bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Cinema, Local Power and the Central State: Agencies in Early Anti-Religious Propaganda in Uzbekistan
Authors: Drieu Cloé
Published: December 2010

Lenin, Stalin or Trotsky took early measures to control the cinema in order to transform and enlighten the masses and to implement a proletarian and atheist culture that could replace former norms and homogenize beliefs and values. However, the use of theatre or cinema as a vector for cultural changes was also praised—in a less conceptualised manner—by some Muslim Turkestani élites, who had come to consider, at least as early as 1913, performing and visual arts a mirror that could help society to understand its illnesses and thus to overcome them. The early Soviet period radicalized these conceptions of power and enlightenment toward cinema, which proved a locus for political debates, modernization and agencies that were contended, throughout the 1920s and the 1930s, by Russian Communists and vernacular political or cultural élites in power. Examples of early anti-religious policy as well as film propaganda shed light on this process. In the Soviet context, the analysis of film production permits us to ascertain a complex set of dependencies and agencies between central and local powers, between artists and politics. This article will first focus on a brief institutional history and on the way vernacular élite and ordinary people welcomed the cinématographe in order to underline its peculiar position for our understanding of the cultural changes in the inter-war period. Second, it will examine how officials organised antireligious policy in Uzbekistan, using film in particular. Finally, the article will discuss anti-religious films and their ambivalence until 1937.
The Russian Empire at War
Authors:   Hamburg
Published: December 2010

Lieven's book is the first scholarly work to provide thorough analysis of the European stage of Russia's campaign against Napoleon in 1813 – 1814. e review essay discusses how Lieven's book departs from conventional Russian historiography on the Napoleonic era by emphasizing the logistical and strategic contributions of Russian cavalry and by illustrating the advantages of the "long-war" plan adopted by Alexander I and Barclay de Tolly. e review endorses Lieven's conclusion that a key reason for the Russian victory in 1814 was that Russian leadership "outthought" Napoleon.
The Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study
Authors: Patton Edward G. , Horst Thomas W. , Sullivan Peter P. , Lenschow Donald H. , Oncley Steven P. , Brown William O. J. , Burns Sean P. , Guenther Alex B. , Held Andreas , Karl Thomas , Mayor Shane D. , Rizzo Luciana V. , Spuler Scott M. , Sun Jielun , Turnipseed Andrew A. , Allwine Eugene J. , Edburg Steven L. , Lamb Brian K. , Avissar Roni , Calhoun Ronald J. , Kleissl Jan , Massman William J. , Paw U Kyaw Tha , Weil Jeffrey C.
Published: December 2010

The Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (CHATS) took place in spring 2007 and is the third in the series of Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (HATS) experiments. The HATS experiments have been instrumental in testing and developing subfilterscale (SFS) models for large-eddy simulation (LES) of planetary boundary layer (PBL) turbulence. The CHATS campaign took place in a deciduous walnut orchard near Dixon, California, and was designed to examine the impacts of vegetation on SFS turbulence. Measurements were collected both prior to and following leafout to capture the impact of leaves on the turbulence, stratification, and scalar source/sink distribution. CHATS utilized crosswind arrays of fast-response instrumentation to investigate the impact of the canopy-imposed distribution of momentum extraction and scalar sources on SFS transport of momentum, energy, and three scalars. To directly test and link with PBL parameterizations of canopy-modified turbulent exchange, CHATS also included a 30-m profile tower instrumented with turbulence instrumentation, fast and slow chemical sensors, aerosol samplers, and radiation instrumentation. A highresolution scanning backscatter lidar characterized the turbulence structure above and within the canopy; a scanning Doppler lidar, mini sodar/radio acoustic sounding system (RASS), and a new helicopter-observing platform provided details of the PBL-scale flow. Ultimately, the CHATS dataset will lead to improved parameterizations of energy and scalar transport to and from vegetation, which are a critical component of global and regional land, atmosphere, and chemical models. This manuscript presents an overview of the experiment, documents the regime sampled, and highlights some preliminary key findings.
Ecosystem Feedbacks to Climate Change in California: Development, Testing, and Analysis Using a Coupled Regional Atmosphere and Land Surface Model (WRF3–CLM3.5)
Authors: Subin Z. M. , Riley W. J. , Jin J. , Christianson D. S. , Torn M. S. , Kueppers L. M.
Published: December 2010

A regional atmosphere model [Weather Research and Forecasting model version 3 (WRF3)] and a land surface model [Community Land Model, version 3.5 (CLM3.5)] were coupled to study the interactions between the atmosphere and possible future California land-cover changes. The impact was evaluated on California’s climate of changes in natural vegetation under climate change and of intentional afforestation. The ability of WRF3 to simulate California’s climate was assessed by comparing simulations by WRF3–CLM3.5 and WRF3–Noah to observations from 1982 to 1991.

Using WRF3–CLM3.5, the authors performed six 13-yr experiments using historical and future large-scale climate boundary conditions from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Climate Model version 2.1 (GFDL CM2.1). The land-cover scenarios included historical and future natural vegetation from the Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System-Century 1 (MC1) dynamic vegetation model, in addition to a future 8-million-ha California afforestation scenario.

Natural vegetation changes alone caused summer daily-mean 2-m air temperature changes of −0.7° to +1°C in regions without persistent snow cover, depending on the location and the type of vegetation change. Vegetation temperature changes were much larger than the 2-m air temperature changes because of the finescale spatial heterogeneity of the imposed vegetation change. Up to 30% of the magnitude of the summer daily-mean 2-m air temperature increase and 70% of the magnitude of the 1600 local time (LT) vegetation temperature increase projected under future climate change were attributable to the climate-driven shift in land cover. The authors projected that afforestation could cause local 0.2°–1.2°C reductions in summer daily-mean 2-m air temperature and 2.0°–3.7°C reductions in 1600 LT vegetation temperature for snow-free regions, primarily because of increased evapotranspiration. Because some of these temperature changes are of comparable magnitude to those projected under climate change this century, projections of climate and vegetation change in this region need to consider these climate–vegetation interactions.
Atmospheric Local Energetics and Energy Interactions between Mean and Eddy Fields. Part I: Theory
Authors: Murakami Shigenori
Published: December 2010

A new diagnostic scheme for the atmospheric local energetics is proposed. In contrast to conventional schemes, this scheme correctly represents the local features of the Lorenz energy cycle for time-mean and transient-eddy fields. The key point is that the energy equation is divided not into two but into three parts consisting of the mean, eddy, and interaction energy equations, when basic variables are divided into mean and eddy fields. The interaction energy itself vanishes when appropriate averaging is taken. However, the equation for interaction energy does not vanish and gives a relationship between the interaction energy flux and the two types of energy conversion terms. These three quantities give the complete information for the energy interactions between mean and eddy fields. The Lorenz energy diagram is reconstructed to include a representation of this relationship. A brief discussion about the relationship with wave activity analysis is also given.
Probabilistic Forecasts Using Analogs in the Idealized Lorenz96 Setting
Authors: Messner Jakob W. , Mayr Georg J.
Published: December 2010

Three methods to make probabilistic weather forecasts by using analogs are presented and tested. The basic idea of these methods is that finding similar NWP model forecasts to the current one in an archive of past forecasts and taking the corresponding analyses as prediction should remove all systematic errors of the model. Furthermore, this statistical postprocessing can convert NWP forecasts to forecasts for point locations and easily turn deterministic forecasts into probabilistic ones. These methods are tested in the idealized Lorenz96 system and compared to a benchmark bracket formed by ensemble relative frequencies from direct model output and logistic regression. The analog methods excel at longer lead times.
The LaGrange Tornado during VORTEX2. Part I: Photogrammetric Analysis of the Tornado Combined with Single-Doppler Radar Data
Authors: Wakimoto Roger M. , Atkins Nolan T. , Wurman Joshua
Published: December 2010

This study presents a single-Doppler radar analysis combined with cloud photography of the LaGrange, Wyoming, tornado on 5 June 2009 in an attempt to relate the radar-observed hook echo, weak-echo hole (WEH), and rotational couplet to the visual characteristics of the tornado. The tornado was rated EF2. The circulation at low levels went through two intensification periods based on azimuthal shear measurements. The first intensification was followed by the appearance of a brief funnel cloud. The second intensification was coincident with the appearance of a second funnel cloud that remained in contact with the ground until the tornado dissipated.

A deep WEH rapidly formed within the hook echo after damaging wind was identified at the ground and before the appearance of a funnel cloud. The echo pattern through the hook echo on 5 June undergoes a dramatic evolution. Initially, the minimum radar reflectivities are near the surface (<15 dBZ) and the WEH does not suggest a tapered structure near the ground. Subsequently, higher reflectivities appear at low levels when the funnel cloud makes contact with the ground. During one analysis time, the increase of the echo within the WEH at low levels results in a couplet of high/low radar reflectivity in the vertical. This increase in echo at low levels is believed to be associated with lofted debris although none was visibly apparent until the last analysis time. The WEH was nominally wider than the visible funnel cloud. The dataset provides the first detailed analysis of the double-ring structure within a hook echo that has been reported in several studies. The inner high-reflectivity region is believed to be a result of lofted debris. At higher-elevation angles, a small secondary WEH formed within the first WEH when debris was lofted and centrifuged.

A feature noted in past studies showing high-resolution vertical cross sections of single-Doppler velocity normal to the radar beam is an intense rotational couplet of negative and positive values in the lowest few hundred meters. This couplet was also evident in the analysis of the LaGrange tornado. The couplet was asymmetric with stronger negative velocities owing to the motion of the tornado toward the radar. The damaging wind observed by radar extended well beyond the condensation funnel in the lowest few hundred meters. However, another couplet indicating strong rotation was also noted aloft in a number of volume scans. The decrease in rotational velocities between the low-and upper-level couplets may be related to air being forced radially outward from the tornado center at a location above the intense inflow.
Shear strength of the lyocell fiber/polymer matrix interface evaluated with the microbond technique
Authors: Adusumalli Ramesh-Babu , Reifferscheid Moritz , Weber Hedda K. , Roeder Thomas , Sixta Herbert , Gindl Wolfgang
Published: December 2010

An experimental investigation into the adhesion of regenerated cellulose fiber lyocell, natural cellulose fiber ramie, and E-glass fiber to the polypropylene (PP) and epoxy matrices, by means of the microbond technique, was conducted. Force–displacement plots indicate a brittle failure of the interface, followed by high frictional forces in the PP matrix and low frictional forces in the epoxy matrix. The interfacial shear strength (IFSS) of lyocell–epoxy system was significantly higher than that measured in the lyocell–PP system. Chemical modification of lyocell fiber with maleic anhydride resulted in a two-fold increase in IFSS with PP. Ramie exhibits better adhesion characteristics, due mainly to the rough surface, than lyocell.
Synthesis and characterization of poly(n-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone)-organo-modified montmorillonite (OMMT) clay hybrid nanocomposites
Authors: Ramesh S. , Sivasamy A. , Alagar M. , Chandrasekar F.
Published: December 2010

The dispersion characteristics of organoclay in nanocomposites based on poly(n-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone)-montmorillionite organoclay nanocomposites were prepared via solution intercalation method. The thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, and scanning electron microscope (SEM) results suggest that the organo-modified clay layers are intercalated with PVP during processes. As evidenced by DSC and TGA of the organo-modified clay nanocomposites exhibited enhanced melting temperature and rate of crystallization of the polymer matrix. SEM and XRD results clearly showed that the formation of exfoliated-intercalated structure of PVP is due to organoclay dispersion in the polymer network of the nanocomposites.
A corrective function for the estimation of the longitudinal Young’s modulus in a developed analytical model for 2.5D woven composites
Authors: Hallal Ali , Younes Rafic , Nehme Samer , Fardoun Farouk
Published: December 2010

In this article, the problem that is faced when the developed analytical model is applied to 2.5D interlocks of the ‘yarn—yarn’ type is discussed. The difficulty encountered is taking into account the influence of the number of weft yarns covered by the warp yarn. Different architectures of these interlocks will have the same stiffness matrix when modeled with the developed analytical model that uses the volume proportion of the three phases: warp, weft, and matrix. The influence of the number of weft yarns on the longitudinal Young’s modulus is studied. A corrective function has been evaluated using a finite element numerical modeling of four fictive woven composites created with ‘ANSYS’ software. These woven composite have the same undulated warp and linear weft yarns, while they differ in the number of weft yarns covered by a warp yarn. The longitudinal Young’s modulus is evaluated for each composite using a numerical model which is also presented in this study. Moreover, a cross-ply laminate (0,90) is modeled by the classical laminate theory in the estimation procedure of the corrective function. The corrected longitudinal Young’s moduli show better agreement with numerical results compared to noncorrected ones.
Thermal conducting property of SiCp-reinforced copper matrix composites by hot pressing
Authors: Changchun Wang  , Guanghui Min  , Kang Suk-bong
Published: December 2010

Cu-coated powder was fabricated by electroless plating process and SiCp-reinforced copper matrix composites with the reinforcement content of 30—50 vol.% were fabricated by hot pressing process using Cu-coated and uncoated SiC powders, respectively. Also, the microstructure and thermal conducting property of the composites were studied. The results showed that with the increase of SiCp particle size, the thermal conductivity (TC) of the composites also increased. Also, the oxides in the composites obviously decreased the TC of the composites. The thermal conducting property of the composites can be improved by the copper coating layer and suitable annealing treatment. It provides important data for the application of SiCp/Cu composites as electronic packaging materials in the near future.
Reclaiming the City
Authors: Chang T. C. , Huang Shirlena
Published: December 2010

In its quest to be a world city, many of Singapore’s urban spaces have been subjected to constant redevelopment. Derelict waterfronts and ageing neighbourhoods have been given new life, enjoying their reincarnation as landscapes of economy and leisure. A prevalent theme in Singapore’s transformation has been the reclamation of landscapes to cater to new users, activities and agendas. Adopting a case study of the Singapore River waterfront, this paper analyses three forms of urban reclamation. They include reclaiming functionality, aimed at infusing the waterfront with new land uses; reclaiming access, as a way of opening up the landscape to more people; and reclaiming the local, as a way to commemorate local cultures and histories. While government planners and private enterprise are intent on developing a world-class environment, Singaporeans and visitors respond to this urban vision in different ways with some praising the dynamism of worldly transformations and others criticising them as a prelude to a soulless city. While some degree of worldliness is essential in any redevelopment, a fine balance has to be sought between the excesses of global urbanism and the parochialism of vernacular concerns.
Liquidity Crisis: Zygmunt Bauman and the Incredible Lightness of Modernity
Authors: Jay Martin
Published: December 2010

After having promoted and then tacitly abandoned the rhetoric of postmodernism, Zygmunt Bauman settled on the metaphor of a modernity that was growing more ‘liquid’ and ‘lighter’ than before. This essay explores the strengths and weaknesses of these metaphors, and attempts to contextualize Bauman’s insights in what has been called by the historian Yuri Slezkine the ‘Mercurian’ culture of diasporic Jewish life.
Culture and Justice
Authors: Milbank John
Published: December 2010

Invoking Zygmunt Bauman’s acute exposition of a left-critical hesitation between intellectuals as saviours and intellectuals as oppressors, this essay argues that while Bauman reveals this hesitation as crucial and symptomatic, nevertheless he leaves it unresolved. The essay shows how the human nature/ culture distinction (which is also a continuity) is, in fact, constitutive of human culture as such; moreover, the essay argues that this constitutive distinction reproduces itself within culture in terms of reciprocal hierarchies of social division — intellectual/non-intellectual, shamanistic/folk, aristocratic/popular. This pattern of vertical reciprocity is precisely what the purely horizontal axis of capitalist-bureaucratic liberalism excludes, collapsing the hierarchical axis of political culture into the horizontal false-binary of ‘left’ versus ‘right’. In this way the essay argues that the crux of an authentic resistance to capitalist-bureaucratic liberalism will involve not a triumph of the ‘left’ over the ‘right’ , but the retrieval of the dynamic paradox of the vertical axis of the hierarchical communion of guiding excellence fused with popular spontaneity. The hierarchical yet dynamically educative interplay between innovators and those being constantly innovated is the organic root of human culture and the means of the authentic practice of human justice.
Introduction: Three Responses to Zygmunt Bauman
Authors: Boyne Roy
Published: December 2010

This introduction reflects on the themes of viscosity, death and the Other in three essays, written by John Milbank, Julia Hell, and Martin Jay, which provide a response — respectively — to three of Professor Zygmunt Bauman’s key works: Legislators and Interpreters, Modernity and the Holocaust, and Liquid Modernity.
‘Parallel Processes’: Observed in the Patient, Therapy and Organization
Authors: Hakeem Az
Published: December 2010

In this theoretically informed clinical study the author introduces the term ‘parallel process’. Five parallel processes of ‘confusion’, ‘genital-centrality’, ‘binary rigidity’, ‘rejection’, and the ‘questioning of authenticity’ are observed in the analytic material presented by trans-gender patients in specialist small group psychotherapy, and observed similarly in the organizational context in which the group takes place. The author provides a theoretical explanation for the occurrence of such parallel processes. The author concludes that the term ‘parallel processes’ describes a phenomenon currently without definition in the existing group-analytic vocabulary and suggests it should be added as a group-analytic term to describe the processes that are clinically and theoretically detailed in this article.
Group Analysis and the Virtual World: Communication in an Expanding Matrix
Authors: Vosmer Susanne
Published: December 2010

Increasing exposure to pornographic material communicated through the internet and the world wide web, also referred to as the virtual world or cyberspace, presents us with new challenges since existing models of analysis are mainly predicated on a clear distinction between representation and the ‘real’ world. Cyberporn has blurred these distinctions and poses interesting challenges at a theoretical and therapeutic level: what are its effects and how do we work with them in the group? By discussing the erotic ontology of cyberporn, this article attempts to offer some preliminary analyses. Its focus is on whether cyberporn structures desire. In exploring notions of the physical body, desire, sexuality and love, and linking Kristeva’s theory to group analytic thinking, as well as using my own reflexive self as participant observer of the cyberporn experience, I shall argue that cyberporn structures desire and our selves. The implications for group analysis will be discussed.
Asian American–White Differences in the Effect of Motherhood on Career Outcomes
Authors: Greenman Emily
Published: December 2010

U.S.-born Asian Americans are unique among American minority groups in that they lack earnings disadvantages relative to Whites with similar education levels. Controlling for education and age, there is little difference in the earnings of U.S.-born Asian and White men, but Asian women have higher earnings than comparable White women. Using data from SESTAT, this study tests the hypothesis that Asian American women’s high earnings may result from adjusting their labor supply less than White women in response to parenthood, leading to greater work experience over time. Findings show that Asian American women are less likely than White women to reduce labor supply in response to parenthood and that their resulting greater work experience explains their high rate of earnings growth.
Professionalizing Body Art
Authors: Maroto Michelle Lee
Published: December 2010

When confronted with situations of increasing size and popularity, previously marginalized occupational groups struggle to maintain control over two spheres related to business: the persons involved in the process, and standards for producing products. This analysis applies the concept of control to professionalization strategies used by a sample of body art practitioners in King County, WA. The study findings depict a situation where occupational practitioners pick and choose among informal and formal strategies in order to restructure themselves in response to threats to their control. These practitioners do not follow a set pattern of professionalization, which demonstrates the need to expand dominant ideas of the professions.
Mechanical properties of long glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene composites and their influence factors
Authors: Bobing He  , Heng Liu  , Jinhua Leng  , Bin Yang  , Xian Chen  , Jingwei Fu  , Qiang Fu
Published: December 2010

In this article, long glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene (LFPP) was prepared using self-designed impregnation device. The effects of some processing parameters including impregnation time and temperature, compatibilizer and melt flow index (MFI) of matrix which was adjusted by chemical degradation masterbatch on the impregnation quality, and mechanical properties of injection molded LFPP were discussed. Our studies show that increase in MFI of polypropylene, impregnation time and temperature, as well as addition of compatibilizer maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (PP-g-MAH), can improve impregnation quality and mechanical properties of LFPP. The results will be useful in making high performance LFPP.
Political bias in TV interviews
Authors: Huls Erica , Varwijk Jasper
Published: December 2010

The study aims to provide empirical data on the alleged political bias of Dutch media. It also aims to contribute to the development of an instrument for the measurement of partiality in TV interviews. Its main question is: are TV interviewers biased in putting adversarial questions to politicians with different political backgrounds? The data collection encompasses 12 interviews taken from the late-night talk show Pauw & Witteman during the run-up to the parliamentary elections of 2006. The analysis focuses on five measures of adversarial questioning that were developed by Clayman et al. (2007): initiative, directness , assertiveness, opposition and accountability, as well as on a sixth measure that was developed in the context of this study, persistence. The results show that left-wing politicians are approached less adversarially than right-wing politicians and politicians in the political centre, even when various factors that might offer an alternative explanation are included in the analysis. The conclusion is that interviewers are partial in shaping the way in which politicians can present themselves to the public.
Practical historians and adversaries: 9/11 revisited
Authors: Leudar Ivan , Nekvapil Jiří
Published: December 2010

This article extends the idea of ‘structured immediacy’ (Leudar et al., 2008b) by investigating methods that adversaries use to make the past relevant and consequential in conflicts. Our strategy was to revisit our analysis of political discourse immediately following the 9/11 attacks in the USA (Leudar et al., 2004; Leudar and Nekvapil, 2007). We did this to document what the adversaries did as ‘practical historians’. We found that they used two related methods. One was to situate contemporary events relative to historical antecedents, alongside other contextual particulars, and by doing this provide these events with history-contingent meanings. The other was to attempt to constrain historical understandings of the contemporary events in the future. We interpret the results using the concept of ‘structured immediacy’ that points to how context — historical and otherwise — enters immediate settings of talk as a source of meaning.
A bilingual corpus-assisted discourse study of the construction of nationhood and belonging in Quebec
Authors: Freake Rachelle , Gentil Guillaume , Sheyholislami Jaffer
Published: December 2010

The French language has traditionally been understood as a key symbol of Quebec identity; however, with rapidly changing demographics, new ways of identifying with Quebec have begun to emerge. Drawing on a bilingual corpus of English and French briefs submitted to the Bouchard Taylor Commission on religious and cultural accommodation, this corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) investigates the extent to which language plays a continuing role as both a symbol and medium in the construction of nationhood and belonging in Quebec popular discourse. Language was found to remain both a central concern and a demarcating line within and between English, French, and minority language speakers’ discourses. This study breaks new ground by adapting the CADS methodology to a bilingual corpus. We discuss the advantages of using CADS in two languages and point to remaining challenges such as keyness and corpus comparability.
Probabilistic subgroup identification using Bayesian finite mixture modelling: A case study in Parkinson's disease phenotype identification
Authors: White Nicole , Johnson Helen , Silburn Peter , Mellick George , Dissanayaka Nadeeka , Mengersen Kerrie
Published: December 2010

This article explores the use of probabilistic classification, namely finite mixture modelling, for identification of complex disease phenotypes, given cross-sectional data. In particular, if focuses on posterior probabilities of subgroup membership, a standard output of finite mixture modelling, and how the quantification of uncertainty in these probabilities can lead to more detailed analyses. Using a Bayesian approach, we describe two practical uses of this uncertainty: (i) as a means of describing a person's membership to a single or multiple latent subgroups and (ii) as a means of describing identified subgroups by patient-centred covariates not included in model estimation. These proposed uses are demonstrated on a case study in Parkinson's disease (PD), where latent subgroups are identified using multiple symptoms from the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS).
A review of causal estimation of effects in mediation analyses
Authors: Ten Have Thomas R , Joffe Marshall M
Published: December 2010

We describe causal mediation methods for analysing the mechanistic factors through which interventions act on outcomes. A number of different mediation approaches have been presented in the biomedical, social science and statistical literature with an emphasis on different aspects of mediation. We review the different sets of assumptions that allow identification and estimation of effects in the simple case of a single intervention, a temporally subsequent mediator and outcome. These assumptions include various no confounding assumptions including sequential ignorability assumptions and also interaction assumptions involving the treatment and mediator. The understanding of such assumptions is crucial since some can be assessed under certain conditions (e.g. treatment–mediator interactions), whereas others cannot (sequential ignorability). These issues become more complex with multiple mediators and longitudinal outcomes. In addressing these assumptions, we review several causal approaches to mediation analyses.
Stock Returns and Exchange Rate Volatility Spillovers in the MENA Region
Authors: Eissa Mohamed Abdelaziz , Chortareas Georgios , Cipollini Andrea
Published: December 2010

In this article, we examine the presence of volatility spillovers between nominal exchange rates and stock returns in three MENA countries: Egypt, Morocco and Turkey. The multivariate GARCH model we use does not produce evidence of cross-market effects for the general stock indices returns. Nevertheless, bidirectional shock and volatility spillovers between exchange rates and stock returns exist at the industry sector level. These findings are more pronounced in Egypt and Turkey. The different results are due to the different exchange rate regimes/policies adopted by the three countries. While exchange rates in Egypt and Turkey were allowed to float, Morocco followed a more tightly managed exchange rate regime.
Herd Behaviour, Illiquidity and Extreme Market States
Authors: Kallinterakis Vasileios , Munir Nomana , Radovic-Markovic Mirjana
Published: December 2010

A large amount of studies have attempted to trace the presence of herding during extreme periods at the cross-sectional level by associating herding with the reduction in the cross-sectional dispersion of returns around the market average. In this article we address the issue of whether the estimation of herding on the premises of such frameworks is robust to the thin trading bias whose presence is particularly prevalent in emerging markets. Our study is undertaken in the context of the Banja Luka Stock Exchange, which is one of the world’s most recently established markets. Results indicate that herding is insignificant during extreme return periods with its insignificance persisting even after controlling for thin trading.
Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries
Authors: Mottaleb Khondoker Abdul , Kalirajan Kaliappa
Published: December 2010

By bridging the gap between domestic savings and investment and bringing the latest technology and management know-how from developed countries, foreign direct investment (FDI) can play an important role in achieving rapid economic growth in developing countries. Developing countries have not been considered as favourable destinations for FDI as developed countries. Moreover, among the developing countries a few, such as China, India, Nigeria and Sudan, are the major recipients of FDI, with the rest vying for the scraps. Using panel data from 68 low-income and lower-middle income developing countries, this article strives to identify the factors that determine FDI inflow to developing countries. Based on a comparative discussion focussing on why some countries are successful in attracting FDI, the article demonstrates that countries with larger GDPs, higher GDP growth rates, higher proportion of international trade and a more business-friendly environment are more successful in attracting FDI.
Intergenerational Mobility in Educational and Occupational Attainment
Authors: Majumder Rajarshi
Published: December 2010

Disparities between social groups transcend the boundary of current generation and perpetuate across future generations as well. This is manifested as low intergenerational mobility in terms of both education and occupation in developing countries in general, and among specific ethnic groups within those countries in particular. This paper examines the extent of intergenerational mobility in both educational and occupational attainments for diverse social groups in India to understand the inertia of disparities prevalent. Results indicate strong intergenerational stickiness in both educational achievement and occupational distribution among the scheduled castes and tribes who have been discriminated against historically. Occupational mobility is lower than educational mobility indicating that educational progress is not being transformed to occupational improvement and bringing up the possibility of discrimination in the labour market. This also brings to the fore the fact that historical social exclusion has had a long-run effect and the inertia is quite strong.
Transporting Functional Family Therapy to Community-Based Programs
Authors: Duncan Tracey M. , Davey Maureen , Davey Adam
Published: December 2010

A web-based modified Delphi study identified facilitators and barriers of implementing Functional Family Therapy at five community mental health agencies located in the northeastern part of the United States. Three levels of staff comprising 13 panelists (3 administrators, 3 supervisors, and 7 clinicians) completed the study. Group consensus was reached on four facilitators and one barrier. The four facilitators (collaboration, training, agencies’ readiness, and funding source expectations) and one barrier (lack of appropriateness for some populations) provide a better understanding of community-based issues when trying to transport and implement evidence-based family programs. Future research investigating the experiences of families and clients receiving services will provide a more systemic perspective.
Mexican American Elderly: Self-Reported Anxiety and the Mediating Influence of Family Protective Factors
Authors: Marin Merranda R. , Huber Charles H.
Published: December 2010

This article describes the results of research study that investigated the relationship between life satisfaction and three primary protective factors—la adaptabilidad, la sabiduría, and pariente—that contribute to family resilience for Mexican American elderly who are experiencing self-reported anxiety. A sample of 135 Mexican Americans aged 65 and older were administered measures to assess self-reported anxiety, life satisfaction, and the three protective factors. Of these, 60 met the cutoff criteria for high anxiety and either high or low life satisfaction and were included in the final analyses. A significant positive relationship was found between higher perceptions of the protective factors la sabiduría and pariente and high life satisfaction. No significant relationship was found between la adaptabilidad and life satisfaction. These results provide support for a position asserting that the degree to which elderly Mexican Americans’ perceive their families to possess certain protective qualities may provide a competence-based focus for mediating adaptation in the presence of self-reported anxiety.
Parenting Styles and Children’s Emotional Intelligence: What do We Know?
Authors: Alegre Alberto
Published: December 2010

The theory of emotional intelligence has elicited great interest both in the academic and the nonacademic world. Therapists, educators, and parents want to know what they can do to help children develop their emotional intelligence. However, most of the research in this field has investigated adults’ emotional intelligence. This study reviews the scarce research literature in the area of children’s emotional intelligence. It also reviews the way in which parenting styles and practices predict children’s emotional intelligence in similar or different ways that they predict other developmental outcomes. Based on the parenting literature, four main dimensions of parenting are identified that are relevant to the study of emotional intelligence: parental responsiveness, parental positive demandingness, parental negative demandingness, and parental emotion-related coaching. Parental responsiveness, parental emotion-related coaching, and parental positive demandingness are related to children’s higher emotional intelligence, while parental negative demandingness is related to children’s lower emotional intelligence. Additionally, social—emotional intervention programs used in schools have succeeded in improving children’s emotional skills. Implications for practitioners are discussed.
The Experiences of African American Grandmothers in Grandparent-Headed Families
Authors: Kelch-Oliver Karia
Published: December 2010

Grandparents raising their grandchildren in parent-absent homes are an increasing family structure. A myriad of family and societal problems create the need for the grandparent to assume caregiving responsibilities, including child maltreatment, parental substance abuse, and poverty. Although grandparent-headed families (GHF) are represented across racial, gender, and socioeconomic groups, single, low-income African American grandmothers from urban environments experience this family structure in disproportionately higher rates. Due to their higher prevalence, and the relative lack of attention in the existing literature, African American grandmother caregivers are the focus of this research. The present study is an exploratory study of the qualitative experiences of African American grandmothers who are the primary caregivers of their grandchildren. Individual interviews were conducted with 6 grandmother caregivers, revealing 5 major themes. Results are discussed, and directions for future research and implications for counselors working with GHF are presented.
Treating Patients With Heart Disease: The Impact of Individual and Family Dynamics
Authors: Sperry Len
Published: December 2010

Heart disease is an increasingly common chronic medical condition that affects not only patients but their families. Because this condition has significant psychosocial impact, effective treatment requires an integration of psychosocial treatment—including individual, couples, and family counseling—with conventional medical treatment. Individual psychological dynamics as well as couple and family dynamics that influence the treatment process are described along with implications for family counseling. An illustrative case example is included.
Religious Negativism and Fantasy Guilt
Authors: Ellison Dawn M.
Published: December 2010

This literature review examines the nature of sexual fantasies and their impact (both negative and positive) on arousal. The effects of guilt and shame resulting from religious negativism—specifically Christianity—toward fantasies is explored. Implications for clinical treatment of highly religious persons presenting for treatment of decreased sexual arousal are discussed.
False Allegations of Sexual Assault: An Analysis of Ten Years of Reported Cases
Authors: Lisak David , Gardinier Lori , Nicksa Sarah C. , Cote Ashley M.
Published: December 2010

One of the most controversial disputes affecting the discourse related to violence against women is the dispute about the frequency of false allegations of sexual assault. In an effort to add clarity to the discourse, published research on false allegations is critiqued, and the results of a new study described. All cases ( N = 136) of sexual assault reported to a major Northeastern university over a 10-year period are analyzed to determine the percentage of false allegations. Of the 136 cases of sexual assault reported over the 10-year period, 8 (5.9%) are coded as false allegations. These results, taken in the context of an examination of previous research, indicate that the prevalence of false allegations is between 2% and 10%.
Trying to Move the Elephant in the Living Room: Responding to the Challenge of False Rape Reports
Authors: Lonsway Kimberly A.
Published: December 2010

The issue of false reports can be characterized as “the elephant in the middle of the living room” for the field of sexual violence. In this commentary, the author examines how educators respond to this challenge. The author begins by discussing the “2% statistic,” which is drawn from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) program. Although it has been used in training presentations for more than two decades, it is time to stop. She then describes some alternative strategies for responding to this challenge, drawing from perpetrator narratives, serial cases, and common sense. Finally, she concludes with a wish list for future tools to help address this issue, including further research.
Living in the World of the Domestic Violence Perpetrator: Negotiating the Unreality of Coercive Control
Authors: Williamson Emma
Published: December 2010

This article considers how survivors of domestic violence negotiate the unreality of the world of the perpetrator to survive and the impact this has on their psychological well-being. Utilizing recent debates about coercive control and a reframing of domestic violence as a liberty crime, this article examines women’s accounts of negotiating coercion and control. It presents data collected from oral history narrative interviews with women who have experienced domestic violence, as well as incidents of abuse recounted to the author while working with abused women, and reanalyzes those accounts in light of the theory of coercive control.
The Perceptions of Judicial and Psychosocial Interveners of the Consequences of Dropped Charges in Domestic Violence Cases
Authors: Gauthier Sonia
Published: December 2010

Many domestic violence cases do not go to trial because the victim refuses to testify. This article presents a qualitative study exploring the dismissal of criminal charges in domestic violence cases. The 22 judicial and psychosocial professionals interviewed in Montreal, Canada, discussed various consequences of the legal decision to dismiss the charges on victims, perpetrators, justice system professionals, and society as a whole. Respondents clearly did not view the withdrawal of charges as a failure of the criminalization of domestic violence.
Articulating bones: an epilogue
Authors: Hallam Elizabeth
Published: December 2010

Taking the articulation of bones as its main theme, this epilogue draws together the articles in this issue and discusses theoretical concerns relevant to anthropological analysis of the substance of bones. In particular, it examines bones as relational entities, whose forms and material properties emerge through the interactions which take place with them. With reference to the author’s own historical anthropological research on anatomy in Britain, discussed here in a wider European context, the epilogue explores the articulation of bones through metaphors and images, the relations between anatomical skeletons and memento mori and the assemblage of bones in ossuaries. It then discusses the interdependence of bones and embodied practices — the bones of the dead and the bodies of the living both mutually shaping one another — with reference to the articulation or making of skeletons by anatomists whose artisanal work with bones has not only generated knowledge but also entailed forceful emotional dynamics.
Between tortured bodies and resurfacing bones: the politics of the dead in Zimbabwe
Authors: Fontein Joost
Published: December 2010

Bones occupy a complex place in Zimbabwe’s postcolonial milieu. From ancestral bones rising again in the struggle for independence, and later land, to resurfacing bones of unsettled war dead or the troubling remains of gukurahundi victims, it is clear that bones are intertwined in postcolonial politics in ways that go far beyond, yet necessarily implicate, contests over memory, commemoration and the representation of the past. As both extensions of the dead (spirit ‘subjects’ making demands on the living) and as unconscious ‘objects’ or ‘things’ (retorting to and provoking responses from the living), bones in Zimbabwe not only challenge normalizing processes of state commemoration and heritage, but also animate a myriad of personal, kin, clan, class and political loyalties and struggles. Recent political violence indicates that it is not only dry bones but also the fleshy materiality of tortured bodies that are entangled in Zimbabwe’s troubled postcolonial milieu. Therefore, the author seeks to explore and contrast the complexity of agencies entangled in the affective presence and emotive materiality of both bones and bodies in Zimbabwe. If bodies inscribed with torturous performances of sovereignty do have substantial, if duplicitous, political affects, how does this contrast with the unsettling presence of the longer dead? What does the passage of time — both the material and leaky decomposition of flesh, but equally the transformative processes of burial — do to the affective presence and emotive materiality of the dead? How do broken bodies become bones?
A game of win-win or win-lose? Revisiting the internet’s influence on sociability and use of traditional media
Authors: Peng Tai-Quan , Zhu Jonathan J. H.
Published: December 2010

This study examines the influence of internet adoption and internet usage on sociability and use of traditional media. With empirical data collected in Hong Kong between 2003 and 2005, it confirms that adoption and usage are two distinct processes, with different social impacts. It is found that, on average, internet users spend significantly less time on traditional media than nonusers, while both groups spend the same amount of time on social activities. Furthermore, users’ sociability and use of traditional media are positively correlated with each other, while among nonusers there is no such correlation. When the spotlight is turned on internet users, a new measurement, called ‘sophistication of internet usage’, is employed to examine the impact of internet use on traditional media use and sociability. It is found in the study that internet use does not influence users’ sociability and use of traditional media, regardless of the length of internet adoption history, which disconfirms the so-called ‘novelty effect’.
Immigration and the politics of social cohesion
Authors: Holtug Nils
Published: December 2010

According to the social cohesion argument for restrictive immigration policies, immigration causes ethnic diversity and ethnic diversity undermines social cohesion and thereby the sort of solidarity necessary to uphold the welfare state. Therefore, immigration must be (severely) restricted. I argue that this argument in fact encompasses a variety of different arguments that have importantly different implications for immigration policy, and relies on empirical and normative premises that are insufficiently motivated.