bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The effect of an uneven potential on the few-electron spectrum in a quantum dot
Authors: Bolton F
Published: November 2023

Quantum Monte Carlo methods devised for atomic and molecular systems may be applied without much change to investigate the physics of quantum dots. The simplest of few-electron quantum dots is the idealized case with two electrons confined in a two-dimensional well by a parabolic potential, which is a good approximation to the confining potential of a uniform background of positive charge. With more electrons the node problem appears, and with an applied magnetic field the Hamiltonian gains more terms and the wave function may be treated as complex. In this study, the effects of adding ripples to the parabolic potential, such as might be found in realistic confining potentials, were investigated for one-, two-, and three-electron systems. Diffusion QMC was used with the equivalent of fixed nodes, which were specified as phase factors in the trial functions in what is termed the fixed-phase approximation. These can be specified for low-lying singlet and triplet states. With the magnetic field varied, the ground state may shift to a state of different total spin. The addition spectrum, corresponding to the energy changes on addition of an electron to the system, and its changes with magnetic field were calculated for conditions matching experiments with GaAs. The calculated and observed spectra were nearly the same, but some differences were found. These were explained in part by additional calculations with realistic ripples added to the parabolic potentials.
Covers
Authors: Gilmore Robert , Letellier Christophe
Published: November 2023

Every covering dynamical system has a unique image. The same is not true for images. Every image dynamical system has many different inequivalent equivariant covers. We make these statements more precise. Every dynamical system Xi = Fi(X) equivariant under symmetry group ( has a unique image dynamical system u1 = g1(u ). The image is obtained by introducing invariant coordinates u1 = u1(x ). The two dynamical systems are locally diffeomorphic but not globally diffeomorphic. Conversely, a dynamical system u1 = g1(u ) without symmetry can be “lifted” to a covering dynamical system with symmetry group( by introducing a set of coordinates Xi with suitable transformation properties under
Larger Symmetries
Authors: Gilmore Robert , Letellier Christophe
Published: November 2023

These equations are truncations of nonlinear partial differential equations that support one or more propagating waves. They involve complex time-dependent amplitudes and possibly their complex conjugates. In these systems the complex amplitudes a1 (t) are coupled to waves of the from ei ( k jX-w jt ) . If the partial differential equation has a quadratic nonlinearity, the projected coupled ordinary differential equations (9.1) contain only bilinear nonlinearities. In this section we will outline the general approach to the study of complex ordinary differential equations of type (9.1) when these equations exhibit a continuous symmetry.
Human Factors
Authors: Robertson Leon S
Published: November 2023

Most people who are injured are doing something at the time-driving, riding in a vehicle, walking, working, or playing. So are people who are infected by micro organisms, but those who study injury place more emphasis on behavior than do those who study most infectious diseases. Notable exceptions are infectious diseases transmitted by sex. Ironically, sexual behavior in moving vehicles has been neglected as a topic for research.
Introduction: Love Stories of Later Life
Authors: Barusch Amanda Smith
Published: November 2023

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, / The last of life for which the first was made.” Robert Browning wrote these familiar words in 1864, when old meant something quite different from what it means today. In nineteenth-century England life expectancy was under 45 years, and some thought the natural life span of mankind was 58 years. The idea that many people would live—and love—into their eighth and ninth decades was un- fathomable.
Supporting Actors: Family, Friends, and Community
Authors: Barusch Amanda Smith
Published: November 2023

Warm, articulate, and emotionally complex, at the age of 83 Barbara is a quintessential people person. Like the rest of her life, Barbara’s romances take place in an unusually rich social context. Consider what she has to say about the man she married in her early 60s: What happened is I got a letter from my third husband’s wife and I went down. She was a good friend of mine. I went down there and I visited them and at that point something was bothering her. Turned out she had ovarian cancer. And I didn’t know it but then somehow I got a letter from Simon that she had died. I couldn’t believe it. I decided to stop in to pay my respects. Well, I knew he was a good catch and I also knew that he had had a crush on me when I worked for him. I loved Simon as a friend but there was something about him that was very feminine. So anyhow, I went down and he said would you consider a relationship? I said, all you have to do is whistle. I wanted him to know I was interested. He was an upstanding man in the community and I loved his kids. I really did. He had three kids. His kids were accepting. They wanted their father to be happy, so happy. It didn’t take him 6 months to propose. We planned the wedding.
Slippery Slope to the Hospital: Diagnosis and Hospitalization
Authors: Kant Jared Douglas , Franklin Martin , Andrews Linda Wasmer
Published: November 2023

The first thing I learned about psychiatrists is that they have candy. At least, that was true of the psychiatrist I saw after returning home from summer camp. He seemed to understand that something sweet was needed to counter the bitter feelings and experiences we were about to explore.

This psychiatrist formally diagnosed my OCD when I was 11. The shock of what that diagnosis meant came in stages. Ironically, my initial reaction was to feel overjoyed. I was happy and grateful to know that there was a name for what I was going through. It wasn’t until later that the gravity of the situation sank in.
Sensing the Dangers: Chronic and Acute Secondary Stress
Authors: Wicks Robert J
Published: November 2023

To tack a boat, to sail a zigzag course, is not to deny our destination or our destiny–despite how it may appear to those who never dare to take the tiller in their hand. Just the opposite: It’s to recognize the obstacles that stand between ourselves and where we want to go, and then to maneuver with patience and fortitude, making the most of each leg of our journey, until we reach our landfall. (1993, p. 49)
Enhancing Resiliency: Strengthening One’s Own Self-Care Protocol
Authors: Wicks Robert J
Published: November 2023

Care must be taken not to be driven in one’s career to the extent that everything else loses value and accordingly does not receive the attention it should. Although being a clinician is a wonderful way to devote oneself to the welfare of others, unless care is taken to ensure that the rest of one’s life is fulfilling and balanced as well, one’s life becomes too narrow, limited, and eventually distorted. This can have negative impact not only on oneself but also on family life and other interpersonal relations, including one’s clients.
Keepin’ It Real
Authors: Carter Prudence L
Published: November 2023

How can we help African American and Latino students perform better in the classroom and on exams? In Keepin’ It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White, Prudence Carter argues that what is needed is a broader recognition of the unique cultural styles and practices that non-white students bring to the classroom. Based on extensive interviews and surveys of students in New York, she demonstrates that the most successful negotiators of our school systems are the multicultural navigators, culturally savvy teens who draw from multiple traditions, whether it be knowledge of hip hop or of classical music, to achieve their high ambitions.
School Success Has No Color
Authors: Carter Prudence L
Published: November 2023

Too often we adults take it for granted that we know what is best for children, and with the development and experience that come with age, we do. However, many of America’s schoolchildren are sending us a loud and clear message about some breakdowns in the mechanisms of schooling, especially when it comes to how culture is infused into the classroom and how culture influences social actions. The empirical analyses provided here probed the multiple connections between culture and identity among a specific group of low-income Black and Latino students and their particular responses to a structural phenomenon—a hierarchy of cultural meanings that they believed inheres in schools.
Child Welfare Supervision
Authors: Potter Cathryn C
Published: November 2023

Child welfare is one of the most complex, challenging, exhausting, exhilarating, and satisfying practice arenas in human services. Child welfare workers make life-and-death decisions on a daily basis, and they make a difference in the lives of families and children at risk. Their supervisors stand with them, managing both their work and their ability to stay with the work, while contributing to positive and productive agency cultures and standing as a buffer to less productive organizational cultures (for an example of a supervisor’s day, see Box 1.1).

Many have described the child welfare workforce situation as being in crisis, with heavy turnover among workers and increased stresses on agencies putting pressure on the quality of child welfare interventions (Drake & Yadama, 1996; U.S. Government Accounting Office [U.S. GAO], 1995, 1997, 2003). Yet, many child welfare workers and supervisors thrive in their careers (Stalker, Mandell, Frensch, Harvey, & Wright, 2007). Numerous examinations of job satisfaction and job commitment in the child welfare workforce have identified supervision as a critical component in supporting both the retention of workers and the quality of service for families (Landsman, 2001; Smith, 2005; Strolin, McCarthy, & Caringi, 2007; Westbrook, Ellis, & Ellett, 2006). In this book, we turn our attention to child welfare supervisors, believing strongly that they hold a key to excellence in child welfare practice.
Supervisors As Leaders
Authors: Anderson Gary R
Published: November 2023

When one is asked to identify agency leaders, there is the tendency to point down the hall to the office of the county director, agency executive director, or chief executive officer. The titles, salaries, location on the organizational chart, and office place and space identify the singular individuals at the top as the leaders of organizations. With a variety of personalities and styles, these leaders are in a powerful position to mobilize other people toward the mission and purpose of the agency. However, limiting one’s view of leadership to the select professionals with executive titles risks missing the potential and organizational social capital present in the leadership opportunities and roles for supervisors. In child and family service agencies, the ability to achieve organizational goals—assuring the safety of children, advancing positive and lasting attachments and permanency, and addressing the well-being of children and their families—is directly linked to an appreciation for, and affirmation of, the leadership capacity and contribution of frontline supervisors.
Management Essentials For Child Welfare Supervisors
Authors: East Jean , Hanna Michele D
Published: November 2023

As described in the previous chapter, leadership is a crucial competency for child welfare supervisors. Requisite management skills are equally important. This chapter will cover several core competencies for the management role of a supervisor, including an assessment model to aid thinking about the different levels of knowledge necessary to be effective, planning models, and key management skills of communication and decision making.

Many scholars have made a clear distinction between management and leadership (Bennis & Nanus, 1985; Kotter, 1990), while others see them as very interrelated (Kettner, 2002). It is our opinion that management and leadership are very related for child welfare supervisors, but there are also distinctions between the two. In the leadership role, a supervisor is responsible for providing direction through creating a vision, seeking alignment of team goals with key strategies, and empowering, motivating, and inspiring others to meet the goals of the unit. In the management role, a supervisor is responsible for setting routines and order of day to-day activities, allocating resources, planning for short-term goals, and providing a problem-solving and decision-making structure through which to accomplish the work. Buckingham and Coffman (1999) make the distinction clear by noting that great leaders look outward, while great managers look inward, inside the organization. Both leadership and management skills and perspectives are essential for the child welfare supervisor.
Maximizing The Middle Management Role In Child Welfare
Authors: Antle Becky , Barbee Anita , Zyl Michiel Adriaan Van
Published: November 2023

As will be discussed in a later chapter, One of the primary roles of the frontline supervisor is to provide clinical supervision of the assessments, plans, and interventions provided by frontline workers for clients in the child welfare system. Another role that takes much of the frontline supervisor’s time is administrative in nature. The frontline supervisor must communicate and execute policies, procedures, and principles determined by upper management and sent down through a series of middle managers. In some ways, the frontline supervisors are middle managers, in the sense that they relay information from the front lines up the line in the organization and bring information that originates at the top down to the front lines. So while frontline supervisors are not classic middle managers, they need to have some of the skills of middle managers and understand the role of middle mangers in large bureaucracies. In so doing they can buffer their workers from the politics of the organization while facilitating necessary and productive change that originates from the top and middle ranks in the organization. To that end, in this chapter we seek to describe the ways in which public child welfare agencies are organized and how that organization translates into various middle-management roles in executing child welfare practice. We then discuss the training, technical assistance, and professional development available to middle managers in child welfare.
Clinical Supervision In Child Welfare
Authors: Ferguson Sarah
Published: November 2023

The role of supervisor requires participation in many activities, one of the most critical being clinical supervision, an area whose importance has recently been stressed in public child welfare practice (Collins Camargo, 2006; Salus, 2004). Clinical supervision allows the supervisor to assist child welfare workers with the multitude of issues and concerns that come up in child welfare services (Collins-Camargo, 2006, 2007; Waldfogel, 1998). It creates a venue in which the child welfare worker and the supervisor investigate practice issues with the expressed goal of positive client outcomes.

This chapter investigates clinical supervision by defining clinical practice and clinical supervision and discussing how these concepts relate to public child welfare services. The chapter provides a brief review of various models of clinical supervision and a description of how to set the stage for clinical supervision, along with a more detailed review of the phases of clinical supervision. The chapter ends with an overview of group supervision and a discussion of the stages of development for a new supervisor. While not exhaustive, this chapter provides the child welfare supervisor with enough information to practice the role of clinical supervision.
Managing Performance
Authors: Paul Megan E , Graef Michelle I , Robinson Erika J , Saathoff Kristin I
Published: November 2023

One of the primary roles of a supervisor is to manage worker performance. Performance management is the “continuous process of identifying, measuring, and developing the performance of individuals and teams and aligning performance with the strategic goals of the organization” (Aguinis, 2007, p. 2). Supervisors must regularly assess current performance levels and take steps to improve performance in a way that is congruent with agency goals. The ultimate goal is to achieve agency objectives through individual and team performance.

To effectively manage performance, supervisors must know what the performance expectations are for workers and clearly communicate these expectations to workers. They must regularly monitor and document performance while taking steps to facilitate and improve performance. In the event of unsatisfactory performance patterns, supervisors must analyze and address performance problems, sometimes using disciplinary measures. Finally, formalized performance management systems may include standardized performance evaluations, which supervisors will be expected to complete. In carrying out these multiple responsibilities, supervisors must be aware of and operate within legal guidelines for performance management.
Why Do We Stare?
Authors: Garland-Thomson Rosemarie
Published: November 2023

Staring raises questions. Who stares? Why do we stare? When do we stare? What do we stare at? Why can’t we stop staring? What do we do when we are stared at? Should we stare? We stare because we are curious, and we are curious about staring. Staring: How We Lookaims to scratch that inquisitive itch by thinking carefully about the stare. It explores staring’s possibilities and shows that staring is more than meets the eye. Everybody stares. Staring is an ocular response to what we don’t expect to see. Novelty arouses our eyes. More than just looking, staring is an urgent eye jerk of intense interest. Mike Ervin calls it “the car wreck phenomenon” (2005 interview). We stare when ordinary seeing fails, when we want to know more. So staring is an interrogative gesture that asks what’s going on and demands the story. The eyes hang on, working to recognize what seems illegible, order what seems unruly, know what seems strange. Staring begins as an impulse that curiosity can carry forward into engagement (figure 1.1). Spectacles elicit wonderment, but when we stare at one another something more complicated happens. We don’t usually stare at people we know, but instead when unfamiliar people take us by surprise.
Management of Somatoform Disorders
Authors: Lamberty Greg J
Published: November 2023

Neuropsychologists practicing in the United States tend to devote little of their time to psychotherapy or treatment, though they frequently make recommendations for treatment as part of the neuropsychological evaluation process. More than 45% of all neuropsychologists responding to a recent wide-scale survey acknowledged that they did no psychotherapy with patients without brain dysfunction. The average amount of time spent engaging in psychotherapy across all respondents and settings, and encompassing patients with and without acquired brain dysfunction, was about seven hours per week (Sweet, Peck, Abramowitz, & Etzweiler, 2002). This does not necessarily mean seven hours of psychotherapy, but rather seven hours in the provision of these services. Thus, despite the fact that the vast majority of neuropsychologists are trained in clinical psychology programs, the nature of neuropsychological practice is such that treatment and psychotherapy are decidedly secondary pursuits (Sweet et al., 2002; Sweet, Nelson, & Moberg, 2006). Clinical neuropsychology has instead staked its reputation on the ability to accurately characterize neurobehavioral functioning. Ideally, such a focus encompasses a ready knowledge of the most appropriate and efficacious treatments for our patients.
Working With Somatizing Patients in Neuropsychological Practice
Authors: Lamberty Greg J
Published: November 2023

In this chapter I present composite case examples that illustrate different elements of working with somatizing patients in the context of the neuropsychological evaluation process. I start by discussing features of somatizing patients that are frequently encountered in practice. This material will likely seem familiar to most practitioners. The observations and suggestions offered are based on my knowledge of the literature, but more so on extensive experience in working with such patients. This can be a decidedly trial-and-error process and one in which the clinician frequently learns from mistakes and missteps.
The Development Of Women’S Rights As A Microcosm Of The Development Of Human Rights
Authors: Talbott William J
Published: November 2023

In the preceding chapter, I used the history of Bartolome´ de Las Casas to illustrate the first step toward the recognition of universal human rights, the recognition of some kind of group right to religious and cultural freedom. This is an important first step, because it marks a path between moral imperialism and moral wishy-washiness. This is the path that ultimately leads to the recognition of individual human rights. The recognition of individual human rights requires a standpoint from which to criticize not only a culture’s external norms, but also its internal norms. Cultural relativism about internal norms denies that this is possible. In this chapter, I illustrate how it is possible. Rather than try to review the entire history of the development of individual human rights, I focus on the development of women’s rights as a microcosm of the entire history.
Clarifications And Objections
Authors: Talbott William J
Published: November 2023

In this chapter I address some potential questions and objections. One potential source of concern could be that the list of basic human rights I identified in the last chapter leaves them largely undefined. Shouldn’t they be specified more precisely? In this book, my goal is to give the big picture, not to specify the precise contours of the basic human rights. I have tried to articulate a framework that enables us to understand why each of them is a basic human right and why they should be guaranteed to all beings capable of autonomy, in my nonmetaphysical sense. Understanding that the basic human rights are the rights necessary for the development and exercise of autonomy does help to define their contours. It also helps to identify gaps in the human rights guarantees in existing human rights documents.
Lymnaea stagnalis: The Effects of Experimental Demographic Reduction on Population Dynamics
Authors: Coutellec Marie-Agnès , Caquet Thierry , Lagadic Laurent
Published: November 2023

A population-level estimation of toxicant effects is of primary interest for ecotoxicological risk assessment, because populations often represent elementary units for both ecological and evolutionary processes. Population-level parameters such as growth rate, r, have proven to be more relevant to reflect ecotoxicological impact of toxicants than are life-history traits measured at the individual level, over a wide range of species and substances (Forbes and Calow, 1999), and the higher relevance of population-level approaches is acknowledged for different taxonomic groups (Sibly et al., 2005). To study the impact of a presumably toxic substance on a population, demographic approaches such as life table response experiments can be used (Mauri et al., 2003), under fixed, random, or regression designs, depending on the degree of control of the factor tested, and whether or not it is continuous (Caswell, 2000, 2001). Such designs are relevant because they provide answers at the desired level (the whole life table is the dependent variable) and allow one to include interactions with factors other than the toxicant, such as local ecological components or genetic characteristics of the populations in the statistical test model. Whereas demographic methodology can be applied to laboratory-raised as well as natural populations, its effcacy will strongly depend on the accuracy of vital rate estimates.
Pakistan after Islamization: Mainstream and Militant Islamism in a Changing State
Authors: Nasr Vali
Published: November 2023

In 1999 the Pakistan military staged a coup that removed the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office. The military justified its actions by claiming to be ridding Pakistan of corruption and the paralysis that constant bickering between politicians had produced. The military promised to bring to Pakistan the development that had thus far deluded it. The generals argued that democracy was too permissive to corruption and was open to influence by Islamists. Genuine development would only be possible under the aegis of the military, which could provide for a secular decisionmaking environment in which technocrats could run the affairs of the state free from the influence of politicians. The military’s gambit has opened a new chapter in Pakistan’s politics, one that would redefine the relations between the military, Islam, and civilian politics.
Entrepreneurs and Missionaries
Authors: Erickson John H
Published: November 2023

As Columbus discovered, it is possible to reach America from Europe by sailing west across the Atlantic. That was the route taken by the successive waves of immigrants from whose perspective American history—and the history of religion in America-has often been written. But it is also possible to reach America by traveling east across Siberia to the Pacific rim and from there across the Bering Straits to Alaska, following the route taken thousands of years before by the earliest immigrants, the ancestors of the Native Americans. Orthodox Christians reached America by both routes. Their unusually complex history does not conform neatly to familiar patterns. It is a story of immigration but also one of mission. The Orthodox Christians not only struggled to preserve their ancient faith in the New World, but also labored to share that faith with others.
Sikhs Come to America
Authors: Mann Gurinder Singh , Numrich Paul David , Williams Raymond B
Published: November 2023

A few Sikh soldiers settled on the Pacific Coast of British Columbia, Canada, during the 1890s. Others followed, choosing to emigrate to Canada because it, like India, was then part of the British empire. Eventually, a number of these Sikhs would move from Canada south to the United States. Sikhs began to emigrate to the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. By about 1915, approximately six thousand of them had landed on the West Coast, either directly or by way of Canada. Most came from the Punjab. A few arrived from places like.
Catholic and American
Authors: Fisher James T
Published: November 2023

In 1854 a group of Polish immigrants established the community of Panna Marya (“Village of Our Lady”) in central Texas. One of the founders of this first permanent settlement of Poles in the United States was Peter Kiolbassa, an 18-year-old native of the small town of Swib, which, with the rest of Poland, was under foreign occupation (in the late 18th and early 19th centuries Poland had been carved up by Russia, Prussia, and Austria-Hungary). The young Polish-Texan Peter Kiolbassa worked as a cowboy, a waiter, and an elementary-school teacher before enlisting in the Texas cavalry during the Civil War. After being captured by Union troops and taken to Illinois, Kiolbassa switched sides and was quickly made a captain in the U.S. cavalry. In late 1863 he visited Chicago while on furlough and discovered a small Polish-American Catholic community struggling there to establish its first national parish in the rapidly growing city.
Death Becomes Her: Gender and Athenian Death Ritual
Authors: Stears Karen
Published: November 2023

The lot of women in Archaic and Classical Athens has been characterized as an unhappy one. They were denied access to avenues of social, political, and economic power, their status has been identified as low, and their personal freedom of movement has been conceived of as being severely restricted. The funeral, so central to Athenian social and political life, has been singled out as a reification of the male and female power relationship, and the role of women within funerary practices has been adduced as evidence in the construction of this picture; the intensity of the display of their grief served as an outlet for their own repressed frustrations. Such analyses tend to focus on gender at the expense of other issues. It is doubtful whether gender functioned as the sole means of group identity in ancient Athens. In many circumstances other aspects of social identity and relationship may have been uppermost, most notably familial relationships. By using jointly the tools of gender and kin in assessing women’s duties in funerary rituals, this chapter hopes to present an alternative, more sanguine view of female status and power.
Romance, Intimacy, And Pregnancy: Father Involvement Outside of Marriage
Authors: Hertz Rosanna
Published: November 2023

I was twenty-eight when Gavin and I started dating. We’d known each other as kids but never got serious until then. It was a good time for me: I’d landed a good job as a financial analyst making pretty good money. Gavin was starting his own business as a plumber. He had a child-with a woman he married but who left him for another woman. He never divorced her but she lived in another state. And, frankly, it did n’t matter that much to me because after my experience, I was n’t too keen on marriage as an institution-to put it mildly.
Conclusion Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Circumstances
Authors: Hertz Rosanna
Published: November 2023

Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon Days, based upon his radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, posits a community in which “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average.” In this parody of the perfect American community, families all have extraordinary children who live ordinary lives. The women in this study have created families in extraordinary ways, and since these single mothers know there is no community where all the children are above average, they, like Jennifer, wish for children and families that will simply blend with their own average communities.
Surrendering the Quest (1966-1982)
Authors: D'Elia John A
Published: November 2023

George Ladd staggered through the remainder. of the 1960s and 1970s, convinced that he had been either deluded or victimized or more likely both. In the winter of 1966 he summed up his condition in a lament to an old friend: I have bet my professional career on the proposition that it was now possible for an intelligent conservative theology to gain a respectful hearing, IF NOT AGREEMENT, from the “other crowd.” I have put all my eggs in one basket. It is obvious to me that sectarianism and critical orthodoxy pervades [sic] American scholarship; I am driven to this conclusion against my will. From here on I am writing for my “own crowd,” and have had to talk myself into the attitude that I don’t give a tinker’s damn what anybody thinks or says about my writings.
Muslim Americans after 9/11
Authors: Curtis Edward E
Published: November 2023

Setting out to destroy the symbols of U.S. financial, military, and political power on September 11, 2001, nineteen members of al-Qa’ida hijacked and crashed large passenger planes into both towers of New York’s World Trade Center and into the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked jet, apparently bound for Washington, D.C., crashed in Pennsylvania. In total, approximately 3,000 human beings were murdered that day. Usama bin Ladin, the leader of al-Qa’ida, considered the attacks to be religiously sanctioned retribution for the suffering caused by U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Before and after the attacks, al-Qa’ida members cited several reasons for their violent acts, including U.S.-based support of Israel, the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 1991, the presence of U.S. military bases in the Persian Gulf, and U.S. support for corrupt regimes in the Middle East.
Putting Bioeconomic Research into Practice
Authors: Keller Reuben P , Lewis Mark A , Lodge David M , Shogren Jason F , Krkošek Martin
Published: November 2023

The Integrated Systems for Invasive Species (ISIS) research team came together nearly a decade ago to explore the contributions that a multidisciplinary bioeconomic approach could make to invasive species science. We are not the first to do this; other researchers cut the path and advanced the field so that our work has been possible (e.g., Gordon 1954; Schaefer 1957; Daly 1968; Hammack and Brown 1974; Clark 1976; Crocker and Tschirhart 1992; Perrings et al. 2000). Each chapter in this book represents the efforts of the ISIS team to add to the foundation provided by previous bioeconomic research.
Barth’s Supralapsarian Narrative
Authors: Van Driel Edwin Chr.
Published: November 2023

If Dorner’s proposal were to be revised along the lines I suggested at the end of the previous chapter, his proposal would amount to a supralapsarian argument embedded not in the doctrine of creation but in eschatology; the incarnation read as an expression not of God’s necessary nature but of free motivation. Karl Barth’s theology is an example of such an eschatological approach. His supralapsarian argument is developed within his doctrine of election, but election is for Barth the eschatological category per se. As the first divine decision, it decides about the goal of all reality. In the beginning is the end.
Epilogue: Consummation, Creation, and Redemption
Authors: Van Driel Edwin Chr.
Published: November 2023

In the preceding chapter, I presented three arguments for supralapsarianism. The first started from the superabundance of the eschaton over the proton, and I argued that since, on the one hand, the eschaton is essentially bound up with Christ, and, on the other hand, it would be problematic to say that the eschatological superabundance can somehow be contingent upon sin, we have to say that Christ himself is not contingent upon sin. Second, I looked at one aspect of the superabundance of the eschaton, the vision of God, which is said to be that for which we were created, and I argued that since such a vision is to allow us to fully enjoy God, and for embodied human beings full enjoyment of God implies enjoyment not only with our minds but also our senses, our eyes and ears and touch, full enjoyment of God implies that we will be able to see God, hear God, embrace God-but this can happen only if God is incarnate, in the flesh. Finally, I argued that in scripture there is a small but discernible line that speaks of God’s desire to be friends with God’s creatures, and that in this friendship God comes as close to his friends as God can, that is, by becoming humanly present himself.
The Neo-Assyrian Empire
Authors: Bedford Peter R
Published: November 2023

The Neo-Assyrian (hereafter NA) Empire is the name given to a polity centered on the upper Tigris River that at its height in the seventh century B.C.E. controlled territory extending from the Zagros Mountains in the east to the Levant (Syria-Palestine) and much of Egypt in the west and from the Persian Gulf in the south to the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates in southeastern Anatolia in the north. It was the largest polity seen in western Asia up until that time. The NA period is technically a linguistic designation, denoting the third and last period of the Assyrian dialect of Acadian (Old Assyrian period c.2000–c.1800 B.C.E. Middle Assyrian period c.1400–c.1050 B.C.E. although this period is coincident with the empire in which the texts were generated.
Sex and Empire
Authors: Scheidel Walter
Published: November 2023

For the end of a policy would not be, in the eyes of the actors or their historians, simply to conquer others and bring all into subjection. Nor does any man of sense go to war with his neighbors for the mere purpose of mastering his opponents; nor go to sea for the mere sake of the voyage; nor engage in professions and trades for the sole purpose of learning them. In all these cases the objects are invariably the pleasure, honor, or profit resulting from these undertakings.
The Shaping of a New Generation
Authors: Gerson Kathleen
Published: November 2023

It is a cool, clear morning in Oceanside Terrace, a working-class suburb where American flags are almost as plentiful as family pets. As Josh answers the doorbell, I anticipate the story he will tell. His brief answers to a telephone survey tell a straightforward tale of growing up in a stable, two-parent home of the kind Americans like to call “traditional.” He reported, for instance, that his dad worked as a carpenter throughout his childhood, his mom stayed home during most of his preschool years, and his parents raised three sons and were still married after thirty years.

After we settle into overstuffed chairs in his parents’ cozy living room, where he is home for a brief visit, the more complete life story Josh tells belies this simple image of family life. Despite the apparent stability and continuity conveyed in the telephone survey, Josh actually felt he lived in three different families, one after the other. Anchored by a breadwinning father and a home-centered mother, the first did indeed take a traditional form. Yet this outward appearance mattered less to him than his parents’ constant fighting over money, housework, and the drug and alcohol habit his father developed in the army. As Josh put it, “All I remember is just being real upset, not being able to look at the benefits if it would remain like that, having all the fighting and that element in the house.”
Domestic Deadlocks and Declining Fortunes
Authors: Gerson Kathleen
Published: November 2023

Though many experienced improving family fortunes, even more saw their family fortunes decline. Most of my interviewees—about 68 percent—recalled an early family life full of promise, but for about half of this group, childhood sooner or later took a significant turn for the worse. Across the full range of family forms and domestic circumstances, including once seemingly idyllic homes, these families faced challenges that cascaded into domestic deadlocks and declining fortunes. Some changes in family fortunes were subtle and difficult for a child to discern, while others were impossible to ignore. Isaiah could easily contrast his “first” home, where he lived comfortably with both parents in a growing African-American suburb, to his “second” home, where he lived on the edge of poverty with a single mother:

The first, you could say, was ideal. It was a good arrangement. And the second wasn’t. So I was pretty angry. [My father] continued to make the effort, but I didn’t want to deal with him [because] he’s the one who decided to leave. My trust was betrayed.
The Comforts of Fantasy
Authors: Ehrenfeld David
Published: November 2023

Some people have a drink when they get home from work—a martini, a beer. Maybe two or three. Life is especially stressful in the twenty-firstcentury. The same indecent forces that are destroying nature are disrupting our working lives as well. Who will own the company tomorrow? Will there be a “reduction in force” or some other euphemism for the ax? When is the next reorganization coming? Are my ten or twenty years of faithful service an asset or, more likely, a sign of obsolescence and suspicious loyalty to bosses and coworkers now out of favor or working for other companies?
Rejecting Gifts
Authors: Ehrenfeld David
Published: November 2023

A long-remembered scene repeated many times: I am about sixteen; it is 5:45 P.M. and we are at the dinner table, with my mother at one end, my father at the other, and my twelve-year-old sister, Judy, sitting across from me. As always, the meal is formal—the oval mahogany table is covered with a clean tablecloth, and there are three courses: appetizer, main course, dessert. And as always we are eating very quickly to keep up with my father, who must be back at the office at six to see more patients. The phone rings; I can hear our maid, Josephine, going to answer it. A pause. Then Josephine comes into the dining room. “It’s Dr. Williams,” she tells my father.
Pseudocommunities
Authors: Ehrenfeld David
Published: November 2023

To begin with, a little anecdote. There is a classroom, an ugly, badly shaped, windowless room in a modern university building designed with students not in mind. In this room there is a small class, my class. We have rearranged tables and chairs in a semicircle around my place to defy the terrible ambience and to allow all twenty-five students to see and hear each other and me. Class is in session; I am talking. Two students sitting together in the front row—a thirty-year-old man with a pager on his belt and a twenty-year-old woman—are speaking to each other and laughing quietly; they see that I am looking at them, and they continue to laugh, not furtively or offensively but openly and engagingly, as if I weren’t there.
Accelerating Social Evolution
Authors: Ehrenfeld David
Published: November 2023

There is a battle of evolution going on that is quite separate from the one that makes the newspaper headlines. It is an invisible, unpublicized struggle, and its outcome may affect our lives and civilization more directly than the original evolution controversy ever did. The new But the Second War of Evolution is upon us. Incessant disruption, superficial contacts, and personal isolation are making social evolution impossible. We are like brightly colored bits of glass inside a giant kaleidoscope. Oh, look at the beautiful pattern we make. Twist, it changes. Oh, look at this one. It’s not so nice. Twist, it changes again. Twist. Twist. Don’t look anymore, just hang on.
Writing
Authors: Ehrenfeld David
Published: November 2023

The thirty students in Conservation Ecology were very good that year—the year my frustration with their writing reached the boiling point. Most of them were informed, outdoors-loving, committed, hardworking people who cared for each other and seemed to enjoy the class. With a few exceptions, however, they couldn’t write English, and I was still recovering from the effects of reading the term papers upon which their grades were largely based.
Affluence and Austerity
Authors: Ehrenfeld David
Published: November 2023

A funny thing happened to me on the road to affluence. I have talked about it with others often enough to discover that it is a common happening and an important one. But before you read any further you should know that what you are about to encounter is presented as a middle-class problem—nobody dies in an unheated garret, nobody is thrown out on the street with their meager belongings, nobody is in prison as a birthright, nobody is caught in a drug runner’s cross fire. For all its bourgeois setting, however, my story is about the aspirations of our whole society; directly or indirectly it affects us all.
I Reinvent Agriculture
Authors: Ehrenfeld David
Published: November 2023

After coping during the workday with understanding the mysteries of animal navigation or trying to figure out the best ways to protect an endangered species, I like to vary the intellectual routine by doing something direct and “real” when I get home. Some build cabinets, some sing in choral groups, others join first aid squads. I take care of our garden. Gardening is an especially good activity for eggheads because it combines physical labor with the opportunity to be creative.
Intimacy with Nature
Authors: Ehrenfeld David
Published: November 2023

When we arrived in Vancouver at the start of our vacation, the tabloid headline at the newspaper stand caught our attention. “World’s Bravest Mom,” it shrieked. We stopped to read. The story was simple; it needed no journalistic embellishment. Dusk, August 19, 1996. Mrs. Cindy Parolin is horseback riding with her four children in Tulameen, in southern British Columbia’s Okanagan region. Without warning, a cougar springs out of the vegetation, hurtling at the neck of one of the horses.
Jane Austen and the World of the Community
Authors: Ehrenfeld David
Published: November 2023

For two weeks, in preparation for this chapter, I wallowed in sinful luxury: rereading the six completed Jane Austen novels (especially my favorite parts), basking in the warmth and wit of her collected letters, eagerly absorbing the details of her life from her best biographies, and attentively following the arguments of her leading literary critics.
Universities, Schools, and Communities
Authors: Ehrenfeld David
Published: November 2023

I received an invitation to speak to the Heinz Endowments a number of years ago. This major foundation was thinking of starting a program of charitable donations to help the environment and wanted advice about how to make the best use of its money. Would I participate, the director asked, in a one-day meeting on environmental education being organized by David Orr? My topic would be the role of the university. I went, and the following is more or less what I said to Heinz.
My Life Is My Argument
Authors: Cicovacki Predrag
Published: November 2023

Two observations have cast their shadows over my life. One is the realization that the world is inexplicably mysterious and full of suffering, the other that I have been born in a period of spiritual decline for mankind.
What Causes Body Dysmorphic Disorder? Clues to an Unsolved Puzzle
Authors: Phillips Katharine A
Published: November 2023

“ This problem is chemical,” Bridget said. “I can’t think of any reason for these gut-wrenching worries about how I look. It must be from a chemical imbalance in my brain.” I started worrying too much about my skin when I was really stressed,” Caroline told me. “But I think my worries have deeper roots, like how I was always put down when I was growing up.”
Getting Better: A Brief Treatment Guide
Authors: Phillips Katharine A
Published: November 2023

In this chapter, I’ll give an overview of treatments and a brief treatment guide. In the following chapters I’ll describe effective treatments, and how they’re done, in more detail.
Advice for Family Members and Friends
Authors: Phillips Katharine A
Published: November 2023

BDD has far-reaching effects. Family members, friends, and significant others usually suffer, too. Sometimes, BDD causes relationships to end. Also, it’s stressful and painful to watch a loved one struggle with such a difficult disorder. You may feel helpless, frustrated, angry—because no matter how hard you try, you can’t get the BDD sufferer to stop worrying about their looks or stop their rituals. You may feel isolated and alone, thinking no one else in the world is struggling with a similar problem. But there are some things you can do.
Definition, History, and Nature of Crisis
Authors: Roberts Albert R , Yeager Kenneth R
Published: November 2023

There are few human conditions that are so diversely described and experienced as crisis, stress, and trauma. The term crisis is used liberally and can indicate a problem of exceptional magnitude, or may simply be the descriptor used by an individual to indicate a busy day, such as, ‘‘I am having one crisis after another.’’ Some individuals report that stress helps them to work more productively and meet multiple deadlines. Others find that the burden of multiple stressors leads to a downward spiral, culminating in physical and emotional consequences of tremendous proportion (Corcoran & Roberts, 2000). Emotional trauma reactions tend to be of a severe and serious nature and are frequently precipitated by random, sudden, and arbitrary traumatic events such as natural disasters, terrorism, mass murders, violent sexual assaults, or sniper or drive-by killings (Roberts, 2000, 2002).
Crisis Intervention With Mental Illness: Determining Safety Needs
Authors: Roberts Albert R , Yeager Kenneth R
Published: November 2023

Within the world of crisis intervention, one area that cannot be ignored is addressing mental illness. When considered against all diseases as done within the Global Burden Of Disease Study (1996) conducted by the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and Harvard University, mental illness ranks at the top as one of the leading causes of disability (counting lost years of healthy life) (Murray & Lopez, 1996).