bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Association between particulate matter air pollution and risk of depression and suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis – RETRACTED
Authors: Gu Xuelin , Liu Qisijing , Deng Furong , Wang Xueqin , Lin Hualiang , Guo Xinbiao , Wu Shaowei 
Published: February 2019

BackgroundSome recent studies examined the effect of ambient particulate matter (PM) pollution on depression and suicide. However, the results have been inconclusive.AimsTo determine the overall relationship between PM exposure and depression/suicide in the general population.MethodWe conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of case-crossover and cohort studies to assess the association between PM2.5 (particles with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 µm or less) or PM10 (particles with an aerodynamic diameter between 2.5 and 10 µm) exposure and depression/suicide.ResultsA total of 14 articles (7 for depression and 7 for suicide) with data from 684 859 participants were included in the meta-analysis. With a 10 µg/m3 increase in PM2.5 we found a 19% (odds ratio [95% CI] 1.19 [1.07, 1.33]) increased risk of depression and a marginally increased risk of suicide (odds ratio [95% CI] 1.05 [0.99, 1.11]) in the general population. We did not observe any significant associations between increasing exposure to PM10 and depression/suicide. Sensitivity and subgroup analyses were used to determine the robustness of results. The strongest estimated effect of depression associated with PM2.5 appeared in a long-term lag pattern (odds ratio [95% CI] 1.25 [1.07, 1.45], P < 0.01) and cumulative lag pattern (odds ratio [95% CI] 1.26 [1.07, 1.48], P < 0.01).ConclusionsThe meta-analysis suggested that an increase in ambient PM2.5 concentration was strongly associated with increased depression risk in the general population, and the association appeared stronger at long-term lag and cumulative lag patterns, suggesting a potential cumulative exposure effect over time.Declaration of interestNone.
Lineage-specific reorganization of nuclear peripheral heterochromatin and H3K9me2 domains
Authors: See Kelvin , Lan Yemin , Rhoades Joshua , Jain Rajan , Smith Cheryl L. , Epstein Jonathan A. 
Published: February 2019

ABSTRACT
Dynamic organization of chromatin within the three-dimensional nuclear space has been postulated to regulate gene expression and cell fate. Here, we define the genome-wide distribution of nuclear peripheral heterochromatin as a multipotent P19 cell adopts either a neural or a cardiac fate. We demonstrate that H3K9me2-marked nuclear peripheral heterochromatin undergoes lineage-specific reorganization during cell-fate determination. This is associated with spatial repositioning of genomic loci away from the nuclear periphery as shown by 3D immuno-FISH. Locus repositioning is not always associated with transcriptional changes, but a subset of genes is upregulated. Mef2c is specifically repositioned away from the nuclear periphery during early neurogenic differentiation, but not during early cardiogenic differentiation, with associated transcript upregulation. Myocd is specifically repositioned during early cardiogenic differentiation, but not during early neurogenic differentiation, and is transcriptionally upregulated at later stages of cardiac differentiation. We provide experimental evidence for lineage-specific regulation of nuclear architecture during cell-fate determination in a mouse cell line.
Kinematic signatures of prey capture from archival tags reveal sex differences in killer whale foraging activity
Authors: Tennessen Jennifer B. , Holt Marla M. , Hanson M. Bradley , Emmons Candice K. , Giles Deborah A. , Hogan Jeffrey T. 
Published: February 2019

ABSTRACTStudies of odontocete foraging ecology have been limited by the challenges of observing prey capture events and outcomes underwater. We sought to determine whether subsurface movement behavior recorded from archival tags could accurately identify foraging events by fish-eating killer whales. We used multisensor bio-logging tags attached by suction cups to Southern Resident killer whales (Orcinus orca) to: (1) identify a stereotyped movement signature that co-occurred with visually confirmed prey capture dives; (2) construct a prey capture dive detector and validate it against acoustically confirmed prey capture dives; and (3) demonstrate the utility of the detector by testing hypotheses about foraging ecology. Predation events were significantly predicted by peaks in the rate of change of acceleration (‘jerk peak’), roll angle and heading variance. Detection of prey capture dives by movement signatures enabled substantially more dives to be included in subsequent analyses compared with previous surface or acoustic detection methods. Males made significantly more prey capture dives than females and more dives to the depth of their preferred prey, Chinook salmon. Additionally, only half of the tag deployments on females (5 out of 10) included a prey capture dive, whereas all tag deployments on males exhibited at least one prey capture dive (12 out of 12). This dual approach of kinematic detection of prey capture coupled with hypothesis testing can be applied across odontocetes and other marine predators to investigate the impacts of social, environmental and anthropogenic factors on foraging ecology.
Potential relationship between malaria elimination and reducing stunting in children in sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Willis Derek W. , Hamon Nick 
Published: February 2019

Background: The Sustainable Development Goals include goals to reduce malaria and stunting. Stunting is a result of childhood undernutrition. Our previous studies found that suppressing malaria could reduce poverty rates among agricultural households in Africa. The objective of this paper is to highlight how suppressing malaria could have the further effect of reducing stunting rates among children in agricultural households. Methods: We estimated the burden of stunting among children in agricultural households in malarious regions of sub-Saharan Africa on the basis of our previous research and data from UNICEF. We also used an evaluation of the impact of a nutrition program in Peru to assess the potential for poverty reduction to reduce stunting. Results: We estimated that there are approximately 21.5 million children suffering from stunting in agricultural households in malarious regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Poverty reduction was found to be a necessary condition to reduce stunting via a multisectoral nutrition program in Peru. The potential impact of suppressing malaria on the poverty rate of agricultural households could therefore play an important role in nutrition programs aiming to reduce stunting in Africa. Reducing the number of children with stunting in these households would improve their health and productivity as adults. Conclusion: We have developed the first estimates of the burden of stunting in agricultural households in malarious regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding how suppressing malaria affects stunting in these households could affect funding for anti-malaria programs. Future research should use longitudinal data to examine this impact at a finer spatial scale.
An exploration of why qualified mental health nurse prescribers do not prescribe
Authors: Oldknow Helen , Gillibrand Warren , Clifton Andrew 
Published: February 2019

This article is an exploratory study of perceptions in mental health nurses who are qualified to prescribe yet choose not to do so. In-depth semi-structured face-to-face interviews, field notes and analysis of documents were used to investigate the perceptions of the non–prescribing nurse prescriber. A mapping exercise was conducted to identify potential participants. Interview data analysis was based on the principles of descriptive phenomenology and the research was theoretically framed within concepts of power, structure/agency and culture. This study has contributed to understanding the views of non-prescribing mental health nurse prescribers on why they do not use their prescribing qualification. The findings from this study suggest that there are complex, interlocking factors: power and knowledge; culture; and structure and agency, which may enable or prevent mental health nurse prescribers from independently prescribing.
Wang was missing: Rediscovering Wayne Wang’s independence
Authors: Gruenewald Tim 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
Wayne Wang (1949–present) occupies a unique position among Chinese American directors working in the United States as he has enjoyed a long and productive career spanning more than 30 years. Unlike most filmmakers, Wang has moved back and forth between independent filmmaking with experimental characteristics and mainstream commercial Hollywood productions. After early success with his pioneering Chinese American film Chan is Missing (Wang, 1982), audiences and film critics were wondering what happened to the ‘independent’ after a string of several commercial Hollywood films during the early 2000s. In 2007 and 2008, Wang returned to independent film production with A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007) and even formal experimentation in The Princess of Nebraska (2008). Both films benefit from violations of mainstream Hollywood film form in the areas of editing, subtitling, camera, mise-en-scène and narrative. Wang could realize these projects through innovative financing using the strategy of shadow film and pioneering new approaches to distribution by premiering The Princess of Nebraska on YouTube.
Entering the cinema of attractions’ Matrix: Yuen Wo-Ping’s merging of Hollywood spectacle with kungfu choreography
Authors: Pettigrew Ian 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
On its ascension to its current status as Hollywood’s chief competitor and collaborator, mainland Chinese cinema has benefited from a select group of filmmakers who contributed to blockbuster films overseas. Many of these filmmakers, including Yuen Wo-Ping, returned home and fused the awe-inducing visual effects (e.g. ‘the bullettime effect’) of the new wave of Hollywood’s cinema of attractions with the acrobatics of Chinese wuxia and kungfu films. This article will look closely at Yuen’s work in Hong Kong cinema before moving onto an analysis of his work on films such as The Matrix trilogy and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I will then demonstrate how his experience abroad brings a transnational aesthetic to mainland Chinese cinema that proffers new senses of global identity and being amidst its thrills.
‘Shoshke’ the subversive cartoon character: Politics and gender performance in Israel
Authors: Ben-Meir Orna 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
This article analyses the Israeli cultural phenomenon of a cartoon character named ’Shoshke’ that transformed into a real-life female embodiment and alter-ego of its male creator, the writer, artist and journalist Zeëv Engelmayer. Starting out as a two-dimensional drawn character in alternative, satirical and politically-critical publications, Shoshke became a physically-embodied, three-dimensional performance on the streets and social spaces of Tel Aviv and more widely in Israel and beyond, initially through ‘personal appearances’ of Shoshke/Engelmayer and then via the Internet and social media. The cartoon Shoshke is a voluptuous female superhero; her performed personification involes a man with a beard clad in a ‘naked’ female costume that emphasizes her genitalia, special headdress, glasses and red high-heels. All of this, along with her ‘promiscuous’ behaviour, define her as a subversive performance of a new self, transgressing rules of gender, sexuality and genre in an extraordinary way within the complex social, cultural and political contexts of contemporary Israel. Commenting on the local politics of that country at its 70th anniversary, Shoshke is a political act that calls attention, among so many other things, to what is true, what is semblance, what is to be believed and not believed. The analysis presented here considers the intentions of this creation, its reception and its effects, which are curiously and interestingly ambiguous on several levels – in relation to conceptions of national identity, gender identity and roles, and concepts of acceptability regarding clothing as covering and as revealing within the particular contested context of contemporary Israel.
Israeli fashion between individuality and national identity: Reflections on the exhibition White-Blue Collar
Authors: Granovsky Amit Tal 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
This article explores the tension between individualism and national collectivism in modern Israeli fashion design. When looking back at the end of the nineteenth century up until the declaration of Israel as a country in 1948, one can recognize the creation of the ideal community and image of the ‘New Jew’. In this process of building and defining the new national culture of Israel, the dominant approach within the ‘New Jew’ community was one of unity for a greater cause. In this state of mind, clothes did not matter, nor did individuality. Unlike bourgeois city fashion based on individual preferences, the unified ‘anti-style’ became a visual marker of Israeli identity. In the last couple of years, fashion designers are trying to go back to their roots by creating unique local garments. Due to the ‘anti-style’ visual past of the local fashion scene, one has to ask weather contemporary designers succeeded in creating a unique Israeli fashion by following the past and erasing individuality? Or by standing against the past and criticizing collectivism?
Critical (self-)reflections in the elusive other: The image of the Austrian in the films of Visconti, Fellini and Cavani
Authors: Dassanowsky Robert 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
Rossellini’s seminal image of the Austrian deserter in Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City) (1945) has continued to shape Austrian characters and their difference from the German in Italian auteur film. Giacomo Lichtner’s view that Italian film ‘absolved’ its society for the myth of the brava gente (the good or ‘better’ people) parallels Austria’s avoidance of dealing with its Nazi past until sparked by national discourse. Austria is thus a viable stand-in for Italian cinema’s examination of its own historical trauma. Visconti’s Austrian in Senso (1954) and his ‘Austrianization’ of the German in Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice) (1971) have added a ‘topos Austria’ to Italian film, which is deconstructed by Fellini’s abstraction of the ‘Habsburg mythos’ at the onset of the First World War in E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On) (1984). Cavani breaks the filmic taboo of finding Nazi perpetrators among the victimized Austrians in her film Il Portiere di notte (The Night Porter) (1974) and articulates the memory of the Nazi era and post-war repression in Vienna, seeking to represent a wider European experience.
The demonization of the South and the Southernification of evil in contemporary Italian cinema: Belluscone and Qualunquemente
Authors: Messina Marcello 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
Traditional images of the South of Italy are constructed on the premise of the negation of the positive values that allegedly define the Italian nation, and Southern populations are normally portrayed as lazy, backwards, inclined to crime and illegal behaviours, etc. In this article, I evaluate the ways in which contemporary Italian cinema resorts to these representations by analysing two recent Italian movies, namely, Qualunquemente (Whatsoeverly) (Manfredonia, 2011), starring, and written by, Antonio Albanese, and Franco Maresco’s Belluscone: Una storia siciliana (Belluscone: A Sicilian Story) (Maresco, 2014). In particular, I claim that these two films, often disguised as instances of political impegno (‘engagement’) and satire, concur to symbolically absolve the Italian nation of its political and ethical responsibilities, only to hand over the perceived guilt to Southern communities, territories and identities. Alongside the traditional demonization of the South, Italian cinema performs and nurtures a characteristic ‘Southernification of evil’.
Book Reviews
Authors: Bonifazio Paola , Bertellini Giorgio , Fiumara Francesco , Karagoz Claudia , Gaglio Sam , Ursini Francesco-Alessio , Leonardo Laura , Bauman Rebecca , Bisogno Anna , Boitani Giacomo 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
Breve ma veridica storia del documentario: Dal cinema del reale alla nonfiction, Adriano Aprà (2017) Alessandria: Falsopiano, 280 pp., ISBN: 9788893040754, p/bk, € 18.00
Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896–1922, Francesco Casetti (ed.) with Silvio Alovisio and Luca Mazzei (2017) Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 512 pp., ISBN: 9789089648556, p/bk, £48.50
Italian Political Cinema: Public Life, Imaginary, and Identity in Contemporary Italian Film, Giancarlo Lombardi and Christian Uva (eds) (2016) Bern: Peter Lang, 440 pp., ISBN: 9783034322171, p/bk; ISBN: 9783035308150, ebook, £25.00
Italy’s Other Women: Gender and Prostitution in Italian Cinema, 1940–1965, Danielle Hipkins (2016) Oxford: Peter Lang, 448 pp., ISBN: 978034319348, p/bk, £45.00/$67.95
Federico Fellini: Riprese riletture, (re)visioni, Paola Bernardini, Joanne Granata, Teresa Lobalsamo and Alberto Zambenedetti (eds) (2016) Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 272 pp., ISBN: 9788876675522, p/bk, €24,00
Shooting Star: Sociologia mediatica e filosofia politica di Atlas Ufo Robot, Marco Pellitteri and Francesco Giacomantonio (2016) Roma: Mario Luzi Editore, 246 pp., ISBN: 9788867480944, p/bk, €24.90
Divergenze in celluloide. Colore, migrazione e identità nei film gay di Ferzan Özpetek, Ryan Calabretta Sadjer (2016) Milano: Mimesis, 250 pp., ISBN: 9788857537313, p/bk, €20,40
La TV invadente. Il reality del dolore da Vermicino ad Av etrana, Anna Bisogno (2015) Rome: Carocci Editore, 111 pp., ISBN 9788843062928, p/bk, €13.00
Social Gossip: From Courtyard Chats to Web Rumours, Antonia Cava and Francesco Pira (2015) Rome: Aracne, 129 pp., ISBN: 978885489035, p/bk, € 10.00
Il Cinema Italiano: Generi, figure, film del passato e del presente, Antonio Costa (2013) Bologna: Il Mulino, 136 pp., ISBN: 9788815244833, p/bk, € 9.80
The singer’s GPS: Rethinking traditional pitch instruction methods for straight-tone singing in commercial voice teaching
Authors: Damon Mindy 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
The purpose of this quantitative true-experimental study was to determine instruction- type efficacy on pitch accuracy in straight-tone singing as used in commercial music, by the examination of differences in pitch accuracy scores of 59 female collegiate voice majors (N=59) at a large university in mid-Atlantic United States. In this double-blind study with post-test only control group design, the control group (n=19) received traditional corrective verbal cues (TCVC). Treatment groups received either real-time visual feedback (RTVF) with TCVC (n=20), or performed audio feedback (PAF) with TCVC (n=20). Data were collected via a demographics survey, audio-recorded vocal response and visual-recorded vocal response using the Sing and SeeTM software. Data was analysed using a one-way analysis of variance, and results show that the average gain in pitch scores of female students who received RTVF instruction were significantly better than female students who received TCVC instruction and PAF instruction. These findings suggest that private voice instruction may yield better pitch accuracy through the use of visualization, thereby lightening the cognitive load of the student.
Towards a hopeful plurality of democracy: An interview on vocal ontology with Adriana Cavarero
Authors: Cavarero Adriana , Thomaidis Konstantinos , Pinna Ilaria 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
Marking the philosopher’s 70th anniversary as well as fifteen years since the original publication of For More than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression in 2005, this interview with Adriana Cavarero considers the ongoing resonance of her propositions on vocality for the expanding interdisciline of voice studies. Cavarero situates her work on voice within the matrix of its contemporaneous discourses as well as current critical debate. In entering a dialogue with other voice scholars, Cavarero expands on her project of dismantling the aporous, solipsistic subject of western metaphysics and foregrounds notions of responsibility as fundamental to her understanding of relationality. Cavarero further attends to vocal practices, within the remits of academic exchange as well as in contemporary art, and postulates the key tenets of her current project on contingent politics, demagogy and the necessity to reconfigure the voice of the masses as plural.
Reviews
Authors: Dellenbaugh Ginger , Rahaim Matthew 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
Hearing SIGNS, Seeing Voices: The Voice At The Limits Symposium (2016) The New School, New York, 1 April
Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills, Kirin Narayan (2016) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 256 pp., ISBN: 9280226407562, p/bk, $25.00
Performing without the use of a net: Making an animated feature without a storyboard
Authors: Bultheel Jan 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
Generally we think that the storyboard is the holy grail when making animation movies. But that same storyboard can also be an obstacle to improvisation, intuition, free artistic expression and last-minute ideas. Reflecting on this dilemma, I devised an alternative way to make an animated feature based on mocap technology and the talent of a cast of professional actors, skipping the storyboard entirely and having the freedom for changes almost until rendering. Cafard (2015) is that experiment. It is on the crossroad between theatre, cinema and game technology, combining the best of each world.
Discussing the notion of ‘writing for animation’: The case of Dragonkeeper (2020)
Authors: Castrillo Pablo 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
The project Dragonkeeper (2020) is an animated, international co-production between Spain and China, with the involvement of Dragoia Media, Movistar Plus, Atresmedia Cine and China Film Group, the largest film company in the Middle Kingdom. The film is based on the first of a series of novels by Australian author Carole Wilkinson, published by Walker Books: Dragonkeeper (2003), followed by Garden of the Purple Dragon (2005), and Dragon Moon (2007). This wealth of source materials and diversity of players provides a fertile environment to explore and question the meaning of ‘writing for animation’, as the process advances along the various stages of development of an adaptation and pre-production of an animated feature film. Here it is argued that the screenwriter’s role in an early stage of development should not be affected by the particularities of the medium, but rather, on the effective design of a story that must appeal to global audiences. The true process of ‘writing for animation’ begins once a director provides a unifying vision for the film’s development, entering a collaborative relationship with writers, artists and producers, through the visual means provided by concept art and storyboarding.
Liselotte Wajstedt’s Kiruna: Space Road: Experimental ecocinema as elegiac memoir in ‘extractivist’ Sápmi
Authors: Fish Cheryl J. 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
This article focuses on the experimental ecocinema of Swedish Sami filmmaker Liselotte Wajstedt, director of Kiruna – Rymdvägen (Kiruna: Space Road) (2013) and the sequel-in-progress, Kiruna – Ortdrivaren (‘Kiruna: The drift block’). The films engage with the effects of mining and extraction on the psyche of citizens in Wajstedt’s home town of Kiruna, in Arctic northern Sweden. Wajstedt’s work contributes to the emerging fields of critical Arctic studies, ecocinema and energy humanities and considers the power of moving images that respond to extractive industry practices and state/corporate storylines within the Fenno-Scandinavian region known as Sápmi.