bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Visual Memes as Neutralizers of Political Dissent
Authors: Hristova Stefka 
Published: April 2018

A meme, conceived as the cultural equivalent of the biological gene by Richard Dawkins, spread through culture like a virus – quickly and widely. Its viral power is in turn understood as product of nature, rather than culture – or rather as threatening to subvert culture into a condition of nature. Firing up over night, and disappearing just as quickly, memes are often allowed to run their course and fade into oblivion, only to return again. They emerge at moments of contestation of dominant narratives and through their participatory structure of imitation and mutation allow for the dissolution of points of ideological conflict and the reestablishment of a normative narrative. If not too threatening to the health of the state body, these cultural viruses are left unchecked as they build the immunity, and further, in Derrida’s terms, the “autoimmunity” of the nation-state. In this project, I explore the role of visual Internet memes as neutralizers of contested past and present narratives of occupation and dissent by focusing the digital visual memes associated with the Occupy Movement in the United States. More specifically, I examine the emergence of the term “occupy” as an visual Internet meme in and of itself – Occupy Wall Street spurred Occupy Chicago, Oakland and even Sesame Street and the North Pole, as well as a marker of a revolution - revolving viral civil and political dissent. I argue that there is a notable distinction between physical participation the Occupy Movement and virtual participation through the reworking of Occupy’s memes, where as the first modality serves as an active disruptor of the political normative imaginary, the second works in precisely the opposite fashion - in its reconstitution of a common-sense dominant image of the political.
Reflections on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Book “Assembly”
Authors: Fuchs Christian 
Published: April 2018

This contribution presents reflections on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s book “Assembly” (2017, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0190677961).Keywords: assembly, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, multitude, common, entrepreneurship of the multitude, the new Prince, digital capitalism, digital assemblage, neoliberalism, finance
The Role of Extrusion Conditions on the Mechanical Properties of Thermoplastic Protein
Authors: Verbeek C. J. R. , Izuchukwu S. C. P. , Bier J. M. 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
Mechanical properties of Novatein thermoplastic protein compounded at different extrusion temperatures and processing water contents have been examined in a factorial experiment. Thermoplastic proteins are moisture sensitive and can be prone to thermal degradation during processing. Processing water was varied between 30 and 45 parts per hundred parts bloodmeal while the extrusion temperature was varied between 120 and 150 °C to identify a processing window suitable for process scale up. To resolve any effects processing water had on protein-protein interactions from its plasticising effect, injection molded specimens were mechanically tested both as molded and after conditioning at controlled temperature and humidity. Despite all conditioned samples having approximately the same moisture content, mechanical properties were different. Tensile strength and modulus decreased with increasing processing water at the same equilibrium moisture content. DMA and WAXS suggested this was due to changes in chain mobility within the amorphous phase of the material, rather than conformational change towards a more ordered state. Properties of unconditioned specimens were mostly dependent on the plasticising effect of different amounts of processing water remaining in the material after injection molding. Extrusion temperature had very little effect on mechanical properties, suggesting that Novatein is robust enough to handle some temperature variations during processes such as injection molding.
Investigation of the Behavior of Organo-Metallic Compound and Its Influence on Polyurethane
Authors: Jiang Y.-X. , Wang T. , Zhao T.-B. , Zhao H.-X. , Luo M.-Y. , Li Z.-F. 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
HZMMA is a zinc salt of unsaturated carboxylic acids with a single hydroxyl group. The chemical behavior and morphological changes of the HZMMA were investigated by Fourier Transformed Infra Red spectroscopy (FTIR), thermal gravimetry (TGA), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffractometry (XRD). The experimental results showed that it was possible for HZMMA to be used as a reactive enhancer to prepare ionic polymers/polyurethane composites. A series of ionic polymer/polyurethane were prepared by poly (tetramethylene glycol) (PTMG), toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and self-made chain extenders which consisted of Dimethylthio toluene diamine (DMTDA), Dicumyl Peroxide (DCP) and HZMMA by prepolymerization. The effect of the content of HZMMA on the structure and properties of the composites were studied by DMA, TGA, XRD. The results indicated that HZMMA had formed poly-HZMMA particles by peroxide-induced dynamic vulcanization and the degree of micro phase separation of polyurethane were improved when the content of HZMMA was suitable. The poly-HZMMA particles improved the maximum decomposition temperature of the soft segment and the storage modulus of polyurethane. When the mass fraction of HZMMA and DCP were at 2 ‰, the maximum in the mechanical properties of the ionic polymers/polyether polyurethane composites was achieved.
Aspect again
Authors: Gebert Lucyna 
Published: April 2018

The present paper deals with a model of verbal aspect based on the lexical meaning of the verb, presented in Antinucci and Gebert (1975-76). The definition of the perfective is formulated in terms of illocutionary force bearing on the semantic component change with, as its results, the relative end state. The imperfective aspect, which realizes the meaning of states, is also examined.
These definitions of the two aspects account for the use of the imperfective to express accomplished facts. Stative value is common to the latter case and to the apparently different meanings exhibited by the imperfective, such as progressive / durative and iterative. Recent research in linguistic typology offers strong evidence in favour of the model of verbal aspect articulated fifteen years ago.
Aspect et/ou classes de verbes
Authors: Swiatkowska Marcela 
Published: April 2018

A somewhat narrow view of aspect is adopted, reducing it to the perfectivity / imperfectivity oposition. We consider it necessary to distinguish between the semantic and the formal plane. Formally, aspect is limited to a small number of languages, whereas considered from a semantic standpoint it becomes a more general category that can be realized morphologically, syntactically and lexically.
Such an approach allows us to study how aspect is expressed at the level of discourse, where the convergence of meanings carried by the verb lexeme, grammatical morphemes, adverbs and determiners creates a variety of effets de sens. Moreover, this view of aspect imposes a tighter discipline on the characterisation of semantic verb classes based primarily on the concepts of state and event.
Confronting the concept of aspect, understood as the perfectivity/ imperfectivity opposition, with the theory of generic sentences leads us to a conclusion that links generic interpretation with imperfectivity.
Analyse de la microstructure comme prolégomènes à l’informatisation d’un dictionnaire ancien : le cas particulier des Curiositez françoises (1640) d’Antoine Oudin
Authors: Ducarme Claire 
Published: April 2018

Dans cet article, nous mènerons quelques réflexions préalables à la réalisation d’une édition informatisée d’un dictionnaire particulier du 17 e siècle, comportant à la fois des unités simples et des unités phraséologiques : Curiositez françoises pour supplement aux dictionnaires ou Recueil de plusieurs belles proprietez, avec une infinité de Proverbes & Quolibets, pour l’explication de toutes sortes de Livres
(1640) d’Antoine Oudin. Nous nous attacherons, plus particulièrement, à l’analyse de la microstructure qui constitue, à nos yeux, une étape essentielle dans le balisage. Nous montrerons ensuite que toute édition informatisée d’un dictionnaire ancien doit être sous-tendue par une analyse métalexicographique fine. Nous aborderons, plus rapidement, quelques aspects techniques de l’informatisation.
L’appropriation du capital fixe : une métaphore ?
Authors: Negri Antonio , Polleri Matteo 
Published: April 2018

L’auteur revisite ici son intuition de base, qui renverse l’axiome central soumettant le travailleur au capitaliste du fait de la propriété exclusive dont bénéficie celui-ci sur les moyens de production (le capital fixe, l’usine, les machines). En parlant de « réappropriation du capital fixe » par le travailleur de l’âge des réseaux numériques, il précise ici qu’il ne s’agit pas d’une simple métaphore, mais bien d’un axiome véritablement transformateur de nos horizons socio-politiques.
L’hétéromation
Authors: Ekbia Hamid R. , Nardi Bonnie A. , Baudouin Thierry 
Published: April 2018

La numérisation de l’économie – comme de la vie quotidienne – a transformé la division du travail entre humains et machines, versant beaucoup de gens dans du travail qui est à la fois caché, mal payé ou accepté comme incombant à « l’usager » de la technologie digitale. À travers clics, balayages, connexions, profils, emails et courriers, nous sommes les participants plus ou moins volontaires à des pratiques digitales dont la valeur profite à d’autres, mais peu ou pas à nous. Hamid Ekbia et Bonnie Nardi nomment hétéromation ce type de participation : l’extraction de valeur économique au moyen de travail pas cher ou gratuit caché sous des apparences d’automation algorithmique. Ils explorent ici les processus sociaux et technologiques par lesquels la valeur est extraite du travail numérisé.
Hawad, le Mage des déserts
Authors: Benachir Bouazza 
Published: April 2018

Ce texte sur la poésie de l’Amazigh (i.e. « berbère ») nigérien Hawad (Prix international Argana 2017 de la poésie, Maroc) dissémine, pour la reconfigurer, une épistémologie déterritorialisée des « extrémités de la douleur ». « La douleur d’être déplacés. Déplacés par la force dans le cas des Noirs d’Amérique. On les a arrachés à eux-mêmes. L’ogre, qui avait besoin de leur chair, les a amenés dans son centre, dans son cadre, pour bien les manger. C’est la même chose pour les nomades ». Les dits, les écrits et la peinture d’Hawad donnent à voir le degré atteint par la dépossession tous azimuts des puissances processuelles de la condition amazighe et, par ricochet, de l’Afrique actuelle et de ses diasporas. La poésie d’Hawad arrache les multitudes humaines dites « autochtones » ou « indigènes » à leur réduction « subalternisante ».
Lignes de fuite du marronnage
Authors: Touam Bona Dénètem 
Published: April 2018

À la lumière de l’expérience historique du marronnage, des fuites et résistances créatrices des afro descendants dans les Amériques et les îles de l’Océan indien (Réunion, Maurice, etc.), ce texte tente de dégager les enjeux et les différentes dimensions de l’image-concept du « lyannaj » – une expression issue, à l’origine, du créole des Antilles françaises et du vocabulaire du travail esclave. Le modèle végétal de la liane apparaît ainsi comme une des matrices des cosmopolitiques amérindiennes et marronnes.
Il faut danser, en dansant
Authors: Paterman Brasil Ilana , Anastassakis Zoy , Szaniecki Barbara 
Published: April 2018

En cherchant à suivre la vie des lignes, et en les considérant comme des processus de correspondence (Tim Inglod), cet article propose de tisser ces lignes avec quelques autres lancées par Donna Haraway et Isabelle Stengers. Dessins, peintures, films et animations sont quelques-unes des façons avec lesquelles est tentée une anthropologie graphique ou une anthropologie « à travers le design », selon Ingold. Dans cet essai de fabulation spéculative, qui prend appui sur l’œuvre d’Ilana Paterman Brasil et sa rencontre avec Maria Eni Moreira, membre d’un terreiro dans la zone nord de Rio, les lignes sont abordées comme des alliances ou des pratiques de correspondance. L’artiste articule art, design, cinéma, animation et observation participante pour animer les danses traditionnelles de candomblé . Avec ce travail, les auteures revendiquent la possibilité de réaliser d’autres modes de recherche en design, en lien avec l’anthropologie mais aussi en lien avec celles et ceux que l’université a tenu à mettre de côté et oublier.
Pediatric Frontalis Suspension With Braided Polyester: A Comparison of Two Techniques
Authors: Molinari Andrea , Weaver Daniel T. , Goldblum Todd A. , Silbert David , Lopez Sebastian P. , Matta Noelle 
Published: April 2018

Purpose:
To demonstrate the benefits of using braided polyester in the management of severe or recurrent ptosis in children and young adults and to compare the efficacy of two surgical techniques.

Methods:
Retrospective, non-randomized record review of 30 patients (43 eyelid procedures) affected by congenital or acquired severe ptosis who underwent frontalis suspension with braided polyester from 2008 to 2016. Two surgical techniques were compared: the base-down triangle and the Fox pentagon, both of which were performed using a closed technique. Functional success was defined as clearing of the visual axis. Complications and results were examined.

Results:

Functional success was obtained in 39 eyes of 43 procedures. Marginal reflex distance increased an average of 2.51 mm with the base-down triangle technique and 1.70 mm with the Fox pentagon technique (
P
= .05). The vertical palpebral fissure height increased an average of 4.60 mm with the base-down triangle technique and 2.45 mm with the Fox pentagon technique (
P
< .001). Mean follow-up duration was 38.6 months. Complications included untied suture (n = 2), suture dehiscence (n = 1), cellulitis (n = 2), and granuloma (n = 1).

Conclusions:
Braided polyester was found to be a safe, effective, easy-to-handle, and low-cost sling material for frontalis suspension and should be considered for clinical use, especially in developing countries where the cost and availability of other materials represents a significant barrier to treatment. In the authors' experience, the base-down triangle technique appeared superior to the Fox pentagon technique.

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J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus
. 2018;55(4):229–233.]
A unique new species of halophilous water strider of the genus Aquarius Schellenberg (Hemiptera: Gerridae: Gerrinae) endemic to Omura Bay, Nagasaki, Japan
Authors: Yasunaga Tomohide , Asanabe Haruka , Hirano Akiko , Momosaka Hitomi , Nagashima Tetsuya , Hayashi Masami 
Published: April 2018

AbstractA new species of halophilous water strider, Aquarius haliplous Yasunaga, Asanabe, and Nagashima new species (Hemiptera: Gerridae: Gerrinae), is diagnosed and described. This species is endemic to Omura Bay, Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, and has a unique adaptation to this mixohaline habitat. Based on unique morphology and ecology both in the adult and immature forms, this new Aquarius Schellenberg species can be separated unequivocally from a similar species inhabiting freshwater, A. paludum (Fabricius). A key is provided to facilitate identification of the Japanese species and subspecies of Aquarius.
The ITIM Domain–Containing NK Receptor Ly49Q Impacts Pulmonary Infection by Mediating Neutrophil Functions
Authors: Margraf Andreas , Volmering Stephanie , Skupski Jennifer , Van Marck Veerle , Makrigiannis Andrew P. , Block Helena , Zarbock Alexander 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
Pulmonary infection is a frequent pathology associated with excessive neutrophil infiltration. Ly49Q, an ITIM domain–bearing receptor expressed on different leukocytes, has been recently reported to impact neutrophil migration and polarization. Utilizing a murine model of Klebsiella pneumoniae–induced pulmonary infection in combination with additional in vivo and in vitro assays, we show that Ly49Q is critically involved in different steps of the leukocyte adhesion cascade. Ly49Q deficiency is associated with a reduced rolling velocity, impaired crawling capacity, and diminished transmigration. We show that overactivation of the neutrophil β2 integrins Mac-1 and LFA-1 is responsible for increased adhesion and reduced neutrophil transmigration, resulting in a strongly impaired immune defense against pulmonary infection. Structure function analysis in vitro and in vivo demonstrated that different domains of Ly49Q are important for its function. In summary, Ly49Q regulates integrin activation and neutrophil recruitment and is required for an adequate immune response in pulmonary infection.
IgG Immunocomplexes Sensitize Human Monocytes for Inflammatory Hyperactivity via Transcriptomic and Epigenetic Reprogramming in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Authors: Zhong Qiao , Gong Fang-Yuan , Gong Zheng , Hua Sheng-Hao , Zeng Ke-Qin , Gao Xiao-Ming 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
Prevalence of circulating immunocomplexes (ICs) strongly correlates with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in humans. Deposits of IgG-ICs are abundant in affected joints of patients, yet molecular mechanisms for the pathogenic roles of such ICs are not fully understood. In this study, we present evidence that IgG-ICs precipitated from RA sera sensitized human monocytes for a long-lasting inflammatory functional state, characterized by a strong TNF-α response to cellular proteins representing damage-associated molecular patterns and microbe-derived pathogen-associated molecular patterns. Importantly, plate-coated human IgG (a mimic of deposited IC without Ag restriction) exhibited a similarly robust ability of monocyte sensitization in vitro. The plate-coated human IgG–induced functional programming is accompanied by transcriptomic and epigenetic modification of various inflammatory cytokines and negative regulator genes. Moreover, macrophages freshly isolated from synovia of patients with RA, but not sera-negative arthropathy, displayed a signature gene expression profile highly similar to that of IC-sensitized human monocytes, indicative of historical priming events by IgG-ICs in vivo. Thus, the ability of IgG-ICs to drive sustainable functional sensitization/reprogramming of monocytes and macrophages toward inflammation may render them key players in the development of RA.
Clinical and prognostic significance of muscle biopsy in sarcoidosis
Authors: Yanardag Halil , Tetikkurt Cuneyt , Bilir Muammer 
Published: April 2018

The main objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of muscle involvement on the clinical features, prognostic outcome, extrapulmonary organ, and endobronchial involvement in sarcoidosis patients. The second aim was to assess the diagnostic yield of muscle biopsy for the histopathologic identification of sarcoidosis. Â Fifty sarcoidosis patients participated in the study. The patients were classified into two groups according to the histopathologic presence of non-caseating granulomatous inflammatory pattern of the muscle biopsy samples and were evaluated retrospectively in regard to clinical features, prognosis, extrapulmonary, and endobronchial disease involvement. Pathologic examination of the muscle biopsy samples revealed non-caseating granulomas in eighteen and myositis in seven patients compatible with sarcoidosis. The diagnostic yield of muscle biopsy for demonstrating non-caseating granulomatous inflammation was fifty percent. Patients with muscle sarcoidosis showed a worse prognosis and a more severe extrapulmonary organ involvement than the patients without muscle disease. Muscle biopsy was not statistically significant to delineate diffuse endobronchial involvement while it was suggestive for endobronchial disease clinically. The results of our study reveal that muscle biopsy appears to be a useful diagnostic tool along with its safety and easy clinical applicability. It is a rewarding utility to predict the prognostic outcome and extrapulmonary involvement in sarcoidosis patients. Positive biopsy on the other hand confirms the identification of sarcoidosis in patients with single organ involvement carrying an equivocal diagnostic clinical pattern. Muscle biopsy may be considered as the initial step for the final diagnosis of sarcoidosis in such cases.
Corpo-lixo: Entre o Dejeto e a Potência na Cultura Contemporânea
Authors: Costa Pedro Henrique Lucas , Próchno Caio César Souza Camargo 
Published: April 2018

Tendo como pressuposto uma concepção histórico-cultural do corpo, no qual se entende que ele é efeito de jogos de poderes e saberes historicamente situados, assim como os processos de subjetivação adjacentes a tal corporeidade, fomos provocados pela questão de como o corpo é explorado e exaurido ao ponto de se tornar um dejeto. Tomamo-lo por corpo-lixo, conceito do qual partirmos para a jornada investigativa e que foi o combustível deste trabalho de pesquisa. Calcados nas premissas da pesquisa cartográfica, procuramos acompanhar o processo de “dejetificação” do corpo, mergulhando e afetando-nos pelas produções culturais contemporâneas, conforme representado nas manifestações midiáticas (sejam elas de cunho jornalístico-publicitário, seja voltadas para o entretenimento) e nas artes (dentre elas o cinema, a literatura e o teatro). Adotamos a esquizoanálise como principal referencial teórico e, por esse motivo, além de nos debruçarmos nas obras de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, compomos e decompomos com construtos teóricos de diversas áreas, como a psicologia, a história, a sociologia e a própria filosofia, tendo também Michel Foucault como um importante companheiro de viagem. Reconhecendo o corpo como um processo histórico metamorfoseante, e não meramente uma entidade biológica imutável, realizamos um apanhado histórico de como os exercícios de poder atravessaram os corpos ao longo dos tempos para evidenciar o percurso pelo qual se consolidaram as formas atuais de se abordar o corpo e que, porventura, o leva à sua dejetificação. O aspecto mais relevante deste trabalho cartográfico foi a busca por possibilidades inventivas a partir da suposta condição abjeta, evidenciando a potência e as composições de forças que levam o corpo-lixo à condição de corpo-potente.
Sobre a Educação Inclusiva e suas Referências Discursivas
Authors: Gomes Cecilia Maria Girão , Lima Maria Celina Peixoto 
Published: April 2018

O artigo propõe-se a discutir os fundamentos da educação inclusiva enquanto práxis, destacando suas referências discursivas. Partindo das primeiras articulações entre a medicina e a educação respaldadas pela clínica, são destacadas as análises de Michel Foucault e Pierre Bourdieu sobre o biopoder e os efeitos de exclusão advindos do campo educacional para, em seguida, discutir a nova aliança da educação com o discurso médico, agora pelo viés das políticas públicas. Por fim, a partir de suas inegáveis contribuições teóricas sobre a clínica com crianças e de um longo histórico de experiências institucionais bem-sucedidas, aponta-se a Psicanálise como uma referência discursiva outra para a educação inclusiva contemporânea, possibilitando o resgate do sujeito e uma nova articulação entre o tratar e o educar. O artigo propõe-se a discutir os fundamentos da educação inclusiva enquanto práxis, destacando suas referências discursivas. Partindo das primeiras articulações entre a medicina e a educação respaldadas pela clínica, são destacadas as análises de Michel Foucault e Pierre Bourdieu sobre o biopoder e os efeitos de exclusão advindos do campo educacional para, em seguida, discutir a nova aliança da educação com o discurso médico, agora pelo viés das políticas públicas. Por fim, a partir de suas inegáveis contribuições teóricas sobre a clínica com crianças e de um longo histórico de experiências institucionais bem-sucedidas, aponta-se a Psicanálise como uma referência discursiva outra para a educação inclusiva contemporânea, possibilitando o resgate do sujeito e uma nova articulação entre o tratar e o educar.