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Chronicle of a quest : silence after killing

After the “flamboyant fever dream” and ontological experimentations of The Act of Killing (2013), Joshua Oppenheimer’s latest film, The Look of Silence comes as something of a shock. A poetic, intimate film, it relies on more traditional documentary styles, interviews and observation in particular. At the same time, the film illustrates the challenges of documentary testimony, both practical (in terms of collection, credibility and deployment) and existential (as a hybrid of truth and fiction). The challenges and oscillation offer a way of expressing the conditions of the survivors, caught between a past they know to be true and the amnesiac historiography that surrounds them. Although such strategies produce a similar destabilization of ontological and epistemological certainty akin to those found in Killing, there is nonetheless a departure as the sobriety confers a moral authority that enables this film to be deployed in social justice projects.PostprintPeer reviewe

Motivation for taking family care patients: a study of six family care mothers of the Boston State Hospital family care program.

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International comparisons of neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants born very preterm

We summarise rates of survival and neurodevelopmental impairment in very (<32 weeks' gestation) and extremely (<28 weeks' gestation) preterm infants using data from recent meta-analyses. Methodological issues that require consideration when comparing international data are highlighted using examples of population-based or multi-centre cohorts of children born extremely preterm. The impact of baseline population, outcome definition, gestational age assessment, age at neurodevelopmental assessment, year of birth and follow-up rates are discussed. The impact of the intensity of perinatal care and of post-discharge management on survival and neurodevelopmental outcomes is also discussed. There is a future need for harmonisation of data collection and for more accurate and standardised reporting of neurodevelopmental outcomes in very preterm children

De natura sonorum. La naturalité silencieuse de l’environnement : enjeux géographiques et philosophiques

Souvent perçue comme un moyen de flouter les limites sensorielles entre les environnements urbains et ruraux, l’association culturelle, sociale, politique et philosophique entre naturalité et sensation de calme mérite d’être interrogée sur ses significations, sa portée et sur ce qu’elle traduit de la gestion des territoires. En se basant sur les résultats d’une enquête doctorale en cours, nous infirmons ainsi en partie l’hypothèse selon laquelle silence et Nature sont nécessairement reliés à un affect positif pour les individus. Ce qui invite à repenser les critères d’agréabilité sonore usuellement admis entre bruits et artificialité non désirables d’un côté, sons et naturalité désirables de l’autre.Often perceived as a way to blur the sensorial boundaries between urban and rural environments, the cultural, social, political and philosophical association between naturality and quietness deserves to be questioned on its meanings and its impact on spatial planning. Based on the results of an ongoing doctoral research, we refute partially the hypothesis that silence and Nature are necessarily linked with a positive affect for individuals, which should invite us to consider differently the usual criteria to distinguish noises and sonic artificiality on one side, and sounds and sonic naturality on the other side

Alienated labor's hybrid subjects : Sorry to Bother You and the tradition of the economic rights film

Leshu Torchin uses Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley's genre-defying take on race, slavery, and capitalism in 21st century America, as a launching pad for a broader discussion of what she terms the “economic rights” film. Often global in scope, these films argue for rights to sustenance, shelter, education, health, and labor while mapping out the myriad systems that impede access to these rights. Torchin suggests that Sorry's playful hybridity, combining science fiction, performance art, and even corporate-video mockumentary to invoke recent experimentations in black American media, belies a preoccupation around labor that positions the film within the “economic rights” film's robust legacy.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Dinocampus coccinellae as a parasitoid of the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis in Europe

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Environmental DNA (eDNA) reveals potential for interoceanic fish invasions across the Panama Canal

Interoceanic canals can facilitate biological invasions as they connect the world's oceans and remove dispersal barriers between bioregions. As a consequence, multiple opportunities for biotic exchange arise and the resulting establishment of migrant species often causes adverse ecological and economic impacts. The Panama Canal is a key region for biotic exchange as it connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in Central America. In this study, we used two complementary methods (environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding and gillnetting) to survey fish communities in this unique waterway. Using COI (cytochrome oxidase subunit I) metabarcoding, we detected a total of 142 fish species, including evidence for the presence of sixteen Atlantic and eight Pacific marine fish in different freshwater sections of the Canal. Of these, nine are potentially new records. Molecular data did not capture all species caught with gillnets, but generally provided a more complete image of the known fish fauna as more small-bodied fish species were detected. Diversity indices based on eDNA surveys revealed significant differences across different sections of the Canal reflecting in part the prevailing environmental conditions. The observed increase in the presence of marine fish species in the Canal indicates a growing potential for interoceanic fish invasions. The potential ecological and evolutionary consequences of this increase in marine fishes are not only restricted to the fish fauna in the Canal as they could also impact adjacent ecosystems in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

Cercarial Dermatitis Transmitted by Exotic Marine Snail

TOC summary: Introduction of exotic hosts can support unexpected emergence of unknown parasites