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Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare’s Theatre
Authors: Tribble Evelyn
Published: December 2020

What skills did Shakespeare’s actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the ‘toolkit’ of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been ‘corrupted’ by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.
A Foreigner’s Cinematic Dream of Japan
Authors: Haukamp Iris
Published: December 2020

In early 1936, a German film team arrived in Japan to participate in a film coproduction, intended to show the ‘real’ Japan to the world and to launch Japanese films into international markets. The two directors, one Japanese and the other German, clashed over the authenticity of the represented Japan and eventually directed two versions, The Samurai’s Daughter and New Earth, based on a common script. The resulting films hold a firm place in film history as an exercise in - or reaction against - politically motivated propaganda, respectively.

A Foreigner’s Cinematic Dream of Japan contests the resulting oversimplification into nationalised and politicised dichotomies. Drawing on a wide range of Japanese and German original sources, as well as a comparative analysis of the ‘German-Japanese version’ and the elusive ‘Japanese-English version’, Iris Haukamp reveals the complexities of this international co-production. This exclusive research sheds light not only on the films themselves, but also on the timeframe of its production, with both countries at the brink of war.
Nenes’ Koza Dabasa
Authors: Johnson Henry
Published: December 2020

Koza Dabasa explores Okinawa's island culture and its ghosts of war through the lens of Nenes, a four-woman pop group that draws on the distinctiveness and exoticism of Okinawan musical tradition. Both a tropical island paradise and the site of some of the bloodiest battles of World War II, Okinawa has a unique culture and a contentious history. Its musical traditions are distinct from other parts of Japan, varying in instrumentation, poetic forms, and musical scales. Nenes marks its cultural difference as Okinawan by emphasizing its own exoticism, expressed through its music, fashion, imagery, and performance style. Henry Johnson listens to Koza Dabasa as a representation of Okinawa's relationship with the Japanese music industry and with the broader themes of international warfare and local tourism.

33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.
DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media
Authors: Jones Ellis
Published: December 2020

The emergence of social media in the early 21st century promised to facilitate new "DIY" cultural approaches, emphasizing participation and democratization. However, in recent years these platforms have been criticized as domineering and exploitative. For DIY musicians in scenes with lengthy histories of cultural resistance, is social media a powerful emancipatory and democratizing tool, or a new corporate antagonist to be resisted?

DIY Music explores the significant challenges faced by artists navigating this fraught cultural landscape. How do anti-commercial musicians operate in the competitive, attention-seeking world of social media? How do they deal with a new abundance of data and metrics? How do they present their activity as "cultural resistance"? This book shows that a platform-enabled DIY approach is now the norm for a wide array of cultural practitioners; this "DIY-as-default" landscape threatens to depoliticize the call to "do-it-yourself."
Romanticism and Film
Authors: Kitchen Will
Published: December 2020

The relationship between Romanticism and film remains one of the most neglected topics in film theory and history, with analysis often focusing on the proto-cinematic significance of Richard Wagner’s music-dramas. One new and interesting way of examining this relationship is by looking beyond Wagner, and developing a concept of audio-visual explanation rooted in Romantic philosophical aesthetics, and employing it in the analysis of film discourse and representation.

Using this concept of audio-visual explanation, the cultural image of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt, a contemporary of Wagner and another significant practitioner of Romantic audio-visual aesthetics, is examined in reference to specific case studies, including the rarely-explored films Song Without End (1960) and Lisztomania (1975).

This multifaceted study of film discourse and representation employs Liszt as a guiding-thread, structuring a general exploration of the concept of Romanticism and its relationship with film more generally. This exploration is supported by new theories of representation based on schematic cognition, the philosophy of explanation, and the recently-developed film theory of Jacques Rancière.

Individual chapters address the historical background of audio-visual explanation in Romantic philosophical aesthetics, Liszt’s role in the historical discourses of film and film music, and various filmic representations of Liszt and his compositions. Throughout these investigations, Will Kitchen explores the various ways that films explain, or ‘make sense’ of things, through a ‘Romantic’ aesthetic combination of sound and vision.
Sonic Possible Worlds, Revised Edition
Authors: Voegelin Salomé
Published: December 2020

From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salomé Voegelin expands ‘possible world theory’ to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday. The modal logic of possible worlds, articulated principally via David K. Lewis and developed through Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological life-worlds, creates a view on the invisible slices of the world and reflects on how to make them count, politically and aesthetically. How to make them thinkable and accessible as the possibility of the everyday and of art: to reach a new materialist understanding from the invisible and to develop an ear for the as yet inaudible.

Creating Sonic Possible Worlds, such a phenomenological modality offers a new analytical framework that listens across genres and times to hear the continuum between sound art and music and to grasp the plurality of the world.

This revised edition continues Voegelin’s exploration of the sonic possibility of the world into the sonic possibility and impossibility of the body. Listening to works by ÁineO’Dwyer, Hannah Silva and Jocy de Oliveira, it considers sonic possible worlds’ radical power to rethink normative constructions and to fabulate a different body from its sound. Thus, the word continuum in the subtitle of this book, Hearing the Continuum of Sound, which in the first edition stood principally for the continuum between music and sound art, is opened up to denote also another continuum that stands as principle for the body, while including that of sound: Hearing the Continuum Between Plural Bodies Breathing, between humans-humanoid aliens-monsters-vampires-animals-plants-things-and anything we have no name for yet but which a sonic philosophy might start to hear and call.
Acoustic Justice
Authors: LaBelle Brandon
Published: December 2020

Acoustic Justice engages issues of recognition and misrecognition by mobilizing an acoustic framework. From the vibrational intensities of common life to the rhythm of bodies in movement, and drawing from his ongoing work on sound and agency, Brandon LaBelle positions acoustics, and the broader experience of listening, as a dynamic means for fostering responsiveness, understanding, dispute, and the work of reorientation. As such, acoustic justice emerges as a compelling platform for engaging struggles over the right to speak and to be heard that extends toward a broader materialist and planetary view. This entails critically addressing questions of space, borders, community, and the acoustic norms defining capacities of listening, leading to what LaBelle terms “poetic ecologies of resonance.” Acoustic Justice works at issues of recognition and resistance, place and displacement, by moving across a range of pertinent references and topics, from social practices and sound art to the performativity of skin and the poetics of Deaf voice. Through such transversality, LaBelle pushes for acoustics as the basis for strategies of refusal and repair.
Musical Nationalism, Despotism and Scholarly Interventions in Greek Popular Music
Authors: Ordoulidis Nikos
Published: December 2020

This book discusses the relationship between Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical music and laiko (popular) song in Greece. Laiko music was long considered a lesser form of music in Greece, with rural folk music considered serious enough to carry the weight of the ideologies founded within the establishment of the contemporary Greek state. During the 1940s and 1950s, a selective exoneration of urban popular music took place, one of its most popular cases being the originating relationships between two extremely popular musical pieces: Vasilis Tsitsanis’s “Synnefiasmeni Kyriaki” (Cloudy Sunday) and its descent from the hymn “Ti Ypermacho” (The Akathist Hymn). During this period the connection of these two pieces was forged in the Modern Greek conscience, led by certain key figures in the authority system of the scholarly world. Through analysis of these pieces and the surrounding contexts, Ordoulidis explores the changing role and perception of popular music in Greece.
M
Authors: Kaes Anton
Published: December 2020

Fritz Lang's M (1931) is an undisputed classic of world cinema. Lang considered it his most lasting work. Peter Lorre's extraordinary performance as the childlike misfit Hans Beckert was one of the most striking of film debuts, and it made him an international star. Lang's vision of a city gripped with fear, haunted by surveillance and total mobillization, is still remarkably powerful today. And M resonates too in the serial-killer genre which is so prominent in contemporary cinema. M speaks to us as a timeless classic, but also as a Weimar film that has too often been isolated from its political and cultural context. In this groundbreaking book, Anton Kaes reconnects M's much-studied formal brilliance to its significance as an event in 1931 Germany, recapturing the film's extraordinary social and symbolic energy. Interweaving close reading with cultural history, Kaes reconstitutes M as a crucial modernist artwork. In addition he analyzes Joseph Losey's 1951 film noir remake and, in an appendix, publishes for the first time M's missing scene.
Editorial RumbosTS. Edición Especial FILOSOFÍA Y TRABAJO SOCIAL. Tensiones entre Derecho y Justicia para la Intervención Social
Authors: Castro Serrano Borja , Muñoz Arce Gianinna
Published: December 2020

Con mucha satisfacción presentamos este número especial de la Revista Rumbos-TS dedicado la sistematización de las ponencias realizadas en el marco del II Seminario “Filosofía y Trabajo Social: Tensiones entre Derecho y Justicia para la Intervención Social”, realizado los días 11 y 12 de junio de 2019 en las universidades Alberto Hurtado y Andrés Bello, en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile. Los escritos que encontrarán en esta edición son fruto del trabajo colectivo y de los esfuerzos de quienes presentaron discusiones teóricas, resultados de investigación y reflexiones sobre lo social –y las claves filosóficas para comprender la intervención en lo social– desde las coordenadas del derecho y la noción de justicia social.
Entre la infamia y la pandemia Una introducción tangencial al Trabajo Social y la Filosofía para el primer cuarto del siglo XXI
Authors: Arellano Escudero Nelson
Published: December 2020

La descripción del tiempo y filosofía del Trabajo Social reúne los elementos contingentes del primer cuarto del Siglo XXI con una sensibilidad historiográfica del sistema mundo que abre la interrogante acerca de las prospectivas para el tiempo por venir. Se analiza entonces la trayectoria de la oralidad a la grafía que conectó un Seminario de Filosofía y Trabajo Social con los manuscritos de este número de Revista Rumbos, complementando las expresiones de pensamiento de lxs autorxs de los artículos con una revisión de fuentes para situar algunos de los acontecimientos relevantes de los años 2019-2020, todavía en curso al cierre de edición. Se aprecia que la interacción de Filosofía y Trabajo Social constituye una fructífera y promisoria siembra de los diálogos, aún en tiempos de descuidos.
Comentario: ¿Es posible una intervención social exenta de violencia y que a la vez sea justa?
Authors: Cazzaniga Susana
Published: December 2020

Se me ha convocado para comentar los artículos que integran esta sección: “Estado, Violencia y Justicia: notas sobre otra institucionalidad para la intervención social” de Borja Castro–Serrano e “Instituciones de justicia y violencias contra las mujeres: tensiones y desafíos para su abordaje” de Fabiola Miranda Pérez. Sin lugar a dudas un reto significativo tanto por los tópicos que en ellos se esgrimen como por sus autores, que hablan sobre temas caros a trabajo social desde otras disciplinas. Un placer será entonces recoger el guante que se me ha arrojado.
Comentario: La intervención social ante la encrucijada del liberalismo Reconstruyendo derechos en las sociedades contemporáneas
Authors: Sánchez Moreno Esteban
Published: December 2020

La intervención social se encuentra sujeta permanentemente a una reflexión en torno a un conjunto de dilemas difícilmente resolubles y que típicamente cobran la forma de encrucijadas. La complejidad de dichos dilemas y, sobre todo, la relevancia de sus implicaciones en el futuro son aspectos difícilmente discernibles en el momento en el que, colectivamente, disciplinariamente, es preciso tomar decisiones que afectan a las condiciones de vida de los ciudadanos y las ciudadanas para los cuales se diseña y ejecuta dicha intervención.
Sujeto de Derecho y reclamos de justicia Para una crítica del modelo liberal y los derechos sociales
Authors: Ulloa Plaza Jorge
Published: December 2020

Se analiza el estado actual de la situación del sujeto de derecho, en un contexto de las teorías de la justicia contemporáneas y la posibilidad de reformulación de la categoría, en la medida en que se incorporan a ella una crítica radical del modelo liberal y del concepto de derecho social, además de proponer una temporalización de los derechos para de esa manera, al someterlos a la contingencia, poder dinamizar y consecuentemente politizar los derechos.
FORM24 electrode array and perioperative cerebrospinal fluid leakage in cochlear implant recipients with cochleovestibular malformations
Authors: Halawani Roa , Alzhrani Farid , Almuhawas Fida , Hagr Abdulrahman Abdullah
Published: December 2020

BACKGROUND:

Cochlear implant (CI) recipients with a cochleovestibular malformation (CVM) are at a higher risk of experiencing an intra-operative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) gusher and, therefore are at greater risk of developing postoperative meningitis than are CI recipients with normal cochlear anatomy. To control CSF gushers, the FORM electrode array was developed.

OBJECTIVES:

To assess the ability of the FORM24 electrode array in managing intraoperative CSF gushers and preventing postoperative CSF leakage in a population of CI recipients.

DESIGN:

Retrospective.

SETTING:

Tertiary health care center.

PATIENTS AND METHODS:

All CIs in which a FORM24 was used between January 2014 and March 2018 were reviewed for demographic and safety results.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:

Safety results were assessed as the intraoperative or postoperative presence of an episode of CSF leakage or meningitis.

SAMPLE SIZE:

177 CI recipients.

RESULTS:

Thirty-six (20.3%) had a CVM and 141 had normal anatomy (79.7%). Of the 36 participants with a CVM, 20 (55.6%) experienced an intraoperative CSF gusher, all of which were resolved. No cases of postoperative leakage or meningitis were recorded after a mean follow-up time of 36 months.

CONCLUSION:

The FORM24 array is able to help surgeons stop intraoperative CSF gushers and prevent postoperative CSF leakage and meningitis in CI recipients with a CVM.

LIMITATIONS:

Further studies are needed.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST:

None.
Survival after therapy for pediatric ependymoma in a tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Shah Syed Nizam , Al-Dandan Sadeq Wasil , Shuja Muhammad , Balbaid Ali , Bashir Mohammad , Alharbi Musa
Published: December 2020

BACKGROUND:

There is limited data from Saudi Arabia on the demographic characteristics, outcomes and effectiveness of different treatment modalities in children with intracranial ependymoma.

OBJECTIVE:

Study the characteristics of pediatric ependymoma and outcomes of treatment modalities in Saudi Arabia.

DESIGN:

Retrospective.

SETTING:

Tertiary care center.

PATIENTS AND METHODS:

Children with intracranial ependymoma who were younger than 14 years of age and treated between 2006 and 2015 were included in the study. Patients with prior radiation, chemo-therapy, or surgical resection at other centers were excluded.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:

Kaplan-Meier survival curves were used to estimate the event-free (EFS) and overall survival (OS) rates of the patients.

SAMPLE SIZE:

22.

RESULTS:

Of the 22 children, 4 (18.2%) were less than three years old. All intracranial ependymomas had upfront surgical resection of the primary tumor. Gross total resection was achievable in 9 (42.9%) cases and subtotal resection in another 9 (42.9%). Near-total resection was done in 3 (14.3%) cases. Median time from surgery to start of radiotherapy was 62 days. RT was given to 17 (77.3%) patients. Both mean and median RT dose was 55.8 Gy. Only 5 (22.7%) of the children received chemotherapy. The median duration of follow-up was 5.38 years and the median time for EFS was 2.27 years. The cumulative OS rate of the study was 44.5%. The cumulative EFS survival rate of the study was 18.6%. Among demographic, pathological, radiological features, none had a statistically significant effect on the survival.

CONCLUSIONS:

The outcomes are comparable to those reported by international investigators for similar populations. Further improvements can be achieved by avoiding delays in radiation therapy and adding molecular staging.

LIMITATIONS:

The limited number of cases, retrospective nature, lack of molecular biology and size of the tumors.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST:

None.
Two cases of six-chambered hearts
Authors: Choh Naseer , Amreen Saika , Bashir Amber , Gojwari Tariq , Kumar Akshit
Published: December 2020

Double-chambered right ventricles (DCRV) and left ventricles are rare entities on their own. We present two cases with an unusual combination of double-chambered right as well as left ventricles. One was discovered in a 28-year-old female, while the other was found at birth in a female child. The differing nature of both the patient demographics as well as the presentation with a common morphological background is shown on both computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. The oldest description of an obstructive muscular band within the right ventricle was given in 1867. In the literature, there is ample description of the long-term prognosis and management guidelines for DCRV, but no inheritance patterns or risk factors have been identified except for associations with septal defects, tetralogy of Fallot and transposition of the great arteries. A combination of both double-sided left as well as right ventricles has been published in literature a few times with little details about management and prognosis.

SIMILAR CASES PUBLISHED:

Although many cases of DCRV and DCLV have been published, to our knowledge only 3 cases of combined DCRV and DCLV have been published in literature.
Prevalence of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV) Antibodies Among the Donor Population in the State of Qatar
Authors: Fawzi Z. O. , Al Malki A. , Al Mutawa H.
Published: December 2020

To determine the prevalence of antibodies to HTLV-1 & II among the donor population in Qatar and to evaluate the relevance of continuing routine pretransfusion screening of all donations for HTLV-I& II we surveyed all the results of the screening tests performed on 124,266 donations collected in the period August 1991 to the end of January 2004. All donations were screened by ELISA based assays and all donors who tested positive were recalled for repeat ELISA testing and confirmatory testing by Western-Blot (WB). Two hundred and sixty nine donors tested positive for HTLV-I/HTLV-II antibodies by ELISA but only 81 donors could be retrieved for confirmatory testing. On repeat ELISA testing 27 donors gave negative reactions; the remaining 54 were still positive and were tested by WB. Of those, 22 were confirmed positive by WB, 20 were WB negative while the remaining 12 donors gave an indeterminate WB pattern. Only one of the 22 W-B confirmed positive was a Qatari national The remaining 21 were non-Qatari donors belonging to various nationalities.
The Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) and its Aftermath in Contemporary World Affairs
Authors: Bazar Sanjmyatav
Published: December 2020

As the conception of security consolidates our prosperity to evolve on this planet that revolutionises our social norms and values from time-to-time, it also encounters threats and challenges that could potentially deliver a massive impact to the world. For instance, such security dilemmas would result in transforming the world order, international relations or even the lives of billions. This is the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic of 2019 (COVID-19) and it has changed the world for an indefinite period. Thus, it has forced us into a new phase, new norms and a new world. This paper will examine how this coronavirus outbreak has political, economic and social impacts on the world order through the lens of international relations.
Mongolia and the Coronavirus Outbreak -- Rethinking Strategies for Regional Integration
Authors: Campi Alicia
Published: December 2020

[No abstract available]
The Turning Points in Mongolian Policy of External Engagement :
Authors: Soni Sharad K.
Published: December 2020

[No abstract available]
The Assessment of Mongolian Sovereign Funds
Authors: Turgenbayar Bayarjargal
Published: December 2020

Mongolia is the one of the resource rich countries facing natural resource curse, relatively transparent with satisfactory resource governance. Some would argue establishing sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is beneficial those countries with natural resource curse while others against it. Mongolian government established several SWFs and namely Human Development Fund (HDF- afterwards renamed as Future Heritage Fund) and Fiscal Stability Fund (FSF) but still facing to create an efficient SWF. Some scholars would agree that it is important to find causal relations between management of SWF and its efficiency to establish an efficient and beneficial SWFs. There are several ways to reveal such relations, however, most research centres are using following major methods such as Resource Governance Index (RGI), Truman scoreboard and Linaburg- Maduell Transparency Index (LMTI) and Santiago Principles. This paper is examined Mongolian SWFs namely Human Development Fund (HDF) and Fiscal Stability Fund (FSF) using some of these methods.
FUTURE OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE – PARENTS’ PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Michoń Piotr
Published: December 2020

Taking the parents’ perspective, the paper addresses the issue of work-life balance. Based on the observed trends, the paper makes an attempt to predict which changes may have the greatest impact on the opportunities of striking balance in the future: (1) shortening the time spent on performing professional work, (2) wide spreading of task-based contracts, which will increase flexibility as to place and time of task performance; (3) expansion of precarious employment; (4) increasing fathers’ involvement in childcare. While separately described changes are interdependent their consequences can be positive (facilitate work-life balance) or negative. Moreover, the described changes will not apply equally to all employees in the future
Accelerating Effects of Vitamin E Supplementation on Liver Enzyme Normalization in Children with Acute Hepatitis A Infection; a Single-Blinded Clinical Trial
Authors: Shahramian Iraj , Tabrizian Kaveh , Afshari Mahdi , Bazi Ali , Bahmadisani Elaheh
Published: December 2020

Background: Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is a widespread disease with no specific treatment. Objectives: In the present study, we investigated the effects of vitamin E in the treatment of acute HAV infection in children. Methods: This clinical trial study was conducted on 142 patients with acute HAV infection referred to Amir-Al-Momenin Hospital of Zabol during February 2016-August 2017. The patients were randomly divided into two groups of intervention (Vit E, n = 71) and control (no medication, n = 71). Liver enzymes were monitored during a six-month period. Results: The mean ages of the patients were 8.4 ± 2.5 and 9 ± 4.3 years in the control and intervention groups, respectively. Male participants constituted 36 (50.7%) and 35 (49.3%) in the control and intervention groups, respectively. In both the treatment and control groups, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) significantly decreased over six months during the study (P < 0.001). AST level (IU/L) was significantly lower in the children who received vitamin E than controls at one-month (P = 0.01), two-month (P = 0.002), three-month (P = 0.005), four-month (P < 0.001), and six-month (P = 0.002) post-treatment periods. There was no significant difference comparing ALT between the intervention and control groups except for two months post-treatment (P = 0.01). Conclusions: Our study showed that the administration of vitamin E in children with acute hepatitis A can accelerate liver enzyme normalization.
A Degradation Product from Hydrolysate of Imipenem with Imis Broad-Spectrum Inhibits Metallo-β-Lactamases
Authors: Ge Ying , Xu Li-Wei , Zhen Jian-Bin , Chen Cheng , Lv Miao , Su Jian-Peng , Yang Ke-Wu , Liu Chengcheng
Published: December 2020

Background: Infections caused by metallo-β-lactamases (MβLs)-producing antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a severe threat to public health. The synergistic use of current antibiotics in combination with MβL inhibitors is a promising therapeutic mode against these antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Objectives: The study aimed to probe the inhibition of MβLs and obtain the active component, P1, in the degradation product after imipenem was hydrolyzed by ImiS. Methods: The hydrolysis of two carbapenems with MβL ImiS was monitored by UV-Vis in real-time, and the degradation product from the leaving group produced after imipenem was hydrolyzed (but not for faropenem) was purified by HPLC to give one component, P1. Results: Kinetic assays revealed that P1 exhibited a broad-spectrum inhibition against VIM-2, NDM-1, ImiS, and L1, from three sub-classes of MβLs, with IC50 values of 8 - 32, 13.8 - 29.3, and 14.2 - 19.2 µM, using imipenem, cefazolin, and nitrocefin as substrates, respectively. Also, P1 showed synergistic antibacterial efficacy against drug-resistant Escherichia coli producing VIM-2, NDM-1, ImiS, and L1, in combination with antibiotics, restoring 16 to 32-fold and 32 to 128-fold efficacies of imipenem and cefazolin, respectively. Spectroscopic and Ellman's reagent analyses suggested that P1, a mercaptoethyl-form imidamide, is a mechanism-based inhibitor, while faropenem has no substrate inhibition, due to the lack of a leaving group. Conclusions: This work reveals that the hydrolysate of imipenem, a carbapenem with a good leaving group, can be used in screening for broad-spectrum inhibitors of MβLs.
The Road from ἔνδοξα to ἐπιστήμη
Authors: Lo Joshua Yanhan ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: December 2020

The purpose of this paper is to argue for the necessity of dialectic in Aristotelian philosophy—dialectic defined as the art of arguing from probable opinions to contradictory conclusions (100a30; 101b4; 164b3–4). In particular, I will argue that dialectic is necessary for definition. In the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle identifies three principles of scientific demonstration: axioms, un-middled premises, and definitions. In showing the need for dialectic to define, I also show scientific knowledge’s dependence on dialectic.
Bound by the Good
Authors: Ferry Leonard ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: December 2020

Political authority is not eliminable, even if in a globalizing world order the particulars of its exercise might be undergoing a transformation. What matters to political philosophy is whether or not its existence and exercise can be justified. In this paper I begin by contrasting two paradigmatic approaches to justifications of political authority and political obligation: political naturalism and political voluntarism. Having set the stage for the debate, I connect Aquinas’s account of political authority with the former—though one will not find a full-fledged version of that account in this paper (it appears elsewhere). More importantly, I connect Aquinas’s naturalist defense of political obligation to a non-instrumental account of the common good, though the bulk of the paper deals with what I argue are failed attempts to offer non-naturalist accounts of the common good as alternative natural law defenses of political authority.
Is the Common Good Obsolete?
Authors: Lewis V. Bradley ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: December 2020

The idea of the common good has been a signature feature of Catholic social teaching and so of modern Catholic engagement in public affairs. It has recently been suggested that the notion is now obsolete due to changes in the culture and politics of the West. In keeping with this suggestion, some argue that Catholics should abandon it in favor of an appeal based on lower intermediate goods in a manner more related to Augustine’s engagement with the largely pagan culture of his time than to Aquinas’s categories tailored to an integrally Christian society. I argue that such a solution misreads aspects of the tradition and of the present political and cultural situation and I suggest some alternative grounds on which Catholic engagement with contemporary public life should proceed and that thinking again about the common good is a necessary part of such engagement.
Emerging, Transformative Technologies: Promises and Business Model Challenges
Authors: Boni Arthur , Gross Dennis M.
Published: December 2020

This issue provides a perspective on emerging, transformative technologies that promise to create innovations that are intended to provide solutions for significant problems in the biopharma and broader healthcare market.  Many of these technologies have been evolving over the years, but remain in their early development stages technologically. As with most transformative innovations, they come with a host of lengthy and expensive challenges associated with development and validation. And, implementation of transformative business models that are at least as challenging as commercializing the technologies themselves.
What’s Coming Next in Transformative Innovation?
Authors: Boni Arthur A
Published: December 2020

The idea in short. Contiguous with the publication of this special edition focused on the “Promises and Challenges of Transformative Innovation”, it is appropriate that we announce the creation of a new set of annual awards for our industry.  Therefore, in this short article we announce a new set of annual awards honoring excellence in transformative innovation – the JCB Top 50 Innovators!
Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy: história oral de vida política – highlights de memória.
Authors: Seawright Leandro A.
Published: December 2020

Este artigo é consequência de uma entrevista de história oral realizada com Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy e da memória verbalizada do narrador. Adotando-se a memória de expressão oral como elemento central para a história oral, avança para os efeitos disciplinares capazes de emoldurar temáticas escolhidas pelo interlocutor. Por isso, atende à temporalidade mnemônica. Parte da memória ao apresentar a sua história de vida política como gênero narrativo em história oral. Consequência imediata da entrevista foi a análise, ou a história oral aplicada, que indicou três highlights de memória: 1) Highlight, atenção desperta – sobre olhar pela janela; 2) Highlight, formação acadêmica – a constituição do político; 3) Highlight, ativismo – a constituição da política. Contribui para se pensar a história oral como derivada da memória verbalizada, para repensar a memória de elites econômicas, políticas, intelectuais e para o tratamento de políticas públicas pela história oral. Além disso, inverte a ordem escrita de documentos, leis e outros suportes para dar lugar à oralidade do político.
Palavras-chave: História Oral. Memória de Expressão Oral. Elites. Políticas Públicas.
Parameter-induced stochastic resonance in overdamped system with stable noise
Authors: Zhang Guang-Li  , Lü Xi-Lu  , Kang Yan-Mei  ,   Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Published: December 2020

Parameter-induced stochastic resonance is an important method of detecting weak signal from noise, but under stable noise background, this method has not been reported. In this paper, we study the parameter-induced stochastic resonance in an overdamped system with stable noise. Our investigation discloses that the stochastic resonance can be realized by tuning the system parameter under stable noise background; when the nonlinear term parameter is turned, the resonant effect becomes weakened as the stability index decreases. But when the linear term parameter is turned, the resonant effect becomes strengthened as the stability index decreases. Our observation is significant for understanding the positive role of stable noise in weak signal detection, which is helpful for understanding the effects of different stable noises on stochastic resonance systems.
An efficient adaptive method of improving the synchronization of complex networks
Authors: Zhu Ting-Xiang  , Wu Ye  , Xiao Jing-Hua  ,   State Key Lab of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Beijing 100876, China;,   School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
Published: December 2020

In this paper, we present an adaptive method to improve the synchronization of complex networks. We summarize the effects of the average degree of network and the size of network on the synchronization. By this adaptive method, We obtain a power low relationship between the synchronous capacity and the size of network. At the same network size, this method can enhance the network synchronous capacity several orders of magnitude higher than that of unweighted network. When the network size is larger, it is more efficient to improve synchronous capacity.
Frozen random patterns in a globally coupled discontinuous map lattices system
Authors: Tan Hong-Fang  , Jin Tao  , Qu Shi-Xian  ,   Institute of Theoretical & Computational Physics, School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710062, China
Published: December 2020

A class of the characteristic collective dynamic behaviors, i.e., the frozen random patterns, in a globally coupled both-discontinuous-and-non-invertible-map lattices are studied. The coupling-strength dependences of the mean order parameters and the largest Lyapunov exponents are calculated and analyzed. The result shows that, given the initial values for the dynamical variables, the system will reach its complete or partial synchronization state when the coupling strength is beyond some critical value, where the frozen random pattern appears. These phenomena reveal that there are coexisting attractors in the system, and thus the structure and the distribution of the frozen random patterns sensitively depend on the choice of the initial dynamics variables. The interesting event is that the system can be modulated to some regular states of motion by the coupling among lattices even when the single maps are in the chaotic states, which may have some important applications in controlling chaos. The rich dynamical behaviors mentioned above are due to the interplay between the discontinuity and the non-invertibility in the map.
Reseach on accommodation parameter of linear bridging relation for blunt cone in transitional regime
Authors: Rong Yi-Sheng  , Liu Wei-Qiang  ,   College of Aerospace and Material Engineering, National Univ. of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
Published: December 2020

Due to the complex flow in the transitional regime and the nonlinearity of the flow control functions, when a launch verhicle is designed, the aerodynamic heating is predicted mainly by engineering method. The accommodation parameter of linear bridging relation which is used to calculate the heat flux in transitional regime is fixed to fit the blunt cone which is widely used. The results of the bridging relation are validated by using the DSMC method. The validation shows that the accommodation parameter suited for the blunt cone and ensuring the linear bridging relation may be used to calculate the heat flux of blunt cone in a transitional regime.
Joint production of Z boson and charged top-pion pair at the ILC
Authors: Han Jin-Zhong  , Qin Zhen  , Wang Xue-Lei  ,   College of Physics and Information Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China;,   North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450011, China
Published: December 2020

In this paper, we investigate the joint production of charged top-pions pair and Z gauge boson in the topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) at the International Linear Collider (ILC) via the process e+e- → Zπt+πt-. We calculate the production cross section of the process e+e- → Zπt+πt- and find that the cross section of the process e+e- → Zπt+πt- can reach 1 fb in a reasonable parameter space of the TC2 model. Considering the main decay mode of charged top-pion πt+ → tb, we find that such a production may provide copious events at the ILC.
Experimentally studying the scheme on exciting coherent population trapping resonances with lin//lin configuration
Authors: Yang Jing  , Liu Guo-Bin  , Gu Si-Hong  ,   Key Laboratory of Atomic Frequency Standards (KLAFS), Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
Published: December 2020

Coherent population trapping (CPT) atomic clocks are prevailingly realized by exciting CPT resonance with circularly polarized bichromatic coherent light (σ+-σ+ scheme), while atom utilization efficiency is relatively low in the scheme. For improving efficiency, we experimentally study the scheme of realizing CPT resonance through the interaction between atoms and parallel linearly polarized bichromatic coherent light field (lin//lin scheme). In the same experimental conditions the experimental results show that the signal-noise ratio of the CPT resonance signal is twice, and the differential slope is 1.65 time higher than those of σ+-σ+ scheme. The experimental results reveal that the scheme is an ideal candidate for low power consuming atomic clock and magnetometer.
Influence of left-handed materials on the spontaneous emission spectrum of V-type three-level atom
Authors: Yu Ming-Zhang  , Zeng Xiao-Dong  , Wang Da-Wei  , Yang Ya-Ping  ,   Department of Physics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Published: December 2020

In this paper, the dynamic properties and the spontaneous emission spectrum of V-type three-level atom near left-handed material slab are investigated. The two orthogonal dipoles of the decay from the two upper levels to the lower level are considered. Due to the focusing and the phase compensation effects of the left-handed materials, the indirect quantum interference between two orthogonal spontaneous emission transitions leads to the fact that the populations in the two upper levels influence each other, the decay rate is enhanced or decreased and the spontaneous emission spectrum is narrowed or widened, depending on the initial atomic state.
Momentum transfer dependence of the triple differential cross section for electron impact ionization of helium at incident energy of 150 eV
Authors: Chen Zhan-Bin  , Yang Huan  , Zhang Sui-Meng  ,   College of Physics and Electrical Information, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China;,   Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, School of Materials and Chemical engineering, West Anhui University, Lu’an 237012, China
Published: December 2020

The momentum transfer dependence of the cross section for electron impact ionization of helium at an incident energy of 150 eV is investigated by using the BBK model and the DS3C model. The results of the present work are compared with experimental data. The structure of the cross section is analyzed, and the exchange effect is discussed.
Calculation study of the geometry structures and electronic properties of heterofullerenes C19M(M=Cr,Mo,W)
Authors: Zhang Xiu-Rong  , Bao Hong-Lu  , Li Yang  ,   School of Mathematics and Physics, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China
Published: December 2020

The possible geometrical structures of C19M(M=Cr,Mo,W) molecules are optimized by using the density functional theory (B3LYP) at the LANL2DZ level. For the ground state structures of C19M(M=Cr, Mo, W) clusters, the physical and the chemical properties are studied. The results show that the kinetic stabilities of the C19M clusters with different M atoms are almost the same. Theis thermodynamic stabilities are obviously increased with the increase of atomic number. It can be found from the frontier orbital that the M atoms have the effects on the orbits more or less. M atom contribution to the orbits roughly increases with M atomic number increasing. A great many of positive charges accumulate on the M atoms in C19M clusters. Their aromaticity decreases with the increase of atomic number.
A new method to predict the wind direction from HF radar Doppler spectrum
Authors: Mao Yuan  , Guo Li-Xin  , Din Hui-Fen  , Liu Wei  ,   School of Science, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
Published: December 2020

According to the relationship between the first-order Doppler of HF radar and the wind direction over the sea surface, a new method of predicting wind direction is proposed with considering the combination of neural network and the method of the beam sampling. Using the simulated data under different input and output parameters of neural network, the wind direction is predicted when the expansion factor is odd number, the combination of the neural network and the beam sampling is utilized to predict the wind direction when the expansion factor is even number, which can eliminate the fuzziness of the wind direction. The predicted result shows a good agreement with the simulated data. From the predicted results by the neural network and the beam sampling, it is find that the error of the wind direction is about 4-6 and the mean error of the expansion factor of the wind direction is 0.26, which provides a new idea and method of predicting the wind field over the sea surface.
High efficient anti-Stokes signal conversion in photonic crystal fiber
Authors: Shen Xiang-Wei  , Yu Chong-Xiu  , Sang Xin-Zhu  , Yuan Jin-Hui  , Han Ying  , Xia Chang-Ming  , Hou Lan-Tian  , Rao Fen  , Xia Min  , Yin Xiao-Li  ,   State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China;,   Institute of Infrared Optical Fibers & Sensors, Qinhuangdao 066004, China;,   State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science &Technology, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Published: December 2020

The anti-Stokes frequency conversion based on four-wave mixing (FWM) has been widely used to generate short-wavelength radiation for high resolution imaging, direct excitation of electronic molecular transitions, and so on. For achieving more effective anti-Stokes conversion, we use the Ti: sapphire laser with a central wavelength of 810 nm and a pulse width of 120 fs as a pump source, and the degenerated FWMs of the higher mode and the fundamental mode are achieved respectively in 0.5 m long and 3 m long photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) with a zero dispersion wavelength of fundamental mode around 820nm in our experiment. The anti-Stokes signals around 560nm are generated efficiently at the fundamental phase matching. The maximum power ratios of anti-Stokes signal at 562 nm to the residual pump component and the Stokes signal are above 33:1 and 25:1, respectively. The maximum conversion efficiencies are achieved to be up to 48% and 34% in theory and experiment, respectively. And then the variation laws of the phase matching and the output spectrum with pump power, wavelength and the fiber length are obtained and the discrepancy between theoretical and experimental results is analyzed. Moreover, the effects of more factors on experimental results are discussed.
Magnetic control of the constant-current glow discharge plasma characteristics
Authors: Hu Ming  , Wan Shu-De  , Zhong Lei  , Liu Hao  , Wang Hai  ,   University of Science and Technology of China, CAS Key Laboratory of Basic Plasma Physics and Department of Modern Physics, Hefei 230026, China
Published: December 2020

In this paper, We measure the plasma parameters using a single probe to study the characteristics of our designed magnetic control direct current glow discharge experimental device. We can obtain the relationship between the electron density and pressure, the electron density distribution and the magnetic field type, the electron density distribution, the magnetic field strength, etc. In addition, magnetic field generated by coils is calculated by the finite element method , through which the distributions of two magnetic fields with different connection modes are simulated. In experiment the states of the plasma are controled partly by these two different types of magnetic field position, and this “control” role is consistent with existing theory.