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Порівняльна морфологія вестибулярних ядер птахів із різною локомоцією (папужки хвилястого, голуба сизого та канюка звичайного)
Authors: Omelkovets Yaroslav , Shalagay Maxim
Published: February 2019

Вестибулярні ядра є першою ланкою опрацювання сигналів про рухи та зміну положення тіла в просторі. У птахів ці ядра досягли високого рівня розвитку, оскільки представники Aves опанували повітряний простір, що супроводжувалось ускладненням локомоції та орієнтації. Унаслідок адаптивної радіації всередині класу виокремемо ряд екологічних груп, представники яких відрізняються за місцем проживання, способом життя, трофічною спеціалізацією, а відтак і складністю локомоції. Усередині класу є як літаючі, плаваючі, бігаючі види, так і ті, що поєднують усі названі вище способи переміщення. Такі еволюційні пристосування повинні відобразитися на морфології відділів мозку, які контролюють положення тіла в просторі та напрямок його руху. Тому ми поставили за мету провести порівняльно-морфологічне дослідження дорсо-латерального, вентро-латерального та вентро-медіального вестибулярних ядер видів, що відрізняються як за способом польоту, так і за вправністю пересування твердим субстратом. Першим досліджуваним птахом обрано голуба сизого (Columba livia), який здатний до маневреного польоту в умовах міста й управно пересувається по землі. Другий досліджуваний вид – хвилястий папужка (Melopsittacus undulatus), котрий в умовах чагарників та щільної рослинності активно рухається твердим субстратом (у тому числі гілками дерев та кущів) і спритно маневрує в польоті. Також досліджено мозок канюка звичайного (Buteo buteo), який пересувається по землі не так вправно, як папужка чи голуб, і характеризується планеруючим та ширяючим польотом. У результаті дослідження встановлено, що у вестибулярних ядрах усіх досліджуваних видів переважають мультиполярні нейрони. Крім них, наявні також веретеноподібні нервові клітини. У всіх досліджуваних тварин найбільші розміри перикаріонів нейронів зафіксовано в nucl. vestibularis dorsolateralis. У канюка звичайного найбільша щільність нейронів – у nucl. vestibularis ventrolateralis, у той час як в інших досліджуваних видів найбільшу щільність нервових клітин зафіксовано в nucl. vestibularis ventromedialis.
Характеристика глутатіонпероксидази сперматозоїдів інфертильних чоловіків
Authors: Fafula Roman , Оnufrovych Оlena , Iefremova Ulyana , Vorobets Zinoviy
Published: February 2019

Загальновідомо, що порушення балансу між інтенсивністю процесів ліпопероксидації та активністю систем антиоксидантного захисту призводить до оксидативного стресу, який є потенційною передумовою в розвитку дисфункції сперматозоїдів. Особлива роль у системі антиоксидантного захисту належить глутатіоновій системі, зокрема глутатіонпероксидазі, що здійснює інактивацію активних форм Оксигену з одночасним окисненням відновленого глутатіону (GSH). Мета роботи – вивчення кінетичних властивостей глутатіонпероксидази сперматозоїдів фертильних та інфертильних чоловіків із різними формами патоспермії.Активність глутатіонпероксидази визначали за кількістю GSH, який використано для нейтралізації пероксиду водню в глутатіонпероксидазній реакції. Уявні кінетичні параметри, які характеризують глутатіонпероксидазну реакцію – уявну константу спорідненості до GSH і початкову максимальну активність ензиму визначали в обернених координатах Лайнуівера-Берка.З’ясовано, що підвищення концентрації GSH у середовищі інкубації призводить до поступового збільшення ензиматичної активності глутатіонпероксидази з виходом на плато. Максимальну активність глутатіонпероксидази сперматозоїдів фертильних та інфертильних чоловіків простежено за наявності 5 мМ GSH в інкубаційному середовищі. Значення початкової максимальної активності глутатіонпероксидази в сперматозоїдах інфертильних чоловіків із різними формами патоспермії у 2,4–4,1 нижче відносно цієї величини у фертильних чоловіків із нормозооспермією. Водночас не відзначається статично достовірної різниці у величині початкової максимальної активності глутатіонпероксидази між різними формами патоспермії. Значення уявної константи аффіності (спорідненості) до GSH у сперматозоїдах інфертильних чоловіків в 1,9–4,9 раза перевищують цей показник у сперматозоїдах нормозооспермічних чоловіків, що свідчить про зниження спорідненість ензиму до GSH при патоспермії.При інтерпретації отриманих кінетичних параметрів, визначених за GSH, показано, що при патоспермії інгібування активності глутатіонпероксидази відбувається за змішаним типом – як за рахунок зменшення числа обертів ензиму, так і за рахунок зниження спорідненості ензиму до субстрату.
Вплив нейрофідбек-тренінгу на виконавчі функції в осіб похилого віку
Authors: Braniuk Sergiy
Published: February 2019

Похилий вік відзначається підвищеним ризиком розвитку малих когнітивних порушень різної етіології. Проблема загострюється після досягнення шістдесяти річного віку, коли в разі ігнорування вона може стрімко переростати в деменції різного генезу й тяжкості, котрі часто супроводжуються емоційними розладами. Із метою покращення когнітивних здібностей використовують різноманітні методи, один із яких є нейрофідбек-тренінг. Існують дослідження, що підтверджують позитивний вплив останнього на когнітивну активність мозку людини при діагностуванні гіперактивності, аутизму, епілепсії, перенесених черепно-мозкових травм та інсультів. Водночас у сучасній літературі недостатньо відомостей щодо ефектів такого тренінгу у похилому віці. Тому мета нашого дослідження – виявити зміни виконавчих функцій після проходження нейрофідбек тренінгу в осіб похилого віку.У дослідженні взяли участь 25 жінок віком 60–75 років, з яких сформовано дві групи – експериментальну (12 осіб) й контрольну (13 осіб). Дослідження включало такі етапи: 1-й та 3-й етап – оцінка когнітивних функцій (МоСа), рівня короткочасної просторової пам’яті (Corsi), тривоги та депресії (НАDS) обстежуваних; 2 етап – нейрофідбек-тренінг, у котрому взяли участь особи лише експериментальної групи.Відповідно до одержаних результатів, в обстежуваних експериментальної групи після проходження нейрофідбек тренінгу встановлено значуще покращення зорово-конструктивних навичок, робочої пам’яті, короткочасної просторової пам’яті, уваги й концентрації, мовлення. Виявлено зниження рівня тривоги й депресії. У контрольній групі таких змін не простежували.
Génesis de las desigualdades territoriales: una mirada histórica de los procesos de configuración de las antiguas periferias de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Authors: Di Virgilio María Mercedes , Najman Mercedes , Brikman Denise
Published: February 2019

En este artículo se reconstruyen los procesos de transformación de las denominadas antiguas periferias de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires en relación al contexto metropolitano. Este proceso ha distado de ser homogéneo, dando como resultado una corona de barrios porteños —que limitan con su conurbación— y, pese a compartir la integración tardía a la ciudad central, han adoptado dinámicas y lógicas particulares.Proponemos desentrañar mediante un análisis sociológico e histórico los factores que han influido en estos procesos de configuración territorial desigual. Consideramos que las dinámicas actuales de estos barrios son tributarias de sus procesos de configuración, en los cuales se han priorizado diferentes modos de producción de ciudad.
Nuevas desigualdades socioespaciales a través del discurso de Podemos
Authors: Larionova Marina V. , Demkina Anastasia V.
Published: February 2019

El artículo, desde la óptica discursiva del partido Podemos, analiza nuevas desigualdades socioespaciales que enfrenta España. Su discurso, entendido como instrumento para hacer política, basado en las ideas de posmodernismo y posestructuralismo y alimentado desde fuentes filosóficas latinoamericanas, configura el espacio socio-político en torno al eje antagónico, cuyos conceptos clave, entre otros, son: democracia-sociedadcontra oligarquía de casta; colonizados contra colonizadores; plurinacionalidad contra etnocentrismo. A partir de la teoría laclauniana que postula la inexistencia de la realidad política fuera del espacio discursivo porque está llena de “significantes vacíos” que carecen de significado concreto, Podemos enfocó su doctrina política como lucha por los sentidos para articular un movimiento político en torno a su discurso y para enfrentar nuevos desafíos de la modernidad.
Conocimiento y uso del open data en Colombia
Authors: Said-Hung Elias , Valencia Cobos Jorge , Cancino Borbón Andrea
Published: February 2019

El presente trabajo busca medir el nivel de conoci- miento y uso del open data entre los ciudadanos colombianos e identificar los factores que inciden significativamente en su área laboral. Se analizan los resultados obtenidos a partir de una encuesta aplicada a mil 218 ciudadanos, con el 95% de confianza y ee=+/-2.8. Los resultados nos muestran un muy bajo nivel de conocimiento y aplicación del open data en dicho país; la identificación de un conjunto de factores que inciden signifi- cativamente en ello (por ejemplo, el uso de medios alternativos y plataformas ciudadanas); así como la necesaria participación de los actores sociales públicos y privados colombianos para aumentar el impacto del movimiento Open Data.
El balance decisional, etapas de cambio y nivel de actividad física en estudiantes de bachillerato
Authors: Zamarripa Jorge , Ruiz-Juan Francisco , Ruiz-Risueño Abad Jorge Ricardo
Published: February 2019

El modelo transteórico postula que la modificación de conductas implica la progresión de los sujetos a través de cinco etapas, en las que el balance decisional es uno de los procesos responsables de dicho cambio. Los objetivos del estudio fueron evaluar la validez concurrente del cuestionario de etapas de cambio para el ejercicio y examinar el balance decisional a través de las etapas de cambio y su relación con el nivel de actividad físico-deportiva en 285 estudiantes de una preparatoria pública de Monterrey, México. Los resultados resaltan la importancia del balance decisional para cambiar comportamientos sedentarios y adoptar un estilo de vida activo en la población joven. Se presenta evidencia de validez concurrente del cuestionario de etapas de cambio para el ejercicio.
La nueva historia del español
Authors: Jamieson Martín
Published: February 2019

Reseña del libro: Moreno Fernández, F. (2016). La maravillosa historia del español. Buenos Aires: Instituto Cervantes/Espasa-Calpe.
From French Indochina to Paris and back again: The Circulation of Objects, People, and Information, 1900-1932
Authors: Dias Nélia
Published: February 2019

This article examines the ways in which the processes of collecting, ordering and governing were imbricated both in the metropole and in the colony. Focused on the ethnographic missions carried out by the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro(MET) and by the École Française d’Extrême Orient from 1900 to the 1930s, the paper explores the network of local collectors, the methodological protocols and standards, the collecting practices, and how objects were gathered in the field for displays at the MET in Paris and at the forthcoming ethnological museum at Dalat in French Indochina (what is now Vietnam). The article argues that the circulation of objects, and the information related to those objects, conceives both the metropole and the colony as sites for the production of ethnological knowledge. It also seeks to demonstrate that collecting practices entailed distinct government effects both in metropolitan France and in colonial Indochina.
Report from the Field: Multi-cultural Dialogue and Transformative Learning in Arts & Minds Programs at The Studio Museum in Harlem
Authors: Halpin-Healy Carolyn
Published: February 2019

This paper presents a report from the field of museum education programs for people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) and their caregivers. Research is beginning to document the impact of museums on the cognitive and emotional health of people with dementia (PWD) and those who care for them. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, Arts & Minds programs have created a dynamic learning environment for the very forgetful through dialogic interpretation of art and expressive art making. The stories recounted here reveal the powerful potential of multi-cultural dialogue in the museum space to create transformative learning experiences for participants and educators alike.
Houses of stories: the whale rider at the American Museum of Natural History
Authors: Lythberg Billie , Newell Jennifer , Ngata Wayne
Published: February 2019

In April 2013, fifteen members of the Māori tribal arts group Toi Hauiti travelled to New York to reconnect with their carved wooden ancestor figure, Paikea, at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). They gave educational presentations  to school groups, museum staff and members of the public about Paikea and the whare kōrero , or house of stories, which Paikea had adorned as a gable figure.Through a discussion anchored in the importance of taonga (ancestral treasures), this paper describes embodied forms of knowledge used by Paikea’s descendants to know him in his absence, and introduce him to diverse audiences. Its foci are: museum education in multicultural contexts; learning by doing through the use of interactive activities; and community outreach and museum education. In addition, it discusses the challenges to protocols and opportunities for learning offered to AMNH staff through this engagement, and examines the impact it had son Toi Hauiti members themselves.
Acting and Collecting: Imagining Asia through material culture and musical theatre
Authors: Thorley Peter
Published: February 2019

This paper explores the link between Asian-inspired material culture and musical theatre through the collections of Anglo-Australian performer Herbert Browne (1895-1975). Brown played lead roles in 1920s Australian musical theatre productions of The Mikado and Chu Chin Chow and re-lived his connection with oriental theatre by collecting and responding to objects performatively in the Chinoiserie room of his Melbourne home. Oriental musical theatre blended exotic cultures and locales in visually spectacular productions which bore little resemblance to reality. The taste for escapist fiction in the theatre took place against a backdrop of museum collecting which aimed to reproduce authentic Asian and Other cultures. In this paper, I draw on French philosopher Merleau-Ponty’s observations on the relationship between thought and the body’s interaction with space to interpret the influence of Browne’s theatricality on collecting choices. From this perspective, objects materialize particular understandings of the world which originate in the body and the body’s performative engagement with space.
The Kaleidoscope of Culture: expanding the museum experience and the museum narrative by inviting visitors into the curatorial process
Authors: Jensen Kirsten , Grøn Karen
Published: February 2019

Traditional art museum exhibitions are planned according to art-historical elements. At Trapholt – a museum of modern Danish art, design and applied art in Denmark, we are interested in exploring what happens when ordinary visitors are invited to curate personal exhibitions in the museum space. This paper analyses the project The Kaleidoscope of Culture, where people with no art historical background were invited to curate exhibitions based on the Trapholt collection of art and their own cultural backgrounds and experiences. The main argument is that, by allowing these personal voices in the museum space, new museum narratives are established. But to make the museum a truly transformative space the art- historical knowledge and methods must also be activate.
Work, specimen, witness: How different perspectives on museum objects alter the way they are perceived and the values attributed to them
Authors: Thiemeyer Thomas
Published: February 2019

The generic term ‘museum objects’ suggests that a uniform category is involved. But museums in various disciplines have exhibited objects according to quite different rules and have assigned values to them that depend on the standards of the field of inquiry concerned: aesthetic quality, value as a historical source, as a relic or as a representative item. Over time, various display conventions have become established, which appear to us today to be natural and that assign the objects to specific stimulus values. The aim of this essay is to achieve a better understanding of these exhibition practices and discipline-specific value standards. The study aims to discover why we have become accustomed to using objects in exhibitions in different ways, and it distinguishes between three types of object: work, specimen and witness. The hypothesis here is that each of these follows its own display conventions, forms of perception and standards of value. The present essay aims to situate these three types of object – work, specimen and witness – historically and in this way to articulate the differences in status that exist between them.
The Muted Voice: The Limitations of Museums and the Depiction of Controversial History
Authors: Haymond John A
Published: February 2019

In a thorough discussion of military museums – and in this particular instance, theNational Army Museum – there must be a frank and realistic assessment of thelimitations that factor into how military history can be depicted. This perspectivepaper considers two specific aspects of this process. First, it discusses thechallenges confronting the National Army Museum when the history it coverscannot be fully depicted in the sterility of a museum setting. Second, it considershow the museum should deal with controversial histories. After all, the historyof the British Army is to a large degree a history of war and imperialism, and anentire range of ethical and political perspectives are inevitably involved in theportrayal of that history. This paper examines these challenges – the limitationswhich can mute the museum’s voice – and concludes that once these factorsare acknowledged, the National Army Museum’s strengths and successes canbe clearly understood and better appreciated.
Trophies of War: Representing ‘Summer Palace’ Loot in Military Museums in the UK
Authors: Tythacott Louise
Published: February 2019

In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War (1856-60), Britishand French troops looted and then burnt the imperial buildings in the Yuanmingyuan(known at the time by foreigners as the ‘Summer Palace’) in the north of Beijing.This widespread destruction of China’s most important complex of palaces, andthe dispersal of the imperial art collection, is considered one of the most extremeacts of cultural destruction of the nineteenth century. Over a million objectsare estimated to have been looted from buildings in the Yuanmingyuan, manyof these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and publicmuseums.1 This article analyses the display of ‘Summer Palace’ objects in fivemilitary museums in the UK, exploring the meanings constructed around China’simperial artefacts at these particular sites of representation.
Negotiating a ‘Tangled Web of Pride and Shame’: A Crimean Case-Study
Authors: Bates Rachel
Published: February 2019

This article complements an identified ‘cultural turn’ in military history, which emphasizes the potency of perception and the extent to which successes, failures, opportunities and threats are culturally conditioned (Black 2004: 233-35). It will deal with issues surrounding ‘collective remembrance’, a concept which Joanna Bourke identifies as problematic. For Bourke, ‘collectivememory’ has been characterized by a ‘museal sensibility’ in which mass narratives ‘wallow’ in a nostalgic world of community, stability and certainty (Bourke 2004: 473). She argues that collective memory is an exclusive script, which imposes unity on individual experiences and overlooks conscious acts of cultural selection (Bourke 2004: 473). Whilst scholarship on the relationship of present with past rightly takes issue with collective, or public, memory, precluding individual, or private, memories, Bourke usefully draws attention to the mythical qualities of collective remembrance. Military history, integral as it is to national identity yet harbouring inherently difficult histories, is particularly susceptible to cultural, social and political mediation. This article traces nineteenth-century treatments of two Crimean failures and the legacy ofthese attitudes today in museums, which to a large extent echo some of the dominant myths and silences of Victorian Britain.
Exploring the Gap between Museum Policy and Practice: a Comparative analysis of Scottish, English and Welsh Local Authority Museum Services
Authors: McCall Vikki
Published: February 2019

This paper explores the gap between museum policy and practice in the UnitedKingdom (UK) by offering empirical evidence from a comparative street-levelanalysis of museum services in Scotland, England and Wales. Exploringdevolution in cultural services from the ground-level using Lipsky’s (1980) ‘streetlevel’approach gives new insights to the role of ground-level workers in culturalpolicy. It shows that museum workers had an awareness of national policies, butimplementation was mainly influenced by a mixture of challenges in the everydaydelivery of the museum services studied. Museum workers understood policy assomething symbolic rather than relating to action, which reinforced policy distance.Workers at the ground-level had more similarities than differences throughoutScotland, England and Wales and the structural challenges within museum servicesindicated a complex negotiation that increased agency at the ground-level. Thesefindings outline the potential limitations of written national and international policyin the cultural sector as it is the activities, values and behaviours at the front-lineof cultural services that ultimately creates policy in the cultural sector. 1Key words: Cultural policy; museum workers; UK devolution; policy distance; street-levelanalysis; Lipsky
Museums, exchanges, and their contribution to Joseph Nye’s concept of ‘soft power’
Authors: Hoogwaerts Leanne
Published: February 2019

This paper discusses the role that museums and art institutions have in recent years played in international relations, and their contribution to the concept of soft power, coined by Joseph Nye; referring to a country’s ability to persuade rather than coerce through elements of ‘hard’ power such as the threat of a strong military (Nye 2004). Using as examples the exchanges of the Cyrus Cylinder between Iran and the British Museum, and the loan of Picasso’s Buste de Femme (1943) from the Dutch Van Abbemuseum to the International Academy of Art Palestine, the paper argues that through their role as ‘national expressions of identity’ and ‘memory institutions’, museums and art institutions are able to make a positive contribution to international relations by engendering mutual respect and understanding in ways that other forms of dialogue may be unable to. As soft power is an area that still requires significant research, this paper aims to contribute observations and case studies that may affirm its influence.Key Words: cultural diplomacy, museums, soft power, international relations, cultural exchange
The job that no one wants to do? Museum educators’ articulations about guided tours
Authors: Rodehn Cecilia
Published: February 2019

The aim of this paper is to investigate museum educators’ articulations of their performance during guided tours. The paper investigates preparations for a guided tour, considerations related to doing guided tours and the events after the guided tour. The text focus especially on preparation and the aftermath as this is not normally discussed in research on museum education. The paper is based on participant observation of guided tours, filming of guided tours and qualitative semi-structured interviews. The material is analysed using performance theories and theories on materiality. The paper seeks to unearth knowledge imbued in the museum educators’ performance and reveal what can be known from guiding bodies.
Uncharted territory: Visitor books of Indian museums. The Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum in Bhopal – a case study
Authors: Ross Ina
Published: February 2019

Visitor books for the general public are rather uncommon in India. As far as research is concerned, they are still mostly uncharted territory. The few existing visitor books, however, acquire a special significance: as pioneers in a nascent dialogue between visitors and institutions. This article explores their potential for providing information about the visitors to museums in India: their expectations and experiences, even their consciousness as citizens. Taking the visitor book of the Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum in Bhopal in central India as an example, the article shows how the priorities of Indian commentators differ significantly from what researchers have found in visitor books of museums in the West – in terms of the issues addressed, of the form and style of the comments, and of the social references. This piece of research is part of a larger study examining how the historically foreign concept of the museum can be culturally adopted and made its own by an Indian public.
Review Article: Resistant visitors and the development of empathy
Authors: Levin Amy
Published: February 2019

Rose, Julia. Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites. Lanham, Maryland:Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, paperback £23.95, hardback £49.95, pp. xvi+215.Gokcigdem, Elif M. Fostering Empathy Through Museums. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman& Littlefield, 2016, paperback £29.95, hardback £65, pp. xxxii+296.
Alchemy: The Great Art, exhibition at Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany 06.04.2017 – 23.07.2017
Authors: Gordon Lisa
Published: February 2019

This temporary exhibition at Kulturforum, part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, presented a selection of around 200 objects from its collection, alongside loans from prominent cultural institutions, including the Getty Research Institute in California with whom they have collaborated. In 2016, the Institute itself ran an exhibition entitled The Art of Alchemy which appears to have laid out the curatorial objectives for this recent show.
House Industries: A Type of Learning
Authors: Taylor Bradley Leland
Published: February 2019

Exhibition review of House Industries: A Type of Learning, Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, Dearborn, Michigan, United States, 27.05.2017 - 04.09.2017
Making sense: Experiential engagements with ethnographic photographs
Authors: Horn Christine
Published: February 2019

This article examines the role of embodied and performative knowledge in the museum environment, with a particular focus on ethnographic photographs. The study is based on the return of several hundred ethnographic photographs from the Sarawak Museum to Indigenous communities in rural Malaysia, where they had been taken by museum photographers from the early 1950s onwards. Aside from the oral narratives that emerged during the discussions and interviews, contextual knowledge was provided in embodied form. The return of the photographs to people in the source communities prompted the re-enactment of activities, re-telling of stories and production of cultural heritage to which the photographs referred. Such embodied knowledge, defined as knowledge preserved through performance and embodied activities, relates to the multi-vocal narratives about objects that museums are increasingly trying to include in their exhibitions. In this article I argue for a greater and more experimental use of sensory means to convey information about artifacts to museum audiences.   Keywords:Ethnographic photographs, Photography, Embodied knowledge, museum archives, Sarawak, Southeast Asia
Art Museum Dining: The History of Eating Out at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Authors: Mihalache Irina
Published: February 2019

Using archival materials from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), this article recreates the culinary history of the art museum and advocates for the inclusion of food in the literature on art museum history and practice. The AGO, like many other North American art museums, has a rich culinary history, which started with dining events organized by volunteer women’s committees since the 1940s. These culinary programs generated a culinary culture grounded in gourmet ideologies, which became the grounds for the first official eating spaces in the museum in the mid-1970s. Awareness of the museum’s culinary history offers an opportunity to liberate the museum from prescriptive theoretical models which are not anchored in institutional realities; these hide aspects of gender and class which become visible through food narratives.KeywordsArt museum restaurants, culinary programming, women’s committees, multisensorial museums, Art Gallery of Ontario
Fiona Candlin, Micromuseology: An Analysis of Small Independent Museums, Bloomsbury: London, 2016, paperback £28.99, pp. 224
Authors: Quigley Oonagh
Published: February 2019

This book is the first to tackle micromuseums from an academic viewpoint. Previous approaches to small museums have generally been from a practical perspective (Catlin-Legutko and Klinger 2011), or written for a lay audience (Davies 2010; Redington 2002). Micromuseums are generally considered to be small, single-themed and independent institutions.
The museum as a dating venue: Couples in the Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum in Bhopal, India
Authors: Ross Ina
Published: February 2019

Using the example of the Madhya Pradesh tribal Museum in Bhopal, India, the following article deals with a romantic user interest in museums: as a meeting place for unmarried (mixed-sex) couples; in short, as a venue for dates. The article contextualizes this phenomenon by taking into account the relationship of the museum as an institution with its Indian visitors from a historical perspective, and by outlining the social context within which public intimacy is situated in present-day India. It interprets the utilisation of museums by dating couples as a process of appropriation which acquires special significance in view of the frequently cited inadequate entrenchment of museums in India. As requirements of the couples from the museum as a dating venue, the essay identifies the ambience and the discreet behaviour of personnel, a lack of surveillance by family or neighbours, the positive (since it contributes to education – including moral education) social image of the museum as an institution and, finally, economic reasons. However, what emerges as the central motive, as a prerequisite for the safety and sense of comfort of the couples, is the disciplining effect of the museum as an institution on other visitors. The discussion of the museum as a venue for dating is part of a research project about the user interests of visitors to the Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum in Bhopal, India. In the study, about eight different categories of utilisation were worked out including the museum as a picnic spot and hang-out place, as arts and leisure centre, as a space of collective nostalgia and personal memories and as a backdrop for photos and selfies.
Experiencing memory museums in Berlin. The Otto Weidt Workshop for the Blind Museum and the Jewish Museum Berlin
Authors: Souto Ana
Published: February 2019

This article explores memory studies from the audience’s perspective, focusing on the perception of Holocaust narratives in two museums in Berlin. This research builds on and contributes to a number of emerging issues on memory studies, tourism perception and museum design: the debate on experiential authenticity, Dark Tourism, as well as the analysis of memory studies from the perspective of the user. The main data facilitating the analysis is based on responses shared on TripAdvisor; the case studies being the Otto Weidt Workshop for the Blind Museum and the Jewish Museum Berlin. The analysis of these museums, focusing on their narratives, design features and comments from visitors, will highlight a potential shift from the traditional object-focused museum, to a phenomenological subject-focused one. It will be argued, then, that the understanding and consumption of authenticity encompasses a very flexible definition, not only based on the nature of the objects exhibited, but on the production of authentic experiences.
The multiple interfaces of engagement: towards a new conception of gallery learning
Authors: Whitehead Christopher , Coffield Emma
Published: February 2019

Drawing upon longitudinal research undertaken with Further Education students who visited an art exhibition, this article retheorises organised gallery learning. We argue that the significance of the gallery visit for students – and of their engagements with the exhibition and artworks – is elaborated and remediated over longer periods of time and through multiple ‘interfaces’. These include: the school or college; the gallery and the contingency of gallery events; the exhibition; internet websites, social media and mobile applications; the artwork and images of it; and an understanding of the self and other people (including the artist, teachers and gallery staff). Each of these has different possibilities that structure engagement, and sometimes interfaces ‘fail’ because of mundane contingencies or students’ dispositions. Also, interfaces don’t stand alone and need to be considered relationally for a more holistic and complex picture of ‘learning’ to emerge.
Review Article All together now: Writing, activism, and museum engagement
Authors: Levin Amy
Published: February 2019

This article reviews two books:Labadi, Sophia. Museums, Immigrants, and Social Justice. Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, 2018, hardback £105, pp. x+149.Message, Kylie. The Disobedient Museum: Writing at the Edge. Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, 2017, hardback £45, ebook £45, pp. xi+115.
Adaptive Institutional Change: Managing Digital Works at the Museum of Modern Art
Authors: Saaze Vivian Van , Wharton Glenn , Reisman Leah
Published: February 2019

From digital video to software-driven installations, digital art is now present in museums around the world. Museum systems designed for object-based collections like paintings and sculpture do not address the collections management and conservation requirements for these new technologies and their associated hardware. In this article the authors investigate processes through which digital art becomes embedded in museums. Based on original research conducted at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, we argue that the introduction of digital art to MoMA did not lead, as recent literature suggests, to disruptive or radical changes of existing institutional practices. Instead, the result has been organizational subunit proliferation and adjustments to established practices and procedures. Through our study of managing digital art at MoMA, we engage Science and Technology Studies and the institutional analysis tradition in the sociology of organizations to advance the understanding of processes of change in art museums.
Exploring Relations to Documents and Documentary Infrastructures: The Case of Museum Management After Austerity
Authors: Rex Bethany
Published: February 2019

Interaction with documents and documentary infrastructure is part of the day to day reality of museum work. However, their constitutive and mediatory role is rarely foregrounded in empirical studies of museums. In part, this is because a defined theoretical and methodological framework for such an investigation has yet to be developed. This article outlines what a conceptualisation of documents as more-than-text informed by actor-network theory offers to studies of museums, particularly the potential of this method for investigating how documentary infrastructures influence daily practice and inform notions of possible action amongst museum staff. The insight that institutional practices operate ‘on the field of possibilities’ is Foucault’s ([1982] 2000: 341). However, as I outline in this article, actor-network theory took up this insight and developed it, drawing out its methodological and analytical consequences. Empirical material exploring the influence of Arts Council England’s Accreditation Scheme on someone new to museum work, drawn from a study of community asset transfer, a process whereby people new to museum work become responsible for the operation and management of museums previously run by local authorities, is used to demonstrate the potential of this approach.
No Museum is an Island: Ethnography beyond Methodological Containerism
Authors: Macdonald Sharon , Gerbich Christine , Von Oswald Margareta
Published: February 2019

This article addresses the question of how to go beyond the conceptualisation of museums as islands in museum ethnography without losing the ethnographic depth and insights that such research can provide. Discussing existing ethnographic research in museums, the ethnographic turn in organization studies, and methodological innovation that seeks to go beyond bounded locations in anthropology, we offer a new museum methodology that retains ethnography’s capacity to grasp the often overlooked workings of organizational life – such as the informal relations, uncodified activities, chance events and feelings – while also avoiding ‘methodological containerism’, that is, the taking of the museum as an organization for granted. We then present a project design for a multi-sited, multi-linked, multi-researcher ethnography to respond to this; together with its specific realisation as the Making Differences project currently underway on Berlin’s Museum Island. Drawing on three sub-projects of this large ethnography – concerned with exhibition-making in the Museum of Islamic Art, in the Ethnological Museum in preparation for the Humboldt Forum (a high profile and contested cultural development due to open in 2019) and a new exhibition about Berlin, also for the Humboldt Forum – we highlight the importance of what happens beyond the ‘container,’ the discretion of what we even take to be the ‘container’, and how ‘organization-ness’ of various kinds is ‘done’ or ‘achieved’. We do this in part through an analysis of organigrams at play in our research fields, showing what these variously reveal, hide and suggest. Understanding museums, and organizations more generally, in this way, we argue, brings insight both to some of the specific developments that we are analysing as well as to museum and organization studies more widely.
Assembling the New: Studying Change Through the ‘Mundane’ in the Museum as Organization
Authors: Morgan Jennie
Published: February 2019

Change is highly valued within the museum sector and related literatures. Despite this emphasis, it is claimed that the field struggles to adequately understand and explain change processes, and that new critical and methodological tools are needed to move discussion forward (Peacock 2013). This paper offers one possible route by developing an anthropologically informed, ethnographic approach to studying the museum as organization. Illustrated through selected empirical materials from the case of the refurbishment of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, the paper focuses on a period immediately following this major capital project. It argues that change is implemented and sustained by the many different players and practices constituting the inner life-worlds of museums as organizations. By analysing the mediatory capacities of, what in some frameworks might be considered, ‘mundane’ everyday activities (such as maintenance work and tour-guiding) the paper seeks to expand understandings of what shapes the dynamics of change in museums.
Special Issue Editorial: Methodologies for Researching the Museum as Organization
Authors: Morse Nuala , Rex Bethany , Richardson Sarah Harvey
Published: February 2019

The editorial provides a framework for considering the museum as organization and its implications for methods.This special issue contains seven empirically driven contributions to provoke further examination of the museum as organization.
Titian, tapestries and toilets; what do preschoolers and their families value in a museum visit?
Authors: Wallis Nicola
Published: February 2019

What do preschool children value about museums, and how can we find out? This case study focused on children of preschool age (three and four years) who were already experienced visitors to our UK art museum.  They were given a cuddly toy to take on a guided tour of the museum in order for them to highlight what they considered key objects and features.  This enabled many rich and in-depth conversations between the children, their parents and the researcher.  The children were also invited to draw - about their museum visits - and parents were interviewed to give their perspectives on their children’s museum experiences.  Analysis of the children’s talk revealed that they valued many different aspects of the experience of visiting the museum – not just the activities and resources specifically designed for families - and displayed a good deal of ‘museum literacy’ in addition to carrying out sophisticated analyses of particular objects.  The study calls for greater focus on this age group in museum education, particularly through research led by practitioners, who observe on a daily basis how young children express their relationships with museum objects, and who have a wealth of local experiences which could be developed through thoughtfully planned action research.
Biophilia and Sustainable Museum Education Practices
Authors: Kristinsdóttir AlmaDís
Published: February 2019

Museums offer significant learning experiences that contribute to sustainable societies and lifelong learning. However, museum education has historically been a field in flux, and a constant revitalization is needed. This paper examines Biophilia, created by artist and musician Björk, as a case-study to illustrate the potential of its pedagogical approach to affect sustainable museum learning practices. Biophilia inspires children to learn about sound, science, and nature through technology; it is an app-album that manifested itself in a museum context both as a concert venue and a multi-disciplinary experimental educational platform – ideal for museum learning. While the project was formally implemented in Iceland through high levels of inter-institutional collaboration, its theoretical relationship to museum education and critical pedagogy of place was overlooked. Using the Biophilia’s analogy of an ‘infectious virus’ and a futurist’s framework of creativity and play, I ask: what can the field of museum education learn from Biophilia?
Authentic recreation: living history and leisure
Authors: Hart Lain
Published: February 2019

This essay considers a postmodern interpretation of the concept of authenticity and a criticism of that interpretation advanced from an ethnographic perspective. The author shows how these theoretical issues arise at American Civil War re-enactments by describing the ways by which the re-enactment community establishes authentic appearances at Civil War performances. The essay then considers the commercial activity conducted at Civil War events, and concludes by speaking to the question, posed by the postmodernists, as to whether it is possible to represent the past authentically.
INTEGRATED AHP AND FUZZY-PROMETHEE ON BEST SELECTION PROCESS
Authors: Widyasari Rina , Cipta Hendra , Husein Ismail
Published: February 2019

In best selection process such as best student, best employee, best destination, etc. need an effective method so it may have the best object in output. Criteria on each process consist of among qualitative variable and numeric variable. In fact, to make a decision we cant use our feeling but should use science method. In our research we offer integrated AHP (Analytical Hierarchical Process) and Fuzzy-Promethee to solve the selection process that has among categorical variable. The result show algorithm from integrated AHP and Fuzzy-Promethee.
The Influence of Realistic Mathemathic Education Model on Mathematical Reasoning Ability Viewed from Student Learning Styles
Authors: Apriani Dini , Mujib Mujib , Pratiwi Dona Dinda
Published: February 2019

This study aims to see the effect of realistic mathemathic education models on students' mathematical reasoning abilities in terms of learning styles. This type of research is quantitative. Data collection techniques used are essay tests and interviews. The data analysis technique used is hypothesis testing using anava 2 roads. However, before the anova test is carried out, the normality, homogeneity and balance test are carried out first. Based on the data that has been known that normal data, based on the same and balanced variance, the 2-way ANOVA test results show that there is an influence of the RTE model on students' mathematical reasoning ability, namely the reasoning ability of students with the RME model treatment is better than mathematical reasoning ability with conventional treatment methods. In addition, there is the influence of student learning styles on students' reasoning abilities.
GRACEFUL LABEING AND RHO TOPI LABELING ON THE 8-BINTANG GRAPH WITH C3 FOR N ODD
Authors: Amri Zulfi , Harahap Tua Halomoan , Irvan Irvan
Published: February 2019

This paper we propose graceful labeling and   labeling on a graph then referred to as 8-Bintang graph, the basic idea of formulation graceful labeling and   labeling on an alfabet bintang graphs wih the question a stars graph  . Then we constructing graceful labeling and   labeling on the 8-Bintang graph with circle graph   for   odd.  The results obtained are illustrated in the theorem that the 8-Bintang graph with   for   odd has the following graceful labeling with the proof.
PROBLEM OF LETTER ARCHITECTURE COMPLETION USING A * SEARCH METHOD
Authors: Santoso Heri
Published: February 2019

Problems of architecture beams or commonly called Blocks Architecture is one of the classic problems in the study of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the architectural Problems of beams can be obtained from the problems that are all around us and is one of those cases that could be problems solved by using this beam is the stack, a stack problem conditions using push and pop, one of the methods that can be used is the A * Search algorithm, A * describe the process of problem solving in which one must take any decision on any of the best stride and the use of simulation in resolving the problems of architectural beams are expected to give an idea of how the process of the settlement of these problems, simulation is an attempt to copying features, display, and a real system characteristics, the expected results of the application of the algorithm is A * this is showing the form of settlement in the simulation.
MODEL OF SPREAD CONTENT DISEASE FOR ASSOCIATION OF VACCINE
Authors: Jumiati Ety , Husein Ismail
Published: February 2019

Transmission of infectious diseases in epidemiological models is usually based on the assumption that populations in random mixing. However, in reality this assumption is not fulfilled, because each individual has a limited set of contacts that they can pass through infection; the ensemble of all such contacts forms a complex network. Knowledge of network structure allows a model to calculate the dynamics of an epidemic at a population scale from individual level infection behavior. This paper discusses mathematical models to illustrate the epidemic pattern of transmission of infectious diseases in dynamic networks based on compartment systems.
FUZZY MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING IN HOTEL SELECTION
Authors: Aprilia Rima
Published: February 2019

As the third largest city in Indonesia, Medan has become one of the cities visited by many tourists, so many hotels have sprung up, from just guest houses to star hotels with various facilities provided. In the selection of hotels to stay, Fuzzy Multiple Attribute Decision Making is expected to provide the best solution in these problems. So that when tourists come to Medan, they can choose the best hotel that suits their needs. The output of this study, the collection of relevant references to the formulation of the problem. The aim is to strengthen the problem and as a theoretical basis for conducting the study and also become the basis for designing decision support systems