bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Hectometric scale simulations of a Mediterranean heavy precipitation event during HyMeX SOP1
Authors: Nuissier Olivier , Duffourg Fanny , Martinet Maxime , Ducrocq Véronique , Lac Christine
Published: November 2019

Abstract. Offshore convection occurred over the Mediterranean sea on 26 October 2012 and was well documented during the first Special Observation Period (SOP1) of the Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment (HyMeX). This paper analyses the triggering and organizing factors involved in this convection case study, and examines how they are simulated and represented at hectometric resolutions. For that purpose, a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of this real case study is carried out with a 150 m horizontal resolution over a large domain encompassing the convective systems, as well as the low level flow feeding convection over the sea. This LES is then compared to a reference simulation performed with a 450 m grid spacing in the heart of the so-called grey zone of turbulence modelling. Increase of horizontal resolution from 450 m down to 150 m is unable to reduce significantly, for this case study, deficiencies of the simulation, more related to an issue of initial and lateral boundary conditions. Indeed, some of the triggering factors, such as a converging low level flow driven by a surface low pressure system, are simulated quite similarly for both simulations. However, differences for other mechanisms still exist since larger surface precipitation amounts are simulated at 450 m. It is found that the lack of a good representation of entrainment with a 450 m grid spacing along the edge of clouds causes a too quick triggering of deep convection at this resolution, associated with fast-track microphysical processes and enhanced dynamics. Furthermore, this first LES of a real Mediterranean precipitating case study highlights a convective organization with very fine scale features within the converging low level flow, features that are definitively out of range of models with kilometric horizontal resolutions.
Surface processes in the 7 November 2014 medicane from air–sea coupled
high-resolution numerical modelling
Authors: Bouin Marie-Noëlle , Lebeaupin Brossier Cindy
Published: November 2019

Abstract. A medicane, or Mediterranean cyclone with characteristics similar to tropical cyclones, is simulated using a kilometre-scale ocean–atmosphere coupled modelling platform. A first baroclinic phase of the cyclone leads to strong convective precipitation, with high potential vorticity anomalies aloft due to an upper-level trough. The deepening and tropicalization of the cyclone is due first to the crossing of the upper-level jet, then to low-level convergence and uplift of conditionally unstable air masses by cold pools, resulting either from rain evaporation or from advection of continental air masses from North Africa. Backtrajectories show that air–sea heat exchanges warm and moisten the low-level inflow feeding the latent heat release during the mature phase of the medicane. However, the impact of ocean–atmosphere coupling on the cyclone track, intensity and lifecycle is very weak, due to a surface cooling one order of magnitude weaker than for tropical cyclones, even on the area of strong enthalpy fluxes. Isolating the influence of the surface parameters on the surface fluxes at sea during the different phases of the cyclone confirms the impact of the cold pools on the surface processes. The evaporation is controlled mainly by the sea surface temperature and wind, with a significant additional impact of the humidity and temperature at first level during the development phase. The sensible heat flux is influenced mainly by the temperature at first level throughout the whole medicane lifetime. This study shows that the tropical transition, in this case, is dependent on processes widespread in the Mediterranean Basin, like advection of continental air, rain evaporation, and dry air intrusion.
Airborne measurements of particulate organic matter by proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS): a pilot study
Authors: Piel Felix , Müller Markus , Mikoviny Tomas , Pusede Sally E. , Wisthaler Armin
Published: November 2019

Abstract. Herein we report on the first successful airborne deployment of
the CHemical Analysis of AeRosol ONline (CHARON) particle inlet which allowed us to measure the chemical
composition of atmospheric submicrometer particles in real time using a
state-of-the-art proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry
(PTR-ToF-MS) analyzer. The data were collected aboard the NASA DC-8 Airborne
Science Laboratory on 26 June 2018 over California in the frame of NASA's
Student Airborne Research Program (SARP). We show exemplary data collected
when the airplane (i) shortly encountered a fresh (<1 h old) smoke
plume that had emanated from the Lions Fire in the Sierra Nevada,
(ii) intercepted a particle plume emitted from an amine gas treating unit of
a petroleum refinery close to Bakersfield, (iii) carried out a spatial survey
in the boundary layer over the San Joaquin Valley and (iv) performed a
vertical profile measurement over the greater Bakersfield area. The most
important finding from this pilot study is that the CHARON PTR-ToF-MS system
measures fast enough to be deployed on a jet research aircraft. The data
collected during 3 to 15 s long plume encounters demonstrate the
feasibility of airborne point or small area emission measurements. Further
improvements are, however, warranted to eliminate or reduce the observed
signal tailing (1/e decay time between 6 and 20 s). The fast time response of the
analyzer allowed us to generate highly spatially resolved maps (1–2 km in
the horizontal, 100 m in the vertical) of atmospheric particle chemical
constituents. The chemical information that was extracted from the recorded
particle mass spectra includes (i) mass concentrations of ammonium, nitrate
and total organics; (ii) mass concentrations of different classes of organic
compounds (CH vs. CHO vs. CHN vs. CHNO compounds; monoaromatic vs. polyaromatic
compounds); (iii) aerosol bulk average O:C‾ and
H:C‾ ratios; (iv) mass concentrations of selected
marker molecules (e.g., levoglucosan in particles emitted from a wildfire, an
alkanolamine in particles emitted from a petroleum refinery) and (v) wildfire
emission ratios (Δtotal organics/ΔCO = 0.054; Δlevoglucosan/ΔCO = 7.9×10-3; Δvanillic acid/ΔCO = 4.4×10-4 and Δretene/ΔCO = 1.9×10-4; all calculated as peak area ratios, in grams per gram). The
capability of the CHARON PTR-ToF-MS instrument to chemically characterize
submicrometer atmospheric particles in a quantitative manner, at the
near-molecular level, and in real time brings a new and unprecedented
measurement capability to the airborne atmospheric science community.
Transferring principles of solid-state and Laplace NMR to the field
of in vivo brain MRI
Authors: de Almeida Martins João P. , Tax Chantal M. W. , Szczepankiewicz Filip , Jones Derek K. , Westin Carl-Fredrik , Topgaard Daniel
Published: November 2019

Abstract. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the primary method for non-invasive investigations of the human brain in health, disease, and development, but yields data that are difficult to interpret whenever the millimeter-scale voxels contain multiple microscopic tissue environments with different chemical and structural properties. We propose a clinically feasible MRI framework to quantify the microscopic heterogeneity of the living human brain as spatially resolved five-dimensional relaxation-diffusion distributions by augmenting a conventional diffusion-weighted imaging sequence with signal encoding principles from multidimensional solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, relaxation-diffusion correlation methods from Laplace NMR of porous media, and Monte Carlo data inversion. The high dimensionality of the distribution space allows resolution of multiple microscopic environments within each heterogeneous voxel as well as their individual characterization with novel statistical measures that combine the chemical sensitivity of the relaxation rates with the link between microstructure and the anisotropic diffusivity of tissue water.
Bayesian network model for flood forecasting based on atmospheric ensemble forecasts
Authors: Goodarzi Leila , Banihabib Mohammad E. , Roozbahani Abbas , Dietrich Jörg
Published: November 2019

Abstract. The purpose of this study is to propose the Bayesian
network (BN) model to estimate flood peaks from atmospheric ensemble
forecasts (AEFs). The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model was used to
simulate historic storms using five cumulus parameterization schemes. The BN
model was trained to compute flood peak forecasts from AEFs and hydrological
pre-conditions. The mean absolute relative error was calculated as 0.076 for
validation data. An artificial neural network
(ANN) was applied for the same problem but showed inferior performance with a mean absolute relative error of 0.39. It seems that BN is less sensitive to small
data sets, thus it is more suited for flood peak forecasting than ANN.
Deep learning for fast simulation of seismic waves in complex media
Authors: Moseley Ben , Nissen-Meyer Tarje , Markham Andrew
Published: November 2019

Abstract. The simulation of seismic waves is a core task in many geophysical applications. Numerical methods such as Finite Difference (FD) modelling and Spectral Element Methods (SEM) are the most popular techniques for simulating seismic waves in complex media, but for many tasks their computational cost is prohibitively expensive. In this work we present two types of deep neural networks as fast alternatives for simulating seismic waves in horizontally layered and faulted 2D acoustic media. In contrast to the classical methods both networks are able to simulate the seismic response at multiple locations within the media in a single inference step, without needing to iteratively model the seismic wavefield through time, resulting in an order of magnitude reduction in simulation time. This speed improvement could pave the way to real-time seismic simulation and benefit seismic inversion algorithms based on forward modelling, such as full waveform inversion. Our first network is able to simulate seismic waves in horizontally layered media. We use a WaveNet network architecture and show this is more accurate than a standard convolutional network design. Furthermore we show that seismic inversion can be carried out by retraining the network with its inputs and outputs reversed, offering a fast alternative to existing inversion techniques. Our second network is significantly more general than the first; it is able to simulate seismic waves in faulted media with arbitrary layers, fault properties and an arbitrary location of the seismic source on the surface of the media. It uses a convolutional autoencoder network design and is conditioned on the input source location. We investigate the sensitivity of different network designs and training hyperparameters on its simulation accuracy. We compare and contrast this network to the first network. To train both networks we introduce a time-dependent gain in the loss function which improves convergence. We discuss the relative merits of our approach with FD modelling and how our approach could be generalised to simulate more complex Earth models.
Multisensor validation of tidewater glacier flow fields derived from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) intensity tracking
Authors: Rohner Christoph , Small David , Beutel Jan , Henke Daniel , Lüthi Martin P. , Vieli Andreas
Published: November 2019

Abstract. Following the general warming trend in Greenland, an increase in calving rates, retreat and ice flow has been observed at ocean-terminating outlet glaciers. These changes contribute substantially to the current mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet. In order to constrain models of ice dynamics as well as estimates of mass change, detailed knowledge of geometry and ice flow is needed, in particular on the rapidly changing tongues of ocean-terminating outlet glaciers. In this study, we validate velocity estimates and spatial patterns close to the calving terminus of such an outlet derived from an iterative offset-tracking method based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) intensity data with a collection of three independent reference measurements of glacier flow. These reference datasets are comprised of measurements from differential GPS, a terrestrial radar interferometer (TRI) and repeated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveys. Our approach to SAR velocity processing aims at achieving a relatively fine grid spacing and a high temporal resolution in order to best resolve the steep velocity gradients in the terminus area and aims to exploit the 12 d repeat interval of the single-satellite Sentinel-1A sensor. Results from images of the medium-sized ocean-terminating outlet glacier Eqip Sermia acquired by Sentinel-1A and RADARSAT-2 exhibit a mean difference of 11.5 % when compared to the corresponding GPS measurements. An areal comparison of our SAR velocity fields with independently generated velocity maps from TRI and UAV surveys showed good agreement in magnitude and spatial patterns, with mean differences smaller than 0.7 m d−1. In comparison with existing operational velocity products, our SAR-derived velocities show an improved spatial velocity pattern near the margins and calving front. There 8 % to 30 % higher surface ice velocities are produced, which has implications on ice fluxes and on mass budget estimates of similarly sized outlet glaciers. Further, we show that offset tracking from SAR intensity data at relatively low spatio-temporal sampling intervals is a valid method to derive glacier flow fields for fast-flowing glacier termini of outlet glaciers and, given the repeat period of 12 d of the Sentinel-1A sensor (6 d with Sentinel-1B), has the potential to be applied operationally in a quasi-continuous mode.
La verdad sobre el caso Akayama, violencia y el contrabando en el Pacífico bajo soberanía española a finales del siglo XIX
Authors: San Emeterio Cabañes Gonzalo
Published: November 2019

Este estudio utiliza material inédito proveniente de los Archivos del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores japonés para sumergirse en la vida y, sobre todo, la muerte de un comerciante japonés, un individuo desconocido, casi anónimo, que emigró a las islas de la Micronesia bajo el dominio de España a finales del siglo XIX. Su muerte a manos de un nativo isleño nos ofrece una perspectiva hasta ahora desconocida sobre las interacciones entre los emigrantes japoneses y agentes coloniales en una de las fronteras más remotas y menos protegidas de España durante el amanecer del imperio japonés y el eclipse del imperio español.
Llegada de productos japoneses a Manila en la fase final del periodo Namban
Authors: Kawamura Yayoi
Published: November 2019

A través de los datos registrados en la Contaduría de Filipinas del Archivo General de Indias, se analiza la evolución del comercio de productos japoneses enviados a Manila en la fase final del periodo Namban, llegando a la conclusión de que aún hasta 1634 importantes cantidades de productos procedentes de Japón llegaban a Manila. Asimismo, mediante el análisis de los impuestos pagados por los japoneses cristianos residentes en Filipinas, se revelan los barrios en los que se asentaron los japoneses exiliados después de 1614 aparte del ya conocido barrio Dilao.
‘Estiu Japó 86’ cerámica japonesa contemporánea. Un intercambio artístico entre España y Japón
Authors: Rodríguez Cunchillos Alejandra
Published: November 2019

La presente comunicación tiene como objetivo analizar el encuentro ‘Estiu Japó 86’, producido en el verano de 1986 en el municipio de Olot, en la provincia de Gerona, entre artistas ceramistas, principalmente españoles y japoneses. Este evento fue organizado por la Cooperativa de Ceramistas Coure, constituida en el año 1979 en Olot. Desde su fundación, esta agrupación comenzó a organizar cursos de verano, en los que se invitaban anualmente a artistas para que dieran a conocer sus trabajos, sus tendencias, los diferentes modos de crear e interpretar la cerámica.

Es en este contexto, donde la Cooperativa de Ceramistas Coure llevó a cabo el curso de verano ‘Estiu Japó 86’, al que invitó a participar a varios artistas nipones reconocidos como: Yanagihara Mutsuo, Morino Hiroaki Taimei, Rikichi Miyanaga, Satoru Hoshino, Koie Ryoji, Mishima Kimiyo y Takako Araki. El encuentro permitió establecer relaciones bilaterales entre estas dos culturas en torno a esta manifestación artística, la cerámica. Dio lugar a un intercambio artístico entre los asistentes y cambió la idea preestablecida que hasta ese momento se tenía de la cerámica contemporánea japonesa en nuestro país.

En la actualidad, las piezas creadas en el ‘Estiu Japó 86’ se localizan en el Museo de la Garrotxa de Olot. Asimismo, queremos poner en valor esta colección de cerámica, la cual destaca por su singularidad dentro de los conjuntos de arte contemporáneo japonés en España.
Las relaciones diplomáticas hispano-japonesas en el marco del conflicto rusojaponés (1904-1905)
Authors: Bartolomé Sopena Rubén
Published: November 2019

La guerra contra Rusia y su resultado marcan un antes y un después en las relaciones diplomáticas y comerciales de Japón con una parte importante de los estados del mundo. El presente trabajo estudia las relaciones diplomáticas entre España y Japón a lo largo del conflicto que mantuvo el segundo con Rusia y en los momentos posteriores al final de la contienda. El objetivo es averiguar si se produjeron cambios en los vínculos entre ambos países a raíz de la guerra rusojaponesa y la victoria nipona y, en caso de producirse variaciones en dicha relación, en qué consistieron.
Tres cuentos en el inicio del intercambio España-Japón
Authors: Takagi Takanashi Kayoko
Published: November 2019

Juan Valera, uno de los escritores más destacados de la literatura española del siglo XIX, tradujo y publicó dos cuentos japoneses en 1887: El Pescadorcito Urashima (浦島太郎) y El espejo de Matsuyama (松山鏡), dos cuentos sobradamente conocidos en Japón. Si Urashima Tarō tiene su antecedente ya en Nihonshoki, Matsuyama kagami es de origen budista y pasó a Japón convirtiéndose en un cuento popular de la región de Echigo (actual prefectura de Niigata). Del último, existen versiones en el teatro noh, kyōgen, y rakugo. Por otro lado, el cuento del Ratón Pérez del que ningún niño español podría ser ignorante, se publicó en 1911 en España y se tradujo al japonés en 1953 por la editorial Iwanami. El desfase temporal que separa estas publicaciones indica varios factores históricos que atravesaron los dos países durante este período. Aunque se trata de un campo poco reconocido hasta ahora, hemos de admitir el hecho de que el poder de comunicación de la literatura infantil es altamente significativo cuando hablamos de la cognición temprana de imágenes del mundo. Este trabajo estudiará los elementos que han inspirado a Valera para realizar la traducción de dichos cuentos al español al igual que el caso del cuento español en el terreno japonés. Al mismo tiempo observaremos la recepción y la valoración de estas publicaciones en ambos países.
El certificado de pareja del mismo sexo en Japón: análisis sociopolítico de los principales factores tras su aprobación regional e impedimentos para su establecimiento a nivel nacional
Authors: Labat de Hoz Carla
Published: November 2019

Establecidos por primera vez en 2015 en los distritos de Shibuya y Setagaya (Tokio), los certificados de pareja del mismo sexo son la primera muestra de reconocimiento legal de los derechos de la comunidad LGBT en Japón. En este artículo se realiza un análisis de los principales factores sociopolíticos que han posibilitado la aprobación de los certificados en diversas regiones del país, así como de los impedimentos existentes para su establecimiento a nivel nacional. La emisión local de los certificados se debe en gran medida al interés económico y político de ciertos sectores de la población japonesa y no a una demanda social real, pues apenas se ha producido el desarrollo de un activismo ideológico LGBT en el país. Por ello, su establecimiento a nivel nacional resulta poco probable en un futuro inmediato. No obstante, los certificados suponen un importante avance en el reconocimiento de los derechos de las minorías sexuales en Japón.
Langston Hughes and Amiri Baraka: An Annotated Discography
Authors: Marcoux Jean-Philippe , New Michael
Published: November 2019

The goal for this annotated discography project is to (re-)introduce readers to the breadth and diversity of their engagement with audio technology as a crucial dimension of Hughes and Baraka’s literary output. Such recordings, we contend, use technology as a politically charged medium that disrupts distinctions between orality and literacy, challenge the privileged status of the visual in Western culture, and transform the material texts of black poetry. Engaging with multimedia forms allows the artists to resist historical constraints on black literacy and broaden their literary audience.
Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure with Intravenous Nitroglycerin in Three Dogs with Degenerative Valvular Disease
Authors: Achiel Ron , Carver Andy , Sanders Robert A.
Published: November 2019

We described the use of IV nitroglycerin as adjunctive therapy in three canine patients with left congestive heart failure secondary to degenerative mitral valve disease. All three dogs were admitted for signs of respiratory distress and all were determined to be in left congestive heart failure by history, exam findings, thoracic radiographs, and echocardiography. In addition to standard therapy for left congestive heart failure, IV nitroglycerin was administered as a constant rate infusion at a dose of 1–6 mcg/kg/min. No adverse events attributable to the drug were noted. This is the first reported use of IV nitroglycerin in clinical veterinary patients. Further studies are warranted to investigate the safety, efficacy, and optimal dosing of IV nitroglycerin infusions in dogs with left congestive heart failure.
Sobre el fundamento práctico de la pena en Immanuel Kant
Authors: Herszenbaun Miguel
Published: November 2019

La teoría de la pena ideada por Kant suele ser estudiada sin consideración del marco filosófico que le da sentido y fundamentación. La intención del presente trabajo es explicitar la fundamentación teórico-filosófica que sostiene a dicha teoría de la pena. Me propongo exhibir cómo Kant deriva el carácter categórico de la ley penal a partir del principio del Derecho y del imperativo categórico. Esta fundamentación teórica del carácter categórico de la pena se sostendrá en tanto podamos comprender en qué sentido y por qué la razón es capaz de imponerse a sí misma principios categóricos de acción, es decir, deberes.
Perceptions and Attitudes towards Sustainable Development among Malaysian Undergraduates
Authors: Balakrishnan Balamuralithara , Tochinai Fumihiko , Kanemitsu Hidekazu
Published: November 2019

This paper reports the findings of the perceptions and attitudes towards sustainable development among Malaysian undergraduates. The study was carried out involving 154 undergraduates from five universities in Malaysia. This research was conducted based on a survey whereby the respondents were given a questionnaire to gauge their perception and attitude towards sustainable development. The output of the analyses showed that the respondents have positive perceptions and attitudes towards all sustainability dimensions—environmental, economic, and social—except for economic and social bound issues. These findings suggest that the educators who are involved in sustainable development education need to focus on economic and social bound aspects. Overall, the findings showed that the sustainable development education in higher education institutions has cultivated an appropriate sense of responsibility towards sustainability among their undergraduate students. As such, this investigation serves as a cornerstone to which the current paradigm of sustainable development education can be examined for further improvement by related stakeholders.
CIPP Model Evaluation of the 2013 Curriculum Implementation Training Program in Jakarta – Indonesia (Case Study: Islamic Educational Supervisor)
Authors: Sofyan Zulfakhri , Sujanto Bedjo , Luddin Muchlis R.
Published: November 2019

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Implementation of the 2013 curriculum training program for Islamic Educational Supervisors and to measure their capacity in terms of 2013 curriculum competency using the CIPP model of evaluation.

The importance of improving the competency of Educational Supervisor through Implementation training program of 2013 curricula, because they hold a very significant and strategic role in improving the quality teaching of Islamic Educational teachers (Guru PAI), acted as educational supervisor, counselor, and motivator.

This article would like to answer several questions; how the Implementation of Curriculum 2013 training was able to boost the Islamic Educational Supervisor Competency in terms of their academic ability. The paper aims to discuss the issue of Islamic Supervisor in terms of curriculum 2013 competency.
Discriminant Analysis and Firms’ Bankruptcy: Evidence from European SMEs
Authors: Bussoli Candida , Cuoccio Mariateresa , Giannotti Claudio
Published: November 2019

Using two research methodologies - the Altman’s z-score discriminant analysis, in the revised version referring to non-listed firms, and the Bayesian approach Diagnostic Distribution - the paper investigates the possibility of discriminating between healthy and bankrupt European SMEs based on financial statements and using a Bayesian discriminant model inspired by Altman’s model. It also aims to verify whether the geographic location of European SMEs influences the ability to discriminate between healthy versus bankrupt firms. The work finds a significant homogeneity regarding the capability of the new discriminant models to classify healthy and bankrupt SMEs within the Euro Area and in different geographic locations. The empirical observations confirm that financial statements are a relevant channel by which SMEs communicate information to the financial system, even if they cannot provide all the information that allows for healthy and bankrupt SMEs to be distinguished.
The Implications of Global English for Language Endangerment and Linguistic Identity: The Case of Arabic in the GCC States
Authors: Alzaben Naser M. N. , Omar Abdulfattah , Kassem Mohamed Ali Mohamed
Published: November 2019

Numerous sociolinguistic studies have been concerned with investigating the factors that pose challenges to the position of Arabic in the Arab Gulf countries including the demographic structure, migrant labor, bilingual education, and the unique diaglossic nature of Arabic. However, thus far, there has been no conceptual framework for addressing the implications of the increasing use of English for the position and future of Arabic in these countries. A number of studies concluded that English has superseded Gulf Arabic and dominated the linguistic identity of its native speakers without providing empirical evidence for such claims. In the face of this limitation, this study adopts a sociolinguistic framework using language planning and language policy (LPP) methods in order to investigate the effects and implications of the use of English as a global language and lingua franca in the Arab Gulf states and propose workable, reliable and effective language policies that can help in maintaining Arabic as the first language in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states and addressing problems of language endangerment and death. Results indicate that the disappearance of a language and the loss of its status cannot be solely attributed to the widespread of global English. Global English, on the contrary, should not be considered as a threat to the linguistic and national identity in the GCC countries. The real threat that Arabic faces is the failure to meet the increasing needs of its users and speakers which has its implications for the status and future of Arabic. It is suggested then that more descriptive approaches should be adopted in the analysis and teaching of Arabic. Linguistic changes of Arabic should be considered inevitable and not be resisted in order for Arabic to address the changing needs of its users. Arabic should also be more involved in today’s globalised world. Finally, the sense of linguistic identity should be promoted among citizens and students.
Linguistic Representation of Power in Edward Bond’s Lear: A Lexico-Pragmatic Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis
Authors: Khafaga Ayman F.
Published: November 2019

This paper investigates the linguistic representation of power in Edward Bond’s Lear (1978). More specifically, the paper tries to explore the extent to which power is linguistically represented manipulatively and/or persuasively by means of specific lexical and pragmatic devices in the discourse of the selected play. The main objective of the paper is to explore how power relations, irrespective of their type, influence the cognitive world of the discourse participants, which in turn attempts a change in their conversational behavior to the extent that allows the acceptance of a specific argument in a particular way. The paper adopts a lexico-pragmatic perspective to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), instanced by Fairclough’s (1989) lexical model for the analysis of discourse, and the concepts of politeness and face (Thomas, 1995; Yule, 1996a). The main research question of the paper is: to what extent do different power relations, encoded lexically and/or pragmatically, affect the conversational behavior of the play’s characters, persuasively and/or manipulatively? Some lexical and pragmatic strategies have been highlighted and then linguistically analyzed to expose their effectiveness in deciphering persuasive and manipulative power relations in the selected play. Among these strategies are: euphemism, myth-making, positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation, and politeness strategies. The paper concludes that power has linguistically been encoded in the discourse of the selected play, both persuasively and manipulatively, to affect a cognitive shift in behavior reflected in the conversational interaction among characters.
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Mind Control Strategies in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
Authors: Abdu Khalid S. T. , Khafaga Ayman F.
Published: November 2019

This paper attempts a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of mind control strategies in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948). More specifically, the paper tries to shed lights on the discursive practices that are used to control the public’s minds in a way that guarantees complete compliance to a specific ideology. Orwell’s novel is one of the distinguished narratives in the twentieth century. This type of fiction has always been a site of power conflict reflecting the atrocities committed against the public by those in power. The main objective of the paper is to uncover the strategies employed to control minds. It tries to explore the extent to which these discursive tactics are used to direct attitudes and change behavior. The paper therefore attempts to offer a linguistic shield against the manipulative use of language. In doing so, the paper adopts CDA in the analysis of the selected data. Some CDA’s strategies have been marked and analyzed as indicative in exposing the extent to which language is biased towards mind control. Three main strategies are discussed here: simplification, euphemism and morphologicalization. The paper reveals that specific discursive practices have manipulatively been used by the elites to reformulate the ideological responses and attitudinal thinking of the masses.
Exploring Edward Said’s Journalistic Collocations in Al-Ahram Weekly Newspaper: A Corpus-Based Approach
Authors: Salama Amir H. Y. , Altohami Waheed M. A.
Published: November 2019

This paper explores Edward Said’s journalistic collocations as a discursive practice of the social actors that Said frequently referred to in Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper. Towards this end, a corpus-based approach has been utilized in a methodological synergy that combines the corpus techniques of extracting keywords and calculating collocations as well as the qualitative method of analysing social-actor representations (Van Leeuwen, 1996, 2008). The data used for analysis comprise a corpus of virtually all the articles written by Said in Al-Ahram Weekly from 1998 till 2003. The corpus is 105,031words and has been electronically manipulated by the corpus software tools of Wmatrix (Rayson, 2003) and WordSmith (Scott, 2012). The paper has reached three findings. First, Said’s journalistic discourse in Al-Ahram Weekly revolves around 38 social-actor keywords that reflect his thematic foci all through the time span he was writing articles for the newspaper. Second, of all these keywords, only twelve node words have been identified to associate with peculiar collocates; the node words were divided into (1) nominations of political personas and (2) genericizations with various discourse functions. Third, Said’s peculiar collocations reflected his ideological orientations towards certain political personas and specific topics in his journalistic discourse.
Het individueel klachtrecht bij het VN-comité voor de rechten van mensen met een beperking
Authors: Stolk J.R.E.
Published: November 2019

Het individueel klachtrecht bij het VN-comité voor de rechten van mensen met een beperking

Nederland heeft het Facultatief Protocol bij het VN-verdrag Handicap niet geratificeerd. Drie jaar na de inwerkingtreding van het VN-verdrag Handicap in Nederland neemt de roep om het protocol te ratificeren toe. Ratificatie van het protocol maakt namelijk individueel klachtrecht mogelijk bij het VN-comité. Dit artikel zal ingaan op de vraag wat dit individueel klachtrecht precies betekent en waarom de uitspraken van het Comité ook nu al relevant zijn.
Reseña: Narrativas literarias en educación infantil y primaria, por Teresa Colomer, Mireia Manresa, Lucas Ramada Prieto y Lara Reyes López
Authors: Fernández de Gamboa Vázquez Karla
Published: November 2019

Reseña de Narrativas literarias en educación infantil y primaria, por Teresa Colomer, Mireia Manresa, Lucas Ramada Prieto y Lara Reyes López.
La selección de obras para la investigación en LIJ digital: de la teoría a la recepción
Authors: Ramada Prieto Lucas , Turrión Penelas Celia
Published: November 2019

La ficción digital forma parte central en el consumo cultural de niños y adolescentes, y sin embargo la mediación a partir de obras digitales es aún escasa en el ámbito escolar. Este artículo reflexiona sobra la práctica de selección de obras de literatura digital para la formación de lectores infantiles y juveniles en el marco del actual proyecto de investigación del grupo GRETEL (UAB): “Enseñar a leer literatura digital”. El texto describe las decisiones adoptadas y los obstáculos salvados en relación al proceso de selección de obras de ficción digital infantil a partir de tres ejes: la extracción de datos sobre las estrategias de lectura, la formación con los niños a partir de esos datos y el posterior análisis de la evolución de sus competencias. El ensayo presenta y analiza las obras empleadas y propone estrategias que permitan sortear los principales problemas de la investigación en este ámbito.
La didactique de la littérature : réflexions sur le champ. Un entretien avec Yves Reuter / La didáctica de la literatura: reflexiones sobre el campo. Una entrevista con Yves Reuter
Authors: Munita Felipe
Published: November 2019

Una entrevista con Yves Reuter.
Sarkazm i pobłażliwość
Authors: Kącka Eliza
Published: November 2019

In the text Sarcasm and Indulgence, there is an analysis of human relations in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. The marriage as a fact – and the space for a social game – is here one of the examples of modelling of the connections and their linguistic representation. The gossip is attached to the structure of the novel, in which it penetrates the hidden. The work of Austen refers to two modes of talking, two styles: the private talk and the officialornamental talk. The model of the novel of the author of Sense and Sensibility has been compared here with the one of Stendhal.
Testy rzeczywistości. Narracje o zbrodniach w powieściach Jane Austen
Authors: Karlińska Agnieszka
Published: November 2019

The aim of the article is the consideration of the way in which Jane Austen asks in her novels about the status of reality. The subject of the interest are the narrations about “crime” understood as the events breaching the normal social experience and revealing how fragile the reality is. The significant context of the consideration is the classical detective literature. The author proves that the work of Jane Austen can be characterized by the similar reflection on societies in which the project of social reality is entangled. Referring to the conception of Luc Boltanski, she shows that, in the novels of the British writer, crime is a form of “reality testing”. Austen casts in doubt the frames of reality and reveals the conventional dimension of the social life. Her purpose, however, is not to disclose the social world – she sees the possibility of its integration.
Okładki polskich wydań utworów Jane Austen po 1989 roku
Authors: Koziołkiewicz Elżbieta
Published: November 2019

The graphic designs proposed by Polish publishers cannot be compared neither in number, nor in diversity to those presented by Margaret C. Sullivan in Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers. Nevertheless, they are a valuable and still undiscussed source of knowledge on the Polish reception of Austen’s novels. Further information on this subject is provided in the first part of the paper by a compilation of book series in which some or all of the texts by Austen have appeared since the 1990s. The analysis of the book covers takes into consideration the relation between the design and the content of the narrative as well as the character of the artwork and its origin. The most popular were 19th century paintings (portraits, genre scenes, less frequently landscapes), film stills from the movie adaptations and floral patterns. As one of the aims of the study was to answer the question how the covers direct the reading process and place the text in the literary tradition, the remarks on the publishers’ choices were supplemented with the readers’ reviews. In the conclusion, it was suggested how the potential, new editions could be designed to stand out from the former ones.
Drugie życie Dumy i uprzedzenia. Tennant – Austen
Authors: Budrewicz Aleksandra
Published: November 2019

The article is a comparative study of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and the contemporary novel by Emma Tennant Pemberley, which is a continuation of the story of Austen’s characters. Tennant enriched the description of certain protagonists of Sense and Sensibility; for example, the new information about Elizabeth come from the sources which are connected to the biography of Austen herself (letters, memoirs). The theoretical background of the paper is based on research of A. Fulińska, A. Stoff etc.
Współczesna (re)interpretacja powieści Jane Austen – o poszukiwaniu wolności
Authors: Włodzyńska Ewelina
Published: November 2019

Contemporary (Re)interpretation of Jane Austen’s Novels – about Looking for Freedom is a comparative study of the works of the author of Sense and Sensibility and the British series Taboo. As the main aim of paper the author took the search for analogies in these, far and totally different, as it may seems, texts of culture. Naming after Carrie Vaughn the works of Miss Austen as the “universe mirrors”, the author drew the attention to the modern “reflections” of Austen’s characters (anti-heroes, look-alikes) and today’s reinterpretation of the 19th century. For the palimpsest reading of the Austen’s novel she used the tools of the feminist criticism and the postcolonial theory. It allowed her to observe the femininemasculine relations, the relations based on a master-servant pattern, and, at the end, to analyse the political, social, cultural image of the coloniser and the colonised, which has been made by the colonial regime at that time. The author of the article put these two discourses together in order to prove that the rights of the 19th century wife were limited to those of a slave from the Dark Continent.
Strategic Litigation – oder:Was man mit der Dritten Gewalt sonst noch so anfangen kann
Authors: Graser Alexander
Published: November 2019

Ausgehend von dem zwar unpräzisen, aber etablierten Begriff der Strategic Litigation beschreibt und reflektiert der Beitrag das entsprechende Phänomen und seine aktuelle Entwicklung in Deutschland aus einer die juristischen Teildisziplinen übergreifenden Perspektive. Er rezipiert dafür aus der internationalen Literatur, fokussiert aber auf die hiesige Praxis der Strategic Litigation, der er eine zunehmende Verbreitung, Bündelung und Professionalisierung attestiert. Zugleich werden Zielsetzungen, Deutungen und soziale Kontexte dieser Praxis behandelt, frühe und verwandte Erscheinungsformen identifiziert und auf diese Weise auch das Begriffsverständnis konturiert. Der Beitrag geht auf die noch wenig durchdrungenen Fragen der praktischen Wirksamkeit und Legitimität von Strategic Litigation ein und skizziert im Anschluss daran, wie sich diese Praxis rechtlich beeinflussen lässt. Nach einem Blick auf künftige Herausforderungen und mögliche Entwicklungslinien schließt der Beitrag mit einem Appell zu einer breiteren rechtswissenschaftlichen Befassung mit dem Thema.
Die Renaissance des »Menschlichen« im Kulturwandel
Authors: Kleve Heiko
Published: November 2019

Systemisches Coaching unterstützt Organisationen dabei, ihre Kultur, also die alltägliche Art und Weise des personellen Zusammenarbeitens so zu gestalten, dass die Rationalisierung von Arbeitsprozessen besser gelingt, und zwar durch die Integration des Psychosozialen, Emotionalen und Elementaren. Mitarbeiter/innen können in der komplexer werdenden Arbeitswelt ihre Potentiale erst dann vollends entfalten, wenn sie in die Lage versetzt werden, nicht nur die formalen Organisationsprozesse zu reflektieren. Sie müssen zudem Kompetenzen erwerben, weiter entwickeln und umsetzen, um auch die in allen sozialen Systemen sich vollziehenden, latent wirkenden emotionalen, psychosozialen und elementaren Dynamiken ihres gemeinsamen Arbeitens anzusprechen und passend zu verhandeln. Welche konzeptionellen Überlegungen sowie systemtheoretischen Beschreibungen und Erklärungen mit einem Coaching-Ansatz einhergehen, der die Implementierung solcher Kompetenzen befördert, ist das Thema des vorliegenden Beitrags.
Why Not lie?
Authors: Slade Christina
Published: November 2019

This paper proposes that we should aim to refine talk about issues in soap opera as a means of developing moral reasoning skills. I begin with a report of work at schools in New Jersey over 1996-97, during which excerpts of a popular soap opera, 'Party of Five,' were used as the basis of a rigorous philosophical discussion of moral behavior. I then turn to the distinctive role of soap opera as a locus of moral discussion, with an example of a Mexicana telenovela. I suggest that children are already engaged in moral debate about soap operas and are eager to develop a more rigorous critical framework for the debate. I argue that children appreciate the opportunity to flesh out the school yard gossip about soap operas with a philosophically sophisticated discussion. My approach draws on the work of Matthew Lipman in philosophy for children, Neil Postman's critique of television, and David Buckingham's analysis of children's responses to television.
Ethical Education Through Philosophical Discussion
Authors: Vicuña Navarro Ana María
Published: November 2019

This paper addresses the problem of educating for democracy in Chile and other places where human rights have been violated. Based on a research project conducted about the ethical foundations of human rights, I maintain that ethical education must be an indispensable ingredient of an education for democracy. I argue that an effective ethical education requires both an appropriate setting for the fostering of an open and tolerant discussion, and adequate guidance from the teacher for the understanding of complex ethical problems. As the ideal setting for it, I propose the creation of a ‘Community of Inquiry’ as it is understood and practised by the Philosophy for Children Program created by Matthew Lipman. As the basis both for identifying the main problems and for the training of the teachers, I build on Ernst Tugendhat’s ethical theories. The most significant consequence for ethical education derived from Tugendhat is the inclusion of a discussion of the problem of the foundation of ethics in order to avoid ethical relativism resting on the individual’s personal decision to belong to a moral community. To this the child should be invited through philosophical dialogue in a community of inquiry.
The Role of Mental Variation in Cognitive Science
Authors: Kujundzic Neb
Published: November 2019

What is the role of mental variation in cognitive science? I will attempt to answer this question by dividing it into two separate questions: (1) what role does mental variation already (or implicitly) play in cognitive science? and (2) would cognitive science benefit by inquiring (explicitly) into the role of mental variation? I will attempt to show that mental variation already plays an important (though not always explicit) role in cognitive science. Additionally, I will suggest that explicating the role of mental variations in cognition may be seen as a vital component of maintaining the strength of certain approaches and "schools" of cognitive science.
Cognitive Turn and Linguistic Turn
Authors: Roy Jean-Michel
Published: November 2019

My first goal is to question a received view about the development of Analytical Philosophy. According to this received view Analytical Philosophy is born out of a Linguistic Turn establishing the study of language as the foundation of the discipline; this primacy of language is then overthrown by the return of the study of mind as philosophia prima through a second Cognitive Turn taken in the mid-sixties. My contention is that this picture is a gross oversimplification and that the Cognitive Turn should better be seen as an extension of the Linguistic one. Indeed, if the Cognitive Turn gives explicit logical priority to the study of mind over the study of language, one of its central features is to see the mind as a representational system offering no substantial difference with a linguistic one. However, no justification is offered for the fundamental assimilation of the nature of a mental representation with that of a linguistic symbol supporting this picture of the mind, although the idea that a system of mental representations is identical in structure with a system of linguistic symbols has been argued over and over. I try to demonstrate this point through a close critical examination of Fodor's paradigmatic notion of 'double reduction.' My second claim is that the widespread contemporary assimilation of a mental representation with a symbol of a linguistic kind is no more than a prejudice. Finally I indicate that this prejudice cannot survive a rigorous critical examination.