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Unusual morphologies and the occurrence of pseudomorphs after ikaite (CaCO3·6H2O) in fast growing, hyperalkaline speleothems
Authors: Field L. P. , Milodowski A. E. , Shaw R. P. , Stevens L. A. , Hall M. R. , Kilpatrick A. , Gunn J. , Kemp S. J. , Ellis M. A. 
Published: May 2017

AbstractUnusual speleothems, associated with hyperalkaline (pH > 12) groundwaters have formed within a shallow, abandoned railway tunnel at Peak Dale, Derbyshire, UK. The hyperalkaline groundwaters are produced by the leaching of a thin layer (<2 m) of old lime-kiln waste on the soil-bedrock surface above the tunnel by rainwater. This results in a different reaction and chemical process to that more commonly associated with the formation of calcium carbonate speleothems from Ca-HCO3-type groundwaters and degassing of CO2. Stalagmites within the Peak Daletunnel have grown rapidly (averaging 33 mm y–1), following the closure of the tunnel 70 years ago. They have an unusual morphology comprising a central sub-horizontally-laminated column of micro- to nano-crystalline calcium carbonate encompassed by an outer sub-vertical assymetricripple-laminated layer. The stalagmites are composed largely of secondary calcite forming pseudomorphs (<1 mm) that we believe to be predominantly after the 'cold climate' calcium carbonate polymorph, ikaite (calcium carbonate hexahydrate: CaCO3·6H2O), withminor volumes of small (<5 μm) pseudomorphs after vaterite. The tunnel has a near constant temperature of 8–9°C, which is slightly above the previously published crystallization temperatures for ikaite (<6°C). Analysis of a stalagmite actively growing at the time ofsampling, and preserved immediately within a dry nitrogen cryogenic vessel, indicates that following crystallization of ikaite, decomposition to calcite occurs rapidly, if not instantaneously. We believe this is the first occurrence of this calcium carbonate polymorph observed within speleothems.
Understanding risk: psychosis and genomics research in Singapore
Authors: Ahmad Ayesha , Lysaght Tamra , Jianjun Liu , Subramaniam Mythily , Say Beng Tan , Capps Benjamin 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
This is an exploratory paper of the ethical implications for genomic research and mental illness with specific reference to Singapore. Singapore has a unique context due to its social and political systems, and although it is a relatively small country, its population is religiously and culturally diverse. The issues that we identify here, therefore, will offer new perspectives and will also shed light on the existing literature on psychiatric genomics in society. We contextualise issues such as risk and stigma in the identification and diagnosis of psychosis in the way they relate to Singaporean society, and use a current study (LYRIKS) as a case example.
Genomic research has the potential to change significantly he practice of clinical medicine if, as expected, fast and inexpensive sequencing becomes a reality. It will likely also change how society thinks and acts in respect to multi-factorial diseases, conditions, traits, and syndromes that have a genetic component. Genomic research already raises a number of ethical concerns relating to the privacy of individuals, including the disclosure of research results and incidental findings, surreptitious tests, third party access to data, and the re-emergence of genetic determinism. These issues are potentially exacerbated when genomics - the study of whole genomes to understand complex illness and behavioural traits - is applied to psychiatric research, because of the stigma that is often attached to mental illness. In this paper, we discuss some of the issues that have arisen in the context of a study in Singapore that is currently investigating the genomics and biomarkers of psychosis. We argue that although a genomic study rarely creates data that is directly useful to the participant, it can have incidental benefits to the individual who is identified during the study as being at high risk of developing psychosis and its related states. Understanding these potential benefits requires us to examine the implications that this type of research may have on public understandings of genomic data and risk.
Effectiveness and toxicity of oil spill reagents on Artemia Salina
Authors: Sharma Neel 
Published: May 2017

Purpose: To determine the safety and effectiveness of three potential reagents which could be used to manage a simulated oil spill (SOS). Methods: The effectiveness of three agents used manage a simulated oil spill was evaluated: liquid soap, human hair, and Enviro-Bond 403 polymer. To evaluate safety, 1 hour-Artemia survival was evaluated; serial dilutions were employed to construct LC50 curves for a normal environment (control 1), for a SOS (control 2) and for a SOS managed with each of the 3 agents. Results: Hair and oil were effective absorbents as only 12% and 20% of the oil remained at 1 hour, repsectively; soap was ineffective with 62% of oil remaining unbound. Over a 1-hour period there was a 63% reduction in survival in Artemia exposed to an untreated SOS, when compared to natural conditions (p=0.001). Oil exposure exhibited a classic dose response curve as more Artemia died as its concentration increased; its LC50 was 17.5%. Hair and polymer were well tolerated by Artemia – neither reached their LC50 and approximately 80% of Artemia were alive at the end of one hour. Soap, with or without oil, was toxic to Artemia and its LC50 was 7%. These results were statistically significant between the three groups (ANOVA; p-value = <0.001). Conclusion: Hair and polymer we both effective and well tolerated by Artemia in a simulated oil spill. Objet: Pour déterminer la sécurité et l’efficacité de trois réactifs qui pourraient se servir à nettoyer une marée noire artificielle. Méthodes: L’efficacité de trois agents en nettoyant une marée noire artificielle a été évaluée: celle du savon liquide, de cheveux humains, et du polymère Enviro-Bond 403. Pour voir si ces agents sont sûrs, la survie de l’Artemia a été observée pendant une heure, et les dilutions en série ont été faites pour construire des courbes CL50 représentant un environnement normal (1er groupe témoin), une marée noire (2e groupe témoin), et une marée noire nettoyée avec chacun des trois agents. Résultats: Les cheveux et le polymère ont été des bons absorbants car seulement 12% et 20% du pétrole y restait après une heure, respectivement. Par contre, le savon a été inefficace car encore 62% du pétrole y restait. Pendant la première heure, la survie de l’Artemia dans une marée noire non traitée a été réduite par 63%, comparé aux conditions naturelles (p=0.001). L’exposition au pétrole a produit une courbe dose-réponse conventionnelle car plus d’Artemia sont morts quand la concentration du pétrole a été augmentée; son CL50 a été 17.5%. L’Artemia a supporté les cheveux et le polymère puisqu’aucun agent a atteint son CL50, et environ 80% de l’Artemia ont survécu après une heure. Le savon, n’importe s’il y avait du pétrole, a été toxique à l’Artemia et son CL50 a été 7%. Ces résultats ont été importants statistiquement parmi ces trois groupes (ANOVA; valeur p =<0.001). Conclusion: Les cheveux et le polymère ont été tous les deux des agents efficaces que l’Artemia a supporté dans un environnement de marée noire artificielle.
Travels in the life of the canned Norwegian sprat
Authors: Crocker Piers 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
This article takes the theme of travel and applies it to various aspects of the production, marketing and distribution of canned Norwegian sprats, popularly known as sardines. It will be seen that the industry was international in scope, both in terms of the countries it affected and those by which it was itself affected. At times a single individual is involved, at other times – as at international exhibitions – hundreds of thousands. The article considers intercontinental travel over thousands of kilometres, as well as travel of a few dozen kilometres within a country. It covers the era mostly before air travel and certainly before mobile phones, Google Translate and the European Union. Travel by sea was often less than comfortable and took several days, if not weeks. There were fortunes to be won and more often lost, but the Norwegian canned sprat industry put the country on the world map and laid the foundations for its present prosperity.
Overseas study tours and cultural intelligence: Can travel coupled with cross-cultural design thinking workshops improve cultural intelligence in Arts and Design students?
Authors: Scharoun Lisa , Montana-Hoyos Carlos Alberto 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Travel affords us many things, such as time for reflection, leisure, work and exploration. It can also be key in helping us to understand others, to adjust and adapt to new scenarios and stressors. In this sense, travel can be a means to increase one’s intelligence. This study looks at the metric of cultural intelligence (CQ) – an individual’s ability to function in various cultural contexts – and how travel can increase this. A major dimension of CQ is cultural metacognition, a term that describes the ability of an individual to be culturally aware and adaptable in multicultural situations. Travel to a culture significantly different from one’s own can strengthen cultural metacognition, especially during longer periods of work or study; however, this is also possible during short-term overseas experiences. The importance of high CQ is essential in an increasingly globalized world, and CQ capabilities form a major component of the ‘soft skills’ that employers desire in university graduates. Our study reviews the possibilities for increasing CQ in short-term overseas study through intensive design-thinking workshops with a focus on students of creative arts and design. Previous studies on CQ tended to focus on Management and Business studies. Strong CQ skills are seen as an asset in these fields; however, they are particularly relevant in the arts where career paths do not always have a strictly defined skill set and often rely on graduates to be adaptable and flexible to many varied work situations. This article sets out the process that we utilized in facilitating a series of cross-cultural workshops for Australian design students in Singapore, in partnership with overseas students from Hong Kong and Singapore. Employing case studies, quantitative and qualitative surveys, observation and analysis, our study attempts to show how intensive multidisciplinary and cross-cultural designthinking workshops in short-term study tours for university students can influence the CQ skills of students in creative arts and design disciplines.
Barbeque road warriors
Authors: Hinrichs Craig L. 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
This article reviews the general process of competitive barbeque contests in the United States and the requisite road trips those participants make in order to attend these events. It is written from the vantage point of the author, a Master Certified Barbeque Judge, who in 2017 will have participated in over 100 organized barbeque contests sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS), which is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Further details on competitive barbeque contests and the current KCBS rules and regulations are available on the kcbs.us website.
‘Hey amigo! Do you want to go on a trip? Do you want mushrooms?’
Authors: Montalvo Luis Zapata 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
The Mazatec people from the northern highlands of the Mexican State of Oaxaca are known for the syncretism of their religion, which combines pre-Hispanic culture and Catholic religion introduced with Spanish colonization in the sixteenth century. Nowadays, Mazatec religious practices are characterized by ritual ceremonies revolving around the religious spirit of the people and their cosmology. They are known for using mushrooms and other hallucinogenic plants to connect them with the world of their gods. The sacredness of these mushrooms is such a large and complex topic that no attempt at scientific explanation seems to solve all of the magical mysteries of the Mazatec universe. However, my introduction to it began in 2011 when I was carrying out fieldwork among the Mazatec people as part of my Ph.D. studies in architecture. This article is a direct account of an experience I had that seems to go beyond rational parameters; to a place where the spiritual and magical predominate; to a world in which healers and shamans eat sacred mushrooms in order to perform ceremonial rituals to heal people.
‘Little old “crumby” places we just drove up to and looked around’: Travel memorabilia and the perception of urban fabric
Authors: Nichols David , Lancaster Marcus 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Australians have notoriously and frequently travelled internationally for entertainment, in pursuit of knowledge and experience. This article examines a trip undertaken by two engineers for Ansett Airlines, based in Melbourne, to the United States in the mid-1950s. Using as its basis a photo album compiled by one of the men, this article examines the mid-20th century Australian experience of American modernism, concentrating on transport and tourism facilities both mundane and magnificent.
Stopping at the dusty oasis
Authors: Kranc Stanley C. 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Although the theme of the open road has dominated the cultural consciousness for generations, such travel and adventure are always interspersed by way-stops: stations along the way where one can pause − where things can happen within the limited environment of the place itself. This article explores the relationship between the road and these stops along the way, specifically in the context of a loose collection of several films, all involving a similar way-stop setting, a sort of arid nowhere. These films share a commonality that appears to derive from Foucault’s notion of ‘heterotopia’ − in that each way-stop constitutes an ‘other’ place. A productive search for antecedents and archetypes reinforces the heterotopic image projected. Further comparisons reveal the same sense of ambiguity and transience for fictional and real life sources as that found in the films examined.
Enthusiast books and academic books: On ludoliteracy and the transference of its skills through the medium of print
Authors: Navarro-Remesal Victor 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Books about video games have become common in the Catalan and Spanish ambits. In this text, I present a first approach at them, distinguishing non-scholar enthusiast books and academic books, through the texts in their back covers, flaps and websites, and compare the main ideas in both types. It is my view that books are being used for negotiating their role of video games in culture, and the tensions between fans and scholars are made visible in them. My hypothesis, which could be tested in a further research, is that enthusiast books are celebrations of love for fans seeking cultural legitimacy, whereas academic books are attempts to make sense of games as culture and as in culture. I defend that the medium of print is a very valuable means not only to gather critical data on video games culture and the perspectives of fans, but also to transfer ludoliteracy skills to society.
Mobile devices in higher education: A pending issue in multidimensional media literacy
Authors: Figueras-Maz Mònica , Masanet Maria-Jose , Ferrés Joan 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Prensky’s concept of the ‘digital native’ received many criticisms, fundamentally as it was considered too optimistic, but also determinist and reductionist: knowing the age of a person does not determine the digital practices they may perform, nor their behaviour. In our previous research young people obtained very low scores in all media literacy dimensions except technology, demonstrating the need for comprehensive media literacy and contradicting the myth of digital native. It was shown that they had technical and production skills but were lacking in others of equal importance such as aesthetics. Young people do not conceive their lives on and offline separately; for them everything is a continuation of personal, social or academic life. Therefore, why not introduce into higher education the technologies with which they spend most time, that is, mobile devices? Tablets and mobile devices are their personal interaction and social connection spaces. Including them in classrooms may therefore be useful in removing the barriers that separate the personal from the collective, the rational and the emotional, learning and entertainment, the classroom and everyday life outside it. As mobile devices are considered cultural tools that are transforming sociocultural practices and structures in all spheres of life university must naturally form part of this consideration. Including mobile devices in higher education could be innovative and efficient if full advantage is taken of the optimum features of new technologies and new communication practices: creativity and participation, teamwork, continuous learning and open and online collaboration, multimedia and multimodal communication, interaction and the search for implication and motivation. The aim of our R&D&I project ‘media competences of citizens in emerging digital media in university environments’ (2016−18), is to compare how mobile devices (tablets, smartphones, etc.) are used by young people outside the academic arena as opposed to how they are used inside university, with a view to detecting innovative teaching/learning practices that may then be advocated and disseminated within higher education.
Ensuring the quality of language standardization: The training of advertising announcers in Catalan
Authors: Casals I Martorell Daniel 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
The aim of this article is to describe a training programme intended to ensure the quality of standard Catalan in broadcast advertising. Initiated in 2007, the programme offered working or aspiring broadcasters training in the linguistic and oral performance skills necessary to carry out their job in fully proficient standard Catalan. Promotion, organization and instruction of the programme was shared between a local university and a public media corporation, and in the three years that it was offered a total of 83 students were certified by the programme. It served to significantly increase the pool of broadcasters with full professional proficiency in standard Catalan and laid the foundations for the development of a professional sector characterized by its use of high-quality specialized and standardized language. It can thus be seen as forming part of the extension of language knowledge and use phase in the process of standardizing a minority language.
Reviews
Authors: Gómez-Puertas Lorena , Farré Jordi , Sendra Anna , Daries Natalia 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
MOTHERHOOD IN THE MEDIA. INFANTICIDE, JOURNALISM AND THE DIGITAL AGE, BARBARA BARNETT (2016) New York: Routledge, Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies, 84, 224 pp., ISBN: 9781138889170, h/bk, ₤90.00, e/bk, ₤24.49
THE MEDIA SYNDROME, DAVID L. ALTHEIDE (2016) New York and London: Routledge, 233 pp., ISBN: 9781629581477, h/bk, ₤90.00, p/bk, ₤22.99
SOCIAL MEDIA IN MEDICINE, MARGARET S. CHISOLM (ED.) (2016) London and New York: Routledge, 96 pp., ISBN: 9781138665385, h/bk, ₤90.00
LA COMUNICACIÓN DE LOS DESTINOS TURÍSTICOS Y SUS MARCAS A TRAVÉS DE LOS MEDIOS SOCIALES, ASSUMPCIÓ HUERTAS (ED.) (2016) Tarragona: Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 93 pp., ISBN: 978-84-608-8771-3, ebk, free of charge
Time-efficient and time-consuming practices among journalists in communicating with the sources
Authors: Ivask Signe , All Heleri , Janson Kairi 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
The aim of this study was to observe how journalists manage their time and what are the most time-consuming practices. Empirical data were gathered by using a non-participant observation in a national daily newsroom and two participant observations in a national daily and in a local newspaper newsroom in Estonia. There were two focus group meetings with journalists with less than five years of experience in May 2016 and in September 2016. Results show that journalists with less than five years of experience had trouble with managing their time; for example, they mainly contacted the source via e-mail, which led to stress-induced situations and the usage of questionable sources. Journalists with more than five years of experience had established routines and managed to divide time between different topics simultaneously. They were reluctant to use e-mails and relied mainly on traditional methods: calling or meeting the source.
Institutional pain communication via Twitter by Spanish and US pain societies: Analysis of levels of use and engagement
Authors: Sendra Anna , Farré Jordi 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Pain is a complex issue, and often patients feel isolated. Social media are arising as instruments where users find support and spaces to express their pain. This study analyses how two pain institutions – the Spanish Pain Society (SED) and the American Pain Society (APS) – are creating messages and communicating them through Twitter, by examining their profile content and procedures. A comparative analysis was applied to 2474 tweets corresponding to the period running from the inception of the profiles (APS July 2010, SED March 2013) to February 2016. Both profiles manage aspects like targeted audiences and referential content quite well, whereas frequency and engagement with users would need to be improved. Although the two institutions are already using this social media tool, we suggest that both organizations would benefit from developing a social media strategy. Nevertheless, further research is needed in order to understand deeply how pain is communicated via Twitter.
Catalonia TV’s La Marató as a symbol of Catalan identity: The intangible value of a CSR action as perceived by all its stakeholders
Authors: Orozco-Toro Jaime Alberto , Ferré-Pavia Carme 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
This article seeks to investigate the way in which Catalonia Television’s (TV3) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has helped the company cultivate an image associated with Catalan identity by way of a charity initiative: a telethon known as La Marató (‘The marathon’). In the empirical stage there were 463 interviews with seven stakeholder groups. This stage is important as it is a window into the perceptions of all the groups involved in the company. The most significant results show how La Marató is considered to be a symbol of Catalan identity and how some intangible values (the company’s social capital) impacted the organization’s reputation. In terms of theory, the article proposes that identity should be considered an important intangible asset.
‘Something I’ve been meaning to tell you’: Epistolary ‘writing back’ in Alice Munro’s stories
Authors: Schuh Rebekka 
Published: May 2017

Abstract
Even though the narrative art of Alice Munro’s short stories has been widely studied, the use of letters as a recurring narrative element has so far been neglected. Letters are, however, central in Munro’s work as more than twenty of epistolary short stories in her oeuvre show. The letters in these stories fulfil a variety of functions. They become ‘third space[s]’ for the realization of romantic games or a means of therapy enabling the immediate reliving of an experience. This article focuses on the function of ‘writing back to the centre’ as it is displayed in two of Munro’s short stories: ‘Material’, collected in Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974), and ‘A Wilderness Station’, collected in Open Secrets (1994). An analysis of the letters in these stories from the ‘writing back’ lens shows that Munro’s understanding of ‘writing back’ differs significantly from the postcolonialist origin of the concept and is predominantly linked to a feminist dimension.