bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Is Visual Evaluation of Aneurysm Coiling a Reliable Study End Point?
Authors: Ernst Marielle , Yoo Albert J. , Kriston Levente , Schönfeld Michael H. , Vettorazzi Eik , Fiehler Jens
Published: May 2015

Background and Purpose—

Angiographic occlusion as a surrogate marker of satisfactory aneurysm treatment is commonly used in clinical trials although some pitfalls have to be considered. To investigate the inter-rater reliability of visual rating of aneurysm occlusion as study end point, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Methods—

Electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed, and the Cochrane Library) were searched up to June 2014. Assessment of risk for bias was based on the Quality Appraisal Tool for Studies of Diagnostic Reliability and the Guidelines for Reporting Reliability and Agreement studies. Inter-rater reliability estimates were pooled across studies using meta-analysis, and the influence of several factors (eg, imaging methods, grading scales, and occlusion rate) was tested with meta-regression.

Results—

From 1193 titles, 644 abstracts and 87 full-text versions were reviewed. Twenty-six articles met the inclusion criteria and provided 77 reliability estimates. Twenty-one different rating scales were used, and statistical analysis varied. Mean inter-rater agreement of the pooled studies was substantial (κ=0.65; 95% confidence interval, 0.60–0.69). Reliability varied significantly as a function of imaging methods, grading scales, occlusion rates, and their interaction. Observer agreement substantially increased with increasing occlusion rate in digital subtraction angiography but not in MR angiography. Reliability was higher in studies using 2- or 3-value grading scales than in studies with 4-value grading scales.

Conclusions—

There is significant heterogeneity between studies evaluating the reliability of visual evaluation of aneurysm coiling. On the basis of our analysis, we found that the combination of magnetic resonance angiography, 3-value grading scale, and 2 trained raters seems most promising for usage as surrogate study end points.
Role of Imaging in Current Acute Ischemic Stroke Workflow for Endovascular Therapy
Authors: Menon Bijoy K. , Campbell Bruce C.V. , Levi Christopher , Goyal Mayank
Published: May 2015

Ischemic stroke is caused by a thrombus that blocks an intracranial artery. Brain tissue beyond the blocked artery survives for a variable period of time because of blood and nutrients received through tiny vessels called collaterals. Imaging the brain and the vasculature that supplies it is therefore a vital first step in treating patients with acute ischemic stroke. In this review, we focus on current evidence for imaging selection of patients for endovascular therapy in the context of the recently positive clinical trials, such as Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial of Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke in the Netherlands (MR CLEAN), Endovascular Treatment for Small Core and Anterior Circulation Proximal Occlusion With Emphasis on Minimizing Computed Tomography to Recanalization Times (ESCAPE), Solitaire With the Intention for Thrombectomy as Primary Endovascular Treatment (SWIFT PRIME), and Extending the Time for Thrombolysis in Emergency Neurological Deficits-Intra-Arterial (EXTEND-IA). We discuss evidence for and use of the various imaging paradigms available. We discuss how to set up quick and efficient imaging protocols for patient selection and address common concerns about the use of imaging, including time spent, contrast, radiation, and other advantages and disadvantages. Finally, we briefly comment on how imaging can integrate itself within various health systems of care in the future, thereby potentially improving patient outcomes further.
Comparison of the Big Tests’ Origins in Japan and the United States: The Characteristics of the “Elementary School Examination” of the Early Meiji Era
Authors: Hashimoto Akihiko
Published: May 2015

It is known that Japanese elementary school examination was developed in the early Meiji era, around the 1870–80s, under the influences of the American school examination. But little has been known about the similarities or the differences of those examinations in both countries hitherto.

Close investigation uncovered that early Meiji examination inherits many tools from the samurais’ examination of the feudal ages, e.g. the examination hall’s layout, preparation procedure, and the format for questioning, scoring, marking, and reporting. And those Japanese examinations were mainly given to encourage prudent learners as opposed to making selections, promotions, accreditations, or any other high-stakes decisions.

Even Japanese, following the Meiji era, had imported “the purpose of testing” to make such significant decisions, the Japanese had not changed their manners of handling examinations in a true sense. This could lead to examinations in Japanese schools functioning differently from the “intended” purpose of the examination.
BIBLISCHE TEXTSORTEN
Authors: Simmler Franz
Published: May 2015

Die Anwendung einer externe und interne Merkmale berücksichtigenden Textsortendefinition, der Rückgriff auf die handschriftliche und gedruckte Überlieferung und nicht auf Editionen und das methodische Vorgehen von den hierarchisch gesehen größten Einheiten (den Makrostrukturen) über die Syntax zu den hierarchisch gesehen niedrigeren Einheiten (der Lexik) führt an ausgewählten Textexemplaren der Bibel, am Buch Genesis und am Matthäus-Evangelium, für die Handschriftentradition von a. 1456 bis a. 1483 (14 Textexemplare) und für die Drucktradition von a. 1466 bis a. 1545 (8 Textexemplare) zur Definition der beiden Textsorten ‘(Geoffenbarte) Erzählung’ und ‘(Geoffenbarter) Bericht’ mit jeweils zwei Textsortenvarianten.
DIE SEUFFZENDE TURTEL TAUB (1767) EIN HANDSCHRIFTENFUND ZUR SPEE-REZEPTION IM 18. JAHRHUNDERT
Authors: Weber Alexander
Published: May 2015

Nach dem bisherigen Forschungsstand riß die Rezeption Friedrich Spees im Barock mit dem Beginn der Aufklärung ab, bis sein Werk von den Romantikern wiederentdeckt wurde. Anhand einer in der British Library neuaufgefundenen privaten Devotion läßt sich jedoch exemplarisch darlegen, wie nachhaltig Spee als Erbauungsschriftsteller auf Laien im 18. Jahrhundert gewirkt hat. Während besonders seit dem Josephinismus die barocken Andachtsbücher und Lieder aus der literarischen Öffentlichkeit und der offiziellen Kirche verdrängt wurden, lebte in der Frömmigkeit des Volkes diese spirituelle Gebrauchsliteratur fort, weil ihre Inhalte überzeitlich und verbindlich, ihre formalen Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten dagegen variabel und entwicklungsfähig erschienen. Diese Form einer dem Zeitgeist trotzenden, bewahrend-produktiven Aufnahme wird untersucht am Beispiel einiger Traditionsstränge, die Spee im Güldenen Tugendbuch zu einer charakteristischen Formensprache verbunden hatte: der mittelalterlich-bernhardinischen Wundenmystik, der erotischen Seelenbrautschaft des Hohenliedes und der ignatianischen Passionsbetrachtung. Die Handschrift bietet außerdem einen Beleg für die These, daß Spee auf die oberdeutsche Dichtung eine ähnliche Wirkung hatte wie Opitz im protestantischen Norden.
BALDE NEU EDIEREN
Authors: Winter Ulrich
Published: May 2015

Der Beitrag berichtet ausführlich über die neue Ausgabe des lateinischen Epodenbuchs von Jakob Balde SJ. Die Epoden wurden zusammen mit den vier Büchern Lyrica erstmals in München 1643 gedruckt und steuerten zu dessen internationalen Ruf als ‘Teutscher Horaz’ einen maßgeblichen Anteil bei. Einleitend wird Baldes Epodenbuch vor seinem barocken Horizont in philologischer Breite vorgestellt. Der eigentliche Bericht umfasst Aussagen zur Überlieferung (mit dem Versuch eines Stemmas), zur druckanalytisch untersuchten Vorlage für die kritische Textfassung, ferner zur Herstellung des Edierten Textes sowie zu den Varianten mit dem Apparat. Der Leser wird eingeladen in die neulateinische Werkstatt des Editors einzutreten. Dort erwartet ihn eine Fülle editorischer
Materialien und Instrumente, die er prüfen kann und vielleicht selbst in die Hände nehmen will. Abschließend werden diejenigen Probleme formuliert, die beim künftigen Edieren von Baldes Werken zu diskutieren sind.
VON ALEXANDERS MORD-BANQUET BIS ZUR KINDHEIT MOSIS
Authors: Rudin Bärbel
Published: May 2015

Ein Konvolut undatierter Theaterzettel �Hoch-Teutscher Comoedianten�, das 1895/96 im Antiquariatshandel vertrieben wurde, steht im Zentrum der Studie. Einen Ansatz zur Lokalisierung der Fundst�cke liefern die Person des Sammlers und weitere, inzwischen verschollene Segmente seiner Kollektion. Deren zeitliche Fixierung erschlie�t sich aus der Verbindung kulturr�umlicher Koordinaten mit den Bewegungsprofilen und Absatzstrategien des ambulanten B�hnengewerbes. Schlie�lich geht es um den je eigent�mlichen Charakter der St�ckauswahl, wobei reichspolitische, konfessionelle, landsmannschaftliche Aspekte mit hineinspielen
SEHEN UND HÖREN, REDE UND SCHRIFT BEIM STIFTEN VON ERINNERUNG IM MELUSINEROMAN THÜRINGS VON RINGOLTINGEN
Authors: Schnyder André
Published: May 2015

Der Beitrag untersucht Erscheinungsweise und Funktion des Redens und Schreibens bei Entstehung und Weitergabe des Wissens über die eigene Vergangenheit im Melusineroman Thürings von Ringoltingen. Vielfach wird dabei mit einem doppelten Blick auch dessen französische Vorlage, der Versroman Coudrettes, einbezogen. Angesetzt wird beim Vor- und Nachwort des Berner Bearbeiters, bevor sich die Untersuchung dann auf die Ebene der Handlung begibt. In der Analyse erweist sich die vielfältige, nur um den Preis einer Ausblendung des gerade je Spezifischen in einfachen Begriffen fassbare Erscheinungsweise von Medialität in diesem Text, der durch seine Entstehungszeit und durch seine Überlieferung am frühneuzeitlichen Umbruch der Medien teilhat.
ORCHESTRATING AN ASSAULT ON REASON: SEBASTIAN FRANCK’S VIER KRONBÜCHLEIN
Authors: Hayden-Roy Patrick
Published: May 2015

Sebastian Franck’s 1534 publication Die Vier Kronbüchlein uses Erasmus’ Moriae Encomium and Agrippa’s De incertitudine et vanitatem scientiarum to launch a polemic against natural reason. He deploys commentary, marginalia and translation to recast the works of Erasmus and Agrippa in the image of his own inner word spriritualism, and denounce the false knowledge and wisdom of the scholarly world of his day. Set together with two short works by Franck, Die Vier Kronbüchlein throws in relief Franck’s unique hermeneutic of the inner Word and the various ways dissent was practiced during the era of incipient confessionalization.
‘VERBORGENE THEOLOGIE’, ENTHUSIASMUS UND ANDACHT BEI MARTIN OPITZ
Authors: Wels Volkhard
Published: May 2015

Der Beitrag wendet sich gegen die Annahme neuplatonischer Tendenzen bei Opitz, der sich in der Poeterey von seinem — tatsächlich neuplatonisch beeinflußten — Vorbild Ronsard gerade in der Bestimmung der Dichtung als ‘verborgener Theologie’ abgrenzt. Hatte Casaubons Datierung des Corpus Hermeticum die Behauptung einer poetischen Uroffenbarung philologisch unmöglich gemacht, so lehnte die protestantische Theologie die Annahme einer nachpfingstlichen und außerbiblischen Offenbarung grundsätzlich ab. In der Konsequenz deuten die Poetiken der Frühen Neuzeit den übernatürlichen Enthusiasmus als natürliche Begabung. Nicht der neuplatonische Enthusiasmus, sondern der rhetorische Begriff der Anschaulichkeit (evidentia) und der theologische Begriff der Andacht stellen deshalb den Rahmen dar, in dem Opitzens Begriff der Dichtung zu verstehen ist.
WILL KEMP, THOMAS SACHEVILLE AND PICKELHERING
Authors: Alexander John
Published: May 2015

Pickelhering was the most popular stage clown on the seventeenth-century German stage, yet his origins are shrouded in mystery and controversy. On the basis of a careful analysis of this persona, as represented in the first major collections of the English Players from 1620 and 1630, with what is known about two heralded English actors from the 1590s, i.e. Shakespeare’s clown, Will Kemp, and his counterpart on the Continent, the linguistically talented Thomas Sacheville, I will present strong circumstantial evidence that both actors, in particular Kemp, may be regarded as comic prototypes for the English Pickelhering.
DAS MARTYRIUM DER EHRLICHEN FRAU UND DIE GEBURT DES SCHELMS
Authors: Bozza Maik
Published: May 2015

Abseits der gängigen biographischen Annäherung an die ‘Leipziger Schriften’ Reuters wird hier eine Interpretation vorgelegt, die am Begriff der immanent vielfältig konnotierten und umkämpften Ehrlichkeit ansetzt. Dabei soll der Kampf um diese Konnotationen, die zeitgenössische poetische Konzepte bzw. Diskurse repräsentieren, nicht nur begriffs- und kulturgeschichtlich nachvollziehbar gemacht, sondern auch als auf der Bühne ausdrücklich Verhandeltes bis zum das Bürgerliche Trauerspiel vorankündigenden Tod der Schlampampe verfolgt werden. Fußend auf den mit diesem Höhepunkt nicht endenden dramatischen Auseinandersetzungen, in die als Randfigur auch Schelmuffsky verwickelt ist, wird dann die Reisebeschreibung als diskursiv analog zur Schlampampe-Handlung gelesen. Gerade die Pervertierung der Ehrlichkeit im Begriff des Schelms begründet dabei die narrative Autonomie des ersten sich selbst so benennenden Romanhelden der Gattungsgeschichte.
TEXT UND HYPERTEXT
Authors: Wenzel Horst
Published: May 2015

In der Diskussion um die besonderen Charakteristika der digitalen Medien wird bis heute mit der Polarisierung von Text und Hypertext argumentiert, wird der Text durch Linearität, der Hypertext durch Netzstrukturen und Interaktivität charakterisiert. Dieser Diskussion mangelt es an direkten Vergleichen mit den
komplexen Strukturen des frühen und des entwickelten Buchdrucks, der im folgenden durch ausgewählte Einblattdrucke (Flugblätter) repräsentiert ist. Ein solcher Vergleich zeigt, dass die These, der Hypertext sei das ganz andere des
Buchdrucks, als Mythos eingestuft oder zumindest relativiert werden muss.
“GEWISS IST ES/ DASS ALLE GEDRUCKTE ZEITUNGEN ERST GESCHRIEBEN SEYN MÜSSEN”
Authors: Böning Holger
Published: May 2015

Die handschriftlich vervielfältigten Zeitungen informierten schon im 16. Jahrhundert einen kleinen Kreis von Beziehern über die wichtigsten politischen Entwicklungen. Sie können als das erste Medium in der Geschichte des Nachrichtenwesens gelten, das regelmäßig im Wochenabstand über das Weltgeschehen unterrichtete. Für die erste Zeitung der Welt in Straßburg wie für eine Reihe von weiteren Zeitungsgründungen ist nachweisbar, dass aus den geschriebenen Wochenzeitungen gedruckte entstanden. Somit ging von diesem Medium die Initialzündung für die Entstehung der gedruckten Zeitung aus. Gleichzeitig begannen fast zwei Jahrhunderte der Koexistenz von altem und neuem Medium, ein Verhältnis, das zugleich ebenso von Konkurrenz geprägt war. Der Beitrag befasst sich mit den Wirkungen, die von der gedruckten Zeitung auf die handgeschriebene ausgehen, bestimmt die wesentlichen Charakeristika der geschriebenen Zeitung, fragt nach ihren Verfassern und Lesern sowie nach ihrer Rolle im Gesamtsystem des frühneuzeitlichen Nachrichtenwesens.
METAMORPHOSEN DER NACHT
Authors: Günthart Romy
Published: May 2015

Seit Jahrzehnten konzentriert sich das Forschungsinteresse an Gryphius' Carolus Stuardus vor allem auf die Quellen des Stücks und auf die Frage nach der postfiguralen Gestaltung des Königs in der Imitatio Christi. Demgegenüber bietet der folgende Beitrag eine neue Lektüre des Trauerspiels, die die literarische (Selbst)Referentialität und poetologische Reflexion des Stücks betont. Eine besondere Stellung kommt dabei der Analyse des dritten Reyens, dem “Chor der Engelländischen Frauen und Jungfrauen” zu, der den Höhepunkt der sprachlichen Handlung im dritten Akt beschließt. Explizit und implizit werden in diesem Reyen die Ambiguität sprachlicher Zeichen und Bilder (insbesondere der Nacht) in ihren vielfältigen Bezügen, Harmonien und Übertragungsformen gezeigt und damit Lektüremöglichkeiten der aktuellen Handlung, des Dramas insgesamt und darüber hinaus einer als theatrum mundi verstandenen Welt aufgezeigt.
JOHANN BEER UND DIE POETIK DES ZEITVERTREIBS
Authors: Vellusig Robert
Published: May 2015

‘Kurzweiliger Zeitvertreib’ ist seit den Anfängen des Buchdrucks ein Etikett für Kompilationen von Schwänken und witzigen Erzählungen. Diese Sammlungen sind nicht vorrangig für die Lektüre bestimmt, sondern fungieren als Materialbasis für die gesellige Interaktion. Die Studie stellt Beers Romane in den Kontext dieses kurzweiligen Erzählens und fragt nach den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen, die dem narrativen Schreiben im Rahmen der frühneuzeitlichen Schrift- und Erlebniskultur gesetzt sind. Beers Poetik des Zeitvertreibs orientiert sich an Mustern, die aus dem mündlichen Erzählen stammen und sich im mündlichen Erzählen bewähren, und unterscheidet sich darin in mediengeschichtlich aufschlussreicher Weise von einer elaborierten, genuin schriftlichen Form des komischen Erzählens, wie sie dann Jean Paul im Kontext einer autonomen modernen Erlebniskultur entwickeln wird.
TRAIANO BOCCALINIS EINFLUSS AUF CHRISTIAN WEISE
Authors: Noe Alfred
Published: May 2015

Anlässlich einer Neuausgabe der deutschen Übersetzungen von Trajano Boccalinis Ragguagli di Parnaso wird der Einfluss des bedeutenden italienischen Satirikers auf die deutsche Literatur an Hand der Bezüge von Christian Weises Lustspiel Bäurischer MACHIAVELLUS (1679) zu zwei Kapiteln der Relationen aus Parnasso illustriert.
DAS TIEREPOS DER FRÜHEN NEUZEIT IN DER FORSCHUNG SEIT 1980
Authors: Schu Sabine
Published: May 2015

Die Beschäftigung mit dem Tierepos der Frühen Neuzeit offenbart eine ambivalente Forschungssituation: Während die Fuchsepentradition in der Nachfolge der mittelalterlichen Tierepen eine starke Berücksichtigung in der Forschung gefunden hat, sind die Tierepen, die in der Tradition der antiken Batrachomyomachia stehen, weiterhin grundlegendes Desiderat der Forschung. Einzig Georg Rollenhagens Froschmeuseler hat bislang breiteres Interesse gefunden. Ebenfalls ist der auffällige Wechsel der Protagonisten von den traditionellen Charakteren (Fuchs, Wolf, Löwe) in den Bereich der Klein- und Kleinsttiere (Mücke, Floh, Frosch, Maus), der sich in diesem Traditionsstrang vollzieht, weitestgehend unbeachtet geblieben. Eine wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit diesen — zum Teil nicht adäquat edierten — Tierepen steht ebenso aus wie eine übergreifende Untersuchung, die die Gemeinsamkeiten der frühneuzeitlichen Tierepen in Abgrenzung zum Tierepos des Mittelalters herausarbeitet.
ANDREAS GRYPHIUS’ LEICHABDANKUNG AUF DEN ARZT HEINRICH FIERLING, SIGISMUND PIRSCHERS LEICHENPREDIGT UND DIE THEOLOGIA MEDICINALIS
Authors: Steiger Johann Anselm
Published: May 2015

Diese Studie befaßt sich mit Gryphii Leichabdankung auf den Glogauer Arzt Heinrich Fierling und verortet diese innerhalb der Tradition der theologia medicinalis. Besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei der Bezeichnung des Todes als Arzt, der genuin christlichen Verarbeitung stoischer Motive sowie den rhetorischen Strategien
hinsichtlich der Artikulation des Affektes der Trauer gewidmet. Aufschlußreich ist Gryphii Leichabdankung zudem bezüglich ihrer martyrologischen Reflexionen, die in der in die damalige Situation der in Schlesien verfolgten evangelischen Kirche übertragbaren Feststellung kulminieren, daß die Glanzzeiten der Kirche stets diejenigen gewesen sind, in denen diese bedrängt und unterdrückt gewesen ist. Mit seiner Leichabdankung auf Fierling verfolgt Gryphius im Sinne einer indirekten Mitteilung das Ziel, in den zeitgenössisch-politischen Kontext hineinzusprechen: Die Befindlichkeit der lutherischen Christen im von der habsburgischen, römisch-katholischen Reaktion betroffenen Schlesien ist nicht Schicksal, sondern Konkretion der von Gott selbst kausierten tentatio, die einesteils darauf abzielt, die constantia der Verfolgten auf die Probe zu stellen, die aber zudem dafür sorgt, daß an der geschundenen Kirche der gemarterte Leib des leidenden und sterbenden Christus selbst epiphan und erfahrbar wird.
TRAUERVOKABULAR UND OFFENE STRUKTUREN IN FRANZÖSISCHER CEMBALOMUSIK DES 17. JAHRHUNDERTS
Authors: Trinkewitz Jürgen
Published: May 2015

Im 17. Jahrhundert war die Cembalomusik vom so genannten style luthé inspiriert. Aus der Lautenmusik heraus entwickelte sich ein spezifisches Trauervokabular, das in Tombeaux, Allemandes grave und Lamenti erscheint. In der Arbeit werden semantische Aspekte erforscht, die sich durch die Analyse der einzelnen musikalischen Parameter erkennen lassen. Der letzte Teil deckt Zusammenhänge auf zwischen der Habsburgischen Funeralkultur für Ferdinand IV und Frobergers Lamento aus der Partita FbWV 612, die beide auf ähnliche Allegorien und Symbole zurückgreifen.
“ALLZU FREYE GEDANCKEN”
Authors: Niefanger Dirk
Published: May 2015

Der Beitrag analysiert Strategien und Funktionen der Sexualrhetorik in der wichtigsten Lyrik-Anthologie um 1700. Die erotischen Gedichte der Neukirchschen Sammlung (1695 ff.) basieren auf einer galanten Camouflage-Technik, die mit der Fiktionalisierung ihres Gegenstandes spielt und sich auf eine argute Dialektik von Indizieren und Verdecken stützt. In die Analyse werden mediengeschichtliche Fragen sowie Aspekte der Körper- und Autorschaftstheorie einbezogen. Als exemplarischer Textgruppe widmet sich der Beitrag schließlich besonders den Sylvia-Gedichten des Herausgebers Benjamin Neukirch, die innerhalb des galanten Diskurses die Spielräume der zeitgenössischen Sexualrhetorik ausweiten.
MEDIALE FORMATIERUNG
Authors: Sahm Heike
Published: May 2015

The Ars moriendi illustrated with woodcuts was the most popular block book of the late 15th century. Though this popularity gives evidence of the late medieval fear of death, the invention of the block book itself can in the first instance be explained by the technical needs of a new medium. While the manuscript versions of Speculum artis bene moriendi contain an unequal and unsystematic treatment of five temptations, the format of the block book, with the same space available for text and illustration for each temptation and the repetition of the same situation, required a more systematic and standardized treatment of the five temptations.
KLIENTELISMUS ALS THEATERGEWERBLICHE MIGRATIONSSTRATEGIE
Authors: Rudin Bärbel
Published: May 2015

The continental expansion of the Elizabethan-Jacobean Theatre and the transnational influence of its drama attracted historical interest in the long 19th century, but the topic was then largely neglected for several decades in German-speaking areas for some decades, as a consequence of the war. The standstill in research, visible in the mass of out-dated standard literature, established the creation of numerous legends. A prime example which is examined here in close detail is the persistence of fictional biographical narratives relating to the English theatre director John Spencer. The trigger was a false Brandenburgish prince. An extensive concealed and interlinked control mechanism steered the “choreography of traveling people”* in the opening up of the continental theatre business: clientelism.
PHILIPP VON ZESENS DARSTELLUNG VON AMSTERDAMS SEEFAHRT: LICHT UND SCHATTEN
Authors: van Ingen Ferdinand
Published: May 2015

Philipp von Zesen’s treatise in praise of seafaring and of the city of Amsterdam — the headquarters of the renowned East Indian trading company VOC — covers the whole complex of trade and seafaring, as well as the ethical problems that arise from them, in a Dutch context. Since Zesen dedicated his Beschreibung der Stadt Amsterdam to the city’s government, in gratitude for the citizenship that it had awarded him, he had to be cautious in his criticism. He therefore had to incorporate it with the required circumspection into the historical genre of Städtelob (‘praise of the city’) as it was understood at that time.
ELISABETH ERNESTINE ANTONIE OF SACHSEN-MEININGEN (1681-1766) AND THE GANDERSHEIM ABBEY LIBRARY
Authors: Smith Kathleen M
Published: May 2015

This essay discusses the library of Gandersheim Abbey in Lower Saxony, Germany, and the important role played by the Abbess Elisabeth Ernestine Antonie von Sachsen-Meiningen (1681-1766) in its later history. In office for many years, Elisabeth Ernestine Antonie contributed actively to its development by soliciting donations, by re-establishing the library and laying out statutes for its use, and in her efforts to make it a useful tool for the abbey’s residents. The priority she placed on improving the library collection demonstrates its value in the life of the abbey as well as the role of books and written texts for the community of women at Gandersheim.
Equality under Reserve
Authors: Steindorff Ludwig
Published: May 2015

In the world of the rich Muscovite sources on donations and the liturgical commemoration of the dead, women are mentioned as comprehensively as men. I illustrate this in the Synodicon of the Disgraced and a detailed case study of the donor Mariia Eropkina, née El’chanina. While the first is a unique case, the latter corresponds, notwithstanding some particularities, to a pattern which we encounter time and again in similar form. Apparently, premodernism shares a common ground in Europe that transcends church boundaries: The worlds of men and women were not strictly separated, but male dominance was undisputed.
The Improbable Case of the Seventeenth-Century Super Editor
Authors: Boeck Brian J.
Published: May 2015

The article explores the relationship between Andrei Lyzlov’s History of the Scythians and the History of the Grand Prince of Moscow attributed to Prince Andrei Kurbskii. It dismisses the notion that Lyzlov was a super editor and argues that a common source provides the most probable explanation for the pattern of similarities between the texts. The evidence analyzed here makes it improbable that the sections of the History of the Grand Prince of Moscow devoted to sixteenth-century military engagements between Russia and the Tatars present the eyewitness testimony of Prince Kurbskii.
Appearing of the Borderland
Authors: Selin Adrian A.
Published: May 2015

The Treaty of Stolbovo (1617) was only the first step in making peace between Sweden and Muscovy at the end of the Time of Troubles. The delimitation process ended only in August 1621. This article describes the circumstances of the first stage of delimitation in Ingria in 1617–1618 that occurred at the same time that the “Lithuanian” menace directly threatened Moscow itself. Old residents, mostly local peasants, supported both the Swedish and Russian delimitation commissions. The result of that delimitation was a clear and transparent borderline that existed for more than eighty years.
From Persecuted Minority to Confessional Church
Authors: Michels Georg
Published: May 2015

The essay argues that Old Belief did not emerge as a popular movement giving voice to the aspirations of ordinary Muscovites but rather as an elite culture that drew its inspiration from erudite churchmen closely affiliated with the Kremlin. The popularization of Old Belief occurred only during the last two decades of the seventeenth century, and was not completed even until the third decade of the eighteenth century. Most important in this process – which one might call the confessionalization of Old Belief – were the systematic dissemination of manuscripts, the canonization of Old Believer saints (such as the martyred Avvakum), and the development of an efficient school system. The author draws attention to the little-studied fact that Old Believers – both the founding fathers of the 1650s and eighteenth-century community leaders such as Andrei Denisov – drew inspiration from Ukrainian Orthodox models: they assimilated ideas from polemical texts against the Union of Brest (such as the idea of the Antichrist) and adopted the teaching methods of the Ukrainian seminary school which Denisov and other Old Believer intellectuals observed while studying at the Kievan Theological Academy.
A review of the genus Miridiba Reitter (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) of Taiwan
Authors: LI CHUN-LIN , YANG PING-SHIH , WANG CHUAN-CHAN
Published: May 2015

The six Miridiba Reitter, 1902 species, including Miridiba taoi Li & Wang, new species, Miridiba huesiotoi Li & Yang, new species, and Miridiba taipei Wang & Li, new species from Taiwan are reviewed. A key for the identification of adults is provided. The following information is provided for each species: literature review, synonyms, diagnoses, data of material used, description or redescription, illustrations, distributional data, and remarks.
Bryozoans from Rio Grande do Sul Continental Shelf, Southern Brazil
Authors: RAMALHO LAÍS V. , CALLIARI LAURO
Published: May 2015

The continental shelf of Rio Grande do Sul (RS) is predominantly composed of unconsolidated sediments with a few hard substrates represented principally by beachrock. In this area there are elongate deposits of shell gravel material which are interpreted as indicators of the palaeo-shorelines. These Pleistocene deposits are overlapped by Holocene sediments (Recent), but are exposed during erosive events caused by extra-tropical cyclones, which provide the mixture of both sediments mainly during autumn and winter. The few studies on bryozoans made in this area previously recorded seven species, one fossil and the other six from Recent fluvial and marine environments. The aim of the present study was to describe the eight most abundant bryozoan species that occur in the inner RS shelf. Of these, four are new records for RS State (Arachnopusia aff. pusae, Hippomonavella brasiliensis, Turbicellepora pourtalesi, and Lifuella gorgonensis), and the other four are new to science (Chaperia taylori, Micropora nodimagna, Cellaria riograndensis, and Exochella moyani).
A new hermit crab (Anomura, Paguroidea) from the upper Albian (Cretaceous) of Annopol, Poland
Authors: FRAAIJE RENÉ H. B. , VAN BAKEL BARRY W. M. , JAGT JOHN W. M. , MACHALSKI MARCIN
Published: May 2015

A new diogenid paguroid, Paguristes liwinskii sp. nov., is described from upper Albian phosphorite-bearing deposits near Annopol, along the east bank of the River Vistula (Wisła), east-central Poland. This new species constitutes an additional example of Early–Mid-Cretaceous macrofaunal shift, from marine reefal limestone to siliciclastic facies, triggered by the worldwide radiation of planktonic organisms. The species described here is the earliest known member of the genus Paguristes, previously recorded from the upper Santonian/lower Campanian to the Recent.
Real-Time Simulation of the GOES-R ABI for User Readiness and Product Evaluation
Authors: Greenwald Thomas J. , Pierce R. Bradley , Schaack Todd , Otkin Jason , Rogal Marek , Bah Kaba , Lenzen Allen , Nelson Jim , Li Jun , Huang Hung-Lung
Published: May 2015

In support of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series (GOES-R) program, the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is generating high quality simulated Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) radiances and derived products in real time over the continental United States. These data are mainly used for testing data-handling systems, evaluating ABI-derived products, and providing training material for forecasters participating in GOES-R Proving Ground test bed activities. The modeling system used to generate these datasets consists of advanced regional and global numerical weather prediction models in addition to state-of-the-art radiative transfer models, retrieval algorithms, and land surface datasets. The system and its generated products are evaluated for the 2014 Pacific Northwest wildfires; the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma, tornado; and Hurricane Sandy. Simulated aerosol optical depth over the Front Range of Colorado during the Pacific Northwest wildfires was validated using high-density Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) measurements. The aerosol, cloud, and meteorological modeling system used to generate ABI radiances was found to capture the transport of smoke from the Pacific wildfires into the Front Range of Colorado and true-color imagery created from these simulated radiances provided visualization of the smoke plumes. Evaluation of selected simulated ABI-derived products for the Moore tornado and Hurricane Sandy cases was done using real-time GOES sounder/imager products produced at CIMSS. Results show that simulated ABI moisture and atmospheric stability products, cloud products, and red–green–blue (RGB) airmass composite imagery are well suited as proxy ABI data for user preparedness.
A Cluster-Based Method for Hydrometeor Classification Using Polarimetric Variables. Part I: Interpretation and Analysis
Authors: Wen Guang , Protat Alain , May Peter T. , Wang Xuezhi , Moran William
Published: May 2015

Hydrometeor classification methods using polarimetric radar variables rely on probability density functions (PDFs) or membership functions derived empirically or by using electromagnetic scattering calculations. This paper describes an objective approach based on cluster analysis to deriving the PDFs. An iterative procedure with K-means clustering and expectation–maximization clustering based on Gaussian mixture models is developed to generate a series of prototypes for each hydrometeor type from several radar scans. The prototypes are then grouped together to produce a PDF for each hydrometeor type, which is modeled as a Gaussian mixture. The cluster-based method is applied to polarimetric radar data collected with the CP-2 S-band radar near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The results are illustrated and compared with theoretical classification boundaries in the literature. Some notable differences are found. Automated hydrometeor classification algorithms can be built using the PDFs of polarimetric variables associated with each hydrometeor type presented in this paper.
Supraglottoplasty in Infants
Authors: Walner David L. , Neumann Daniel B. , Hamming Katherine K. , Miller Robert P.
Published: May 2015

Objective:

While generally well tolerated for the treatment of severe laryngomalacia, bilateral supraglottoplasty has potential complications including supraglottic stenosis and aspiration. We report a more conservative staged supraglottoplasty in infants with severe laryngomalacia.

Methods:

A retrospective review was performed of our patients who underwent staged supraglottoplasty from June 2007 to June 2012. Fifteen infants were identified and scored based on stridor, retractions, oxygen saturation, and feeding quality. Outcomes were compared with those reported in the literature for conventional bilateral supraglottoplasty.

Results:

Seventy-three percent had significant improvement or resolution of stridor following the first stage of surgery and 100% in those undergoing a second stage. Twelve patients (80%) had mild to no retractions following one procedure and 100% had resolution after a second surgery. All 6 patients with recurrent preoperative desaturations had resolution after the first stage of surgery. Of the 11 infants who had preoperative moderate-severe feeding problems, 9 of them (82%) had resolution after one surgery and the remaining 2 had resolution after a second surgery. There were no complications in any of the patients.

Conclusions:

Staged supraglottoplasty appears to be an effective, low-risk method to treat severe laryngomalacia. A second procedure was only required in 40% of patients.
Preferences for Inter-Regional Redistribution
Authors: Balcells Laia , Fernández-Albertos José , Kuo Alexander
Published: May 2015

What explains individual support for inter-regional redistribution? Few studies examine support for regional redistribution, even though such issues are politically salient in many democracies. We test models that hypothesize that such preferences are affected by regional and individual income, as well as other arguments beyond the traditional political economy framework. We focus on informational assumptions and implications of these models with an experiment embedded in a nationally representative survey in Spain. We randomly inform some citizens of the true relative income of their region to assess the impact of this information on regional redistribution preferences. We find that citizens’ learning about their region’s relative position affects these preferences in a manner consistent with some of the political economy models. We also find some support for out-group concerns as an important factor. The findings have implications for the applicability of economic models to explaining support for regional arrangements.
Unleashing angst: Negative mood, learning goal orientation, psychological empowerment and creative behaviour
Authors: To March L , Fisher Cynthia D , Ashkanasy Neal M
Published: May 2015

Emotion researchers have found that negative mood may either enhance or inhibit employee creativity. Little is known about this conundrum, however, and in particular when and why each effect occurs. To address this concern, we formulate and test hypotheses about likely moderators of the relationship between negative mood and creative process engagement. Results from an experience sampling study with 556 real-time reports from 68 employees support our hypothesis that negative mood is most strongly and positively related to concurrent creative process engagement among employees who (a) have high trait learning goal orientation and (b) perceive that they are empowered. Our hypotheses and findings help to resolve the ongoing controversy surrounding the nature of the negative mood–creativity nexus.
The exhausted short-timer: Leveraging autonomy to engage in production deviance
Authors: Wilson Raenada A , Perry Sara Jansen , Witt Lawrence Alan , Griffeth Rodger W
Published: May 2015

This article explores the conditions under which autonomy may lead to production deviance (unsanctioned, non-task-focused behavior) rather than acting as a motivational job characteristic. In a study of 260 manual laborers, we applied Conservation of Resources Theory to propose an interaction among autonomy, emotional exhaustion and employment opportunity in predicting production deviance. We suggest that employees who experience emotional exhaustion may leverage autonomy to engage in production deviance in efforts to conserve and protect remaining energy reserves, particularly when they feel they can secure ‘better’ opportunities than their current job. Results of hierarchical moderated multiple regression analyses revealed that workers reporting high levels of autonomy, emotional exhaustion and employment opportunity also manifested the highest levels of production deviance.
Security and energy capture: The military perspective
Authors: Christian Breede H.
Published: May 2015

Often seen as an interest of environmental lobbyists and advocates, the development and implementation of new forms of energy capture has real security implications as well. This policy brief explores those implications. Focusing primarily on the military’s contribution to security and how energy capture affects the tactical, operational, and strategic levels of planning and execution, it argues that more needs to be done, and that future policies must be better designed, diversified, and focused on de-coupling.
Maladaptive Perfectionism
Authors: Kiamanesh Parvin , Dieserud Gudrun , Dyregrov Kari , Haavind Hanne
Published: May 2015

This study aimed to explore how the life history of suicide victims with no history of treatment in mental health care or of attempted suicide seemed to presdispose them to maladaptive perfectionism. The study is part of an ongoing psychological autopsy study. It aimed to produce a phenomenological understanding of the vulnerability to suicide related to perfectionism, based on the life history of six male suicide victims aged 22 to 58. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyze the interview data of 41 key informants. Three main themes emerged: (a) exposure to high expectations combined with little recognition and warmth; (b) reduced ability to cope with failures and weaknesses; and (c) fear of emotional rejection. Together these themes illustrate that feelings of shame, mainly resulting from an unfulfilled need for attachment, a desire for love and recognition may relate to maladaptive perfectionism, which influences the suicidal process. The results may have important implications for suicide prevention programs.
The Imagery–Image Duality Model
Authors: Josiassen Alexander , Assaf A. George , Woo Linda , Kock Florian
Published: May 2015

A central research topic in tourism management concerns tourists’ choice of specific destinations. The present article reviews and advances the extant literature on destination image. From this review, we suggest that individuals have a multitude of destination associations, the total imagery that relates to the destination, and label this concept destination imagery. Individuals also hold an overall image used as a heuristic or a mental shortcut, which is labeled destination image. The concepts of destination imagery and destination image are distinct, yet they have often been conflated within the literature. The article further provides an extensive review of the literature with regard to the definitions, dimensionality, antecedents, and outcomes of the focal concepts as well as geographical scope of destination imagery and image studies and methodologies. This review has led to a novel understanding and delimitation of the focal concepts within the imagery–image duality model.
International Networks as Drivers of Agency Independence: The Case of the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council
Authors: Bianculli Andrea C. , Jordana Jacint , Juanatey Ana G.
Published: May 2015

This article discusses how the extension of network governance influences the de facto independence of regulatory agencies. Assuming that agencies gain de facto independence vis-à-vis the government when they experience a substantive increase in their reputation, we argue that agency participation in international governance networks contributes to strengthened agency domestic positions due to organizational learning and the expansion of expert knowledge involved in such interactions. Based on a case study of the Spanish nuclear regulatory agency (Nuclear Safety Council [CSN]), the article highlights how its involvement in international governance networks promoted the agency’s de facto independence during the 2000s.
‘The totalitarian destruction of the public sphere?’ Newspapers and structures of public communication in socialist countries: the example of the German Democratic Republic
Authors: Fiedler Anke , Meyen Michael
Published: May 2015

Using the example of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), this study deals with the public sphere in Eastern European countries before 1989. It supports the thesis that even the ‘guided’ and controlled daily press enabled the readers (even in a limited way) to observe the process of communication and to make up their own minds. The article is based on two main sources: files from the Federal archives in Berlin and a series of 100 biographical interviews, held between 2000 and 2002, in which former GDR residents have been asked about their everyday media usage during the 1980s. This article discusses the concept of public communication and propaganda and shows how the politically staged public sphere operated from the point of view of the rulers and professional readers as well as regular subscribers.
Simulation games, popular factual media and civic engagement: an audience study of Asylum Exit Australia
Authors: Nash Kate
Published: May 2015

Asylum: Exit Australia is a first-person simulation game that puts the player in the shoes of an asylum seeker. Produced to accompany the television series Go Back to Where You Came From it seeks to make a new kind of intervention in a divisive social debate. This paper considers simulation games in terms of their ability to foster civic engagement. Locating simulation games within the broad field of popular factual media, several strands of continuity are identified, while attention is also paid to the specific characteristics of simulation games, particularly the relationship they establish between player and text. Audience responses to Asylum provide insight into the experience of play and the ways in which audiences relate this experience to the asylum seeker debate.
Connecting ideas to practice: The development of an undergraduate student’s philosophy of music education
Authors: Salazar Ryan , Randles Clint
Published: May 2015

This article considers the personal reflections of an undergraduate music education major on both the significance of his experience as a participant in the Seventh International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education, held at Michigan State University, in the United States, in June 2011, and on his place as a pre-service music teacher poised to enter the profession. The first author’s reflections regarding what the conference meant to him as a future music educator has implications for individuals who help prepare the next generation of music teachers, and scholars in all fields who desire for their work to reach a particular audience that could benefit from their work. The article takes the form of a personal narrative reflection, not generalizable to all populations of undergraduate music education majors, but certainly transferable to similar situations where undergraduates are considering waves of change in degree requirements and curricular expansion.
Decolonizing music education: Moving beyond tokenism
Authors: Hess Juliet
Published: May 2015

Current music education curricula across Canada designate Western classical music as the music most worthy of study through emphasis on elements of music that are decidedly Western. Despite the way the curriculum is constructed, many music teachers strive to create diverse programs for their students. In her examination of women’s studies programs, Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003) puts forward three curricular models that describe the manner in which “Other” subject material is engaged in the curriculum within the discipline of women’s studies. I rethink her pedagogical models and apply them to music education. Mohanty’s first two models are more tokenistic in nature while the third model is comparative. While there are benefits to the first two models, the third, when applied to music, reveals that musics are better understood relationally. Mohanty’s (2003) third pedagogical model has much to offer music education.
Student music teachers’ learning styles in theoretical and practical situations
Authors: Calissendorff Maria
Published: May 2015

This study analyzes and compares the results of a survey and an interview investigation concerning the learning styles of 32 student music teachers at The University College of Music Education (SMI) in Sweden. The students’ learning style preferences were examined through a productivity environmental preference survey (PEPS), a computer-based survey that is based on the Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Model. The students who completed the survey expressed a difference between learning something that was theoretically new and difficult and something that was new and difficult related to their instrument/singing. The surveys were then followed up by semi-structured interviews with 31 of the 32 students. The study found that there is only a minimal difference between practice and theoretical learning regarding the learning styles of student music teachers. The students’ procedure in theoretical learning was, as far as possible, the same as for practical learning, and it is the more practical and physical details that present obstacles. The practical relevance of the research is that it raises awareness for students regarding their learning styles and how they can streamline both their own learning and that of their future pupils.