado esfuerzos y páginas a (re)pensar y analizar la producción cultural del Chile previo al golpe de estado civil-militar y la posterior a esos devastadores eventos, coinciden, sin duda alguna, en identificar en ellas la profunda marca de la experiencia del exilio. Y no solo en aquellas que se gestaron padeciendo el destierro sino también en las que, en el escenario de proscripción y censura que se vivía en el “insilio”, pudieron ser conocidas y visibilizadas a través de los medios y redes que articularon y consolidaron las comunidades culturales e intelectuales fuera de Chile.
ERKEN ÇOCUKLUK DÖNEMİNDE FEN BİLİMLERİNE YÖNELİK MERAK ÖLÇEĞİNİN GELİŞTİRİLMESİ: GEÇERLİK VE GÜVENİRLİK ÇALIŞMALARI
Authors: YAMAN Süleyman , SARIŞAN TUNGAÇ Aslı
Published: December 2023

Bu çalışmanın temel amacı, erken çocukluk dönemindeki çocukların fen bilimlerine yönelik merak algılarını ortayı koymayı hedefleyen geçerli ve güvenilir bir ölçme aracının geliştirilmesidir. Alanyazında erken çocukluk dönemine uygun ve fen bilimlerine yönelik bir merak ölçeğine rastlanamadığı için literatürdeki bu eksikliğin giderilmesi amacıyla ölçek geliştirme çalışmalarına başlanmıştır. Öncelikle literatür taraması yapılarak merak kavramının boyutları incelenmiş, ardından çocuklarla yapılan odak grup görüşmesi ile madde havuzu oluşturulmuştur. Oluşturulan maddeler uzman görüşüne sunularak gerekli düzenlemeler sağlanmıştır. Araştırma için gerekli olan etik kurul ve MEB izinleri alındıktan sonra sorular online forma dönüştürülmüş ve Karadeniz bölgesinde yer alan bir ilde görev yapmakta olan okulöncesi öğretmenlerine gönderilmiştir. Öğretmenlere, formun öğrencilere velileri tarafından uygulanabilmesi için gerekli olan yönerge de verilmiştir. Bu sayede veliler ölçek maddelerini çocuklara okuyarak onlar adına işaretlemelerde bulunmuştur. Açımlayıcı faktör analizi için 372, doğrulayıcı faktör analizi için ise toplamda 273 olmak üzere toplamda 645 çocuğa ulaşılmıştır. Açımlayıcı faktör analizi öncesinde 25 ifadeye sahip olan ölçek, analiz sonrasında 16 ifadeli ve 5 faktörden meydana gelen bir yapı sergilemiştir. Geliştirilen ölçeğin güvenirlik katsayısı doğrulayıcı faktör analizi sonrasında ölçeğin tamamı için ,80; alt boyutları içinse sırasıyla ,75; ,80; ,81; ,82 ve ,75 olarak belirlenmiştir.
Investigating the Cross-Cultural Impact: An Analysis of Turkish Translations of Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) through Reiss’s Text Typology
Authors: DELİBAŞ Hatice
Published: December 2023

The research investigates Turkish translations of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) from the perspective of Reiss’s text typology. CEFR is a comprehensive document defining language teaching, learning objectives and providing testing tools designed in 2001 with the impact of multiculturalism and multilingualism notions. The document has been translated into 40 different languages and applied globally since then. Turkish is one of the languages in which CEFR was translated. These translations, on the other hand, are crucial for informing target audience regarding development and innovation in language learning, assessment and curriculum. This study aims to shed light on cross-cultural impact of CEFR by analysing its Turkish translations through Reiss’s text typology. The study adopts the method of document analysis to examine Turkish translations of CEFR by focusing on key terms and concepts related to language education. Based on findings of study, CEFR is an informative text in terms of text typology approach and transferred to Turkish aligned with source text in terms of its function and content. These results suggest that translators adopted a translation approach fulfilling the intended purpose of the text and demands of the target audience considering informative text type. Additionally, the findings of the study are also notable in that it offers a thorough understanding of the CEFR's cross-cultural impact in Turkish setting and a systematic approach for translators regarding text types. The research is expected to contribute to translation studies and enhance education practices and policies related to foreign language in Turkey with the insights it offers.