bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Determining flow directions in river channel networks using planform morphology and topology
Authors: Schwenk Jon , Piliouras Anastasia , Rowland Joel C.
Published: May 2019

Abstract. The abundance of global, remotely-sensed surface water observations has paved the way toward characterizing and modeling how water moves across the Earth's surface through complex channel networks. In particular, deltas and braided river channel networks may contain thousands of links that route water, sediment, and nutrients across landscapes. In order to model flows through channel networks and characterize network structure, the direction of flow for each link within the network must be known. In this work, we propose a rapid, automatic, and objective method to identify flow directions for all links of a channel network using only remotely-sensed imagery and knowledge of the network's inlet and outlet locations. We designed a suite of direction-predicting algorithms (DPAs), each of which exploits a particular morphologic characteristic of the channel network to provide a prediction of a link's flow direction. DPAs were chained together to create “recipes”, or algorithms that set all the flow directions of a channel network. Separate recipes were built for deltas and braided rivers and applied to seven delta and two braided river channel networks. Across all nine channel networks, the recipes' predicted flow directions agreed with expert judgement for 97 % of all tested links, and most disagreements were attributed to unusual channel network topologies that can easily be accounted for by pre-seeding critical links with known flow directions.
Bayesian inference and predictive performance of soil respiration models in the presence of model discrepancy
Authors: Elshall Ahmed S. , Ye Ming , Niu Guo-Yue , Barron-Gafford Greg A.
Published: May 2019

Abstract. Bayesian inference of microbial soil respiration models is often based on the
assumptions that the residuals are independent (i.e., no temporal or spatial
correlation), identically distributed (i.e., Gaussian noise), and have
constant variance (i.e., homoscedastic). In the presence of model
discrepancy, as no model is perfect, this study shows that these assumptions
are generally invalid in soil respiration modeling such that residuals have
high temporal correlation, an increasing variance with increasing magnitude
of CO2 efflux, and non-Gaussian distribution. Relaxing these three
assumptions stepwise results in eight data models. Data models are the basis
of formulating likelihood functions of Bayesian inference. This study
presents a systematic and comprehensive investigation of the impacts of data
model selection on Bayesian inference and predictive performance. We use
three mechanistic soil respiration models with different levels of model
fidelity (i.e., model discrepancy) with respect to the number of carbon pools
and the explicit representations of soil moisture controls on carbon
degradation; therefore, we have different levels of model complexity with
respect to the number of model parameters. The study shows that data models
have substantial impacts on Bayesian inference and predictive performance of
the soil respiration models such that the following points are true: (i) the
level of complexity of the best model is generally justified by the
cross-validation results for different data models; (ii) not accounting for
heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation might not necessarily result in biased
parameter estimates or predictions, but will definitely underestimate
uncertainty; (iii) using a non-Gaussian data model improves the parameter
estimates and the predictive performance; and (iv) accounting for autocorrelation
only or joint inversion of correlation and heteroscedasticity can be problematic
and requires special treatment. Although the conclusions of this study are empirical, the analysis may provide insights
for selecting appropriate data models for soil respiration modeling.
Analysis of instability conditions and failure mode of a special
type of translational landslide using a long-period monitoring
data: a case study of the Wobaoshi landslide (Bazhong city, China)
Authors: Liu Yimin , Wang Chenghu , Gao Guiyun , Wang Pu , Hou Zhengyang , Jiao Qisong
Published: May 2019

Abstract. A translational landslide comprising nearly horizontal sand and mud interbed was widely developed in the Ba river basin of the Qinba–Longnan mountain area. Scholars have conducted theoretical research on this rainfall-induced landslide; however, owing to the lack of landslide monitoring engineering and data, demonstrating and validating the theoretical research wasdifficult. This study considered a translational landslide with an unusual morphology: the Wobaoshi landslide, which is located in Bazhong city, China. First, the formation conditions of this landslide were ascertained through field exploration, and the deformation and failure characteristics of the plate-shaped sliding body were analyzed. Then, long-period monitoring engineering was conducted to obtain multi-parameter monitoring data, such as crack width, rainfall intensity, and pore-water pressure. Finally, through the mechanical model analysis of the multi-stage sliding bodies, the calculating formula of the maximum height of the multi-stage plate girders, hcr, was derived，and the long-period monitoring data were used to verify its accuracy. Combined with numerical simulation and calculations, the deformation and failure modes of the plate-shaped sliding bodies were analyzed and explored. In this paper, the multi-parameter monitoring data proved that the stability of the sliding body is affected greatly by the rainfall intensity and pore-water pressure and the pore-water pressure in the crack is positive for the beginning of the plate-shaped sliding bodies, and an optimization monitoring method for this type of landslide was proposed. Therefore, this paper has theoretical and practical significance for the intensive study of translational landslides in this area.
US East Coast synthetic aperture radar wind atlas for offshore wind energy
Authors: Ahsbahs Tobias , Maclaurin Galen , Draxl Caroline , Jackson Christopher , Monaldo Frank , Badger Merete
Published: May 2019

Abstract. We present the first synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-based offshore wind atlas of the US East Coast from Georgia to the Canadian border. Images from Radarsat-1, Envisat, Sentinel-1A, and Sentinel-1B are processed to wind maps using the Geophysical Model Function (GMF) CMOD5.N. Extensive comparisons with 6,008 collocated buoy observations revealed that biases of the individual system range from −0.8 to 0.6 m/s. Unbiased wind retrievals are crucial for producing an accurate wind atlas and intercalibration for correcting these biases by adjusting the normalized radar cross section is applied. The intercalibrated SAR observations show biases in the range of to −0.2 to 0.0 m/s, while at the same time improving the root mean squared error from 1.67 to 1.46 m/s. These intercalibrated SAR observations are, for the first time, aggregated to create a wind atlas. Monthly averages are used to correct artefacts from seasonal biases. The SAR wind atlas is used as a reference to study wind resources derived from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. Comparisons focus on the spatial variation of wind resources and show that model results estimate lower coastal wind speed gradients than those from SAR. At sites designated for offshore wind development by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, mean wind speeds typically vary between 0.3 and 0.5 m/s for SAR and less than 0.2 m/s for the WRF model within each site. Findings indicate that wind speed gradients and variation might be underestimated in mesoscale model outputs along US East Coast.
The Application of Two-Stage Approach in Evaluating Domestic Mergers and Acquisitions Performance Efficiency in Egypt
Authors: Abdel-Azim Mohamed Hassan , Soliman Walid Shehata , Fekry Mostafa Abdelrahman
Published: May 2019

The main aim of this research is to measure the impact of domestic Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) on firm's performance and to determine M&As success and failure factors (i.e. weight efficiency, difference in efficiency, return on assets and return on equity) in the whole Egyptian market. The researchers used two-stage analysis; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in the first step and censored regression technique (Tobit model) in the second step for sample of 21 firms listed in the Egyptian stock market (EGX) for 23 operations within the period from 2003 to 2015. The research found that there is enhancement in performance efficiency post M&As in both financial and non-financial sectors. The results showed significant relationship between both ROA and ROE with M&As performance efficiency indicating that these two factors are the most success factors affecting M&As performance efficiency. Results found that there is insignificant relationship between difference in efficiency and M&As performance efficiency.
Modeling the Impact of Foreign Equity, Foreign Debt and FDI on Indian Economic Growth Through VECM Approach
Authors: Singh Amar , Mohan Arvind
Published: May 2019

Foreign portfolio investment and foreign direct investment are the backbone of any economy as well as contributing to the growth of all developing economies. Herein, it motivated to do the study by investigating the causality between foreign investment and economic growth in India. To find out the exact causation effectively, we have employed a vector error correction model method of causality. The testing time series data period is from 1993 to 2017. Here, in this study, we converted annual gross domestic product and foreign direct investment data into monthly figures. For this we used econometric disaggregation techniques know as linear spline interpolation method for monthly data conversion. ADF unit root test confirms the presence of unit root at level and stationary at first difference. Johansen co-integration test is done after achieving the stationarity and it shows those variables are co-integrated. Whereas Granger causality test results show no-causality exists between (i) FDI and GDP (ii) GDP and FDI (iii) FE and GDP (iv) FD and GDP (v) FE and FDI (vi) FD and FDI (vii) FE and FD and uni-directional causality exist between GDP and FE (ii) GDP and FD (ii) FDI and FE (iv) FDI and FD (v) FD and FE. The results advocates that FDI, FE, FD boost the economic growth of India.
Forekomsten av angst- og depresjonssymptomer hos samiske og ikke-samiske elever i videregående skole i Finnmark i 1994 og 2014
Authors: Kvernmo Siv , Sæterhaug Bye Ronja
Published: May 2019

Kvernmo S, Bye RS. The prevalence of anxiety- and depression symptoms in Sami and non-Samihigh school students in Finnmark county in 1994 and 2014. Nor J Epidemiol 2019; 28 (1-2): 15-25.ENGLISH SUMMARYAs much as 15-20% of children and adolescents in Norway, aged 3-18 years, are suffering from anxiety,depressive or behavioral problems. Recent studies have shown an increase in the prevalence of emotionalproblems among adolescents during the last decades. The aim of this study is to examine the prevalenceand the sociodemographic and psychosocial predictors of anxiety and depression symptoms in IndigenousSami and non-Sami adolescents in 1994 to 2014.Data from 1655 high school students in the Young in North (Ung i Nord) study from 1994 was comparedto data from 1856 high school students in Ungdata, conducted in 2014 in the same area. Similar andcomparable measures were applied in the two studies with SCL-12 as the main measure. The resultsshowed an increase in the prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms from 1994 compared to 2014,but a decrease in behavioral problems. At both years females reported more problems. No significantethnic differences occurred in rates of problems between indigenous Sami and non-Sami adolescents at anytime point. Across gender and ethnic groups, self-esteem and the students' relationship to the school werethe two strongest predictors.Conclusion: This study confirmed findings from other studies of an increase of rates of anxiety anddepression symptoms in older adolescents over the last decades, but also in types of significant predictors.Our findings entail a future need for prevention and treatment offers to adolescents suffering from anxietyand depression problems.
Self-esteem and mental health in adolescents – level and stability during a school year
Authors: Moksnes Unni Karin , Reidunsdatter Randi Johansen
Published: May 2019

Aim: Adolescence represent an important period for positive mental health development. The aim of the present paper was to investigate gender differences as well as the level, stability and predictive role of mental health (symptoms of depression/anxiety and mental well-being) and self-esteem in adolescents during a school year.Methods: The study sample consisted of a cohort of 351 students aged 15–21 years in Mid-Norway. In a survey administrated at the beginning and end of the 2016/2017 school year, mental well-being was assessed with Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale, depression/anxiety with Hopkins Symptom Checklist and self-esteem with the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Two models were tested for prediction; self-esteem on mental health (vulnerability model) and mental health on self-esteem (scar model).Results: Girls reported significantly higher depression/anxiety than boys and showed a slightly significant increase in depression/anxiety, stress and self-esteem during the two assessments. Boys scored significantly higher on mental well-being and self-esteem and reported stable mental health during the school year. Selfesteem significantly predicted depression/anxiety and mental well-being. Mental well-being and depression/ anxiety also significantly predicted self-esteem.Conclusion: The results suggest that self-esteem and mental health are reciprocally associated. The results underline the gender differences in overall mental health in adolescents and thus the potential importance of acknowledging gender when working on universal strategies for positive mental health development.
No Surrender: Bruce Springsteen, Neoliberalism, and Rock and Roll's Fantasy of Sovereign Rebellion
Authors: Graves Kaitlin N.
Published: May 2019

This article builds from press accounts of Bruce Springsteen's South by Southwest keynote address, taken by many to be a renewed call to arms of the classic mantras of the rock ethos in the age of a declining recording industry. In tracing the ways the speech circulated I argue that its discourse was rearticulated toward quite different (and concerning) ends. Throughout, I aim to show the apparatuses of power that sustains the rock liberation fantasy. I read the coverage of Springsteen's address as a therapeutic discourse meant to soothe the anxiety over the closure of agency in the age of neoliberalism. The article offers this case study as an example of the way that rock, in general is redirected away from rebellion and productive agency and toward neoliberal prescriptions of self-control and discipline. The article then, addresses an anxiety over the collapse of freedom and as such works to offer broad reflections on the nature of radical agency in our increasingly neoliberal present.
A TRADUÇÃO NO ENSINO DE LINGUAS
Authors: García-Medall Joaquín , Lopes (tradutora) Fernanda Cristina
Published: May 2019

Este artigo apresenta uma descrição concisa dos principais argumentos favoráveis e contrários ao uso da tradução no ensino e aprendizagem de segundas línguas. Oferece uma visão geral dos principais métodos de aprendizagem de línguas e de seus posicionamentos frente ao uso da tradução. Resume alguns dos exercícios propostos por especialistas com o uso da tradução. Por fim, sintetiza os argumentos favoráveis para sua incorporação a partir da teoria da tradução, da psicolinguística do processo de tradução e da evidência favorável do multilinguismo. Finalmente, defende a tese de que a tradução deve ser considerada uma habilidade adicional no ensino e aprendizagem de L2 e que deve ser incorporada em todos os programas de níveis iniciais.
A PROMESSA POLÍTICA DA TRADUÇÃO
Authors: Kramsch Claire Jeanne , Abdala Junior (tradutor) Luiz Carlos
Published: May 2019

As mudanças nas circunstâncias globais levaram os educadores a reconsiderar o uso da tradução no ensino de línguas. No entanto, isso não significa um retorno ao velho método da gramática-tradução. Neste artigo, exploramos como a prática da tradução literária pode ser reenquadrada e implementada na sala de aula como um meio de promover a competência translingual e transcultural defendida pela Modern Language Association em 2007.
Charles Sanders Peirce: Philosopher, Scientist, Writer
Authors: Reilly Francis E.
Published: May 2019

This chapter is a brief look at the life and work of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914). In his youth his style was vigorous and cryptic; but during his later years he composed with brilliance and freedom, and even looseness, with less care for accuracy than during his early days. As both a philosopher and a scientist Peirce studied the universe, using the work of previous philosophers and the method of the sciences to guide his conjectures about its constitution. For him the method of the sciences was not only a tool employed in examining nature, but was also the direct object of his careful study. A lifelong associate of scientists, Peirce says that he devoted many years to the study of the methods employed by them. He brought to this study a developed power for philosophical thought on the nature of knowledge and the methods of acquiring it. However, though he was a prolific writer, he did not succeed in publishing a book on any of the important topics which interested him, including philosophy. And although he dreamed of major composition, none of the great topics of interest to him ever received adequate treatment in a single work.
Some Evaluations
Authors: Reilly Francis E.
Published: May 2019

This chapter evaluates two aspects of Peirce's thought: his Greek insistence on the primacy of theoretical knowledge, and his almost Teilhardian synthesis of evolutionary themes. It reflects the author's own personal attitude toward both of these topics in Peirce, which is one of endorsement, though some criticisms are also offered. Concerning the first aspect, Peirce was not only an outstanding philosopher but also a man well acquainted with the history of philosophy. His knowledge of history, going back to Plato, Aristotle, and other Greeks, contributed to the formation of his own personal philosophy. One obvious Greek attitude that he made his own was the dedication to theoretical knowledge. On the second topic, the chapter argues that Peirce understood evolution as one of the chief characteristics of the world. It is not restricted to the biological sphere, but extends to the whole cosmos and to the historical development of science. In proposing this synthetic, post-Darwinian view of evolution, Peirce was decades ahead of his time.
Dewey’s Metaphysics
Authors: Boisvert Raymond D.
Published: May 2019

This book presents an interpetation of John Dewey’s metahysics. Dewey spent seventy years of his life in philosophical activity. The book covers the three periods of Dewey’s career. The first is the idealistic phase, then the experimental phase, and finally the naturalistic phase. The book begins by discussing responses to two major problems in Deweyan scholarship and to a third issue of a more purely theoretical character. There are scholars who dismiss the Deweyan attempt at formulating a metaphysics as superficial, irrelevant, and contradictory. There are others who provide a caricature of Deweyan metaphysics as describing a natural world given over solely to flux, process, and change. There there is also a general need for contemporary philosophers to deal with the issues encapsulated in the term form. The book concludes that Dewey’s metahysics presented in this book has a direct bearing on a much-discussed topic in contemporary philosophical literature: the dispute between foundationalists and anti-foundationalists.
Some Implications of the Study
Authors: Boisvert Raymond D.
Published: May 2019

This concluding chapter discusses how the interpetation of John Dewey’s metahysics presented in this book has a direct bearing on a much-discussed topic in contemporary philosophical literature: the dispute between foundationalists and anti-foundationalists. The chapter cites the works of Richard Rorty, a prominent defender of the anti-foundationalist side. He is particularly important because he enlists Dewey’s support in his enterprise. Rorty admires Dewey as someone who encouraged the promulgation of a non-epistemological sort of philosophy. However, such high praise is counterbalanced by the admission that there are weaknesses in Dewey’s philosophy, the most significant of which talks about his engagement with metaphysics.
Normative Science and the Pragmatic Maxim
Authors: Potter Vincent G.
Published: May 2019

This chapter explores how Charles Sanders Peirce was convinced that his account of the hierarchical dependence of logic on ethics, and of ethics on esthetics, was a discovery of fundamental importance for a correct understanding of his thought, and one that distinguished his “pragmaticism” from other, more familiar, interpretations of his own famous maxim. It would be a mistake to think that because this was a late development in Peirce's thought, it was an afterthought. It would also be a mistake to think that because Peirce's exposition of that role was short and unsatisfactory, it was not an integral part of what he conceived to be his “architectonic” system.
Tychism & Evolution
Authors: Potter Vincent G.
Published: May 2019

This concluding chapter looks at Charles S. Pierce's remark that Charles Darwin's ideas must inevitably kill mechanical philosophy. According to him, Darwin's theory—nourished by positive observation—must be deadly to a merely “metaphysical” opinion. Pierce further contended that mechanical determinism and evolutionism are basically incompatible. Mechanical philosophy, an a priori position, is not only unsupported by observational evidence such as Darwin's but positively contradicted by it. The chapter then argues that to admit tychism is to admit growth and development as fundamental to the entire cosmos. Conversely, to hold a thoroughgoing and consistent evolutionary account of the universe, one must admit real chance.
Introduction
Authors: O'Connell Robert J.
Published: May 2019

This introductory chapter discusses how William James' “The Will to Believe” has stimulated adverse criticisms, some of them fierce, as well as equally impassioned essays in defense. Philosophers naturally come at an essay of this sort with their own preoccupations, priorities, and methodological suppositions. One reason for the variety of criticisms and defenses of “The Will to Believe” is that critics and defenders are not always reading the same lecture, or reading it in the same way. Beyond that, the chapter shows that there are elements in James' argument to which almost none of them attributes the importance that they held for James himself.
On Matter and Manner
Authors: O'Connell Robert J.
Published: May 2019

This chapter analyzes how seriously William James himself took his own lecture. Whether viewing him as a psychologist on a metaphysical holiday, or taking his occasional slips in expression and his general vivacity of spirit as indications of a cavalier or “sporting” attitude toward his topic, one will read his lecture out of an attitude and set of suppositions that may seriously affect not only one's evaluation, but the very understanding of James' argument. The chapter aims to place this lecture in James' overall philosophical effort, in order to display how seriously he meant it, and how seriously readers have a right to take it.
The Theory of Extension
Authors: Kraus Elizabeth M.
Published: May 2019

This chapter analyzes Part IV of Process and Reality. It begins with a discussion of coordinate division, which is the isolation of the separable elements in the inseparate unity of the satisfaction. In genetic analysis, which is likewise an analysis of these separable elements, the emphasis is placed on the feelings themselves: their arising, structure, subjective forms, integration, and comparison. Coordinate division, as an analysis of the concrete superject emergent from the process of feeling, concentrates on the fully determinate, unified space–time region actualized in the concrescence and distinguishes in it the sub-regions, extensive quanta, and standpoints which might be. Therefore, it is primarily the data from the physical pole of an entity which are susceptible to coordinate analysis. The remainder of the chapter explains extensive connection, flat loci, strains, and measurement.
God and the World
Authors: Kraus Elizabeth M.
Published: May 2019

This chapter analyzes Part V of Process and Reality (PR). Here, Alfred North Whitehead returns in a moment of generalization to what has been the underlying theme of PR: the reconciliation of the primordial oppositions given in and for experience—the one and the many, order and creativity, permanence and change, now as subsumed in the foundational dialectic of God and the world. It is no longer necessary to plumb the obscurities of the text, for Whitehead speaks lyrically and directly, pulling aside the curtain for a moment to enable the reader to catch a glimpse of the massive simplicity of his cosmological vision. It is indeed only a glimpse, the preface to the theological counterpart of process cosmology, a beginning not an end.
Reconciling Liberalism and Communitarianism
Authors: Singer Beth J.
Published: May 2019

This chapter explores the debate between liberalism and communitarianism. It shows that placing a high value on individuals and their rights does not entail sacrificing the common good or the good of the community. To begin with, both personal identity and individual rights are inseparably linked to membership in communities. Individuality and community are mutually constitutive, and the generation of social norms by persons in community with one another is the precondition and the source of all the rights that are actually operative in society. Furthermore, being reciprocal—consisting in mutually recognized entitlements and obligations to respect them—rights are not adversarial. They do not divide people from one another, nor do they set them against governments or states. At least in principle, then, individual and community rights are compatible.
James: Full Self and Wider Fields
Authors: Fontinell Eugene
Published: May 2019

This chapter argues that the relation between the person and God must be such that a belief in personal immortality has experiential grounds—not grounds in the sense of offering a compelling necessity to infer immortality, but in the softer sense of being basically consistent with and open to such belief. In keeping with this experiential methodology, there must be some “justifying” evidence for the extrapolated belief in a divine—human relationship. The principal grounds for such extrapolated belief are found in the view of the self that emerges in James' later writings. The chapter draws mainly upon material from The Varieties of Religious Experience, Essays in Radical Empiricism, and A Pluralistic Universe, without dealing with important differences of concern and context among these works.
When God Was a Bird
Authors: Wallace Mark I.
Published: May 2019

At one time, God was a bird. In ancient Egypt, Thoth was the Ibis-headed divinity of magic and wisdom. Winged divine beings—griffins and harpies—populated the pantheon of Greek antiquity, and Quetzalcoatl was the plumed serpent deity of the pre-Columbian Aztecs. It is said that in spite of—or better, to spite—this time-honored wealth of divine avifauna, Christianity divorced God from the avian world in order to defend a pure form of monotheism. This narrative, however, misses the startling scriptural portrayals of God as the beaked and feathered Holy Spirit, the third member of the Trinity who, alongside the Father and Son, is the “animal God” of historic Christian witness. Appearing as a winged creature at the time of Jesus’ baptism (Luke 3:21-22), the bird-God of the New Testament signals the deep grounding of archi-original biblical faith in the natural world. This book calls this new but ancient vision of the world “Christian animism” in order to signal the continuity of biblical religion with the beliefs of indigenous and non-Western communities that Spirit enfleshes itself within everything that grows, walks, flies, and swims in and over the Earth. To this end, it weaves together philosophy (Heidegger, Girard), theology (Augustine, Hildegard, Muir), and the author’s own birdwatching visitations (wood thrush, pileated woodpecker, great blue heron, American dipper, domestic pigeon) to argue that all things are alive with sacred personhood and worthy of human beings’ love and protection in a time of ecocidal, even deicidal, climate change.
Song of the Wood Thrush
Authors: Wallace Mark I.
Published: May 2019

Chapter 1 begins with the song of the wood thrush and then focuses on divine animals in the Bible. It examines the Gospels’ “pigeon God” in which the Spirit-bird alights on Jesus at the time of his baptism, signaling the unity of all things: divine life and birdlife, divinity and animality, spirit and flesh. And it argues that the Bible’s seeming prohibitions against animal deities is vitiated by Moses’ and Jesus’ ophidian shamanism that privileges snake-totemism as a source of salvation in Numbers and John, respectively. It examines intimations of “Christian animism”—the belief that all things, including so-called inanimate objects, are alive with sacred presence—in George E. “Tink” Taylor, Lynn White Jr., and the Martyrdom of Polycarp, a second-century CE avian spirit possession narrative. It concludes that insofar as the Spirit is ornithomorphic, it behooves us to care for the natural world as the site of God’s daily presence.
Terrorism as a Method of Public Safety
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

Looks further at Blanchot’s work for Combat, in particular a piece reacting to Blum’s government which uses extreme language.
Lift This Fog Which Is Already of the Dawn
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

Looks at Blanchot’s second novel, Aminadab. The chapter looks at the circumstances of its writing and publication, as well as discussing the aesthetics of the novel itself.
The Passion of Silence
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

Addresses Blanchot’s relationship with Denise Rollin, on the basis of unpublished correspondence. This provides another depiction of Blanchot, from a different angle than that of his published writings.
The Author in Reverse
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

Looks at the major critical collection The Space of Literature and its genesis from articles published in the preceding years. The chapter explores the thinking it contains on issues such as experience, solitude, death, and of course literature and the work of art.
With This Break in History Stuck in One’s Throat
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

This chapter explores Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community. It unpacks that work’s accounts of his (political and philosophical) friendships with Georges Bataille and Marguerite Duras.
Playing the Law
Authors: Kamuf Peggy
Published: May 2019

This chapter begins with a review of some of the arguments in Derrida’s essay “Before the Law” regarding the relation of literature and the law, each one coming (to stand) before the other. This condition, Derrida asserts, allows literature to do what he calls “play the law.” This idea is then taken up in a reading of a Baudelaire prose poem, “An Heroic Death,” in which a mime condemned to death for plotting against the throne performs before the sovereign and dies mid-performance when this prince engineers a rude interruption. The questions raised about this event by the poem’s narrator and left suspended, as well as other questions that can be raised, let me draw out all the senses in which this performance, including the text’s own performance, plays the law. I show that this play confounds the distinction of condemnation and pardon.
The Unconstructable Earth
Authors: Neyrat Frédéric
Published: May 2019

The Space Age is over? Not at all! A new planet has appeared: Earth. In the age of the Anthropocene, the Earth is a post-natural planet that can be remade at will, controlled and managed thanks to the prowess of geoengineering. This new imaginary is also accompanied by a new kind of power—geopower—which takes the entire Earth—in its social, biological and geophysical dimensions—as an object of knowledge, intervention, and governmentality. Far from merely being the fruit of the spirit of geo-capitalism, this new grand narrative has been championed by the theorists of the constructivist turn (be them ecomodernist, postenvironmentalist, or accelerationist to name a few) who have also called into question the great divide between nature and culture; but in the aftermath of the collapse of this divide, a cyborg, hybrid, flexible nature was built, an impoverished nature that does not exist without being performed by the technologies, human needs, and capitalist imperatives. Underneath this performative vision resides a hidden “a-naturalism” denying all otherness to nature and the Earth, no longer by externalizing it as a thing to be dominated, but by radically internalizing it as something to be digested. Constructivist ecology can hardly present itself in opposition to the geo-constructivist project, which also claims that there is no nature and that nothing will prevent human beings from replacing Earth with an Earth 2.0.
Introduction
Authors: Neyrat Frédéric
Published: May 2019

In the introduction to his book, Frederic Neyrat provides an overview of his ambitious attempt of not only striving to articulate the various philosophical theories and ecological practices that have been developing over the past 20 years or so in response to climate change and what has been named the Anthropocene, but he also lays the ground work for his own ecological theory of an ecology of separation which he will develop in the third part of his book. What makes Neyrat’s work interesting is how he posits very clearly that unlike the post-modern conception of an arrival to an era where there is no longer any grand narratives is that there is indeed a new grand narrative that has emerged in relation to the environment: the narrative of the Anthropocene. With this narrative and emergence of the Anthropocene, what is also uncovered or discovered is the Earth itself. Bur for Neyrat, if we begin to look closely at this new “Earth,” what we discover is that it’s not as an object or a subject, but as an ever ungraspable traject: a trajectory in becoming for millions of years.
The Logic of Geopower
Authors: Neyrat Frédéric
Published: May 2019

Neyrat moves on to reflect on what the attempt at managing the climate, or the popular environmental term of Earth Stewardship, entails and how viewing the Anthropocene through the term of Earth Stewardship can help us to understand what exactly humankind’s position as a major geological force truly implies and how within this logic of geopower we can begin to uncover contradictions that leave us questioning any sort of concept of mankind as distinct from nature. Neyrat shows how seemingly positive connotations of managing or caring for the human within conceptions of Earth Stewardship can become mired within much larger conceptions of what nature is considered to be in distinction from humankind and that the history of the word steward denotes an agent with royal power—showing that within the complicated attempt at Earth Stewardship and climate management, there will no doubt be those who benefit and those who won’t.
The “Political Ecology” of Bruno Latour
Authors: Neyrat Frédéric
Published: May 2019

Chapter 7 is an overview of the work of the French thinker, Bruno Latour and how his recent thinking and writing seems to align well with those thinkers who place themselves in the camps of ecomodernism and postenvironmnetalism. While Neyrat begins by espousing the importance and scholarly merit of Latour’s Actor-Network-Theory, which allows a myriad of fields to further examine non-anthropocentric conceptions of how we represent human worlds aesthetically, politically, and socially. The rest of the chapter is a critique of Latour’s recent thinking in its promotion of technological development and what Neyrat describes as Latour’s “political ecology.” To do this, Neyrat performs a careful and critical reading of Latour’s essay, “Love Your Monsters: Why We Must Care For Our Technologies As We Do Our Children.” Using the story of Frankenstein as his vehicle, Latour explains our continual suspicion and distrust for technological advancements, that is, “our monsters,” with which we must come to terms with having to care for.
A Comparative Study of Competing Discursive Construction of South China Sea Disputes in the Chinese and US English-Language Newspapers
Authors: Zhang Dan
Published: May 2019

This study examines the discursive construction of South China Sea dispute in China Daily and The New York Times from April 2016 to December 2017. Drawing on Van Dijk’s account of critical discourse analysis and the linguistic framework of Appraisal theory (Martin & White, 2005), this study investigates how three social actors in the dispute, namely China, United States, Philippines, are differently constructed with the strategic use of attitude resources in the two newspapers. The corpus analyzed consists of 45 newspaper texts from China Daily and 49 newspaper texts from The New York Times. The analysis reveals competing discursive construction of social actors that constitute positive us-representation and negative other-representation in the two newspapers. For example, China Daily constructs China as a peace-loving country, insisting on the peaceful means and the cooperation with ASEAN and other claimant countries to resolve the dispute, whereas The New York Times depicts China as threat, hegemony and provocation. Such competing discursive construction not only reflects the ideological stance of two newspapers, but also functions to legitimize their countries’ policies and decisions in the South China Sea dispute.
Language Learning Strategies Used by Male and Female Literature Students at Post Graduate Level
Authors: Lodhi Muhammad Arfan , Ismail Farzana , Fatima Aisha , Qayyum Numra , Afsheen Hina
Published: May 2019

Language learning strategies play an important role in acquiring language proficiency skills at different levels of learning. The current study being quantitative in nature, has been carried out to investigate the role played by language learning strategies (LLS) while learning English literature at post graduate level. Therefore 160 students from three different institutions were randomly selected to participate in this survey-oriented project. An instrument originally created by Oxford (1980–1990) about Strategy inventory of learning a language (SILL) version 0.7 and further modified after piloting was distributed among the students. The findings of the sturdy reveal positive relation of strategies among the students while the females surpassed over male participants in adopting strategic use of learning. Obtained data show that there was no significant similarity found among them; but lot of differences observed regarding use of different strategies. The females were most frequent users of memory, cognitive, affective, meta-cognitive and social strategies while male learners were involved in using compensatory, cognitive and also the active users of meta-cognitive strategies. As far as difficulties during learning English literature are concerned: a lot of major aspects of language learning strategies were observed that need to be solved. On the whole, students at postgraduate level are aware of LLS and utilize these strategies while learning English language and literature.
The Relationship Between Malaysian Supermarket In-Store Shopping Experiences and Positive Word-of-Mouth
Authors: Ing Phang , Ivan Liew Ru Ven , Osman Zaiton
Published: May 2019

Attitudinal loyalty such as customers’ willingness to spread positive words of mouth has received less attention compared to behavioural loyalty (e.g., reptronage intention) in retail studies, particularly in the context of supermarket. It is argued that supermarket consumers should be willingly share positive words of mouth when they are satisfied. The effect of Malaysian supermarket in-store experiences (convenience, merchandise value, internal shop environment, interaction with staff, merchandise variety, presence interaction with other customers, in-shop emotion) on customer satisfaction and mediating effect of customer satisfaction on the relationship between in-store experiences and positive WoM were examined. The results show significant relationship between customer satisfaction and willingness to spread positive WoM. Convenience and in store emotion have significant relationships with customer satisfaction, while the other in-store experiences have no significant effects on satisfaction. Customer satisfaction played mediation roles between the relationships between convenience, merchandise variety, interaction with staff and in store emotion with positive WoM. The findings provide useful insights to Malaysian supermarket retailers in understanding their target markets to encourage more positive WoM.
Promoting Green Living by The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change in Hong Kong
Authors: Kwan Ming , Kong Anthony , Lam Terry
Published: May 2019

Using the case study of The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change in Hong Kong, the purpose is to explore how museum can take part to promote green living.

Design/Methodology/Approach—This paper explores the contributions of The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change as a means to increase environmental awareness for the society. The objectives of The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change aimed at showing the importance of community involvement, advocating environmentally friendly education and nurturing visitors’ moral obligation to engage in pro-environmental protection behavior. Authors conducted twenty-five in-depth semi-structured interviews with visitors so as to fully understand the influences brought by the museum.

Findings—The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change was perceived by all of the study visitors as a meaningful, influencing and educative museum, which raised environmental awareness, upheld moral obligation to engage in environmental protection, and induced greater pro-environmental behavior. Based on the results, eight benefits are generated by The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change to environmental protection for the entire globe.

Practical implications—Based on the insights gained from visitors, eight positive influences are contributed by The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change for nurturing visitors to adopt a green living in order to combat climate change.

Originality/value—This paper urges for the importance of all communities, all business sectors, all kinds of organizations and governments to engage in environmental protection for sustainable development. The aim of such an episode is to arouse all the communities, business sectors, organizations, museums, educational institutions and countries to promote and adopt green living so as to combat climate change.
Does Customer-Based Reputation Lead Customers Not to Switch? Examining Moderating Influences in Hypermarkets
Authors: Lu Hao-Te , Wang Yi-Chou
Published: May 2019

Accumulating evidence underscores the importance of business reputation. Therefore, understanding the impact of reputation on customers is important and requires additional research. In this article, we attempted to understand the impact of customer-based reputation (CBR) on customers’ repatronage intentions across three hypermarkets of different sizes. We used switching inducement as a moderating variable to examine whether the relationship between CBR and repatronage intentions was moderated by inducements to switch. Inperson questionnaires/surveys were administered to a convenience sample to collect data from three different hypermarkets. In total, 1,099 questionnaires were collected and sorted for analysis. The results indicated that CBR had a significant positive effect on repatronage intentions in all three hypermarkets. On the other hand, a moderating effect was significant for only the smaller hypermarket, whereas there was no significantly interaction when large, multinational branded hypermarkets were considered.
Effect of Customers’ Attitude, Involvement on Purchase Intention: Moderating Effect of Cause Related Marketing Campaigns
Authors: Riva Farzana , Uddin Mohammad Rajib , Rubel Mohammad Rabiul Basher
Published: May 2019

The current study considers customers’ attitude, involvement and purchase intention of hotel customers with the moderating impact of cause related marketing campaigns in the context of Bangladesh. Partial Least Square (PLS) path modeling, a variance-based technique of SEM was used in the current study as the study tool. After testing the hypothesis on 305 customers it has been found positive significant influence of both customers’ attitudes and involvement on purchase intention of hotel customers. Moreover, the current study used cause related marketing campaigns as a moderating variable between customers’ attitude and involvement on purchase intention where both the hypothesis found insignificant. Therefore, from the literature review and the findings of the analysis the current study recommends future research to look for the moderating effect of cause related marketing campaigns of other customer perceptions in the link between attitude and involvement on purchase intention.
Folding on the chaotic Cartesian product of manifolds and their fundamental group
Authors: Abu-Saleem M.
Published: May 2019

In this paper we introduce the chaotic fundamental group of foldings of the chaotic Cartesian product of manifolds into itself. Also the fundamental group of the limit of foldings of the chaotic Cartesian product of manifolds into itself are deduced. The effect of folding on the wedge sum of chaotic manifolds and their chaotic fundamental group will be achieved. Some types of conditional foldings restricted on the elements of a free chaotic group and their chaotic fundamental groups are presented. Theorems governing these relations are obtained.
A note on $ {|\overline{N}, p_n; delta|_k} $ summability factors of inﬁnite series
Authors: Sinha Poorvi , Kumar Hirdesh
Published: May 2019

In this paper a general theorem on $ | \overline{N}, p_n; \delta|_k $ summability factors which generalizes a theorem of Bor [4] on for $ |\overline{N}, p_n|_k $ summability factors of infinite series.
Nonconvex minimization in generating space
Authors: Dhagat Vanita Ben , Thakur Vijendra Singh
Published: May 2019

A nonconvex minimization theorem has been established for generating of space of quasi 2-metric family with non commuting condition, which is defined as $ \alpha $-compatible.
A generalization of an identity involving the inverses of binomial coeffcients
Authors: Zhang Zhizheng , Song Haitao
Published: May 2019

By applying the integral expression of the inverses of binomial coefficients, the authors generalize the Sury's identity.
A note on Tauberian Theorems for regularly generated sequences
Authors: C. anak ˙Ibrah˙im , Totur Üm˙it
Published: May 2019

We prove some Tauberian theorems which generalize results in [5, Theorems 1 and 2] and [4, Theorem 3.2.2].
On $ \mbf{\gamma} $-semiopen sets
Authors: Sivagami P. , Sivaraj D.
Published: May 2019

Characterizations of $ \gamma $-semiopen sets, $ \gamma $-semiclosed sets, $ \gamma$-semiclosure and $ \gamma $-semi-interior are given. Properties of $ \gamma $-semiopen sets and $ \gamma $-semiclosed sets are also discussed.
Eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on hyperboloids
Authors: Prasad Amritanshu , Vemuri M. K.
Published: May 2019

Eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a hyperboloid are studied in the spirit of the treatment of the spherical harmonics by Stein and Weiss. As a special case, a simple self-contained proof of Laplace’s integral for a Legendre function is obtained.