bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Efficacy and safety of antidepressant’s use in the treatment of depressive episodes in bipolar disorder – review of research
Authors: Antosik-Wójcińska Anna , Stefanowski Bogdan , Święcicki Łukasz
Published: December 2015

Stosowanie leków przeciwdepresyjnych (LPD) w leczeniu faz depresyjnych w przebiegu CHAD wzbudza wiele kontrowersji. W przypadku braku poprawy podczas monoterapii lekiem normotymicznym (LNT), często niezbędne jest zastosowanie leków przeciwdepresyjnych. Bezpieczeństwo stosowania LPD w kontekście ryzyka zmiany fazy, wystąpienia stanu mieszanego czy indukcji przebiegu typu rapid cycling jest przedmiotem wielu prac badawczych. W artykule autorzy dokonują przeglądu piśmiennictwa dotyczącego skuteczności i bezpieczeństwa stosowania leków przeciwdepresyjnych w terapii zaburzeń afektywnych oraz ich długoterminowego wpływu na przebieg choroby. Doboru artykułów dokonano wyszukując w bazach danych Medline oraz Pubmed publikacje stosując słowa kluczowe: antidepressant drugs, bipolar depression, bipolar disorder, efficacy, safety, mania, hypomania.
Ryzyko indukcji fazy maniakalnej jest prawdopodobnie większe u osób z CHAD typu I niż CHAD typu II oraz w przypadku leczenia TLPD i wenlafaksyną. Stosowanie leków z grupy SSRI oraz bupropionu wiąże się ze stosunkowo małym wzrostem ryzyka zmiany fazy. Wątpliwości budzi kwestia zalecanego czasu stosowania LPD. W większości przypadków powinno się zaprzestać ich podawania po ok. 2-3 miesiącach utrzymywania się remisji, ryzyko nawrotu depresji po odstawieniu LPD jest jednak wyższe niż przy jego kontynuacji. W CHAD typu II i w spektrum CHAD, w wypadku znacznego nasilenia depresji dopuszcza się monoterapię LPD. Należy zachować ostrożność w stosowaniu LPD, szczególnie w CHAD I oraz w przypadku zmiany fazy po włączeniu LPD w wywiadzie. Leki przeciwdepresyjne są przeciwwskazane w CHAD z szybką zmianą faz i u pacjentów z epizodami mieszanymi. Niezbędne są dalsze prace oceniające skuteczność i bezpieczeństwo stosowania leków przeciwdepresyjnych.
Facial emotion perception and schizophrenia symptoms.
Authors: Leszczyńska Anna
Published: December 2015

Cel

Rozpoznawanie emocji jest niezwykle ważnym aspektem interakcji społecznych. W grupie osób chorych na schizofrenię obserwowano zaburzenia w tym zakresie. Celem badania była ocena umiejętności percepcji mimiki u osób chorych na schizofrenię paranoidalną oraz potencjalny związek z nasileniem objawów psychozy.

Metoda

W badaniu wzięły udział osoby w wieku 18 – 60 lat: 102 pacjentów z rozpoznaniem schizofrenii paranoidalnej (F20.0 wg. ICD 10) oraz 50 osób zdrowych stanowiących grupę kontrolną. Do oceny stanu psychicznego wykorzystano następujące narzędziami: CGI (Skala ogólnej oceny klinicznej), PANSS (Skala zespołu pozytywnego i negatywnego), CDSS (Skala Calgary do oceny depresji w schizofrenii), UKU (Skala objawów ubocznych i powikłań). Umiejętność rozpoznawania mimiki oceniano na podstawie Skali Inteligencji Emocjonalnej – Twarze (SIE-T).

Wyniki

Na podstawie uzyskanych danych stwierdzono, że osoby chore na schizofrenię paranoidalną rozpoznawały mimikę istotnie gorzej niż osoby zdrowe. Nasilenie objawów negatywnych schizofrenii wiązało się z większym nasileniem zaburzeń percepcji mimiki. Nie stwierdzono związku pomiędzy wiekiem zachorowania na schizofrenię a poziomem zdolności rozpoznawania emocji twarzy. Natomiast w obu grupach osób zdrowych i chorych na schizofrenię, wraz z wiekiem pogarszała się zdolność percepcji mimiki.

Wnioski

Nasilenie objawów schizofrenii wiązało się z większym nasileniem zaburzeń percepcji mimiki.
Accountable Care Organisations fund the gap—how to get community paramedic programmes paid
Authors: Ryan Sarissa
Published: December 2015

Community care paramedic services In the United States (US) are seeking solutions in the wake of the Affordable Care Act. Health care is moving into a new era: it is transitioning away from a fee for service model to a model based on continued improved patient outcomes. This shift to focused patient-centered care is nothing new to paramedics. They sit in the community waiting to respond at a moment's notice to provide life-saving and life-sustaining care from the time they are dispatched, to the time they arrive at the emergency room. With the implementation of community care paramedic programmes they have the opportunity to expand upon simply providing transport services. Now the opportunity exists to not just sit and wait for the emergency but to be part of keeping patients from getting sicker and helping to manage them before they call 911. Finding a way to fund community paramedic programmes that provide these much needed healthcare services is where the current healthcare reform will provide solutions. Filling the gaps between integrated community health care services is viable through existing Accountable Care Organisations that are supported legislatively and can fiscally help these programmes succeed in this new era of health care.
The impact of post-traumatic stress on first responders: analysis of cortisol, anxiety, depression, sleep impairment and pain
Authors: Bergen-Cico Dessa , Lane Sandra , Thompson Maureen , Wozny Sophia , Zajdel Melissa , Barduhn Marley , Noce Jennifer
Published: December 2015

First responders are an often ignored group facing emotional and physical stress that is similar to that of law enforcement personnel and military veterans. Fifty first responder employees were invited to participate in the study, of which 34 completed the following psychological and biological measures: 1) the PTSD Checklist—Civilian Version (PCL-C); 2) State Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA); 3) the Center for Epidemiology Studies Depression Scale (CES-D); 4) the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI); 5) Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT); 6) Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire (CMDQ); 7) heart rate and blood pressure during two consecutive days; 8) body mass index (BMI); and 9) salivary cortisol measured once. Among participants, 18% (n=6) met criteria for anxiety, 47% for depression (n=16) and 33% (n=12) for PTSD. Comparison of statistical models assessing the predictive strength of physical and behavioural health measures found PTSD to be the strongest predictor for depression, anxiety, poor sleep quality, musculoskeletal pain, cortisol and BMI.

A substantial portion of first responders met criteria for PTSD and anxiety. Assessing the impact of these conditions may best be achieved through physical health measures (cortisol, BMI, heart rate) in addition to psychometric screening tools (PCL, CESD, STICSA).
Calculation of the Scattering Amplitude of A Nucleus in the Presence of the Yukawa Potential
Authors: Nickhah L. , Rajabi A. A. , Pakdel F.
Published: December 2015

The scattering amplitudes are obtained from the phase shifts for a spherically symmetric potential using the D-dimensional Schrödinger equation and the partial wave method. Plots show that the real and imaginary parts of the scattering amplitude are almost similar behavior. 
Break or weld? trade union responses to global value chain restructuring
Authors: Ursula Huws
Published: December 2015

This paper provides a short introduction to this volume, sketching out some of the main dilemmas confronting trade unions in the context of global value chain restructuring, discussing some of the alternative strategies currently being adopted around the world and summarising the contributions to this volume.
Globalisation and trade unions: towards a multi-level strategy?
Authors: Ronaldo Munck
Published: December 2015

International trade unionism is facing a serious challenge from what is commonly called globalisation. Trade unions feel the need to ‘scale up’ their activities beyond their, once paramount, national terrain and to challenge capital's untrammelled forward march internationalising and commodifying everything in its path. This article examines the new forms of labour internationalism and the way in which trade unions have been creating incipient counter-hegemonic strategies. The only certainty in this globalised and complex situation is that a continuation of national era trade union strategies is not a viable path. A possible ‘transformationalist’ alternative is posed in this paper, arguing that labour needs a multi-layered and flexible response to the new global capitalist order.
Towards strategies for making offshore outsourcing economically and socially sustainable
Authors: Monique Ramioul  , Tom De Bruyn
Published: December 2015

This paper looks at the role trade unions and employee representatives can play in workplaces where offshoring and outsourcing projects are introduced. Starting with an overview of the literature on the employment impacts of offshore outsourcing, it highlights a strong contrast between the generally optimistic macro-economic studies focusing on the net effects, and the realities of offshore projects revealed through case studies, in which failure and mismanagement are common. It describes a situation in which increasing numbers of European trade unions, acknowledging that offshore outsourcing is ‘here to stay’, have reacted to this situation by developing a more pro-active approach to the introduction of outsourcing and offshoring which seeks to avoid the negative impacts on employees of failed or badly managed offshore outsourcing projects. Finally, the paper discusses the MOOS (Making Offshore Outsourcing Sustainable) project which exemplified this approach, aiming at contributing to a better informed and more effective role for employee representatives, to enable them to assess and influence the offshore outsourcing practices of their employers.
South African trade unions and globalisation: going for the ‘high road’, getting stuck on the ‘low road’
Authors: Marlea Clarke  , Carolyn Bassett
Published: December 2015

In this paper, we assess the South African labour movement's engagement with globalisation in the 1990s and its implications for labour politics in the following decade. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with key informants, we show that, although the labour movement had become committed to a ‘high road’, post-Keynesian restructuring vision by 1993, its representatives failed to pursue that vision consistently in the economic policy negotiations that preceded the historic 1994 democratic election. In fact, labour delegates actually agreed to several policy changes that were more in line with a ‘low road’, neo-liberal approach, with dramatic implications for workers in some sectors. The inability of labour's engagement with globalisation to benefit the working class has led to a long search for a new basis for union strategy.
The Movement for the Abolition of Child Labour as an Example of a Transnational Network Movement
Authors: Patrick Develtere  , An Huybrechs
Published: December 2015

With the advent of a global network society, movements and social organisations acquire a new place and space in development. A wide range of actors, including international nongovernmental organisations and transnational coalitions, are reacting in a variety of ways to new domestic and global challenges. Separated from traditional social movements, such as trade unions, new forms of collective action have emerged on the international scene which can be described as ‘transnational network movements’. This paper discusses the differences in ideology, practice, and organisation between traditional social movements and these new network movements, using the movement for the abolition of child labour as an example. The history of this movement, the actors involved and its repertoire of actions illustrate clearly that transnational network movements are very dynamic and open environments in which a wide variety of national and international organisations and movements, as well as institutions, corporations and individuals, can choose their own level of involvement whilst managing to develop a certain social power.
Commodifying health care: the UK's National Health Service and the Independent Sector Treatment Centre Programme
Authors: Stewart Player  , Colin Leys
Published: December 2015

Since the year 2000 successive British governments have pushed ahead with the transformation of the National Health Service into a health care market with a strong component of for-profit provision. Focusing on the crucial first step in the privatisation of clinical services, this article examines how the four key requirements for the commodification of a public service were fulfilled — first, breaking up health care into standardised units that could be priced; second, inducing the public to use the new commodified services; third, inducing the workforce to work for shareholders; and fourth, getting the state to underwrite the risk involved. What emerges is a story of the deep penetration of the UK state by the private health care industry, including major players with a serious history of fraud.
The new public service transnationals: consequences for labour
Authors: Judith Clifton  , Daniel Díaz-Fuentes
Published: December 2015

Since the late twentieth century, a significant number of public service providers operating in networks, previously defined as nationally-bound entities largely owned and controlled by the state, have embarked on aggressive expansion strategies abroad. This transnationalisation was a consequence of 1970s organisational reform, particularly privatisation, sectoral liberalisation and the liberalisation of Foreign Direct Investment. This article examines the recent organisational transformations of public service providers, particularly those based in the European Union, that have been at the forefront of this development, with a particular focus on electricity, telecommunications and postal services. Public service provider transformation, including transnationalisation, has significant consequences for work inside these organisations.
Mopping up the labour shortage: the privatisation of waste management and gendered work reorganisation
Authors: Melanie Samson
Published: December 2015

This article explores the gendered nature of work reorganisation in Johannesburg's privatised Pikitup waste management utility. It establishes that feminist analysis requires an exploration of the historical production of gendered and racialised divisions of labour, the continuities and disjunctures that arise with privatisation, the consequences for men and women workers in the workplace and the home and the effects of men's gendered privileges. Because Pikitup's profit-generating strategy mapped onto a pre-existing gender division of labour, the all-male collection workforce was shielded from labour shortages that resulted in dramatic forms of work reorganisation in the feminised street cleaning sector. Male street cleaning workers experienced the same objective transformations in work organisation as their female counterparts. However, they were less compromised due to the power associated with their masculinity in both the workplace and the home, belying any notion of convergence of experience between male and female workers.
‘Everywhere is becoming the same’? labour utilisation, regulation and the tensions inherent in transnational IT production
Authors: Nicole Mayer-Ahuja  , Patrick Feuerstein
Published: December 2015

Does the internationalisation of economic activities reduce the differences between locations in core and peripheral regions of capitalist production? This article contributes to this discussion by emphasising an inherent contradiction of transnational production: companies must draw upon divergent regulatory scenarios and strategies of labour utilisation and articulate them in their organisational structures in order to utilise ‘locational advantages’ and meet profit targets, but the integration of these divergent scenarios creates considerable organisational tensions. This scenario is illustrated through an analysis of the high attrition rates produced in the South Indian IT hub of Bangalore and how this is managed by one German software production company.
Anchors for job quality: Sectoral systems of employment in the European context
Authors: Damian Grimshaw  , Steffen Lehndorff
Published: December 2015

This paper argues that we can improve our understanding of the factors that shape job quality by interrogating the challenges facing sectoral systems of employment in diverse country contexts. Drawing on the work of the EU-funded Dynamo (Dynamics of national employment models) project, we describe an approach that includes paying attention to the set of social actors, product market rules, mix of technologies and skills and the character of the workforce in any given sector. Sectoral characteristics are shaped by the ‘core’ institutions constitutive of each national model but also retain distinguishing features. We then develop the argument that job quality is strengthened and sustained by key ‘institutional anchors’ and that these anchors vary in presence and strength by sector and country. A review of research on two specific sectors — care of the elderly and the automotive industry — shows that an inclusive model of industrial relations is a crucial anchor for job quality, but that its effects are contingent upon the specific production, employment and welfare characteristics of each sector.
Reforms and job quality: the case of the elder-care sector
Authors: Annamaria Simonazzi
Published: December 2015

In the last decade, all European countries have introduced regimes for care of the elderly as they have striven to adapt to demographic and social change. Meanwhile, labour market reforms have deeply changed the national employment models in which these care regimes are embedded, increasing labour market segmentation and wage inequality. This paper presents an analysis of the impact of these policy changes on the main features of elder-care labour markets. It is argued, first, that the characteristics of each country's elder-care sector mirror the general features of its national employment model. And second, that the way in which care reforms are implemented in the various countries reflects and somehow reinforces the general features of its care regime, in terms of the division of labour between formal and informal care and of the quantity and quality of care work.
Will Chinese ICT workers unite? new signs of change in the aftermath of the global economic crisis
Authors: Yu Hong
Published: December 2015

This paper contextualises and assesses the escalation and evolution of labour activism during the 2008 global economic crisis in China. It argues that both new incentives and new impediments to labour activism have arisen in the midst of broader changes in the labour market, the official trade union, and regional production networks. The recent trend of spatial and technical restructuring of China's ICT sector, as induced simultaneously by capital's self-initiated transformation of the modes of accumulation and by the governmental need to sustain China's economic growth, is likely to generate a sizeable reshuffling of labour markets and to reconstitute working-class experiences across regional, industrial, and educational segmentations.
Passing the buck: Corporate restructuring and the casualisation of employment
Authors: Ursula Huws
Published: December 2015

This article starts by looking critically at the contested concept of work flexibility, tracing the ambiguities inherent in it to the contradictions embodied in the ‘special deals’ struck between capital and labour in the third quarter of the 20th century. It then goes on to discuss the new forms of employment casualisation – and resulting precariousness – that have arisen since that period within the ‘formal’ economy, arising from the processes of financialisation, globalisation and corporate restructuring, before introducing the contents of this volume. It concludes with some general reflections on precariousness.
The reproduction of difference: gender and the global division of labour
Authors: Ursula Huws
Published: December 2015

This article starts by outlining the complex relationship between the gender division of labour in the household and the division of labour in waged work, taking account of the social, technical and spatial dimensions of this global division of labour and showing how this contradictary inter-relationship affects both the different value of men's and women's labour and the different positions that women and men occupy in the labour market. Whilst commodification and technological change have brought about shifts between work that is unpaid and work that is paid, as well as between informal and formal employment, gendered patterns continue to reassert themselves. It then goes on to introduce the contributions to this journal issue which illustrate these changing patterns and the questions they raise for future research.
Web, value and labour
Authors: Sabine Pfeiffer
Published: December 2015

This paper challenges the dominant discourse that the Internet is changing the economy dramatically. In a context where digitised value creation is spreading, it critiques the economically- inspired diagnosis of a fundamentally changed Internet economy from a sociological perspective and establishes that the available economic data do not justify this prognosis. It next critically discusses current research into Web-related value creation, starting with a classic and generic definition of the concept. It then suggests a new conceptual approach to the relationship between Web and value, drawing a clear disticntion between value generation and value realisation and differentiating both along the offline/online and commodities/commons dimensions. By means of these steps, the paper concludes that human labour remains the key source both of value origination and of value realisation processes, even in the Web 2.0 Internet economy.
IT firms' working time (de)regulation model: a by-product of risk management strategy and project-based work management
Authors: Marie-Josée Legault
Published: December 2015

This paper, based on 140 interviews carried out in two case studies in Montreal over the past decade, builds on previous research results demonstrating the existence of unlimited unpaid overtime among videogame developers and software designers. It uses the two case studies to illustrate an emerging workplace regulation model based on unacknowledged unlimited and unpaid overtime. It argues that this model stems from the combination of information technology firms' risk management strategy with project-based working as an organisation mode and is closely tied to the high international mobility of both capital and workforce. This paper focuses just on the (de)regulation of working time, but it opens up a path to account theoretically for the (de)regulation of work more generally in an expanding sector of the workforce: ‘new professionals’ in knowledge work.
Old wine, new bottles and the Internet
Authors: Guglielmo Carchedi
Published: December 2015

The Internet has given a new shape to modern capitalism. These new features have drawn the attention of numerous scholars and have become the focus of highly topical and controversial questions. However, as a rule, the literature has not taken as its starting point the development of a Marxist epistemology. The reason for this is the failure to derive a Marxist theory of knowledge from Marx's value theory. This is the task this article sets itself. The first section conceptualises mental versus objective labour processes and rejects the notion of the non-materiality of knowledge. The second section builds on this conceptualisation and deals with three interrelated questions, namely whether mental labour can produce value and surplus value and whether the distinctions on the one hand between productive and unproductive labour and on the other between production and consumption retain their validity in mental production. The third section explores the class nature of knowledge with particular reference to the Internet. Some final considerations follow in the last section.
Reviews Film
Authors: Ross Franz , Belden Stephen , Bell-Games Eoin
Published: December 2015

The Zero Theorem (2013) UK/Romania/France/USA Director Terry Gilliam Runtime 107 minutes

Boyhood (2014) USA Director Richard Linklater Runtime 165 minutes

Abus de faiblesse (Abuse of Weakness), (2013) France/Germany/Belgium Director Catherine Breillat Runtime 105 minutes
Once, in the streets of a Spanish town: On Rogelio López Cuenca and his Calle Cavafis
Authors: Fernández González Vicente , Nicolaidou Ioanna
Published: December 2015

Ever since it first appeared in the Catalan and Castilian sections of the Spanish literary field, the poetry of C. P. Cavafy has been significantly bound up with the visual arts. The very first Spanish edition (Barcelona, 1962) of his poetry in book form, translated brilliantly into Catalan by Carles Riba, included a number of illustrations, by the recently deceased artist Josep Maria Subirachs, which attracted considerable critical attention. Even though it undoubtedly belongs to the tradition fostered by these editions, the work of artist Rogelio López Cuenca entitled Calle Cavafis (1998) represents a rather different poetics and a different political discourse. Fifteen years before the outbreak of the controversy regarding the use of Cavafy’s image and verses on Athenian means of public transport, passengers on urban buses in Malaga (Spain) saw a series of gigantic posters stuck on bus stop shelters every day for two weeks during the autumn of 1998. Combining letters, colours and illustrations, these posters reproduced poems or fragments of poems by Cavafy in Catalan or Castilian and, occasionally, even in the original Greek. Also, during the same period of time, thousands of postcards which also reproduced Cavafy’s verses were distributed and displayed in different bars and pubs all over Malaga city centre. A total number of sixteen poems found their way to these posters and postcards visually and aesthetically – and we might even say politically – (re)elaborated by Rogelio López Cuenca. Starting from this selection of poems and translations, the article proposed here aims to place Rogelio López Cuenca’s artistic intervention in the reception (different readings and uses) of Cavafy’s poetry in Spain and Latin America, and at the same time to inquire into the aesthetic and political presuppositions that inform it.
Photographic adaptations of Cavafy
Authors: Papargyriou Eleni
Published: December 2015

This article offers a critical discussion of photographic projects based on Cavafy’s poetry. It begins with an overview of the theoretical implications of photographing poetry within the wider framework of photography and literature as fields interconnected in their narrative concerns. To establish the link between photographic and other visual adaptations, the article goes on to discuss Cavafy in painting; this dicussion proves that gay agendas that framed the project of such photographers as Duane Michals or Dimitris Yeros, had already appeared in the work of painters, notably David Hockney. In its second part, the article examines in detail the most important photographic adaptations of Cavafy’s work from 1978 to the present day, placing them in two large categories: the ‘gay’ adaptations, which focus on issues of body, sexuality and LGB rights, and those (more recent ones) that identify Cavafy with modernity, aestheticism and memory. The proliferation of photographic projects based on Cavafy points to his transformation from literary figure to a creative field inviting artists to self-expression.
The pensive spectator, the possessive reader and the archive of queer feelings: A reading of Constantine Giannaris’s Trojans
Authors: Papanikolaou Dimitris
Published: December 2015

This article provides a detailed reading of Trojans, the medium-length feature film by Constantine Giannaris on the life and work of C. P. Cavafy, released in 1990. Unlike the conventional life trajectory proposed by the more popular biopic Kavafis (Yannis Smaragdis, 1996), Giannaris’s film presents the telling of a life of C. P. Cavafy as a radical identity quest. It is a cinematic work as much about the past as it is about the present, as much about the poet’s legacy as it is about the director’s precarity and autobiographical exposure. As a representative example of the cultural politics of New Queer Cinema, Trojans is influenced by the film aesthetics of Derek Jarman and opens a dialogue with Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston (1989). Even though it follows the frame of a literary biopic up to a point, the film ends up being a meditation on cultural expression, identification and representation. It undermines traditional narratives of Cavafy’s life, using cinematic form in order to reflect on the elements of an archival, genealogical and affective reading of Cavafy’s life and work. In so doing, it proposes that the pensive spectator and the possessive reader are necessary positions for developing oppositional aesthetics and non-normative identity as public political gestures.
Television drama production in small nations: Mobilities in a changing ecology
Authors: Mcelroy Ruth , Noonan Caitriona
Published: December 2015

For small nations, the television industry functions on a number of interlinking levels constructing a sense of identity, contributing towards a democratic public sphere, and providing an important cultural and economic resource. Television drama is particularly important to these functions due to its ability to tell stories about and for a nation. However, the ecology of television drama production is changing in terms of technological innovation, greater competition, downward pressure on costs, and evolving audience consumption patterns. Set within this context, this article investigates the television industry of a particular small nation, Wales, and its most recent creative infrastructure project, the BBC’s Roath Lock Studios. One of the key features of the Welsh production ecology is mobility, and the authors frame this research around three aspects of mobility, which condition the making of television drama: how production and symbolic value are mobilized in small nations, the consequences of production mobility between regions and nations, and the impetus for content mobility through the international sale of series and formats. These forms of mobility are intimately linked to the negotiation of power, which circumscribes all indigenous drama production, but which may be felt more acutely by smaller nations where access to talent, greater limits on resources and questions of sustainability condition the everyday realities of television professionals. Using interviews with key stakeholders in the field of television drama production in Wales, this article argues that the voice and lived experience of television practitioners and stakeholders is a vital element in the academic critique of cultural and industrial developments in television production. The research suggests that Roath Lock would seem to be a success within its principal term of reference, which is to house more efficient and well-made drama for the BBC network and for S4C. On a more subjective level, it has been used by a variety of stakeholders to create positive perceptions of Welsh creative industries and ‘put Wales on the map’, to compete with other locales within and outside the United Kingdom, for international productions, capital investment, talent and industry legitimacy. However, real concerns remain about whether it enables drama production that adequately represents contemporary life in Wales, and delivers on the cultural aspirations of television workers and viewers.
Series spaces: Revisiting and re-evaluating Inspector Morse
Authors: Donaldson Lucy Fife
Published: December 2015

Previous writing on the hugely popular series Inspector Morse (1987–2000) has stressed the presentation of space and place as conforming to a heritage aesthetic, characterized by quality and nostalgia. This article seeks to address how television drama can be re-evaluated through a methodology of longitudinal analysis, and the ways this process itself encourages sensitivity to how space is articulated. Inspector Morse offers a specifically televisual experience of space, involving repeated encounters with particular spaces by virtue of its long run. This is a spatial experience characterized by layering and accumulation of meaning, a textured or thickened contact with space. Drawing on the detail of pattern and embellishment arising from repeated contact with particular spaces, it explores the density of aesthetic choices which create images of spatial disjunction suitable to the generic context of Inspector Morse. In underlining that the programme’s handling of space is more complex than previously suggested, this article seeks to demonstrate that the construction of space and place in Inspector Morse is not limited to the kind of ‘heritage’ qualities commonly associated with the programme.
Sex and the lady detective: Re-imagining the Golden Age in Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Authors: Taddeo Julie Anne
Published: December 2015

This article examines the treatment of sex and gender in the Australian TV programme, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Promoted by its creators as feminist TV, the series re-imagines the figure of the ‘lady detective’ made popular during the 1920s’ Golden Age of detective fiction. However, the series’ celebration of female sexuality reveals, sometimes unintentionally, the limits of liberation in the 1920s and the conflicted responses of viewers in a post-feminist media landscape to the sexualized ‘modern woman’ of the past and present.
When public service drama travels: The internationalization of Danish television drama and the associated production funding models
Authors: Jensen Pia Majbritt , Nielsen Jakob Isak , Waade Anne Marit
Published: December 2015

This article provides a detailed analysis of how the Danish public service broadcaster DR employs external funding for its drama productions. This investigation is carried out in order to discuss the schisms involved when a public service broadcaster – whose traditional obligations arguably pertain to the national sphere – becomes a player in the international market for television content and, as a consequence, becomes partly reliant on international funding. Our article examines five different forms of external funding (i.e. funding from sources other than DR’s licence fee income): (1) co-funding with external partners (most often foreign broadcasters and/or foreign distributors); (2) canned programming sales; (3) pre-sales of canned programming; (4) format/remake sales and (5) international funds, both regional and international as well as pannational funds. All five forms of funding are critically assessed on the basis of existing theory and interviews conducted with significant industry professionals at DR’s Drama Division, DR Sales, German public broadcaster ZDF’s commercial sales arm ZDF Enterprises, and independent Danish production companies Nimbus Film and Miso Film. Specific cases (such as Forbrydelsen/The Killing [2007–2012], Bron/Broen/The Bridge [2011–], Arvingerne/The Legacy [2014–], 1864 [2014] and The Team [2015–]) are employed to illustrate the different funding models and tendencies identified within Danish television drama production. Apart from presenting the proliferation of different cross-national funding models that have been used within the last fifteen years, our empirical data also show significant new patterns in production culture and international market orientation within DR. Interestingly, however, our study demonstrates the distinctive contribution that DR’s public service remit has made to the quality of its drama programming, on one hand, and to the reach of its funding models, on the other – and, hence, to DR’s overall international success.
An Ant Colony based Hyper-Heuristic Approach for the Set Covering Problem
Authors: Ferreira Alexandre Silvestre , Pozo Aurora , Gonçalves Richard Aderbal
Published: December 2015

The Set Covering Problem (SCP) is a NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that is challenging for meta-heuristic algorithms. In the optimization literature, several approaches using meta-heuristics have been developed to tackle the SCP and the quality of the results provided by these approaches highly depends on customized operators that demands high effort from researchers and practitioners. In order to alleviate the complexity of designing metaheuristics, a methodology called hyper-heuristic has emerged as a possible solution. A hyper-heuristic is capable of dynamically selecting simple low-level heuristics accordingly to their performance, alleviating the design complexity of the problem solver and obtaining satisfactory results at the same time. In a previous study, we proposed a hyper-heuristic approach based on Ant Colony Optimization (ACO-HH) for solving the SCP. This paper extends our previous efforts, presenting better results and a deeper analysis of ACO-HH parameters and behavior, specially about the selection of low-level heuristics. The paper also presents a comparison with an ACO meta-heuristic customized for the SCP.
SmartHeart CABG Edu
Authors: Di Giammarco Gabriele , Di Mascio Tania , Di Mauro Michele , Tarquinio Antonietta , Vittorini Pierpaolo
Published: December 2015

The paper reports on the SmartHeart CABG Edu Android app. The app was conceived to be an innovative and up-to-date tool for patient education, the first of its kind in the Italian context. In particular, the app was developed to provide educational material for patients about to undergo Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery, a set of self-assessment tools concerning health status (i.e., BMI calculator, LDL cholesterol calculator and anxiety assessment tool) and usability questionnaires (i.e., SEQ and SUS). The paper initially describes the app, then reports on its evaluation, concerning both the app usability and the pre-operative anxiety, and ends by showing the improvements -- derived from the usability evaluation -- put into practice.
Improving Podcast Distribution on Gwanda using PrivHab: a Multiagent Secure Georouting Protocol.
Authors: Sánchez-Carmona Adrián , Robles Sergi , Borrego Carlos
Published: December 2015

We present PrivHab, a multiagent secure georouting protocol that improves podcast distribution on Gwanda, Zimbabwe. PrivHab learns the whereabouts of the nodes of the network to select an itinerary for each agent carrying a piece of data. PrivHab makes use of cryptographic techniques to make the decisions while preserving nodes' privacy. PrivHab uses a waypoint-based georouting that achieves a high performance and low overhead in rugged terrain areas that are plenty of physical obstacles. The store-carry-and-forward approach used is based on mobile agents and is designed to operate in areas that lack network infrastructure. The PrivHab protocol is compared with a set of well-known delay-tolerant routing algorithms and shown to outperform them.
Desenvolvimento de uma plataforma web de apoio ao gerenciamento de acidentes de trânsito
Authors: Souza Adilso Nunes de , Dalla Rosa Francisco
Published: December 2015

A inexistência de informações que caracterizam o trânsito nos municípios brasileiros tem dificultado a realização de ações/projetos para a melhoria do fluxo e diminuição de acidentes nas vias. Dessa forma, este estudo apresenta uma plataforma para a coleta, armazenamento e análise de dados detalhados dos acidentes de trânsito, através de um aplicativo informatizado e vinculado à internet. Utilizou-se a cidade de Passo Fundo/RS como local piloto para teste desse sistema, devido à disponibilidade dos órgãos gestores em fornecer os dados dos registros de acidentes de trânsito. A implementação do banco de dados permitiu centralizar e armazenar todas as informações, para que sejam utilizadas como pesquisa de informação e favoreçam no processo de tomada de decisão pelas autoridades competentes na melhoria do sistema viário. Além disso, o sistema está interligado com as APIs do Google, resultando numa rápida análise geoespacial da distribuição e da classificação dos acidentes ocorridos dentro de um determinado período.
Needs of Hospitalized Schizophrenic Patients in the North Moravia and the Czech Part of Silesia
Authors: Hosáková Jiřina , Hosák Ladislav
Published: December 2015

Objectives: The main aim of the study was to investigate the physiological and social needs of patients hospitalized with schizophrenia to uncover potential issues in these areas. Methods: The relevant self-evaluating CANSAS questionnaire for physiological and social needs was used by nurses in a cohort of hospitalized schizophrenic patients undergoing rehabilitation before discharge from the mental hospital. Results: Two hundred and forty-four patients (women N = 115) aged 18–58 years were involved in the study. Intimate relations, financial matters, treatment of psychotic symptoms, and sexual life were among the most pressing physiological and social needs in our study subjects. Conclusion: The results of our study should stimulate psychiatric nurses in their effort not only to detect but also address the problems of schizophrenic patients concerning unfulfilled needs.
The value of a mouthful: Flight initiation distance as an opportunity cost
Authors: Møller Anders Pape
Published: December 2015

Flight initiation distance of animals when approached by a potential predator reflects the risk that an individual is willing to take when the individual has to gauge the value of staying put relative to the cost of flight. I predicted that this cost–benefit balance would depend on the opportunity cost of fleeing. This opportunity cost can be estimated as the difference in flight initiation distance (FID) between an individual engaged in eating rather than just loafing. I estimated FID of 55 species of birds when approached by a human whilst eating or loafing. There was highly significant variation in difference in FID between these two situations amongst species. Species eating mobile food that is difficult to catch showed little difference in FID between the two situations, whilst species eating immobile food such as seeds had longer FID when eating than when loafing. This difference was fully attributed to differences in relative eye size, because species that had longer FIDs when foraging rather than loafing had small eyes, whilst species with long FIDs when loafing rather than foraging had large eyes. Species with long FIDs, when foraging compared to loafing, had low adult annual survival rates and vice versa. This effect was independent of whether mobile or immobile food was consumed. These findings suggest that individuals of different species adjust their FID to the probability of adult survival and also that differences in visual acuity among species as reflected by eye size linked to differences in food mobility affect the opportunity cost of risk taking.
Concerns about the use of ecosystem services as a tool for nature conservation: From misleading concepts to providing a “price” for nature, but not a “value”
Authors: Morelli Federico , Møller Anders Pape
Published: December 2015

1. By definition, ecosystem services (ES) are the “benefits that people obtain from ecosystems”, and this paradigm
has been increasingly used in recent decades in ecological planning, for policy development and environmental
management.

2. In this short commentary, we highlight the main criticisms suggested by several scientists against the currently
used and abused ecosystem services (ES) approach.

3. We underline how this concept needs a more accurate scientific assessment and theoretical development, repeating
that one of the most critical concerns is that this paradigm assigns a “price”, but not a “value” to nature.

4. We also discuss different theoretical concerns, as for example the replacement of natural “resource” by
“service” promoted by the ES paradigm thereby changing the implications of such assessments. Conserving
resources is essential for survival of several organisms, while conservation of a “service” is mainly related to the
human species.

5. Finally, we warn against the mechanism of ‘crowding out’ behind the ES approach, which replaces intrinsic
motivations (nature) against extrinsic ones (benefits), highlighting that people do not need to attach different
values to ecosystems (monetary, cultural, aesthetic, etc.) to understand the value of nature.
The Path to Water
Authors: Zeno Mustafa Rony
Published: December 2015

In response to non-Muslims being mystified by the purpose of watering cans in mosque bathroom stalls, the photographer probes into the commanding Qur’an or Hadith rules that govern the use of the cans and other objects which evoke differing meanings for American Muslims and non-Muslims. From flip–flops to yoga mats to water bottles to tool boxes, everyday American objects come to inhabit sacred spaces when repurposed, reclaimed for the sake of Shari’a.
Alien Apostles
Authors: Dorame Katie
Published: December 2015

In her series of oil paintings and pen-and-ink drawings Alien Apostles, Tongva artist Katie Dorame reimagines the arrival of Spanish missionaries in California as an alien invasion. In her works, alien missionaries used baptism as a tool, baptizing neophytes with glowing green holy water, supernaturally branding them forever.
A New African Revival Comes to Orange County
Authors: Hinch Jim
Published: December 2015

In 2006, the evangelical Mariners megachurch in Orange County began to incorporate the teachings of Mavuno, an evangelical church in Nairobi, in its mission. Kenyan evangelicals have become leaders in Mariners, and Mariners members have travelled to Mavuno to learn from members there firsthand. This reversal of the standard missionary dynamic—where American Christians bring their style of religious practice to places such as Kenya—has had a profound impact on this suburban California religious community. In the last decade, Mariners has become more involved in its wider community–hosting a farmers market on the church grounds, donating to local charities, hosting intrafaith discussions, encouraging its members to take a more hands–on approach to charity, and becoming involved in political issues such as immigration reform.
Fauré and the Effable: Theatricality, Reflection, and Semiosis in the mélodies
Authors: Rumph Stephen
Published: December 2015

Gabriel Fauré plays a leading role in Vladimir Jankélévitch's influential critique of musical hermeneutics, La musique et l'ineffable (1961). For the French philosopher, Fauré's works epitomized music that resists verbal interpretation and demands absorption in temporal experience. Yet, like many French composers, Fauré drew upon theatrical song in his mélodies, introducing a performative element that encourages distance as well as absorption. These hybrid mélodies invite both singer and audience to listen critically, savoring the performance within the performance; indeed, these songs offer up music itself as an object of reflection. This article reassesses Jankélévitch's idea of ineffability in light of Fauré's use of diegetic song, questioning the apparent claim that musical experience is incompatible with critical reflection. An introductory analysis of La musique et l'ineffable explores the crucial role of Henri Bergson's philosophy of mind, especially his theory of perception, and demonstrates the inseparable role of both metaphysical cognition and representation in Bergsonian phenomenology. The following song analyses illustrate the need for both reflective and immersive listening. An examination of two settings from Théophile Gautier's La comédie de la mort reveals how Fauré responded to the poet's writerly play between lyric and performative modes, while a longer analysis of the song cycle La chanson d'Ève, based upon a stage ballad, demonstrates how Fauré exploited theatrical song to portray Eve's fall into self-consciousness. Finally, the conclusion proposes a musical hermeneutics compatible with Jankélévitch's idea of ineffability, one informed by the semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce.