bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Longitudinal Study Exploring Liverpool Primary Schoolchildren's Perspectives on Smoking
Authors: Porcellato Lorna , Dugdill Lindsey , Springett Jane
Published: November 2005

A cohort study was designed to explore over 200 primary schoolchildren's (ages 4–7) perspectives on smoking in the context of their own lives and subsequently, to assess any changes in these perspectives over time. Results showed that, in general, the children had a negative disposition about the habit, which did not dissipate over the 3-year study period. They had a fairly substantive understanding of smoking, in particular of the consequences to health, which increased in breadth and depth over time and they acknowledged the central role that the family played within the 'culture' of smoking. Such results have implications for the development of effective school-based smoking prevention strategies.
Relationships between the Sociodemographic and Family Characteristics, Street Life Experiences and the Hopelessness of Street Children
Authors: Duyan Veli
Published: November 2005

Throughout its history, street children have been a major concern of Turkish society and have lately been uppermost on social workers' agenda. This study examines the relationships between sociodemographic and family characteristics, family relations, street life experiences and the hopelessness of street children. The study focuses on a population of street children living in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey, chosen for its high density of street children. Data were collected by distributing the Hopelessness Scale for Children and a questionnaire. Findings suggest that there is a relationship between children who come from dysfunctional families with serious problems and who suffer physical and emotional abuse while living either on the streets or with their families and their levels of hopelessness, with implications for social work practice.
Contesting Childhood in the US Justice System
Authors: Shook Jeffrey J.
Published: November 2005

Recent legislative enactments have altered the boundary between US juvenile and criminal justice systems. Youth that were previously adjudicated as juveniles are increasingly being labeled 'adults' and tried in the criminal court. This article begins with a review of policy and practice changes in the transfer of children to the criminal court. Through a discussion of relevant social and political discourses, the author examines the meanings of these changes for constructions of childhood and the contestation of childhood that they represent. The article concludes with a framework for analyzing and reconfiguring the trying of children as adults.
Young People's Help-Seeking
Authors: Murray Cathy
Published: November 2005

This article is based on a study of young people's help-seeking. Fifty-five qualitative interviews with young people aged 13–14 are analysed to take account of stage process models. It is argued that while the models do have relevance to young people's help-seeking, they have two key limitations. First, they ignore problem legitimization. Second, they do not accord a place in young people's currenthelp-seeking to prior help-seeking pathways. The view that stage process models represent help-seeking as individualized and static led to the formulation by the author of an alternative help-seeking model, in which problem legitimization from micro to macro levels is incorporated alongside young people's prior helpseeking pathways.
Relations between Money and Love in Postdivorce Families
Authors: Haugen Gry Mette D.
Published: November 2005

This article examines and theorizes complex relations and trade-offs concerning money and love, arguing that children's viewpoint can illuminate the question of money in postdivorce families in new and insightful ways. The analysis is inspired by ideas about economic sociology put forward by Marcia Millman and Viviana Zelizer. The article argues that children's points of view challenge the traditional sociological division between money and love as two separate spheres. The article focuses on the meaning of money, and how money becomes a currency for both love and care, presenting the argument with both empirical examples and theoretical discussion.
Advocacy by Children as a Causal Factor in Promoting Resilience
Authors: Grover Sonja
Published: November 2005

This theoretical article suggests that advocacy by children promotes their resilience and positive selfconception. The psychological benefits of such advocacy by the child are distinguished from mental health interventions where the child is generally viewed as a passive participant and 'deficient' in critical ways. Evidence is presented concerning children who have faced great adversity to illustrate the link between advocacy by children and resilience. Children's right to contribute to the preservation of their human dignity and welfare through their own advocacy is highlighted. The role of professionals in supporting children's advocacy efforts is also addressed.
A Multi-family Group Programme as Part of an Inpatient Service for Adolescents with a Diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa
Authors: Honig Peter
Published: November 2005

A multi-family group intervention, within an in-patient treatment programme for adolescents with anorexia nervosa, is described. Attention is paid to the process of setting up and integrating this treatment utilizing the existing staffing resource. Analysis of the topics discussed within the group is included. Over half these topics were connected to managing anorexia nervosa in the naturalistic context of home life, rather than the clinical setting of an in-patient ward. This article is part of a growing body of literature and clinical research that supports the coming together of families as an acceptable way of participating in treatment for adolescent-onset anorexia nervosa. Some patients and parents were asked to contribute feedback about the group and to critique this article. Hence, the structure of the article, like the structure of the group, is significantly influenced by the perspectives of the service users and their carers.
Can Adolescent Court Reports be Used to Facilitate Therapeutic Change?
Authors: Goldberg David , Dimond Claire
Published: November 2005

How can reports for criminal courts be made helpful for the young people concerned? The prime aim of psychiatric court reports is to answer the questions posed by, or for, the court. This article argues that the process of preparing and writing an adolescent court report may also be used to promote change. This article describes how adolescent psychiatric reports commissioned for criminal court proceedings can be used to prompt therapeutic change whilst keeping to the agenda of the court. A series of steps are suggested to facilitate therapeutic change through the process of preparation and writing the report.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in the Treatment of Pre-adolescent Children with Post-traumatic Symptoms
Authors: Tufnell Guinevere
Published: November 2005

This article describes the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) with four pre-adolescent children. EMDR has been shown to bring rapid relief in adults with PTSD. Studies are beginning to show that it can also be useful in work with young children. However, the standard protocol requires some adjustment to make it suitable for use with young children. In addition, in situations where children have complex difficulties in addition to PTSD, EMDR may need to be used alongside other interventions within a complex treatment package. This study describes brief work carried out with four pre-adolescent children with PTSD. Three of these children had received no treatment despite suffering from significant and chronic symptoms for some years. One had suffered a recent traumatic bereavement. All had additional problems that required intervention. EMDR was used as part of a multimodal treatment package. In all cases, the children's PTSD symptoms resolved within 2-4 sessions of EMDR. The maximum total number of sessions was 7. The children's symptomatic improvements were maintained at 6-month follow-up. EMDR can be adapted for use with pre-adolescent children. It can provide rapid and lasting symptomatic relief. EMDR can be a useful part of a multi-modal treatment package for young children with PTSD and additional mental health problems.
Engaging Families Who Hold Strong Medical Beliefs in a Psychosomatic Approach
Authors: Hardwick Peter John
Published: November 2005

Families holding strong medical beliefs about the nature and treatment of their problems despite contrary evidence often challenge our skills to engage them in the psychological part of a holistic psychosomatic approach. Although joining and engaging feature generally in the therapy literature, there appears little specific information on engaging medicalizing families. This article attempts to remedy the deficiency. It draws on the author's experience in paediatric liaison and systemic therapy and refers to what literature could be found. In attempting to understand over-medicalization, the somatization process is considered with reference to chronic fatigue syndrome and 'good' children. Iatrogenic aspects are discussed including our culture of medicalization, behaviour and beliefs of clinicians, and difficulties living with uncertainty. However, the bulk of the article is devoted to practical approaches that facilitate engagement. These include experimentation and curiosity, tackling beliefs, 'as though', developing an emotional language, practical philosophy, rehabilitation and recovery, and overcoming network paralysis. Measures to prevent excessive medicalization are proposed including better psychosomatic education and alternative systems of classification.
Exploring a massage intervention for parents and their children with autism: the implications for bonding and attachment
Authors: Cullen-Powell Lesley A. , Barlow Julie H. , Cushway Delia
Published: November 2005

This exploratory study aimed to address two questions: (1) What does touch mean between parents and their children with autism on completion of a massage intervention? (2) Do parents feel that their relationship with their children has changed on completion of a massage intervention? Fourteen parents agreed to be interviewed. Data were collected before the massage intervention (baseline), immediately after the massage intervention and 16 weeks from baseline and were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. At baseline, parents felt distressed that they felt unable to get ‘close’ to their children. After the intervention, parents reported feeling physically and emotionally closer to their children. Children expressed a range of cues to initiate massage at home. These benefits were maintained at follow-up for parents who continued to use massage at home. In conclusion, giving massage to children with autism may help to enhance the emotional bond between parent and child.
Liver transplantation in children: part 1 - peri-operative issues
Authors: Taylor Rachel M. , Franck Linda S. , Gibson Faith , Dhawan Anil
Published: November 2005

This two-part review provides a comprehensive summary of clinical and research literature on paediatric liver transplantation. Part 1 outlines the peri-operative issues of liver transplantation, covers a brief history, discusses the indications and methods of transplantation and outlines the physical complications which can occur either as a result of the surgery or the subsequent immunosuppressive therapy required to maintain graft integrity. Post-liver transplantation care may require prolonged admission in hospital due to the complications that can occur during surgery and as a result of immunosuppression. This can have a further impact on the emotional status of the child and family. Health care professionals in all settings require greater knowledge about paediatric liver transplantation, its associated complications and long-term health implications.
Liver transplantation in children: part 2 - long-term issues
Authors: Taylor Rachel M. , Franck Linda S. , Gibson Faith , Dhawan Anil
Published: November 2005

This two-part review provides a comprehensive summary of clinical and research literature on paediatric liver transplantation. Part 2 focuses on the long-term physical consequences and psychological impact of transplantation and critically examines neurobehavioural, sexual development, psychosocial function and overall impact on children’s quality of life. This review highlights the implications for clinical practice in specialist and local services and suggests areas where research is required to improve the lives of children after liver transplantation.
Mothers’ stories of loss: their need to be with their dying child and their child’s body after death
Authors: Davies Ruth
Published: November 2005

Children die every year in the UK from a range of life-limiting conditions. The majority will die in hospital as only a minority die at home or in children’s hospices. There is a paucity of research exploring the experiences of mothers whose children die in these settings. Although the need for them to be in a caring and supportive environment seems self-evident, this qualitative study finds that not all provide this. Interviews with 10 mothers enabled comparisons to be made between care and support received in hospital, at home and in a children’s hospice. Their stories identified their need for time, space and privacy with their dying child and their child’s body after death. Also, that memories of these events continued to affect them, giving further support to new theoretical understandings of parental grief which suggest that parents maintain continuing bonds with their dead child by preserving memories and recollections of their life and death.
A pilot study on enhancing positive coping behaviour in early adolescents using a school-based project
Authors: Fok May Sin-mai , Wong Doris Yuk-shim
Published: November 2005

Early adolescence is a period of rapid cognitive, social, emotional and physical changes. During this period, early adolescents usually lack the ability to cope when they experience stress, which is usually family and school-related. If they cannot cope with such stress, they may fail to develop in a healthy manner and may develop habits harmful to their health such as substance abuse. To enhance positive behaviour in those in early adolescence coping with stress, a school-based project was implemented using focus group interviews, an open forum and follow-up interviews and journals. The objectives were to identify the stressors encountered by the students and their ability to cope, to develop and implement an educational activity to promote positive coping behaviour and to evaluate the effectiveness of the educational activity. The findings of the evaluation support the view that an early prevention programme for promoting positive coping behaviour to early adolescents is useful.
On the (im)materiality of violence
Authors: Lee Wendy
Published: November 2005

Appealing to theorists such as Judith Butler, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, and Bibi Bakare-Yusef, the aim of the following is to show that, despite ongoing critique, Cartesian dualism continues to haunt our analyses of the relationship of the subject to embodiment, particularly with respect to the experience of pain. Taking Bakare-Yusef's critique of Elaine Scarry's account of institutionalized violence (slavery) as an example, I will argue, first, that the dualistic impulse which Bakare-Yusef identifies in Scarry's view has deep historical roots in, for instance, Aristotle's hylomorphic concept of the subject. Second, I will consider the specific relevance of poststructuralist analyses of subjectification to our conceptions of violence. Lastly, I will explore some contemporary examples of pain in light of the question: can violence 'deconstruct the body' without desubjectifying the subject? I think that the answer is a qualified 'yes'.
Literacy learning and pedagogical purpose in Vivian Paley’s ‘storytelling curriculum’
Authors: Cooper Patricia M.
Published: November 2005

Vivian Gussin Paley’s ‘storytelling curriculum’ consists of two interdependent activities, dictation and dramatization. It has long been recognized for its impact on young children’s psychosocial, language, and narrative development. As a result of the Bush administration’s educational polices, holistic, play-based curricula like storytelling are rapidly being replaced in early childhood classrooms across America by curricula aimed at specific sub-skills of the reading and writing process. This article provides a structural analysis of what happens when children dictate and dramatize original stories in the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classroom. It highlights the opportunities for literacy learning around specific literacy sub-skills that are available in this holistic, play-based activity as well as the teacher’s role in the process. It also looks at the storytelling curriculum’s relationship to the goals of a ‘balanced’ approach to early literacy instruction, including oral language development, narrative form, and word study.
Effects of a family literacy program adapting parental intervention to first graders’ evolution of reading and writing abilities
Authors: Saint-Laurent Lise , Giasson Jocelyne
Published: November 2005

This article reports on the effects of a family literacy program for first graders that had three main characteristics: (1) book reading with parents that adapts parental intervention to the child’s gradually increasing skills in reading during the school year, (2) support for writing activities, and (3) enjoyable home activities complementing the in-class teaching. The 108 participants were assigned to two treatment conditions: Workshop and Control. Pre- and post-test group comparisons indicate that the workshop program has a positive effect on the children’s performance in both reading and writing. Children produced longer texts and used better vocabulary, sentence structure and spelling. This study provides new data supporting the utility of family literacy programs by demonstrating their positive effect on writing. This confirms the importance of connecting reading and writing activities in family literacy at the beginning of learning and that parents should be invited by the teacher to intervene in these two areas rather than only in reading.
Shared reading interactions between mothers and pre-school children: Case studies of three dyads from a disadvantaged community
Authors: Morgan Anne
Published: November 2005

Research has shown that adult-child shared book reading can enhance language and literacy development in the early years, although little is known about how mothers and children from socio-economically disadvantaged communities interact around books. This study investigated the shared reading interactions of three mother-child dyads living in such a community. Mothers were interviewed and videotaped reading at home with their three-year-old children on four separate occasions. The practice of shared reading was found to be common in the homes and mothers felt that reading with their children was important. Videotapes were transcribed and analysed using interpretative methods; this analysis showed substantial differences in the amount and type of interaction for each dyad. Interactions ranged from text focused to participatory. Mothers were tuned to their children’s capabilities and children had developed behaviours that encouraged feedback from their mothers. While many of the behaviours involved simple discussions around illustrations, some sophisticated reading behaviours were also observed.
Case Report: Puerperal Ovarian Vein Thrombosis
Authors: Bratby M. J. , Khaw K-T.
Published: November 2005

We report a case of puerperal ovarian vein thrombosis with a diagnosis made on ultrasound and confirmed on computed tomography. We discuss the clinical features and the contribution that can be made to the diagnosis of this uncommon condition with different imaging modalities.
Skeletal Muscle Involvement in Six Cases of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma of the Head and Neck Region
Authors: James Steven L. J. , Cozens Neil J. A. , Robinson Ivan A.
Published: November 2005

Extra-nodal involvement of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is well described. Skeletal muscle involvement is rare with the muscles of the extremities being most commonly affected. We present a series of six patients that have attended our Joint Head and Neck Ultrasound and Cytopathology clinic. In these cases, skeletal muscle involvement by NHL was demonstrated in the head and neck region. The ultrasound findings in these cases are presented and discussed.
The Relationship Between Ultrasound Characteristics of Human Cataract and in vitro Measurement of Mechanical Characteristics of the Lens after Extracapsular Cataract Surgery
Authors: El-Brawany M. A. , Smith J. M. A. , Nassiri D. K. , Tabandeh H. , Thompson G. M.
Published: November 2005

In this paper, the relationship between ultrasound and physical characteristics of the extracted lens has been investigated. A pre-operative examination and assessment of cataract biometry and LOCSIII grade have been applied to 16 patients who had a planned standard extracapsular cataract extraction. Post-operative in vitro measurement of the ultrasonic characteristics of the extracted lenses has also been carried out to calculate the ultrasound attenuation and speed of sound through these lenses. Promptly after finishing the ultrasound measurements, an in vitro evaluation of nucleus with measurement of linear compressibility and the force required to compress a lens to 75% of its original thickness was carried out using a newly purpose-designed device. Attenuation of ultrasound signal across the lens correlates with both measures of lens 'hardness', linear compressibility ( R=−0·673, R2=0·453, P=0·011) and the force required to compress the lens to 75% of its original depth ( R=0·722, R2=0·521, P=0·008). The speed of sound in the lens correlates negatively with lens linear compressibility ( R=−0·383, R2=0·147, P=0·197), but did not reach statistical significance for this sample size. These results provide a sound basis for further research and may have implications for future pre-operative assessment of cataract 'hardness' using ultrasound techniques.
Ultrasound Training for Medical and Surgical Specialties
Authors: Lindsell David R. M.
Published: November 2005

An increasing number of medical and surgical specialties are undertaking their own ultrasound scans. This brings challenges to those wishing to perform ultrasound to ensure that they are competent and for those who provide training to be adequately resourced to do this. In the United Kingdom it is proposed that ultrasound training becomes an integral part of the Urology Specialist Registrar (SpR) training programme. The European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) have defined three levels of minimum training standards and this concept has been embraced by the Royal College of Radiologists in a publication which outlines recommended syllabuses for 10 difference specialties.
Screening for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The Role of Alpha-fetoprotein and Ultrasound with and without Ultrasound Contrast Agents
Authors: Patel Nayna , Lim Adrian K. P. , Blomley Martin J. K. , Sidhu Paul , Taylor-Robinson Simon D.
Published: November 2005

The increasing incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is becoming a considerable problem in the UK and worldwide. Although there is no national surveillance programme, increasing evidence shows that surveillance programmes may be beneficial and potentially cost-effective. Small, non-symptomatic HCCs that could be detected on regular ultrasound screening are amenable to treatment, including liver transplantation, surgical resection and radio frequency ablation with good 5-year survival rates. However, large tumours, greater than 5 cm, have a poor prognosis and treatment is only palliative. Therefore, the identification of small lesions through a formalized liver ultrasound surveillance programme together with serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) may be useful.
A User Guide to Tissue Harmonic Imaging
Authors: Elliot S. T.
Published: November 2005

Tissue Harmonic Imaging (THI) is now a feature on almost all ultrasound systems, yet it has arrived on the ultrasound scene remarkably quickly. It appeared almost as a by-product of work on microbubble contrast agents in the mid-1990s, with commercial systems becoming available towards the end of that decade. Fortunately, although there are different ways of generating a THI image, this is one new technical development that is not hidden away behind a host of patented trademarks. Your scanner is likely to have a button labelled simply 'Harmonic', 'Tissue Harmonic' or 'THI'. This article will describe the principles, use and benefits of THI.
A Two-stage Catalytic Process with Cu–Pd Cluster/Active Carbon and Pd/β-Zeolite for Removal of Nitrate in Water
Authors: Sakamoto Yoshinori , Nakamura Kyosuke , Kushibiki Rie , Kamiya Yuichi , Okuhara Toshio
Published: November 2005

To purify water contaminated with nitrate, a two-stage process was employed, involving nitrate hydrogenation to nitrite in the first stage (pH = 10.5) using 0.87 wt% Cu–Pd (2:1) cluster/AC, and nitrite hydrogenation in the second stage (pH = 6.5) with 1.0 wt% Pd/β-zeolite. The nitrate (100 ppm) was hydrogenated rapidly, suppressing ammonia levels to within concentrations acceptable for drinking water.
Chinese-Speaking Theatre In Perspective: A Symposium
Authors: Li Ruru
Published: November 2005

A symposium on the last ten years of Chinese theatre in Hong Kong shows the diversity of modern drama in Taiwan, the People's Republic, Hong Kong, and Singapore and points to a rapidly changing future.
Woman and the Changing World on Alternative Global Stage: Sixth Women Playwrights International Conference
Authors: Burns Lucy Mae San Pablo
Published: November 2005

This review focuses on the sixth Women Playwrights International (WPI) conference and festival, held in Manila, Philippines, in November 2003. Through a discussion of how the WPI festival both interrogates and stages a mainstream international festival, the review explores alternative global theater and its relationship to questions of gender and geopolitics. The article focuses on examples from the work of artists of Asian ethnicity or descent that were featured in the conference.
Lions, Witches, and Happy Old Men: Some Parallels between Balinese and Japanese Ritual Masks
Authors: Coldiron Margaret
Published: November 2005

Margaret Coldiron is an actress, teacher, and theatre director. She received her PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, and is a specialist in actor training and performance ethnography. She is the author of Trance and Transformation of the Actor in Japanese Noh and Balinese Masked Dance-Drama (2004).
Masks, Interface of Past and Future: Nomura Mannojo's Shingigaku
Authors: Fukushima Yoshiko
Published: November 2005

Kyōgen actor Nomura Mannojō developed Shingigaku ("true" gigaku), a performance that, through research in East and Central Asia, attempted to revitalize the mask performance genre of Japan's seventh to thirteenth centuries. Inspired by twentieth-century European work that resurrected commedia dell'arte, he studied the masks and researched performances of Chinese, Tibetan, Bhutanese, Uygur, and Korean culture to devise his 2001 performance. His search for the sources of Japanese theatre in pan-Asian models was cut short by his death in June 2004.
Topeng Sidha Karya: A Balinese Mask Dance Performed by I Ketut Kodi with I Gusti Putu Sudarta, I Nyoman Sedana, and I Made Sidia in Sidha Karya, Badung, Bali, 16 October 2002
Authors: Kodi I Ketut , Sedana I Nyoman , Foley Kathy
Published: November 2005

After a terrorist bomb exploded in the Sari Club at Kuta Beach, Bali, in October 2002, a topeng performance of Sidha Karya (literally "completing the ritual work") was presented by I Ketut Kodi and other faculty members from STSI-Denpasar, the Indonesian University of the Arts. The mask dance performance, held at the village of Sidha Kaya in Badung, Bali, was an exorcistic response to the terrorist attack and probed Balinese responses to the event. The introduction gives background on the story and analyzes the way the narrative reflected both current social issues and traditional Balinese philosophy.
Balinese Mask Dance from the Perspective of a Master Artist: I Ketut Kodi on Topeng
Authors: Kodi I Ketut , Foley Kathy , Sedana I Nyoman
Published: November 2005

I Ketut Kodi is one of the most noted performers of topeng mask dance and wayang puppetry in Bali today. These are two of the most important Balinese arts in that they have exorcistic power needed to complete religious ceremonies. The topeng dancer, like the dalang, is part entertainer, part philosopher, and part exorcist. Kodi teaches at Institute Seni Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of the Arts, formerly STSI) in Denpasar and performs all over the island, often multiple times in a single day. The following interview gives insight into the practice of this important artist who has experienced both the traditional method of training under a village master and the modern method.
The Mardi Gras Boys of Singapore's English-Language Theatre
Authors: Lim Eng-Beng
Published: November 2005

This short paper is extracted from a larger project that explores colonial and intercultural queer encounters in performance. Focusing on Singapore as a transnational site, I study how Mardi Gras is appropriated and staged in a local English-language production of the same name, as well as in a large-scale queer party in Singapore, regarded as "Asia's Mardi Gras." Singapore's Mardi Gras boys perform the city-state's uncertain and superficial transformation from patriarchal father-state to "Asia's new gay capital" in its bid to attract global queer capital in the form of creative talent and pink-dollar industries. Mardi Gras boys are a lens through which to consider the larger social and global ramifications of the staging of queer boys in this global city-state.
Mask, Gender, and Performance in Indonesia: An Interview with Didik Nini Thowok
Authors: Thowok Didik Nini , Ross Laurie Margot
Published: November 2005

Contemporary mask performer Didik Nini Thowok carries on a venerable tradition of Javanese female impersonation by a male dancer. His study of cross-gender performance throughout Asia and the world fuels his playful, modern performance, presented in solo mask dances that combine mysterious androgyny and comic sexual impersonation.
Only Joking? The Relationship between the Clown and Percussion in Jingju
Authors: Thorpe Ashley
Published: November 2005

Ashley Thorpe received his PhD from the University of London and currently teaches theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the University of Reading. He has studied jingju in China and performed in the United Kingdom as both a jingju actor and a musician. His book on the role of the clown in traditional Chinese drama is forthcoming from Edwin Mellen Press.
Creating Crossroads for Self-Authorship: Investigating the Provocative Moment
Authors: Pizzolato Jane Elizabeth
Published: November 2005

Through examination of 613 students' narratives about self-selected important decisions, I investigated the student and situation characteristics related to provocation and use of self-authored ways of knowing. The findings gesture toward both particular skills students may need to develop in order to self-author, as well as suggest that movement through The Crossroads (Baxter Magolda, 2001) may be externally induced through programming, interventions, and reforms related to common collegiate experiences.
The Differential Effects of Student-Faculty Interaction on College Outcomes for Women and Men
Authors: Sax Linda J. , Bryant Alyssa N , Harper Casandra E
Published: November 2005

This study examined whether the impact of student-faculty interaction on a range of student outcomes—including academic achievement, goals, self-confidence, well-being, and attitudes—differed for women and men. The data were drawn from a national longitudinal sample of college students (N = 17,637) who were surveyed upon entry to college in 1994 and four years later in 1998. Results indicate that although many commonalities exist in how student-faculty interaction relates to college outcomes for women and men, differential effects based on gender were observed across a number of domains.
A Graph is Worth a Thousand Words? The Publication Rate of Graphs in the JCSD, 1999 to 2004
Authors: Walker David A
Published: November 2005

Graphing data and/or results from quantitative studies have been noted in the social sciences and the field of education as a means toward employing solid methodological practices. The publication rate in the JCSD of six specified graphs was examined under two editorships from 1999 to 2003 and 2004. Preliminary results from the review suggested that a publication rate of between 4 to 6% for the graphs under study appeared in quantitative articles during this time period. Author examples are provided to introduce, or re-acquaint, researchers, students, and practitioners with several of the merits of graphing and the inferences that may be derived from graphing a study's data and/or findings. As well, published examples from the JCSD of quantitative articles that employ good graphing practices are discussed.
Action-Oriented Democratic Outcomes: The Impact of Student Involvement With Campus Diversity
Authors: Zuniga Ximena , Williams Elizabeth A , Berger Joseph B. (Joseph Buryl)
Published: November 2005

This study examines whether college students' participation in diversity-related experiences instills motivation to take actions for a diverse democracy. Results suggest that interactions with diverse peers, participation in diversity-related courses, and activities inside and outside residence halls inspire students to challenge their own prejudices and promote inclusion and social justice.
The Bostonians and the Civil War
Authors: Ryan Susan M., Ph. D
Published: November 2005

This essay asks what difference it makes to read James's novel, The Bostonians, with Iola Leroy-that is to read it as a novel of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Doing so turns out to entail reading James with Whitman, a coupling that foregrounds the deep male—male relations read as idealized but unachieved in the period's—and James's—visions of reunion and reconciliation.
Conceptions of a Beautiful Crisis: Henry James's Reading of The Tempest
Authors: Chilton Neil
Published: November 2005

This essay considers Henry James's role as a "critical reader" of Shakespeare as dramatized in his "Introduction to The Tempest" (1907). The "Introduction" is presented as a complex inquiry into the relationship between the human and aesthetic aspects of Shakespeare's identity, within which the playwright's supposed retirement from the stage is seen by James as an "eternal mystery." The essay also attempts to situate the "Introduction" amongst James's contemporaneous work for the prefaces to the New York Edition and his ideas about Shakespearean performance in the English theatre of the late 1890s.
The Powers of Apostrophe and the Boundaries of Mourning: Henry James, Alan Hollinghurst, and Toby Litt
Authors: Flannery Denis
Published: November 2005

This paper looks at the occurrence of the figure of apostrophe—definable as the direct address of an absent, dead or inanimate figure—in some of the novels published since 2002 which are either about or responsive to Henry James. With particular emphasis on Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty and Toby Litt's Ghost Story it considers the extent to which the occurrence of this figure relates to the way in which mourning is reimagined and strained in this fiction. It also considers the debt such fiction owes to James's own representations of silences, unlived lives and unactualized potential.
Seated alone with a book....
Authors: Hadley Tessa
Published: November 2005

This article explores representations of reading and books in James's novels (specifically, The Portrait of a Lady, What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age and The Golden Bowl). It begins by suggesting connections between Isabel Archer's reading and reading in Jane Eyre; it goes on to suggest that in the later novels James avoids direct representation of imaginative absorption in reading, and uses books rather more as signs and counters in social and cultural performances. Finally, it examines an account of James's own reading of Flaubert, and finishes by suggesting the presence of the writing room hidden behind the reading rooms in all the texts.
Reading Knowledge: Curiosity in The Golden Bowl
Authors: Schor Hilary Margo
Published: November 2005

This essay argues that showing us what things are—and particularly what they cost—is an especial violation of The Golden Bowl. The Golden Bowl stages the fatal encounter between two curious subjects: a woman who wants to know and a bowl that wants to tell. Between them, they enact the central enigma of the realist novel: is the heroine curious because she wants to know or because everyone (including the reader) wants to know about her? How does the novel, by making a spectacle of its taciturn realist object, both feed and toy with the reader's curiosity? And what, for the heroine and for the reader, is the price of female curiosity?
James's Browning Inside Out
Authors: Tucker Herbert F
Published: November 2005

This intensely close topological reading of James's reading of Browning situates it in its literary historical moments. These include not only the occasion of its first presentation and its 1914 publication in, curiously enough, Notes on Novelists, but also our encounter with it in the present, looking back with the awareness of how Browning's literary innovations have been exfoliated in the pages of modernist and postmodernist fiction.
The Museum of What Happens
Authors: Wood Michael
Published: November 2005

This essay reads James with and against Nabokov. Taking on what has been called James's unreadable novel, The Sacred Fount, Wood begins by asking quite plainly how do we read sentences of the sort offered by James in that experimental novel and by Nabokov in that tricksy experiment in form, Pale Fire. Beginning with the similarities between these two reading experiences, Wood argues that a too ready acceptance of irony—that modernist and post-modernist mode in which we have all been trained by the recent history of the novel—blinds us to the very oddness of James's narrator and to the delicate balance between suspicion and belief that James asks of us.
The Late Appearance of Modern Greek Naturalism: An Explanatory Hypothesis
Authors: Borghart Pieter
Published: November 2005

The late appearance of Greek naturalism has been widely noted but not satisfactorily explained. Greek naturalism took its first steps around 1890, almost a decade after its European counterpart had its heyday. A semiotically based comparative analysis of three cultural historical conditions—the advent of literary realism, the close link between scientific and literary discourse, and the reception of Zola and European naturalism—will show that Greek naturalism should have emerged around 1880; but it did not. To explain the belated appearance of Greek naturalism, the concept of "secondarization" is employed here to argue that the beginnings of Greek "ethography" was a transitional period in Greek literary output which used new formal elements, while continuing to fulfill the patriotic function of the historical novel prior to 1880. It was not until literary realism came into full swing that Greek authors were ready to produce their own brand of literary naturalism.
The Life and Afterlife of Political Verse
Authors: Letsios Vassilios
Published: November 2005

When and why did political verse lose its dominant place in Modern Greek poetry? Which Modern Greek poets improved on the appeal of political verse? How and to what extent was political verse transformed or destabilized? Which historical developments contributed to its permutation and weakening? What did these changes add to Modern Greek poetry? This paper answers these questions first by examining the long life of political verse, and then by looking at its "afterlife." It also discusses the contribution of two major poets, Kostis Palamas and Anghelos Sikelianos, in reshaping earlier forms of political verse.
Forgotten Theater, Theater of the Forgotten: Classical Tragedy on Modern Greek Prison Islands
Authors: Van Steen Gonda Aline Hector
Published: November 2005

From the late 1940s to the early 1950s, a little-known theater practice took root on the remote Greek prison islands of the Civil War. Classicizing productions and readings of ancient Greek tragedy were staged by the detainees of various internment camps—male and female, young or old, educated or illiterate, communist or not. These performances, seen in their sociopolitical context, voiced concerns about patriotism, victory, defeat, recognition and memory. Among other Greek and foreign plays, the inmates produced Sophocles's Philoctetes and Antigone and Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound and Persians. These productions are eye-openers for anyone studying the theater of that period as well as wider issues of theatricality. The inmates generated performative and protest statements that, despite the constraints of censorship and constant surveillance, went well beyond the scripts, their staging and performance.
Food, Race and Working-Class Identity:Restaurantes Popularesand Populism in 1930s Peru
Authors: Drinot Paulo
Published: November 2005

… And tell me, which President looked to the future? It was, believe it or not, [Sánchez] Cerro. I fully recognize that he was able to look to the future and … he grabbed the rich [by the neck] and took part of their wealth, you there [he said], you’re going to give me potatoes, you’re going to give me yucca, you’re going to give me sweet potatoes, he told them, to feed the poor neighborhoods, you bring me rice, meat, you tell me you have five hundred cows, well then, kill only five cows, otherwise, slash-slash, I’m going to snuff you too, and then, no!, you have to do what Nine-Fingers [Sánchez Cerro—who lost one of his fingers during a military uprising] says. He was a strange president. What did he do? He’d bring out the military officers, the soldiers, [and he would say] you here, you’re going to cook, and he’d go off with the trucks to the poor neighborhoods with the food, all ready to eat, the people should not be dying of hunger he would say, buthe saw that that too was indecent, so he built the comedores populares[sic]. Who inaugurated them? One-eyed Oscar R. Benavides, but who started them? [Sánchez] Cerro [my emphasis].

This article examines the creation, in the 1930s, of restaurants, known asrestaurantes populares,which were funded and run by the Peruvian state in order to “solve the urgent problem of [the provision of] easy, comfortable and healthy nutrition to the popular classes.”
Religion, Gender Ideology, and the Training of Female Public Elementary School Teachers in Nineteenth Century Chile
Authors: Yeager Gertrude
Published: November 2005

After only five days she felt like a different person, so much unpicked and resown and made over to a different pattern…. Catholicism isn’t a religion, it’s a nationality. In her four years at [school], it [religion] had grown into every fiber of her nature; she could not eat or sleep or read or play without relating every action to her secret life as a Christian and a Catholic. She rejoiced in it and rebelled against it. She tried to imagine what life would be like without it; how she would feel if she were a savage blessedly ignorant of the very existence of god. But it was as impossible as imagining death or madness or blindness. Wherever she looked, it loomed in the background … the fortress of God, the house on the rock.

Education became a responsibility of the state in Chile soon after independence. Scholarship has usually linked the expansion of public primary education to the broader liberal agenda of the secularization of society through the introduction of modern thinking, while the common curriculum became a tool of national integration.
International Marketing as a Field of Study: A Critical Assessment of Earlier Development and a Look Forward
Authors: Cavusgil S. Tamer , Deligonul Seyda , Yaprak Attila
Published: November 2005

Fundamental changes taking place in the global business environment and in the business enterprise itself compel international marketing scholars to reexamine the progress being made by the field's scholars in developing knowledge. In this article, the authors critically evaluate progress in international marketing as a field of study through ontological, thematic, and methodological lenses. They also offer a portfolio of research topics that they believe are worthy of scholarly attention.
Local Branding in a Foreign Product Category in an Emerging Market
Authors: Eckhardt Giana M.
Published: November 2005

It is unclear how local brands competing in product categories that consumers perceive as foreign should be managed in emerging markets. An interpretive research approach investigating consumer perceptions and managerial development of a local pizza brand in India reveals that consumers experience these brands as foreign. The author discusses implications for brand management.
Northern Snakeheads in the Tidal Potomac River System
Authors: Odenkirk John , Owens Steve
Published: November 2005

A population of northern snakeheads Channa argus was documented within a 23‐km reach of the main‐stem tidal freshwater Potomac River and associated tributaries in 2004. Twenty northern snakeheads were collected with a variety of gears, including hook and line and electrofishing. The dominant habitats were shallow waters with floating or emergent vegetation. Natural reproduction had probably occurred, based on identification of five year‐classes and the collection of an age‐0 fish. The length frequency and age distributions suggested an established population. Many of the fish collected were gravid females. Adult total length (TL) and weight (W) ranges were 305–634 mm (mean = 423 mm; SD = 76 mm) and 348–2,635 g (mean = 831 g; SD = 532 g). The length–weight relationship was logeW = −4.85 + 2.93·logeTL (r2 = 0.99; n = 20). The collection pattern suggested that the northern snakeheads in the Potomac River originated from Dogue Creek, as 50% of those collected came from this watershed.