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The downfall of Spanish stereotypes: Andalusian, Basque and Catalan identities in ‘plurinational’ Spain
Authors: Caballero Gálvez Antonio A. 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
In a historically controversial moment for Spanish territorial politics, where the traditional regional system of the State and regional politics are constantly fluctuating – especially considering the referenda in the Basque Country and Catalonia –, the films Ocho apellidos vascos (Spanish Affair) directed by Martínez-Lázaro in 2014 and Ocho apellidos catalanes (Spanish Affair 2) in 2015 have become the most successful films in the history of Spanish cinema. In these films, the Andalusian, Basque and Catalan stereotypes are taken to the extreme, breaking down the negative stigma they have acquired by reducing all their possible meanings to a simple gag. Consequently, the overindulgence of these stereotypical representations has proposed their very deactivation as a legitimate category of representation. The study of stereotypes and prejudices reflects an interest in relationships between social groups. Therefore, if intergroup affairs focus their discussions on beliefs that describe actions such as violence, alliance, or negotiation, this means that perceptions, beliefs and attitudes must mediate all intergroup affairs. According to Fredric Jameson, in order for images not to unfold just their own stereotypes and confirm themselves as realities, a considerable distance should be kept between the contents and what they represent. The proposed goal of this study is to analyse both films from a critical discourse analysis (CDA) in relation to the stereotypes categorization defined by Jaakko Lehtonen. The announcement of the end of the armed struggle by the terrorist group ETA and the eccentric political fights in the last Catalan elections have allowed the production and success of these comedies. These films question the sense of the Basque, Catalan and Andalusian stereotypes, the latter being the primary internationally recognized Spanish stereotype, showing the ‘plurinational’ origin of the Spanish State.
‘What we see with’: Redefining plot
Authors: Jauss David 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
The conventional definition of a plot, which focuses on causality and character change, is inadequate and misleading, especially in short fiction that focuses more on character revelation than character evolution. This essay defines and illustrates with examples from a wide range of short fiction seven alternative kinds of plot or organizing principles, most of which have been in existence for centuries but nonetheless remain unrecognized by most writers, scholars and teachers of creative writing – plots we can call episodic, juxtapositional, argumentative, expository, associative, lyrical or hybrid.
Class wars between women in Maeve Brennan’s ‘The Anachronism’
Authors: Shumaker Jeanette 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Maeve Brennan’s mid-twentieth century stories set in a wealthy village in New York are often read as critiques of prejudice against Irish-American maids. However, in ‘The Anachronism’ (1954), Maeve Brennan suggests that class, even more than nationality, is central to women’s identity in the United States during the 1950s. In this story, Brennan revises stereotypes of class and nationality regarding Irish and English immigrants. Betty, a maid from England, and Mrs. Conroy, an Irish-American widow, forge bonds based on class despite their expected enmity based on nationality.
‘A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)’: Authorship as imposture
Authors: Thomas Karima 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Angela Carter’s ‘A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)’ can be read as an allegory of the production/reception processes as well as the author/reader relationship. Through the study of its language, structure and enunciative economy, important premises concerning authorship are undermined. First, the myth of the author as a prophet gave way to the image of the author as a craftsman; second, the illusion of the author’s will-to-say gave way to the reader’s role in meaning ascription and the revelation of the Reader-as-author imposture. As a reader of Carter’s short story, I will in my turn find myself in the position of an impostor, calling upon the real author and quoting her declarations, trying to build conformity between the real author and the authorial figure interpellated in the text.
Report on the 14th International Conference on the Short Story in English, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 13–16 July 2016
Authors: McCrory Moy 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
An attendee’s summing up of an international conference on the short story: ‘Influence and Confluence in the short story: East and West’ which raises questions of identity, ownership, ‘othering’ and reveals the differences aired, notably those of writer versus scholar, and writer versus critic, roles which, while not always seen as convergent in the academy, are in practice fulfilled by authors equally.
French North African self-representation: Visibility in layers and shades
Authors: Brown Stéphanie 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
The antagonism around questions of conflicting customs of French secularism and Muslim traditions has regularly been re-ignited with political debates on the veil in public spaces since 2010 and the tragic events of 2015 in Paris. In this article French North African women’s own interpretation of their identity is termed ‘cultural layers and historical shades’. The works of writer Nina Bouraoui and graffiti artist Princess Hijab interact with competing cultural codes and create a new identitarian dynamics based not on clearly defined binaries of postcolonial concepts of Self and Other but on layers and shades. The aim of this article is less to focus on the challenges of such dynamics as elements to be resolved as it is to shed light on the ingenuity and originality of Bouraoui’s and Princess Hijab’s artistic interpretations of the veil as a point of contention. It uses translation theory to examine their renewed vision of ‘recognition’ subsequent to the ephemerality and fluidity of their cultural identity and its consequential vulnerability to misrecognition.
Femme écrite du cinéaste Lahcen Zinoun: Corps à corps dansé de l’écrit et de l’image
Authors: Tissières Hélène 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
This article looks at the film Written woman (Mouchouma) by the Moroccan filmmaker and dancer Lahcen Zinoun, which was released in 2012. The work is centered on an Amazigh poet, marginalized by her profession as a prostitute, whose body is tattooed – inscription/writing of her story and of History. It is based on multiple quests – mystical, historical, cultural – through an anthropologist who travels to the Atlas Mountains to investigate the life of Mririda N’Aït Attik who passed away around 1930. Seeking an actress for the film he wishes to make to pay homage to this figure, he falls madly in love with Adjou Aït Ashaak, a prostitute who works in the same brothel as Mririda did. Through their conversations, the viewer learns about the signification of her tattoos (images/signs), the danger of erasing such a heritage, the power of the arts to which the film refers: painting, writing, literature, music, dance, which help reach other dimensions, align the individual with telluric forces, inscribe wounds to better transgress them. The migration of one art form to another brings about exile and recalls the values of many facets of Moroccan identity, and the importance of halting violence.
(Re)Locating space in Hakim Belabbas’s khayṭ al-rūḥ and Farida Belyazid’s bāb smā maftūḥ
Authors: Simour Lhoussain 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
This article is a re-reading of both Hakim Belabbas’s khayṭ al-rūḥ and Farida Belyazid’s bāb smā maftūḥ from a postcolonially inflected concern. It attempts to consider how khayṭ al-rūḥ (‘Threads’, 2003), and bāb smā maftūḥ (‘A Door to the Sky’, 1988), focus excessively on the aesthetics and poetics of the city space, respectively, Abū al-ja’d and Fez, as a powerful structuring force that is twistingly manipulated to become a homogenizing icon of Moroccan identity. Such heavy concentration on spatial configurations of the city locales as sites of contestation over the construction of Moroccan identity results in counter-effects. The article argues that the filmic aestheticization of locality shifts into the creation of a set of anxieties and a knot of ambivalences that render the film directors’ attempt to foreground a new version of the native’s space vulnerable to the conventional orientalist tradition of the Other’s space representation. Both Belabbas’s and Belyazid’s works become complicit with the dynamics of folkloric space and with the orientalist tradition characteristic of colonial cinema set in Morocco during precolonial and colonial periods.
Coming to painting
Authors: Talbot Emma 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
This article is a response to Sunil Manghani’s article ‘Painting as commitment’, and its opening discourse, allying ‘commitment’ in painting to Sartre’s notion of a committed writer. In the light of Manghani’s reference to the writing of Hélène Cixous, this article seeks to draw comparisons between Hélène Cixous’s meditations on and approaches to writing with a personal account of approaching painting. In particular, this article will look at the issue of painting from personal experience and the intimate as material for making work.
William Morris and the atomic
Authors: Mabb David 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
A Provisional Memorial to Nuclear Disarmament was made in response to a visit to HMS Courageous, a decommissioned nuclear powered submarine furnished with William Morris ‘Rose’ fabrics. The Ministry of Defence commissioned the fabric for its nuclear submarines for over 30 years, from the 1960s through to the late 1990s, including the Vanguard Class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines that are armed with Trident nuclear-armed missiles. In the black and white photographs that follow, each of the fourteen works is represented twice, from the front and the back. The works consist of old projection screens in which the white screen fabric has been removed and replaced. The fronts of the screens are mostly painted black, with some Morris patterns. On the back of the screens William Morris patterned fabrics have been painted with anti-nuclear slogans and signs.
Painting as commitment
Authors: Manghani Sunil 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Jean-Paul Sartre opens What is Literature? with the comment, ‘No, we do not want to “commit” painting, sculpture, and music “too”, or at least not in the same way. And why would we want to?’ Sartre’s idea of the committed writer was a dominant and evocative account of intellectuals of the Left in the immediate postwar period, but was superseded with the arrival of ‘theory’ from Althusser onwards, and with post-structuralist notions fully decentring the subject. What might this mean for the painter? Taking an existential account of painting as its starting point, the article offers a reappraisal of the anti-aesthetic and postmodern debates of the 1980s, and suggests the need to re-situate painting as commitment in itself. Rather than simply the need to place painting within wider social networks, it is the inherent appeal to freedom that remains significant about the medium.
Commercial temptation: Cross-border radio and the comparative transformation of public service broadcast policy in Britain, South Africa and India, 1930–67
Authors: Jenks John 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Britain pioneered the idea of broadcasting as a commercial-free and culturally uplifting monopoly, which its imperial progeny in South Africa and India adopted. But all three soon found themselves vulnerable to entrepreneurs broadcasting commercials and pop culture from accommodating locations just across national frontiers. Listeners in all three countries tuned in by the millions and advertisers rushed to sponsor shows and buy commercials. Radio Luxembourg outdrew the British Broadcasting Corporation on Sundays in the 1930s, Radio Ceylon easily bested All India Radio in the 1950s, and Lourenço Marques Radio dominated the white South African youth market in the 1960s. Governments tried to fight the cross-border broadcasters through diplomacy, economic pressure and petty harassment, but in all cases popular ‘light’ culture and, eventually, advertising prevailed. This article details the common experiences and connections among these broadcasters, and points the way for future research.
BBC Radio and public value: The governance of public service radio in the United Kingdom
Authors: Ramsey Phil 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Between 2007 and 2017 in the United Kingdom, BBC radio services were regulated by the BBC Trust, with the performance of BBC radio stations monitored against the so-called ‘drivers of public value’. Utilizing the Reach, Quality, Impact and Value for Money performance framework (RQIV), periodical reviews of BBC Radio Service Licences were carried out. This article considers two such reviews, of BBC radio stations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and BBC Local Radio services in England. The use of the public value approach in the governance of public service radio in the United Kingdom is assessed. It is argued that the public value approach places a serious focus on audience responses, but that the use of the RQIV framework is problematic when considering the cultural nature of broadcasting. It is suggested that the BBC is increasingly being forced to make decisions for political-economic reasons, rather than for reasons of public value.
Efficiency of Montessori method
Authors: Eratay Emine 
Published: May 2017

The aim of this study is to examine the efficiency of Montessori Method in disabled and nondisabled preschool children.
For this purpose, a total of 15 children, consisting of one hyperactive child, one child diagnosed with autism and 13 non-disabled children under "Inclusive Project for Disabled and Nondisabled Preschoolers" financed by European Union has been included into the study and they have been given Montessori education for a period of two months. Descoeudres Dictionary Test, Dictionary and Language Test, Peabody Picture Word Test and Denver II Developmental Scanning Test have been applied to the children in the beginning and end of the study, which was designed with an experimental single group pretest ' final test model, and daily observations have been made for two months.
According to the results of this study, a meaningful difference has been reported between the pretest ' final test t test results of Descoeudres Dictionary Test, Dictionary and Language Test, Peabody Picture Word Test while pretest results of Denver II Developmental Scanning Test showed that 10 of nondisabled children were normal and 3 of them were found to be questionable, and the result of the hyperactive child was reported as abnormal while the result of the autistic child was found as being untestable. In terms of the final test results for Denver II Developmental Scanning Test, test results of all of the nondisabled children were reported as normal and they were observed to be capable of achieving advanced articles; the test result of the hyperactive child was found to be normal while the autistic child was observed to have reached development level in conformity with his/her age in terms of personal- social and fine and gross motor skills and that this child could achieve some of the language articles while failing in others. As a result of the daily observations made for a period of two months, excessive activity, aprosexia, anxiety, and failure in following directives, frequent crying, being offended and aggression were observed initially in hyperactive and autistic children while such behaviors were reported to be reduced significantly after the Montessori education. Achievement of such results in disabled and nondisabled children gives the impression that Montessori Method is efficient.
A priori error analysis of the implicit Euler, spectral discretization of a nonlinear equation for a flow in a partially saturated porous media
Authors: Abdellatif Nahla , Bernardi Christine , Touihri Moncef , Yakoubi Driss 
Published: May 2017

AbstractThe aim of this work is the numerical study of a nonlinear equation, which models the water flow in a partially saturated underground porous medium under the surface. We propose a discretization of this equation that combines Euler’s implicit scheme in time and spectral methods in space. We prove optimal error estimates between the continuous and discrete solutions. Some numerical experiments confirm the interest of this approach. We present numerical experiments which are in perfect coherence with the analysis.
Advanced lipoprotein testing for cardiovascular diseases risk assessment: a review of the novel approaches in lipoprotein profiling
Authors: Clouet-Foraison Noémie , Gaie-Levrel Francois , Gillery Philippe , Delatour Vincent 
Published: May 2017

AbstractWith the increasing prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) worldwide, finding reliable and clinically relevant biomarkers to predict acute cardiovascular events has been a major aim of the scientific and medical community. Improvements of the understanding of the pathophysiological pathways of the disease highlighted the major role of lipoprotein particles, and these past decades have seen the emergence of a number of new methodologies to separate, measure and quantitate lipoproteins. Those methods, also known as advanced lipoprotein testing methods (ALT), have gained acceptance in the field of CVD risk assessment and have proven their clinical relevance. In the context of worldwide standardization and harmonization of biological assays, efforts have been initiated toward standardization of ALT methods. However, the complexity of lipoprotein particles and the multiple approaches and methodologies reported to quantify them have rendered these initiatives a critical issue. In this context and to better understand these challenges, this review presents a summary of the major methods available for ALT with the aim to point out the major differences in terms of procedures and quantities actually measured and to discuss the resulting comparability issues.
Back to the Human in John Logan’s “Red”
Authors: Gómez Armin , Martínez Eva Citlali 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Laureate play “Red,” by John Logan, is a dramatic representation of biographical facts about and intellectual positions of the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko (1903–1970). With the tool of semiotic methodology named “Dramatology” it is possible to appreciate both text and staging – which go beyond a theatrical experience. “Red” leads the reader/spectator to question current human pragmatism and environmental insensitivity. Its main character wants to change the usual perspective of seeing and understanding pictures in order to achieve a more emotional and enriching art experience. The staging embraces certain tasks such as the construction of a large-format frame and the application of red paint on a canvas to stimulate the audience’s senses, breaking theatrical illusion. Ecocriticism allows us to describe the dramatic strategies of “Red” that raise audience awareness.
Apple in the Semiotic Square
Authors: Tao Yue 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
As the products of Apple Inc. have become increasingly prevalent around the world, more and more potential purchasers are starting to pay attention to the advertisements issued by Apple. The advertising slogan as one of the main components in an advertisement can deliver a great deal of information to its targets, for it is the only linguistic message in the advertisement, which constitutes a great part of the communication. The semiotic matrix theory put forward by Greimas can to a large extent assist in better understanding the true intention of the linguistic information expressed in an advertising slogan. The semiotic matrix can demonstrate a clear internal structure of a linguistic message, so it is an appropriate theory to apply to analyzing the real meaning of advertising slogans. Therefore, consumers can become much more aware when they choose the products advocated in certain advertisements. At the same time, advertising designers can create more slogans with stronger pertinence.
Spectra of the operator of the first difference in Sα, sα0 $s_\alpha ^0 $ , sα(c) $s_\alpha ^{(c)} $ and lp (α) (1 ≤ p < ∞) and application to matrix transformations
Authors: Farés Ali , de Malafosse Bruno 
Published: May 2017

AbstractIn this paper we deal with the spectrum of the operator of the first difference ∆ considered as an operator from
Semisimple and semilocal pseudo BL-algebras
Authors: Walendziak Andrzej , Wojciechowska Magdalena 
Published: May 2017

AbstractThe concepts of semisimple and semilocal pseudo BL-algebras are investigated. Many facts corresponding with them are considerated. Moreover, we give a negative answer to the question from [Di Nola, Georgescu and Iorgulescu (Multiplae Valued Logic 8: 715-750, 2002), Problem 1.33].
Topologies and smooth maps on initial and final objects in the category of Frölicher spaces
Authors: Batubenge A. , Tshilombo H. 
Published: May 2017

AbstractIn this paper, we show that when the Frölicher smooth structure is induced on a subset or a quotient set, there are three natural topologies underlying the resulting object. We study these topologies and compare them in each case. It is known that the topology generated by strucure functions is the weakest one in which all functions and curves on the space are continuous. We show that on a subspace, it is rather the trace topology which has this property, while the three topologies are coincident on the quotient space. We construct a base for the Frölicher topology and using either a base or a subbase in the sense of A. Frölicher [
Generalizations of two-index two-variable Hermite matrix polynomials
Authors: Metwally M. S. , Mohamed M. T. , Shehata A. 
Published: May 2017

AbstractIn this paper, we introduce a new generalization of the Hermite matrix polynomials expansions of some relevant matrix functions appearing in the solution of differential systems. An explicit representation and an expansion of the matrix exponential in a series of these matrix polynomials is obtained. Properties of Hermite matrix polynomials such as the recurrence formula permit an efficient computations of matrix functions are established. A new expansions of the matrix exponential for a wide class of matrices in terms of Hermite matrix polynomials is proposed.
The geometric genus, the casson invariant conjecture and splice type singularities
Authors: Okuma Tomohiro 
Published: May 2017

AbstractThis is a survey of some results on splice-quotient singularities which are a natural and broad generalization of quasihomogeneous surface singularities with rational homology sphere links. From its topology (i.e., the link or the resolution graph), we can write down the “leading terms” of equations of a splice-quotient singularity, and compute the geometric genus. Applying the formula for the geometric genus, we can verify the Casson invariant conjecture for splice-quotient singularities.
Imprimitivity theorem for groupoid representations
Authors: Pysiak Leszek 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
We define and investigate the concept of the groupoid representation induced by a representation of the isotropy subgroupoid. Groupoids in question are locally compact transitive topological groupoids. We formulate and prove the imprimitivity theorem for such representations which is a generalization of the classical Mackey’s theorem known from the theory of group representations.
Semi-invariant submanifolds of Lorentzian Sasakian manifolds
Authors: Alegre Pablo 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
In this paper we introduce the notion of semi-invariant submanifolds of a Lorentzian almost contact manifold. We study their principal characteristics and the particular cases in which the manifold is a Lorentzian Sasakian manifold or a Lorentzian Sasakian space form.