Strange Relations. Cultural Translation of Noh Theatre in Ezra Pound’s Dance Poems and W. B. Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well

Drawing on the reception of Noh drama by Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats, the article analyses both the literary and cultural ‘translations’ of this form of Japanese theatre in their works, focusing on Yeats’s play At the Hawk’s Well (1917). I conceptualize ‘cultural translation’ as the staging of relations that mark a residual cultural difference. Referred to as ‘foreignizing’ in translation theory, this method enables what Erika Fischer-Lichte has termed a ‘liminal experience’ for the audience –– an effect Yeats intended for the performance of his play. It evokes situations in which opposites collapse and new ways of acting or new combinations of symbols can be tried out. Yeats’s play will be used to sketch how an analysis of relations could serve as a general model for the study of cultural transfer as cultural translation in general. Keywords: cultural translation, translation theory, performance, William Butler Yeats, Itō Michio, Ezra Pound, At the Hawk’s Well

Vocational Interests and Career Goals: Development and Relations to Personality and Middle Adolescence

Cross-sectional research implies a close relation of vocation interests, goals, and traits, yet little is known about their reciprocal development over time. This longitudinal study examined development of Things/People (T/P) and Data/Ideas (D/I) vocational interests and career goals in relation to Big Five personality traits among 292 Swiss adolescents with a cross-lagged panel design with two measurement points over 1 year from seventh to eighth grade. Interests and goals were significantly related within time and showed significant interactions across time. Traits related significantly and equally to interests and goals within time and predicted their development across time except for T/P goals. Goals and interests possessed incremental validity above traits in affecting each other. Implications include the need to account for dynamic processes in the development of goals and interests and their systematic relation to traits in theory and practice.

The Evolution of Routines under flexible Information Technology

Many technological developments of the past two decades come with the promise of greater IT flexi-bility, i.e. greater capacity to adapt IT. These technologies are increasingly used to improve organiza-tional routines that are not affected by large, hard-to-change IT such as ERP. Yet, most findings on the interaction of routines and IT stem from contexts where IT is hard to change. Our research ex-plores how routines and IT co-evolve when IT is flexible. We review the literatures on routines to sug-gest that IT may act as a boundary object that mediates the learning process unfolding between the ostensive and the performative aspect of the routine. Although prior work has concluded from such conceptualizations that IT stabilizes routines, we qualify that flexible IT can also stimulate change because it enables learning in short feedback cycles. We suggest that, however, such change might not always materialize because it is contingent on governance choices and technical knowledge. We de-scribe the case-study method to explore how routines and flexible IT co-evolve and how governance and technical knowledge influence this process. We expect to contribute towards stronger theory of routines and to develop recommendations for the effective implementation of flexible IT in loosely coupled routines.

Coordinating Platform-Based Multi-Sourcing: Introducing the Theory of Convention

Spurred by the consumer market, companies increasingly deploy smartphones or tablet computers in their operations. However, unlike private users, companies typically struggle to cover their needs with existing applications, and therefore expand mobile software platforms through customized applications from multiple software vendors. Companies thereby combine the concepts of multi-sourcing and software platform ecosystems in a novel platform-based multi-sourcing setting. This implies, however, the clash of two different approaches towards the coordination of the underlying one-to-many inter-organizational relationships. So far, however, little is known about impacts of merging coordination approaches. Relying on convention theory, we addresses this gap by analyzing a platform-based multi-sourcing project between a client and six software vendors, that develop twenty-three custom-made applications on a common platform (Android). In doing so, we aim to understand how unequal coordination approaches merge, and whether and for what reason particular coordination mechanisms, design decisions, or practices disappear, while new ones emerge.

Object-Based Customization of Learning Content: Potentials and Pitfalls

Specification consortia and standardization bodies concentrate on e-Learning objects to en-sure reusability of content. Learning objects may be collected in a library and used for deriv-ing course offerings that are customized to the needs of different learning communities. How-ever, customization of courses is possible only if the logical dependencies between the learn-ing objects are known. Metadata for describing object relationships have been proposed in several e-Learning specifications. This paper discusses the customization potential of e-Learning objects but also the pitfalls that exist if content is customized inappropriately.

Concepts of Bitemporal Database Theory and the Evolution of Web-Documents

A vast amount of temporal information is provided on the Web. Even though many facts expressed in documents are time-related, the temporal properties of Web presentations have not received much attention. In database research, temporal databases have become a mainstream topic in recent years. In Web documents, temporal data may exist as meta data in the header and as user-directed data in the body of a document. Whereas temporal data can easily be identified in the semi-structured meta data, it is more difficult to determine temporal data and its role in the body. We propose procedures for maintaining temporal integrity of Web pages and outline different approaches of applying bitemporal data concepts for Web documents. In particular, we regard desirable functionalities of Web repositories and other Web-related tools that may support the Webmasters in managing the temporal data of their Web documents. Some properties of a prototype environment are described.

Theory after Dialogue: Christian-Muslim Engagement Today and Tomorrow

The phenomenon of Christian–Muslim dialogue has had a very chequered history. At varying times, three broad modes of engagement can be said to have operated: antipathy, affinity and inquiry, and these three modes can be found still in today's world. In some places, hostility and antipathy abound. In others, voices and actions express cordial friendship, détente and affinity. In this latter climate, the prospect of engagement in mutual inquiry and cooperative ventures is not only theoretically possible, but actively pursued, and in the first decade of the twenty-first century, a number of notable initiatives in the arena of mutual inquiry have taken place. This article addresses aspects of the context and development of Christian–Muslim dialogue as a modern phenomenon, and then turns to a review of three twenty-first century developments – the Building Bridges seminar series; the Stuttgart-based Christian–Muslim Theological Forum and the “Common Word” letter. It also reflects on the models and theology of dialogue, including not only theology for dialogue, but also theology in and – importantly – after dialogue.

Finite volume effects in chiral perturbation theory with twisted boundary conditions

We study the effects of a finite cubic volume with twisted boundary conditions on pseudoscalar mesons. We apply Chiral Perturbation Theory in the p-regime and introduce the twist by means of a constant vector field. The corrections of masses, decay constants, pseudoscalar coupling constants and form factors are calculated at next-to-leading order. We detail the derivations and compare with results available in the literature. In some case there is disagreement due to a different treatment of new extra terms generated from the breaking of the cubic invariance. We advocate to treat such terms as renormalization terms of the twisting angles and reabsorb them in the on-shell conditions. We confirm that the corrections of masses, decay constants, pseudoscalar coupling constants are related by means of chiral Ward identities. Furthermore, we show that the matrix elements of the scalar (resp. vector) form factor satisfies the Feynman–Hellman Theorem (resp. the Ward–Takahashi identity). To show the Ward–Takahashi identity we construct an effective field theory for charged pions which is invariant under electromagnetic gauge transformations and which reproduces the results obtained with Chiral Perturbation Theory at a vanishing momentum transfer. This generalizes considerations previously published for periodic boundary conditions to twisted boundary conditions. Another method to estimate the corrections in finite volume are asymptotic formulae. Asymptotic formulae were introduced by Lüscher and relate the corrections of a given physical quantity to an integral of a specific amplitude, evaluated in infinite volume. Here, we revise the original derivation of Lüscher and generalize it to finite volume with twisted boundary conditions. In some cases, the derivation involves complications due to extra terms generated from the breaking of the cubic invariance. We isolate such terms and treat them as renormalization terms just as done before. In that way, we derive asymptotic formulae for masses, decay constants, pseudoscalar coupling constants and scalar form factors. At the same time, we derive also asymptotic formulae for renormalization terms. We apply all these formulae in combination with Chiral Perturbation Theory and estimate the corrections beyond next-to-leading order. We show that asymptotic formulae for masses, decay constants, pseudoscalar coupling constants are related by means of chiral Ward identities. A similar relation connects in an independent way asymptotic formulae for renormalization terms. We check these relations for charged pions through a direct calculation. To conclude, a numerical analysis quantifies the importance of finite volume corrections at next-to-leading order and beyond. We perform a generic Analysis and illustrate two possible applications to real simulations.

Perceived gender relations and sexual relations among undergraduate female students in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam

Background. Literature worldwide has documented associations between gender-based relationship inequity, sexual communication self-efficacy, and actual use of condoms and contraceptives among young women. However studies that have rigorously tested these associations in southern Vietnam are extremely rare. This study aimed to examine these associations and other current sexual practices among undergraduate female students in the Mekong Delta. Method. A qualitative study was conducted to examine the operationalization of the Theory of Gender and Power and to obtain salient and culture-relevant dimensions of perceived gender relations in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Sixty-four undergraduate female students from two universities participated in eight group discussions focusing on their viewpoints regarding national and local gender equity issues. A subsequent cross-sectional survey consisting of 1181 third-year female students from Can Tho University and An Giang University was conducted. Latent variable modeling and logistic regression were employed to examine the hypothesized associations. Results. Dimensions of perceived gender relations were attributable to theoretical structures of labor, power, and cathexis. Perceptions about gender inequities were comparable to findings from several reports, in which women were still viewed as inferior and subordinate to men. Among students who had ever had a boyfriend(s) (72.4%), 44.8% indicated that their boyfriend had ever asked for sex, 13% had ever had penile-vaginal sex, and 10.3% had ever had oral sex. For those who had ever had penile-vaginal sex, 33% did not use any contraceptive method at first sex. The greater a student’s perception that women were subordinate to men, the lower her self-efficacy for sexual communication and the lower her actual frequencies of asking for contraceptive or condom use. Sexual communication self-efficacy was marginally associated with actual contraceptive use (p=.039) and condom use (p=.092) at first sex. Conclusion. Sexual health promotion strategies should address the influence of perceived unequal gender relations on young women’s sexual communication self-efficacy and the subsequent impact on actual contraceptive and condom use.^

Desterritorialización y heterogeneidad : La traducción literal en la narrativa de Sandra Cisneros

Esta tesis indaga acerca de algunos de los aspectos lingüísticos y discursivos presentes en la construcción de la narrativa de la autora chicana Sandra Cisneros (1954-). En contraposición a la literatura canónica, la literatura chicana se define como escritura de minorías. Según G. Deleuze y F. Guattari (1975), una literatura de minorías se caracteriza por la desterritorialización de una lengua mayoritaria a través de su uso en esa literatura, la articulación de loindividual en lo inmediato político y el dispositivo colectivo de enunciación. La obra de S. Cisneros, que se desarrolla principalmente a partir del inglés, pone de manifiesto el contacto entre el español y el inglés de un modo particular. En este trabajo, se analiza el fenómeno del contacto de lenguas vinculado a la traducción literal, cuya presencia se vuelve un rasgo distintivo del estilo de la autora y una estrategia clave para la desterritorialización del lenguaje. En este sentido, la hipótesis central de nuestra investigación indica que bajo la apariencia de una única lengua, el inglés (L1), hay otra lengua, el español (L2), que se manifiesta en la utilización de alguno de sus niveles (léxico-semántico, pragmático, morfosintáctico o gráfico), lo cual contribuye a la desterritorialización de L1 y constituye un caso especial de alternancia de lenguas. Esta hipótesis ha guiado la clasificación del corpus de esta investigación constituido por frases y estructuras que registran cierta fijación,pertenecientes a la colección de relatos Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). El interés en estas formas reside en que si bien aparecen expresadas en inglés, remiten al español como marco discursivo, acentuando el carácter heterogéneo constitutivo de toda palabra. Dado que la traducción literal no integra los modelos sociolingüísticos revisados (S. Poplack: 1982; C. Myers-Scotton: 1993a y 1993b) y considerando que el contacto de lenguastambién se manifiesta a través de esta operación de traducción, que conforma un punto de heterogeneidad fuerte, fue necesario buscar una teoría lingüísticaque pudiera explicar la complejidad el discurso de Cisneros. Así, la teoría de las heterogeneidades enunciativas (J. Authier-Revuz: 1984, 1995) se presenta como un marco más amplio para el estudio de las marcas de heterogeneidad y desterritorialización en el seno de la narrativa de S. Cisneros. Esta perspectivateórica, que da cuenta de los procesos que se ponen en marcha en la constitución del discurso y atiende, entre otras, la función de las marcas gráficas presentes en el texto escrito, propone un marco más amplio para abordar nuestro objeto. Son dos los objetivos principales de esta investigación: describir la operación de desterritorialización en el interior de este discurso y establecer relaciones entre algunos de los modelos que abordan el estudio de la alternancia de lenguas (S. Poplack: 1982; C. Myers-Scotton: 1993a y 1993b) y la teoría de las heterogeneidades enunciativas propuesta por J. Authier-Revuz (1984, 1995).

Learning kinds for students of technical high school : An analysis from the David Ausubel's theory

This article presents the findings of a field research, not experimental, observational, correlating, basic, of mixed data, micro sociologic, leading to a study of surveys.The object of study is to find learning kinds, and the unit of analysis were 529 high school students between 16 and 21 years old. Its purpose is to understand the impact of learning by rote, guided, self learned and meaningful learning and its achievement degree besides the learning outcomes of differentiated curriculum based on David Ausubel's thoughts, associated with different economic specialties (MINEDUC, 1998) where the population of the study is trained. To collect data, the test TADA - DO2 was used, this test has a reliability index of 0.911 according to Cronbach. From the hits it can be stated from the null hypothesis that there is a significant association (a = 0,05) between the learning kinds and the learning expected of differentiated training plan for both, male and female. It is complex to state that the training of the middle-level technicians leads to a successful employment.

Historias de vida de deportistas paralímpicas argentinas : Redes de Relaciones

El creciente interés por los estudios de género manifiesta un vacío respecto de las mujeres con discapacidad que han desarrollado trayectorias exitosas en algún campo. Este trabajo, forma parte de dos investigaciones junto a mujeres deportistas con discapacidad motora que han alcanzado el más alto símbolo deportivo: la medalla paralímpica. Con el objetivo de develar sus Trayectorias Biográficas se diseñó un estudio flexible y multivocal, con un enfoque no estándar (cualitativo) centrado en el método biográfico. Se recolectaron trece relatos de vida con entrevistas en profundidad analizadas con el método Comparativo Constante de la Teoría Fundamentada de los Datos.
Las Trayectorias Biográficas constituyen los "grandes ámbitos de la experiencia social" que aportan testimonios de vivencias individuales dentro de un mismo objeto social (Bertaux, 2005: 41). Pero debido a las características del diseño, emergió una categoría imprevista: las redes de relaciones, constituidas por las influencias mutuas de las interacciones entre las personas, motivo de esta presentación. Lo interesante fue que estas redes no solo no respondían al rol de dependencia atribuido a las personas con discapacidad, sino que se halló un nuevo tipo y cuatro sub-categorías: compulsivas, electivas, omitidas e ignoradas. Principalmente en las redes electivas fue donde las entrevistadas manifestaron hallar nichos, en los que expresaron (descubrieron) roles y funciones (simultáneas y cambiantes) complementarias y cooperativas con otras personas, manteniendo al mismo tiempo, cierto grado de independencia interna (límites). El peso de las redes (importancia atribuida) fue variable tanto sincrónica como diacrónicamente, permitiendo que algunas deportistas se destacaran en más de una red en distintos momentos temporales

Desterritorialización y heterogeneidad : La traducción literal en la narrativa de Sandra Cisneros

Esta tesis indaga acerca de algunos de los aspectos lingüísticos y discursivos presentes en la construcción de la narrativa de la autora chicana Sandra Cisneros (1954-). En contraposición a la literatura canónica, la literatura chicana se define como escritura de minorías. Según G. Deleuze y F. Guattari (1975), una literatura de minorías se caracteriza por la desterritorialización de una lengua mayoritaria a través de su uso en esa literatura, la articulación de loindividual en lo inmediato político y el dispositivo colectivo de enunciación. La obra de S. Cisneros, que se desarrolla principalmente a partir del inglés, pone de manifiesto el contacto entre el español y el inglés de un modo particular. En este trabajo, se analiza el fenómeno del contacto de lenguas vinculado a la traducción literal, cuya presencia se vuelve un rasgo distintivo del estilo de la autora y una estrategia clave para la desterritorialización del lenguaje. En este sentido, la hipótesis central de nuestra investigación indica que bajo la apariencia de una única lengua, el inglés (L1), hay otra lengua, el español (L2), que se manifiesta en la utilización de alguno de sus niveles (léxico-semántico, pragmático, morfosintáctico o gráfico), lo cual contribuye a la desterritorialización de L1 y constituye un caso especial de alternancia de lenguas. Esta hipótesis ha guiado la clasificación del corpus de esta investigación constituido por frases y estructuras que registran cierta fijación,pertenecientes a la colección de relatos Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). El interés en estas formas reside en que si bien aparecen expresadas en inglés, remiten al español como marco discursivo, acentuando el carácter heterogéneo constitutivo de toda palabra. Dado que la traducción literal no integra los modelos sociolingüísticos revisados (S. Poplack: 1982; C. Myers-Scotton: 1993a y 1993b) y considerando que el contacto de lenguastambién se manifiesta a través de esta operación de traducción, que conforma un punto de heterogeneidad fuerte, fue necesario buscar una teoría lingüísticaque pudiera explicar la complejidad el discurso de Cisneros. Así, la teoría de las heterogeneidades enunciativas (J. Authier-Revuz: 1984, 1995) se presenta como un marco más amplio para el estudio de las marcas de heterogeneidad y desterritorialización en el seno de la narrativa de S. Cisneros. Esta perspectivateórica, que da cuenta de los procesos que se ponen en marcha en la constitución del discurso y atiende, entre otras, la función de las marcas gráficas presentes en el texto escrito, propone un marco más amplio para abordar nuestro objeto. Son dos los objetivos principales de esta investigación: describir la operación de desterritorialización en el interior de este discurso y establecer relaciones entre algunos de los modelos que abordan el estudio de la alternancia de lenguas (S. Poplack: 1982; C. Myers-Scotton: 1993a y 1993b) y la teoría de las heterogeneidades enunciativas propuesta por J. Authier-Revuz (1984, 1995).

Learning kinds for students of technical high school : An analysis from the David Ausubel's theory

This article presents the findings of a field research, not experimental, observational, correlating, basic, of mixed data, micro sociologic, leading to a study of surveys.The object of study is to find learning kinds, and the unit of analysis were 529 high school students between 16 and 21 years old. Its purpose is to understand the impact of learning by rote, guided, self learned and meaningful learning and its achievement degree besides the learning outcomes of differentiated curriculum based on David Ausubel's thoughts, associated with different economic specialties (MINEDUC, 1998) where the population of the study is trained. To collect data, the test TADA - DO2 was used, this test has a reliability index of 0.911 according to Cronbach. From the hits it can be stated from the null hypothesis that there is a significant association (a = 0,05) between the learning kinds and the learning expected of differentiated training plan for both, male and female. It is complex to state that the training of the middle-level technicians leads to a successful employment.

Historias de vida de deportistas paralímpicas argentinas : Redes de Relaciones

El creciente interés por los estudios de género manifiesta un vacío respecto de las mujeres con discapacidad que han desarrollado trayectorias exitosas en algún campo. Este trabajo, forma parte de dos investigaciones junto a mujeres deportistas con discapacidad motora que han alcanzado el más alto símbolo deportivo: la medalla paralímpica. Con el objetivo de develar sus Trayectorias Biográficas se diseñó un estudio flexible y multivocal, con un enfoque no estándar (cualitativo) centrado en el método biográfico. Se recolectaron trece relatos de vida con entrevistas en profundidad analizadas con el método Comparativo Constante de la Teoría Fundamentada de los Datos.
Las Trayectorias Biográficas constituyen los "grandes ámbitos de la experiencia social" que aportan testimonios de vivencias individuales dentro de un mismo objeto social (Bertaux, 2005: 41). Pero debido a las características del diseño, emergió una categoría imprevista: las redes de relaciones, constituidas por las influencias mutuas de las interacciones entre las personas, motivo de esta presentación. Lo interesante fue que estas redes no solo no respondían al rol de dependencia atribuido a las personas con discapacidad, sino que se halló un nuevo tipo y cuatro sub-categorías: compulsivas, electivas, omitidas e ignoradas. Principalmente en las redes electivas fue donde las entrevistadas manifestaron hallar nichos, en los que expresaron (descubrieron) roles y funciones (simultáneas y cambiantes) complementarias y cooperativas con otras personas, manteniendo al mismo tiempo, cierto grado de independencia interna (límites). El peso de las redes (importancia atribuida) fue variable tanto sincrónica como diacrónicamente, permitiendo que algunas deportistas se destacaran en más de una red en distintos momentos temporales