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Hedging Strategies in a Volatile Market with Options
Authors: Dr. P. Lavanya  , Dr. T. Vara Lakshmi  , Seema Sultana
Published: May 2024

In today's financial markets, characterized by their inherent volatility and uncertainty, the need for effective risk management strategies has never been more pronounced. This study delves into the realm of hedging strategies, focusing particularly on the utilization of call options as a means to mitigate risk in volatile market conditions. The study providing a comprehensive overview of impact of volatility on option pricing and the performance of hedging strategies, highlighting the importance of accurately assessing and forecasting market volatility, discussing its drivers, manifestations, and implications for investors. It explores the challenges posed by volatile markets, including heightened price fluctuations, increased risk exposure, and uncertainty surrounding future market movements. Various options strategies are analyzed, including protective puts, covered calls, and collars, each offering unique advantages and trade-offs in mitigating risk. The study explores how options trading activity, market sentiment, and macroeconomic factors influence volatility dynamics, providing insights into market behavior and trends through quantitative analysis mainly conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of various hedging strategies in volatile market environments by using Binomial Option Pricing Model [ BOPM].
Infrastruktur Dakwah Bil Hal Menurut Perspektif Al-Quran
Authors: Abdul Rahim Mohd. Hisyam , Abdul Razak Azizul Azra , Abdul Jalil Hafizah
Published: May 2024

Pendakwah dan infrastruktur dakwah adalah dua elemen yang mempunyai hubungan yang jelas iaitu pendakwah perlu menggerakkan masyarakat ke arah mengejar pembangunan dengan menggunakan infrastruktur atau kemudahan yang telah disediakan. Namun, dalam konteks Malaysia, kefahaman tentang infrastruktur dakwah khususnya dakwah bil hal agak kurang diperjelaskan. Justeru, kajian ini berusaha mengetengahkan berkenaan infrastruktur dakwah bil hal berpandukan kepada adapatasi kajian kemudahan infrastruktur oleh kerajaan pada masa kini. Kajian kualitatif mengaplikasikan metode analisis data dan kandungan digunakan bagi mencapai objektif kajian. Hasil kajian mengenalpasti aspek penting untuk memahami infrastruktur dakwah bil hal iaitu dari segi etika, keperluan dan sumber infrastruktur dakwah bil hal. Implikasi kajian ini memberikan kefahaman yang jelas berkenaan dengan infrastruktur dakwah bil hal yang perlu dipertingkatkan untuk dibangunkan dan menjadi alternatif terbaik dalam konteks dakwah semasa.
Ceramic Waste as Supplementary Cementitious Material in Concrete- Review of Current Practices
Authors: Yadav Pappu Kumar , Kumar Randhir
Published: May 2024

Due to the rising demand for cement in building, it is necessary to cut cement output by partially substituting cement with alternative materials. When waste material is utilised to make cement, the cost is lowered and the environmental impact is Favourable. The amount of cement produced emits the same amount of CO2 as the amount of lime stone used, resulting in a very unfavorable environmental effect. The purpose of this study is to reduce the environmental impact and cement consumption in concrete by using ceramic material as a supplemental cementitious material. These studies initially explore the Pozzolanic activity of ceramic electrical insulator waste material using three tests: strength activity test, Frattini test, and saturated lime test. According to these discoveries in ceramic electrical insulator material, Pozzolanic activity of material has been revealed, and it may be replaced up to 20% in mortar; nevertheless, more research, such as durability, is required. Following the successful completion of the Pozzolanic activity test in mortar, research is conducted in concrete for the same ceramic electrical insulator material partial replacement with cement in the concrete, and its mechanical properties, workability, durability. Cement has been largely substituted in concrete with 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% ceramic waste, respectively. Investigate the test performance in concrete for the exploitation of these ceramic waste, here workability test (by slump cone test), mechanical properties test (compressive strength test, flexural strength test. According to the results of the workability test, mechanical properties test, durability test, and micro-structure analysis, the ceramic waste material performs better up to 15% (Fifteen percent) replacement of ceramic waste, and higher than 15%, i.e. 20% or more, does not perform better. According to these findings, ceramic waste can replace up to 15% of cement in future applications; however, more study is needed. Because the ceramic has a low specific gravity (poor workability), the procedure is carried out with a low water cement ratio and fine dancing particle.
Biofilm in Drinking Water Distribution System
Authors: Ngoc Tran Thi Hong , Khanh Phan Truong
Published: May 2024

Biofilms associated with drinking water are ubiquitous, harbouring bacterial pathogens, opportunisticpathogens, parasitic protozoa, viruses, toxins releasing fungi and algae. Microbial consortia in contactwith drinking water have significant impacts upon water quality and may threat human health whencontamination events occur. As one factor becomes more dominant over another, the biofilm will react tothis change. The extent of biofilm development is dependent on a complex interaction of all of the factorswhich are discussed in this paper. Access to safe water continues to be a target for developing countries.It is important, therefore, to understand how each factor interacts with the others in order to efficientlycontrol biofilm formation in distribution systems to provide safe drinking water for human health.
Los grafitos históricos como voz de los desfavorecidos
Authors: Ozcáriz Gil Pablo
Published: May 2024

Una introducción al dossier
Maltratadores, rateros y otros. Los presidiarios del Camino Imperial (1796-1804)
Authors: De Miguel Muñoz Marcos
Published: May 2024

A finales del siglo xviii, el presidio del Camino Imperial ubicado en las proximidades del Puente de Toledo (Madrid) se convirtió en un destino habitual para criminales de origen humilde que habían cometido delitos de diversa índole en la capital, su alfoz u otros tribunales. El artículo busca dibujar una panorámica de la vida en este centro penitenciario a través de la documentación conservada en el Archivo de Villa de Madrid, a la vez que pretende reflexionar sobre las lógicas del sistema penal absolutista, centrándose en casos archivísticos concretos de maltratadores y rateros.
Grafitos epigráficos de propiedad sobre cerámicas romanas del valle medio del Guadiana: retazos de una parte de la sociedad del ager Emeritensis
Authors: Hidalgo Martín Luis Ángel , Jerez Linde José Manuel
Published: May 2024

Estudio de un conjunto selecto de 44 grafitos epigráficos sobre piezas cerámicas de mesa de época imperial romana procedentes de algunos yacimientos y enclaves arqueológicos localizados en el valle medio del río Guadiana (provincia de Badajoz, España). Cuatro de ellos son inéditos, los demás escasamente conocidos y con lecturas erróneas en muchos de los casos. Estos grafitos ofrecen un rico repertorio de nombres personales alusivos a la propiedad de dichas vajillas que contribuye a conocer a una parte, muy exigua pero quizás representativa, de la población del ager Emeritensis de los siglos i-ii d. C. sobre todo. No solo a partir del análisis onomástico de estos nombres, poniéndolos en relación especialmente con el resto de la abundante antroponimia ya conocida de Augusta Emerita, sino también de sus soportes de escritura y, por supuesto, de sus contextos de aparición, cuando estos se hayan conservado, intentaremos aproximarnos a la condición socio-jurídica de un censo total resultante de 42 individuos. Así concluiremos que muy probablemente todos o casi todos ellos pertenecieron a los colectivos más humildes de la sociedad rural de la colonia emeritense.
Violencia de pareja y vínculo traumático en adultos jóvenes universitarios en Ecuador
Authors:   Universidad Técnica de Machala, MATAMOROS Maren C. , GUZMAN Domenika N. ,   Universidad Técnica de Machala, PLACENCIO Mauricio R.
Published: May 2024

El presente estudio aborda la violencia en la pareja y el vínculo traumático en adultos jóvenes universitarios en Ecuador, con el objetivo de determinar la relación existente entre estas variables. Estudio cuantitativo y correlacional, se utilizó cuestionarios validados aplicados a 519 participantes. Los resultados revelaron una significativa asociación entre la violencia en la pareja y el síndrome de Estocolmo. Se concluye que es crucial implementar estrategias de prevención en entornos académicos para fomentar relaciones saludables y evitar la perpetuación de la violencia.
Burnout syndrome in university professors in the COVID-19 post-pandemic period
Authors:   Universidad de Cádiz, MOHAMED-AMAR Horia , MOHAMED-AMAR Rachid ,   Universidad de Cádiz
Published: May 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply impacted higher education, increasing stress and emotional exhaustion among university faculty. The sudden transition to online teaching and the need to adapt to a changing academic environment have heightened tensions. High levels of burnout are evident in 71% of faculty, with 24% experiencing moderate levels, and 5% low levels. It is recommended that universities implement prevention programs and support policies to improve the mental health and well-being of the faculty.
Methodology of pre-judicial investigation of mass riots (theoretical model)
Authors: Утебаев Е.К. , Сабитов С.М. , Темиргазин Р.Х.
Published: May 2024

Эмпирические сведения досудебного расследования массовых беспорядков дают возможность в дальнейшем осуществить криминалистическое предупреждение данного вида уголовного правонарушения. Стратегическая цель досудебного расследования направлена на установление причастности лиц, которые участвовали в погромах и в мародерстве. В ходе осуществления алгоритма досудебного расследования реализуются сложные криминалистические тактические операции. В статье раскрывается примерная криминалистическая теоретическая модель досудебного расследования массовых беспорядков на основе освещения в средствах массовой информации трагических событий января 2022 года, происшедшие в городе Алматы и охватившие все регионы Республики Казахстан. Краткие криминалистические рекомендации по досудебному расследованию массовых беспорядков позволят вооружить следственные аппараты органов внутренних дел, органов национальной безопасности и процессуального прокурора для своевременного раскрытия и досудебного расследования данного вида общественно опасного деяния.

The empirical evidence of the pre-trial investigation of mass riots makes it possible to further carry out a forensic prevention of this type of criminal offense. The strategic objective of the pre-trial investigation is to establish the involvement of persons who participated in pogroms and looting. During the implementation of the pre-trial investigation algorithm, complex forensic tactical operations are implemented. The article reveals an exemplary forensic theoretical model of pre-trial investigation of mass riots based on the media coverage of the tragic events of January 2022 that occurred in Almaty and covered all regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Brief forensic recommendations on the pre-trial investigation of mass riots will allow arming the investigative apparatus of internal affairs bodies, national security bodies and the procedural prosecutor for timely disclosure and pre-trial investigation of this type of socially dangerous act.
Explorando el sentido háptico: narrativas digitales y nuevos procesos de creación en el grabado en madera contemporáneo
Authors: Santín Álvarez Eva
Published: May 2024

En las últimas décadas se viene produciendo un proceso de actualización en el arte gráfico contemporáneo, impulsado no solo por nuevas técnicas y tecnologías sino también por una concepción más interdisciplinar que responde a las necesidades expresivas de nuestro tiempo y permite profundizar en los aspectos específicos del lenguaje gráfico renovándolo y mostrando toda la potencialidad de este.
Si bien es cierto que muchos artistas han seguido empleando la técnica y el lenguaje característico de la gráfica tradicional, en algunos casos se percibe un cambio sustancial en la forma de entender el grabado, tanto en la manera de concebir la obra como en la ejecución técnica de la misma.
Inmersos en plena vorágine digital, algunos artistas han comenzado a incorporar tecnologías que permiten la obtención de una superficie de estampación sobre la matriz generada a partir del soporte fotográfico de una imagen o un archivo digital, postulando por una gráfica que trasciende lo digital para retornar al mundo tangible y matérico.
La convergencia de lo real y lo virtual se convierte en el paradigma del grabado postdigital, fusionando la precisión con la materialidad y postulando por la supremacía de los parámetros hápticos de la percepción, es decir, el sentido táctil de la experiencia visual en la contemplación de la obra artística, tan implícito en los fundamentos de la gráfica.
Papel y color natural. Técnica y procesos en la producción artística sostenible a partir de la materia vegetal
Authors: Bordacconi Elena , Galbis Juan Amparo
Published: May 2024

La manufactura del papel como soporte es una actividad que participa en el proceso artístico y creativo y que por tanto puede guiarnos, convirtiéndose en metodología. Vinculada con el estudio y renovación de técnicas y materiales alternativos, el impulso en la actualidad de una integridad sostenible en la producción artística es objeto de investigación y ensayo desde la Universitat Politècnica de València. En este artículo, partiendo de algunas materias primas vegetales, se modulan los procesos creativos en la obtención de colorantes y la fabricación artesanal del papel a través de un enfoque físico/experiencial en el entorno natural del que proviene el material, subrayando los principales avances realizados por esta línea desde su carácter orgánico, observando su desempeño en la práctica artística. Esta perspectiva experimental se basa en la transformación de la materia viva desde el lugar de su origen, estimulando la actividad artística con reacciones concatenadas centradas en el proceso mismo, liberada de ciertas preocupaciones estéticas durante la realización de la obra. Con una elevada exigencia respecto a la actuación ética y estética de los materiales, cuyas posibilidades sensitivas y procesuales ofrecen a nivel expresivo una renovación y diversidad de los lenguajes, se fomenta la calidad de los procesos y reivindica la especificidad de este conocimiento. A través de la aplicación práctica de diversas técnicas se construye un modelo procedimental que permite definir metodológicamente las posibilidades de aplicación gráfica del papel hecho a mano como recurso material y creativo en la producción artística.
What Gender Should Be
Authors: Cull Matthew J.
Published: May 2024

What is gender? What should gender look like in the 21st century?This book brings together philosophy with insights from feminist and transgender theory to argue for gender pluralism: that there should be more than two genders, and that each gender term should have multiple meanings. Developing an explicitly political version of conceptual engineering,What Gender Should Becontains novel and powerful arguments both against existing theories of gender such as family resemblance accounts and against gender abolition, underlining how each is insufficient for thinking about and doing justice to contemporary transgender identities and politics. Instead, Matthew J. Cull argues that we should be pluralists about gender, putting forward and advocating for a position that is more apt for contemporary transgender and feminist activism. The 21st century requires a new way of thinking about gender.What Gender Should Besets out to provide it.
Humor in Global Contemporary Art
Authors: Gieskes Mette , Williams Gregory H.
Published: May 2024

Pursuing a new and timely line of research in world art studies, Humor in Global Contemporary Art is the first edited collection to thoroughly examine the role of culture-specific and transcultural humor in contemporary art from a global perspective.

Since the 1960s, an increasing number of artists from across the world have applied humor in their work, often to ridicule ethical transgressions such as corruption, inequality, humiliation, greed, and abuse of power. Exploring the degree to which humor has played a role in art created from the 1960s onwards, its function as a cultural signifier, and the tensions that arise from the transcultural movement of art in different contexts, this book opens new conversations regarding the significant role that humor plays in politically and socially-engaged art. With an impressive array of global scholars, covering four major continental regions, the book moves through four distinct sections: Africa and the Middle East; Asia and Oceania; South and North America; and Europe, in turn highlighting the cultural specificity of each region.

In these times of globalization and biennialization, when we are increasingly confronted with humorous art from a variety of cultures and countries, this book will provide readers with a culturally sensitive understanding of the ways in humor has become vital to many contemporary artists working in a globally-connected world.
Constructing Brexit Britain
Authors: Parnell Tamsin
Published: May 2024

Combining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a discourse analysis of narratives, this book considers one aspect of the Brexit process: the language that journalists, politicians and individuals used to write and talk about what it means to be British and European around the time of Brexit. It reveals a trajectory towards a discourse of national division in Brexit Britain in three datasets: pro-Brexit newspaper articles, UK Government documents, and interviews with individual citizens.

Demonstrating the important role that (supra-)national identity discourses played in discussions about Brexit, the book traces a shift towards a representation of Brexit Britain as divided and in decline at a time when the construction of a collective identity is likely to be paramount. The emerging representation is a direct contradiction of the great global trading nation narrative that the Vote Leave campaigners – and later the UK Government – promised, questioning the discursive success of the Global Britain project.

Constructing Brexit Britain demonstrates that the transition from pre- to post-Brexit Britain was a crucial period of destabilisation for institutional and lay national identity narratives. It also illustrates that the coming years are likely to be just as important, as the UK forges its post-Brexit place in the world amid declining levels of trust in politicians, calls for a second Scottish membership referendum, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a cost of living crisis.
British Lend-Lease Warships 1940–45
Authors: Konstam Angus
Published: May 2024

An illustrated history of the American-built destroyers and frigates supplied to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease, which played a crucial role in Britain's war in the Atlantic.

As U-boat attacks on Britain’s vital sea lanes increased in ferocity, and Royal Navy warship losses mounted, the United States passed the Lend-Lease Act, the cornerstone of America’s wartime role as armourer to the Allies.

Naval historian Angus Konstam here offers an account of the Royal Navy’s Lend-Lease destroyers and escorts. The first batch were 50 World War I-era 'four-stacker' destroyers, in a deal sealed by the transfer of several global British bases to the USA. These warships were immediately recrewed, refitted and pressed into service in the Battle of the Atlantic. These ageing destroyers were followed by over a hundred more Lend-Lease warships, many of which were built especially for British service in American shipyards. Their arrival helped tip the balance in the hard-fought war against the U-boats, while others were used to fulfil other crucial wartime missions.

With detailed ship profiles of the major classes, a cutaway of HMSCampbeltown(of Saint-Nazaire raid fame) as it appeared in 1941, and superb battlescene artwork, this is a comprehensive look at a crucial aspect of the Battle of the Atlantic.
Prisoners of War
Authors: Krammer Arnold
Published: May 2024

America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Western Europe grapple with a new, faceless enemy and the rules of war and the torture of POWs are open to reconsideration. Until very recently, there has been astonishingly little written on the subject of prisoners of war. Yet, to understand the present, it is critical to look back over history. To that end, Arnold Krammer examines the fate of war prisoners from Biblical and Medieval times through the halting evolution of international law to the current reshuffling of the rules. The issue of prisoners of war is of more immediate concern now than ever before and an examination of the history of their treatment and current status may well influence foreign policy.

The fate of war prisoners through history has been cruel and haphazard. The lives of captives hung by a thread. Execution, enslavement, torture, or being held for ransom were equally likely. International agreements developed haltingly through the 19th and 20th centuries to culminate in the Geneva Accords of 1929. America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Western Europe grapple with a new, faceless enemy and the rules of war and the torture of POWs are open to reconsideration. Until very recently, there has been astonishingly little written on the subject of prisoners of war. Yet, to understand the present, it is critical to look back over history. To that end, Arnold Krammer examines the fate of war prisoners from Biblical and Medieval times through the halting evolution of international law to the current reshuffling of the rules.

Since biblical times, war captives have been considered property and counted as booty to be enslaved or killed. Americans were interested in generals and weapons and battles, but not the fate of prisoners of war. The Second World War, when 90,000 Americans fell into enemy hands, began to change that. Concern for our POWs in Germany and Japan, and close contact with enemy camps in America began to change our attitudes. However, it was the Vietnam War, media-driven and polarizing, that caused the American public to truly reevaluate the plight of its sons and brothers, heroic and clearly loyal, as they fell into the hands of an inscrutable and apparently unyielding distant enemy. More recently, during the first Gulf War of 1991 and the current War on Terrorism, the issue of prisoners of war has moved to center stage, involving the clash of ideologies, politics, and expediency. Since 9/11, the rights and safety of prisoners of war caught up in the War on Terror have been debated in Congress and adjudicated on by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales whose conclusions were protested by numerous organizations. The issue of prisoners of war is of more immediate concern now than ever before, and an examination of the history of their treatment and current status may well influence foreign policy.
Procrastination and Blocking
Authors: Boice Robert
Published: May 2024

Procrastination means putting off a difficult, delayable, important task in favor of something easier, quicker, and less anxiety-provoking. It also means delaying vital actions until the performance and result are less than they would have been if done in a timely manner. Similarly, blocking means that we stumble, delay, and panic in response to a demanding responsibility. Blocking typically occurs when we face public scrutiny (as in writing). In this revisionist and sometimes irreverent book, the author takes academic and professional psychologists to task for neglecting a pair of related problems that are often derided but that can be profoundly debilitating for individuals and economically devastating for schools, businesses, and communities.
Encyclopedia of Prophecy
Authors: Ashe Geoffrey
Published: May 2024

A definitive, factual, A–Z reference guide offering a global perspective on the role of prophecy in world history, religion, folklore, and literature.

From at least 1200 B.C. and probably long before, prophets have attempted to see into the future. Most—from ancient oracles to modern astrologers, from doomsday sects to telephone psychics—have been wrong the majority of the time, says British researcher Geoffrey Ashe. True foreknowledge is rare, but those rare occurrences are impressive.

In this fascinating reference work, the first to encompass the entire 3,000 year span of recorded prophecy, Ashe examines the predictions of both good prophets and bad, including seers like Jacques Cazotte, who forecast the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, and Morgan Robertson, who described theTitanicdisaster 14 years before it happened. He refutes many of the far-fetched claims of Nostradamus, and highlights those that foreshadow events after his lifetime. He also examines failed prophecies that have been influential, including the many end-of-the-world forecasts, along with the surprisingly accurate visions of some science-fiction authors.
Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society
Authors: Blodgett Jan
Published: May 2024

While studies have been done on the politics, personalities, and television empires of Protestant evangelicals, little has been said about the power of evangelical publishing and the recent upsurge in evangelical fiction. In the last 20 years, evangelical publishing has grown into a multimillion dollar business, and evangelical fiction offers valuable information about the Protestant evangelical experience. This book argues that the authors and publishers of evangelical fiction are purposeful gatekeepers who create specific images of an evangelical universe. Characters and plots of evangelical literature not only embody a religious perspective but also advocate appropriate behaviors and solutions to problems. This study brings together research in the history of Protestant evangelicalism, the sociology of religion, and literary studies to explore how evangelical novels can serve as cultural artifacts of the evangelical community in contemporary American society.

The volume consists of two distinct but interrelated parts. The first part of the book overviews the history of evangelical religion and the publishing of fiction. The chapters in this section trace the ways in which religious publishing has influenced the publishing industry in general and the importance of publishing to evangelicalism. The second part in based on the review and analysis of 60 inspirational novels published between 1972 and 1994 by 13 evangelical publishers. Two chapters examine the development of specific genre and plot adaptations. To identify the range of attitudes and images expressed in this fiction, each of the 60 novels is examined for its handling of theology, practical religion, and social issues. Appendices list the novels within particular genres and trace the chronological development of evangelical publishing, and a bibliography concludes the volume.
Psychological Issues in Adoption
Authors: Brodzinsky David M. , Palacios Jesus
Published: May 2024

In this book, leading researchers spotlight how dramatically the practice of adoption has changed both in North America and Europe in recent decades due to, among other factors, a falling rate of domestically born infants being placed for adoption. This has resulted in a rise in international adoption, children of color being placed with Caucasian parents, increased foster care and special needs adoptions including children exposed to prenatal alcohol and drug use as well as maltreatment by birth parents. Also examined is the far more diverse group of adults being granted adoption rights, including single and homosexual parents. Research findings demonstrate the trend across countries toward open adoption, wherein the birth parents and adoptive parents meet to share information. As the editors note, there is no longer a typical adopted child or a typical adoptive family.

Paralleling these changes has been a growing interest in the study of adopted children and adoptive parents. Although earlier research showed adoptees more likely to experience school problems and psychological disorders, recent studies show the differences in these areas between adoptees and non-adoptees to be relatively small. Models guiding adoption research are beginning to emphasize resilience and positive adaptation, rather than risk and psychopathology. This handbook will be of interest to all involved with adoption policy and practice.
Regulating the Future
Authors: Huff W.A. Kelly
Published: May 2024

This comprehensive study examines the case of AM stereo and subsequent technologies to demonstrate the FCC's evolution from stern to reluctant regulator. It also examines emerging technologies, such as multichannel television sound, digital audio broadcasting, and high definition television, and discusses their impact on the evolution of broadcast regulation. In the 1980s the tension between governmental control and the marketplace resulted in the FCC's deregulation of TV and radio, electing to set only technical operating parameters and allowing legal operation of any system that meets those minimal standards. Huff argues that this approach is likely to influence regulatory approaches to other new developments in broadcast technologies. The extensive overview of the industry and the study of the interrelationships between the technologies will appeal to communication scholars in the fields of radio and television as well as interest industry professionals.
Relationship Sabotage
Authors: Matta William J.
Published: May 2024

Hidden forces—memories of past poor or hurtful relationships—drive repressed feelings and emotions that are often outside our awareness. Though we want to love and be loved, to nurture and be nurtured, those forces can wreak havoc and cause relationship sabotage, destroying couples and even whole families. The scenario is so common, explains therapist Matta, that often people get divorced without even fully understanding why, or what is was that came between them. In many cases, what it was were the lingering but unconscious memories of lessons learned as far back as childhood. These lessons may have no true bearing or justification in the current relationship, yet they can strongly affect it, fueling marital games, extra-marital affairs, addictions, poor parenting practices and a host of other harmful actions. Matta argues that we can learn to recognize these imprints and move past them to build or keep rewarding relationships. His book makes us aware, and gives us the tools to break the cycle.
Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation
Authors: Cameron Judy , Pierce W.  David
Published: May 2024

Over the past 30 years, many social psychologists have been critical of the practice of using incentive systems in business, education, and other applied settings. The concern is that money, high grades, prizes, and even praise may be effective in getting people to perform an activity but performance and interest are maintained only so long as the reward keeps coming. Once the reward is withdrawn, the concern is that individuals will enjoy the activity less, perform at a lower level, and spend less time on the task. The claim is that rewards destroy people's intrinsic motivation. Widely accepted, this view has been enormously influential and has led many employers, teachers, and other practitioners to question the use of rewards and incentive systems in applied settings. Contrary to this view, the research by Cameron and Pierce indicates that rewards can be used effectively to enhance interest and performance.

The book centers around the debate on rewards and intrinsic motivation. Based on historical, narrative, and meta-analytic reviews, Cameron and Pierce show that, contrary to many claims, rewards do not have pervasive negative effects. Instead, the authors show that careful arrangement of rewards enhances motivation, performance, and interest. The overall goal of the book is to draw together over 30 years of research on rewards, motivation, and performance and to provide practitioners with techniques for designing effective incentive systems.
Rhetoric of Machine Aesthetics
Authors: Brummett Barry
Published: May 2024

Brummett addresses the question of how the aesthetic experience of machines can have rhetorical influence. He develops a theory of machine aesthetics, showing nine dimensions of the aesthetic experience of machines and machine-like objects or activities. He identifies three general types of machine aesthetics: Mechtech, classical machine aesthetics based on hardware, gears, pistons, and so forth; Electrotech, high technology machine aesthetics based on the ability of electricity to put machinery on the human scale; and Chaotech, the aesthetic appeal of the decayed machine. In each case, rhetorical applications of the aesthetic are explored. A final critical application shows how the filmBrazilwarns its audience that fascism can be supported by simulations based on machine aesthetics.

Brummett's book develops and articulates ideas in the fields of rhetoric and literature that have not been brought together before. In a radical departure, Brummett sees machines not as passive backdrops to human intercourse, but rather as possessing a powerful rhetoric of their own. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of communications, art, and aesthetics.
The Rise of Islam
Authors: Gordon Matthew S.
Published: May 2024

The birth of Islam in the 7th century and its subsequent outward expansion from the Arab world has been one of the most influential occurrences in world history. During its first few decades, the new faith inspired conquests from Spain to northern India. In this illuminating study, the author tracks the rise of Islam from it 7th century beginnings with the life of the Prophet Muhammad to the collapse of the Islamic empire in the early 10th century. He demonstrates how a sophisticated, new religion and society emerged to become one of the world's most vital and sustained cultures.

The opening chapter provides an outline of the history of early Islamic society over a period of roughly three centuries, from the early 7th to the early 10th centuries, concentrating on pre-Islamic Arab countries and the life of the Prophet. Subsequent chapters treat Arab-Islamic conquests; the early Islamic empire; and society and religion, particularly in the early Abbasid period (750-925 C.E.). The spread of urbanization throughout the early Islamic world is highlighted. Fifteen brief biographies of key figures such as Qur'an commentators, empire-building caliphs, scholars, and military leaders help to add a personal human element to the data, and 15 translated primary documents ranging from key Qur'annic passages to contemporary accounts of military campaigns bring the history to life. A glossary of terms, a timeline, and selected bibliography aid student research. The work is fully indexed.
Rituals, Ceremonies, and Cultural Meaning in Higher Education
Authors: Manning Kathleen
Published: May 2024

College students and graduates have fond memories of campus events such as commencement, founder's days, convocations, and baccalaureate. These events, defined as rites of passage, secular ceremonies, or cultural performances, create a special feel to a campus remembered for years to come. Borrowing from interpretive anthropology, the author spotlights the following ideas: culture is revealed and forms of life are expressed through the actions and words of community members; human communities are dynamic, complex, and ever-changing environments revealed though analysis of cultural events; and commonplace rituals and ceremonies play a central role in the cultural work of human meaning. The purpose of the book is to explore campus culture as revealed through rituals and ceremonies.

While rituals are unique to each campus, this book discusses higher education ceremonies and traditions and offers explanations about the roles they play in building and maintaining campus culture. Dr. Manning combines educational research methodology, higher education and anthropological theory to vividly describe college rituals. In a readable fashion, case studies describing the rituals are interspersed between chapters discussing the theory of rituals. The cases include convocation, presidential inauguration, junior show, charter day, founder's birthday celebration, baccalaureate, and laurel chain and alumnae parade.
Scientific Information in Wartime
Authors: Richards Pamela Spence
Published: May 2024

This book describes how the growing awareness of the strategic importance of science in the 1930s caused the Allied and German leadership to build scientific information supply systems that survived into the postwar era. Using archival materials from five countries, Richards traces the successes and failures of these early scientific intelligence agencies. She focuses on the OSS unit supplying copy for the US government's wartime program to reprint current German scientific journals. She describes as well the methods used by the OSS to spirit individual journal issues from inside the Reich to microfilm squads on Germany's periphery, and gives special attention to the Allied quest for information about the mythical German atomic bomb. Richards also describes the supply system set up by the Nazi government, and how its increasing desperation for Allied scientific news led in the last year of the war to a submarine landing of Abwehr agents on the U.S. coast to microfilm periodicals at the New York Public Library. The final chapter of her book looks at how the wartime experience with scientific information influenced postwar patterns of scientific documentation and librarianship in each country.
Selling War to America
Authors: Moran Terence P. , Secunda Eugene
Published: May 2024

Battles are won in combat. Wars are won by winning the hearts and minds of the people.Selling War to Americaprovides a thought-provoking look at the propaganda efforts the U.S. government has exerted to that end. It begins with an examination of the government's campaign to instigate a war with Spain and ends with a review of the methods being used to encourage support for the War Against Terrorism. The book analyzes each of these wars within the context of the techniques used to generate public support, also examining the results of propaganda efforts, both before and after each conflict. From these historical analyses, noting both the blunders and the triumphs of the past century, the authors offer the keys to successfully persuading the American public to support wars that must be fought.

Lies were told and truths withheld because government and military leaders did not trust the American people to make appropriate decisions concerning our national security. The attacks of September 11, 2001, on The World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon have summoned the American people to a war on terrorism. The U.S. government is now trying to mobilize American public opinion to support this war. But this is just the most recent example of how our government has sought to enlist broad public support for the wars it has waged. The job of informing and persuading America to support its war efforts has become increasingly more challenging as media technologies, like instant global coverage of television news and the Internet, reach into every American home.
Shadow Justice
Authors: Harrington Christin
Published: May 2024

This first critical examination of informal dispute processing links the institutionalization of alternatives to the court process and the ideology of informalism with the evolution of the American court system. The author connects dispute processing reform to the broader social and political context in which it developed, including the rise of judicial management in the Progressive period and the reconstruction of court unification in the 1970s. Harrington defines legal resources and their distribution in alternative dispute resolution policy before focusing on the institutionalization of this reform in a case study of a federally sponsored Neighborhood Justice Center. In conclusion, Harrington finds that the symbols of informalism and its institutions are a mere shadow of conventional legal practices.
The Short Fiction of Rudolph Fisher
Authors: Perry Margaret
Published: May 2024

Despite the fact that a number of Rudolph Fisher's works appeared in national magazines such asAtlantic MonthlyandMcClure's, little critical attention has been devoted to his short fiction over the years. This collection brings together, for the first time, fifteen of Fisher's general adult stories, detective stories, and his stories for children, accompanied by an introduction, brief biography, and a chronology of his published work. The introductory essay explores the short story as a genre and examines Fisher's place in American short fiction.
Social Trust
Authors: Cvetkovich George , Earle Timothy
Published: May 2024

This work examines the basic social-psychological problems that generate the need for social trust and other acculturation strategies.
Spying Without Spies
Authors: Ziegler Charles A. , Jacobson David
Published: May 2024

This is the first description of the formation of America's nulcear surveillance system. Drawing on interviews with participants and the little documentation available under the Freedom of Information Act, Ziegler and Jacobson tell a story not told before. They shed new light on questions raised in earlier interpretations of the early Cold War years and reveal the origins of a surveillance activity that is implied, but not explained, in today's headlines.

This book provides the first documented description of the genesis and institutionalization of America's nuclear surveillance system. It traces the development of covert technical methods for assessing the nuclear capability of foreign powers from the introduction of these techniques in World War II to 1949, when they were successfully employed to detect the test of Russia's first atomic bomb. Ziegler and Jacobson examine the planning for the system as well as the technical and organizational obstacles that had to be overcome before it could be implemented. They describe the government decision-making processes and the ways individuals and groups with different beliefs and interests were mobilized in support of the program. They also explore the relationships between the intelligence and scientific communities that were forged in this process.
The Stage Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre
Authors: Videbaek Bente
Published: May 2024

The majority of Shakespeare's plays have at least one clown figure making an appearance. These characters range from rogues who say only a line or two, to important figures like Touchstone and Falstaff. Videbaek examines even the smallest clown roles, showing how the clown's freedom of speech allows him to become a mediator between the audience and the action of the play, helping audience interpretation. This illuminating celebration of the stage clown's contribution to the understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays will be a valuable resource for both students and scholars alike.
The Stone and the Scorpion
Authors: Mitchell Judith
Published: May 2024

Sexuality and erotic desire were important components of Victorian culture, and the novels of the Victorian era reflect the sexual attitudes of the authors and culture of that period.The Stone and the Scorpionfocuses on the interplay of erotics in the novels of Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. Using several extra-literary critical approaches, particularly feminist gender-relations theory, this book determines degrees of female subjectivity and desire in these novels.

At the heart of the study is the belief that the disruption of conventional male-female dualities is essential to the recasting of the erotic relationship in contemporary culture. Mitchell re-reads several well-read novels by three major Victorian authors in order to analyze their symbolic construction of gender and sexuality. As a group, the novels she discusses are a recognized part of the established literary canon; they span the latter half of the 19th century; and they embody various forms of erotic desire. The book considers to what extent the novelists dare to invest their female characters with erotic subjectivity, and to what degree this investment changed over time.
The Structure of Police Organizations
Authors: Langworthy Robert
Published: May 2024

This study examines, in a comparative fashion, the limitations or constraints imposed upon police organizational structure by agency size, technology employed, and agency environment. The book is based on data collected from 175 police organizations. It is not a study of the best way to organize the police, but looks at the way different organizations work so the reader can decide for himself.
Teaching Young Children Social Studies
Authors: Mindes Gayle
Published: May 2024

By linking theory to practice with an emphasis on national and state standards, Head Start Performance Standards, No Child Left Behind, and IDEA, the authors coherently combine principles of child development and social studies content to create a solid program for preschool through grade three. The authors maintain the overriding idea throughout theTeaching Young Childrenseries—that strategies derived from knowledge of child development are used to teach content knowledge. It is this concern that makes this volume an excellent resource for teachers and parents. In addition to specific discussions of how to build and conduct a social studies curriculum, the work includes vignettes of teachers and children in the classroom; graphics illustrating concepts and methods; and matrices, charts and tables to enhance understanding. The authors effectively intertwine social learning in young children and development of self-concept with the theme-based curriculum of the National Council for Social Studies, the principles of multicultural education, parent collaboration to support learning, and creating connections between classroom and community.