International Crew Research Articles

Differentiation in the Process of Learning English by Future Ship Engineers

Traditional methods of teaching English do not always allow us to consider the individual characteristics of future ship- engineers, their learning pace, cognitive styles and level of training, which can lead to the loss of motivation to learn and failure to master the material in full. The article substantiates the basic principles of differentiated learning (variability of tasks, frontal work, pair/group, and independent assignments). The research describes multi-level tasks for groups, considering different levels of English language proficiency. It is emphasized that differentiated learning contributes to the development of various skills important for ship's engineers, such as critical thinking, solving professional problems, high-level English for communication in an international crew, teamwork, etc. The author emphasizes the need to plan tasks for each stage of the lesson for groups with different knowledge bases and levels of training. It is important to anticipate possible difficulties that students may encounter in mastering the material and to use differentiated individual tasks in the classroom system. The advantages of differentiated learning are revealed: considering the individual characteristics of students, increasing motivation to learn. The disadvantages are also pointed out, since differentiated learning requires considerable effort and time from the teacher to plan classes, prepare various materials and tasks. Criteria for assessing the knowledge and skills of future specialists are proposed, since students of different groups perform different tasks and study according to different programs when learning maritime English. It is emphasized that the systematic use of different types of exercises for a particular group, taking into account the topic, stage of study and didactic goals, is optimal for improving the assimilation of knowledge of students

МЕТАБОЛИЧЕСКИЕ РЕАКЦИИ ОРГАНИЗМА ЗДОРОВОГО ЧЕЛОВЕКА В ДИНАМИКЕ ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТА SIRIUS-21

The SIRIUS-21 study was designed as a 240-day isolation of healthy volunteers in controlled environment simulating a piloted mission to the Moon including operator's activities in lunar orbit and on the surface. The investigation involved an international crew of two women and 3 men at the age of 29 to 44 years. The object was metabolic reactions of healthy bodies to the simulated conditions. Crew members demonstrated a moderate stress reaction characterized by inhibition of the gastrointestinal tract secretory activity, reduction of glycolysis intensity, persistent hypercalcemia, a more intensive creatine kinase system functioning as a buffer, deficit of macroergic compounds, magnesium and essential microelements. On day 7 post isolation, the stress symptoms showed a partial leveling. Hard physical training had both the positive and negative effects on metabolism dynamics. The preventive purpose of training was to normalize the content of essential microelements in blood and suppress atherogenesis; however, training had also the negative effect of inducing hypohydration. In future isolation studies it would be appropriate to optimize training protocols and enhance the program of countermeasures to the negative effects of simulated factors.

ОЦЕНКА ФУНКЦИОНАЛЬНЫХ ВОЗМОЖНОСТЕЙ ЭКИПАЖА ПРИ ВЫПОЛНЕНИИ ВНЕКОРАБЕЛЬНОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ПОСЛЕ ДЛИТЕЛЬНОЙ ИЗОЛЯЦИИ В НАЗЕМНОЙ МОДЕЛИ КОСМИЧЕСКОЙ СТАНЦИИ

During interplanetary expeditions, the crew must adapt not only to gravity transitions but also to long-term stay in a limited space of a space station. In such conditions, it develops a significant decrease in motor activity and the formation of a special stereotype of movements in these conditions. Within further planning of ground-based and real interplanetary missions, it is appropriate to assess the impact of these factors on the crew's functional condition, including when modeling lunar gravity using suspension and virtual reality (VR) technologies. The purpose was to determine the functional capabilities of 5 members of the international crew of the 240-day SIRIUS-21 isolation experiment when performing an extravehicular activity (EVA) after 4 and 6 months of isolation in the hermetic facility. During EVA, the crew performed basic motor tasks using VR on an uneven surface: positional tests, voluntary and tandem walking, walking when avoiding and stepping over obstacles, and verticalization from lying and standing on one knee positions. In addition, the EVA scenario included the tasks of controlling the rover while the hands unloading, as well as moving on a sliding surface in a VR environment when the body lunar vertical unloading. In this study, we presented results of qualitative and quantitative analysis of video recording data and qualitative analysis of the electromyographic activity of the muscles of the lower extremities. The results indicate a sufficient level of functional performance of SIRIUS-21 crew members – all the EVA tasks were completed by the crew in full, while no cases of significant loss of balance and signs of pronounced locomotor and vestibular disorders were registered. At the same time, this paper highlights some features of the crew's EVA performance – the effects of sensorimotor training on some tasks with repeated EVA experience, the most common errors, and difficulties in performing the tasks of the EVA scenario.

DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE NAVIGATORS AS A BACKGROUND OF EFFECTIVE INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

The article aims to study the resources that can be used by foreign language teachers of universities to achieve standards of higher education and the development of intercultural competence as an integral part of the professional education of modern experts and background for effective intercultural communication. This leads to the importance of developing respect for other cultures, tolerance, empathy, desire to learn about foreign cultures, etc. And thus, it enables the development of a global expert who easily adapts to the modern requirements of society in an intercultural environment. The article analyses relevant scientific papers and the requirements for modern experts in the development of intercultural competence. This makes it possible to say that an important task of teaching intercultural competence is to develop students’ ability to participate in intercultural dialogue, taking into account the principles of cooperation and mutual respect, forming a sense of belonging to their own culture. Based on the theory of high-context and low-context cultures, the authors made a comparative description of the representatives of Ukrainian, Philipino, Indian and Greek cultures, because Ukrainian sailors work mostly in this international crew. The features of the cultures presented in the table make it easier to adapt to the intercultural environment and understand and tolerate intercultural differences. The article offers practical assignments for the development of intercultural competence at foreign language classes in higher education institutions, including maritime English.

Identification of Factors Associated With the Development of Optic Disc Edema During Spaceflight

Approximately 70% of crew members who complete long-duration missions to the International Space Station develop signs of optic disc edema, a hallmark finding of spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome. The onset and magnitude of edema differ across individuals, and the reason for this variability remains unknown. Identifying risk factors for spaceflight-induced disc edema is important because this condition may become more severe during extended-duration missions to the moon and Mars and could be associated with irreversible vision loss. To assess whether preflight indicators of crowded optic nerve head morphology, other ocular measures (such as choroid thickness and axial length), body weight, body mass index, sex, age, and previous flight experience are associated with optic disc edema development. This cohort study analyzed ocular, body weight, and demographic data collected from 31 US and international crew members before, during, and after spaceflight at the NASA Johnson Space Center and International Space Station. Ocular factors assessed included preflight and in-flight peripapillary total retinal thickness, minimum rim width, optic cup volume, mean cup depth, mean cup width, cup-disc ratio, Bruch membrane opening area, retinal nerve fiber layer thickness, choroid thickness, axial length, and refractive error. In addition, body weight, body mass index, sex, age, and previous spaceflight experience were assessed for associations with optic disc edema development. The data were analyzed from August 2021 to June 2022. Approximately 6 to 12 months of spaceflight. In-flight increases in peripapillary total retinal thickness. Linear mixed models were used to assess for associations between a wide range of risk factors and in-flight increases in peripapillary total retinal thickness, which is a sensitive objective measure for detecting optic disc edema. This study included 31 International Space Station crew members with a mean (SD) age of 46.9 (6.0) years (25 men [80.6%]). During spaceflight, mean (SE) peripapillary total retinal thickness increased from 392.0 (5.8) μm to 430.2 (9.6) μm (P < .001), and greater individual changes were associated with smaller preflight cup volume (slope [SE], -62.8 [18.9]; P = .002), shallower preflight cup depth (slope [SE], -0.11 [0.03]; P < .001), and narrower preflight cup width (slope [SE], -0.03 [0.01]; P = .03). No associations were observed between changes in peripapillary total retinal thickness and any other variable evaluated. Findings of this cohort study suggest that smaller optic cup morphology may be associated with optic disc edema development during spaceflight. Crew members with this cup profile may benefit from enhanced ophthalmic monitoring during spaceflight and use of countermeasures against spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome.

International crew changes amid global pandemic outbreaks: Key issues and system innovations

The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic all over the world has seriously affected seafarers’ work and life. In this paper, we focus on the countermeasures of major countries and organizations on the seafarer shift matter during the pandemic period. And the target of this paper is to become useful in promoting the shift change of seafarers more smoothly. Policies are identified on the basis of a systematic review of importance in combination with a detailed analysis of the primary global and national policy initiatives. Findings suggest that the root cause of the international crew change crisis lies in the issues and deficiencies in the crew change system, economic security, seafarers' welfare, and seafarers' social security among other aspects. On this basis, this paper gives feasible suggestions in the respects of system innovation, economic security and welfare, social security system innovation and technical innovation.

Application of Fuzzy Delphi-AHP-TOPSIS for Selecting an International Crew Change Center in Taiwan

The COVID-19 crisis has brought disruption to the global economy and to international passenger and cargo transportation, and the unprecedented crew change crisis remains an issue for governments around the world to address. The selection of a port for international crew changes is a major decision for a country, and this port selection can be considered as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) issue. As with other facility-siting issues, the issue of selecting a port for international crew changes requires consideration of several criteria relative to cargo transshipment, and since this process involves uncertainty, fuzzy logic must be incorporated into the process to obtain more accurate results. This study proceeds from the standpoint of shipping companies and ship management companies, conducting a survey questionnaire on carriers calling at Taiwan ports using cargo structure, transit costs, transit time, environmental factors, geographic location, infrastructure, and crew safety certification facilities. Fuzzy Delphi and FAHP are used to obtain the subjective opinions of carriers and FTOPSIS is used to explore and prioritize the objective opinions of carriers on international crew change ports. This is then used to construct an evaluation model of the key factors influencing the selection of an international crew change location for the development of Taiwanese ports. The results of the study showed that the hinterland industry economy was the main key factor and Kaohsiung container terminal 5 was the most suitable place for crew replacement.

Seafarers on the shore: issues raised by Australian doctors treating seafarers.

Seafarers on the shore: issues raised by Australian doctors treating seafarers.

Changes in Optic Nerve Head and Retinal Morphology During Spaceflight and Acute Fluid Shift Reversal

Countermeasures that reverse the headward fluid shift experienced in weightlessness have the potential to mitigate spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome. This study investigated whether use of the countermeasure lower-body negative pressure during spaceflight was associated with changes in ocular structure. To determine whether changes to the optic nerve head and retina during spaceflight can be mitigated by brief in-flight application of 25-mm Hg lower-body negative pressure. In the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's "Fluid Shifts Study," a prospective cohort study, optical coherence tomography scans of the optic nerve head and macula were obtained from US and international crew members before flight, in-flight, and up to 180 days after return to Earth. In-flight scans were obtained both under normal weightless conditions and 10 to 20 minutes into lower-body negative pressure exposure. Preflight and postflight data were collected in the seated, supine, and head-down tilt postures. Crew members completed 6- to 12-month missions that took place on the International Space Station. Data were analyzed from 2016 to 2021. Spaceflight and lower-body negative pressure. Changes in minimum rim width, optic cup volume, Bruch membrane opening height, peripapillary total retinal thickness, and macular thickness. Mean (SD) flight duration for the 14 crew members (mean [SD] age, 45 [6] years; 11 male crew members [79%]) was 214 (72) days. Ocular changes on flight day 150, as compared with preflight seated, included an increase in minimum rim width (33.8 μm; 95% CI, 27.9-39.7 μm; P < .001), decrease in cup volume (0.038 mm3; 95% CI, 0.030-0.046 mm3; P < .001), posterior displacement of Bruch membrane opening (-9.0 μm; 95% CI, -15.7 to -2.2 μm; P = .009), and decrease in macular thickness (fovea to 500 μm, 5.1 μm; 95% CI, 3.5-6.8 μm; P < .001). Brief exposure to lower-body negative pressure did not affect these parameters. Results of this cohort study suggest that peripapillary tissue thickening, decreased cup volume, and mild central macular thinning were associated with long-duration spaceflight. Acute exposure to 25-mm Hg lower-body negative pressure did not alter optic nerve head or retinal morphology, suggesting that longer durations of a fluid shift reversal may be needed to mitigate spaceflight-induced changes and/or other factors are involved.

Long-duration isolation experiments in preparation of interplanetary missions: Psychological support of international crews

The current development of international cooperation, assimilation and integration of representatives of different ethnic groups has led to the urgent need to take this factor into account in the planning, organization and implementation of complex scientific and technological projects, such as space exploration missions (Moon or Mars missions). In this regard, it becomes obvious that crew training and in-flight activities of astronauts cannot be planned without considering intercultural relations, including relevant psychological support of international crews, playing a key role for the success of such space missions. The efficiency of the entire range of activities related to space activities in general depends directly on the ability to build cross-cultural relationships between all stakeholders. The main tool of achieving mutual understanding in any kind of activity in general and the work of astronauts in particular is communication. Communication among the crew of astronauts and with ground control is strongly impacted by their cultural background and in long-duration space missions this impact is strongly aggravated.This paper presents a quantitative complex study of the impact of cultural background of members of an international crew on their information and communication needs with the outside world during long-duration isolation and autonomy during the Mars-500 project. In the course of the study a new approach to psychological support of an international crew in ground-based isolation studies was developed and implemented, considering culturally influenced information and communication needs of the international crew members. It was demonstrated that it is necessary to combine the principle of parity of information support in a long-duration autonomous mission of an international crew with the principle of individualization of psychological support, based on the cultural identity and psycho-physiological condition of the crew members. The results of the study have confirmed the efficiency of this new approach and represent a valuable input for the further development of psychological support of international crews during long-duration isolation / space missions.

Adaptation in Gait to Lunar and Martian Gravity Unloading During Long-Term Isolation in the Ground-Based Space Station Model.

The aim of the experiment was to evaluate the adaptive responses of biomechanical and electromyographic parameters to vertical unloading (Lunar—0.15 G and Martian—0.35 G) when walking during the 4-month isolation experiment SIRIUS-19 in the ground-based space station model (GBI). The study involved 6 healthy international crew members of the SIRIUS-19 project aged 34 ± 6.2 years (3 women and 3 men). Body Weight Unloading (BWU) conditions was created by the h/p/cosmos airwalk system. The locomotor test included walking (3.5 ± 0.3 km/h) with a sequential change of BWU modes: 5-min walking with 0% BWU (1 G), 5-min walking with 65% BWU (0.35 G) and 5-min walking with 85% BWU (0.15 G). Ground Reaction Force was recorded by the h/p/cosmos treadmill device. Muscle Lab Model 4000e device was used to record the electromyographic signals of the hip and shin muscles. The locomotor test was performed twice before GBI, monthly during GBI and 1 week after leaving isolation. The results obtained before GBI demonstrate that the changes of support and proprioceptive afferentation signals play significant role in reorganizing of the biomechanical structure of motor acts and the development of new movement patterns. The results of the study are consistent with the previously obtained results of other studies in this direction. Despite the fact that during the GBI the participants of the experiment performed regular physical training, a decrease in the performance indicators values was detected, especially pronounced after 100 days of GBI. This is probably due to limited space of a space station model, as well as the development of a special motor stereotype in it. Noteworthy are the results obtained after the 4th session of the experiment, indicating the effect of sensorimotor learning. We think that the data obtained in this study will be useful in research both in gravitational physiology and in clinical medicine.

Relationship of hemostasis indicators with the dynamics of steroid hormones in healthy test volunteers in 120-day isolation in a hermetic facility

Introduction. Evaluation of the relationship between hemostasis and steroid hormones is an important area of research due to the high risk of hemorrhages and, especially, thromboembolic complications in their abnormal state, but this has not been practically studied in long-term isolation. The aim of study was to study the relationship between hemostasis and steroid hormones of participants in 120 - day isolation in a hermetic object. Materials and methods. Before, 3 times during and on the 7th day after 120-day isolation, venous blood samples were taken from the international crew members (3 men and 3 women) to measure the concentrations of cortisol, aldosterone, total testosterone, sex hormone-binding globulin, determine the free androgen index, and evaluate 9 hemostasis indicators. Results. In conditions of long-term isolation, the relationship of steroid hormones with the activity of the procoagulant hemostasis link and the state of the plasmin and antiplasmin systems was revealed. Conclusions. Anthropometric and hormonal parameters in isolation were significantly correlated with the dynamics of the international normalized ratio, activated partial thromboplastin time, fibrinogen, antithrombin III, plasminogen, α2-antiplasmin and protein C, and the gender of the subjects significantly affected only the activity of α2-antiplasmin, and the age of volunteers and the dynamics of testosterone had the most pronounced effect on hemostasis in isolation.

Gender features of adaptation of healthy test volunteers to the conditions of 120-day isolation in a hermetic object

Introduction. The occurrence of psychological problems in space flight can have a negative impact on the physiological reactions of the cosmonaut's body. The paper presents the gender features of adaptation of 6 international crew members to the conditions of 120-day isolation in a hermetic object in the "SIRIUS 18/19" project. The aim of study is to research the gender features of adaptation of test volunteers to the conditions of 120 - day isolation in a hermetic object in the "SIRIUS 18/19" experiment. Materials and methods. Psychological testing of experimental participants and determination of serum concentrations of cortisol, aldosterone, somatotropic hormone, total testosterone and prolactin were performed. Results. All participants in the "SIRIUS 18/19" experiment showed symptoms of stress. Despite the relatively stable hormonal background in women during isolation, they were more likely to experience psychological discomfort. Their personal adaptive potential decreased significantly more than in men. Conclusions. Due to their psychological and physiological characteristics, it was more difficult for women to adapt to the conditions of 120-day isolation in a hermetic facility.

Structured Review: Psychosocial Stress During Long-Term Stays in Space

Over the past few years, the number of Japanese astronauts recruited for a long-term stay in the International Space Station (ISS) has increased. Being on a prolonged mission with the same people, in the same room, should impose psychosocial stress on the astronauts, possibly causing feelings of “psychological suffocation”. Several confinement studies have been conducted to simulate the conditions of the ISS, the Mir space station, and potential habitats on Mars, and to survey psychological interpersonal communication between the crew in a confined environment, including the Isolation Study for European Manned Space Infrastructure, Experimental Campaign for the European Manned Space Infrastructure, Simulation of Flight of International Crew on Space Station, Human Behavior in Extended Spaceflight, Mars-500, and Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation. Here, the findings from these studies were integrated into a structured review according to an evidence-based set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The results indicated that metaanalyses would not always be appropriate because it is difficult to design a research protocol with a high level of evidence in this field. Therefore, future research in this field should be focused on the following three points: 1) developing more accurate parameters for monitoring stress levels in long-term confinement environments; 2) analyzing stress levels in such situations with higher precision; and 3) accumulating and assembling existing and future data from long-term confinement environments.

Long Voyage Home: Eugene O'Neill's Plays of the Sea

Long Voyage Home: Eugene O'Neill's Plays of the Sea

Psychological and Metabolic Changes in the Adaptation of the Sirius 17-Day Experiment Participants to the Conditions of Isolation in a Confined Environment

The paper dwells on the psychological and metabolic adaptation to 17-d isolation and confinement of an international crew in experiment SIRIUS. Crew members were tested 7 days prior and 2 days after the experiment using a battery of standardized methods including: Psychological Stress Measurement (N.E. Vodopianova), The Psychache Scale (К.А. Chistopolskaya and Т.V. Zhuravleva), Multilevel Personality Inventory Adaptability (A.G. Maklakov and S.V. Chermianin), Strategic Approach to Coping Scale (N.E. Vodopianova and E.S. Starchenkova), Extreme Environmental Response Inventory (А. Volkov and N.Е. Vodopianova) and Ermuedung–Monotonie–Saetting–Stress (А.B. Leonova and S.V. Velichkovskaya). Psychological testing was accompanied by venous blood sampling for biochemical and hormonal analyses. The investigations revealed moderate increases in the content of stress-markers and a certain correlation of psychological, biochemical and hormonal stress-markers. Based on this evidence we conclude that stress was moderate and that organism responded adequately. Adaptive potential testing showed that each of the crew members had been highly adaptive to the stressful environment so that neither health, nor skills or efficiency were affected.

Affective, Social, and Cognitive Outcomes During a 1-Year Wintering in Concordia

This study investigated time patterns and the relationships between perceived stress, recovery, control, attention lapses, and defense mechanisms (DM) during a 12-month wintering in Concordia polar station with an international crew of 14 volunteers. This ICE (Isolated, Confined, Extreme) environment induced some stress, mainly in the social dimension and showed relationships (a) between DM and both stress and recovery and (b) between recovery and perceived control, highlighting the roles of DM and control in psychological adaptation. These results offer additional insights into the affective, social, and cognitive processes involved in adaptation. The findings suggest that preventive psychological countermeasures should be developed for crew members to counteract detrimental psychological outcomes and to improve adaptation to long-duration ICE situations such as planned human interplanetary space missions.

Smyrniw, Walter Ukrainian Science Fiction: Historical and Thematic Perspectives (review)

SEER, 94, 3, july 2016 518 Smyrniw, Walter. Ukrainian Science Fiction: Historical and Thematic Perspectives. Peter Lang, Bern, 2013. 388 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Selective chronological bibliography. Index. €82.00: £61.00 (paperback). Walter Smyrniw’s monograph makes the case for Ukrainian science fiction as a culturally distinct branch of the international sci-fi family. Despite taking as his epigraph Einstein’s remark that ‘imagination embraces the entire world’, Smyrniw’s parameters are more cautious. Rather than an exhaustive history, he aims at outlining ‘the representative and the most imaginative Ukrainian science fiction [...] by writers residing in Ukraine and abroad’ (p. 9). After warning that ‘there is no single, viable definition of science fiction’, Smyrniw opens with a history of the genre worldwide. Unusually and intriguingly, he neglects well-known texts for obscurer works which were ‘firsts’ in their field, like Bishop Godwin’s 1638 The Man in the Moone (the first off-world utopia), or Denis Vairasse’s 1679 Histoire des Sévarambes (the first utopia set in Australia). In later chapters, Smyrniw locates other such ‘firsts’ in Ukrainian fiction — Vasyl Berezhnyi’s novella about an alien base discovered on the Moon is described as a ‘great leap forward for Soviet Ukrainian science fiction’ (p. 176); given the context, one wonders whether it might have been a ‘giant leap’ for Ukrainian novelists, too. Smyrniw relies on writers — such as Kingsley Amis and Ray Bradbury — rather than academics for theoretical commentary, ignoring Fredric Jameson and barely citing Darko Suvin. Each of the eighteen chapters explores a particular theme of twentieth-century Ukrainian scientific fantasy, including utopias; aliens; robots, androids and cyborgs (painstakingly differentiated and separately discussed); space travel; and technology. We gradually realize — though never explicitly told — that by Ukrainian science fiction Smyrniw means science fiction in the Ukrainian language. Ukrainian-born authors writing in Russian need not apply. This excludes Mikhail Bulgakov (The Fatal Eggs or Adam and Eve); Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii’s odd dystopian fantasies; and, very disappointingly, mainstream science fiction writers such as the great (and comparatively widely translated) Anatolii Dneprov. In his keenness to refute what he calls the ‘myopic perception’ (p. 111) abroad of Ukrainian science fiction as an offshoot of Soviet writings, Smyrniw ruthlessly excludes other Russian influences, echoes and encounters. Concepts widespread in modern Slavic culture, such as Solov´ev’s man-godhood, Vernadskii’s noosphere or Federov’s ideas about immortality and resurrection, inevitably emerge in the texts discussed. By failing to credit their Russian origins, this book misses an opportunity to compare the common sources of Russian and Ukrainian imagination. Smyrniw’s determined exclusion of Russian authors clashes with his marked openness to Western influences on his field, by authors like H. G. Wells, Karel Čapek, Jules REVIEWS 519 Verne or Percival Lowell (the man behind the myth of Martian canals). Yet it feels like a major concession when Smyrniw mentions Ivan Efremov’s hugely influential novel Andromeda Nebula (and only because it is referenced by an Oles’ Berdnyk character). Conversely, Smyrniw is at his best discussing the stifling of Ukrainian writers by Soviet ideology and censorship. Chapter seven compares two space travel novels from the early 1930s, one by the pro-Soviet Volodymyr Vladko (Argonauts of the Universe), the other by the Catholic writer Myroslav Kapii (The Land of Blue Orchids), in a convincing case study of narrative deformed by ideology. Kapii’s Mars mission boasts an international crew, a Ukrainian astronomer, and a landing site near Kiev, whereas Vladko’s Venusian expedition ignores or belittles any characters (including Venusians) who are neither Soviet nor Russian. Vladko’s novel appeared in several editions and languages; Kapii’s simply lapsed into obscurity. Smyrniw stresses such continuity gaps in Ukrainian science fiction, where later authors like Berdnyk or Berezhnyi fail to recognize or benefit from the influence of predecessors like Kapii (apparently, ‘the progenitor of space voyages in Ukrainian science fiction’, p.123) because their work remained unavailable or unknown. He is particularly keen to dethrone writers like Vladko or Iurii Smolych (‘almost invariably hailed as the patriarch of Ukrainian science fiction’, p. 135) who owe their legacy to popularity with Soviet critics and over-representation in Russian translation. Smyrniw corrects the record by...

Shuttling

This exposition investigates practice-as-research dynamics through a project titled ‘Shuttle’, from which emerged a practice of ‘shuttling’ as a layered modality for processing methodological artistic research. An international crew of artists, designers, and performance makers enquire into peer-to-peer creative practice development: practices unfolding through the dramaturgy of a twenty-day, four-thousand-mile mobile performance-research journey in the deserts of the North American south-west. We trace the dynamics of a practice-as-research milieu through a suite of artistic operations, performatively elaborated through this rich-media exposition. Through ‘shuttling’, we generate parafunctional performative spaces and temporalities. Our spatio-temporal and sensory mode of research – conditioned, co-created, and situated as a mobile laboratory – posits reflexivity as an embodied practice, as a medium of ‘shuttling’ with the dynamic emergence of creative research practices.

Ciguatera fish poisoning in an international ship crew in Saint John, Canada: 2015

Ciguatera fish poisoning in an international ship crew in Saint John, Canada: 2015