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Constraints between picture and painting: Some considerations at a distance
Authors: Derby Moyra 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
This article considers a series of constraints active in the abrasive interface between picture and painting. The term constraint is used in reference to Margaret Boden’s research into the computational mechanisms underlying creativity, constraints understood as productive limits that test a given field or convention. The space between picture and painting is full of strongly defended divisions, and inevitable overlaps, and it can be a cluttered and contentious field for a practitioner to negotiate. The aim is in part to bypass an oppositional mindset that cuts off descriptive and imitative impulses for painting and picture from abstract positions and to access the constructed forms of pictorial convention by a different route. In order to avoid a dead-end opposition, a distance from painting and picture is established through a close examination of an early artefact of mark making and counting in the form of a small clay ball called a bulla. Dating from around 3500 bce, the bulla reference depends on the archaeological research of Denise Schmandt-Besserat and on a description by Georges Ifrah as a key example in the development of numeration. The bulla is identified as a point where distinctions between number, word, object and picture are not fixed and their interdependencies are clear and productive. In this article the particular qualities of the bulla facilitates thoughts about three interlocking terms: likeness, representation and depiction. Each term is addressed in turn, framed as ‘testing likeness’, ‘retaining representation’ and ‘the material requirements of depiction’, and each is considered through processes of recognition and resemblance. This is informed by writing on painting’s mimetic and materially specific art history, including James Elkins, Michael Podro, Georges Didi-Huberman, W. J. T. Mitchell, Michael Baxandall and Jacques Rancière. Likeness is rephrased by a consideration of analogy, and the conceptual testing involved, opening a space between the notion of likeness and visual resemblance. Representation is thought through the processes of correspondence and reiteration, and the associations of both presence and displacement. Depiction is embedded into its material conditions and the circumstances of recognition that evokes. All three terms are considered as key to the constraints between painting and picture, even when functioning as exclusions.
Imagining a ‘relational’ painting
Authors: Mlicka Agnieszka 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
This article presents a discussion around the idea of painting as a ‘relational’ practice, which has evolved from the invited correspondence between Catherine Ferguson (as Painter) and Ken Wilder (as Non-Painter), facilitated by Agnieszka Mlicka. Their responses to envisaging such a relational painting reflect distinct artistic practices and philosophical traditions, which diverge and converge throughout the writing. For the Painter, on the one hand, painting becomes relational by virtue of its life and process, as an autopoietic entity in a dynamic relation with its environment. For the Non-Painter, on the other hand, the very terms relational and autopoiesis are treated with suspicion, in that it is argued that any critically inclined collaborative painting must reveal the actualities of the genesis of a work’s spatial and temporal performance. In juxtaposing these two trajectories through the process of co-responding, an analogy is created to the idea of a relational painting practice as a dynamic process of negotiation. The emerging interface generates an energy that has more significance than the notion of a completed or realized work. Reflecting on this collaborative experiment, this article suggests that the creation of an agonistic space for discourse is fundamental to imagining how a relational painting might unfold.
Crossing light
Authors: Wang Suling 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
For this visual essay, Suling Wang’s contribution comprises a series paintings on paper, which are juxtaposed with photographic images of the artist’s native Taiwan, combining gestural mark-making with collage to reflect on themes of cultural identity, location and memory. In particular, notions of abstraction and representation are explored in relation to the changing landscape and the artist’s own personal history of travel and living abroad. The work meditates on the abstraction of the painter’s forms in relation to Chinese landscape painting as well as the role of travel and experience in artistic expression.
‘Making It Mine’: An interview with comics creator Dan McDaid
Authors: Gangnes Madeline B. 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
Dan McDaid is a comics artist and writer who currently lives in Dundee, Scotland. He has worked on projects for Doctor Who Magazine, Dark Horse Comics, Image Comics, DC Comics, BOOM! Studios, and IDW, among others. His most recent projects are Dawn of the Planet of the Apes for BOOM! Studios and Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero for IDW. I spoke with Dan in Dundee on 28 November 2014 to discuss his career, his artistic and writing influences, and his creative process.
Reviews
Authors: Cook Roy T. , Scheman Naomi , Manchester Ashley , Gomes Ivan Lima 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics, Ramzi Fawaz (2016) New York: NYU Press, 368 pp., ISBN: 9781479823086, p/bk, $29
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, 22–25 March 2016, Sheraton Hotel Seattle, Seattle, Washington
Mythologies du superhéros: histoire, physiologie, géographie, intermedialité, François-Emmanuel Boucher, Sylvain David and Maxime Prévost (eds) (2014) 1st ed., Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 257 pp., ISBN: 9782875620491, p/bk, €40
La bande dessinée en dissidance/Comics in Dissent, Christophe Dony, Tanguy Habrand and Gert Meesters (eds) (2014) 1st ed., Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 219 pp., ISBN: 9782875620385, p/bk, €36
‘Something Like This Just Couldn’t Happen!’: Resolving naturalistic tensions in superhero comics art
Authors: Gavaler Chris 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
In Action Comics #8, Joe Shuster draws a group of juvenile delinquents as initially adult-like and then child-like in later panels. How are readers to make sense of the visual contradiction? Drawing from comics studies’ interdisciplinary fields – including art criticism, communication, literary criticism, philosophy, and psychology – at least four kinds of explanations are available for resolving the tension: literal, accidental, psychological, and metaphorical. I discuss each and their implications for the problematic role of naturalism in superhero comics in general, analyzing further visual examples from Jack Kirby, Sal Buscema, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Neal Adams. By combining elements of cartoon and abstraction with the narrative necessities of minimal counterintuitivity, superhero comics art is grounded in paradox. Ultimately the genre and form reverses assumptions about the metaphysics of the page and its relationship to its implied reality, culminating in the closure-mirroring reading process of diegetic erasure.
A context for the supercontext: On the function of psychedelics in Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles
Authors: Garlington Ian Stuart 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
Grant Morrison is one of the most prolific and well-known superhero comic writers of all time. He wrote his magnum opus, The Invisibles, as a 59-issue comic book series that was published under DC comics’ Vertigo label from 1994 to 2000. At the end of the narrative humanity supposedly enters into a 5th dimensional space called the ‘Supercontext’, which Morrison has at one point described as ‘everyone peaking on the acid trip that never ends’. This article clarifies and contextualizes the role of psychedelics in Grant Morrison et al.’s The Invisibles. There has been a lack of critical attention regarding the influence of psychedelics in Morrison’s work despite Morrison’s frequent comments regarding their significance in his life and writing. The first section of this article introduces some of the common formal attributes found in prior attempts to express various aspects of the psychedelic experience in the comics medium. The Invisibles is then compared with these, thereby confirming the various functions of psychedelics within the text. The next section goes on to demonstrate The Invisibles’ formal similarities with a largely overlooked influence: Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s Illuminatus! trilogy (1984). By examining the way in which Wilson and Shea utilized William Burroughs’s ‘fold-in’ technique in order to attempt to depict a higher dimensional ‘universal consciousness’ through the formal attributes of the text, one can identify an analogous relationship to Morrison’s use of braiding to show readers the perspective of the ‘supercontext’ as a higher-dimension outside time. This relationship is identified in order to finally assert that The Invisibles can be grouped alongside other texts of an emerging genre of fiction characterized by its depictions of consciousness at a future stage of human evolution as envisioned through the author’s psychedelic experiences.
Comics as historical source material: Race, ethnicity and power according to Texas History Movies
Authors: Magnussen Anne 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
Texas History Movies was first published as a comic strip in the Dallas Morning News from 1926 to 1928 after which it was distributed to Texas schools and used as a history textbook until the late 1950s. The collection of 428 comic strips mainly reproduces the dominant historical narrative of the time, with the Anglo Americans as the real Texans and with other ethnic groups (Native Americans, African Americans and Mexican Americans) as historical enemies or counter-images to the Anglo American. However, Texas History Movies also differs from this dominant narrative, and it does so in particular ways due to its combination of media and genres. With Texas History Movies as the example this article discusses how the interaction of narrative conventions, medium-specific characteristics and genre expectations both strengthen and undermine dominant narratives about the past and, in this case also, more particularly, of the ethnic dynamics in the comics’ present. The study of a comic such as Texas History Movies constitutes a relevant contribution to historical research by recognizing comics as historical sources and by suggesting a strategy to study comics as such. With relevance more specifically for comics research, the article shows how it is possible to include a broader historical and media-related context in the study of comics while at the same time maintaining an explicit focus on their medium-specific characteristics.
Wireless waves
Authors: Greenspan Anna 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
This paper explores our increasingly intimate engagement with the electromagnetic spectrum. It does so by focusing on technology’s wireless wave, from radio and telegraphy to the mobile phone (a device that has been adopted throughout the planet faster than has any technology in history), as well as the rise of smart objects, wearables and the Internet of Things. It shows how these technologies communicate in frequencies whose range is beyond our perceptual reach, arguing that the technological revelation of the imperceptible waves within which we are immersed is critical to the futurism at the heart of modernity.
Consciousness reframed: Art and consciousness in the post-biological era
Authors: Mamakos Christina , Stefaneas Petros 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
The senses convey impressions, perceptions and ultimately feelings, from which meaning emerges, revealing a platform where perception and thinking are actually very closely involved. From this perspective, the distance between descriptive, mental (cognitive) meaning and emotive, affective (non-cognitive) meaning shrinks, creating a platform to investigate how meaning is generated by posing the question ‘how does meaning actually make sense?’. This project investigates meaning as derived from the physical nature of our brains, our bodies and our physical experiences. We construct a collaborative dialogue between art and the field of logic, specifically studies of embodied mathematics and computational theory as related to the construction of meaning. Here ideas from modern symbolic logic, such as abstract model theory (i.e. theory of institutions), can provide a suitable framework to explore a theory of meaning.
Decolonizing knowledge: Politics and the aesthetic of ‘We’ human-and-technology
Authors: Cho Hyunkyoung , Luke Timothy W. , Yoon Joonsung 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
This article suggests that the relations of politics and aesthetics in the flexible, mobile, variable collaborations of computational/informational technologies open a new way of being-and-knowing. By linking art, technology and humanity as the understandings of ‘We’ human-and-technology in collaborative actions rooted in interdependent perspective, informational technology recomposes both human identity and technological practices as collaborative fusion between the human and technology. The new identity provoked by such technologies might be called ‘We’ human-and-technology. In this conceptualization of ‘We’ human-and-technology, the coded complexities of informatics technology remix the axes and dimensions of action between politics and the aesthetic. Prior investigations of the relation of politics and the aesthetic in contemporary art are stuck in the binary frame of domination in which ‘Us’ versus ‘Them’ enforces a mutual degradation of the human and technified in thought and action. This approach is criticized here from two perspectives. First, the real disruption of ‘We’ human-and-technology is a reified inversion by a frame of fantasy, using the tolerance tactic. Second, the traditional instrumental understanding of technology sees it only as an instrument for colonization, which is a limited appraisal of all that happens in technological praxes.
Regulations to Supplement Weak Environmental Liability
Authors: Calcott Paul 
Published: November 2016

Abstract:
Liability for environmental harm is often capped when precaution meets a minimum requirement and is often applied in conjunction with regulations. The correct setting for such regulations depends on the approach that courts take to evaluating the minimum requirement. It may also depend on which of the minimum requirement and capped liability is the more pressing consideration for the firm. Regulatory design is more straightforward when it is capped liability that is more pressing.
The association between EGFR expression and clinical pathology characteristics in gastric cancer
Authors: Chen Yong , Guo Su-yang , Guo Wei 
Published: November 2016

AbstractObjectiveThe aim of this study was to investigate epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expression in the gastric cancer tissues and the association of EGFR expression with clinical pathology characteristics.MethodsWe firstly analyzed the copy number alteration of EGFR gene in gastric cancer by utilizing the online TCGA resources. We then gathered 71 cases of gastric cancer patients from February 2010 to February 2015 in our hospital. The cancer tissues and normal gastric tissues were tested for EGFR expression by immunohistochemical (IHC) staining and western blotting methods. The association of EGFR expression with clinical pathology characteristics and the prognosis value of EGFR expression were evaluated by the statistical software.ResultsThe copy number of EGFR gene was found to be increased in gastric cancer patients. Western blotting confirmed that EGFR protein was obviously upregulated in tested gastric cancer tissues. Additionally, our IHC results showed that the positive rates of EGFR expression in gastric carcinoid tumors (CTs) and distant normal gastric tissues were 45.1% (32/71) and 25.0% (9/36), respectively. The former was significantly higher than the latter (P < 0.05). The EGFR-positive expression in CTs was related to tumor size, invasion depth, and lymphatic metastasis. The median survival of the EGFR-positive patients was 15.6 months, which was less than that (23.0 months) of the EGFR-negative patients [HR = 2.12, 95%CI: 1.29-4.10 (P < 0.05)]. Also, online survival analysis showed that high expression of EGFR predicted shorter overall survival of gastric cancer patients.ConclusionEGFR was highly expressed in gastric cancer tissues and associated with poor prognosis.
The microRNA-200 family: still much to discover
Authors: Senfter Daniel , Madlener Sibylle , Krupitza Georg , Mader Robert M. 
Published: November 2016

AbstractIn the last decade, microRNAs (miRs or miRNAs) became of great interest in cancer research due to their multifunctional and active regulation in a variety of vital cellular processes. In this review, we discuss the miR-200 family, which is composed of five members (miR-141, miR-200a/200b/200c and miR-429). Although being among the best investigated miRNAs in the field, there are still many open issues. Here, we describe the potential role of miR-200 as prognostic and/or predictive biomarker, its influence on motility and cell migration as well as its role in epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) and metastasis formation in different tumour types. Recent studies also demonstrated the influence of miR-200 on drug resistance and described a correlation between miR-200 expression levels and overall survival of patients. Despite intense research in this field, the full role of the miR-200 family in cancer progression and metastasis is not completely understood and seems to differ between different tumour types and different cellular backgrounds. To elucidate these differences further, a finer characterisation of the role of the individual miRNA-200 family members is currently under investigation.
Fate of two invasive or potentially invasive alien seaweeds in a central Mediterranean transitional water system: failure and success
Authors: Cecere Ester , Alabiso Giorgio , Carlucci Roberto , Petrocelli Antonella , Verlaque Marc 
Published: November 2016

AbstractOver the past 15 years, populations of two invasive or potentially invasive alien seaweeds have been studied by means of both quantitative and qualitative methods in the Mar Piccolo basin in Taranto (Southern Italy, Mediterranean Sea). The dynamics of the cold-temperate brown seaweed
Reproductive phenology of the subtropical seagrasses Thalassia testudinum (turtle grass) and Halodule wrightii (shoal grass) in the northwest Gulf of Mexico
Authors: Darnell Kelly M. , Dunton Kenneth H. 
Published: November 2016

AbstractSeagrass cover is declining worldwide, and successful management, conservation and restoration require a complete understanding of individual species’ life histories. The historically undervalued importance of sexual reproduction in seagrass population dynamics has prompted investigations of reproductive phenology and output. Here, we present the results of a multi-year study examining the reproductive phenology and output of two dominant seagrass species in the northwest Gulf of Mexico,
Serological diagnosis and prognosis of severe acute pancreatitis by analysis of serum glycoprotein 2
Authors: Roggenbuck Dirk , Goihl Alexander , Hanack Katja , Holzlöhner Pamela , Hentschel Christian , Veiczi Miklos , Schierack Peter , Reinhold Dirk , Schulz Hans-Ulrich 
Published: November 2016

AbstractBackground:Glycoprotein 2 (GP2), the pancreatic major zymogen granule membrane glycoprotein, was reported to be elevated in acute pancreatitis in animal models.Methods:Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) were developed to evaluate human glycoprotein 2 isoform alpha (GP2a) and total GP2 (GP2t) as specific markers for acute pancreatitis in sera of 153 patients with acute pancreatitis, 26 with chronic pancreatitis, 125 with pancreatic neoplasms, 324 with non-pancreatic neoplasms, 109 patients with liver/biliary disease, 67 with gastrointestinal disease, and 101 healthy subjects. GP2a and GP2t levels were correlated with procalcitonin and C-reactive protein in 152 and 146 follow-up samples of acute pancreatitis patients, respectively.Results:The GP2a ELISA revealed a significantly higher assay accuracy in contrast to the GP2t assay (sensitivity ≤3 disease days: 91.7%, specificity: 96.7%, positive likelihood ratio [LR+]: 24.6, LR–: 0.09). GP2a and GP2t levels as well as prevalences were significantly elevated in early acute pancreatitis (≤3 disease days) compared to all control cohorts (p<0.05, respectively). GP2a and GP2t levels were significantly higher in patients with severe acute pancreatitis at admission compared with mild cases (p<0.05, respectively). Odds ratio for GP2a regarding mild vs. severe acute pancreatitis with lethal outcome was 7.8 on admission (p=0.0222). GP2a and GP2t levels were significantly correlated with procalcitonin [Spearman’s rank coefficient of correlation (ρ)=0.21, 0.26; p=0.0110, 0.0012; respectively] and C-reactive protein (ρ=0.37, 0.40; p<0.0001; respectively).Conclusions:Serum GP2a is a specific marker of acute pancreatitis and analysis of GP2a can aid in the differential diagnosis of acute upper abdominal pain and prognosis of severe acute pancreatitis.
A generalization of Ore’s theorem on polynomials
Authors: Anashkin Alexander V. 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
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