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Is Dr. Frankenstein Still Alive? From Twix to Apple: Commercializing Monstrosity
Authors: Olivato Giulia Maria 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Contemporary popular culture uses mythical and cultural symbols like monsters as metaphors in order to analyse and shape society and its trends. A perfect example is Frankenstein’s creature, who is a modern monster able to embody human crisis, desires, and fears about self-identity, inclusiveness and social recognition. In particular, in the field of advertising, the use of monsters sets new boundaries between human society and monstrousness. Indeed, advertising acts as a modern Dr Frankenstein by manipulating and determining who the modern monsters are.
Women, Power & the Decline of the West: Richard Sherwin’s Ethical Wisdom, Krzysztof Koslowski’s Tricolor-Red, & Machiavelli’s Mandragola
Authors: Majeske Andrew 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
This essay initially identifies and explores issues relating to relativity and relativism in cultural and political matters. It highlights the problematic character of the prime virtue that liberals claim to be the product of this relativistic outlook, tolerance, and points out that relativism equally supports illiberal agendas, as emphasized by Benito Mussolini. The essay then examines Shakespeare’s profound treatment of relativity in his As You Like It, focusing especially upon Rosalind and Orlando’s riddle exchange in Act 3, Scene 2, and the related sequencing of Orlando’s poems. In closing, the essay attempts to show how the West could benefit from revisiting great works of Western literature such as As You Like It, as it grapples with its moral crisis, works which plumbed the depths of the very problems we face today. But we will only garner from these texts the lessons we truly need to learn if we set aside, if only provisionally, the historicist assumptions which have blinded us to the contemporary pertinence and value of an older wisdom which by all appearances is more profound than our own.
The Popularization of Environmental Rights in TED Talks
Authors: Anesa Patrizia 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Knowledge about the discursive strategies employed in environmental communication when addressing social practices is fundamental in order to understand how the public’s active engagement and behavioral change can be brought about, encouraged or discouraged through environmental discourse. This paper purports to investigate the representation and popularization of environmental rights in media texts, with particular focus on TED talks. More specifically, the analysis aims to explore which and how communicative meanings are continuously constructed around environmental issues. The popularization strategies present in a collection of TED talks are investigated, and processes of accommodation and simplification are analyzed with the aim to point out any discrepancies between the nature of rights in legal texts, and their textual realization in non-legal examples. The analysis traces the malleability of terminology related to environmental rights and shows how the selective usage of qualifying words like “sustainability” and “solidarity” can contribute to the fungibility of the concept of “environmental right” itself. The paper also emphasizes the broad social importance assumed by the mismatch between the need for clear legal definitions and the leverage of vague terminology to favor specific policies.
Focus in Italian echo wh-questions: An analysis at syntax-prosody interface
Authors: Badan Linda , Crocco Claudia 
Published: March 2018

AbstractIn this article, we propose an analysis of the so-called echo wh-questionsin situin Italian at syntax–prosody interface. We conduct a prosodic analysis under an experimental approach, showing that a focalized wh-word in echo wh-questions shows its own peculiar properties, different from informative and corrective focus, so that we can analyze it as an instance of Mirative focus. We demonstrate that the wh-word in echo wh-questions occupies a focus position in the low periphery of the clause. We also argue that this position has syntactic properties that, interlaced together with the prosodic properties, lead us to define the projection as a dedicated focus projection for Mirative focus. Crucially, the focus position within the low periphery activated in an echo wh-question, has different syntactic, prosodic and interpretive properties with respect to the informational focus, and to the corrective focus. Therefore, at a general level, our analysis strengthens the idea that partly different intonations and interpretations are associated to positions within the low periphery as opposed to the positions in the left periphery.
Encapsulated polymeric beads impregnating unexplored amide, N,N′-bis(2-ethyl hexyl) α-hydroxy acetamide (BEHGA) – preparation, sorption and kinetic studies for tri-, tetra- and hexavalent radionuclides
Authors: Pahan S. , Singh K.K. , Sinha Roy P. , Panja S. , Dhami P.S. , Sharma J.N. , Kaushik C.P. , Kumar M. , Yadav J.S. 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Removal of actinides (trivalent, tetravalent and hexavalent) from nitric acid medium was studied using solid-liquid extraction technique employing polymeric encapsulated beads (PEBs) using an indigenously synthesized, unexplored novel monoamide, N,N′-bis(2-ethyl hexyl) α-hydroxy acetamide (BEHGA). The PEBs were synthesized by phase inversion technique. The structure and morphology of the synthesized PEBs were evaluated by employing various characterization techniques like FT-IR, TGA and SEM. The well characterized PEBs were studied for its Am(III), Pu(IV) and U(VI) sorption behavior from nitric acid medium. Kinetics studies showed that the sorption is fast with equilibrium being reached within 60 min of equilibration. The sorption mechanism follows pseudo-second-order mechanism with intraparticle diffusion playing an important role. Langmuir isotherm model was found to best describe the sorption isotherm. The maximum Am(III) sorption capacity of the PEBs was found to be 8.45 mg/g (experimental) and 8.43 mg/g (Langmuir). Back extraction was possible using 0.5 M HNO3. Stability of the PEBs was found to be quite good with no significant structural deformation or leaching out of the extractant in 4.0 M HNO3 solution for at least up to 8 days.
Development of a “fission-proxy” method for the measurement of 14-MeV neutron fission yields
Authors: Gharibyan Narek , Moody Ken , Tumey Scott , Brown Tom , Grant Pat , Bench Graham , Shaughnessy Dawn 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Relative fission-yield measurements were made for 50 fission products from 25.6±0.5 MeV α-induced fission of Th-232. Quantitative comparison of these experimentally measured yields with the evaluated fission yields from 14-MeV neutrons on U-235 demonstrates the application of the Bohr-independence hypothesis for measuring fission yields. As optimum particle-target configurations may be impossible or compromised at a given facility, this new approach, fission-proxy, allows the measurement of fission yields for a given compound nucleus from an alternate reaction pathway since formation and subsequent decay are independent processes.
p-Nitrophenol determination and remediation: an overview
Authors: Tchieno Francis Merlin Melataguia , Tonle Ignas Kenfack 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
An almost exhaustive overview of the determination and remediation of p-nitrophenol (p-NP)-contaminated media is herein presented. p-NP is one of the priority pollutants on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency list. This is because p-NP is either a precursor or a derivative of a good number of pollutants. It is itself very carcinogenic and tends to persist in water and soil. This has prompted the development of a wide range of analytical tools by researchers for its determination and eventual removal from contaminated sites. These include electrochemical methods with many electrode modifiers and electroanalytical procedures developed for the detection/quantification of p-NP in contaminated environments. Also, chromatographic and p-NP uptake techniques, particularly adsorption onto various adsorbents (ranging from natural to synthetic), are reviewed. The use of microorganisms for the bioremediation of p-NP-contaminated samples and sites has equally been largely studied and is herein overviewed, not forgetting advanced oxidative processes.
Why do herpes simplex encephalitis and semantic dementia show a different pattern of semantic impairment in spite of their main common involvement within the anterior temporal lobes?
Authors: Gainotti Guido 
Published: March 2018

AbstractA very challenging problem in the domain of the cognitive neurosciences is to explain why herpes simplex encephalitis and semantic dementia show, respectively, a category-specific semantic disorder for biological entities and an across-categories semantic disruption, despite highly overlapping areas of anterior temporal lobe damage. The aim of the present review consisted in trying to make a separate survey of anatomo-clinical investigations (single-case studies and group studies) and of activation studies, in order to analyse the factors that could explain these different patterns of semantic disruption. Factors taken into account in this review were laterality of lesions, disease aetiology, kind of brain pathology and locus of damage within the temporal lobes. Locus of damage within the temporal lobes and kind of brain pathology seemed to play the most important role, because in patients with herpes simplex encephalitis and category-specific semantic disorder for biological entities the lesions prevailed in the anteromedial temporal lobes. Furthermore, the neuropathology concerned both the anterior temporal cortices and the white matter pathways connecting these areas with the posterior visual areas, whereas in semantic dementia the inferior longitudinal fasciculus involvement was restricted to the rostral temporal lobe and did not extend into the cortically uninvolved occipital lobe.
A sharp lower bound on the signless Laplacian index of graphs with (κ,τ)-regular sets
Authors: Andeelić Milica , Cardoso Domingos M. , Pereira António 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
A new lower bound on the largest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian spectra for graphs with at least one (κ,τ)regular set is introduced and applied to the recognition of non-Hamiltonian graphs or graphs without a perfect matching. Furthermore, computational experiments revealed that the introduced lower bound is better than the known ones. The paper also gives sufficient condition for a graph to be non Hamiltonian (or without a perfect matching).
On the q-Lie group of q-Appell polynomial matrices and related factorizations
Authors: Ernst Thomas 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
In the spirit of our earlier paper [10] and Zhang and Wang [16],we introduce the matrix of multiplicative q-Appell polynomials of order M ∈ ℤ. This is the representation of the respective q-Appell polynomials in ke-ke basis. Based on the fact that the q-Appell polynomials form a commutative ring [11], we prove that this set constitutes a q-Lie group with two dual q-multiplications in the sense of [9]. A comparison with earlier results on q-Pascal matrices gives factorizations according to [7], which are specialized to q-Bernoulli and q-Euler polynomials.We also show that the corresponding q-Bernoulli and q-Euler matrices form q-Lie subgroups. In the limit q → 1 we obtain corresponding formulas for Appell polynomial matrices.We conclude by presenting the commutative ring of generalized q-Pascal functional matrices,which operates on all functions f ∈ C∞
q .
Changing patterns of self-citation: cumulative inquiry or self-promotion?
Authors: Hyland Ken , Jiang Feng (Kevin) 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Self-citations are a familiar, if sometimes controversial, element of academic knowledge construction and reputation-building, contributing to both the cumulative nature of academic research and helping writers to promote their scientific authority and enhance their careers. As scholarly publications become more specialized, more collaborative and more important for promotion and tenure, we might expect self-citation to play a more visible role in published research and this paper explores this possibility. Here we trace patterns of self-citation in papers from the same five journals in four disciplines at three time periods over the past 50 years, selected according to their impact ranking in 2015. We identify a large increase in self-citations although this is subject to disciplinary variation and tempered by a huge rise in citations overall, so that self-citation has fallen as a proportion of all citations. We attempt to account for these changes and give a rhetorical explanation for authorial practices.
Further evidence of accelerated aging in bipolar disorder: Focus on GDF-15
Authors: Yang Fang , Barbosa Izabela G. , Vieira Erica L. , Bauer Moises E. , Rocha Natalia P. , Teixeira Antonio L. 
Published: March 2018

AbstractBackgroundBipolar disorder (BD) is a mood disorder associated with cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and premature aging. Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15) has emerged as a biomarker for cardiovascular risk and aging. Our aim was to compare plasma levels of GDF-15 between BD patients and controls, and to evaluate whether they were associated with clinical parameters.MethodsForty-six patients with type I BD (23 in euthymia and 23 in mania) and 33 healthy controls were recruited for this study. Plasma levels of GDF-15 were measured by immunoassay.ResultsThe levels of GDF-15 were significantly higher (p < 0.001) in patients with BD in comparison with controls. In patients, GDF-15 levels correlated with age (rho = 0.434; p = 0.003) and illness duration (rho = 0.502; p = 0.001).ConclusionOur findings corroborate the view that BD is an illness associated with accelerated aging.
Pure, lithium- or magnesium-doped ferroelectric single crystals of Ca9Y(VO4)7: cation arrangements and phase transitions
Authors: Lazoryak Bogdan I. , Deyneko Dina V. , Aksenov Sergey M. , Stefanovich Sergey Yu. , Fortalnova Elena A. , Petrova Darya A. , Baryshnikova Oksana V. , Kosmyna Miron B. , Shekhovtsov Aleksey N. 
Published: March 2018

Abstract
Single crystals of Ca9Y(VO4)7 (1), Ca9Y(VO4)7:Li+ (2) and Ca9Y(VO4)7:Mg2+ (3) were grown by the Czochralski method. Their chemical composition was analyzed by ICP spectroscopy and their crystal structure was examined by single crystal X-ray analysis. The crystals are characterized by trigonal symmetry, space group R3c. Hexagonal unit-cell parameters are as follows: a=10.8552(1) Å, c=38.0373(2) Å, V=3881.65(1) Å3 for 1; a=10.8570(1) Å, c=38.0161(3) Å, V=3880.77(4) Å3 for 2; a=10.8465(1) Å, c=38.0366(2) Å, V=3875.36(3) Å3 for 3. All crystals are characterized by β-Ca3(PO4)2-type structure with statistical distribution of Ca2+ and Y3+ over M1, M2 and M5 sites in different ratios and with completely empty M4-cationsite. The impurity of Mg2+cations in structure 2 has been detected in octahedral M5 site. Ferroelectric phase transitions are evidenced by DSC and SHG. At about 1220 and 1300 K, they demonstrate phase transitions. Upon heating the symmetry of the crystal structure changes according to the scheme R3c→R3̅c→R3̅m and is restored during consequent cooling. The first of them is of ferroelectric and the second of non-ferroelectric nature. Even a small amount of impurities in Ca9Y(VO4)7 structure is accompanied by a noticeable decrease in the temperature of the ferroelectric-paraelectric phase transition.
Hapticity of asymmetric rhodium-allyl compounds in the light of real-space bonding indicators
Authors: Mebs Stefan , Kalläne Sabrina Imke , Braun Thomas 
Published: March 2018

AbstractRhodium boryl complexes are valuable catalysts for hydro- or diboration reactions of alkenes, but can also react with ketones (R2C=O) and imines (R2C=NR′) giving rise to insertion products having formally Rh–R2C–O/NR′–B linkages. The resulting molecular structures, however, may show complex metal–ligand and ligand–ligand interaction patterns with often unclear metal–ligand connectivities (hapticities, ηn). In order to assign the correct hapticity in a set of asymmetric rhodium-allyl compounds with molecular structures indicating η1−5bonding, a comprehensive DFT study was conducted. The study comprises determination of a variety of real-space bonding indicators derived from computed electron and pair densities according to the AIM, ELI-D, NCI, and DORI topological and surface approaches, which uncover the metal–ligand connectivties and suggest an asymmetric ligand–metal donation/metal–ligand back-donation framework according to the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model.
Critical Whiteness Studies and the “Jewish Problem”
Authors: Berkovits Balázs 
Published: March 2018

AbstractThe “whiteness” of Jews has recently become a popular topic both in public debates and in academic research (Critical Whiteness Studies). Within this discourse, “whiteness” is used as a critical concept denoting those who enjoy white privilege in American and other Western societies. However, attributing “whiteness” to Jews is more than controversial, for it assimilates the most persecuted minority in European history to the dominant majority, while downgrading the significance of antisemitism. This is a necessary move in order to reaffirm and critically address the fundamental nature of the black and white divide; however, it is questionable both methodologically and politically.
Desorientiert durch Said
Authors: Landes Richard 
Published: March 2018

ZusammenfassungObwohl Edward Saids Einfluss auf die Nahoststudien, und darüber hinaus auf die Sozial-, Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, aus vielen Perspektiven als glänzender Triumph oder als Tragödie betrachtet worden ist, stellen nur wenige die erstaunliche Reichweite und Durschlagskraft seines Werks Orientalismus in der akademischen Welt in Frage. Ich möchte hier die (unbeabsichtigte) Rolle Saids sowie die durch seine Arbeiten beförderte postkoloniale Lehrmeinung untersuchen, mithin auch die Art und Weise, wie der Westen bisher mit dem geistigen Krieg umgeht, den triumphalistische MuslimeEine Bemerkung zum Triumphalismus. Das ist eine ungebräuchliche Bezeichnung derjenigen, die glauben, ihre Gruppe sei allen anderen überlegen und solle zum Beweis ihrer Überlegenheit über diese herrschen: „Wir haben recht, unser Glaube ist wahr, weil wir über euch triumphieren werden.“ In Bezug auf den Islam ist damit eine Form der Religiosität gemeint, die glaubt, es sei ihre Bestimmung, die ganze Welt Allahs Willen (dem Gesetz der Scharia) zu unterwerfen; die Welt sei geteilt in den Dar al-Harb (das Reich des Schwertes) und den Dar al-Islam (das Haus der Unterwerfung) und dieser solle jenen ersetzen; im Idealfall stellten die Muslime die Ungläubigen vor die Wahl zwischen Konversion, Tod und Unterordnung. Moderne Demokratien, die auf der Trennung von Kirche und Staat beruhen, erfordern eine offizielle Absage an triumphalistische Religiosität (siehe Landes 2016). mit dem erklärten Ziel führen, demokratischen Verfassungen den Dar al-Islam zu oktroyieren.
Smoking Behavior and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Indonesian Household
Authors: Girik Allo Albertus , Sukartini Ni Made , Saptutyningsih Endah 
Published: March 2018

This study aims at estimating the difference health and education performance between children with exposure to smoke and those who are not at home. An environment with the extreme smoke condition has adverse health effects. This study utilizes longitudinal data namely Indonesia Family Life Survey period 2007 and 2014 (IFLS4 and IFLS5). We use the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method and the Average Treatment Effect on Treated (ATT). The health indicator is proxied by body mass index (BMI) and educational achievement proxied with children cognitive ability. The results show that children who grow in a household with active smoker tend to have lower health status and educational attainment compare to children who are not. This study recommends public policy for banning smoking in public areas as well as inside building such as house and office in Indonesia.DOI: 10.15408/sjie.v7i2.5793
Inequality and Economic Growth in Indonesia in The 2000’s
Authors: Simangunsong Damayanti , Kuang-Hui Chen 
Published: March 2018

The income inequality in Indonesia reached the highest level during the decentralization era and suspected to be the cause of the slowdown of the economic growth in the last five years to 2015. This paper investigates whether increasing inequality had a positive or negative impact on economic growth in Indonesia. Using dynamic panel and applying Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator, the result concluded that there is a significant positive relationship between income inequality and economic growth. However, this study cannot draw a definite conclusion about the association for the different classes (bottom, middle, and top level) since only one-step system GMM is significant. Based on the result, it implies that the government should be more careful in regulating the inequality policy and understand more about the right mechanism of inequality and economy growth.DOI: 10.15408/sjie.v7i2.6177
Financial Inclusion and Demand for Money: a Dynamic Panel Data Approach
Authors: Sidik Zelin Nurfadia , Achsani Noer Azam , Pasaribu Syamsul Hidayat 
Published: March 2018

Financial inclusion is designed to increase the opportunities and society participation in the formal financial institution, especially for unbanked people. Moreover, financial inclusion is one of strategy inclusive economic growth. However, financial inclusion may lead an ineffectiveness of monetary policy. It is because financial inclusion can affect the sensitivity of interest rate, and it could cause instability demand for money. Therefore, the research aims to analyze the impact of financial inclusion on demand for money, reserve money (M0), in 36 countries for the period 2004 to 2014. The method that used is Dynamic Panel Approach. The result shows that financial inclusion stimulates the increase of demand for reserve money (M0) in developed countries. In the other hand, the increasing of financial inclusion could decrease the demand for reserve money (M0) in developing countries.DOI: 10.15408/sjie.v7i2.6838
Monetary Policy and Financial Asset Prices: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan
Authors: Chhapra Imran Umer , Ali Muhammad Usama , Zehra Syeda Fizza , Naz Falak 
Published: March 2018

Monetary transmission mechanism assumed to be significantly influenced by the effect of policy decisions on financial markets. However, various previous studies have come up with different outcomes. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of monetary policy on different asset classes (shares and bonds) in Pakistan. This study using stock price and bond yield as dependent variable and discount rate, money supply, inflation, and exchange rate are independent variables. Data of all variables have collected from 2010 to 2016, and Vector Autoregressive (VAR) technique has applied. The empirical results indicate that there is an impact of monetary policy components on both stock and bond market as an increase in policy rate causes decline in stocks prices and bonds yields. The findings of this study will help the potential investors in making long-term (in general) and short-term (in particular) investment strategies concerning monetary policy.DOI: 10.15408/sjie.v7i2.7099