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No standardized, comprehensive approach for radiological image interpretation exists among medical schools in the United States of America. In order to rectify this, we outline a model aimed to help improve how medical imaging can be taught in medical schools. The VOID (Visualization, Orientation/Observation, Identification, Description) guide is a proposed universal, stepwise approach to medical…

As GenAI technologies become more pervasive in higher education (HE), scholars call for guidance on AI governance. To meet this need, a Delphi technique and collective writing was used in gathering expert perspectives from across 22 countries/locations and six continents. This resulted in the development of a HE GenAI policy/guidelines framework with eight core areas: (1) academic integrity, (2) …

Information about contributors to articles in volume 15, issue 2 of Reconstruction .

[First paragraph] The ripple effect caused by the landmark case Leung Roy William v. Secretary for Justice (2004) [1] has been far-reaching and significant in its impact: in 2006, the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission set up the Sexual Offences Sub-Committee ('the Sub-Committee' hereafter); in the next 4 years, the Sub-Committee issued a series of reports and consultation papers: (1) Interim Propos…

This article reviews some of the recent challenges to the legal status of homosexuality in Singapore. On July 14, 2014, the Court of Appeal of Singapore heard oral arguments from two sets of plaintiffs regarding the repeal of Section 377A of the Singaporean Penal Code: the section of the code that criminalizes gay male sex between two consulting adults. This article demonstrates how the cases on …

[First paragraph] This article takes its inspiration from two separate news items that appeared in the first half of 2012.[2] In January that year, a photo was widely circulated across online forums and Facebook. It showed that two male teenagers were turning their back to the camera while exposing their buttocks by slightly pulling down the pants at the ground exit of Mong Kok MTR station. Anoth…

[First paragraph] Teen film as a genre is never a spotlight in the Hong Kong cinema, nor does it receive any extended critical attention in film analysis and financial investment. In light of this failure to acknowledge the full significance of the imaginary of young people on screen, it is important to ask how the imaginary of young people is used to communicate ideas about the relationships bet…

Document Type Introduction Abstract Cover with image for Reconstruction, Volume 15, Number 2. Repository Citation Grey, Eden. "Cover Image." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 15, no. 2, 2015, pp. 1–1. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol15/iss2/2

This paper examines Chinese women's perception of ' xing ', the term for sex/sexuality in daily lives. It bases on in-depth interviews with 38 urban Chinese women born in 1970s, participant observation and experience of daily lives. Xing is a fluxing concept in changing contexts. Husband-wife life, a term got popular in Mao's era (1950s) is still widely used, which has a strong implication of rel…

[First paragraph] At the end of 2011, a group of people on the Internet planned a sex party on an online forum. The participants were the organizer, Tsai Yu-Lin (hereafter referred to as Tsai); a girl known as "Hsiao Yu" who was alleged to be nineteen-years-old, but was later confirmed to be underage (hereafter referred to as Yu), twenty-one men who each paid NT$800 to participate, three of whom …

[First paragraph] In this special issue, we attempt to examine and investigate if and how sex(ual) / gender politics is evolving in the cultural context of Greater China, including Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong (but unfortunately not Macau). Articles in this special issue discuss different topics from different theoretical perspectives - Foucauldian, Deleuzean and Daoist theories are engaged to …

This study investigates the effects of electron beam (e-beam) irradiation on the mechanical and structural properties of eight bulk metallic samples, comprising both polycrystalline (PC) and single-crystalline (SC) forms of Ni, Cr, V, and Ti. These metals were evaluated as potential candidates for beam exit windows in high-power (MW-class) particle accelerators. The primary objective is to identi…

Information about contributors to articles in volume 15, issue 1 of Reconstruction .

[First paragraph] Nora Strejilevich ends her semi-autobiographical account of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in her book, "A Single Numberless Death", with the above poem in which she names her disappeared (or, as she writes, "murdered") brother both as "her" brother and "our" brother. Throughout the book Strejilevich combines autobiography, documentary journalism, poetry, and published test…

[First paragraph] Auto/Pathographies offers a unique perspective on the subject of illness and the body by departing from tendencies to gaze and quickly consume diseased bodies as sites of spectacle, heroic suffering, and victory. Rather, the intention presented here is to activate in the observer a sense of corporality and existential engagement in relation to the unique processes of living, ena…

[First paragraph] It started off as a reaction to my silencing. I had written an opinion piece in a South African art magazine critiquing the lack of racial transformation in the visual arts field in South Africa. Practically overnight I went from up-and-coming artist to art world pariah, non-existent as the White monied habitus closed ranks. What had I expected? That they would sing my praises w…

In this article I describe an encounter with a fifteenth-century manuscript and its assertive "fifteenth-century-ness," as exemplified by the style of dress in this manuscript's miniatures. While this historical specificity would normally offer a premise for reconstructing the past, I instead feel a powerful sense of difference and distance. Try as I might, I cannot "fit" into clothes in this man…

[First two entries] Matthew Ryan Smith (MRS): I encountered your seminar course the "Art of the Confessor" during my research on confessional art and culture which led me to you. Rev. Michael R. Prieur (MP): I've been teaching that seminar for almost forty years, and getting students ready for hearing confessions when they're in ministry.

[From first paragraph] What might be considered a now famous image in the long history and tradition of Western philosophical thought and the study of aesthetics sets the stage for the discussion to follow. The image being invoked here is that for which philosopher Walter Benjamin attempted to offer an ekphrasis. In his posthumously published Theses on the Philosophy of History , Benjamin offers …

[First paragraph] Reflected in one's ancestry is the weight of history - histories that are as much about the legacies of family as they are about the self. By tracing a line back, whether straight or selective, ancestries offer a unique lens through which to view and, in turn, portray the self. Artists have long explored their ancestral backgrounds, homelands, and stories as inspiration for thei…