bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Advances in thermoplastic polyurethane composites reinforced with carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers: A review
Authors: Sattar Rabia , Kausar Ayesha , Siddiq Muhammad
Published: May 2014

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have long been recognized as the stiffest and strongest man-made material known to date. Owing to high electrical conductivity, CNTs have also gained interest in the area of electrical appliances and communication related applications. Moreover, carbon nanofibers (CNFs) depict fine electrical and mechanical profile. Due to their miniscule size, excellent mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties, CNTs can only be beneficial if they are homogeneously dispersed and embedded into light-weight engineering polymer matrices. Adding small amounts of CNTs strongly improve the electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties of the composites. In order to enhance their chemical affinity to polymer matrices, chemically modifying the graphitic sidewalls and tips is necessary. This article reviews the processing technology and improvement of various properties of carbon nanotube-reinforced thermoplastic polyurethane (PU) composites. Initially, the structure, morphology, mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties of nanotubes are described. Then various strategies for fabricating PU/CNTs composites and their properties are discussed. To conclude, recent developments in the field of mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties of thermoplastic PU reinforced with nanotubes and nanofibers are reviewed. A brief account regarding the toxicity and environmental safety aspects of carbon nanomaterials is also included in this article.
GAP-Seq: a method for identification of DNA palindromes
Authors: Yang Hui , Volfovsky Natalia , Rattray Alison , Chen Xiongfong , Tanaka Hisashi , Strathern Jeffrey
Published: May 2014

Background

Closely spaced long inverted repeats, also known as DNA palindromes, can undergo intrastrand annealing to form DNA hairpins. The ability to form these hairpins results in genome instability, difficulties in maintaining clones in Escherichia coli and major problems for most DNA sequencing approaches. Because of their role in genomic instability and gene amplification in some human cancers, it is important to develop systematic approaches to detect and characterize DNA palindromes.

Results

We developed a new protocol to identify palindromes that couples the S1 nuclease treated Cot0 DNA (GAPF) with high-throughput sequencing (GAP-Seq). Unlike earlier protocols, it does not involve restriction enzymatic digestion prior to DNA snap-back thereby preserving longer DNA sequences. It also indicates the location of the novel junction, which can then be recovered. Using MCF-7 breast cancer cell line as the proof-of-principle analysis, we have identified 35 palindrome candidates and physically characterized the top 5 candidates and their junctions. Because this protocol eliminates many of the false positives that plague earlier techniques, we have improved palindrome identification.

Conclusions

The GAP-Seq approach underscores the importance of developing new tools for identifying and characterizing palindromes, and provides a new strategy to systematically assess palindromes in genomes. It will be useful for studying human cancers and other diseases associated with palindromes.
Allergen specific immunotherapy has no influence on standard chemistry and hematology laboratory parameters in clinical studies
Authors: Häfner Dietrich , Gödicke Viola , Narkus Annemie
Published: May 2014

Background

A set of standard clinical chemistry and hematology parameters are usually measured during clinical studies. The major outcome of these standard tests is to control that the drug investigated does not lead to pathophysiological changes in respective organs or blood. In some cases based on scientific rationale such tests may not be needed.

In this paper we report on a standard set of clinical chemistry and hematology laboratory parameters measured before and after treatment in three different immunotherapy studies, representing different routes of administration and different formulations.

Methods

Thirteen hematological laboratory parameters and eight clinical chemistry parameters were evaluated from three double‐blind, placebo‐controlled, randomized, multi‐centre, phase III studies. The three studies include one with sublingual immunotherapy (n = 185), one subcutaneous immunotherapy trial with an aluminium hydroxide‐adsorbed recombinant hypoallergenic Bet v1‐FV (n = 211) and one with pre‐seasonal subcutaneous immunotherapy with a 6‐grass pollen allergoid (n = 154).

Results

Allergen specific immunotherapy with both administration forms and formulations respectively did not show any influence on any of the 21 laboratory parameters analyzed. Few patients had a change in laboratory parameters from within normal range at baseline to either below or above at end‐of‐treatment. No differences between active and placebo were seen with respect to number of patients with such a change.

Conclusions

This study with different preparations and routes of application indicates that the value of repeated measurements of standard clinical chemistry and hematology parameters during allergen immunotherapy should be discussed further.
Evaluating the Implementation Strategy for Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Reporting in Manitoba: The Effect on Referral Numbers, Wait Times, and Appropriateness of Consults
Authors: Hingwala Jay , Bhangoo Sandip , Hiebert Brett , Sood Manish M , Rigatto Claudio , Tangri Navdeep , Komenda Paul
Published: May 2014

Background:

Chronic kidney disease screening using estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) reporting is standard in many regions. With its implementation, many centres have had higher referral rates and increased wait times to see nephrologists.

Objective:

Manitoba began eGFR reporting in October 2010. We measured the effect of eGFR reporting on referral rates, wait times, and appropriateness of referrals after an educational intervention.

Design:

An interrupted time series design was used.

Setting:

This study took place in Manitoba, Canada.

Patients:

All referrals to the Manitoba Renal Program in the period prior to eGFR reporting between April 1, 2010 and September 30, 2010 were compared with a post period between January 1, 2011 and June 30, 2011.

Measurements:

Data on demographics, co-morbidities, referral numbers and wait times were compared between periods. Appropriateness of consults was also measured after eGFR implementation.

Methods:

Prior to eGFR reporting, primary care physicians underwent educational interventions on eGFR interpretation and referral guidelines. Referral rates and wait times were compared between periods using generalized linear models. Chart audits of a random sample of 232 patients in the pre period and 239 patients in the post period were performed.

Results:

The pre and post eGFR reporting referral rate was 116 and 152 referrals/month, respectively. Average wait times in the pre and post eGFR reporting was 113 and 115 days, respectively. Non-urgent referral wait times increased by 40 days immediately post reporting, while urgent median referral wait times had a more gradual increase. Despite our intervention, inappropriate consultations post eGFR reporting was 495/790 (62.7%).

Limitations:

Our study did not measure the intervention's success on primary care providers, which may have affected our appropriateness data. Our time series design was not powered to find a statistically significant difference in referral numbers. Residual confounding of our results was possible given the retrospective nature of our study.

Conclusion:

Despite our educational intervention, the inappropriate referrals remained high, and wait times increased. Other systemic interventions should be considered to attenuate the potential negative effects of eGFR reporting and ensure timely access for patients needing specialist consultation.
A patient with features of albright hereditory osteodystrophy and unusual neuropsychiatric findings without coding Gsalpha mutations
Authors: Hasani-Ranjbar Shirin , Jouyandeh Zahra , Amoli Mahsa Mohammad , Soltani Akbar , Arzaghi Seyed Masoud
Published: May 2014

Background

Pseudohypoparathyroidism(PHP) is a heterogeneous group of rare metabolic disorders characterized by hypocalcemia and hyperphosphatemia resulting from PTH resistance. Different forms of PHP have been reported based on biochemical and clinical manifestation and genetic findings. Most of these forms are caused by defects in GNAS, an imprinted gene locus with multiple subunits. We reported a 12- year- old girl with unusual clinical manifestations of Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism(PPHP).

Methods

After clinical and biochemical evaluations, the patients’ genomic DNA was isolated from peripheral blood leukocytes using salting out method. The whole coding sequences of GNAS gene including 13 exons were amplified by PCR. Quantitative PCR reactions were performed too.

Findings

We described a 12- year- old girl with Albright Hereditory osteodystrophy (AHO) phenotype, poor school performance, some abnormal movements, TSH resistance with normal serum calcium and phosphorus levels and normal Gsα bioactivity with no mutation in GNAS exons. Unusual neuropsychiatric findings in this patient were compatible with Asperger syndrome.

Conclusions

According to our findings this patient could not be categorized in any of PHP subgroups. Identifying of such individuals may be useful to discover different genetic patterns in pseudohypoparathyroidism and pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism. It is important to identify patients in whom PHP is caused by novel GNAS mutations, as careful investigations of these findings will likely further our knowledge of this complex and this unique disorder. In addition this case presented with unusual neuropsychiatric findings which has not been reported up to now.
Endocrine therapy: defining the path of least resistance
Authors: Stone Andrew , Musgrove Elizabeth A
Published: May 2014

One of the best-characterized oncogenic mechanisms in breast cancer is the aberrant activation of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase, protein kinase B, and mammalian target of rapamycin signaling. In both endocrine-resistant disease and breast cancer stem cells, this is commonly caused by specific genetic lesions or amplification of key pathway components or both. These observations have generated two interesting hypotheses. Firstly, do these genetic anomalies provide clinically significant biomarkers predictive of endocrine resistance? Secondly, do tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer cells emerge from a stem-like cell population? New studies, published in Breast Cancer Research, raise the possibility that these hypotheses are intrinsically linked.
Multiparameter waveform inversion of a large wide-azimuth low-frequency land data set in Oman
Authors: Stopin Alexandre , Plessix René-Édouard , Al Abri Said
Published: May 2014

Several 3D seismic acoustic full-waveform inversions (FWIs) of offshore data sets have been reported over the last five years. A successful updating of the long-to-intermediate wavelengths of the earth model by FWI requires good-quality wide-angle, long-offset, low-frequency data. Recent improvements in acquisition make such data sets available on land, too. We evaluated a 3D application on a data set recorded in North Oman. The data contain low frequencies down to 1.5 Hz, long-offsets, and wide azimuths. The application of acoustic FWI on land remains complicated because of the elastic effects, notably the strong ground-roll and many acquisition and human-activity-related noises. The presence of fast carbonate layers in this region induces velocity inversions, difficult to recover from diving or postcritical waves. We accounted for anisotropic effects as we include FWI in a classical structural imaging workflow. With a dedicated processing of the data and a simultaneous inversion of the NMO velocity and the anelliptic-anisotropic parameter, we succeeded to interpret the kinematics of transmitted and reflected waves, although in the waveform inversion we included only the diving and postcritical waves. This approach has some limitations because of the acoustic assumption. We could not obtain a high-resolution image, especially at the shale-carbonate interfaces. There is also a trade-off between the NMO velocity and the anelliptic anisotropic parameter. However, the image improvements after acoustic FWI and the ability to handle the large data volume make this technique attractive in an imaging workflow.
Time-lapse full-waveform inversion of limited-offset seismic data using a local migration regularization
Authors: Raknes Espen Birger , Arntsen Børge
Published: May 2014

Conventional methods for quantifying time-lapse seismic effects rely on a linear assumption that is easily violated. Therefore, more sophisticated methods are necessary. The full-waveform inversion (FWI) method is an inverse method that is able to reveal time-lapse changes in the image domain, in which the conventional methods break down. We investigated the behavior of FWI using different approaches for applying FWI on limited-offset time-lapse data. We compared acoustic and elastic inversion schemes. We introduced a method for constraining the model update for the monitor model to remove time-lapse artifacts. This method was based on migration of the residuals in the time-lapse data, which, in combination with a local contrast estimation algorithm, formed the update constraint. We found that for limited-offset data, elastic theory was necessary for the success of FWI and that FWI was able to quantify the time-lapse changes in the parameter models. The local migration regularization approach was able to remove time-lapse artifacts.
The California Health Policy Research Program — supporting Policy Making Through Evidence and Responsive Research
Authors: Roby Dylan H. , Jacobs Ken , Kertzner Alex E. , Kominski Gerald F.
Published: May 2014

This article explores the creation, design, and execution of a university-based collaboration to provide responsive research and evidence to a group of diverse health care, labor, and consumer stakeholders through convening a funded series of deliberative meetings, research briefs, peer-reviewed journal articles, ad hoc data analyses, and policy analyses. Funded by the California Endowment, the California Health Policy Research Program was created by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. The collaboration not only allowed new research and analyses to be used by stakeholders and policy makers in decision making but also allowed university researchers to receive input on the important health policy issues of the day. The guidance of stakeholders in the research and policy analysis process was vital in driving meaningful results during an important time in health policy making in California. The manuscript discusses lessons learned in building relationships with stakeholders; meeting research and analytic needs; engaging stakeholders and policy makers; building capacity for quick-turnaround data collection and analysis, dissemination and publication; and maintaining the collaboration.
Early Experience of a Safety Net Provider Reorganizing into an Accountable Care Organization
Authors: Hacker Karen , Santos Palmira , Thompson Douglas , Stout Somava S. , Bearse Adriana , Mechanic Robert E.
Published: May 2014

Although safety net providers will benefit from health insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act, they also face significant challenges in the postreform environment. Some have embraced the concept of the accountable care organization to help improve quality and efficiency while addressing financial shortfalls. The experience of Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) in Massachusetts, where health care reform began six years ago, provides insight into the opportunities and challenges of this approach in the safety net. CHA's strategies include care redesign, financial realignment, workforce transformation, and development of external partnerships. Early results show some improvement in access, patient experience, quality, and utilization; however, the potential efficiencies will not eliminate CHA's current operating deficit. The patient population, payer mix, service mix, cost structure, and political requirements reduce the likelihood of financial sustainability without significant changes in these factors, increased public funding, or both. Thus the future of safety net institutions, regardless of payment and care redesign success, remains at risk.
Adolescence
Authors: Owen Gabrielle
Published: May 2014

This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.
Hips
Authors: Rand Erica
Published: May 2014

This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.
Lines of Flight
Authors: Fournier Matt
Published: May 2014

This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.
Transition
Authors: Carter Julian
Published: May 2014

This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.
Flow Carbonylation Using Near-stoichiometric Carbon Monoxide. Application to Heck Carbonylation
Authors: Akinaga Hiromichi , Masaoka Naoki , Takagi Kazuhiro , Ryu Ilhyong , Fukuyama Takahide
Published: May 2014

Flow carbonylation using near-stoichiometric amounts of carbon monoxide was studied. The Heck carbonylation of 1-bromo-3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzene was chosen as a model for the flow carbonylation, which proceeded efficiently with the use of 1.2 equiv of CO to give the desired ester in quantitative yield.
Immobilization of Diglycol Amic Acid on Silica Gel for Selective Recovery of Rare Earth Elements
Authors: Ogata Takeshi , Narita Hirokazu , Tanaka Mikiya
Published: May 2014

A novel adsorbent with a diglycol amic acid frame has been synthesized for the recovery of rare earth elements. The adsorbent has the ability to selectively adsorb rare earth metal ions from solutions containing high concentrations of base metal ions in a low pH region.
Final-Year Dental Students’ Opinions of their Training in Medical Emergency Management
Authors: Bell G , James H , Kreczak H , Greenwood M
Published: May 2014

The management of medical emergencies is clearly of vital importance in dental practice. The starting point of training in this area is the undergraduate dental degree programme. The aim of this study was to examine the opinions of final-year dental students at Newcastle School of Dental Sciences in relation to their undergraduate training in medical emergency management. Overall the responses were positive but the need for further practical training in the use of emergency drugs and equipment was highlighted.
‘It was just something you did’: Mothers, daughters and sewing in the 1960s
Authors: Black Prudence , Idle Jan
Published: May 2014

This article uses family photographs to discuss the labour of home dressmaking in Australia in the 1960s. These images reveal the products of this domestic labour in garments of economy and style and allude to the affective labour associated with the socialization of girls. The clothes produced by mothers for their daughters can be viewed as a performative act of mothering at that time. Drawing on conversations, discussions and interviews with their mothers and other women from the 1960s, the authors demonstrate the value of personal narratives, beyond individual subjectivity, as a way of opening out the broader and more complex historical and social process of their everyday lives.
Dressing down: Costume, disguise and the performance of ordinariness
Authors: Brownie Barbara
Published: May 2014

Disguise – the substitution of one identity for another – is a deliberate act of construction and an elimination of self. Through costume, signs of self are concealed and erased, and in their place appears an apparently complete alternative identity. Although dress is typically aspirational, reflecting a desire to imitate those of higher socio-economic status, this article observes that there are occasions on which it is desirable to use costume to reduce status, and to escape the perceived pressures and responsibilities of social or economic power. In trans-status disguise, it is necessary to abandon all outward indicators of individuality and status: to perform ordinariness.

Performance of ordinariness is a means to an end: a tool to enable behaviour that would otherwise be inappropriate or impossible. Inspired by Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives, nineteenth-century journalists used costume to experience life in the poorest sections of society with the aim of increasing trans-status empathy. In screen-based narratives, a disguise can often be pivotal to a plot, particularly since, in these primarily visual media, costume is a key identifying feature of any character. Taking as examples, Coming to America, Superman and The Saint, this article observes how costume permits a perceived lowering of status, which in turn enables liberation. In particular, it will propose that there are parallels between the social experiments of nineteenth-century journalists and the fictional narratives of twentieth-century television and cinema.
Osa Johnson’s road to civilization
Authors: Ahrens Prue
Published: May 2014

The self-described ‘motion picture explorer’ American Martin Johnson frequently cast his wife Osa (1894–1953) as the star of his African and Asian Pacific expeditionary films. Her appeal to audiences was evidenced not just by the media hype surrounding the features, but also by the many spin-off enterprises the Johnsons variously produced and inspired, from published memoirs to a clothing-line. Throughout the Johnsons’ productions, Osa performed a persona that fired American imaginations of what it was to be a modern American woman, significantly styling her body to fit the part. Set against the perceived ‘primitivism’ of Indigenous societies, Osa’s look took exaggerated proportions and she self-appointed as the leader amongst local women along a road to civilization, which ostensibly required the wearing of Western dress, styling and self-reflexivity.
Mass-individualism: Converse All Stars and the paradox of sartorial sameness
Authors: Mackinney-Valentin Maria
Published: May 2014

Through a study of Converse All Stars sneakers, this article explores an apparent paradox in the notion of ‘individuality’ in current fashion consumption where the potential freedom of choice among consumers in Denmark appears to have led to a sartorial sameness rather than radical pluralism. The concept of mass-individualism is used as a vehicle for understanding this paradox that is heightened both by the social value attributed to individuality in much of contemporary Western society and the image of All Stars as a symbol of individuality and self-expression. The concept is seen as part of an ambiguous strategy of status representation operating on conditions of fashion democracy. The study is interview-based and focuses on consumers aged seven to 71 in the greater Copenhagen area in which All Stars may be considered a transplanted, American cultural icon. Themes of undercoding and visual assemblage run through the exploration of mass-individualism in contemporary fashion.
Performance photographs and the (un)clothed body: Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece
Authors: Johnson Clare
Published: May 2014

Clothing played an important role in a number of performance art events during the 1960s and 1970s. Performances such as Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece (1964), Marina Abramovi’s Rhythm 0 (1974) and Hannah Wilke’s Super-T-Art (1974) implicated the viewer in an embodied relationship with the (un)dressed artist. In these works fabric was variously torn, bound, wrapped, folded and cut off the body. The movement of fabric as it is wrapped and gathered, the sound of cutting clothes away from the body and the charged atmosphere of a potentially violent encounter are all imagined in the photographs that exist of these works. This article explores the relationship between performance and photography in Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece, a performance in which members of the audience cut fragments of clothing away from Ono’s body. Far more than documents that record live events, as if supplementary to the real encounter, these photographs have their own aesthetic, which informs the way we ‘remember’ the performances and understand their significance. Using the dialogue Ono sets up between performance and photography, this article challenges the dominant feminist reading of scopic violence in Cut Piece and considers the work as an event scattered across time.
Clothing the lived fat body
Authors: Rodier Kristin
Published: May 2014

In this article I consider the lived fat body and its relation to clothing by thinking fat experience as analogous to the situation of women as laid out in The Second Sex ([1949, 1951] 2010).
A case study of an eighteenth-century gown
Authors: Rosenqvist Kaja
Published: May 2014

The study of historic costumes tells us much more than just who wore what and when. It provides us with a unique insight into historic fashion trends, production techniques and materials. They may also provide us with a looking glass into the social economic and political situation of the past. In this article, I will examine a printed cotton gown from a private collection, worn in Massachusetts c. 1780, during one of the most significant periods in American history.
The hankie code revisited: From function to fashion
Authors: Reilly Andrew , Saethre Eirik J.
Published: May 2014

The hankie code, a semiotic system of sexual advertising popular among the gay leather community of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, is described, and changes in both the sign system and its varied interpretive communities, are analysed and documented. This ethnographic study draws from interview data and Internet discussion posts. The mythology of the code, differences in generational perspectives, and use of the hankie sign system among heterosexual men are examined. It is concluded that the system is now used as fashion among a new generation of gay men and as communication among heterosexual men.
Reviews
Authors: Blanco F. José , Welters Linda , Luvaas Brent
Published: May 2014

Power and Style: A World History of Politics and Dress, Dominique Gaulme and Francois Gaulme (Trans. Deke Dusinberre) (2012) Paris: Flammarion, 288 pp., ISBN 9782080201355, Hardback, £ 28.86/$75

Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion, 28 April–18 August 2013, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island

Shanghai Street Style, Toni Johnson-Woods and Vicki Karaminas (2013) Bristol: Intellect, 168 pp., ISBN 9781841505381, Paperback, £15.95/$25
Bodyself: Linking dance and spirituality
Authors: Margolin Indrani
Published: May 2014

Inner-directed movement is a sacred practice that can heal emotional wounds lodged in the body. When the body is attended to with ever-present openness to arising sensations, feelings and images, and drawn on to move and be moved from an inner wholeness, emotional and spiritual transformation occurs. This article reveals the ways in which dance and spirituality co-mingle in girls’ and women’s lives through creative dance. The author presents a qualitative arts-based inquiry – which was her doctoral dissertation – to explore how creative movement impacts adolescent girls from a first-hand perspective. To locate herself within the research, the author explores her encounters that led to dance and spirituality as an inquiry of bodyself discovery, rupture, healing, insight and ecstasy. Findings include body-image acceptance, authenticity with peers, and bodyself respect and reverence as a result of individual and group dance work. Narratives are framed within Jungian active imagination, Authentic Movement, spirituality concepts of self and bodyself, and a feminist perspective of female embodiment through creative movement.
West African dance education as spiritual capital: A perspective from the United States
Authors: Banks Ojeya Cruz
Published: May 2014

This dance ethnography highlights the work of the Dambe Project (DP), a non-profit organization based in Tucson, Arizona that specializes in West African dance education. The study demonstrates Guinea dance to be a provider of transformative knowledge, and analyses how the pedagogy and final performance provided high school students the opportunity for constructing (post)colonial and self-knowledge that enriches their lives both culturally and spiritually. This research strives to provide a West African understanding of dance that informs teaching philosophies, as well as what Karen Clemente (2008) calls ‘the spiritual realm and potential of our pedagogies’.
Dancing: Creative, healthy teen activity
Authors: Gill Sam
Published: May 2014

Focused on the Cuban social salsa dance rueda de casino, which has been especially developed for teens, Sam Gill argues that dancing is an exemplar of the most important activities that teenagers can do to nourish their development and to assure that they will achieve their potential. Gill demonstrates this claim in some detail from a variety of perspectives, including motivation and happiness, touch and contact, movement and the kinaesthetic sense, physical exercise, community and diversity, creativity and individuality, gender, music, and his own theoretical construct self-othering. Gill argues that while teens need to engage in many kinds of experience, and need to learn language arts, history, mathematics, social sciences, natural sciences, and so much more, dancing is one of the fundamental experiences that make our humanness possible.
Dance as a moving spirituality: A case study of Movement Medicine
Authors: Kieft Eline
Published: May 2014

This article describes dance as a moving spirituality through the case study of a specific practice called Movement Medicine. It addresses how a danced spirituality differs from other forms of spirituality, such as meditation and contemplation, and attempts to explore some of the aspects that make dance a unique medium for an embodied, lived and creative spirituality. ‘Feel good feelings’, as well as emerging from difficult emotions encountered on the dance floor, generate a sense of meaning which is translated to taking sustainable, socially just action. Through dance, different states of consciousness can be experienced through which ‘other’ knowledge is accessed and subsequently embodied. In these states, people can also meet and relate to spirit beings, and simultaneously express that relationship through the moving body. Finally, three qualities of dance are discussed, which contribute to concrete, lasting changes in existing life structures.
Seiki jutsu: Transformation and healing through spontaneous movement
Authors: Keeney Bradford , Keeney Hillary
Published: May 2014

Seiki jutsu is a unique self-healing and revitalization practice based on spontaneous expression. The transformative art of handling seiki, the presumed vital life force, consists of transmitting enhanced seiki, a daily practice for its development, and healing modalities that address body movement and therapeutic conversation. Seiki jutsu differs from other movement-based practices in that it emphasizes spontaneity over choreographed form, and has little concern with explanation. This ­article introduces a brief history of seiki jutsu, and its relevance and application as a member of the somatic and conversational healing arts.
Narratives of clothing: Concentration camp dress as a companion to survival
Authors: Pantouvaki Sofia
Published: May 2014

Common knowledge about Second World War prisoner identification in Nazi concentration camps usually focuses on the registration process and the striped uniforms issued to new inmates. Recent research on concentration camp clothing based on primary sources has revealed lesser known, and even entirely unknown other types of garments, including civilian clothing marked to identify camp prisoners. Dress was a valuable companion on the route towards survival; personal narratives relating to camp attire reveal individual stories hidden in every piece of clothing.

This study presents new material from an ongoing research project on prisoners’ clothing in Second World War concentration camps. Valuable information is gleaned from unpublished evidence documented in personal interviews with former camp prisoners from Central Europe. This article explores the journeys of the garments alongside the persons through the study of former prisoners’ narratives. It combines data collected from oral testimony and archival research using qualitative analysis, and proposes oral history as a valuable tool in documenting personal experience related to the clothing that accompanied concentration camp survivors to the end of the war. The article brings to light significant aspects of the role of attire within the Nazi concentration camp context as an essential key to survival.
Brazilian fashion and the ‘exotic’
Authors: Bonadio Maria Claudia
Published: May 2014

The construction of an exoticism associated with diverse elements of Brazilian cultural identities is a subject that has been widely investigated in several studies. Although much of what one sees and does in Brazilian fashion is characterized by images of exoticism, there has been little reflection on how it has become exotic. And yet, is this something that is just exotic to ‘others’ or also to Brazilians? Do Brazilians also understand themselves as such? In this article, I seek possible answers to these questions by outlining a brief history of the way the visual identity of Brazilian fashion has been created, by examining the role of the textile industry and cultural institutions (in particular the São Paulo Museum of Art) in the preparation of this visual understanding.
Doctor Who’s textual commemorators: Fandom, collective memory and the self-commodification
of fanfac
Authors: Hills Matt
Published: May 2014

Following ‘first wave’ fan studies and the seminal Textual Poachers (1992) by Jenkins, much scholarly work has focused on fan fiction or fanfic. This article argues that an alternative genre of fan writing – the autobiographical account of fan memory/experience – forms part of media fandom’s ‘textual productivity’. Defining this as fanfac (reflexively produced fact or faction, often shaped to entertain fellow fans), I examine this mode of commemorative fan writing in relation to a case study of the British SF TV series Doctor Who (BBC, 1963–89, 1996, 2005–). Drawing on prior work in memory studies, I consider how fans’ memories provide a resource that can be self-commodified and sold back to the fan culture, thus making fanfac very different to the typical social relations surrounding fanfic. Fans’ production of textual memories can be thought of as a form of ‘banal commemoration’, which Doctor Who fans themselves auto-commodify within the ‘commemoration industry’ surrounding this TV series that celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013. More so than ‘textual poachers’ creating fanfic, sections of UK and US Who fandom can be theorized instead as ‘textual commemorators’ producing fanfac, which contributes to, and sometimes contests, the fandom’s collective memory.
Tracing Textual Poachers: Reflections on the development of fan studies and digital fandom
Authors: Bennett Lucy
Published: May 2014

In 1992 Henry Jenkins’ influential work, Textual Poachers, was published, which contributed towards igniting the establishment of the fan studies field of research and re-morphing previous restrictive depictions of media fans. This article traces the work’s influence on my own steps as an early career researcher in the field and how it shaped my ideas and approach to scholarship. Speaking more broadly, it assesses the current state of the fan studies field, and how things have developed since Jenkins’ text was released. I reflect on what general fluxes, concerns and dimensions are currently with us, through a lens of the themes raised in Textual Poachers, most especially surrounding the development of technology and social media, methods in the field and fans’ relations with texts, assessing to what degree we have moved forward, or remained in stasis within fan studies scholarship. This study argues that technological advances have impacted on and shaped four key, often interconnected, areas of fandom and enquiry: (1) communication, (2) creativity, (3) knowledge and (4) organizational and civic power. Overall, this article shows how Textual Poachers is an invaluable source to measure the field and landscape of fandom, and determine the extent to which it has seemingly leaped forward.
Searching for the Green Man: A sketchbook quest
Authors: Smy Pam
Published: May 2014

This article explores the process undertaken by an illustrator to represent the Green Man as a character in a novel written for children by the author, Linda Newbery, published by David Fickling Books in 2010. Using the sketchbook as a research tool, the illustrator describes how the process of observational drawing can aid understanding and interpretation of an author’s text, and help identify the key components in visual representation of a folk character.
Searching for a common identity: The folklore interpreted through illustration
Authors: Quental Joana
Published: May 2014

This article aims to question relationship between illustration and folklore by discussing how today’s illustration recovers and uses folklore as a language, suggesting a new paradigm which presents itself as a possibility of semantic innovation, one seeking to discover and promote a collective identity1 through individual expression.
A major boost for gender equality or more of the same? The television coverage of female athletes at the 2012 London Olympic Games
Authors: Kian Edward M. , Bernstein Alina , McGuire John S.
Published: May 2014

The vast majority of sport media content is devoted to men’s sports regardless of the type of medium or host country of media outlet. Along with professional tennis, the Summer Olympics is the only major international sporting event where female athletes generally receive television
coverage that is quantifiably comparable to that given to male Olympic athletes. However, scholarship showed that even Olympics sport broadcasts are chauvinistic, evident by the language used by journalists covering female athletes and media focusing on specific women’s sports that offer
the most heterosexual sex appeal. However, the 2012 London Games were dubbed ‘the Year of the Woman’ by the media, because these marked the first Olympics for which every participating nation sent at least one female athlete, women comprised the majority of athletes from several
countries’ delegations (including the United States), and were some of the most publicized stars of the London Olympics. Nevertheless, preliminary analyses cited in this article indicate that sport media, including television, still treated female athletes in London as ‘girls’
rather than women, gave them secondary status compared to male athletes, and mostly focused on women – and their body parts – deemed appealing to the, mostly male, journalists who covered the Games.
‘Hellooo!’: Voices, reversals, and subjectivities in Seinfeld
Authors: Dima Vlad
Published: May 2014

This article explores the narrative construction of the episode entitled ‘The Voice’ in the context of the show Seinfeld from 1989 to 1998 (NBC), and that of the wider genre of the sitcom, as well as notions of female/male subjectivity. I first argue that the narrative structure of the episode (as well as that of the entire series since several references to other episodes will be made) reverses the classic Hollywood narrative progression. Second, I show that even though Seinfeld maintains many classic conventions, such as suture, and restrictions on the female body and voice, a unique, shifting (female) subjectivity still emerges.
‘Dogmas’ for television drama: The ideas of ‘one vision’, ‘double storytelling’, ‘crossover’ and ‘producer’s choice’ in drama series from the Danish public service broadcaster DR
Authors: Redvall Eva Novrup
Published: May 2014

This article traces the main concepts in the so-called production dogmas of the in-house drama department DR Fiction at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), which has recently produced acclaimed series such as Forbrydelsen/The Killing (2007–2012) and Borgen (2010–2013). The idea of putting the writer at the centre of the production process based on the concept of ‘one vision’ is highlighted as important to understanding the nature of the series from DR. The article discusses the concepts of public service ‘double storytelling’, organizing production based on notions of ‘crossover’ between the film and TV industry and ‘producer’s choice’. The article argues that while the strong talent behind the series and contextual aspects such as the recent interest in ‘Nordic Noir’ and new scheduling strategies for subtitled content by UK broadcaster BBC4 are important for understanding the international interest, major changes in the mode of production at DR Fiction since the late 1990s also need to be included in the understanding of the choice of content, the look and the recent success of several Danish series.
The Killing: Urban topographies of a crime
Authors: Agger Gunhild
Published: May 2014

This article tracks the uncanny locations of The Killing (2007–2012), relating them to place, space and atmosphere, putting bits and pieces from the topographic puzzle together with cues from the symbolic space in order to see how they fit into the overall pattern of Nordic Noir. In The Killing, the abstract level of space and atmosphere meets the concrete level of place, both influencing the notion of location.

This meeting, I suggest, has contributed towards the simultaneous domestic and international appeal of The Killing.
‘This was just a melodramatic crapfest’: American TV Critics’ reception of The Killing
Authors: Kohnen Melanie E.S.
Published: May 2014

In this brief overview of The Killing’s American reception, I consider the series’ rise and fall in critics’ eyes and relate these changing perceptions to expectations rooted in AMC’s brand, AMC’s promotional campaign, and the discourse of basic cable drama. I argue that rather than searching for an explanation of The Killing’s ‘failure’, it is more productive to consider this perceived failure as indication of a gap between critics’ expectations and The Killing’s challenge to the narrative structure of the masculinized prime time drama.