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More Sahidic Fragments from the Life of Shenoute Attributed to Besa
Authors: Suciu Alin 
Published: April 2015

AbstractThis article identifies a parchment leaf kept in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow as a fragment from the Sahidic version of the Life of Shenoute (Bibliotheca Hagiographia Orientalis 1074-1078; clavis coptica 0461), a hagiographical work about the archimandrite of the White Monastery attributed to his successor, Besa. The fragment offers a portion of the text which has survived only in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions. The paleographical inspection indicates that the dismembered leaf belonged to the White Monastery codex MONB.WV. Besides the Moscow fragment, this article adds two other paleographically related fragments to the White Monastery codex MONB.WV.
Die Anfänge des Melitianischen Schismas
Authors: Moll Sebastian 
Published: April 2015

AbstractThis article attempts to describe the origins of the Melitian Schism (ca. 303-311). Special attention will be given to the conflict between Melitius and Peter as its cause. As an appendix, I offer the first German translation of the so-called “Fundamentalurkunden” of the Melitian Schism.
Edition: C’est l’habit qui fait le moine: Édition de la version valenciennoise de la Vita Sanctae Euphrosynae (BHL 2722)
Authors: Reisdoerfer Joseph 
Published: April 2015

ZUSAMMENFASSUNGIm Rahmen unseres Artikels edieren wir zum ersten Mal die lateinische Version BHL 2722 der Vita Sanctae Euphrosynae aus der Hs. Bib. mun. Valenciennes 0168, fol. 211r-212v. Die Einleitung gibt kurze Angaben zu der Heiligen selbst (Alexandria, 5. Jh. n.Chr.?), zum hagiographischen Dossier und, besonders wichtig, zu der Monachoparthenos- Thematik: Ein junges Mädchen als Mönch verkleidet versteckt sich in einem Männerkloster. Die Edition folgt soweit wie möglich dem tradierten Manuskripttext; Wort- und Sacherklärungen sowie Interpretationsansätze fi ndet man in den beigefügten Fußnoten.
Diskussion / Discussion: Ist der Soter in Ptolemäus’ Epistula ad Floram der Demiurg? Zu einer These von Christoph Markschies
Authors: Schmid Herbert 
Published: April 2015

AbstractSome years ago, Christoph Markschies suggested a new interpretation of the diffi cult passage 3,6 in Ptolemy’s Epistula ad Floram: The Creator/Demiurge and the Redeemer/ Soter are identical, therefore Ptolemy did not hold the Gnostic teachings that Irenaeus attributes to him. This article is a reply to Markschies’ suggestion. It offers an analysis of what Ptolemy, in the entire Epistula ad Floram, has to say about the Creator and the Redeemer. This leads to the conclusion that Markschies’ interpretation of the passage 3,6 is not probable; for Ptolemy, the Creator and the Redeemer are in fact two different characters and are clearly distinguished from each other: While the Creator is an intermediate being, the Redeemer shares in the nature of the perfect God.
Echtheitskritische Überlegungen zur Praefatio von Prudenzens Gesamtwerk
Authors: Gärtner Thomas 
Published: April 2015

AbstractIn the present paper it is tried to call in doubt the authenticity of the fourth stanza of Prudentius’ introductory poem (the ninth and eleventh stanza were deleted by Christian Gnilka). It is argued that after the deletion of these three stanzas the dichotomic structure of the introductory poem will become more transparent.
Diskussion / Discussion: Individuality in Some Gnostic Authors: With a few remarks on the interpretation of Ptolemaeus, Epistula ad Floram
Authors: Markschies Christoph 
Published: April 2015

ZUSAMMENFASSUNGUm die Systembildungen der valentinianischen Gnosis angemessen zu verstehen, muss man sich fragen, inwieweit die in den philosophierenden Kunstmythen dieser Schulrichtung erwähnten Figuren “Individuen” sind. Zu diesem Zweck wird zunächst die sogenannte Grande Notice bei Irenaeus (Haer. 1,1,1-1,8,5 part.) vor dem Hintergrund mittelplatonischer und neupythagoreischer Texte untersucht. Es zeigt sich dabei, dass die sogenannten “Ewigkeiten” (Kontrafakturen der platonischen Ideen) wie auch die Ideen nicht als “unabhängige Individuen” verstanden werden können. Ein solches, klassisch gewordenes Verständnis entspricht vielmehr der häresiologischen Strategie der antignostischen Mehrheitschristen, Gnostiker als nichtchristliche Polytheisten zu denunzieren. Diese Interpretation wird sodann auf den Brief des stadtrömischen Valentinianers Ptolemaeus an die Matrone Flora angewendet. Es wird dabei deutlich (gegen die von Herbert Schmid jüngst in dieser Zeitschrift [ZAC 15,2 (2011): 249-271] vorgetragene Deutung), dass in diesem Text Erlöser und Weltschöpfer “in irgendeinem Verhältnis der Identität” stehen. Eine schlichte Interpretation als zwei separierte Identitäten, wie sie Schmid vorträgt, wird jedenfalls dem Text und seinem erkennbaren Hintergrund in der platonisch-neupythagoreischen Zahlentheorie nicht gerecht.
Der schlechtere Weg ist das Ziel: Zum Leitbild des Philosophen in den Biographien des Eunapios
Authors: Becker Matthias 
Published: April 2015

AbstractMany studies that deal with the Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists of Eunapius conclude that the Platonist philosophers portrayed in this collective biography avoided the general public and civic life of the cities. As a result, Eunapius is said to favour the philosophical retreat (anachoresis) from society and political activity. A close reading, however, shows that Eunapius quite subtly even criticizes this avoidance of the limelight. While acknowledging the central importance of contemplation, he argues that it is a crucial aspect of the pagan identity that philosophers use their teaching positions to reach out for potential future intellectuals and uneducated laymen alike. This almost missionary role of the philosopher in society is motivated by the growing importance of imperial Christianity on the one hand, and by an ethics of philanthropy on the other. It is the intention of Eunapius to substitute a tendency to escape from the world for a type of social behaviour that is reminiscent of Socrates.
Phytoplankton in a tropical estuary, Northeast Brazil: composition and life forms
Authors: Aquino Eveline P. , Borges Gislayne C. P. , Honorato-da-Silva Marcos , Passavante José Zanon O. , Silva-Cunha Maria G. G. S. 
Published: April 2015

We aimed verify the composition of the phytoplankton community and this life forms that occur in the Capibaribe River estuary, Pernambuco, Brazil. This is a highly impacted ecosystem by anthropic activities. We collected samples of the phytoplankton community at three stations, during three months of each season: dry, from October to December 2010; rainy, from May to July 2011. We collected samples during the low and high tide, at the spring tide. We classified the species based on life forms. We identified 127 taxa, and the majority of species were freshwater planktonic form (FP; 30%), followed by marine oceanic planktonic (MOP; 25%), marine neritic tichoplanktonic (MNT; 22%) and planktonic (MNP; 19%,), and tichoplanktonic estuarine (TE; 3%) and freshwater (TF; 1%). The majority of species identified were diatoms, since it assumes the most variability of life forms, therefore enabling its presence in the different portions at the estuary.
Cross-Border Visualities and the Canadian Image
Authors: Straw Will 
Published: April 2015

This article examines a number of images (photographs, film extracts, paintings) which stage particular relationships between Canada and the United States. A recurrent feature of Canadian images is the co-presence within them of elements which are recognizably from both Canada and the United States. Analyzing several images marked by this co-presence, the article explores the various ways in which the proximity of Canadian and non-Canadian elements may be seen to express broader cultural or social-political relationships between two national entities. Cet article examine plusieurs images (photographies, extraits de films, tableaux) qui présentent des relations bien définies entre le Canada et les États-Unis. Une particularité récurrente dans les images canadiennes est la coprésence à l'intérieur d'elles d'éléments provenant manifestement des États-Unis ainsi que du Canada. En analysant plusieurs images marquées de cette coprésence, l'article explore les manières variées dont la proximité d'éléments canadiens et non-canadiens peut exprimer des relations plus vastes sur le plan culturel ou socio-politique entre deux nations.
The Vanished Child: An inquiry into figures and their modes of appearance
Authors: Gervais Bertrand 
Published: April 2015

Sophie Calle's texts are elaborate devices that facilitate the production of figures, of complex symbolic entities. In fact, her work enables us to better understand how figures emerge and unfold in the imaginary. Thus, we find in her Disparitions (Disappearances), a startling figure, which we can name the "Vanished Child". I will present this figure and explain how it stems from the description of a painting by Rembrandt, stolen at the Gardner Museum in Boston. I will start by identifying some of the essential processes implied in the identification of a figure, and, to do so, I will give two short examples, drawn from Witold Gombrowicz and Don DeLillo. Then, after having described in details the figure of the Vanished Child, I will argue, following the French art historian Georges Didi-Huberman in his reading of Walter Benjamin, that figures are auratic objects. Dans ses textes, Sophie Calle emploie des techniques détaillées qui facilitent la production de figures, d'entités symboliques complexes. Son œuvre nous permet effectivement de mieux comprendre comment les figures émergent et se déploient dans l'imaginaire. Ainsi, nous trouvons dans ses Disparitions (Disappearances) une figure surprenante que nous pouvons désigner comme « l'enfant disparu ». Je présenterai cette figure en expliquant comment elle découle de la description d'un tableau de Rembrandt volé au musée Gardner à Boston. J'identifierai d'abord quelques-uns des procédés essentiels à l'identification d'une figure, et pour ce faire je donnerai deux exemples, tirés des œuvres de Witold Gombrowicz et Don DeLillo. Puis je décrirai de façon détaillée la figure de l'enfant disparu, avant de démontrer le caractère auratique des figures à partir de la lecture de Walter Benjamin qu'exécute l'historien de l'art français Georges Didi-Huberman.
SUPERSTRUMPS: THE CARD GAME WITH A MISSION
Authors: Moore Syd , Wigmore Heidi , Esan Oluyinka 
Published: April 2015

The artist interview in this dossier is an example of collaborative work between an artist and a writer. It is a showcase of how popular culture can be re-appropriated. The interviewees are the co-creators of the card game Superstrumps developed to address the issue of stereotyping of women. In the interview, they recount the process of creating the game involving other women from their local community. This exemplifies how a strategy for resisting and reclaiming identities undermined by negative labelling is developed. Their views are strongly shaped by their feminist principles. The interview acknowledges the complex nature of identities, the challenge of media representation and the symbiotic relationship between media and audiences is revealed.
RETHINKING BITUMEN: FROM “BULLSHIT” TO A “MATTER OF CONCERN”
Authors: Gordon Jonathan 
Published: April 2015

What is the current state of discourse about bitumen and how might it be changed? Philosopher Harry Frankfurt defines “bullshit” as any attempt at persuasion that is “unconnected to a concern with the truth” (Frankfurt). By looking at a variety of recent examples from the debates over bitumen extraction, “Rethinking Bitumen” argues that these debates have many of the characteristics that Frankfurt ascribes to “bullshit.” It is argued further that the debate’s disconnect from a concern with truth is rooted in what Bruno Latour calls “matters of fact” (“Critique” 226). Attempts to persuade are built on “matters of fact”—which can be debunked by both sides as ideological—when they should be founded on the ecological consciousness of what Latour calls “matters of concern” (ibid.) Literature offers one means of effecting this transition from “matters of fact” to “matters of concern.” This article considers Marc Prescott’s play Fort Mac as one example of a literary text that creates an opportunity for engaging in ecological thinking about bitumen and for deploying affect and sensation to change the prevailing values about it, to see bitumen as a “matter of concern.”
THIS IS NOT A PIPELINE: THOUGHTS ON THE POLITICO-AESTHETICS OF OIL
Authors: Pendakis Andrew , Biemann Ursula 
Published: April 2015

This piece is a dialogue between Andrew Pendakis and video artist Ursula Biemann. In it they attempt to work through questions pertaining to the aesthetics of petroculture: How can one represent oil? Is there a generalized aesthetics of oil? What are the linkages between oil and secrecy? What strategies are best avoided in attempting to force into visibility the complex realities of oil culture?
PORTRAITS D’UN IMAGINAIRE DE L’AVANT-GARDE : LE CARRÉ NOIR SUR FOND BLANC DE KAZIMIR MALEVITCH ET SES RÉINCARNATIONS ARTISTIQUES
Authors: Cloutier Geneviève 
Published: April 2015

Kazimir Malevitch’s “Black Square” (1915) is one of the most recycled paintings in recent art history. More or less successfully, respectfully or ironically, artists from all around have gleefully reproduced it, ridiculed it, embezzled it and recycled it. In Russia, such has been the gravity of this phenomenon for the last thirty years, so that, it led to contemporary Russian art not being perceived as derived from Malevitch but on Malevitch. By retracing the long and tumultuous history of “Black Square” and its numerous artistic ‘reincarnations,’ this essay focuses on what these practices of reproduction tell us about the attitude of artists towards “Black Square” itself but also, perhaps mainly, about their relationship to an avant-garde with a controversial heritage of which this painting became the icon.
THE AESTHETICS OF VIOLENCE AND POWER IN ULI EDEL’S DER BAADER MEINHOF KOMPLEX
Authors: Soltau Noah 
Published: April 2015

The confluence of art, politics, and aesthetics has a troubled and troubling history, and the article reflects on that by examining the aesthetics of Uli Edel’s filmDer Baader Meinhof Komplex in terms of its use of iconic historical and—in terms of film history—stereotypical images. The absence of conventional narrative structures in the film opens it up to methods of understanding and critique that use image and montage as a means of analysis, rather than examining a cogent (because absent) narrative. By cataloguing the use of different genre conventions and iconic film images and tropes, the article points toward the development of a “terror(ism)” genre.
ASKEW POSITIONS—SCHIEFLAGEN: DEPICTIONS OF CHILDREN IN GERMAN TERRORISM FILMS
Authors: Stehle Maria 
Published: April 2015

This essay discusses the appearance of children in films that negotiate the legacies of West left-wing German and global terrorism. The four films discussed in this essay depict children in Schieflagen (askew positions), but use these images to create rather different political messages. InDeutschland im Herbst (1978), Die bleierene Zeit(1981) and Innere Sicherheit (2000), children are melodramatic devices that convey a sense of national tragedy, nostalgia for “innocence,” and/or a nationally coded sense of hope. As opposed to representing such an uncanny mixture between melodramatic victim and national symbol, children in the recent film collaborationDeutschland 09 (2009) are the face of the present. Deutschland 09 depicts children as disconnected from German history, which relieves them of the burden of national representation and, as a result, offers a potential for a less normative and more diverse perspective on Germany’s history and present. While their missing connection to national history leaves them to appear detached and confused, this confusion can be read as a search for different understandings of history and belonging in twenty-first century Germany.
Prediction of Remaining Life in Pipes using Machine Learning from Thickness Measurements
Authors: Sharifi Mona , Yao Ke-Thia , Raghavendra S. , Ershaghi Iraj , House Robert , Blouin Jacques 
Published: April 2015

Abstract
Offshore oil and gas platforms facilities include extensive piping components, pressure vessels, and other equipment. These are monitored regularly to minimize non-conformances for safety and integrity of platforms. This paper focuses on using field measurements of thickness in pipes to alert engineers to take appropriate actions when thickness falls below the minimum thickness. Data from the field at various thickness measurement locations (TMLs) are used to analyze for finding anomalies. Inspectors periodically measure at TMLs on pipes and record the thickness values. Based on these measurements they determine the remaining life time at a location before thickness falls below the minimum thickness. They do this by estimating corrosion rates and then calculate the next measurement date. When the measured thickness value at a TML is below the minimum they will issue action reports. With multiple measurements of thickness values at TMLs, we have developed a machine learning framework and algorithms to generate action alerts before corrosion lead to non-conformances. This approach is based on machine learning techniques to learn from examples when certain TMLs will have below the minimum thickness. Such alert prediction models are from a purely data driven approach and can help in prioritizing inspection schedule. The results show that our approach using machine learning is effective in capturing potential nonconformances in TMLs.
A Practical Approach to History-Matching Water-recycling in Waterflood Reservoir Simulation - Method and Case Studies in South Belridge Diatomite Waterflood
Authors: Yang Zhengming , Urdaneta Alfredo H. 
Published: April 2015

Abstract
Premature water breakthrough (water recycling) negatively affects waterfloods in low permeability, naturally fractured reservoirs such as the South Belridge Diatomite. Water recycling reduces the effectiveness of waterflooding by partially or entirely bypassing the reservoir matrix where most of the reservoir fluids are stored. Reservoir simulation is handicapped by the inability to accurately characterize the architecture and dynamic nature of the natural and induced fractures that yield high conductivity flow paths between injectors and producers. Generally, reservoir simulation can only represent the effective fluid flow by ignoring the ineffective water production that bypasses the matrix.
Detailed production performance analysis yields a practical approach to history-match the waterflood process under premature water breakthrough conditions. Basic reservoir rock-fluid flow characterization parameters must be tuned by history-match of primary production before water injection related effects dominate fluid flow under waterflooding. An analytical waterflood method is used to diagnose premature water breakthrough on a well-to-well basis and to calculate the volume of ineffective water injection. Effective injection and water production volumes are recalculated and used to achieve a history-match that honors oil production, reservoir pressure and injection/production volume balance. A field-scale case study is presented to demonstrate the application of the proposed approach.
Practical Concerns and Principle Guidelines for Screening, Implementation, Design, and Optimization of Low Salinity Waterflooding
Authors: Dang Cuong T.Q. , Nguyen Ngoc T.B. , Chen Zhangxin 
Published: April 2015

Summary
Low Salinity Waterflooding (LSW) is an emerging attractive enhanced oil recovery method; however, the concept of LSW is relatively new and, most references focus only on the experimental and theoretical work, with somewhat contradictory results. This paper presents a systematic research to address the practical key points and various aspects of LSW design and development in terms of reservoir screening, fluid design, well placement, geological impact, and process optimization.
The starting point of this research is to analyze and compile a wide range of published results in the past twenty years. The general observations and proposed mechanisms are examined against each other to reveal the main reasons of the incremental oil recovery by LSW. Among the proposed hypotheses, wettability alteration towards more water wetness has been found as the main mechanism of LSW. Up to now, this hypothesis has been widely accepted and rigorously supported by recent explorations and results in this research area. Although LSW has been proven that it can significantly improve the ultimate oil recovery, injection of low salinity brine is not always guaranteed for an incremental oil recovery as indicated by several failure projects in promising reservoir candidates in the past. To overcome this challenge, a pre-screening criterion for LSW and hybrid LSW is introduced by taking into account the crucial effects of reservoir characterizations as well as facilities and operating conditions. Subsequently, we address the important key points for a LSW injection fluid design and the critical role of clay and well placement to the LSW performance. Finally, we discuss several effective approaches to maximize oil recovery in a LSW project.
Hollow-Glass Sphere Application in Drilling Fluids: Case Study
Authors: Minhas Arminder , Friess Brandon , Shirkavand Farid , Hucik Barry , Pena-Bastidas Teresa , Ross Bradley , Servinski Shawn , Angyal Frank 
Published: April 2015

Abstract
In an effort to continuously optimize drilling operations and economics, an operator examined the impact of adding hollow-glass spheres (HGS) directly to the drilling fluid formulation instead of performing underbalanced drilling operations. Both nitrogen and HGS were believed to reduce hydrostatic pressure of the mud column in the hole, resulting in higher drilling rates of penetration (ROP) and fewer mud losses to the wellbore.
Invert emulsion fluid was blended with HGS on three drilling rigs using a specialized, environmentally acceptable mixing system to help reduce density. HGS concentration and fluid density were monitored and maintained while drilling over the period of one to three weeks for these three wells. The proper type of centrifuge and its setup is fundamental to maintaining low-gravity solids (LGS) at an acceptable level for proper fluid management while maintaining the desired concentration of HGS.
Drilling mud density was reduced, as expected, and mud loss was minimized as a result. Overall costs were reduced because of less invert emulsion fluid loss, a reduction in the amount of lost-circulation material mixed compared to previous wells in the area, and less time spent on the drilling rig attributed to not having to stop to mix lost-circulation material or prepare new invert emulsion fluid volumes to replace losses. A significant ROP increase was not observed during this trial. The addition of HGS is a cost-effective solution to help reduce fluid loss in the Kakwa field of the Western Canadian Sedimentary basin. This trial helped reduce overall rig time, and fluid loss experienced was less than in previous wells in which this technology was not used.
This paper provides information on HGS as an economic alternative to nitrogen to help reduce the hydrostatic pressure of invert emulsion drilling fluids using a small-footprint, environmentally acceptable mixing system.