Invisible Giant

Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology was launched in 2001. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of allergy and clinical immunology are divided into 14 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Editors and Section Editors for this issue. EDITORS Mark BallowMark BallowDr Mark Ballow received his MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, USA. After a pediatric residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, USA, he completed an immunology fellowship at the University of Minnesota Hospitals, USA. He was the Chief of Clinical and Experimental Immunology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, USA. He was then appointed as Chief of the Division of Clinical Immunology in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut, USA from 1975 to 1988, and became Chief of the Division of Allergy/Clinical Immunology and Pediatric Rheumatology, and Program Director of the Allergy/Immunology fellowship program at The Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA from 1988 to 2012. He is presently Training Program Director of the Allergy/Immunology Fellowship program at University of South Florida, Allergy & Immunology Division at All Children's Hospital in St Petersburg, FL. Dr Ballow is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, American Board of Allergy & Immunology (ABAI), and in Clinical Laboratory Immunology. He was on the Board of Directors of the ABAI from 1992–1998. He has served on four editorial boards including the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (1984–1989; 1995–2000), and is an Ad Hoc reviewer for a number of pediatric, allergy and immunology journals. He has recently been appointed to the editorial board of Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice. Dr Ballow has served as an ad hoc member of several NIH study sections, and was a member of the committee that published the first Allergy and Immunology Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MK-SAP), and was a member of the new 3rd edition AI-MK-SAP. Dr Ballow is a Fellow of the American Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Academy (1996–1999), and has chaired the A/I Training Program Directors, Basic Clinical immunology Interest Section, and the Post-graduate Education Program. He was President of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology in 2010–2011. Dr Ballow is a member of the Clinical Immunology Society, the Florida Allergy Society, and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. He also has served on the Blood Product Advisory Committee of the FDA. Dr Ballow's major clinical interests include chronic sinusitis, primary immune deficiency disorders, and the uses and mechanisms of action of Intravenous Immune Globulin (IGIV). His research interests include the immunology of the newborn infant and the immunoregulatory effects of IVIG, Vitamin A and retinoic acid. G. Walter CanonicaG. Walter CanonicaProfessor Giorgio Walter Canonica is Director of the Allergy & Respiratory Diseases Clinic, Genoa University, Italy, a GALEN Centre of Excellence. Professor Canonica first specialised in pulmonary diseases after having received his medical degree from the University of Genoa, Italy. He then specialised in Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Florence University, Italy. He subsequently conducted clinical immunology and allergology research in several European universities and institutes, in addition to two years at the Medical University of South Carolina, USA. Since returning to the University of Genoa in 1995, Professor Canonica has held a number of academic positions including Director of the Speciality School of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Director of the Specialty School of Pulmonary Diseases and Chairman of Chairman of the Dept of Medical Specialties (University Hospital S. Martino Genoa, Italy). He is Board Member of ARIA (Allergic Rhinitis and its impact Asthma) guidelines) and GALEN (Global Allergy and Asthma European Network). Professor Canonica's research interests include examination of the molecular events and interactions between immunocompetent cells, inflammatory cells and epithelial cells in allergic inflammation and airway remodelling. He is particularly involved in new strategies in the treatment of allergic disease, including biological response modifiers, such as specific immunotherapy (with a special focus on SLIT – sublingual immunotherapy - and Severe Asthma treatment with biologics). Professor Canonica has published extensively in international journals and acts as a referee of many immunology journals. In addition, Professor Canonica is a member of a number of societies, he was President of World Allergy Organization 2008/09. He is also currently President of Global Asthma Association - Interasma. He was President of SIMeR (Italian Society of Respiratory Medicine) 2000–2003 and he is Honorary President of this same Society since 2007. He is currently President of SIAAIC Italian Society of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (2014–2017). SECTION EDITORS Ruby PawankarRuby PawankarProf. Ruby Pawankar MD, PhD, FRCP (UK), FAAAAI is currently the Immediate Past President of the World Allergy Organization (WAO) and was WAO President from January 2012 to December 2013, after serving as a member of the Board of Directors since 2001, as Treasurer 2008–2009 and as President-Elect 2010–2011. She is currently also the President of the Indian Academy of Allergy. She is Professor of Allergy in the Department of Pediatrics at Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan, and Guest Professor at the Kyung Hee University School of Medicine in Seoul, Korea and the Showa University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating in medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India, Prof. Pawankar did her residency and post-graduation from BJ Medical College, Pune, India. Thereafter, she trained in Allergy & Clinical Immunology at the Nippon Medical School and Juntendo University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan from where she obtained her doctorate. Prof. Pawankar serves on numerous committees and boards of many academic organizations and grant reviews, is a Member/Fellow of organizations including the Collegium International Allergolicum, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the American College of Allergy and Immunology, the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and the Japanese Society of Allergology. She has delivered several orations/named lectures nationally and internationally including the SK Malik Oration and DN Shivpuri Oration. She is a recipient of many academic awards including the World Achievement Award in Allergy from Thailand; the International Distinguished Fellow Award from the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology; and especially the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award from the President of India for excellence in medicine. Prof. Pawankar's research has focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of allergy, immune cells like mast cells and T cells, epithelial cell-immune cell interactions, novel roles of IgE, mast cell-IgE cascade, environmental pollution, immunotherapy and novel therapies for respiratory allergies. In 1995, she was the first to report on the increased presence and role of gamma delta T cells in allergic rhinitis. In 1997, she was among the first to show that mast cells in perennial allergic rhinitis exhibit increased expression of the IgE receptor as well as being a major source of the obligatory pro- allergic Th2 cytokines interleukin IL-4, and IL-13 capable of driving local allergen-specific IgE synthesis by B lymphocytes and has formed the basis of the successful therapeutic targeting of these cytokines with biological therapeutics. Her research and educational activities have been strongly translational as it applies to clinical science. This has resulted in 411 publications including peer-reviewed original articles in: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Immunology, Blood, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Allergy, Clinical & Experimental Allergy, International Archives of Allergy and Immunology, Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology etc, and invited reviews and book chapters. She is an Editor/ Associate Editor of peer-reviewed journals such as: International Archives of Allergy, Clinical Experimental Immunology, Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology etc., and books including the 6 volume book ‘Allergy Frontiers’, the WAO White Book on Allergy, Update on Respiratory Disorders, and is a co-author of several consensus documents. She has mentored over 30 fellows from Japan and abroad. Prof. Pawankar has chaired as President and organized several international congresses including: the 10th Trans Pacific Allergy Congress in Mumbai, India; the first and the Middle East Allergy Congress, in 2009 and 2011 respectively; the WAO International Scientific Conference (WISC) 2012, India; the World Allergy Asthma Congress 2013, Milan, Italy, as well as several educational programs and has been a visiting faculty to lecture at several institutions such as Harvard Medical School, USA; the University of Wisconsin, USA; Imperial College, London, UK; Catholic University, Argentina; the University of Sao Paolo, Brazil and Mahidol University, Thailand. At an organizational level, her vision is to create a channel of dialogue with all stakeholders to address the unmet global public health issue of asthma and allergies in the context of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) via an integrated approach that could lead to increased resources for research, improved patient care, better health care delivery, and preventative strategies. David P. SkonerDavid P. SkonerDr David P. Skoner is Director of the Division of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology in the Department of Medicine of Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is also Professor of Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, West Virginia University School of Medicine, USA. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, USA and has served as the Chief of the Section of Allergy/Immunology and Director of the Allergy and Immunology Training Program at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, USA. Dr Skoner received his BS degree from Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, USA and his MD degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He served his residency in general pediatrics at Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, and he completed his fellowship in allergy/immunology at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. His current research interests include the relationships between respiratory viruses, asthma, immunity, and stress; the relationship between viral and allergen-induced nasal inflammation and middle ear disease; and the efficacy and safety (HPA axis function and growth in children) of inhaled and intranasal steroids. Dr Skoner has received NIH funding and written more than 100 articles and given more than 200 presentations on respiratory disease. His articles and abstracts have been published in many leading journals, including Pediatrics, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Pediatric Research, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and American Review of Respiratory Disease. Dr Skoner serves on the editorial advisory boards of the journals Current Allergy and Asthma Reports, and Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and previously served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Rhinology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Society of Pediatric Research, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, and the American Pediatric Society. He has been recognized as one of America's ‘Top Doctors’ (Pediatric Allergy & Immunology, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.) from 2001 to 2014, as one of the Most Influential Doctors by USA TODAY (http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/most-influential-doctors.htm), and as a U.S. News Top Doctor (www.usnews.com/top-doctors). He was invited to join the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA) Pediatric Asthma Therapeutics Group convened by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dr Skoner co-founded the Nemacolin Asthma Conference (www.ahn.org/nemacolin-asthma), a continuing medical education (CME) program that attracts a national and an international audience and faculty, now in its ninth year. He also founded and is the President of ‘For Your Good Health’ (www.fygh.org), a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation that brings together asthma stakeholders in the development and implementation of state-of the-art programs to educate children with asthma and their caregivers about the disease and its management. The aim of these programs is to reduce asthma's impact on patients, caregivers, the community, and the healthcare system by helping the patients to lead near-normal lives. He also serves on the board of the non-profit Greater Pittsburgh Allergy Asthma and Immunology Society (GPAAIS), which serves to educate and inform physicians and other health care providers. Dr Skoner was selected as a finalist in the category of ‘Health Care Provider: Physician’ for the 2013 Pittsburgh Business Times Health Care Heroes Awards. J. Andrew GrantJ. Andrew GrantDr Grant is a native of Florida and received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, USA, in biochemical sciences. After attending Duke Medical School, USA, he did a residency in internal medicine at New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Center in New York City, USA. He did a fellowship in immunology with Leroy Hood at the National Institutes of Health and an allergy-immunology clinical fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, USA, with Phillip Norman and Lawrence Lichtenstein. In 1973, he established the first basic and clinical research program in allergy in Texas at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, USA. Presently he is Clinical Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology-Immunology and training program Director in Allergy-Immunology at that institution. He has served as Division Director and Vice Chair for Research within the Department of Internal Medicine. He vacations during the summer months in Colorado and has been appointed Clinical Professor at University of Colorado Medical School, USA. Dr Grant has been an active member of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology for over four decades. His contributions to this organization include chairing the Program Directors Assembly, Mechanisms of Allergy Interest Section, Postgraduate Education Committee, Scientific Workshops and Exhibits Committee, and Immunotherapy Committee. He served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. He founded In-training Examination for Allergy-Immunology postdoctoral fellows, the first subspecialty exam of its type. Dr Grant served as President of the Texas Allergy Asthma and Immunology Society and a Director of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology, and a member of the Residency Review Committee for Allergy and Immunology. He chaired the Pulmonary Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee of the Food and Drugs Administration and currently is a member of the Allergenic Products Advisory Committee. He was a visiting professor at the National Heart and Lung Institute with Professor Barry Kay in 1994. Dr Grant's research interests have included mechanisms of cellular activation especially the role of chemokines and novel therapies for allergic disorders. Currently he is emphasizing management of difficult patients with urticaria and angioedema. He has authored over 190 publications and chapters and 175 presentations at national and international meetings. Peter Howarth Professor Peter Howarth is Professor of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician within Medicine at the University of Southampton with a clinical and research focus on asthma, particularly severe asthma, and allergy. Professor Howarth has supervised over 20 PhD and DM students (scientists and clinicians) and his research involves Local, National and International collaboration. He has participated in EU funded collaborative programmes, such as BIOAIR and GA2LEN, focusing respectively on severe asthma and allergic diseases, and is joint work package 4 lead for UBIOPRED, the EU/EFPIA funded IMI programme on severe asthma. Professor Howarth has published over 200 peer reviewed papers and lectured extensively at National and International specialist society meetings as an invited speaker. Professor Howarth has contributed to National, European and International (World Health Organisation) guidelines on the management of rhinitis and asthma. He has been on the council of The British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, advisor on allergy to Asthma UK and has been chairman of the board of trustees of Allergy UK. He is currently President of Allergy UK and a trustee of AAIR.

Polish films regularly feature Hungarian or Hungarian-speaking characters. Usually they are third-rate characters, but the way they are portrayed says a lot about the way Poles see Hungarians and their language. The aim of our presentation is to reconstruct the image of Hungarians and the Hungarian language in Polish feature films. We will try to answer the following questions: 1) in what context do the Hungarian characters appear? 2) what attributes do they have? 3) in what context does the Hungarian language appear? 4) which features of the Hungarian language are highlighted? 5) what stereotypes about Hungarians, Hungary, and the Hungarian language are portrayed in the “Hungarian” film excerpts 6) why are these excerpts humorous, and what is the source of the humour. The material analysed consists of 20 Polish feature films and series produced in Poland between 1946 and 2022.

The development of esport has expanded beyond the entertainment industry and has increasingly become a strategic instrument in international relations, particularly in the practice of public diplomacy. Indonesia’s role as the host of the M4 World Championship 2023 represents a significant example of how esport events can be utilized to engage international audiences and project national roles. This study aims to analyze how Indonesia employed the M4 World Championship 2023 as a tool of public diplomacy. This research adopts a qualitative approach using a case study method. Data were collected from secondary sources through documentation and literature review, including official government publications, organizer reports, media coverage, and academic literature. The analytical framework is based on Nicholas J. Cull’s theory of public diplomacy, with a specific focus on the advocacy function and the cultural function. The findings indicate that the Indonesian government, in collaboration with non-state actors such as PBESI, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, and Moonton Games, strategically utilized the M4 World Championship as a platform to advocate Indonesia’s role in the global esports ecosystem and to promote Indonesian cultural elements to international audiences. The integration of cultural diplomacy elements in official events and promotional materials reflects the implementation of the cultural diplomacy function, while institutional narratives and policy support reflect the advocacy function. This study concludes that esport events such as the M4 World Championship can function as an effective instrument of public diplomacy in enhancing Indonesia’s international engagement and visibility.

Recent public backlash about diversity in the scripted U.S. entertainment industry has been reflected under the viral #OscarsSoWhite hashtag. Despite the heightened importance of contemporary independent documentary films as reflections of social justice challenges, the #OscarsSoWhite scrutiny has ignored nonfiction storytelling. Using content analysis, this study examined the first decade of Oscar-shortlisted documentary feature films (N = 150) distributed in the streaming digital era (2008–2017) to assess racial, ethnic, and gender diversity among credited directors (N = 190) and producers (N = 1,027); the extent to which Oscar-shortlisted nonfiction feature films reflect social issues; and contemporary audience distribution availability. Over 10 years, contemporary Academy Award–shortlisted documentaries were overwhelmingly created by White, male directors and producers, and they were more likely to spotlight social justice topics than to portray purely entertaining narratives. This study draws from feminist and critical race theories to analyze the societal value of inclusion in the nonfiction storytelling business, given increased audience access to digital-era documentaries, as well as the dominance of the social issue documentary genre as a means of counter-storytelling. Implications and future research directions for documentary industry professionals and scholars are discussed.

Studies in Croatian and Yugoslav cinema (and Eastern European cinema in general) traditionally organize the subject according to a great master narrative. That narrative explains the history of Croatian/Yugoslav/Eastern European cinema as a long and liberating voyage from Soviet‐style dogmatism of the post‐war era up to a complete emancipation in the heroic era of the 1960s modernism. Most of the scholars who studied the history of Yugoslav cinema (Škrabalo, Volk, Goulding, etc.) narrate film history according to this narrative. The intention of this text is to question that narrative, and offer a possible alternative methodological approach. Our starting point is Croatian cinema, in which the late 1950s and early 1960s were not just a transition period toward the full liberation of the modernist movement. On the contrary, for Croatian cinema that period was almost a ‘golden era’ in which Croatian cinema produced most of its masterpieces, including four to five evergreen classics, two Academy Award nominees, and a certain number of mature and challenging genre works. All of these films perfectly fit into a stylistic and ideological model of ‘classic narrative style’. This paper revisits some of these films (Branko Bauer's Don't Turn Around, Son (1956) and Three Annas (1959), Branko Belan's Concert (1954), Nikola Tanhofer's H‐8 (1958), Franci Stiglic's Ninth Circle (1960), Fadil Hadzic's Alphabet of Fear (1961)). By examining these Croatian films (and some other films from the Yugoslav 1950s, including Zika Mitrovic's Captain Leshi (1960)), this paper offers an alternative approach for understanding pre‐modernist Yugoslav cinema. The paper argues that the master narrative which explains the Yugoslav 1950s in general is a story of a gradual achieving of the (mainly Western) technologies and know‐how within the political framework of communist society. It demonstrates how this process worked in the field of industry, media, everyday life and the entertainment industry. It further examines the Yugoslav film industry of the 1950s as part of that process. For the Yugoslav cinema of the 1950s, the technological model which had to be domesticated was a model of American and Western European classic narrative style. Most of the films that we discuss in the paper consciously use Western cinema classic as a model. By using motives, dramaturgy and type of characters of American/Western European cinema in their classic works, Yugoslav directors had to deal with the implicit ideological content of the Western classic narrative style cinema. Within the new frame of the communist society, that ideological content mutates in an often unexpected way.

The aim of this article is to analyze three Oscar ceremonies from the perspective of Polish media. Part one presents the history and founding of the American Motion Picture Academy and the evolution of the Academy Awards ceremony over the years. Part two focuses on Polish connections with the Oscars. Part three examines the opinions of Polish journalists and film critics regarding the 2021, 2022, and 2023 Oscars.

The paradox of growth critique: Narrative analysis of the Finnish sustainable consumption and production debate

The 2023 4th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Intelligent Manufacturing (ICAMIM 2023) was held in Guangzhou, China during December 1st to 3rd, 2023. The series of ICAMIM conference was created with the aim to be an interdisciplinary incubator for the worldwide exchange of information and innovative ideas about the latest research results in the fields of advanced materials and intelligent manufacturing.At ICAMIM 2023, we wished to bring together a broad community of researchers from different branches of the rapidly developing complex science to discuss the fundamental theoretical challenges as well as experimental and applied aspects of many practical problems. The agenda was conducted mainly based on three parts, covering keynote speeches, oral & poster presentations, and academic tour.There were six keynote speeches and many regular oral talks in the morning and afternoon sessions. The topics of keynote speeches cover: a) Scientific Carbon Reduction, Green Development, Manufacturing Industry to Achieve the Goal of “Double Carbon” Efforts; b) ChatGPT with Intelligent Manufacturing System; c) Challenges Facing the Industrialization of Sodium-Ion Batteries; d) Microstructure Control and Application Properties of Ultra-High Strength and Toughness Steels; e) Double Growing Carbon Background Material Base Environmental Functional Materials Development Prospects; f) Current Status and Development of the New Materials Industry in Guangdong. These speeches allowed all the participants to interact with the speakers and people around and get some new insights from each other. An academic discussion part was also held, the topic of which was related to the recent and anticipated future progress in advanced materials and intelligent manufacturing, discussing a variety of questions and opinions important for the understanding of the technology and management methods of the industry itself.The papers submitted to this Conference were carefully reviewed by expert referees, covering topics on: Composites, New feature Materials, Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Intelligent Mechatronics, etc. We are very grateful to the reviewers for their efficient and thoughtful actions. Various excellent papers were included here based on the referee reports.We are thankful to the members of Technical Program Committee for their time and efforts in preparing the program of ICAMIM 2023. We also appreciate the behind-the-scenes work of the members of Organizing Committee in preparing the conference site, arrangements for excursions and accommodation, handling the financial support for participants, and so on. Finally, we acknowledge the publishing support from Journal of physics: Conference SeriesThe Committee of ICAMIM 2023List of Committee Member is available in this pdf.

Introduction/background: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the availability of community support and resources to vulnerable populations, including persons experiencing homeless within the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. In response, the Region developed pilot community hubs to address escalating unmet housing, healthcare and support needs. Why did you do it? The community hub evaluation project is a community-based research co-created by a research team from Ontario Tech University and community stakeholders to measure the community hubs' effectiveness in addressing service users' unmet needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who is it for? The project is relevant to healthcare and social service policymakers and service providers, service users, researchers, and community organizers involved in researching, funding, designing and delivering healthcare and social services for vulnerable populations. Who did you involve and engage with? The project collaborators comprised a research team from Ontario Tech University and an advisory committee of community hub staff members and service users convened by the research team. All aspects of the project’s design and implementation, including creating the data collection tools, participant recruitment, data collection, data analysis and developing the knowledge translation products, were completed in collaboration with the research advisory committee that met monthly. Service users on the advisory committee were compensated for their time and contribution. What did you do? A mixed-methods research design was used to explore the experiences of the community hub service users, staff members and subject matter experts. Service users were recruited from the community hubs. Staff members were recruited through virtual staff meetings. Face-to-face surveys were administered to 75 service users at the community hubs. Staff online surveys were self-administered by 15 direct service staff. Virtual interviews were conducted with five community hub managerial staff and two subject matter experts. Quantitative data were calculated using the SPSS statistical software. Qualitative data were analyzed using thematic analysis. What results did you get? What impact did you have? The integrated service model was described as saving service users’ lives. Adequate, core funding is required for the sustainability of the community hubs. Results from the evaluation provided the regional government with data to help inform its strategic priorities for vulnerable populations. What is the learning for the international audience? The needs of vulnerable populations including persons experiencing homelessness are deep and entrenched. Community hubs integrate a range of healthcare and social support services, including the social determinants of health that respond to service users’ immediate and emerging needs. What are the next steps? Knowledge translation through conferences, symposiums, presentations at regional sector tables and peer-reviewed publications. Collaborating with the community hubs to utilize the research findings to support improvement in future service design and delivery.

This essay explores how gay shame can be traced as a cinematic discourse in two film versions of Victor/Victoria, the 1933 German original and the 1982 US remake, by illustrating how the concept of gay shame as a psychological process becomes manifest as filmic language. Applying a recent discourse from queer studies to a Weimar comedy and a Hollywood musical reveals shared strategies in how the two films link what can be called heteronormative value judgements to the presentation of non-mainstream sexual identities. Their visual language is intricately linked with tropes of Paris as the city of free love and is mapped out in the architectural and audiovisual renditions of the urban space. In a series of close readings, the chapter looks at how the various non-verbal elements of film-making practice, such as composition of frames or editing, can, subconsciously or not, create and reveal internalisations of gay shame in characters and viewers alike.

While the concept of barrier-free communication is well established in German-speaking countries, it remains at an early stage of development within Romance-language contexts. Nevertheless, awareness of the issue is increasingly evident in both popular and academic discourse across these regions. This trend is particularly pronounced in the case of Italian, which constitutes the subject language of the present study. Numerous manuals and guidelines conceptualise Easy and Plain Language as subsystems of historical languages. These resources are grounded in a robust linguistic framework and aim to optimise texts to enhance comprehensibility. However, it is apparent that the practical implementation of such guidelines frequently diverges from their theoretical underpinnings in texts labelled as accessible. In addition, linguistic scholarship has critically examined the theoretical and conceptual foundations of Easy and Plain Language. Particular attention has been drawn to the heterogeneous nature of the target audience and the overly restrictive approach to permissible linguistic resources. These factors substantially influence the textual, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic dimensions of linguistic signs – dimensions that are often insufficiently explored in Easy Language research. In response to these criticisms, the present article adopts a language-production-oriented and target-group-sensitive perspective, employing verbalisation strategies associated with a semantic relation – namely, causality – as a case study. The article pursues two principal objectives: first, through a primarily qualitative analysis, it aims to demonstrate the extent to which existing manuals and guidelines underestimate the linguistic competence of a specific target group – Italian-speaking individuals with Broca’s aphasia. In contrast to the majority of empirical studies on Easy Language, which predominantly focus on receptive skills, this article foregrounds the productive linguistic abilities of its addressees. To enable a more nuanced interpretation of the findings, the concept of “familiarity” is introduced as an operational term. Although the notion of familiarity is frequently invoked in research on accessible communication and language acquisition, it has yet to attain a clear and systematic definition within established terminological frameworks. In the present study, its operationalisation is proposed on the basis of frequency-related, language knowledge-oriented, and automatisation-driven parameters, encompassing all levels of linguistic analysis.

The legendary Alan Kay and Roy E. Disney have graciously appeared on camera for interviews and joined the ACM Computers in Entertainment magazine's editorial board. Alan and Roy are two of the nicest people to talk to and work with. Alan talked about soft fun versus hard fun, and his research on Squeak for enhancing and amplifying learning in children's education. Roy told us about educators versus entertainers, and his views on traditional and CGI animations. The video clips of the interviews are available at http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/oct2003/index.html Roy E. Disney is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Walt Disney Company and chairman of Walt Disney Animation. He began his entertainment industry career in 1953, working as an assistant film editor on the "Dragnet" TV series. He joined The Walt Disney Company in 1954 and served as assistant film editor on motion pictures, including "The Living Desert" and "The Vanishing Prairie" both Academy Award winners. As a writer and production associate, Roy received an Academy Award nomination his work on the short subject "Mysteries of the Deep" in 1959. More information is available at http://psc.disney.go.com/corporate/communications/bios/Disney.html

The South Korean entertainment industry’s popularity and global reach have prompted private companies to place advertise their products to international viewers. South Korean celebrities have also been found to form positively perceived beauty standards, consequently serving as an antecedent of beauty product awareness and perceived beauty product quality among international audiences. This article aims to unveil how male identities are constructed in masculinity symbols displayed in skincare product ads. This research examines Everwhite skincare ads as Indonesian products with South Korean actors as brand ambassadors. Findings reveal that these ads still rely on stereotypical constructs and traditional discourses of what it takes to be a man. Implications for advertising attitudes towards masculinity were found to be beauty standards. For example, men are invited to consume grooming products but are reminded to do it the men’s way. Men are also reminded of their sexual power to seduce and attract women with the aid of the product.

The aim of the article is to show the changes in the perception of Germans and Polish-German relations in the education of the People’s Republic of Poland. This problem is related to the changes in the domestic politics of post-war Poland and both German states. The paper is devoted to the evolution of the perception of Poland’s western neighbor from the post-war period to the end of the Polish People’s Republic, i.e. until 1989. The study presents the beginnings of the anti-German narration, caused by war trauma, which has intensified since 1949 due to pressure which has been exerted by communist government. The next part shows in which places the end of Stalinism and the takeover of power by Władysław Gomułka softened the perception of Federal Republic of Germany. The next phase was opened by the recognition of the western border of Poland by the Federal Republic of Germany on December 7, 1970. This event entailed a gradual liberalization of the recognition of the German problem in the curricula. Undoubtedly, this tendency deepened in the decade of Edward Gierek’s rule due to the problems of the Polish People’s Republic with the repayment of foreign debt, partly also in West Germany. In the early 1980s, the establishment of The Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union Solidarność brought a new quality. Thanks to them the methods of showing Germans (and Polish education as a whole) started a slowly evolution to eliminate the communist propaganda. The school subjects which received the most attention were history, German language, Polish language and geography, because during these lessons the issues related to Germany were most often discussed. The work was created on the basis of selected textbooks and curricula.

Encouraged by the successes of the previous four International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT) conferences in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007, MRS-Singapore in association with National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering and many other national and international institutes organised ICMAT 2009 from 28 June to 3 July 2009 at the SUNTEC Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre. On 28 June 2009, the conference started with traditional inaugural event followed by a plenary talk by Prof. Peter Gruenberg, a Noble Laureate in Physics. There were more than 2,000 members of the international scientific and materials research community representing over 40 countries that attended 23 Symposia covering many frontier areas in materials science and technology. The overall level of participation in this conference was of an exceptionally high standard as evidenced by the participation of various Nobel Laureates who gave plenary and public lectures, distinguished keynote and invited speakers. The Symposium F on “Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Energy Systems: Lithium Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells” provided an excellent opportunity for interdisciplinary forum addressing recent trends of science and technology related to materials for electrochemical power sources. It had attracted large participation of up to 150, including 41 invited talks, 60 oral presentations and 50 poster presentations. The talks were classified under three broad categories, which are as follows: electrodes (cathodes and anodes) and electrolytes of lithium batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cells. To manage such large number of presentations, two parallel sessions were scheduled, one dealing with largely lithium batteries and the other addressing fuel cells and supercapacitors. Two best poster awards were given based on the recommendation of jury members. On behalf of the organising committee, we would like to thank all the invited speakers, session chairs and Palani Balaya, San Ping Jiang, Atsuo Yamada, and BVR Chowdari are the Organizing Committee members of Symposium–F, ICMAT 2009.