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Foggy signs: Dark ecological queerings in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist
Authors: Bøgh Thomsen Torsten 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
This article draws on the rich ecocritical scholarship that has burgeoned in the twenty-first century to posit that queer representations of the environment that blur Romantic human/non-human dualism can challenge and nuance our discussion of the present ecological crisis. Lars von Trier’s infamous film Antichrist, I argue, presents the viewer with such a queer vision of dark ecology. This is not a harmonious and peaceful vision of Romantic nature, but the environment as a mesh, a place where the very division between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ is consistently undermined. ‘Nature’ in von Trier’s cinematic world represents all the invasive aspects of our biological surroundings that humans have sought to flee for millennia by producing shelter and culture. Antichrist has been called a psychological thriller or horror film, but it can also, I argue, be appropriately defined as a primary and genre-defining artwork of dark ecology.
Unthinking ethnocentrism: Ecocritical approaches to ethnic diversity in Nordic screen media
Authors: Moffat Kate , Kääpä Pietari 
Published: February 2019

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This article develops an ecocritical perspective on the ways Nordic film and television has addressed ethnic and racial diversity. Here we develop the term ‘ecotone’, a concept originating in environmental studies that characterizes the transitional space linking separate ecological communities. Focusing on the popular noir series Bron/Broen (The Bridge) (2011–18), Hannes Holm’s Swedish comedy En man som heter Ove (A Man Called Ove) (2015), the Norwegian teen drama Skam (Shame) (2015–17) and Ruben Östlund’s controversial film Play (2011), we claim that the ecotone, when adopted as a form of mediated intervention, allows us to interrogate the taken-for-granted ideological foundations of Nordic societies. This involves unpacking the representations of material culture and spatial interconnectedness that define immigrant Others in relation to their environment.
The mediated arena: Re-image-ining the epideictic in the digital age
Authors: Gasoi Lowell 
Published: February 2019

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Colin Kaepernick takes a knee during the singing of the national anthem at an NFL game, and the digital midwife helps birth a movement. Mike Pence is called out from the stage at a performance of the smash-hit musical, Hamilton, and the President of the United States takes to Twitter in rebuttal. New York’s Public Theater and its acclaimed artistic director, Oskar Eustis, stage a thinly veiled parable of the Trump presidency in their Shakespeare-in-the-Park production of Julius Caesar. Images of the performance are alternatively venerated and eviscerated on social media, frightened sponsors pull out and audiences attack the stage. Welcome to the new arena, where the theatre and the stadium have once more taken their places as flashpoints for political protest, and where digital media are not mere witnesses, but powerful participants. This article deploys these examples to ‘re-image-ine’ classical notions of the epideictic as rhetorical display. Engaging with William Beale’s 1978 rhetorical performative update to this classification, along with theorizations of performance and technical images, I argue the epideictic has the unique ability to reflect the values of the community in the moment, activating audiences and speakers in new ways. Modern audiences, informed by digital technologies and evolving relationships to the live event, have entered new areas of interaction and performance that invite new scholarship and explication. How can epideictic performance, (conceived as display and ceremony, but also as live in ways that deliberative and forensic rhetoric are not) act as a useful theory for understanding digital realities and moments of disruption and resistance?
Gettysburg Inc.: The use and abuse of an historical icon
Authors: Gruner Oliver , McCabe Dan 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
A combination of image, text, historical reflection and political commentary, this graphic research article explores the use and abuse of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address within the US public sphere. In 155 years since Lincoln gave this speech, his words have been subsumed into all manner of heated debates on issues such as race, class, international relations and the Civil War’s legacy. Indeed, as Barry Schwartz argues, the Address’s figurative power lies not in a single interpretation, but in the way in which successive generations reinterpret it ‘in light of new situations and challenges’. From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, it has continually served as a rhetorical battleground upon which arbiters of various political persuasions wage war over the meaning of American democracy – past, present and future. When soon-to-be President Trump delivered his ‘Contract with the American Voter’ at Gettysburg in October 2016, he was but the latest in a long line of politicians to put the Address’s symbolic power in the service of his own ideological ends. ‘Every salesman needs a pitch’ writes the historian Jared Peatman. ‘And over time, increasing numbers of Americans came to see the Gettysburg Address as the most effective way to sell the ideals of this country, both internally and externally’. A collaboration between a graphic designer and visual culture historian, Gettysburg Inc. is a satirical rendering of the Gettysburg Address for the contemporary era. Taking the form of a sleek corporate brochure, this article explores the disconnect between words and deeds, truth and fiction, democratic ideals and the political process. Visually, we draw on the ‘hand of Lincoln’ motif, central to the president’s visual mediation in historical paintings, sketches, political campaign posters, advertisements and sculptures. Appropriating and reframing words, images and events from the recent past, we engage with ideas on the politics of collective memory, and the symbiotic relationship between memory and ‘forgetting’. A piece of critical design, Gettysburg Inc. is a reflection on the unstable nature of collective memory, and an exploration of the ways in which graphic design can engage with, and offer new perspectives on, history and politics.
Puritanism, Islam, and Race in Cotton Mather’sThe Glory of Goodness: An Exercise in Exceptionalism
Authors: Fowler Randall 
Published: February 2019

AbstractIn March 1703, hundreds of New England sailors returned home after years of slavery in the Barbary States. In response, Cotton Mather authored and circulated a sermon titled The Glory of Goodness. This text, ostensibly given in celebration of the captives’ return, gave voice to an exceptionalist understanding of Puritan identity premised on foreign—notably Muslim—others. It therefore informs our understanding of early eighteenth-century colonial depictions of Islam, while bearing insight for discourses surrounding Puritan exceptionalism, the rhetorical construction of race, and the articulation of religious identity in New England following the Glorious Revolution.
Gridlock and Rhetorics of Distrust
Authors: Rountree John 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
Gridlock plagues modern policy deliberations in Congress. By analyzing the 2013 Senate debate over the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, this essay shows how distrust operates as a rhetorical stance that forecloses compromise and justifies corrosive legislative stalemates. Despite agreeing on most policy specifics, congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle constructed subversive, untrustworthy policy actors to legitimate their refusal to compromise on a final bill. Republicans denounced the Obama administration as flouters of immigration laws and uninterested in border security, while Democrats detailed a Republican “ploy” to cheat millions of undocumented immigrants out of a pathway to citizenship. These rhetorics of distrust created irreconcilable visions for how to implement immigration reform. The essay concludes by proposing that more dialogic forums among representatives and a politically realist outlook could help ameliorate rhetorics of distrust.
Technologies of the State: Transvaginal Ultrasounds and the Abortion Debate
Authors: Friz Amanda M. 
Published: February 2019

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This essay examines the transvaginal ultrasound (TVU) debate that was ignited in the spring of 2012 by a Virginia law mandating the procedure as a prerequisite for first-trimester abortions. This debate represents a recent intensification of historical arguments grounded in how the abortion debate intersects with medical practice. By following the debate as it unfolded on pro-choice and pro-life blogs, this analysis uncovers three overarching topoi in the discourse mirrored on both sides: the medical necessity (or lack thereof) of the procedure; the importance of informed consent; and comparisons to rape. Using Foucault’s concept of the medical gaze, this essay argues that across all three topoi, both pro-choice and pro-life activists’ rhetoric relied heavily upon implicit assumptions of the superiority and necessity of medical science. The TVU debate demonstrates an argumentation strategy that both strips the issue of its political, legal, moral, and personal contexts and rhetorically positions pro-choice groups disadvantageously by obfuscating any discussion of women’s rights.
Mining Heritage and Mining Tourism
Authors: Jelen Jakub 
Published: February 2019

AbstractThe mining industry leaves behind a large number of tangible or intangible remains. A part of them can be used by different actors as a mining heritage. Specific cultural or social values and meanings, which remind of the importance of mining in the past and today, are represented through this mining heritage. To preserve them, the heritage must be passed to future generations. One of the ways is mining tourism. However, the relation between the mining heritage and tourism is not simple as the complex mining heritage has many specific features that differ from the traditional tourist attractions and conceal many pitfalls. The aspects of authenticity or approaches to heritage interpretation are also important.
Method for analysis of ClO2 and Cl2 air emissions from pulp mill
Authors: Häggström Kimona , Gunnarsson Magnus , Bremert-Jirholm Katarina , Simic Nina 
Published: February 2019

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Chlorine dioxide is commonly used as a bleaching agent in kraft pulp mills. Scrubbers are required to remove any remaining ClO2 from the plant tail gases. To control the air emissions of chlorine compounds, chlorine dioxide and chlorine contents must be monitored to ensure that the strict regulatory standards are met. However, the currently used analytical method is not suitable for detection of low concentrations of chlorine and chlorine dioxide. A new method for measuring chlorine dioxide and chlorine emissions was developed, which ensures compliance with the stringent requirements imposed by the authorities. The two species could be measured separately with a limit of quantification of 3 ppm. The method was robust and easy to use in the pulp mill environment and it was validated both in the laboratory and the field. The specificity of the method was demonstrated, Cl2 analysis was not sensitive to the presence of ClO2 and vice versa. The uncertainty (±2×RSD) of the analytical method in the field was estimated from duplicate measurements performed in the range of 3–500 ppm for ClO2 and 3–300 ppm for Cl2, and was found to be ±20 % and ±10 %, respectively. Possible interferences in the analytical method are also discussed.
Computational study of acylphloroglucinols: an investigation with many branches
Authors: Mammino Liliana 
Published: February 2019

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Acylphloroglucinols (ACPLs) are a broad class of compounds structurally derived from phloroglucinol and characterised by the presence of a CRO group. They are interesting for their biological activities and their potentialities as lead compounds in drug development. The current review considers a series of works which, altogether, sum up to a systematic computational study of ACPLs in vacuo and in three solvents – chloroform, acetonitrile and water. An initial set of studies, focusing on ACPLs as a class and utilising an adequately representative selection of molecules, identified patterns in the conformational preferences and molecular properties of ACPLs, which appear valid for the whole class or for specific subclasses such as monomeric ACPLs, dimeric ACPLs, ACPLs with substituents containing C=C double bonds, etc. The validity of the identified patterns was further verified through the study of additional and significantly different ACPL molecules, as well as other molecular structures containing ACPL units. Furthermore, the computational study of ACPLs proved interesting for the insights into the factors stabilising their conformers, first of all intramolecular hydrogen bonding, which plays dominant roles in determining conformational preferences and energetics. The current review outlines the objectives, approaches and main results of these studies. The obtained information may be relevant for further studies aimed at a better understanding of the molecular bases of the biological activities of ACPLs.
An Approach to Diagnosing a Company’s Accident Prevention Status Using Budgets and Dynamic Programming Optimisation
Authors: Jijoho-Ogun Kasope , Oke Sunday Ayoola 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
Researchers have shown growing interest to accident prevention. Their outcomes have revealed that apart from the physical control efforts, management commitment to funds provision may as well stimulate enhanced safety prevention. While this call has been made in literature to consider the financial matters in safety, the key question about how this concern affects the machining industry remains unanswered. Despite having recognised hazards in a machine tool workshop, requires some financial resources for actions. In order to eliminate mishaps associated with lack of, or poor funds provision or delay to offer financial support to the shop floor when needed, proper analysis for the procedure of safety budget and implementation must be carried out. Drawing on the operations research literature, the dynamic programming technique is shown to optimally assign the right budget to each possible accident case that could occur in the company for prevention purposes. This research offers a path to optimal safety budget on the platform of budgets interaction with accident rate reduction. The optimization is carried out in line with minimum hazard flourishing policy and as well considering the positioning of the machines one to another and the functions of initiation, propagation and termination for the hazards. First, hazards are scouted for and classified using a suitable scale. Dynamic programming is then used to optimally distribute the budget of the company on accident prevention according to the scale that each hazard is classified. The validation of the approach was tested with data obtained from machine tools workshop located in Lagos, Nigeria. The work serves a useful purpose for safety engineers that pursue the efficient planning for operations.
Data Transmission at 14.4kb/s OVER 32kb/s ADPCM Channel
Authors: AL-Rawi Muhanned 
Published: February 2019

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This paper presents new modified QAM modem that operates at data rate of 14.4kb/s to be transmitted over 32kb/s Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM). The purpose of this modified QAM modem is to reduce the nonlinear distortion introduced by ADPCM. The performance of ADPCM is studied considering the standard QAM modem and modified QAM modem with different constellations. The simulation results show that the performance of ADPCM with modified QAM modem is better than its performance with standard QAM modem. Also, the performance with circular constellation is better than rectangular one.
Voice Control of Multiple Devices Based on Speech
Authors: Farhan Mhnd 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
This paper presents a system that employs the use of speech technology to control electronic devices attached to PC. The work in this paper is implemented in two major phases. Phase one is the software part of the system. Its role is to accept voice signal from a microphone attached to the PC and perform speech recognition on the signal, determine operating commands from the recognized phrases and control devices attached to the computer ports. Phase two is hardware logic circuit connected between the PC’s printer port and the devices being controlled. This logic circuit which is implemented using simple logic gates performs addressing and control mode for the electronic devices being controlled. The system runs on windows vista operating system and it is capable of authenticating users and validating their action. User response for the system is provided in both voice response and graphic display messages.
Leafroller-induced phenylacetonitrile and acetic acid attract adult Lobesia botrana in European vineyards
Authors: El-Sayed Ashraf M. , Sporle Andrew , Gemeno César , Jósvai Júlia K. , Simmons Gregory S. , Suckling David M. 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
We recently identified unique caterpillar-induced plant volatile compounds emitted from apple leaves infested with the larvae of various leafroller species. In subsequent field tests, binary blends of phenylacetonitrile+acetic acid and 2-phenylethanol+acetic acid were found to be attractive to a range of tortricid leafroller species (Tortricidae: Tortricinae) in both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. In this work, the caterpillar-induced plant volatiles from the apple-leafroller system were tested in two vineyards in Spain and Hungary for their attractiveness to the grape frugivore Lobesia botrana (Tortricidae: Olethreutinae). As seen for Tortricinae species, a binary blend of phenylacetonitrile+acetic acid attracted significantly more male and female L. botrana to traps than acetic acid or blank lures. Traps baited with other caterpillar-induced plant volatile compounds (benzyl alcohol, 2-phenylethanol, indole, and (E)-nerolidol, each as a binary blend with acetic acid) did not catch significantly more moths than traps containing acetic acid alone. The catches of male and female moths support an optimistic future for new products in female tortricid surveillance and control that are based on combinations of kairomone compounds released from larval-damaged foliage.
Integration of Self and Non-self Recognition Modulates Asexual Cell-to-Cell Communication in Neurospora crassa
Authors: Fischer Monika S , Jonkers Wilfried , Glass N Louise 
Published: February 2019

Abstract
Cells cooperate, compete, and are attacked in nature, driving the evolution of mechanisms for recognizing self versus non-self. Filamentous fungal cells cooperate to form an interconnected colony while competing with genetically dissimilar colonies...
Cells rarely exist alone, which drives the evolution of diverse mechanisms for identifying and responding appropriately to the presence of other nearby cells. Filamentous fungi depend on somatic cell-to-cell communication and fusion for the development and maintenance of a multicellular, interconnected colony that is characteristic of this group of organisms. The filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa is a model for investigating the mechanisms of somatic cell-to-cell communication and fusion. N. crassa cells chemotropically grow toward genetically similar cells, which ultimately make physical contact and undergo cell fusion. Here, we describe the development of a Pprm1-luciferase reporter system that differentiates whether genes function upstream or downstream of a conserved MAP kinase (MAPK) signaling complex, by using a set of mutants required for communication and cell fusion. The vast majority of these mutants are deficient for self-fusion and for fusion when paired with wild-type cells. However, the Δham-11 mutant is unique in that it fails to undergo self-fusion, but chemotropic interactions and cell fusion are restored in Δham-11 + wild-type interactions. In genetically dissimilar cells, chemotropic interactions are regulated by genetic differences at doc-1 and doc-2, which regulate prefusion non-self recognition; cells with dissimilar doc-1 and doc-2 alleles show greatly reduced cell-fusion frequencies. Here, we show that HAM-11 functions in parallel with the DOC-1 and DOC-2 proteins to regulate the activity of the MAPK signaling complex. Together, our data support a model of integrated self and non-self recognition processes that modulate somatic cell-to-cell communication in N. crassa.
Bactericidal, protistocidal and nematodicidal properties of mixtures of alkyldimethylbenzyl ammonium chloride, didecyldimethyl ammonium chloride, glutaraldehyde and formaldehyde
Authors: Zazharskyi V. V. , Davydenko P. , Kulishenko O. , Chumak V. , Kryvaya A. , Biben I. A. , Tishkina N. M. , Borovik I. , Boyko O. O. , Brygadyrenko V. V. 
Published: February 2019

We conducted a comparative analysis of the impact of disinfecting preparations on the cryogenic stains of microorganisms, and also on Haemonchus contortus (Rudolphi 1803), invasive larvae of the ruminants. To test the preparations for disinfection, we used laboratory analyses with methods of biotesting, particularly with the use of Paramecium caudatum Her., Tetrahymena pyriformis Ehrenberg. We researched mixtures of substances: alkylbenzyldimethylammonium chloride (C24H42IN, BAK, mixture of homologues alkylbenzyldimethylammonium chloride and with n-C12H25, n-C14H29 and n-C16H33), didecyldimethylammonium Chloride (DDAC, C22H48ClN) and glutaraldehyde (C5H8O2); formaldehyde (CH2O), alkylbenzyldimethylammonium chloride and glutaraldehyde in 1% have bactericidal properties for the following cryogenic strains of microorganisms: Staphylococcus аureus, Salmonella typhimurium, Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, Proteus vulgaris, Serracia marcescens, Pseudomonas аeruginosa, Enterococcus faecalis and Yersinia enterocolitica. The Bacillus сereus were affected by the preparations bacteriostatically: we observed growth in the colonies in the medium with addition of 1% solution of mixture of alkylbenzyldimethylammonium chloride and didecyldimethylammonium chloride, and also 1%, 5% and 10% of solution of mixture of glutaraldehyde, formaldehyde and alkylbenzyldimethylammonium chloride. Also, these mixtures of substances have nematocidal properties. Death of 100% of L3 H. contortus after 24 hour exposure was observed with use of 1% solution of mixture of alkylbenzyldimethylammonium chloride and didecyldimethylammonium chloride, and also 5% glutaraldehyde, formaldehyde and alkylbenzyldimethylammonium chloride. Effective disinfection measures perform a leading role in providing stable veterinary well-being of livestock and healthcare of the population. Maximum toxicity during usage of the mixtures on P. caudatum was observed for the mixture of alkylbenzyldimethylammonium chloride and didecyldimethylammonium chloride, and also for formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde. The lowest toxicity for T. pyriformis was observed with use of the mixture of glutaraldehyde, sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) and oleum terebinthini, and also the mixture of formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde, the highest formaldehyde and alkylbenzyldimethylammonium chloride. Thus, the most promising mixtures for use in veterinary medicine were determined to the following: alkylbenzyldimethylammonium chloride, didecyldimethylammonium chloride and glutaraldehyde, and also formaldehyde, alkylbenzyldimethylammonium chloride and glutaraldehyde.