bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Education of the Peasantry in Zimbabwe as Internal Colonialism
Authors: Hwami Munyaradzi
Published: May 2014

This article utilizes internal colonial analyses to explore and understand the difficult educational conditions students from peasantry background experience in Zimbabwe’s universities. The article proposes that the subordinate position and related educational experiences of peasantry students since the year 2000 are exploitative and to the advantage of the elite to such an extent that peasants are an internal colony. The analysis is informed by critical anti-colonial perspectives that observe the hegemonic tendencies of global and local capital in collusion with dictatorial elite nationalists. By use of a critical interpretive case study of purposefully sampled students and other relevant members of the university community from one public university, disturbing student experiences were excavated. Student narratives and experiences were analyzed using the constant comparative method and led to the conclusion that there is internal colonialism in Zimbabwe where an alliance of the state and the local and global corporate world are colluding to maintain their economic and political dominance. The article challenges those in education and academics that there is need for the decolonization of education by first identifying contemporary hegemonic forces and recognizing students from the peasantry as victims of the emerging kleptocratic capitalism.
Living Close to the Edge
Authors: Wiklund Maria , Öhman Ann , Bengs Carita , Malmgren-Olsson Eva-Britt
Published: May 2014

Although self-reported stress-related problems are common among Swedish adolescent girls and young women, few qualitative studies have been carried out of young people’s own understandings and descriptions of their lived embodied experiences of stress-related illness. The aim of the present study, therefore, was to explore and analyze the lived embodied experiences of stress among adolescent girls and young women who had sought help at a youth health center. Interviews with 40 girls and young women aged 16 to 25 were analyzed with qualitative content analysis. “Living close to the edge” was interpreted as the common theme running through all of the interviews and representing the participants’ sometimes unbearable situations. The theme contains embodied dimensions of physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and existential distress, as well as dimensions of distrust and disempowerment. The findings highlight the importance of addressing these dimensions in youth health interventions, and the importance of contextualizing young women’s distress is emphasized. These young women’s experiences of stress and illness were multifaceted, which place high demands on health facilities and intervention programs. It is important to integrate context- and gender-sensitive models and approaches in youth health as well as in primary care settings.
Philanthropic Fashion: Ireland, 1887–1897
Authors: Helland Janice
Published: May 2014

During the nineteenth century a number of aristocratic women promoted British-made textiles by wearing garments made from domestic cloth. Royalty, too, regularly endorsed this British-made cloth by wearing gowns of British manufacture frequently trimmed with English or Irish lace. Beginning in the late 1880s, however, a more organized and sophisticated relationship developed between Irish textiles and fashion and, by the 1890s, this link was both assiduously promoted and systematically marketed. The Irish Industries Association, founded by Ishbel, Countess of Aberdeen in 1886 to promote craft and alleviate poverty in Ireland, was supported by a number of British and Irish aristocrats. The Association organized exhibitions in London, established a rapport with women’s magazines, such as Lady’s Pictorial, Gentlewoman and Queen, The Lady’s Newspaper, and encouraged fashionable shops to view, buy and promote garments made from Irish wool, lace and linen. Thus Irish textiles moved from the Celtic fringe to the metropole, and from there on to the bodies of the rich and famous. It is this highly organized appeal to consumers that I shall explore here as philanthropy colluded with the market to produce fashion.
Coupons, Clothing and Class: The Rationing of Dress in Ireland, 1942–1948
Authors: Fitzpatrick Orla
Published: May 2014

This paper will explore how clothes rationing impacted upon the population of Ireland during the Second World War and how the restrictions were encountered by the general population. It allows for a reconsideration of the period with particular reference to notions of respectability and class, and how these were manifested in dress and fashion. It will also examine the concept of Dublin as a destination, both during and after the war, for the purchase of Irish manufactures and clothing types which remained scarce in Britain and on continental Europe. It will draw upon a diverse range of sources including the espionage reports provided to Winston Churchill by the Anglo-Irish writer, Elizabeth Bowen, contemporary fiction, memoirs, travelogues, government papers, newspaper reports and advertisements. These vivid accounts will reveal much about a period which has received little consideration from dress historians within the Irish context.
Cable Crossings: The Aran Jumper as Myth and Merchandise
Authors: Carden Siún
Published: May 2014

This article considers the Aran jumper as a cultural artefact from an anthropological perspective. As an internationally recognized symbol of Irishness that comes with its own myth of origin, the Aran jumper carries emotionally charged ideas about kinship and nativeness. Whether read as an ID document, family tree, representation of the landscape or reference to Christian or pre-Christian spirituality, the Aran jumper’s stitch patterns seem to invite interpretation. Emerging at a particular period in the relationship between Ireland and America, this garment and the story that accompanies it have been shaped by migration and tourism, but may be understood very differently on either side of the Atlantic. The resilience of the myth of a fisherman lost at sea, whose corpse is identifiable only by designs his relatives have stitched into his clothing, is explained in light of its resonance with diasporic narratives and transnational longings.
Zeolites at high pressure: A review
Authors: Gatta G. D. , Lee Y.
Published: May 2014

This is a review of the elastic behaviour and pressure (P)-induced structural evolution of zeolites and presents a comparative analysis of the deformation mechanisms of the Si/Al-framework and the rearrangement of the extra-framework species in response to applied pressure. The interaction betweenP-transmitting fluids and zeolites, which can lead to phenomena such as ‘P-induced over-hydration’, is described. The comparative elastic analysis and the high-Pstructural data of zeolites reported so far allow us to make some generalizations: (1) The range of compressibility among this class of openframework silicates is large, with bulk moduli ranging between 15 and 70 GPa; (2) Microporosity does not necessarily imply high compressibility, as several zeolites are less compressible than other nonzeolitic rock-forming minerals; (3) Compressibilities of zeolites do not seem to be directly related to microporosity, at least if we model microporosity with the ‘framework density’; (4) The flexibility observed in zeolites under hydrostatic compression is mainly governed by tilting of rigid tetrahedra around O atoms that behave as hinges within the framework. Pressure-induced tilting commonly leads to continuous rearrangement of the framework without any phase transition. More rarely, tilting induces displacive phase transitions and isothermalP-induced reconstructive phase transitions (i.e. with change in framework topology), have not been reported in this class of materials; (5) Deformation mechanisms in response to applied pressure are generally dictated by the topological configuration of the framework rather than the Si/Al-distribution or the extra-framework content. The channel content governs the compressibility of the cavities, leading to different unit-cell-volume compressibilities in isotypic structures.
Preemptive rituximab infusions after remission efficiently prevent relapses in acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Authors: Hie Miguel , Gay Julie , Galicier Lionel , Provôt François , Presne Claire , Poullin Pascale , Bonmarchand Guy , Wynckel Alain , Benhamou Ygal , Vanhille Philippe , Servais Aude , Bordessoule Dominique , Coindre Jean-Philippe , Hamidou Mohamed , Vernant Jean-Paul , Veyradier Agnès , Coppo Paul ,   the French Thrombotic Microangiopathies Reference Centre
Published: May 2014

Key Points

Patients with a history of acquired TTP and persistent severe ADAMTS13 deficiency during remission are at high risk of relapse and death. Preemptive infusions of rituximab in remission significantly decrease TTP relapse rate.
The development and validation of oral cancer staging using administrative health data
Authors: Li-Ting Chang , Chung-Ho Chen , Yi-Hsin Yang , Pei-Shan Ho
Published: May 2014

Background

Oral cancer is a major global health problem. The complexity of histological prognosticators in oral cancer makes it difficult to compare the benefits of different treatment regimens. The Taiwanese National Health database provides an opportunity to assess correlations between outcome and treatment protocols and to compare the effects of different treatment regimens. However, the absence of indices of disease severity is a critical problem. The aim of this study was to ascertain how accurately we could assess the severity of oral cancer at the time of initial diagnosis on the basis of variables in a national database.

Methods

In the cancer registry database of a medical center in Taiwan, we identified 1067 histologically confirmed cases of oral cancer (ICD9 codes 140, 141 and 143–145) that had been first diagnosed and subjected to initial treatment in this hospital. The clinical staging status was considered as the gold standard and we used concordance (C)-statistics to assess the model’s predictive performance. We added the predictors of treatment modality, cancer subsite, and age group to our models.

Results

Our final overall model included treatment regimen, site, age, and two interaction terms; namely, interactions between treatment regimen and age and those between treatment regimen, site, and age. In this model, the C-statistics were 0.82–0.84 in male subjects and 0.96–0.99 in female subjects. Of the models stratified by age, the model that considered treatment regimen and site had the highest C-statistics for the interaction term, this value being greater than 0.80 in male subjects and 0.9 in female subjects.

Conclusion

In this study, we found that adjusting for sex, age at first diagnosis, oral cancer subsite, and therapy regimen provided the best indicator of severity of oral cancer. Our findings provide a method for assessing cancer severity when information about staging is not available from a national health-related database.
Contribution of genetic variation to transgenerational inheritance of DNA methylation
Authors: McRae Allan F , Powell Joseph E , Henders Anjali K , Bowdler Lisa , Hemani Gibran , Shah Sonia , Painter Jodie N , Martin Nicholas G , Visscher Peter M , Montgomery Grant W
Published: May 2014

Background

Despite the important role DNA methylation plays in transcriptional regulation, the transgenerational inheritance of DNA methylation is not well understood. The genetic heritability of DNA methylation has been estimated using twin pairs, although concern has been expressed whether the underlying assumption of equal common environmental effects are applicable due to intrauterine differences between monozygotic and dizygotic twins. We estimate the heritability of DNA methylation on peripheral blood leukocytes using Illumina HumanMethylation450 array using a family based sample of 614 people from 117 families, allowing comparison both within and across generations.

Results

The correlations from the various available relative pairs indicate that on average the similarity in DNA methylation between relatives is predominantly due to genetic effects with any common environmental or zygotic effects being limited. The average heritability of DNA methylation measured at probes with no known SNPs is estimated as 0.187. The ten most heritable methylation probes were investigated with a genome-wide association study, all showing highly statistically significant cis mQTLs. Further investigation of one of these cis mQTL, found in the MHC region of chromosome 6, showed the most significantly associated SNP was also associated with over 200 other DNA methylation probes in this region and the gene expression level of 9 genes.

Conclusions

The majority of transgenerational similarity in DNA methylation is attributable to genetic effects, and approximately 20% of individual differences in DNA methylation in the population are caused by DNA sequence variation that is not located within CpG sites.
Returning individual research results for genome sequences of pancreatic cancer
Authors: Johns Amber L , Miller David K , Simpson Skye H , Gill Anthony J , Kassahn Karin S , Humphris Jeremy L , Samra Jaswinder S , Tucker Katherine , Andrews Lesley , Chang David K , Waddell Nicola , Pajic Marina ,   Australian Pancreatic Cancer Genome Initiative, Pearson John V , Grimmond Sean M , Biankin Andrew V , Zeps Nikolajs
Published: May 2014

Background

Disclosure of individual results to participants in genomic research is a complex and contentious issue. There are many existing commentaries and opinion pieces on the topic, but little empirical data concerning actual cases describing how individual results have been returned. Thus, the real life risks and benefits of disclosing individual research results to participants are rarely if ever presented as part of this debate.

Methods

The Australian Pancreatic Cancer Genome Initiative (APGI) is an Australian contribution to the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC), that involves prospective sequencing of tumor and normal genomes of study participants with pancreatic cancer in Australia. We present three examples that illustrate different facets of how research results may arise, and how they may be returned to individuals within an ethically defensible and clinically practical framework. This framework includes the necessary elements identified by others including consent, determination of the significance of results and which to return, delineation of the responsibility for communication and the clinical pathway for managing the consequences of returning results.

Results

Of 285 recruited patients, we returned results to a total of 25 with no adverse events to date. These included four that were classified as medically actionable, nine as clinically significant and eight that were returned at the request of the treating clinician. Case studies presented depict instances where research results impacted on cancer susceptibility, current treatment and diagnosis, and illustrate key practical challenges of developing an effective framework.

Conclusions

We suggest that return of individual results is both feasible and ethically defensible but only within the context of a robust framework that involves a close relationship between researchers and clinicians.
Genetic and physiological analysis of tolerance to acute iron toxicity in rice
Authors: Wu Lin-Bo , Shhadi Mohamad Yusser , Gregorio Glenn , Matthus Elsa , Becker Mathias , Frei Michael
Published: May 2014

Background

Fe toxicity occurs in lowland rice production due to excess ferrous iron (Fe2+) formation in reduced soils. To contribute to the breeding for tolerance to Fe toxicity in rice, we determined quantitative trait loci (QTL) by screening two different bi-parental mapping populations under iron pulse stresses (1,000 mg L−1 = 17.9 mM Fe2+ for 5 days) in hydroponic solution, followed by experiments with selected lines to determine whether QTLs were associated with iron exclusion (i.e. root based mechanisms), or iron inclusion (i.e. shoot-based mechanisms).

Results

In an IR29/Pokkali F8 recombinant inbred population, 7 QTLs were detected for leaf bronzing score on chromosome 1, 2, 4, 7 and 12, respectively, individually explaining 9.2-18.7% of the phenotypic variation. Two tolerant recombinant inbred lines carrying putative QTLs were selected for further experiments. Based on Fe uptake into the shoot, the dominant tolerance mechanism of the tolerant line FL510 was determined to be exclusion with its root architecture being conducive to air transport and thus the ability to oxidize Fe2+ in rhizosphere. In line FL483, the iron tolerance was related mainly to shoot-based mechanisms (tolerant inclusion mechanism). In a Nipponbare/Kasalath/Nipponbare backcross inbred population, 3 QTLs were mapped on chromosomes 1, 3 and 8, respectively. These QTLs explained 11.6-18.6% of the total phenotypic variation. The effect of QTLs on chromosome 1 and 3 were confirmed by using chromosome segment substitution lines (SL), carrying Kasalath introgressions in the genetic background on Nipponbare. The Fe uptake in shoots of substitution lines suggests that the effect of the QTL on chromosome 1 was associated with shoot tolerance while the QTL on chromosome 3 was associated with iron exclusion.

Conclusion

Tolerance of certain genotypes were classified into shoot- and root- based mechanisms. Comparing our findings with previously reported QTLs for iron toxicity tolerance, we identified co-localization for some QTLs in both pluse and chronic stresses, especially on chromosome 1.
Integrated 2D modeling and interpretation of geophysical and geotechnical data to delineate quick clays at a landslide site in southwest Sweden
Authors: Shan Chunling , Bastani Mehrdad , Malehmir Alireza , Persson Lena , Engdahl Mats
Published: May 2014

Radio magnetotellurics (RMT), electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), and high-resolution reflection seismic data were collected along four lines to characterize the geometry and physical properties of geologic structures at a quick-clay landslide site in southwest Sweden. The site is situated in the Göta River valley where the normally consolidated materials mainly consist of glacial and postglacial sediments. Geotechnical data suggest the presence of quick clays above coarse-grained layers. These layers play a key role in the formation of quick clays and landslide triggering. The RMT and ERT data were individually and jointly inverted in 2D to study the resolution of resulting models for each data set. The resistivity models from the joint inversions demonstrate superior resolution and accuracy compared with individual ones. The geometry and location of shallower structures resolved in the 2D resistivity models from joint RMT&ERT inversions correlated well with those imaged in the reflection seismic data and observed in the existing geotechnical boreholes. The models were poor in resolving deeper resistive bedrock at locations where the thickness of the conductive overburden exceeds a certain limit. However, information from the reflection seismic data could be used to estimate the depth to the top of the bedrock along all the four lines. Comparison between the geotechnical data and the resistivity models suggested that quick clays overlying the coarse-grained layer have higher electrical resistivity than the marine clays. We further validated and refined the obtained results by performing synthetic tests. We showed that integration of ERT and RMT data with reflection seismic data is ideal for quick-clay landslide studies especially when the clay materials are thick.
China’s Westward Pivot: What It Means for Central Asia and Russia
Authors: Coomarasamy Jamie
Published: May 2014

The essay summarizes a recent reporting trip by the author to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan for the BBC, during which he examined the reasons for and observed the practical impact of China’s growing influence in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. The author provides a firsthand account of the scale and scope of Beijing’s economic and, to a lesser extent, cultural investment in the region and of the way that local society is reacting to the changes. The essay also considers what the effects are for the traditional regional power, Russia, and looks at the Kremlin’s response to the arrival of China as a major player in Central Asia.
Dogan versus Erdogan: Business and Politics in AKP-Era Turkey
Authors: Silverman Reuben
Published: May 2014

The confrontation between Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and media mogul Aydin Dogan illustrates a major shift that has occurred in Turkey since the early 2000s. Dogan Holding is part of a traditional economic elite dominated by a number of large, coastal firms. The AKP is supported by a new generation of businessmen from Anatolia. This essay uses the conflict between the two to spotlight the competing networks of businessmen and politicians that dominate present-day Turkey.
Simplicial Homology of Random Configurations
Authors: Decreusefond L. , Ferraz E. , Randriambololona H. , Vergne A.
Published: May 2014

Given a Poisson process on a d-dimensional torus, its random geometric simplicial complex is the complex whose vertices are the points of the Poisson process and simplices are given by the C̆ech complex associated to the coverage of each point. By means of Malliavin calculus, we compute explicitly the three first-order moments of the number of k-simplices, and provide a way to compute higher-order moments. Then we derive the mean and the variance of the Euler characteristic. Using the Stein method, we estimate the speed of convergence of the number of occurrences of any connected subcomplex as it converges towards the Gaussian law when the intensity of the Poisson point process tends to infinity. We use a concentration inequality for Poisson processes to find bounds for the tail distribution of the Betti number of first order and the Euler characteristic in such simplicial complexes.
Heroic Families and Utopian Histories
Authors: Taylor Barbara
Published: May 2014

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History and Theory: An English Story
Authors: Stedman Jones Gareth
Published: May 2014

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Heterodoxies: Construction of identities and otherness in medieval and early Modern Europe
Authors: Benveniste Henriette-Rika , Gaganakis Costas
Published: May 2014

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Knowledge of Others and Self-Perceptions of European Identity
Authors: Woolf Stuart
Published: May 2014

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Early Modern Italian Confraternities: Inclusion and Exclusion
Authors: Black Christopher
Published: May 2014

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Visibilité et identité flottante: Les 'Bohémiens' ou 'Egyptiens' (Tsiganes) dans la France de l'Ancien Régime
Authors: Asséo Henriette
Published: May 2014

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Rival Constructions of 'Frenchness' in the French Religious Wars, 1560-1590. The reading of Pierre de l'Estoile
Authors: Gaganakis Costas
Published: May 2014

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Cursing with a Message: the Case of Georgios Karaiskakis in 1823
Authors: Efthymiou Maroula
Published: May 2014

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History and Semiotics
Authors: Passerini Luisa
Published: May 2014

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Gaps in a Nation's Memory: Body Culture and Nazi Politics in Interwar Austria
Authors: Weber Wolfgang
Published: May 2014

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The Formation of Early Helenic Nationalism and the Special Symbolic and Material Interests of the New Radical Republican Intelligentsia (ca. 1790-1830)
Authors: Petmezas Socrates D.
Published: May 2014

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The Construction of Czech National History
Authors: Hroch Miroslav , Malecková Jitka
Published: May 2014

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Ésquisse d'une histoire de la responsabilité dans les récits juifs de persécution: les témoignages du Moyen Age
Authors: Benveniste Henriette
Published: May 2014

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Supranationality, Postmodernism and Construction of Identity: Comments on the Formation and Institution of European Studies.
Authors: Kokkinos Yiorgos
Published: May 2014

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History, Memory and the Law in France, 1990–2010
Authors: Nora Pierre
Published: May 2014

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Criminal Laws on History: The Case of the European Union
Authors: Cajani Luigi
Published: May 2014

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How Much Does Historical Truth Still Matter?
Authors: Cattaruzza Marina
Published: May 2014

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From the Social History of the Reformation (1960-1980) to the Reformation as Communication Process (1990-2000)
Authors: Gaganakis Costas
Published: May 2014

This article attempts to chart the “paradigm shift” from social history, dominant until the early 1980s, to new cultural history and the various interpretive trends it engendered in the 1990s and 2000s. The privileged field of investigation is the history of the Protestant Reformation, particularly in its urban aspect. The discussion starts with the publication of Bernd Moeller’s pivotal Reichsstadt und Reformation in the early 1960s – which paved the way for the triumphant invasion of social history in a field previously dominated by ecclesiastical or political historians, and profoundly imbued with doctrinal prerogatives – and culminates in the critical presentation of interpretive trends that appear to dominate in the 2010s, particularly the view and investigation of the Reformation as communication process.
Perdus dans l’archive:Foucault, l’historien et l’écrivain
Authors: Benveniste Henriette-Rika
Published: May 2014

Nous, historiens du XXIe siècle, nous connaissons bien l’archive! Nous nous considérons comme vaccinés contre les illusions romantiques du jeune Michelet qui, descendant aux «catacombes manuscrites, dans cette admirable nécropole des monuments nationaux», croyait apercevoir les morts ressuscités; «Ces papiers ne sont pas des papiers mais des vies d’hommes, de provinces, des peuples», écrivait-il. Bien que le contact avec l’archive constitue toujours une étape, un rite de passage même, dans la construction de notre identité professionnelle, nous n’adhérons pas au fétichisme néo-positiviste et réducteur de ceux qui voudraient opposer à la réflexion théorique ou critique l’archive comme unique dépositaire de vérité et d’authenticité.
1968–2008: The Inheritance of Utopia
Authors: Kornetis Kostis
Published: May 2014

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National, Imperial, Colonial and the Political: British Imperial Histories and their Descendants
Authors: Syriatou Athena
Published: May 2014

This paper discusses the pivotal moments of British imperial history from the eighties to today after a brief reference to the study of imperial history since the beginning of historical writing as a discilpline. It refers selectively to discussions as well as to books and attempts to exhibit in each period the works which characterise the general arguments, the perceptions of ideas by the academic environment and the historiographical issues examined.
Review of Pothiti Hantzaroula's Σμιλεύοντας την υποταγή: Οι έμμισθες οικιακές εργάτριες στην Ελλάδα το πρώτο μισό του 20ού αιώνα [Carving subordination: domestic workers in Greece in the first half of the 20th century]
Authors: Xypolytas Nikos
Published: May 2014

Review of: Pothiti Hantzaroula, Σμιλεύοντας την υποταγή: Οι έμμισθες οικιακές εργάτριες στην Ελλάδα το πρώτο μισό του 20ου αιώνα [Carving subordination: domestic workers in Greece in the first half of the 20th century], Athens: Papazisis, 2012. 656 pp.
Utopia in Practise: The Discovery of Performativity in Sixties' Protest, Arts and Sciences
Authors: Klimke Martin , Scharloth Joachim
Published: May 2014

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"Got a Revolution, got to revolution": Student Activism and the Anti-war Movement. An Historical Assessment
Authors: Gallant Thomas W.
Published: May 2014

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Introduction: Questions and Orientations in History During the Last 20 Years
Authors: Committee Editorial
Published: May 2014

Editorial
Review of Antonis Liakos's Αποκάλυψη, Ουτοπία και Ιστορία: Οι μεταμορφώσεις της ιστορικής συνείδησης [Apocalypse, utopia and history: the transformations of historical consciousness]
Authors: Stavrakakis Yannis
Published: May 2014

Review of: Antonis Liakos, Αποκάλυψη, Ουτοπία και Ιστορία: Οι μεταμορφώσεις της ιστορικής συνείδησης [Apocalypse, utopia and history: the transformations of historical consciousness], Athens: Polis, 2011. 478 pp.
From Coherence to Fragments: '1968' and the Making of Youth Politicisation in Greece in the 1970s
Authors: Papadogiannis Nikolaos
Published: May 2014

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1968 an an Epistemological Catalyst: Contentious Politics and Antinomies in the Study of Social Movements
Authors: Seferiades Seraphim
Published: May 2014

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Yota Kravaritou (1944–2008) A ‘child’ of ’68
Authors: Historein Historein
Published: May 2014

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On the Ambiguities of Altruism and the Domestication of Emotions
Authors: Bakalaki Alexandra
Published: May 2014

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Transnational Concepts, Transfers and the Challenge of the Peripheries Annual Conference of the History of Political and Social Concepts Group, Istanbul, 30 August–2 September 2007
Authors: Malkopoulou Anthoula
Published: May 2014

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History and Utopia
Authors: Rüsen Jörn
Published: May 2014

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Utopian and Historical Thinking: Interplays and Transferences
Authors: Liakos Antonis
Published: May 2014

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Religions in Conflict. From Polemics to Wars (Late Antiquity–18th Century)
Authors: Benveniste Henriette-Rika , Gaganakis Costas
Published: May 2014

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Christians against Christians: The Anti-heretical Activities of the Roman Church in the Second Century
Authors: Kyrtatas Dimitris J.
Published: May 2014

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Making Enemies: Latin Christendom in the Age of Reform
Authors: Moore R. I.
Published: May 2014

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Power and Fearin Philip IV’s France
Authors: Given James
Published: May 2014

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L’imaginaire du zèle ligueur: entre conversion et possession
Authors: Crouzet Denis
Published: May 2014

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The Diaspora of Greek Painting in the Nineteenth Century: Christou’s Model and the Case of Marie Spartali-Stillman
Authors: Sarafianos Aris
Published: May 2014

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Historiography and Nonwestern Pasts
Authors: Seth Sanjay
Published: May 2014

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From Machiavelli to the Sultans: Power Networks in the Ottoman Imperial Context
Authors: Stamatopoulos Demetrios
Published: May 2014

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The Power of Paradox: The Double-Edged Effect of the Postcolonial Challenge to Modern Historiography
Authors: Wang Q. Edward
Published: May 2014

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Claiming History. Debating the Past in the Present
Authors: Gazi Effi
Published: May 2014

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History in the Digital Domain
Authors: Poster Mark
Published: May 2014

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Images of History and the Optical Unconcious
Authors: Paschalidis Gregory
Published: May 2014

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The Past Beneath the Present. The Resurgence of World War II Public History After the Collapse of Communism: A Stroll Through the International Press
Authors: Fleischer Hagen
Published: May 2014

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Changing Frames of Historiography: Cappadocian Stories
Authors: Petropoulou Ioanna
Published: May 2014

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Authors: Historein Historein
Published: May 2014

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L’ego-histoire est-elle possible ?
Authors: Nora Pierre
Published: May 2014

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Hubs versus Airport Dominance
Authors: Bilotkach Volodymyr , Pai Vivek
Published: May 2014

We address the issue of the sources of dominant airlines' pricing power by separating the premium due to hub operations from that due to airport dominance. The presence of airports serving as hubs for two carriers enables such identification via difference-in-differences. Moving from lower to higher prices, the total pricing premium of hub operators (both dominant and nondominant) increases; while the share of the airport dominance premium diminishes relative to that of the hub premium. Absence of a hub premium at the lower end of the price distribution (and lack of dominance premium at the higher prices) suggests frequent flier programs rather than product differentiation as the likely dominant source of the hub operator's pricing power. The dominant airline's ability to charge higher fares due to either its airport market share or access to scarce airport facilities is confirmed.
Privileged Mexican migrants in Europe: Distinctions and cosmopolitanism on social networking sites
Authors: Nessi Lorena , Bailey Olga Guedes
Published: May 2014

This article examines the ways in which classed distinctions are related to the construction of increasingly cosmopolitan identities on Social Networking Sites (SNSs) amongst Mexican migrants from relatively privileged backgrounds living in Europe. It centres on how user demographics shape many of the concerns and outcomes pertaining to the use of SNSs. It considers the implications of the fact that SNSs are predominantly used by a demographic considered as non-marginalized, mobile and as possessing relatively privileged economic, cultural and social backgrounds. It analyses the ways in which online identities are constructed on SNS profiles using multimedia content to represent specific lifestyles and cultural practices that are used to make distinctions amongst participants, and are related to social, cultural and economic capital. A critical analysis is presented as to how users represent cosmopolitan identities online through the display of tastes and lifestyles in SNS content and into how these representations relate to users’ privileged positions in Mexican society. Bourdieu’s concept of distinction is used to emphasize the utility of considering different forms of capital in analysing the use of SNSs and profile content generated by a specific demographic. This article demonstrates how the analysis of SNS use may contribute towards an understanding of how classed distinctions are made based on this use and of how users negotiate the posting of profile content according to these distinctions and manage (select, edit and share) their representations.
Ethnicity in digital crossroads. Understanding processes of cultural thickening in a mediatized world
Authors: Bozdag Cigdem
Published: May 2014

This article discusses existing approaches to ethnic community building in diaspora and suggests that the concept of ‘cultural thickening’ can be useful for the understanding of ethnicity in a ‘mediatized world’. It is argued that in everyday life, ethnicity is continuously being (re-)constructed through repetitive practices of mediated and non-mediated communication, through which ethnic boundary-making takes place. This theoretical framework is then discussed through the cases of four diasporic websites of the Moroccan and Turkish diaspora that are analysed through media ethnography. It is argued, firstly, that communication spaces for negotiations about ethnicity are expanded by these websites. Through debates on ‘banal’ practices of everyday life relating to different fields such as cooking, sports or education among others, the users of the websites discuss who belongs to their community and what it means to belong to the community. Second, using these diasporic websites becomes a shared characteristic of the ethnic community in the eyes of the members of diasporas.
Diasporas and new media: Connections, identities, politics and affect
Authors: Siapera Eugenia
Published: May 2014

Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics and Community, A. Alonso and A. Oiarzabal (eds) (2010) Reno: University of Nevada Press, pp. 288, ISBN 10: 0874178150 (pbk), €36.28

Digital Diasporas: Identity and Transnational Engagement, J. Brinkerhoff (2009) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 288, ISBN 10: 0521741432 (pbk), €22.30

Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia, M. Madianou and D. Miller (2012) London: Routledge, pp. 192, ISBN 10: 041567929X (pbk), €26.52

Diaspora Online: Identity Politics and Romanian Migrants, R. Trandafoiu (2013) Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 212, ISBN 10: 0857459430 (hbk), €47.93
Book Review
Authors: Piwoni Eunike
Published: May 2014

Media and the City: Cosmopolitanism and Difference, Myria Georgiou (2013) Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press, 216 pp., ISBN-13: 9780745648569, £15.99
Forced migrants, emotive practice and digital heterotopia
Authors: Witteborn Saskia
Published: May 2014

Despite being caught in cycles of waiting and being arrested in institutionalized accommodations, forced migrants engage increasingly in digital border crossings. While the study of digital practice has attracted much scholarly interest, the role of emotions in processes of migration and digital connecting has been neglected. This article explores the role of emotions in the structuring of and engagement with digital heterotopias. Field research with 127 forced migrants in Germany over a period of three years illustrates how shame and fear structure digital practice and heterotopic space and regulate digital connectivity. The study suggests that emotions are instrumental in gendering digital practice and influencing solidarization processes, with shame and fear strengthening spaces of exclusion and supporting the logics of control by the nation state.
Sensory Friendly Concerts: A community music therapy initiative to promote Neurodiversity
Authors: Shiloh C. J. , LaGasse A. Blythe
Published: May 2014

Community is essential for individuals to feel like a part of something larger; however, many individuals with disabilities and their families lack a connection to community due to the display of unusual social behaviours or unavailable accommodations when at community-based events. Community music therapy (CoMT) encompasses an effort to build community around music-making and enjoyment for the collective whole, as well as supporting social justice and self-advocacy for individuals. One CoMT effort specific to individuals on the autism spectrum is the Sensory Friendly Concerts® (SFCs), a music enjoyment and making venue that promotes the social acceptance of each individual, specifically of those who identify as ‘autistic’ and seek to develop an autistic culture and community. SFCs are not only a venue to create ‘equal access to the fine arts’, but also serves as a platform for self-advocacy, thus promoting the social justice of a typically marginalized population. The purpose of this project report is to discuss how SFCs, as a CoMT initiative, can provide an opportunity for individuals and families to explore the arts, develop an inclusive community and promote social justice for autistic people. To this effect, this article will discuss SFCs within the broader scope of community music and CoMT, introduce core concepts of the Neurodiversity movement, and present initial programme evaluation data and personal accounts from SFCs.
Revisiting ‘Community music therapy and the winds of change’ (2002): An original article and a retrospective evaluation
Authors: Ansdell Gary
Published: May 2014

This article contains my article ‘Community music therapy and the winds of change’, which was written twelve years ago. It also contains my reflection on this article. In this I explore some of the circumstances in the United Kingdom that prompted writing the original article, and consider these in relation to subsequent developments of community music therapy (CoMT) as an international movement. I also evaluate what I think I got wrong and right in the original article, and what I could not have anticipated in 2002. I finish by suggesting that CoMT has functioned as a ‘trojan paradigm’: smuggling into an increasingly reductionist, individualized and medicalized culture of treatment and care a more flexible ecological understanding of the complex relationships between music, people, health, illness and well-being.
Health musicking in Skiffle Steel Orchestra: Thoughts on collaboration between community music therapy and medical ethnomusicology
Authors: Jones Jeffrey A.
Published: May 2014

This article presents a study of music and health promotion in Skiffle Steel Orchestra, a community music group located in San Fernando, Trinidad. It is based on ethnomusicological fieldwork data collected through an ongoing research partnership with Skiffle that began in 2005 and continues through the present. The study features health musicking that facilitates the embodiment of cultural values that engender a way of life, an outlook through which members of Skiffle ascribe meaning to their experiences that potentially encourages health promoting attitudes and behaviours as well as states of well-being. The primary objective for the article is to document and analyse this phenomenon, detailing the specific context as well as the general principles that underlie it, thus contributing to the body of literature about the potential for health promotion through musical means. A secondary objective of the article is to take advantage of, and encourage further, the potential for multidisciplinary and collaborative study of music and health promotion made possible by some of the theoretical perspectives and methodological procedures common to both community music therapy (CoMT) and medical ethnomusicology.
Community music therapy and the process of learning about and struggling for openness
Authors: Stige Brynjulf
Published: May 2014

In this article I attempt to understand bits of the ongoing change that the emerging movement of community music therapy (CoMT) reflects and instigates, through an exploration of processes of learning about and struggling for openness. I argue that change involves painful unlearning and challenging relearning and I examine this claim through discussion of three moments of change in my own relationship to CoMT. I focus on three moments that happened to emerge with a ten years distance (in 1983, 1993 and 2003). The first moment I call ‘Towards an open door’ and it reflects unlearning and relearning in relation to a more contextual and ecological practice of music therapy. The second moment I call ‘Towards a more open discourse’ and it reflects the unlearning and relearning necessary for a more grounded yet interdisciplinary discourse of music therapy. The third moment I call ‘Towards an open floor’ and it reflects the need for an ongoing, international, and critical debate on the assumptions, values, and priorities that characterize contemporary music therapy. Through reflections on these three moments, I try to depict interrelationships of theory and practice as well as interrelationships of music therapy and broader sociocultural–political forces. I particularly focus on how CoMT has created new possibilities for music therapy to dialogue and debate with the medical discourses that dominate contemporary health care services in most societies.
Androgen deprivation therapy complications
Authors: Allan Carolyn A , Collins Veronica R , Frydenberg Mark , McLachlan Robert I , Matthiesson Kati L
Published: May 2014

Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is increasingly used to treat advanced prostate cancer and is also utilised as adjuvant or neo-adjuvant treatment for high-risk disease. The resulting suppression of endogenous testosterone production has deleterious effects on quality of life, including hot flushes, reduced mood and cognition and diminished sexual function. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies show that ADT has adverse bone and cardio-metabolic effects. The rate of bone loss is accelerated, increasing the risk of osteoporosis and subsequent fracture. Fat mass is increased and lean mass reduced, and adverse effects on lipid levels and insulin resistance are observed, the latter increasing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. ADT also appears to increase the risk of incident cardiovascular events, although whether it increases cardiovascular mortality is not certain from the observational evidence published to date. Until high-quality evidence is available to guide management, it is reasonable to consider men undergoing ADT to be at a higher risk of psychosexual dysfunction, osteoporotic fracture, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, especially when treated for extended periods of time and therefore subjected to profound and prolonged hypoandrogenism. Health professionals caring for men undergoing treatment for prostate cancer should be aware of the potential risks of ADT and ensure appropriate monitoring and clinical management.
Influence of stromal–epithelial interactions on androgen action
Authors: Nieto Cera M , Rider Leah C , Cramer Scott D
Published: May 2014

Androgen receptor (AR) signaling is vital to the development and function of the prostate and is a key pathway in prostate cancer. AR is differentially expressed in the stroma and epithelium, with both paracrine and autocrine control throughout the prostate. Stromal–epithelial interactions within the prostate are commonly dependent on AR signaling and expression. Alterations in these pathways can promote tumorigenesis. AR is also expressed in normal and malignant mammary tissues. Emerging data indicate a role for AR in certain subtypes of breast cancer that has the potential to be exploited therapeutically. The aim of this review is to highlight the importance of these interactions in normal development and tumorigenesis, with a focus on the prostate and breast.
Relative adrenal insufficiency in mice deficient in 5α-reductase 1
Authors: Livingstone Dawn E W , Di Rollo Emma M , Yang Chenjing , Codrington Lucy E , Mathews John A , Kara Madina , Hughes Katherine A , Kenyon Christopher J , Walker Brian R , Andrew Ruth
Published: May 2014

Patients with critical illness or hepatic failure exhibit impaired cortisol responses to ACTH, a phenomenon known as ‘relative adrenal insufficiency’. A putative mechanism is that elevated bile acids inhibit inactivation of cortisol in liver by 5α-reductases type 1 and type 2 and 5β-reductase, resulting in compensatory downregulation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis and adrenocortical atrophy. To test the hypothesis that impaired glucocorticoid clearance can cause relative adrenal insufficiency, we investigated the consequences of 5α-reductase type 1 deficiency in mice. In adrenalectomised male mice with targeted disruption of 5α-reductase type 1, clearance of corticosterone was lower after acute or chronic (eightfold,P<0.05) administration, compared with WT control mice. In intact 5α-reductase-deficient male mice, although resting plasma corticosterone levels were maintained, corticosterone responses were impaired after ACTH administration (26% lower,P<0.05), handling stress (2.5-fold lower,P<0.05) and restraint stress (43% lower,P<0.05) compared with WT mice. mRNA levels ofNr3c1(glucocorticoid receptor),CrhandAvpin pituitary or hypothalamus were altered, consistent with enhanced negative feedback. These findings confirm that impaired peripheral clearance of glucocorticoids can cause ‘relative adrenal insufficiency’ in mice, an observation with important implications for patients with critical illness or hepatic failure, and for patients receiving 5α-reductase inhibitors for prostatic disease.