bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Organizational Capabilities and Profitability
Authors: López-Cabarcos M. Ángeles , Göttling-Oliveira-Monteiro Sérgio , Vázquez-Rodríguez Paula
Published: November 2015

The resource-based view (RBV) posits that the sustainability of a firm’s success depends upon the creation, development, and implementation of a given organization’s unique resources and capabilities. Based on this theoretical framework, this article analyzes the relationship between organizational capabilities, business strategy, and profitability in the Portuguese textile industry. The strong relationship between these variables suggests that the organizational capabilities and the choice of business strategy may be the key to increase the profitability in this study context. So, the ability of the Portuguese textile organizations to change their business strategy based on their organizational capabilities affects profitability in a number of ways. Concretely, the results of this study highlight the importance of the choice of the business strategy as a partial mediator between the organizational capabilities and the profitability, a point that is crucial to understanding the success of a given organization and how resources and capabilities contribute to the process. The article concludes with a number of managerial implications and directions for future research.
Disability Management Education
Authors: Dyck Dianne E.
Published: November 2015

Each year, thousands of professionals and practitioners opt to learn more about disability management practices by attending conferences, self-study, and registering for advanced educational courses. Their motivation is to enhance their competencies, advance their careers, and attain or maintain professional certification. However, for their efforts, are they accessing the most effective mode of disability management instruction? This clinical research indicated that the “online delivery” of disability management instruction nets a 5% higher score on the outcome measure than the “in-class delivery” modality.
Systematic Reviews With Meta-Analysis
Authors: Crocetti Elisabetta
Published: November 2015

Systematic reviews with meta-analysis represent the gold standard for conducting reliable and transparent reviews of the literature. The purpose of this article is threefold: (a) to address why and when it is worthwhile to conduct a systematic review with meta-analysis, covering advantages of this approach in the context of the statistics reform in the behavioral sciences; (b) to explain how to conduct and publish a systematic review with meta-analysis, describe the main steps, and suggest best practices for each of them; and (c) to discuss the relevance of conducting a systematic review with meta-analysis for the emerging adulthood field, suggesting how this approach can be applied to address research questions about the specificity of this period. In addressing these issues, a fictitious systematic review with meta-analysis aimed at examining gender differences in the view of emerging adulthood as a period of exploration, instability, self-focus, feeling-in-between, and possibilities is presented. Furthermore, individual participant data systematic review with meta-analysis is proposed as an important future direction for conducting reviews within the social sciences.
High Frequency of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in HIV-Infected Patients and Patients with Thalassemia in Kerman, Iran
Authors: Alizade Hesam , Sharifi Hamid , Naderi Zahedeh , Ghanbarpour Reza , Bamorovat Mehdi , Aflatoonian Mohammad Reza
Published: November 2015

This study was conducted on patients with thalassemia and HIV-infected patients to determine the frequency of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in Kerman, Iran. We analyzed 68 and 49 E coli isolates isolated from healthy fecal samples of patients with thalassemia and HIV-infected patients, respectively. The E coli isolates were studied using a multiplex polymerase chain reaction to identify the enterotoxigenic E coli (ETEC), enterohemorrhagic E coli (EHEC), and enteropathogenic E coli (EPEC) groups. Statistical analysis was carried out to determine the correlation of diarrheagenic E coli between HIV-infected patients and patients with thalassemia using Stata 11.2 software. The frequency of having at least 1 diarrheagenic E coli was more common in patients with thalassemia (67.64%) than in HIV-infected patients (57.14%; P = .25), including ETEC (67.64% versus 57.14%), EHEC (33.82% versus 26.53%), and EPEC (19.11% versus 16.32%). The results of this study indicate that ETEC, EHEC, and EPEC pathotypes are widespread among diarrheagenic E coli isolates in patients with thalassemia and HIV-infected patients.
Does Geographic Location Matter on the Prevalence of Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction in Collegiate Baseball Pitchers?
Authors: Zaremski Jason L. , Horodyski MaryBeth , Donlan Robert M. , Brisbane Sonya Tang , Farmer Kevin W.
Published: November 2015

Background:

There has been a significant amount of research in the prevention of throwing injuries. However, one area of research that is lacking is geographic location of play. Warm climates may permit year-round play and increased exposure to throwing arm injury risk.

Hypotheses:

(1) Pitchers from southern institutions would have greater rates of ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction (UCL-R) compared with pitchers from northern institutions. (2) Pitchers originating from high school teams in warm weather states would have a greater risk of undergoing UCL-R while in college.

Study Design:

Descriptive epidemiological study.

Methods:

This study was completed by reviewing publicly obtained records of male collegiate baseball players during the 2008 through 2014 seasons. Data were accessed through online search engines, online baseball media guides, and school websites.

Results:

A total of 5315 player-years and 2575 pitcher-years were identified. Fifty-eight UCL-R cases were found in collegiate pitchers, 40 of which occurred in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and 18 in the Big Ten. More injuries (36/58) occurred in pitchers who participated in high school baseball in southern states as compared with northern states (22/58), regardless of location of collegiate participation (χ2 = 28.8, P < .05). The injury rate for pitchers who participated in high school baseball in southern states was 25.3 per 1000 player-years versus 19.1 per 1000 player-years in northern states, with a risk ratio of 1.32 (χ2 = 0.89, P = .35). The injury rate for the SEC versus Big Ten pitchers was 13.3 per 1000 player-years versus 7.8 per 1000 player-years, with a risk ratio of 1.71 (χ2 = 1.45, P = .23).

Conclusion:

There is a greater likelihood of undergoing UCL-R in the SEC compared with the Big Ten. There is also an increased risk for UCL-R for pitchers who played high school baseball in southern states versus northern states, irrespective of collegiate play location.

Clinical Relevance:

Pitchers originating from high schools in a warm weather climate may be more likely to undergo UCL-R.
Adequacy of Malignant Pleural Effusion for Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutation Analysis Using the Pyrosequencing Method
Authors: Hatoum Hassan , Lourdes Ylagan , Dhillon Samjot S. , Dy Grace K. , Attwood Kristopher , Pokuri Venkata , Harris Kassem
Published: November 2015

Background:

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation analysis is a standard approach for initial therapeutic decision in patients with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung (MAL). The feasibility of performing EGFR mutation testing using pleural fluid specimen is not well characterized.

Objectives:

The aim of this study is to report the percentage of patients eligible for EGFR mutation testing based on the percentage of malignant cells (PMCs) in the pleural fluid using the pyrosequencing method.

Methods:

From our database, we reviewed the clinical data of 61 patients with malignant pleural effusion (MPE) secondary to MAL. The PMCs were divided into 2 categories with a cutoff point of 10% (PMC1 is defined as ≤10% and PMC2 is defined as >10%). For the pyrosequencing method, only patients in the PMC2 group were eligible for EGFR mutation testing.

Results:

Of 61 patients with MPE secondary to MAL, 38 (62.3%) were in the PMC2 group, which represents the percentage of patients eligible for EGFR mutation testing. Of these 38 patients, 15 patients had the testing done on the MPE. Quantity was not sufficient for testing only in 1 patient. Therefore, in PMC2 patients group, the rate of successful EGFR mutation testing was 93% (14 of 15). The thoracentesis volume was not significantly different between PMC1 and PMC2.

Conclusion:

Performing EGFR mutation analysis on the MPE in patients with MAL is feasible in 62% of patients. The rate of successful testing on the eligible samples is 93%.
A review of graphene oxide, graphene buckypaper, and polymer/graphene composites: Properties and fabrication techniques
Authors: Khan Zaheen U , Kausar Ayesha , Ullah Hidayat , Badshah Amin , Khan Wasid U
Published: November 2015

In this critical review, the preparation methods, unique properties, and graphene oxide structure as well as graphene have been interpreted. Various aspects for the graphene oxide reactivity were also discussed. Graphene oxide, usually obtained by exfoliating graphite, provides a way towards flexible, low-cost, bulk production paper-like materials known as buckypapers. Recently, graphene oxide and graphene buckypaper have been used as fillers for preparing composites. The buckypapers are freestanding thin porous network of carbon fillers bound by van der Waals interactions. Several techniques have been used to fabricate graphene oxide and graphene-based paper-like materials such as vacuum filtration method; spin coating technique, resin infiltration technique, evaporation-induced, and self-assembly technique. Among these, the most suitable technique is Langmuir-Blodgett assembly, where the graphene oxide paper formed is usually highly uniform. Free standing polymer/graphene oxide and polymer/graphene paper materials show remarkable mechanical stiffness and excellent flexibility combined with outstanding electrical conductivity. Incorporating polymer into graphene oxide and graphene buckypaper may modify the polymer and filler properties producing high performance materials. The buckypaper made from functionalized filler may form networks that facilitate penetrating matrix chains and result in composites with improved mechanical performance. Due to their outstanding physical, thermal, and electrical properties, these papers have promising applications such as; body armour, aerospace structure improvement, armoured vehicles, flexible energy storage devices, sensors, memory devices, transparent conductors, and photovoltaics.
Genetic risk factors for the development of osteonecrosis in children under age 10 treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Authors: Karol Seth E. , Mattano Leonard A. , Yang Wenjian , Maloney Kelly W. , Smith Colton , Liu ChengCheng , Ramsey Laura B. , Fernandez Christian A. , Chang Tamara Y. , Neale Geoffrey , Cheng Cheng , Mardis Elaine , Fulton Robert , Scheet Paul , San Lucas F. Anthony , Larsen Eric C. , Loh Mignon L. , Raetz Elizabeth A. , Hunger Stephen P. , Devidas Meenakshi , Relling Mary V.
Published: November 2015

Key Points

Variants in genes important for mesenchymal stem cell differentiation influence the risk of osteonecrosis in children with ALL under 10 years old. Variants in genes in the glutamate signaling pathway influence osteonecrosis in children with ALL regardless of age.
Non-convex hybrid algorithm for a family of countable quasi-Lipschitz mappings and application
Authors: Guan Jinyu , Tang Yanxia , Ma Pengcheng , Xu Yongchun , Su Yongfu
Published: November 2015

The purpose of this article is to establish a kind of non-convex hybrid iteration algorithms and to prove relevant strong convergence theorems of common fixed points for a uniformly closed asymptotically family of countable quasi-Lipschitz mappings in Hilbert spaces. Meanwhile, the main result is applied to get the common fixed points of finite family of quasi-asymptotically nonexpansive mappings. It is worth pointing out that a non-convex hybrid iteration algorithm is first presented in this article, a new technique is applied in our process of proof. Finally, an example is given which is a uniformly closed asymptotically family of countable quasi-Lipschitz mappings. The results presented in this article are interesting extensions of some current results.
WASp-dependent actin cytoskeleton stability at the dendritic cell immunological synapse is required for extensive, functional T cell contacts
Authors: Malinova Dessislava , Fritzsche Marco , Nowosad Carla R , Armer Hannah , Munro Peter M G , Blundell Michael P , Charras Guillaume , Tolar Pavel , Bouma Gerben , Thrasher Adrian J
Published: November 2015

The immunological synapse is a highly structured and molecularly dynamic interface between communicating immune cells. Although the immunological synapse promotes T cell activation by dendritic cells, the specific organization of the immunological synapse on the dendritic cell side in response to T cell engagement is largely unknown. In this study, confocal and electron microscopy techniques were used to investigate the role of dendritic cell actin regulation in immunological synapse formation, stabilization, and function. In the dendritic cell-restricted absence of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein, an important regulator of the actin cytoskeleton in hematopoietic cells, the immunological synapse contact with T cells occupied a significantly reduced surface area. At a molecular level, the actin network localized to the immunological synapse exhibited reduced stability, in particular, of the actin-related protein-2/3-dependent, short-filament network. This was associated with decreased polarization of dendritic cell-associated ICAM-1 and MHC class II, which was partially dependent on Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein phosphorylation. With the use of supported planar lipid bilayers incorporating anti-ICAM-1 and anti-MHC class II antibodies, the dendritic cell actin cytoskeleton organized into recognizable synaptic structures but interestingly, formed Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein-dependent podosomes within this area. These findings demonstrate that intrinsic dendritic cell cytoskeletal remodeling is a key regulatory component of normal immunological synapse formation, likely through consolidation of adhesive interaction and modulation of immunological synapse stability.
Effect of bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccination on CD4+Foxp3+ T cells during acquired immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
Authors: Henao-Tamayo Marcela I , Obregón-Henao Andres , Arnett Kimberly , Shanley Crystal A , Podell Brendan , Orme Ian M , Ordway Diane J
Published: November 2015

Increasing information has shown that many newly emerging strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, including the highly prevalent and troublesome Beijing family of strains, can potently induce the emergence of Foxp3+ CD4 Tregs. Although the significance of this is still not fully understood, we have previously provided evidence that the emergence of this population can significantly ablate the protective effect of BCG vaccination, causing progressive fatal disease in the mouse model. However, whether the purpose of this response is to control inflammation or to directly dampen the acquired immune response is still unclear. In the present study, we have shown, using both cell depletion and adoptive transfer strategies, that Tregs can have either properties. Cell depletion resulted in a rapid, but transient, decrease in the lung bacterial load, suggesting release or temporary re-expansion of effector immunity. Transfer of Tregs into Rag2−/− or marked congenic mice worsened the disease course and depressed cellular influx of effector T cells into the lungs. Tregs from infected donors seemed to preferentially depress the inflammatory response and granulocytic influx. In contrast, those from BCG-vaccinated and then challenged donors seemed more focused on depression of acquired immunity. These qualitative differences might be related to increasing knowledge reflecting the plasticity of the Treg response.
Randomized Trial Comparing Telephone Versus In-Person Weight Loss Counseling on Body Composition and Circulating Biomarkers in Women Treated for Breast Cancer: The Lifestyle, Exercise, and Nutrition (LEAN) Study
Authors: Harrigan Maura , Cartmel Brenda , Loftfield Erikka , Sanft Tara , Chagpar Anees B. , Zhou Yang , Playdon Mary , Li Fangyong , Irwin Melinda L.
Published: November 2015

Purpose

Obesity is associated with a higher risk of breast cancer mortality. The gold standard approach to weight loss is in-person counseling, but telephone counseling may be more feasible. We examined the effect of in-person versus telephone weight loss counseling versus usual care on 6-month changes in body composition, physical activity, diet, and serum biomarkers.

Methods

One hundred breast cancer survivors with a body mass index ≥ 25 kg/m2 were randomly assigned to in-person counseling (n = 33), telephone counseling (n = 34), or usual care (UC) (n = 33). In-person and telephone counseling included 11 30-minute counseling sessions over 6 months. These focused on reducing caloric intake, increasing physical activity, and behavioral therapy. Body composition, physical activity, diet, and serum biomarkers were measured at baseline and 6 months.

Results

The mean age of participants was 59 ± 7.5 years old, with a mean BMI of 33.1 ± 6.6 kg/m2, and the mean time from diagnosis was 2.9 ± 2.1 years. Fifty-one percent of the participants had stage I breast cancer. Average 6-month weight loss was 6.4%, 5.4%, and 2.0% for in-person, telephone, and UC groups, respectively (P = .004, P = .009, and P = .46 comparing in-person with UC, telephone with UC, and in-person with telephone, respectively). A significant 30% decrease in C-reactive protein levels was observed among women randomly assigned to the combined weight loss intervention groups compared with a 1% decrease among women randomly assigned to UC (P = .05).

Conclusion

Both in-person and telephone counseling were effective weight loss strategies, with favorable effects on C-reactive protein levels. Our findings may help guide the incorporation of weight loss counseling into breast cancer treatment and care.
Anastrozole-Induced Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Results From the International Breast Cancer Intervention Study II Prevention Trial
Authors: Spagnolo Francesco , Sestak Ivana , Howell Anthony , Forbes John F. , Cuzick Jack
Published: November 2015

Purpose

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) occurs when the median nerve is compressed at the wrist in the carpal tunnel. It has been suggested that hormonal risk factors may be involved in the pathogenesis of CTS, and a higher incidence of CTS has been reported in randomized clinical trials with aromatase inhibitors (AIs) compared with tamoxifen.

Patients and Methods

This was an exploratory analysis of the International Breast Cancer Intervention Study II, a double-blind randomized clinical trial in which women at increased risk of breast cancer were randomly assigned to receive anastrozole or placebo. This is the first report of risk factors for and characteristics of CTS in women taking an AI in a placebo-controlled trial.

Results

Overall, 96 participants with CTS were observed: 65 (3.4%) in the anastrozole arm and 31 (1.6%) in the placebo arm (odds ratio, 2.16 [1.40 to 3.33]; P < .001). Ten participants were reported as having severe CTS, of which eight were taking anastrozole (P = .08). Eighteen women (0.9%) in the anastrozole arm and six women (0.3%) in the placebo arm reported surgical intervention, which was significantly different (odds ratio, 3.06 [1.21 to 7.72], P = .018). Six women discontinued with the allocated treatment because of the onset of CTS. Apart from treatment allocation, a high body mass index and an a prior report of musculoskeletal symptoms after trial entry were the only other risk factors for CTS identified in these postmenopausal women.

Conclusions

The use of anastrozole was associated with a higher incidence of CTS but few participants required surgery. Further investigations are warranted into the risk factors and treatment of AI-induced CTS.
“The Ending Is Not an Ending At All”: On the Militarized and Gendered Diasporas of Korean Transnational Adoption and the Korean War
Authors: Kim Jodi
Published: November 2015

Through an analysis of two recent films, Deann Borshay Liem's In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (2010) and Jane Jin Kaisen's The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger (2010), this essay argues that Korean transnational adoption is constituted by militarized and gendered diasporas that mark the ongoing presence of the US military in South Korea. The analysis highlights the ways in which Borshay Liem's and Kaisen's films make visible how such diasporas, linked to the larger diaspora produced by the Korean War, unsettle linear narratives of migration, arrival, and settlement. The failures and contradictions of the rescue narrative illuminate how the very problems that transnational adoption putatively resolves—those of displacements wrought by war, global inequality, uneven development, reproductive injustice, severed kinship, and gendered racial hierarchy—loop back in disturbing and unending proliferations. The militarized and gendered diasporas of Korean transnational adoption constitute a particular mode and temporality of migration whose specificities and complexities cannot be captured sufficiently via general tropes of immigration, refugee displacement, and adoption. The essay thus conceptualizes Korean transnational adoption as a militarized diaspora and gestures to the pervasive force of militarization as a logic that structures not only international geopolitical relations but also the intimate scales of adoptee kinships and subjectivity. Moreover, this militarized diaspora is also gendered, revealing a transnational and transgenerational economy of reproductive injustice for Korean women. The essay concludes with an analysis of how a regime of reproductive injustice is a significant and gendered biopolitical effect of the Korean War.
XROMM analysis of rib kinematics during lung ventilation in the green iguana, Iguana iguana
Authors: Brainerd Elizabeth L. , Moritz Sabine , Ritter Dale A.
Published: November 2015

The three-dimensional rotations of ribs during breathing are typically described as bucket-handle rotation about a dorsoventrally-oriented axis, pump-handle rotation about a mediolateral axis, and caliper rotation about a rostrocaudal axis. In amniotes with double-headed ribs, rib motion is constrained primarily to one degree-of-freedom (DOF) rotation about an axis connecting the two rib articulations. However, in Squamata, the ribs are single-headed and the hemispherical costovertebral joints permit rotations with three DOF. In this study we use XROMM to quantify rib rotation during deep breathing in four green iguanas. We found that rib rotation was strongly dominated by bucket-handle rotation, thus exhibiting nearly hinge-like motion, despite the potential for more complex motions. The vertebral and sternal segments of each rib did not deform measurably during breathing, but they did move relative to each other at a thin, cartilaginous intracostal joint. While standing still and breathing deeply, four individual iguanas showed variability in their rib postures, with two breathing around a highly inflated posture, and two breathing around a posture with the ribs folded halfway back. Bucket-handle rotations showed clear rostrocaudal gradients, with rotation increasing from the third cervical to the first or second dorsal rib, and then decreasing again caudally, a pattern that is consistent with the intercostal muscles in the rostral intercostal spaces being the primary drivers of inspiration. The constrained, primarily bucket-handle rotations observed here during breathing do not help explain the evolution of permissive, hemispherical costovertebral joints in squamates from the more constrained, double-headed rib articulations of other amniotes.
Psychological Safety Development Drill As a Mean of Training First-Year Students for Educational Practice
Authors: Столярова  , Stolyarova E.
Published: November 2015

In article experimentally substantiates the efficiency of

psychological safety training in education for training first-year

students, future bachelors of psychology and pedagogy programs.

It reveals prospective of the training that provide preparation for

recognising and overcoming psychological dangers arising towards

an individual himself or towards subjects of interaction during

educational practice.
Matching Platforms and HIV Incidence: An Empirical Investigation of Race, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status
Authors: Greenwood Brad N. , Agarwal Ritu
Published: November 2015

Although recent work has examined the adverse implications of Internet-enabled matching platforms, limited attention has been paid to whom the negative externalities accrue. We examine how the entry of platforms for the solicitation of casual sex influences the incidence rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection by race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Using a census of 12 million patients subjected to a natural experiment in Florida, we find a significant increase in HIV incidence after platform implementation, with the largest effect accruing to historically at-risk populations (i.e., African Americans) despite documented lower rates of Internet utilization. Strikingly, our analysis reveals that HIV incidence increases in historically low-risk populations as well (e.g., individuals of higher socioeconomic status) and that men and women experience similar penalties. Identifying granular effects across subpopulations allows us to offer additional insight into the mechanisms by which matching platforms increase HIV incidence. We estimate the cumulative effect of platform entry over the five-year period of the study as 1,149 additional Floridians contracting HIV at a cost of $710 million.

This paper was accepted by Lorin Hitt, information systems.
Market Design and Moral Behavior
Authors: Kirchler Michael , Huber Jürgen , Stefan Matthias , Sutter Matthias
Published: November 2015

In an experiment with 739 subjects, we study whether and how different interventions might have an influence on the degree of moral behavior when subjects make decisions that can generate negative externalities on uninvolved parties. Particularly, subjects can either take money for themselves or donate it to UNICEF for measles vaccines. By considering two fairly different institutional regimes—one with individual decision making, one with a double-auction market—we expose the different interventions to a kind of robustness check. We find that the threat of monetary punishment promotes moral behavior in both regimes. Getting subjects more involved with the traded good has no effect, though, in both regimes. Only the removal of anonymity, thus making subjects identifiable, has different effects across regimes, which we explain by different perceptions of responsibility.

This paper was accepted by Uri Gneezy, behavioral economics.
The sky is the limit: Feng Xiaonings leitmotif cinema, Chinese soft power and ideological fantasy
Authors: Green Frederik H.
Published: November 2015

This article explores the intersection of politics and popular entertainment in contemporary Chinese leitmotif cinema (zhuxuanlü dianying), a genre that conflates political didacticism with Hollywood-style entertainment. Through my reading of three movies by Feng Xiaoning (馮小寧) – the hero-epos Qingzang xian/A Railway in the Clouds (2006) about the building of a rail link to Tibet; the disaster movie Chaoqiang taifeng/Super Typhoon (2008), about a Chinese metropolis hit by a storm; and the war-action drama Jiawu dahaizhan/Naval Battle (2012), about the Sino-Japanese naval conflict of 1895 – I will illustrate how leitmotif cinema negotiates demands for doctrinal orthodoxy with expectations for box office success. Feng’s cinematic aesthetics are thus symptomatic of the discursive complexity of post-socialist Chinese cinema where multiple temporalities and modes of production coexist in a climate of state-enforced ideological hegemony and revenue-driven market economics.
Dont mention (them) again! Shame, the Black Eagles Incident and Winds of September
Authors: Chen Po-hsi
Published: November 2015

The 1997 Black Eagles Incident of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) marks the Edenic fall in the history of baseball in Taiwan. Since the Black Eagles Incident, the nationalist discourse of glory had been intertwined with the narrative of shame. Having been immersed in the spirit of triumphalism in the early 2000s, baseball in Taiwan was again beset by a series of large-scale game-fixing scandals in the latter half of the 2000s. The neologism mozaiti  dont mention again  was coined as a response by desperate fans. This article reads Lin Shu-yus 2008 film Jiujiang feng/Winds of September, a baseball story of initiation and disillusion featuring a former professional baseball players cameo appearance, against this backdrop. The film visually frames a phantasmatic space in which the not-to-be-mentioned fallen hero is staged to perform his failure and guilt. In so doing, his affect of shame is exchanged with his fans through that cinematically imagined, constructed phantasmatic space. In this sense, the image of baseball in the post-martial-law era is internalized within ones adolescence and familial (especially father-and-son) relationship. In Winds of September, ones faulted youth and troubled family ties are reconciled through coming to terms with the baseball scandal.
Luxury fashion flagship hotels and cultural opportunism: The cases of Hotel Missoni Edinburgh and Maison Moschino
Authors: Dallabona Alice
Published: November 2015

This article gives an insight into the phenomenon of brand extension into the hospitality business by Italian luxury fashion labels and conceptualizes it in terms of luxury fashion flagship hotels. Examining the cases of Hotel Missoni Edinburgh and Maison Moschino this article investigates the different ways in which they refer to Italy and its culture. It is argued that within Hotel Missoni Edinburgh and Maison Moschino there are strategies of cultural opportunism at play that are aimed at deploying their Italianicity as a means to strengthen their association with their parent brands and increase their prestige, but also to augment their offerings, maximizing the brand extension potential of those labels. Through a semiotic analysis, it is contended that Hotel Missoni Edinburgh and Maison Moschino capitalize not only on parent brands Missoni and Moschino but also on the positive connotations associated with Italy and its lifestyle, so that they can convey meanings that concern a broader sociocultural context and that revolve around issues of national identity. The hotels portray versions of Italianicity based on different traits but both contribute to the creation of a myth of Italy that involves the commodification of the Italian national identity and promotes its symbolic consumption.
Expressive labour and the gift of hospitality
Authors: Poulston Jill
Published: November 2015

The phenomenon of hospitality is difficult to understand and define, perhaps because of the transactional nature that pervades what is essentially a moral duty, but also, because of the multifaceted nature of commercial hospitality. While it is useful to separate the philosophical and functional aspects of hospitality, this study explores the potential for these to coexist in the feelings of hospitality providers about their work. Experiences of hospitality service are recorded and the motives and rewards for hospitality work explored using a phenomenological approach. Paid hospitality work is portrayed as distinct from normal reality, and experienced as a love–hate relationship with an addictive quality. The study finds that motives for providing both commercial and private hospitality are primarily intrinsic, as server-hosts seek pleasure by providing pleasure to others. The article concludes by proposing that providers of hospitality experience their roles as a form of self-expression, which motivates them to persevere, often enduring difficult working conditions.
The wager of political hospitality: Introduction to themed articles
Authors: Boudou Benjamin
Published: November 2015

In this article I present a political analysis of hospitality, underlining the power relations that are involved with its practice. Because hospitality is consubstantial with boundaries, it is an apparatus both to welcome and control, which allows the passage of outsiders while legitimating the separation between inside and outside. Thus, the philosophical debate surrounding hospitality appears less relevant than the evaluation of the reasons why it matters to choose policies that involve hospitality. This wager maintains that inclusion – and participation of those included – is the bedrock of both hospitality and democracy.
Spain’s Mortgage Victims Platform (PAH) as a case of a hospitality social movement
Authors: Sanjaume-Calvet Marc
Published: November 2015

In this article I analyse the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) social movement in Spain through the concept of hospitality. In doing so, I develop a double hypothesis concerning the PAH. First, I consider the possibility of the PAH social movement as a public outcry of the ethics and politics of hospitality. Second, I identify a type of disobedient hospitality, practised by the PAH, which defies the legality enforced by dominant discourse. As a hospitality movement, the PAH promotes illegal hospitality based on civil disobedience and exploits the unconditional and conditional tensions within the idea of hospitality. I conclude that the activism of this social movement creates the possibility of a socialized and politicized hospitality that expands beyond its traditional private interpersonal sphere. I claim that in the future these concepts (basically hospitality as a movement) can be explored in other domains and political practices of social movements claiming rights and empowerment such as workers, immigration, gender or LGTB groups.
Dark hospitality: Hotels as places for the end of life
Authors: Hay Brian
Published: November 2015

This article explores through the concept of dark hospitality why some people choose to die in a hotel, rather than at home, in a hospice or a hospital. Through in-depth interviews with hotel managers and junior staff at four luxury city hotels, this issue was explored from the perspective of ordinary hotel guests, all of whom had a longterm relationship with the hotel where they died. The hotel staff suggested that the reasons why some people choose to die in a hotel include loneliness, fear and minimizing emotional distress for their friends and relatives. The impact of managing such guests is also investigated and the results suggest that although managers do care about the impact on the reputation of the hotel, they, along with their staff, are very much affected emotionally by these types of planned deaths. The suggestion emerged from the interviews that with an increasing ageing population, perhaps in the not-too-distant future, the ‘hospice hotel’ could emerge as a new commercial hospitality product.
Deterritorialized, multilocated and distributed: Musical space, poietic domains and cognition in distance collaboration
Authors: Pignato Joseph Michael , Begany Grace M.
Published: November 2015

This article presents detailed descriptions of a series of distance collaborations between two institutions of music education; the State University of New York, Oneonta, in the United States, and the Musrara Naggar School of Art in Jerusalem, Israel. The collaborations between Oneonta and Musrara encompass multiple modes of collaborative interaction, including asynchronous, interstitial and synchronized collaboration. As such the collaborations between the two institutions provide a rich case for understanding practical considerations for and implications of technologically mediated and distributed distance collaborations in music. The authors analyse the collaborations between the two institutions to demonstrate how the increasingly deterritorialized, multilocated nature of technologically mediated distance collaborations generates and encompasses multiple levels of poietic space. Those poietic spaces include micro poietic spaces representative of the individual participants, larger poetic spaces representative of co-located collaborators and contributors, and still larger macro poietic spaces that do not exist in anyone single locale but, instead, encompass the entire poietic sphere of such collaborations. To further understand the dynamics of technologically mediated distance collaboration, the authors introduce an emerging model for understanding such collaborations. That model draws on the philosophical concept of poiesis and on distributed cognition theory, framework drawn from the field of human–computer interaction (HCI).
DAW democracy? The dearth of diversity in ‘Playing the Studio’
Authors: Bell Adam Patrick
Published: November 2015

In theory anyone with a computer, tablet, or smartphone can ‘play the studio’, but is this reality or rhetoric? The putative democratization of recording technology is tethered to a basic economic argument – affordability equals access – while analyses of the sociocultural conditions of this mode of music making have been largely overlooked. Considering that playing the studio is an elemental practice in the making of many popular musics, the implications of this inquiry are relevant to all dwellers on the delta of where music, technology and education meet. First, I provide a concise history of the concept of playing the studio to frame the subsequent discussion on diversity in this practice, particularly as it relates to gender. Second, I report findings from a survey I conducted in New York City on playing the studio, which confirm this practice is predominantly the preserve of white, male guitarists. The dearth of women in the sample (11%) serves to elucidate the reality that the supposed ‘democratization’ of music making ushered in by the DAW has not actually occurred. Third, I contextualize these findings with a discussion on related research to affirm that the underrepresentation of women in playing the studio is consistent with the history of recording studio culture, and more broadly with Bourdieu’s notion of ‘masculine domination’ (2001). In conclusion, I suggest that in order to de-gender the masculine/feminine binary implicit in software and hardware for music production, educators and students alike need to infiltrate the design process and be active agents in the development of the technologies they will use to make music.
Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice
Authors: Moir Zack , Medbøe Haftor
Published: November 2015

This article reports on a qualitative study of four undergraduate students specializing in popular music composition, and examines links and overlaps between three related areas: participants’ interpretations and definitions of the term ‘composition’; their use of music technology; and how they describe their professional identities and roles in the creation of popular music. Findings suggest that the concept and practice of popular music composition are intrinsically tied to music production and the creation of a sonic product or artefact. Participants describe their roles in the creation of their music as multifarious, and report that usage of music technology involves them simultaneously engaging in activities associated with music composition, engineering, production and, especially, performance. Consequently, the authors (both lecturers in popular music composition) suggest that teaching, learning and assessment in this area of popular music education should be based on understanding popular music composition as performance-centred practice.
Technologized and autonomized vocals in contemporary popular musics
Authors: Hughes Diane
Published: November 2015

The application of technologies to the popular singing voice has enabled it to be conveyed in a myriad of contexts. In many ways, it is the use of technology (e.g. reinforced sound, broadcasting) that has allowed the development of contemporary singing to be more aligned to modes of speech than to the vociferous tone of vaudeville performers or to the resonant classical singing voice. The contemporary singing voice became more intimate. Technology has also enabled extended audibility of the singing voice. It allows for the singing voice to be placed within a spatial context and resultant aesthetic. This article discusses further advances in technologies (specifically looping) that allow contemporary singers to record, playback and layer in real time. Whereas a range of technologies extend the contemporary singing voice (e.g. amplification), looping technologies transform vocal capabilities so that a multiplicity of creativities and colours are simultaneously evident. The discussion distinguishes between technologized and autonomized singing. It does so on the basis that the use of looping technologies for contemporary singers facilitates a high level of autonomy (vocal and musical) in performance. The discussion outlines implemented strategies for the inclusion of looping in vocal studies at tertiary level and concludes with teacher perceptions that provide insight into the ways in which reflection, vocal development and looping foster understanding and development of the singing voice and musicality more broadly.
A quest for the perfect tone: Luthiering, pedal boards and curriculum expansion
Authors: Randles Clint
Published: November 2015

In this article the author explores what making guitars (luthiering), designing and assembling pedal boards, and performing as a guitarist has meant for his perspective on curricular expansion in music teacher education in the United States. He provides examples of the creative process of selecting materials, exploring novel components, and establishing finishing procedures in guitar making as a means of illustrating a theory of change in music education (Randles, 2013a). Adaptive and innovative change is viewed through the practical work of both the luthier and music education curriculum reformer. Implications for the future of music education curriculum development are provided.
Exploring the experiences, perceptions and reflections of popular electronic musicians at UK higher education institutions
Authors: Thompson Paul , Alex Stevenson
Published: November 2015

Although formal educational institutions in the UK, and particularly in Higher Education (HE), have begun to include aspects of dance music and hip-hop styles of music in their curricula, there is still a notable lack of research into the relationship between popular electronic music-making practices, such as performance, and formal education. This study explores some of the experiences, perceptions and reflections of popular electronic musicians in formal educational institutions in the UK with a specific focus on the performance of popular electronic music. Our findings show that formal education has had some impact on the development of popular electronic musicians’ practice and, in some cases, acted as an introduction to popular electronic styles of music. However, the study’s findings also highlight the need to develop more comprehensive musical curricula that include popular electronic styles of music as well as the more established popular musical styles such as rock.
Nature connections: Cultural heritage, identity and wellbeing in Vancouver, Canada
Authors: Oddey Alison
Published: November 2015

I came to Vancouver, Canada in March 2014 to give a paper on ‘The Cultural Value of the Arts for Health and Well-Being’ at the 4th International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society: Holistic Health 1 at British Columbia University. I knew absolutely nothing about the First Nations people, their arts, culture and history, and how this relates to a Canadian identity. What I know now is that the cultural identity of many of these peoples is linked to their language, and that of the remaining thirty-two indigenous languages in British Columbia, some are near extinction. For these peoples, their language is their way of being and who they are. It is encouraging to learn that projects which promote language revitalization create the opportunity for cultural well-being, through the cultural connections via the traditional values embedded within each indigenous language. In the same way that we know that Western medicine treats the body, not the person, the First Nations peoples’ loss of language is holistically integrated into the whole of their history of colonization, beliefs, medicine, spiritual and cultural practices. Their cultural heritage is interwo-ven to their wellbeing.
Lord of the Rings – the Musical as a world musical product or just a British export?
Authors: White Christine
Published: November 2015

The stage musical adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, began in Toronto, Canada in 2006 and then transferred to London ending its run there in 2008. It is due to embark on a new world tour in 2015.

Matthew Warchus, British theatre director created an extravagant, three-act stage production which received its premiere at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre in March 2007. The production designed by Rob Howell, premiered in London in May 2007 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and ended its run after 492 performances in July 2008.

The musical was the first stage adaptation of the literary epic and followed the hugely successful film trilogy. A new tour, is being designed to accommodate theatres around the globe, and will launch in New Zealand in 2015 and although the countries of the tour have not been announced, there is much interest amongst Tolkien fans for its come back. The new touring version is billed as retaining the unique, thrilling and spectacular theatrical magic of the original production. The music is by Academy Award winner A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire), Värttinä and Christopher Nightingale. The lyrics and libretto are by Shaun McKenna and Matthew Warchus. The Lord of the Rings – the Musical has lighting by Paul Pyant, special effects by Greg Meeh, sound by Simon Baker and magic illusions by Paul Kieve.

This article reviews the work as commercial product, revival or just colonial export of British or Canadian scenic motifs and stagings.

The production began in Canada and reviews wavered between praise and defamation, between a spectacular production of sets and a celebrated new musical score. The link beneath is for the reader to get a sense of the production style and values, if you haven’t seen the musical, yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaHRFlPCtsU
ALVES, Adalberto. Dicionário de arabismos da língua portuguesa. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, 2013
Authors: Head Brian Franklin
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_11
BEATO AMADEU, Nova Apocalipse, D. Lucas Dias introdução, tradução e notas; D. Lucas Dias, A. Espírito Santo, S. Tavares de Pinho ed. crítica e fixação do texto latino, Portugaliae Monumenta Neolatina Vol. XIV, Imprensa da universidade de Coimbra
Authors: Dias Paula Barata
Published: November 2015

BEATO AMADEU, Nova Apocalipse, D. Lucas Dias introdução, tradução e notas; D. Lucas Dias, A. Espírito Santo, S. Tavares de Pinho ed. crítica e fixação do texto latino, Portugaliae Monumenta Neolatina Vol. XIV, Imprensa da universidade de Coimbra, ISBN 978-989-26-0715-3, 633 pp.http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_13
DE MARTINO, F. & Morenilla, C. (eds.), A la sombra de los héroes. Bari: Levante Editori, 2014, 486 pp. ISBN: 978-88-7949-638-4.
Authors: Marques Susana
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_17
HIPÓLITO CORREIA, Virgílio, A arquitectura doméstica de Conimbriga e as estruturas económicas e sociais da cidade, Anexos de Conimbriga nº6, Coimbra, 2013, 417 pp: ISBN 978-989-95954-4-6.
Authors: Mantas Vasco Gil
Published: November 2015

http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_22