bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Physical Activity and Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Panel Model Examining the Role of Self-efficacy and Depression
Authors: Phillips Siobhan M. , McAuley Edward 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
Background: Physical activity is associated with reductions in fatigue in breast cancer survivors. However, mechanisms underlying this relationship are not well-understood. The purpose of this study was to longitudinally test a model examining the role of self-efficacy and depression as potential mediators of the relationship between physical activity and fatigue in a sample of breast cancer survivors using both self-report and objective measures of physical activity.
Methods: All participants (N = 1,527) completed self-report measures of physical activity, self-efficacy, depression, and fatigue at baseline and 6 months. A subsample was randomly selected to wear an accelerometer at both time points. It was hypothesized that physical activity indirectly influences fatigue via self-efficacy and depression. Relationships among model constructs were examined over the 6-month period using panel analysis within a covariance modeling framework.
Results: The hypothesized model provided a good model-data fit (χ2 = 599.66, df = 105, P ≤ 0.001; CFI = 0.96; SRMR = 0.02) in the full sample when controlling for covariates. At baseline, physical activity indirectly influenced fatigue via self-efficacy and depression. These relationships were also supported across time. In addition, the majority of the hypothesized relationships were supported in the subsample with accelerometer data (χ2 = 387.48, df = 147, P ≤ 0.001, CFI = 0.94, SRMR = 0.04).
Conclusions: This study provides evidence to suggest the relationship between physical activity and fatigue in breast cancer survivors may be mediated by more proximal, modifiable outcomes of physical activity participation.
Impact: Recommendations are made relative to future applications and research concerning these relationships. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 22(5); 773–81. ©2013 AACR.
Introduction Special Section on Contemporary Art and Religion
Authors: Lerner Loren 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
This introduction explores the connections between the worlds of art and religion over the past fifty years. Focusing on the discursive coherence of contemporary art and religion, Lerner examines the attempts to bring some order to a theme that has cyclically and persistently arisen in recent art making. In this overview of critical and curatorial interpretations, crucial areas of inquiry are: the religious and secular paradigms addressed within contemporary art practices; the relationships between works of art and institutional questions; the confrontations of new artistic modes; and the survival of religious symbolic structures.
A Post-Metaphysical Turn: Contingency and Givenness in the Early Work of Dan Flavin (1959–1964)
Authors: Louria-Hayon Adi 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
Dan Flavin’s fluorescent light installations have long served art historians by marking the turn from the late modernist illusionist space of painting to the new immanence of specific objects. In the narration of this genealogy, the crux of minimalism, as Hal Foster calls it, rests on a nominal approach that proclaims metaphysical relations as an obstacle and calls out to evade any notion of meaning. By contrast, this essay asserts the primacy of metaphysics in Flavin’s [en]lighted work. By tracing the artist’s scholastic education, his contemporary theo-political stance, and his rejection of objecthood, I argue that Flavin was continuously preoccupied with Catholic theology and that his work is imbued with Christian iconography. Thinking alongside the fourteenth-century philosopher William of Ockham and the twentieth-century post-Husserlian phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion, the evolution of Flavin’s light constructions proves relevant to the quandary of metaphysics and the role of theology in radical immanence. To bracket his metaphysics is to ignore the full implications of his art.
León Ferrari’s Hell
Authors: Porterfield Todd 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
The myth of modernism holds that the process of desacralization was its most emblematic and pervasive effect. However, far from being forgotten in the work of Argentinian conceptualist León Ferrari, religion has had an essential place in it for five decades. This essay sets out to trace the theme of hell in Ferrari’s work, which the artist has linked to oppression and violence in Latin America, Viet Nam, and Iraq, in order to demonstrate the persistence and centrality of religion in Ferrari’s art and in the Argentine milieu, thereby disavowing the illusion that we have been living in a sustained period of secularism that is only now being supplanted by a global return to religion.
“Christianity and Mountainanity”: The Restoration Movement’s Influence on John Muir
Authors: Pierce John 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
The theological underpinnings of John Muir’s work and thought have, justifiably, received a fair amount of scholarly attention. Most of the early scholarship, however, focused on correlations between Muir’s beliefs and pantheism, and ignored the more immediate influence exerted on Muir by his upbringing in the Disciples of Christ. More recent scholars, such as Donald Worster, Dennis Williams, and Stephen Holmes, have attested to the significance of Muir’s Disciples of Christ background but have so far failed to explicate its influence. Yet we know from Muir’s letters that he remained engaged with Disciples’ people and issues throughout his life. Despite occasional dissatisfaction expressed toward his childhood faith, he could never entirely escape it, and a consideration of Muir’s thought in relation to the dominant themes of Disciples theology reveals a close relationship between the two. In numerous ways, the tenets of the Disciples of Christ belief system guide Muir’s thought and mission: his anthropological views, his beliefs on sin and salvation, his approach to politics, and his eschatological mission to encourage harmony among all created beings, are shaped by Disciples of Christ theology.
Gustavo Gutiérrez Meets Giuseppe Verdi: The Beauty of Liberation and the Liberation of Beauty
Authors: Nickoloff James B. 
Published: March 2013

AbstractSome have criticized the theology of liberation, especially its Latin American form, for emphasizing ethical concerns while ignoring the aesthetic dimension of Christian faith. At the same time, many see the fine arts—and particularly opera—as unrelated and even opposed to the struggle for justice today. This essay considers the case of liberation theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez and his debt to fellow Peruvian and novelist José María Arguedas. It then examines the ethical import of one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most famous creations, the enslaved princess Aida. Both Gutiérrez and Verdi may be said to belong to what Arguedas called the “fraternity of the broken-hearted” whose members glimpse a new world coming into being in the very beauty of liberated humanity.
Effects of age, reproductive state, and the number of competitors on the dominance dynamics of wild female Hanuman langurs
Authors: Lu Amy , Borries Carola , Caselli Anna , Koenig Andreas 
Published: March 2013

Female dominance hierarchies form as a result of individual differences in resource holding potential, social processes such as winner-loser effects or coalitions, and ecological conditions that favor contest competition. Contest competition is assumed to result in despotic, nepotistic, and stable hierarchies. However, female Hanuman langurs are exceptions to this pattern, with data from provisioned populations indicating despotic, yet individualistic (age-inversed) and unstable hierarchies despite strong within-group contest. We present data on hierarchical linearity, stability, and the determinants of female rank and rank change in a population of unprovisioned, wild Hanuman langurs (Ramnagar, Nepal). Based on 12 490 dyadic displacement interactions collected over 5 years from a medium-sized group (P group, mean = 6.9 adult females) and a large group (O group, mean = 13.6 adult females), stable periods (P group, ; O group, ) were identified and dominance hierarchies constructed with the program MatMan. In both groups, dominance hierarchies were linear (), with high directional consistency within dyads. Rank was negatively related with age, while the presence of maternal kin had no effect. Reproductive state affected dominance rank in the larger group, with females ascending the hierarchy prior to conception, and dropping in rank after birth. Ranks were unstable, with group size and the number of juvenile females driving the effect (GLMM, ). These results match earlier findings for provisioned populations. In female Hanuman langurs, competition seems most intense around conception and during gestation, creating rank instability, which is further exacerbated by the number of adult as well as maturing females.
Description of Ektaphelenchus taiwanensis sp. n. (Nematoda: Ektaphelenchinae) found in packaging wood from Taiwan
Authors: Gu Jianfeng , Wang Jiangling , Chen Xianfeng 
Published: March 2013

Ektaphelenchus taiwanensis sp. n. is described and figured. The new species was isolated from pine packaging wood from Taiwan and inspected in Ningbo harbour, China, in 2009. Ektaphelenchus taiwanensis sp. n. is characterised by the lip region lacking a clear constriction separating it from the body contour, stylet relatively short (12-17 μm) and without basal knobs, and presence of three lines in the lateral field. The female post-uterine sac is less than a body diam. long, the rectum and anus are absent and the tail is conoid with a sharply pointed terminus. The male tail is conoid and has a hair-like mucron (0.5-2.5 μm), the spicules are mitten-shaped, 12.5-14.4 μm long (chord) and are smoothly curved with a prominent rounded condylus, prominent pointed rostrum, and broadly rounded distal end. There are three pairs of subventral caudal papillae. Ektaphelenchus taiwanensis sp. n. is similar to E. betulae, E. josephi, E. joyceae, E. prolobos, E. propora and E. tuerkorum from which it can be separated by a combination of various morphometric and morphological characters. The D2D3 LSU and partial SSU region sequences were analysed and aligned using ClustalW implemented in MEGA version 4.0. Phylogenetic trees were generated with the Neighbour Joining (NJ) method using the Tajima-Nei distance option. The feeding habit of the new species is briefly discussed.
Proof-of-concept for managing Meloidogyne hapla parasitic variability in carrot production soils
Authors: Melakeberhan Haddish , Wang Wei 
Published: March 2013

Without resistant cultivars, conducive cropping systems and heterogeneous soils, managing parasitic variability of Meloidogyne hapla is a major challenge in carrot production. In glasshouse studies we tested a hypothesis that knowledge of carrot cultivars’ degrees of host suitability to populations of M. hapla could lead to developing site-specific management strategies. ‘Site-specific’ encompasses production practices, soil conditions and nematode problems. Interactions between the carrot cvs Abledo, Abundance, Enterprise, Eufora, Prodigy, Recoleta and Sugar Snax, and four M. hapla populations, Mh 1, Mh 2, Mh 3 and Mh 4, were examined. The tomato cv. Rutgers, in which the populations were cultured, was used as a nematode viability control. The first three populations were isolated from mineral soils and the fourth one from organic (muck) soil, all soils typical of carrot and other vegetable production in the US Midwest. While the reactions varied by population and by cultivar, the carrot cultivars proved to be hosts as suitable as, or more suitable than, cv. Rutgers tomato. All of the carrot cultivars were hosts as suitable as cv. Rutgers tomato to Mh 2, all but cv. Sugar Snax to Mh 3 and all but cvs Sugar Snax and Abundance to Mh 1. However, the Mh 3 infection levels in cv. Sugar Snax were as high as the Mh 2 infection levels. The cvs Sugar Snax and Abundance were the least suitable hosts for Mh 4 and Mh 1, and cv. Prodigy for Mh 4. The results suggest that identifying the reproductive potential of a resident M. hapla population is critical to making decisions about what carrot cultivars to plant as well as to minimise inoculum build-up in an infested field. The implications of the results across rotation crops are discussed.
Pre-objective Depth in Merleau-Ponty and Jackson Pollock
Authors: Schreyach Michael 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
Pollock’s drip technique generated certain unconventional representational possibilities, including the possibility of expressing the pre-reflective involvement of an embodied, intentional subject in a perceptual world. Consequently, Pollock’s art can be understood to explore or investigate the pre-objective conditions of reflective and intellectual consciousness. His painting—here I consider Number 1, 1949—motivates viewers to consider the relationship between intention and meaning as it appears in both primordial and reflective dimensions of experience. The account proceeds in three stages. First, I review key features of Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the pre-objective and attempt to clarify the reflexive nature of investigating it by considering his analysis of Paul Cézanne’s technique. Second, I consider Pollock’s technique and some critical responses to it, while analyzing some of its implications for a notion of pictorial address. Finally, I examine the perceptual effects of Number 1, 1949 and interpret them, following Merleau-Ponty’s lead, in view of a revised understanding of the relationship between automatism and intention.
Polar Bears, a Melting Arctic, and the United States Endangered Species Act: The Role of Domestic Wildlife Law in Polar Biodiversity Protection
Authors: Siegel Kassie R. , Cummings Brendan R. 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
On May 15, 2008, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service listed the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) due to global warming and the melting of the bear’s sea-ice habitat. This highly-publicised event cemented the polar bear as the iconic example of the devastating impacts of global warming on the planet’s biodiversity, particularly with regard to impacts in the rapidly melting Arctic. The listing also raised the possibility of applying domestic wildlife law to address the seemingly intractable issue of reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper we begin by providing an overview of the ESA, including its overarching objectives and key provisions. We then discuss how the ESA should operate to protect species imperiled by global warming and create an obligation on U.S. federal agencies and corporations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We use the example of the polar bear to explore the possibilities and limitations of using domestic wildlife law such as the ESA to bring the subject of global warming into the courtroom, to address greenhouse gas emissions, and to otherwise address protection of the highly imperiled polar regions.
Land Claim Agreements in Arctic Canada in Light of International Human Rights Norms
Authors: Bankes Nigel 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
This article examines land claim agreements in Arctic Canada in light of international human rights norms, in particular the ICCPR, the CERD Convention, ILO 169 and the Inter-American human rights instruments and practice. The paper concludes that some of the provisions of land claim agreements are inconsistent with these norms. The paper also argues that land claim agreements should be based on the legal duty to recognise, delimit and title traditional occupation lands.
Charting a Sustainable Course through Changing Arctic Waters
Authors: Warner Robin 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
As the Arctic ice recedes, the opportunities for all year round routing of merchant shipping through Arctic waters rise. The freeing up of Arctic waters may also attract increased numbers of scientific research vessels, vessels servicing oil and gas installations, foreign fishing vessels and warships. The prospect of major navigational channels opening up in this region bring risks to a pristine Arctic environment and its indigenous inhabitants. This article highlights the threats posed to the species, habitats and ecosystems of Arctic waters from increased shipping transits of the region including the potential for increased vessel source discharges of noxious and hazardous substances and the catastrophic consequences of groundings for the Arctic environment and its biodiversity. It reviews the legal controversies over the status of certain parts of Arctic waters and the navigational regimes applicable to foreign flag vessels transiting Arctic waters under the 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC). The need to balance navigational rights with appropriate environmental safeguards under an increasing array of international environmental principles including the precautionary approach and obligations to assess the impact of ship based activities on the global environment and its marine components is examined. The article then analyses some of the regulatory mechanisms which have been devised to promote environmentally sustainable navigation for shipping in sensitive areas of ocean space subject to high levels of shipping traffic through the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).
Legal Issues Relating to Navigation Through Arctic Waters
Authors: Scovazzi Tullio 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
In the 2008 Ilulissat Declaration the Arctic countries state that the present law of the sea framework provides a solid foundation for the responsible management of the Arctic Ocean, But difficult legal questions which expect to be clarified are still pending as regards navigation in the region. Specific tools have been developed to address navigation in the region (in particular, the IMO Arctic Guidelines), but need to be strengthened as to their legal nature. Other tools which have a general scope could be applied also in the specific context of the Arctic Ocean (for instance, area based management tools and marine protected areas). The Arctic Council, the forum of regional co-operation among the eight Arctic States, could become an instrument to discuss and promote commonly agreed measures.
Arctic Ocean State-Changes: Self Interests and Common Interests
Authors: Berkman Paul Arthur 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
Environmental and geopolitical state-changes are the underlying first principles of the diverse stakeholder positioning in the Arctic Ocean. The Arctic Ocean is changing from an ice-covered region to an ice-free region during the summer, which is an environmental state-change. As provided under the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the central Arctic Ocean currently involves “High-Seas” (beyond the “Exclusive Economic Zones”) and the underlying “Area” of the deep-sea floor (beyond the “Continental Shelves”). Governance applications of this ‘donut’ demography – with international space surrounded by sovereign sectors – would be a geopolitical state-change in the Arctic Ocean. International governance strategies and applications for the central Arctic Ocean have far-reaching implications for the stewardship of other international spaces, which between Antarctica and the ocean beyond national jurisdictions account for nearly 75 percent of the Earth’s surface. In view of planetary-scale strategies for humankind, with frameworks such as climate, the Arctic Ocean underscores the challenges and opportunities to balance the governance of nation states and international spaces centuries into the future.
Inuit Governance and Contemporary Challenges: New Questions for Arctic Governance
Authors: Pelaudeix Cécile 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
This article explores the concept of governance, primarily in terms of policy rather than law, and examines current Inuit governance in light of recent economic and political changes in the Arctic region at the national and international level, with criteria of procedure (effficiency) and substance (equity). It points out that striking diffferences exist between Inuit regions in terms of governance and political institutions. Regarding procedure, it is shown that the main impediments are the fragmentation of administrative institutions and the implementations of provisions of agreements. In terms of equity, in some cases the right to self-determination is not guaranteed or efffective, and the ownership of land, sub-surface rights, except in Greenland is not operative. On the international stage, the equity criteria is not met. Completed with an approach in terms of politics, according to which the weigh of actors, such as Inuit actors, included in the process of governance, should be related to their political representativeness, the approach in terms of governance shows that Inuit governance has reached a stage that requires new balances of power between regional, national and international institutions, therefore a renewed reflection on centre and periphery to re-imagine the place the South could have in the North.
A New Faroese Constitution? – Faroe Islands between Parliamentary Sovereignty and Sub-Sovereign Constitutionalism, between Statutory Positivism and Pragmatic Reasoning
Authors: Larsen Bárður , á Rógvi Kári 
Published: March 2013

Abstract
The Bill for a Faroese Constitution [StjórnarskipanFøroya] submitted to Parliament [Løgtingið] on 6 March 2010, proposes a comprehensive Constitution for the Faroe Islands, for the first in history. This seems left somewhat on the late side, since the Faroes are an ancient polity with similar historic developments to Norway and Iceland, both of which got their full-bodied constitutions as sub-sovereign entities, in 1814 and 1874 respectively. Furthermore, few metropolitan powers should prima facie be more accommodating to sub-sovereign constitutions as Denmark, to whose Crown the Faroes have been associated, as she has historically recognised both an Icelandic constitution ‘besides’ and both a Common Constitution1 and EU quasifederal2 structure ‘above’ the Danish one. However, the same proud civil service that produced a beautiful construction of federation with the ‘Basic-Law on the Rights of Nationality’ of 1756 with its elaborate hierarchy of ‘Realms and Lands’ and ‘equivalents’ has perplexingly advised rather strongly against the proposed expression of popular sovereignty of the equivalent Nation of one of these Lands and the intended invitation to continue a long-standing peaceful plurality. In a Note of 2 June 2010, and a supplementary Note of 20 June 2011, the Danish Justice Ministry expressed the disgust of the Danish administrative establishment. The critique mostly focused on the supposed collision course with the Basic Law of the Danish Realm [groundless] and claimed that the Faroese Constitution would create considerable ‘doubt of a constitutional character.’ We argue that the issues raised do not follow from any convincing constitutional doctrine but are more ideological and based on an anti-pragmatic, a-historic and fundamentalist view of constitutional law, best categorised as late-late statutory positivism. As an alternative, we suggest the tradition of the Home Rule compact as a pragmatic and constructive disagreement that the Justice Ministry is about to abandon at its peril. Blocking the development of a living constitutional culture on the Faroe Islands will create tension that will be released somehow. The Ministry’s preoccupation with the proclamation that all power stems from the People of the Faroe Islands is at odds with the classic and almost trivial democratic notion of popular sovereignty. However, this is but the latest skirmish in a larger tragic and unnecessary campaign against realism and, indeed, reality that creates all sorts of problems for a small polity that needs to focus on principled solutions and gradual developments of the particulars of law in all fields.