bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
“La fotografía es la misma muerte”: Ruina, espectro y testimonio de Antonio Machado en Guerra en España de Juan Ramón Jiménez
Authors: Aguirre-Oteiza Daniel
Published: November 2015

El proyecto inacabado de Juan Ramón Jiménez Guerra en España puede leerse como un testimonio literario del destierro del escritor en Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica. Entre 1936 y 1954, Jiménez creó un archivo de materiales misceláneos propios y ajenos para documentar sus actividades en pro de la República durante la Guerra Civil española y el exilio. Conforme a su poética visionaria, el proyecto se articula como un montaje de ruinas epitáficas que atestiguan la experiencia de acercamiento a la muerte de Antonio Machado y de Jiménez, salvaguardando sus obras de usos políticos. Las tensiones entre política y poética que revela este montaje aclaran la importante posición que estudios recientes otorgan a Jiménez en la historia intelectual de la España del siglo XX.
Rules and Right in Mill
Authors: Turner Piers Norris
Published: November 2015

Recent scholarship on John Stuart Mill’s moral theory has settled on the view that he is committed to a form of rule utilitarianism. I argue that this consensus is mistaken. Mill’s explicit account of practical rules is incompatible with rule utilitarianism but consistent with sophisticated act utilitarianism. I also examine the direct, textual evidence cited by rule utilitarian interpreters, arguing that it is consistent with the act utilitarian account of practical rules. Finally, I argue that two systematic considerations cited by rule utilitarian interpreters—Mill’s analysis of “wrong” in terms of the appropriateness of punishment, and his account of supererogation—also do not require a rule utilitarian reading.
In Defense of Real Cartesian Motion: A Reply to Lennon
Authors: Thomas Emily
Published: November 2015

On Thomas Lennon’s (2007) “Eleatic” reading of Descartes, the Cartesian world is in reality motionless, its motions conceived as mere phenomenal appearances. Lennon is aware that this radical reading appears to be at odds with various Cartesian texts that seemingly describe real motions, and accordingly he reinterprets these texts in such a way as to render them compatible with his reading. This reply to Lennon considers many further Cartesian texts that cannot be “reinterpreted” along the lines Lennon describes, with the ultimate aim of showing that the phenomenalist is committed to dividing Cartesian texts into passages dealing with reality and with appearance. I argue there are good reasons not to read Descartes in this way, and we should take Cartesian motion at face value: to be real.
Hume’s Psychology of the Passions: The Literature and Future Directions
Authors: Radcliffe Elizabeth S.
Published: November 2015

Commentators have sometimes underappreciated or misunderstood the point of Hume’s theory of the passions. This paper offers an overview of the literature on Hume’s psychology of the passions, with the aim of showing that it is not simply another mechanistic analysis alongside the offerings of Malebranche, Hobbes, and Spinoza. Recent discussions reveal that Hume’s theory makes an influential contribution to the eighteenth-century debate on the importance of certain passions in human well-being, offers a conception of a social rather than a solitary self, and, among other things, has important implications for moral and motivational theory. This essay begins with the background to and the details of Hume’s theory, with reference to contemporary interpretive treatments of Hume’s taxonomy of the passions. It then considers specific questions to which Hume’s theory of the passions has given rise, and appraises the various perspectives offered in response. Last, it considers broad interpretations concerning the import of Hume’s theory of the passions on the whole: that the passions are crucial to morality; that the passions offer a solution to the problem of the self; that the passions are key to sociability and self-regulation; and that the passions play a fundamental role in religion and in the appreciation of tragedy. Throughout, this essay also notes topics on which more scholarly discussion would be especially beneficial.
Unmoved: A Rejoinder to Emily Thomas
Authors: Lennon Thomas M.
Published: November 2015

The texts of Descartes cited by Emily Thomas do not show the motion recognized by him to be real, that is, mind-independent. Other realist commentators whom she enlists in support of her cause turn out to offer not much at all. Crucial to the debate is the concept of a superficies , the modal being which is the surface shared by the body said to move and the surrounding body or bodies with respect to which its motion is defined. No realist interpretation of Cartesian motion has come to terms with it; most just ignore it or pay it little heed.
Rethinking Abstractionism: Aquinas’s Intellectual Light and Some Arabic Sources
Authors: Cory Therese Scarpelli
Published: November 2015

The thesis of this paper is that Thomas Aquinas offers an alternative model of abstraction (the Active Principle Model) that overcomes the standard objections to abstractionism and expands our view of what an abstractionist theory might look like. I contend that this alternative model of abstraction has been invisible in plain sight, in Aquinas’s references to the mind’s abstractive mechanism as an “intellectual light.” Such language is not metaphorical but rather technical, signaling that intellectual abstraction is to be modeled on the activity of physical light as he understood it from theories proposed by Avicenna and Averroes. The Active Principle Model requires us to rethink Aquinas’s account of how we come to know essences—a process that turns out to be much more tentative and incremental than previously thought.
Hobbes’s First Cause
Authors: Holden Thomas
Published: November 2015

Hobbes maintains that natural human reason can prove the existence of a “first cause of all causes.” But he also maintains that for all natural human reason can tell, the regress of causes might recede to infinity with no beginning at all. I argue that this apparent contradiction dissolves once we take his expressivist interpretation of religious language into account. For Hobbes, the proper function of talk about the divine attributes, including talk about its status as the “first cause of all,” is not to represent the nature of the deity, but simply to express our reverence and humility before it.
Three Types of Spontaneity and Teleology in Leibniz
Authors: Jorati Julia
Published: November 2015

Leibniz holds that all substances possess “spontaneity,” that is, that all states of a given substance originate within it. Several commentators distinguish two kinds of spontaneity. My paper sharpens and expands this distinction by arguing that we need to distinguish not just two, but three types of spontaneity. This in turn sheds light on Leibniz’s otherwise puzzling views on teleology. I show that there is an intimate connection between spontaneity and teleology and that a type of teleology corresponds to each type of spontaneity. Making these distinctions can help us understand, among other things, how Leibniz can account for significant differences between different types of actions while maintaining that all monadic activity is teleological and spontaneous.
The Self as Narrative in Hume
Authors: Greco Lorenzo
Published: November 2015

In this paper, I return to the well-known apparent inconsistencies in Hume’s treatment of personal identity in the three books of A Treatise of Human Nature , and try to defend a Humean narrative interpretation of the self. I argue that in Book 1 of the Treatise Hume is answering (to use Marya Schechtman’s expressions in The Constitution of Selves ) a ‘reidentification’ question concerning personal identity, which is different from the ‘characterization’ question of Books 2 and 3. That is, I maintain that whereas in Book 1 Hume is using his philosophical empiricism to provide his own version of the problem of how to recognize persons as the same at different times, in Books 2 and 3 he is presenting selves from a different, both sentimental and ethical standpoint, as the focus of people’s concerns. I start by discussing Hume’s notion of personal identity as presented in Book 1 and in the Appendix. I then specify the narrative conception of the self Hume relies on when dealing with passions and morality as the self-consciousness persons develop as bearers of characters of or about which they can be morally proud or humble. I finally conclude by distinguishing Hume’s narrative self from the idea of “the unity of human life” that Alasdair MacIntyre puts forward in After Virtue .
Paganism in Restoration France: Eckstein’s Traditionalist Orientalism
Authors: McCalla Arthur
Published: November 2015

Early nineteenth-century Orientalism was bound up with the rival responses of conservatives and liberals to the question of whether or not post-Revolutionary society rests on religious foundations. Ferdinand d’Eckstein’s (1790–1861) writings in the Catholique (1826–1829) comprise the most extensive exemplar of Catholic Traditionalist Orientalism. This article, after outlining Eckstein’s intellectual formation, elucidates his version of Orientalism, characterized by Traditionalist understandings of revelation and paganism; discusses its status as a critique of contemporary mythography and as an alleged “Indo-Christianity”; and assesses Eckstein’s place in the intellectual and socio-political life of early-nineteenth-century France by linking his Orientalism to Catholic science and liberal-Catholicism.
The Epileptic Genius: The Use of Dostoevsky as Example in the Medical Debate over the Pathology of Genius
Authors: Dahlkvist Tobias
Published: November 2015

This paper examines how Fyodor Dostoevsky was used as an example in the debate over genius as a pathological phenomenon in nineteenth century medicine and criminal anthropology. When Dostoevsky’s novels became known in Western Europe medical interest in the relation between genius and insanity reached its pinnacle. A known epileptic, Dostoevsky was exceptionally well suited to illustrate Cesare Lombroso’s theory of genius as an epileptoid psychosis. Dostoevsky was also claimed as an example by the rivalling Lyon school, whose representatives argued that Dostoevsky’s life and works demonstrate that genius is a higher form of health rather than a pathological deviation.
Defining Progressive Politics: Municipal Socialism and Anti-Socialism in Contestation, 1889–1939
Authors: Robinson Emily
Published: November 2015

“Progressive” is usually seen to emerge as a political term in the late 1880s, signifying new liberalism and its alliance with social democracy. This is also the period in which Koselleck noted that “progress” became an empty “catchword,” used across the political spectrum. This paper explores this semantic shift. It focuses on two periods of “Progressive” municipal politics in Britain: the London Progressive Party elected in 1889, and the anti-socialist Progressive Parties of the inter-war years. It asks how the champions and opponents of municipal socialism could both call themselves “progressive” and what this reveals about the fracturing of liberalism.
The Influence of Alfred North Whitehead on Eric Voegelin
Authors: Gerolin Alessandra
Published: November 2015

The aim of this article consists in pointing out pertinent features of Alfred North Whitehead’s speculative thought inherited and expanded upon by Eric Voegelin. I will follow Voegelin’s declarations before introducing my own theoretical proposals. In particular, I will focus on three concepts proposed by Whitehead that resonate in Voegelin’s thought, namely those of “climate of opinion,” “fallacy of misplaced concreteness,” and “process.” By highlighting the intellectual continuity between these two thinkers (while not obscuring their crucial differences), I will reflect upon their place within the historical trajectory of ideas.
The Drawing Board of Imagination: Federico Commandino and John Philoponus
Authors: Claessens Guy A. J.
Published: November 2015

Federico Commandino (1509–1575) can be considered the personification of the renaissance of mathematics in sixteenth-century Italy. Previous scholars have generally reduced the philosophy of mathematics developed (1572) by Commandino in the preface to his translation of Euclid’s Elements to a superficial synthesis of Neoplatonic and Aristotelian elements. Until now, no attention has been paid to Commandino’s use of the sixth-century commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima by John Philoponus. In his article I will argue that, in depicting imagination as a mental drawing board for geometrical figures, Commandino directly relies on Philoponus’s concept of mathematical imagination.
A Philosophy of the Patriarchs?: The Agenda behind Christoph August Heumann’s Acta Philosophorum
Authors: Mahlev Haim
Published: November 2015

The article explores the relation in the German Early Enlightenment between philosophy and theosophical knowledge—more precisely, between rationalistic philosophy, “perennial philosophy,” and pristine knowledge—through the prism of Christoph August Heumann’s renowned “Acta Philosophorum.” The work, dedicated to a philosophical history of philosophy, harbors two hitherto unexplored agendas—the rejection of perennial knowledge as philosophy, and the depiction of the Hebrews as non-philosophers. Heumann’s use of unphilosophical arguments in his refutation of perennial knowledge renders his project problematic from a philosophical perspective and calls for a re-evaluation of the mechanism behind the paradigm-change his work promotes.
Jean Barbeyrac’s Theory of Permissive Natural Law and the Foundation of Property Rights
Authors: Bisset Sophie
Published: November 2015

The paper considers Jean Barbeyrac's theory of permissive natural law, in particular its significance for his account of natural property rights. This interpretation contributes to current debates on permissive natural law in the early modern period by arguing that Barbeyrac’s theory was more significant than hitherto acknowledged. The conceptual framework provided by Barbeyrac’s theory of permissive natural law is crucial to understanding the ways in which his will-based theory of property departs not only from the consent-based theory of Samuel Pufendorf but also from the labor-based theory of John Locke with which he is most commonly associated.
Heading for a Total Eclipse
Authors: Drury John Philip
Published: November 2015

Over the years, Ploughshares has sometimes received longer submissions that were difficult to publish due to space considerations in the print issue. Ploughshares Solos is a digital-first series for longer stories and essays, edited by Ploughshares Editor-in-Chief Ladette Randolph. New Solos are published regularly and are available for download on your Kindle or Nook. (If you do not have a Kindle or Nook device, you can download apps for smart phones, tablets, and computers.) The stories and essays are collected in the annual printed Omnibus . Ploughshares is excited to be breaking ground as one of the first literary journals to explore a long-story, digital-first format.
Found Wanting: A Memoir of Misreading
Authors: Howard Robert
Published: November 2015

Over the years, Ploughshares has sometimes received longer submissions that were difficult to publish due to space considerations in the print issue. Ploughshares Solos is a digital-first series for longer stories and essays, edited by Ploughshares Editor-in-Chief Ladette Randolph. New Solos are published regularly and are available for download on your Kindle or Nook. (If you do not have a Kindle or Nook device, you can download apps for smart phones, tablets, and computers.) The stories and essays are collected in the annual printed Omnibus . Ploughshares is excited to be breaking ground as one of the first literary journals to explore a long-story, digital-first format.
Dead Zone
Authors: Reich Tova
Published: November 2015

Over the years, Ploughshares has sometimes received longer submissions that were difficult to publish due to space considerations in the print issue. Ploughshares Solos is a digital-first series for longer stories and essays, edited by Ploughshares Editor-in-Chief Ladette Randolph. New Solos are published regularly and are available for download on your Kindle or Nook. (If you do not have a Kindle or Nook device, you can download apps for smart phones, tablets, and computers.) The stories and essays are collected in the annual printed Omnibus . Ploughshares is excited to be breaking ground as one of the first literary journals to explore a long-story, digital-first format.
Café Deux Mondes
Authors: Browder Catherine
Published: November 2015

Over the years, Ploughshares has sometimes received longer submissions that were difficult to publish due to space considerations in the print issue. Ploughshares Solos is a digital-first series for longer stories and essays, edited by Ploughshares Editor-in-Chief Ladette Randolph. New Solos are published regularly and are available for download on your Kindle or Nook. (If you do not have a Kindle or Nook device, you can download apps for smart phones, tablets, and computers.) The stories and essays are collected in the annual printed Omnibus . Ploughshares is excited to be breaking ground as one of the first literary journals to explore a long-story, digital-first format.
The Beginning of the End of the Beginning
Authors: Elliott Anne
Published: November 2015

Over the years, Ploughshares has sometimes received longer submissions that were difficult to publish due to space considerations in the print issue. Ploughshares Solos is a digital-first series for longer stories and essays, edited by Ploughshares Editor-in-Chief Ladette Randolph. New Solos are published regularly and are available for download on your Kindle or Nook. (If you do not have a Kindle or Nook device, you can download apps for smart phones, tablets, and computers.) The stories and essays are collected in the annual printed Omnibus . Ploughshares is excited to be breaking ground as one of the first literary journals to explore a long-story, digital-first format.
Villa Bohème
Authors: González Kevin A.
Published: November 2015

Over the years, Ploughshares has sometimes received longer submissions that were difficult to publish due to space considerations in the print issue. Ploughshares Solos is a digital-first series for longer stories and essays, edited by Ploughshares Editor-in-Chief Ladette Randolph. New Solos are published regularly and are available for download on your Kindle or Nook. (If you do not have a Kindle or Nook device, you can download apps for smart phones, tablets, and computers.) The stories and essays are collected in the annual printed Omnibus . Ploughshares is excited to be breaking ground as one of the first literary journals to explore a long-story, digital-first format.
Bad Books
Authors: Needham Clare
Published: November 2015

Over the years, Ploughshares has sometimes received longer submissions that were difficult to publish due to space considerations in the print issue. Ploughshares Solos is a digital-first series for longer stories and essays, edited by Ploughshares Editor-in-Chief Ladette Randolph. New Solos are published regularly and are available for download on your Kindle or Nook. (If you do not have a Kindle or Nook device, you can download apps for smart phones, tablets, and computers.) The stories and essays are collected in the annual printed Omnibus . Ploughshares is excited to be breaking ground as one of the first literary journals to explore a long-story, digital-first format.
Introduction
Authors: Randolph Ladette
Published: November 2015

Over the years, Ploughshares has sometimes received longer submissions that were difficult to publish due to space considerations in the print issue. Ploughshares Solos is a digital-first series for longer stories and essays, edited by Ploughshares Editor-in-Chief Ladette Randolph. New Solos are published regularly and are available for download on your Kindle or Nook. (If you do not have a Kindle or Nook device, you can download apps for smart phones, tablets, and computers.) The stories and essays are collected in the annual printed Omnibus . Ploughshares is excited to be breaking ground as one of the first literary journals to explore a long-story, digital-first format.
The Brooks Brothers Guru
Authors: Ohlin Alix
Published: November 2015

Over the years, Ploughshares has sometimes received longer submissions that were difficult to publish due to space considerations in the print issue. Ploughshares Solos is a digital-first series for longer stories and essays, edited by Ploughshares Editor-in-Chief Ladette Randolph. New Solos are published regularly and are available for download on your Kindle or Nook. (If you do not have a Kindle or Nook device, you can download apps for smart phones, tablets, and computers.) The stories and essays are collected in the annual printed Omnibus . Ploughshares is excited to be breaking ground as one of the first literary journals to explore a long-story, digital-first format.
Pie
Authors: Matson Suzanne
Published: November 2015

Over the years, Ploughshares has sometimes received longer submissions that were difficult to publish due to space considerations in the print issue. Ploughshares Solos is a digital-first series for longer stories and essays, edited by Ploughshares Editor-in-Chief Ladette Randolph. New Solos are published regularly and are available for download on your Kindle or Nook. (If you do not have a Kindle or Nook device, you can download apps for smart phones, tablets, and computers.) The stories and essays are collected in the annual printed Omnibus . Ploughshares is excited to be breaking ground as one of the first literary journals to explore a long-story, digital-first format.
A “Harmony of Frenzy”: Māori in Manhattan, 1909–10
Authors: Schultz Marianne
Published: November 2015

This essay examines the “Maoris of Manhattan”—forty performers from New Zealand who imagined a race and place virtually unknown to North Americans on the world’s largest stage, the New York Hippodrome. The confluence of politics, race, and gender come to the fore in this examination of contemporary expressions of popular entertainment, highlighting how performance and public discourse of Māori led to new representations of New Zealand and contributed in developments in corporeal cultural hybridity. The performers challenged Americans’ understandings of both Māori and Indigenous people with their stylish dress and manners and support of women’s rights.
Oceanic Imaginaries and Waterworlds: Vaka Moana on the Sea and Stage
Authors: Looser Diana
Published: November 2015

This essay explores trans-Indigenous dynamics by examining the interface between two cultural revival efforts in Oceania: the renaissance of Indigenous seafaring vessels and navigational technologies, and the development of local forms of modern theatrical expression. The resurgence of vaka moana (ocean-going canoes) has nurtured national pride and regional affiliations in the Pacific, and the performing arts have contributed to that discourse, transmitting, challenging, and imaginatively elaborating information and attitudes. the vaka ’s historical and ongoing emphasis on suturing Indigenous/Indigenous ties across Oceania bypasses the binaries of traditional postcolonial inquiry to privilege lateral, multi-sited connections and collaborations, and the essay analyzes these relationships through contemporary voyaging performances from Hawai’i, Tahiti, and Fiji. By charting exchanges and alliances along with exclusions and disjunctions, this discussion acknowledges Oceania as a complex, heterogeneous, and volatile region, inviting consideration of how trans-Indigenous methodologies work across various forms of power and authority, and encouraging a more nuanced appreciation of how identities are negotiated in Oceanic performance.
Hula for the Future: Patrick Makuakāne and the Hula Mua “Salva Mea”
Authors: Shaka Angeline
Published: November 2015

This essay analyzes nationally recognized and San Francisco–based kumu hula Patrick Makuakāne’s iconic hula mua choreography, “Salva Mea,” from the climax of his theatrical production, The Natives Are Restless (1996). Linking the civil rights era’s cultural renaissance movement’s twin goals of reclaiming and revitalizing traditional hula forms to Makuakāne’s own diasporic hula mua project, the essay first defines and locates hula mua within an Indigenous tradition of Hawaiian hula, and then routes it through an innovative diasporic hybridity. Contextualized by a contemporary political history of Hawai’i, the essay uses choreographic analysis to argue that “Salva Mea” makes the cultural violence that accompanied Native Hawaiian conversion to Christianity in the nineteenth century visible and visceral, while requiring audience members to confront the ongoing repercussions of settlement. In light of a forthcoming twentieth-anniversary reconstruction of The Natives Are Restless in 2016, the essay propels Native Hawaiians into the twenty-first century and into global theatre as one kumu hula finds new ways for hula to produce and enact Indigenous knowledge.
A Meeting of Nations: Trans-Indigenous and Intercultural Interventions in Contemporary Indigenous Dance
Authors: Swain Rachael
Published: November 2015

This essay discusses a series of Intercultural and trans-Indigenous Choreographic Laboratories that took place in remote and urban Australian and New Zealand locations between 2009 and 2011. The labs introduced the practice of a range of leading choreographers from Australia, New Zealand, West Africa, and Indonesian Papua to a group of participant dance artists from Australia and the Pacific. Indigenous choreographers working with experimental processes and forms navigate complex and sometimes conflicting expectations from local communities and national agendas and movements within the international contemporary dance market, itself a global conversation. The structure of the labs and the work of the guest choreographers discussed in the essay together present the emergence of a global trans-Indigenous choreographic experimentation, developed within distinct cultural locations. Trans-Indigenous and intercultural exchange among Indigenous dance artists and other dance artists working in postcolonial contexts can equip choreographers with a broader set of strategies and references to help them expand understanding of contemporary Indigenous dance and how it functions within the multiple frameworks it is required to navigate.
Performing Serpent Mound: A Trans-Indigenous Meditation
Authors: Allen Chadwick
Published: November 2015

How have Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, intellectuals, writers, activists, and performers from diverse backgrounds engaged the evocative Serpent Mound effigy located in what is now southwestern Ohio? And what do their different approaches tell us about Indigenous representation and embodiment? This essay begins to answer these complex questions by performing a series of interpretative acts across and through a wide range of historical and contemporary engagements with the Great Serpent. These include classic works of interpretation and speculation produced by non-Native archaeologists and historians; the semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel Meridian , set in the Us south before, during, and after the 1960s civil rights movement, by African American writer and intellectual Alice Walker; the mathematically encoded sequence of interrelated earthworks poems Blood Run by Native American writer, intellectual, and activist Allison Hedge coke, which also works as a script for imagined or embodied performance; the performance-in-progress Side Show Freaks and Circus Injuns being co-developed by Native American writers, intellectuals, and performers Monique Mojica and LeAnne Howe, which bases its dramaturgy in the materiality of earthworks; forthcoming interpretive poetry by Yi writer and scholar Aku Wuwu from southwest China; and the author’s own embodied encounters with the Serpent effigy and its representations. Through these purposeful juxtapositions of Indigenous and non-Indigenous texts and performances that feature serpent Mound, this essay endeavors to demonstrate a version of the trans-Indigenous as a productive methodology for Native American and Indigenous literary and performance studies.
Discarding Sympathy, Disrupting Catharsis: The Mortification of Indigenous Flesh as Survivance-Intervention
Authors: Carter Jill
Published: November 2015

This essay feels its way through several incarnations of publically performed grief in the territories now known as Canada. In each, the Indigenous “actors” of these territories feature prominently, and the wounding of these individuals and their communities is addressed, presented, intervened upon, and “reviewed” in private living rooms, in public media, and on social-media sites. Through this exercise the essay attempts to discover the mechanics and affect of those “productions” that solicit and elicit a sympathetic response from their witnesses, and to weigh these against performative interventions that reject the sympathetic response and demand from their witnesses’ empathic, effective action to engender social transformation. The examination begins with the production of truth, the performance of sympathy, and the promise of reconciliation on Canada’s national stage; it then looks to public spaces of private mourning on the municipal stage. And it visits, at last, the professional stages of contemporary performance whereupon Native artists, eschewing the narratives of victimization, artfully intervene upon the spaces of Indigenous wounding, as they reconfigure our Nations’ mourning songs into anthems of Indigenous sovereignty and reveal the “sympathy” of the settler-witness to be irrelevant, unseemly, and perhaps even dangerous.
Shakespeare among the “Salvages”: The Bard in Red Atlantic Performance
Authors: Weaver Jace
Published: November 2015

This essay looks at theatre and performance in the Red Atlantic (a concept developed by the author that re-centers Atlantic world history on the Indigenes of the western hemisphere). Specifically, it looks at the imbrications between the Red Atlantic and the works of William Shakespeare. In Red Atlantic theatre Natives were initially simply objects of representation; later, they interacted with Shakespeare’s works as audience, performers, and ultimately as tellers of their own alternative narratives. Far from always being passive victims of colonialism, Natives enacted their own fierce agency.
Research and evidence in education decision-making: A comparison of results from two pan-Canadian studies
Authors: Galway Gerald , Sheppard Bruce
Published: November 2015

In this paper we compare the use of research and other evidence in the policy formation practices of two groups of education policy elites, situated in different contexts – provincial education ministries and school districts. Data are derived from two pan-Canadian studies: Galway (2006) and Sheppard, Galway, Brown & Wiens (2013). The findings show that policy decisions at the ministry level are informed primarily by political and pragmatic factors, personal and professional beliefs and staff advice. The role of external research is shown to be relatively marginal and confined to quantitative studies and performance assessments. Decision makers at the school district level are less attendant to political and pragmatic influences relying more on personal beliefs, values and experiential factors supplemented by the advice of professional staff and in-house research/indicators.  Results from both studies demonstrate limited reliance on external data and university-based research – the latter ranking 15th of 20 influencing factors. Consistent with Beck’s (1994; 1997) risk theory, we theorize that education policy making in both contexts is influenced by both macro- and micro-level factors, where choice of policy evidence is mediated by personal considerations and political risk factors. This suggests a weak policy development paradigm that is, to a large extent, resistant to independent research-informed evidence.
Can students themselves narrow the socioeconomic-status-based achievement gap through their own persistence and learning time?
Authors: Huang Haigen
Published: November 2015

Despite decades of educational reforms, the achievement gap based on socioeconomic status (SES) persists in the United States. Not only does the SES-based achievement gap persist, it has also been widening. This study focused on the role of students, hypothesizing that students might reduce the SES-based achievement gap by increasing their learning time and persistence. I used both ANOVA and two-level hierarchical linear models (HLM) to analyze the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) United States data. The findings suggested that students viewing themselves to be persistent were likely to perform better than those viewing themselves to be less persistent. Also increased time learning in school was associated with increased achievement. However, high-SES students generally spent more time learning in school and viewed themselves to be more persistent. Thus learning time and persistence were not likely to address the SES constraint on achievement for a majority of low-SES students unless schools provided them extra classes and learning opportunities.
Prospects of geothermal water
Use in cultivation of Spirulina
Authors: Godlewska Katarzyna , Tomaszewska Barbara , Michalak Izabela , Bujakowski Wiesław , Chojnacka Katarzyna
Published: November 2015

Spirulina has been studied due to its commercial importance as a source of essential amino acids, protein, vitamins, fatty acids etc. Most of the culture systems in use today are open ponds. The new approach proposed in this paper is to use the geothermal water as a medium for microalgae cultivation. Poland has beneficial conditions for wide geothermal use, as one of the environmentally friendly and sustainable renewable energy sources. In the planned research, geothermal water could be used to prepare microalgal culture medium, to heat greenhouses with bioreactors used for the growth of Spirulina, to dry the obtained biomass, as well as to heat the ground in foil tunnels. Using geothermal water gives the possibility to produce algae in open ponds covered with greenhouses and to cultivate plants during winter. The obtained algae can be used for the production of algal bio-products (e.g. homogenates), having the potential application in plant cultivation.
On Inferring Income Inequality Measures Using L-moments
Authors: Sreelakshmi N. , Asha G. , Muraleedharan Nair K. R.
Published: November 2015

L-moments are expectations of linear combinations of order statistics, their use in reliability analysis has been established. In the present paper we study L-moments in relation to income inequality measures. Models characterized by functional relationships between L-moments and income inequality measures are studied. Finally, we define the ordering based on L-moments and study its implications on other existing orderings.
Joseph of Nazareth in theProtevangelium of James
Authors: Glessner Justin M.
Published: November 2015

The tensions and gaps between Joseph’s canonical reception (in Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2) left him wide open for literary development. This essay considers the reception of Joseph in theProtevangelium of James(PJ) and examines the overlapping and intertwining ways in which interpretation and social context influence that reception. In contrast to that of Luke (Luke 1-2) and similar to that of Matthew (Matt 1-2), PJ’s infancy account is arguablyJoseph’stale. Joseph’s point-of-view characterization in PJ feasibly plays a key role in mediating collective memory and putative in-group identity, bound up with the processes of male self-fashioning. In particular, through its meditation on the outwardly perplexing circumstances of Joseph’s ‘not quite’ marriage to Mary and in its positioning of the ‘rodhandling’ priestly elite, PJ can be seen to have been instrumental in inspiring, or at least being conducive to, forms of masculine subjectivity at home within early Syrian ascetical circles.
In-vitro hemolysis and its financial impact using different blood collection systems
Authors: Cadamuro Janne , Fiedler Georg Martin , Mrazek Cornelia , Felder Thomas Klaus , Oberkofler Hannes , Kipman Ulrike , Haschke-Becher Elisabeth , Wiedemann Helmut
Published: November 2015

Background: Hemolytic specimens are among the most challenging preanalytical issues in laboratory diagnostics. The type of blood collection tube in use is claimed to influence in vitro hemolysis. We aimed to examine this hypothesis and estimate the respective financial impact, evaluating routine blood samples from the past 4 years.

Methods: A total of 47,820 hemolysis index (HI) values from five different time intervals (IV1–IV5) were compared against each other, representing the following tubes: IV1-Sarstedt Monovette; IV2-8 mL/16×100 mm Greiner BioOne (GBO) Vacuette; IV3/IV4-5 mL/16×100 mm GBO Vacuette; IV5-4.5 mL/13×75 mm GBO Vacuette. For estimation of the economic impact, material, personnel and analytical costs were calculated.

Results: HI mean values in time interval IV2 were significantly higher than in all other intervals, while mean values amongst all other intervals were comparable. The number of moderately and severely hemolyzed samples increased with incrementing vacuum. Overall comparable costs between intervals IV1 and IV5 were €11,370, €14,045, €12,710, €11,213 and €8138 per 10,000 samples, respectively.

Conclusions: Aspiration tubes and low vacuum tubes show comparable hemolysis rates. Increasing vacuum levels are associated with higher hemolysis rates. By decreasing in vitro hemolysis, financial savings up to €5907 per 10,000 samples could be gained.
Widening and clustering techniques allowing the use of monotone CFTP algorithm
Authors: Bounnite Mohamed Yasser , Nasroallah Abdelaziz
Published: November 2015

The standard Coupling From The Past (CFTP) algorithm is an interesting tool to sample from exact stationary distribution of a Markov chain. But it is very expensive in time consuming for large chains. There is a monotone version of CFTP, called MCFTP, that is less time consuming for monotone chains. In this work, we propose two techniques to get monotone chain allowing use of MCFTP: widening technique based on adding two fictitious states and clustering technique based on partitioning the state space in clusters. Usefulness and efficiency of our approaches are showed through a sample of Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations.
Impacts of users’ antisocial behaviors in an ophthalmologic emergency department—a qualitative study
Authors: d'Aubarede Constance , Sarnin Philippe , Cornut Pierre‐Loïc , Touzet Sandrine , Duclos Antoine , Burillon Carole , Fassier Jean‐Baptiste
Published: November 2015

Impacts of users’ antisocial behaviors in an ophthalmologic emergency department – a qualitative study: Constance d'Aubarede, et al. UMR T 9405 (Unité Mixte de Recherche Epidémiologique et de Surveillance Transport Travail. Environnement: UMRESTTE), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

Background

Health‐care workers in emergency departments are frequently exposed to risk of antisocial behavior and violence (ABV) by users. Underreporting of ABV by health‐care professionals has been identified. In order to understand this phenomenon, we explored the experience of ABV in 30 health workers in an ophthalmology emergency department in the Rhône‐Alpes administrative region of France.

Methods

A grounded theory qualitative approach was followed. Data were collected from field observations, 30 semistructured individual interviews, violence report forms, and 364 patient satisfaction questionnaires. Qualitative thematic content analysis of the interviews was performed with qualitative data analysis software.

Results

Third‐party antisocial behaviors and violence were an everyday occurrence, with varying levels of seriousness: impoliteness, vulgarity, nonrecognition, insults, verbal threats, and aggressive gestures. Healthcare workers adopted various strategies to adapt to such violence: proactive and reactive attitudes and avoidance. Several organizational factors concerning the political and economic context, hospital work organization, and health workers’ behavior were identified as potentially contributing to ABV. Excessive waiting times, lack of user information, and understaffing emerged as factors contributing to users'ABV.

Conclusions

Antisocial behaviors by hospital users are underreported by professionals and under‐recognized. They appear to be like continuous occupational exposure leading to delayed adverse consequences either on workers’ health or motivation. However, violence in hospitals is not the result of only the action of users, and it may be related to work organization and workers’ own behaviors. Only a grounded analysis of the causes of violence in the local work context can uncover relevant solutions.
Advertising and Risk Selection in Health Insurance Markets
Authors: Aizawa Naoki , Kim You Suk
Published: November 2015

We study impacts of advertising as a channel of risk selection in Medicare Advantage. We show evidence that both mass and direct mail advertising are targeted to achieve risk selection. We develop and estimate an equilibrium model of Medicare Advantage with advertising to understand its equilibrium impacts. We find that advertising attracts the healthy more than the unhealthy. Moreover, shutting down advertising increases premiums by up to 40% for insurers that advertised by worsening their risk pools, which further reduces the demand of the unhealthy. We argue that risk selection may make consumers better off by improving insurers’ risk pools.
Empathy problematic in psychological aspects of professional medical care (review)
Authors: Poddubnaya T.V.
Published: November 2015

The article covers summary report of the main aspects of empathy research in medical care. Data of an empathy level diagnostics depending on social aspects is pre¬sented, as well as an issue of empathy consideration as a stable personal characteristic, its dependency on experience and doctor's specialization, context of medical activity (necessary pain infliction, emergency aid assistance) is discussed. Aspects of empathic communication for medical workers of various specialties, inter alia psychiatrists and oncologists, as well as communication strategies, developed for coping with cocurrent negative emotions are analyzed. An example of a medical interview facilitating the quality of interpersonal relationship in the pair patient-doctor alliance" is given. In conclusion there are presented actual scientific contra¬dictions and set the possible main lines of future researches.
Solving creative tasks by the teenagers as a model of overcoming problem situation
Authors: Zaretsky V.K. , Chernikova T.M.
Published: November 2015

The article presents the results of a study of pupils' cognition with varying academic progress during solving creative problems. There are analyses of the characteristics of such cognitions as productivity, independence, self-discipline. Creative problem is considered as a model of problem situations that may appear in other activities, including education. Observed regularities characterizing features of cognition in different groups of pupils are encouraged to use in practice as "resources" and "targets" in the counseling psychological support pupils of medium school in overcoming educational difficulties.
Psychological rehabilitation of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis at different stages of therapy
Authors: Streltsov V.V. , Zolotova N.V. , Baranova G.V. , Akhtyamova A.A.
Published: November 2015

The article is devoted to topical issues of psychological rehabilitation of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and summarizes the practical experience of the authors in the creation of psychological services in the TB clinic. The article focuses on the specifics of psychological assistance at the stage of continuation of TB treatment in the hospital. The theoretical and methodological foundations, principles and objectives of the ongoing psychological work. In the presented model of psychological rehabilitation are taken into account peculiarities of the organization of the treatment process in Phthisiology and identified in the clinical-psychological research on specific features of the response and interpersonal relationships of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. The necessity of organizing special psycho-correctional programs aimed at overcoming premorbid elements of the system of relations that are considered as psychological risk factors of tuberculosis and relapses.
Felt senses of volunteers who help elderly people in institutions
Authors: Korneeva E.L.
Published: November 2015

In the recent years voluntarism in Russia has been growing steadily. This activity has some characteristics, which make it particularly sense sensitive: it is performed without any payment, or any obligation motives, volunteers are more likely to establish personal and closed relationships with elderly people and get in touch with main existentials (death, blame, suffer, aging, etc.). The main directions of volunteerism scientific investigation are generally devoted to volunteers` characteristics, their motivation and organizational issues. At the same time there is a lack of studies, which could represent this activity from the participants` point of view. In this article the results of interview analysis with volunteers from two volunteer organizations, who provide help for elderly people in institutions, are exposed. Following the approach of phenomenological interpretative analysis, "felt senses" are described: breaking everyday life bounds, broadening perspective, sense of unity, "the foundation of life".
Strategies of cognitive-behavioural therapy in the rehabilitation of polydrug
Authors: Melehin A. , Veselkova Y.V.
Published: November 2015

Over the past few years, cognitive-behavioral therapy, aimed at forecasting and min¬imizing recidivism, was the most effective treatment for substance dependence (opiate addiction, cocainism, kannabizm and polydrug use). This article describes the psychotherapeutic treatment protocols polinarkozavisimosti. Given the short-term integrative principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy, along with motivational thera¬py, psychoeducation and systemic family therapy. Presents the steps of motivational interviewing, functional analysis of problem behavior, social skills training and tech¬niques to overcome the negative stress based on the principle of awareness. Particular attention in this article on the prevention of recurrence in patients with polydrug use.
The development of communication in patients with the severe forms of mental pathology by the dancing movement teaching method (based on the argentine tango)
Authors: Gotlib M.I. , Kholmogorova A.B.
Published: November 2015

Described the results of the dancing movement teaching method usage research aiming to diagnose and correct the communicative disorders of the people with degree of disablement due to severe mental illness (schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy). Basing on the case study method and specially created criteria system showed positive dynamic of patients communicative skills during the Argentine tango teaching. Demonstrated that during specially arranged Argentine tango teaching process mental patients of the classes started easier to establish and maintain interpersonal contacts, their self-confidence increased and decreased restraint, started to express their emotions more vividly and to demonstrate initiative, improvise and enjoy dancing.