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Time-Lapse Imaging of Asymmetric Spindle Positioning During Endothelial Tip Cell Division in Angiogenesis In Vivo
Authors: Lovegrove Holly E. , Herbert Shane P. 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThe branching of new blood vessels by angiogenesis is critical to the development, growth, and repair of most vertebrate tissues and is frequently dysregulated in disease. At its core, angiogenesis is driven by the collective migration of leading “tip” and follower “stalk” endothelial cells. Recent work reveals that this collective movement is coordinated by asymmetric tip cell divisions that generate daughters of distinct size, signaling capacity and tip-stalk behaviors. Polarized mitotic spindle positioning is critical to generating such asymmetries in daughter cell size. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics of vertebrate spindle movement are often difficult to explore using in vivo systems. Here we describe a method for the sample preparation, live-imaging and data analysis of endothelial cell mitotic spindle positioning in developing zebrafish embryos. This method enables single-cell and population-level spindle dynamics to be monitored and quantified, both in wild-type or genetically/pharmacologically perturbed embryos. Moreover, this approach can be easily adapted for live imaging of spindle dynamics in other zebrafish embryonic tissues that experience similar asymmetric divisions, such as the trunk neural crest.
Introduction
Authors: Eisenmann Christine , Seibert Dennis , Winkler Christian 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis opening chapter provides an initial overview of the various topics covered in the book, which explores CAD’s implications, focusing on societal acceptance and technology diffusion. Key areas include the impact of existing mobility systems on CAD adoption, policy frameworks, ride-hailing market potential, and public perception in Germany and Japan. Through modeling and empirical studies, the research examines CAD’s effects on transport systems, car ownership, and travel demand. This Japanese-German collaboration highlights CAD's importance for both countries, given their advanced automotive industries and demographic challenges, offering insights for future research and policy development.
Governance, Policy and Regulation in the Field of Automated Driving: A Focus on Japan and Germany
Authors: Yamasaki Yukari , Fleischer Torsten , Schippl Jens 
Published: December 2024

AbstractSociotechnical development is often described as an evolutionary process of a series of connected changes in different domains, including technology, the economy, institutions, innovation policies, behavior, culture, ecology, and belief systems. Many experts point to the great transformative potential of automated vehicles in the mobility sector, and to a variety of pathways that lead to an imagined future made possible by automated driving technologies. However, the differences in state behavior and governance approaches which are entangled in such emerging technologies are less understood, despite their potential to influence the trajectory of sociotechnical development. This chapter examines the modes and methods of governance in Japan with respect to automated driving. In order to illuminate the Japanese characteristics, we compare them with the German approach. We provide a brief comparison of the two democratic and capitalist countries from three perspectives—politics, polity, and policies. We then present Japan’s policy process, policy actors, and recent changes in its approach to automated driving. In Japan, automated driving is interrelated with other policy areas, such as science and technology, information technology, and demographic change issues, and has been contextualized primarily in relation to the economy, particularly during the term of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2012–2020). The state has historically tended to intervene in technological development, and in recent years the Cabinet has attempted to exercise a more top-down political leadership through policy conferences. While letting the government appear to be taking a leadership role, relevant industrial players also seem to exert a significant influence on the direction of automated driving policies through both formal and informal channels. To enable effective and efficient governance in complex fields such as mobility, researchers, policymakers, and others involved in governance require a good understanding of the factors that could influence future development pathways. Future research should build on these findings and conduct further comparative analyses between countries that have the potential to play a leading role in the implementation of automated driving.
Business Analysis and Prognosis Regarding the Shared Autonomous Vehicle Market in Germany
Authors: Hennig Jonas , Meissner Thomas , Krieg Marcus , Przioda Felix 
Published: December 2024

AbstractDriven by the current advancements in autonomous driving (AD) technology, operations of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) are increasingly moved from closed test sites to public roads worldwide. Since the market potential of SAV services in Germany remains largely unexplored, this chapter aims to provide a holistic business analysis and prognosis of the German SAV market. To adequately capture the operational complexity of future SAV fleets, a simulation-based approach is used. The simulation model is created utilizing proprietary operational performance and cost data of actual shared vehicle services and pilots in Germany. Three market demand scenarios are simulated and combined with a detailed cost scenario for the year 2035. Results indicate improved operational efficiency indicators for SAV fleets compared to non-autonomous fleets. However, we also found that cost structures of SAV fleets may be highly underestimated in previous studies, resulting in a per VKM cost range of 0.48–0.50 EUR. While customer price levels are significantly lower than the current cost of using ride-hailing services, they may not be low enough to convince a considerable number of passengers to switch from their private cars to SAV services. The results underscore the importance of collaborative efforts between policymakers, fleet operators and manufacturers to harness the benefits of SAV fleets.
Transportation Effects of Connected and Automated Driving in Germany
Authors: Schrömbges Michael , Seibert Dennis , Thomsen Nina 
Published: December 2024

AbstractConnected and automated driving (CAD) is likely to affect the German transportation system. Three consecutive models assess the effects of private automated vehicles (PAV) and shared automated vehicles (SAV) on car ownership, car stock, and travel demand in 2050 based on different scenarios. Firstly, a car ownership model (COM) estimates car availability at household level including changes in accessibility through CAD. Based on the year of market entry and additional costs, a car stock model (CAST) quantifies the diffusion of CAD within the German car fleet in 2050. Finally, the effects of CAD on transportation volumes and key indicators for SAV services are determined using the national travel demand model of Germany (DEMO). The model results for PAV show an increase in ownership by up to 1% with a 44% diffusion of Level 4+ cars in 2050. They account for over 50% of kilometers driven and increase overall vehicle kilometers traveled by 3%. On the contrary, SAV will reduce car ownership in urban regions by up to 4%, but increase vehicle kilometers traveled by 5%. Automation improves the transportation system and makes traveling easier. But to cope with the environmental implications, it is necessary to provide a political framework which stresses the advantages of CAD.
On Listening to the Avant-Gardes: Introduction
Authors: Duarte Anabela 
Published: December 2024

AbstractIn the current cultural landscape, the term “avant-garde” appears to be omnipresent; some argue that its influence has waned. A Google search from 2007 yielded 11.2 million pages on the term, a number that has likely grown significantly since then (Berg 2009). A preliminary examination of the term’s use on websites pertaining to both artistic and non-artistic topics reveals a tendency to trivialize its meaning, as evidenced by terms such as “Covid Avant-garde,” “Avant-garde Vegan Hotel,” “Arab Avant-garde,” and “Avant-garde Jazz.” Despite this, such usage paradoxically highlights the term’s hybrid nature, constant appropriation, and multiplicity of meanings. This demonstrates the term’s continued relevance and vitality within the contemporary discourse. In the arts, the term is more carefully chosen, yet its heterogeneity regarding movements and ideas is a well-known fact. In the present volume, we aim to recover this heterogeneity and the rhizomatic character of the term, as well as its countercultural hubris, by bringing to the fore works that pay some sort of tribute to the original sense of the notion, in search of a creative life, unconventional language, audacity, and outrage. As Richard Huelsenbeck, in Memoirs of a Dada Drummer (1991), puts it: “… we killed a quarter of a century, we killed several centuries for the sake of what is to come.” Accordingly, our understanding of the avant-garde is multiform, although it developed from two main ideas: the invisible realm of Bob Dylan’s basement tapesand the Lettrist creative turn to the ear.
Sunbird Records: From Subculture to Post-Subculture
Authors: Lindley Jonathan 
Published: December 2024

AbstractIn 2013, Sunbird Records was redesigned to investigate whether post-subcultural discourse factors in the design of an independent record label. To facilitate answering this question, the label invested in a new website, shop, studio, live music venue, and roster of artists. This study develops its primary case study, Sunbird Records, as a way of putting post-subcultural discourse into practice. Between the late 1970s and the present, there has been an important shift in the development of alternative culture. Such a shift, from subculture to post-subculture, has yet to be fully understood by cultural discourse or practically applied as a method of cultural production. The present inquiry has been designed for the purpose of critique and further reflection; its findings will be independent, distinct, and context-specific.
Hidden Influences in Music Technology: An Approach to Coding Practice
Authors: Telichan-Phillips Andrew , Marchwinski Daniel 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThe mutual influence of technology and culture has been historically confirmed. Recently, the degree to which technology is being influenced by profit motives has increased dramatically, so much so that technological platforms largely influence the public to meeting these motives. In the context of current musical creative practices, we feel that freedom is being restricted by the commercial industry. In fact, we argue that aspects of existing platforms for musical creation serve mainly to further control culture according to certain ideological, profit-based assumptions. In response, we are taking a critical theory approach to developing a platform based on collective collaboration and aimed at developing a coding praxis for music technology. Our approach seeks to illuminate how ideological assumptions are embedded in music technology practices today, and to make explicit all levels of user interaction. Our goal is to preclude the possibility of a single ideology being used to define the goals of software-based music systems.
Diário da República: Heavy Metal as a Territory of Ideological Emancipation
Authors: Alvelos Heitor , Canha Anselmo 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis chapter presents the conceptual and ideological premises supporting “Diário da República” [DR], a Heavy Metal band that has been deliberately operating under the radar since early 2016. The band’s geometry corresponds to the traditional quartet: guitar, bass, drums, and voice. The rather conventional structure is meant to act as a constant that enables the project to develop in otherwise exploratory veins, based on a threefold purpose: Controlled Public and Online Visibility; Risk Maximization; Poetics in Legislation.
Concrete Voices and Resonant Bodies
Authors: Woolsey Caitlin 
Published: December 2024

AbstractIn 1955, the French artist Henri Chopin acquired a small portable tape recorder, newly commercially available. This impulsive purchase would prove decisive in the development of a new kind of experimental sound poetry, one in which the voice was rendered both “concrete” and heterogeneous. Chopin used the device to project, amplify, and multiply the sonic micro-particles and intensities of his own voice. Around the same time, William S. Burroughs deployed the metaphor of tape-recorded transmissions to explore how the voice might function like a virus, as in his cut-up novel The Ticket that Exploded. This essay considers the relationship between the tape recorder and the intimate voice made public in the work of Burroughs and Chopin, exploring how each artist addressed the material conditions of the tape recorder to elicit the uncomfortable intimacies of the body in different ways, in multiple media, and, more importantly, to different ends.
“Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams”: Lettrism, Isou and the Hypergraphic Novel
Authors: Hussey Andrew 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThe movement known as Lettrism (Lettrisme) was founded in Paris in 1947, by the Franco-Romanian artist Isidore Isou (1925–2007). One of the central tenets of Lettrism is that societies develop not because of the human instinct for survival, but because of the desire to create. More than this, if creativity is the highest form of action, and art its most visible form, then humanity is in charge of history. In this way, the artist takes the place of God, the first creator or artist. This philosophy takes visual form in the so-called “Hypergraphic Novels” created by Isou—a new form of artistic expression that would take writing, painting and thought beyond even Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (Joyce’s book was an endless source of inspiration for Isou). The aim of this chapter is to examine these works and, most importantly, to investigate how Isou brought the culture of Jewish mysticism to the Western avant-garde, an argument that fundamentally changes our understanding of movements such as Situationism, which were directly rooted in Lettrisme.
Music, Literature, and Cinema: When the Score Guides the Narrative
Authors: Bacci Francesco 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis essay scrutinizes little-discussed aspects of intermediality by working with contamination and strategies of estrangement. Drawing on scholarship on intermediality at the intersection of literary theory and comparative literature, such as Elleström’s Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality, Rajewsky’s Systemkontamination, and Fornäs’ “Intermedial Passages in Time and Space,” four works of art are analyzed: Fitzgerald’s short story “Three Acts of Music,” two movies—Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange and Larraín’s Jackie, and Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow. My aim is to show how the employment of music in both cinema and works of literature affects the narrative process and structure, and how elements belonging to different artistic genres interrelate. In literature and cinema, contamination is based on the union of different media, and in exposing this phenomenon, I want to explore a middle ground where the absence of boundaries creates an intermedial interrelationship. To understand the role and effect of this interrelation, the discussion of a series of examples reveals the process of recontextualization of songs and the perceptions of their audiences.
The Politics of a Voice: Demetrio Stratos
Authors: Guidali Fabio 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThe chapter focuses on the career of Demetrio Stratos, from youthful rebellion as a rock singer to vocal experimentation as a result of his growing awareness of voice and body as political weapons. Stratos, a singer and musician of Greek descent active in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, interpreted words as barriers to sound and a reduction of the phonetic capacity. He sought to free the expressive potential of the human voice and to deconstruct language as a personal and political liberation. First as a member of Area, a politically engaged progressive rock band with avant-garde intentions, and then mainly as a vocal experimenter, he sought to unravel the mechanisms of social oppression starting with the private issues of life, since in his opinion individual emancipation comes from bodily emancipation, not merely from sexual and social emancipation.
Adorno, Dada, and Music
Authors: Ingram Paul 
Published: December 2024

AbstractIn his extensive body of work on art and aesthetics, Theodor W. Adorno does not dedicate much sustained attention to Dada. This chapter is a partial reconstruction of his interpretation of the movement, which takes as an organizing framework his typology of contemporary music from “On the Social Situation of Music.” Referring to Dada in passing in separate discussions of the key composers Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, and Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill, Adorno appears largely unaware of its own experiments with music. His comments about the movement are supplemented by examples of its activity in this field, an area of its creative practice that historically has been neglected by scholars. Finally, Adorno’s concept of alienating infantilism is analyzed in light of this expanded understanding of Dada.
Postmodernism, Avant-Garde, and Neo-Dadaism: The Legacy of Boguslaw Schaeffer
Authors: Zdunik Michal 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThe main topic of my chapter is the neo-avant-garde and neo-Dadaist influence and inspiration in the work of Boguslaw Schaeffer—one of the most interesting artists of Central Europe after the Second World War. Like prominent artists of the “classical” avant-gardes (e.g., Artaud, Schwitters, Duchamp, or Klein), Schaeffer worked extensively in many fields of artistic expression: he was best known as a composer and music theorist, but he also wrote plays, created graphic art, and practiced philosophy. In my essay I would like to show that Schaeffer is essentially a continuation of the pre-war avant-garde tradition. However, this is not a simple imitation of the old artistic language. On the contrary, the Polish composer takes techniques and forms typical of avant-garde and Dadaist aesthetics (e.g., collage, provocation, palimpsest, surrealist poetry, transformation and repetition of everyday language, poetics of the absurd) and transforms them into his own, independent form.
Alberto Greco’s Vivo-Dito, Lettrism, and the Prophecies of the Proper Name
Authors: Herrero-Matoses Fernando 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis chapter explores the legacy of Lettrism in the practices of Argentine artist Alberto Greco as a means of investigating the self-proclaimed prophetic narrative of neo-avant-garde artists in Paris in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It examines how Greco’s ephemeral public actions (Vivo-Dito) in the streets of Paris, Buenos Aires, or Madrid, in which he repeatedly proliferated his own name as both signature and work of art, opened up exploratory avenues in which the artistic self was both inscribed and dispossessed. This text builds on Andrew Hussey’s interpretation of Isidore Isou’s artistic practice as a field of poetic forces. It examines Isou’s works as aesthetic and vital possibilities for perpetual exile while creating immersive universes. It further argues that although Isou’s and Greco’s artistic trajectories were different, they shared a common conception of the prophetic and messianic dimension of the artist as a proper name.
Children in Migration and International Family Law: An Introduction
Authors: Heiderhoff Bettina , Arnold Stefan 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis introductory chapter gives an overview over the aims and topics of the book. The key contents of the contributions to the book are briefly presented.The authors begin by describing the complexity of the interface between migration law and family law and then highlight some crucial, overarching issues. In particular, they show that the best interests of the child are interpreted differently by different actors. The divergence of approaches in migration and family law is striking.Also, some central case law of the CJEU and ECtHR for the topics covered by FAMIMOVE is discussed. The article concludes with an overview of the main actors at the interface between migration law and family law and their roles or activities.
Early Marriage in Germany: Law and Politics of Cultural Demarcation
Authors: Arnold Stefan 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis chapter examines the legal framework on early marriage for unaccompanied minor refugees in Germany. The article focuses on a critical analysis of the Federal Law to combat child marriages and its adjustments through the Law for the Protection of Minors in Foreign Marriages effective from 1 July 2024. It is demonstrated that the situation of those in need of protection, particularly the young women concerned and the children born from such marriage, has worsened as a result of the law.
Early Marriages in Austria: Private International Law and Ordre Public Assessment
Authors: Melcher Martina 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis chapter explains the legal framework on early marriage in Austria. It is outlined, that the Austrian legal situation allows the courts to pursue a case-to-case approach in which the individual circumstances can be taken into account. The article argues in favour of the case-by-case approach, but emphasises that consequences of the non-recognition of an early marriage should be regulated.
Kafāla in France
Authors: Jault-Seseke Fabienne 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis chapter explains the handling of kafāla-cases in France. The practical significance of kafāla in France is underlined, as many people of Moroccan or Algerian nationality living in France assume responsibility for a child born in their country of origin through kafāla. It is argued that although kafāla is not adoption, it should be treated in a similar way to ensure the protection of the fundamental rights of all parties concerned. It is stressed that the necessary framework for this regulation is provided by Article 33 of the 1996 Chid Protection Convention.
Kafāla in the Netherlands
Authors: Celis Aguilar María Mayela 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis chapter explains the handling of kafāla-cases in the Netherlands, including the respective case law and migration legal framework. A change in policy in 2013 is noted, whereby kafāla is no longer handled in the same way as adoption but, with some caution, in a similar way to foster care measures. The Dutch policy on the recognition of kafāla is assessed as generally cohesive and in line with applicable international instruments. However, concerns are also raised about the use of kafāla to circumvent adoption and immigration policies and regulations.
Polygamous Marriages and Reunification of Families on the Move Under EU Law: An Overview
Authors: Zaccaroni Giovanni 
Published: December 2024

AbstractPolygamous marriages are usually associated with countries outside the EU. However, their recognition and the rights attached to the status of spouse, both civil and social, gave rise to a debate both in case law as well as in scholarship. The existing prohibition of family reunification under EU law represents an obstacle to free movement and family reunification of migrant families, and, potentially, also to the best interest of the child. At the same time, such a prohibition is rooted in the necessity to protect and promote equal treatment between men and women, enshrined in the EU Charter as well as in the national constitutions. As it will be seen, the debate on the balance to be found between these competing rights is far from being over.