bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Contribuição dos estudos de caso e da pesquisa indiciária para a história do espetáculo: o lundu que Maria Baderna teria dançado em Recife
Authors: Rabetti Maria De Lourdes , Alcure Adriana Schneider
Published: September 2015

Este texto é focado no lundu dançado no Brasil pela bailarina italiana Maria Baderna. É resultado de um estudo de caso desenvolvido por meio de pesquisa indiciária. Elegeu-se o Lundu d’Amarroá, que Baderna dançou em 1851 no Teatro Santa Isabel de Recife. A pesquisa de indícios se situou no cruzamento de dois eixos fundamentais: a análise de dados encontrados em fontes documentais jornalísticas e a análise de descrições elaboradas por biógrafos, cronistas e estudiosos. A hipótese é a de que o teatro do século XIX no Brasil constitui-se de fortes bases musicais, transborda teatralidade e atrita com barreiras de gênero. O objetivo deste estudo é contribuir para a verificação dos interesses e das possibilidades abertas pelos estudos históricos em teatro, já que certas persistências ou questões significativas engendradas por experiências cênicas passadas podem interessar ao teatro contemporâneo. 
Classification and Generation of Composer-Specific Music Using Global Feature Models and Variable Neighborhood Search
Authors: Herremans Dorien , Sörensen Kenneth , Martens David
Published: September 2015

In this article a number of musical features are extracted from a large musical database and these were subsequently used to build four composer-classification models. The first two models, an if–then rule set and a decision tree, result in an understanding of stylistic differences between Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven. The other two models, a logistic regression model and a support vector machine classifier, are more accurate. The probability of a piece being composed by a certain composer given by the logistic regression model is integrated into the objective function of a previously developed variable neighborhood search algorithm that can generate counterpoint. The result is a system that can generate an endless stream of contrapuntal music with composer-specific characteristics that sounds pleasing to the ear. This system is implemented as an Android app called FuX.
A Gemstone of Many Complexions
Authors: Janssen Niek
Published: September 2015

The Orphic Lithica is often considered an incoherent hodge-podge of teachings on magical stones. This paper, however, argues that the polyphony of voices (human, semi-divine, and divine), as well as the amalgam of various subtypes of the hexametric super-genre (didactic epic, narrative epic, bucolic, hymn, oracle), contribute to the ultimate goal of the Lithica: to overwhelm the reader with authorities for the hermetic truth that the poem preaches. The poem further accomplishes this by appealing to the poetic tradition, so as to make the subject matter more recognizable and enjoyable to the audience.
Behavioural changes in mothers and maternally sensitised female mice
Authors: Szabó Éva R. , Cservenák Melinda , Lutz Thomas A. , Gévai Lőrinc , Endrényi Miklós , Simon László , Dobolyi Árpád
Published: September 2015

The maternal motivation and depression-like behaviour of primiparous mother and maternally sensitised virgin female mice were investigated. During a 1-h test period, dams and sensitised female mice spent significantly more time in pup-associated than in control cages when they could freely choose between them, while virgin control and ovariectomised females had no such preference. In the forced swim test, the time spent in active (swimming and struggling) and passive (floating) behaviours was measured for 6 min. Mother mice spent more time engaged in active behaviours than virgin and sensitised female mice, while the latter two groups did not differ from each other in the forced swim test. The results suggest that maternal motivation is increased in postpartum mothers and maternally sensitised female mice. We also provide the first demonstration that postpartum mother mice display anti-depression-like behaviours in the forced swim test, while maternally sensitised females do not show such emotional changes.
Liquid sand burrowing and mucus utilisation as novel adaptations to a structurally-simple environment in Octopus kaurna Stranks, 1990
Authors: Montana Jasper , Finn Julian K. , Norman Mark D.
Published: September 2015

Cephalopods are often celebrated as masters of camouflage, but their exploitation of the soft-sediment habitats that dominate the ocean floor has demanded other anti-predator strategies. Previous research has identified a small number of cephalopods capable of burying into sand and mud, but the need to directly access the water column for respiration has restricted them to superficial burying. Here, we report on the first known sub-surface burrowing in the cephalopods, byOctopus kaurna, a small benthic species that uses advanced sand-fluidisation and adhesive mucus for sediment manipulation. This burrowing strategy appears linked to easily fluidised sediments as shown in experimental trials in three size-grades of sediment. While the selective pressures that drove evolution of this behaviour are unknown, its identification enriches our understanding of the possible life-history traits and functional role of mucus in other benthic octopus species living in soft-sediment environments.
An aberrant nematode, Baldwinema n. gen. (Nematoda: Panagrolaimomorpha: Panagrolaimidae), from Iran with description of three new species
Authors: Atighi Mohammad Reza , Pourjam Ebrahim , Bert Wim , Pedram Majid , Ghaemi Razieh , Panahandeh Yousef
Published: September 2015

A new genus of Panagrolaimidae, together with three new species, is proposed based on morphological, morphometric and molecular studies. Baldwinema n. gen. is unique in the Tylenchina by a combination of the following characters: having valvular median bulb, no valve in terminal pharyngeal bulb and absence of stylet. It is further characterised by cylindrical body, thin and finely annulated cuticle, lateral field with two lines (forming a single plain band), fused lips, small longitudinal amphidial openings located on lateral lips, lip region without labial probolae, with six inner and six outer labial and four cephalic papillae (as seen using SEM images), stoma aberrant, cheilostom and gymnostom of equal length, cheilostom with thin wall, gymnostom with clear and thick wall, and stegostom beginning with a tubular thin wall and ending with a thicker wall. Baldwinema ilamense n. gen., n. sp., the type, is characterised by its short post-vulval uterine sac of 7.7 (6.0-9.0) μm long, female tail length of 147 (120-175) μm, shape of gubernaculum, and arrangement of male genital papillae; B. ardabilense n. gen., n. sp. by its short post-vulval uterine sac of 11.5 (9.0-15.0) μm, female tail length of 150 (136-169) μm, shape of gubernaculum, and arrangement of male genital papillae; and B. golestanense n. gen., n. sp. by its long post-vulval uterine sac of 16 (13-21) μm, female tail length of 200 (174-220) μm, shape of gubernaculum, and arrangement of male genital papillae. Phylogenetic analyses based on sequences of the small subunit (SSU) ribosomal RNA gene showed that the new genus is nested within the Panagrolaimidae. However, LSU data did not demonstrate monophyly of the Panagrolaimidae.
Calculating December 25 as the Birth of Jesus in Hippolytus’ Canon and Chronicon
Authors: Schmidt Thomas C.
Published: September 2015

This article argues that around 235 ce Hippolytus of Rome placed the birth of Jesus on December 25. While this has been theorized in the past, this article brings forward hitherto unheralded evidence about Jesus’ birth from Hippolytus’ Canon and his Chronicon. First, the Canon marks the Passover as the γένεσις of Jesus, a word which scholars have previously thought refers to birth. This article however uses evidence from an extensive word study to show that the term most likely refers to conception, which would then place the birth of Jesus sometime in late fall or early winter. Secondly, the article shows that in his Chronicon Hippolytus placed Jesus’ birth exactly nine months after the anniversary of the world’s creation. Calculations in his Chronicon and Canon indicate that Hippolytus thought the world was created on March 25, meaning that he likely believed that Jesus was born on December 25.
The Fall of the Soul in Book Two of Augustine’s Confessions
Authors: Stróżyński Mateusz
Published: September 2015

The purpose of the paper is to show a mutual interaction of Platonic and Christian ideas in the pear theft narrative from Book Two of the Confessions. Augustine is provocatively questioning the Platonic theory of good, evil, and love by suggesting that in the theft he loved evil itself. He is considering three possible explanations, but is not fully content with any of them. Not having any better theory than the Platonic one, Augustine is suggesting that moral evil is completely beyond understanding. What is new in Augustine’s provocative analysis is placing the irrationality and incomprehensibility of moral evil in the context of the “I-Thou” relationship of the soul with God.
Sexually dimorphic gene expression patterns during gonadal differentiation in olive flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus
Authors: Wen Aiyun , You Feng , Sun Peng , Li Jun , Xu Dongdong , Wu Zhihao , Ma Deyou , Zou Yuxia , Tan Xungang , Fan Zhaofei , Zhang Peijun
Published: September 2015

The present study aims to elucidate the different expression patterns and possible roles of Doublesex and Mab-3-related transcription factor 1 (dmrt1), dmrt4, SRY-related transcription factor 9 (sox9) and cytochrome P450 aromatase 19a (cyp19a) during gonadal differentiation in olive flounder, Paralichthys olivaceus. We first analyzed the gene expression patterns in tissues using RT-PCR, which indicated dmrt1, sox9 and cyp19a were sex-related genes with sexual dimorphic expression. The quantitative expression changes of these three genes together with dmrt4 during gonadal differentiation were further examined using real-time RT-PCR. The results showed that dmrt1 was scarcely expressed in the primitive gonad and during following periods of gonadal differentiation. Its expression increased rapidly in the differentiating testis. Dmrt4 was strongly expressed in primitive gonads and much less expressed during following periods of gonadal differentiation. Its expression became strong in differentiating testes. While sox9 was highly expressed in the primitive gonad, it was expressed with fluctuations during following periods of gonadal differentiation. Cyp19a started expressing in primitive gonads, and its expression quantity fluctuated during latter periods of gonadal differentiation, but was strongly expressed in the early stage of differentiating ovaries. Results of in situ hybridization showed that dmrt4 and sox9 transcripts were both mainly localized in spermatocytes and our results suggested these four sex-related genes might be involved in gonadal differentiation through their synergistic effects in flounder.
The Story of a Budapest Garden
Authors: Toronyi Zsuzsanna
Published: September 2015

The barely one-thousand-square meter garden next to the Dohány Street synagogue, enclosed by a row of arcades, is a symbolic place in the history of the Hungarian Jewry. The site became a public space in 1896 when the house two down from the synagogue (where Theodor Herzl was born) was demolished during the re-planning of the city. The development of the plot only started after World War I, when the Heroes’ synagogue, intended as a memorial to Jewish soldiers, and the park were built. At the end of World War II, the buildings and the garden became part of the Budapest ghetto. When the ghetto was liberated, the dead bodies of thousands of Jews were found in the streets. 2283 of these were buried in the garden, and are still there. The article examines the story of the cemetery-garden, and its uses as a memorial place.
Sensitivity, Reflective Knowledge, and Skepticism
Authors: Immerman Daniel
Published: September 2015

Michael Huemer, Ernest Sosa, and Jonathan Vogel have offered a critique of the sensitivity condition on knowledge. According to them, the condition implies that you cannot know of any particular proposition that you do not falsely believe it. Their arguments rest on the claim that you cannot sensitively believe of any particular proposition that you do not falsely believe it. However, as we shall see, these philosophers are mistaken. You can do so. That said, these philosophers were close to the mark. There are some related propositions that you cannot believe sensitively. These propositions are interesting in another respect: they can be used to construct a new skeptical argument that is superior in some respects to a more traditional skeptical argument. This new skeptical argument also reveals insights about the relationship between internalism, externalism, and skepticism.
Degrees of Irregular Change
Authors: Cathcart Chundra Aroor
Published: September 2015

This paper employs a quantitative model of irregular sound change to investigate whether West Iranian languages have developed formally similar functional items via parallelism or via contact. I analyze etymologically related functional items in two Middle and eight New West Iranian languages, comparing observed forms to expected outcomes of these forms on the basis of purely regular sound change. A quantitative model is used to measure the distance between the observed and expected forms across West Iranian, particularly with respect to New Persian. I find that, while most New West Iranian languages undergo roughly the same amount of irregular reduction, Balochi, a language with conservative historical phonology, shows significantly more irregular phonological reduction than New Persian in its functional vocabulary. Given this result, it is plausible that the similarity in functional items seen across West Iranian is due to New Persian influence, though this contact may not be quantitatively detectable in all cases.
The Mélange of Innovation and Tradition in Maltese Law: The Essence of the Maltese Mix?
Authors: Andò B.
Published: September 2015

The aim of this paper is to provide valuable insights into the Maltese legal system with a special focus on private law. The assumption is that this legal system is the by-product of the “mixing” of innovation and tradition, resulting from the interaction of English law and continental law. A major role in the development of the system is played by courts. Some examples (moral damages and pre-contractual liability) are considered which highlight the importance of the function displayed by Maltese judges.
Pure or Mixed? The Evolution of Three Grounds of Judicial Review of the Administration in British and Israeli Administrative Law
Authors: Cohn Margit
Published: September 2015

This article challenges common understandings about the distinct features of the so-called “mixed jurisdictions”. One of the main features found in this group of legal systems, it is argued, is that they are civil-law in nature in the sphere of private law, while their public law sphere is typically Anglo-American. I argue that this may be correct as far as the structural elements of these two branches of law, for example with regard to the court structure; it may also be relevant in the context of the general, overarching values underlying both branches of law. However, as far as the detailed arrangements are concerned, a variety of set-ups reflect different types of mixes and combinations in all legal systems, including “mixed jurisdictions”: innovation, transplantation and adoption of which can be traced inter alia to global crosscutting between these two families of legal systems.

This argument is developed through an analysis of the evolution of three grounds of review of the administration-unreasonableness, proportionality and legitimate expectations/ administrative promise-in the United Kingdom, the “ancestor” of the common law family of legal systems, and in Israel, currently considered a mixed jurisdiction. I show that both innovation and reliance on civil law constructs can be found in both systems just as much as common law constructs. The influence of EU law, especially ECtHR jurisprudence, renders the public law of the United Kingdom, to a certain extent, to be more civil-law-like than its so-called daughter system. Whether this mix of patterns is an unavoidable result of the irresolvable tension between exclusionism and openness, both willful and subjected, or matter that is particular to the distinct nature of administrative law and its case-by-case development in common law systems is a matter for further consideration. Clearly, though, legal reality, at least in the field studied in this article, challenges the viability of the distinction between “pure” and “mixed” legal systems.
Precedent in Argentine Law
Authors: Legarre Santiago
Published: September 2015

‘This article first explains where Argentina fits in the common law-civil law divide of legal families. A proper understanding of the Argentine legal system regarding precedent makes it necessary to next elaborate on the distinction between the horizontal and the vertical dimensions of stare decisis. In a final section I examine the relevance of political interferences for compliance by other courts both in the horizontal and in the vertical dimensions just alluded.’
Civil Recodification in an Anglophone Mixed Jurisdiction: A Bricoleur’s Playbook
Authors: Herman Shael
Published: September 2015

The obligations titles of the Louisiana Civil Code have long figured among its most mysterious provisions. The titles have interested law students bent upon their mastery, an essential for successful civil practice. Having learned them, lawyers were reluctant to revise them, even though many of the rules had become outdated. The Civil Code’s revision program proceeded in fits and starts until the mid 1970s. At that time a new property revision encouraged a comprehensive reform of the obligations titles. From 1977-1984, the author served as a deputy reporter for the obligations revision. That post offered an enviable perch from which to witness the debates and drafting efforts that informed the obligations revision of 1984. As a close associate of the late Saul Litvinoff, the principal reporter for the revision, the author came to see in modern foreign and United States materials potential gap fillers and sources of solutions not solved by the obligations titles themselves. The author concludes that the resulting revision, while preserving the traditional mix of French and Spanish doctrine, now discloses an eclectic blend of American, continental and Argentine influences. This paper considers the new gap filling materials in light of particular needs confronted by the bench and bar in the legislation and one hundred fifty years of case law. To dispel some of the mystery surrounding the revision of the obligations titles, the paper also reflects upon political dynamics among academics, practitioners, judges and legislators, and issues likely to arise in evaluating the success or failure of the revision.
The Methodology Used to Interpret Customary Land Tenure
Authors: Pienaar Gerrit
Published: September 2015

Customary land tenure is normally not based on codified or statutory sources, but stems from customary traditions and norms. When westernised courts have to interpret and adjudicate these customary traditions and norms, the normal rules of statutory interpretation cannot be followed. The court has to rely on evidence of the traditional values of land use to determine the rules connected to land tenure.

Previously courts in many mixed jurisdictions relied on common or civil law legal principles to determine the nature of customary land tenure and lay down the principles to adjudicate customary land disputes among traditional communities, or between traditional and westernised communities in the same jurisdiction. Many examples of such westernised approach can be found in case law of Canada and South Africa. The interpretation of the nature of customary land tenure according to common law or civil law principles has been increasingly rejected by higher courts in South Africa and Canada, e.g. in Alexkor Ltd v The Richtersveld Community 2004 5 SA 469 (CC) and Delgamuukw v British Columbia 1997 3 SCR 1010.

This paper explores the methodology the courts should follow to determine what the distinctive nature of customary land tenure is. As customary land tenure is not codified or based on legislation, the court has to rely, in addition to the evidence of indigenous peoples, on the expert evidence of anthropologists and sociologists in determining the nature of aboriginal title (in Canada) and indigenous land tenure (in South Africa). The court must approach the rules of evidence and interpret the evidence with a consciousness of the special nature of aboriginal claims and the evidentiary difficulties in proving a right which originates in times where there were no written records of the practices, customs and traditions engaged in. The court must not undervalue the evidence presented simply because that evidence does not conform precisely with the evidentiary standards that would be applied in, for example, a private law tort case.
The Enigmatic But Unique Nature of the Israeli Legal System
Authors: Platsas Antonios E.
Published: September 2015

The Israeli legal system is unique in that it straddles the two otherwise opposing worlds of tradition and innovation. This creates an enigma for the comparatist, making the exploration of this system an onerous and challenging task. The author wishes to maintain that the system in question is highly innovative and ascribes this quality to the proactive character of the Israeli Supreme Court, whose activism has had a major impact on the character of the domestic system as a whole. While the author explores the reasons why this has been the case, one of his main concerns in this paper will be to examine the innovative character of the Israeli Supreme Court per se, in comparison with equivalent courts in other parts of the world. In addition the author will seek to establish inter alia the character of the Israeli legal system by focusing on the three different elements that co-exist in the Israeli socio-legal structure (the Jewish element vis-à-vis the Arab element; the Liberal element vis-à-vis the Orthodox element within the Jewish community; and the Civilian element vis-à-vis the Common law element). The author wishes to posit that the amalgamation of different legal and cultural traditions in Israel created a sui generis state of affairs for the legal system as a whole. This results in an overall systemic-methodological amalgamation which does not occur elsewhere in the world. The article concludes that the enigmatic and innovative characteristics of the Israeli legal system derive from the novel way in which the legal mix has occurred in this system (as opposed to the ingredients of the elements in the mix). In this respect, Israel may have contributed much to the reinvigoration of the modern comparative law agenda, and it may continue to do so in the future, as the system is not one of legal stasis (a mixed system) but one of legal kinesis (a mixing system).
Bibliography and checklist of foliicolous lichenized fungi up to 1992

Authors: E. Farkas E. , M. Sipman H. J.
Published: September 2015

Bibliographic records are presented of 324 scientific papers on foliicolous lichenized fungi published subsequent to Santesson’s survey of 1952. The 482 species presently known are listed in an alphabetical checklist, with references to important descriptions, keys and illustrations published by or after Santesson (1952), and an indication of the distribution. Also added are all synonyms used after 1952. Introductory chapters deal with the present state of research on foliicolous lichens and its history. The following new combination is proposed: Strigula smaragdula Fr. var. stellata (Nyl. & Cromb.)Farkas.
A decade of neotropical exsiccates
Authors: Gradstein S. Rob
Published: September 2015

A list is provided of 263 neotropical species of bryophytes (141 mosses, 122 hepatics) distributed in Bryophyta Neotropica Exsiccata, Fascicles I-VI (1984-1992).
The Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Self-Efficacy Scale: Development and Initial Validation
Authors: Siwatu Kamau Oginga , Putman S. Michael , Starker-Glass Tehia V. , Lewis Chance W.
Published: September 2015

This article reports on the development and initial validation of the Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Self-Efficacy Scale. Data from 380 preservice and inservice teachers were used to examine the psychometric properties of the instrument. Exploratory factor analysis results suggested a one-factor structure consisting of 35 items and the scores on the measure were highly reliable. Evidence of construct validity was obtained with two existing teacher self-efficacy measures. The results of the correlational analysis lend credence that the instrument developed by the research team was indeed measuring self-efficacy beliefs. The implications for teacher education and research are discussed.
Assessment of acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome using B-type brain natriuretic peptide
Authors: Sun Yi-zhu , Gao Yan-ling , Yu Qing-xia , Wang Jing , Xia Yong-hon , Lin Hong-yang , Zhou Shao-ling
Published: September 2015

Objectives

To investigate the clinical value of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in the assessment of severity and prognosis in acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS).

Methods

Plasma BNP level, arterial blood gases, serum C-reactive protein level, alveolar–arterial oxygen tension difference and oxygenation index were measured in patients with and without ALI/ARDS within 24 h of admission to an intensive care unit. Patients with ALI/ARDS were divided into mild, moderate or severe groups according to the degree of hypoxaemia. Survival >28 days was recorded.

Results

A total of 59 patients with ALI/ARDS and 14 patients without ALI/ARDS were included in the study. Of the patients with ALI/ARDS, 18 had mild hypoxaemia, 20 had moderate hypoxaemia and 21 had severe hypoxaemia. The mean ± SD BNP level was significantly higher in all three ALI/ARDS groups (92.41 ± 28.19 pg/ml, 170.64 ± 57.34 pg/ml and 239.06 ± 59.62 pg/ml, respectively, in the mild, moderate and severe groups) than in the non-ALI/ARDS group (47.27 ± 19.63 pg/ml); the increase in BNP level with increasing severity was also statistically significant. When divided according to outcome, the BNP level in the death group (267.07 ± 45.06 pg/ml) was significantly higher than in the survival group (128.99 ± 45.42 pg/ml).

Conclusions

The BNP level may be of value in evaluating severity and prognosis in patients with ALI/ARDS.
“Here, Man Is Nothing!”
Authors: Griffiths Melanie
Published: September 2015

In policy terms, “genuine” refugees are conceptualized as vulnerable, coerced victims, an image that does not reflect the realities of most male refugees and asylum seekers. Not only does the image conflict with dominant forms of masculinity, but as refused asylum seekers have their purported vulnerability rejected and honesty challenged as part of having their claim refused, there is an implicit conclusion that they are deceptive, opportunistic, or even criminal. The emblematic “bogus asylum seeker” figure is generally imagined to be male and is associated with gendered suspicions and expectations regarding agency. Concurrently, however, the asylum system operates various emasculating tendencies. Using testimonies from male refused asylum seekers, this article explores the interplay of gender and asylum law and policy, examining how individuals understand and negotiate their reconstruction from vulnerable would-be refugee to undeserving “bogus” asylum seeker. Gender is presented as an unspoken but critical dimension of this immigration category.
Critical Realism and Realist Review
Authors: De Souza Denise E.
Published: September 2015

This article focuses on the design of a critical realist review that deployed Bhaskar’s resolution, redescribing, retroduction, eliminating, identifying, and correcting schema and Pawson and Tilley’s Context–Mechanism–Outcome configuration underpinned by realist social theory. Methodologically, the review examined the relationship between Singapore’s educational restructuring efforts and the research program theory adopted to measure and provide feedback on its outcomes. Specifically, the review investigated how the standards for authentic achievement and pedagogy from America (and a modified version from Australia) influenced educational research conduct in Singapore. The mechanism of interest was the practice of using the standards and accompanying assumptions from the American experience as a generalizable mechanism for producing evidence to measure and inform Singapore’s educational restructuring policy and educational practice. The article proposes that the critical realist review design provides one example of analyzing complexity and accounting for the historical, highlighting the limits of generalizing program theories across borders.
Synoptic operative reports for spinal cord injury patients as a tool for data quality
Authors: Paterson Grace I , Christie Sean , Bonney Wilfred , Thibault-Halman Ginette
Published: September 2015

The advent of synoptic operative reports has revolutionized how clinical data are captured at the time of care. In this article, an electronic synoptic operative report for spinal cord injury was implemented using interoperable standards, HL7 and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine–Clinical Terms. Subjects ( N = 10) recruited for a pilot study completed recruitment and feedback questionnaires, and produced both an electronic synoptic operative report for spinal cord injury report and a dictated narrative operative report for an actual patient case. Results indicated heterogeneity by subjects in access and use of electronic sources of patient data. Feedback questionnaire results confirmed that subjects were comfortable using both methods for data entry of operative reports, and that some were unable to find the diagnosis terms they needed in electronic synoptic operative report for spinal cord injury. Data quality improved. Electronic synoptic operative report for spinal cord injury reports were more complete (95.26%) than dictated (80%) for all subjects. An accuracy assessment, which considered usability for secondary data use, was conducted and the electronic synoptic operative report for spinal cord injury was demonstrated to improve accuracy.
Mapping Nursing Pathways
Authors: Birks Melanie , Smithson John , Wickett Di , Holmes David
Published: September 2015

Articulated education pathways between the vocational education training sector and universities provide opportunities for students wishing to progress to higher qualifications. Enrolled nurses seeking to advance their career in nursing can choose to enter baccalaureate degree programs through such alternative entry routes. Awarding of credit for prior studies is dependent on accurate assessment of the existing qualification against that which is sought. This study employed a modified Delphi method to inform the development of an evidence-based, structured approach to mapping the pathway from the nationally consistent training package of the Diploma of Nursing to the diversity of baccalaureate nursing programs across Australia. The findings of this study reflect the practical nature of the role of the enrolled nurse, particularly the greater emphasis placed on direct care activities as opposed to those related to professional development and the generation and use of evidence. These findings provide a valuable summative overview of the relationship between the Diploma of Nursing and the expectations of the registered nurse role.
Voices from Beyond the Grave: Virtual Tupac's Live Performance at Coachella
Authors: Fusco Katherine
Published: September 2015

This article argues that Virtual 2Pac, created in 2012 by Digital Domain Media Group in collaboration with Dr. Dre for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, represents an important twenty-first-century challenge to the relationships between performance and performer, film and archive, and death and the image. This essay traces the ghostliness of entertainers speaking from beyond the grave and the new interpretive problems that come to the fore when the performance is “live” but the performer isn't. Bringing together star discourse, media ontology, and sound studies, this article considers what digital cinema's capacity to create “original” performances means for questions regarding the real, the authentic, and the performer's aura. Virtual performers bring contemporary culture to a new extreme of celebrity commodification. With performances separated from the biographical performer, the entertainment industry may place actors and musicians in new contexts, distancing performers from the more challenging aspects of their biographies. In the case of Virtual 2Pac, this new practice appears particularly insidious, as the biographical Tupac Shakur's political activism and messy personal life become sanitized for the postmortem commodification of black masculinity.
“The Hard Shining Brightness of You”: Witnessing the Assumption of a Body in George Cukor's A Woman's Face
Authors: Hausmann Vincent
Published: September 2015

This essay focuses on George Cukor's A Woman's Face (US, 1941), a film that complicates a dominant narrative in studies of Joan Crawford's work that locates Mildred Pierce (dir. Michael Curtiz, US, 1945) as inaugurating the star's pronounced, albeit disparaged, iterations of masculinity. Not only does A Woman's Face anticipate displays that, as in Mildred Pierce, register challenges to normative gender and sexual identities, but it also exceeds them in range and degree. Cukor's tale of Anna Holm (Crawford), whose facial scarring codes her as a marginal figure, spawns an image of a woman who performs a masculinity that persists even after she is presumably cured through plastic surgery and conventional garb, indicating that masculinity is not necessarily aligned with appearance or anatomy. Crucially, Anna's felt sense that her scars persist after their removal—evoking the phenomenon of phantom limb pain—becomes especially suggestive for charting how Cukor's film contests established notions of doing gender and the body. By revealing—at precisely those moments when conventional gender expression is presumably reestablished—that the able body's contours extend beyond its visible borders in space, the film illustrates how psychoanalytically and phenomenologically informed, expansive notions of the body and perceptual field matter for understanding transgender and other forms of gender dissonance. Drawing on disability studies, queer theory, and transgender theory, this essay demonstrates that, however unwittingly, Cukor offers an expansive, fluid notion of the body and being.
Pedagogical Creativity as One of the Conditions Ensuring the Proper Quality of Professional Activities
Authors: Руднева  , Rudneva Olga
Published: September 2015

The paper analyzes the concept of pedagogical creativity, which is considered to bу an important feature portraying a modern teacher and one of the

important conditions to ensure the proper quality and efficiency of a teacher’s professional activities.
When Did the Anthropocene Begin…and Why Does It Matter?
Authors: Angus Ian
Published: September 2015

The word Anthropocene, unknown twenty years ago, now appears in the titles of three academic journals, dozens of books, and hundreds of academic papers, not to mention innumerable articles in newspapers, magazines, websites, and blogs. There are exhibitions about art in the Anthropocene, conferences about the humanities in the Anthropocene, and novels about love in the Anthropocene. There is even a heavy metal album called The Anthropocene Extinction. Rarely has a scientific term moved so quickly into wide acceptance and general use.… Behind what might appear to be just a trendy buzzword are important scientific discussions that have radical implications for the future of life on Earth.

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An inverse problem for a multidimensional fractional diffusion equation
Authors: Tuan Vu Kim , Hoang Nguyen Si
Published: September 2015

We prove that the coefficients
Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio XXVI
Authors: Ellerbrock Karl Philipp
Published: September 2015

Riassunto

Nel canto XXVI del Purgatorio, noto per l’omaggio alla memoria di due grandi poeti in volgare, Dante problematizza il rapporto tra fama letteraria e salvezza dell’anima. Sorprendentemente il canto dello stilnovista Guido Guinizzelli e del trovatore Arnaut Daniel è penetrato da una retorica dell’anonimità: le anime qui presenti, invece di figurare nominatamente, sembrano scomparire nel processo collettivo della purificazione. Il contrappasso riservato ai poeti riguarda il loro uso metaforico - »lussurioso« - d’immagini religiose, come il biblico ardere, da loro impiegato per parlare poeticamente della passione amorosa, anzi della poesia stessa. Per poter raggiungere il paradiso, i poeti sono condannati a rinunciare al loro uso individuale ed eretico della parola, diventando quindi stilisticamente indiscernibili. Così il ›Guido‹ immaginato da Dante è una versione ridotta dell’autore di »Al cor gentil«, mentre ›Arnaut‹ non è più riconoscibile come un rappresentante del trobar clus. L’incontro tra ›Dante‹, ›Guido‹ ed ›Arnaut‹ prende la forma di una conversazione velata, quasi tacita, nella quale tuttavia i poeti dispiegano una retorica ancor più raffinata per affermare il valore della poesia, che sta per spegnersi nelle fiamme del purgatorio.
Untangling the Relationship between Human Resource Management and Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Mediating Effect of Middle Managers’ Knowledge Sharing
Authors: Mustafa Michael , Lundmark Erik , Ramos Hazel Melanie
Published: September 2015

Although there is a growing body of literature linking human resource management (HRM) and corporate entrepreneurship (CE), there is still insufficient understanding of the mechanisms underlying this relationship. This paper focuses on middle managers’ knowledge-sharing behavior as an important mediator in the HRM–CE relationship. We test our hypotheses using data collected from 163 Malaysian middle managers. The paper finds that about a third of the relationship between High-Performance Human Resource Practices and CE can be accounted for by middle managers’ knowledge-sharing behavior. The findings provide quantitative empirical support for theoretical claims of the importance of middle managers’ knowledge sharing in fostering CE, and for the importance of HRM in fostering such knowledge sharing. The study contributes to the literature on the HRM–CE relationship by disentangling the underlying mechanisms and by providing empirical support for this relationship in a Malaysian context.
LTCC Phase Shifters Based on Tunable Ferroelectric Composite Thick Films
Authors: Nikfalazar M. , Kohler C. , Heunisch A. , Wiens A. , Zheng Y. , Schulz B. , Mikolajek M. , Sohrabi M. , Rabe T. , Binder J. R. , Jakoby R.
Published: September 2015

This paper presents, the investigation of tunable components based on LTCC technology, implementing ferroelectric tunable thick-film dielectric. The tunable loaded line phase shifters are fabricated with metal-insulator-metal (MIM) varactors to demonstrate the capabilities of this method for packaging of the tunable components. The MIM varactors consist of one tunable dielectric paste layer that is printed between two silver layers. The tunable ferroelectric paste is optimized for LTCC sintering temperature around 850°C. The phase shifters are fabricated in two different process. They were achieved a figure of merit of 24°/dB (phase shift 192°) at 3 GHz and 18°/dB (phase shift 98°) at 4.4 GHz by using seven unit cells that each unit cell consisting of two MIM varactors.
REIMEP-22 inter-laboratory comparison: “U Age Dating – determination of the production date of a uranium certified test sample”
Authors: Venchiarutti Celia , Varga Zsolt , Richter Stephan , Jakopič Rozle , Mayer Klaus , Aregbe Yetunde
Published: September 2015

The REIMEP-22 inter-laboratory comparison aimed at determining the production date of a uranium certified test sample (i.e. the last
chemical separation date of the material). Participants in REIMEP-22 on “U Age Dating – Determination of the production
date of a uranium certified test sample” received one low-enriched 20 mg uranium sample for mass spectrometry measurements
and/or one 50 mg uranium sample for α-spectrometry measurements, with an undisclosed value for the production
date. They were asked to report the isotope amount ratios n(230Th)/n(234U) for the 20 mg uranium sample and/or the
activity ratios A(230Th)/A(234U) for the 50 mg uranium sample in addition to the calculated production date of the
certified test samples with its uncertainty. Reporting of the 231Pa/235U ratio and the respective calculated
production date was optional.

Eleven laboratories reported results in REIMEP-22. Two of them reported results for both the 20 mg and 50 mg
uranium certified test samples. The measurement capability of the participants was assessed against the independent REIMEP-22 reference
value by means of z- and zeta-scores in compliance with ISO 13528:2005. Furthermore a performance assessment criterion for acceptable
uncertainty was applied to evaluate the participants' results. In general, the REIMEP-22 participants' results were satisfactory. This
confirms the analytical capabilities of laboratories to determine accurately the age of uranium materials with low amount of ingrown
thorium (young certified test sample). The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-JRC) organised REIMEP-22 in parallel to
the preparation and certification of a uranium reference material certified for the production date (IRMM-1000a and IRMM-1000b).
Simulative Ultraschall-Untersuchung von Pitch-Catch-Messanordnungen für große zylindrische Stahl-Prüflinge und gradientenbasierte Bildgebung
Authors: Hegler Sebastian , Statz Christoph , Mütze Marco , Mooshofer Hubert , Goldammer Matthias , Fendt Karl , Schwarzer Stefan , Feldhoff Kim , Flehmig Martin , Markwardt Ulf , Nagel Wolfgang E. , Schütte Maria , Walther Andrea , Meinel Michael , Basermann Achim , Plettemeier Dirk
Published: September 2015

Große zylindrische Stahlprüflinge werden mittels der Methode
der finiten Differenzen im Zeitbereich (engl. finite differences in time domain, FDTD) simulativ untersucht.
Dabei werden Pitch-Catch-Messanordnungen verwendet.
Es werden zwei Bildgebungsansätze vorgestellt: ersterer basiert auf dem Imaging Principle nach Claerbout, letzterer basiert auf gradientenbasierter Optimierung eines Zielfunktionals.
Exogenous melatonin inhibits neutrophil migration through suppression of ERK activation
Authors: Ren Da-Long , Sun Ai-Ai , Li Ya-Juan , Chen Min , Ge Shu-Chao , Hu Bing
Published: September 2015

Neutrophil migration to inflammatory sites is the fundamental process of innate immunity among organisms against pathogen invasion. As a major sleep adjusting hormone, melatonin has also been proved to be involved in various inflammatory events. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of exogenous melatonin on neutrophil migration to the injury site in live zebrafish and further investigate whether ERK signaling is involved in this process. Using the tail fin transection model, the fluorescently labeled neutrophil wasin vivovisualized in transgenic Tg(lyz:EGFP), Tg(lyz:DsRed) zebrafish. We found that exogenous melatonin administration dramatically inhibited the injury-induced neutrophil migration in a dose-dependent and time-dependent manner. The inhibited effect of melatonin on neutrophil migration could be attenuated by melatonin receptor 1, 2, and 3 antagonists. The ERK phosphorylation level was significantly decreased post injury when treated with melatonin. The blocking of ERK activation with inhibitor PD0325901 suppressed the number of migrated neutrophils in response to injury. However, the activation of ERK with the epidermal growth factor could impair the inhibited effect of melatonin on neutrophil migration. We also detected that PD0325901 significantly suppressed thein vivoneutrophils transmigrating over the vessel endothelial cell using the transgenic Tg(flk:EGFP);(lyz:DsRed) line labeled as both vessel and neutrophil. Taking all of these data together, the results indicated that exogenous melatonin had an anti-migratory effect on neutrophils by blocking the ERK phosphorylation signal, and it led to the subsequent adhesion molecule expression. Thus, the crossing of the vessel endothelial cells of neutrophils became difficult.
Bending cantilevered retractable umbrella
Authors: Halada Miklós
Published: September 2015

The innovative suggestion of this work is the usage of bended composite arms instead of complicated steel arms with hinges. The basic idea of the new structure is very simple, which is one of the best advantages of this structure. The bended arms could pre-stress the membrane surface and in the same time the membrane bends the arms, this interaction produces a harmonic structure with effective properties. The hinges can be avoided, because the open position of the umbrella created by the bend of the arms. Nowadays existing retractable funnel umbrellas are highly advanced, which is a result of decades of development, but the openingclosing process is quite complicated with very complex kinematics and complicated steel structure. Using the bended supporting elements a new structure for the retractable funnel umbrellas could be developed, which provides better structural behavior and simpler motion during the opening-closing process. The goal of this work is a development of a new type of convertible umbrella with innovative structure, which opens up new perspectives concerning the design of umbrella structures. The benefit of the new structure compared to the existing umbrella structures is a much easier working principle, which allows leaving the complex moving elements and joints. The main advantage of this structure comes from its simplicity as it simplifies the operation of umbrellas, making it a cost-effective and sustainable option.
The Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Mongolia
Authors: Yakovlev Roman
Published: September 2015

An annotated list of the Cossidae of Mongolia includes two subfamilies, 12 genera, and 23 species.
Политика стимулирования человеческого капитала (пер. с англ. Е. Покатович)
Authors: Heckman James
Published: September 2015

Рассматриваются источники формирования навыков в современной экономике. Подчеркивается важность как когнитивных, так и некогнитивных навыков в достижении успеха в экономической и социальной сфере, а также роль формальных учебных заведений наряду с семьями и фирмами в качестве источников обучения. Формирование навыков — это динамический процесс с выраженными синергетическими компонентами. Навык порождает навык. Инвестиции на ранних этапах способствуют инвестициям впоследствии. Некогнитивные навыки и мотивация являются важными факторами успеха, и их можно развивать в более позднем возрасте и с лучшими результатами, чем базовые когнитивные навыки. Методы, используемые в настоящее время для оценки образовательного вмешательства, не учитывают некогнитивные навыки, что ведет к существенной недооценке выгод от программ раннего вмешательства и программ по воспитанию и мотивации подростков. При существующем уровне инвестиций американское общество недостаточно вкладывает в самых молодых и чрезмерно инвестирует во взрослых людей с низким уровнем навыков.