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Harmony and Normalization
Authors: Storhoff Timothy P. 
Published: May 2021

Harmony and Normalization explores cultural relations between Cuba and the United States during the Presidency of Barack Obama, who restored diplomatic relations with the island. Musical exchanges during this period act as a lens through which to view not only US-Cuban musical relations but also the larger political, economic, and cultural implications of musical dialogue between these two nations. Policy shifts allowed US and Cuban performers to more easily traverse the Florida Straits than in the recent past and encouraged them to act as musical diplomats, and their performances served as a testing ground for political change that anticipated normalized diplomatic relations. While government actors debated these changes, music created connections between individuals on both sides of the Florida Straits. This book describes how musicians were among the first individuals to take advantage of new opportunities for travel, push the boundaries of new regulations, and expose both the possibilities and limitations of licensing musical exchange. Through the analysis of both official and unofficial musical diplomacy efforts, including the Havana Jazz Festival, the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba’s first US tour, the Minnesota Orchestra’s trip to Havana, and the author’s own experiences in Cuba, this ethnography demonstrates how performances reflect aspirations for stronger transnational ties and the common desire to restore the once thriving US-Cuban musical relationship.
The Politics of Cuban Music in the United States
Authors: Storhoff Timothy P. 
Published: May 2021

The third chapter describes the history of Cuban politics in the United States, their recent transformations, and how they have impacted musical production and interaction. The politics and musical prominence of Cuban exiles in Miami has resulted in a range of reactions to Cuban musicians in South Florida ranging from controversy to acceptance. Divisive Florida performances are contrasted with appearances by Cuban artists elsewhere in the country. The National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba’s first tour of the United States in 2012 featured a range of repertoire by Cuban artists, European romantic composers, Gershwin, and more that represented a call for increased US-Cuban musical interaction.
Jazz as Intercultural Dialogue at the Havana Jazz Plaza Festival
Authors: Storhoff Timothy P. 
Published: May 2021

Chapter Four consists of an in-depth analysis of jazz in US-Cuban musical exchange along with an ethnographic description of Havana’s International Jazz Plaza Festival. Cuba’s relationship to jazz became complicated after the revolution. Performers on the island had to carefully negotiate their desire to play jazz with the Castro government’s descriptions of jazz as imperialist music. The 2012 Havana Jazz Plaza Festival and the US musicians who played at the event are analyzed in-depth to show how participants navigated US-Cuban relations to perform in a festival that uses jazz as a form of intercultural dialogue. Arturo O’Farrill, a New York musician of Cuban heritage who was regularly featured in the jazz festival, illustrates the significance of Latin jazz in musical diplomacy and how the definition of jazz is redefined through the festival lens.
“Ignorance of Your Culture Is Not Considered Cool”: Reconsidering the Avant-Garde Impulse in American Punk
Authors: Rapport Evan 
Published: May 2021

This chapter reconsiders the role of American rock experimentalists such as Captain Beefheart, DEVO, and the Residents in the formation of punk’s musical style. Although these musicians are often referenced in punk histories, their contributions are typically misunderstood because of an anachronistic focus on the British punk scene of 1977 as punk’s starting point. These musicians used avant-garde approaches to American popular music and vernacular culture in order to tackle American music’s unacknowledged and whitewashed history, including such controversial practices as blackface minstrelsy, as well as the problems of white suburbia, the war in Vietnam, the failures of hippie idealism, and a frustration with both mainstream American culture and the counterculture.
“Pure Rock and Roll with No Blues or Folk or Any of That Stuff in It”
Authors: Rapport Evan 
Published: May 2021

This chapter focuses on the emergence of the first fully identifiable punk style in New York and Boston in the early to mid-1970s. Bands such as the Ramones, Blondie, New York Dolls, Modern Lovers, and the Real Kids used musical materials from the late 1950s and early 1960s. This source material of doo-wop, early rock and roll, and rhythm and blues connected to the vernacular “common stock” schemes and patterns shared among white and Black blues and country musicians. This music harked back to early punk musicians’ baby boomer childhoods, underscoring the fact that—contrary to the general perception—most of the individuals in this scene around CBGB were not teenagers or kids, but rather adults in their late twenties and thirties performing music about being kids. Also, the diverse scene was heavily female and LGBTQ, in direct opposition to punk’s later associations with young white heterosexual males. The chapter contains the first in-depth analysis of the Ramones’ music, revealing the ways in which their compositions and performance styles set the stage for future punk innovations.
Punk and the White Atlantic
Authors: Rapport Evan 
Published: May 2021

Punk emerged as a fully formed and recognizable style in the mid-1970s in the United Kingdom, primarily in London, and in the United States, primarily in New York and Los Angeles. British punk musicians such as the Damned, the Clash, and the Sex Pistols during this period put together elements from American punk and its precedents, including elements that were previously heard in distinction from each other, such as the riff-based blues of the Stooges and back-to-basics rock and roll songs of the Ramones. Although this period is marked by a preoccupation with whether punk was “invented” in the US or UK, in fact, punk is a product of exchanges between musicians across the Atlantic, with much of the music continuing a long history of white people using a vocabulary of Black musical resources, including blues and reggae, to explore identity, class distinctions, and the nature of whiteness itself. These exchanges in punk are comparable to the so-called “British Invasion” of the prior decade. The discourse of making the mid-1970s UK a starting point for punk also appears to be an idea that American musicians were primarily invested in, and an idea that further dissociated punk from its basis in Black American music.
Outro: A New Way to Pay Old Debts
Authors: Rapport Evan 
Published: May 2021

The work of contemporary musicians helps explain the significance and legacy of early American punk and the world in which it was created. This conclusion looks first at the continued contradictions and paradoxes of the blues’ central role in punk, through the music of Harry Pussy, This Moment in Black History, and others. The chapter then considers the ways in which groups such as Downtown Boys use a variety of musical approaches to establish female and Latinx punk lineages that intersect or run parallel to taken-for-granted narratives. Then the chapter considers the paradoxes of punk history and the forces of nostalgia through a consideration of the story of Death, an unknown Black rock group from mid-1970s Detroit with newfound success in the 2000s, as well as the diverse styles of contemporary groups such as Soft Pink Truth and Show Me the Body.
Recovering Interpretative Possibilities in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor: An Introduction
Authors: Arant Alison , Cofer Jordan 
Published: May 2021

This chapter provides an overview of the responses to Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, highlighting both the strengths and weaknesses of the reception history, and argues for the need to recover the breadth of interpretation her work invites. The writers discuss the concept of authorial intent as it relates to O’Connor and lay out their premise that author, text, and audience all play roles in the process of meaning making. The authors also provide chapter summaries for each of the essays included in the volume.
Feather Method: Rereading O’Connor in the Age of the Object
Authors: Caison Gina 
Published: May 2021

Gina Caison coins “feather method,” an object-oriented ontology that considers the feather itself as a lens for reading several of O’Connor’s stories. Rather than seeing the peacock feather as a metaphor for the author’s work or as a religious symbol, as many readers have, Caison takes the feather as a meaning-making object in its own right and uses its characteristics to reconsider O’Connor. Caison argues that O’Connor’s writing both upholds and challenges an object-oriented ontology that rejects status hierarchy. Thus, her essay uses O’Connor’s work to further theorize object-oriented ontology.
“God Made Me Thisaway”: Crip-queer Perspectives on Flannery O’Connor
Authors: Henderson Bruce 
Published: May 2021

Drawing on disability studies and queer theory, Bruce Henderson uses a “crip-queer” lens to read “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” and “The River.” Henderson argues that while O’Connor rarely writes non-heteronormative characters, there are, in fact, several “queer” figures in O’Connor’s fiction, who don’t play into normative roles. Furthermore, Henderson notes that despite the number of disabled characters who populate O’Connor’s stories, few scholars write about O’Connor from a disability studies lens. Henderson recognizes the complications that most likely contribute to this critical gap, ranging from O’Connor’s orthodox Catholic beliefs about sexuality on the one hand, to the uneasy relationship between associating queerness and cripness on the other. However, he argues that a crip-queer approach provides a useful way into understanding the function of nonnormative bodies and souls in O’Connor’s work.
The Trouble with “Innerleckchuls”: Flannery O’Connor, Anti-Intellectualism, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Authors: Cofer Jordan 
Published: May 2021

In dialogue with Eric Bennett and Mark McGurl’s work on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, as well as Tara Powell’s work on archetypes, Jordan Cofer uses new information from the Emory Archive and The Prayer Journal to contextualize one of O’Connor’s most famous comedic devices: the antagonistic intellectual. Cofer argues that although this device may have roots in southern fiction, O’Connor’s anti-intellectual trope derives from her time in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. This chapter examines some of O’Connor’s juvenilia, the drafts of Wise Blood she was writing in Iowa (while simultaneously writing in her journal), and some of the short stories she wrote while enrolled at the Workshop. Finally, Cofer reconsiders the origins of O’Connor’s anti-intellectual as a potential outgrowth of her own anxieties during this time.
Inscrutable Zoot Suiters and Civil Rights Ambivalence in Flannery O’Connor and Toni Morrison
Authors: Arant Alison 
Published: May 2021

Alison Arant uses the zoot suit—an outfit that is simultaneously conspicuous and difficult to interpret—as a way to put the fiction of Flannery O’Connor in conversation with that of Toni Morrison. In their fiction set in the 1940s and 50s, including one unpublished story by O’Connor, both authors create zoot suited figures who are not quite visible to those around them. Arant reads O’Connor’s and Morrison’s works in the context of the zoot suit riots of 1943 and argues that both writers use these inscrutable zoot suiters as a way of exploring the fears, promises, and limits of racial integration. Together these texts demonstrate the persistence of white ideology, which persists both in individual minds and in social systems that purport to be free of it.
Paediatric reference range for overnight urinary cortisol corrected for creatinine
Authors: Wolthers Ole D. , Lomax Mark , Schmedes Anne Vibeke 
Published: May 2021

Abstract

Objectives
Systemic activity of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) may be assessed via urinary cortisol measurement. Overnight urinary free cortisol corrected for creatinine (OUFCC) has been extensively reported in adult studies. However, a paediatric mass spectrometric (MS) reference range for OUFCC is not established. MS methods for OUFCC avoid cross-reactivity with other steroid hormones and are thus preferable to immunoassays. The aim of the present study was to define an MS OUFCC normative range in children.

Methods
This was a cross-sectional study of healthy pre-pubertal children from 5 to 11 years. Children collected urine from 10 pm or bedtime, whichever was earlier, until 8 am. Urinary free cortisol was measured via a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) assay (Acquity UPLC with Xevo TQ-S Mass Spectrometer [Waters]) with in-house reagents. Urinary creatinine was measured using a commercial assay (Roche).

Results
Complete urine collections were obtained from 72 males and 70 females, mean age (SD) 8.6 (1.9) (range 5.0–11.8) years. The OUFCC 95% prediction interval was 1.7–19.8 nmol/mmol. Geometric mean OUFCC was 5.7; range 1.1–24.8 nmol/mmol.

Conclusions
The obtained normative LC-MS/MS OUFCC reference data facilitate the use of mass spectrometry OUFCC assays in assessment of systemic activity of endogenous and exogenous corticosteroids in children.
Looking over the channel: The balance of media coverage about the “refugee crisis” in Germany and the UK
Authors: Maurer Marcus , Haßler Jörg , Kruschinski Simon , Jost Pablo 
Published: May 2021

Abstract
This study compares the balance of newspaper and television news coverage about migration in two countries that were differently affected by the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015 in terms of the geopolitical involvement and numbers of migrants being admitted. Based on a broad consensus among political elites, Germany left its borders open and received about one million migrants mainly from Syria during 2015. In contrast, the conservative British government was heavily attacked by oppositional parties for closing Britain’s borders and, thus, restricting immigration. These different initial situations led to remarkable differences between the news coverage in both countries. In line with news value theory, German media outlets reported much more on migration than did their British counterparts. In line with indexing theory, German news coverage consonantly reflected the consensual view of German political elites, while British news media reported along their general editorial lines.
The role of D-dimer in periprosthetic joint infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Balato Giovanni , De Franco Cristiano , Balboni Fiamma , De Matteo Vincenzo , Ascione Tiziana , Baldini Andrea , Lippi Giuseppe 
Published: May 2021

Abstract

Objectives
The current literature on diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) provides controversial evidence on the diagnostic accuracy of D-dimer. Therefore, this critical literature search and meta-analysis was aimed to summarize the diagnostic accuracy of D-dimer for diagnosing PJI.

Content
We searched MEDLINE, Scopus, and Web of Science, for studies on D-dimer for diagnosing PJI, according to the PRISMA flowchart. QUADAS was used for assessing study quality. Sensitivity, specificity, positive (PLR) and negative likelihood ratio (NLR), and diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) were analyzed using bivariate diagnostic random-effects model. The area under the receiver-operating curve (AUC-ROC) was calculated. Subgroup analysis and univariate meta-regression were carried out for detecting potential sources of heterogeneity.

Summary
We included 12 articles, totaling 1,818 patients (539 with PJI). The pooled sensitivity and specificity of D-dimer for diagnosing PJI were 0.739 (95% CI: 0.616–0.833) and 0.785 (95% CI: 0.679–0.863). The pooled PLR, NLR, DOR were 3.359 (95% CI, 2.340–4.821), 0.295 (95% CI, 0.180–0.484), and 11.787 (95% CI, 5.785–24.018). The cumulative ROC plot displayed an AUC of 0.688 (95% CI, 0.663–0.713; p<0.001). No threshold effects could be observed. The type of blood sample was identified as possible source of heterogeneity for DOR (p=0.01).

Outlook
Evidence emerged from this meta-analysis suggests that D-dimer displays sufficient diagnostic accuracy to rule out PJI. The type of blood sample (plasma vs. serum) and the study design could influence the results in terms of DOR and sensitivity. However, further perspective studies would be needed to validate its potential diagnostic usefulness.
High-efficiency three-way Doherty power amplifier using reconfigurable PD
Authors: Zhao Shiwei , Guan Jun , Zhou Xiaoqi , Xu Yuehang 
Published: May 2021

Abstract
In this paper, a new reconfigurable power divider (PD) is proposed to improve the efficiency of the three-way Doherty power amplifier (DPA). The conventional λ/4 transmission line is replaced by the proposed reconfigurable PD in the input of peaking amplifier, where the 90° phase shift and impedance matching can be achieved. Furthermore, the output power distribution ratio (PDR) can be continuously adjusted in a large range by adjusting the reverse voltage of the varactor diodes. Therefore, the reconfigurable PD with the best PDR can assign input power to the peaking amplifier. Experiment results show that the maximum measured power added efficiency (PAE) of the proposed three-way DPA is 49%, which is improved by 5% compared with conventional three-way DPA.
Ecological risk assessment of toxic metal pollution in the industrial zone on the northern slope of the East Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang, NW China
Authors: Abliz Abdugheni , Abliz Abdulla , Shi Qingdong 
Published: May 2021

Abstract
The ecological risks of six toxic metals (Zn, Cu, Cr, Pb, Hg, and As) in the industrial zone on the northern slope of the East Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang, northwest (NW) China, were assessed. The results showed that the soil toxic metal contents of Zn, Pb, Hg, and As exceeded the regional background values, and concentrations of Zn, Cu, Pb, and As exceeded the national soil environmental quality standards of China (GB15618-1995). The Cu and Cr contamination levels were lower than the limits of both soil standards and mainly originated from the parent material, Pb mainly originated from agricultural activity and traffic emissions, and Hg mainly originated from the coal burning and chemical industries. As contamination originated from automobile exhaust emissions, and Zn contamination was influenced by a combination of natural factors and human activities. The mean geo-accumulation index (I
geo) values of As, Hg, and Pb ranged from unpolluted to moderately polluted. There was an area not polluted by Zn, Cu, and Cr. The pollution index (PI) value of the six heavy metals showed that the mean PI values of Zn, Cr, and Cu showed no pollution, As and Pb presented medium pollution, and Hg presented heavy pollution. The results of the potential ecological risk analysis in this region showed that Zn, Cu, Cr, and Pb in all sample sites presented a low risk, while Hg presented a high ecological risk. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent further Hg contamination in this region.
El elemento oriental en los apólogos ibéricos de El medio amigo (ATU 893)
Authors: Abenójar Óscar 
Published: May 2021

Resumen
El propósito de este artículo es determinar si las versiones ibéricas de El medio amigo bebieron de fuentes árabes o bereberes. Para ello, se analizan varios paralelos del relato que han sido documentados en territorios bajo la influencia del islam y de la lengua árabe. Una vez identificados los rasgos comunes de las versiones orientales, se siguen sus huellas por los apólogos ibéricos de la Edad Media. El resultado de este análisis revelará que existen determinados vínculos entre las tradiciones norteafricana y medioriental de El medio amigo y las versiones incluidas en los Castigos de Sancho IV (mss. B y C) y en el Libro del cavallero Zifar.
Una aproximación al contexto socioliterario de José Joaquín Benegasi y Luján
Authors: Padilla Aguilera Tania 
Published: May 2021

Resumen
José Joaquín Benegasi y Luján (1707–1770) es un escritor que, aunque considerado menor por la crítica dieciochista tradicional, tiene un singular perfil autorial que preconiza algunos rasgos del autor moderno. Así, en su producción poética se aprecian características que adelantan el definitivo cambio de mentalidad que se produce a partir del siglo XIX en relación con la construcción de la moderna imagen autorial. Además, la específica red de sociabilidad madrileña de la que formaba parte, así como el sello personal de sus textos, permiten adelantar algunas conclusiones.
Los maestros científicos: autores de artes de escribir y contar en el Siglo de Oro español
Authors: Gómez Camacho Alejandro 
Published: May 2021

Resumen
Los maestros laicos con escuela pública constituyeron una minoría en la escena pedagógica y lingüística española de los siglos XVI y XVII. Este estudio propone la consideración de los manuales de escritura y aritmética, publicados exclusivamente por maestros con escuela pública distanciados por diversos motivos de la corte española, como un género alternativo y minoritario. La transdisciplinariedad de estas obras y la singularidad de sus autores se representan en el término “maestro científico”, que fue acuñado en una de estas artes. Estos autores y sus obras anticipan a los maestros ilustrados y ofrecen una visión diferente e inexplorada de la alfabetización en el Siglo de Oro español.
El primer milagro económico alemán visto por los viajeros españoles (1834–1936)
Authors: Perdices de Blas Luis , Ramos Gorostiza José Luis 
Published: May 2021

Resumen
Antes de 1871 los pocos viajeros españoles que visitaron los estados alemanes lo hicieron de forma fugaz y muy parcial, caracterizándolos como pintorescos territorios de leyendas románticas y bellezas naturales. Entre 1871 y 1918, en la búsqueda de referentes para la modernización de España, creció la fascinación por la espectacular transformación económica alemana: se fue afianzando entre los viajeros españoles la imagen de gran potencia industrial que lideraba el conocimiento y los avances técnicos, solo empañada por la percepción de un notable militarismo y un cierto culto al maquinismo. Esta sólida imagen de Alemania persistiría entre los españoles pese a las grandes dificultades económicas de entreguerras.
La Academia Chilena de la Lengua y la reforma ortográfica del castellano en Chile (1913–1927)
Authors: Cáceres Valentina , Rojas Darío 
Published: May 2021

Resumen
Estudiamos el papel de la Academia Chilena de la Lengua en la reforma ortográfica en Chile entre 1913 y 1927. A partir del análisis de sus intervenciones glotopolíticas y las ideologías lingüísticas manifestadas en una serie de discursos, identificamos dos proyectos antagónicos de política lingüística, aunque paradójicamente coincidentes en cuanto a presupuestos lingüístico-ideológicos: la oficialización de la ortografía de la RAE y la conservación de la ortografía reformada chilena, vigente desde 1844. La primera de estas fue la postura institucional de la Academia. Mediante sus intervenciones en las esferas académica, política y periodística, concentradas en 1913–1914 y 1918, la Academia consigue que en 1927 el Estado chileno oficialice la ortografía de la RAE. Con ello logra satisfacer su misión de agente local del hispanismo y al mismo tiempo contribuye a preservar la posición privilegiada de las élites hispanohablantes chilenas en el contexto local.