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Visualizing the self in comedic pathos: Japanese autobiographical manga at the limit of multiculturalism
Authors: Amano Ikuho 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Since the 1960s, Japanese artists have utilized manga as an effective platform for life writing. In the twenty-first century the genre has visibly evolved around the theme of the transnational/cultural experience of each author, developing a significant size of readership and cultural market in Japan. One of the most prolific authors is Yamazaki Mari (1967–), whose fame is attributed to the success of her manga on comparative bath cultures, Thermae Romae (2008–13). On the other hand, artists of the previous decades used to create their autobiographical work after establishing a reputation for a number of masterpieces. This normative pattern became obsolete, and instead more recent artists have focused on their personal history and cultural experience to appeal to the contemporary readership. Yamazaki’s autobiographical manga, including Mo-retsu Italia kazoku/Ferocious! The Italian Family (2006) and Italia kazoku fu-rin kazan/The Italian Family, Serene but Daring (2010), prominently illustrates the formation of this emerging genre, reflecting the diversity of transnational/cultural realities that Japan faces today.
Is the Long March a dream? Imagination, nationalism and multiple declination of a real mythology
Authors: Neri Corrado 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Whilst the historical reality of the Long March is not to be questioned, many voices rise to question its details and the actual meaning of this myth-making page of Chinese history. This article analyses two complementary texts that offer compelling readings on the contemporary renegotiation of the national imaginary that the Long March informs. First, there will be a discussion of Wo de changzheng/My Long March (Zhai, 2005), a propaganda film celebrating the heroic retreat/expedition. This movie – among others – calls attention to the unfading genre of propaganda films that elaborate new and different forms of nation-building imaginary for the twenty-first century. I will later draw a parallel with the contemporary artist Feng Mengbo’s installation Long March: Restart (2009), contextualizing it in the movement of ‘art ludique’ or ‘entertainment art’ (as it has been brilliantly termed by Jean-Jacques Launier and Jean-Samuel Kriegk [2011]), which is both an individual and collective new art form redefining the boundaries between video game and museum, CGI special effects and comic books, and high- and low-brow consumption of cultural imaginary. What is particularly challenging in this parallel is that both the film and the installation could be viewed and appreciated in Beijing without censorship. The contemporary presence of both mainstream ‘main melody’ film and (possibly) subversive art, of state-sponsored entertainment and consumerist pleasure-driven art, has reshaped the field of visual culture in contemporary China, far from a clear-cut dichotomy of independent-official–propaganda-dissident.
Chinese minstrelsy: The popular cultural performance art of Jinhua Daoqing
Authors: Cooper Eugene 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
This article first describes the distinctive characteristics of Jinhua Daoqing, a shuo-chang (speak-sing) genre, traditionally performed by blind male practitioners (with yugu drum and clappers) on urban streets and in teahouses, in village squares and at temple fairs, weaving together traditional folk tales and stories, with commentary on more recent and local events. As a result, Daoqing was often called ‘Singing the News’ (chang xinwen), a kind of minstrelsy, with a communication as well as an entertainment function.
The article moves on to present the genre’s historical narrative, which stretches from its supposed origins with Daoist Immortal Zhang Guolao, through the Republican period (1911–49), when it was exceeded in popularity in Jinhua only by the local opera. Practitioners of Daoqing survived into the Communist period (1949–present), and some achieved considerable renown prior to the Cultural Revolution (1966–78), by tailoring their messages to the circumstances of the ‘new society’. Despite suppression during the Cultural Revolution, ‘underground’ performances were said to have been held, and during the early period of economic reform, the genre experienced a vibrant revival. Daoqing performers came out of the backrooms to perform in public once again, and local cultural offices held classes to train up a new generation of ‘sighted’ performers. But the genre faces new challenges in the world of expanding and globalizing media, and may not survive another generation. This article concludes by placing Daoqing performers alongside the musings of Walter Benjamin (1955) about storytellers as communicators in an ‘artisan mode of production’, increasingly eclipsed and superseded, nay, overwhelmed by new forms of media and multimedia.
Comedy, love, irony: On Mauritz Stillers Thomas Graals Best Film
Authors: Røssaak Eivind 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Mauritz Stillers Thomas Graals bästa film/Thomas Graals Best Film (1917) is a self-reflexive romantic comedy and has been called one of the cleverest films about film-making made in the silent era (Bordwell and Thompson 2003: 66). This article investigates the films correlations between love and metafiction and discusses some of the most striking differences between the Swedish and the American versions of the film. As in many silent comedies, the sight gag plays a dominant role. The article argues that in this film the sight gag is elaborated in an extended fashion more akin to romantic irony or what Friedrich Schlegel would call a permanent parabasis.
Pat and Patachon: A German comedy couple on the screen
Authors: Lange-Fuchs Hauke 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Fyrtaarnet og Bivognen was an exceedingly popular Danish comedy duo during the inter-war years, and not only in their homeland. This short article focuses on their successful transnational career, in particular the German-language market where they soon became known as Pat and Patachon.
The joiking Injuns: Interpreting (multi)cultural politics of parody in the music of the Finnish Western film
Authors: Kärjä Antti-Ville 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
In the article, the goal is to interrogate the cultural politics of parody in the context of Finnish Western films in relation to the framework of multicultural Finland. The analysis focuses on the films music, in order to accentuate specific audio-visual interpretive competences and to challenge the visual epistemologies that dominate film studies. Parody is approached as an interpretive strategy and linked to six dimensions of film parody: reiteration, inversion, misdirection, literalization, extraneous inclusion and exaggeration. This entails examining the films musical scenes in relation to the actors public personae, the musical conventions of the Western film genre and the representations of the ethnic Other. In conclusion, it is maintained that the parodic joking as an interpretive activity rests significantly on features that are deeply implicated in the construction of irrefutable ethnic differences, musically and otherwise.
Deadly serious? The role of disability in Adams Apples
Authors: Hättich Achim 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Adams Apples is a remarkable and sophisticated comedy despite incorporating a very severe disability. This condition is represented in an unusual manner, contrary to the fact that, theoretically and historically, comedy and disability share a common ground. In the context of this film, disability is not the target or focus of comedy but rather is entirely excepted from it.
Distinctions of Authenticity and the everyday punk self
Authors: Gordon Alastair 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
This article examines the construction authenticity of a particular UK DiY punk scene. Using ethnographic data gathered in 2001, it examines members’ reference to broader ethical ideological themes through an analysis of their interviews. I offer the model ‘Distinctions of Authenticity’, which identifies four key component strategies at work in the pursuit of self-authentication that have purchase for future work on punk authenticity studies. This model challenges reductionist models of a singular punk authenticity. In doing so it presents an approach to overcome what are identified as key gaps in subcultural research left by both traditional (BCCCS) subcultural research and later post-structuralist accounts that do not fully take into account the workings of micro-discourse in maintaining and constructing subcultural punk authenticity.
The need for healing: An interview with Martyn Bates
Authors: Loydell Rupert 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Martyn Bates is currently ‘semi-retired’ from performing, although he continues to be active as both a songwriter and solo artist, plus working as of the influential post-punk duo Eyeless in Gaza (with Peter Becker). Author of three books of lyrics (A Map Of The Stars In Summer (2008), Plague of Years (1997), Imagination Feels like Poison (1996)), Bates continues to create new work – with a slew of both new and archive material currently being readied for release on his own ‘fiercely independent – to the point of invisibility’ imprint Ambivalent Scale Recordings. Bates also works in conjunction with the former architect of World Serpent Distribution, Alan Trench – ‘Twelve Thousand Days’ – with Trench producing Bates’ Spring 2014 released solo album Arriving Fire. Among a slew of genre defying musics, Martyn Bates has also produced three pioneering albums (Drift, Passages and Incest Songs) of ‘isolationist’ folk song stylings with Napalm Death originator Mick Harris.
Parametrische Modellordnungsreduktion für hierarchische selbstoptimierende Systeme
Authors: Krüger Martin , Trächtler Ansgar 
Published: July 2015

Zusammenfassung
In diesem Beitrag wird eine neuartige Methode zur parametrischen Modellordnungsreduktion paretooptimaler Systeme vorgestellt. Mit
dieser Methode können die komplexen Modelle, die im Rahmen selbstoptimierender Systeme auftreten, gezielt vereinfacht werden. Das
herausragende Merkmal der entwickelten Methode besteht in der engen Verzahnung der Verfahren der parametrischen Modellordnungsreduktion
mit der hierarchischen Optimierung auf der einen Seite und dem Konzept der hierarchischen Modellierung mechatronischer Systeme auf der
anderen Seite. Der Beitrag enthält einen Überblick über die eingesetzten Verfahren und demonstriert die Methode am Beispiel eines
Prüfstands für die aktive Federung eines Schienenfahrzeugs.
Positivity in varieties of maximal Albanese dimension
Authors: Chen Jungkai Alfred , Jiang Zhi 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Given a generically finite morphism f from a smooth projective variety X to an abelian variety A,
we show that

f
*

⁢

ω
X

{f_{*}\omega_{X}}

is “sufficiently positive” on A. As an application, we prove that when X is of general type, the global sections of

ω
X
2

{\omega_{X}^{2}}

define a generically finite map of X.
We also study the structure of X when X is of general type and satisfies

χ
⁢

(
X
,

ω
X

)

=
0

{\chi(X,\omega_{X})=0}

.
We formulate a conjectural characterization of such X and prove the conjecture when A has exactly three simple factors.
The level four braid group
Authors: Brendle Tara E. , Margalit Dan 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
By evaluating the Burau representation at t

=

=

-1, one obtains a symplectic representation of the braid group. We study the resulting congruence subgroups of the braid group, namely, the preimages of the principal congruence subgroups of the symplectic group. Our main result is that the level four congruence subgroup is equal to the group generated by squares of Dehn twists. We also show that the image of the Brunnian subgroup of the braid group under the symplectic representation is the level four congruence subgroup.
Spectral asymptotics for canonical systems
Authors: Eckhardt Jonathan , Kostenko Aleksey , Teschl Gerald 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Based on continuity properties of the de Branges correspondence, we develop a new approach to study the high-energy behavior of Weyl–Titchmarsh and spectral functions of

2
×
2

{2\times 2}

first order canonical systems. Our results improve several
classical results and solve open problems posed by previous authors. Furthermore, they are applied to radial Dirac and radial Schrödinger operators as well as to Krein strings and generalized indefinite strings.
Weather types in Sosnowiec (Poland) during the period 1999-2013
Authors: Dobrowolska Ksenia 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
The study presents the structure of weather types for the city of Sosnowiec during the period 1999-2013. The analysis was carried out on the basis of daily thermal data (the average daily air temperature, the minimum and maximum daily air temperature), cloudiness and precipitation. The data was obtained from a meteorological station belonging to the Department of Climatology at the Faculty of Earth Sciences at the University of Silesia. Weather types were established according to weather type classification after Woś (2010). 48 weather types were specified on the basis of a combination of 3 selected meteorological elements (temperature, cloudiness, precipitation). The number of days in the year and the frequency of particular thermal weather types, weather subtype, weather classes and weather types were characterized, and the changeability of weather types was analyzed. Furthermore, sequences of days with specific weather types were described. The analysis conducted has lead to the conclusion that, during the research period, the weather structure for the city of Sosnowiec was characterized by a great number of weather types observed, with relatively low frequency of occurrence. Weather throughout the year was dominated by warm weather types (3--, 2--, 2--), with weather marked as 310 – very warm, moderately cloudy, without precipitation (12.9%) recorded as the most frequent, followed by 221 – moderately warm, very cloudy, with precipitation (11.6%), and 210 – moderately warm, moderately cloudy, without precipitation (11.4%)as the least frequent one. A diversification in the number of particular classification units in consecutive years of the examined 15-year period does not display significant variability. Short sequences of 2 and 3 days dominated the selected sequences of specific weather types.
Assessment of technogenic pollution of Kyiv (Ukraine) with spectral reflectal characteristics of Tilia cordata Mill. (Tiliaceae) leaves
Authors: Nebesnyy Vitaliy B. , Grodzinskaya Anna A. 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Complex estimation of industrial pollution in Kyiv using spectrophotometric method for measuring the reflection characteristics of bioindicator species Tilia cordata Mill. leaves was held. As the most informative indicator that determines the state of the plant (by inhibition of the photosynthesis), we selected index of stress (reverse vegetation index). At low values of the index of stress the productivity of photosynthesis is higher and respectively the state of the ecosystem as a whole is better. The spectral reflective coefficients of T. cordata leaves were measured in green – R1 (551.9 nm), red – R2 (656.8 nm) and near infrared – R3 (802.0 nm) the spectrum zones. The measured spectral reflective coefficients in these ranges were from 0 to 1. Studies on reflective characteristics of more than 500 samples of T. cordata leaves from 17 habitats in 7 administrative districts of Kyiv has revealed the trend of increasing index of stress on the gradient of the traffic intensity. On the base of obtained results it is recommended the using of this method for monitoring of environmental quality, the possibility of rapid assessment of current environmental changes. In perspective the offered spectrophotometric method will do possible researches on responses of vegetation to the effect of natural and technogenic stressors at different phases of plant degradation each of that has the own mechanism.
Invasive species in the flora of the Starobilsk grass-meadow steppe (Ukraine)
Authors: Kucher Oksana O. 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
The results of an investigation of the invasive species in the flora of the Starobilsk grass-meadow steppe are presented. Check-list of alien plant has over 386 species of vascular plants of which 28 species are invasive. We have identified 6 transformer species from the invasive plants. We aggregate data on the entry, distribution history, ecology, occurrence in different plant communities, degree of their naturalization and the habitats where they occur. The leading families of invasive species are: Asteraceae. The basis for this group is presented by origin from the North America and the Mediterranean. With respect to the time of immigration, most of them are kenophytes. By the method of introduction, ksenophytes are dominated; according to the degree of naturalization epoecophytes and agriophytes dominate in this group. With regard to the characteristics of life forms, half of invasive species are terophytes. The vast majority of plants are heliophytes and xeromesophytes. Most species are found in biotopes group I: Cultivated agricultural biotopes; least of all species found in biotopes group F: Biotopes dominated by chamephytes and nanophanerophytes. Only 3 species found in biotopes group F: Biotopes dominated by chamephytesand nanophanerophytes. The maps of distribution of 28 invasive species are provided. Most of the species marked dispersed in more than 30 squares.
A Proposed Framework to Reduce Asymmetric Information in Equity Offerings
Authors: Gavious Ilanit 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
The security offering literature shows that firms offering their shares for sale to the public generally manage their earnings upwards around the offering to raise investor demand for the firm’s shares and increase their sale price. In addition, the literature demonstrates that earnings management around the offering increases the information asymmetry between the issuers and outside investors, thereby increasing the issue flotation costs. Markedly increased flotation costs imply, inter alia, a reduced demand for, and pricing of, the new shares offered – the opposite result of that sought by the issuing management. To date, mechanisms to prevent issuing firms from managing earnings opportunistically are non-existent. I address this current gap in the literature by proposing a disclosure-based framework for issuing firms aimed at reducing the extent of information asymmetry between them, outside investors and underwriters. Specifically, I present a mechanism where firms add a voluntary “honest disclosure” section in their issue prospectuses, in which they provide information that reduces uncertainty about their financial reports. I demonstrate that such voluntary disclosures by firms create a reality that encourages truthful reporting around the offering and results in a more effective capital market. The proposed framework does not require a change in current institutional mechanisms. Furthermore, as an integral part of the prospectus, the SEC will scrutinize the disclosure. Last but not least, the new section should not add significant cost to the issuer.
Niños-muchachos en los escenarios españoles del Siglo de Oro
Authors: Borque José María Díez 
Published: July 2015

Resumen
En el siglo XVII era ya habitual la presencia de actores y actrices en los escenarios españoles, lo que no era igual en otros países. Una cuestión importante para la historia del arte escénico es si sólo había hombres y mujeres en escena, es decir, la posible presencia en las tablas de niños y muchachos, lo que arrojaría nueva luz sobre el teatro de la época. Para abordar esta importante cuestión se parte de la muy curiosa y poco conocida obra de Francisco de Araoz, De bene disponenda bibliotheca (1631), poniéndola en relación con otros testimonios de la época, apoyando así la posible presencia aludida.
Los valores persuasivos y argumentativos de la interrogación en el texto editorial: análisis de un corpus tinerfeño
Authors: López Javier Medina 
Published: July 2015

Resumen
Este artículo analiza algunos editoriales del periódico El Día (Tenerife, España). En la primera parte se abordan cuestiones relativas a la argumentación y la persuasión. En la segunda sección del trabajo se analizan 145 frases interrogativas extraídas del corpus de referencia. El objetivo es poner de relieve cómo la interrogación es utilizada por el editorialista como recurso persuasivo. Para todo ello se lleva a cabo un análisis dentro de la pragmática sociocultural o pragmática integral que intentan dar cuenta de todos los componentes lingüísticos y sociales en los que tiene lugar la acción comunicativa. En la parte final del trabajo se muestran los rasgos coloquiales de los editoriales, los cuales persiguen una mayor conexión con el lector con un claro objetivo persuasivo. La principal conclusión a la que se llega es que estos textos obedecen a un afán ideológico por parte del medio periodístico. Esta posición no siempre coincide con los intereses políticos, razón por lo cual el medio se muestra crítico y combativo. En este sentido, los editoriales ponen de relieve las difíciles relaciones entre medios de comunicación, política y libertad de opinión.
Stability and Hopf Bifurcation of a Predator–Prey Biological Economic System with Nonlinear Harvesting Rate
Authors: Liu Weiyi , Fu Chaojin , Chen Boshan 
Published: July 2015

AbstractIn this paper, we analyze the stability and Hopf bifurcation of a biological economic system with harvesting effort on prey. The model we consider is described by differential-algebraic equations because of economic revenue. We choose economic revenue as a positive bifurcation parameter here. Different from previous researchers’ models, this model with nonlinear harvesting rate is more general. Furthermore, the improved calculation process of parameterization is much simpler and it can handle more complex models which could not be dealt with by their algorithms because of enormous calculation. Finally, by MATLAB simulation, the validity and feasibility of the obtained results are illustrated.
Understanding complex systems: When Big Data meets network science
Authors: Scholtes Ingo 
Published: July 2015

Abstract
Better understanding and controlling complex systems has become
a grand challenge not only for computer science, but also for the
natural and social sciences. Many of these systems have in common
that they can be studied from a network perspective. Consequently
methods from network science have proven instrumental in their
analysis. In this article, I introduce the macroscopic perspective
that is at the heart of network science. Summarizing my recent
research activities, I discuss how a combination of this perspective
with Big Data methods can improve our understanding of complex
systems.
Full-Range Mathematical Modeling of Turboshaft Engine in Aerospace
Authors: Sheng Hanlin , Zhang Tianhong , Jiang Wei 
Published: July 2015

AbstractIn this paper, an approximate computation method of low-speed component characteristics in aeroengine is used and full-range component characteristics is obtained by combining experimental data above idle. Moreover, based on components matching method and variable specific heat method, a full-range static and dynamic mathematical model of turboshaft engine is built, including start-up state. And the numerical simulation result of the engine whole working process is also showed in this paper. The comparison result between the simulation result and the experimental data shows that, the full-range model built by the computation method of low-speed component characteristics is of a certain accuracy, which can meet the needs of a turboshaft engine semi-physical simulation.