bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The new curses of tomb space
Authors: Woodard Ben 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
In the 1980s, the United States Department of Energy created The Human Interference Task Force, a group of semioticians, physicists, science-fiction writers and anthropologists tasked with creating an everlasting warning to prevent future beings from unintentionally disturbing nuclear waste repositories. The proposed systems ranged from warning orbital satellites to glowing radioactive cat companions, to setting up an atomic priest hood, to surrounding the site with giant black thorns. These paranoic strategies of radical closure can be further examined in comparison and contradiction to the openness of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in which massive quantities of pure water are housed in order to detect the passage of weakly interacting neutrinos. This site of inviting invasion is at the same time isolated and buried deep in the earth. These two examples demonstrate that the attempt to combat and the attempt to welcome contingency involve complex and twisted modes of closure and openness as demonstrated by the work of Reza Negarestani. By investigating these models, I hope to investigate how the intimacies of geological formation cross into and disrupt the purported stability of space (both as outer space and abstract space) in relation to chemistry, both inorganic and astrobiological.
Adaptation, underground
Authors: Watts Peter 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
I review the thematically-linked articles presented in the current issue, from the perspective of a naïve outsider with dual citizenship in the disciplines of fiction and biology. The parallels Nic Clear (‘Refreshingly Unconcerned With The Vulgar Exigencies of Veracity and Value Judgement: The Utopian Visions of Iain M Banks’ The Culture and Constant’s New Babylon’) draws between the scenarios of Iain Banks’ ‘Culture’ and Nieuwenhuys’s ‘New Babylon’ may highlight cognitive estrangement as a prerequisite (or perhaps, an inevitable side-effect) of Utopia. Nandita Mellamphy compares the biological ecology central to Frank Herbert’s Dune books with Laruelle’s ‘generic ecology’ in ‘Terra-&-Terror Ecology: Secrets from the Arrakeen Underground’; while I have misgivings about the misappropriation of biological terminology, I do not dispute the central assertion that the only path to success in an ecological context may be through surrender. Felix Robbins’ evolving architectural constructs (‘Unstable grounds: investigating ulterior spaces for practicing’) strongly echo – perhaps inadvertently – the ‘biomorphs’ created by Richard Dawkins to illustrate evolutionary principles. Ben Woodward’s ‘The new curses of tomb space’ – a rumination on subterranean aspects of both scientific exploration and the environmental consequences of nuclear technology along deep timescales – is, of all the papers presented, perhaps the most literally tied to the issue’s theme of ‘Chthonic Deluge’. However, all four works may be more tightly bound by evolutionary metaphors than by subterranean ones.
Truths, lies and telling silences in Gutiérrez Alea’s The Last Supper and Pontecorvo’s Burn!
Authors: Miller Marilyn G. 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
This article explores the special challenges inherent in filmic depictions of New World slavery, and examines how directors Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Gillo Pontecorvo address these obstacles respectively. Through explicit and implicit recourse to narrative and factual falsehoods, The Last Supper and Burn! both attempt to correct the partial text of history by situating their enslaved characters at the centre of the action and providing them a space in which to express resistance through voice, gesture and determined silence. While each author works from an anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist political stance characteristic of revolutionary film-making in the 1960s and 1970s, significant differences in production environments and directorial decisions regarding the historical record affected each film’s ability to convey the ‘truth’ of Caribbean slavery. Despite the relative successes and failures of each film, I argue that both remain useful tools for fleshing out a textual history in which the enslaved are rarely portrayed as the principal actors of historical events.
Retratos ‘impertinentes’: Homosexualidad, transexualidad y travestismo en el cine español de la Transición
Authors: Esteve Laia Quílez 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
Many Spanish film-makers who began their careers in the years immediately following the death of Franco felt the urgency to recover through their works all the freedoms that the repression and censorship of the forty years of the Franco regime had disrupted in such violent and radical ways. This was a moment of transition, in which some films emerged that finally dared to question the prevailing public opinion and proposed approaches to reality and national history that were decidedly unorthodox and polemical. Among this group of films, which included both documentary and fictional works, a number approached the hitherto interdicted themes of homosexuality, transsexuality and transvestism.
This article proposes to investigate how and why titles such as Cambio de sexo/Change of Sex (Aranda, 1976), El transexual/The Transsexual (Jara, 1977), Ocaña, retrat intermitent/Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait (Pons, 1978) and Un hombre llamado Flor de Otoño/A Man Called Autumn Flower (Olea, 1978) came to stand as sites of transgression – that is, as ‘impertinent’ portraits – in a libertarian Spain. The eagerness of this transitional generation to make films based on previously prohibited themes was inevitably bound to face resistance from various quarters.
Film-poetry/poetry-film in Latin America. Theories and practices: An introduction
Authors: Bollig Ben , Wood David M. J. 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
This special issue of Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas is dedicated to the seldom-studied relationship between poetry and cinema in Latin America. Although studies both of the ‘poetics of cinema’ and of literary adaptation in cinema have become established areas of film scholarship in recent years, the diverse modes of formal, aesthetic and ideological exchange between the poetic and the cinematic have received little critical attention. The authors included in this issue analyze the work of film-makers from the 1960s to the present day who have included poetry in their film narratives or aimed to recreate the aesthetics of poets cinematically. We ask, in the broadest terms, how film and poetry transform one another, and how these two expressive media behave when placed into dialogue. We hope that the lines of enquiry that these articles open up will reinvigorate the discussion by shedding light on the cross-fertilization between written and filmed poetry, and by extending the scope of the traditionally prose-oriented debate on adaptation.
Velocidad y desorientación en Punctum de Martín Gambarotta y Silvia Prieto de Martín Rejtman
Authors: Ceresa Constanza 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
Martín Gambarotta’s collection of poetry, Punctum (1996), and Martín Rejtman’s film Silvia Prieto (1999) are significant examples of the cultural transformations that took place in Argentina during the 1990s. Both works show the effects of market logic in social space, speech and on new subjectivities. However, this article proposes that the emancipatory character of Punctum and Silvia Prieto goes beyond the mere ‘exposure’ of the corrosive effects of neoliberalism in everyday life. By way of an analysis of certain scenes and poems, this article will discuss how, by taking a critical position ‘within’ present social relations of production (and therefore, their mediations), these works reveal a critique of neoliberalism through an ‘economy of language’ that frustrates mercantile logic, by submitting its rapid mediations to the effects of anti-narrative.
Manoel de Barros in film: The nature of language and the language of nature
Authors: Müller Adalberto 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
My concern here is to discuss three adaptations of Brazilian poet Manoel de Barros’ work to cinema: Joel Pizzini’s (1986) prizewinning Caramujo-Flor, my own short Wenceslau e a árvore do gramofone (2008) and Pedro César’s documentary Só dez por cento é mentira (2008). I use the word ‘adaptation’ ironically, because actually the three films are everything but adaptations. They are rather ‘devices’ created to somehow ‘read’ and interpret Manoel de Barros’ poetry in cinematic terms. In doing so, they compel cinematographic language to change its ‘nature’ just as nature compels Manoel de Barros to change his poetry. I also clarify the distinction between poetry and cinema, and expansive terms such as Pasolini’s ‘cinema di poesia’ and Jean Cocteau’s ‘poésie de cinéma’, aiming to illuminate the possible connections between art forms apparently diametrically opposed to one another in the way they function relative to their media. In other words, poetry and cinema can live together as long as some process of intermediality takes place.
Percepción cultural entre residentes extranjeros y habitantes locales en un destino turístico mexicano. El caso de estadounidenses en Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
Authors: Lizárraga Omar 
Published: July 2014

El artículo reúne, a partir de un trabajo etnográfico, las opiniones y percepciones mutuas que tienen los habitantes locales y los turistas residenciales de origen estadounidense que llegan a Mazatlán, Sinaloa; un destino turístico ubicado en el noroeste de México.Se realizaron entrevistas a profundidad a estadounidenses que residen en Mazatlán temporal o permanentemente, así como a habitantes locales de todos los estratos socioeconómicos. El análisis pone énfasis a los rasgos culturales percibidos de manera general por parte de cada grupo, así como la opinión personal sobre la llegada de extranjeros a este destino.Parte de estas entrevistas son presentadas textualmente en el artículo y posteriormente analizadas e interpretadas.
Bipositions and motion events: How verb semantics motivates prepositional vs. postpositional uses of Finnish path adpositions
Authors: Lehismets Kersten 
Published: July 2014

Abstract Finnish is one of the relatively few languages that have bipositions - adpositions that can be used both prepositionally and postpositionally. From a typological point of view, the class of bipositions is quite rare (Hagège 2010: 124). Prepositional and postpositional usages of Finnish bipositions may show remarkable differences, which are not only of stylistic but also of semantic nature. Semantic differences, for instance, may pertain to the opposition between actual and subjective motion. In this article, I discuss constructions containing the Finnish path adpositions (P-ADPs) läpi ‘through’ and yli ‘over, across’ and investigate the semantics of the verbs used in these constructions. I show that semantically more schematic motion verbs prefer postpositions, whereas more specific or contentful ones (such as those that elaborate the motion by emphasizing its incrementality or lack of directionality) prefer prepositions
Boundedness of certain singular integrals along surfaces
on Triebel–Lizorkin spaces
Authors: Liu Feng , Wu Huoxiong , Zhang Daiqing 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
In this paper, we give a criterion
of boundedness for the operators of convolution type on
Triebel–Lizorkin spaces. As applications, under
rather weak size conditions, the bounds for the singular integrals
along certain compound surfaces on the above function spaces are
obtained. Some previous results are improved and extended.
Measuring Sunk Costs in Agricultural and Food Industry Assets: Why Some Assets Sell Below Appraisal
Authors: Boland Michael A. , Crespi John M. , Turner Tracy M. 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
Asset obsolescence or external obsolescence isa decline in the economic value of capital because ofa decrease in demand for the capital’s services. Measurements of sunk costs typically use appraised values of capital. In food and agricultural industries facing asset obsolescence due to government policy, appraised values may be greatly overstated and this has implications for research on industrial structure. A theoretical model to account for the appraisal error is developed and the method is applied to the U.S. sugar beet industry. The sugar beet industry displays symptoms of asset obsolescence. Our estimates indicate that plant appraisals using currently accepted practices greatly overstated the true value of these assets in 2006.
Enhancement of mechanical properties of polypropylene by blending with styrene-(ethylene-butylene)-styrene tri-block copolymer
Authors: Drozdov Aleksey D. , Sanporean Catalina-Gabriela , de C. Christiansen Jesper 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
Observations are reported in impact tests, uniaxial tensile tests with various strain rates, relaxation tests with various strains and cyclic tests with a mixed deformation program and various maximum strains per cycle on neat polypropylene (PP) and a blend of PP with styrene-(ethylene-butylene)-styrene copolymer (SEBS). Experimental data demonstrate a pronounced enhancement of impact resistance of PP due to the presence of an impact modifier, accompanied by improvement of its properties under low-speed loading, observed as a decrease in relaxation rate and residual strain under cyclic deformation. Material constants in constitutive equations are determined by matching the experimental data. Correlations are established between changes in the viscoelastoplastic response of PP and evolution of its microstructure induced by the presence of an impact modifier.
Development of [62Zn/62Cu]-DOTA-rituximab as a possible novel in
vivo PET generator for anti-CD20 antigen imaging
Authors: Gholipour Nazila , Jalilian Amir R. , Fazaeli Yousef , Sabzevari Omid , Moradkhani Sedigheh , Bolourinovin Fateme , Khalaj Ali 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
In this study, zinc-62 was prepared at radiopharmaceutical grade (for
62Zn/62Cu generator production) using
natCu(p, xn) reaction with the production yield of
5.9 mCi/μAh
at 30 MeV proton energy (radiochemical
separation yield >95%, radionuclidic purity >99% and
radiochemical purity >99%). In the next step, rituximab was
successively labeled with [62Zn]-ZnCl2 after conjugation
with p-SCN-Bz-DOTA followed by molecular filtration and determination of the
average number of DOTA conjugated per mAb (6:1) by spectrophotometric
method. Radiochemical purity (>97%, measured by ITLC and HPLC),
integrity of protein after radiolabeling (gel electrophoresis) and stability
of [62Zn]-DOTA-rituximab (in final formulation, and human serum)
were determined 1–8 h as well as biodistribution studies in
wild-type rats followed by coincidence imaging for 6 h. However,
the accumulation of the radiolabeled antibody was not consistent with the
former reported rituximab conjugates. [62Zn]-labeled monoclonal
antibodies and fragments can be prepared as potential in vivo PET
generators for molecular imaging however, the search for application of stable
zinc complexes must be continued.
Addition of Al2O3 nanoparticles to bentonite: effects on surface charge and Cd sorption properties
Authors: Mayordomo Natalia , Alonso Ursula , Missana Tiziana , Benedicto Ana , García-Gutiérrez Miguel 
Published: July 2014

ABSTRACTCompacted bentonite barrier in radioactive waste repositories is expected to prevent radionuclide migration, due to its high sorption capability for many radionuclides. This study analyses whether the addition of Al2O3 nanoparticles (NPs) enhances the sorption properties of bentonite. The study was carried out with 109Cd, highly pollutant heavy metal and divalent fission product. Sorption experiments were conducted in NaClO4 at different ionic strengths (5·10-4 to 10-1 M) and pH (2 to 10), using mixtures of sodium homoionised bentonite and Al2O3 in different proportions.It has been probed that addition of Al2O3 NPs to bentonite enhances Cd sorption at pH higher than 6. The effect of Al2O3 NPs addition on the surface properties of bentonite colloids was also analyzed by measuring particle size and surface charge in all studied systems.
Interpretation of Knudsen Cell Experiments to determine the Instant Release Fraction in Spent Fuel Corrosion Scenarios by using a Mechanistic Approach: the Caesium Case
Authors: Serrano-Purroy Daniel , de las Heras Laura Aldave , Glatz Jean-Paul , Benes Ondrej , Colle Jean Yves , Sureda Rosa , González-Robles Ernesto , de Pablo Joan , Casas Ignasi , Barrachin Marc , Dubourg Roland , Martínez-Esparza Aurora 
Published: July 2014

ABSTRACTThe Knudsen Effusion Mass Spectrometer (KEMS) and the mechanistic MFPR (Module for Fission Product Release) code are tools which seem particularly interesting to support studies of the Instant Release Fraction (IRF) of Cs from spent nuclear fuel in a final repository. With KEMS, the thermal release of 137Cs and 136Xe were analysed by annealing up to total vaporization (2500K) of high burn-up (60 GWd/tU) Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) samples. Powder samples from the centre of the fuel, without high burn-up structure, were used. To determine the IRF, samples were analysed before and after being submitted to corrosion experiments in bicarbonated aqueous media.MFPR was applied to determine the localization of Cs and fission gases in the SNF at the end of irradiation; the results are compared and supported by dedicated thermodynamics calculations performed for equilibrium conditions at various temperatures and fuel oxygen potentials by the non-ideal thermodynamic MEPHISTA (Multiphase Equilibria in Fuels via Standard Thermodynamic Analysis) database. A possible mechanism for Cs release during thermal annealing is proposed, taking into account inter-granular release and Cs oxide vaporization, atomic diffusion, ternary oxide phase formation and bubble release.Differences in KEMS release profiles before and after submitting the samples to aqueous corrosion are attributed to the IRF and to changes in the vaporisation mechanism because of differences in the oxygen potential (pO2). The IRF of Cs estimated from the KEMS spectra, consisting on the part located at the grain boundaries and in inter-granular bubbles, is not significantly different from that corresponding to the experimental results found using classical static leaching experiments.New experimental campaigns are being designed to confirm our interpretation proposed after this first run.
Design of a New Reactor to Work at Low Volume Liquid/Surface Solid Ratio and High Pressure and Temperature: Dissolution Rate Studies of UO2Under Both Anoxic and Reducing Conditions.
Authors: Martínez-Torrents A. , Giménez J. , Casas I. , de Pablo J. 
Published: July 2014

ABSTRACTA flow-through experimental reactor has been designed in order to perform studies at both high pressure and high temperature conditions. A chromatographic pump is used to impulse the leachant throughout the reactor in order to work at very low flows but high pressures. Therefore, high surface solid to volume leachant ratios, similar to the ones predicted in the final repository, can be obtained. The reactor allows working at different atmospheres at pressures up to 50 bars. The temperature inside the reactor can be set using a jacket.Using this new reactor the evolution of uranium concentrations released from an UO2sample was studied at different conditions.The results show that at hydrogen pressures between 5 and 7 bars, hydrogen peroxide does not seem to significantly oxidize the uranium (IV) oxide. Uranium concentrations in those experiments remain between 10-8mol·l-1and 10-9mol·l-1.
A Study of Natural Metamict Yttrium Niobate as Analogue of Actinide Ceramic Waste Form
Authors: Qiuxiang Cao , Isakov Anton I. , Xiaodong Liu , Krivovichev Sergey V. , Burakov Boris E. 
Published: July 2014

ABSTRACTNatural metamict mineral found as large (1-3 cm in size) homogeneous grains (as assumed, former single crystals), was investigated by X-ray powder diffraction (pXRD), high-temperature pXRD, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electron microprobe analysis (EMPA). The average chemical composition obtained by EMPA is (wt. %): Nb2O5 – 42.6; Ta2O5 – 4.4; TiO2 – 9.2; UO3 – 4.4; ThO2 – 1.0; MnO – 1.3; FeO – 19.4; Y2O3 – 16.6.The untreated (original) sample is X-ray amorphous. The sample remained amorphous after annealing at 400 °C for 1 hour. The sample became almost fully crystalline after annealing at 700 °C for 1 hour with an X-ray diffraction pattern similar to that of Fe-columbite (ICCD: 01-074-7356). Further annealing at 1000 °C and higher temperatures caused changes in the phase composition of the sample. It was proposed that under self-irradiation a single-phase U-Th-bearing solid solution, based on monocrystalline Y-niobate, became metamict but remained homogeneous without evidence of solid solution destruction. However, this metamict solid solution is unstable under thermal treatment and recrystallization.
Molten Salt Synthesis of Zirconolite Polytypes
Authors: Gilbert M. R. 
Published: July 2014

ABSTRACTZirconolite (CaZrTi2O7), a durable and compositionally flexible titanate ceramic for the immobilization of separated actinides, is currently the UK’s preferred candidate phase for the immobilization of plutonium dioxide arising from aqueous reprocessing. Here, its suitability as a waste-form for actinide chlorides arising from pyrochemical reprocessing is investigated through synthesis via a molten salt mediated reaction using a number of different salt eutectics (MgCl2:NaCl, CaCl2:NaCl and KCl:NaCl). It is found that the effectiveness of the molten salt synthesis of zirconolite is governed by the solubility of ZrO2 in the salt medium used; the synthesis proceeding via the formation of a perovskite (CaTiO3) intermediate which then reacts with ZrO2 to form zirconolite via a solution-diffusion mechanism. Most notably, in the KCl:NaCl eutectic different zirconolite polytypes are formed at different synthesis temperatures, with zirconolite-3T forming at 900 °C, giving way to zirconolite-2M at 1200 °C.
Overwintering Biology of Egg Parasitoids of Dalbulus maidis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) on Perennial Grasses, Volunteer Maize, Stubble, and Drip-Irrigated Maize
Authors: Moya-Raygoza Gustavo , Becerra-Chiron Iskra M 
Published: July 2014

Abstract
Dalbulus maidis (DeLong & Wolcott) (Hemiptera: Ciaadellidae) is the most important leafhopper vector of maize plant pathogens in the Americas. However, until now, no study has investigated the overwintering biology of its egg parasitoids. The objective in this study was to find egg parasitoids of D.maidis in perennial grass, volunteer maize, stubble, and drip-irrigated maize habitats in the winter season. Two-week-old D. maidis females were allowed to oviposit on young maize plants for 72 h under laboratory conditions. The oviposited healthy D.maidis eggs (sentinel eggs) on the young maize plants were exposed to natural parasitism maintained on perennial grasses, volunteer maize, and stubble 2 mo after the onset of winter, and on perennial grasses, volunteer maize, and drip-irrigated maize at the end of winter. The abundance of D. maidis adults in these habitats was also determined. Two months after the start of winter, D.maidis eggs were parasitized by the wasp Oligosita sp. from perennial grasses and volunteer maize, whereas at the end of winter, the eggs were parasitized by the wasps Oligosita sp. and Anagrus columbi Perkins from perennial grasses, volunteer maize, and drip-irrigated maize. Overall, more adult parasitoids of D. maidis eggs were found on perennial grasses. Adult corn leafhoppers were absent from perennial grasses at the end of winter; however, other Deltocephalinae leafhopper species were present, suggesting that egg parasitoids of D. maidis use another leafhopper host during winter. Furthermore, adults of five Deltocephalinae species were parasitized by dryinids and strepsipterans throughout the 2012–2013 winter in perennial grasses.