bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Nitrification in the water column of Lake Erie: Seasonal patterns, community dynamics, and competition with cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms
Authors: Hoffman D.K. , McCarthy M.J. , Zastepa A. , Boedecker A.R. , Myers J.A. , Newell S.E.
Published: May 2024

This study reports directly measured nitrification rates in the water column of western Lake Erie, which is affected by annual cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms, and across all three Lake Erie basins. Over three field seasons, 15NH4+ stable isotope tracers were employed to quantify nitrification rates, and relative abundances of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and ammonia-oxidizing archaea were determined via qPCR. Nitrification rates ranged from undetectable to 1,270 nmol L-1 d-1 and were generally greatest in the western basin near the Maumee River mouth (a major nutrient source). Nitrification rates were highest in early summer, and often lowest during peak cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms months (August and September), before increasing again in October. In the western basin, nitrification was negatively correlated with cyanobacterial biomass. There were no consistent differences in nitrification rates between the three Lake Erie basins. Over the three years in western Lake Erie, ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and ammonia-oxidizing archaea were often present in high and similar abundances, but overall, ammonia-oxidizing bacteria exceeded ammonia-oxidizing archaea, particularly in 2017. No relationships were observed between nitrification rates and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and ammonia-oxidizing archaea abundances. Thus, despite abundant ammonia-oxidizer DNA, lower nitrification rates during cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms suggest that nitrifiers were poor competitors for regenerated and available NH4+ during these blooms, as also observed in similar systems. Low nitrification rates during cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms could limit system nitrogen removal via denitrification, a natural pathway for its removal and a valuable ecosystem service. Lower denitrification rates allow more bioavailable nitrogen to remain in the system and support biomass and microcystin production; therefore, these results help explain how non-nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms persist, despite low bioavailable nitrogen concentrations during these blooms, and support management efforts to reduce external nitrogen loading to eutrophic systems.
Calibration versus computation: Comparison between 1D and 3D phytoplankton simulations in western Lake Erie
Authors: Wang Qi , Nakhaei Nader , Boegman Leon
Published: May 2024

Numerical models are commonly used tools to simulate hydrodynamics and water quality of lakes. Model dimensionality (0D, 1D, 2D, or 3D) requires different simplification levels of physical-biogeochemical processes, computational power and calibration strategies and metrics against observations. To investigate these modelling considerations, the 1D (vertical) Aquatic Ecosystem Dynamics – General Lake Model and the 3D Aquatic Ecosystem Model were applied to western Lake Erie in 2008 and 2011-14. The performance of the models was evaluated by comparing the simulations against observations of water temperature, total phosphorus, orthophosphate, nitrate, total chlorophyll-a and cyanobacteria at three stations located along a transect from the Maumee River mouth to mid-basin, as well as to the basin-averaged cyanobacteria index. The 3D model showed better skill in qualitatively reproducing seasonal and spatial variations of nutrients and phytoplankton and had lower average root-mean-square error, especially through the algal plume near the Maumee River mouth. However, the horizontally averaged 1D model performed better in qualitatively capturing the cyanobacteria bloom years, as this model was extensively calibrated to basin-average values. We conclude that models should be selected and calibrated to provide the required decision support information, rather than the highest resolution or lowest error metrics at discrete sites.
Impacts of dreissenid mussel growth and activity on phytoplankton and nutrients in Lake Erie's western basin
Authors: Carter G.S. , Godwin C.M. , Johengen T.J. , Vanderploeg H.A. , Elgin A.K. , Glyshaw P.W. , Carrick H.J. , Dahal N. , Denef V.J. , Fanslow D.L. , Burtner A.M. , Camilleri A.C.
Published: May 2024

To examine the potential impact of invasive dreissenid mussels on in situ populations of phytoplankton and nutrients in western Lake Erie, we combined mussel population estimates from a 2018 survey, results from mussel excretion, grazing, and in situ growth experiments, along with nutrient measurements on collected lake water. We calculated the proportion of the water column filtered per day, based on both clearance rates from grazing experiments and mussel biomass. In most cases the water column was filtered less than once per day. Based on mussel densities from nearby survey sites, we found that mussels could be expected to clear less than 5% of phytoplankton from the water column each day. We combined measurements of nitrogen and phosphorus excretion by mussels with survey densities and found that concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus from excretion were much less than the ambient inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus measured throughout the season. Despite the modest potential impact that we measured, spatial variability in mussel density and temporal variability in nutrients and seston suggest that more substantial impact likely occurs in some conditions. Lastly, we used a mass balance approach to compare flows of nitrogen and phosphorus attributable to mussel assimilation, growth, and excretion. The proportion of assimilated nitrogen (0.01-0.21) and phosphorus (0.007-0.08) due to growth changed markedly throughout the season, but the excretion rate sometimes exceeded the apparent assimilation rate. These differences in growth:assimilation suggest changes in food quantity or quality, fluctuations in growth rates over time, or other physiological effects can lead to short-term imbalance in nutrient cycling by mussels, which could lead to locally important impacts on phytoplankton and algal blooms. Moreover, this work underscores the importance of mapping mussel densities at fine spatial scales and across interannual variation.
Introduction
Authors: Sinatra Frank , Murray Louise Harris , Page Patti , Brewer Teresa
Published: May 2024

With the start of the new decade, changes began to appear in the pop music world. The real excitement on the music charts were not the post-crooner songs by male singers, but the more interesting tunes by such female singers as Patti Page, who had a huge hit with the countryish “Tennessee Waltz.”
Dance with Me Henry (Wallflower) (1955)
Authors: James Etta , Ballard Hank , Gibbs Georgia , Baker Lavern , Sisters Decastro , Sisters Fontane , Robey Don , Ace Johnny , Brewer Teresa
Published: May 2024

Etta James redoes the sexual R&B tune, “Work With Me, Annie,” but even she gets bowdlerized by white singer Georgia Gibbs, who has a number one hit on the pop charts with “Dance With Me, Henry (Wallflower).”
A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl (1956)
Authors: The Teen Queens  , Brewer Teresa , Merrill Bob , Mantle Mickey , Chordettes The , Bleyer Archie , Patience & Prudence  , The Dinning Sisters  , Carr Cathy , Grant Gogi , Starr Kay
Published: May 2024

“A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl” and “(The) Rock and Roll Waltz” by Teresa Brewer and Kay Starr summed up the record charts, where the old songs were being replaced by rock ‘n’ roll. Some of the best songs of the year were power ballads by Cathy Carr (“Ivory Tower”) and Gogi Grant (“The Wayward Wind”).
Blame It on the Bossa Nova (1959 and Beyond)
Authors: Brewer Teresa , Bennett Tony , Carson Mindy , Shore Dinah , Page Patti , Gormé Eydie , Lawrence Steve , Thiele Bob , Clooney Rosemary
Published: May 2024

Many of the female singers of the 1950s transitioned to television show hosts. The most successful of these ladies was Dinah Shore. A few also continued recording into the 1960s. Eydie Gorme did better in the 1960s than she did in the 1950s.
5–10–15 Hours (1952)
Authors: Bergsman Steve
Published: May 2024

While Little Esther, Ruth Brown and Dinah Washington were enjoying a fabulous year, a slew of newcomers invaded the R&B record charts: Wini Brown, Marie Adams, Edna McGriff and Varetta Dillard.
Hound Dog (1953)
Authors: Bergsman Steve
Published: May 2024

Two of the best blues songs by women to appear in the 1950s, “Hound Dog” by Big Mama Thornton and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On,” would be co-opted by two of the first great rock ‘n’ roll pioneers, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. Other successful oddities in 1953 were response songs, the French titled “C’est Si Bon” by Eartha Kitt, and a song with dicey lyrics, “Mercy, Mr. Percy” by Varetta Dillard.
Tweedle Dee (1955)
Authors: Bergsman Steve
Published: May 2024

In 1955, rock ‘n’ roll not only was roiling the R&B charts, but it crossed over to the pop charts as well. One of earliest of the great rock ‘n’ roll tunes was by a woman, LaVern Baker, with her song Tweedle Dee. With the earliest girl groups came incursions into the music business by female entrepreneurs.
Sally Go ’Round the Roses (1959 and Beyond)
Authors: Bergsman Steve
Published: May 2024

While girl groups dominate the sound, a number of 1950s groups and singers from former groups continue to find success early in the 1960s, including the Blossoms, Shirelles, Chantels, and Louise Murray and Lezli Valentine of the Hearts. Sylvia Vanderpool (Mickey and Sylvia) goes entrepreneurial.
“Black Feminist Love Evangelist” and “Prayer Poet Priestess”
Authors: Sullivan Laura L.
Published: May 2024

This chapter brings much-needed scholarly attention to Alexis Pauline Gumbs, whose social justice activism is embodied in her unique spiritual perspectives and practices. Eschewing tenure-track academia to develop her own Black feminism public curriculum, Gumbs practices ancestor reverence inspired by Yoruba/Ifá traditions. From her early Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind community events and organizing against sexual violence, Gumbs has become a prominent Black feminist intellectual and leader. Her interviews and her experimental, poetry-laden academic essays, as well as her articulations of her experiential, spiritual online intensives were largely inspired by the lives and writings of Black feminists such as Audre Lorde and Alice Walker. The chapter also considers Gumbs’s Black Feminist Breathing Chorus, in which participants chant the words of Black women ancestors—for example, Harriet Tubman’s “My people are free”—to reimagine liberatory possibilities.
Esther
Authors: Karpf Juanita
Published: May 2024

Bradbury wrote the score of Esther in 1856, creating a choral setting of a text based on events found in the biblical Book of Esther. Referring to his score as a “cantata or short oratorio,” he included solos, small vocal ensembles and large choral numbers for singers of all ages. He intended the piece to be performed as a formal, unstaged religious or instructional work. As a celebration of amateurism, Bradbury wrote an uncomplicated score, featuring music accessible by inexperienced singers and general audiences. Consistent with his intentions, Bradbury premiered Esther at musical conventions—gatherings of amateur singers of all ages interested in improving their music skills. He organized these events throughout the eastern states and thousands of music enthusiasts sang in the score’s earliest performances. Critics were almost uniformly complimentary of these concerts.
From Movement to Memory
Authors: King Stephen A. , Gatchet Roger Davis
Published: May 2024

Chapter one provides a synoptic history of the Mississippi Movement from 1945 to the early 1970s. Highlighting the civil rights activities of Amzie Moore, Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, it chronicles the evolution of the Mississippi Movement through various organizations (e.g., SNCC) and pivotal events that defined it (e.g., Freedom Summer). Next, the chapter offers a historical analysis that traces Mississippi’s promotion of its civil rights heritage. During the fifty year period from the late 1930s to the mid-1980s, the state engaged in collective forgetting about its civil rights history. Although the Mississippi Department of Archives and History sponsored the state’s first permanent civil rights exhibit in 1985, civil rights tourism remained a fragmented and localized industry until the unveiling of the first Mississippi Freedom Trail historical marker in 2011. Since then, Mississippi has invested more resources to promote its civil rights legacy.
Marking the Past
Authors: King Stephen A. , Gatchet Roger Davis
Published: May 2024

Chapter five explores the rhetoric of the Mississippi Freedom Trail (MFT) historical marker series. It identifies and analyzes the markers’ four rhetorical themes, including the dialectic of Black resistance and white violence. The MFT documents the myriad acts of violence that engulfed the state during the 1950s and 1960s. The MFT also fills a gap in the historical record by raising public awareness of under-recognized figures and events in the Mississippi Movement. At the same time, its narrative under-emphasizes the role that women played in that movement as well as privileges narratives about activism that embraced the very system that disenfranchises African Americans. The MFT also presents the struggle for civil rights as something that is confined to the past. In doing so, official memory workers in Mississippi limit the MFT’s ability to speak to contemporary racial struggles in the present.
Introduction
Authors: Thomas Paul A.
Published: May 2024

In this opening chapter, the author introduces the reader to the world of Adventure Time, first by recollecting his personal experiences with the program and then by providing a brief but accessible overview of the show, its characters, its main themes, and why it has managed to gain such a broad audience.
From Cult Favorite to Mainstream Hit
Authors: Thomas Paul A.
Published: May 2024

This chapter provides a history of Adventure Time’s production, covering seasons two to five. The chapter begins with a look at five storyboard artists who were brought on during the production of season two and who left an indelible imprint on the series: viz., Rebecca Sugar, Tom Herpich, Ako Castuera, Jesse Moynihan, and Somvilay Xayaphone. The production of seasons three and four—a period of explosive creative growth and rapid evolution—is then discussed. The chapter closes by outlining the production of the show’s fifth season; in this portion of the chapter, the failed attempt by the show’s production crew to produce a television movie is explored, as is the story of Pendleton Ward being succeeded by Adam Muto as showrunner.
The Institute of So Und
Authors: Thomas Paul A.
Published: May 2024

Any consideration of Adventure Time’s production would not be complete without a discussion of the show’s music—an aesthetic element many would agree not only accents but also helps sell the show’s zany energy. The first part of this present chapter discusses the importance of the composers who crafted Adventure Time’s chiptune score: Casey James Basichis and Tim Kiefer. The chapter comes to a close with an outline of the major musical numbers featured in the series, complete with production information and critical commentary.
Still Waters Run Deep
Authors: Lemco Amy
Published: May 2024

This chapter focuses on Dr. Gilbert Mason, the leader of the civil rights watershed surrounding the desegregation of Biloxi beach. In 1955, Dr. Mason moved to Biloxi and opened his practice as a family doctor. The chapter details how Black physicians had to open a separate organization to support their peers and circulate information since they were not eligible for membership in the American Medical Association. The chapter details the subtle and unsubtle ways of prejudice and the effects of segregation in the hospital. Mason had a conflict with S.E. Grimes, the new hospital administrator at New Biloxi Hospital, due to his practices of bigotry against Black patients.
Freedom School Teacher
Authors: Kabat Julie
Published: May 2024

This chapter details Luke's primary assignment, which was to teach at the Meridian Freedom School. This was the stuff of Luke's fondest dreams—a school system set up to encourage a world of curiosity dedicated to learning. For the students, there was the added allure of being part of the civil rights movement, supporting the quest for freedom and equal rights. At Freedom School, students learned about their heritage. Citizenship was the only required class. In it, students discussed African American history and read books they had never heard of written by famous Black authors. They also discussed how racism was used to maintain a system of oppression, learned about the struggle for civil rights and voting rights, and grappled with the philosophy and tactics of nonviolence. Like everyone else, Luke taught classes on citizenship and African American literature, but he most eagerly embraced the chance to teach biology.
Grief
Authors: Kabat Julie
Published: May 2024

This chapter discusses how, in the midst of their shock, the parents of Mickey, Andy, and James agreed that they wanted their sons to be buried side by side. Doing so would honor the cause for which they gave their lives and bear witness to their shared sense of brotherhood. Permission was not granted, however, because it violated Mississippi's strict segregation laws. As such, with another insult adding injury to their grief, their parents arranged to have Mickey's and Andy's remains returned to the East Coast for burial. As the shocking discovery of the bodies began to sink in, the Chaney family planned a private funeral for James. However, for the wider civil rights community, this would not be enough. There was a compelling need for everyone to be able to come together in grief. The chapter then looks at the funeral procession and memorial service for James Chaney.
Mystery Untangled and Transition
Authors: Kabat Julie
Published: May 2024

This chapter focuses on how Luke and his friends in Mississippi—and everyone connected personally in some way to the unfolding events of Freedom Summer—were closely monitoring the details about the murders. Over time, the sequence of events emerged. The FBI code-named the case MIBURN for “Mississippi Burning.” This is the story that the FBI ultimately put together: On the fateful day of June 21, Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were killed by Deputy Sheriff Cecil Ray Price and his fellow Klansmen. All around the state of Mississippi, civil rights activists were carrying on, continuing the work of Freedom Summer. In Meridian, the Community Center that Mickey had started was alive and well. The chapter then discusses how Luke and Gail traveled to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to represent the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the Democratic National Convention.
Return to Meridian
Authors: Kabat Julie
Published: May 2024

This chapter discusses how, at the earliest opportunity, Luke returned to Meridian for six weeks. Stanford Medical School agreed he could substitute work in Mississippi as an elective for one of his clinical rotations. Apart from playing with the children at the Community Center, there was much else for Luke to do. In hopes of finding “friends of civil rights,” Luke and Gail reached out to the white community. Since the segregated public school was now in session, classes at Freedom School started late in the afternoon. Although many students were committed to sports, other activities, and chores, and thus too busy to attend, a stalwart core of students continued to show up eager to read and talk. Luke also assisted Gail in her freedom class, challenging the students to consider questions about segregation, the new civil rights laws, school rules, and social norms. The chapter then considers how volunteers and staff decided to begin a program of testing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Nonviolence 2
Authors: Kabat Julie
Published: May 2024

This chapter discusses how, in Meridian, within the civil rights community, the question of nonviolence hung in the air and called for constant rethinking. Like those dedicated to the Buddhist practice of mindfulness, each practitioner of nonviolence needed to stay present, focused, and alert. And a related question functioned as one's constant companion: Am I doing the right thing? After the harrowing events of the past two weeks, Luke pondered the question of nonviolence and kept circling back to it again and again. He gathered together not only his own thoughts about nonviolence but also those of students and other teachers at the Freedom School. Although idealism and the concept of nonviolence were what had first inspired Luke to volunteer for Freedom Summer, actual experience was changing his perspective.
Use My Tears to Motivate
Authors: Miles Corey J.
Published: May 2024

This chapter is an invitation to sit within the inner lives of trap rappers who bring listeners to violent moments of the South to make claims about how the region is organized. It demonstrates that artists that rap about guns and drugs are using their pain, grief, and desires as conceptual sites to work through what the South has denied and stolen from Black people. Pain music is understood as a continuation of the blues. Blues isn’t really the music. The music is what the creative pieces of our insides produce after living the blues. Pain music is what is produced after living within the carceral confines of the South. The chapter finishes by arguing that pain music encompasses a 252 vibe, not through a shared sound, but through the ways artists set forth alternative possibilities of knowing, feeling, living within the region.
Hantu From The Oral-Aesthetic Perspective
Authors: Mutere M. Ndiika
Published: May 2024

This chapter discusses how Africa's space-time continuum, referred to within Bantu philosophical thought as hantu, has been warped on multiple levels by competing Western ideologies and political agendas. The role played by the university in constructing humanity's controlling narratives makes the institution a pivotal link within the pipeline of Western industrial processes and alienating ideas of “progress” which have been largely dependent upon African resource control, including claims to ancient Egypt. In contrast, an Africa-centered perspective values a balanced chronological worldview in the spirit of sankofa, where looking back is essential to most effectively and productively moving forward. The chapter then explains the concept of ubuntu and considers how, from diasporic theaters, African oral traditions have uniquely and significantly contributed toward human well-being through their culturally mandated art-for-life's-sake role. Black pop music is a significant paradigm of proof in this regard. The chapter also looks at how writing became the latter-day cultural aggressor in human communication and affairs, evolving as a weapon of “creative destruction” to create a matrix of containment, order, and control in contrast to African oral-aesthetic praxis and Bantu philosophical principles.
AfroFuturism and African Philosophy of Time
Authors: Adé Taharka
Published: May 2024

This chapter assesses the African philosophical notions of time and how such cultural paradigms can better enrich AfroFuturism, combatting the Eurocentric masquerade by way of the restoration of African ways of knowing. Had Europeans not so forcefully and violently upended African epistemology and supposing transcultural relations between Africans and Europeans persisted, Africans would have been free to approach the European concept of “future” on their own terms. The aesthetics and ethos of a paradigmatically “African future” would perhaps vary greatly from the current confines of science fiction or even AfroFuturism itself. Afrocentricity's foundational premise, that Africans be agents and not subjects in their own historical realities, does not exclude that which is fictional. Further, the restoration of African cosmology and cultural ethos is the driving force behind the Afrocentric paradigm. Thus, Afrocentrists see it as an imperative that all modes of activity African people engage in must be grounded by African cultural paradigms, which largely means an investigation and reutilization of the cosmologies of the African past. The chapter then looks at the debate between John S. Mbiti and Akan philosopher Kwame Gyekye about the African philosophical notion of time.
Shitty, Slimy, Smelly, Smiley
Authors: Diffrient David Scott
Published: May 2024

This chapter follows through on an argument introduced in the preceding one; specifically, that horror films are predisposed to eliciting frisson, revulsion, and a host of other excitations of the flesh through appeals to our nasal brain—our ability to cognitively piece together the various smells of a storyworld as surely as we do its narrative details (concerning character, plot, and setting). As a genre that has long been perceived as being “beneath” more critically esteemed categories of cultural production (as revealed through the professional and nonprofessional “reviews” posted on the tellingly named Rotten Tomatoes), horror provides a good point of entry into the study of cinematic olfactics by virtue of its “badness,” its baseness as a vehicle for delivering us into dangerously close proximity to aspects of the human condition that we generally close our eyes to or shut our ears to. The author ruminates on the suggestiveness of smell and touch as haptically perceived qualities of horror films whose various textures—mainly their sliminess—play a part in those films’ critical reception. Just as horror persists in situating characters (and us) in “terrible places” and “dirty spaces,” including bathrooms and sewers, so too do we consistently return to the genre to purge ourselves of nasty feelings or dreadful ideas, as if perched above a toilet.
Roots Punk
Authors: Ensminger David A.
Published: May 2024

As punk music splintered into “hardcore”—a harsher, stripped down, and more belligerent variant—it also mutated into roots-punk, too. This book explores how this “cow-punk” genre, whether sarcastic or sincere, revealed and reveled in an underbelly lined with blues records, country a.m. stations, and hillbilly romp. It highlights how ‘backing into roots music’ should be understood as a longing for gritty authenticity in a time of conformity and commercialization during the 1980s. Roots-punk revitalized spirits and energies by infusing the cutting-edge music with a wide array of vintage source material that seemed more aligned with bolo ties and Stetsons than Doc Martens and safety pins. Though punk often showcased anarchic political convictions and subversive lifestyle choices, its supposedly “future-now” music sometimes yielded one foot in the past, whether honky-tonk, rockabilly, doo-wop, reggae and ska, jazz, folk, jump blues, dust bowl and labor ballads, and more. This book explores such aesthetics and themes plus contextualizes, clarifies, maps, and probes beyond lyrical flourishes, incessant musical reinvention, and genre purity tests. It paints a broad, nuanced, and well-documented picture of the genre that gave rise to alternative country. In doing so, it also highlights the participation of women, Latinos, indigenous, African Americans, and LGBTQ+ rockers who yielded boundary-crossing sensibilities and styles. To do so, the text forms a kind of folksonomy of the movement, a people’s oral history captured in years-worth of nuanced interviews that discuss history, storytelling, music, social issues, spirituality, gender, politics, subcultures, and much more.
Rank and File
Authors: Ensminger David A.
Published: May 2024

This chapter focuses on the contributions of brother Tony and Chip Kinman, who first injected their left-wing energies into the Dils, then took a sharp turn towards country music in Rank and File, and later become involved with post-punk and electronic music in Blackbird. Their journey explores the quest for authenticity as punk bands homogenized into fast/hard templates; the marriage of influences from Velvet Underground to Johnny Cash; dealing with the record industry; and finding a voice that is singular and defiant.
Sight
Authors: Fraser Benjamin
Published: May 2024

This chapter of Ben Katchor explores how the artist emphasizes the visual sense to comment on his preferred urban themes. While many comics are referenced, this chapter includes close readings of “The Kozma Theater” (from Cheap Novelties), “Jubilation Alley” (from The Beauty Supply District), “Passing Through” (from Hand-drying in America), and “The Lambswoll Hotel” (from the Hotel & Farm series). Discussion includes the themes of memory, marxism, and alienation. Some of Katchor’s interests in various formal and aesthetic effects of comics art are also explored: word balloons, blending of present and past, off-panel space, shift of visual perspective and more.
1865
Authors: Gutstein Dan
Published: May 2024

This chapter presents developments in 1865, a crucial year that saw “Liza Jane” lyrics and performances spread throughout the country. In the early days of January, a Kansas newspaper printed the first known date-stamped refrain for any “Liza Jane” tune. From Ohio to Indiana, from Nebraska to Nevada, transcontinental railroad workers, newspapermen, and minstrel performers embraced the “Liza Jane” family, carrying the songs to new audiences and readership. In particular, a celebrity-scoundrel by the name of Johnny Tuers performed a “Liza Jane” variant in Gold Hill, Nevada, a few years before he killed a man in California. In 1865, the “Liza Jane” songs begin to enter the larger American consciousness.
You Went a-Driving with Mister Brown
Authors: Gutstein Dan
Published: May 2024

This chapter examines the development of the cakewalk dance and ragtime music, as well as the rush to publish sheet music by the music publishing firms headquartered in New York City’s Publishing Row. In time, this publishing center would come to be known as Tin Pan Alley, and its companies would present several new “Liza Jane” compositions around the turn of the century. Foremost among these publications would be “Good Bye Eliza Jane,” written in 1903 by Harry von Tilzer, a central figure in Tin Pan Alley. Von Tilzer’s composition descended from earlier “Goodbye Liza Jane” songs and would become a “hit” among early recording stars such as Arthur Collins and Bob Roberts. In the end, though, “Goodbye Liza Jane” songs descendant from the 1871 minstrelsy song would begin to wane in popularity, as other “Liza Jane” variants were embraced by a host of new musicians.
The Lomaxes
Authors: Gutstein Dan
Published: May 2024

This chapter follows field recordists John Lomax and his son Alan, working as a team and independently, as they amassed an astonishing collection of “Liza Jane” variants across numerous idioms. Together, they recorded essential folk musicians such as Wilson “Stavin’ Chain” Jones and Pete Harris. Alan Lomax in particular recorded widely across the “Liza Jane” family, collecting efforts by gospel singer Bessie Jones, the White Eagles Mardi Gras Indians, old-time musician Aunt Molly Jackson, Kentucky fiddler Luther Strong, and hot jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton, among many others. All told, the Lomaxes assembled a collection of “Liza Jane” material that crossed from Black to white, female to male, 1930s to 1980s, folk to blues, piano to fiddle. This collection would exceed the catalogues of most major record labels and demonstrate the deep saturation of “Liza Jane” songs across the United States, among numerous cultural traditions.
Glaube und Spiel
Authors: Zirfas Jörg
Published: May 2024

Jörg Zirfas widmet sich in diesem Beitrag der Frage nach Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen kultureller und religiöser Bildung. Ihre gemeinsame Grundsituation ist die Erfahrung eines anderen, auf die das Subjekt eine Antwort finden muss. Kulturelle Bildung kann als ein Spiel verstanden werden, als ein Raum der zweckfreien Beschäftigung mit einem kulturellen oder ästhetischen Gegenstand. Religiöse Bildung heißt, Beziehungen im Hinblick auf ihre Unverfügbarkeiten zu durchdenken. Religiöse Bildung zielt auf den Glauben, kulturelle auf das Spiel. Dabei ist diese Differenzierung nicht absolut zu verstehen. So wie das Spielen den Glauben, so impliziert der Glaube auch das Spielen.
Religiöse Bildung in Kunst-Räumen
Authors: Zürner Christian
Published: May 2024

Christian Zürner legt in diesem Beitrag dar, inwiefern Kirchenräume als Orte ästhetischer Bildung und Kunstgalerien als Orte religiöser Bildung Wirksamkeit entfalten können. Fokussiert wird dabei abstrakte Kunst. Am Ende der Überlegungen wird der Vorschlag entwickelt, über das Verhältnis von religiöser und künstlerischer Phantasie im Hinblick auf Bildungsprozesse nachzudenken, ohne beide zu vermischen.
Singular Plural Ways of Staging Together
Authors: Julian Iris
Published: May 2024

Focusing on staging processes in contemporary dance and art performance creates new opportunities to study creative participation and co-authorship. To gain these new insights, Iris Julian analyses experimental projects initiated by two groups and a single choreographer: Collect-if by Collect-if, Deufert + Plischke and Xavier Le Roy. By exploring nuances of staging work, the concept of singular plural became the analytical guideline and resulted into three research perspectives: theatre studies, sociology and ontological reading (Jean-Luc Nancy, Michaela Ott, Gerald Raunig). This approach makes it possible to look beyond the importance that is often credited to single authorship in the arts. With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Gerald Siegmund.
The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek
Authors: Hothi Randeep
Published: May 2024

This article concerns how competing investments in the real motivate political disagreement. The ethnography focuses on face-to-face debate in the wake of spectacular white supremacist violence against Sikhs in the United States. Young activists relate their struggle against racial supremacy to martyrs from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, motivating their call for a politics that would defy empire, cultivate coalitional alliances, and refuse well-worn performances of multicultural docility. However, for institutional decision-makers of rank, who ground their authority in having witnessed majoritarian state terror first-hand, such agonism risks decades of partial but hard-won respectability, legibility, and safety. This article argues that the in/comparability of evental violence is staked by a global “economy of agonism,” which mobilizes in this case at least two political forms distinctive of the late-twentieth century in each the politics of recognition and ethnonationalism. The article probes the competing investments motivating political disjuncture by tracking what is here called the “problem of diaspora,” the seeming untenability of calibrations to and between home(land) and sites of dispersion. An ethnographic pursuit of psycho-social cleavages consequently reveals the “extimacy” of, or mutual co-implication of internal and external in, “collective relation-making,” i.e., in making solidarity, alliance, or coalition amongst seemingly similarly situated others.
Book review of: Christmann, Gabriela B.; Knoblauch, Hubert; Löw, Martina (eds.) (2022): Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces. Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies
Authors: Schwegmann Raphael , Leipert Sophia , Seichter Zita
Published: May 2024

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Red list of vascular flora of Wielkopolska (Poland)
Authors: Jackowiak Bogdan , Celka Zbigniew , Chmiel Julian , Latowski Karol , Żukowski Waldemar
Published: May 2024

The article presents the second, substantially changed edition of the red list of vascular plants of Wielkopolska. The region under study covers the area of 50 000 km2 and constitutes a significant part of the Central European Lowlands. The east and central part of Wielkopolska includes an important historical territory which, from the 8th-10th century, was the center of Polish statehood creation. The flora of this region has been the subject of systematic investigations since the first half of the 19th century. Thanks to that, it is possible to evaluate the longterm changes resulting from human activities. Currently, the red list consists of 601 taxons, which accounts for 30% of the vascular flora of Wielkopolska. Apart from the dominant native plants, the list includes also archaeophytes (42 species). In comparison to the first edition of the list, further increase in the flora endangerment has been observed. At present, 52 species should be considered extinct. Moreover, the number of taxons critically endangered (87 species) has also significantly increased. A detailed analysis of the data presented in the publication emphasizes taxonomical, chorological and ecological aspects of species extinction. The separate part of the red list has been dedicated to the 13 species which conservation requires designation of Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) within the Natura 2000 network.
Occurrence of anthropophytes along streams of the Sowie Mountains and Dzierżoniów Basin (South-Western Poland) in dependence on land use
Authors: Śliwiński Michał
Published: May 2024

Habitat disturbances and adjacent home gardens (with alien plants cultivated for decorative purposes) favor invasions of anthropophytes, which eliminate native plants and create new plant communities along streams. Research carried out in the Sowie Mountains and Dzierżoniów Basin (Kotlina Dzierźoniowska), showed dependence between the occurrence of anthropophytes and type of land use (forest, agricultural, or built-up area). Plant communities dominated by alien species usually form 2 types of stands: small patches in built-up areas (within the stream-bed protected by stone or concrete walls), and large linear patches in sections of streams flowing along agricultural areas. Occurrence of anthropophytes was researched also in relation to distance from the stream-bed. Some anthropophytes are related to the interior (riparian) sub-zone (Impatiens glandulifera, Rudbeckia laciniata), while others can occur in different sub-zones (Solidago gigantea, Reynoutria japonica, R. sachalinensis, Echinocystis lobata). Forest communities, despite their degeneration, are the least invaded. Only Impatiens parviflora occurs along streams in forests (its average Braun-Blanquet cover-abundance in forest sections is 2.7, while 0.5 in agricultural, and 0.4 in built-up sections). Impatiens glandulifera forms denser stands in stream sections in built-up areas than in agricultural areas, while other species show an inverse relation.
SUSTAINABLE FOOD CONSUMPTION WITHIN THE SCOPE OF GREEN ECONOMY: A RESEARCH ON CONSUMER PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Köse Şirin Gizem
Published: May 2024

Sustainable production and consumption are one of the significant issues in the food industry, as in every field. Food industry which is so important for the survival of humanity, is also under the spotlight in terms of its effects on the environment. In this regard, the aim of this study is to address sustainable food consumption from the perspective of the consumer, one of the most important actors in the food consumption system. For this purpose, data was obtained using the in-depth interview technique. Research results show that barriers to sustainable food consumption are perceived expensiveness, lack of information, perceived greenwashing, low availability, perceived effort and living conditions, whereas drivers for sustainable food consumption are health and environmental consciousness, subjective norm and food involvement.
Comparison of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Le Chat with physician interpretations of medical laboratory questions from an online health forum
Authors: Meyer Annika , Soleman Ari , Riese Janik , Streichert Thomas
Published: May 2024

Objectives

Laboratory medical reports are often not intuitively comprehensible to non-medical professionals. Given their recent advancements, easier accessibility and remarkable performance on medical licensing exams, patients are therefore likely to turn to artificial intelligence-based chatbots to understand their laboratory results. However, empirical studies assessing the efficacy of these chatbots in responding to real-life patient queries regarding laboratory medicine are scarce.

Methods

Thus, this investigation included 100 patient inquiries from an online health forum, specifically addressing Complete Blood Count interpretation. The aim was to evaluate the proficiency of three artificial intelligence-based chatbots (ChatGPT, Gemini and Le Chat) against the online responses from certified physicians.

Results

The findings revealed that the chatbots’ interpretations of laboratory results were inferior to those from online medical professionals. While the chatbots exhibited a higher degree of empathetic communication, they frequently produced erroneous or overly generalized responses to complex patient questions. The appropriateness of chatbot responses ranged from 51 to 64 %, with 22 to 33 % of responses overestimating patient conditions. A notable positive aspect was the chatbots’ consistent inclusion of disclaimers regarding its non-medical nature and recommendations to seek professional medical advice.

Conclusions

The chatbots’ interpretations of laboratory results from real patient queries highlight a dangerous dichotomy – a perceived trustworthiness potentially obscuring factual inaccuracies. Given the growing inclination towards self-diagnosis using AI platforms, further research and improvement of these chatbots is imperative to increase patients’ awareness and avoid future burdens on the healthcare system.
Green formulation of copper nanoparticles by Pistacia khinjuk leaf aqueous extract: Introducing a novel chemotherapeutic drug for the treatment of prostate cancer
Authors: Wang Zhuoqun , Li Ming , Zhang Qi , Xu Lei
Published: May 2024

Prostate cancer is a cancer prevalent form characterized by serious clinical symptoms. The discovery of a novel supplement or medication for prostate cancer within the realm of chemotherapeutic drugs holds significant value. Our research involved the synthesis of copper nanoparticles (CuNPs) infused with Pistacia khinjuk leaf extract to explore their potential anti-prostate cancer, cytotoxic, and antioxidant properties. The green-formulated CuNPs were characterized by TEM, UV-Vis spectrophotometry, FE-SEM, FTIR. The FE-SEM and TEM findings prove the spherical structure with a size of 10–70 nm. The DPPH assay was carried out to examine the effectiveness of antioxidants. CuNPs exhibited the ability to inhibit 50% of DPPH at 215 µg/mL. To assess the anti-prostate cancer properties of CuNPs, an MTT assay was performed on NCI-H660, DU 145, LNCaP clone FGC, and LNCaP clone FGC-Luc2 cells. CuNPs exhibited remarkable efficacy in inhibiting prostate cancer growth, while demonstrating negligible toxicity towards normal cells. The LNCaP clone FGC cell line displayed the most potent anti-prostate cancer effects of CuNPs. IC50 of CuNPs was 322, 365, 247, and 273 on NCI-H660, DU 145, LNCaP clone FGC, and LNCaP clone FGC-Luc2 prostate cancer cells. CuNPs containing Pistacia khinjuk were found to possess noteworthy anti-prostate carcinoma characteristics and presented excellent antioxidant potentials, as highlighted by this study.
The pointfree version of 𝓒
c
(X) via the ranges of functions
Authors: Taha Maryam , Estaji Ali Akbar , Sarpoushi Maryam Robat
Published: May 2024

Let R

α
:= {r ∈ ℝ : coz(α − r) ≠ → p} for every α ∈ 𝓡(L). The ring 𝓒
c
(L) is introduced as a pointfree version of the subring 𝓒
c
(X) of C(X) by R

α
. In this paper, we show that 𝓒
c
(X) is a z-good ring and every radical ideal in it is an absolutely convex ideal. Also, we study this result which for any frame L, there exists a zero-dimensional frame M, which is a continuous image of L and 𝓒
c
(L) ≅ 𝓒
c
(M).
On the von Bahr–Esseen inequality for pairwise independent random vectors in Hilbert spaces with applications to mean convergence
Authors: Dzung Nguyen Chi , Hien Nguyen Thi Thanh
Published: May 2024

In this correspondence, we prove the von Bahr–Esseen moment inequality for pairwise independent random vectors in Hilbert spaces. Our constant in the von Bahr–Esseen moment inequality is better than that obtained for the real-valued random variables by Chen et al. [The von Bahr–Esseen moment inequality for pairwise independent random variables and applications, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 419 (2014), 1290–1302], and Chen and Sung [Generalized Marcinkiewicz–Zygmund type inequalities for random variables and applications, J. Math. Inequal. 10(3) (2016), 837–848]. The result is then applied to obtain mean convergence theorems for triangular arrays of rowwise and pairwise independent random vectors in Hilbert spaces. Some results in the literature are extended.
Class of bounds of the generalized Volterra functions
Authors: Mehrez Khaled , Brahim Kamel , Sitnik Sergei M.
Published: May 2024

In the present paper, we prove the monotonicity property of the ratios of the generalized Volterra function. As consequences, new and interesting monotonicity concerning ratios of the exponential integral function, as well as it yields some new functional inequalities including Turán-type inequalities. Moreover, two-side bounding inequalities are then obtained for the generalized Volterra function. The main mathematical tools are some integral inequalities. As applications, a few of upper and lower bound inequalities for the exponential integral function are derived. The various results, which are established in this paper, are presumably new, and their importance is illustrated by several interesting consequences and examples accompanied by graphical representations to substantiate the accuracy of the obtained results. Some potential directions for analogous further research on the subject of the present investigation are indicated in the concluding section.
MEG Evidence That Modality-Independent Conceptual Representations Contain Semantic and Visual Features
Authors: Dirani Julien , Pylkkänen Liina
Published: May 2024

The semantic knowledge stored in our brains can be accessed from different stimulus modalities. For example, a picture of a cat and the word “cat” both engage similar conceptual representations. While existing research has found evidence for modality-independent representations, their content remains unknown. Modality-independent representations could be semantic, or they might also contain perceptual features. We developed a novel approach combining word/picture cross-condition decoding with neural network classifiers that learned latent modality-independent representations from MEG data (25 human participants, 15 females, 10 males). We then compared these representations to models representing semantic, sensory, and orthographic features. Results show that modality-independent representations correlate both with semantic and visual representations. There was no evidence that these results were due to picture-specific visual features or orthographic features automatically activated by the stimuli presented in the experiment. These findings support the notion that modality-independent concepts contain both perceptual and semantic representations.