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West Meets East: Asian Programs at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Authors: Kennedy Richard
Published: September 2017

The author describes the curator’s role in developing and navigating relationships and representation with nation/state partners in the context of serious political differences and violent histories which include the legacy of U.S. engagements with Asian countries. Ranging across the experience of collaborative research and curation of ten international programs at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival—chiefly involving Asian countries, including the Silk Road Festival and the Mekong River Festival Program, over a twenty year period (1988 – 2008)—the chapter chronicles the changing attitudes of both organizers and audiences and traces changing attitudes to ideas about the nature of “tradition” over these decades.
The Bristol Sessions: The Big Bang of Country Music—Music and Culture in the South-Central Appalachians
Authors: Place Jeff
Published: September 2017

This chapter details the curatorial decisions that defined thematic focus and scope, participant selection, and site design and organization for a 2003 program about Appalachian culture. The author recounts the challenges of organizing and fund-raising for a multi-state program in worsening financial times. He also describes how the Smithsonian worked with its partners, the Birthplace of Country Music Alliance and East Tennessee State University, to develop a program that demonstrated the breadth of Appalachian culture. These efforts dispelled many of the stereotypes that have historically plagued these communities
African American Poetic Responses to Faulkner
Authors: Elliott Chiyuma , Griffiths Rachel Eliza , Harriell Derrick , Horton Randall , May Jamaal , Watson Jay
Published: September 2017

This chapbook brings together five young writers, Chiyuma Elliott, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Derrick Harriell, Randall Horton, and Jamaal May, in a chapbook of poems that employs an invigorating range of tonalities and moods to engage directly with Faulkner’s writings, characters, and verbal art, as well as with his historical example as a race-haunted white southerner who struggled, often unsuccessfully, with the changing racial landscape of twentieth-century America. A brief preface by Elliott and Harriell situates the group’s efforts in relation to those of precursors like Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), who called on black writers to come to a fuller, firmer reckoning with Faulkner in their work. In the nineteen poems gathered here, Elliott, Griffiths, Harriell, Horton, and May take their place alongside the Komunyakaa of “Tobe’s Blues,” the Lucille Clifton of “My Friend Mary Stone from Oxford Mississippi,” and other black poets who have risen to Madhubuti’s challenge.
Lingering in the Black: Faulkner’s Illegible Modernist Sound Melding
Authors: Davis Thadious M. , Watson Jay
Published: September 2017

Faulkner clearly paid attention to the trends and directions of modernist writing in the early 1920s, but what is less obvious is how the work of African Americans contributed to his “making it new,” as Pound suggested for creating a modern poetics. This essay explores the soundings from Black cultural and literary production that Faulkner drew upon and melded into his writerly voice and modernist aesthetic. From the blues and jazz music of Black musicians, such as W. C. Handy, through the fictive realms of modernist writers (e.g., Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, Roark Bradford) whose artistry drew on Black voices, to the aesthetic work of modern Black writers (in particular, James Weldon Johnson’s sermons in verse), Faulkner found models for rendering the sounds of Black life in his literary art. These Black soundings remain audible though not transparent in Faulkner’s fiction and practice through the 1920s and beyond.
Tracking Faulkner in the Paths of Black Modernism
Authors: Hutchinson George , Watson Jay
Published: September 2017

This essay tracks the relationship between Faulkner’s career and the development of modern African American literature. It shows how the development of black modernism created a new environment for his work, for his work’s reception, and ultimately for his literary imagination—as well as how black writers responded to his work. Faulkner’s approach to fiction developed out of many of the same intellectual cross-currents that gave rise to interest in African American writing, and the shift in his use of black characters in the 1940s registers his awareness of black-authored fiction and his anger over American racism in the midst of World War II. Finally, the essay addresses his problematic response to the Civil Rights movement in relationship to critiques of white southerners’ “tragic misconceptions of time” by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Toni Morrison.
Reconstructions: Faulkner and Du Bois on the Civil War
Authors: Graham T. Austin , Watson Jay
Published: September 2017

The Unvanquished was Faulkner’s most sustained fictional account of the Civil War, as well as an occasion for him to model various methods of studying the conflict. The novel approaches the war from several historiographically distinct viewpoints, sometimes presenting it as a demonstration of abstract, universal principles, and other times as a fight over slavery. In making the former case, The Unvanquished resembles some of the most cutting-edge, “revisionist” Civil War histories of the 1920s and 30s. But in making the latter it echoes W.E.B. Du Bois’ then-unfashionable, now-accepted insistence that the war was fundamentally concerned with black subjugation and liberation.
Dangerous Quests: Transgressive Sexualities in William Faulkner’s “The Wild Palms” and James Baldwin’s Another Country
Authors: Robbins Ben , Watson Jay
Published: September 2017

William Faulkner’s novels explore forms of social change and development from which the same author publically advocated retreating. James Baldwin praised Faulkner as one of a handful of writers who had begun to engage with race in American literature in a progressive fashion. However, in his essay “Faulkner and Desegregation,” Baldwin challenges Faulkner’s statement that the process of racial integration in the South should “go slow.” In a common focus on social progress, Faulkner’s “The Wild Palms” and Baldwin’s Another Country explore sex and sexuality’s potential as a tool to create a new social order. In these texts, transgressive sexual and artistic practices are used to question social boundaries and limiting binaries of gender and race. These acts of transgression serve to critique the way power polices boundaries of social division, although Faulkner’s text does not share the gesture toward transcendence at the end of Baldwin’s novel.
In the Book of the Dead, the Narrator Is the Self: Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker as a Response to Faulkner’s Haiti in Absalom, Absalom!
Authors: Sarthou Sharron Eve , Watson Jay
Published: September 2017

This essay argues that Faulkner’s 1936 novel presents Haiti as an infantilized and demonized land, a trope that has been historically used to marginalize Haitians and rationalize US paternalism in Haiti. Countering this long history of oppressive representations, Danticat’s 2007 novel focuses not on the blurring of racial lines that makes Haitian figures like Charles and Eulalia Bon so fascinating to Faulkner and his white narrators but on subtler forms of ethical hybridity and transnational entanglement that make her Haitian and Haitian American characters complex and compelling. These characters are all in various ways implicated in Haiti’s difficult history, but they also prosper in the US, claim a historically situated culture, and exhibit a complex understanding of their own responsibilities to the past, the present, and maybe even the future, and often speak two or more languages.
“It Was Enough That the Name Was Written”: Ledger Narratives in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses
Authors: Dischinger Matthew , Watson Jay
Published: September 2017

This chapter discusses the appearances and uses of plantation ledgers in William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses(1942) and Edward P. Jones’s The Known World(2003). It examines the ways both novels use the narrative forms to contain, control, and undermine the account of the plantation found in ledgers while also contending that Jones’s encyclopedic novel performs a more thorough critique of its ledger narratives than does Faulkner’s novel. The Known World features many types of so-called objective forms of accounting—judicial reports, pamphlets, census reports, and, of course, ledgers—to form an archival pastiche about the construction of these documents which lack the authority of the surrounding narrative. While Go Down, Moses partially decenters the McCaslin plantation ledgers, it cannot entirely move past the account contained therein. This comparison between historical documents in the two novels sheds light on critical conceptions of southern and post-southern literature.
Natasha Trethewey’s Joe Christmas and the Reconstruction of Mississippi Nativity
Authors: Atkinson Ted , Watson Jay
Published: September 2017

This essay references the poet Natasha Trethewey’s publicly expressed appreciation of William Faulkner’s Light in August and identification with the novel’s protagonist, Joe Christmas, to establish a point of contact between two authors with lives and literary pursuits indelibly marked by native ties to Mississippi. A focus on Trethewey’s poem “Miscegenation” opens up an examination of themes and tropes that make for a complex and dynamic intertextual exchange between her acclaimed 2006 collection, Native Guard, and Light in August. Natasha Trethewey’s Joe Christmas is a variation on the original, as she enlists one of Faulkner’s signature characters in a personal project of reclamation that draws on literature, history, and memory. Trethewey signifies Faulkner as part of an overarching effort in Native Guard to give voice to the contradictory feelings and experiences of racial trauma and survival, of recollected exclusion, and negotiated belonging that underwrite her claim to “Mississippi nativity.”
Introduction
Authors: Marrone Daniel
Published: September 2017

Precisely because Seth’s interest in the past can be mistaken for unadulterated longing, his body of work becomes an ideal site for redressing the somewhat impoverished understanding of nostalgia in contemporary comics. In this book, Marrone locates his work between history and memory, along a spectrum of “ambivalent longing.”
Walter Benjamin describes remembrance as “the capacity for endless interpolation into what has been.” This book re-conceives that comparison as more than just a metaphor: Marrone proposes a relation between interpolation into the past and the reader’s capacity for interpolation into the comics text.
Interpolation, as Marrone has defined it, concerns an ambivalent impulse related to the past that is characteristic of what W. J. T. Mitchell calls “the composite imagetext structure of memory,” which parallels the imagetext structure of comics. Interpolation encapsulates these complex relations, referring to the memory-inflected filling of gaps that comics pages invite the reader to undertake.
Return, Repetition, and Other Ambivalent Impulses
Authors: Marrone Daniel
Published: September 2017

Beginning with Zygmunt Bauman’s account of ambivalence – which depends on the “master-opposition” between inside and outside – this chapter delineates the relation of ambivalence to modernity and ambiguity. It also elaborates the role of Freud’s thinking in the overall investigation of Seth’s work through a consideration of the uncanny, especially with regard to his character Simon Matchcard.
The uncanny is considered as part of a family of ambivalent phenomena that includes nostalgia, obsession, compulsion, and the return of the repressed. This chapter relies heavily on Linda Hutcheon description of ambivalence as “the desire to be on both sides of any border, deriving energy from the continual crossing.”
In comics, this continual crossing takes a particularized form in the movement from panel to panel. Seth subtly fosters ambiguity, arousing a generative ambivalence in the reader, which in turn reciprocally animates the text.
Pictures at a Remove: Seth’s Drawn Photographs
Authors: Marrone Daniel
Published: September 2017

This chapter closely examines Seth’s drawn photographs, comparing the ways in which comics and photography relate to their represented realities in terms of time, narrative, duration, and framing. Seth’s drawn photographs synthesize these complicated temporal relations in metapictures that invite the reader to consider the nature of visual mediation.
These metapictures are caught between the subjective and objective, the atomized and continuous, the opaque and transparent, the classical and grotesque, the absent and present. At the seat of these tensions is an ambivalent relationship to the (historical) referent, inherent in the photographic perspective and amplified by Seth’s drawing.
In their extreme reticence – an uncommon synthesis of photographic and cartoon stillnesses – Seth’s drawn photographs exemplify his method of compelling the reader to take a position between history and memory in order to make sense of images.
Collection and Recollection
Authors: Marrone Daniel
Published: September 2017

This chapter draws together arguments about ambivalence, remembering and forgetting, narratives of the past, and the fortification of identity through the process of collecting. For Seth’s characters, collecting is a way of thinking.
Through collection, what is being recollected is the self: identity is the absent thing being made present by the collection. Selection is understood as the most fundamental element of the process of collecting; to a large extent, the act of selection is what distinguishes the collection from the archive.
Seth’s characters are often on the cusp of anachronism because they are continually attempting to fix their positions within narratives of the past. The collection helps to fortify identity by arbitrating between inside and outside, i.e. what is part of identity and what is not. Through collection and recollection, the collector means to keep loss at bay – Seth reveals the potential for meaning that resides in this loss.
Dense and Porous: Browsing, Parataxis, and the Texture of Comics
Authors: Marrone Daniel
Published: September 2017

This chapter offers a multifaceted account of the distinctive texture of comics, exploring the simultaneous fragmentation and coherence of the comics page, as well as addressing exceptional cases like the single-panel gag cartoon and the fold-out page. Various modes of representation, in tension and concert with each other, produce the singularly dense and porous texture of the medium.
Seth’s inventive storytelling techniques often call for a different reading practice entirely, one that is not exclusively geared toward plot progression. Parataxis is a particular type of heightened juxtaposition that creates a field for readerly interpolation.
By gently disorienting the reader, Seth draws attention to the re-orientation of perspective that constantly takes place when assembling a coherent narrative. Seth’s work points to itself by emphasizing these gaps and reminds the reader that it is only through fragments that a coherent literary world can be suggested.
Forging Histories: Ghost Worlds and Invented Communities
Authors: Marrone Daniel
Published: September 2017

This chapter explores Seth’s invented worlds and interior landscapes, making particular use of Linda Hutcheon’s concepts of the heterocosm and historiographic metafiction, as well as certain frameworks from Hayden White’s landmark work Metahistory (specifically, the conception of three kinds of historiography: fabulous, true, and satirical).
Seth ambivalently situates himself in relation to the past by remaking it in fictional form – and in the process encourages the reader to take up a similarly ambivalent position. Seth takes advantage of the credibility often attributed to historicizing discourses, using them to fortify his invented Canadian realities. His work accommodates the double meaning of the word “forge” and in doing so points to the deliberate manipulation of material that even the most apparently neutral history entails.
Seth’s work engages readers in the process of making their own historical knowledge. Moreover he prompts readers to make historical knowledge that is ironic, nostalgic, or otherwise ambivalent.
Conclusion
Authors: Marrone Daniel
Published: September 2017

This brief concluding chapter summarizes and synthesizes the arguments of the previous chapters, placing them in context with each other. Emphasis is placed on the role of the reader in filling narrative gaps, and the ways in which Seth creates a space for the reader’s interpolation. Ultimately, Seth’s work turns the medium of memory on itself, using it as an instrument to examine longing, loss, and the processes of remembrance and making history.
Participación escolar e inclusión educativa: Un estudio de caso de experiencias con estudiantes de secundaria alta
Authors: De la Cruz Flores Gabriela , Matus Ortega Diego Ilinich
Published: September 2017

Se estudia la participación escolar como un mecanismo de inclusión-exclusión educativa, mediante el análisis de experiencias de participación descritas por estudiantes de secundaria alta inscritos en planteles ubicados en zonas de alta vulnerabilidad social de la Ciudad de México. Se recabó información a través de grupos focales que respondieron a las siguientes preguntas: ¿Qué situaciones desde el punto de vista de los estudiantes detonan su participación en los centros escolares? ¿Qué mecanismos institucionales perciben los estudiantes para orientar su participación y a qué tipo de situaciones dan respuesta? ¿Qué canales de participación construyen los estudiantes de manera emergente cuando las instituciones carecen de mecanismos y a qué tipo de situaciones dan respuesta? ¿Cómo perciben la participación escolar estudiantes de alto y bajo desempeño? Las respuestas se analizaron utilizando metodología cualitativa con enfoque fenomenológico. Los resultados permitieron identificar canales de participación formales e informales, estos últimos son reactivos ante distintas problemáticas al interior de los planteles. Contrastando las percepciones de estudiantes de alto y bajo desempeño, se aprecian distintos grados de implicación y participación. Las diferencias encontradas sugieren que es prioritario promover la participación de los estudiantes con bajo desempeño como una vía para favorecer su inclusión.
Changes in Thyroid Hormones Levels and Metabolism in Dairy Cows around Calving
Authors: Fiore Enrico , Giambelluca Sonia , Morgante Massimo , Piccione Giuseppe , Vazzana Irene , Contiero Barbara , Orefice Tiziana , Arfuso Francesca , Gianesella Matteo
Published: September 2017

The hormonal activity of the thyroid gland has an important role in ruminants for the modulation of metabolic variables. In this study changes in thyroid hormones and biochemical parameters in dairy cows around calving were evaluated and the critical thyroid hormones thresholds for predicting the risk of ketosis were estimated. Blood samples were collected from 82 dairy cows at 5±3 days pre-partum and 5±3 days postpartum. Serum values of triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA), β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), insulin, glucose, Ca, Cl, Mg, P, K, Na, aspartate transaminase (AST), alanine transaminase (ALT) and urea were evaluated. Signifi cant decrease in the levels of T3, T4 and TSH was found in the postpartum period. The values of T3 and T4 were negatively correlated with NEFA and BHB levels, and TSH values were negatively correlated with NEFA. A critical T3 threshold was found by means of ROC analysis for predicting the risk of ketosis. T3 values < 1.23 nmol/L were associated with BHB > 1.10 mmol/L in postpartum, which represents the BHB threshold commonly used as the indicator of hyperketonaemia. The results confirm that the peripartum period is accompanied by marked changes in circulating thyroid hormone profile that is correlated with lipomobilization predictors.
Physiological Effects of Balanced Anesthesia during Dental Procedures in Brown Bears (Ursus Arctos)
Authors: Yanev Aminkov Bogdan , Hristov Mehandzhiyski Nikolay , Zlatozarova Zlateva-Panayotova Nadya , Bogdanov Aminkov Konstantin , Marinov Marinov Georgi
Published: September 2017

The goal of the present study was to monitor the physiological effects of a standardized balanced anesthetic protocol in brown bears (Ursus arctos) during routine dental procedures. Physiological parameters (rectal temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation) were evaluated in twelve brown bears, anesthetized with a balanced drug combination for 90 minutes during dental procedures. The animals were kept in the „Park for Dancing Bears“ Belitza, Bulgaria. A standardized premedication protocol of a combined intramuscular injection of tiletamine HCl and zolazepam HCl (Zoletil 100® Virbac, France) 1mg/kg, medetomidine HCl 0.003mg/kg and 0.05 mg/kg of butorphanol was administered intramuscularly. Anesthesia was induced intravenously with a combined bolus of ketamine at 2 mg/kg and propofol at 2 mg/kg, and maintained with a constant rate infusion (CRI) of ketamine at 0.8 mg/kg/h and propofol 0.04 at mg/kg/min. Rectal temperature decreased significantly during anesthesia, whereas: heart rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation were stable with no significant changes in these parameters for the duration of anesthesia. In conclusion, this anesthetic drug combination is suitable for oral surgery of medium duration in brown bears.
Effects of Selenium and Thyroid Hormone Deficiency on Peritoneal Macrophages Adhesion and Occurrence of Natural IGM Antibodies in Juvenile Rats
Authors: Bjelica Jelena , Jovanović Ivan B. , Ilić Vesna , Valčić Olivera , Kirovski Danijela , Gvozdić Dragan , Milanović Svetlana
Published: September 2017

Both selenium, as an effector and regulator of antioxidative enzymes activity, and thyroid hormones are potent immunomodulators. Besides, selenium incorporated into iodothyronine deiodinases is involved in the thyroid function and thus indirectly regulates the immune response. Studies of the mutual influence of selenium and thyroid hormones on the immune response are scarce, hence we analyzed the effects of an iodothyronine deiodinases blocker, propylthiouracil (PTU), and selenium deficiency on the function of peritoneal macrophages, and titer of naturally occurring anti-sheep red blood cells (SRBC) IgM antibodies in juvenile rats. The experiment was carried out on 64 Wistar male rats allotted to 4 groups: controlselenium adequate PTU-group; selenium adequate, PTU+ group; selenium defi cient, PTU-group; and selenium defi cient, PTU+. The selenium adequate and selenium defi cient groups were fed a diet containing 0.334 and 0.031 mg Se/kg, respectively. PTU+ groups received PTU (150 mg/L) in drinking water. After 3 weeks, thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) were determined. The animals having “intermediate” concentrations of T3(1.56-1.69 nmol/L) and T4(41-50 nmol/L) were excluded from further analysis. Thus, PTU+ groups included hypothyroid animals (T3≤1.55 nmol/L; T4≤40 nmol/L), while PTU-groups included euthyroid rats (T3≥1.70 nmol/L; T4≥50 nmol/L). Both groups of selenium deficient rats had, when compared to the control group, a significantly lower activity of glutathione peroxidase GPx1 and GPx3. Neither selenium deficiency nor PTU influenced the adherence of peritoneal macrophages. Selenium deficiency significantly decreased the peroxide synthesis in macrophages and significantly increased the titer of anti-SRBC IgM. Hypotyroidism alone or in combination with selenium deficiency had no influence on these parameters.
Field Trial on Glucose-Induced Insulin Response in High-Yielding Dairy Cows under Different Environmental Temperatures
Authors: Vujanac Ivan , Prodanović Radiša , Korićanac Goran , Bojkovski Jovan , Simeunović Predrag , Palamarević Milija , Nedić Sreten , Celeska Irena , Kirovski Danijela
Published: September 2017

This study aimed to evaluate glucose-induced insulin response in cows exposed to different temperature-humidity index. Twenty early lactating Holstein-Friesian cows were divided into 2 equal groups based on season, as summer (SU) and spring (SP). SP cows were not exposed to heat stress, while SU cows were exposed to moderate or severe heat stress. Milk production was recorded daily. Starting from day 30 of lactation, intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT) was carried out three times at 30-day intervals. Blood samples were taken before (basal) and after glucose infusion, and glucose and insulin were measured at each sample point. The homeostatic model assessment (HOMA) index was calculated. Milk yield from days 30 to 40 and 64 to 90 of lactation were higher in SP cows than in SU cows. Basal glucose did not differ on days 30 and 60 of lactation, while basal insulin and HOMA were lower in SU compared to SP cows. On day 90 of lactation, SU cows had higher basal glucose, whereas basal insulin and HOMA did not differ. IVGTT results revealed that glucose tolerance was affected by heat stress such that SU cows had higher glucose clearance. Insulin responses to IVGTT did not differ on days 30 and 60 of lactation. Heat stress had a marked effect on insulin secretion on day 90 of lactation, illustrated by higher increments, peak concentrations and area under the curve for insulin in SU cows. Overall, season differences in glucose tolerance depend not only on heat stress and milk production but also on the stage of lactation.
Harmonic vector fields on a weighted Riemannian manifold arising from a Finsler structure
Authors: Shojaee Neda , Rezaii Morteza Mirmohammad
Published: September 2017

In the present work, the harmonic vector field is defined on closed Finsler measure spaces through different approaches. At first, the weighted harmonic vector field is obtained as the solution space of a PDE system. Then a suitable Dirichlet energy functional is introduced. A σ-harmonic vector field is considered as the critical point of related action. It is proved that a σ-harmonic vector field on a closed Finsler space with an extra unit norm condition is an eigenvector of the defined Laplacian operator on vector fields. Moreover, we prove that a unit weighted harmonic vector field on a closed generalized Einstein manifold is a σ-harmonic vector field.
An Optimized Triad Algorithm for Attitude Determination
Authors: Zhu Xiaoning , Ma Ming , Cheng Defu , Zhou Zhijian
Published: September 2017

The classic TRIAD was used to obtain the attitude of air vehicles. However, the accuracy was dominated by the sensor noise and the calculation order. To improve that in this paper, a new method based on weighting the vectors summation and difference was proposed. Then both simulation and experiment verified the advantages of the optimized algorithm.
Evaluation of Integration Degree of the ASG-EUPOS Polish Reference Networks With Ukrainian GeoTerrace Network Stations in the Border Area
Authors: Siejka Zbigniew
Published: September 2017

GNSS systems are currently the basic tools for determination of the highest precision station coordinates (e.g. basic control network stations or stations used in the networks for geodynamic studies) as well as for land, maritime and air navigation. All of these tasks are carried out using active, large scale, satellite geodetic networks which are complex, intelligent teleinformatic systems offering post processing services along with corrections delivered in real-time for kinematic measurements. Many countries in the world, also in Europe, have built their own multifunctional networks and enhance them with their own GNSS augmentation systems. Nowadays however, in the era of international integration, there is a necessity to consider collective actions in order to build a unified system, covering e.g. the whole Europe or at least some of its regions. Such actions have already been undertaken in many regions of the world. In Europe such an example is the development for EUPOS which consists of active national networks built in central eastern European countries. So far experience and research show, that the critical areas for connecting these networks are border areas, in which the positioning accuracy decreases (Krzeszowski and Bosy, 2011). This study attempts to evaluate the border area compatibility of Polish ASG-EUPOS (European Position Determination System) reference stations and Ukrainian GeoTerrace system reference stations in the context of their future incorporation into the EUPOS. The two networks analyzed in work feature similar hardware parameters. In the ASG-EUPOS reference stations network, during the analyzed period, 2 stations (WLDW and CHEL) used only one system (GPS), while, in the GeoTerrace network, all the stations were equipped with both GPS and GLONASS receivers. The ASG EUPOS reference station network (95.6%) has its average completeness greater by about 6% when compared to the GeoTerrace network (89.8%).
Effect of Vertical Integration on Multidimensional Well‑being of Fish Farmers in Lagos State Fish‑hub, Nigeria
Authors: Ayinde Opeyemi Eyitayo , Ibrahim Hussain Kobe , Salami Mercy Funke , Ajibola Lanre Ebenezer
Published: September 2017

Vertical integration might be relevant to improve the well-being of farmers particularly when thinking of how economic innovation ensures high utilization of resource and promote economic prosperity in Nigeria. However, the relationship of such proposition is yet to receive empirical attention in the fish hub. This study uncovers the effect of the vertical integration on the multi-dimensional well-being of fish producers in Lagos State fish hub. The study was examined using primary data collected from 103 integrated and 60 non-integrated respondents. The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Gross National Wellness (GNW) Index and Average Treatment Effect (ATE). The result of the GNW Index shows that both the integrated and non-integrated farmers ranked the indicators of multidimensional wellness in the same order. They were satisfied with their social relations (8.70); physical and health status (7.91); mental and emotional status (7.41); work and income status (5.87) as well as their economic and retirement status (5.68). However, they were dissatisfied with the political and government condition (4.73) as well as their living environment (3.77). The ATE result shows that the indicators such as the political and government intervention; mental and emotional; work and income were the components of multidimensional wellbeing that was improved by vertical integration decision of the farmers in the fish hub. However, social relations; physical and health; living environment wellbeing dimensions were not affected by the vertical integration decision of the respondents. It is therefore recommended that fish farmers should integrate themselves so as to enjoy government interventions, better income status and better emotional wellness all of which will improve their wellbeing.
Impact of Root and Tuber Expansion Programme: the Case of Gari Processors in Kwara State, Nigeria
Authors: Matanmi Babatunde Mathew , Afolabi Olaitan , Komolafe Sola Emmanuel , Adefalu Lawal Lateef
Published: September 2017

This research was conducted to assess the impact of Root and Tuber Expansion Programme (RTEP) in Kwara State, Nigeria. This impact was examined through a comparative study of project beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries, namely, their personal characteristics, economic characteristics and statistical difference between socio-economic characteristics of respondents. A total of one hundred and sixty (160) respondents were selected using a simple random sampling technique. These consisted of eighty (80) RTEP beneficiaries and eighty (80) Non-beneficiaries. Structured interview schedule was used to collect the data. Descriptive and inferential statistical tools such as frequency counts and percentages and t-test were used to analyse the data. The results of the analysis show that most RTEP beneficiaries (43.75 %) and non-RTEP beneficiaries (31.25 %) processors were within the age range of 41 - 50 years. RTEP beneficiaries (51.3 %) produced higher quantity of gari (a West African food made from cassava tubers) above 500 kg per month and hence higher amount of money spent in purchasing cassava tubers as compared to the non-RTEP beneficiaries (3.75 %) counterparts. Our findings further show that there were significant differences between the quantity of gari produced (t-value = 8.832 at P < 0.05) and the total monthly income (t-value = 7.475 at P < 0.05). It was concluded that the project has impacted positively on the beneficiaries through improved productivity and income generation. To reduce the high cost of purchasing cassava tubers to process into gari, this study suggests that extension agents through the RTEP programme should encourage and train gari processors to engage in cultivation of cassava.
Imre József Balázs and the Romanian Culture
Authors: Tomonicska Ingrid
Published: September 2017

Imre József Balázs is a Hungarian poet, literary critic, editor and literary historian from Romania. His main subject of interest and research area is the Hungarian avant-garde from Romania. His research and work prove his attachment to Romanian literature as well - especially with the avant-garde. For example, he deals with Gellu Naum’s poems for children and their translation. Thus, he fulfils the role of a mediator between Hungarian and Romanian literature not only through his studies and academic papers written in Romanian, but also through his contributions to the appearance of Hungarian poets in literary anthologies written in Romanian language. Furthermore, he plays an important role in publishing the Hungarian translations of Romanian poetry, thus becoming a mediator between the Hungarian and Romanian cultures.
Surrealist Hybrids – Contemporary Hybrids Árpád Mezei and the Late Surrealist Theories of Hybridity
Authors: Balázs Imre József
Published: September 2017

Árpád Mezei (1902-1998) was a Hungarian art theoretician and psychologist. In the 1940s he was co-founder of the Európai Iskola (European School), the most important assembly of progressive Hungarian artists and art theoreticians of the period. His readings in art theory and his friendship with the Surrealist painter and writer Marcel Jean (who lived in Budapest in the period between 1938 and 1945) had a strong impact on his intellectual profile: he co-authored with Marcel Jean three volumes that became important for the understanding of the international Surrealist movement. The paper analyses Mezei’s concepts and tries to reconstruct his interpretative framework where several aspects of culture including mythology, history, literature, art and history of architecture communicate with each other, and hybridity is one of the key concepts. Being used to describe contemporary shifts in culture and identity by authors like Peter Burke, hybridity is of great interest to contemporary culture. The paper points out possible links between late Surrealist theories of hybridity and contemporary culture.
Utopist with Common Sense. Self-Narration and Career Making in the Works of Ferenc Balázs
Authors: Vallasek Júlia-Réka
Published: September 2017

My study focuses on the self-narration of the young Transylvanian writer and social activist of the first part of the twentieth century, Ferenc Balázs, based on his personal correspondence and his autobiographical works. The medieval tradition of peregrination becomes a journey around the world which later will offer the ideological background of his work, and an evergoing clash between cultural traditions. Both his literary work and social achievement are characterized by premodern nostalgia for rural life mixed with utopian socialist ideas. The task of shaping a traditionalist, rural community according to modern idea becomes a token of individual achievement in his works. Balázs’s self-narration is contrasted in the memoirs of his wife and co-worker, Christine Frederiksen (The Alabaster Village), narrated from the special point of view of the stranger. Her interpretation comes to complete a story filled with complex interactions of cultural representations.
The Representation of Ireland in Bertalan Szemere’s Utazás külföldön or A Journey Abroad A Study of Szemere’s Image-Forming Sources
Authors: Pintér Márta
Published: September 2017

The present study adds to my ongoing research into Irish-Hungarian relations in the nineteenth century. As such it is concerned with Bertalan Szemere’s representation of Ireland in his travelogue Utazás külföldön [A Journey Abroad]. It approaches Szemere’s work from the perspective of the following three questions. How does Szemere’s trip to Ireland fit into the tradition of Irish-Hungarian contacts? What urged Szemere to sail over to Ireland and extend his already long and tiring tour of Europe? And finally, what factors shaped Szemere’s image of Ireland in his travel account? A preliminary study of the conditions of Szemere’s trip and his actual account of the country has led me to the hypothesis that in the process of creating his own representation of Ireland Szemere heavily relied on external sources. I seek to answer these questions by identifying the place of Szemere’s travel account in the tradition of Hungarian-Irish contacts; by relating it to other texts on Ireland by Szemere’s Hungarian contemporaries; and by comparing it to particular reports on Ireland by European travellers. My aim is to prove that Szemere’s representation of Ireland was primarily informed and moulded by German and English sources as they were transferred to Szemere by some Hungarian periodicals. My study also emphasizes the importance of further research into the interaction of Hungarian and European discourse on Ireland in the nineteenth century.
Representations of Hungary and Transylvania in John Paget’s Travelogue
Authors: Bökös Borbála
Published: September 2017

Hungary was an important destination for British travelers in the nineteenth century, whose travel accounts provide intriguing insights into the cultural and political climate of the period. John Paget’s journey was meticulously recorded in his extensive book entitled Hungary and Transylvania (1839) that served as a travel guide for other British visitors after him. Paget, who took part in the 1848/49 War of Independence, and became a “Hungarian,” opened Europe’s eyes to the Hungarian people and their country, destroying several false myths that existed about Hungarians in Western Europe, thus attempting to shape up a more favorable picture about them. The present paper examines a few questions regarding the representation of Hungary and of Transylvania in general in the travelogue: how did Paget describe particular cities and regions, the inhabitants, as well as their everyday life? I will attempt to look at the (changing) images of Hungary and Transylvania in Paget’s writing, as well as to offer an insight into Hungarian society and culture in the nineteenth century as contrasted to English culture and politics.
Liminality and Border Crossing in Ádám Bodor’s Novels
Authors: Tapodi Zsuzsa
Published: September 2017

The plots of the novels The Sinistra Zone (1992), The Archbishop’s Visit (1999) and The Birds of Verhovina (2011) by Ádám Bodor unfold in border zones, in spaces of liminal existence. By investigating the intricate relationship between the Self and the Other, using particular space forming techniques with shifts and displacements, these novels extend the scope of postmodern fragmentariness to identity construction as well. In these literary works enforced journeys or travels with well-defined purposes should not be merely understood in their physical sense: identity also undergoes a change, becomes hybrid. In a space characterized by a labyrinth of ethnic diversity, identities distorted by a dictatorial regime often go beyond the border of the human, the characters being endowed with animal features. Starting from Merleau-Ponty’s idea according to which action is not set in space, but rather comes into being through space (Faragó 2001, 7), the consequences of spatial changes must also be taken into account.
Forms of Recall – Politics of Memory. Memory as the Non-Chronological Narrative Form of Historical-Political Identity Quest in the Kádár Regime and Its Survival in the Postcommunist Period
Authors: Gelencsér Gábor
Published: September 2017

In the film art of the Kádár regime the modernist non-chronological narrative mode became the dominant form of remembrance and communicative memory. In the 35-year period between 1956 and 1990 we can find thirty-five films of this type (e.g. Dialogue [Párbeszéd, János Herskó, 1963], Twenty Hours [Húsz óra, Zoltán Fábri, 1965], Cold Days [Hideg napok, András Kovács, 1966], Love [Szerelem, Károly Makk, 1971], Lovefilm [Szerelmesfilm, István Szabó, 1970], Diary for My Children [Napló gyermekeimnek, Márta Mészáros, 1982]), the majority of which thematize the communicative memory of the recent past of the period (World War II, the Hungarian Holocaust, the 1950s, 1956, the Kádár consolidation) as opposed to the amnesia politics of the time. Although this cinematic corpus is connected to the film history of the Kádár era with all its elements (form: modernism; theme: communicative memory; political discourse: recollection; official politics of memory; the counterdiscourse of Kádár’s amnesia politics), it survives in the postcommunist period (e.g. Hungarian Fragment [Pannon töredék, András Sólyom, 1998], White Palms [Fehér tenyér, Szabolcs Hajdu, 2006], Mom and Other Loonies in the Family [Anyám és más futóbolondok a családból, Ibolya Fekete, 2015]). After presenting the non-chronological narrative form of historical-political identity quest, the paper seeks to find reasons for the survival of this form and tries to draw conclusions regarding the social aspect and modes of expression of the Hungarian film history of the postcommunist period.
Autovalidation and automation of the postanalytical phase of routine hematology and coagulation analyses in a university hospital laboratory
Authors: Mlinaric Ana , Milos Marija , Coen Herak Désirée , Fucek Mirjana , Rimac Vladimira , Zadro Renata , Rogic Dunja
Published: September 2017

Background:

The need to satisfy high-throughput demands for laboratory tests continues to be a challenge. Therefore, we aimed to automate postanalytical phase in hematology and coagulation laboratory by autovalidation of complete blood count (CBC) and routine coagulation test results (prothrombin time [PT], international normalized ratio [PT-INR], activated partial thromboplastin time [APTT], fibrinogen, antithrombin activity [AT] and thrombin time [TT]). Work efficacy and turnaround time (TAT) before and after implementation of automated solutions will be compared.

Methods:

Ordering panels tailored to specific patient populations were implemented. Rerun and reflex testing rules were set in the respective analyzers’ software (Coulter DxH Connectivity 1601, Beckman Coulter, FL, USA; AutoAssistant, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Germany), and sample status information was transferred into the laboratory information system. To evaluate if the automation improved TAT and efficacy, data from manually verified results in September and October of 2015 were compared with the corresponding period in 2016 when autovalidation was implemented.

Results:

Autovalidation rates of 63% for CBC and 65% for routine coagulation test results were achieved. At the TAT of 120 min, the percentage of reported results increased substantially for all analyzed tests, being above 90% for CBC, PT, PT-INR and fibrinogen and 89% for APTT. This output was achieved with three laboratory technicians less compared with the period when the postanalytical phase was not automated.

Conclusions:

Automation allowed optimized laboratory workflow for specific patient populations, thereby ensuring standardized results reporting. Autovalidation of test results proved to be an efficient tool for improvement of laboratory work efficacy and TAT.
Thermoelectrically induced nonlinear free vibration analysis of piezo laminated composite conical shell panel with random fiber orientation
Authors: Lal Achchhe , Shegokar Niranjan L.
Published: September 2017

This paper presents the free vibration response of piezo laminated composite geometrically nonlinear conical shell panel subjected to a thermo-electrical loading. The temperature field is assumed to be a uniform distribution over the shell surface and through the shell thickness and the electric field is assumed to be the transverse component E2 only. The material properties are assumed to be independent of the temperature and the electric field. The basic formulation is based on higher order shear deformation plate theory (HSDT) with von-Karman nonlinearity. A C0 nonlinear finite element method based on direct iterative approach is outlined and applied to solve nonlinear generalized eigenvalue problem. Parametric studies are carried out to examine the effect of amplitude ratios, stacking sequences, cone angles, piezoelectric layers, applied voltages, circumferential length to thickness ratios, change in temperatures and support boundary conditions on the nonlinear natural frequency of laminated conical shell panels. The present outlined approach has been validated with those available results in the literature.
Misterchef? Cooks, Chefs and Gender in MasterChef Australia
Authors: Herkes Ellen , Redden Guy
Published: September 2017

MasterChef Australia is the most popular television series in Australian history. It gives a wide range of ordinary people the chance to show they can master culinary arts to a professional standard. Through content and textual analysis of seven seasons of the show this article examines gendered patterns in its representation of participants and culinary professionals. Women are often depicted as home cooks by inclination while the figure of the professional chef remains almost exclusively male. Despite its rhetoric of inclusivity, MCA does little to challenge norms of the professional gastronomic field that have devalued women’s cooking while valorising “hard” masculinized culinary cultures led by men.
Postsecular Instruments of Acculturation. Czesław Miłosz’s Works from the Second American Stay
Authors: Jarzyńska Karina
Published: September 2017

The article raises the question about the ways in which religious tradition can become an ally in the process of acculturation while serving the modern subject both as a springboard for innovative, creative work and as a tool of self-improvement. Czesław Miłosz’s selected works from his second stay in the United States (1961-1980) are analysed from the postsecular perspective which recognises religion as a full-fledged actor in the process of modern transformations that may broaden the field of artistic choice but remains vulnerable to artistic resemantizations or even profanations (Agamben). Such an analysis allows us to interpret the poem From the Rising of the Sun as a form of reconciliation of Miłosz’s American and Lithuanian experience (as well as of maturity and childhood, centre and periphery, modern and pre-modern cultural formation) through textual practices inspired by his private Liturgy of the Hours. In this light, the translations of the Books of the Bible on which Miłosz worked, his novel The Mountains of Parnassus, as well as his essays from Visions from San Francisco Bay emerge as instruments of shaping the communal identity with the use of pre-existing rituals, which are, nonetheless, also negotiated in the act of writing.