bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Effects of salinity and external proline on seed germination and early growth of Cucumis sativus cv. super ps
Authors: AMINI FARIBA , ASKARY MEHRY , MOHTASHAMI FAHIMEH , MOHTASHAMI FAHIMEH
Published: February 2019

Amini F, Askary M, Mohtashami F. 2018. Effects of salinity and external proline on seed germination and early growth of Cucumis sativus cv. super ps. Nusantara Bioscience 10: 215-220. Salinity is one of the important abiotic stresses that has an adverse effect on plant productions. High salt concentrations had negative effects on plant processes such as seed germination, seedling growth and turgescent, vegetative growth, flowering and fruiting stages. Proline as a compatible solution plays an important role in defense mechanisms of cellular stress. This study was done to evaluate effects of proline pretreatment (0 and 20 mM) in terms of salinity (0, 50, 100 and 150 mM) on cucumber cv. super ps. The obtained results proved that salinity treatments had significant effects on seed germination rate. On the contrary, application of proline had no significant effect on germination percentages of control and salt-stressed seeds. The root fresh weight and length of plant reduced with salinity increment while proline treatment had positive significant effects on the root dry as well as the fresh weight. Although, no significant variation was found in the root length and dry weight of cultivars treated with proline under salinity stresses. Meanwhile, the shoot length and dry weight of plants declined after salt-stressed treatments. While this condition increased the fresh weight of shoot. Proline treatments increased all of observed parameters but there were no significant variation found in the root length or dry weight of plants treated under saline stresses. The total soluble carbohydrate of plants had positive significant correlation with salt concentration, but the application of proline declined carbohydrate amounts in both salt-stressed and non-stressed plant. Salinity stress increased sodium, proline, protein contents and CAT enzyme, GPOX as well as MDA concentrations, while in the proline-treated plants salinity stresses had no significant effect on CAT, GPOX, MDA concentrations and internal proline amount.
The role of neem leaves as organic pesticides in chili pepper (Capsicum frutescens)
Authors: SOPIALENA SOPIALENA , SILA SURYA , ROSFIANSYAH ROSFIANSYAH , NURDIANA JULI
Published: February 2019

Sopialena, Sila S, Rosfiansyah, Nurdiana J. 2018. The role of neem leaves as organic pesticides in chili pepper (Capsicum frutescens). Nusantara Bioscience 10: 246-250. The agricultural crops and horticultural plants are always under constant assault caused by diseases, insect pests, viruses, and other pathogens which may substantially reduce yield. Chili Pepper (Capsicum annum L.) is a popular horticultural plant of the Solanaceae family in Indonesia. Some serious diseases widely found in chili peppers, are anthracnose (Colletotrichum capsici), leaf spot (Cercospora capsici) and fruit rot (Phytophthora capsici). To manage the potential problems, this study is aimed to provide an explanatory knowledge of the use of plant-based pesticide to control the diseases in chili peppers. The information is meant to fill the knowledge gaps in the use of plant-based pesticide to control the chili diseases. The use of nonchemical pesticide benefits not only the environment but also as an organic strategy for disease management. This research used a randomized complete block design (RCBD) categorized into four groups and six different treatments. The organic pesticides were prepared from the extract of neem leaves, soursop leaves, lemongrass extract, tuba root extract, and kenikir/Cosmos caudatus extract). The result indicates that neem leaves are the most effective organic pesticides to control the chili pepper disease in Indonesia.
Production of antioxidant compounds from tissue culture of Artemisia annua
Authors: PRIHANTINI AMALIA INDAH , SUKITO AGUS , TACHIBANA SANRO
Published: February 2019

Prihantini AI, Sukito A, Tachibana S. 2018. Production of antioxidant compound from tissue culture of Artemisia annua. Nusantara Bioscience 10: 251-255. Phenolic compounds have attracted much attention because of their role in some oxidative diseases. Therefore, the study aimed to investigate the production of antioxidant compound from tissue culture of A. annua. The callus were developed on solid MS medium treated with four combination of plant growth regulators: NAA 0.5 mg/L + BA 0.5 mg/L; NAA 0.5 mg/L + kinetin 0.5 mg/L; 2,4-D 0.5 mg/L + BA 0.5 mg/L; and 2,4-D 0.5 mg/L+ kinetin 0.5 mg/L. The callus extracts were evaluated their antioxidant activity and were analyzed the content of phenolic content. Furthermore, detection and quantification of phenolic compound were investigated. Combination of NAA 0.5 mg/L + BA 0.5 mg/L showed the highest DPPH radical scavenging activity and total phenolic content. GCMS analysis also revealed that the combination also showed the highest content of caffeic acid, a phenolic compound known as an antioxidant agent. Furthermore, the callus extract treated with NAA 0.5 mg/L + BA 0.5 mg/L increased both the antioxidant activity and caffeic acid content compared with A. annua leaf extract. In conclusion, plant tissue culture enhanced pharmaceutical properties of A. annua. Moreover, the study suggested that the treated callus extract of A. annua is potential to be further developed for production of antioxidant compound.
Independent re-analysis of alleged mind-matter interaction in double-slit experimental data
Authors: Tremblay Nicolas
Published: February 2019

A two year long experimental dataset in which authors of [1] claim to find evidence of mind-matter interaction is independently re-analyzed. In this experiment, participants are asked to periodically shift their attention towards or away from a double-slit optical apparatus. Shifts in fringe visibility of the interference pattern are monitored and tested against the common sense null hypothesis that such shifts should not correlate with the participant’s attention state. We i/ show that the original statistical test used in [1] contains an erroneous trimming procedure leading to uncontrolled false positives and underestimated p-values, ii/ propose a deeper analysis of the dataset, identifying several preprocessing parameters and carefully assessing the results’ robustness regarding the choice of these parameters. We observe, as in [1], shifts in fringe visibility in the direction expected by the mind-matter interaction hypothesis. However, these shifts are not deemed significant (p > 0.05). Our re-analysis concludes that this particular dataset does not contain evidence of mind-matter interaction.
In search of our aunts’ gardens: Choreographic reconstruction, race and bodily transfer in Black Lōkəs
Authors: McMillan Christopher-Rasheem
Published: February 2019

This article is an analysis of a Practice as Research (PaR) project titled Black Lōkəs. Black Lōkəs (2017) is an experimental reconstruction of Trisha Brown’s Locus (1975). This article investigates the possibility of race being used as a creative lens for dance reconstruction, a lens that does not privilege accuracy or fidelity in a traditional sense but seeks to mine the possibility of dance reconstruction as a generative act that moves beyond preservation politics. This article is composed of three connected but distinct sections, including a brief overview of performance studies’ and critical dance studies’ use of the ‘archive’ in performance; a review of Black Lōkəs (2017) by a dance practitioner who also works with the body as archive; and the methodological process and theoretical underpinnings of the creation of Black Lōkəs (2017). This article consults both critical race theorists and dance theorists who, in concert, suggest novel possibilities for and through dance reconstruction and the politics that surround the archival fever in dance making.
Double Take – dance duets in the public realm
Authors: Hicks Claire , Callaghan Neil , Hassabi Maria , Huws Sioned , Kenyon Simone , Forknell Heather
Published: February 2019

Photo essay created as part of a larger performative project exploring what it means to put contemporary dance practice into public spaces and the experience and drive to place this work unexpectedly into the public realm. The duets by Neil Callaghan and Simone Kenyon, Maria Hassabi and Sioned Huws where all conceived to be presented outside of traditional theatre settings but would in other circumstances be unlikely, with their focus on repetition, stillness, a relationship with the floor, be put within the mainstream space of a UK summer seaside town, outside of any festival or art show.
Joint action and joint attention: Dance improvisation and children’s physical play as participatory sense-making activities
Authors: Hermans Carolien
Published: February 2019

In this article dance improvisation and children’s physical play events are considered organizational practices. Both activities organize and reorganize our lived and embodied experience. Even more, both activities are socially shared and culturally shaped – and thus highly relational. According to the enactive approach, sense-making evolves out of self-organizational processes in which brain, body and environment are linked. In this article the concept of participatory sense-making is used as a stepping stone to describe underlying mechanisms of both dance improvisation and children’s physical play. It is argued that the participants in a dance improvisation and physical play event coordinate their movements together and meaning is created and transformed through a shared intercorporality. The first part of the article consists of a theoretical exploration of several related concepts such as enactive account, embodiment, autonomy, experience, emergence and (participatory) sense-making. In the second part the theoretical concepts are applied to dance improvisational practice and physical play. Artistic research is used to shed light on underlying mechanisms that children’s physical play and dance improvisation share with one another, specifically how meaning is co-constituted in the direct embodied interaction.
Parents, children, and the popular music that binds them: New family dynamics and what they mean for community music
Authors: Lewis Judy
Published: February 2019

Popular music has a long and often contentious history with parents of young children in the United States. From Jazz in the 1930s to Rock ‘n Roll in the 1960s and Rock music in the 1980s, parents have often looked warily on new trends in music. But, with the ubiquity of popular music in contemporary life, how do parents of young children today view the popular music listening habits of their children? Is popular music informing the parent–child dynamic? This qualitative research study investigates the ways in which parents and their children are sharing popular music. Findings suggest that popular music is, today, an integral part of the parent–child relationship. Rather than view popular music as a possible form of negative socialization, parents and children are using shared engagements with popular music to navigate not only music-oriented experiences but life-based experiences. That is to say, popular music sharing serves as a way for parents and children, together, to read their world and explore their place in it. The question then becomes: what might we learn from those musical relationships that might enrich our community music programmes and our roles as community music facilitators?
Broadcasting and Accessibility Services Currently Offered for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers by Catalan-language Broadcasters
Authors: Tor-Carroggio Irene , Rovira-Esteva Sara
Published: February 2019

This article presents the main results of a user-centered study which seeks to provide an overview of accessibility services for the deaf and hard of hearing on offer from a representative sample of Catalan-language broadcasters. The study had three objectives. First, to analyze the type of accessibility services offered, basically captions and Catalan Sign Language interpreting, both in linear broadcasts and video-on-demand services. Second, to determine the volume of accessibility services offered and to what extent they comply with the law. Finally, to assess users’ experience, focusing on their level of satisfaction with the current offer and on their opinions with regard to new possibilities that could lead to improving accessibility services. Combining a qualitative and quantitative approach has enabled us to triangulate data to afford not only a holistic picture of the situation, but also to suggest actions for improvement.
Correlation of Human Height with Hand Dimensions: A Study in Young Population of Central India
Authors: SH Charmode , HS Kadlimatti , D Pujari
Published: February 2019

Background and Objective Identification of sex, age, race and stature is the most important aspect of any forensic investigation. There is a strong correlation of stature with hand dimensions and if either of the measurements is known, the other can be calculated. With this objective, the present study was designed to correlate the hand dimensions with stature of an individual and to record the standard deviation in the estimation of stature. Methodology This cross-sectional study was conducted amongst 1000 participants (500 male and 500 female) of ESIC Institute Gulbarga over a period of 14 months. Hand dimensions along with stature and weight were measured. Linear regression coefficient was calculated. Results Mean stature was 161.88 cm. Mean hand length was 18.11 cm on right side and 18.10 cm on left side. Mean hand breadth was 9.91 cm on right side and 9.83 cm on left side. Conclusion Highly significant difference in right and left side mean hand length and breadth measurements was observed. Also observed was a strong positive statistically significant correlation between height and hand dimensions. This data might be useful for forensic, epidemiological and anthropometric studies where stature determination is of utmost importance.
Specific Gut and Salivary Microbiota Patterns Are Linked With Different Cognitive Testing Strategies in Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy
Authors: Bajaj Jasmohan S. , Fagan Andrew , White Melanie B. , Wade James B. , Hylemon Phillip B. , Heuman Douglas M. , Fuchs Michael , John Binu V. , Acharya Chathur , Sikaroodi Masoumeh , Gillevet Patrick M.
Published: February 2019

OBJECTIVES:

Minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) is epidemic in cirrhosis, but testing strategies often have poor concordance. Altered gut/salivary microbiota occur in cirrhosis and could be related to MHE. Our aim was to determine microbial signatures of individual cognitive tests and define the role of microbiota in the diagnosis of MHE.

METHODS:

Outpatients with cirrhosis underwent stool collection and MHE testing with psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score (PHES), inhibitory control test, and EncephalApp Stroop. A subset provided saliva samples. Minimal hepatic encephalopathy diagnosis/concordance between tests was compared. Stool/salivary microbiota were analyzed using 16srRNA sequencing. Microbial profiles were compared between patients with/without MHE on individual tests. Logistic regression was used to evaluate clinical and microbial predictors of MHE diagnosis.

RESULTS:

Two hundred forty-seven patients with cirrhosis (123 prior overt HE, MELD 13) underwent stool collection and PHES testing; 175 underwent inhibitory control test and 125 underwent Stroop testing. One hundred twelve patients also provided saliva samples. Depending on the modality, 59%–82% of patients had MHE. Intertest Kappa for MHE was 0.15–0.35. Stool and salivary microbiota profiles with MHE were different from those without MHE. Individual microbiota signatures were associated with MHE in specific modalities. However, the relative abundance of Lactobacillaceae in the stool and saliva samples was higher in MHE, regardless of the modality used, whereas autochthonous Lachnospiraceae were higher in those without MHE, especially on PHES. On logistic regression, stool and salivary Lachnospiraceae genera (Ruminococcus and Clostridium XIVb) were associated with good cognition independent of clinical variables.

DISCUSSION:

Specific stool and salivary microbial signatures exist for individual cognitive testing strategies in MHE. The presence of specific taxa associated with good cognitive function regardless of modality could potentially be used to circumvent MHE testing.
Emasculating Trump: Incredulity, Homophobia, and the Spectacle of White Masculinity
Authors: Kelly Casey Ryan
Published: February 2019

This article examines the artistic campaign to emasculate Donald Trump through an analysis of public art installations and protest art that inverts the president’s avowed gender identity, depicting him as a woman, cross-dresser, eunuch, queer, transgender, and/or castrated male. Central to my argument is that white masculinity is so intertwined with homophobia that even ironic critiques of so-called toxic masculinity insulate more banal expressions of hegemonic masculinity from critique. Although playful and ironic, I argue that emasculating protest art invites the gaze of an incredulous onlooker, or unbelieving skeptic, whose scrutiny helps standardize the white masculine ideal by “outing” its putatively spectacular perversions. This article offers insight into how incredulity, as a response of so-called compensatory or hypermasculinity, draws on a standard of (hetero)normalcy that ultimately exonerates more commonplace but nonetheless harmful expressions of hegemonic white masculinity.
Rabbit Weddings, Animal Collectives, and the Potentialities of Perverse Reading: Children’s Literature and Queer Worldmaking in A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
Authors: Matos Angel Daniel
Published: February 2019

This article examines the queer and youth worldmaking frameworks implemented in Jill Twiss and E. G. Keller’s A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, a satirical picture book presented by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Both a critique of Mike Pence’s history of antiqueer politics and an exploration of matters such as democracy, queer kinship, and same-sex marriage, Marlon Bundo has been approached both as an effective critique of the current administration and as a “tired” political satire. This discussion explores the picture book’s ideological frameworks through the implementation of “perverse” forms of reading. It further highlights how Marlon Bundo connects to a history of children’s picture books aimed at critiquing conservative perspectives towards marriage, and demonstrates how the book is queerer and more generative than it may seem on the surface. Through an exploration of the picture book’s queer dynamics and its stance on notions such as difference, kinship, and collectivity, readers can better appreciate Marlon Bundo’s queerness regardless of its normative ending, and more effectively understand how this text partakes in a queer worldmaking project, in that it creates affinities and forms of kinship that traverse the boundaries of species, age, and readership.
La matière-plaisir ou l’art comme passage du biologique à l’esthétique dans Œdipe sur la route
Authors: DAMBEAN BOZEDEAN Corina
Published: February 2019

S’appuyant sur Œdipe sur la route, Corina Dambean met en valeur, selon une lecture nietzschéenne, l’importance du biologique et du psychologique dans la création et jusqu’à la matière artistique elle-même, qui, dans un échange entre les mondes intérieur et extérieur, se charge de l’émotion créatrice.
Il miglior fabbro dans l’art d’Henry Bauchau
Authors: DAVENPORT Anne
Published: February 2019

Anne Davenport apporte le témoignage rare et précieux de l’étudiante d’Henry Bauchau qu’elle fut à l’Institut Montesano. Cette intervention, inscrite sur un horizon philosophique, comble les attentes en évoquant des réflexions apparemment anecdotiques du professeur à l’élève, mais dont la leçon engageait profondément la relation au monde et la mise à distance de la culture apprise, d’autant mieux apprise qu’il faut ou qu’il arrive un moment où l’on s’en défait pour regarder et penser en autonomie.
Bauchau, Reverchon, Jouve : la Suisse intérieure entre mémoire et divination
Authors: PIC Muriel
Published: February 2019

Muriel Pic souligne dans cet article, non seulement l’intensité de la relation personnelle de Bauchau avec Blanche Reverchon-Jouve, mais surtout l’influence que les connaissances psychanalytiques et théoriques de celle-ci ont eue sur l’univers des représentations de l’écrivain.
Paysage suisse et imaginaire minéral chez Henry Bauchau
Authors: DAMBEAN BOZEDEAN Corina
Published: February 2019

La production littéraire des années suisses d’Henry Bauchau, sur le plan poétique essentiellement, est abordée ici par Corina Dambean, qui tente de cerner l’imaginaire minéral sous-jacent à l’écriture de Bauchau.
Les années suisses : l’essor du visuel dans l’œuvre d’Henry Bauchau
Authors: SABLE Lauriane
Published: February 2019

Lauriane Sable analyse l’essor du visuel chez Henry Bauchau et, dès lors, la naissance de la part plastique et graphique de l’œuvre bauchaulienne.
Henry Bauchau et le Théâtre des Osses
Authors: WATTHEE-DELMOTTE Myriam
Published: February 2019

Myriam Watthee-Delmotte retrace la belle relation qui lie l’écrivain à Gisèle Sallin, une des fondatrices de la troupe du Théâtre des Osses, dont elle rappelle également les principales réalisations, qui comptent à ce jour parmi les plus abouties dans l’histoire des mises en scène des textes de Bauchau
La voix du traducteur et l’écho de la traduction.
Authors: ELEFANTE Chiara
Published: February 2019

L’article fait le point sur son expérience de traduction en italien des deux romans de Bauchau qui concernent l’accompagnement d’un mourant. La traductrice montre à l’aide d’exemples précis les échos intratextuels entre ces deux récits. Elle précise aussi comment elle a pu surmonter la peur de faillir à restituer la tonalité du texte-source par une lecture à voix haute et une écoute des signifiants. Elle revient sur la question de l’empathie et sur l’irruption inconsciente de la voix du traducteur.
Le roman Antigone de Bauchau à l’épreuve de la traduction. Dialogue avec son édition mexicaine.
Authors: COUTAZ Nadège
Published: February 2019

L’article commente la traduction en espagnol du roman Antigone d’Henry Bauchau publiée en 2004 chez Verdehalago à Mexico par Laura Lopez Morales, également auteur de la traduction d’Œdipe sur la route, de Diotime et les lions et des poèmes de La Dogana. Outre le travail opéré sur le plan lexical, elle souligne l’importance des éléments paratextuels : l’aspect visuel de l’objet livre, les illustrations, la mise en page, la typographie, qui mettent en œuvre une sémantique graphique et infléchissent le texte vers le genre tragique, conformément à l’horizon d’attente mexicain.
Quand la vague rencontre le roc : l’émergence de l’île bauchalienne.
Authors: TOMASI Marie-Camille
Published: February 2019

L’article observe, au départ du chapitre sur « La vague » dans le roman Œdipe sur la route, la représentation de l’insularité, comprise comme lieu de résurgence d’un temps primitif, fondamentalement sacré. Si dans L’Enfant bleu, l’île est initiatique, labyrinthique, et paradisiaque, dans le roman œdipien, elle incarne les puissances conjointes de la mer et du rocher et permet d’appréhender la force originelle des éléments, qui favorise également une régénérescence.
De l’achèvement de l’image à l’ouverture de l’œuvre d’art : éthique et esthétique chez Henry Bauchau et Emmanuel Levinas
Authors: DEL MASTRO Cesare
Published: February 2019

Cette lecture de L’Enfant bleu en dialogue avec la philosophie d’Emmanuel Levinas prend pour hypothèse que, d’une esthétique de l’achèvement de l’image qui se situe aux antipodes de l’éthique, on passe ici à la création de l’œuvre d’art habitée par l’altérité. Le personnage d’Orion, d’abord prisonnier des images dévalorisantes qu’on lui renvoie et paralysé dans l’anonymat du « on doit », expérimente la barbarie intérieure, révélée grâce à la figuration du mythe du Minotaure. La mise en récit de ses dessins à l’usage de la thérapeute engage ensuite un appel à un au-delà de soi qui émane du visage de l’Autre ; elle invite à une dynamique positive d’échange, qui réintroduit une altérité positive.
« Il meurt renaissant » : quatre lettres inédites de Daniel De Bruycker à Henry Bauchau, présentées et annotées par Olivier Belin.
Authors: BAUCHAU Henry
Published: February 2019

Quatre lettres du poète Daniel De Bruycker à Henry Bauchau, qui montrent comment celui-ci lui a conseillé de s’orienter vers le roman. Le dossier est présenté par Olivier Belin (olivier.belin@u-cergy.fr)
« Le sentiment, les sens et surtout l’horrible raison brouillent tout ». Sur le Journal inédit d’Henry Bauchau (1937-1940)
Authors: LECLERCQ Jean
Published: February 2019

L’article se focalise sur les journaux de jeunesse d’Henry Bauchau, tenus entre 1937 et 1940, restés inédits. Il met en évidence la personnalité intellectuelle, humaine et poétique d’Henry Bauchau en abordant la question de la vie, de la religion et la relecture de soi.
La bibliothèque poétique d’Henry Bauchau
Authors: BELIN Olivier
Published: February 2019

On esquisse ici un portrait du poète en lecteur au départ de la bibliothèque déposée par Henry Bauchau au Fonds qu’il a souhaité constituer à l’Université catholique de Louvain, devenue de ce fait lieu public d’étude, complétée par les annotations de lecture qui ponctuent les Journaux. On y découvre l’écrivain immergé dans un réseau de poètes contemporains, mais aussi des figures-phares de la littérature française, qu’il lit en quête de leur « rythme intérieur ».
De la genèse du corps poétique dans la genèse de « Lecture du corps »
Authors: FROYE Marianne
Published: February 2019

L’étude propose d’observer la genèse du recueil poétique « Lecture du corps », inclus dans La Chine intérieure. Elle montre d’abord comment le poème prend forme dans et par la matière et éclaire comment Henry Bauchau vit la création corporellement, ce dont le poème se fait l’écho. Elle éclaire la présence de flux et de reflux, l’importance des espaces, et explique le caractère essentiel du mouvement de retrait, de réduction, de condensation, qui permet l’élaboration architecturale du poème dans les blasons du corps.
Du matériel à l’immatériel. Le Boulevard périphérique d’Henry Bauchau, un récit du passage
Authors: LAHOUSTE Corentin
Published: February 2019

À travers l'analyse détaillée du Boulevard périphérique, l’article montre comment, au sein de l’œuvre, émerge une tension dans le rapport entre matériel et immatériel. Il s'agit, plus spécifiquement, d'illustrer la manière dont le roman s'affranchit de cette dichotomie ordinaire. En effet, l'immatériel s'y déclare à travers des affects engendrés par la matière empirique du monde. On met dès lors en lumière le rapport dialectique qui s'établit entre les paradigmes matériel/immatériel et extériorité/intériorité, dont l'intime constitue la charnière.
Henry Bauchau aux sources de la création poétique. Eveil au poème, don du rêve
Authors: SAMAMA Guy
Published: February 2019

L’article retranscrit l’entretien de Guy Samama, accueilli à l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise par Anne-Sophie Miccio, le 13 juin 2013. Il témoigne des différents motifs d’attachement à l’œuvre de l’écrivain Henry Bauchau.
« On ne vit que lorsqu’on aime / On ne vit que si l’on saigne ».
Authors: BAUCHAU Henry
Published: February 2019

Henry Bauchau avait rédigé en 1956 l’ébauche d’une pièce de théâtre consacrée au personnage de Spartacus : 64 feuillets manuscrits et 11 feuillets tapuscrits. Il s’agit donc de la révolte des esclaves guidée par le gladiateur évadé Spartacus, à laquelle ont mis fin Crassus et Pompée en 71 ACN. La transcription intégrale du texte occupe les pages 24 à 59. Transcription, présentation et commentaires par Pauline Basso et Jérémy Lambert (jeremy-lambert@hotmail.com).
Le théâtre empêché d’Henry Bauchau
Authors: WATTHEE-DELMOTTE Myriam
Published: February 2019

Au-delà de l’œuvre publiée qui se déploie dans la polymorphie, le système imaginaire d’Henry Bauchau se rapproche des formes théâtrales sans coïncider avec elles pour se réaliser en décalage. Après un examen des pièces publiées (Gengis Khan, La Reine en amont, et l’adaptation du Prométhée enchaîné d’Eschyle), des circonstances de leur composition et de leur réception, on peut voir qu’Henry Bauchau est fortement déçu du peu d’enthousiasme que le milieu du théâtre manifeste à monter ses pièces, du moins à l’époque : il privilégie alors la poésie et le roman comme moyens d’expression. Le foisonnement des brouillons et ébauches des pièces non abouties montre pourtant à l’évidence que le genre dramatique lui tenait à cœur. Le scénario imaginaire ne passe au statut d’œuvre, de création, que lorsque l’intrigue dépasse le jeu des allégories intérieures et lorsque la langue devient poiein, engendrement : deux conditions qu’Henry Bauchau réalise aisément dans son œuvre narrative et poétique.
De l’écriture pour l’opéra.
Authors: CALLE-GRUBER Mireille
Published: February 2019

Les textes de Bauchau portent en eux des voix multiples qui font penser à l’oratorio, on l’entend aller vers l’opéra. Cet article analyse les écritures du livret dans lesquelles il apparaît qu’Henry Bauchau cherche à faire lever des voix une tonalité musicale dans les déchirures des phrases plutôt que de monter un récit. Cette priorité de la voix sur la narration, caractéristique de l’opéra contemporain, est ensuite analysée plus en détail dans La lumière Antigone qui, à la différence des autres opéras, n’est pas une simple adaptation du roman, mais en constitue comme une suite, un prolongement. La voix « lumineuse » d’Antigone alliée à la musique se fait ainsi réécriture du mythe qu’elle archive : celle de la scène, toujours renouvelée, de la résistance dans le désastre mondialisé. L’article porte en annexe deux lettres de Pierre Bartholomée à M. Calle-Gruber.
Sur la route avec l’animal en soi.
Authors: KHALSI Khalil
Published: February 2019

L’article évoque la thématique de l’animalité, très présente dans l’œuvre d’Henry Bauchau. Le rapport à l’animal s’avère un révélateur identitaire pour les humains. L’étude se focalise sur Diotime et les lions, en particulier la problématique du sacrifice et celle du savoir instinctif de l’animal, mis en regard de l’Inconscient.
Stealing is Stealing: A Cross-Cultural Analysis on the Perception of Criminality for Physical Theft Versus Illegal Downloading
Authors: Babb Alexius Q.
Published: February 2019

In our technology-driven world, consumers have access to a wealth of product options, but this access also allows consumers the opportunity to obtain purchasable content through illegal means. Past studies have addressed the perceptions of the criminality of online versus face-to-face theft, but limitations have been consistent across studies with the frequent use of collegiate sample pools. It was important for this experiment to gather data from a broader world population to make results more generalizable. Therefore, we examined a total of 589 participants from a global participant pool to evaluate their perceptions of the criminality of online piracy or physical theft of music or software. This experiment hypothesized that (1) the perception of the criminality of illegal downloading of media would be assessed higher ratings by South Asian participants than North American participants, and (2) criminality ratings would be assessed higher ratings by females than males. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four vignettes. They were then asked a series of questions using semantic differential and Likert scales to assess their perception of the criminal act committed in the randomly selected vignette. A one-way ANCOVA and a multiple regression test were performed to test the hypotheses.
Weight-Related Lifestyle Behaviors and Attitudes in High School and College Students
Authors: Dhoot Roshni S. , Alse Vishnu J.
Published: February 2019

Obesity trends show that the prevalence of obesity is increasing drastically and that younger age groups are increasingly at risk. The purposes of this study were to determine if there are discernable differences between behaviors of high school students and college students and also between college students of normal weight and college students who are overweight/obese. This IRB-approved study surveyed approximately 80 high school seniors and 80 Indiana University students of various class standings. The study was developed from a survey published in 1989 in Seventeen Magazine called “May Obesity Survey.” The questions collected data related to age, BMI, and lifestyle, including physical activity levels, stress, and behavior. The software SPSS was used to perform statistical analysis. The findings showed a positive correlation (p<.001, r=.616) between students’ self-reported weight category and actual BMI (calculated by reported height and weight). College students with healthy BMIs exercise 4-6 times/week, while overweight and obese students exercise 1-3 times/week Χ2 (3) =8.95, p<.05. In addition, college students of normal weight are three times more likely to perform exercises of moderate to high intensity, such as strength training. A significant positive correlation was also found between the number of hours college students spent during weekends watching television, using a computer, or playing video games and body weight Χ2 (3) =8.75, p< .05. Equal numbers of normal weight and overweight/obese college students report desire to improve their health. One of the primary findings indicates that students are either not aware of their true weight status or willing to admit it to others. Therefore, increased education about the BMI index and consequences of excess weight may be the first step in fighting college obesity.
Bared Teeth, Plucked Feathers, Broken Eggs: Reading Human-Animal Relationships through Audubon
Authors: Huff Jacob M
Published: February 2019

In this paper, I study John James Audubon’s famed drawings of wildlife to uncover his perspective on the evolving relationships between humans and animals during the era of American westward expansion.  Using three engravings from Birds of America, along with his accompanying essays, I look beyond the animals in the foreground to examine the human settlements often lurking in the background.  I discover that Audubon portrays three distinct types of human-animal relationships, which I then compare to the human presence shown in two of his later works, the engravings of Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America and their subsequent essays.   This second set of drawings undercuts any attempt to derive an optimistic interpretation of the Birds plates, for they reveal an unsustainable relationship between humans and the animals whose habitats they invade.  I conclude that while Birds and Quadrupeds glorify their animal subjects, rightly qualifying as artistic and scientific triumphs, their depiction of human activity carries a much darker weight, suggesting that human presence in nature necessarily causes damage.  Ultimately, this idea recasts Audubon as a thinker who transcends his historical location and offers a relevant perspective on the environment occupied by the modern reader.
Tracks in the Snow
Authors: Xu Catherine
Published: February 2019

In 2000, Subhankar Banerjee set out for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to photograph polar bears in a “place untrammeled by tourism or industry” (Banerjee, 2008). This paper explores a number of threads regarding Banerjee’s artistic journey from descriptive to interpretive work, including the role of politics in Banerjee’s evolution as an artist and environmental activist and comparisons of his different publications over time. Along with providing context for Banerjee’s work, this paper investigates the unique avenues through which Banerjee’s photography challenges the traditional paradigm of a pristine wilderness by reconceiving its spacial representations in exhibitions and books highlighting the presence of humans in the Arctic. Research was primarily conducted through an analysis of both photographic and textual elements of Banerjee’s publications and a conversation with Banerjee.
Cultivating a career: Effects of television binge-watching and character identification on college students’ goal occupations
Authors: Morgan Jordan Alexis
Published: February 2019

This paper focuses on the effects that heavy television viewing can have on viewers’ life choices. Specifically, it investigates how television can influence their desires to be like favorite characters and to obtain a goal occupation that aligns with that of their favorite characters. This study surveyed undergraduate students at Indiana University to see if their favorite characters on popular career-based television shows could have influenced their major and career choice. Respondents were also surveyed to see if the act of binge watching heightened the likelihood of a viewer’s goal occupation that corresponding with the career of their favorite character. The results showed that there was some correspondence between favorite characters’ careers and viewers’ goal occupations. However, the results showed no significant difference in the effects of binge watching.
Should Fingerprint Examiners Make More Erroneous Identifications?
Authors: Mannering Willa
Published: February 2019

This study was conducted as a response to the concerns about the consequences of latent fingerprint examinations. The goal is to determine if society’s moral values align with the current bias towards erroneous exclusion decisions over erroneous identification decisions found in latent print examinations. Subjects of this experiment were asked to manipulate a webbased visualization that reflects the tradeoffs between putting guilty people in jail and keeping innocent people out of jail. The results of the experiment were analyzed to determine the similarities and differences between the opinions of fingerprint examiners and the opinions of students and members of the general public. In practice, examiners adopt more conservative decision criteria, because they could lose their job if they put an innocent person in jail. According to the results of this study, examiners seem to have a much more liberal exclusion criterion than they actually do in casework, and the public seems willing to tolerate a higher amount of erroneous identifications in exchange for a lower erroneous exclusion rate based on their average criteria placement in the visualization. The results of this study will help examiners align their responses to those of society, and help all citizens understand the tradeoffs that can occur with shifting decision criteria. If the results of the study indicate the need to shift the decision criteria to put more criminals in jail, additional safeguards may be necessary to guard against innocent people going to jail. Thus this dataset represents a rich framework for measuring, interpreting, and responding to the values and beliefs of what constitutes a just and moral society.
Sexual Practice and Fantasy in Colonial America and the Early Republic
Authors: Solomon Richard
Published: February 2019

The sexual practices of European colonists, Native Americans, and African-American slaves of the American colonies and early republic reflected economic and religious disparities, providing specific cultural phenomena in which power relations are established and reaffirmed. These hierarchies not only prescribed the role of sex in quotidian American life; they created lasting traditions in sexual practices that continue to the present day.  For this thesis, I rely on contemporary and classic historiography, religious studies, and gender scholarship to make claims about the role of women in colonial society and the treatment and fantasy-construction of marginalized peoples: namely, African-American slaves and Native Americans. Specifically, I will show how colonial women leveraged their scarcity and sexual desirability to secure their gender’s procreative role and social utility in Puritan and Southern colonies. I will show how the formation and subjugation of the Black slave class acquired distinct and lasting sexual fault lines, how political pressures and economic incentives to justify and nurture slavery shaped whites’ sexual attitudes and behavior, and finally how national myths of manifest destiny and the fecundity of the land came dominate whites experience of native American sexuality.
"Ewondo in the Classes, French for the Masses"
Authors: Henry Parker Ray
Published: February 2019

Cameroon is home to over two hundred eighty native languages coming from three language families, making it one of the most linguistically diverse countries on Earth. Despite this, native languages hold very few domains in Cameroonian society. In recent years, several experimental programs have begun to implement native languages in schools, citing that children learn best in their mother tongue. Among these schools is ELAN-Afrique, an initiative put forth by La Francophonie with the main aim of helping students better learn French by way of their mother tongue. This paper seeks to differentiate the benefits prescribed or expected by ELAN leadership from the actual benefits occurring at one Ewondo-medium ELAN school in Yaoundé. The study includes a series of twenty interviews with program leadership, linguists, and NGOs, as well as teachers and parents of students enrolled in the program. Claims made in interviews were then validated or refuted by classroom observation. The program’s main flaw is the assumption that the students’ mother tongue is Ewondo when in reality, due to their urban upbringing, the students’ mother tongue is French. This causes the reality of the program to differ fundamentally from the expectations of La Francophonie as some predicted benefits are negated, some manifest differently than expected, and other benefits appear never having been predicted.
Influence of Cognitive Engagement on Temptation and Decision Making
Authors: Hull Bailey Ryen
Published: February 2019

The purpose of this study is to determine students’ heightened susceptibility to temptation when cognitively engaged. Cognitively straining tasks require considerable focus, which inhibits the brain from the ability to effectively multi-task (Molfese et al., 2006). This may reduce the capacity for executive control during such engagement. This hypothesis was evaluated by offering participants an unhealthy (chocolate) or healthy (celery) food option during a memorization task (experimental group) or following a memorization task (control group). In the experimental group, students are cognitively engaged at the moment of the choice. This allows for the study to compare decision-making between the experimental and control group. Participants required to make a decision while actively participating in the memorization task chose the chocolate option significantly more often than participants who were offered the food after they had disengaged from the cognitive strain. This study could provide insight into how susceptible to temptation students are while under mental strain. It was hypothesized that as students are participating in a cognitively engaging task similar to studying, they will be more susceptible to choosing an unhealthy sugary snack rather than a healthier option. The data supported the idea that students who are cognitively engaged will be more susceptible to this temptation.
Comparison of the Effect of Major- Versus Minor-Keyed Music on Long-Term Declarative Memory in High School Students
Authors: Sayar Anita
Published: February 2019

This pilot study compared the effect of music played in major and minor keys on long-term declarative memory in high school students. Major and minor keys are pivotal theoretical distinctions in music known to trigger different emotional responses. While the influence of specific genres of music on memory have been studied, possible effects of the tonality of music have not been explored. It was hypothesized that music would improve LT-DM, and music played in the minor key would illicit a greater improvement than the major. A total of 21 volunteer high school students were equally randomized between two groups. Each group completed a control and an experimental long-term memory test. Tests comprised of a reading phase where students studied a standardized passage, and a multiple-choice question phase 7 days later, where their memory of the studied text was examined. The reading phase of the control test was conducted in a quiet environment. During the reading phase of the experimental test, a piece of piano music was played. The same music was played in the major key for one group and in the minor key for the other. Both groups demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in the experimental test compared to their own control (p = 0.0078, p = 0.0107). A trend towards better memory retention with the minor-keyed music was observed compared with the major key. The difference between the two groups of improvement with music, however, did not meet statistical significance (p = 0.31). A larger complementary study may provide more definitive information regarding comparative effects of major and minor musical keys on long-term memory.
Non-Stationarity in Stochastic Distributions of Cryptocurrency Returns
Authors: Wu Adam
Published: February 2019

This paper uses a functional approach to analyze the distributions of weekly returns in Bitcoins on leading cryptocurrency exchanges. The results present strong evidence for non-stationarity, which suggests unpredictability and time-varying statistical properties. In addition, non-stationary fluctuations tend to be primarily concentrated in even moments, such as volatility and kurtosis—however their effect is significant and persistent in every moment, including higher moments. The analysis in this paper proposes that the Bitcoin market is maturing and tending towards stability, but retains a high degree of unpredictability in the case of random shocks due to underlying market dynamics.
Assessing Collaborative, Project-based Learning Models in Introductory Science Courses
Authors: Huysken Kristin , Olivey Harold , McElmurry Kevin , Gao Ming , Avis Peter
Published: February 2019

Collaborative, project-based learning models have been shown to benefit student learning and engagement in the STEM disciplines. This case study evaluates the use of highly collaborative project- and problem-based learning models in introductory courses in the geosciences and biology. In the geosciences, we developed project-based modules with a strong local focus. Student teams worked on three project-based laboratories dealing with the local geology/geomorphology, water quality of a local stream, and local flooding issues. These replaced traditionally taught laboratories on topographic maps and rivers and streams. Student teams presented project results in lieu of taking a traditional laboratory practical. In biology, we designed a collaborative learning model that incorporated three problem-based learning modules into a first-semester introductory biology course. Students were assigned topics in evolution, cell biology and genetics to research independently during the course of the semester, with each module culminating in a brief presentation on the topic. Modules were designed to mirror concepts being covered in the lecture. Preliminary results suggest that student performance and attitudes towards course material benefitted from this learning model. The authors consider outcomes, benefits, and challenges to students and instructors.