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Technological and social change in a Madurese fishing village (1978-2004)
Authors: Niehof Anke , Jordaan Roy , Santoso Affandy
Published: April 2013

This article is about recent changes in Pasean, a fishing village on the north coast of the island of Madura, Indonesia (see maps). The village has been described in detail in several publications based on research carried out in the area during 1977-1979, and a short visit in 1982. In May-August 2004, we did fieldwork for a restudy. In this article we report our findings on the changes in Pasean during the past 26 years. The article starts with a description of general changes. The second part deals more specifically with changes in Pasean’s fishing economy. Attention is paid to technological innovations, fishing methods, and trading patterns both within and outside fishery. A number of socio-economic changes, such as those in the division of labour and catches, are demonstrably related to the introduction of new technologies in fishery, but other social changes are less clearly technology-driven. An example of the latter is the klotok, a new type of perahu, the introduction of which was facilitated by the altered social circumstances and individualistic life-style of Pasean fishermen.
Sedih sampai buta : Blindness, modernity and tradition in Malay films of the 1950s and 1960s
Authors: Barnard Timothy P.
Published: April 2013

In the 1950s and 1960s Malaya/Malaysia was undergoing a tremendous amount of social change. One method of examining how this period was understood is through Malay film. A number of Malay writers and activists found work in the vibrant film industry of the Peninsula, which was centred on Singapore at the time, and proceeded to infuse many of the films with their ideas, hopes, and understandings of the society they saw around them. As part of these developments, and perhaps due to the phenomenon of repetition, blindness became a metaphor in a number of films to address the issue of modernity and tradition, and the tension between rural and urban. In films produced in the early 1950s blindness occurs among kampung-based characters, or among supporting players within the larger drama. Their blindness is usually caused or compounded by a sadness in their lives. In these films, an urban-based character attempts to arrange for an operation that will remedy the condition, but only after a character has had to deal with the underside of modernity. The use of blindness as a trope for moral/ethical failure is alien to traditional Malay culture. Thus, its use and repetition represent the external influences and ideas of modernity in Malay filmmaking of the period. While the city was frightening, it held the possibility of change for the better. Characters in these films had to deal first with the negative sides of such a life, but if they retained the positive traditional values of Malay culture, all would be well. By the early 1960s, however, after the promise of independence had transitioned to debates over merger, identity, and economic and social disruption, the metaphor of blindness had also shifted. Although technologycould cure the condition, the world that accompanied this technology was one that was unbearable. Unlike the earlier supporting characters facing a sightless life, it was now the main character who becomes blind in a manner that is violent and irreversible. It was a world that promoted selfishness and materialism. Blindness now became an act of mutilation, not a symbol of sadness but one of alienation.
Flooding in Jakarta : Towards a blue city with improved water management
Authors: Caljouw Mark , Nas Peter J.M. , Pratiwo Mr.
Published: April 2013

Sunday, 27 January 2002, a large flood swept down on Jakarta and inundated several parts of the city. From the evening of 27 January to the morning of 28 January rain came streaming down, and the dike south of Jakarta broke. The pungent black water, with a hefty cargo of garbage, poured onto the main roads to Bogor, Kramat Jati and East Jakarta. In North Jakarta, in Kelurahan Pejagalan, Kecamatan Penjaringan, the flooding or banjir hit at midnight and continued until five o’clock in the morning, reaching levels as high as 20 cm. Even harder hit was Kelurahan Kapuk Muara, inundated with 70 cm of water.
Biography, history and the Indonesian novel : Reading Salah Asuhan
Authors: Foulcher Keith
Published: April 2013

The novel Salah Asuhan (Wrong Upbringing), written by the Indonesian nationalist politician and journalist Abdoel Moeis, has long held an honoured place in the modern Indonesian literary canon. It was originally published in 1928 by Balai Poestaka, the Netherlands Indies government printing house, and by 1995 it had been reprinted twenty-three times. In summary form, it has been studied by generations of Indonesian schoolchildren, and in 1972 it was adapted by Asrul Sani as a successful feature film. Critics and historians of modern Indonesian literature have always regarded Salah Asuhan as a literary milestone. It is admired for the maturity of its author’s literary imagination, as well as the modernity of its language and style. In linguistic terms, it is seen as one of the pioneering literary expressions of the language which was designated as Bahasa Indonesia in the very year of the novel’s publication. It exercises an additional fascination for literary critics and historians because of the circumstances of its publication. The form in which it was originally written is now unknown, for the novel was only published after a lengthy delay and a series of revisions which the author made to the text after seeing his manuscript languish for more than a year under the scrutiny of Balai Poestaka’s editors. As a result, the original conception of Salah Asuhan remains a mystery. Indeed, it is one of the greatest puzzles in a literary history that is so full of documentary lacunae that its serious study remains a source of ongoing challenge and frustration.
Indigenous concepts of orientation of South Sulawesian sailors
Authors: Liebner Horst H.
Published: April 2013

This article presents some initial results of ongoing research on concepts of orientation of some maritime-orientated ethnic groups of South Sulawesi. I will not discuss the technicalities of indigenous navigation, but focus on the underlying concepts and categories of spatial orientation. I approach this through an analysis of the expressions and terms used by contemporary ‘traditional’ sailors and navigators to indicate a destination or direction. After outlining the problem and giving examples of spatial terminology used by South Sulawesian fishermen, sailors, and inter-island traders, in the second section I explain in detail the directional terms employed by the sailor-traders of Bira as an example of the complexity and sophistication of these patterns. The third and fourth sections place the discussion in the wider context of migration and settlement of insular Southeast Asia.
Three books on the literary tradition of West Java
Authors: Millie Julian
Published: April 2013

Review essay
Book Reviews
Authors: KITLV Redactie
Published: April 2013

-Doris Jedamski, René Witte, De Indische radio-omroep; Overheidsbeleid en ontwikkeling, 1923-1942. Hilversum: Verloren, 1998, 202 pp. -Edwin Jurriëns, Philip Kitley, Television, nation, and culture in Indonesia. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2000, xviii + 411 pp. [Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series 104.] -Gerrit Knaap, Scott Merrillees, Batavia in nineteenth century photographs. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000, 282 pp. -C.C. MacKnight, David Bulbeck ,Land of iron; The historical archaelogy of Luwu and the Cenrana valley; Results of the Origin of Complex Society in South Sulawesi Project (OXIS). Hull and Canberra: Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull / School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, 2000, vi + 141 pp., Ian Caldwell (eds) -Niels Mulder, Toh Goda, Political culture and ethnicity; An anthropological study in Southeast Asia. Quezon City: New Day, 1999, xviii + 182 pp. -Niels Mulder, Norman G. Owen, The Bikol blend; Bikolanos and their history. Quezon City: New Day, 1999, x + 291 pp. -Anton Ploeg, Donald Tuzin, Social complexity in the making; A case study among the Arapesh of New Guinea. London: Routledge, 2001, xii + 159 pp. -Henk Schulte-Nordholt, Maarten Kuitenbrouwer, Tussen oriëntalisme en wetenschap; Het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde in historisch verband 1851-2001. Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij, 2001, ix + 362 pp. -Sri Margana, Peter Carey ,The archive of Yogyakarta, Volume II, Documents relating to economic and agrarian affairs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 566 pp., Mason C. Hoadley (eds) -Eric Venbrux, Wilfried van Damme, Bijdragen over kunst en cultuur in Oceanië/Studies in Oceanic Art and Culture. Gent: Academia Press, 2000, 122 pp. -Edwin Wieringa, Raharjo Suwandi, A quest for justice; The millenary aspirations of a contemporary Javanese wali. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2000, x + 229 pp. [Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 182.] -Willem G. Wolters, Benito J. Legarda Jr., After the galleons; Foreign trade, economic change and entrepreneurship in the nineteenth-century Philippines. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1999, xiv + 401 pp. -Brenda Yeoh, Jürgen Rüland, The dynamics of metropolitan management in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1996, 230 pp. -David Henley, Albert Schrauwers, Colonial 'reformation' in the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000, xiv + 279 pp. -David Henley, Lorraine V. Aragon, Fields of the Lord; Animism, Christian minorities, and state development in Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000, xii + 383 pp. -Jennifer W. Nourse, Jennifer W. Nourse, Conceiving spirits; Birth rituals and contested identities among Laujé of Indonesia. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999, xii + 308
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Book Reviews
Authors: Nugroho-Heins Indro , Brakel-Papenhuyzen Clara , Sluimers László , Sato Shigeru , Steenbrink Karel , Holtrop P.N. , Timmer Jaap , Biersack Aletta , Boomgaard Peter , Dobbin Christine , Brown Ian , Hicks George , Brown Ian , Shozo Fukuda , Cohen Matthew I. , Sears Laurie J. , Goor J. , Reid Anthony , Goor J. , Reid Anthony , Henley David , Shiraishi Saya S. , Knaap Gerrit , Jobse P.
Published: April 2013

- Peter Boomgaard, Christine Dobbin, Asian entrepreneurial minorities; Conjoint communities in the making of the world economy, 1570-1940. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1996, xiii + 246 pp. [Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series 71.] - Ian Brown, Fukuda Shozo, With sweat and abacus; Economic roles of Southeast Asian Chinese on the eve of World War II, edited by George Hicks. Singapore: Select Books, 1995, xii + 246 pp. - Ian Brown, George Hicks, Chinese organisations in Southeast Asia in the 1930s. Singapore: Select Books, 1996, xv + 168 pp. - Matthew I. Cohen, Laurie J. Sears, Shadows of empire; Colonial discourse and Javanese tales. Durham/London: Duke University Press, 1996, xxi + 349 pp. - J. van Goor, Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the age of commerce 1450-1680. Vol. II: Expansion and crisis. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1993, xv + 390 pp. - J. van Goor, Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the age of commerce 1450-1680. Vol. I: The lands below the winds. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1988, xvi + 275 pp. - David Henley, Saya S. Shiraishi, Young heroes; The Indnesian family in politics. Ithaca/New York: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program Publications, 1997, 183 pp. [Studies on Southeast Asia 22.] - Gerrit Knaap, P. Jobse, Bronnen betreffende de Midden-Molukken 1900-1942. Den Haag: Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 1997. 4 volumes. Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën, Kleine Serie, 81, 82, 83, 84. Volume 1 bewerkt door P. Jobse, 2 en 3 door Ch.F. van Fraassen, 4 door Ch.F van Fraassen en P. Jobse. xii + 578, xii + 578, xii + 711, x + 655, xi + 261 pp., Ch. F. van Fraassen (eds.) - Indro Nugroho-Heins, Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen, Classical Javanese dance; The Surakarta tradition and its terminology. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1995, xi + 252 pp. [Verhandelingen 155.] - László Sluimers, Shigeru Sato, War, nationalism and peasants; Java under the Japanese occupation, 1942-1945. Armonk, New York: Sharpe, St. Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1994. xx + 280 pp. [ASAA Southeast Asia Publication Series.] - Karel Steenbrink, P.N. Holtrop, Een bundel opstellen over de Zending van de Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland ter gelegenheid van de honderdjarige hedenking van de Synode van Middelburg 1896. Kampen: Werkgroep voor de Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Zending en Overzeese Kerken, 1996, 199 pp. - Jaap Timmer, Aletta Biersack, Papuan borderlands; Huli, Duna, and Ipili perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995, xii + 440 pp., bibliography, index.
A new species and new distribution records for Braconidae from Mountain Lake Biological Station in southwestern Virginia and a redescription of Pentapleura foveolata Viereck
Authors: KULA ROBERT R.
Published: April 2013

One new species of Alysiinae, Coelinius wrayi Kula, is described. Pentapleura foveolata Viereck, also in Alysiinae and previously known only from a male collected at the type locality in Connecticut, is redescribed based on six females and two males collected at Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS) in Virginia. Morphological variation for Alysia (Alysia) salebrosa Wharton is discussed given variation observed in specimens from MLBS. Sixty-two species of Braconidae col-lected at MLBS in August of 2009 are listed along with 12 species reported previously from MLBS. Host use for the 62 species is discussed; 31 are in Alysiinae or Opiinae, subfamilies that exclusively contain parasitoids of cyclorrhaphous flies. Fifteen species are reported from Virginia for the first time. Problematic couplets in a key to species of Spathius Nees for North America (Marsh & Strazanac 2009) are discussed using specimens from MLBS.
Taxonomic review of Chinese Phalonidia Le Marchand, 1933 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Cochylini)
Authors: SUN YINGHUI , LI HOUHUN
Published: April 2013

The Chinese species of Phalonidia Le Marchand, 1933 are reviewed. Sixteen species and one subspecies are treated, in-cluding three new species (P. brevifasciaria, sp. nov., P. rotundiventralis, sp. nov., and P. tenuispiniformis, sp. nov.) and three newly recorded species or subspecies (P. affinitana tauriana (Kennel, 1899), P. aliena Kuznetzov, 1966, and P. co-reana Byun & Li, 2006). The female of P. lydiae (Filipjev, 1940) is described for the first time. Images of adults and gen-italia are provided, along with a key and a distribution map for the genus in China.
Three new species of the genus Sternoppia (Acari: Oribatida: Sternoppiidae) from Ecuador
Authors: ERMILOV SERGEY G. , SANDMANN DOROTHEE , MARIAN FRANCA , MARAUN MARK
Published: April 2013

Three new oppioid mite species of the genus Sternoppia, S. paraincisa sp. nov., S. paramirabilis sp. nov. and S. fissurata sp. nov., are described. Sternoppia paraincisa sp. nov. is most similar morphologically to Sternoppia incisa Balogh & Mahunka, 1977 from Bolivia, however, it differs from the latter by smaller body size, presence of notogastral setae c, lo-cation of lyrifissures ia, presence of granules on anal plates, and setiform sensilli. Sternoppia paramirabilis sp. nov. is most similar morphologically to Sternoppia mirabilis Balogh & Mahunka, 1968 from Argentina, however it differs from the latter by larger body size, presence of two or three sensillar branches only, and long interlamellar setae. Sternoppia fissurata sp. nov. differs from all species of the genus by the nine pairs of notogastral setae, location of lyrifissures iad in inverse apoanal position, and the presence of large tectum on anterior part of ventral plate. Sternoppia brasiliensis is for the first time recorded in Ecuador. An identification key to all known species of Sternoppia is provided.
Implementation as theory, hierarchy as transformation, homology as synapomorphy
Authors: EBACH MALTE C. , WILLIAMS DAVID M. , VANDERLAAN TEGAN A.
Published: April 2013

Presently cladistics is based on, and justified by, a computer implementation (Wagner Parsimony) rather than sound methodological or theoretical foundations. In this paper, the recent goals of cladistics that are derived from computer implementations and ‘tree-thinking’ are discussed. The discussion raises a critical point, namely whether one can dispense with these recent goals and adopt a wholly systematic approach, one herein termed systematic thinking.
Two new species and a new genus of Calloporidae (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from the Southwest Atlantic
Authors: GAPPA JUAN LÓPEZ , LIUZZI MARÍA G.
Published: April 2013

The family Calloporidae occupies a basal position in the classification of the Cheilostomata, the relatively simple callop-orid morphology seeming to be the basic pattern for the adaptive radiation of cheilostome bryozoans. The ovicells of the Calloporidae may be formed by the maternal zooid or the distal zooid, which can be an autozooid, a vicarious avicularium or a kenozooid. Examination of new calloporid material from the southern Patagonian shelf revealed the existence of two new species and a new genus. Kenoaplousina fissurata gen. nov., sp. nov. is characterized by its distinctive kenozooidal ooecium. The new genus is also deemed to include Aplousina grandipora Moyano, an allied species from the Chilean con-tinental slope. Alderina simplicissima sp. nov., is also described from the Magellanic region.
Phylogenetic systematics of the family Sillaginidae (Percomorpha: order Perciformes)
Authors: KAGA TATSUYA
Published: April 2013

The phylogenetic relationships of the family Sillaginidae are inferred based on morphological characters. The Sillaginidae is revealed as being a monophyletic group supported by 16 synapomorphies such as shortened segments on the first soft ray of pelvic fin and the adductor mandibulae section A2 covering section A1 laterally. The characters recognized in 24 transformation series were used for the phylogenetic analysis to reconstruct the interrelationships of the family. Twelve equally most parsimonious trees were obtained in the analysis. A strict consensus tree from the 12 trees was adopted as representing the phylogenetic relationships of the family Sillaginidae. Although reversals and character changes to other derived conditions are recognized, it is inferred that five characters additionally support the monophyly of the Sillaginidae. The family Sillaginidae is redefined based on the synapomorphies supporting its monophyly for the first time. In the new classification proposed, the Sillaginidae comprises the following five genera: Sillago, Sillaginopsis, Sillaginodes, Sillaginopodys, and Sillaginops gen. nov. A key to identification of the genera of Sillaginidae is provided. The family Sillaginidae contains two groups having different evolutionary trends in the reconstructed phylogeny of the family. The first group, including Sillaginopsis, Sillaginodes, Sillaginopodys, and Sillaginops gen. nov., has a trend towards reducing the swimbladder; and the second group, including only Sillago, has a trend towards further refining the swimbladder.
Preliminary review of the genus Stenotarsus Perty (Coleoptera: Endomychidae) from México, Guatemala and Belize, with descriptions of twelve new species
Authors: ARRIAGA-VARELA EMMANUEL , ZARAGOZA-CABALLERO SANTIAGO , TOMASZEWSKA WIOLETTA , NAVARRETE-HEREDIA JOSE LUIS
Published: April 2013

A preliminary review of the species of Stenotarsus Perty from México, Guatemala and Belize is presented. Twenty-seven species are recorded from the region including 12 new species described here: Stenotarsus cortesi sp. nov. (Jalisco), S. incisus sp. nov.Quetzaltenango, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz),kafkai sp. nov.Veracruz),mesoamericanus sp. nov.Chiapas, Puebla),mexicanus sp. nov.Veracruz),molgorae sp. nov.Jalisco),monterrosoi sp. nov.Izabal),parallelicornis sp. nov. (Veracruz), S. raramuri sp. nov.Durango, Jalisco),rulfoi sp. nov. (Jalisco),shockleyi sp. nov.Veracruz),spiropenis sp. nov. (Jalisco). Stenotarsus circumdatus Gerstaecker,discipennis Gorham and S. tarsalis Gorham are synonymized with S. globosus Guérin-Méneville.distinguendus Arrow is synonymized with S. sallaei Gorham. Stenotarsus pilatei Gorham is synonymized with S. militaris Gerstaecker. Lectotypes are designated for: Stenotarsus circumdatus Gerstaecker,distinguendus Arrow, Stenotarsus exiguus Gorham,globosus Guérin-Méneville,guatemalae Arrow,discipennis Gorham, Stenotarsus lemniscatus Gorham, Stenotarsus militaris Gerstaecker, Stenotarsus rubrocinctus Gerstaecker, Stenotarsus sallaei Gorham, Stenotarsus tarsalis Gorham, Stenotarsus thoracicus Gorham. A key to the species in this region is provided. Species are described in detail and illustrated, and habits and habitats are given when available.
A Downscaled Wind Climatology on the Outer Continental Shelf
Authors: Woods Bryan K. , Nehrkorn Thomas , Henderson John M.
Published: April 2013

A 31-yr time series of boundary layer winds has been developed for a region on the outer continental shelf. This simulated time series was designed to be suitable to study the wind resources for a potential offshore wind farm. Reanalysis data were used to initialize a series of high-resolution numerical simulations. The limited number of high-resolution numerical simulations was repeatedly sampled using an analog matching criterion that is based on the reanalysis data to create a 31-yr time series with 500-m spatial resolution and 10-min temporal resolution. Validation against buoy data indicates that combining the reanalysis and resampled high-resolution numerical simulations produces a much more accurate wind speed distribution than does the reanalysis alone. Both the model physics and downscaled resolution may be contributing to the observed performance gains.
The Association of Tropical and Extratropical Climate Modes to Atmospheric Blocking across Southeastern Australia
Authors: Cowan Tim , van Rensch Peter , Purich Ariaan , Cai Wenju
Published: April 2013

Relationships of the Indian Ocean dipole (IOD), El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and the southern annular mode (SAM) with atmospheric blocking are investigated using a linear framework over the austral autumn–spring (cool) seasons for southeast Australia (SEA). Positive blocking events occurring at 130°–140°E increase the likelihood of cutoff low pressure systems developing that generate significant rainfall totals across SEA. In mid to late austral autumn (April–May), blocking is coherent with negative IOD events. During this season, a negative IOD event and blocking are associated with warm sea surface temperature anomalies in the eastern tropical Indian Ocean and a blocking high pressure cell south of Australia. An anomalous cyclonic pressure center over southern Australia directs tropical moisture flux anomalies to the region. Despite this, only a small portion of a negative IOD's impact on SEA rainfall comes through blocking events. During austral winter, ENSO is coherent with blocking; anomalous tropical moisture fluxes from the western Pacific during a La Niña merge with anomalous cyclonic flows centered over SEA, delivering enhanced rainfall via cutoff lows. The low pressure cell constitutes a center of the Southern Oscillation associated with ENSO. This ENSO-blocking coherence is considerably weaker in austral spring, whereby circulation anomalies associated with blocking resemble a SAM-like pattern. As such, a large portion of the SAM's impact on SEA spring rainfall occurs in conjunction with blocking events. The relative importance of associations between the dominant climate modes and blocking in generating the drought-breaking cool season precipitation in 2010 across SEA is discussed.
Revisiting Microstructure Sensor Responses with Implications for Double-Diffusive Fluxes
Authors: Sommer Tobias , Carpenter Jeffrey R. , Schmid Martin , Lueck Rolf G. , Wüest Alfred
Published: April 2013

Thin high-gradient interfaces that occur naturally within double-diffusive staircases are used to estimate the response characteristics of temperature and conductivity microstructure sensors. The knowledge of these responses is essential for resolving small-scale turbulence in natural water bodies and for determining double-diffusive fluxes of heat and salt. Here, the authors derive microstructure sensor responses from observed differences in the statistical distributions of interface thicknesses at various profiling speeds in Lake Kivu (central Africa). In contrast to the standard approach for determining sensor responses, this method is independent of any knowledge of the true in situ temperature and salinity structure. Assuming double-pole frequency response functions, the time constants for the Sea-Bird Electronics SBE-7 conductivity sensor and the Rockland Scientific International FP07 thermistor are estimated to be 2.2 and 10 ms, respectively. In contrast to previous assumptions, the frequency response for the SBE-7 is found to be substantial and dominates the wavenumber response for profiling speeds larger than 0.19 m s−1.
A Fast Spherical Harmonics Transform for Global NWP and Climate Models
Authors: Wedi Nils P. , Hamrud Mats , Mozdzynski George
Published: April 2013

Very high-resolution spectral transform models are believed to become prohibitively expensive because of the relative increase in computational cost of the Legendre transforms compared to the gridpoint computations. This article describes the implementation of a practical fast spherical harmonics transform into the Integrated Forecast System (IFS) at ECMWF. Details of the accuracy of the computations, of the parallelization, and memory use are discussed. Results are presented that demonstrate the cost effectiveness and accuracy of the fast spherical harmonics transform, successfully mitigating the concern about the disproportionally growing computational cost. Using the new transforms, the first T7999 global weather forecast (equivalent to ≈2.5-km horizontal grid size) using a spectral transform model has been produced.
Transition of the Coastal and Estuarine Storm Tide Model to an Operational Storm Surge Forecast Model: A Case Study of the Florida Coast
Authors: Zhang Keqi , Li Yuepeng , Liu Huiqing , Rhome Jamie , Forbes Cristina
Published: April 2013

The operational forecast demands and constraints of the National Hurricane Center require that a storm surge model in research mode be tested against a benchmark model such as Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) for accuracy, computation time, and numerical stability before the model is used for operational forecasts. Additionally, the simulated results must be in a geographic information system format to facilitate the usage of computed storm surge for various applications. This paper presents results from a demonstration project to explore the pathway for the transition of the Coastal and Estuarine Storm Tide (CEST) model to an operational forecast model by testing CEST over SLOSH basins in Florida. The performance and stability of CEST were examined by conducting simulations for Hurricane Andrew (1992) and more than 100 000 synthetic hurricanes for nine SLOSH basins covering the Florida coast and Lake Okeechobee. The results show that CEST produces peak surge heights similar to those from SLOSH. Additionally, CEST has proven to be numerically stable against all synthetic hurricanes and the computation time of CEST is comparable to that of SLOSH. Therefore, CEST has the potential to be used for operational forecasts of storm surge. The potential of producing more detailed real-time surge inundation forecasts was also investigated through the simulations of Andrew's surge on various grids with different cell sizes. The results indicate that CEST can produce 48-h forecasts using a single processor in about 40 min over a grid generated by reducing the cell edge size of the SLOSH grid by 4 times.
Improving Effectiveness of Weather Risk Communication on the NWS Point-and-Click Web Page
Authors: Demuth Julie L. , Morss Rebecca E. , Lazo Jeffrey K. , Hilderbrand Douglas C.
Published: April 2013

The National Weather Service's (NWS) point-and-click (PnC) web page is a primary channel through which NWS directly provides routine and hazardous weather information to its users. The research presented here aims to improve risk communication of hazardous weather information on the PnC web page. The focus is on improving communication of threat existence and threat timing because this important information influences how individuals perceive and respond to a weather risk. Experimental presentations of PnC forecast information were designed for two weather scenarios: a severe thunderstorm warning and a flood watch. The experimental presentations were created by adding new textual and graphical pieces of information that were intended to better convey threat existence and timing, and they were evaluated through two rounds of nationwide surveys of PnC web page users. The survey results show that the default presentation of forecast information on the PnC web page was the least effective at conveying hazardous weather threat existence and timing. Adding start-time text and end-time text, when these information pieces were coupled, helped respondents understand the precise time that weather threats were in effect for the rapid-onset, short-duration severe thunderstorm warning and for the delayed-start, longer-duration flood watch. Adding a box graphic placed around the forecast icons further enhanced communication effectiveness by drawing respondents' attention to the weather threat. Other experimental forecast presentations were designed but were less effective at communicating hazardous weather threat existence and timing, illustrating the importance of empirically evaluating weather risk communication prior to providing it operationally.
Spirituality in social work in South Africa: Insights from a survey with academics
Authors: Bhagwan Raisuyah
Published: April 2013

Historically, spirituality has shared a tenuous position with social work. Scholarship underpinning its relevance to client well-being and anti-oppressive practice has proliferated, entrenching its niche in education. In South Africa, very little empirical work exists except for a survey with final year social work students. This article presents findings made with a national survey of academics: 66 educators from 16 universities participated indicating positive views on spirituality in education and practice in South Africa.
Changing values and valuing change: Toward an ecospiritual perspective in social work
Authors: Gray Mel , Coates John
Published: April 2013

This article examines the relationship between spirituality and the environment and the changing values required as we move toward a new politics of social work where commitment to social and political involvement is integral to spirituality, most notably surrounding environmental change. The ecospiritual perspective recognizes human interests are inextricably bound with planetary well-being. It serves not only to broaden social work beyond a preoccupation with the social, but also to shift professional thinking away from the pre-eminence of individualism and dualism, and the unquestioned acceptance of progress and uncontrolled growth that make it difficult for social workers to fulfil their role as agents of social and environmental justice.
Gandhianism in London: Bringing the past to bear on the present in discussion of the social work and spirituality of Muriel and Doris Lester
Authors: Whiting Russell
Published: April 2013

This article considers Gandhian social work in relation to spirituality and as carried out by Muriel and Doris Lester, two British social workers from the first half of the 20th century. Following a brief literature review the article focuses on how examples from the lives of these women illustrate Gandhian ideas such as Satyāgraha and Swadesh. It emphasizes the spiritual elements in these ideas and their ongoing relevance. A biographical approach is used and contemporary resonances are drawn out. The article emphasizes the importance of narrative for developing contemporary understandings of social work and spirituality.
Religious nurture in British Muslim families: Implications for social work
Authors: Scourfield Jonathan , Warden Rosalind , Gilliat-Ray Sophie , Khan Asma , Otri Sameh
Published: April 2013

Some recent commentary on the relevance of religion and spirituality to social work emphasizes a liberal Western individualized notion of spirituality, rather than the significance of formal religion. Evidence from sociological research on religious nurture in British Muslim families challenges this emphasis. Sixty Muslim families from diverse backgrounds in one UK city took part in a qualitative study, consisting of interviews with adults and children aged 12 and under; observation of formal learning and oral and photographic diaries. The article focuses in particular on the importance of religious nurture in Muslim families and parents’ views about ‘spirituality’.
(Nurse)—Writing With the Wolves
Authors: Davis Halifax Nancy Viva , Mitchell Gail J.
Published: April 2013

La Loba, an arts-informed, pilot research project brought together health-care workers from diverse disciplines who met over a span of 6 months, to create a space of praxis within which we could reflect upon the experiences of bearing witness to suffering.

The poem (nurse) is writing with; using the method of poetic transcription (Richardson 1992, 1994a, 1994b), memories, gestures, and words from the inquiry are returned to public space to bear witness to the suffering that is unacknowledged within our contemporary health-care institutions.
Transforming Minor Bodily Stigmas Through Holding Onto Grief
Authors: Paxton Blake A.
Published: April 2013

This essay is an exploration in the process of queering hegemonic paradigms of grieving and body image. I use autoethnography to question my feelings about my own body hair and the sudden death of my mother. I show how experiences of sudden death not only allow us to reflect upon our current relationships and life stories, but help us transform them as well. I take the reader through my own contradictory history with body hair from childhood to the present, through times my mother helped me love it and times others pushed me to hate it. Ultimately, I argue that through writing a deceased loved one’s legacy on our own bodies and holding onto grief, we might not only reframe minor bodily stigmas but also transcend them.
Assembling the Affective Field
Authors: van Doorn Niels
Published: April 2013

This article recounts what happens when an increasingly commonplace technology such as the smartphone is mobilized in ethnographic fieldwork practice, investigating the particular research-related affects and intimacies that are produced by/in this sociotechnical assemblage. I start with a brief account of my research project, after which I discuss the ways in which my smartphone has informed and modulated the different components of my fieldwork, conceived as a heterogeneous practice of logistical and affective labor. In the last two sections, I reflect on the methodological consequences of incorporating a smartphone into ethnographic research and address the question of how this practice prompts a reconsideration of the relation between knowledge production, research intimacies, and mobile technology.
Blowing Hot
Authors: Atkinson Paul
Published: April 2013

The article describes the author’s experience of a day-long class in glassblowing at a studio in London. It draws out a number of analytic themes in making sense of the pedagogy and the learning experience. The article also makes explicit comparison with the work of Erin O’Connor, who has also studied glassblowing at a studio in the United States. Conclusions are drawn simultaneously about the stability of the craft and pedagogy of glassblowing, and also about the craft of ethnography itself.
Writing the First Person Singular
Authors: Quinlan Kathleen M.
Published: April 2013

A poem that explores the boundaries of what can be written in the social sciences and how far we can push those norms of social science. It addresses the discomfort many social scientists feel when writing in the active, first person singular, while raising questions about qualitative inquiry that plague those who choose to venture into literary writing styles that offer a greater expressive range and more emotive language.
Influence of a sad program context on the process of advertising persuasion among younger and older adults
Authors: Lacoste-Badie Sophie , Malek Faten , Droulers Olivier
Published: April 2013

This experimental research investigates the impact of age (younger vs. older adults) and program context (sad vs. neutral) on affective reactions elicited by the program, on attitude towards the ads inserted in the program and on attitude towards the brands in the ads. The results show differential effects on younger and older adults: the level of sadness reported after exposure to a sad program is less strong among older adults than among younger adults; a sad program does not influence the attitude toward the ads (Aad) when it concerns older adults, while its influence is negative when it concerns younger adults; the effect of sadness on attitude toward brands (Ab), mediated by Aad, is not significant among older adults, while it is significant and negative among younger adults. This research confirms that older adults have better emotion regulation than younger adults in a situation of negative emotion induction.
The bond between consumers and their behaviors
Authors: Julienne Eric
Published: April 2013

While the marketing literature typically explains commitment through attitudinal constructs such as trust and commitment, we develop an alternative behavioral approach in which commitment results from the accumulation of acts of purchase and consumption (Kiesler, 1971). We show that (1) the predictive power of a behavioral model, tested on a sample of 432 magazine readers, is equivalent to a conventional attitudinal model (explained variance: 0.529 vs. 0.527), and (2) the cumulative nature of acts does not strengthen the influence of attitudes on commitment (explained variance of integrative attitudes–behaviors model: 0.546). These findings suggest that it is better to use behavioral data to predict commitment, because it is easier to collect.
Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: A Role for Corporate India in Rural Primary Education
Authors: Ojha Abhoy K. , Chakravarty Dwarkaprasad
Published: April 2013

With the bulk of India’s population residing in rural areas, access to quality primary education in non-urban areas is vital to unlock the country’s vast economic potential. Good primary education is likely to provide a solid foundation to the rural poor for acquiring higher education, professional skills and employment, thereby reducing poverty for them and enabling sustained economic growth for the country. Government schools, which comprise the majority of schools in rural India, have been unable to address the challenge due to inferior facilities, ineffective teaching and mismanagement. As a result, rural parents, who can afford to do so, are increasingly enrolling their children in private schools that have been opportunistically set up in relatively affluent rural areas. While such schools demonstrate better results than government schools, they are far from adequate in terms of quality and accessibility. We believe that there is a need to meet the twin challenges of quality and accessibility with more innovative methods which involve more than the traditional providers of education.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming more central to the societal expectations from commercial organizations, with the possibility that spending a certain percentage of corporate income on societal welfare is likely to have legislative sanction. However, with a few exceptions, CSR in India seems to lack focus and ownership towards socio-economic development initiatives such as rural education. We argue that more corporations should focus their CSR initiatives towards addressing the challenges of primary education in rural India. There is a critical need for good educational institutions, which have thus far confined themselves to urban areas, to establish primary schools in rural areas. However, several other challenges need to be addressed in order to facilitate the entry of such institutions into rural areas as well as to enable students to enrol and continue in schools. We believe that a consortium of educational institutions, non-government organizations (NGOs), and other affiliated organizations lead by the CSR wing of a prominent private sector organization working in partnership with government institutions may be able to address these requirements. We argue that a collaborative partnership that has commonality of purpose, well-defined accountabilities and outcome-based performance measures has the potential to yield an order of magnitude improvement in rural primary education.
Cloud Computing in Indian Higher Education
Authors: Ghosh Amitava , Chakraborty Abhishek , Saha Sourav , Mahanti Ambuj
Published: April 2013

In developing countries, education plays a very important role in maintaining the momentum of economic growth. In a country like India with a population of over a billion, one of the biggest challenges that the government faces in providing education is the provisioning and maintenance of infrastructure. The infrastructural issue can be viewed from two dimensions: on one hand, the lack of investments and on the other hand, the difficulties in maintaining such infrastructures. This article focuses on the lack of investment and suggests the use of cloud computing as a form of possible remedy. This article uses Rogers’ diffusion framework for the penetration of cloud computing in the higher education sector of India and proposes a cloud model for a higher educational institute.
Mentoring India’s Youth
Authors: Gupta Arundhuti , Gowda M.V. Rajeev
Published: April 2013

India has seen substantial improvement in access to education nationwide, but there are concerns about the quality of education and consequently, the employability of school and college graduates. Large numbers of India’s youth also face the problem of inequality of opportunity. Families and communities that do not have ‘cultural capital’ (years of schooling, access to resources and information networks) find it a challenge to nurture talent in their children. In this article we discuss one intervention—mentoring—that has the potential to address these two challenges simultaneously. This article reports on an experimental year-long mentoring programme for 20 destitute girls, living in a government institution in south India. Participant experience shows that there is little knowledge of the formal mentoring function in India, and a sense of fear associated with adult–youth relationships. In the mentoring programme, these notions were dispelled as the relationships developed. Mentees recorded a change of attitude in learning English. The life skill exercises helped mentees plan for their future, and in some cases thwart early-marriage pressures. Mentoring functions like providing emotional regulation and collaborative skill-building were demonstrated in mentors helping mentees overcome fear in public speaking, examinations, speech defects, etc. Mentees recorded a change in their identity—they saw themselves as more capable. The relationship offered avenues for authentic companionship and several mentees saw their mentors as role models. These results show potential for formal youth mentoring programmes to have considerable positive impact on India’s youth and enable them to become capable, confident and empowered.
Tunnel Enlargement and Coalition After Anatomic Double-Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction With Hamstring Tendon Autografts
Authors: Kawaguchi Yasuyuki , Kondo Eiji , Onodera Jun , Kitamura Nobuto , Sasaki Tsukasa , Yagi Tomonori , Yasuda Kazunori
Published: April 2013

Background:

Tunnel enlargement and coalition following double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction with hamstring tendon autografts has not yet been sufficiently studied.

Hypothesis:

The incidence and the degree of femoral tunnel enlargement will be significantly greater than those for tibial tunnel enlargement after anatomic double-bundle ACL reconstruction using hamstring tendon autografts. There will be no significant correlation between tunnel enlargement and coalition and the postoperative knee laxity.

Study Design:

Case series; Level of evidence, 4.

Methods:

Thirty-nine patients who underwent anatomic double-bundle ACL reconstruction using semitendinosus and gracilis tendon autografts were followed up for 1 year after surgery. The grafts were simultaneously fixed at 10° of knee flexion with EndoButtons and spiked staples. All patients were examined with computed tomography and the standard clinical evaluation methods at 2 weeks and 1 year after surgery.

Results:

The degree of tunnel enlargement of the femoral anteromedial and posterolateral tunnels averaged 10% to 11% and 7% to 9%, respectively, while that of the tibial anteromedial and posterolateral tunnels averaged 3% to 7% and 1% to 6%. The degree and incidence of the anteromedial and posterolateral tunnel enlargement were significantly greater in the femur than in the tibia ( P < .0335 and P < .0405, respectively). On the femoral and tibial intra-articular surface, tunnel outlet coalition was found in 5% and 77% of the knees, respectively, at 1 year after surgery. There was no significant correlation between tunnel enlargement and coalition and the clinical outcome.

Conclusion:

The incidence and the degree of each tunnel enlargement in the femur were significantly greater than that in the tibia. However, the incidence of tunnel coalition in the femur was significantly less than that in the tibia after double-bundle ACL reconstruction with a transtibial technique. There was no significant correlation between tunnel enlargement and coalition and the clinical outcome.

Clinical Relevance:

The present study provides orthopaedic surgeons with important information on double-bundle ACL reconstruction with hamstring tendons.
Kernel function based interior-point methods for horizontal linear complementarity problems
Authors: Lee Yong-Hoon , Cho You-Young , Cho Gyeong-Mi
Published: April 2013

It is well known that each kernel function defines an interior-point algorithm. In this paper we propose new classes of kernel functions whose form is different from known kernel functions and define interior-point methods (IPMs) based on these functions whose barrier term is exponential power of exponential functions for

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-horizontal linear complementarity problems (HLCPs). New search directions and proximity measures are defined by these kernel functions. We obtain so far the best known complexity results for large- and small-update methods.