The middlebrow Spanish Civil War film: a site of mediation between culture and history.

Films set during or immediately after the Spanish Civil War have a long tradition in Spain, one which spans the entire spectrum of filmic genres, from propaganda to musicals to art-house. This genre has not abated since the turn of the century, it has become increasingly ubiquitous and since the late 1990s, undeniably ‘middlebrow’. Yet this prolific genre, on the whole, is largely snubbed by films critics and academic researchers alike. The old adage of ‘oh not another civil war film’ remains widely recurrent in the press, but the fact that many, if not all, of these productions deal with narrative tropes that are of profound social relevance warrants further investigation. By analysing the primacy of emotion and affect in two films, Blind Sunflowers (Los Girasoles Ciegos, 2009) and The Sleeping Voice (La voz dormida, 2011), this article argues that civil war films constitute a sub-genre of the Spanish middlebrow which is exceptionally, yet controversially, well-suited to the exploration of socially and culturally traumatic themes

The Effect of Ordering Method on Consumer Return Intentions

With the rise of Covid-19, mobile ordering has become one of the most popular ways to get food. At its height, Covid-19 caused restaurants to shut down and forced businesses to move to a more mobile and delivery-friendly plan. Now, venues for concerts, large events, and sports have started to offer the option of mobile ordering food to be delivered directly to your seat. Mobile ordering has made the food service industry even more accessible; however, it has also brought to light the issue of tipping. Traditionally, tipping was only done at full-service restaurants. Now, businesses like Starbucks, Mcdonald\u27s, and DoorDash ask you to tip before you have received the food when you mobile order. This paper examines the relationship between the platform consumers use to order and consumer return intentions. It also examines whether tip amount and tip likelihood have moderating effects

Enhancing patient experience by training local trainers in fundamental communication skills

Medical centers have a vested interest in improving patient experience through enhancing communication skills. The American Academy on Communication in Healthcare has helped institutions across the country establish internal expertise through delivering train-the-trainer programs. The phases of the program include preparing for implementation of the program, having program participants undergo a fundamental communication skills workshop and then understanding the theoretical and practical rationales underlying the workshop, setting up practice sessions for participants to achieve mastery, and ensuring long-term viability of a communication skills improvement initiative. Outcomes for participants include increased self-assessed personal communication skill, optimism about rolling out a communication skills program, and enhanced communication and hopefulness in working with colleagues. Train-the-trainer programs are a viable way to create enduring communities of local experts who can implement and support institutions’ commitments to excellence in the communication skills of their providers

Writing Early Ireland: A Panel Discussion

In past decades, early Irish literature has received relatively little scholarly attention. However, works such as the Tain Bo Cuailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), Edmund Spenser’s Book Five of The Faerie Queene, and Spenser’s A View of the State of Ireland provide unique and important representations of early Irish culture. In this five-person panel, we will examine these works and our collective analyses of Irish cultural and literary representations within them. Specifically, we will critique problems of colonialism and portrayals of gender, and we will affirm the importance of the landscape and of literary intersections with archaeology and history. By doing so, we will shed light on an underrepresented aspect of literary history and explore how these writings can reshape modern perspectives of early Ireland.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/urs_2019/1003/thumbnail.jp

Sobre fotografia e (in)visibilidades: olhares de crianças com deficiência visual

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Florianópolis, 2011Esta pesquisa problematiza olhares de crianças com deficiência visual mediados pela fotografia. A proposta é tensionar, com a mediação da imagem fotográfica, o que se vê e o que se deixa de ver, sobre as visibilidades e invisibilidades que caracterizam as relações estabelecidas com a realidade. Assim, este trabalho discute, a partir de fotos produzidas por cinco crianças com deficiência visual seus olhares sobre o contexto em que vivem. Faz-se necessário enfatizar que considera-se o pesquisar como acontecimento, processo em constante movimento, interligado a outros acontecimentos. Com isso, pesquisar se dá no encontro com os sujeitos, as crianças são protagonistas no processo e criam-se espaços de enunciação que possibilitam o pesquisarCOM. Para tanto, desenvolvemos uma oficina estética com o grupo de crianças com quem pesquisamos. Na oficina foram realizadas atividades que possibilitavam a (re)criação do olhar e, para além dos encontros da oficina, as crianças foram convidadas a criar imagens fotográficas do contexto em que vivem. A oficina foi registrada através de filmagens, fotografias e registros em diário de campo, e constituem, juntamente com o material produzido pelas crianças, o conjunto de informações analisadas. As imagens criadas foram organizadas em quatro categorias de análise, unidades temáticas que dialogam entre si. São elas: imagens que apresentam sentidos estabelecidos na relação com o contexto social, fotografias de objetos significativos, imagens de sons, cheiros e texturas e, por último, autoretratos fotográficos. Os resultados permitiram constatar que a deficiência visual possibilita à pessoa ver com os olhos dos outros e com todo o corpo, levando-a a usar, para a construção de imagens, a linguagem verbal, a imaginação, a memória e o pensamento, juntamente com todos os sentidos. Concluiu-se que essa pesquisa possibilitou olhares estéticos para o cotidiano e criação de sentidos outros, sendo essa condição inventiva o que permite caracterizá-la como in(ter)venção

Community structure of soil fungi in a novel perennial crop monoculture, annual agriculture, and native prairie reconstruction

The use of perennial crop species in agricultural systems may increase ecosystem services and sustainability. Because soil microbial communities play a major role in many processes on which ecosystem services and sustainability depend, characterization of soil community structure in novel perennial crop systems is necessary to understand potential shifts in function and crop responses. Here, we characterized soil fungal community composition at two depths (0–10 and 10–30 cm) in replicated, long-term plots containing one of three different cropping systems: a tilled three-crop rotation of annual crops, a novel perennial crop monoculture (Intermediate wheatgrass, which produces the grain Kernza®), and a native prairie reconstruction. The overall fungal community was similar under the perennial monoculture and native vegetation, but both were distinct from those in annual agriculture. The mutualist and saprotrophic community subsets mirrored differences of the overall community, but pathogens were similar among cropping systems. Depth structured overall communities as well as each functional group subset. These results reinforce studies showing strong effects of tillage and sampling depth on soil community structure and suggest plant species diversity may play a weaker role. Similarities in the overall and functional fungal communities between the perennial monoculture and native vegetation suggest Kernza® cropping systems have the potential to mimic reconstructed natural systems

Methods & proposal for metadata guiding principles for scholarly communications

This article describes an international community-based effort to create metadata guiding principles for adopting and using richer metadata and advancing its application in scholarly communications. These principles can facilitate the dissemination, discoverability and use/reuse of many types of research and scholarly outputs. While much work remains to be done, these principles serve as a starting point for the evolution of processes that span communities including publishers, researchers, scholars, authors and other creators, librarians, curators, custodians, and consumers of scholarly works. These aspirational Metadata 2020 Principles are designed to encompass the needs of our entire community while ensuring thoughtful, purposeful, and reusable metadata resources. They provide a framework for all of us to be good metadata citizens. They also provide a foundation for considering related work from Metadata 2020 and must be interpreted within the legal and practical context in which we operate. They are intended to guide the broadest possible cross-section of our community in improving research communications, publishing, and discoverability

Head, shoulders, Knie et pés - singing one's way into multilingual practices

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