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Evolutionary Synthesis in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Authors: Mesoudi Alex 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Cultural change constitutes a Darwinian evolutionary process, comprising the three Darwinian principles of variation, selection and inheritance. Yet cultural evolution is not identical to genetic evolution: the sources of variation, the forms of selection and the modes of inheritance found in cultural evolution may be very different to those found in genetic evolution. Here, I review research conducted in the last 30 years that has built a Darwinian theory of cultural change by borrowing the rigorous, quantitative methods developed by biologists to explain biological evolution, yet simultaneously acknowledging the differences between cultural and genetic evolution. I argue that the quantitative nature of Darwinian methods (e.g. statistical analysis, formal models, laboratory experiments) has resulted in a significantly better understanding of cultural phenomena than many traditional non-evolutionary, non-scientific approaches to cultural change in the social sciences and humanities. Evolutionary theory also provides a synthetic framework within which different branches of the social sciences and humanities may be integrated, equivalent to the “evolutionary synthesis” that integrated the biological sciences in the early 20th century.
The Cultural Science of Consumption: Brains, Networks, and Identities
Authors: Herrmann-Pillath Carsten 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The paper proposes a general theory of consumer behaviour in ‘social network markets’ – where individual choices are determined by the choices of others – by conceptualising such markets as examples of distributed cognition; itself part of an ‘externalist’ perspective on human identity. The paper goes on to consider the issues raised by this move, by working through the implications of a distinction between the ‘object self’ (or evaluating agency) and the ‘acting self’ (or implementing agency), a distinction that is required to account for apparent failures of choice within an individual. It transpires that ‘dysfunctional’ choices (choices that apparently harm the self) may be evidence of the evolutionary advantage of ‘dual selves,’ allowing for creativity to cope with novelty through open-ended learning. The paper uses this ‘dual selves’ approach to rethink semiotics and the emergence of meaning, building up an argument about the importance of copying, narrative and language in constituting identity though distributed cognition. Finally, the paper proposes that cultural science can reintegrate the study of meaning and cognition in order to analyse consumer behaviour and choice.
Constraints and sources of nonequilibrium: a case of radical market transformation in Brazil
Authors: Andriani Pierpaolo 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Illycaffé entered Brazil in 1991 with the simple goal of finding high quality coffee and with a simple but revolutionary procurement strategy based on a) direct interaction with farmers and b) on an Award for the best coffee quality beans. The entry of Illycaffé unleashed a series of long-lasting consequences and unintended effects that revolutionised the Brazilian coffee industry and enabled the emergence of the quality coffee sector from the undifferentiated segment of commodity production. This paper analyses the ‘butterfly effect’ of the emergence of the quality coffee in Brazil in terms of complexity theory; and more specifically in terms of constraints and sources on nonequilibrium. I show how the entry of Illycaffé worked as an attractor (pull-strategy) that caused the decommoditisation of the coffee sector, enabled the emergence of a network of quality producers, and caused the rise of a ‘long tail’ of diversity.
Project 27: Insights Into a Production-centred Study on Art Direction and Love
Authors: Contreras Sandra V. 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
This paper offers insight into the development of a PhD in advertising art direction. For over half a century art directors within the advertising industry have been adapting to the changes occurring in media, culture and the corporate sector, toward enhancing professional performance and competitiveness. These professionals seldom offer explicit justification about the role images play in effective communication. It is uncertain how this situation affects advertising performance, because advertising has, nevertheless, evolved in parallel to this as an industry able to fabricate new opportunities for itself. However, uncertainties in the formalization of art direction knowledge restrict the possibilities of knowledge transfer in higher education.
The theoretical knowledge supporting advertising art direction has been adapted spontaneously from disciplines that rarely focus on specific aspects related to the production of advertising content, like, for example: marketing communication, design, visual communication, or visual art. Meanwhile, in scholarly research, vast empirical knowledge has been generated about advertising images, but often with limited insight into production expertise. Because art direction is understood as an industry practice and not as an academic discipline, an art direction perspective in scholarly contributions is rare. Scholarly research that is relevant to art direction seldom offers viewpoints to help understand how it is that research outputs may specifically contribute to art direction practices. There is a need to formally understanding the knowledge underlying art direction and using it to explore models for visual analysis and knowledge transfer in higher education. This paper provides insight into the development of a thesis that explored this need. The PhD thesis to which this paper refers is Strategic Aesthetics in Advertising Campaigns: Implications for Art Direction Education.
36 Million language pairs
Authors: Petzold Thomas 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
This article provides an overview on some of the key aspects that relate to the co-evolution of languages and its associated content in the Internet environment. A focus on such a co-evolution is pertinent as the evolution of languages in the Internet environment can be better understood if the development of its existing and emerging content, that is, the content in the respective language, is taken into consideration. By doing so, this article examines two related aspects: the governance of languages at critical sites of the Internet environment, including ICANN, Wikipedia and Google Translate. Following on from this examination, the second part outlines how the co-evolution of languages and associated content in the Internet environment extends policy-making related to linguistic pluralism. It is argued that policies which centre on language availability in the Internet environment must shift their focus to the dynamics of available content instead. The notion of language pairs as a new regime of intersection for both languages and content is discussed to introduce an extended understanding of the uses of linguistic pluralism in the Internet environment. The ultimate extrapolation of such an enhanced approach, it is argued, centres less on 6,000 languages but, instead, on 36 million language pairs. This article describes how such a powerful resource evolves in the Internet environment.
A Trojan Horse in the Citadel of Stories?
Authors: Hartley John 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Digital storytelling is an international movement for self-representation and advocacy, especially in educational, arts, and therapeutic communities. It has begun to attract a significant body of scholarship including publications and conferences. Australia has been an important player in all of these developments. In this presentation I explore some of the issues that have emerged for activists and scholars, including the problem of how to ‘scale up’ from self-expression to communication (i.e. self-marketing), and the question of the role that stories play in constituting ‘we’-communities (or ‘demes’).
The paper pursues the relationship between storytelling and political narrative over the extreme long term (longue durée), using well known and lesser-known connections between Australia and Turkey to tell the tale. It considers how digital self-representation intersects with that political process, and what activists need to know in order to intervene more effectively.
The paper is in five parts: (1) Gevinson; (2) Gallipoli; (3) Granddad; (4) Göbekli Tepe; (5) Gotcha? It seeks to place digital storytelling within a larger framework that links storytelling with the evolution of the polity. The analysis ultimately points to a looming problem for the digital storytelling movement – and possibly for human socio-cultural evolution too. In the crisis of ‘we’ communities that arises with the possibility of a globally networked polity, we need new guides to storytelling action, not the old (Trojan) warhorses of mainstream media. Events such as the centenary of World War I present unexpected opportunities for this kind of exploration.
Learning from the use of media in community-led design projects
Authors: Alexiou K. , Alevizou K. , Zamenopoulos T. , deSousa S. , Dredge L. 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Community-led design is a practice whereby people take the opportunity to engage directly and creatively in the formulation of solutions for their own environment. In community-led design, professionals, stakeholders and communities come together to develop sustainable solutions to complex design and planning problems. Such projects can include the co-creation of public spaces, communal and public services, as well as processes and tools for citizen participation.
Web 2.0 technologies and social media offer new opportunities for community-led design, potentially transforming the ways in which people take part in these processes and their ability to make an impact. This paper reports insights from the use of different types of media in community-led design projects and reflects on their role and their value for those involved, as well as for their wider communities.
Obstacles to Creative Citizenship
Authors: Miller James 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The Creative Citizens project asks whether new media enhance new forms and scale of creative civic activities. If so, the project seeks to identify practices that will exploit this new individual and collective activity, presumably as a means of achieving authentic self-governance. This paper considers three potential obstacles to the realization of a creative citizenship: that the sort of political engagement it fosters may be too personal and episodic; that the commonsensical political knowledge typical of politics known at a distance as performance and simulation may impose further limits on effective understanding and engagement; and that the emerging new media environment may be different enough that today’s digital skills and relationships may be insufficient in the medium term. The paper looks at the same conditions that inspire the creative citizenship project and reaches reverse conclusions – but not on the grounds of nostalgia or pessimism.
Owning your emotions or sentimental navel-gazing: Digital storytelling with South African pre-service student educators
Authors: Gachago Daniela , Ivala Eunice , Chigona Agnes , Condy Janet 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Literature argues that for post-conflict pedagogies to facilitate student engagement across difference it requires emotional engagement with the subject. However, how to achieve such emotional engagement, without falling into the trap of sentimentality, is an area that is under-researched. This paper reflects on conversations with South African students in a final year pre-service teacher-training programme, who developed digital stories as a vehicle for student engagement across difference. Applying ‘critical emotional reflexivity’ (Zembylas 2011) as an analytical framework, we found that students described the digital storytelling process as opening up different ways of being with/for the ‘Other’ and allowing them to start questioning cherished beliefs and assumptions about the ‘Other’. However, they had difficulties in placing themselves in a bigger historical and sociocultural context. Furthermore, the specific set-up of the project made it difficult to track lasting social change within students, the fourth element of Zembylas’ theoretical framework. Findings also confirmed the potential of digital stories to lead to sentimentality and ‘passive empathy’ (Boler 1999), characterised by pity from the part of the privileged observer and resentment from the subjugated storyteller. We recommend adding a historical-political analysis of previous students’ stories to the digital storytelling process in order to help students deconstruct positions premised on the existence of clearly differentiated identities and to consciously create spaces where a reflection on the emotions students encountered while sharing and listening to their stories can be facilitated.
De speciale overnamecommissie in nationaal en rechtsvergelijkend perspectief
Authors: Groen C. , Koster H. 
Published: January 2018

De speciale overnamecommissie in nationaal en rechtsvergelijkend perspectief
De afgelopen jaren is de aandacht voor de rol en de positie van de raad van commissarissen (RvC) van een doelvennootschap bij een overname toegenomen. Het komt in de praktijk regelmatig voor dat de RvC (mede) uit zijn midden een speciale overnamecommissie of stuurgroep vormt die specifiek belast is met een juiste afwikkeling van het overnameproces. In dit artikel gaan de auteurs in op de rol en vormgeving van deze speciale overnamecommissie.
A escrita no ensino superior e os efeitos do desenvolvimento profissional na formação do professor de língua materna
Authors: Leurquin Eulália Vera Lúcia Fraga 
Published: January 2018

<p>Os estagiários do curso de Letras participam de práticas sociais escritas seja na sala de aula ou fora dela. Apesar disso, observamos que eles apresentam dificuldades em interagir através da escrita. Com esse artigo, nosso objetivo é refletir sobre a escrita nesse universo social e profissional, considerando os efeitos sobre a formação docente. Por isso, fazemos o levantamento dos conteúdos temáticos e estabelecemos relações com os tipos de discurso (BRONCKART 1999, 2004, 2008, 2009) em dez relatórios de regência, produzidos em 2013 e 2014. Assumimos a concepção de relatório definida por XXXXXXX (2008) e indicamos relações da linguagem com o trabalho do estagiário (AMIGUES, 2004; CLOT, 1999; LACOSTE, 1998). Ampliamos o contexto do trabalho docente descrito por Machado (2008), adaptando-o ao contexto do estágio docente (XXXXXXX, no prelo). Os dados analisados revelam que o relatório de estágio é um importante instrumento de análise do trabalho do estagiário. Ele nos permite identificar as dimensões linguageira, instrumental, coletiva, cognitiva e prescritiva do trabalho do estagiário.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
Surface Winds and Dust Biases in Climate Models
Authors: Evan A. T. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractAn analysis of North African dust from models participating in the Fifth Climate Models Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) suggested that, when forced by observed sea surface temperatures, these models were unable to reproduce any aspects of the observed year‐to‐year variability in dust from North Africa. Consequently, there would be little reason to have confidence in the models' projections of changes in dust over the 21st century. However, no subsequent study has elucidated the root causes of the disagreement between CMIP5 and observed dust. Here I develop an idealized model of dust emission and then use this model to show that, over North Africa, such biases in CMIP5 models are due to errors in the surface wind fields and not due to the representation of dust emission processes. These results also suggest that because the surface wind field over North Africa is highly spatially autocorrelated, intermodel differences in the spatial structure of dust emission have little effect on the relative change in year‐to‐year dust emission over the continent. I use these results to show that similar biases in North African dust from the NASA Modern Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) version 2 surface wind field biases but that these wind biases were not present in the first version of MERRA.
Degenerately Hydrogen Doped Molybdenum Oxide Nanodisks for Ultrasensitive Plasmonic Biosensing
Authors: Zhang Bao Yue , Zavabeti Ali , Chrimes Adam F. , Haque Farjana , O'Dell Luke A. , Khan Hareem , Syed Nitu , Datta Robi , Wang Yichao , Chesman Anthony S. R. , Daeneke Torben , Kalantar‐zadeh Kourosh , Ou Jian Zhen 
Published: January 2018

AbstractPlasmonic biosensors based on noble metals generally suffer from low sensitivities if the perturbation of refractive‐index in the ambient is not significant. By contrast, the features of degenerately doped semiconductors offer new dimensions for plasmonic biosensing, by allowing charge‐based detection. Here, this concept is demonstrated in plasmonic hydrogen doped molybdenum oxides (HxMoO3), with the morphology of 2D nanodisks, using a representative enzymatic glucose sensing model. Based on the ultrahigh capacity of the molybdenum oxide nanodisks for accommodating H+, the plasmon resonance wavelengths of HxMoO3 are shifted into visible‐near‐infrared wavelengths. These plasmonic features alter significantly as a function of the intercalated H+ concentration. The facile H+ deintercalation out of HxMoO3 provides an exceptional sensitivity and fast kinetics to charge perturbations during enzymatic oxidation. The optimum sensing response is found at H1.55MoO3, achieving a detection limit of 2 × 10−9m at 410 nm, even when the biosensing platform is adapted into a light‐emitting diode‐photodetector setup. The performance is superior in comparison to all previously reported plasmonic enzymatic glucose sensors, providing a great opportunity in developing high performance biosensors.
Mechanically Robust, Self‐Healable, and Highly Stretchable “Living” Crosslinked Polyurethane Based on a Reversible CC Bond
Authors: Zhang Ze Ping , Rong Min Zhi , Zhang Ming Qiu 
Published: January 2018

AbstractStimuli‐responsive polymers built by reversible covalent bonds used to possess unbalanced mechanical properties. Here, a crosslinked polyurethane containing aromatic pinacol as a novel reversible CC bond provider is synthesized, whose tensile strength and failure strain are tunable from 27.3 MPa to as high as 115.2 MPa and from 324% to 1501%, respectively, owing to the relatively high bond energy of the CC bond of pinacol as well as the hydrogen bond between hard segments and semicrystalline soft segments. Moreover, the dynamic equilibrium of pinacol enables self‐healing and recycling of the polymer. Interestingly, the dynamic exchange among macromolecules, for the first time, successfully cooperates with solid‐state drawing that applies to thermoplastics, realizing strengthening of thermoset. Meanwhile, the radicals derived from homolysis of pinacol can repeatedly initiate polymerization of vinyl monomers. The fruitful outcomes of this work may create a series of promising new techniques.
Disposable Morpho menelaus Based Flexible Microfluidic and Electronic Sensor for the Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Disease
Authors: He Zhenzhu , Elbaz Abdelrahman , Gao Bingbing , Zhang Junning , Su Enben , Gu Zhongze 
Published: January 2018

AbstractRapid early disease prevention or precise diagnosis is almost impossible in low‐resource settings. Natural ordered structures in nature have great potential for the development of ultrasensitive biosensors. Here, motivated by the unique structures and extraordinary functionalities of ordered structures in nature, a biosensor based on butterfly wings is presented. In this study, a flexible Morpho menelaus (M. menelaus) based wearable sensor is integrated with a microfluidic system and electronic networks to facilitate the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease (ND). In the microfluidic section, the structural characteristics of the M. menelaus wings up layer are combined with SiO2 nanoparticles to form a heterostructure. The fluorescent enhancement property of the heterostructure is used to increase the fluorescent intensity for multiplex detection of two proteins: IgG and AD7c‐NTP. For the electronic section, conductive ink is blade‐coated on the under layer of wings for measuring resistance change rate to obtain the frequency of static tremors of ND patients. The disposable M. menelaus based flexible microfluidic and electronic sensor enables biochemical–physiological hybrid monitoring of ND. The sensor is also amenable to a variety of applications, such as comprehensive personal healthcare and human‐machine interaction.
Ecologically Driven Ultrastructural and Hydrodynamic Designs in Stomatopod Cuticles
Authors: Grunenfelder Lessa Kay , Milliron Garrett , Herrera Steven , Gallana Isaias , Yaraghi Nicholas , Hughes Nigel , Evans‐Lutterodt Kenneth , Zavattieri Pablo , Kisailus David 
Published: January 2018

AbstractEcological pressures and varied feeding behaviors in a multitude of organisms have necessitated the drive for adaptation. One such change is seen in the feeding appendages of stomatopods, a group of highly predatory marine crustaceans. Stomatopods include “spearers,” who ambush and snare soft bodied prey, and “smashers,” who bludgeon hard‐shelled prey with a heavily mineralized club. The regional substructural complexity of the stomatopod dactyl club from the smashing predator Odontodactylus scyllarus represents a model system in the study of impact tolerant biominerals. The club consists of a highly mineralized impact region, a characteristic Bouligand architecture (common to arthropods), and a unique section of the club, the striated region, composed of highly aligned sheets of mineralized fibers. Detailed ultrastructural investigations of the striated region within O. scyllarus and a related species of spearing stomatopod, Lysiosquillina maculate show consistent organization of mineral and organic, but distinct differences in macro‐scale architecture. Evidence is provided for the function and substructural exaptation of the striated region, which facilitated redeployment of a raptorial feeding appendage as a biological hammer. Moreover, given the need to accelerate underwater and “grab” or “smash” their prey, the spearer and smasher appendages are specifically designed with a significantly reduced drag force.
Thiazole Imide‐Based All‐Acceptor Homopolymer: Achieving High‐Performance Unipolar Electron Transport in Organic Thin‐Film Transistors
Authors: Shi Yongqiang , Guo Han , Qin Minchao , Zhao Jiuyang , Wang Yuxi , Wang Hang , Wang Yulun , Facchetti Antonio , Lu Xinhui , Guo Xugang 
Published: January 2018

AbstractHigh‐performance unipolar n‐type polymer semiconductors are critical for advancing the field of organic electronics, which relies on the design and synthesis of new electron‐deficient building blocks with good solubilizing capability, favorable geometry, and optimized electrical properties. Herein, two novel imide‐functionalized thiazoles, 5,5′‐bithiazole‐4,4′‐dicarboxyimide (BTzI) and 2,2′‐bithiazolothienyl‐4,4′,10,10′‐tetracarboxydiimide (DTzTI), are successfully synthesized. Single crystal analysis and physicochemical study reveal that DTzTI is an excellent building block for constructing all‐acceptor homopolymers, and the resulting polymer poly(2,2′‐bithiazolothienyl‐4,4′,10,10′‐tetracarboxydiimide) (PDTzTI) exhibits unipolar n‐type transport with a remarkable electron mobility (μe) of 1.61 cm2 V−1 s−1, low off‐currents (Ioff) of 10−10−10−11 A, and substantial current on/off ratios (Ion/Ioff) of 107−108 in organic thin‐film transistors. The all‐acceptor homopolymer shows distinctive advantages over prevailing n‐type donor−acceptor copolymers, which suffer from ambipolar transport with high Ioffs > 10−8 A and small Ion/Ioffs < 105. The results demonstrate that the all‐acceptor approach is superior to the donor−acceptor one, which results in unipolar electron transport with more ideal transistor performance characteristics.