bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Variations in surface ozone and carbon monoxide in the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding broader regions during SusKat-ABC field campaign: role of local and regional sources
Authors: Bhardwaj Piyush , Naja Manish , Rupakheti Maheswar , Lupascu Aurelia , Mues Andrea , Panday Arnico Kumar , Kumar Rajesh , Mahata Khadak Singh , Lal Shyam , Chandola Harish C. , Lawrence Mark G.
Published: August 2018

Abstract. Air pollution resulting from rapid urbanization and associated human activities in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal has been leading to serious public health concerns over the past 2 decades. These concerns led to a multinational field campaign SusKat-ABC (Sustainable atmosphere for the Kathmandu Valley – Atmospheric Brown Clouds) that measured different trace gases, aerosols and meteorological parameters in the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding regions during December 2012 to June 2013 to understand local- to regional-scale processes influencing air quality of the Kathmandu Valley. This study provides information about the regional distribution of ozone and some precursor gases using simultaneous in situ measurements from a SusKat-ABC supersite at Bode, Nepal, and two Indian sites: a high-altitude site, Nainital, located in the central Himalayan region and a low-altitude site, Pantnagar, located in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP). The diurnal variations at Bode showed a daytime buildup in O3 while CO shows morning and evening peaks. Similar variations (with lower levels) were also observed at Pantnagar but not at Nainital. Several events of hourly ozone levels exceeding 80 ppbv were also observed at Bode. The CO levels showed a decrease from their peak level of about 2000 ppbv in January to about 680 ppbv in June at Bode. The hourly mean ozone and CO levels showed a strong negative correlation during winter (r2 = 0.82 in January and r2 = 0.71 in February), but this negative correlation gradually becomes weaker, with the lowest value in May (r2 = 0.12). The background O3 and CO mixing ratios at Bode were estimated to be about 14 and 325 ppbv, respectively. The rate of change of ozone at Bode showed a more rapid increase ( ∼ 17 ppbv h−1) during morning than the decrease in the evening (5–6 ppbv h−1), suggesting the prevalence of a semi-urban environ. The lower CO levels during spring suggest that regional transport also contributes appreciably to springtime ozone enhancement in the Kathmandu Valley on top of the local in situ ozone production. We show that regional pollution resulting from agricultural crop residue burning in northwestern IGP led to simultaneous increases in O3 and CO levels at Bode and Nainital during the first week of May 2013. A biomass-burning-induced increase in ozone and related gases was also confirmed by a global model and balloon-borne observations over Nainital. A comparison of surface ozone variations and composition of light non-methane hydrocarbons among different sites indicated the differences in emission sources of the Kathmandu Valley and the IGP. These results highlight that it is important to consider regional sources in air quality management of the Kathmandu Valley.
3-D Simulations of Groundwater Utilization in an Urban Catchment of Berlin, Germany
Authors: Haacke Nasrin , Frick Maximilian , Scheck-Wenderoth Magdalena , Schneider Michael , Cacace Mauro
Published: August 2018

Abstract. The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of groundwater pumping on predicted groundwater circulation below the urban center of Berlin, Germany, by 3-D numerical models. Of particular interest are hydraulic head distributions, the related shallow-deep groundwater interactions and their scale dependency within an anthropogenically overprinted environment. For this purpose, two model scenarios are investigated. In the first model realization (Model 1), the effects of groundwater pumping are implemented by imposing a fixed, though spatially variable, hydraulic head distribution over the whole model area, therefore implicitly taking into account the effects of pumping activities. In the second model realization (Model 2), these effects are considered in an explicit manner by imposing variable production rates in locations where pumping activities are ongoing. The results of this study show, that both models predict similar hydraulic head distributions on the regional scale (i.e. urban wide). Locally, differences in the extent, volume and depth of emerging depression cones can be observed. This is manifested in differences in predicted fluid flow patterns supporting or refuting the possibility of contaminant transport in an area of importance for groundwater production (Lower Havel). Herein, the second model approach outlines the necessity of implementing wells as an active parameter to reproduce observed fluid pathways.
Relative positions of the polar boundary of the outer electron radiation belt and the equatorial boundary of the auroral oval
Authors: Riazanteseva Maria O. , Antonova Elizaveta E. , Stepanova Marina V. , Marjin Boris V. , Rubinshtein Ilia A. , Barinova Vera O. , Sotnikov Nikita V.
Published: August 2018

Abstract. Finding the position of the polar boundary of the outer electron
radiation belt, relative to the position of the auroral oval, is a
long-standing problem. Here we analyze it using the data of the METEOR-M1
auroral satellite for the period from 11 November 2009 to 27 March 2010. The
geomagnetic conditions during the analyzed period were comparatively quiet.
METEOR-M1 has a polar solar-synchronous circular orbit with an altitude of
≈832 km, a period of 101.3 min, and an inclination of
98∘. We analyze flux observations of auroral electrons with
energies between 0.03 and 16 keV, and electrons with energies >100 keV,
measured simultaneously by the GGAK-M set of instruments, composed of
semiconductors, scintillator detectors, and electrostatic analyzers. We
assume that in the absence of geomagnetic storms the polar boundary of the
outer radiation belt can be identified as a decrease in the count rate of
precipitating energetic electrons to the background level. It was found that
this boundary can be located both inside the auroral oval or equatorward of
the equatorial boundary of the auroral precipitation. It was also found that
for slightly disturbed geomagnetic conditions the polar boundary of the outer
radiation belt is almost always located inside the auroral oval. We observe
that the difference between the position of the polar boundary of the outer
radiation belt and the position of the equatorial boundary of the auroral
precipitation depend on the AE and PC indices of geomagnetic activity. The
implications of these results in the analysis of the formation of the outer
radiation belt are discussed.
Baseline evaluation of the impact of updates to the MIT Earth System Model on its model parameter estimates
Authors: Libardoni Alex G. , Forest Chris E. , Sokolov Andrei P. , Monier Erwan
Published: August 2018

Abstract. For over 20 years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Earth System
Model (MESM) has been used extensively for climate change research. The model
is under continuous development with components being added and updated. To
provide transparency in the model development, we perform a baseline
evaluation by comparing model behavior and properties in the newest version
to the previous model version. In particular, changes resulting from updates
to the land surface model component and the input forcings used in historical
simulations of climate change are investigated. We run an 1800-member
ensemble of MESM historical climate simulations where the model parameters
that set climate sensitivity, the rate of ocean heat uptake, and the net
anthropogenic aerosol forcing are systematically varied. By comparing model
output to observed patterns of surface temperature changes and the linear
trend in the increase in ocean heat content, we derive probability
distributions for the three model parameters. Furthermore, we run a
372-member ensemble of transient climate simulations where all model forcings
are fixed and carbon dioxide concentrations are increased at the rate of
1 % year−1. From these runs, we derive response surfaces for
transient climate response and thermosteric sea level rise as a function of
climate sensitivity and ocean heat uptake. We show that the probability
distributions shift towards higher climate sensitivities and weaker aerosol
forcing when using the new model and that the climate response surfaces are
relatively unchanged between model versions. Because the response surfaces
are independent of the changes to the model forcings and similar between
model versions with different land surface models, we suggest that the change
in land surface model has limited impact on the temperature evolution in the
model. Thus, we attribute the shifts in parameter estimates to the updated
model forcings.
Implementation of a simple thermodynamic sea ice scheme, SICE version 1.0-38h1, within the ALADIN–HIRLAM numerical weather prediction system version 38h1
Authors: Batrak Yurii , Kourzeneva Ekaterina , Homleid Mariken
Published: August 2018

Abstract. Sea ice is an important factor affecting weather regimes, especially in polar
regions. A lack of its representation in numerical weather prediction (NWP)
systems leads to large errors. For example, in the HARMONIE–AROME model
configuration of the ALADIN–HIRLAM NWP system, the mean absolute error in
2 m temperature reaches 1.5 ∘C after 15 forecast hours for
Svalbard. A possible reason for this is that the sea ice properties are not
reproduced correctly (there is no prognostic sea ice temperature in the
model). Here, we develop a new simple sea ice scheme (SICE) and implement it
in the ALADIN–HIRLAM NWP system in order to improve the forecast quality in
areas influenced by sea ice. The new parameterization is evaluated using
HARMONIE–AROME experiments covering the Svalbard and Gulf of Bothnia areas
for a selected period in March–April 2013. It is found that using the SICE
scheme improves the forecast, decreasing the value of the 2 m temperature
mean absolute error on average by 0.5 ∘C in areas that are
influenced by sea ice. The new scheme is sensitive to the representation of
the form drag. The 10 m wind speed bias increases on average by
0.4 m s−1 when the form drag is not taken into account. Also, the
performance of SICE in March–April 2013 and December 2015–December 2016 was
studied by comparing modelling results with the sea ice surface temperature
products from MODIS and VIIRS. The warm bias (of approximately 5 ∘C)
of the new scheme is indicated for areas of thick ice in the Arctic. Impacts
of the SICE scheme on the modelling results and possibilities for future
improvement of sea ice representation in the ALADIN–HIRLAM NWP system are
discussed.
Muxe, Two-Spirits, and the myth of Indigenous transgender acceptance
Authors: Chisholm Jennifer
Published: August 2018

This theoretical essay critically examines and problematises the notion of Indigenous transgender acceptance among the muxe of Mexico and Native American Two-Spirits that is commonly represented in Western social science activist research. Relying on a close reading of works by social scientists within the field of Indigenous studies, I argue that an overemphasis on the historical acceptance of transgender people in Indigenous communities in the literature distracts from the contemporary discrimination that they face within their own communities. Furthermore, I contend that such a congratulatory stance towards certain Indigenous communities without gender binaries ignores how the acceptance of transgender women can be rooted in sexism.
Psychology without culture is almost dead: A case of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australian out-of-home care
Authors: Hameed Mohajer Abbass , Coade Shaun
Published: August 2018

From its inception as a unique discipline, the broad field of psychology has made substantial advances and has contributed to innovative practices in the care of individuals presenting with mental distress within Western Euro-American societies and cultures. The aim of this brief article is to provide a constructive critical analysis of the key limitations, knowledge shortfalls, ineffective assessment approaches and treatment modalities of “mainstream” psychology in addressing the psychological needs of children affiliating with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture in Australian out-of-home care. This article selectively draws from an in-depth analysis of the research literature and argues that in its current state, psychology without consideration of Indigenous culture has failed to satisfactorily improve psychological services and outcomes for these children and their families; in other words, psychology without culture is almost dead. This brief article raises various questions for future psychological research within this field and proposes feasible alternatives to these complex issues, supported by successful examples from the child abuse and neglect domain within the child welfare systems in Australia. It concludes with key recommendations for future appropriate inclusive psychological research, with the ultimate goal of strengthening culturally endorsed “healing” practices, service delivery and policies.
Indigenous Policy Failure and its Historical Foundations
Authors: Aitken Wendy
Published: August 2018

Public policy aimed at addressing the socio-economic disadvantage of Aboriginal Australians over the past three decades has largely failed. Much research has focused on this policy failure and the historical circumstances that created the socio-economic marginalisation of Aboriginal peoples. This essay revisits these two areas with the intention of offering a fresh perspective. Firstly, it is proposed that in order to understand policy failure in the context of a relationship characterised by marked power disparity, the understandings, assumptions and motivations of the holders of power require scrutiny. Previously, research on policy failure has generally concentrated on the stated intensions, implementation and outcomes of policy, rather than these more subjective conceptualisations of the problem (and therefore, the solution) held by policy professionals. However, in the very political landscape of colonial era Australia, the historical perspective fails to adequately analyse or explain the gap between rhetoric and reality, the disjunction between stated intent, actions and outcomes, and gulf between the letter of the law and its enforcement.
Getting A Job
Authors: Fredericks Bronwyn
Published: August 2018

Indigenous participation in employment has long been seen as an indicator of Indigenous economic participation in Australia. Researchers have linked participation in employment to improved health outcomes, increased education levels and greater self-esteem. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of Indigenous workforce policies and employment strategies as employers and industries attempt to employ more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Coupled with this has been a push to employ more Indigenous people in specific sectors to address the multiple layers of disadvantage experienced by Indigenous people, for example, the health sector. This paper draws on interview discussions with Aboriginal women in Rockhampton, Central Queensland, along with findings from the research of others to offer a greater understanding of the mixed benefits of increased Indigenous employment. What is demonstrated is that the nature of Indigenous employment is complex and not as simple as ‘just getting a job’.
Indigenous Peoples
Authors: Frederics Bronwyn
Published: August 2018

This book is an important read for a number of reasons. In an era where the term globalisation is bandied around in relation many fields of study ie , to resources, peoples, information, capital, biology, this book in its entirety attempts to address s the impact of globalisation on Indigenous communities and its people through a wide range of interdisciplinary perspective. This edited collection, therefore, brings to the fore some of the complex issues of Indigenous identity, Indigenous activism and case studies within different nation states. As a whole it attempts to answer some of the issues raised by discussions on and around Indigenous identity and relational identity. The book is well suited as a text for students and professionals in the social sciences, humanities, cultural studies, Indigenous studies and law.
Editorial
Authors: Moreton-Robinson Aileen , Walter Maggie
Published: August 2018

The articles in this edition of the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies engage collectively with how different epistemologies and cultural values inform power relations in different locations, situations and contemporary contexts. As a group, these articles demonstrate, over varying facets, how meaning, communicative intent and interpretive effect are constitutive of power relations between Indigenous people and non Indigenous people. Jackie Grey discusses the labour of belonging as played out in a dispute over Indigenous fishing rights in a small New England town of Aquinnah, located on Noepe Island the traditional lands of the Wampanoag in the United States of America. She reveals the ways in which the jurisdiction of non Indigenous belonging operates discursively and materially to preclude Indigenous rights and self determination. Grey's analysis highlights the incommensurability of Indigenous and non Indigenous belonging that are played out in power relations born of colonisation.
White Mother to a Dark Race
Authors: Luker Trish
Published: August 2018

Historical accounts of the removal of Aboriginal children from their families and communities in Australia under colonial assimilation policies have proliferated over recent decades. Within the field, white feminist historiography has involved investigations of the function of gender, domestic space and intimate relations in the colonial enterprise. In this, it has often placed the problematic trope of the maternal as 'a central model of historical identity' (Moore 2000, 95). While similar histories exist in other settler-colonial nations, notably the United States and Canada, there has been relatively little comparative research. In White Mother to a Dark Race, Jacobs provides a substantial comparative account of the removal of indigenous children in North America and Australia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the period when this was a key government policy in both continents. She focuses on the gendered character of the policies and practices and the role of white women as agents of the state in the removal of children. In particular, Jacobs provides a critique of the discourse of maternalism in its various manifestations. In this task, she takes up a point raised in white feminist analysis that a 'disconcerting maternalism persists both in the context of academic theory and the practical politics of forging international alliances' (Jolly 1993, 104).
Bridging National Borders in North America
Authors: Hokowhitu Brendan
Published: August 2018

Bridging National Borders is an edited collection that brings together 10 essays in an attempt to thematically link historical research focussed on the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico borders. In so doing, the collection suggests an important dialogue between border scholars from the continental north and south.
Editorial
Authors: Moreton-Robinson Aileen , Walter Maggie
Published: August 2018

This special edition of the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies highlights the work of emerging scholars in the field of Indigenous Studies. The five featured authors were all finalists for the prize awarded by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) to the best post-graduate student paper at the NAISA meeting held in 2010 in Tucson, Arizona. While the breadth of scholarship encompassed by the term 'Indigenous Studies' and the global representation of Indigenous peoples at NAISA mean that the topics and approaches vary widely, a common thematic of fraught post-colonial relations can be discerned within all five articles.
Moving Beyond Widdowson and Howard
Authors: Walsh David
Published: August 2018

Traditional Indigenous knowledge is increasingly recognised and incorporated both in and beyond the university. In Canada's Northwest Territories, this recognition has been manifest as policy mandating that scientists incorporate the knowledge of elders and hunters into their environmental and climate change research. However, the recognition of traditional knowledge has not always been met with acceptance and understanding. This article analyses the book Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry by Francis Widdowson and Albert Howard (2008), which is highly critical of traditional knowledge. Widdowson and Howard advocate for cultural assimilation by arguing that traditional knowledge is incompatible with, and inferior to, modern Western science. In their line of reasoning, the current application of traditional knowledge transplants ‗neolithic‘ culture into modernity and stunts the ability of Aboriginal peoples to participate in modern Canadian (and dominant Western) culture. While other critics argue against the racialised and inflammatory discourse, I try to salvage insight from the authors' misunderstandings; Widdowson and Howard's failed grasp on traditional knowledge actually illuminates a fundamental problem. The problem is not in meshing Indigenous and scientific knowledge; rather, the problem is in bridging the gap between Indigenous and scientific ways of knowing. I engage the work of A. Irving Halowell, Tim Ingold and scholars of Dene knowledge and traditional lifeways to discuss how Indigenous religion and worldview create a unique approach to knowledge.
Exchanging Gifts with the Dead
Authors: Cothran Boyd
Published: August 2018

This article considers the 1988 dedication of a memorial to United States–Indian violence in far northeastern California to explore the possibilities of historical justice through commemoration andhistorical revisionism. The author explores the anthropological and sociological concept of the gift to expose the limitations of a multicultural marketplace of remembering and forgetting that suffuses moments of purported historical justice-making. Ultimately, the article forwards a critique of liberal multiculturalism's call for inclusion by suggesting that multicultural historical revisionism oftenobscures power relations by offering the gift of equal inclusion within a national narrative. In the place of equivalency, the author argues for the necessity of a multivocal unequivalency thatacknowledges the presence of power in narrations of the past.
Indigenous Nation Rebuilding Through Gardening
Authors: ápi Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa
Published: August 2018

The Three Sisters, corn, beans and squash, planted together, form the foundation of sustainability for Indigenous peoples in what is now called North America as a source of balanced nutrition and nourishment for the community and for the nations' spirit. With these seeds, Indigenous peoples can engage in nation rebuilding. While Indigenous nation rebuilding literature shows numerous inherent problems and incompatibility when relying on Euro-American models, this article argues that war and victory gardens used by the United States during the two world wars to promote a sense of patriotism and national identity provides a framework harmonious with traditional Indigenous cultures. Gardening supplies the means through which Indigenous peoples reconnect with traditional lives and ways. Furthermore, as an outcome, articulating land reacquisition and use that non-Indigenous Americans recognise and have applied in their own nation rebuilding efforts could lessen misinterpretation and apprehension in land claim negotiations.
Editorial
Authors: Moreton-Robinson Aileen , Walter Maggie , Singh David
Published: August 2018

This special edition of the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies focuses upon the work scholars within the growing discipline of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health studies.
Recognition Odysseys
Authors: Sturm Circe
Published: August 2018

With the publication of Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities, Brian Klopotek establishes himself as an emerging new star in the field of Native American Studies
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
Authors: Singh David
Published: August 2018

Australian education systems have long been challenged by the gap between Indigenous and nonIndigenous student outcomes. All levels of Australian government, as well as Indigenous leaders and educators, however, continue to meet the challenge through exhortation, strategies and targets. The most prominent of such strategies is ‘Closing the Gap’, which gives practical expression to the Australian Government’s commitment to measurably improving the lives of Indigenous Australians, especially Indigenous children.
Diagnosis and Management of Ipsilateral Femoral Neck and Shaft Fractures
Authors: Jones Clifford B. , Walker J. Brock
Published: August 2018

Ipsilateral femoral neck and shaft fractures typically occur as a result of high-energy trauma in young adults. Up to 9% of femoral shaft fractures will have an associated femoral neck fracture. Awareness of this association and the use of a protocolized approach to diagnosis and management can help prevent missed injuries and the associated complications of displacement, nonunion, and osteonecrosis. The femoral neck fracture is often vertically oriented and either nondisplaced or minimally displaced, and thus, these fractures are frequently missed in the initial evaluation. Fixation of these combined injury patterns is challenging, and multiple treatment options exist. Treatment goals should include anatomic reduction and adequate fixation of the femoral neck fracture, as well as restoration of the length, alignment, and rotation of the femoral shaft fracture.
The metabolic stone evaluation: An opportunity for shared decision-making
Authors: Beiko Darren
Published: August 2018

N/A (it's an editorial/commentary on another paper)
The Effect of TQM on firm Performance: Empirical Study in Jordanian Private Airlines
Authors: Rawashdeh Adnan M.
Published: August 2018

The purpose of this study was to explre the relationship between total quality management and firm performance, i.e. quality, business and organizational performance in Jordanian private airlines. The design of this study has a quantitative approach. Data was obtained by questionnaire instrument. The respondents of this study are all employees in quality department, maintenance department, human resource department, and operation department. The number of population was 480 employees. Random sampling was used in the study. 340 completed questionnaires were analyzed as a final sample. Three hypotheses have been developed through literature review and tested using descriptive statistical analysis performed by SPSS. The results show that total quality management practices have a positive and significant impact on business, quality, and organizational performance in Jordanian private airlines. The study reports that effective implementation of total quality management practices results in enhancing airline performance. The major limitation of this study is that the study asked for perceived data about actual TQM practices and performance measures, but the respondents might have given desired data, which made their companies sound good, most of the respondents were non managers and from different departments in addition to the quality department, who might not understand to answer the questions accurately. Another limitation was that business performance tenets were measured by using one question per each tenet. Future research may investigate those TQM practices and performance measures in another Jordanian industry.
Simultaneous Detection of Multiple Wine-Spoilage Organisms Using a PCR-Based DNA Dipstick Assay
Authors: Janagama Harish K , Mai Tam , Han Sukkhyun , Nadala Lourdes , Nadala Cesar , Samadpour Mansour
Published: August 2018

Background: The presence of microbial contaminants such as Brettanomyces in wine can lead to undesirable wine. Therefore, monitoring for the presence of these spoilageorganisms is critical for winemakers to ensure thequality of their end product. Objective: To address this problem, Molecular Epidemiology, Inc. (MEI, Seattle, WA) has developed a wine-spoilage organism detection kit consisting of a multiplex PCR DNA dipstick that simultaneously detects these organisms. Methods: Wine samples obtained from local wineries that tested negative by routine microbiological culture were spiked with the target microorganisms, while samples that were designated as spoiled by the wineries were usedas-is without spiking for assessing the performancecharacteristics of the DNA dipstick assay. Microbial enumeration was performed following standard microbiological plating methods. Samples spiked with low cell numbers (<5 cells per 100 mL) were enriched using wine enrichment media (WSE; optional component of the kit) prior to analysis using the DNA dipstick assay. Suitability of WSE medium to support the growth of wine-spoilage microorganisms was compared with standard microbiological media. Results: Testing of 92 diverse bacterial and yeast strains commonly found in winery and food operations and 50 various strains of spoilage organisms isolated from wineries indicated that the dipstick assay can exclusively detect the target wine-spoilage microorganisms. All target spoilage organisms in samples containing low cell numbers (<5 cells per 100 mL) were detected by dipstick assay 48 hpostenrichment in WSE, except for a few strains of Brettanomyces bruxellensis that required longer incubation times. Conclusions: The wine-spoilage organism detection kithas a detection limit of 10 cells/mL. Highlights: The kit can be used at different stages of the wine-making process to detect multiplespoilage-causing microorganisms in a single assay, thus offering a convenient test system for winemakers interested in monitoring the quality of their product.
Changes in modern family life and the transformation of the family and family life in Serbia
Authors: Milivojević Snežana
Published: August 2018

The theoretical framework of this topic can be built on an analysis of the following issues: developmental changes in the family; the transformation of the function of a modern family; changes in the structure of families and relationships among its members; the transition model of marriage and parenting; the impact of social, economic, and demographic factors on the transformation of the family. Review of the prospects for the future development of the family points out the changes in marriage and parenthood, which influence the changing functions of the family, its structure and other aspects. In the postmodern society, there has been a convergence of roles between men and women in terms of education, employment, economic independence, career and family, bringing about a different perspective on marriage, or a different idea about marriage and acceptance of different values from those of the previous generations. Young people, especially women, now have a desire for independence and self-fulfillment, both in the job and through various arrangements of family and marriage forms, and a greater willingness to experiment with different life practices related to communal life than previous generations.
José Antonio Souto Paz, In Memoriam
Authors: Torres del Moral Antonio
Published: August 2018

José Antonio Souto Paz, In Memoriam
Las Cortes en la Segunda República española: luces y sombras 85 años después
Authors: Oliver Araujo Joan
Published: August 2018

Resumen:En este trabajo se lleva a cabo un estudio jurídico de las Cortes de la Segunda República española —también denominadas Congreso de los Diputados—, a partir del análisis del título IV de la Constitución de 9 de diciembre de 1931 (que engloba los artículos 51 a 66), del Reglamento Provisional de las Cortes Constituyentes de 11 de julio de 1931 y del Reglamento (definitivo) del Congreso de los Diputados de 29 de noviembre de 1934. Junto a estos datos normativos, se han tomado en consideración los debates que se suscitaron en las Cortes Constituyentes, la práctica parlamentaria y las aportaciones doctrinales (de entonces y de ahora) que han abordado el estudio del Parlamento de nuestro último período republicano. Merece subrayarse, desde una perspectiva formal, que se han aplicado los conceptos constitucionales actuales a un texto que se aprobó hace ahora ochenta y cinco años; y, desde una perspectiva material, que se ha reflexionado sobre hasta qué punto la normativa que regulaba las Cortes, o acaso su desleal aplicación u olvido, coadyuvó o aceleró el trágico fin de la Segunda República.Summary:I. Legal sources. II. Unicameral character. III. The composition of Parliament. Specific reference to the electoral system. IV. The legal status of the deputies. V. The organization of Parliament. 1. The Bureau of Parliament. 2. The Parliamentary Groups 3. The Parliamentary Committees. VI. How parliament works: Parliamentary Autonomy and its limits. VII. The functions of parliament. 1. The Legislative Function. 2. The Budgetary Function of Parliament. 3. The Function of Political Control to the Government VIII. The Permanent Deputation. 1. Importance and Precedents. 2. Membership. 3. Competences. 4. On the threshold of a Tragedy: The Performance of the Permanent Deputation during the First Semester of 1936. Bibliography.Abstract:This paper is a legal study about the Spanish Parliament in the 2nd Republic —also called Lower House— based on an analysis of Title IV of the Constitution of 9 December 1931 (which covers articles 51- 66), the provisional Regulations of the Constituent Assembly of 11 July 1931 and the final Regulations of the Parliament of 29 November 1934. Together with these regulations, the discussions that took place at the Constituent Assembly, the parliamentary practice and the doctrinal contributions on the matter (both from that period and current) which analyse the Spanish Parliament in the last Republican Period have also been considered. It is noteworthy that modern constitutional concepts have been applied to a constitutional text that was passed 85 years ago, and to reflect to what extent the Regulations that governed the Assembly or their dishonest application or obliviousness could have contributed to or accelerated the tragic process of disintegration of the 2nd Republic.
El carácter transdiagnóstico de las intrusiones mentales: una revisión y una propuesta basada en datos.
Authors: Pascual-Vera Belén , Belloch Amparo
Published: August 2018

Abstract: The transdiagnostic nature of mental intrusions: A review and data-based proposal. The objective of a transdiagnostic perspective in psychopathology is to better understand the commonalities among clinically different mental disorders on the basis of a set of shared etiopathogenic dimensions and processes. Unwanted intrusive cognitions (UI) and their functional consequences had been proposed as symptom dimensions in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), Hypochondriasis (HYP) and Eating Disorders (EDs). In this article, we review the empirical data about the putative transdiagnostic nature of UI and their functional consequences in the four mentioned disorders. Firstly, the results about the universality and dimensionality of UI with contents of each disorder are reviewed. Secondly, data about UI as common symptom dimensions in OCD and EDs are presented. Finally, we offer information about our current research about the hypothetical transdiagnostic nature of UI with obsessional, dysmorphic, hypochondriac, and eating-disorders contents. Keywords: Mental intrusions; transdiagnostic; obsessive-compulsive disorder; body dysmorphic disorder; hypochondriasis; eating disorders.Resumen: El propósito de adoptar un enfoque transdiagnóstico en psicopatología es comprender las comunalidades entre trastornos mentales clínicamente diferentes sobre la base de un rango de dimensiones y procesos etiopatogénicos compartidos. Las intrusiones mentales no deseadas (IM) y sus consecuencias funcionales se han propuesto como dimensiones de síntomas en el Trastorno Obsesivo-Compulsivo (TOC), el Trastorno Dismórfico Corporal (TDC), la Hipocondría (HIP) y los Trastornos Alimentarios (TA). Este artículo resume y actualiza los datos disponibles sobre el potencial valor transdiagnóstico de las intrusiones mentales y sus consecuencias funcionales en los cuatro trastornos mencionados. Se presentan, primero, los resultados sobre la universalidad y dimensionalidad de IM con contenidos característicos de cada trastorno; segundo, los datos sobre las IM como dimensiones de síntomas comunes en el TOC y los TA; por último, se aporta información sobre una investigación propia cuyo objetivo es poner a prueba la hipótesis del carácter transdiagnóstico de IM obsesivas, dismórficas, hipocondríacas y alimentarias.
Dodges for Heterosexuality – Young Boys viewing Male Bodies in Pornography
Authors: Sørensen Niels Ulrik
Published: August 2018

This article analyses young boys' descriptionsof their meetings with male bodies in pornography. It is based on qualitative interviews with 15 and 16 year old boys performed in the NIKK-project ";Youth, gender and pornography in the Nordic countries";, which took place in 2005 and 2006. The article explores the tension between the masculine and the feminine, the homosexual and the heterosexual generated during these meetings. Especially it focuses on the tension related to the young boys' attempts to assume masculine and heterosexual positions and the feminisation and homosexualisation inherent in their looking at male bodies in pornography. The article shows that the boys pursue various strategies to reinterpret body, gender and sexuality in order to avoid this feminisation and homosexualisation. However this reinterpretation sometimes creates friction between the masculine and the heterosexual, and the boys feel that they cannot position themselves as both - they have to choose between masculinity or heterosexuality. The article explores how and what they choose.
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
Authors: Ernstsen Thyra , Blaagaard Bolette B. , Kirk Ane Havskov , Næs Petter
Published: August 2018

I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt:Eva Österberg og Marie Lindsted Cronberg (red): Kvinnor og våld – en mångetydig kulturhistoria. Nordic Academic Press, 2005.Rikke Andreassen: Der er et yndigt land. Medier, minoriteter og danskhed. Tiderne Skifter, 2007.Virginie Despentes: King Kong og Kvinden. Tiderne Skifter, 2007.Henrik List: Sidste nat i kødbyen – essays. Aschehoug, 2007.Helene Hjort Oldrup: Mellem hastighed og tilhør –erfaringer og fortællinger om hverdagsmobilitet, ph.d.-afhandling, Københavns Universitet, 2005.
Challenging Mainstream Metaphysics – Barad’s Agential Realism and Feminist Philosophy of Religion
Authors: Hammarström Matz
Published: August 2018

The article outlines the impact of Barad’s thinking on our understanding of reality, being and becoming at large, and demonstrates the relevance of her agential realism for feminist philosophy of religion. Barad’s agential realism is presented as the cornerstone of a relationalist metaphysics, challenging the mainstream masculine metaphysics of separateness. Agential realism is also applied as a fruitful perspective for an  alternative understanding of religion, and as an important and solid theoretical perspective for the further development of feminist philosophy of religion. The latter claim is substantiated through a discussion of Pamela Sue Anderson’s and Grace Jantzen’s feminist philosophies of religion, showing how they can benefit from and find support in Barad’s ontoepistemological metaphysics.
How Towels Came to Matter – on Discursive-Material Reconfigurings of Gender in Academia
Authors: Damsholt Tine
Published: August 2018

This article seeks to develop a non-reductionist understanding that highlights how both material and discursive elements are involved in the doing of gender. It is presented as a piece of auto-ethnography, in which the author experienced how her own ‘stabilised and neutral academic gender’ suddenly became destabilised (and thus revealed to be material-discursive) when transferred to another material setting – specifically, a hamam in Istanbul. Although the author’s social relationships with the male participants involved were unaltered, the gendered body came to matter in a new way when it was enacted or ‘measured’ in a different apparatus. Following the plot of this autoethnography, the article investigates how a performative approach could deal with materiality, moving from J. Butler’s perspective and to a performative version of STS, particularly the concepts put forward by K. Barad.
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
Authors: Siguóardóttír Aldís , Ter-Borch Thomas , Dufresne Marie , Seeberg Marie Louise , Hansen Rasmus Præstmann
Published: August 2018

Agneta Ney: Drottningar och sköldmör. Gränsöverskridande kvinnor i medeltida myt och verklighet ca 400-1400. Gidlunds förlag 2004.Kirsten Hyldgaard: Det utidige Subjekt. Roskilde Universitetsforlag 2003.Stine Marie Eriksen, Malene Nors Tandrup og Marie Reynolds (red.): Kvinder stiller skarpt – fotografi og historie. Informations Forlag 2004.Kvinder på Værtshus (red.): Udsigt – feministiske strategier i dansk billedkunst. Informations Forlag 2004.Dorthe Staunæs: Køn, Etnicitet og Skoleliv. Samfundslitteratur 2004.Madonna’s Drowned Worlds – New Approaches to her Cultural Transformations, 1983-2003 redigeret af Santiago Fouz-Hernández og Freya Jarman-Ivens. Ashgate, London 2004.
Tillfällighetsmodrande och föräldralösa barn i amerikanska post-9/11-romaner
Authors: Henriksson Helena Wahlström
Published: August 2018

This article explores how ideas about national identity are staged and critiqued through representations of family relations in two American post-9/11 novels, focusing more specifically on mothering and the orphan child. Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days (2005) and Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s The Writing on the Wall (2005) feature orphan children and women who take on the task of mothering them, if only temporarily, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. These orphans, as well as the women who mother them, serve to destabilize the “naturalness” of motherhood as well as the naturalization of the nuclear family. They are also interesting in that they talk back to a broadly mediatized nationalist rhetoric in the US that glorifies (dead) fathers and constructs mothers as suspect or unpatriotic if unwilling to support such glorification. Discussing meanings of orphanhood and motherhood from a critical perspective informed by feminist theory, family studies and American studies, this article proposes that fiction is a productive site for investigating nationally and culturally specific constructions of family, parenthood, and childhood.
I moderskabets skygge: konstruktioner af 'godt forældreskab' i repræsentationer af 'selvvalgt' enlige fædre
Authors: Knudsen Line Gravgaard
Published: August 2018

More than ever, it is considered 'natural', that fathers take on (half) the responsibility for the care of their young children This article contributes to feminist research on ‘alternative’ families and fatherhood ideologies with a specific focus on single fathers. I conduct a critical examination of contemporary representations of ‘elective’ single fathers in the British print media and illustrate how parenting is (re)constructed as a female domain. This is achieved through an accentuation of ‘womanness’ as a prerequisite for appropriate nurturing, which works to construct fatherhood as secondary to motherhood. Thus, even when positively connoted subject positions of ‘good parents’ are made available to ‘elective’ single fathers (in this instance, to fathers who have adopted older children), these remain situated within a powerful discourse emphasising the ‘natural’ nurturing capacity of women and the particular parenting ideal of the (female) mother.
Indledning
Authors: Hegnhøj Rikke Randorff , Olsen Bente Marianne , Poulsen Helle
Published: August 2018

2007 er udnævnt til “Det europæiske år for lige muligheder for alle” af EU. Året skal blandt andet øge den europæiske befolknings bevidsthed om retten til ligestilling og ikkeforskelsbehandling samt om problematikken om mangeartet forskelsbehandling. I de officielle dokumenter om året hedder det bl.a., at “[d]et europæiske år vil fokusere på det budskab, at alle er berettigede til ligebehandling uanset køn, race eller etnisk oprindelse, religion eller tro, handicap, alder eller seksuel orientering”, og at “[d]et europæiske år […], navnlig ved at fremhæve fordelene ved mangfoldighed, [vil] fokusere på, at alle uanset køn, race eller etnisk oprindelse, religion eller tro, handicap, alder eller seksuel orientering kan bidrage positivt til samfundet som helhed.” (Citat: EUROPA-PARLAMENTETS OG RÅDETS AFGØRELSE Nr. 771/2006/EF af 17. maj 2006 om det europæiske år for lige muligheder for alle 2007) – mod et retfærdigt samfund, s. 3.)
Feministisk institutionalisme og kommunal strukturreform
Authors: Jensen Hanne Nexø
Published: August 2018

Feminist institutionalism and local government reform275 Danish municipalities were amalgamated into 98 in January 2007 and the percentages of female city managers were reduced drastically. I demonstrate how a combination of gender studies and new institutionalism contribute to an understanding of the gendered development in the municipalities. This is inspired by FIIN, The Feminism and Institutionalism International Network which was formed in order to contribute to studies of gender, politics, power and change combining elements from feminism and new institutionalism. Furthermore, I discuss the weak points in the theoretical contributions and suggest some possibilities of improvements ina relation to studies of public organisations undergoing change.
Kønsmarkører som strategier i studerendes positioneringskampe
Authors: Christensen Gerd
Published: August 2018

Gender markings as strategies in the students struggle for positioning. References to sex and gender can be employed in order to distribute legitimacy among participants in various situations. Through analyses of four stories, this article shows how this can be practiced among university students at project-oriented educations. On the one hand, the female students are referred to as talkative and often bursting into tears. Both conducts are considered as problematic in the project groups because they take time and focus from the work on the project. Thus, the consequence of the stories is a devaluation of the female students. The male students are on the other hand told as either poor group workers because of their preferences for playing or are having to navigate between the attractiveness of being the group leader and the illegitimate position of dominating their fellow students in the group. The conclusion of the analyses states that the stories are not only told in order to distribute legitimacy among the students, but are negotiations and reformulations of the norms of the contexts.
Diasporic Relationships and Processes: South Asian young adults in Denmark
Authors: Singla Rashmi
Published: August 2018

Diasporic Relationships and Processes: South Asian young adults in Denmark. The article explores social psychological aspects concerned with diasporic relationships among the South Asian diaspora in Denmark and is a follow up of a study conducted in the midnineties. The first wave focussed on the intergenerational relations within the double challenge perspective dealing with age transition and ethnic belonging while the second wave focuses at the relationships across the borders within a theoretical framework of life course perspectives combined with diaspora conceptualisations. In-depth interviews were conducted and analysed through meaning condensation. The gendered experiences of the young adults perceived as active actors indicate reinterpretation of the self, others and home. The results depict that the young adults' relationships involve both the country of origin and the Danish welfare society, though refutes the myth of return, in spite of Denmark turning increasingly restrictive in migration policies in the past years.