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Dewey, Foucault, and the Value of Horror: Transformative Learning through Reading Horror Fiction
Authors: Yeung Lorraine K. C. 
Published: April 2020

AbstractThis article advances an account of the nonhedonic values of horror fiction (including film). It is motivated by cases in which consuming horror fosters what theorists of education call “transformative learning” in adult students, brought to my attention through teaching a course titled “Horror Film and Fiction.” Transformative learning refers to the process by which students’ critical consciousness is activated in a way that they examine, question, and revise certain existing perceptions shaped by their experiences. The process is more a shocking and disturbing experience than pleasurable. In this article, I focus on two cases in which two students underwent such a transformation on studying Roman Polanksi’s Repulsion (1968) and Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932), respectively. In the first case, the student’s experience of madness is modified, while, in the second, the student’s experience of abnormality is disrupted. To give the transformation in question a philosophical underpinning, I draw on Dewey’s concept of “aesthetic experience” in Art as Experience, Foucault’s concept of “experience book,” and O’Leary’s approach to the value of fiction developed in his Foucault and Fiction and contend that the works of horror effectuated what O’Leary calls “transformative experience” in the students. In the second half of the paper, I extend my account beyond the classroom context by offering a close reading of Robert Bloch’s Psycho (1959), with the aim of demonstrating that it has the potential to transform the everyday experience of madness of the American readers in Bloch’s times, and probably the experience of normality of the worldwide readers thereafter.
Begetting the New: The Marrow of Originality as Discovered from the Making of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: Part 2. Creation Demystified
Authors: Petrosyan Armen E. 
Published: April 2020

Abstract
The paper scrutinizes the originality and novelty of pieces of art and the creative contribution of their authors. Though Shakespeare almost entirely borrowed the material of his Romeo and Juliet from literary sources, the play represents an original writing towering above all its “prototypes.” The newness manifests itself, first and foremost, in the guiding idea that makes the play at once a hymn to young love and a lament for its doom in the “down-to-earth” world of maturity. Originality consists in adjusting the material obtained to the author’s own intent, rearranging the parts and working up the individual elements, marking out the key link, and building round it another framework that fits with the mission—that for the sake of which a creative work is done. And it is just this junction of the guiding idea with the reconfigured material that constitutes the marrow of originality. In developing the argument, the author exposes Shakespeare’s view of love, his recomposition of what has been borrowed from the others’ works, revision of the elements, and elicitation of the key link and its adjustment, on one hand, to the guiding idea and, on the other, to the rest of the contents. The ways and techniques Shakespeare used to remake and supplement the material come to light. From the analysis made, the author derives a comprehensive pattern of novelty in literature and—broader—in art.
RICARDO PIGLIA: LA FICCIÓN DEL NOMBRE
Authors: FERNÁNDEZ COBO Raquel 
Published: April 2020

Resumen: El presente estudio analiza los tres tomos de Los diarios deEmilio Renzi en relación con su obra anterior, dentro de lo que Lejeunellamó “el espacio autobiográfico”. Estudiamos de qué modo Pigliaencuentra a través del diario y la autobiografía la forma ideal para narrar laexperiencia de la vida. El género autobiográfico principalmente le permiteal autor de Respiración artificial inventarse a sí mismo a través de tresestrategias fundamentales: la construcción de un linaje familiar y literario;la ficción del nombre propio y la intertextualidad, es decir, la apropiaciónde otras lecturas no solo como estética sino como ética. Abstract: The present study analyzes the three volumes of Los diariosde Emilio Renzi in relation to his previous work, within what Lejeunecalled “the autobiographical space”. We study how Piglia finds throughdiary and autobiography the ideal way to narrate the experience of life: theautobiographical genre mainly allows the author of artificial respirationto invent itself through three fundamental strategies: the constructionof a family and literary lineage; the fiction of the proper name and theintertextuality, that is, the appropriation of other readings not only asaesthetics but as ethics.
HA DEJADO DE LLOVER (2012), UNA “NOVELA DE NOUVELLES”, DE ANDRÉS BARBA
Authors: PUJANTE SEGURA Carmen María 
Published: April 2020

Resumen: Se analiza la apuesta de Andrés Barba por una “novela denouvelles” con la obra titulada Ha dejado de llover (2012). Se podríaleer como una apuesta novedosa para el público y también para la críticaliteraria, que ha aplaudido los hallazgos de ese escritor en numerosasreseñas que contrastan con los escasos estudios sobre su obra. Barba,conocedor de la tradición y actualidad literarias, tras varias tentativas conlas que ha creado un mundo literario de coherencia y personalidad queincluye más nouvelles, novelas y recopilaciones, parece encontrar así unasolución narrativa, una propuesta lectora y un lugar propio en el panoramaliterario. Abstract: This article analyses Andres Barba’s commitment to the literaryform of the nouvelle. It stopped raining (2012) can be read as a new focusfor the public and for literary criticism. In sharp contrast to literary critics,who have applauded the writer in numerous reviews, there have been fewstudies on this author. Barba knows the traditional and current literatureand has attempted to create his own literary world, which includes morenouvelles, novels and compilations. In this case, he seems to find a narrativesolution, a reading proposal and his own place in the literary panorama.
TEATRO MÍNIMO: ¿NECESIDAD DE FORMA O FORMA DE NECESIDAD?
Authors: MORÓN ESPINOSA Antonio César 
Published: April 2020

Resumen: Desde hace unos años el teatro breve se ha convertido en unfenómeno empresarial con unas características particulares en las quese establece una relación de consumo mucho más cercana, espontáneae informal con un tipo de espectador que generalmente huye de losmontajes y los espacios tradicionales del teatro. Este artículo da cuenta deldenominado Teatro Mínimo, bajo el que se engloban un grupo de actores,directores y dramaturgos de Sevilla que, durante las temporadas que vandel año 2012 al año 2014, desarrollaron un proyecto teatral innovador ymuy comprometido con las circunstancias socioeconómicas y políticas delos años clave de la crisis global en España. Abstract: Short Theater has become a drama enterprise phenomenonwith noteworthy characteristics. The relationships of consumption aremuch more close, spontaneous and informal. It attracts a type of spectatorwho usually shuns traditional spaces. This article gives account of the socalledMinimum Theatre, which encompasses a group of actors, directorsand playwrights in Seville, between 2012 and 2014. They developed aninnovative drama project and were very committed to delve into the socioeconomicand political circumstances of the main years of the last largescalecrisis in Spain.
MUSAS DE MASAS EN LAS PANTALLAS. MUJERES POETAS ESPAÑOLAS EN EL SIGLO XXI
Authors: PULIDO TIRADO Genara 
Published: April 2020

Resumen: En el presente artículo se estudia el llamado boom de la nuevapoesía, fenómeno interartístico surgido en el siglo XXI en el que lasmujeres tienen un protagonismo destacado. Se analiza el nuevo marcohistórico en el que se ha producido, así como el debate generado sobretodo por la crítica académica que no considera que los textos producidossean poéticos. Abstract: In this article we study the so-called new poetry boom, aninterartistic phenomenon that emerged in the 21st century and in whichwomen have a prominent role. The new historical framework in which ithas taken place is analyzed, as well as the debate generated above all byacademic critics who do not consider that the texts produced are poetic.
LA SEMIÓTICA DE LA COMUNICACIÓN MASIVA EN ESPAÑA: SUS AVATARES ACADÉMICOS CONTADOS POR SUS PROTAGONISTAS
Authors: FRANCESCUTTI PÉREZ Luis Pablo 
Published: April 2020

Resumen: La comunicación masiva ha sido y es un objeto privilegiadode la semiótica. A partir del testimonio de seis semiólogos españoles eneste artículo se reconstruye la recepción y aclimatación de esa línea deestudios en España. Sus evocaciones parten de la llegada de la disciplinaa mediados de los años ‘60, continúan con su período de moda intelectual(años ‘70) y con su inserción en las facultades de comunicación (años‘80), y concluyen en la situación actual, señalada por la falta de relevogeneracional, el avance de paradigmas empírico-positivistas y las dudassobre su continuidad académica. Abstract: Mass communication is a prominent field of study for semiotics.In this article the Spanish reception and institutionalization of this branchof semiotics is reconstructed. The data collected from the interviews withsix distinguished Spanish semioticians allow following the process sinceits introduction in the mid Sixties to a formative phase in the Seventies,followed by its institutionalisation in the Eighties. These conversationalnarratives end at the current situation, where the difficulties for generationalrenewal and the ascendancy of empiricist methodologies and positivistparadigms raise serious doubts about the future of the sub-discipline.
MODOS DE INTERACCIÓN EN EL DISCURSO INSTITUCIONAL EDUCATIVO SOBRE LAS TIC
Authors: LIÑÁN DURÁN Lina Marcela 
Published: April 2020

Resumen: La integración de las tecnologías de la información y lacomunicación (TIC) en el campo educativo es una problemática actualsobre la que indagamos desde una perspectiva semiótica. Nos cuestionamossobre el uso pedagógico de las TIC, interrogando el sentido que construyecada una de las instancias participantes. Nos centramos en el discursoinstitucional que enmarca la práctica con el fin de identificar la manera enque los establecimientos conciben los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizajeen la era digital y cómo configuran los modos de interacción entre losactores educativos. Buscamos así comprender las dinámicas educativasactuales y posicionarnos frente a ellas. Abstract: The integration of the information and communicationtechnologies (ICT) into the educational field is a matter of currentquestioning that we address from the semiotical perspective. We inquiryabout the pedagogic use of the ICT, we examine the sense that each of theparticipating instances build. We focused on the institutional discourse thatframes the practice in order to identify the way in which the establishments conceive the processes of teaching-learning within the digital era and how they configure the modes of interaction between the educative actors. We aim to understand the current educative dynamics and to take a position to it.
La barrera legal en las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y su posible reforma
Authors: Oliver Araujo Joan 
Published: April 2020

Este trabajo analiza la «barrera electoral» o «cláusula de exclusión» establecida por ley para las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados (el tres por ciento de los votos válidos emitidos en la circunscripción). Tras estudiar el alcance y efectividad real de esta barrera, así como las consecuencias de incluir los «votos en blanco» dentro de los «votos válidos», nos preguntamos sobre los motivos que justificaron (durante la Transición Política) y siguen justificando (en la actualidad) la aplicación de una barrera electoral «casi» ineficaz. Por último, analizamos las tres propuestas de reforma de dicha cláusula (para que deje de tener carácter ornamental y pase a tener eficacia excluyente): primera, elevar la barrera del tres al cinco por ciento de los votos válidos emitidos en la circunscripción; segunda, mantener la barrera en el tres por ciento, pero realizando el cómputo sobre los votos emitidos en todo el Estado; y tercera, la suma de las dos medidas anteriores, esto es, situar la barrera en el cinco por ciento de los votos válidos emitidos en todo el Estado (aunque con cláusulas específicas para los partidos políticos que limitan su actuación a una Comunidad Autónoma concreta).This paper analyzes the «electoral barrier» or «exclusion clause» established by law for the elections to the Lower House (three percent of the valid votes cast in the constituency). After studying the real scope and effectiveness of this barrier, as well as the consequences of considering «blank votes» as «valid votes», we wonder about the reasons that justified (during the Political Transition) and (currently) still justify the application of an «almost» inefficient electoral barrier. Finally, we analyze the three reform proposals for this clause (so that it is no longer ornamental and becomes discriminatory): first, to raise the barrier from three to five percent of the valid votes cast in the constituency; second, to maintain the barrier at three percent, but by counting votes cast throughout the State; and third, the combination of the two previous measures, that is, to set the barrier at five percent of the valid votes cast throughout the State (although with specific clauses for political parties that limit their performance to a specific autonomous region).
El procedimiento de elección del Parlamento Europeo: un reflejo de la histórica doble visión del proceso de integración y la dificultad de llegar a consensos
Authors: Ferrer Martín de Vidales Covadonga 
Published: April 2020

El Parlamento Europeo es la institución más democrática de todas las que integran el marco institucional de la UE, elegido desde 1979 directamente por sus ciudadanos. La historia de construcción del procedimiento de elección del Parlamento Europeo es un fiel reflejo de la historia de la evolución del proceso de integración y de las dos diferentes visiones a la hora de avanzar en el mismo (intergubernamentalidad vs. supranacionalidad). Proceso en el que las dificultades para llegar a consensos han requerido que los avances se realicen paso a paso, muchas veces de forma lenta. Consensos aún más complejos de lograr cuando de lo que se trata es de acordar los elementos claves de un procedimiento electoral y, más en concreto, el sistema electoral a adoptar. Aspectos en los que tiene una importante influencia las distintas tradiciones constitucionales y visiones que respecto de los sistemas electorales tienen los distintos Estados miembros, como bien ejemplifica el caso británico y las reticencias que surgieron para el abandono de su tradicional sistema mayoritario para las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo.The European Parliament is the most democratic institution of the institutional framework of the UE, elected since 1979 by direct universal suffrage. The history of the construction of the European Parliament’s electoral procedure is clear reflection of the European integration process evolution and the different views with regard to it (intergovernmentalism vs. supranationalism) Process where the reach of consensus is not always easy and, therefore, requires progress to be made stepwise. Consensus that is even more difficult to attain when talking about the essential elements of an electoral procedure and, in particular, of the electoral system to adopt. Elements in which the different constitutional traditions and understandings of the Member States have a great influence, as the British case clearly exemplifies with the strong opposition that arose against the abandonment of their traditional majoritarian system.
Epiphytic fungi induced pathogen resistance of invasive plant Ipomoea cairica against Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
Authors: Xu Hua , Zhu Minjie , Li Shaoshan , Ruan Weibin , Xie Can 
Published: April 2020

Background
Ipomoea cairica (L.) Sweet is a destructive invasive weed in South China but rarely infected with pathogens in nature. Its pathogen resistance mechanism is largely unknown at present. Some non-pathogenic isolates of Fusarium oxysporum and Fusarium fujikuroi are prevalent on many plant species and function as pathogen resistance inducers of host plants. The objective of the present research is to investigate whether the symbiosis between the both fungi and I. cairica is present, and thereby induces pathogen resistance of I. cairica.

Methods
Through field investigation, we explored the occurrence rates of F. oxysporum and F. fujikuroi on leaf surfaces of I. cairica plants in natural habitats and compared their abundance between healthy leaves and leaves infected with Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, a natural pathogen. With artificial inoculation, we assessed their pathogenicity to I. cairica and studied their contribution of pathogen resistance to I. cairica against C. gloeosporioides.

Results
We found that F. oxysporum and F. fujikuroi were widely epiphytic on healthy leaf surfaces of I. cairica in sunny non-saline, shady non-saline and sunny saline habitats. Their occurrence rates reached up to 100%. Moreover, we found that the abundance of F. oxysporum and F. fujikuroi on leaves infected with C. gloeosporioides were significantly lower than that of healthy leaves. With artificial inoculation, we empirically confirmed that F. oxysporum and F. fujikuroi were non-pathogenic to I. cairica. It was interesting that colonization by F. fujikuroi, F. oxysporum alone and a mixture of both fungi resulted in a reduction of C. gloeosporioides infection to I. cairica accompanied by lower lesion area to leaf surface area ratio, increased hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) concentration and salicylic acid (SA) level relative to the control. However, NPR1 expression, chitinase and β-1,3-glucanase activities as well as stem length and biomass of I. cairica plant only could be significantly improved by F. oxysporum and a mixture of both fungi but not by F. fujikuroi. In addition, as compared to colonization by F. oxysporum and a mixture of both fungi, F. fujikuroi induced significantly higher jasmonic acid (JA) level but significantly lower β-1,3-glucanase activity in leaves of I. cairica plants. Thus, our findings indicated the symbiosis of epiphytic fungiF. fujikuroi and F. oxysporum induced systemic resistance of I. cairica against C. gloeosporioides. F. oxysporum played a dominant role in inducing pathogen resistance of I. cairica. Its presence alleviated the antagonism of the JA signaling on SA-dependent β-1,3-glucanase activity and enabled I. cairica plants to maintain relatively higher level of resistance against C. gloeosporioides.
Association of weaning preparedness with extubation outcome of mechanically ventilated patients in medical intensive care units: a retrospective analysis
Authors: Lin Feng-Ching , Kuo Yao-Wen , Jerng Jih-Shuin , Wu Huey-Dong 
Published: April 2020

Background
Assessment of preparedness of weaning has been recommended before extubation for mechanically ventilated patients. We aimed to understand the association of a structured assessment of weaning preparedness with successful liberation.

Methods
We retrospectively investigated patients with acute respiratory failure who experienced an extubation trial at the medical intensive care units of a medical center and compared the demographic and clinical characteristics between those patients with successful and failed extubation. A composite score to assess the preparedness of weaning, the WEANSNOW score, was generated consisting of eight components, including Weaning parameters, Endotracheal tube, Arterial blood gas analysis, Nutrition, Secretions, Neuromuscular-affecting agents, Obstructive airway problems and Wakefulness. The prognostic ability of the WEANSNOW score for extubation was then analyzed.

Results
Of the 205 patients included, 138 (67.3%) patients had successful extubation. Compared with the failure group, the success group had a significantly shorter duration of MV before the weaning attempt (11.2 ± 11.6 vs. 31.7 ± 26.2 days, p < 0.001), more with congestive heart failure (42.0% vs. 25.4%, p = 0.020), and had different distribution of the types of acute respiratory failure (p = 0.037). The failure group also had a higher WEANSNOW score (1.22 ± 0.85 vs. 0.51 ± 0.71, p < 0.001) and worse Rapid Shallow Breathing Index (93.9 ± 63.8 vs. 56.3 ± 35.1, p < 0.001). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that a WEANSNOW Score = 1 or higher (OR = 2.880 (95% CI [1.291–6.426]), p = 0.010) and intubation duration >21 days (OR = 7.752 (95% CI [3.560–16.879]), p < 0.001) were independently associated with an increased probability of extubation failure.

Conclusion
Assessing the pre-extubation status of intubated patients in a checklist-based approach using the WEANSNOW score might provide valuable insights into extubation failure in patients in a medical ICU for acute respiratory failure. Further prospective studies are warranted to elucidate the practice of assessing weaning preparedness.
Interthalamic adhesion size in aging dogs with presumptive spontaneous brain microhemorrhages: a comparative retrospective MRI study of dogs with and without evidence of canine cognitive dysfunction
Authors: Dewey Curtis W. , Rishniw Mark , Johnson Philippa J. , Davies Emma S. , Sackman Joseph J. , O’Donnell Marissa , Platt Simon , Robinson Kelsey 
Published: April 2020

Objective
Spontaneous brain microhemorrhages in elderly people are present to some degree in Alzheimer’s disease patients but have been linked to brain atrophy in the absence of obvious cognitive decline. Brain microhemorrhages have recently been described in older dogs, but it is unclear whether these are associated with brain atrophy. Diminution of interthalamic adhesion size-as measured on MRI or CT-has been shown to be a reliable indicator of brain atrophy in dogs with canine cognitive dysfunction (CCD) in comparison with successfully aging dogs. We hypothesized that aging dogs with brain microhemorrhages presenting for neurologic dysfunction but without obvious features of cognitive decline would have small interthalamic adhesion measurements, like dogs with CCD, compared with control dogs. The objective of this study was to compare interthalamic adhesion size between three groups of aging (>9 years) dogs: (1) neurologically impaired dogs with presumptive spontaneous brain microhemorrhages and no clinical evidence of cognitive dysfunction (2) dogs with CCD (3) dogs without clinical evidence of encephalopathy on neurologic examination (control dogs). MR images from 52 aging dogs were reviewed and measurements were obtained of interthalamic adhesion height (thickness) and mid-sagittal interthalamic adhesion area for all dogs, in addition to total brain volume. Interthalamic adhesion measurements, either absolute or normalized to total brain volume were compared between groups. Signalment (age, breed, sex), body weight, presence and number of SBMs, as well as other abnormal MRI findings were recorded for all dogs.

Results
All interthalamic adhesion measurement parameters were significantly (P < 0.05) different between control dogs and affected dogs. Both dogs with cognitive dysfunction (12/15; 80%) and dogs with isolated brain microhemorrhages had more microhemorrhages than control dogs (3/25; 12%). Affected dogs without cognitive dysfunction had significantly more microhemorrhages than dogs with cognitive dysfunction. In addition to signs of cognitive impairment for the CCD group, main clinical complaints for SBM and CCD dogs were referable to central vestibular dysfunction, recent-onset seizure activity, or both. Geriatric dogs with spontaneous brain microhemorrhages without cognitive dysfunction have similar MRI abnormalities as dogs with cognitive dysfunction but may represent a distinct disease category.