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Review: On The Structure of Catullus' Poetry Book - (J.K.) Schafer Catullus through His Books. Dramas of Composition. Pp. viii + 260. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-47224-1.
No full textReview: S CHAFER (J.K.) Catullus through His Books. Dramas of Composition.
Pp. viii + 260. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Cased, £75,
US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-47224-
Emergency and Migration, Race and the Nation.
No full textEurope's borders are racial borders. The European Union's external border regime underpins continuing forms of European imperialism and neocolonialism. It reinforces a particular imaginary of Europeanness as whiteness, euphemistically dressed up as a European Way of Life to be protected. It nonetheless sits comfortably within the permissible parameters of international law. This Article conceptualizes international law as a manifestation of liberal nationalist thought: "liberalism with borders," and the sovereign right to exclude. Sovereignty in this sense is a racial sovereignty. The Article traces the mutual construction of race and sovereignty in colonial history, and the specific role played by emergency legal doctrine and states of emergency in constituting and executing racial sovereignty. It argues that international law's framing of a state of emergency as a threat to the life of the nation strategically motivates exclusion based on race, laundered through the prism of nationality. In our early twenty-first century migration conjuncture, a perceived dilution of Europe's whiteness has been presented as posing just such a threat to the life of individual and collective European nations. The conception of a migration "emergency" provides tactical scope for European states to further harden their border regimes at opportune moments. International law produces and permits this emergency paradigm, and is currently ill-equipped to confront or challenge the phenomena of border regimes and their racial contours. The Article concludes by sketching out some of the ways we can think against this violent reality by thinking with alternative perspectives within and beyond international law
How a mobile app can become a catalyst for sustainable social business: The case of Too Good To Go
No full textInformation and communication technology (ICT) plays a vital role in sustaining social
businesses. However, little is known about how a mobile app can be a catalyst for sustainable
social business. Guided by the technology affordance theory and service-dominant (S-D)
logic, the present study aims to address this research gap by examining both the perspectives
of providers and users, using the Too Good To Go (TGTG) app – the largest social movement
in Europe – as a case study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore the
congruence/gap between customer value proposition (CVP) and value-in-use (VIU). The
findings highlight that social, functional, and emotional values are the success factors for the
TGTG app to accomplish its social missions of reducing food waste and CO2 emissions and
allowing everyone to access quality food at an affordable price. The theoretical and practical
implications of this study and directions for future research are also presented
Understanding the Dynamics of Green and Blue Spaces for Health and Wellbeing Outcomes in Ireland: A Systemic Stakeholder Perspective
No full textDespite the recognised benefits to human health from green and blue spaces, socioeconomic
inequalities in access to and use of such spaces have been observed. Using a multidisciplinary,
multistakeholder systems approach and structural equation modelling, this paper examines the
structural and behavioural dynamics of green and blue spaces, people and health and wellbeing
outcomes. Systems thinking offers a deeper understanding of the dynamics of collective choices at all
levels within the determinants and the circular causality of these processes. The resulting map shows
that behavioural and structural dynamics of green and blue spaces reinforce social cohesion, mental
and physical benefits and their circular causality. Acknowledging the importance of multiple uses of
green and blue spaces, this paper concludes that delivering universal services at a scale and intensity
proportionate to the degree of need is vital to ensure services and health and wellbeing benefits are
available to all, not only the most advantaged
Optical Heterodyne Analog Radio-Over-Fiber Link for Millimeter-Wave Wireless Systems
No full textOptical heterodyne analog radio-over-fiber (A-RoF) links provide an efficient solution for future millimeter wave (mm-wave) wireless systems. The phase noise of the photo-generated mm-wave carrier limits the performance of such links, especially, for the transmission of low subcarrier baud rate multi-carrier signals. In this work, we present three different techniques for the compensation of the laser frequency offset (FO) and phase noise (PN) in an optical heterodyne A-RoF system. The first approach advocates the use of an analog mm-wave receiver; the second approach uses standard digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms, while in the third approach, the use of a photonic integrated mode locked laser (MLL) with reduced DSP is advocated. The compensation of the FO and PN with these three approaches is demonstrated by successfully transmitting a 1.95 MHz subcarrier spaced orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal over a 25 km 61 GHz mm-wave optical heterodyne A-RoF link. The advantages and limitations of these approaches are discussed in detail and with regard to recent 5G recommendations, highlighting their potential for deployment in next generation wireless systems
Using Social Constructionism to Research the Recovery Movement in Mental Health in Ireland: A Critical Reflection on Meta-theory Shaping the Inquiry
No full textThe concept of recovery is well documented within mental health literature. Yet, it remains a
contested notion since moving beyond a singular, biomedical focus in the late 20th century.
Recovery is currently viewed as a unique, personalised journey for people living with mental
illness. This article considers the significance of social constructionism and allied meta-theoretical constructs in exploring personal recovery in mental health practice and service
delivery. Based on a comprehensive literature review, and researcher reflexivity, it argues that
adopting this theoretical position can result in new perspectives and learning for researchers
and care professionals seeking to understand the existential meaning of personal recovery.
Moreover, it provides a unique account of the value of social constructionism for
deconstructing the notion and revealing new interpretations of what it might mean
Hamstring Strain Injury Rehabilitation
No full textHamstring strain injuries are common among athletes and often
require rehabilitation to prepare players for a timely return to
sport performance while also minimizing reinjury risk. Return to
sport is typically achieved within weeks of the injury; however,
subsequent athlete performance may be impaired, and reinjury
rates are high. Improving these outcomes requires rehabilitation
practitioners (eg, athletic trainers and physical therapists) to
understand the causes and mechanisms of hamstring strain
injury, know how to perform a thorough clinical examination, and
progress loading to the site of injury safely and effectively. This
narrative review discusses current clinical concepts related to
these aspects of rehabilitation for hamstring strain injury, with
the aim of helping practitioners improve athletes’ outcomes.
Collectively, this knowledge will inform the implementation of
evidence-based rehabilitation interventions
Narrating the Final Loss: Scenes from the Maternal Deathbed in Gabrielle Roy's Le temps qui m'a manqué and Francine Noël's La femme de ma vie
No full textAS ADALGISA GIORGIO REMARKS in her introduction to Writing Mothers and Daughters, "the mother-daughter dyad is still the dominant structuring principle of female identity in Western cultures."1 Prominent feminist theorists such as Nancy Chodorow and Adrienne Rich have illustrated in great detail the impact of this unique female-to-female relationship on the daughter's psychological and sexual development and, moreover, her own relationship to motherhood.2 It is generally agreed, however, that far from being an unproblematic cathexis, the mother-daughter bond is wrenchingly complex, so much so that Phyllis Chesler has labeled it "woman's stormiest love affair."3 In the field of literary studies, proponents of écriture féminine such as Luce Irigaray and Hélène Cixous view maternal symbiosis as a core feature of the daughter's text.4 Indeed, so pervasive is the presence of the mother in the daughter's narrative that Marianne Hirsch has identified a distinct genre of matrilineal literature, namely "the mother-daughter plot,"5 in which the daughter, via writing, is always thinking back through the mother in some respect. Lori Saint-Martin develops this concept further, arguing that the relationship between mother and daughter must be viewed as a powerful dynamic "qui se trouve à la source même de l'écriture au féminin et qui surdétermine les structures narratives et même, dans une certaine mesure, le langage."6 For scholars of matrilineal literature, the daughter's text emerges as an important space for maternal reconciliation in the aftermath of a rupture from the mother
The Global Scramble for PPE amid COVID-19: Lessons from the EU Export Restrictions and Import Facilitation Through Regulatory Cooperation on PPE
No full textAs the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread around the
world, unprecedented disruption to the global economy and
international trade have prompted widespread fears especially when
it comes to the scramble for personal protective equipment
(hereinafter “PPE”), as a result of critical shortages. Government
officials around the world have raised concerns about how to ensure
that their countries have adequate access to PPE. Many
governments have introduced trade-related measures, such as
restricting exports of critical PPE and medical supplies.
Governments are also mounting special efforts including
temporarily revising import procedures and easing technical
barriers to ensure the supply of PPE in response to a crisis-within-a-crisis. Such trade-related measures on both export restrictions
and import facilitation in response to COVID-19 have brought
considerable attention to the role of the multilateral trading system
in promoting stability and predictability of international trade flows
in a time of global crisis and have also exposed the existing limits of international trade law. This article presents an overview of both the
European Union’s export restrictions and import facilitation
measures on PPE, as an example, and provides analyses of issues
associated measures in the international trade law regime
Les amitiés des galères reconsidérées : René Barraud de La Cantinière et « les amis » de Rotterdam
No full textLa lettre, datée du 25 mai 1693, que le forçat protestant poitevin, René Barraud, sieur de La Cantinière, envoya de la galère la Perle, amarrée à Marseille, au pasteur Jean de La Place, sieur de La Sauvagerie, réfugié à Rotterdam, est souvent citée par les historiens, mais toujours d’après la transcription de Jules Bonnet, publiée dans le BSHPF en 1866. Il s’agit d’une transcription tronquée qui fausse le sens de la lettre autographe, conservée dans la Collection Antoine Court de la Bibliothèque de Genève. En restaurant des passages supprimés, cette édition critique intégrale avec commentaire replace cette lettre dans son contexte d’origine, ce qui permet de souligner sa dimension collective, et d’exposer des aspects de l’expérience des protestants aux galères occultés par la transcription de Bonnet