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The Editorial Calendar details upcoming (approximately one year in advance) publication plans for The Leading Edge. This includes all special sections, guest editors, and information about submitting articles to TLE.

Editorial Calendar

The Editorial Calendar details upcoming (approximately one year in advance) publication plans for The Leading Edge. This includes all special sections, guest editors, and information about submitting articles to TLE.

Editorial Calendar

The Editorial Calendar details upcoming (approximately one year in advance) publication plans for The Leading Edge. This includes all special sections, guest editors, and information about submitting articles to TLE.

Editorial Calendar

The Editorial Calendar details upcoming (approximately one year in advance) publication plans for The Leading Edge. This includes all special sections, guest editors, and information about submitting articles to TLE.

Hegemony and Resistance at the World’s Columbian Exposition: Simon Pokagon and The Red Man’s Rebuke

SIMON POKAGON WAS THE SPECIAL INVITED GUEST of Mayor Carter Harrison to Chicago Day celebration of Worlds Columbian Exposition in October 1893. Pokagon, whose father signed 1833 treaty ceding Potawatomi lands on which Chicago was built, was scheduled to participate in a re-enactment of treaty signing and join in ringing of Columbian Bell of Liberty, in recognition of sixtieth anniversary of land cession. Later, in parade of floats depicting Chicago history, he was central figure on float depicting events of 1812, including Fort Dearborn Massacre, in which some Potawatomi participated. Addressing crowd during festivities, Pokagon delivered a call for forgiveness of past wrongs and an appeal for future of his race:1I beseech you to lay aside all bitterness of spirit [and] look up and rejoice in thankfulness in present; for out of storm cloud of darkness that is around about us we now see helping hands stretched out to aid and strengthen us We must give up pursuits of our fathers; however dear... we must teach our children to give up bow and arrow [and] take plow and live as white men do. We must teach loyalty to this nation to our children, and solemnly impress upon them that war path leads but to grave.2At time of his address, however, a very different judgment was circulating among fairgoers, authored by Pokagon, and printed on spiritually significant birch bark leaves. It was more condemning than conciliatory:In behalf of my people, American Indians, I hereby declare to you, pale faced race that has usurped our lands and homes, that we have no spirit to celebrate with you great Columbian Fair now being held in this Chicago city, wonder of world. No; sooner would we hold high joy-day over grave of our departed fathers, than to celebrate our own funeral, discovery of America.3The explanation for this disparity is a subtext of power, agency, and resistance, underlying celebration of Chicago Day at Worlds Columbian Exposition. Simon Pokagons engagement with non-Native community throughout his life, but specifically at Exposition in Chicago, illustrates complexities of defining an Indian identity in an era in which programs of civilization and assimilation reached their zenith, but during which memories of 'savage' Indian continued to dominate public imagination.Simon Pokagon (Figure 1) was born in 1830, in an Indian village on Pokagon Creek, about one mile from St. Joseph River in what became Berrien County, Michigan.4 He was third son of Potawatomi chief Leopold Pokagon.5 Within his tribe, elder chief was second in rank only to Potawatomi Chief Topinabe. Leopold Pokagon signed a number of important treaties with United States, including 1833 Treaty of Chicago, which sold and ceded to United States territory on which city of Chicago was built. From all appearances devoutly Catholic after years of tutelage by Jesuits (which earned them distinctive moniker, 'The Catholic Potawatomi'), Pokagons band was described as the farthest advanced in civilization of all their race in St. Joseph valley.6 In press, Pokagon were portrayed as exemplary Indians to be extolled and imitated.7 Leopold's reputation with Euro-Americans as a 'noble red man,' along with civilizing effect of their Catholicism, persuaded United States government to allow his people to remain on a small portion of their original land base, when other Indian tribes, and all other Potawatomi bands of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, suffered trauma of removal.8 On this land in southwestern Michigan, Simon spent early years of his life.In Publisher's Notes to Simon Pokagon's autobiography, O-gimaw-kwe Mit-i-gwu-ki (Queen of Woods), C.H. Engle relates how, as a young boy, Pokagon spent many happy hours listening to his father recite history of Potawatomi, passed down through oral tradition. …

Editorial Calendar

The Editorial Calendar details upcoming (approximately one year in advance) publication plans for The Leading Edge. This includes all special sections, guest editors, and information about submitting articles to TLE.

Editorial Calendar

The Editorial Calendar details upcoming (approximately one year in advance) publication plans for The Leading Edge. This includes all special sections, guest editors, and information about submitting articles to TLE.

Editorial Calendar

The Editorial Calendar details upcoming (approximately one year in advance) publication plans for The Leading Edge. This includes all special sections, guest editors, and information about submitting articles to TLE.

Abstracts from Hydrocephalus 2015.

The 7th Annual Meeting of the International Society for hydrocephalus and Cerebrospinal Fluid Disorders (ISHCSF) is being held in Banff, Alberta, Canada September 19th-21st, 2015. There are three satellite symposia accompanying the main Congress. On September 17th, the 1st Calgary Hydrocephalus Symposium will be hosted by the Cumming School of Medicine to provide an intimate opportunity to explore state-of-the-art hydrocephalus care. On September 18th, the satellite Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) Symposium will be held in Banff, providing an opportunity to share and learn from the experience of international experts regarding this challenging hydrocephalus disorder. We also welcome our colleagues and members of the International Hydrocephalus Imaging Working Group (IHIWG). IHIWG members include Neurologists, Neurosurgeons, Neuroradiologists and Physicists who will have their autumn meeting on September 18th in Banff. Hydrocephalus 2015 will cover the full range of CSF disorders affecting both children and adults. The focus of work done in our field is the patient and to this end, the theme of three special sessions of this Congress will be “The Patient”. These special sessions will examine: 1) Quality Improvement and Safety in Hydrocephalus Care; 2) Transition and Adult Hydrocephalus Care; and 3) Ethics and Patient Involvement in Clinical Research. These sessions will provide a foundation for the research that will be presented during Hydrocephalus 2015 which will include sessions dealing with pediatric hydrocephalus, adult hydrocephalus, advanced Neuro-imaging techniques in hydrocephalus, CSF shunt design and technology and intracranial pressure. We will also have special sessions devoted to young investigators and will recognize those with the best oral presentations and best posters. We have a great social program to span the conference. We start with the Welcoming Reception on September 18th, party at a bar-be-que buffet barn dance on September 19th and then celebrate at the Denim and Diamonds Gala Dinner on September 20th. Our very special guest speaker for the Gala Dinner is Dr. Michael Bliss, renowned historian and author of “Harvey Cushing. A Life in Surgery”.

Ukrainian Canadians, Canada, Ukraine, and the Popular Imagination

Ukrainian Canadians, Canada, Ukraine, and the Popular Imagination Natalia Aponiuk, Special Guest Editor (bio) “Look at where Canada is, and look at where Ukraine and Russia are. … Neither Canada nor the U.S. have [sic] the same amount [sic] of interests in Ukraine as Russia does.” – Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, as reported by the Canadian Press, May 24, 2014 This special issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies is being published at the intersection of two momentous events. In Canada the 125th anniversary of Ukrainian settlement will be celebrated in 2016. Although it is highly likely that individual Ukrainians came to Canada much earlier, 1891 is generally accepted as the beginning of the first wave of mass migration from Ukraine. Canada is now home to the third largest population of Ukrainians in the world (after Ukraine and Russia), numbering over 1.2 million or approximately 4% of the population in 2011. In Ukraine, contemporaneously, a battle is being waged to preserve an independent, integral Ukraine. As recently as a quarter-century ago and for centuries before, the preceding reference would have been to “establishing,” not “preserving,” an independent Ukraine. In the century preceding 1991, when Ukraine declared its independence, Ukraine’s cultural heritage was under threat—as it had been for centuries before—but a variant of it was preserved and developed in Canada. This fact was noted with some surprise by Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine’s second president, when he was serenaded in Ukrainian by school children enrolled in the English-Ukrainian Bilingual program in Edmonton on October 25, 1994. With Ukraine’s declaration of independence, Ukrainian Canadians at last had an independent homeland with which they could identify. Older generations—especially the so-called “DPs” (Displaced Persons) who had been forced to leave Ukraine during and after World War II—returned to visit the country that had been preserved [End Page 1] only in their memories. They came back to Canada having realized that their true homeland was Canada and were grateful for it. This realization was no doubt helped along when their naively offered, unsolicited advice on various matters was rebuffed by Ukraine’s first president, Leonid Krawchuk, who told them in no uncertain terms not to meddle in Ukraine’s affairs. Now, finally, we all seem to be on the same page. A younger, more sophisticated, worldly, and English-speaking leadership has emerged in Ukraine—a leadership that has recognized the importance of gaining the support of the Western world of which it wants to be a part. This change in attitude and outlook is exemplified by Ukraine’s national anthem: the first stanza was slightly modified in early 2013 and the result was the transformation of a dirge sung in a minor key in Canada to a triumphal hymn.1 Canada has responded positively and supportively to the most recent events in Ukraine, thereby eliciting President Putin’s dismissive and ill-informed comment. Canada had done the same in 1991 when Canada was the first country to recognize the newly-independent Ukraine. Of course, one does have to admit that the Canadian government’s response in both instances may not have been wholly altruistic since Ukrainians constitute the ninth largest ethnic group in the country and arguably exert more influence than their numbers might suggest because they are well organized and because of the younger, more activist leadership of their umbrella organization, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress.2 However, what is most striking is that Ukraine has caught the attention and the imagination of the Western world for arguably the first time in its entire history. The United States and Western Europe, as well as Canada, are concerned about Russia’s annexation of Crimea and incursions along the eastern border of a country they would like to see in NATO. Poland and the Baltic countries are concerned that incursions into Ukraine are a portent of what could happen in their own countries.3 Germany and France are concerned about their gas and oil supplies as Russia periodically threatens to shut down the pipeline at the Ukrainian border. With the shooting down of the Malaysia Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine by Russia-backed “rebels” (July 17, 2014), Western Europe...

Transforming Citizenship: Power, Policy and Identity

Transforming Citizenship:Power, Policy and Identity Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Special Guest Editor (bio) Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour—we’re more like celery as a flavour. —Mike Myers, Canadian Actor and Screenwriter If Mike Myers is correct that Canada is as ‘subtle’ as celery, it might seem an academic conference focused on the theme of Canadian citizenship would be a gathering around the bland. In actuality, the 23rd conference of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (CESA), and the fourth one sponsored jointly with the Association for Canadian Studies (ACS), demonstrated otherwise. Held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton from October 24-26, 2013, the conference was devoted to the theme of “Transforming Citizenship: Ethnicity, Transnationalism and Belonging in Canada.” The papers, formal presentations, and informal discussions (some continuing long after the conference ended) reflected on the dynamism of Canada and Canadian citizenship in the twenty-first century. They also reflected on the riveting questions that can arise from a consideration of migration, belonging and political community “across the pond,” “north of the 49th parallel,” in none other than Canada. This special issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies contains articles originally presented as papers at the 2013 joint ACS-CESA conference. As a package these articles underscore the many ways in which “transforming citizenship” in Canada cuts into longstanding issues, as well as contemporary discussions of citizenship in relation to power, policy, and identity. Each issue will be discussed in turn. [End Page 1] Power That a focus on Canadian citizenship is far from subtle when it comes to social power should not be surprising. By merely replacing one word in one stanza of the English version of the national anthem, Indigenous activists have powerfully reminded settlers that Canada is not merely a “home and native land,” but a “home on native land.” These different phrasings point to the history of Canada’s foundation and evolution as a settler-colony and by extension, the complex and shifting power relations which result from contestations over power, as well as discussions of ‘home’ and belonging in Canada. Since the foundation of the modern state in 1867, social relations of power in Canada include a division between indigenous peoples and settlers; a division between two (unequal) European groups (articulated sometimes as the hegemony of ‘English’ over ‘French’); a racialized division between ‘whiteness’ and ‘non-whiteness’; a division between the foreign-born and the native-born; and a division between those who hold legal citizenship and those who do not (Abu-Laban 2014a). Important inequities relating to institutional and cultural power as well as socioeconomic status continue to shape Indigenous struggles for land and rights (Coulthard 2014), the marginalized labour market position and discrimination experienced by recent immigrants as well as racialized minorities (Galabuzi 2011), the precarity of growing numbers of non-citizens entering the country as temporary foreign workers (Goldring and Landolt 2013) along with lingering uncertainties regarding the political status of the province of Quebec, and inequalities experienced by francophones—especially francophone immigrants outside of Quebec (Noël 2010; Abu-Laban and Couture 2010). Policy The country’s reliance on successive waves of immigrants and refugees, as well as shifting admission criteria have been regulated by immigration and citizenship policies. Historically, legislation at municipal, provincial and federal levels, such as that relating to the franchise, worked to deny Canadian citizenship to specific collectivities already in the country—including women, those without property and indigenous people (Strong-Boag 2002, 40-41). For example, owing to The Indian Act of 1876, until 1960 one could not simultaneously maintain state recognition of ‘Indian’ status and citizen status with voting rights in national elections. At the level of intake, for much of its history, Canadian immigration legislation was explicitly discriminatory favouring British Protestants for entry and permanent settlement. It was only in the 1960s—as a result of the human rights revolution and [End Page 2] new emphases on non-discrimination, coupled with the continued perceived need for immigration—that legislation shifted from being explicitly discriminatory, to formally embracing the idea of ‘non-discriminaton’ on ethnic/racial grounds...

Self-healing polymer materials constructed by macrocycle-based host-guest interactions.

Self-healing polymers, which can spontaneously recover themselves after being ruptured, result in enhanced lifetimes for materials and open up a fascinating direction in material science. Macrocycle-based host-guest interactions, one of the most crucial non-covalent interactions, play a key role in self-healing material fabrication. This review aims to highlight the very recent and important progress made in the area of self-healing polymer materials by focusing on cyclodextrins (CDs), crown ethers, cucurbit[n]urils (CBs), calix[n]arenes and pillar[n]arenes with special guest groups and tailored structures. In addition, we also propose future research directions and hope that this review can in a way reflect the current situation and future trends in this developing area.

Maintaining the 20-year-old “Traditional Torch” to guide future development

At the first school-year opening ceremony of the Faculty of Oriental Studies (FOS), Prof. Tran Van Giau – the special guest of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH, VNU-HCM) and FOS, attended, lighted the traditional torch and delivered some words. As an alumnus of the Oriental University (Soviet Union), during his time full of revolutionary activities, with the spirit of liberal oriental studies, he wholeheartedly supported and encouraged the USSH, VNU-HCM policies and FOS activities. His action of lighting the traditional torch on this occasion bore an important symbolic meaning.

Editorial Calendar

The Editorial Calendar details upcoming (approximately one year in advance) publication plans for The Leading Edge. This includes all special sections, guest editors, and information about submitting articles to TLE.

Tools and strategies for climate change decision making

The world faces key decisions on how to mitigate or adapt to climate change under uncertainty and under extreme and non-stationary weather events (hurricanes, droughts, flooding, etc.). Questions loom regarding how to improve decision-making processes regarding the integration of variable and intermittent renewables; the role of energy generation, transmission, and storage; the use of unconventional resources; and the consequences of large-scale adoption of novel technologies. Governments, industries, and researches must grapple with issues relating to the ecological, economic, and societal implications of adaptations that may be made to climate change. This special issue of Environment Systems and Decisions explores these topics in an effort to better understand how to make risk-informed decisions under the deep uncertainty that surrounds climate change. The issue opens with two perspective articles—the first regarding ‘‘wicked’’ problems, and how to go about solving them (Stahl 2014), and the second outlining a multi-stakeholder planning approach under uncertainty (Styczynski et al. 2014). The second group of papers focuses mainly on analytic tools and methods to enable decision making in the face of climate change. Santos et al. (2014) use input–output modeling and event tree analysis to support decision making regarding drought induced by climate change. The next two papers are part of a series and model the disruption effects of climate change on the global supply chain (Bierkandt et al. 2014, Wenz et al. 2014). You et al. (2014) describe a method for conducting regional climate vulnerability assessments incorporating multiple stakeholder perspectives and future scenarios. Finally, Ahmed et al. (2014) compare several methods for spatially interpolating climatic data and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each method. The final papers in this special issue focus on the social implications of climate change. First, Wuebbles et al. (2014) discuss the complex relationship between climate change and global security. Next, Hoss et al. (2014) describe a framework in which communities can reduce the hazards, exposure, and vulnerabilities to climate change in an effort to best mitigate and adapt to dynamic conditions. de Bruin et al. (2014) then report on a study regarding public perceptions to flood risks and climate change. Finally, Juhola et al. (2014) discuss climate adaptation from the perspective of the Nordic countries and explore ways in which the countries can work together to build a collaborative adaptation strategy. As a final note, the Editorial Board would like to thank Dr. Gregory Kiker and Dr. Ines Azevedo for their service as special guest editors for this issue. The following issue will contain additional climate change articles, as well as a series of papers on nanotechnology.

A Special Guest Of Text Matters. Mieke Bal: “Writing With Images”

A Special Guest Of Text Matters. Mieke Bal: “Writing With Images”

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Near Infrared Hyperspectral Image Analysis Using R. Part 5: Animated Visualisation of Hyperspectral Data Using R and ImageJ

I n this instalment we have special guest authors from Dr Carl Sullivan’s hyperspectral imaging group at the Dublin Institute of Technology. They will show us how to make some nifty videos from hyperspectral data using Rstudio and ImageJ. The dataset used in the analysis “Brd_HSI” will be available for download from http://dx.doi.org/10.1255/nirn.1483. This tutorial will cover the use of R (http:// www.r-project.org) in conjunction with ImageJ (Figure 2) to construct animations based on data obtained from a hypercube, which is a structure that naturally arises from the collection of hyperspectral data (Figure 3). In this article, we have used Rstudio (Figure 1) which is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R and thus allows the user to run R in a more user-friendly environment. The Rstudio (http://www.rstudio. com) interface consists of four windows namely: a) console, b) workspace and history, c) files, plots, packages and help and d) the R script(s) and data view. The example data presented in this article consists of a hyperspectral image of a slice of bread. This bread was manufactured by the authors to meet specific nutritional attributes. It will be assumed that the reader is aware of such libraries as caTools in R for importing hyperspectral data. The authors will also assume that the reader is familiar with image generation in R using such commands as image.plot in the fields library. First, we will use the command read. ENVI to import the hyperspectral data, Brd_HSI, into the R workspace. This data set will simply be referred to as Bread. It is good practice to check the dimensions of the data set; this can be achieved using the command dim. >Bread dim (Bread) [1] 256 246 103 Since the data is in our workspace, the image can be generated using the function image.plot. >image.plot(Bread[,,1],axes= FALSE, main=950nm) This should generate a nice image corresponding to the first wavelength of the bread data (Figure 4). Note axes=FALSE and main=950nm removes any labelling of the axes and gives a title to the image, respectively. Now we will write a function to generate an image at every wavelength so we should end up with a total of 103 images. We will want to store all these images. R can create, for example, a directory on your C drive with the dir.create command. >dir.create(c://im_seq) The folder im_seq should now appear on your C drive and this is where all the images generated will be placed. The function which will generate this sequence will be referred to as im_seq.func and it must be capable of generating an appropriate name for each image and placing an appropriate title above each image. im_seq.func<-function (x=Bread) { for(i in 1:103){ im_name<-paste (c://im_seq//,(943+7*i), nm.jpeg,sep=) jpeg(im_name) Figure 1. Rstudio interface.

Imagining the Future of Medicine

HOSTED BY DARA O BRIAIN The Royal Albert Hall, London Monday 21 April 2014 This event, hosted by comedian Dara O Briain, offered a series of provocative short talks and performances exploring the future of medical innovation. Through the use of music, art, and theatre we were encouraged to ‘think outside the box’ and imagine what health care could be like for our grandchildren. Much of the afternoon was dedicated to advances in medical technology. Special guest Jay Walker, curator of the TEDMED conferences, showed us a future looking more …

Sustainable Transportation: Lessons from London

Andrea Broaddus, a PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley, spent the last year as a Visiting Scholar at University College London, researching the London Congestion Charge policy and its longerterm impacts on travel patterns and location choices. She provided a special guest lecture for the Department of City and Regional Planning while on a brief trip back to the United States in May 2014. In this article, she summarizes her talk and the opportunities it presents for experimentation in the United States.